Irvine and his three companions walked into the central control room of their base and all sat down at their meeting table, deciding it was time for a discussion. This Yami and Hikari thing had been dragged out for far too long, in their opinions. They would wait no longer to get into Trinity Server.

"What now?" asked Green, impatiently. "I want to kill those damn children so we can get into Trinity Server and cure my wife!"

"There's no evidence that Trinity Server will hold the cure for cancer, Albert..." said Rathjen smugly, cleaning his glasses on his vest. "But it's the best shot you've got. I wish to perform research on this strange world. When do we go?"

"Gentlemen, please... calm yourselves..." their leader, Irvine, told them. "Lunn's new Yami Chosen is guaranteed for success."

"That is correct. I handpicked her partner myself," replied Lunn. Everyone's attention turned to him. "Now we need a suitable test of her power..."

"Look, I am the Dean of the college. I'll invite all the Chosen to a college activity tonight, but maybe we should send some aside..." suggested Rathjen.

"Send Lee and James away," ordered Lunn.

"Why those two?"

"Because I want to see if we even HAVE to use her," Lunn told them. "We'll give our current Yami Chosen one last chance to defeat the weaker five Hikari Chosen: Nathan, Alison, Arik, Ace and Earnest."

"Why are they weaker?" asked Green, curious.

"Because Lee and James have specific rivalries with Amara and Hieshi that I wish to avoid tonight."

"That sounds good. It's all planned then," said Irvine, nodding. "Rathjen, make sure it's somewhere out of the way, so no pedestrians will see the ensuing battle."

"Of course. We will be heading to Trinity Server very soon, gentlemen!" shouted Rathjen. He and Lunn got up and left the room to make their plans. Green turned to Irvine, who looked somewhat nervous.

"What's wrong, Irvine?"

"You know how much Shadow data that new Digimon is made out of?"

"How much?"

"Crystalmon, Magemon and the others are only 30 % Shadow data. This new partner... is 95%..."

Green's jaw dropped. That was definitely a dangerous number.

"But... shouldn't that make it even more obedient?" asked Green.

"That makes it a walking disaster..."

"I'm so damn sick of Lee and Ali! Argh! Why can't I break them up?!" growled Amara, pacing back and forth in her dorm room. She kicked a basketball and it smashed right through her window, sending glass flying everywhere.

(Amara... we will get them. Last time, when I first went Perfect I was taken out by a cheap shot...) Crystalmon told her.

"Crystalmon..." began Amara, sitting down on her bed and glancing at the broken window. "I keep feeling that soon everything is going to be like that window... shattered."

(You sense it too?)

"Yes... a great darkness is upon all of us... and I--"

Amara was interrupted when she heard a knock on her dorm room door. She yelped, startled by it. Crystalmon went and his under Amara's bed as the brunette moved to the door and opened it. It was Dean Rathjen. Amara looked up through his glasses at his brown eyes when he spoke to her.

"Amara, you've been invited to..."

Ray and Tori looked up at Dean Rathjen as he spoke to them in the hallway. The two of them were anxious to get to the cafeteria, but he wasn't letting them go.

"... an official RTC..."

- - -

Arik, Nathan and Ace stood at the door of Arik's dorm room after Rathjen interrupted them from their video gaming.

"... extracurricular event. It will be worth..."

Ali was pulled from her computer class to see Dean Rathjen. She yawned, getting little sleep that morning due to morning sickness from her pregnancy.

"... quite a few extra credits. And of course, there will be lots of..."

Jeska leaned against a locker, boredly bashing the back of her head into it as Rathjen spoke. The redhead didn't care much for parties or extra study, but credits were nice.

"... food and beverages available. Think of it as a..."

Earnest barely had time to get out of his car to head into RTC before Rathjen caught up with him and began giving him the same explanation.

"... one-night course that will benefit you and look good on your resume. And all your friends will be there!"

"Yes, I'll go," replied Earnest. "How could I pass up that opportunity?"

Earnest rushed off to his first class, tying his messy black hair into a ponytail as he ran. Rathjen smirked evilly.

"That's what they all said..."

Lunn's dojo:

Lee, James and Ali walked into the dojo later that day, since Lee needed to do his daily training. Ali and James tagged along to watch. The blonde boy put his karate uniform on over his regular clothing and kicked his shoes off. Ali ran her fingers through her long brown hair as she was explaining what Rathjen told her earlier.

"... yeah, I got invited to this extracurricular thing," she explained. "Do you guys want to come?"

"No can do," answered James. The boy with neat black hair looked down at his shoes in shame. "Me and my dad got a court session against Flannigan..."

"Ah, that's nothing to be ashamed of, James," said Lee, patting James on the back. "I got Ali pregnant, that's something to be ashamed of."

"Yeah, and thanks to that bitch Amara, the whole school knows," pouted Ali. "I almost wanna drop out of RTC now..."

"Well don't. Things will get better," Lee reassured her. "I'll come with you tonight."

