A/N: Hoped that everyone liked the last chapter. I know that you guys waited patiently for me to update the story and thank you for that. I had gotten a new laptop and Microsoft word wasn't working until now. I want to point out that if you have suggestions, I'm willing to hear them out. Just know that if I don't use them, please don't hold it against me because I like to write things the way I like to write them. Please leave a positive review and as always, happy reading!

Shoutouts:

Guest: I already have a DNA digivolve for Falcomon in mind. I just need to describe the Digi-eggs (i.e the armor Digi-egg) for both Falcomon and the new Digimon that will be in season 2. Right now, I need to focus on finishing this one.

TV: If you're talking about the one that I'm thinking of, I do plan on trying to do that one. I just have to buy the dvd in order to try an attempt to write it. In the meantime, I hope that you like this fanfic as well as season 2.

Guest 2: Look, straight up, I'm not going to make up my own digimon (that also includes its digivolution and its attacks) just for you. It would mean that I would have to take this story down again, rewrite the chapters, and repost them. I'm not doing that because it wouldn't be fair to those who followed and have this as a favorite. I am not changing this story again for a new digimon. Falcomon is staying and that's final. The same goes for when I write season 2. The digimon that I chose for the OC (Who will be related to Cody) will be the digimon that I chose. If you don't like the way I chose the digimon, then you don't have to read my fanfic.


"Calm down, Matt. Don't get so bent out of shape." said Tai. "The last thing we need right now is a hothead with attitude. We've got more important things to think about right now."

"Everyone's upset." said TK.

"Look, all I know is this stupid bickering is giving me a gigantic headache." said Joe as he ran over to Matt with his hand held up in a sign of peace.

"Chill out." said Matt as his eyes stayed glued to Tai.

"Matt, have you forgotten that we have been chosen to be the DigiDestined?" asked Joe as Matt scoffed with a smirk.

"And would you mind telling me who exactly chose us for this dumb job anyway?" Matt asked, turning to the oldest of the group.

"How long do you think this will last?" asked Kari.

"Not sure." said Emily, tilting her head to the side.

"It's never been this bad before." said Falcomon.

"Uh, I uh…" stuttered Joe.

"Come on, I want some answers and you can't seem to give them to me." said Matt, causing him to look off to the side.

"You have a point there, but I…" Joe was cut off.

"Don't waste your time, Joe. Matt's just being a spoiled brat." said Tai.

"You're the brat. Why don't you go mind your own business?" said Matt.

"What's wrong with you is pretty easy to figure out." Tai said confidently while Matt smirks cruelly at him. "You're upset because you wanna be the boss."

"Yeah, like I wanna be boss of this sorry group. If one of you brainiacs wants to take charge, be my guest." said Matt. "I say we take care of ourselves."

"Stop fighting you two. We've got to stick together." said Sora, as she walks over to Tai to stop him from lashing out.

"Don't look at me. Matt's the one who started it. He's got a bug up his nose." said Tai as he turns and walks off. "Humph. I don't have to listen to this."

"A bug up his nose? That's a bad thing?" asked Agumon as he followed Tai.

"Yeah, especially when you have to go to the hospital to get it out." said Emily.

"Speaking from experience?" asked Gatomon.

"It was horrible." said Kari.

"It was painful." said Emily, remembering when a boy in their class put a bug up her nose.

"It must have hurt really badly." said Falcomon and Emily nodded.

"One moment." growled MetalGarurumon as he then jumped off in front of Tai and Agumon, cutting them both off.

"Don't push me too far." Tai said as he turns to face Matt.

"Oh, I'm scared." Matt said sarcastically.

"You better be scared. I'm getting really mad." said Matt.

"Excuse me, but what are you going to do about it?" growled MetalGarurumon.

Meanwhile Puppetmon was sitting on top of a tree, getting ready to watch a fight happen between WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon. "So, those little twerps are about to self-destruct. I'll just sit back and enjoy the show." said Puppetmon.

Back with the digidestined. "Stay right there." said MetalGarurumon.

"Get real, dude." said Tai as Agumon stood in front of him.

"Watch it, stand back!" said Agumon. MetalGarurumon pounced as Tai was then surrounded by a pillar of orange light that surrounded the area.

