Another short Chapter. I was really excited to write this one, because I love battle scenes whether I'm good at writing them or not :D Also, I realized that new people reading this story who weren't around when the original chapters were posted might be confused. I originally had chapter 10-13 finished, but decided that I didn't like how certain things were going, so I took them down, and now I'm reposting new versions of them. Yay, explanation!

~.::Chapter 12::.~

"I'm going to send your Digimon over now." Gennai informed Izzy who was sitting in front of his laptop not far from Ryo.

Everyone in the room still remained divided by the gap. Sora and Tai were over by the entrance. The bridge had long dissolved in the mysterious liquid. Jeri was on the other side of the platform that they were on attending to Takato who had a few scrapes. Guilmon was sleeping. Yamaki was talking with them. Mimi was sitting at one of the chairs by the desktops looking bored. Rika and Renamon were attending to Ryo who was still unconscious. Cyberdramon was next to Ryo, also unconscious.

Izzy pulled out his digivice and opened the digiport for the Digimon to come through. He moved out of the way as Tentomon, Palmon, Agumon and Biyomon passed through.

"Izzy!" Tentomon flew over to his partner.

"It's good to see you Tentomon!" The redhead smiled.

"Biyomon!" Sora shouted calling to her and waving her arm.

"Sora!" Biyomon flew over to her.

"Tai!"

"Agumon you're just going to have to stay over there for a bit!" Tai shouted back to him.

"Ok!"

"Mimi!" Palmon ran over to the bored looking girl.

"Oh Palmon!" The brunette hugged her.

"Izzy, I just want to let you that because you aren't in this dimension you'll be able to digivolve your Digimon past champion." Gennai spoke.

"Well that's good new!" Izzy smiled happily reunited with his partner.

"Ryo…" Rika whispered as she played with his hair. She had moved him so that his head was resting on her lap.

Ryo slightly opened his eyes, directed them to see Rika, and smiled.

"Sorry." He said to her.

His veins protruded from his body suddenly as Ryo let out a painful groan. Cyberdramon pushed himself up from the ground and turned his attention to Rika.

"Cyber Nails!"

Rika's eyes widened, but she couldn't pull herself to do anything. Ryo forced himself up and covered her with his body. Cyberdramon's attack struck Ryo on the back causing him to scream in pain. His blood splattered everywhere and dripped from his back. Ryo coughed up some blood landing on Rika.

"Ryo!"

He had one eye closed, but managed to smile. Blood ran down the side of his mouth. "I'm ok."

Cyberdramon let out a loud roar. Ryo held Rika tighter.

"Don't move." He told her.

"Tentomon!" Izzy shouted.

"Super Shocker!" The attack did nothing to the metal dragon. "Well that was anti-climatic." The bug Digimon sighed.

Renamon lunged at Cyberdramon and they engaged in a fight.

"You need to stop her." Ryo coughed. "She's no match for him."

To that Rika smirked. "You'd be surprised. I've trained Renamon rather well."

"Poison Ivy!" Palmon grabbed a hold of one of Cyberdramon's arms. "Aren't we supposed to be a team?"

"He's not in control!" Guilmon yelled as he ran over. "Pyro Sphere!"

Cyberdramon broke free from Palmon's vines and Guilmon's attack didn't even faze him. Renamon landed a few punches on Cyberdramon who just became more infuriated with her.

"Ryo!" Cyberdramon chuckled. "You shouldn't get in my way!" He pounded Renamon into the wall until the vixen collapsed to the floor. He then turned his attention to Ryo and pulled him away from Rika.

"Stay away from her!" Ryo shouted as Cyberdramon moved closer to the redhead.

Guilmon, Palmon, Tentomon and Agumon teamed up to take on Cyberdramon. He very easily pressed passed them taking them all out.

"I said stop, Millenniummon!" Ryo yelled. He was in too much pain to try and move.

