A loud crashing of dishes could be heard coming from inside the kitchen.
"Not again…"
Getting to his feet laboriously, as if it was a chore, Matt stuck his harmonica into the back pocket of his jeans and began walking at a snail's pace to the kitchen door. When they had left T.K. and Tokomon, Matt had promised that they would be back immediately. But by being unable to leave here, it only made sense that he would be running out of patience. In fact, it was pretty admirable how he did not show this attitude openly whenever Joe was around. Even so, who knew how long that would last…? Even Gabumon could tell that with each passing day, Matt's heart grew harder and bitter.
It was several weeks ago when Gabumon and Matt arrived at this restaurant. Leaving T.K. and Tokomon at the amusement park, they took a swan boat to check that their surroundings were safe. While keeping the coast on their left, they peddled on and on until, just when they were thinking about heading back, they spotted a building shaped like a 'diner' atop a hill facing the lake.
Landing their swan boat on the beach, the two of them cautiously made their way up the gentle slope as they kept watch for enemies.
They spotted a familiar face being tossed out to bring in more customers… Gomamon.
Gomamon's mouth dropped open when he spotted them. He blinked rapidly as if he thought he was daydreaming, but when Gabumon reached out and shook his hand, he realized that it wasn't a dream and flew at Gabumon with tears streaming down his face. They stood there, letting Gomamon cling tightly to Gabumon as he sobbed explaining what he, Joe, Dana and Beth had gone through.
"We kept looking for Sora and Kylie, but we couldn't find them. We ran into this bat guy that rubbed me the wrong way but when he said he knew where to ind more humans Joe was all up for it. Except we lost sight of him halfway, we tried to go back the way we came but got lost. Then we came upon this restaurant, we went in wanting to eat something because we were so hungry. The food was okay. Then, when we went up to pay, Joe held out these pieces of paper. He said they were currency but the owner of the restaurant, Digitamamon, said that we couldn't use those and we'd have to work here to pay back what we ate. So we did that, since we didn't have any other choice. But the food that Joe cooked tasted so bad that we started losing customers and then we had to reimburse for that too. Also, for broken dishes. At first we only had to work for three days but then it kept getting extended and now we've been working for almost two weeks…Beth and Dana started baking cupcakes and it helps but…"
"Well, Joe is a pretty clumsy guy. It was wrong of him in the first place to think that he could use money from our world here. Hey, Gomamon, take me to that Digitamamon so I can talk to him. I'll see if we can come to some kind of agreement."
In doing so, they found that it would take four days, and so Matt made a deal with Digitamamon that if he and Gabumon worked as well, he would cut it down to two days. Of course, it was already established that if dishes or cups were broken by accident, it would be docked off their pay, so in these circumstances they made an agreement in advance on how much a single dish or a single cup would cost. If they only knew the dark plan that had been brewing.
It grew dark. For their sleeping quarters, they had the boiler room. Beth and Dana took one section while Matt and Joe took up the other opposite corners of the room so that they each had a diagonal space to call their own. A wash line with dirty bed sheets hanging from it ran between them, acting as a room divider. They didn't come to any verbal agreement but neither pair ever crossed the sheets to enter into the other's domain.
Usually, Matt would collapse onto the bed the moment he entered the room and immediately pass out from the fatigue of working without pause from morning to night, but sleep eluded him tonight. He appeared to have something on his mind because he sat with his knees folded up, deep in thought.
The following day things had gotten heated. More dishes were broken, Joe claimed it wasn't his fault but Matt refused to believe him. Then as the girls and two digimon were cleaning up, the front doors opened to reveal Tai, Theo, T.K., Patamon, and Kylie.
Naturally Beth and Dana were delighted to see their missing friends alive and well, although they, much like Gabumon and Gomamon, were worried.
