Digital Phantom

by ZAFT Convoy

Three worlds coexist side by side yet never interacting; one of life, one of death, and one artificial. Twins Andy and Danny are roped in when an accident occurs and a relative returns from Japan. But the twins are on opposite sides; Danny on the world of death, Andy on the artificial. Can they find out how the three worlds rely on each other? Or will they fall to an enemy in wait?

12. Not Always What They Seem

ZAFT: New chapter this week. :)

DarkFoxKit: Yup. Though I may need to talk to you about this whole updating every week thing.

ZAFT: Oh? We could do it whenever you are writing with me then. Like we are with our writing schedule.

DarkFoxKit: Yeah, that'll make it easier since it's too easy for me to forget during our week off.

ZAFT: Okay. Starting next week, it will go to every other week. I'm fine with that.

DarkFoxKit: Okay, now then, let's have the readers get on to the story. And I need to find out where Andy went.

ZAFT: Yeah. I'll let you do that then.

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Chapter 12: Not Always What They Seem

Takuya and Tucker waited by Locker 724 since Tucker shoved Poindexter into it. They were getting antsy the longer they waited. Sam eventually came by.

"So what's the status?" Sam asked.

"We're just waiting to see if this actually works." Takuya replied before he gave Sam a glare. "And I can't believe you talked me into that!"

Tucker gave Takuya a calming look. "Just chill out, dude. You did it for Danny and Andy's sake, remember?"

Takuya sighed at that. "Yeah, I know…"

"I just wish there was more we could do," Tucker sighed before he turned to Sam. "What were you doing anyways, Sam?"

"Oh, well, after you two got Poindexter to follow you, I thought I might as well use the residual popularity Poindexter gained after he scored a touchdown during practice, and give all the popular kids a 'Save The Frogs' badge. That should get the school to stop using actual frogs for dissection." Sam smirked, clearly proud of herself.

Takuya just smacked his head with his open palm. Leave it to Sam to try and get her ideas across while others are working to save Danny and Andy…

"That's all well and good, but we are more worried about Danny and Andy!" Takuya hissed out.

"Calm down, Takuya, I'm worried about them too, but standing here and worrying about them isn't going to bring them back any faster," Sam stated.

Takuya groaned again, but didn't say anything more.

Mr. Lancer started to walk by them while holding onto a box of frogs. Sam started to seeth a little when she saw the teacher actually managed to catch all the frogs and put them back into the box. But then suddenly, the locker opened up, and Danny fell out of it, landing on top of Mr. Lancer, who dropped the box. The frogs quickly all hopped out and away. Mr. Lancer gasped before he quickly got Danny off of his back and started running after the frogs.

Takuya saw Danny on the floor and ran over to him, but he was also wary in case the plan had failed. He reached out a hand and held it out to the boy who was supposed to be Danny. "Are you okay?" He refrained from using a name in case it was still Poindexter.

The boy looked up at Takuya's hand, though Takuya couldn't see the boy's eyes due to his hair covering it up. Still, the boy who was supposed to be Danny took Takuya's hand before Takuya helped him up.

"Thanks, cuz," The boy said in Danny's voice, and Takuya could see the familiar baby blue eyes on his cousin's face.

In response, Takuya grinned before he hugged Danny. "I'm glad you're back…"

Danny blushed at his cousin's hug. "Uh… okay, you can let go now, Takuya…"

"Wait, how can we be sure you're actually Danny?" Tucker asked.

"Yeah, I think it's time for the question test," Sam spoke up.

"Listen, I was using my… talents to get back at bullies earlier, but I just ended up becoming a bully myself. I'm not going to do that again, it was horrible." Danny frowned. "Also, in 2nd grade, Tucker threw up in Sam's lunch box, but he told her Ricky Marsh did it."

Takuya winced at hearing that. He had seen that happen. Oh crap… Sam will be pissed to hear that…

Sam frowned. "Wait…" She then looked at Tucker. "That was you?! I kicked Ricky off the monkey bars for that!"

Then the two looked at Danny, because only he would have known of that.

"Yeah, that's Danny… also, you couldn't have said anything else?" Tucker grumbled.

"Sorry, but my body was taken by a ghost nerd, while I was stuck in his lair getting my butt kicked," Danny sighed. "And Andy- wait, Andy! Where is he?"

Takuya then remembered Andy was well. "Ah, sh-crud!" He smacked his face with his hand again. "I forgot! Andy's in the nurse's office!"

