A/N: Hope that everyone had a good time over the holidays and right now, I'm getting back into the swing of things. I had to deal with personal issues on social media as well as a reader on this website who liked to announced the next chapter of my power rangers fanfics. After numerous warnings, I have already blocked the reader for the time being so hopefully they understand that I don't like it when they announced they next chapter. I will still write fanfics for the franchise, but I also need to pay attention to my other fanfics. I also had to deal with a guy who dated a friend of mine (I don't like the guy due to personal reasons) who was calling me everyday last week. As always, I hope that you like this chapter and happy reading!
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"I'm tired of playing games with you, WarGreymon. So say good-bye." said MetalSeadramon as his fangs started to dig into WarGreymon's shoulder and cracks appeared in his armor as he takes him into the water.
Just then, Whamon came to the rescue by ramming into MetalSeadramon, allowing WarGreymon to escape.
"River of Power!" shouted MetalSeadramon, blasting Whamon and causing a large hole to form in him.
"Whamon!" yelled Tai.
"Terra Force!" shouted WarGreymon, firing his attack at MetalSeadramon.
"River of Power!" shouted MetalSeadramon, shooting at WarGreymon who then went through him.
"So much for your Chrome Digi-armor." said WarGreymon. "Looks to me like you got a little rusty. Next time you want to rule the waters, do everyone a favor and take a bubble bath."
"We won!" said Tai and WarGreymon then de-digivolved back into Koromon, groaning.
On the ground, the digidestined gathered next to Whamon. "Digidestined…" said Whamon, weakly as he started to disappear. "Please…save this world."
Then finally, Whamon completely disappeared into data as they cried out for him. "Whamon…where did he go?" asked TK.
"Look there everyone." said Izzy, looking over to MetalSeadramon.
"It's happening to MetalSeadramon too." said Matt as MetalSeadramon fades away into data.
"They're floating into the sky." said Sora.
"I know where they're going." said Gomamon.
"Spiral Mountain's Peak." said Tentomon as the ground begins to shake.
"No, that's the real reason for all the shaking. Over there." said Tai, pointing at the water.
At Spiral Mountain, the water that made it was draining away. "The ocean!" gasped Sora as the ocean receded.
"It's…uh…disappearing." said Joe.
Meanwhile at the dark masters lair, Piedmon, Puppetmon and Machinedramon were watching as the ocean disappears. "Well, you don't see that every day." said Piedmon, sitting on the couch with Puppetmon while Machinedramon stood at the bottom of the stairs.
"Tag, I'm it!" said Puppetmon. "MetalSeadramon's out, Puppetmon is in." Back with the Digidestined, they continued to watch the water vanish in front of them. "Look, Spiral Mountain's water is almost completely gone." said TK.
"But why?" asked Patamon.
"The digital ocean is being reconfigured because we kicked its Dark Master's butt." said Gomamon.
"Cool." said Emily and Falcomon.
"Quite interesting, but does this affect us?" asked Izzy.
"Absolutely, it changes everything." said Tai. "If we're gonna get any surfing in, we better hurry."
"That's the Digitude I like to hear from you humans." said Gatomon.
"All right! Let's go!" said Tai as everyone cheered.
"Wait!" Mimi called out, causing the others to turn and face her. "We're not through here yet."
Mimi and Palmon were making four mounds in the dirt with crosses made out of sticks, standing out of them on each of them. "Mimi, what are you doing?" asked Tai.
"In case you haven't notice, some of our friends are gone." said Matt, sounding a bit rude.
"Oh, sorry." said Tai.
"that one is to remember Wizardmon, the next one is for Piximon…that one's for Chuumon and this one is for Whamon." said Mimi with a sad look on her face as she points to each one.
"Mimi, they're not dead. It's more like they've been downloaded to a different computer." said Sora as she walks over to Mimi.
"That's right. We're digital. Our information get reconfigured." said Gatomon.