"Agumon warp digivolve to…WarGreymon!"

WarGreymon then pushed MetalGarurumon back so Tai didn't get hurt. "There is no need for us to fight." said WarGreymon.

"I must." said MetalGarurumon as he charged in, pushing WarGreymon back and then the two took to the air, making leaves and branches fall onto the others.

MetalGarurumon bit into WarGreymon's arm while Matt stood on the ground, watching without a care as Tai storms over with a look of pure rage. "What's the matter? You chicken?" teased Matt.

"That's it!" shouted Tai as he punches Matt in the face.

"Matt, I'm gonna tell mom that you were fighting." said TK in a tattle tale way.

"Tai stop fighting. Please." said Emily.

"Sorry, TK, but I have to do this." said Matt as he punches Tai back, right in his face.

"Both of you stop it, right now!" shouted Joe while the two Mega level digimon fought above.

"You two are just making it worse." said Sora.

"He's gotta be taught a lesson and fast. Here, take this." said Tai as he punches Matt so hard that the blond fell to the ground. Matt then turned off his back, moving onto his hands and knees as Tai goes over and grabs his shirt collar.

"I'm only doing this to honor the memory of all the brave digimon that have helped us. They trusted us and believed in our commitment." Tai explains with tears in his eyes as thin tears fell down Matt's face, as he grunted and grounded his teeth together. "We can't let them down."

Matt then pushes him off and stood up to face him. "What if it was a mistake?" asked Matt as he punched Tai. The explosions went off above them from WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon.

"This is awful." said Palmon.

"We have to stop them." said Biyomon.

"But how?" asked Falcomon.

"Best thing for them is to duke it out." said Gatomon.

"I just hate fighting and we can't let our friends destroy themselves." said Gomamon.

"It's a dog eat dog world, isn't it?" mused Gatomon.

"They're not dogs." said Gomamon.

"The deal is this; just sit and watch them take care of business." Gatomon simply said as she walked over and stood beside Gomamon.

"Oh, yeah? I don't have to like it." Gomamon called after her.

"Gomamon, get a grip. The last thing we need is anymore fighting around here." said Tentomon.

"Tentomon's right. Don't start fighting." said Falcomon.

Meanwhile Puppetmon was laughing his head off as he watches the fight take place. "I'm a genius. They're all gonna hate each other." said Puppetmon.

Meanwhile, up in the air. "Great Tornado!" shouted WarGreymon as he created an orange tornado and rams it into MetalGarurumon.

Back in the trees with Puppetmon, he was hopping along the branches, cheering as the two Mega digimon fought each other. "Go get 'em." said Puppetmon. "Oh boy, I love a good fight."

Meanwhile Matt and Tai threw each other to the ground as they rolled around, punching each other and flipping the other over as they tried to overpower the other. "Oh, I've had it!" cried Mimi as she ran off.

"Mimi!" Sora called after her.

"I'm gonna sit here and stare at the flowers until everybody starts getting along." sobbed Mimi into the corner of the tree.

"Oh, like that's gonna help." Sora quipped as she walked over to the girl.

Back in the air, the fight was still going. "Metal Wolf Claw!" shouted MetalGarurumon as he fires a powerful blast of blue icy cold breathe from his mouth at WarGreymon.

"Terra Force!" shouted WarGreymon, creating a massive ball of orange energy and throws it at MetalGarurumon. The two attacks collided, causing a large explosion to fill the sky above the digidestined and Puppetmon.

Meanwhile, Kari had wondered away from the group and was now by herself. "I'm not afraid. Well, maybe a little." Kari admitted but then sees sparkles appear above her. "Oh, my name is Kari."

She then walks up the sparkles that were floating above her. "Please tell me who you are. Do you want to be friends with us?" asked Kari.

"What in the Digi-world is she doing?" asked Gatomon as she watches Kari from a distance with Izzy and Emily.

"She appears to be conversing with herself." said Izzy.

"She's losing it." said Gatomon.

"Whatever she's doing, I'm going to find out." said Emily and walks over to hear what her twin was saying.

"Wait for me." said Falcomon.

