Author: Filler chapter, well, mostly filler. As I said before, Cyber Sleuth got me back into Digimon so I wanted to put more Cyber Sleuth in the fic.

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"Matt!" Sora called walked up to Matt and Gabumon on the corner of a street.

"Hey Sora," Matt greets her. "It looks like they're not here yet."

"Did Izzy really need to hire a detective to help us?" Sora asks.

"He says having an officer will help us to move around," Matt answers. "Especially since there's some people are still weary of digimon."

"I suppose," Sora thinks.

A fancy silver car drives up to them. The driver and passenger doors open, a woman and a young girl climb out of the vehicle. The woman had a half buttoned up shirt with a black jacket wrapped around it, with short short shorts. The girl had red hair with a short ponytail, wearing a yellow and black t-shirt, black skirt and yellow leggings, she seemed familiar to Sora.

"Sora!" Ami greets Sora.

"Ami?!" Sora couldn't believe her eyes as Ami ran up to her. "What are you doing here?"

"I'm her assistant," Ami thumbs to the blond woman. "I knew this was a job for the digidestined. But I didn't think I'd see you again so soon."

"Do you know her Sora?" Biyomon asks.

"We played together once," Sora answers.

"We've gotten a lot better since then," Ami confidently boasts. "Are you up for a rematch?"

"Anytime," Sora happily answers. "But not now."

"Oh, right."

"So you already know each other," the woman smiles. "That saves time on introductions. My name is Kyoko Kuremi, Cyber Sleuth. Izzy already told us about the situation."

"Pleased to meet you," Gabumon greets. "I'm Gabumon, and this is Matt. Matt?"

Matt was just staring.

"Eyes up Matt," Sora tells him, annoyed.

"Huh-what?" Matt suddenly snapped out of his trance.

"Do you have the device?" Kyoko asks.

"The what? Oh." Matt quickly searches his pockets and pulls out the radar and gives it to Kyoko.

Kyoko takes the device and inspects it, she turns it on but no signal could be found. "Hmm…"

"The signal was already weak yesterday in the digital world," Matt explains. "If there's still a signal to follow, we'd have go around the whole city to find out where she came out of."

"That could take hours," Ami comments.

"Not if we can strengthen and extend this radar," Kyoko suggests.

"Can you do that?" Sora asks.

"No, but we know someone that could," Kyoko smiles at Ami.

"Right," Ami nods. "I'll call him to meet us at the office."

"Why don't you come with us?" Kyoko suggests to the digidestined. "It's better than waiting."

"Alright," Matt answers. "We need to resolve this as soon as we can."

"Umm…" Ami nervously gets their attention. "He's starting to fanboy. Are you guys willing to give your autographs?"

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"So what did you say you were?" Sora asks on the ride to the office. "A Cyber Sleuth?"

"Assistant, actually." Ami corrects. "I'm the doing most of the legwork for the smaller cases we get."

"What kind of job does a Cyber Sleuth do?" Biyomon asks.

"We're actually a small private office," Ami explains. "But we do all sorts of jobs. Like finding missing items, uncovering ghost stories, even resolving some personal issues if we get the job request for it."

"Then why do you call yourselves Cyber Sleuths?" Matt questions bluntly. "None of those things sound very 'cyber' to me."

"Most of the requests we get are from digidestined and digimon," Ami answers.

"What?" the group asked in unison.

"Yeah," Ami continues. "None of the local police are really trained for digimon related cases so they forward them to us."

"But why you guys?" Matt inquires. "What were you doing before the digimon became well known?"

"I… don't know," Ami turns to Kyoko.

"I'm afraid I can't tell you," Kyoko speaks to them in a serious manner. "But I can tell you that I recruited Ami because I saw her potential, both as an investigator and a digidestined."

"You're a digidestined?" Sora asks Ami.

Ami silently pulls out her digivice, shows it off and smiles. "Wait until you see my digimon, he's really cute!"

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"You guys sure took your time," a young man in a white jacket greeted them outside the office.

"Hey Arata," Ami waved. "Nice of you to come here in such short notice."

"Well I heard that you're working for the original digidestined," Arata responds. "I can't exactly say no. Did you get their autographs yet?"

"Not yet," Ami shakes her head. "I don't know what you want their autographs on."

"Good point," Arata agreed at the realization. "Well, I can figure it out as I work. Do you have the radar?"

"Here," Matt gives it to him.

Arata gives it a onceover. "Looks simple enough, this shouldn't take too long. Can we go in now?"