Joe felt terrible about making Matt go along with the mistakes that he made. Somehow, he felt a wall around Matt. An invisible wall, something that kept others at a distance. Joe had a feeling that it was put up unconsciously. Takeru was the only person that Matt actively tried to interact with, but from Joe's viewpoint, he was so awkward and unnatural about it that it was hard to believe that they were brothers.
But even so, Joe understood that Matt, from his point of view, must be so extremely worried about T.K. right now after leaving him in the amusement park.
It had made Joe happy. So happy that it brought tears to his eyes. That's why — He had to do his best. For Matt's sake.
He could tell that Matt was irritated. He expected to be cursed at or punched and he was ready to accept it, but the other boy never did any of that. He put up with it, and put up with it, again and again.
That was why Joe thought that if Matt never came back tonight, he was going to accept it. Matt shouldn't have to sacrifice himself just for him.
Just at that moment, they heard footsteps approaching from outside. Several footsteps, in fact, on tiptoe.
"Um… Joe, Gomamon? I have something to tell you, but I want you to do your best not to be surprised, okay?"
"I mean, I don't want you to let out any noises of surprise, no matter what happens."
"Okay. Whatever you have to say, we won't be surprised," Joe answered.
Gabumon disappeared behind the door and Tai's head poked in.
"Tai! Theo! You're alive! I was worried about you!" He wanted to ask Tai then and there where he had disappeared to and what he had been doing, but Tai waved him off.
"Sorry, a lot of stuff happened."
Theo suggested. "We'll tell you the whole story later. We've gotta first get out of here."
"Hey, where's my brother? He's nearby, isn't he?" T.K. asked Joe.
Joe's face fell.
Gomamon was simply pleased to be reunited with their friends again, but Joe had mixed feelings. In that case, was it okay for him to run like this? He had to fulfill his responsibilities.
Meanwhile, Kylie had only partially explained to those who found her that she had gotten into a romantic problem with someone that wasn't what she thought he was and thus had to end up escaping to find them.
And of course, Theo took it upon herself to try and help her with said problem.
Kylie asked in confusion. "Why did you want talk over here again?"
Theo answered. "You need the practice, you just walk right over to the man and say: things just aren't working out. It's over."
Kylie looked taken aback. "I can't believe it! I'm getting this from you?! You're breaking up with me for him?!"
A group of Digimon gasp.
"You're dumping her for some random guy?"
"And switching teams?"
Oops. This pep talk just about backfired and sparked a misunderstanding from onlookers.
Kylie shook her head. "No. You don't understand–"
"Don't make excuses for her! The guy must be a nasty piece of work to come between you!"
"You've got it all wrong! Kylie and I were never–a–anything!" Theo threw up her hands defensively.
"Oh, so now you're denying your entire relationship?!"
Needless to say things had gotten somewhat out of hand, to the point the girls had to rush but back to see if Tai was having better luck talking to Joe and a resentful Matt. Matt says he wouldn't mind leaving, but he doesn't want to go anywhere with Joe, complaining again that Joe is doing everything wrong on purpose. When Tai tries to intervene Matt lashes out at him too, claiming he and Theo were the reason they all got separated.
"Don't tell me you're getting ready to run away." Digitamamon had just turned up.
"It'll give us trouble if you did that." Demidevimon sat on a branch above them.
The four guardians with the boys had arrived on the scene. Kylie visibly winced in alarm, "You!"
Tai, T.K. and the digimon looked at her. "You know him?!"
Demidevimon looked surprised to see Kylie, before grinning deviously. "Oh, so that's where you'd gotten to!"
"DemiDevimon is an evil Digimon who tried to trick T.K.!" explained Agumon.
Matt looked appalled. "It can't be!"
Beth then looked as though a light-bulb clicked on in her head. "Wait a minute…"
"Then, when you mentioned there were humans around…" Joe figured it out. "It was so we could get lost in the desert!"
Agumon fired an attack at Demidevimon as did Patamon, but he dodged them and started to fly off, which left Theo, Tai, Agumon and Patamon to chase after him.
