Digimon Re: Adventure Chapter 6:

It was late in the evening; everyone was finishing up with dinner, and some of the crew decided to head to the park during the passing hours. Sora was beginning to feel healthier after Jou's specialized vaccine for her, which Yamato was certain to afford despite Sora's insistence he didn't need to.

"You would've died had you not been getting enough of the vaccine like you are from now on." Yamato said, as he titled himself backwards a bit as he could feel the rushing wind of Birdramon flying past him. In the park, Yamato could see a raven haired man, about a year younger, waiting on somebody. Elsewhere in the park, Ikkakumon was using himself as a living weight for Kabuterimon. Kabuterimon, though, was struggling with Ikkakumon alone whereas Togemon right next to him was using just one hand for two separate Digimon.

As Birdramon flew back over towards Yamato and Sora again, Yamato sighed as he noticed how Garurumon also seemed to be waiting for something. "Still, Yamato, you paid for too much for the vaccination. Jou, can you please tell him that he paid too much?" Sora asked as Jou nervously chuckled.

"Well, to be honest, I can find a workaround for the payment to give a good half of it back to Yamato. I'd just need Yamato to come with me to the DigiOffice for a meeting with my boss and-" Jou was beginning to bring up, before noticing the man under the shade of a tree standing and waiting in isolation. "Is that him right over there?" Jou asked, as Yamato glanced over towards the man again.

"Nah, probably his younger brother. Ichijouji, correct?" Yamato brought up, to which Jou nodded to confirm. Yamato, looking back over towards where Mimi and Koushirou were, he noticed both of them sitting beside the lake by themselves while their Digimon trained. 'I do hope he knows who he's getting himself into there… Poor guy won't last a week unless he's got stamina to last.' Yamato thought to himself. He was snapped out of his thoughts, however, when he suddenly heard Takeru grunt as somebody had him down; Garurumon turned around just as soon as Yamato did to look at who it was all the while Sora moved to grab the guy off of Takeru.

"Y-You think this is funny?!" The man yelled, as he looked to be the same man from before, all the while Takeru shoved him off all the while Sora restrained the guy's arms.

"Who do you think you are anyways? What did I ever do to you?!" Takeru shouted, as the man whipped out his phone and showed Takeru the recording he had found online about an hour earlier.

In the video was GrandisKuwagamon in the park from earlier, and also in the video, Patamon as Angemon was facing off against GrandisKuwagamon with his overwhelming strength as a mere Adult Level in comparison to GrandisKuwagamon's. However, what Takeru noticed right away was the video showed a different outcome as his eyes widened; GrandisKuwagamon, instead of simply fleeing the scene, was shown vaporized by a powerful energy attack emitted from Angemon's fist.

"T-That's not what happened…!" Takeru tried to say, but couldn't open his mouth to actually say it, but his frustration tried to say it for him only to find himself lifted by the neck by the angered man before him.

"You and your Digimon killed my best friend!" The man said as he threw Takeru down onto the ground as he had landed a punch against his face to ensure he was dazed if he even made the attempt to get up. Hikari, walking up to the man in a hurry, moved to tackle him to the ground after seeing his violent outburst towards Takeru.

As she had the man pinned to the ground, her expression looked relatively angered beyond what she was normally like; her expression made her look like a younger, female parallel to her brother with how angered she was now. As Takeru rubbed his cheek as he moved to stand, he was surprised to see Hikari having the mysterious man down on the ground so quickly.

"Stop it; this isn't any of our own fault." Hikari told off the man, as she moved to stand as she helped him up to his feet, as the black haired man looked at Hikari as if questioning whether or not she was serious about what she had said.

"Ken? Are you here?" A woman's voice called out, as the man snapped out of his enraged gaze as he slowly turned towards the other voice he had heard towards the forest. Looking back towards Takeru with a glare, he didn't say anything else as he moved to leave. Hikari, walking over towards Takeru to check on the bruise on his face, looked over towards Gatomon and Patamon on the sidelines as both Digimon were ready to have intervened if anything bad were to have happened.

"Are you alright, Takeru?" Hikari asked, as Takeru looked at her with a concerned look, as he looked rather shaken by what he had seen on the video that Ken had showed him. He clearly remember from what he had seen that GrandisKuwagamon had fled the scene, but nevertheless, he looked over towards Patamon with a look of worry.

"I-I'm fine…" Takeru said, his voice sounding oddly pained as he tried to back away from Hikari. Hikari, noticing this, also took notice that Takeru was moving in a specific way as if trying to hide something, which caused her to blush as a result.

"Takeru…?" Hikari asked, as Takeru looked ready to panic a little bit as it was clear to him that he know knew she had noticed something he didn't want her to see. Takeru, moving towards Hikari, whispered something in her ear to try and explain the best he could to meet her somewhere private. Pointing over towards an old, worn out building in the park, Takeru began to walk that way as did Hikari.

