The Crossing to Kyoryu

Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon Toei and Bandai do.

Warning in this chapter, a very small bit of gore remember when a * shows up feel free to skip the sentence, though it is much more tame and brief than what happened to Caturamon.

Davis POV

When the group began to rise the next morning. Davis diligently helped the still burnt and gauzed Veemon up to his feet.

Davis was still feeling remorse for the pain Veemon had gone through in the battle against Cerberumon and his lackeys. He thought that if he taken the warriors advice more seriously Veemon probably would've avoided being seriously injured.

In fact what Davis felt he should've done the most was swallow his pride and had asked Takuya or one of the other warriors to prepare Veemon for the battling in this world.

He thought at first the warriors had been exaggerating to an extent, even after the fight with Caturamon. He figured since the Gaomon and Gaogamon had held themselves back, that maybe other digimon that weren't directly involved with the crisis would too.

And well that theory proved to be a failure…

Davis knew he wasn't the smartest or the most thoughtful a lot of the times, but he was far more observant than many of his friends gave him credit for.

Like how despite the fact he never gave the warriors a direct apology they seemed to understand and had forgiven him anyway. Although now he feels a direct one is in order, especially since he had questioned their abilities and methods, when this digital world was in their own universe.

And so far the warriors certainly proved that they knew what they were doing.

"Hey Davish what's the matter?" Veemon asked him as they sat waiting for the assigned people to gather food to comeback.

"Oh Veemon I'm just feeling pretty bad about what happened in the fight with Cerberumon. You shouldn't of gotten so injured and I feel like it's my fault" Davis said with a sad sigh that was so unlike him.

"Davish if anyone should feel bad about that it's me, I was the one who froze up on the field, not you" Veemon said embarrassment very evident in his voice. He couldn't believe he just froze up like that, because like Davis he too thought he could've gotten by without resorting to the warriors methods.

Though sadly as both Davis and Veemon are beginning to realize that is not going to work in this case.

"No Veemon I'm at fault too, remember I specifically told you not to fight the way the warriors had said, after the fight with Caturamon. I was thinking that they were over exaggerating to a degree." Davis said putting himself down.

"Okay Davish were both at fault then, because while you did tell me that I was thinking the same thing you were. I know I've killed digimon before, but it felt wrong killing that Dobermon who in all honesty had nothing do with what's going overall." Veemon said cringing as he remembered the blood on his claws.

"Well enough of feeling sorry for ourselves buddy, this is only a minor setback. It only leaves room for improvement. Next battle we're going to come out on top for sure!" Davis encouraged reverting back into the Davis people knew him for.

Veemon said nothing, but gave a big smile in return. Davis' optimism is one of the many qualities Davis had that Veemon loved his partner for.

Then the sound of rustling alerted the two to the returning foragers meaning that breakfast was underway.

"Okay, then Davish I agree let's move on from our mistake and keep going…right after breakfast that is" Veemon perked up.

Davis just laughed and patted his partner on the shoulder in agreement.

A couple hours later the group was making the stretch towards the end of the Chi Forest, the sight of trees were becoming more and more uncommon, and the river was becoming narrower.

"We're almost there, but I suggest everyone fill up their water bottles and canteens now before we go any further. Once we hit the desert springs and oasis are far and few in between." Takuya announced warning everyone of the trial ahead.

Everyone gave noises of agreement and began filling their water bottles and canteens for themselves and their digimon alike. Realizing that the river will probably be their last water source for quite some time.

"By the way be sure to conserve your water and drink it in small sips too. The Kyoryu Desert gives new meaning to the words "self control"." Zoe added to the conservation once she finished filling her own water bottle.

Davis gave an unnoticeable gulp at Zoe's admission. To him it sounded like they were all in for an even worse time than the one they had in Chi Forest, and that was bad enough!

"This sounds like more trouble than before…"

The almost muffled statement caught Davis' attention and he turned around to see Ken next to him staring worriedly at the distance ahead.

Although Davis did in fact agree, and just had a similar thought that himself. He knew his team looked up to him to be their source of optimism in hard times, even if he wasn't particularly feeling optimistic himself. This was one of those rare times Davis felt that heavy burden of being the new "official" leader of the digidestined.

