When you're a teenager, a huge problem would be something dumb like: when you just have to have a brand new coat, because everybody else says is cool, but your parents say it's too expensive. Or getting this gigantic zit and desperately needing to see a dermatologist right away when the adults claim no one will notice. And you'd think the whole world has gone nuts—until that fateful early morning.

The guardians had returned with Tai to give Kari the grim news before they departed for their own hopes and promising a rescue mission the following day. Kylie was beside herself with worry but she and her fellow guardians were left with no other choice but to wait for morning and some words of wisdom from Vanessa.

The Digimon who had appeared in Tokyo had not only attacked aimlessly, but several had even managed to skillfully hide themselves. It had taken time just trying to find them. Because they had been battling throughout Tokyo, they didn't realize that Lady had Myotismon target Odaiba.

The order that DemiDevimon received from Myotismon was: "Gather all of my Digimon subordinates to Odaiba before daybreak."

Mimi Tachikawa's father, Keisuke, headed back to Odaiba from his studio in Shiba. He worked mainly as a freelance audio mixer for rock music, so his workplace was in an underground recording studio. However, he had been unable to get any work done since the early afternoon today. Regardless of whatever sound generator he reproduced, he would always catch static mixed into it somewhere. After looking through his various audio sources, he decided that all of his equipment would need to be checked over. The day ended with him having to put his work on hold as he waited for a serviceman to arrive and do maintenance. Because he always walked from the studio to Shinbashi to ride the Yurikamome, he was unaware of the traffic congestion that was taking place in various parts of the city.

As he absentmindedly gazed out the window, the scenery began to cloud over faintly. "Fog? That's weird."

The Yurikamome that he was riding on arrived at Odaiba without any predicament. Thirty minutes later, it suspended all services.

Around 11:00 pm that evening, the fog surrounding Odaiba increased in density. It writhed like a living being. As it encircled the whole area of Odaiba, a low laugh could be heard coming from somewhere within. A human shadow stood on the rustic triumphal arch rooftop of the Telecom Center building. His dark cape with crimson lining fluttered behind him. It was Myotismon.

Both the Yurikamome and the Rinkai Fukutoshin Line stopped functioning. Even all of the automobiles crossing Rainbow Bridge died because their electrical systems failed. No phone calls would go through. This not only applied to phones, but wireless connections as well. The television radio waves that were being sent from Odaiba were also shut down, their channels showing up in households all across the nation as nothing but static.

From outside its surrounding areas, Odaiba looked as though it were covered in a giant dome of fog. But the residents who were inside didn't realize right away that something was wrong. The fog was thick only at its outline, while the inside of it was sparse. No changes were noticed in the electricity and water supply. The only people inside who noticed something was odd were those making phone calls or watching TV. All TV and radio stations inside the dome had poor reception.

At the beginning, the fog dome could still be cut through. People who had stopped their cars on the highway, leading to the Rainbow Bridge and Shinkiba, had left them to walk across, so they were able to slip through the fog and out of its dome. They had no idea that they were the lucky ones.
Not even ten minutes passed when the fog intensified until it was almost solid.

"No one will escape, not even the eighth child!" It was Myotismon. His cape spread out like wings.

Nearby, Lady Despair watched proudly. "Go now, my servants of darkness. Soon, this world will be ours, and all will worship my children as Divine!" Lady Despair beamed.

The fog only begun affecting No maj electronics but also other means that would require those with magic from leaving or entering Odaiba, no doubt Despair didn't want the Ministries attempting a rescue.

In a magical dimension a ways away, a flaming haired, creature of magic attempted to create a portal with a pair of scissors to visit a certain sea witch. Only to find the portal didn't work at all.

"What the Fudge!?" She stared at the scissors she made in alarmed shock.

Carolinus the green wizard was attempting to communicate via the plants to the guardians, as he wished to ask their aid in an endeavor he had...only to be stunned, when all the flowers nearby dried up from expending themselves.

"What could be causing this?" Carolinus wondered in worry.

Vanessa smacks on her crystal ball, which does nothing but show static. "Something is interfering with the reception," Vanessa frowned in agitation. "I have a sneaky suspicion it's that despicable despair."

