Disclaimer: Again, I don't own Digimon. But I DO own the storyline (which is the product of sleep deprivation and suger) and any Digidestined that wasn't in the show, and that includes their Digimon. I could care less if anyone stole the crests I came up with...

Author's note: ONLY ONE MORE OF THE SPLIT CHAPTERS LEFT! Aren't you all so happy for that? I know it's boring, but I promise I'll do my best to make up for it in the finale chapters! Please, read and review/flame, tell me how I'm doing! I want your opinions!

Chapter 10

"Wh-what happened?" Jyou said, as he awoke to something cold and clammy touching his forehead. He opened his eyes slowly, but couldn't see anything and realized he had lost his glasses. He felt around for them, then a familiar voice said, "Here you go."

"Koushiro?" Jyou muttered. His head felt like it was about to split open, and of course he didn't have any aspirin with him. He made a mental note to always carry some from now on…

"Yeah it's me," Koushiro replied quietly. "You got blasted pretty hard by OkamiMyotismon…I somehow managed to only get hit once. You got hit about five or six times…"

"Well that explains the headache," Jyou said, smiling up at his best friend while trying to stand up.

"Hey take it easy, you got hit pretty hard!" Koushiro breathed; he didn't want Jyou to hurt himself. But he was still trying to stand up, so Koushiro lent him a hand and after a few failed attempts, Jyou finally made it to his feet.

"So now all we have to do is find a way out of here," Koushiro said. "I don't even know where here is! This looks like it could be the Digital World, but it doesn't look familiar."

"Yes it does," Jyou said through gritted teeth as he tried to walk. "This is the forest where we spent our first day in the Digital World, remember? And over there is the lake." He pointed down a small overgrown pathway. They walked through it and sure enough, came across the lake where they had spent their first night here in the Digital World. The lake shone crystalline blue in the sunlight, and on a small piece of land was the trolley car, where Seadramon attacked them.

"Well here's a walk down memory lane," Jyou said, wincing as he stepped. Koushiro nodded, smiling.

"Um, excuse me, but...where are we?" said a voice behind them. They turned to see a young boy, about Daisuke's age, with brown hair and eyes staring at them. He wore a red shirt over a yellow one, and a matching hat with large square goggles strapped to it. He waved to them and added, "I'm Kanbara Takuya, by the way."

"Nice to meet you," Koushiro said. "I'm Izumi Koushiro and this here is Kido Jyou." They all shook hands and Takuya repeated, "So, uh, where are we then?"

"The Digital World, or some illusion of it," Jyou said. "I'm pretty sure it's an illusion, though, because I haven't had any allergic reactions to anything so far and…"

"Allergic reactions? Are you paranoid or something?" Takuya laughed. Koushiro nodded, and when Jyou glared at him, he feigned innocence.

"This doesn't look like the Digital World," Takuya said. "I remember it being a lot different."

"This is File Island," Jyou said. "You were probably in another part of it."

"I would assume so…" Takuya looked around for a few minutes, then added, "Well, let's find a Trailmon and get the hell back to fighting!"

"What's a Trailmon?" Jyou said. "Never mind, I'm probably allergic to it anyways. You're right, we should get back to the fight…but I don't really know how we're going to do that considering we don't know how we got here."

Koushiro grinned. "I have a theory," he said. Jyou rolled his eyes and replied, "No Koushiro, no theories, please!"

"Alright, fine," he replied dejectedly, then looked at Takuya. "So how do you think we got here?"

"No idea," he replied. "But I think it had something to do with that lightning thing that OkamiMyotismon hit us with."

"I was turning over that idea in my mind. Perhaps the lightning knocked us so far out that we dreamed up coming here."

"I don't know, Koushiro, that seems kind of unlikely," Jyou said. He pointed to Takuya and added, "He's never been here before, how would he dream it up?"

"Touché…well that's all I've got. That was my theory."

"How about we stop worrying about how we got here and start worrying about how we get out of here and get back to fighting!" Takuya cried anxiously. "I can't Spirit Evolve here, and it's driving me crazy!"

"Well if we figure out how we got here, maybe we can use the same method to get back!" Koushiro said.

"Well unless you can conjure up lightning…" Takuya muttered.

"No, I can't," Koushiro said sarcastically. "Besides, that wouldn't help us! Why don't you calm down and think for a minute okay?"

"I am thinking!" Takuya spat back at him. "My friends could be out there still fighting…they could be dying! I'm not going to let that happen to them!"

His body suddenly burst into flames, and he yelled as if he was in agony. And yet, he didn't look like he was in pain…in fact, he seemed to be rather enjoying whatever was happening to him. Koushiro saw that his digivice was glowing with a bright yellow and green light, and he suddenly changed. The flames shrouded him and the light from his D-Tector shot forth, the yellow into Jyou and the green into Koushiro. When the flames subsided, Takuya had changed.

"I…I don't believe it!" he said. "I Unity Spirit Evolved into EmperorGreymon!"

Jyou and Koushiro weren't listening, however. The light that had shot from Takuya's D-Tector was surrounding them now. Jyou was suddenly able to stand without pain, and he felt a strange warmth and happiness flood through him. He looked down at his hands to see the Crest of Faith glowing brightly on his palms.

"This must be the power that Gennai was talking about," he said. Koushiro looked down at his own hands, surrounded by green light. The Crest of Knowledge glowed brightly upon his palms, and he grinned.

"It must be," he replied. "The power of the Crests…Gennai said that it was more than just within us…it was all around us. I never knew what he meant till now!"

The light continued to spread, and their surroundings started to dissolve into pieces of data. Vines suddenly shot from the ground, surrounding Koushiro, but not as if they were attacking him. They shaped into a dragon, and Jyou smiled.

"The element of Earth and the power of Telekinesis. This ought to be interesting…" he said. Koushiro grinned.

"Alright, well let's get back to wherever the hell we were before and kick some ass one last time!" he replied. Takuya smiled and added, "That's the idea!"