"Well he's been aroused it seems." Gatomon spoke up towards Patamon, as Patamon's eyes looked nervous.

"She shouldn't follow him." Patamon said, as Gatomon blinked.

"Why not? He's innocent so far." Gatomon said, as Patamon shook his head.

"It's not that he's not innocent, but it's something else that all of you guys share with each other that affects him in particular in a specific way!" Patamon said as he flew overhead to follow Takeru and Hikari quietly, as Gatomon looked over towards the others to see if any of the others were watching; with Taichi at Sora's house holding the fort, and Yamato busy talking with Jou and Sora, Gatomon quickly rushed after Patamon in a hurry.

'Do you urge for her yet, Takeru?'

Takeru, upon hearing that voice in his head, grasped at his chest in immense pain as he was quickly losing his breath. Hikari, taking notice of this, moved to rub Takeru's back to try and get him to calm down. Takeru, though, took Hikari by surprise by pinning her against a tree as his face looked horrified at both what he was doing and what he was beginning to feel.

"… Stop me, please…" Takeru begged as he panted as Hikaru looked at Takeru in confusion, before looking into his eyes to notice a familiar gaze within them; not of Takeru's own, but instead…

"Leave him alone!" Hikari said as she slapped Takeru twice to try and snap him out of his unexpected moment. Takeru's eyes, beginning to return to those of his normal self, looked over at Hikari in fright as he moved to force himself away from her and sit on the ground. Hikari, meanwhile, moved over towards Takeru to comfort him.

"What is your story, anyways?" Hikari asked, as another man, looking rather tall with brown hair and a slender build, showed up to the scene after having taken notice of Takeru's freak out.

"He was possessed by Baihumon; I can't offer much as to what exactly he was trying to make him do, but I'm just speaking from experience." The man said as he walked over towards the two, as Hikari looked over towards the man and freaked a bit quietly.

'Iori? I thought he had long since moved!' Hikari thought to herself, but she didn't say anything as not only did Iori leave just as quickly as he showed up, but Hikari could practically tell exactly why he decided to leave; Iori had the smell of sex all over him and it was very, very prominent, to the point the mere thought of it was making Hikari lose her mind a little bit.

Hikari, looking over towards the panicking Takeru, moved to calm him down in a way she was mentally saying she shouldn't; kissing him full on the lips, Takeru returned the kiss eagerly as he moved to lay back a little bit. As the two began to make out without saying much else, Takeru and Hikari could really begin to feel the heat within themselves rising, as what followed next could've easily made them a popular subject among their classmates.

Gatomon and Patamon, showing up to the scene without being noticed, watched as things went on for about an hour, as both Takeru and Hikari were both exchanging roles with each other as to who was in control of the situation and who was submissive to the other. Back towards everyone else, Togemon was still lifting two differing Digimon as weights, but now Kabuterimon had stepped up his game by not only lifting, but also walking with a total of four Adult Level Digimon in his arms, in the form of Garurumon, Ikkakumon, Birdramon, and Greymon.

"Say, Greymon? How'd you get here with Taichi still fast asleep?" Ikkakumon questioned, as Greymon shrugged.

"Taichi may be asleep, but I don't exactly need him at my age to get me to evolve into this form you see here anymore." Greymon said, as Birdramon sighed.

"Still, do you think somebody should check on him and Meiko?" Birdramon asked.

"I'll go with Yamato once he's ready to leave. Even then I'm more concerned for Meiko if anything; wasn't she homeless according to Taichi?" Garurumon asked, as Greymon nodded.

"Yeah, that's what Taichi and I knew of her and Meicoomon beforehand anyways." Greymon said, as he looked around to see an Airdramon flying through the sky towards Sora's house. "… On second thought, Garurumon, you stay with everyone else and I'll run on back to check on the three." Greymon said as he jumped off of Kabuterimon's one hand, causing Kabuterimon to lose his balance due to the shift in weight on his arms and fall over; knocking over Togemon down with him in a pile of Adult Level Digimon.

"Mind I ask why you bothered trying to show off?"

"You started it!"

Back towards Sora's house, Airdramon landed on the ground as a tall, relatively handsome human stepped off of its back, as he walked up to the household and knocked on the door.

"Hey! Yamato! You're late to practice today!" The man said as he banged on the door to get somebody's attention. Opening the door was a very, very tired Taichi as he looked towards the man with a bit of a glare.

"What's the commotion about?" Meiko asked sheepishly from behind Taichi, as Taichi looked back at her.

"Get back inside…"

"Well? A pretty girl we have here, don't we?" The man said as he reached a hand out towards her, but Taichi grabbed his arm to stop him from getting close to Meiko.

"… Back off." Taichi told the man as he wasn't going to be dealing with this man any longer. The man, though, simply chuckled a little bit.