"Lee!" shouted Master Lunn, decked out in his white uniform with a black belt. "Since you ran out of the tournament the other day, you have to come in late tonight and work with me. Sorry, but your other plans will have to be put out of the way..."

"Uhm, is that okay, Ali?" asked Lee. She nodded in agreement. "Yeah, I'll be there, Master Lunn. Sorry for disappointing you..."

At that moment, Amara walked into the dojo. She gave Ali an evil death glare before walking over to Lee. Lee smiled nervously.

"Yeesh, she really hates you..." whispered James to Ali.

"I hate her too," whispered Ali back.

"Uhm, hi, Amara... please don't hold that event at the power plant against me..."

"Have you seen Tammy?" asked Amara, somewhat worried. "She's not here and her dorm room is empty."

"No, I... haven't. Maybe she went to see her parents," suggested Lee. Amara reluctantly nodded, still worried about her best friend.

"Yes... maybe that's what she did..."

(All the little dancing fools have no idea how set up they really are...) thought Lunn, looking at the four of them. He grinned and turned away.

A dirty old car drove up to Willington Manor in the country and was stopped at the gate. Rathjen glanced along each individual spike of the gate until his eyes reached a guard booth. The Spanish guard; Enrique, got up from his chair and walked over to Rathjen's car.

"You got business here?" asked Enrique, talking into Rathjen's window.

"Yes, I'm the Dean of a local college and I have an interesting offer for Mr. Hieshi Willington. Can you deliver a message to him for me?"

"Si."

"Tell him at six o'clock tonight to head up to 70 Norton Road, further out in the country. It will be something definitely worth his while..."

"Uhm, yeah, but what are you--"

Rathjen backed up and turned his car to drive further out into the country where 70 Norton Road was located. He grinned as he drove with one hand and used the other to speak into a cell phone.

"Irvine, I've told the Yami Chosen to arrive an hour before the Hikari Chosen... I'll brief them and prepare the ambush..."

"Excellent... but get out of there before the Hikari Chosen arrive. Don't need your identity revealed now..."

"Why? There's no possible way we can fail!" protested Rathjen, wanting to stay and witness the battle.

"Yes and what if our project goes awry? Do you want to die with the rest of them?!" snapped Irvine. Rathjen growled and gripped the wheel tightly as he drove.

"You're right... I'll brief the Yami Chosen and then be on my merry way..."

Night came quickly and each of the Hikari Chosen found out they were invited to the extracurricular activity (with the exceptions of James and Lee). Earnest was the only one of them with a car, so he offered to drive them all. Earnest was driving, with Arik in the passenger seat. Ali, Ace and Nathan were in the back.

"Hey Ernie, did you know Ali's pregnant?"

"ACE!" shouted Ali, reaching over Nathan to smack him in the face.

"Well you ARE!"

"I'll kill you."

"She's moody cuz of it too," whispered Ace to Earnest. Earnest rolled his eyes and kept driving, having no patience for Ace's mouth. Ali didn't have much either.

"Now, I really am going to kill you," she said, unbuckling her seatbelt and attempting to tackle him, Nathan caught her by the stomach and suspended her in the air before she got get to Ace. Ace was huddled to the back of the car door, afraid for his life.

"Could we not fight?" suggested Nathan, still holding Ali in the air. Ali reluctantly nodded and sat back down in her seat.

"Hmph."

"Does anyone actually know what this activity is?" asked Arik as Earnest began to drive up into the mountains surrounding Tamur. Nathan and Ace shrugged.

"All the Dean told me was that it will be worth alot of credits and look good on our resumes. Seems like good enough reason to go," Earnest told them.

"Like you need a resume, you've already got a part time job at that restaurant," said Arik.

"Part time is the key word there," replied Earnest, chuckling.

"I work at the radio station in RTC and I make good spending money," added Ali. "But I suppose when I move out of the dorms I'll need to make more money to support myself."

"Just make Lee do it, you two are already hitched together by the hips for life," muttered Ace.

"What was that!?"

"I said you're beautiful!"

"Uh..." mumbled Earnest loudly, interrupting them. "Is THAT 70 Norton Road?"

The others looked at where their pony tailed friend was pointing at, and it wasn't a building of any sort. It looked like an roman coliseum... and it was HUGE!

"Why is there something like that out here in the country?" asked Ace. "Shouldn't it be like... in Italy?"

"Don't you have ANY culture?" snapped Ali at him like he was a moron. "That's just a replica, it's used for the yearly Shakespeare play put on by the Drama Club in town. They made it look like a coliseum so that it can seat hundreds of people!"

"Uh... yeah... I knew that..."

Earnest pulled up at the front and saw a few other cars there. They all looked at each other as they exited his automobile.

"Looks like we aren't alone," said Nathan.

"Anyone else getting a bad vibe?" asked Arik, looking around nervously.

"I am too," answered Earnest. "But let's go in anyway..."