It was an honest and straightforward appeal.
"Not a chance. You have to keep your promises," Digitamamon said in a muffled voice.
But when the same answer came back, Joe said, "Ugh!" and reluctantly jumped towards Digitamamon as if to shake him. Digitamamon brought a leg up to tread on Joe's back.
"So that's what's been happening!" Gomamon said, grinding his teeth in dismay. And, he evolved to Ikkakumon and leapt at Digitamamon. But because Joe was held hostage, he couldn't attack with his Harpoon Vulcan.
Having shared Gomamon's troubles throughout the ordeal, Gabumon could not stand back and watch. He evolved into Garurumon and went to help. The girls transformed as well. Digitamamon's weak spot, Garurumon reasoned, were the eyes peeking out from the crack in his shell. He lunged for them with his claws, but Digitamamon would close the crack before they reached and Garurumon's claws would hit against the tough shell instead. He ended up receiving damage rather than inflicting it. The same went when any of the guardians tried their spells.
Things get worse when T.K is captured by Vegiemon. Joe does his best to save him but then gets captured himself.
"We're not leaving you behind!" Tai cried, but Joe shook his head.
Turning to Matt, Joe said, "Thanks for everything. I'll never forget your help."
"S—Stop it. I…" Matt's pale lips trembled.
They were tears mixed with remorse for his actions to Joe, disgust at himself for his cold-heartedness, and gratitude of having found such an irreplaceable friend in Joe.
"I could wipe the floor with you five if I seriously wanted to." Digitamamon snapped to the two digimon and the fluttering guardians. The whole inside of his shell shot out and engulfed the both of them in a small ball before it exploded and sent them flying.
"He's too strong!" T.K. said worriedly. "It's no use! We can't win!"
"No, that's not true!" Matt hollered. "It will work out somehow! The feeling of believing in my friends! Friendship!"
There was a blinding flash of blue light and when it stopped, in Garurumon's place stood a man on two legs. At least, he looked like a long-legged man wearing blue jeans, except his head was the head of a wolf. A werewolf?
Landing lightly on the ground, WereGarurumon did not pause as he kicked at the ground again, charging at Digitamamon who was lying within the bushes unable to get back up. His sharp, pointed fingernails glinted in the moonlight like razors.
His nails left rutted scratch marks on Digitamamon's shell. Digitamamon's egg shell cracked open in two. The pieces dropped to the ground, instantly falling away from something black with a vague shape inside Digitamamon's shell body. Giving a high-pitched, enraged shriek, it circled through the night sky like a balloon losing air and disappeared somewhere.
Then they confronted the Vegiemon to release Joe, it listened and ran off when confronted by two stronger digimon and four determined guardians.
"Joe, are you okay?" Matt called out to Joe.
"Thank goodness…"
The warmth that they felt as they grasped at the other's hand said more than words ever could. Now Tai, Theo and Kylie explained what happened during the separation and how they could locate the others with the digivice.
"So what you're saying is… If we don't do something about this world, our world will be affected too." Matt concluded.
"That pretty much sums it up." Theo nodded.
That was when they heard their digivices beeping. Both Tai and Matt checked theirs.
"It's a map of some kind," Tai said. "From what I can tell, these blinking dots you see here show the location of everyone else's Digivices."
Matt took another look at his screen. The three weakly blinking dots appeared to him as if they were calling for help.
In any case, they held a group discussion about using this new-found function to find the rest of their members.
"So I'll go with T.K.," Matt said.
As Tai had rightly guessed, T.K. wanted to apologize to Matt directly for even slightly doubting him and believing in DemiDevimon's lies back at the amusement park.
"I'll keep an eye on them," Theo offered.
"Me too." Dana agreed.
"You sure you can manage without me or Kylie?" Beth asked.
"I'm your little sister, give me a little credit!" Dana lightly punched Beth's arm.