"Then why don't you have your Digimon make me leave? You look like the perfect guy if you catch my drift." The man said, as he looked over towards his Airdramon with a digivice in hand as it glowed with an immense energy.

"Airdramon, Evolution…!" Airdramon said as it began to glow with an intense amount of energy, before reshaping itself into a larger, winged Dragon-like Digimon with mechanical arms that functioned as both claws and missile pods, with a metallic helmet. "Megadramon!" Megadramon spoke up as it looked down towards Taichi with a growl. Taichi, though, watched as Greymon was approaching the scene in a hurry, as Taichi moved to punch the man down onto the ground as he walked straight towards Megadramon.

"Greymon! It's time we try this again!" Taichi said as he pulled out his digivice, as it began to glow with an immense power, as Greymon, before beginning to glow immensely, exhaled a blast of fire towards Megadramon to cloud its vision.

"Greymon, Evolution…!" Greymon called, s his eyes turned an infernal red as his whole body was consumed by a massive fire, as emerging from the fire appeared a Perfect Level even larger than Megadramon, as Megadramon looked towards the newly evolved form of Greymon in fright. "SkullGreymon!" SkullGreymon roared with his deep, demonic voice compared to his much more heroic voice as Greymon.

Taichi, moving to shelter Meiko from an incoming swipe from SkullGreymon's hand, watched as the man stood up as he chuckled a bit as to the ensuing fight. SkullGreymon, grabbing hold of Megadramon with his large hand as he threw the Perfect Level onto the street, moved to stomp the Digimon into the ground as Megadramon fired an immense, explosive burst of missiles towards SkullGreymon.

As the dust cleared, Megadramon was picked up again as SkullGreymon tossed him into the air. As the large, mutilated, fish-like missile on SkullGreymon's back fired outwards up towards Megadramon, the projectile exploded upon impact as SkullGreymon caught hold of Megadramon as it was falling to the ground, as SkullGreymon spiked it into the ground headfirst. The mysterious man, though, clapped as he walked over towards Megadramon without concern for SkullGreymon.

"Nice job, Taichi; I've heard about your accomplishments, but I never imagined mastering a Dark Evolution was one of them." The man said, as he heard Garurumon enter the scene as Yamato jumped off of his back and looked towards the man.

"Chris, why are you here?" Yamato asked, as the man, named Chris, looked over towards Yamato with a chuckle.

"You're late for practice."

"It's Sunday you moron." Yamato retorted, as Chris blinked, as he looked over towards Megadramon with his air of smug confidence shattered.

"… It is?" Chris asked.

"It is boss; everyone else was trying to tell you already by now." Megadramon spoke, as it degenerated into Airdramon. SkullGreymon, due to how much power was used in this form, immediately degenerated into Agumon with a heavy fatigue on himself, as Meiko walked over towards Agumon to pick him up and take him back inside.

"Oh, my apologies… But I'll be back for when you're late for real, Yamato." Chris said as he jumped onto Airdramon's back as he had the Digimon fly him off out of the area. Yamato and Garurumon, meanwhile, looked over towards Meiko and Taichi.

"Are you two alright?" Yamato asked, as Meiko nodded, as Taichi tiredly nodded as well.

"Good; everyone else will be back soon, I just decided to show up and check on you." Yamato said as he moved to walk inside along with the other two, as Garurumon degenerated into Gabumon as Meicoomon rushed over towards him to check on him.

"I take it you were hungry?" Meicoomon asked, as Gabumon nervously chuckled as he nodded.

"Yeeeah… That's my actual reason for wanting to come back so soon." Gabumon said as he walked back inside with Meicoomon.

Later that evening, the sun was beginning to set as Taichi was fast asleep again. In his sleep, though, he wished he had control over what he was able to see.

Before him he could see a girl running from something; Taichi had seen this dream many times before, but now he could tell the girl was Meiko after all of this time. As Meiko was running, Taichi tried to figure out exactly as to what he was seeing as to why Meiko was running in fear. He noticed quickly, though, that Meicoomon was nowhere to be found.

"Nowhere to run…" A deep, graveling voice could be heard, which Taichi had not heard before in any other dreams like this with Meiko; looking around herself as she realized she was corned, Meiko turned around and gasped as Taichi could see a man wearing a purple robe with a very long right sleeve which hid a robotic arm with lengthy, sharp claws for fingers.

The man, approaching Meiko as his sharp hand moved to force her head up to look at him, showed off an uncanny face with a constant, cartoonish expression with sharp teeth and pitch black eyes with very small, red pupils within them. As his eyes moved to narrow a bit, Taichi could've sworn they moved very machine-like in motion. As the man began chuckling, Taichi could hear Meiko begin to scream as he raised his left hand towards her.

"Nowhere to hide…"

AN: There's going to be a delay with the AO3 version of this chapter I'm afraid; need to consult a friend on something for the AO3 version of this chapter due to... rather obvious reasons...