I have to admit that I was really surprised that my experiment did work. I know I was being very pushy, but that also proved that people do leave reviews with a 'genital' little push. Most importantly it showed that people do read; they just don't leave anything behind.

20 ~Another digivolutinonary error~

The digi-destined had to admit that they had underestimated the distance they had to walk.

Ever since they'd escaped the Krams they'd been walking down the mountain, hoping to reach the temple where they had been directed to, not knowing if they're even on the right side. Of course none of them wanted to get to the wrong side and circle around the mountain for who knows how many more days to get to their destination. They didn't even know if they could really find anything there.

'How long do we have to keep walking?' complained Ryosuke despite being one of the more physically advantaged kids.

'Maybe days, or maybe a few more weeks. Who knows?' answered Yuzuki. That was, obviously, not the answer the black-haired boy had wanted. Yet he had expected to hear something like that. 'But, seeing that we've already walked for so many days, I'd say we're pretty close to the bottom.'

'That's not quite the correct way to estimate.' Commented Clockmon, but he was quickly kept silent by his partner, who claimed that a little hope is better than a little worry. 'Let's just hope we're almost there.' Said Takumi, who was, too, in fact worried that they would have to walk for a few more weeks.

'We don't even know what we're looking for,' said Pteramon X, 'all we know was that there're some loonies living inside a temple. Why didn't we ask for the description of the temple earlier? That way we can at least have something to look for.'

'Maybe you can go ahead and tell us what you find out?' said Amy jokingly. Eiji had, more than once, stated clear that they had to stay together no matter the circumstances, for fear that anyone should get lost and is never to be found again. That was part of the reason why the group was making a slow progress, but they did agree that keeping all of them safe and fine for the moment was more important than having a fast progress.

'I'm actually quite surprised that Piedmon hasn't given us another visit lately.' Said Togemon.

'You mean you want his warriors here?' said FanBeemon. He could remember too well the others' look when they learned the truth of the hybrids Piedmon was using.

'Well, let's just get going before one of them could find us.' Said SaviorHuckmon. Unfortunately as soon as they walked out of the woody section of the mountain and got to somewhere with more sunlight, the very person they had just talked about stood there, as if it'd been anticipating their arrivals.

'What's that this time?' asked Ryosuke.

'That's Grumblemon.' Said Takumi. He'd gotten used to the hybrids now that he was less frightened when facing them. 'And his Beast form is Gigasmon.'

'Anyone want to make that thing grumble?' said Pteramon as he, as always, fired his missiles before anyone else could say anything. 'Missile storm!'

'You're not leaving us behind.' Said Ryosuke as Togemon charged at Grumblemon as well. 'Needle spray!'

Grumblemon, having a small body size, used it to his advantage as he jumped sideways swiftly and evaded both attacks. He then, out of nowhere, gripped a giant hammer in his hands and swung it forward as if he didn't even need any strength to carry the hammer, which seemed a bit of a contrary to his small size. He was already on top of Pteramon X as he yelled. 'Seismic sledge!'

A bit to the digi-destined's surprise; his voice was quite a human one, unlike the cold monotone of the previous warriors. Anyway he hit Pteramon right from the above within a second and sent the poor jet-like digimon straight down the earth. Seeing that Grumblemon couldn't dodge any attack while he's midair, Clockmon attacked.

'Time buster!' he shouted as he fired his arm gun. It'd been quite a long time since he's last joined a battle, still his aim was fairly well that the attack should've hit the hybrid had he not transformed himself into a stream of data and let the blast go straight through his body as his data flowed to Clockmon's back and reformed into a much larger digimon. That was no doubt the Gigasmon Takumi had warned them about.

'Tectonic slam.' Said Gigasmon as his giant fists slammed toward Clockmon. The champion reflexively used his hammer-like staff to hold the attack, only it was too strong that Clockmon's staff was soon broken in half not long before he slipped away and let the hybrid's fists hit the ground. Although he didn't have a direct hit, Gigasmon's slam was still powerful enough that the earth shook upon contact with the giant digimon.

Clockmon was blown away for a few meters by the quake. Togemon X was also having a hard time standing firm while trying to attack. The others immediately rushed to join in the battle. They were a bit too slow, however. Gigasmon transformed himself into data streams again and successfully evaded a fireball from BlueMeramon and reformed into the form of Grumblemon next to Clockmon.

