"The Dark Network of Etemon"
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The sun shone down on the group of humans, Digimon and the mutant as they all slept peacefully on the back of Whamon as he floated along the ocean, slowly making his way to the new continent.
Tai was the only one awake and was sitting on the end of Whamon's head, using his telescope to look out across the ocean as he tried to find the island.
Everyone had become aggravated and tired after the trip that had lasted for almost a week.
"We left File Island almost five days ago." Tai said as he sat cross legged.
"We're almost there." Whamon said.
"Hey, I think I see an iceberg. Either that or it could be the Continent of Server." Tai said as he spied through the telescope.
"That is Server. We made it." Whamon told him.
Thrilled with the news, Tai began to cheer loudly which made Davey open her eyes, her face set into an angered expression.
"All right! Whoo hoo!" Tai cheered jumping up and down and then he turned to look back at the rest of the group.
"Why are you being so loud?" Davey growled.
"All right everybody, wake up! Rise and shine, we're landing at Server." He hollered.
Snapping out of her anger, Davey sat up and glanced over to see the large continent that was located across the ocean.
Veemon and Catmon both woke up next, yawning and stretching out.
Matt woke up next, looking over with tired eyes that he was trying to keep open.
"I was only resting my eyes." He yawned as TK and Poyomon got up too, half dazed from sleep.
"Well your eyes were snoring pretty loudly." Joe said as he woke up and adjusted his glasses.
Everyone else soon woke up, sitting as they looked over at the goggle head while Mimi slept on.
"Come on, we're gonna be there in a few minutes. We gotta make sure we have everything we need." Tai said pointing off to where Server was.
"We're really there?" Sora asked.
"Well, I'm ready to be on land again." Izzy said as he stood up.
"I'd sure like a bed that didn't move." TK said.
"Wow, that island's huge!" Agumon exclaimed as everyone stood up to see Server properly.
"I'd never seen an island so big." Biyomon said.
"Me neither." Veemon grinned.
"It's not an island; it's the Continent of Server." Tentomon told them.
"It's amazing." Catmon grinned.
"Mimi, you've just gotta wake up and look at this. We're going to land on a big continent." Palmon said.
"No, I'm getting a pedicure." Mimi whined as she turned over in her sleep.
"Ah, Mimi." Palmon sighed as everyone laughed.
(Later on…)
"Almost there." Biyomon said as Whamon swam closer to the island, searching for a safe place to dock.
"Server, here we come." TK smiled.
Stopping at the beach that was high up, he allowed the group to get off, Tai jumping off with Agumon first.
The others soon followed, jumping off in groups.
TK held hands with Davey as they both jumped off, feeling safe with the feral who managed to get them both to land on the ground properly and with ease.
"Come on, Mimi!" Sora called up at the girl.
"Uh, this is a little too extreme sports for me. Is there some way I can be airlifted onto the island?" Mimi asked.
"Sorry, we can't just move the continent for you, Mimi. Now, according to the map, this is the best beach to come ashore." Izzy read the map he held.
"Just put one foot ahead of the other and you'll be fine, really. It's as easy as falling off a log, Mimi." Joe called up at her.
"I don't think that's going to encourage her to jump." Catmon whispered to Veemon who chuckled.
"Yeah, well, I've fallen off plenty of logs and believe me it's not as easy as it looks." Mimi then cried out as Whamon shook her off, making her slide down and fall on top of Izzy.
Gasping, the girl then lifted her top half off of Izzy as he looked worried.
"I think I broke a nail." She said.
That caused Davey to groan in disbelief, wondering why girls cared so much about that.
Then again, she had no issues with breaking her nails since they were very strong.
"Good luck finding the Crests!" Whamon called as he swam off.
Everyone then waved him off as they called out their farewells to the Digimon as he dove into the ocean.
"So what are we going to do now?" Mimi asked.
"While you were asleep, Whamon told us where to go in the forest. A few miles from here, there's a Koromon village." Palmon told her.
"Koromon? Why, that somehow sounds familiar." Mimi mused.
"I was a Koromon the day you got here." Agumon smiled.
"I forgot." Mimi grinned as she clapped her hands.
"The Koromon are a group of Digimon always willing to help out those in need." Tentomon said.
"Okay gang, let's move out." Tai said as everyone nodded in agreement.
"This place is bigger than I thought." Sora said as the group walked in a desert looking area.
"It's simple physics. The universe is expanding." Izzy said.
"I think my feet are expanding. We have been walking all day long and there's no sign of the village yet." Joe complained.
"Oh, I'd give anything to be in a nice clean bath tub with lots of bubble bath in it." Mimi said as she whipped sweat from her brow.