Earnest walked in first, with the other four following him. They entered the coliseum to see the entire place was dark and empty. The area to perform had to be about as big as two football fields, with hundreds of seats encircling it. Earnest and the others walked until they were a good distance in, but still didn't see anyone.

"Hello?!" shouted Nathan with cupped hands. He heard his own echo. "Hey, I echoed."

"Boobs!!!" shouted Ace, just to hear it echo. Ali fell over.

"You just couldn't resist, could you...?" she groaned.

Suddenly, one of the four huge spotlights encircling the coliseum turned on, shining down on the quintet. They all groaned and covered their eyes from the bright light.

"Why, hello fools!" shouted a female voice from a few meters in front of them. Another spotlight, this time from behind the Hikari Chosen, shone down on Amara, who was standing there with Sapphiremon. Sapphiremon was her Perfect level partner, covered in armor and holding a scythe.

"Amara!" hissed Ali, immediately taking offense. The boys' eyes adjusted to the bright light and they looked her over too. She was wearing a silver jacket along with silver pants, as was her favorite. She raised her arm with three bracelets on it and pointed directly at Ali.

"This time you're mine, Alison! I'm going to smash your face in!"

"I think you're retarded!" snapped Ali back. "This time I got all my friends to back me up!"

Earnest, Nathan, Arik and Ace turned to walk away from Amara, and Ali followed them.

"Don't even bother attacking, we're leaving," said Ali. "One on five..."

"Oh?" asked Amara, in a tone that caused them all to stop in their tracks. They could sense something ahead. "I got friends too!"

Another spotlight shone down in front of their new direction, revealing Jeska (with Teferimon), Ray (with IceDevimon), Hieshi (with Rievermon) and Tori (with Zephyrmon). All four Yami Chosen looked extremely confidant with themselves.

"Oh great..." groaned Ace. "It's the freak crew..."

"Better watch you call a freak, or you might find yourself missing a tongue," Tori told him.

"This time, we're ALL here, and we're ALL going to kick your ass!" shouted Ray. "I may be the only one on this team without a Perfect, but you guys have TWO members without a Perfect!"

"Not that it matters... cuz I can whip you all myself," added Hieshi.

"Yeah we'll see if you take me out with a cheap shot this time!" growled Earnest, getting defensive.

"You're all going down, cuz you're all useless," Jeska said. "We're more motivated to win than you are."

"And why is this, all of a sudden?" asked Nathan. The red-head grinned and flipped her hair out of her face.

"That's none of your business," she replied, tartly.

"I'm sick of this talking..." growled Rievermon. The demon Digimon was getting impatient. "Can I eviscerate them now?!"

"Go right ahead," said Hieshi, waving his arm out to the quintet of Hikari Chosen.

"You want a fight?! Fine, you got one!" shouted Ace, summoning DemiTyrannomon to the area.

Ali, Nathan, Earnest and Arik subsequently did the same with their partners. Then they all began to evolve...

"Good!" shouted Amara. "Evolve them! We've all danced in fire long enough! It's time for us to escape the flames!"

"You're the one who'll burn!" yelled Nathan.

"DemiTyrannomon Shinka... DRAGONMON!!!"

"Octopimon Shinka... MEGAOCTOPIMON!!!"

"Leila the Renamon Shinka... LEILA THE KYUBIMON!!!"

"Kotemon Shinka... MUSYAMON!!!"

"Bouncemon Shinka... RACERMON!!!" "If you're done..." said Amara, fake yawning. Ali turned to face her.

"You're mine! I'm sick of your attitude and I'm sick of you!" she yelled. "Get her, MegaOctopimon!"

"INK SHOCK!!!" yelled MegaOctopimon, blasting Amara halfway across the coliseum and knocking her to the ground.

"Hey!" exclaimed Sapphiremon. "That's dirty fighting!"

"You all DIE NOW!!!" screamed Rievermon, already on the attack. "DEATH REAPER!!!"

Rievermon swung a long claw at all four Adult Digimon, sending Dragonmon, Leila, Racermon and Musyamon all flying in random directions! The Chosen took a hint and began to clear out of the battlefield, heading for the stands.

"Going somewhere?" asked IceDevimon, landing in front of them. "FROZEN CLAW!!!"

IceDevimon smashed Earnest with one fist, and twirled around, kicking Ace with his left boot! Both of them were flung to the ground.

"Augh!" grunted Ace as he and Earnest crashed onto the cement. "Dragonmon!!! Go to Perfect!!!"

"You too, Leila!"

"Dragonmon Shinka... METALDRAGONMON!!!"

"Leila the Kyubimon Shinka..."

Leila transformed from the regular fox Digimon into a metallic version of herself. Her colors were metallic shades of her usual ones, and she sprouted two wings (much like MetalGarurumon's) from her back.

"... LEILA THE METALKYUBIMON!!!"

MetalDragonmon growled and took to the air, while Leila glanced at IceDevimon, who was still standing over a terrified Arik and Nathan.