'Time buster!' Clockmon attacked again. Grunblemon didn't transform this time; he simply leaped backward and then forward again, with his giant hammer in his hands he cried 'Seismic sledge!' without much time to react, the attack hit Clockmon right on, causing the champion to fly a few feet backward while yelling in pain.

'Clockmon!' Takumi gave out a useless yell while running to his partner. The others took the chance to strike; SaviorHuckmon drifted and slashed with his blades while Pteramon jetted forward and used his wings as a means of attacking. They weren't agile enough it seemed, for none of the attacks reached Grumblemon.

'Why are the hybrids always dodging?' uttered Ryosuke, frustrated as Grumblemon dodged another wave of needles from Togemon X.

Clockmon, on the other hand, wasn't quite in the shape of continuing battle. He was trying to use his limited time-controlling ability to help, which he hadn't done before for fear that he should lost control. He didn't succeed this time, nor was he able to even make the move as soon as his damaged mechanical body started to glow. That gave hope to the others, hoping that another ultimate could help the fight.

The truth was, of course, not as optimistic as the digi-destined had hoped. As soon as Clockmon finished digivolution something that look even more sinister and more suitable for the title "Reapermon" replaced the shape of the clock-like digimon. The digimon had only a spine linked with a glowing purple sphere as his body. It had no arms, but bolts of purple lights that linked the hands with the torso. The entire body was covered in a cloak that was blood red inside and black outside. The head of the digimon was a human skull. With the giant laser scythe that was held in both his hands he truly deserves to be named after the Grim Reaper more than Reapermon himself.

'MetalPhantomon, ultimate, data type.'

'Soul predator!' MetalPhantomon screamed. His sickle's blades enlarged as he suddenly appeared behind Grumblemon and, taking the hybrid by surprise, directly swung the sickle at him. Grumblemon was not fast enough to dodge the attack, yet he wasn't too slow either. As soon as the laser blades found their way into the hybrid's skin, he transformed himself into three large data streams and fled, nowhere to be seen after just a single second.

'That's quite close.' Said Eiji as the group relaxed a bit. The team then gathered and was about to continue going on their way before they realized that MetalPhantomon was not behaving normally as he would as Clockmon. He stayed still as the others moved on, which drew their attention on him.

'What's wrong, MetalPhantomon?' asked Takumi. His voice a bit hesitant as if he knew what was happening but was trying to act fine. In fact, he wasn't staying quite close to MetalPhantomon as if he was expecting something, something terrible, to happen. He kept his eyes on his partner as much as possible while occasionally checking on his digivice, looking puzzled.

'What's with you two?' asked Togemon. 'We've to leave now.'

And then, to everyone's surprise, MetalPhantomon charged forward and swung his scythe at the digi-destined. SaviorHuckmon reacted immediately, using his wrist blades to counter the attack. He was barely blocking the attack; his arms could be seen being pushed backward every second and he was using his tail to help him stabilize as well even though it was proved useless as MetalPhantomon pushed harder. The next second SaviorHuckmon was already on the ground meters away from MetalPhantomon.

'What's wrong with you?' uttered Pteramon X as he fired a missile. Unexpectedly, the ultimate managed to slice it in half precisely before the missile was even at its greatest speed. Takumi didn't seem surprised at all, though. The only thing he did was kept mumbling words too soft for the others to hear. He looked stressed, but not unprepared, just like a student facing some Mathematical questions that he should be able to solve but was at the moment too hard to him.

'Ice phantom!' BlueMeramon was about to attack. Before that could happen, however, MetalPhantomon started to glow an unpleasant orange light. The next moment, he was like a bomb, exploded with the light spreading to everywhere.

Quickly Takumi ran to the location were MetalPhantomon once where after the explosion. The ground filled with cracks on a pit with radius no less than two hundred meters. In the very center of the pit lay Solarmon, the rookie form of MetalPhantomon, unconscious and motionless. Takumi held his partner in his arms as he reached the pit. His voice could be heard. 'Why it has to happen again?'

'Again?' that's the question in almost everyone's mind at the moment. Eiji, being the rightful leader, ordered them to first find a place of shelter for the rest of the day and settle the issue later. And they obeyed, seeing no point in staying in the middle of nowhere with an obvious aerial mark that something had happened.

Night had fallen sooner than they had expect just about the time they found another woody land to spend the night. Near a large tree they sat, with BlueMeramon being the source of illumination. There was no need to make a fire when you have a living one, after all.

'Now can you explain what actually happened back then?' asked Eiji. Takumi didn't answer at once. He was a bit overwhelmed by his partner's stilling in a coma, and could not have his mind cleared up for a rational talk at fast as he used to. After a few minutes of silence he talked.