Having to stay optimistic in increasing dark, and uncompromising situations can be jarring, especially when he feels the same as his teammates.

But Davis also knew now was not the time for him to mull over these details, now was the time for him to spread some of his optimism whether it be forced or not to his worried teammate and best friend.

"Hey come on now Ken, if we got through the Chi Forest we can get through the Kyoryu Desert. Try not to worry so much and just come along for the ride." Davis assured giving Ken a pat on the back.

Ken turned around to face his friend a wary smile blooming on his face.

"Thanks Davis you always know what to say" Ken complimented before walking a little more ahead.

"Not all the time Ken" Davis thought dishearteningly thinking about his one base relationship with Kari. Stealing a subtle look towards said girl, once again he wasn't shocked to find Kari right next to T.K like always.

As much as Davis did envy the blond boy he couldn't bring himself to hate him. Sure when they first had met Davis hated him no problem, but once they became a team with the exception of a few incidents Davis grew to respect T.K.

But once they hit their teenaged years it was becoming more and more obvious to Davis his chances with Kari were slim to none. She and others may not know it, but he DID see the way she and T.K have started blushing, and stumbling around each other a very obvious and telling signs of a crush, having done those same things himself a few years ago.

Davis sighed in remission understanding that the moment they would get together might come soon, and when that happens he needed to accept it with grace. He then made a promise to himself to do just that.

However Davis knew that as soon as he was behind closed doors the tears would flow…

"Hey Davish? Where ya at buddy? I've filled the canteens, come on let's go catch up with the others!" Veemon announced walking up to his deep in thought partner.

"Huh? Oh! Yeah you're right Veemon come on we don't want to fall to far behind!" Davis agreed hoisting a surprised Veemon to give him a piggyback ride.

"Hey! Woah! Davis haha!" Veemon laughed surprised by his friend's action, but happy nonetheless.

Sure enough the group had reached the end of the Chi Forest by high noon. The sun was at its peak in the sky. However what the group was not expecting was a pack of Gabumon with two Garurumon at the end of the forest waiting for them.

Although initially Davis was worried by the appearance of the pack, he worries were soon soothed when he saw the familiar faces of Coco, Brutus and their puppies.

"Hey it's Torac! I didn't think you'd actually come to the end of the forest to say goodbye!" Koji said in shock but still keeping a small happy smile on his face.

The bigger very dark gray stripped Garurumon simply snorted in the way dogs and wolves were known to do when they were displeased with something.

"Right, right I shouldn't have doubted you! By the way in case Coco or Brutus forgot I'd like to give you my personal thanks for the help in the Forest the last time we were here. Oh and for training me as well." Koji thanked walking up to the Garurumon giving him a soothing rub on the nose.

The Garurumon known as Torac responded with a happy lick before heading over to the warriors to greet them along with the other Garurumon who was probably his mate. Meanwhile the Gabumon of the pack shuffled over to Matt's Gabumon, who looked rather flustered by all the attention. Matt just laughed at his partner's flustered state, before greeting some of the Gabumon who had wandered by him.

"Haha they're probably very interested in your ability to stand on two feet and talk Gabumon, just by doing those things you've already impressed them!" J.P said laughing as Gabumon gave a look of sheepish embarrassment.

"Hey wait a minute did Koji just thank Torac for training him?" Mimi questioned a look of mild confusion on her face. Davis nodded unsurely to her, not sure he heard that right either however Bokomon decided to answer the question for them.

"Why yes, Ms. Mimi he did. Some of the warriors were trained by other digimon of the same or similar species on our first trip through the digital world." Bokomon supplied giving Torac a fond smile when he walked up to him.

Although Davis was surprised by the information, the information also reminded him of something. Davis sneaked a look at Takuya who was playing with the puppies, and remembered he had wanted to ask Takuya about possible training for Veemon.

He was shocked to learn that the warriors had received training themselves. In all honestly Davis thought they seemed so in control and knew just what to do every time Davis had thought that when they evolved it had just come naturally to them. He never suspected they actually had to train to keep in the condition that they were in.