"So you like to pick on kids, do you? Well take this! CYBERDRAGON WHEEL!!"

Leila span rapidly in a circle and smashed into IceDevimon, sending him flying into the wall of the coliseum.

"Now, Zephyrmon, take out Ace's pathetic excuse for a Digimon so we can have our revenge on him!" ordered Tori. Zephyrmon nodded and the harpy Digimon took the air, homing in on the much larger MetalDragonmon.

"This time you don't got Shadow Data to pump you up!" growled MetalDragonmon. "AERIAL INFERNO!!!"

MetalDragonmon blasted fire downwards at Zephyrmon, but she flapped her wings and gracefully dodged to the left, still speeding upward at the metal dragon.

"I still got my speed! PHOTON ORBS!!!"

Zephyrmon blasted MetalDragonmon with the two explosive orbs and sent him plummeting backwards through the air. Teferimon ran over to Rievermon and the demon Digimon wondered what Teferimon wanted.

"What is it?" growled Hieshi's partner.

"Hurl me at MetalDragonmon," ordered Teferimon. Rievermon did as told and launched the armored humanoid directly at the metal dragon. Teferimon landed on his arm.

"What is he doing?!" asked Ace, as he and Arik watched on.

"Hope you don't mind if I borrow this!" shouted Teferimon. "DIGITAL CLONE!!!"

"That's the way to win! Use them against themselves!" shouted Jeska, from where she, Tori and Ray were standing at the other end of the coliseum. Hieshi looked at them, keeping his distance.

Fools...

Teferimon became a replica of MetalDragonmon, much to his amazement. He used his new metallic body to smash the real one down into the seating area!

"That's insane!" exclaimed Arik. "Racermon, you better evolve again!"

"And you, Musyamon!" shouted Nathan.

"Racermon Shinka... TECHAMON!!!"

"Musyamon Shinka... CHAOSMON!!!"

The green warrior and the demonic cloaked Digimon emerged from where their weaker counterparts were standing before. Rievermon grinned.

"Do it now!" ordered Hieshi.

Rievermon shot forward, snatching Techamon by the head. He lifted the struggling warrior Digimon into the air.

"Techamon!" exclaimed Arik with concern. "Help him!"

Chaosmon turned to help, but Teferimon utilized his new form well and opened the chest plates he now had.

"DRAGON MISSILE!!!" yelled Teferimon, blasting Chaosmon with the two missiles.

"Damn copycat..." growled Ace.

"Here's something you pussies haven't seen before!" shouted Hieshi.

"DARK NEXUS!!!" yelled Rievermon, still holding a helpless Techamon by the head.

All eyes glanced at at Rievermon, who began to feed dark energy into Techamon, slowly transforming his body black and into a virus type Digimon!

"That's not fair!" screamed Arik.

"There are some drawbacks, it won't effect viruses or demons, and also can't be used on a Digimon of higher level than Rievermon, which I'm afraid all you fools are not." Hieshi informed them.

"Is it just me, or is Hieshi a little too powerful?" whispered Ray to Tori and Jeska. The two girls glanced at Ray and then at Hieshi.

"Who cares as long as he's on our side?" replied Tori, brushing off his comment. Jeska wasn't so quick to answer.

"Keep an eye on him..." she said, cautiously. (I'm not so sure about that bastard either...)

Sapphiremon glided around MegaOctopimon at the other end of the coliseum. The purple octopus was launching ink into the air, but Perfect level Sapphiremon was too fast for her. After darting around her in circles a bit longer, she swooped in for the attack with her scythe!

"SAPPHIRE SCYTHE!!!"

MegaOctopimon was hit and sent tumbling down on the ground next to where Ali was standing. She gasped with annoyance. Amara pulled herself up off the ground, grimacing at the ink covering her clothes.

"Alison, I can read your mind, and I know you're scared to death of me..."

"I am not! I'm facing you, aren't I?!"

"That's not what I mean... you're scared that I could take Lee away from you..."

Ali simply stared at Amara skeptically. She then began to laugh.

"That's rich, Amara. Me and Lee have known each other since we were four. I scraped my knee and he tore up his shirt to help make me feel better. Since then, he's always been there for me, as you say the other day at the power plant. Lee loves me, and he'll NEVER go for you!"

Amara glared at Ali, extremely vexed by her speech.

"Let's see how he goes for a dead woman! Sapphiremon, get her!!!"

"AQUA REVOLT!!!"

Sapphiremon held out her fist a blasted extreme water pressure into Alison, sending her crashing back against the wall of the coliseum. Sapphiremon then began to walk towards her, still pouring on the water pressure as she walked. Ali gurgled, barely able to breathe under the high water pressure.

(Octopimon... help me...)

Her D-Volver began to react to her mental plea, and the fallen MegaOctopimon began to evolve.

"No way!" hissed Amara. "I should've been quicker in killing her!"