'When I first received Solarmon, as a digi-egg,' the redhead started, 'He was not as gentle as he's been so far.'

It was, perhaps, the worse day Takumi had experienced in his fourteen years of life.

It wasn't that much of an issue in others' eyes, mostly because the others didn't treat academicals as much as the redhead did. He was deeply depressed by the fact that he was performing as one of the worst in class, not to mention how much worse he would be when compared to the entire district.

He walked slowly back home with his tie loosened, the way he did so that he could breath more easily. He was alone, as he'd always been, but wasn't depressed by that that day. In fact, he could really use the loneliness to think, though there's not much to be thought of. Then, out of nowhere, he suddenly saw a great shadow that covered his own. Having been keeping his head staring at the ground, he looked up and saw a digimon, a strong-built, shiny one. His armor golden with blue lights al over. Takumi, having much knowledge of digimon, deduced immediately that the digimon was Magnamon, only he looked a nit different from what the books had said. The other question was that he'd always thought of Magnamon as a mere legend, eve nif he's really he couldn't figure out why a legend would be there blocking his way home.

And then, the golden armored digimon spoke as he handed something to the red-haired boy. 'Keep good watch over them.' He said. Takumi was, of course, more confused than he'd ever been. He took the stone carven and the digi-egg that Magnamon gave him anyway, and immediately the stone began to crack.

Not giving him a chance of questioning, Magnamon was gone by the time Takumi had turned his sight on the armored digimon again. His digi-egg had already hatched, and out of it jumped a digimon that looked like a mouse, silver in color with no limbs at all. Takumi then took the device that came out from the stone carven, at the instant it beeped, and caught the boy's attention. The words on the screen wrote. 'MetalKoromon, fresh, no attribute.'

'A digimon, and a digivice?' mumbled the still confused Takumi. But he didn't have much time to think; the moment he got his attention on MetalKoromon the fresh was already rushing around madly, the spark on his tail were left everywhere, causing small fires. Then, in no time, the fresh started to glow, becoming a digimon with a body that looked like three linked gears, the center one was especially large, outlined in gold and filled with a gunmetal color. He didn't speak, but threw gears at all directions. Takumi was scared at the moment. He'd read a lot about digimon, yet he'd never faced one on his own, especially one going mad and destroying everything around. All he knew at the moment was that he had to run, or hide, or do whatever that could get him out of the chaos. But then he stopped thinking, having no tome to do so when he had to protect himself from an incoming gear that'd been shot by the digimon, he instinctively raised both his arms to protect his torso. What he didn't know was that as soon as his hand, which was holding the digivice, was facing the digimon and a thin red beam was shot out from the black machine.

The digimon was hit by the beam. Almost immediately, his color changed, the black center gear was now an orange one, and he stopped his craze. For the first time, he spoke. 'Hi, I'm Solarmon.'

Takumi was more confused. The digimon that'd been mad and nearly killed him was talking to him as if nothing had ever happened. Still, he managed to retain his manner and said. 'Hi, I'm Takumi, Takumi Saikachi.' Though he had completely no idea of what's happening, he just accepted the theory that Solarmon later proposed that he should be with the gear digimon.

'Reminds me of something.' Said Yuzuki to SaviorHuckmon. 'Remember the first time you digivolved, something like that happened? Though you didn't go mad.'

'You had this experience before?' asked Takumi, taken by surprise. 'Then why didn't tell us? Maybe that's something to do with Solarmon's going mad.'

'Well, the last time, Huckmon said that he just wasn't awake enough.' Replied the black-haired girl.

'I thought so.' Added SaviorHuckmon.

'So, you didn't actually know what was happening back then?'

'I thought I knew that.'

'Stop it,' said Eiji, 'it's not the best time to discuss things like that. What we currently need is how to duel with Solarmon when he digivlove into MetalPhantomon again?'

'Maybe attacking him would help.' Uttered Pteramon X, who then earned himself a slam from his partner. 'Just joking.' He added, but that didn't seem to satisfy Eiji, nor could that satisfy Takumi, who seemed to be deep in thoughts. In fact, the red-haired boy had much to consider; he'd thought of stop letting Solarmon in battle, but that would only mean that they would become the others' burden; he'd thought of taking the risk again and let Solarmon digivolve, and then, if he's fine, everything'd been fine; if not, then he'd let the others stop his partner. But could he? He doubted that himself. Facing the unusually tough hybrids had already been an exhausting issue; the others would hardly have time to duel with a maddening digimon from their own team. Even if they did managed to stop MetalPhantomon, what then? Reduce him into a digi-egg? That's be the greatest torture to the redhead. Watch the berserk MetalPhantomon attack his own teammates while telling them not to retaliate? That seemed impossible, either.