"Ugh, don't taunt me." Davey whined.
"I thought cats hate water." TK commented.
"That's a mis-miscom..." Davey stumbled over the word.
"Misconception." Izzy helped her.
"Yeah. Cats actually do like water. Especially the big ones. And right now, I really want a nice hot bath!" Davey sighed.
Veemon and Catmon giggled as they walked alongside their partner, knowing the reason she wanted to bathe was because she didn't like the stench of sweat and dirt that was covering her.
"You can do that once we get to the village." Palmon said.
"You honestly think they have bath tubs, Palmon?" Mimi asked hopefully.
"Well…" Palmon trailed off as Agumon stopped walking.
"Hmm?" He asked as he then started sniffing around.
"Agumon, what is it?" Tai asked as he looked down at his partner.
"Tai, I smell Koromon over in this direction." The orange dinosaur said.
"Really?" Tai asked as he ran up and checked with his mini telescope.
"A forest!" He gasped.
"You see a forest?" Joe asked as everyone else talked at once.
"Is that where the Koromon village is?" Matt asked.
"It must be. Come on!" Tai yelled as he and Agumon ran off.
The others chased after the goggle head to find themselves in a forest where it was cool from the shade the trees provided.
"Almost there." Tai told them.
Soon enough, they walked up over a hill to find a village below with tiny huts and a large building in the center.
"Wow." Matt exclaimed.
"Look!" Mimi gasped.
"This place is bigger than I thought." Davey commented.
"Great, hut tents. We can rest." TK said.
"Even better, a bath!" Mimi giggled as she ran down.
"Wait, stop!" Palmon cried as she followed.
"Uh…" Agumon said making everyone look at him.
"Agumon, what is it? What's the matter?" Tai asked.
"Something doesn't feel right." The orange dinosaur said making the group look over at the village.
"A bath! Somebody grab me a rubber duck!" Mimi cheered as she ran over to the Digimon in the village.
The Digimon were In-Training levels who were only heads that were covered in gray fur, had floppy ears and red eyes.
Looking up at Mimi, they gaze her creepy looking grins as they stared at her curiously.
"Excuse me. Where's the shampoo? Palmon, do you really think that these are Koromon?" the girl asked her partner who ran up behind her.
"No way Mimi, these are Pagumon." Palmon told her.
Giggling as they grinned up at Mimi, the Pagumon surprised the two females when they knocked Palmon down onto the ground and lifted her human up, carrying her away.
Seeing what had happened, the rest of the DigiDestineds rushed after the escaping Pagumon.
"Oh no, they've got Mimi!" Palmon cried.
"Don't let them get away!" Joe said.
"Around that corner!" Gomamon said.
"Which way?" Tai asked when they turned and saw the huts and all the Pagumon, but no Mimi.
"Oh, help!" they heard her cry out from the largest hut that was in the center of the village.
"To the tower!" Tai said as everyone ran inside of the building.
"Mimi?" Tai yelled as we saw the grand staircase and yellow drapes around.
"Mimi?" TK called out.
"Hey, look up there, that's Mimi's hat." Sora said pointing to one of the staircases.
Sora ran up the stairs and picked up the pink cowgirl's hat, turning it around to look it over.
"There's the price tag. It's Mimi's." Sora confirmed as the boys ran past her.
"That's Mimi's purse, she never goes anywhere without it." Joe said and the purse still had her Digivice strapped to it as it lied there on the floor.
"Logically that can only mean one thing; she's missing." Izzy said.
"That's it!" Tai huffed in annoyance as he threw back some of the yellow drapes.
Sora then looked over to where a cage like shelf was and it had a basket with a pink dress in it as she pulled it out to check.
"No, Tai! Don't go in there!" she cried.
"Mimi?" Tai asked as he pulled back the curtain and he froze in shock.
"Oh, wash, wash, wash away!" Mimi sang as she relaxed in the large in ground bath tub.
Izzy, being curious as ever, walked up beside the goggle head and froze in shock as well.
"Uh, Mimi, sorry!" Izzy yelped alerting the strawberry blonde.
Her face burned red and she then covered her torso with her arms to try and hide herself.
"AHH! Haven't you two ever heard of the phrase; 'Please knock before entering'?!" Mimi yelled as she began throwing things.
"Mimi, we're here to rescue you and-"Tai was cut off when a bowel was thrown at him and hit him in the head.
Izzy was hit in the head by a shampoo bottle while Sora walked over and closed the curtain.
"I believe I said don't go in." She said simply as the two boys lay on the floor, groaning in pain.