Kyoko unlocks the door to her office. Everyone entered, greeted by a large, purple and fuzzy digimon.

"You're back!" the digimon jumped at Ami.

"I told you it wouldn't be long," Ami hugged and petted the digimon. "Sora, this is Dorumon."

"Hello!" Dorumon greeted.

"You were right," Sora feels the digimon's fur. "He is cute, and this fur is so smooth, I want to cuddle him."

"Hmm?" Biyomon notices Gabumon sulking in a corner.

"When did you get him?"

"Right when school started," Ami answers. "It was a real surprise too. My parents freaked, but they eventually warmed up to him."

"That's good to hear," Sora smiles.

"Ami," Kyoko calls her. "Upgrading the radar will take some time, why don't you serve them some coffee?"

"Urk!" Arata suddenly twitched.

"Huh?" Matt looks over at him. "Something wrong?"

"Be careful…" Arata warns before starting his work at the big desk in the room.

"What kind of coffee do you guys like?" Ami asks cheerfully.

"What do you have?" Sora asks back.

"Let's see," Ami tries to recall. "There's seaweed, red-bean paste, wasabi, onion, sea urchin, oyster sause and my personal favorite, mayonnaise. Well?"

Gabumon and Biyomon rush out of the office holding their mouths.

"Uh…" Matt and Sora were speechless.

"If you like more than one, we can also mix and match," Ami smiles.

"Can-" Sora nervously starts. "Can we just take regular?"

"Nothing wrong with that," Ami replies. "It took me a while to get used the flavors myself."

Arata and Kyoko worked on the device as Ami and Sora chatted away. Mostly exchanging stories about digimon, cases, friends…

"And we are… finished," Arata announces. "We strengthened the radar's range and detection. We also added a connection port so that we can use an internet map. Now we just need to find out which computers have been accessing the digimon world in the past couple of days."

"That's usually monitored by Izzy and his… office," Matt turns to Sora and shrugged. "I can call him and-"

"No need," Arata interrupts. "I already got the info."

"Huh?" Matt's eyes widened in surprise. "Did you seriously out hack Izzy?"

"Izzy's not going to like this…" Sora muttered worryingly.

"Let's just keep it to ourselves," Matt suggests.

"Let's see…"Arata scans the information. "Of all the portals that were opened… there!"

Matt and Sora rushed behind the desk to look at the monitor.

"That's TK's school," Matt mentions.

"Of course!" Sora had a realization. "She found the computer room where we always did our jumps during the whole dark tower trouble."

"Right," Matt quickly writes something down on a slip note. "Let's go!"

"Wait up Matt!" Sora sees what he wrote and added to it before following.

"You better go too," Kyoko tells Ami. "It's still a job."

"I'm on it," Ami follows. "Let's go Dorumon."

"Yippie!"

Arata quickly looked at the slip note Matt and Sora wrote on. "Thank you, Matt. You're a real help, Sora."

XXX

"May be we should've asked your boss for a ride," Matt suggested as they rode the bus.

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"There's the school," Matt takes out the radar. "We're right, she was using the computer room. Look, there's a trail leading out from it."

The group follows the trail out from the school. They walk down the road, through several buildings, towards an apartment complex.

"That looks expensive," Sora examines the complex. "Where does she get the money?"

"We'll find out when we get in there," Ami walks ahead.

XXX

"This is the room," Matt informs everyone. "So what do we do now?"

"This is a digital lock," Ami observes the door. "And it's connected to a network, probably for surveillance. If there's a computer around here I can… Give me a sec." Ami rushes off with Dorumon.

A couple minutes later the door was unlocked. Matt opened it and entered the room. The room itself wasn't very different from any other.

"I'm back," Ami tells Sora.

"Welcome back, Sora greeted. "Why do you suddenly look so tired? And why does Dorumon look like he's been outside?"

"Smells like he's been in a fight," Gabumon informs.

"A fight?" Matt questions. "Where? How?"

"It'd take too long to explain," Ami tells them. "For now let's just go in and investigate."

The group splits up and looks around.

"Matt," Gabumon calls. "This looks familiar."

Matt walks over to what Gabumon was looking at. A small handheld telescope. "It looks like the same kind of telescope Tai had before."

"Matt," Sora calls from one of the rooms.

Matt walks in seeing Sora ruffling through large box. "What do you have?"

"Our stuff."

Matt leans in closer, he sees Sora's old blue hat, Matt's harmonica, Izzy's backpack, TK's hat, Kari's whistle, Joe's bag and Mimi's hat.