"You seem to be nice enough." said Kari. Just then, a light shines down on her and causes her to glow brightly. "Kari!" shouted Gatomon, Emily and Falcomon as they and Izzy run over to her as she holds up her crest, which then glows brightly as well. The bright light soon reaches Gatomon, Emily, Falcomon and Izzy, causing them to fade away.

"What's happening?" asked Tai as he and Matt fade away too. The light was shining around the others and everyone cried out as the remaining digidestined and digimon faded as well. The light was so strong that it knocked Puppetmon out of the branches, sending him away from the forest. Both Mega level digimon returned to their in-training forms. "Where are we?" asked Tai.

"No idea." replied Matt, looking around.

"In this world, there is a balance of light and dark. The light represents all that's good in the world and the darkness is the evil." said a female voice. "When the darkness becomes larger than the light, it upsets the balance."

The digidestined's and their digimon's shadows expanded until it covered the area in black. "Whoa, the balance seems to be really out of whack." said Tai.

"No duh." said Matt.

"So, somebody find the switch and turn the lights back on." said Joe.

"There's something over there." said Sora.

Everyone turned to where a red mist was in the darkness. "Now I know that I must be dreaming." said Emily.

"I don't think you are." said Falcomon.

"I know this sounds incredible, but could we be home again?" asked Tai. The mist turned into Odaiba at night with the lights from the buildings on. It then showed a beam of light shooting down from the sky with Greymon and a parrot like digimon in it, a fight that happened from four years ago.

"I've seen that digimon before." Said Izzy as he checks the analyzer. "Why of course! That's Parrotmon. He was the mysterious digimon that appeared in Highton View Terrace approximately four years ago. It says he's an ultimate level digimon."

"He passed through the dimensional divide. Sometime ago, a Digi egg fell through a hole from our world to yours." said the female voice and suddenly Kari appears in front of them, causing everyone to look at her.

"Kari, what are you talking about?" asked Tai.

"I think Kari's had too much catnip." said Gatomon.

"Who are you?" asked Falcomon.

"What have you done to Kari?" asked Emily with a worried look on her face.

"My theory is that someone else is using Kari's body to speak for them." said Izzy.

"My wish is that there be peace and happiness for everyone." The light said through Kari.

"I don't understand. Are you some kind of super being or something?" asked Sora.

"No, nothing like that. I am similar to the digimon. I was produced by data bits taken from the internet, but there's a difference. Unlike the digimon, we're unable to take shape or form of a physical body. In order for me to communicate to you, I had to temporarily borrow Kari." said the light.

"Couldn't you have taken Joe instead?" asked Tai.

"Hey!" said Joe.

"Why did you have to borrow Kari?" asked Emily. "You could've borrowed me."

"I had to take Kari. She's the only one I can communicate with. To be honest, I wanted to contact you when you arrived on file island, but it was completely impossible under the circumstances." said the light.

They were then lifted up off the ground as they were levitated over the city to see what was going on as six beams of light hit different locations of Highton View Terrace. "Wow. It's like blast from the past. That's us four years ago." said Tai. One of the lights were shining on eight-year-old Tai as he had both four-year-old Kari and Emily clinging to him as they watched the battle.

"Hey, that's me. How typical. I'm on the telephone." said Joe, looking at the nine-year-old him.

"I was so cute." said Mimi as she gushes over her seven-year-old self.

"Hard to believe that we were that little." said Sora, noticing an eight-year-old her.

"There's me and Matt." TK called out as he sees a four-year-old him and eight-year-old Matt.

"And that's definitely me, but what's with the light?" asked Izzy.

"Its purpose is to process all your vital information." said the light.

"That's kinda freaky. Why's it doing that?" asked Matt.

"Just follow me. I'll explain it to you." said the light.

"I hope so." said Emily. The digidestined were sucked up into the beam of light where Greymon and Parrotmon crossing over into another place. "Here we go again." said Joe.

They were now in some sort of room filled with big machines all over the place. "Where are we now, whoever you are?" asked Sora.

"Very bizarre place indeed." said Izzy.

"That's putting it mildly, Izzy." Tentomon said.

"Check this out." said TK as he and Emily ran over to a class case with nine Digi-eggs inside of it. The others ran over and were in awe at the sight of the eggs, each one a different color with different patterns as well.

"They look like Digi-eggs." said TK.

"Wow." Everyone said.