"You know, I'm beginning to think human boys don't have any manners at all." Veemon commented as he shared a glance with Catmon.
That made Davey giggle in amusement while the rest of the boys sighed, unsure how they felt about the insult Veemon had thrown their way while TK wasn't sure what was going on.
(Later on…)
"Welcome to our village.
We hope you never go.
Stay and visit here with us.
And please enjoy the show!" The Pagumon sang with party hats on.
After the incident upstairs in the bathroom, the Pagumon had gathered the DigiDestineds and their Digimon partners, explaining they had brought Mimi to their home to give her the bath like she had requested.
They weren't used to having visitors in their village and wanted to make a good impression by showing them kindness.
Once the misunderstanding was cleared up, the Pagumon led the group downstairs and had them all seated and sang their saong to them before they then started handing out bowls filled with fruit for their guests to eat.
"This is definitely a Pagumon village." Gabumon said to Agumon.
"Something's wrong here, Gabumon. I know what I smelled was Koromon. I bet my nose on it." Agumon told his friend.
"If that's so, then why are there all of these Pagumon here?" Catmon questioned.
"Maybe you did smell Koromon, but they were passing by." Veemon suggested.
Agumon frowned at this.
What Veemon said sounded logical, but Agumon couldn't help but feel like something was off about the situation.
"Here's your fruit platter." The Pagumon said as they brought the bowels with fruits and vegetables in them over to the humans and their partners to eat.
"I feel just like a princess in a beautiful palace." Mimi gushed.
"I once had a Chihuahua named Princess." Joe said making her look at him.
"Listen, Tai, you don't suppose this could be some kind of trick?" Sora asked.
"Of course not. You think I don't know a good Digimon from a bad one?" Tai asked as he munched on a pear.
Pausing mid-bite, Davey then turned to look at the boy, wondering if she should comment on what the brunette said, but shrugged it off.
"This is really strange. I always heard that Pagumon were awful pranksters." Tentomon said with crossed arms.
"You were just hearing an awful rumour." Gomamon said.
"Nice of you to say that." One of the Pagumon said as he hopped by.
"These guys are really nice little Digimon." Biyomon said to Palmon as the two ate their fruit with a smile.
"Right, nice Digimon." Another Pagumon said as he and his friend passed by.
Frowning once again and staring down at her apple, Davey dropped it and pushed her dish away, refusing to eat anything the Pagumon had given her.
"Davey, what's wrong?" Tentomon asked when he saw the girl no longer eating.
"You guys just said they were nice Digimon. Every time you guys say that about a Digimon, they always try to kill after. Every. Single. Time." Davey growled.
"Calm down, Nia. Nothing bad is going to happen this time. There are no more black gears, so we don't have to worry about meeting good Digimon who were turned evil anymore." Catmon assured.
The mutant continued to sit with her arms crossed, refusing to eat anything since she didn't want to chance the Chosen Digimon being wrong once again.
Catmon simply sighed at her partner's stubborn attitude while Veemon just snickered.
"You like that?" TK asked as Poyomon ate, but then the jellyfish stopped and started shaking.
He then was covered in yellow light.
"Poyomon digivolve too…TOKOMON!"
Instead of the white jellyfish was now the familiar white guinea pig that we had seen on our first day here.
"Hey, he's Tokomon again!" TK cheered as the little guy jumped into his arms.
"The food made him Digivolve." Izzy said.
"Congratulations." Matt said as TK laughed.
The Pagumon were oddly quiet as they just stared at the two partners hugging.
"Together we can make me Patamon again." Tokomon said.
"Mm-hmm." TK hummed happily in agreement.
"Let's hear it for Tokomon!" Mimi cheered as she stood up.
Everyone then cheered and clapped for Tokomon to show their support while the Pagumon snapped out of their silence and joined in.
"Congratulations!
Way to go!
We're so excited!
All aglow!" the Pagumon sang and they had this creepy look in their eyes.
(The next day...)
When everyone woke up the next morning, they found Tokomon missing and had rushed off to try and find him, worried something bad had happened.
"Tokomon! Tokomon! Where are you?" TK called as he searched around outside.
Jumping up into a tree, Davey and Catmon stood on one of the branches as they tried to see if they could spot Tokomon from higher up.
Veemon stayed on the ground below the two felines, searching in bushes to see if Tokomon had fallen asleep in one of them.
Tai was on top of one of the huts as he searched with his telescope.
"Where could he have gone too?" Tai asked.
"Tokomon, if you can hear me, say something!" Biyomon flew overhead.
Under the hut Tai was standing on, Mimi, Joe, Izzy and Sora were standing there.
"Well, it looks like he's not in the soft part of the village." Sora said as Matt walked over.