'Maybe I'll work on the digivice and try to figure out a way to keep him sane.' He finally said. Quite to his surprise, no one argued, nor did anyone say anything. The only thing they discussed afterwards was who to be the night guard. Again, Kaoru volunteered, with the excuse that he'd not be able to sleep anyway.

It turned out Kaoru wasn't the only one taking the night guard's job. Takumi, who found himself restless, was focusing entirely on his digivice, clicking the buttons on it so frequently that one could almost be driven insane by the sound produced. He checked all that he knew about the digivice, and was hoping that somehow the cure, or some program to get MetalPhantomon sane, was hidden within the digivice. Smart as he could, the digivice was a machine that he wouldn't dare dissecting. The most that he'd done was duplicating the its program into another shell.

He stared at the monitor almost blink-less for at least another hour or two, or even three. There wasn't very much that he could do, though. He was good at electronics, but not to the degree where he could single-handedly write a computer program flawlessly, nor could he risk his partner's life by doing so. A bug or two would kill his partner in an instant; or worse, drive him madder then ever. Frustrated, he sighed, but then he remained himself that the others were sleeping, he shouldn't be waking them up. He did notice that Kaoru had, for a few times, had a quick glance at him, probably worried that he might be left defenseless, or was just annoyed by the fact that the flash light and the clicking sound of the digivice might draw unnecessary attention. Then, out of nowhere, he had a thought which he thought he should have thought of a few hours before.

'What do you think about the whole MetalPhantomon thing?' he asked the blond boy, who seemed to be quite prepared for the question.

'No idea.' He replied, not even bothering to look at Takumi. 'But I've heard of something about digimon going insane when their cores are damaged.'

'I should've thought of that before!' whispered Takumi. As excited as he was, he was still aware of the darkness surrounding the digi-destined and the mountain. Quickly he resumed his work on the digivice after giving a thank to Kaoru, who didn't seem to care less about that.

'How are things going?' asked Yuzuki to Takumi. Obviously, Takumi's sleepless state could easily be told by anyone with a normal sight. His eyes barely opening and his back arched up, as if he'd been drunken for quite a while before getting awaken, only in this case he could answer the girl in a rational, though weary, tone.

'I think, I've figured out what my digivice had done to Solarmon the first time we met.' He said, then gave out a large yawn. Apologizing quickly he continued. 'I'm quite confident I can get things right the next time he digivolves.'

Clockmon, who had regained conscious and returned to his champion form, was very curious at what might be his cure. Despite that, Takumi wouldn't tell him a single word about his theory, with the reason that Clockmon would not like it and would definitely refuse to cooperate afterward. Clockmon had to admit he was a bit –very –disappointed at his partner; usually he would trust him at doing whatever he was doing. From the others Clockmon had gathered the knowledge of why his partner was acting like so. He understood that, but that didn't mean he had to like that.

'I think we should get to the bottom at a few more days walk.' Said Ryosuke. Most others didn't challenge his authority at things like this, seeing that he had the most outdoors experience alone (or with Togemon X). The group didn't stop even after what seemed to them a few hours of walk. The sun, which Takumi had refused to call in that manner due to their being in digital world, which meant that the star was an entirely different planet, had risen to the highest point at the sky, which was as blue an cloudless as it'd always been. And by that time there had been more than half of the group complaining that they should rest for a while, with the most voiced protesters being Pteramon X and Amy.

'If we make it to the bottom by the next few days, I'm sure you'll be glad and thankful at me.' Said Ryosuke. He was acting a bit out of his routine, being a more well thought out guide at the wild instead of the annoying complainer, whose role had been taken by you-know-who.

'Why hadn't Grumblemon returned?' uttered FanBeemon.

'You should be glad we have a nice and clean way to walk.' Replied Togemon.

'But that might mean that Piedmon has something worse for us.' Said Eiji, who immediately received the questioning glares from the others. 'He never lets us go away, does he?' he said, knowing quite well that he'd just said the most unwanted situation out aloud. Willing or not, the group did encounter a digimon from Piedmon not very soon after that. To their relief, that was just Grumblemon.