Cyberdramon gripped Rika in his claws holding her steadfast to the ground. He just chuckled. "Digivolve me, Ryo, or I'll kill her." He started squeezing her body as she let out a high-pitched, blood-curdling scream.

Takato grabbed a pipe that was next to him and lunged at Cyberdramon. The dragon knocked him away and into the computers. Jeri ran over to him.

Sora gripped her digivice. "Biyomon its time to digivolve!"

Tai grabbed Sora's arm. "No, you can't hurt Cyberdramon! If you try to do anything he'll kill Rika."

"We need to do something!" She yelled back.

"I know that!" Tai looked over at the others. He wanted more than anything to digivolve Agumon and take the bastard out.

"What's taking so long, Ryo?" Cyberdramon asked squeezing Rika tighter.

Ryo attempted to make himself stand. The brunette was covered in his own blood. He started moving towards the dragon, but stopped when he heard a loud snapping sound.

Rika was still screaming. He snapped one of the bones in her right arm.

Ryo, shaking in anger, pulled out his blue card and watched as it turned black before his eyes.

"Don't do it, Ryo!" Yamaki yelled.

"I won't let him kill her!" He gripped his D-arc. "I won't let Rika die!" He screamed as he swiped the card through his D-arc.

ZeedMillenniummon laughed maniacally as Cyberdramon became enshrouded in a black aura.

"Oh she'll die." He laughed as he approached Ryo. He grabbed his head and picked him up. "You're just going to be the one to kill her." He threw Ryo up against the wall.

Tai let go of Sora. "Ok now we can take him out."

Sora nodded her head. "Ready, Biyomon?"

"Ready!" The pink bird chirped. "Biyomon warp digivolve to Garudamon!"

The Garuda Digimon flew over to the other platform.

"Agumon warp digivolve to WarGreymon!"

"Tentomon warp digivolve to MegaKabuterimon!"

"Palmon warp digivolve to Lilymon!"

Takato managed to move his hand to grip his D-arc. "Guilmon!"

The red dinosaur got himself up.

"No, Takato, you're already injured enough!" Jeri hugged him.

"I'm sorry, Jeri, but we have to take him out before he finishes digivolving." He kissed her.

"Guilmon biomerge to Gallantmon!"

"You guys had better get that girl out of here before she gets squished." Lilymon said to Izzy and Mimi. Besides Gallantmon, Lilymon and WarGreymon the others were very large and to them Rika was very small.

Mimi and Izzy ran over to Rika and tried to move her. Jeri joined them.

"That hurts." Rika cried her right arm was really messed up.

"It's time to end this!" Gallantmon yelled running towards the aura enshrouded Digimon. WarGreymon joined him.

Izzy found a thin metal pipe about as thin as a pencil and decided to use it as a splint for Rika's arm. He handed the pipe to Mimi and then proceeded to take his shirt off and tear it up. He tied the pipe to Rika's arm.

"Let's get out of here." He said to the girls.

Without even trying the black enshrouded Cyberdramon took out the two megas as well as the three ultimates. He blew a hole through the wall and entered a big emptied room. Beelzemon smashed in through another wall and pummeled Cyberdramon into the ground.

Beelzemon cracked his neck and smirked. "I knew I was going to do something awesome today." He looked over and watched Izzy walk out with Rika who was using him as a crutch. Jeri and Mimi were walking close by. "What, no applause?"

Ryo followed them out and took Rika from Izzy and brought her over to the entrance. Tai and Sora came bolting into the room. Cyberdramon pushed himself back up.

"You should learn to stay down!" Beelzemon roared as he roundhouse punched Cyberdramon in the head sending him skidding across the room. Beelzemon pulled out his twin pistols and started firing at the dragon.

"You're ok!" Rika sounded so relieved. She was leaning against a wall.

"Yeah, I am." He smiled. "Are you?"

She looked at her arm. "I will be."

He pushed his lips against her. His hand on her face.