"It looks like he's not in the village." Matt commented.
Izzy was drawing a map of the village in the dirt as everyone walked over to the hut to report back.
"Hmm, can we hurry this up? I'm scheduled for a facial and a mud pack in half an hour." Mimi said.
"Tokomon should know better than to interrupt your beauty treatments." Gomamon joked as he winked at her.
"You're so right." Mimi sighed making Joe look at her.
"He's being sarcastic." He told her making her gasp in shock.
"Well, he's not by the waterfall." A Pagumon said as the swarm hopped over.
Ears twitching, Davey frowned when she noticed something strange about the Pagumon when they spoke.
She had heard their heartmaking a strange noise and it made her wonder what it meant.
"Okay, thanks." Izzy said as he crossed out the picture on the ground.
Satisfied, the Pagumon hopped off with evil grins on their faces while Davey stared after them, not trusting their strange behaviour.
"This is bad." Izzy whispered.
"Where is he?" TK whimpered.
He was scared that something bad had happened to make Tokomon disappear.
"Tokomon's really very small. He can't have gone too far." Izzy said.
"Agumon's been gone a long time. I wonder if he's found anything." Tai lowered his telescope in worry.
Suddenly, he spotted steam rising from the forest and he lifted his telescope to get a closer look.
"Huh? That's weird." The goggle head commented.
"What do you see Tai?" Matt asked.
"Smoke by the river." Tai pointed.
"Smoke? What?" Joe asked as everyone turned to see the steam rising higher.
"What could be causing that?" Catmon asked as she stared at the smoke.
"It's Tokomon!" TK exclaimed.
"No, really, it's nothing. We looked by the river and didn't see a thing." One of the Pagumon said as the swarm grew nervous.
"Didn't see a thing!" The swarm repeated.
Hearing the same strange sound their hearts gave off and sensing how nervous the Pagumon had all become, Davey turned to glare down at the Digimon.
"Well, it is possible that Tokomon arrived there after you searched the area." Izzy said.
"Hey, guys, maybe it's Agumon. Maybe he found something and is signaling us." Veemon suggested.
"Yeah, it could be possible that Agumon found Tokomon by the river and is signaling us." Sora said making the Pagumon sweat.
"I'll check it out." Tai offered as he walked over to the group.
"No, don't do that!" the Pagumon cried.
"Hey, so what's the problem? We're just going to look around." Sora told them.
"Take our word for it." A Pagumon said hesitantly.
Screaming was then heard making everyone turn to see Mimi had found a baby digimon that was a black kitten head with gold eyes.
"Ew! Ew! What is this thing?!" Mimi asked fearfully.
"Oh, it's a Botamon!" Catmon exclaimed.
"Why would there be a Botamon here?" Palmon asked as the Pagumon got even more nervous, looking plain guilty.
"What do ya mean?" Matt asked.
"Botamon is the small egg form that digivolves into Koromon and then into Agumon." Gabumon explained.
"Then the Pagumon lied to us." Tai stated.
Everyone then turned their glares on the Pagumon who twitched nervously before they then started singing as they hopped off.
"It's time for us to leave here.
We really hate to go.
We told you this was our place, now you know it isn't so.
Pagumon is our name…"
Growling in anger, Davey then pounced in front of the Pagumon, cutting off their path and showed off her elongated fangs at them.
Crying out and yelping in surprise, the Pagumon jumped back in shock and tried to run, but Davey grabbed one of them, holding it above her head to glare at it.
"You're not going anywhere you puffball! Tell us what's going on here right now or else I'll gonna rip you to shreds." Davey growled, her Lynx personality coming out.
Surprised by the sudden show of ferosity from the girl, everyone watched as the Lynx glared down at the Pagumon who shook in fear.
"O-Our Master made us do it!" Pagumon cried.
"Master?" Biyomon repeated.
"It must be one of the evil Digimon Gennai told us about who live here." Matt said.
Dropping Pagumon on the ground, the Lynx watched as it bounced off after the rest of his horde.
"Come on, guys. Let's let to the river and help Agumon and Tokomon." Sora told everyone.
In agreement, the group all rushed off towards the waterfall to find their missing Digimon friends.
When they arrived, they heard yelling over the roaring waterfall that Tai recognized as his partner's.
"Agumon!" Tai yelled.
"Tai! Help me!" Agumon cried from behind the water fall.
"Hang on, Agumon!" Tai called.
Running behind the water, Tai found that Agumon was lying on the ground injured as two Gazimon stood around him.
Tokomon and the Koromon villagers were all locked up in cages.
"Agumon, are you all right?" Tai asked as he stood in the cave.