"Makes you think about them in a whole other perspective" Davis commented to himself in his head as he eyed his surroundings.

"Huh I didn't think that you guys trained, gotta say I'm kinda surprised"

Davis whipped his head around to find the person who had made that comment. It only took him a second to figure out it was Kazu, just because of the looks Kazu was getting from some of his teammates.

Davis couldn't help but chuckle lightly at Kazu's comment. Kazu was so much like he was a couple of years ago although Davis liked to think he's gotten better since then.

"Really I didn't know we gave that impression, because honestly some of us were a mess and absolute garbage at fighting when we were here the first time…" Umi replied blushing and glaring at Zoe who was snickering beside her.

"Yeah Umi's right I mean I would accidentally electrocute myself multiple times when we first started fighting. It wasn't until I gotten proper training on how to control that I stopped" J.P laughed good-naturedly along with his teammates.

Davis just smiled as he watched the warriors laugh together. Something about watching them laugh despite everything they went through was rather empowering to Davis. That's why he really did believe that if they could keep going so could everybody else.

"Hey Davis?"

Turning down to his partner who was once again standing back on the ground. Davis gave Veemon a gesture to show his friend he was listening.

"Do you think I should ask the warriors about training?" Veemon questioned rather shyly something that was rare for him.

Davis eyes widened a bit in surprise before he let out a hearty chuckle.

"I was just thinking the same thing Veemon, maybe later on today we could go to Takuya with some suggestions, because I think our WHOLE group could use training" Davis sighed looking at his group.

Davis knew that the others in his group would definitely be open to the training idea, after what happened during yesterday's battle.

It was painfully obvious that their group's digimon were not adept to the type of strategic brutal fighting that goes on in this digital world. As hard as it was for Davis to admit it with all the pride he had, their group was the most hurt and needed the most help before, during, and after the battle.

"Besides it's not just us, our digimon know it too" Davis monologued to himself a little sadly. Davis also knew his partner was taking his defeat especially hard, probably because he still felt guilty about the freeze up.

"Well Davish I'm glad you approve, because who knows I may learn some new tricks by the time I'm done. I wonder what this digital world's Veemon look like?" Veemon trailed off putting himself into a thinking position.

Davis just smiled at Veemon's enthusiasm.

Suddenly a grunting growl torn through the air. Davis looked to the Gabumon pack that appeared to be ready to leave. The puppies were waddling away from the now frowning toddlers, and heading back towards their parents.

Koji seemed to be giving the pack a wistful smile.

"Thanks for stopping by you guys, I'll never forget what you did for us the first time we were here. Just be sure to wish us all luck!" Takuya asked waving goodbye along with the other warriors as the pack retreated back to the Chi Forest.

"Hey wolf breath wanna give the pack a goodbye howl?" Umi teased giving Koji a sly look, which Koji easily returned.

"That doesn't sound like a bad idea Umi" Koji jabbed right back before looking back to the retreating pack.

Koji then pointed his head toward the sky, and let out a long powerful howl. The pack, which had turned back, to focus on them returned the howl wholeheartedly with howls of their own.

Some of the other people in the group tamers, digidestiend, and digimon alike had jumped back at the unexpected noise coming from Koji's mouth. It was then Davis remembered what Umi said about the warriors adopting some of their partner's animalistic traits.

Although to Davis this was the first time it seemed so prominent, so real…

"Alright wolf boy you made your point, but we need to get going" Rika huffed but in a well-meaning sort of way.

"Humph fine" Koji replied once he finished before nodding to Takuya and marching forward to the front of the group.

"The surprises keep coming huh Davish?" Veemon whispered as Davis gave him a little laugh.

Once the group was back on track Davis was walking near the center with Ken and Wormmon. He kept stealing tepid glances towards Takuya, and Ken ever the analytical mind noticed each time he did this.

"Davis are you okay? You keep giving Takuya these really odd glances," Ken asked tentatively. Wormmon turned to face to two from Ken's shoulder as he had seen Veemon doing the same thing.

"OH! I was just thinking about an idea I had, I'm just not sure how to execute it" Davis answered truthfully giving Ken a rather out of character uncomfortable glance.