"What better reason so we need to get the Dark Masters? Payback for making our friends leave." said Tai.
"I'm not going." said Mimi, startling everyone.
"What are you saying?" asked Tai.
"I have had enough. Every time we fight, we wind up losing another friend!" Mimi yelled in despair.
"This is war, Mimi, and sometimes people we like get hurt, so deal with it." Tai tells her.
"Stop it, Tai!" shrieked Mimi as she covered her ears.
"Enough! Why don't you stop and think about other people's feelings for a change?" Matt said to Tai.
"Huh? What are you talking about?" asked Tai.
"We all know you're right, Tai, but give us a little space." said Matt, making Tai look even more confused. "We miss our friends who fought alongside us. Not everyone has ice running through their veins like you do!"
"What?" Tai said in shocked.
"Calm down." said TK.
"You're so busy looking forward that you don't take the time to look back. We've lost some good friends here, Tai, and it's nice to remember them once in a while." explained Matt.
"I think I'm starting to see something popping on his forehead." said Emily, looking at Matt.
"If we always do that, we'll never have enough time to save the world!" Tai yelled back.
"I'm starting to see the same thing on Tai." said Falcomon.
"You still don't get it. I know you can hear me, but you're not listening." said Matt as Mimi starts to cry. Izzy walks over to her to calm her down.
"Don't cry, Mimi." said Palmon as she comforted her partner.
"We're sitting ducks out here. Let's find a place a little less out in the open." suggested Joe. Later, the group was now walking down a forest path.
"I'm not as cold as Matt thinks, am I?" Tai asked himself.
"Maybe I was a little too rough on Tai, but he's gotta respect our feelings." Matt wondered.
"I never seen Matt so upset before." TK said to himself as he walks beside his brother.
"This is terrible. We should be concentrating on fighting our enemies, not each other." thought Izzy.
"I just know what they're thinking about me, that's why no one's talking." thought Joe.
"Everyone is so tired and cranky." thought Sora as she walks beside Mimi.
"You okay?" Emily and Kari asked their brother. Tai kept quiet as he walked off, causing Kari to stop as the others kept going.
"Why'd you stop, Kari?" asked Gatomon.
"What's wrong?" asked Emily and Falcomon.
"Did you hear a noise just now?" asked Kari.
"What kind of noise?" Gatomon, Emily and Falcomon asked.
"You mean you didn't hear someone speaking a second ago?" Kari asked them.
"You mean a voice? No, I didn't hear anything." said Gatomon as Emily and Falcomon shook their heads in agreement.
"Weird." said Kari.
"Exactly." said Emily.
"Come on; let's get back to the others. There's safety in numbers." said Gatomon. Tai and the others were waiting on Kari, Emily, Gatomon and Falcomon as they ran up to them.
"Where were the four of you?" asked Tai.
"I thought I heard something, but it was just my imagination." said Kari.
Meanwhile, Puppetmon was watching the digidestined and their digimon on his TV in his lair. "It's dangerous out here. Stay with the group." said Tai.
"Okay, we're sorry." said the twins.
"If these kids take any longer to get here, I will develop wood rot." said Puppetmon, annoyed with them as they took their time.
"Have patience." said Kiwimon, a bird like digimon. "Rome wasn't built in a day."
"Yeah but I was and I'm tired of waiting." said Puppetmon and pushes a red button on his remote. Back with the digidestined, they had started moving when the forest around them seemed to be moving forward past them at a fast pace. This caused them to stop and look at what was going on around them.
"Huh, what's this?" asked Tai.
"Why are the trees running so fast?" asked Kari.
"What is going on?" asked Joe.
"Things aren't moving faster, we are! The ground we're standing on in accelerating!" yelled Izzy as everyone cried out as the ground moved forward.
Back at Puppetmon's lair. "This is more fun than when I was fumigated for termites." said Puppetmon and runs over to a toy chest. "Now, where did I put those dolls? I have seen some of these toys since I was a sapling."