'This time I'm sure he's gonna grunble!' uttered Ryosuke as he instructed his partner to attack. With the evolution card at the ready he took out his digivice, only to be stopped by Takumi.

'Wait, I might need that sometimes later.' Said the redhead. He could've asked the others, but both Eiji and Kaoru had used theirs to digivolve their respective partners. Amy, on the other hand, wasn't quite a good target to bargain with. That left him no choice but to ask for the black-haired boy's help, who just said. 'It'd better be working.'

The battle had begun.

Grumblemon wasn't quite keen on transforming this time. Quite on the contrary, he made very good use of his body size, and kept dodging attacks, which maddened the digi-destined by a very great degree.

CannonBeemon, for instance, was having a hard time aiming the hybrid. 'Nitro stinger!' he kept yelling that as his wasp sting-like cannon fired countless laser beams. Yet, none of them could evade the fate of crashing the ground. It seemed that he could aim better in his rookie form, but then the firepower would be far too weak to do any damage on the hybrid.

'Wing blade!' Garudamon X yelled as he struck. Theoretically, the attack should be inevitable, traveling at the speed of sound. That was the time when he really hated his necessary battle cry, which had certainly alerted Grumblemon about his attacks. Grumblemon wasn't quite concern with that, it seemed. He simply kept dodging from here to there, and then from there to here, as if he didn't even want to attack. The most possible strategy he was using, as concluded by Yuzuki, was that he wanted to first make the entire team worn out, and then pick them out one by one.

While the girl was doing the thinking, her partner wasn't quite at a pleasant situation. The battlefield was so filled with laser blades and sonic blades. Togemon X, on the other hand, was stuffing the ground with spikes, making it more impossible for the ultimate to join the battle.

Clockmon, feeling responsible for being the reason of digi-destined's not having been able to defeat Grumblemon earlier, joined in the battle as well. He charged his arm cannon, ready to fire. Before that could happen, however, he started to glow, to digivolve. The worse case the digi-destined wanted. Not for Takumi, though; he had waited for this moment to come, knowing that he'll have to duel with it sooner or later. He was confident, or forced himself to be. The only chance of getting his partner out of the madness had come, and he wasn't going to waste it.

'Please be patient, it might hurt a bit.' Said the red-haired boy with both his eyes shut, showing a no-choice expression. The digivolution began rather quickly; the body of Clockmon had already been covered entirely by a brilliant white light. Takumi, without the slightest bit of hesitation, used the evolution card on his partner, his mouth kept mumbling. 'Please work…'

The black d-magnus of Takumi shone a bright white light as well. A beam of thin red light shot straight out of the screen of it and landed on Clockmon, who was now only a blur of light. Then came screams, lots of them. It sounded like metal screech, mixed with a variety of human screams from high-pitched women's to low-pitched men's. This lasted for a few minutes.

In the meantime, the digi-destined had almost gotten themselves a beaten Grumblemon. Garudamon X suggested using Wormmon's Sticky net to hold the evading hybrid in place, remembering his first fight with Eiji. That worked for a while, before Grumblemon used the transforming trick to dodge the Wing blade of the bird-man digimon.

They couldn't take it anymore. The battle had gone to a state of being too annoying. CannonBeemon had left enough burnt holes on the ground while Grumblemon was still shifting from form to form. Togemon X could do nothing but keep spraying needles at the hybrid, which prevented SaviorHuckmon from getting close to Grumblemon/Gigasmon to fight. And there was the demonic and irritating, nevertheless agonizing yell from the digivolving Clockmon.

Then the scream stopped. MetalPhantomon appeared as expected. Wordlessly, he gripped his laser scythe tight in his hands and dashed –or floated –at Grumblemon, who was now in the form of Gigasmon, who was currently making use of his oversized arms and crashing the digi-destined's digimon partners.

'Grave scream!' MetalPhantomon yelled. Nearly all of the digi-destined expected the hybrid to dodge the attack by transforming, but he didn't; he couldn't, in fact. Almost as if someone had frozen him, Gigasmon stood motionless, as if anticipating to be deleted by MetalPhantomon, who now had his sickle right on top of him. And then, seeing that the hybrid was not making a move, MetalPhantomon raised his arms, his grim face didn't give out any trace of pity. With that, he screamed. 'Soul predator!'

There was no chance for Gagasmon to react; his body was sliced in half immediately before the screamed even started to fade. And then, the most unwanted scene appeared again, though the digi-destined had kind of gotten used to the corpses used by Piedmon, they still looked disgusting and disturbing.