Kylie was totally unaware of what was happening outside, and equally helplessly, ignorant of the trouble the guardians' closest friends were going through. But whenever she closed her eyes, her active imagination showed her scenes of lurid horror. There was a good chance that her lover might be sharing the grisly fate of hunted vampires—decapitation and the stake.

Hers was an uneasy slumber, troubled by strange dreams. And the strangest dream of all was that Myotismon, Kylie's lover, the digimon whose destiny seemed to have been entangled with hers for all eternity— himself had somehow come to be with her now, in this very room.

"Kylie..."

The beautiful blonde turned her head the other way. The voice that was haunting her memories, her heart and soul.

"Kylie, come to me...My arms are hungry for you."

"Please leave me alone..." the girl whispered pleadingly.

"You know you love me...Can you conceive of what I feel for you?"

The girl sighed wearily as she answered to the voice, "I know... I can't stop thinking about you..."

"Then why won't you come back to me? I miss you so..."

"Y-you know perfectly well why... You and Despair are hurting everyone you come in contact with just to find me..."

"That's not the only reason you elude me, is it?" The voice chided with an amused undertone. "Now that you know the truth about yourself, you feel so different from the other guardians now... you fear that you don't belong here..."

"I already know that... the Digiworld is my home... where I was born…"

The voice purred, "But I love you... so much... Please... I will not harm anyone who comes here, but know if you try to leave here I WILL take action, and your friends might suffer. I know where you are. It is pointless to run anymore..." the voice now had a sinister edge, as if demanding the lovelorn fairy to come to him. "I love you, Kylie...come back to me."

Needless to say, it was the people within Fuji TV station who were the first to notice that something was wrong with the signals.
No transceivers could be sent or received. All video equipment were non-functional. No matter what was put on display, all that could be seen were screens filled with static.

Hiroaki's intuition told him that, with the news of monsters going wild early that afternoon as well as the radio interference yesterday, this couldn't be just any regular abnormality. It was this intuition that had primed him into a skilled director.
He also knew, from the wide view of the city at the top of Fuji TV station, that their surrounding areas were closed off by fog.
He went straight into his next course of action without a moment's hesitation.

Near the Rainbow Bridge, Hiroaki Ishida and his crew from the TV station have already discovered the fog has covered all of Odaiba.

However they had not much time before a swarm of Gizamon attacked, his coworkers have been captured but Matt and T.K.'s father just barely escaped.

August 3, 1999 6:02 am

Government officials observed that the fog that covered Odaiba entirely, cutting that section off from the rest of the world. T.K. and his Mother were watching the grim news on TV while eating breakfast.

"And as you can see, there are no signs of what is going on in the fog dome. The safety of Odaiba's residents is unknown." The reporter was saying.

T.K. dropped his spoon in the cereal before standing up determinedly. "I have to go."

This mysterious fog could only be the work of Myotismon or that wicked witch they call Despair, he just knew it.

"T.K.!"

"I have to go! Onii-chan and Dad are in there!"

The lady who was T.K. and Matt's mother sat down and stared the TV for a moment, she was almost seeing her oldest son Matt and Hiroaki, her ex-husband.

"Let me go!" T.K. insisted.

"You're right. We'll go together."

"We apologize for the inconvenience. Due to an unknown incident, train service has been suspended." The station intercom broadcasted.

"This isn't good…" Tai's father, Susumu, sighed.

Just then there was the sound of people screaming, He whirled around to see people running from ghosts.

Appearing before those people who were trying unreasonably hard to resist, came a Digimon wrapped in a red robe that covered his entire body and wielding a wicked looking scythe. This was Phantomon, a Perfect-Level Digimon.

"What are those things?!" stammered Susumu in shock.

"Soul Chopper!" Phantomon's voice was a high pitched but with the sadistic tone.

The giant sickle that he carried could soundlessly cut through walls and steel-thick doors. No human kept up their will to fight after seeing that in action.

"By orders of Lord Myotismon! All of you will be taken in!"

Zaira and her family were several blocks away when the Bakemon had started attacking. As soon as she finished her breakfast, via premonition she saw the disaster unfold. Seeing the innocent people being rounded up and being shoved and herded away like cattle sent chills down her spine. She couldn't help imagining what the people on the streets and in the buildings were thinking and going through, not knowing what was going on.