Matt looked troubled, but since Joe standing beside him said kindly, "Let's do that," he gave an embarrassed nod of thanks.
"But what'll happen if we don't see each other afterwards?" Joe questioned.
"How's about we agree to meet at the bottom of that mountain, then?" Tai suggested.
They all agreed.
"Hey, will we really see each other again?" T.K. wondered.
"We will! Because we're friends!" Matt reassured him.
"You can count on it!" Beth cheered.
"Yeah! We'll definitely meet again!"
"You're right. After all, we're friends!" Joe nodded.
And so they split into two groups in search of their missing friends.
Izzy Izumi, along with his Digimon partner Tentomon and temporary chaperone, Zaira Baker, had been climbing the mountains in search of Gennai. But when there wasn't any development to be seen, one day he asked nonchalantly, "Isn't it about time you told me what's there to find on this mountain?" He spoke as if he wasn't the one who had suggested climbing this mountain in the first place.
Zaira pursed her lips and glanced away, "Nope, don't look at me. Only reason I tagged along was to keep you two out of trouble."
Tentomon panicked. "I wasn't the one who wanted to come up here!"
Izzy folded his arms, getting lost in thought for a moment. Then, pointing to the heavy clouds covering the top of the mountain, he said, "I feel that there is something up there. The feeling is rather vague, but I believe that the answers to why I was called to the Digital World and what the Digital World is can be found up there… In any case…Seeing this brings home to me just how small we truly are."
While the air was fresh on the mountain, it was also thin, so Izzy and Zaira's breathing naturally began to grow heavier as they ascended. Tentomon and the older girl kept suggesting that they climb back down, but Izzy just as stubbornly refused. His irresistible desire to see what lay hidden behind the clouds around the mountain peak was not unnoticed by Tentomon.
How many days had passed since they had first stepped onto this mountain?
"If I meet Mr. Gennai… I'm sure he'll tell me the secret behind this powerful Crest and explain other things."
"I've got a lot of questions of my own too." Zaira said flatly.
"You always want to know everything about everything, Izzy." Tentomon said. "That's what I like about you."
"Oh stop, you're embarrassing me." Izzy said sheepishly.
"I don't mean anything weird from it."
"I know. Even so, I wonder where Gennai is…" Izzy wondered then looked to Zaira, "Are you haven't had any… premonitions on his whereabouts?"
"Not since we got here." Zaira shook her head.
They soon find themselves surrounded by rather questionable signs. Well, Zaira thought they might be recently done by someone. Just then, the ground crumbled from underneath them, sending the trio into darkness.
Odd, they were falling none of them seemed to dropping that fast.
"Tentomon, can you fly?" Izzy cried. "And Zaira?"
"I can't!" Tentomon even opened them to try. "Look! It's making me fall even faster!"
"If I could just get a grip…!" Zaira grunted, flailing to get upright. "Aargh! I can't transform!"
"I wonder how far we'll be falling."
"I have no idea!" Tentomon whine.
"Until you reach the underworld." A voice called out from the dark.
"The underworld?" Izzy yelped as he, Tentomon and Zaira tried to pull themselves upwards. "I don't want to be there, not even as a joke!"
"Ditto!" Zaira yelled. "We're not dead yet!"
"Me either!" shouted Tentomon. "I don't want to go to Hell!"
Izzy grabbed Tentomon's shoulder only for them three of them to fall further downwards.
"Grab onto these." The voice spoke again.
Three were now floating upwards: Izzy on an inflatable pool duck, Tentomon a ship's lifesaver and Zaira on a pool noodle.
"All who possessed by an ambitious desire will fall into the underworld."
"Well, I don't think either of us possesses any sort of desire whatsoever." Izzy responded.
"You're wrong. Your ambition is the desire to know everything." The voice replied.
"Is it wrong to want to know things out of curiosity?"
"Your need to ask questions for the whys and wherefores are dragging you down."