"MegaOctopimon Shinka..."

MegaOctopimon only grew slightly bigger, but her hide was vastly reinforced, almost like living armor. Her tentacles became thicker as well, now ready to deliver quite the wallop.

"... ULTRAOCTOPIMON!!!"

Sapphiremon turned to look, and was slammed by one of UltraOctopimon's thick appendages. She rolled through the dirt, and then used her arms to push herself back up.

"Don't think it's finished yet!" shouted Amara.

"Oh I wouldn't dream it..." groaned a soaked Ali, although keeping her confident tone.

The virus-infected Techamon leapt into the air, heading directly for MetalKyubimon! The armored fox dodged to the side as Techamon threw a mighty kick at her, taking a large chunk out of the ground.

"Argh, we're vastly outnumbered now!" growled Earnest. "Five to three!"

"Techamon stop it!!!" screamed Arik, but Techamon wouldn't listen to him.

"Maybe taking out Rievermon will restore him..." suggested Nathan.

"Are you nuts?" exclaimed Ace. "That guy is practically invincible, two fights and we haven't scratched him! Plus, Hieshi told us he gets powered up in darkness!"

"So does Chaosmon," replied Nathan, smirking. Chaosmon overheard this and turned to face Rievermon, launching himself right at the demon Digimon!

"What the--" was all Rievermon got out before being tackled! Chaosmon shifted himself upwards, taking the two of them up into the night sky and out of the main battle.

"Interesting..." gasped Hieshi, watching them go up. "A battle of demons..."

"Now, Teferimon! Slaughter that weak version of yourself!" ordered Jeska, pointing at MetalDragonmon, who was still lain out on the ground.

"Back him up!" shouted Tori to Zephyrmon.

MetalDragonmon's eyes widened as he saw the two Perfects come rushing down at him, and one of them was in his form! He needed a plan, quick!

Suddenly, Sapphiremon was sent flying over his head and crashed right into Zephyrmon! The two female warriors crashed into the ground in a heap. MetalDragonmon glared at Teferimon.

"Eat missile, you fake! DRAGON MISSILE!!!"

Teferimon was flying too fast to stop and was hit at point-blank range by the missiles! He dropped out of the ensuing explosion in his regular humanoid form. UltraOctopimon made her way over to where MetalDragonmon was.

"Are you hurt?" asked UltraOctopimon. "WATER ELIXIR!!!"

A small rain cloud appeared over MetalDragonmon, magically healing his wounds. Jeska, Ray and Tori began to get antsy.

"This is not going how Rathjen said it would..." growled Jeska.

"What did he say would happen if we failed?" asked Tori, the thought slipping her mind.

"That we'd all pay the price... whatever that means..."

"Your timing could not have been better!" shouted Ace to Ali. Ali ran over to rejoin the boys, leaving a pissed Amara behind.

(I won't let that loser make a fool out of me!) thought Amara, angrily.

- - -

"Your death will be at my hand!" growled Rievermon. "DEATH REAPER!!!"

Rievermon barreled at Chaosmon, attempting to slash him, but the other darkness Digimon was too fast and floated to the side. He charged fire in his hands.

"CHAOS FLARE!!!"

Rievermon was hit by three fireballs and snarled at the pain! Chaosmon sent another oneat him, but Rievermon kicked it back, hitting Chaosmon in the stomach. He moved his wings fast, so as to capitalize on Chaosmon's moment of weakness.

"DEATH REAPER!!!"

He began to slash Chaosmon repeatedly, and the cloaked demon was beginning to bleed at his coat was torn from the repeated hits! He screamed out in agony and forced both of his hands onto Rievermon's waist.

"What!?" gasped Rievermon, stopping slashing to turn his attention to whatever Chaosmon was doing.

"SOUL EATER!!" screamed Chaosmon. He began sucking energy from Rievermon, healing his own wounds in the process. Rievermon hissed and punched Chaosmon in the face to make distance between them, but he could feel fatigue setting in.

(It looks like Rievermon got alot taken out of him...) thought Hieshi, observing their fight. (My brother's friends are more resourceful than I thought... so there's only one course of action to take now...)

"Rievermon, execute plan B!"

"What's that!?" asked Jeska. But Hieshi ignored her. Rievermon set down in front of Teferimon, Zephyrmon and Sapphiremon, who were all just getting up from their spills earlier.

"About time you came to help us..." complained Sapphiremon.

Suddenly Rievermon kicked all three of them, sending them smashing down hard on the ground! Everyone's jaws dropped in disbelief.

"Hieshi, what are you doing?!" exclaimed Ray.

Hieshi ran over to Rievermon and the demon Digimon picked him up.

"Ditching you losers. You can consider me no longer a part of your little team! I'll find my own way to Trinity Server! Have fun getting wasted by the Hikari Chosen."

"You can't do this to us!" shouted Amara.

"Funny, I just did."