"Look, crests and digivices." said Koromon.

"Koromon's right. It's the nine crests and digivices that you all possess." said Falcomon. The crests and digivices were hooked up to the eggs.

"Oh, and the floating in the sky is normal?" asked Joe. He then yells in fear, making everyone turn to see transparent people in robes walking by with their hoods up, covering their faces. "Okay, its official. This is definitely giving me the creeps." said Joe.

"Gee, ya think?" asked Falcomon. The people were then facing the machines, working on them. "What's the matter, fellas? Can't you say hello?" asked Gomamon.

"These men are just computer images. They are figments from the past who have been digitally transmitted to your present." explained the Light. Izzy and Tentomon walked around, then gasped as they ran over to a circular stone table with markings on it. "I don't believe it! This is from Myotismon's castle." said Izzy.

"Here's Myotismon's secret passage." said Biyomon. There was the big metal doors and they all ran over to it. "Let me guess, those are the elves that make the shoes at night." said Joe.

"If those are elves, they must have eaten a lot of vegetables." said Emily, looking over her shoulder.

"They're monitoring the positive and negative forces to preserve harmony in the world. We took the information that we scanned from all of you and then we created your digivices and crests." the Light explained.

"You did that?" asked Sora.

"That must mean that you're the ones that chose us. Is that true?" Tai asked the Light.

"Yes, it is." said the Light, nodding.

"Then tell me this, what makes us so special?" asked Tai.

"You made it possible for Greymon to survive and digivolve. And it couldn't be accomplished without the help of you, Emily and Kari." said the Light.

"But he digivolved without me." said Tai.

"A digimon can't digivolve without you. It doesn't work that way. The very fact that you four were there made it possible in order to protect you." the Light said.

"Wow." said Emily and Falcomon.

"But we were just goofy little kids. We didn't even have a digivice." said Tai.

"A digivice is just a tool that was designed to help in the digivolving process. It assists you by making you aware of your powers, but it showed special qualities in each of you that makes it work. It's the same thing with the crests." the Light explained. "Can you tell me what your crests represents?"

"Well, mine's Courage." said Tai.

"And this one means Love." said Sora.

"Sincerity." said Mimi.

"Mine's Knowledge." said Izzy.

"Reliability." said Joe.

"Creativity." said Emily.

"I know what this crest means. It means Hope." said TK. Everyone but Matt was smiling.

"Well, mine is…" Matt said, trailing off.

"Wasn't it called Friendship?" teased Joe as he playfully slapped Matt's shoulder. Matt sadly looked down and was unsure of himself.

"All of that's true, but there's more to it than that. everyone of you has strengths and weaknesses. we took each of your strongest qualities that you possessed four years ago. Then we made a crest for them." said the Light.

"On, I get it." said Tentomon.

"If that trait is lost, then your digimon might become corrupted." explained the Light.

"Ah! That happened! When I tried to make Agumon digivolve by throwing myself in front of his enemy, but then something weird happened. He digivolved into SkullGreymon. And now I realized that was pretty foolish." said Tai with a sad look on his face.

"But the important thing is that you learned from it." said the Light.

"All this time we've been wracking our brains trying to figure out stuff about ourselves that we already knew. Huh. that's a fine howdy do." said Joe as Matt walks by him.

He looks down at a blue egg with darker blue triangles on it that had his crest of Friendship attached to it as the Light walks over to him. "Who knew?" asked Tsunomon.

"Prodigious. I can see why you choose Tai, Emily and Kari but the rest of us never made contact with a Digi-egg. So why us?" asked Izzy.

"When we examined all of your data, we came to the conclusion that you had something in common with Tai, Emily and Kari. But we're not sure what it means." said the Light. "All we know is that you've proven yourselves to be very capable."

TK walked over to look at the Digi-egg with yellow stripes on it as Emily walks over to the other Digi-egg that was solid blue. "Who do these belong to?" TK asked.

"Isn't it obvious?" The Light asked, smiling.

"I have a feeling its us." said Patamon.

"It is you guys." said Emily, smiling at Falcomon's Digi-egg.

"Wow, which one's me?" asked Palmon.

"I think the answer's in the crest." said Tsunomon as he spots Palmon's Digi-egg that was light green with darker green spots.