Tai looked over at the couple making out. "Does he really think that this is a good time for that?"

Sora giggled. "He was horrified that he was going to lose her. Knowing that she's ok must be such a relief."

"Still…" Tai looked over at the devil Digimon blasting away at Cyberdramon. "We're not in the clear yet."

Gallantmon walked through the hole in the wall. His shield had burst into data and his cape was torn to pieces. He collapsed to his knees.

"You look like shit!" Beelzemon laughed. "But don't worry I got him."

"Doubt it." Gallantmon told him flat out.

Beelzemon fired off two more shots before heading over to the knight. "Hey, do you doubt my power?"

"He just took out two megas and three ultimates without even trying. So sorry if I don't fucking believe that you took him out!" Gallantmon panted.

Beelzemon growled. "If I have I want a sincere apology. With a kiss and everything!" He walked over to the area where Cyberdramon was. "You had enough of me yet?" He asked as he stood within inches of Cyberdramon's enshrouded face.

The Digimon quickly jabbed his hand through Beelzemon's stomach. And threw him off to the side.

"Terra Destroyer!" The attack blast through a wall and took out the unsuspecting Digimon.

Rika felt Ryo move his hands to her shirt as he started undoing her buttons.

"Stop!" She told him. "What are you doing?"

But he wouldn't. With her one free arm she tried to push him away. Tears were streaming from his eyes, but he seemed to have no regret for what he was doing otherwise. He finished unbuttoning her shirt and placed his lips on her neck.

"Don't you want this?" He asked running his hand down her exposed torso.

"No!" She ordered as she continued to try and push him away. "Stop!" What was going on with him?

"But I want to see the wound I give you while you're dying!" He jammed his hand into her stomach and quickly pulled it out revealing the piece of shrapnel that he was holding.

Tai just happened to see Ryo stab Rika. He ran over to Ryo and punched him in the face knocking the twenty-year-old off balance. Ryo threw the shrapnel as he stared at Tai with a crazed look in his eyes.

Rika spewed blood as she fell to her knees. Sora ran over to her. Rika's body was starting to convulse.

"Tai!" Sora yelled.

"I'm a bit busy!" Tai shouted dodging punches from Ryo. "What the fuck is wrong with you?"

Ryo didn't say anything he just kept throwing punches at Tai.

"Someone, hurry!" Sora screamed as Rika's eyes started to roll in the back of her head.

Yamaki ran over and pulled off his jacket. He ripped it apart and tied it around Rika's waist.

"Come with me!" Yamaki said to Sora as he picked the girl up and carried her out of the room.

Tai's fist connected with Ryo's face knocking him straight to the ground. Tai knelt over him and pounded his face in over and over again. Mimi and Izzy ran over to pull Tai off from Ryo.

"Stop!" Mimi shouted.

"He's possessed!" Tai yelled. "He might have just killed Rika!"

"He's unconscious now." Izzy mentioned. "Come on they need help!" He was referring to the three Digimon fighting the soon to be Millenniummon.

Tai stood up and looked over at the fighting Digimon "Why hasn't he changed yet?" He wondered, but no one had an answer for him.

Sora opened the one of the back doors on Yamaki's car. He placed the bleeding girl in the back seat. Sora got in the other back seat as Yamaki crawled into the driver's seat.

"Let me know how she's doing." Yamaki told her. "I'm going to drive her to the hospital."

Sora nodded her head. She turned back to the redhead and hoped that she'd make it to the hospital.

They took off.

"Flower Cannon!" The attack did absolutely no damage. Sheer disappointment swept over Lilymon's face.

That's how all the Digimon and their partners were feeling at that point. They were all exhausted, but the enshrouded Digimon was full of vivacity.

"He hasn't even changed yet and we can't land a scratch on him." Tai plopped himself down on the ground.