Rievermon took off into the sky, carrying Hieshi. As soon as he left, Techamon returned to his normal green color and stopped attacking MetalKyubimon.

"Should I follow him, Nathan?" asked Chaosmon, floating down to where the quintet of Hikari Chosen were standing.

"Nah, let him go. We got questions for these four..."

MetalDragonmon, MetalKyubimon, Chaosmon, Techamon and UltraOctopimon formed a circle around the four Yami Chosen.

"Ah, crap," sighed Jeska.

At the scientist's laboratory, Rathjen was just walking into the main control room where Green and Irvine were observing the outcome of the big battle between the Yami and Hikari teams. Rathjen looked around suspiciously.

"Where's Lunn?"

"With Lee Trainer, to keep him away from the fighting, remember?" answered Green. "And your little plan flopped. Hieshi betrayed the others and took off, leaving them helpless."

"I knew that boy was no good," growled Rathjen.

"We'll deal with him later," said Irvine, not even caring. "The Yami Chosen lost, therefore it's time to test out our new weapon..."

"God have mercy on all of them..." gasped Green.

- - -

"Alright, JES-KA!" shouted Ace, making a large mock sound of her name. "Who put you up this!?"

"Like I'd tell you, goof."

"Grr!" growled Ace, messing up his hair. "She's not cooperating! And she called me a goof! I demand justice!"

"Maybe if you'd shut up," said Earnest walking over to him.

Jeska, Ray, Amara and Tori weren't going anywhere thanks to the wall of Perfects surrounding them. All their partners were regaining strength, but not dumb enough to attack when their partners were in a hostage situation.

"One of you is going to tell us what the hell is going on here," said Earnest, crossing his arms. Ali, Arik and Nathan walked up behind him to back the two of them up. "These attacks have got to be for a reason."

"If you must know, our leaders want you guys dead so they can upload themselves into Trinity Server," answered Ray. Tori turned and smacked him.

"Ray! We aren't supposed to tell them that!"

"Oh god... I'm surrounded by idiots..." groaned Jeska, massaging her forehead. Ali glanced at Amara, who was being very quiet and distant, unlike her three companions.

"What's wrong, Amara? Upset you got whipped by me?" asked Ali, grinning.

"No... I... sense something..." replied the psychic girl, very faintly.

"What kind of something?" asked Jeska.

"I sense it too," said Sapphiremon, pulling herself off the ground. "It's the same dark presence we sensed this morning, Amara..."

"They're just trying to trick us," Earnest said to Arik, Ace, Ali and Nathan, who were a little intimidated by what Amara and her partner were saying.

"No, Earnest!" shouted Leila. "I sense it now too!"

"Me too!" added MetalDragonmon, tensing up. "What the hell is that?!"

All the other Digimon began to react in the same way, leaving most of the humans really confused.

"I... IceDevimon?" asked Ray, as his Adult level partner walked through the circle of Hikari Digimon and over to him. The fallen angel Digimon grimaced.

"I know what it is..." gasped IceDevimon.

"Me too..." agreed Chaosmon. Everyone looked at them, expecting an answer.

"How do you two know?" asked Ace, confused.

"We're both demon Digimon, so we know when another demon Digimon is present," answered IceDevimon.

"And this one is the mother trucker of all demon Digimon..." gasped Chaosmon.

A fierce wind blew through the coliseum, shaking up the nine Chosen and Digimon. They saw a shadow, its figure obscured from their vision by the bright spotlight shining right down on where they were standing.

"Who is that...?" wondered Ali, her hair swaying in the unnaturally fierce wind.

"Is it Hieshi? Did he come back?" asked Tori.

"Tammy...?" gasped Amara. "Tammy! I've been looking all over for you!!!"

Amara turned and ran to go see her best friend, and the blonde girl was certainly visible now. She was still wearing her white karate uniform that she had on the other day, and her face was hard to see because her hair was blowing in it... but something seemed unnatural about it.

"Did she say Tammy?" inquired Nathan, curiously. "That's the girl who was at Lee's birthday party the other night. But what's she doing here?"

"Earnest..." warned Leila. "Something bad is about to happen."

Tammy outstretched her arm, punching Amara directly in the face and sending her crashing backwards onto the ground in front of the others. Amara rubbed her throbbing cheek and looked up at Tammy with shock.

"You... what's happened to you?"

"You have all failed," Tammy told them in a very monotone voice. "Designate Amara, you are no longer worthy of being my friend, or even co-existing in the same world as me. Designates Victoria, Ray and Jeska, you are all just as worthless... and must be deleted."

"Designate? What is she, a robot?" asked Arik, getting a little defensive.

"She's pumped full of Shadow data... much MUCH more than we saw in Tori or the others..." growled Earnest.

"How much would that be?" wondered Tori.

"Oh I'd say enough to take away her free will..."

"Crap."

Tammy then turned to the Hikari Chosen, looking at them with lifeless eyes.