Back in the forest with the digidestined, the ground they were on was still moving. "We gotta jump off!" shouted Tai.
They all jumped off of the moving land and ended up on the still forest floor, but then it started to move. "Now this one's moving." Izzy cried out.
"Obviously someone's trying to get us somewhere and in a big hurry." said Sora.
"You're right and why do I get the feeling this someone's not too friendly?" Matt asked.
"Oh no!" TK and Emily exclaimed.
"This is the time I get carsick without a car." whimpered Joe.
"I got a plan." said Tai.
Back at Puppetmon's lair, Puppetmon was still going through his things. "This was always good for a few laughs." said Puppetmon, pulling out an extending claw like toy and aims the claw at Kiwimon's head.
"Yes, that's very entertaining, Lord Puppetmon but there's no sign of the children." said Kiwimon and pulls away from the TV screen.
"What?! They were here a second ago." shouted Puppetmon as he starts pressing buttons on his remote, causing the TV to show him different parts of the forest, but there were no sign of the digidestined anywhere. "Where are they? Not here. Not here. I need a new cable company!"
Back in the forest, since the ground wasn't moving fast, Tai's plan was to get up into the trees and it was safer to hide in the thick leaves and branches from whoever could be watching them. "I have a hunch that one of the dark masters is behind all this." said Sora.
"I bet you're right." said Izzy.
"We have to do something. I say we either keep going or build a nest." said Joe.
"Do you think you and Biyomon could build us a nest?" asked Emily.
"I don't think we can build one that's big enough." said Falcomon.
"I say we have to fight whoever it is sooner or later so let's get to it." Tai said.
"Oh come on, again with the fighting? Why don't you just go into neutral court order already?" Matt snapped at him.
"Come on, Matt. Please stop arguing." begged TK, placing a hand on his brother's arm.
"You keep out of this." said Matt.
"Tai, don't start a fight. It's not worth it." said Emily as she hugs him around the waist, but was pushed out of the way.
"All right, Matt. let's play it your way. We'll stay up here and wait for the enemy to come get us." Tai tells him.
"That's not what I meant!" shouted Matt.
"Stop it, Matt!" yelled TK.
"Tai, you should know…" Falcomon started to say when suddenly Tai disappeared right in front of them.
"Where did Tai go?" asked Matt. "He just disappeared."
"Did he fall?" asked Kari.
"I don't see him on the ground." said Emily.
"Oh no." said Koromon.
"He vanished into thin air." said Joe.
"Look, now Mimi's gone!" gasped Sora.
"Mimi, come back!" Palmon called out. Sora and Izzy then faded away, making the remaining members gasp. "Maybe their screen savers are on sleep." said Tentomon.
"Joe!" cried Gomamon.
"Kari! Emily!" shouted Falcomon and Gatomon. They had faded away too, leaving only TK behind.
"Everybody's disappeared but us." said TK.
Tai arrived at a different location. "What's going on?" he asked. Suddenly Mimi appeared in front of him. "Where am I?" she asked.
Sora and Izzy were in another location of the forest. "Huh? How did we get over here?" asked Sora.
"We've been transported." said Izzy.
Joe, Kari and Emily arrived in another location, but unfornately enough for Joe, he landed in a puddle of murky water. "Ah! I hate mud." said Joe.
"Gatomon!" called Kari.
"Falcomon!" called Emily.
Back in the tree with Matt and TK. "I think it's over." said Matt.
"But now we're separated from everyone else." said a worried TK.
"Don't worry, TK, we'll be alright without the others. Especially Tai." Matt said to his little brother, but then looks at the look on his face. "What?"
"Yeah?" TK asked.
"Stick close to me and I'll protect you no matter what." said Matt.
"Listen Matt, the only reason we got this far is because we worked together as a team." TK tells his big brother. "Each one of us plays a part along the way of keeping us together, including Tai."
"But I…" Matt said, trailing off.