"It's not true!" Izzy protested.
"See, you won't accept anything."
"It's that…"
"Your inquisitive mind keeps swelling and swelling!"
To Izzy's shock, the duck kept inflating before it burst, causing him to fall again.
"Izzy!" Zaira and Tentomon rushed to him. Izzy grabbed onto Tentomon's leg even as they both try to swim up.
"Do you want to fall into the Underworld?" The voice asked.
"Of course, I don't!" Izzy snapped.
"Me neither!" Tentomon added.
"Likewise!"
"Then throw away your inquisitive heart!" The voice said firmly.
"But I like Izzy's curious mind." Tentomon said uncertainly.
"But if we don't do something, the three of us will fall into Hell and no one will be able to save us!" Izzy said worriedly.
Zaira tried to make a suggestion. "Not if we make a deal with Had- Aaaugh!"
The lifesaver and inflatable noodle popped causing them to fall and for Izzy to yell out: "How do I throw it away?!"
"Meditate!" The voice informed.
"I won't investigate anymore! I don't want to… know…"
Before any of them could blink, the three found themselves in a starry floating field complete with replicas of planetary bodies. Izzy looked rather lost and his eyes were blank.
"Where are we?" Tentomon asked.
A thin fuchsia crescent moon appeared and the same voice called out: "In the Sacred Mysterious Universe."
"Who are you?" Zaira scowled.
The speaker was revealed to be an alien-like creature with an overdeveloped head and octopus-like lower body. "I am Vademon, the ruler of the Sacred Mysterious Universe." An amorphous bubble floated up. "This is the inquisitive heart that you threw away. It mustn't dirty the sanctity of the Sacred Mysterious Universe. I will dispose of it."
Attentively, Tentomon and Zaira watched it travel through the air where Vademon sucked it in with a vacuum gun before giving Izzy a book on 'A textbook on how to obtain Cosmic Power'.
"The basics of Cosmic Power lie in your breathing."
"Izzy, don't believe in that crazy stuff!" Tentomon wailed.
"I've seen a lot of things in my own life that me second-guess logic, and even I know what you got there is bogus!" Zaira states firmly.
"The correct way to breathe is to release alpha rays from your right chest…"
"Stop reading that!" Tentomon attempted to pull the book away but Izzy pushed him away. Then Izzy's digivice screen glowed yellow.
Tentomon pulled out Izzy's laptops and opened it to see…
"Tai!" Zaira yelled out.
"Ta-Tai, where are you right now?"
"At home! We're back on Earth! Koromon and Theo made with me too!" Tai answered.
Izzy barely reacted. "I see. Then that must mean… You're not coming back here. But please contact me once in awhile." And the power in his laptop died down soon after.
"It looks like Tai and Theo are having their share of troubles too." Tentomon speculated.
Izzy said nothing as he floated away and went back to reading. "With Cosmic Power, you will seek to gain tranquility in everything."
Zaira and Tentomon looked at each other with great concern. This may be a lot harder than they thought.
Eventually, Vademon cheerfully said that he would be glad to help Izzy gain peace of mind. First he made Izzy sit, in the Zen meditation posture, on top of a blue planet that looked similar to Earth, and spoke.
And so, Izzy dropped his "n"s. On the second day, Izzy dropped his "m"s. By the seventh day, Izzy had dropped his "t"s and "o"s. There was no mistake that Izzy's face grew more serene with each passing day. But his eyes… His eyes looked so blank. Nowhere in them could he find that bright sparkle they once had, like at Andromon's factory, when Izzy was typing into his laptop with engrossed excitement, or within the empty well in the desert.
That's why it was all the more painful.
On the 31st day, Izzy had begun recounting the Roman alphabet and repositioning his body into the very letters he was reciting.
"This is just pathetic." Zaira grumbled. It was all she could do so that she and Tentomon could keep their wits about them.