"Designates Hikari Chosen, your function in this world is to prevent the destruction of Megabyte Server Barrier, therefore protecting said server from viruses, but also preventing us from leaving. You and your Digimon must also be deleted."

"Yeah, right! You don't look like you got a partner to speak of, zombie girl! But I do!" shouted Ace, pointing to MetalDragonmon, who roared out in an attempt to intimidate her. She simply stood there, not even noticing him.

Suddenly, a lightning bolt came crashing down from the sky behind them! It moved right through the area they were standing, sending them scattering all over the place! It ended up stopping right next to Tammy and began to swirl itself into a form.

"Now what's happening?!" exclaimed Ali.

"Tammy... no..." gasped Amara, with fright.

Earnest, Ali, Arik, Jeska, Tori, Ray, Ace, Nathan, Amara and their partners all looked on as the lightning bolt combined with Shadow data to become a Digimon. It was a pale-skinned virus type Digimon, with two large red claws in place of hands. Large spikes protruded from the back of his vermin-like head and ran down his back. He screamed out, his screech painful to the ears.

"Agh! What the hell is that!?" screamed Ray, covering his ears.

"... ArcaDemon..." gasped Leila. "Now, we have to kill it now! While it's in it's Child form!"

"That's a Child?!" exclaimed Ace. "It must be weak then! Why are you all so scared? MetalDragonmon, blast the crap out of it!"

MetalDragonmon nodded, flapping his metallic wings and raising himself into the air. Tammy and her demonic partner looked up at him.

"Suicide," was all Tammy said. Amara narrowed her eyebrows at Tammy.

(Why would they do this to her? So we lost one battle! I didn't want Tammy dragged into this...)

"AERIAL INFERNO!!!" screamed MetalDragonmon, launching a fire stream directly at Tammy and ArcaDemon! ArcaDemon leapt upwards and flew right into MetalDragonmon's attack, deleting it the second he touched it!

"Holy shit!" exclaimed Ace.

"That's impossible for a Child!" screamed Arik.

ArcaDemon elbwoed MetalDragonmon directly in the face, knocking him unconscious instantly! He grabbed MetalDragonmon by his throat and hurled him downwards at the coliseum, causing him to leave a huge crater upon impact! All the Chosen turned and ran, while their Digimon held their ground.

"Did you see what he just DID!?" yelled Ray.

"No, I missed it," groaned Tori, sarcastically.

"CHAOS FLARE!!!" screamed Chaosmon, soaring upwards at ArcaDemon, firing off fireballs repeatedly. Zephyrmon was right there next to him!

"PHOTON ORBS!!!" screamed Zephyrmon, launching the two potent bombs at ArcaDemon! The two attacks hit him at the same time, causing a huge explosion of flame to ensue, lighting up the entire coliseum.

"He's got to be dead now!" shouted Nathan.

"Pathetic," said Tammy, downing Nathan's hopes.

ArcaDemon came flying down out of the explosion, wrapping his arms around Chaosmon and Zephyrmon's necks as he fell! He bashed both of them headfirst into the cement, taking them out of the fight!

"Grrr.... FROZEN CLAW!!!" bellowed IceDevimon, running at him. ArcaDemon held up his forearm, blocking IceDevimon's attack in mid-air. IceDevimon attempted to force his arm in, but ArcaDemon effortlessly held him at bay. He pushed back, smashing IceDevimon in the face and knocking him backwards through the wall of the coliseum! He then turned to the others.

"DUAL BLASTERS!!!" screamed Leila, launching two missiles out of hidden compartments in her shoulders at ArcaDemon.

"INK SHOCK!!!" yelled UltraOctopimon, blasting out the hugest stream of ink she could muster at the demon.

Both attacks hit, but like before, had no effect whatsoever. ArcaDemon extended a red energy blade from his right hand.

"Wuzzat do?" asked Nathan in fright.

"ERASE SICKLE!!!" yelled ArcaDemon, finally speaking. He slashed Leila and UltraOctopimon with it, sending them flying away. Sapphiremon had leapt above him and brought her scythe right down on him!

"SAPPHIRE SCYTHE!!!"

The scythe stabbed right into his shoulder and meshed it's way through his bone, coming out of his upper back! Ace and Nathan cheered, while Ali covered her mouth.

"I think I'm going to be sick..." she groaned.

Sapphiremon stood there with the scythe stabbed into ArcaDemon, waiting for him to fall. But he didn't even bleed. He flexed his arm, shattering her scythe!!!

"That's... no, he just can't do that!" protested Tori. "Why is he so invincible?!"

"It's the Shadow data, DUH!" shouted Ace, happy to finally know something before someone else did. "When you had Shadow data in you, you were beating MetalDragonmon around the park like it was nothing! But today, it was a very fair fight, get where I'm coming from?"

"I do," responded Earnest. "The more Shadow data, the more powerful a Digimon is. This one has to be at least ninety percent Shadow data... there is no way we can win..."

"We have to at least try!" protested Arik.