"And I don't need you to protect me all the time. Since our parents separated, I've grown up a lot." said TK. "I fought alongside you guys since the beginning and I've always held my own. So why can't you see this?"
"TK, that's not what I meant." said Matt. "What…what I wanted to say was…"
"What?" asked TK, but Matt looks away from him sadly as he tried to think of something to say but fails.
"I'm pushing everyone away, including my brother." thought Matt.
Back at Puppetmon's lair, he had a play mat of the forest laid out and dolls that looked like the digidestined spread out in different spots. "One, two, three, you're still in a tree." said Puppetmon, holding a toy slingshot. "You know, Kiwimon, this isn't much fun as I thought it would be. I should destroy them all."
"Then you won't have anyone left to play with." said Kiwimon.
"Good point." said Puppetmon and fires a tiny ball at the Joe doll. Meanwhile Joe felt a sudden pain in his gut, causing him to fall into the mud puddle. "Joe!" Kari and Emily called out as they ran over to check on him.
Back at Puppetmon's lair, he was laughing evilly at what he had done to Joe while Kiwimon watched on the TV screen. Back with Kari, Emily and Joe, the twins helped him out of the mud and into the grass as he clenches his stomach. "Hey Joe, are you alright?" they both asked.
"My stomach!" Joe cried out.
"What's wrong? Does it hurt?" asked Kari.
"How bad is it?" asked Emily.
"No, I'm just doing this cause it's fun." Joe said sarcastically.
"Joe!" yelled the twins.
Back at Puppetmon's lair, Puppetmon came up with a new idea. "I've got a new game I wanna play. Now come here." said Puppetmon as he grabbed the Tai doll, then the Joe doll. "You, too."
Joe vanishes from his spot, leaving the twins alone. Tai had disappeared from his spot from Mimi. "Tai, don't leave me!" she screamed.
In Joe's place was Tai. "Oh brother." said Kari.
"You said it." said Emily.
Back at Puppetmon's lair. "And for you." he said as he places the Joe doll where Mimi is.
At Mimi's location, Joe suddenly appears in front of her. "AH! Stop moving!" shouted Mimi.
Back at Puppetmon's lair, Puppetmon was looking down at his play mat. "This is like playing chess with the digidestined." said Puppetmon as he grabs the Emily and Kari dolls.
At Tai's and the twins' location.
"Kari! Emily!" he called out to them as he sees the sisters, but then both Kari and Emily vanished and were replaced by Sora.
At Izzy's location, Sora had vanished and in her place was Kari and Emily. "Fascinating." said Izzy, looking at the twins.
"Maybe for you." they both said, then look around. "Where are we?"
"We've reached a turning point." said Puppetmon, turning the Tai doll upside down.
Suddenly Tai was flipped upside down in front of Sora. "Impossible." said Sora, watching the weird thing unfold. Tai was then slammed to the ground.
With Matt, TK and the digimon, Matt vanishes and was replaced by Izzy. Then TK disappears and was replaced by Mimi. "Welcome back." Izzy said to her. Back at Puppetmon's lair, he had moved Matt to the twins' location and put TK with Joe. Puppetmon then picked up the TK doll and started tickling it.
At the location, TK floating in the air, laughing like crazy with tears in his eyes. "I don't know what's so funny, but this is no laughing…" Joe said, trailing off as he vanishes and replaced by Matt.
"Matt, you're back." said TK.
"TK." said Matt, hugging his little brother. Up in the trees where Izzy, Mimi and the digimon were. "You know, I'm getting tired of doing nothing." said Biyomon.
"I won't be some cat stuck in a tree." said Gatomon and Falcomon nodded. "Let's go find them."
"Good idea. I'll start by looking for TK." said Patamon.
"Oh, this is awful." whined Mimi.
"You said it. How can it get any worse?" asked Koromon.
"I'll tell you how." said Izzy as he looks down at the branches beneath them. "The branches are starting to crack."