Yet no matter how Tentomon urged her, she refused to use magic to get out of the situation.
At that moment Vademon reappeared again. "I forgot to tell you something. To obtain Cosmic Power, you must first throw everything away."
"Everything?"
"Throw away everything you have."
Izzy merely nodded. "Yes, sir." First he turned out his pockets that were full of scrap paper before taking of his crest. "I don't need this."
Vademon laughed as soon as he saw it.
"No way!" Zaira yelled.
"Not that!" Tentomon chased after the Crest.
"I'll be taking this." The alien smirked.
"Give back the Crest!"
"Be quiet!" Vademon pulled took out what looked like a toy gun with a parabolic antenna attached in the front and blasted Tentomon square in the chest. Izzy didn't even bat so much as an eye. "Continue with your training!"
"Yes, sir." Izzy returned to the letter training.
Tentomon's sadness made him degenerate into Motimon, then degenerate even further into Pabumon, a green jello ball with a pacifier in its mouth.
A disbelieving Zaira cradled Pabumon, stunned by Izzy's cold demeanor, and doing her best to comfort the poor baby digimon.
"Pabu-Pabu-Pabu..." Pabumon whimpered and cried.
Izzy growled angrily at the digimon and at the teenager, "What's the matter with you two?! I've told you not to bother me while I'm training!"
"Hey, don't talk to him like that! What's the matter with you!?" Zaira snapped in anger and confusion.
Pabumon stared imploringly at Izzy, his eyes welling with tears, one fell from his eye. And in its reflection, the face of the Dark Spectre Queen appeared briefly, before the tears glowed bright purple. Zaira watched in surprise, as the tears of Pabumon, became so many purple glowing bubbles, which floated over and around Izzy.
"Pabu-Pabu!?" Pabumon whined sadly. He couldn't voice his thoughts, his tear-filled eyes expressed them.
Had he forgotten who he was already? Who Zaira is...and himself?
"You've forsaken yourself, you've stopped thinking, stopped wondering, now you're losing your mind, and everything important to you!" Zaira exclaimed. "You've got to remember, Izzy!"
Izzy's blank eyes stared into the bubble tears, and they began to swirl with a magic energy, which seemed to pull him out of his strange trance.
"Remember who you are, Izzy." The voice of the Sea witch called out. "Remember all you've ever gone through since being here, and the friends you made."
"Uhhh..." Izzy groaned, as magical images of the past showed themselves.
"I just want to figure out what the DigiWorld really is…" The voice of Izzy said from within a bubble, shown to be walking up a mountain path as a frantic Tentomon followed him.
"I can't remember..." Izzy said to himself, eyes half shut.
Another bubble floated up to reveal Izzy, falling but saved by Tentomon, who flutters quickly to keep Izzy from falling into a deep pit.
"Hold on, Izzy! And don't let go of your curiosity," Tentomon declares. "Your curiosity is what I admire!"
More and more bubbles floated in front of Izzy, his eyes reflecting the numerous glowing bubbles, which continued to show portions of his past in the digital world.
"This is purely scientific speculation, but I believe I've stumbled onto something more then just a simple computer game."
Izzy shown walking among various stone blocks, which were inscribed with glyphs of the digital world history.
"WAKE UP!" Zaira snapped, and called upon a portion of her magic to pop the bubbles.
Pop!
They all popped loudly, and scattered a purple, sparkling dust on Izzy.
Izzy cried out in shock, and shut his eyes tight. The ten year old boy shook his head frantically, and when he opened his eyes, they were full of life again.
"Pabumon, Zaira!" The boy ran to Zaira and held out his hands for his digimon.
Zaira gently handed Pabumon over to Izzy, relieved to see him back.
"It's my fault you've lost your digivolution."
"Pabu! Pabu!"
"Stop fooling around!" Vademon's voice was heard shouting.
"Vademon, calm down!" Another voice said, they were coming from the steel door with a window.