However that didn't mean she was going to sit back and let these things happen. First she left a specific note to her father, stepmother and brother about where she was going before running out the door.

Mimi and her family had been resting in their apartment when the Bakemon had begun attacking. Mimi barely had time to hide Palmon under a yellow bedsheet before they all ran for the elevator.

"We're safe now." Mimi's father, Keisuke hoped.

"What were those horrible things?!" Mimi's mother, Satoe, questioned.

Mimi prepared herself. "Mama, let me explain…"

But the elevator came to a stop, the doors opening to reveal many more Bakemon waiting for them.

Sora Takenouchi's mother, Yoshiko, had been in the apartment with Piyomon when it happened.

Because of its long-standing tradition, her husband, who was an assistant university professor at the time they were wed, chose to take on her surname. It didn't mean that he was adopted into her family, but while her apprentices would frequently visit her home, her husband Haruhiko was not at home, or even in Tokyo, for long periods of time since his field research on folkloristics kept him away. It was possible that others saw her as a person who treated her apprentices highly, but her own husband frivolously. Even her only daughter, Sora, gave her a hard time when she secretly took on a rebellious attitude because of it.

But when Sora had returned home the day before yesterday, she was surprisingly obedient. In fact, she looked as if she had wanted to say something. Originally, since Sora was supposed to spend the night at summer camp, Yoshiko had arranged her own schedule so that she could work on tasks late into the night. It was already past 10 PM by the time she had gotten back home, so she'd rebuked Sora that they would talk tomorrow and to go to sleep immediately.
And she didn't even make a single complaint. I wonder what that was about.
In the end, when the following morning came, there wasn't any time to talk even though she was curious about what had happened at camp.

The last thing she expected was for some kind of ghosts to attack her while she was making her breakfast and the small pink bird Sora claimed was a stuffed animal to fly out. Piyomon's 'Magical Fire' drove them back. To say Toshiko, Sora's mother, was surprised would be an understatement.

Sora's mother was so shocked that she'd fallen backwards, pointing to Piyomon incredulously. "You're… You're not a stuffed toy?!"

An unuasually stern Piyomon turned to look at her. "Where does the soccer club have its morning practice?"

"In the elementary school's… schoolyard…"

"I have to hurry. Sora's in danger!"

At hearing Sora was in danger all the fear vanished from Sora's mother's face.

The captured people of Odaiba were gathered in Tokyo Big Sight, an enormous convention and exhibition center. Despite the rush of bodies from the earlier chase, none of the humans were hurt because the Digimon were given strict orders not to harm them in any way. Since they were going to end up as Myotismon's food, they needed to be treated delicately.

"Separate the adults and the children, and have all of the children meet Gatomon." Myotismon had ordered Demidevimon.

"It'd be easier to kill them all instead of doing something so complicated? It'll be much faster." Demidevimon questioned.

"That won't suit my aesthetics."

Myotismon continued to look down on the humans as he spoke to Gatomon, who was dangling from a rope by her paws.

"Looks like your partner isn't here."

Gatomon kept silent.

"I know they haven't escaped beyond the boundaries of my barrier."

Myotismon glared down at the crowd, and a look of alarm crossed over his face. "Phantomon!" Myotismon shouts.

The grim Reaper like ghost appeared slowly, like he'd turned invisible, but backwards.

"My Lord?" Phantomon asked.

"Where is My Creator?" Myotismon asked.

The Phantom digimon looked around in surprise, and appeared to be nervous now.

"I...I don't know, My Lord." Phantomon confessed.

"Well...FIND OUT!" Myotismon growled, his eyes glowing red as the phantom vanished.

"Seems to me the Mad Artist has her own plans," Gatomon said with a frown. "Do you suppose, she's currently found Kylie?"

Myotismon whirled around with his teeth barred in rage.

"YOU ARE INSOLENT!" Myotismon took a breath, and covered his eyes. "But you do have a point...I can't allow Mother to find her first..."

He was right to be concerned. Outside of Kibou Manor, a black portal opened, unleashing blood, red mist, which revealed Lady Despair, thousands of Bakemon and over 50 Garthim. Lady Despair was decked in a sparkly, green sequin dress, holding her staff.