"Really? Care to share?" Ken questioned rather curious to Davis' idea. While he usually doesn't have very thought out practical ideas, some of his past endeavors did save the team a lot of grief. However Ken knew Davis tended to think more with his heart than actual brain.

"I just wanted to ask Takuya if the warriors could maybe set up training sessions for our group's digimon. I was just unsure how to go about asking him." Davis concurred with a look Ken instantly meant he was secretly asking approval.

However what surprised Ken the most was how thought out this idea was for Davis. To Ken this was one of those rare times he knew Davis was thinking practically, not spiritually like he usually does.

"Actually Davis I think the training idea is marvelous, I'm surprised someone didn't think of it sooner! However I don't think you have any reason to be tepid about asking Takuya or any of the warriors for that matter" Ken assured earning himself a smile from both Veemon and Davis.

"Yes, of course just go ask him Takuya seems like a reasonable guy, and I doubt he'll turn down the idea." Wormmon added.

"Besides who says only you guys needs the training anyway?"

Whipping their heads around Davis, Ken, Wormmon, and Veemon spotted the voice coming from Impmon who was a small distance away from his tamers.

Sensing the silence would continue Impmon input his query.

"What I mean to say bubs is I myself could use that training as well. Normally I could go mega and knock out all the big palookas that come my way, but since I'm stuck in rookie form for the moment I need to learn how to be on my feet too." Impmon admitted quirking his eyes at the two.

Though initially surprised at Impmon's admission, Ken continued to speak.

"See Davis even the Tamers digimon may want in on the training, so I say no more hesitating ask him, if you want I'll come with you" Ken offered lightly pushing a mildly protesting Davis towards Takuya who by now noticed their approaching presence.

Takuya turned to face the two curious to what was up, and while he was still a little miffed a Davis Takuya knew there was no point in staying angry at the guy, though he thought a direct apology would still be nice.

"Uh..uh hey Takuya I've gotta question for you" Davis started looking rather nervous with Ken standing by his side giving him a bemused look.

"Well come on lay it on me then" Takuya joked motioning his arms a mock taunting manor.

"I…I wanted to ask if you and your teammates would be interested in training the rest of the groups digimon on how to fight here" Davis stuttered out with his eyes closed, not noticing Takuya give him a shocked but happy smile.

"Well why didn't you say so my friends and I would be happy to help train all the other digimon. However the first training session will have to wait until we reach the second and largest oasis in the Kyoryu Desert. The desert's just not a good practicing field." Takuya answered happily.

"Really?! Great!" Veemon exclaimed happily.

Davis gave a sigh of relief, and Ken simply sent a thankful bow Takuya's way.

"Well if that's all you guys had to say I'm going to go alert Tai and the others later along with my teammates and we'll see what we can do." Takuya assured with a smile, and began waling away toward the front.

"Oh and Takuya…" Davis called out alerting Takuya who turned back around.

"I'm sorry" Davis said finally apologizing and Takuya gave the new digidestined leader a large smile in return.

"Its no problem Davis" Takuya whispered back smiling before marching toward Tai.

And Davis smiled.

About an hour later the group was making great headway. The forest was now a distant sight behind them.

However that didn't mean they had reached the Kyoryu Desert quite yet, instead they were walking on what appeared to be hard crackling dirt that oddly felt rather warm under many of the groups feet.

"Uh Takuya we are headed for the Desert right?" Kenta asked hesitantly confused by the lack of sand.

"Of course Kenta, but we have to cross a connector area before we officially get there is all" Takuya assured the boy as many others lifted the heads up at the word "connector".

"Hey what do you mean "connector"? Terriermon question quirking his ears.

"Connectors are usually smaller strips of land we have to pass before we actually reach the true destination, think of them as natural bridges" J.P provided for the group.

"WHAT you guys didn't say anything about having extra land to cross!" Rika shouted quite angry.

"Woah, woah Rika calm yourself. We didn't mention it because these areas are quite short and don't even take a full day to pass through. Most of them take only about an hour or less, these land strips are extremely short" Umi explained talking to Rika using her arms in a motion that meant calm down.