ArcaDemon turned to face Sapphiremon, who backed away from him in fright.

"ERASE SICKLE!!!" he screamed, slashing her and taking her out of the fight. He looked around for his next opponent, and found Teferimon right behind him.

"Now you're mine!" yelled Teferimon, triumphantly. "DIGITAL CLONE!!!"

Teferimon touched him, expecting to transform into him as he did into MetalDragonmon earlier. Instead he got a negative shock of data, and dropped to the ground instantly. Techamon extended his sword and ran at ArcaDemon, ready to give it all he had!

"TECH SABER!!!"

Techamon slashed him repeatedly but his sword swipes were doing little damage, if any. He leapt back, away from the demon Digimon arm charged up his arm lazer.

"VORTEX SPRAY!!!" he screamed, blasting energy right at ArcaDemon. ArcaDemon then spread his arms, unleashing an attack of his own that cancelled out the Vortex Spray!

"SOUL ABSORPTION!!!"

A huge energy bubble appeared around ArcaDemon, sucking out the energy of all the nearby Digimon, including Techamon. He dropped to the ground like the others did.

"They all failed!" exclaimed Arik. "Now we're dead!"

ArcaDemon turned his glare to the nine Chosen, who all cringed as he began to step towards them.

"What do we do now?!" shouted Tori, hysterically.

"Pray..." sighed Nathan.

"Oh yeah, that really works for you, Shadow boy!" shouted Jeska.

"It did when I kicked your ass!" he snapped back.

"Can we not fight in the last five seconds I have to live?" asked Ali.

"Tammy! I know you can hear me!" yelled Amara, standing far in front of the other eight. "Don't hurt us! I'm your friend, remember?!"

ArcaDemon stepped right up to Amara and raised his energy blade into the air over her head. All the other Chosen looked away.

"I can't watch this..." groaned Ali. "She's going to be skewered..."

"Friends..." said Tammy. "ArcaDemon, new mission. Render all life forms inert. Do not kill them."

ArcaDemon responded and began to glow with energy again.

"SOUL ABSORPTION!!!"

Amara was hit first, falling unconscious immediately as her energy was sucked out. Ace, Ali, Tori, Jeska, Ray, Earnest, Arik and Nathan were hit soon after, crumpling to the ground. Tammy and ArcaDemon stood over them. Tammy knew full well that she could kill them all right now... but what little sanity she had left was stopping her.

"Bring designates Yami Chosen back to the base for judgment. Leave designates Hikari Chosen here for now. Orders were to test power strengths, not to kill. Power level extremely high due to Shadow Data, as data dissipates, you will get weaker. Your strength will still remain above average, though."

ArcaDemon set about collecting the four Yami Chosen, and Tammy looked at her own Yami D-Volver.

"What stopped me from fulfilling the mission? ... doesn't matter. Let us go."

Amara groaned and opened her eyes. She felt metal on the back of her head and noticed she was back in the scientists' base. She looked around to see Tori, Jeska and Ray just coming to as well.

"I feel like I got twenty hangovers..." groaned Jeska, rubbing her head. "Are we alive?"

"Tammy spared us," answered Amara.

"For what good it will do you," said the familiar voice of Matt Irvine, entering the room. "Your lack of teamwork skills sickens me. The Hikari Chosen function as one unit, not as four little individuals who want to get revenge on a certain person. You're lucky Tammy still had some compassion left in her for weaklings like you."

"How is that ArcaDemon so strong?" asked Tori. "It mopped the floor with all of us!"

"A defect in it's programming allowed us to fill it with 95% Shadow data. That's not a number you want to mess with, my dears. ArcaDemon does have a weakness, but none of you figured it out," he told them. "Now, onto more pressing matters. What to do with you four."

"Please don't take DemiDevimon away fro me!" pleaded Ray.

"Yeah, we'll get stronger!" protested Jeska.

"I'd say you four can keep your partners... if you can deal with Hieshi for me," offered Irvine. "We need the Shadow data that is in his D-Volver, for our resources are running low."

"What is your 'resource'?" asked Jeska, curiously.

"That is our little secret," said Irvine. "Now I have just the plan to take out Hieshi, but it will involve all four of you working together. But most importantly..."

Irvine pointed past Jeska and Ray, to where Amara was sitting quietly.

"... it involves you, Amara."

"Me?"

"Crystalmon taught you how to project dreams... correct?" inquired Irvine.

"Yes."

"Then all is in motion. Jeska, Ray, Tori, you three must go collect someone... someone you all know very well..." began Irvine.

"Why not have Tammy do it?" asked Ray. "She's tougher--"

Jeska clamped her hand over Ray's mouth.

"If we don't prove our worth by doing this, they'll be making Tammy do everything, with us dead!" she hissed. She then smiled and looked at Irvine. "Who do we need to collect?"

"Lee Trainer," answered Irvine. Jeska, Ray, Tori and Amara all stared at him, wondering just how this plot was going to come together...