"Well, so this is the homestead of that infernal, Sirene's heir." Lady Despair said, as she summoned her scepter into her hands in a flash of pink light.

"We shall go in immediately, My Lady." A Bakemon said.

Only to hit an invisible wall, and be shocked like a mosquito in a bug zapper.

"Haah..." Lady Despair sighed. "It's protected by a magical barrier, fools."

Sierra turned her scepter, so the skull was facing her, and she let loose a slow, evil smile.

"But we won't let a little thing like THAT upset us, will we?"

Lady Despair laughed maniacally as the scepter's black, crystal skull's eyes glowed bright red, spinning it over her head before slams it hard on the barrier. A massive pulse went through the barrier, and red cracks appeared over it, before it shattered to pieces.

"There, easy as pie." Lady Despair said leaning against her scepter.

A Bakemon floated over to touch the spot where the cracks formed, only to be shocked like the other Bakemon.

"What?" Lady Despair exclaimed, and walked over to rub her hand at the spot.

A purple flame appeared on her hand, and she winced, before waving it off. "So, the ol' Sea Hag added a couple layers to the original barrier, huh? I have to respect that...just as I have to destroy her marvelous work," Lady Despair declared to the Bakemon. "JUMP BACK!"

The Bakemon floated further back with the Garthim, and Lady Despair's scepter began to float in front of herself. It swayed side to side, like a metronome, as she waved her hands and chanted.

~Oh HIM, I call. Oh HIM, I beseech. Aid me in my task, help me to breach~

~Crack the shell, skin off the husk, annihilate this barrier~

~AS SO IT MUST!~

Immediately, around her a circle of strange, demonic runes appeared, glowing bright red and Lady Despair's eyes glowed blood red, her voice deep, warped and distorted and her talons grew longer. And Sierra hissed out, as she opened her mouth and a blast of fiery red energy shot out, shaped like a serpent. It struck hard against the purple barrier, which rippled like water, but appeared to hold fast.

"Come on, you lugs!" A Bakemon said to the Garthim. "Help out your mistress, weaken the barrier!"

The Garthim responded, and immediately, letting out that noise they do, they lumbered forward and slammed their claws against the barrier. At first, the barrier held up.

But the Garthim were impervious to most forms of magic, and with Lady Despair weakening the barrier, it soon began to melt like hot butter on a frying pan.

Lady Despair coughed, bent over a bit. A Bakemon came over, and rubbed her back, she waved him off.

"I'm fine. I'm fine, just too much dark magic," Lady Despair said clearing her throat. "But this manor is bound to have a ton of light magic artifacts to drain, and if not. I know it stores some tantalizing fairies for scarfing!"

Lady Despair grabs her scepter, and spins around to face the garthim, pointing her Scepter in the direction of the Manor.

"GARTHIM! ATTACK! GO AND BRING ME SIRENE'S HEIR, AND ANY FAIRIES!"

Inside the manor, one of the doors slammed open and a voice rang into it. "Drake, where are the girls?!"

It was Beth and Dana's father, Captain Omri Pantheon. He walked hurriedly into the living space without stopping to take his shoes off.

The butler answered. "I believe they're still upstairs sir..."

"You and the other servants, I want you to open the pens and get ready to run. We need to get out of here—"

But his quick actions were almost in vain. White blankets floated into their home through the open front door. They looked like the depictions of Western ghosts, as if they were people with white blankets over their heads, but they were Digimon named Bakemon.

The moment they entered the mansion, Mrs. Stanford, the motherly Russian cook, spotted them first.

"Aaargh! We're being invaded!" she hollered.

All over the servants were rushing about grabbing objects as weapons to protect themselves, while Dr. Pantheon told them to cease and escape with them.

"Girls, girls!" Omri rushed upstairs, and immediately came upon Beth and Dana. "Girls, we need to flee the manor, where's Kylie!?"

A loud crash startled them, as huge, black mollusk like armored crab beings marched into the front hall, eyes glowing a deep, dark pink color.

"The Garthim!" Beth shouts in alarm. Dana moves to cast a spell.

"No! They're immune to basic forms of magic, remember?" Beth reminded her. "Let's grab Kylie and get out of here!"