"You still could've mentioned it" Davis heard Rika mummer.

"I'm with Rika on this one, man the do the warriors think every detail they know about their world is miniscule?" Davis thought in annoyance.

"So if that's the case what's the connector we have to pass?" Joe questioned the evident worry already seeped into his voice.

"Yeah this ground is hot enough already without it being the Desert, I'm really not looking forward to crossing that sand" Gomamon whined already missing the cool comfort the river had provided for the seal digimon.

"Then sorry to say Gomamon you'll probably really hate the place that's coming up, we have to cross "Geyser Crush" it a small connecting area full of steam geysers and a couple of digimon herds" Takuya warned to pointing up towards the hill the group was already slowly climbing over.

"Are these herds usually hostile?" Tai questioned warily hand on his head in exasperation not looking forward to any sort of battle with many of their teams digimon still a little injured.

To him the oasis where Takuya offered to begin training their digimon couldn't come fast enough.

"Yes and no. Usually there are either Meramon or Monochromon around these parts and most of the time they mind their own business. However if you'll pardon the pun, there are always a few hotshots in these groups" Koichi explained rolling his eyes at the last few words of his sentence.

"Of course there are" Tai sighed unhappily.

Then once they were over the hill a few members of the group gasped at the sight of hundreds of stream geysers billowing hot stream up into the air.

"Geez I can already feel the heat" Gomamon wiping his head against his shoulder.

"Come on buddy up ya go" Joe said assisting Gomamon picking him up and holding him in his arms. Joe knew this and the upcoming environment would be hard on his partner, because besides being out of element, there was the fact Gomamon had to drag his whole body along the ground.

"Well nothing to do but get walking so let's go everyone!" Takuya proclaimed as the group headed into the stream filled air.

However only ten minutes into the walk the group ran into a couple of complications.

The first one being the effect the stream and humidity had on the toddlers of the group. Also since their bodies weren't yet developed enough to deal with exertion in extreme temperatures, they tired out very quickly.

So since none of the toddler's digimon was big enough to carry them, people volunteered too. After all it's not like they could take a break in the middle of a stream field.

Of course Henry carried Suzie on his shoulders, so Terriermon had to be relegated to the ground much to his chagrin. Ryo carried the Ai, and Davis himself volunteered to carry Mako.

"How you doing up there Mako?" Davis asked his backseat passenger.

"I okay now, thank you Mr. Davis" Mako said his voice a little raspy as he leaned into Davis' back.

"Aw its no problem little guy, by the way you don't have to call me Mr. Davis, Davis by itself is just fine" Davis instructed gently.

"Okay.." Mako said quietly seeming to be falling asleep.

Then the second complication arose, and that came from a wild Monochromon.

While the Meramon in the area either only gave inquisitive looks, or flat out ignored the group. The Monochromon seemed more aggressive. Some of them either fake charged toward the group before stopping and turning around, then others proceeded to get too close for comfort and stalk the group for a while.

Until finally one lone Monochromon decided to be the first to flat out approach the group, and of course this Monochromon chose too do so, as soon as everyone could see the beginning of the Kyoryu Desert only a few paces away.

"Looks like another showdown might be on our hands Veemon…" Davis told his partner mournfully looking at the Monochromon in front of them.

Now while the only thing the Meramon had different from the ones in his group's and the Tamers universe was the colors they could come in. The Monochromon on the other hand had vast differences from the ones in the both his groups' world, and from what the Tamers said their universe as well.

Instead of an off-white color this Monochromon like all the other ones here was a darkish gray, with black armor. However unlike the Monochromon Davis had seen before the armor looked less scraggly and more complete. The three-toed claws were longer and the longest was the middle claw.

Piercing green eyes could barely be seen past the HUGE horn that on the Monochromon here took the shape of a large black red tipped sword. Plus it didn't just cover a small section of the face, but instead nearly took up the whole Monochromon's head.

"Alright pal what do you want?" Takuya immediately said went toward the Monochromon rather abrasively.

"ROOOOAAAAR, snarl, hurrrr" was the eloquent reply Takuya received back however despite that Takuya seemed to understand the Monochromon fine.