"They should learn how to fly." said Patamon as the other digimon jumped down.
"Agreed." said Falcomon.
Back in Puppetmon's lair, Puppetmon came up with a new idea. "I think I've found a new toy to play with. He looks very easy to scare." Puppetmon said as he and Kiwimon watch TK being comforted by Matt on the TV screen.
"You want me to get him for you?" Kiwimon asked.
"No, I'll get this one myself." said Puppetmon and runs to the pole, sliding down and runs out of the house, going into the forest.
In the location of Matt and TK. "TK, are you alright?" he asked TK.
"I guess so, but I felt like something was tickling me and I couldn't stop laughing." TK replied. "I wonder if there's something wrong with me."
"Are you sure you're not hurt?" Matt asked.
"Hey, stop being so worried about me! I told you before I know how to take care of myself!" snapped TK.
"Okay." said Matt, backing off a bit.
"Hey, TK." said Puppetmon's voice, causing the two brothers to looking around to see where it was coming from. "What do ya say?"
"TK, stay close." said Matt.
"Time to play." said Puppetmon as his voice was getting closer.
"Sounds like the voice is getting close." said TK, but then a pair of hands covered his eyes, causing him to push whoever it was away.
"Time to play." said Puppetmon as he appeared in front of the two brothers.
"It's you." said TK.
"Keep your hands off my brother, Puppetmon or I'll chop you into firewood." Matt warned the digimon as he stands in front of TK.
"Oh, come on, be nice. All I really wanted to do is play a little game with TK." said Puppetmon.
"Play? You mean like pretend?" asked TK.
"But of course. At least in the beginning it'll be make-believe anyway, but then it's bye-bye and then it'll be time to destroy you for real." explained Puppetmon. "If I got rid of you now, I'd have no fun."
"TK, he's just trying to scare you. Don't listen to him." said Matt.
"Don't lie to him or your nose will grow." said Puppetmon and throws a red ball at Matt, which wraps around him, tying the boy up.
"I can't move!" yelled Matt.
"Are you okay?" asked TK as Matt falls to the ground. "Matt!" TK runs over to his fallen brother.
"Now, shall we get going?" asked Puppetmon.
"Forget it." said TK.
"You don't want? Hm, well if you don't come with me, it's no fun." said Puppetmon. "Maybe instead, I'll destroy your brother. What do you say?"
"Okay, I'll come." TK said, giving into Puppetmon.
"That's a good boy." said Puppetmon.
"TK, it's a trap. Run away now while you still have a chance." said Matt.
"Shut up." said Puppetmon, making the red wraps enclose around Matt's mouth. "So is it a deal? We'll have lots of fun." He then leads TK back to his lair.
A few minutes later, Puppetmon and TK arrive at his lair. "Now you hide and I'll destroy." said Puppetmon and TK runs off. TK runs down the hall and up the stairs to where Puppetmon spots him from a lower level. "That's good. Keep running. You make the game interesting." Puppetmon tells him.
Meanwhile in another room, two digimon heard someone coming. "Hey, someone's coming." said Blossomon, a flower like digimon.
"Who could it be?" asked Mushroomon, a mushroom like digimon.
"Sounds to me like Lord Puppetmon had found a new play toy." said Blossomon.
TK runs into the room and sees the two digimon. "Oh, hi there. Bye." he said and runs off to hide from Puppetmon. "By the way, I'm hiding back here so don't say anything, ok?"
"No problem." said Mushroomon. Puppetmon then enters the room, pushing the doors wide open. "Hey, you guys, you didn't happen to see a little kid run back here did you?" asked Puppetmon. "He's got a green hat and a backpack."
"No, we didn't see anything like that boss." said Blossomon.
"All we saw was a kid wearing a backpack and a green hat. He's hiding over there." said Mushroomon.
"Losers! Come out, come out wherever you are. Especially if you're hiding behind the door." said Puppetmon as TK runs off again.