Dana was still in her pajamas, Beth and Kylie were the only ones dressed but that didn't stop them from running.

"The backward garden... to the guestroom!" Beth yelled at her sisters, "We're using the tree canopy!"

They raced to the one they know would be leading to the enormous gardens hiding some of the Pantheons 'larger' animal rescues besides the oak tree hideout. There was a very thick tree canopy full of roots they can use to jump down. Whatever beasts lingering in the foliage will no doubt let the girls pass by and scare off the intruders.

Once inside the guestroom, they pushed the dresser in front of the door to block it.

"That's not going to hold them!" Kylie worried.

"But it can buy us the time we need!" Beth replied. "Just got to get to the edge of the fence and look for the guys!"

A crash told them one of the garthim was breaking part of the door.

"You first!" Dana and Beth shoved Kylie towards the open window.

"Wait, n-not yeeeeeeeeeet!" Kylie cried as she tumbled down upon the canopy.

She gripped the branches even as she slid down to the grass.

"I made it!"

Beth turned to her little sister. "Dana, you're up!"

"We can't leave without the pets!"

"They're right out-"

CRASH!

The garthim had broken open a hole large enough for the Bakemon to pass through.

Beth and Dana shrieked as the Bakemon quickly flew towards them. Dana used her power of the wind on them and screamed at her sisters to run.

Dana grunted, banging her fists at the creepy hand of the Garthim, but to no avail. The garthim charged out of the manor, and rolled out the front door, where Lady Despair waited with her arms crossed.

"Ah, the adopted sister of the Nymph's daughter," Lady Despair said in a monotone. "I should thank you for keeping the child alive until I could get my hands on her..." She reaches out to grab Dana's chin as the garthim lowered her for Sierra to stare into Dana's green eyes.

The little girl glared and tried to bite the evil woman's hand defiantly. Despair pulled her hand away.

"But I think I just hate you too much," Lady Despair said with a curl of her lip.

Tai's family lived in a four-unit condominium that was partitioned by a road from the condominium of Sora and Izzy's families. Matt lived in yet another unit that was closer to Fuji TV station.

Except minutes earlier, Tai's mother was captured by the Bakemon.

Their surroundings were thronged with angry bellows and screams. An immense number of Bakemon had appeared, capturing the residents of the condominium. As Digimon went, the Bakemon had weak fighting strength, but they could still easily overpower regular humans. Whoever ran out into the hallways or jumped out from windows were snatched right up into the air and taken hostage.

A dazzling light broke out from a corner of the unit across from them. It was the light of evolution. "Agumon, digivolve to… Greymon!"

Agumon was somehow able to become Greymon in the narrow indoors, and as a result he burst through the walls.

"I-It's a dinosaur!"

Tai kept hidden behind Greymon, holding Kari tightly to him to protect her. "Greymon, rescue my mom!"

Greymon moved forward only to be attacked by Phantomon.

"That's what you get for rebelling." The ghoul snapped. "Now! Take them all to Lord Myotismon!"

Greymon was able to fend off the attacking Bakemon, but he did not have the leisure to save the people being taken away. The Bakemon's numbers were great, but if he made any clumsy attacks, he could end up injuring the humans in the Bakemon's grasp. Greymon couldn't use his fireball attack since it could hit Tai's mother. Using only his claws and horn to keep the Bakemon from grabbing Tai and his sister was the best he could do. "I'm sorry, Tai… I promise to save your mother later. But for now, you have to run away with me!"

Tai had to make a decision. He would save his parents later. Right now, he needed to protect Kari. "Let's get outta here!"

Large Digimon, such as the black dinosaur DarkTyranomon, were deployed around Big Sight so that no one could easily escape. Mimi was there with her parents. It was possible that she wasn't recognized as one of the Chosen Children because she wasn't wearing her pink ten-gallon hat.

Palmon was pretending to be a doll, wearing a large baby doll's apron and hat that had been hurriedly grabbed from Mimi's room and thrown onto her. Palmon had low offensive ability since she couldn't breathe fire, like Agumon and Gabumon, and hadn't had the chance to resist capture. Of course, she couldn't evolve to Togemon within the condominium either.