"Oh so it's a cock contest huh?" Takuya snapped back his mouth forming a smirk appearing to ignore the reprimands he was getting from a few of the girls, plus Henry for the use of language.

"I'm guessing Takuya can understand him, because his partner is a dinosaur digimon himself," Davis thought decisively. Looking around he saw all the older kids easily come to the same conclusion.

"So what's the damage Takuya?" J.P asked walking up a little behind his leader.

"It seems this young Monochromon wishes to challenge me to a "Chikara no Tatakai" in front of his herd as proof of his strength, also to prove himself to a pretty female apparently. He says beating the warrior flame would bring him great honor." Takuya said scoffing.

Davis tilted his head as best he could to look behind him, and see the Monochromon's apparent herd in the distance. Although a few were hidden behind stream geysers the majority could be seen eyeing the scene. Finally Davis saw what he could assume was the female the Monochromon wanted to impress, who appeared to have purple outlining her horn blade instead of red near the front.

"Well sorry to say pal, but I decline my group and I don't have time for pointless fights. So either you move or my pal Bokomon here will be forced to kill you on spot." Takuya reasoned as Bokomon boldly stepped forward his hands crackling with energy.

Davis raised his eyebrows not only at Takuya's very demanding tone and threat, but the fact he threatened to sick Bokomon on the offending Monochromon. However Davis realized he had forgotten that Bokomon was an ultimate level more than capable of holding his own against a champion digimon, but to beat him in one shot?

Davis then stole a look to the rest of his team, he could see Kari, Mimi, and Yolei biting their lower lips a sure sign of them being nervous. They probably hoped the Monochromon would forfeit the fight so he didn't die. The rest just looked more resigned in the their nervousness ready to except either outcome.

Davis couldn't help but feel a little unease as well. While he was finally accepting that this was just how things were done here. He still couldn't get over the feeling that maybe there was another way to solve the situation. Maybe he really was too compassionate?

"ROAAAR!" the Monochromon bellowed angrily before charging straight toward Bokomon and Takuya.

"I'm guessing he's doing this the hard way then?" Davis inwardly sighed sadly.

The raging Monochromon continued his charge his horn blade beginning to glow a light color signaling an attack was inmate. However Bokomon stayed calm and collected before walking past Takuya, and doing something nobody expected.

"Nova Blast!" Bokomon shouted before gathering a huge ball of fire energy in his mouth and launching it at the charging Mononchromon who didn't stand a chance.

*"OOWWAAAGUU!" The Monochromon roared pitiful as it disintegrated into ash on the ground, with a few prominent burnt bones still able to be seen.*

The Monochromon who were watching just slunk away without showing any real sadness, anger or remorse for the lost member of their herd. Even the female who the male wanted to impress just seemed more disappointed than anything.

Davis was sure his jaw hit the ground. How did Bokomon use Greymon's attack? Had he always be able to do that, because from the brief moments Davis paid attention to him back in the Chi Forest battle with Cerberumon, Bokomon had only been using physical fighting moves.

Every member of the group, besides the warriors, shared his sentiments of course.

"How the heck did you do that?!" Tai shouted to the small digimon pointing what almost looked like an accusing finger at him. Agumon looked too shocked to speak.

Surprisingly at least to Davis anyway the reaction Bokomon gave seemed rather unexpected.

He blushed.

"Oh..well you see that has to do with my typing" Bokomon began seeming to be rather embarrassed.

"You're a mutant type digimon, correct?" Izzy stated, but surprisingly did so gently apparently seeing Bokomon's embarrassment.

"Yes, my typing has the ability to allow me to copy data and other digimon's abilities once I've come in close contact with them. That's how I know my healing, and all the other abilities I have. It's also what these markings on me are for." Bokomon confessed still looking rather sheepish.

"So while healing some of the other digimon yesterday, I may have copied a few of your abilities without your knowledge, and for that I deeply apologize." Bokomon apologized bowing down a couple of times.

"Hey don't worry buddy if that's what you do to get by I don't think anyone here minds, besides as long as it doesn't cause Veemon pain, or have any side effects to it I'm fine with it" Davis comforted walking up close to Bokomon with the now wide awake Mako still on his back.