'Did you succeed?' asked Ryosuke after seeing the violence of MetalPhantomon. That was a strong evident to the black-haired boy that the ultimate was still insane, warlike.

'You don't have to worry about that.' Then came MetalPhantomon's grim voice. 'I was just…too excited.' He said, sounding like the old Clockmon again; he didn't even know how he was able to change his voice like that. 'What did you actually do?' he asked his partner.

'Actually, that's not very impressive. But it happened anyway, so I guess there's no need for explanation.' Answered the redhead. 'But you'll have to stay in this form, like it or not. I can't take you back to champion form, neither can I get you to digivolve, sorry.' Then the group gathered and discussed where to go next. Their discussion was, however, redundant, as proved when the ground started to shake, first already not to gently, then a lot more violent a few seconds later. That was when the group realized that they had been on a slope all the time while battling Grunblemon. And now the consequences came. The damage done to the ground had already exceeded its endurance, and now it started to crack, to fall, and it brought with itself the twelve digimon and humans.

'Are we done letting them go every time?' asked Piedmon, annoyed. 'I don't really know why you insist on keeping them alive. You've got what you need already.' He grumbled. Back when he was in the human world he could take charge very easily, but now in digital world his partner didn't seem to respect him very much.

'Their responses are very important.' Replied the Scientist in his stone-cold tone. 'And yes, I've collected enough data. They can be disposed.'

'Because of your silly data-collecting thing four of the Spirits have already given their lives.' Muttered the mega, which seemed to have caused the attention of the Scientist. As a scientist, he couldn't accept someone to call data-collecting as "silly". And as a creator, he said. 'Keeping the humans alive doesn't you have to get all my work destroyed.'

'That was the least suspicious way.' Replied Piedmon, a bit angered this time. 'And if you don't finish the main course quick, I'm not sure what I may do.' With that, he disappeared, preparing to have a stealth strike as a threaten to his "partner". That didn't work, however. Before he even reappeared, the Scientist gripped his lance so fast it could not be seen for a while, and then pointed it at the empty air. The next second, Piedmon reappeared, right in the spot where the Scientist had pointed his lance at, the tip of the lance right in front of the mega's face.

'You are predictable.' Said the Scientist. 'But you don't seem to have good memory.' Then, he pointed his lance a bit closer at Piedmon, just enough so that it touched his pretty face without hurting him. 'However forgetful you are, remember this for the last time: I am working with you, not for you.' He then lowered the lance and resumed his computer work. 'Red Digizoid is not easy to produce, especially with the number you demand and the little resources you brought.'

'Never mind, you can carry on with your own calculating work. I'll just go have some fun myself.' Piedmon said, and walked away with two shaded figures following him.

The digi-destined couldn't tell where they were, all they knew was that they had been rolling and rolling and rolling down the slope for who knows how long. A good amount of them grumbled about how it hurt, but more were amazed at how they were not dead yet. Patting her right arm, which was the most injured part, gently Yuzuki stood up and saw something –something she thought might be a clue after all their traveling for weeks.

In front of her was a giant waterfall, about twice the height of her house's building. The running water was light blue but extremely clear as if the waterfall were made of crystal. The water surface didn't only let her see through it, but also reflected and refracted sunlight so that it glister as if it were a diamond in liquid form. Around the fall were rocks –large rocks that shone a dark brown color because of the water accumulated on their surfaces. Beside it was the ground filled with green grass, greener than she'd ever seen, even in the digital world. A few hemispherical buildings about her height were to the right of the fall, behind those were a fill trees with only branches but not a single leaf, a complete contrast to the emerald grasses.

Then, out of one of the hemispherical structures came a digimon. Humanoid, with the height of about that of Ryosuke, which wasn't very high. He wore a blue pointy hat and blue cape. A skull symbol embedded on his hat. His hand held a staff, with one end looking like a poetic sun. he walked to the digi-destined with neither sign of hesitation nor panic. Once he was about ten meters away from the kids, he said. 'Welcome. You have been expected here. Please follow me.' And with that he gestured and turned around.

It's a bit -very -rediculous, well, I had to find a way to get rid of the hybrids, there're too many of them after all.

And before anyone complain about MetalPhantomon, I'll justify myself. CLockmon can't digivolve further, so I picked an ultimate similar in appearance( at least they seem similar to me: both got a weapon with a lond pole, both have a cape, both have their lower torso attached to something rounded)

The coming chapters will be far better than this one.