"Look, this is me." said Biyomon, pointing to a red Digi-egg with dark red hearts on it.

"And that's mine." said Gomamon, getting up beside her to look at his white with purple spots Digi-egg.

"Yes, but I'm afraid I have bad news. The Dark Masters found wind of our plan and worked very hard to defeat us." said the Light. A transparent robot digimon barges into the room, making everyone run and scream.

"Boom Bubble!" shouted Patamon, firing his attack but it goes through the robot.

"That won't work, Patamon." said Palmon.

"Yes, save your breath. They are computer images." said the Light. The robots attacked the men, killing them as they destroyed the machines.

"What? Just because those guys are computer images we have to sit back and do nothing." demanded Tai.

"His name is Guardromon." said Izzy as he looks up the bronze digimon. "He's a machine digimon and his armor is constricted of pure iron. Absolutely nothing can penetrate that can of beans."

"Here comes more of them." said Matt, causing Mimi to shriek.

"This is no space age vacuum cleaner. That's Mechanorimon. His Twin Beam will annihilate anything which makes housework a breeze."

"Maybe he can help mom with cleaning. It's an idea." said Emily.

"I don't think mom would like his help." said Tai.

"Good point." she replied.

"Ah, Piedmon's here!" shouted Joe as the clown appears. "Don't come any closer! Shoo! Go away!"

"Relax, he's just an image." said Gomamon as Piedmon got closer to them.

"Save your screaming for the real thing." said Sora.

Piedmon laughed as he held his hands out as a wave of air blasted out and shatters the glass. "He's gonna steal the crests!" yelled Tai.

"Oh no!" cried Mimi as Piedmon took all nine crests.

"The crests!" Emily cried out.

"Piedmon, hands off those crests!" yelled a young man with brown hair and blue eyes, as he ran towards the digimon with a sword in his hands.

"Gennai." said Piedmon.

"That's Gennai?" asked TK as the young man swung his sword at Piedmon, but the clown jumped out of the way with a laugh, then pushed a black orb that looked like a marble into his back. Gennai groaned in pain as he turn and swung at Piedmon again, but soon enough, the clown got out of the way as Mechanorimon came up behind Gennai. He dodged the blast and goes over to another Mechanorimon, taking a Bakemon out of it and takes control over the silver robot. Grabbing the Digi-eggs, Gennai makes his escape as the Guardromon blasted at him.

"Follow him; don't let Gennai out of your sights." ordered Piedmon.

"Lets follow and see what happened in the past." said the Light. The Guardromon chased Gennai as they all followed the chase. He was blasted by the Guardromon by rockets and dropped a pink Digi-egg with a dark pink loops on it.

"That's my Digi-egg!" Gatomon gasped, then a sad look appears on her face. "So that's why I was brought up alone."

"Cheer up. We're together now." said Biyomon as she patted Gatomon's head, making her smile and giggle. Gennai and Guardromon faded away as they came to an island in the middle of the ocean.

"Its File Island!" Tai exclaimed as it then turned into a frozen climate.

"After Gennai rescued the digi-eggs and crests, losing Gatomon's digi-egg, many years passed by until finally…" said the Light. Inside the cave, they saw the eight digi-eggs all started to hatch; there was Botamon who hatched out of the orange egg with purple stripes.

"I was born." said Koromon.

One by one, each digimon hatched and the scene changed to them hopping into a grassy area with digivices in their mouths. "Oh, wow. I remember that. it seemed I waited forever for Tai." said Koromon.

"For Matt."

"For Sora."

"For Joe."

"For Mimi."

"For Joe."

"For TK."

"For Emily."

The digimon bounced the digivices on their heads as they transformed into their In-Training forms and sent them into the sky. "We didn't think they'd ever come and then suddenly, out of the blue, they arrived with a bang." said Koromon.

They watched as their past selves, minus Kari, fall out of the sky, yelling as the digimon smiled. "The question is, what exactly are the Dark Masters planning? We are working night and day trying to find out. For now, all we can do is guess and try to outwit them so we can defeat them." said the Light.

"Well if that's true, what do we do now?" asked Tai.

"Its hard to say, but I believe you'll find an answer on your own." said the Light.