Veemon nodded in agreement.

"You don't mind, right guys?" Davis questioned everyone else in his group with an almost threatening tone.

"No it's fine"

"As long as what Davis said is true, I'm cool with"

"I actually find it kind of flattering"

"Yeah calm down buddy"

Davis smiled at the noises of non-hesitant agreement coming from the group. The Tamers were also nodding and giving voices of agreement.

"Thank you everyone!" Bokomon sighed loudly and happily as he stood up looking quite relieved.

"Come on Bokomon did you really think your ability would be that big of a problem, you're our team Rogue" J.P grinned patting the now confused digimon on the back.

"You're always calling me that, and you still won't tell me who this Rogue is" Bokomon annoyed that he wasn't getting the joke.

"Its not that important buddy" J.P said slyly.

Kazu, Kenta, Takato, Izzy, and even Tai and Matt all gave a laugh.

Davis an avid comic book fan himself laughed out loud at the comparison. He agreed with J.P one hundred percent Bokomon was the real life X-men Rogue.

"Anyway with that obstacle out of the way nothing awaits but the Desert! So come on everybody let's go!" Takuya shouted enthusiastically pointing onto the Desert horizon.

The sounds of groaning made itself known to the air.

Long Author's Note: Once again sorry for the wait but I hope everyone's ready for the official start to the Kyoryu Desert next chapter!

Once again if anyone wants a better visual image to how the Monochromon look, look up Monochromon X!

This chapter I wanted to take time and introduce another new piece to my AU world called "connectors" and trust while it may seem miniscule now connectors will become MUCH more important further into the story!

Also I wanted to dive in and give Davis, one of my least favorite digidestined an unbiased more well rounded personality. Better than the almost none optimistic shut off one he had in the show.

Because I'm sorry rewatch the first few episodes of 02 and tell me that those oh so present flaws in Davis really were handled well over the course in the show. Because to me his flaws either just disappeared to quickly or they never really addressed it anymore after they popped up!

Also now you all finally know what Bokomon's special ability is, hope it didn't disappoint. Once I saw his typing was mutant, the X-men immediately came to my mind, and I couldn't help myself so I modeled him after one of my favorite X-men Rogue! Plus with how digimon are akin to data and data can be copied I think it works perfectly! Plus he has no good canon moves on his own. Check out the Wikia if you don't believe me :(.

More will be revealed on the full extent of his power, and how it works later.

Now to answer questions!

To Gogglegirl: Thank you for the review, unfortunately I have to say no to adding your OC. Nothing personal I'm just trying to avoid an overload of OC's. Because even my own OC Umi, took me HOURS to decide whether to put her in or not. I know how OC's can make or break a story, and I'm happy to see most of the response to her as been positive, but I myself am still fleshing all her flaws and quirks then figuring where to have those things show up. Then the other OC's I've introduced like Coco, and Brutus were more like cameos than actually getting to know the characters. That will happen in my Frontier AU story that I'll eventually put up here.

However until then I've decided to keep the appearance of those types of OC's mostly brief with the exception of Clavis Angemon who MIGHT end up sticking with the group for while when they eventually get to him. However if you do ever decide to join the site, and you want to write a spin-off of this story with your OC I give you full permission, just be sure to credit me somewhere in your story in beginning!

Now back you E: Okay now I understand what you meant from your last review thank you for clarifying! So what I have to say is don't worry. I had realized this possibly problem around chapter six. Like I said before the warriors will NOT stay overpowered, will NOT overshadow everyone else, and everyone else will NOT become useless. The enemies will get stronger and harder as the story progresses and the warriors will need the help of all the groups, especially when they get closer to the city!

Remember the digidestined are still adjusting to this world, however as show in this chapter the adjustment is almost complete, although there may still be a few flub ups down the road from certain characters. The tamers adjusted much easier because their digital was already very similar.

So I tell you that in probably two more chapters let's just say a major power up is coming for some the the digidestined and Tamers digimon! So please stick with me to see what it will be, and trust me it'll help everyone out and make it fair!

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