MegaKabuterimon was so drained that he couldn't even pick himself off the ground. Garudamon was leaned against a wall that she was thrown against struggling to move. Gallantmon and WarGreymon were flat out on the ground near Cyberdramon's feet. Lilymon was the only one still capable of moving, but she didn't have the strength to fly or do much of anything else for that matter.

"It's hopeless…" Jeri said feeling utter defeat. "If we can't harm him like this how are we supposed to take him out?"

Cyberdramon snickered. "You can't, because I know you won't kill Ryo and he's my only weakness."

The shroud blew away and revealed entwined duo dragons: one purple and one orange. Two green data bands surrounded the creature. He disappeared.

All the Digimon reverted back to their rookie forms.

"What now?" Takato asked. "What do we do now?"

Sora sat in a chair anxiously waiting for someone to come out of the emergency room. Yamaki stood by the entrance on his cell talking with someone.

"Make sure he doesn't leave the room when he wakes." Yamaki said to whomever he was talking to. "No, I don't want him to leave for any reason. There's a chance that he's still under his control and I can't risk what he'll do."

He paused for a bit. "We haven't heard anything about her yet. Did someone get in contact with her mother?"

Rumiko came running into the hospital. She ran right over to the desk frantically, but no one was there.

"Ms. Makino!" Yamaki called, hanging up his phone.

She ran over to him. "My daughter how is she?"

"We haven't heard anything."

Rumiko was crying. "What happened?"

"She got stabbed." Yamaki informed her.

A doctor came out and walked over to the three people. "Are any of you family?"

"I'm her mother. Why? Is she going to be ok?" Rumiko couldn't help but cry. She didn't want to lose another family member.

"She's in surgery right now. She's got some pretty extensive internal bleeding and she's lost a lot of a blood. We're going to have to remove her gall bladder, because it got pretty heavily damaged. It's a useless organ, so it's nothing to be concerned over. Right now it's up to the surgery team to patch her up and her sheer will to survive." He could see how upset she was it was nothing unnatural. "We'll let you know if anything changes." He left.

Rumiko pressed herself against Yamaki and sobbed.

NO, I AM NOT HINTING A RUMIKOxYAMAKI SENARIO! Just wanted to clarify that. Also, Ryo was possessed the entire time he was over in the other room. I'll clarify this later, but I thought I'd mention it now. And Chapter 13 is not going to be the same as last chapter 13 with the sex scene. Sorry.

Also, LiiMakino UPDATE YOUR STORY! xD haha just kidding! But seriously D:

Now to answer your questions:

Henry, Suzie, Ai and Mako aren't appearing much are they? Alice isn't either (though she'll get her moment later on). I don't know, Henry has had his moments, but really I just tend to throw groups of people together and make them interact. There will be more Henry later on. I don't particularly have much interest in the younger Tamers, but Suzie is entertaining to me, so if I put her in its for my own amusement. (Mainly because I like making her a bit bitchy and boy crazy) I don't know enough about Ai and Mako to care about them at all, but they will make an appearance at some point. Kai and Minami will appear too.

Are you going to use all the Royal Knights? No, some of the Royal Knights are just variations of other Digimon (like I think there's Gallantmon X or something). They really just have a minor role anyway. They're just around as pawns, really.

Is Ryo getting fat? No, he's just been lying around for over a week, so he's starting to lose muscle mass (which happens when you're a lazy bum), but you can't tell. They're making fun of his condition really by calling him fat. This is why he keeps saying he's not fat, 'cuz he's really not.

The stories you previewed on your profile, will you be posting them when you finish When Worlds Collide? I'll be starting Under Destruction of Hope once I finish this story. I don't want to work on any other stories while I'm writing this one, because I'll never finish any of them. It's kind of my list to write the stories in.

Other than that I'm at 43,655 words :D (that's just to the end of Chapter 12) ALMOST TO 50,000! Huzzah! Well I guess I'll get started on Chapter 13.

I'm out! Peace!

-Aninika