The digidestined all came back to the forest they were in as Kari faints to the ground, the sparkles leaves her body and left. Slowly, Kari wakes up to see Tai holding her with Emily standing behind him. "Hey." said Tai and Emily.

"Are you going to be alright?" asked Gatomon.

"How are you feeling?" asked Falcomon.

"Oh, hi there. What's wrong?" asked Kari, sounding like herself, causing everyone to smile.

"Don't you remember?" asked Tai with his hands on her shoulders. "Well, that's alright."

"Remember what, Tai?" asked Kari as she looks over at her twin.

"It's a long story." said Emily as she places her hand behind her head.

"Never mind, Kari, don't you worry about it." said Tai, standing up. "Well Matt, there's no doubt about how we became the digidestined, we saw it happened."

"We sure did." said Matt.

"The entire world is depending on us and we all have to save it together. How about it, Matt? Are we still a team?" Tai asked with a smile on his face as he holds out his hand to the blond.

Matt looks down sadly as he was still trying to figure things out. "What's wrong?" asked TK.

"Hey, lets put the past behind us." said Tai, setting his hand down.

"I know but you wouldn't understand." said Matt as he turned and walks off.

"Hey, I say that you and I should let bygones be bygones." Tai calls out.

"That's not the problem, Tai. This thing is bigger than either of us. Its not about right or wrong. I have my path and you have yours. And I'm not even sure where this path will lead me, but I know I have to find it for myself. but I still believe in all of us." said Matt. "I mean, without all of you, where would I be? This is all just so confusing and I just let it get to me. That's why we fought. its important that you guys can count on me, but I'm going to do this because I have to! Tsunomon will be there with me so I'll be alright, don't worry. It'll be a lot better this way."

"Matt, if you approach this logically, I'm sure you'll reconsider your decision. Your crest, its theme is to promote…" Izzy trailed off.

"Friendship, I know. But I haven't been too much of a friend in case you haven't noticed. Maybe it's because I don't know the true meaning of the word of maybe I've just forgotten." Matt said with a small smile.

"Here's a good idea, let's break up into two groups instead of one big one." suggested Sora.

"Sorry, but I really need to do this alone." said Matt.

"Oh. Well, I believe in you and I'm not gonna stand in your way." said Sora, smiling.

"What am I supposed to do without you, Matt?" asked TK.

"You're a big kid now. You can take care of yourself, TK." said Matt.

"Yeah, but…" TK sadly said, trailing off.

"Don't worry; we'll be here for you. Besides, you know how big brothers are. They need their own space. Everything will be fine." said Sora, making him smile and nod as she sets her hands on his shoulder.

"Well, see ya. Good bye everyone." said Matt, turning away from the others and walked off into the forest.

"We better move it troops, we've got a world to save." said Tai. "We might be down one digidestined, but that's not a problem. We can do it, right?"

They started walking off when Mimi and Palmon stopped behind them. "Hmm, Mimi?" asked Sora as they all turned to face her and, on her face, Mimi had a frown.

"I'm sorry, Sora, but I'm not going." said Mimi, causing Sora to run over to her.

"Huh? Why not?" Sora asked.

"Well, I just don't want to see anybody else fight or get hurt themselves. I hope you understand." Mimi sadly said.

"I understand, Mimi." said Emily.

"Me too." said Falcomon.

"Then I'm staying too." said Joe.

"But why?" asked Izzy.

"Its not safe for Mimi to be here all alone. I'll make sure she's okay and hopefully later we can rejoin you guys, okay?" asked Joe.

"Okay. Good luck, Joe." said Tai.

"We're counting on you, Joe." said Sora.

"Right and thanks." said Joe as he goes over to Mimi.

"Wait for me!" shouted Gomamon as he followed.

"Gee, now we're all split up again." whined Patamon.

"I don't want us to split up." whined Falcomon.

"Just when we were finally all together." said Biyomon.

"You may think we're separated, but we're really not." said Gatomon, causing the other digimon to look at her. "The roads might be different, but the place we end up is the same."

"That is true." said Falcomon. They all then turned and walked off, waving to their friends as the larger group left them. "I mean, think about it; if they truly are the digidestined, they're destined to be together once again. At least that's the way I hope it works out." said Gatomon.