"Now I am." Agumon smiled as his two captors glared at the human boy.
"So, you're one of the DigiDestieds." One of the Gazimon commented.
"Digivolving time. Agumon, get up." Tai told his partner.
"You got it!" Agumon narrowed his eyes.
"Agumon Digivolve too…GREYMON!"
Everyone else stood outside as they watched Greymon's horn cut through the water, opening a path for them as some of the rocks from the mountain fell.
"Outstanding!" Izzy exclaimed.
"So, you like to fight two against one, eh?" Greymon asked the cowering Gazimon.
Greymon then fired his Nova Blast at the Gazimon, sending them off into the river.
"Greymon did it!" Tai pumped his fist.
Running inside the cave, TK then unlocked the cage that Tokomon was inside while the other children freed all of the captive Koromon.
"Tokomon, I thought I lost you again!" TK freed Tokomon and held him.
"I'm like a boomerang. I keep coming back." Tokomon smiled.
"The Pagumon are gone. You can all return to your village now." Sora told the Koromon.
"Thank you!" they all cried.
"Hello!" A male voice called as they heard the feedback from a microphone.
"Great. A digi rock star." Joe quipped.
Looking up, they found a hologram of an orange monkey who wore sunglasses and held a microphone and guitar.
"You measly little DigiDestined humans, thank you very much. Hello." He greeted.
"It's Etemon! Oh no!" the Koromon cried.
"He looks so lame." Davey scoffed.
"You little bratty kids messed up all my big beauty plans. So now I'm gonna have to punish you all by playing a little number I just wrote. It's called 'Wreaking the Whole Place'!" Etemon smirked.
"Wrecking the Whole Place?" Tai repeated in confusion.
"Do you think he can do that?" Izzy asked.
"Dark Network Concert Crush." Etemon called.
Suddenly, the ground started to quake making everyone gasp as they saw the ground glow red and black cables rose from the ground as Etemon laughed.
The cables began to destroy the village, hut by hut and started getting closer to the Digimon, the mutant and humans, a blast making the water splash on the group.
"Everyone Digivolve now!" Sora called.
"Let's go!" Tai and Matt said.
"Gabumon Digivolve too… GARURUMON!"
"Well, ya say you want a Digivolution. Guess what? The answers no!" Etemon sang off-key as he played a cord on his guitar making the cables vibrate.
Dark Network was activated again making the two Champions roar in pain as they reverted back to their Rookie forms.
"Something strange is going on." Tai said.
Another blast hit the water making everyone cry out from the quaking.
"Concert Crush took our power." Agumon frowned sadly.
"Does rock and roll have that effect in your world?" Tentomon asked.
"Only on our parents." Sora said.
"So there's no way for us to fight this monster?" Izzy asked as the village was being destroyed.
"As we are, no. If only we could Digivolve a step further." Tentomon commented.
"A step further?" Matt asked.
"That must be what Gennai was referring to when he told us about finding the Crests and the Tags." Sora realized.
"I think it's a little late for that, Sora." Joe told her.
The attack got more dangerous as sparks hit the mountain, boulders falling down to block their exit.
Trapped, the humans, the mutant and Digimon all took off running further into the mountain to escape Etemon.
When they reached the end, they found a wall with a strange eight pointed sun symbol on it.
"What's this?" Tai asked.
"This is a place where we hide when anything bad happens to our village." Koromon said.
"What do we do now?" Tai asked them.
Suddenly, his Tag glowed orange making him pull it out from under his shirt and everyone looked at it curiously.
The walls and ground around them all glowed orange as everyone looked around the room curiously.
Staring up at the wall with the Crest on it, everyone watched as it shrunk and floated down in front of Tai who stared at it, dazed and in awe.
"I think I know what this is." Tai said.
"Okay, what?" Matt asked as the orange tablet then slid into Tai's Tag.
"A Crest." He told them.
"A Crest?" Sora asked.
"Exactly. Now we've got a Crest." Tai smiled.
"How awesome is that?" Matt grinned.
"Look!" Sora pointed to where the wall used to be.
Turning to see what Sora was pointing at, everyone exclaimed in awe when they saw that the Crest had teleported them away from the village.
"Didn't this used to be a wall?" Joe asked.
"Yeah, but the Crest must have brought us here. These mountains are a long way from our village." Koromon explained.
"All right, frequent flyer miles." Joe smiled.
"This place is the bomb." Matt said.
"It's beautiful." Mimi clasped her hands.
"Hmm, with this Crest, we can do anything we want. You know guys, I think this is the first step to our trip home." Tai said as he held his Crest.
To be continued...