"That's too pricey. Can't you give me a better bargain?"
"Not a chance. I just procured this inquisitive heart, so it's very fresh. I am not lowering its value."
Without his inquisitive heart, Izzy was unconcerned about who Vademon was talking to but he knew that the heart that they were talking about belonged to him.
The room looked partly like a cheap saloon in a Western, and partly like a specimen room.
"You don't understand, if I don't bring back the crest, then Lord Myotismon could end up killing me!" Demi-devimon said fluttering madly.
"Well, that's not my problem." Vademon said with a shrug.
While Pabumon created a diversion and retrieved the crest, the inquisitive heart returned to where it belonged, inside of Izzy. Unfortunately that meant both Vademon and Demidevimon were after them.
Izzy, Zaira and Pabumon burst out of the room and escaped into the Room of the Mysterious Universe. A battle begins. Tentomon digivolves and Zaira transforms with Vademon using his unidentified flying kiss sending an entire asteroid field to ram right into them!
Izzy fearfully cried out their names.
"You'll only hurt yourself if you underestimate me!" Vademon taunted.
Vademon must be a Perfect-Level Digimon! The only way to beat him was to Kabuterimon to digivolve again and/or Zaira to reach a new form. But how? He wasn't physically strong as Tai or Matt. What could he do? Then it hit him: his intelligence! It was knowledge that had helped them every step of the way!
"Kabuterimon! Stand up!" Izzy urged, his crest glowing purple.
This was what triggered the next step. "Kabuterimon, super digivolve to MegaKabuterimon!"
Zaira in turn, is able reach Digix – complete with new wings and outfit.
With a spell to beat back the main offense, Megakabuterimon valiantly pierced Vademon with his horn. The alien vanished in a spray of particles.
In a burst of white, Megakabuterimon carried both Izzy and the newly transformed Zaira out and upwards. And they found themselves at the summit.
While Theo and Matt's group was following the trail with the digivice, the ground had begun to shake.
"It's an earthquake!" Matt yelled.
Then something exploded free right in front of them: It is a bipedal Digimon with four arms. Its head is eyeless and has a skull helmet with a large horn that forks at the tip. Its shell consists of fused elytra with a green crystal ball at the base. It is red in coloration with blue hands and feet. Its torso and pelvis are skeletal in appearance. It has a blue stinger on its pelvis. And fluttering a new pair of lilac wings was… Zaira!
Zaira landed feeling woozy. Beside her was Izzy on his back with a concerned Motimon asking if they were alright. They were then pleasantly surprised to see the others running towards them.
"I'm glad we've found you!" T.K. said with relief.
"Motimon, you look like a baby when you're held by Izzy that way!" Tsunomon teased.
Motimon was flustered. "Izzy, put me down!"
"There's no harm in it, you're tired." Izzy reassured him.
"Yeah, and you're a little cutie." Dana commented patting Motimon.
"Chosen Children, Guardians of the Veil." Gennai's voice was heard.
They all spun around to see a hologram of Gennai in the air.
"The distortions in this world haven't been corrected yet. Use the information on this world, available in the Digimon Analyzer I've sent, as a reference from now on!" He explained before vanishing.
Intrigued, Izzy opened his laptop to the so-called Analyzer.
"This is the Digimon Analyzer. Here it is!" The screen showed Tentomon's Perfect-Level. "MegaKabuterimon, an Insect Digimon."
"That's me!" Motimon blushed proudly.
Things in the meantime were worse for Demidevimon, which meant he had to own up to his failure because running away was a more dangerous option.
"Lord Myotismon!"
"Where is the Crest?" The mysterious silhouette demanded.
"P-Please forgive me – it's that…!"
"No! Accept your punishment!"
A multitude of bats swooped down on Demidevimon and attacked.
"Help me!" the small digimon shrieked. "Lord Myotismon, please forgive me!"
To be continued…