"Hey, look. A house in the middle of the forest. I wonder if anyone inside has seen TK." said Patamon.
Back inside the house, TK runs into Puppetmon's playroom and steps on the yellow star on the remote. Back in the forest, whatever TK had did worked. The sections that the digidestined were scattered on started to move, bringing them together. "What's going on around here?" Joe asked, freaking out.
"Tai." said Koromon.
"Sora." said Biyomon.
"Joe." said Gomamon.
"Kari." said Gatomon.
"Emily." said Falcomon. Gabumon then walks past the others and over to a tied up Matt.
"Matt." said Gabumon. He then raises his claw and slashes the wrappings that were around Matt, freeing him. "TK! TK was taken prisoner by Puppetmon!" yelled Matt.
"Puppetmon?" asked Emily, looking at Falcomon.
"Uh oh." said Kari.
"We have to help him." said Sora.
"Where'd that creepy little tooth take TK?" asked Tai, holding Koromon.
"I don't know." said Matt.
"Get a hold of yourself, Matt." said Gabumon.
"It shouldn't be that difficult to find them." said Izzy. "I'm sure that first road we were on leads directly to Puppetmon."
"Then we'll all be trapped." said Joe.
"It's worth to save TK." said Koromon.
"I agree. Let's go get him." said Tai. They were about to leave when Kiwimon appeared in front of them. "Who are you?" asked Tai.
"No one may interfere with Master Puppetmon's playtime. You're staying here." said Kiwimon.
"Oh no, it's Kiwimon: an ancient Digimon that was said to be extinct; although he is a bird type digimon, his wing have degenerated so he can't fly!" shouted Tentomon.
"Pummel Peck!" shouted Kiwimon, firing several ChibiKiwimon out of his mouth.
"Koromon digivolve to…Agumon!"
"Have some Pepper Breath!" shouted Agumon, firing a fireball, destroying one of the ChibiKiwimon.
"Spiral Twister! Super Shocker! Ninja Blade! Blue blaster!" Biyomon, Tentomon, Falcomon and Gabumon fired their attacks, destroying the remaining ChibiKiwimon.
Back at Puppetmon's lair, Patamon flies through the window, sees the digidestined dolls on the playmate and picks up the remote. "Hmm…I wonder what these dolls are for. This one looks like Joe." said Patamon, pushing it and causing it to tip over.
"Joe, what happened?" asked Gomamon on the TV.
"Why does this stuff always happen to me?" Joe asked.
"What?" Gomamon asked.
"Weird. We didn't see anyone push you." said Kari and Emily nodded.
"Joe's on TV? I wonder what else is on." Patamon said as he started pushing buttons on the remote. The screen changes to show another part of the forest moving. "Oh." said Patamon, pressing the button on the remote causing the section of forest to stop. "Now that's what I call remote control."
Meanwhile TK was running down the hallway towards the stairs when Puppetmon appeared. "Yoo-hoo! There you are. I found you." Puppetmon said to TK. "the game's over. I'm gonna destroy you in a minute, but first I have to stretch my legs."
"Hmm." said TK, waiting on the MegaDigimon.
"I guess that's what I get for having a leg made of poison oak." Puppetmon said.
"I can outsmart him." thought TK. "how boring. I'm not having any fun at all."
"What? I'm life of the party." said Puppetmon. "I put the fun in fungus."
"Ha! You just play the same game over and over again. Boring." TK tells him.
"I'm not boring." Puppetmon said, looking down.
"Well if that's true, how come you don't have any real friends?" questioned TK.
"I've got friends." said Puppetmon.
"Yeah? Then how come I haven't met these so called friends of yours?" asked TK.
"Alright, I'll get them and introduce you right now." said Puppetmon and TK runs off.
"Whoa, it actually worked." thought TK.
"TK." said Patamon.
"Patamon." said TK as he finds his digimon.