The wide convention center was packed tightly with people. Crying and murmuring could be heard all around them.

"Man, if I had the power, I'd beat those guys up!"

The young junior in Tai's soccer club that Mimi had seen running to them earlier that morning at the park was there, crying in frustration. The girl next to him gently comforting him must be his older sister.

It must be nice to have a sibling, Mimi thought wistfully. Palmon was by her side now, but if Mimi didn't have her, there was no telling how much she would have bawled her eyes out.

At any rate, even if they evolved here now, they would simply be outnumbered.

"Mimi? Palmon?" A teenage girl's familiar voice questioned.

Mimi whirled around then sighed with relief. "Haruna?"

"They got you too?" Palmon asked.

"I just stepped out of my house when they captured my family." The earth guardian explained.

"I suppose we should count our blessings," Mimi said looking anxiously. "I don't see the Garthim, or that horrible Lady Despair. So, you could have the advantage here."

"Looks like it." Sara G and Theo walked right up with Tony.

"But if we're getting out, we need a diversion." Tony reminded.

Theo was looking around. "You see any of the others anywhere? My Ma and I were dragged in when the Bakemon things attacked our apartment."

Suddenly, a large scythe entered the path of Theo's sight, and Phantomon appeared, his glowing eyes narrowing at the girls.

"All the grown up humans are being separated from the younger," Phantomon said spookily. "Do as you are told, and no harm will befall you."

The girls tensed, but realized the creature didn't recognize them, since they hadn't encountered him beforehand.

"That's not exactly calming." Haruna remarked.

Phantomon laughed wickedly. "Of course, we DO want you in constant fear," Phantomon said as he floated away. "More fear to make my mistress magic stronger, so we can find who we are searching for..."

Outside in the meantime, Piyomon and Sora's mother had disguised themselves as Bakemon to look for Sora, they reached the schoolyard too late. All they found was an empty field full of soccer balls and Sora's hat.
So Piyomon suggested that they follow the Bakemon in hopes of them leading the two right to Sora.

"Alright…" Sora's mother then knelt to the pink bird's eye level. "Um, Piyomon, this might sound like an odd question, but did Sora ever say that she hated me?"

"Not at all!" Piyomon shook her head. "In fact, she said this!"

And she proceeded to tell her Sora's heartfelt confession.

"Before I knew what I was doing, I was doing the same as my mother."

"Sora…"

"That's when I understood… My mother loved me all along."

"That girl…" Sora's mother was moved.

Wandering amongst the imprisoned humans the captive guardians searched around and found Sora sitting on a bench.

"Sora!"

The fifth grader spun around in surprise to see Mimi and three of the guardians smiling at her.

"They've caught you too?"

Palmon revealed herself briefly under the yellow bed-sheet Mimi had brought. "Mimi, should I evolve?"

"Not yet, Palmon. Let's wait until we have a chance."

"The enemy is all around us, so let's lay low for now." Sora replied.

"Okay."

Looking around for more familiar faces Sora and Theo found Tai and Kari's parents.

"Our children… Our children…!" Mrs. Yuuko Kamiya wept.

"Calm down." Her husband tried to calm her.

"I can't! I last saw them when we were being attacked by these monsters. That orange dinosaur must have eaten them by now…"

"He won't." Theo stepped up interrupting.

"How can you know that?"

"Oh right, I'm Theo, one of the junior counselors from Tai's camp." Theo held out her hand. "He was in my group and he's one of the bravest kids I've seen."

"Please don't worry." Sora had approached.

The Kamiyas looked up. "Sora."

"That dinosaur is on our side. I'm sure he will come here with other good Digimon and save us with the help of Theo's friends."

They formulated a plan of escape with Mimi's parents, captured of the Fuji TV station that worked with Matt's father and the recently captured parents of the Pantheon sisters.

The men would take down the guards, so while the Bakemon are distracted, the women and children would be led out to safety. Thanks to one of the TV crew possessing a boom box full of sutras, they had the means to weaken the Bakemon.

Within the next minutes, they put their plan into effect. The prisoners managed to get out of the building and to the path underneath one of the bridges, the one right by the giant red saw art sculpture.

"All right!" Mrs. Tachikawa cheered. "We've made it outside!"