"Unbelievable," Matt scans the items.

"Why would she have these?" Sora asks out loud. "I tossed away this hat a long time ago."

"Probably just replicas," Matt suggests. "For the memories."

"So what now?" Ami asks.

"I think we're done," Matt answers. "We just need to wait for her to come back. I'll let Izzy know to give you your payment."

"Honestly," Ami scratches her cheek. "I kind of want to see this to the end."

"This is personal Ami," Sora informs. "You were a great help, thank you."

"Alright," Ami nods, understanding. "If you need anything else, you know who to call! Let's go Dorumon!" Ami waves good bye and leaves the room.

XXX

Tai's practice is finishing up, they were all working harder than ever before since the Nationals Finals are upon them. Tai, Marcus, Takato and Takuya all knew that they had to give it more than before. Coach Yamaki even allowed Sayo to join their practice games and exercises. She was able to outpace most of the team but the main four put up an impressive fight, and the others followed suit, eventually.

"Alright, let's wrap it up people," Yamaki calls to them. "That'll be all. The next time we all meet, you better be in your best condition. Which means well rested and completely ready. Break!"

"It's hard to believe you were shot last week," Marcus compliments Tai. "It's like nothing happened to you at all."

"I'm not complaining," Tai responds. "I'm just glad that I get to play at all. Especially on this game."

"Hey, you'll find no argument here man."

"I thought for sure I'd be able to beat Tai in some of the exercises," Takuya moaned.

"I don't think it would count if he's handicapped," Takato notes.

"Even if I was," Tai interrupts. "There's still Marcus."

"And Sayo," Marcus adds.

They all turn to Sayo feeding their digimon some cookies and giving out water.

"Hey Sayo!" Marcus calls. "How about some water this way?!"

"On it!" Sayo responds. She grabs water bottles from a cooler and tosses it to the four boys.

"I'm impressed that she can take care of the digimon so easily," Takuya comments. "Even while she jumped into our training from time to time."

"Did you see all the cookies she's baking for the digimon?" Takato asks.

"Those guys are bottomless pits when it comes to food," Tai answers. "I'm surprised she can keep all of this up."

"May be we shouldn't be bringing all our digimon at once," Takato suggests.

"Aww," Guilmon moaned. "But Takatomon, I really like Sayo's cookies!"

"Same here!" Flamemon agrees.

The Agumons nod happily.

"It's really nothing to worry about Takato," Sayo reassures him. "I enjoy seeing their faces after eating my cookies. But it's hard to make different kinds week after week, pretty soon they might get tired of the same kinds of cookies over and over."

"I don't think the digimon are that picky," Tai tells her. "They can eat just about anything."

"As long as it's delicious," Agumon added.

"You should try experimenting with all sorts of stuff," Marcus suggests. "Like spices or vegetables."

"That sounds like a good idea," Sayo agrees. "Though I feel kind of bad making the digimon be my taste testers for that stuff."

"We don't care as long as it's delicious," Marcus' Agumon tells her.

"I know," Takato starts. "Since this is the last practice before the big game, why don't we go over to my place? I'm sure I can pull out some things for you to eat. Think of it as a sort of get ready party."

"That sounds fun," Takuya replies.

"Yeah, that's a great idea," Marcus joins them. "You in Tai?"

"Actually," Tai starts. "I was thinking of getting some private training with Sayo."

"Huh?" Sayo looks at him surprised. "Well, okay. If that's what you want. You really pushed yourself during practice though, are you sure you'll be able to take some more?"

"I'm sure," Tai answered, with no hesitation. "There's also something I'd like to go over with you too."

"Aw," Agumon whined. "I wanted to go with the others."

"You just wanted to eat the bread," Tai jokes. "Don't worry, you can go with them. I'll let Kari know to pick you up later. You guys can take care of him, right?"

"Sure thing," Marcus reassures him. He makes sure he has Kari's number correctly before taking them all to Takato's bakery shop.

"Let's…" Tai starts. "Take a few minutes to rest up first."

"Agreed."

Tai and Sayo have a drink of water together on the bench.

"You wanted to ask me something, right?" Sayo asks.

"I want to know," Tai begins. Then pauses, hesitant for a moment. "I want to know how you transform into a digimon, Sora."

XXX

Back at Tai and Kari's home, a mysterious figure picks up a school newspaper with the front page photo of the soccer team winning the semi-finals. The figure takes a good look at the team manager, "Found you."