Meanwhile Puppetmon was in a room filled with toys. "I like to make friends." said Puppetmon, holding a toy football. Patamon showed TK the playroom he found and TK destroys the forest mat, the remote and the TV.
Back with the other digidestined, they were still fighting Kiwimon. "Hey! Where are you hiding TK?" asked Matt but Kiwimon just laughs. "Answer me!"
"I know how you feel, Matt, but we have to defeat Kiwimon." said Tai.
"No! First we find TK and then we'll fight your war!" shouted Matt and looks at Gabumon.
"Right, Matt. Gabumon warp digivolve to…Huh?" Gabumon asked as nothing happened.
"It won't glow." said Matt, trembling as he shocked everyone.
"What's going on, Matt? Why can't I digivolve?" asked Gabumon.
"Pummel Peck!" shouted Kiwimon, firing his attack on the digidestined.
Back at Puppetmon's lair, Puppetmon finally finished. "There done. I said I like to make new friends and I've made one." said Puppetmon, holding up a puppet that looks like him. TK and Patamon ran down the opposite direction with the dolls in his backpack. "I brought my friend. Huh? TK?" asked Puppetmon, seeing that TK was gone.
TK and Patamon ran out of the house and into the forest. "It's Lord Puppetmon's new toy." said Floramon, a plant like digimon.
"Where's he going? We're going to play Charades." said Deramon, a bird like digimon with a bush for a tail.
"Maybe he doesn't know how to play." said Floramon.
"Yeah, that's it." said Deramon in agreement. Back with the others, the ChibiKiwimon were heading straight for them until…
"Biyomon digivolve to…Birdramon!"
Birdramon shields them with her wing. "What?" asked Kiwimon, as his attack didn't faze her wing.
"Meteor Wing!" shouted Birdramon, firing her attack and Kiwimon was destroyed.
"Birdramon, thanks a lot." Sora said to her champion level digimon as she de-digivolved.
"You're welcome." said Biyomon.
"Biyomon." said Sora.
"Biyomon, what did you do?!" shouted Matt as he runs up to Sora. "Look what your digimon did. Without Kiwimon, we'll never find TK!"
"Hey, don't yell at her, Matt." said Tai, angrily.
"Hey!" TK yelled out, running over to them.
"It's TK." said Sora.
"Hey everybody! Hi, I'm back!" said TK as he waved to them while Patamon was close behind him.
"Oh, TK." said Matt worriedly. The others cheered as they ran over to him.
"See everybody? I told you I could do it." TK tells them. "I can take care of myself just fine."
"I knew you could." said Emily.
"You're the man." said Kari.
"Great going, TK. Great job, buddy." said Tai.
"We were worried about you." said Mimi.
"Boy, for a little kid, that was a pretty big escape." said Joe.
"Stop it, guys. You're embarrassing me." giggled TK. Matt was walking away with Gabumon running after him when Joe looks up to see them. "That's terrific TK." said Joe.
"Prodigious." said Izzy.
"Everything's gonna be alright now. Puppetmon was using these dolls to control us. That's why all those weird things were happening." said TK as he placed down his backpack to show off the dolls. Tai took the doll of himself and looked it over.
"Is this me? I don't look anything like this." said Tai.
"Think we can take his doll home with us?" asked Emily, causing Kari, Gatomon and Falcomon to giggle.
"Wow, Mimi. Your doll is really pretty." said Sora as everyone starts looking at their dolls.
"What? No way! I would never wear rags like this." shouted Mimi as Sora laughs. "Oh, I can take her to the mall for new clothes."
Back at Puppetmon's lair, Puppetmon was standing in his playroom, looking at his destroyed things and picks up his smashed remote. "So he didn't want to play with me, huh?" asked Puppetmon. "TK, you'll pay for this."
"Anybody see where Matt went?" asked TK, looking for his brother.
"He's right over there." said Joe as they all looked up to see that Matt and Gabumon were gone. "I don't get it. He and Gabumon were here a second ago. They vanished."