Their victory was short lived as a giant black dinosaur stomped over.

"There's another one!"

"Where are you going?" Mrs. Tachikawa asked as her husband ran back into the crowd.

He took a small buggy and drove straight ahead at DarkTyranomon. "A man must do… What a man must do!"

But the dinosaur merely swatted the car away and sent Mimi's father flying. This scene caused many of the people to scream and panic.

"Papa!" Mimi shouted.

"Palmon, digivolve to... TOGEMON!"

"Our turn!" Three of the captured guardians intoned. Theo, Haruna and Sara G transformed.

"Leave it to us!" Haruna declared bravely.

Togemon gave a swift uppercut to DarkTyranomon, the other three fairies flew around the dinosaur's head like hummingbirds.

While Mimi and her mother ran over to where Mr. Tachikawa had crashed.

"Are you all right, dearest?"

"I am, but… I made a fool of myself."

"No, that's not true! You were very brave!"

"Really?"

"Really!"

"Really?"

"Really!"

"Hey…" Mimi interrupted her parents. "This isn't the time for that!"

"Once in a while doesn't hurt." Her father claimed.

"Yeah." Her mother agreed.

"But you always do this!" Mimi complained

DarkTyranomon roared, until giant vines burst out of the ground and entangled him in their snare.

"Go!" Haruna called out, flying above the others. "I have him!"

DarkTyranomon grumbled, and opened his mouth to breathe fire out on the plants.

"Ah! Look out!" Theo flew in front of the No Majs and holds up her hands. "Pele Fire Shield"

The fire was held back, and Sara flew over, and waved her arms around in a sorta dance.

"From the depths of the Ocean, Poseidon's Surge!" Sara chanted.

Out of the nearby river, a large water spout burst out, and washed away the fire, and shot into DarkTyranomon's mouth. The dark digimon gagged and gargled at having the water shoved into his mouth, and flailed until Sara stopped. And Togemon charged up, upper cutting DarkTyranomon in the jaw, sending him flying backwards.

"Keep going, Togemon! Girls, just keep at it!" Mimi cheers.

At that point, slammed Togemon to the ground and began to breathe fire on her.

"Togemon!" I shouted as I ran closer to her. "You can do it, Togemon!"

"I'm trying…" She said as she slowly got back up.

Immediately, the Bakemon on lookout came towards them. Mimi looked around for a moment, looking a little lost.

"Why?" She mumbled. "Why? Why are they doing this to us?"

"Mimi, get down! Rain blitz!"

Sara shoot a torrential blast of bluish-teal energy, causing more than ten Bakemon to disintegrate into particles in an instant. But there was an abundant numbers of Bakemon still present that kept coming in swarms. They were trying to herd the people back into the Big Sight.

"There's too many of them!" Haruna cried.

Tears welled up in Mimi's eyes but she did not break down. Instead she gained a determined expression. "So much cruelty! I'll never forgive those wicked Digimon! We'll fight them!"

When one of her fallen tears dropped, Mimi's crest suddenly glowed a bright green.

"Togemon, super digivolve to… Lilymon!"

A fairy Digimon that wears a pink flower for a dress, a bud of the same flower with a yellow stamen on her head, and long hair is made from thorny vines. She was wearing green boots with flower decorations and green sleeves that end in flowers at the wrists. On her back were four leaf-like wings that gave her the ability to fly.

She wasn't the only one who received a power upgrade.

The light of the digivice light shone on two of the guardians fighting alongside Theo, who grinned, knowing what would happen next. Flashes of Blue and green swept up on Sara and Haruna from toe to head, until they'd received a new set of clothes and wings.

DarkTyranomon backed up in surprise at the sudden transformations.

"Togemon digivolved?" Mimi questioned in wonder before turning her gaze to the guardians. "And now both Sara and Haruna reached Digix!"

The petite flower fairy Lilymon posed with both arms as she turned around. A large yellow flower formed in her hands in the shape of a cannon that fire a bolt of energy at DarkTyranomon's chest. "Flower Cannon!"

"Naiad's Attack!" A wavy beam of water and energy.

"Springtime's gust!" A breeze made of colorful flowers struck in a constricting flowery mist.

"Lilymon?"

The flower fairy turned to Mimi. "Mimi, do you think I look ugly?"

Mimi shook her head with a warm smile. "Not at all! You're very pretty!"

"Very much so!" Haruna confirmed.

Lilymon winked in her human partner's direction. "Thank you!"

"Welcome to the new level, girls!" Theo flew up to her friends. "Now let's give the big guy here a run for his money!"

"Sure!" Lilymon nodded.

She and the three guardians then began to fly around DarkTyranomon to confuse him and lead him away from the people.

"Mimi, it was your tears of purity that helped me to digivolve. I want to cherish those important feelings of yours. That's why…"

"What are you going to do?"

"Good question…. What?" Sara inquired as she and the girls flew alongside Lilymon.

"Just watch! Flower Collar!" Lilymon flew around and around DarkTyranomon's neck. Then a necklace of pink flowers was around the giant creature's neck. "I've removed the evil virus from him using my flower power. He's not our enemy anymore." Lilymon explained. "He's a very good boy."

To prove a point, she gently petted the dinosaur on its head. DarkTyranomon merely closed its eyes lazily enjoying the attention.

"Amazing!" Mimi said.

"Except that was a little too easy…" Haruna comments uncertainly.

"You have no idea."

They all spun around to see an angry Myotismon hovering only a few yards from them.

"Who's that?" Sara thought aloud.

"Uhm, remember the vampire villain Kylie got mixed up with that's now after us and the eighth chosen kid we told you about...?" Theo explained then pointed to Myotismon.

Sara bit her lip. "Oh-oh…"

"Crimson lightning!" Without warning, Myotismon struck DarkTyranomon fatally, causing the dinosaur to burst into data particles that vanished.

The guardians let out sounds of shock and outrage.

"How could you do that?!" Lilymon uttered the question they'd been thinking.

"All I've done is rid myself of some unnecessary rubbish. You're next." responded the vampire before attempting to strike at them. "Crimson lightning!"

Beth reluctantly retreated from the mansion with Kylie. The two older girls had ran through the back garden foliage as the Bakemon hovered down after them.

Fortunately, Beth's beloved Esther and Samson made short work of them. The Keeper of the Heart could only hope it would be enough to hold down the fort until Myotismon was defeated.

And the other section of the street, Tai, Agumon and Kari were running just past the warehouse where Matt was hiding.

"Are you okay?" Tai asked Agumon.

"Yeah, somewhat…"

That what when they almost crashed into Beth and Kylie.

"Beth! Kylie!" Tai exclaimed in relief.

"Tai! Girls!" Matt called out to them. "Over here!"

"Matt!"

Two minutes later, while Kari was checking over Agumon, Tai ad the two guardians were informing Matt about what's happened.

"What?!" Matt shouted standing right up in shock.

"I'm not kidding, Kari is the eighth chosen child!" Tai explained to him.

Back at Big Sight, Phantomon destroyed the boom box Sora was holding. The girl was cornered on the bridge by him and multiple Bakemon.

"Now you can try praying so that you can go straight for paradise!" The reaper taunted. "Your life is mine!"

Two 'Bakemon' walked up to her before turning around. "Not a chance!" It was Piyomon and Sora's mother disguised.

"Piyomon, digivolve to…BIRDRAMON!" The appearance of the giant fiery bird was enough to scatter the Bakemon.

And allowing mother and daughter to embrace. "Sora…"

"Mom…"

"Please you've got to run away from here, Sora."

"You should, too!" Sora said softly to her mother.

The Bakemon were headed directly towards them with intents to capture.

"Hurry up and go!" Mrs. Takenouchi ordered, intending to give her child a chance to escape.

"But Mom…!" Sora wailed in horror.

Things were going to worse before they got better, neither the children nor the guardians had any idea of just how much.

To be continued…

"Please you've got to run away from here, Sora."

"You should, too!" Sora said softly to her mother.

The Bakemon were headed directly towards them with intents to capture.

"Hurry up and go!" Mrs. Takenouchi ordered, intending to give her child a chance to escape.

"But Mom…!" Sora wailed in horror.

Things were going to worse before they got better, neither the children nor the guardians had any idea of just how much.

To be continued…