Danny made a beeline for the nurse's office, and Takuya was shocked to see how fast Danny could run. And I thought I was fast when I am evolved… Taking no time to hesitate, Takuya was after Danny to check up on Andy as well.

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By the time Danny and Takuya reached the nurse's office, they saw Andy was already awake and sitting up on the bed with Dorimon on his lap. Dorimon looked happy and relaxed on the boy's lap.

"Andy?!" Takuya exclaimed as he ran in right behind Danny. "Are you okay?!"

"How did you get here, bro?!" Danny asked frantically. "Were you hurt at all?!"

Tucker and Sam finally caught up, but Tucker was out of breath while Sam had to drag him with her.

"Hey! Looks like someone woke up." Sam smiled.

"Yay…!" Tucker wheezed.

Andy couldn't help but chuckle a little. "I'm fine, yeah. Are you okay, Danny?"

"Why are you asking me? You're the one who was brought here!" Danny pointed out.

"I was?" Andy looked around, confused. Sure enough, he could see he was in the nurse's office. "Why was I brought here?"

"You passed out." Takuya explained. "You were fine one moment, and the next, you were acting like you couldn't breathe and you were flailing about like someone was trying to strangle you."

"Oh yeah, I remembered that… it was horrible." Andy frowned.

"But how do you feel now? Are you okay?" Danny asked in concern, walking up to Andy before he started to check him over.

"Hey, hey, I'm fine! I just passed out, okay? It's not like I was zapped by a freaking Ghost Portal and hospitalized," Andy pointed out.

Takuya frowned as he saw Tucker and Sam cringe at that comparison. Ouch…

"Dude, that was a bad comparison…" Tucker pointed out.

"I just mean you don't need to worry about me," Andy clarified. "I'm fine, alright?"

Takuya sighed at that point. "I'm so ready to get back to the house and just sleep for a week…"

Danny frowned a little, he knew Andy was just annoyed at the fuss, but he could tell Andy was also a bit stressed out. Likely due to the whole Poindexter lair thing. Danny figured Andy wouldn't be sure if what had happened was a dream or not, but if Andy was going to think it was a dream, Danny wanted him to think so, since he pretty much exposed his ghost half to his brother back there.

"Hey… we could all use some relaxation," Danny spoke up. "How about this weekend we all just hang out, go to a flea market to find something cool, then maybe go watch the football game tonight since I managed to get us front row seats. Then maybe the next day we could go see that new Dead Teacher movie that came out in theater last month?"

Takuya gave a smile to Danny. "I'm all for that, especially after today." Some time away from the ghosts would be good for all of us, even Dash.

"I'm down with that," Tucker agreed, finally catching his breath.

"Sure, that sounds good." Sam nodded as well.

The nurse came into the room, and was surprised to see Andy was awake, and that his friends, brother, and cousin were all there as well.

"... I'm going to have to ask you all to sit down or leave so I can check Andrew out to make sure he's okay," The nurse finally said.

The group decided to sit down and stay while the nurse checked Andy over one last time.

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Later, that night in Fenton Works

Takuya was all dressed up in his red pajamas, ready to fall asleep for the night, when he heard someone knocking on his bedroom door.

Takuya walked over and opened the door. He was surprised to see Andy there with Dorimon in his arms. Andy was dressed in his blue pajamas as well. "Is something up, Andy?"

"Um… yeah… I feel like I need to talk to someone about it. When I tried talking to Danny, he kept avoiding the subject. And Jazz… well… this really isn't a subject she'll take seriously," Andy sighed as he walked into Takuya's room, and Takuya closed the door.

"So, what's on your mind?" Takuya asked as he sat on his bed, his D-Tector on the night stand next to the bed.

Andy put Dorimon down on Takuya's bed before he sighed. "It's… about this dream I had while I was out of it. I'm not really sure if it was a dream though. I remember… walking through darkness, seeing weird images of Phantom fighting with ghosts, and I also saw you looking pretty beat up at one point."

Takuya frowned at hearing that. "Okay… what else did you see?" What is Andy trying to say with this?

"Then I saw this full body mirror. I thought I was seeing my reflection at first, but…" Andy sighed. "It gets weird."

Andy told Takuya about seeing Danny in the mirror, before he saw Poindexter. Then how Andy ended up going through the mirror and was in Poindexter's lair with Danny and Poindexter, and how they managed to talk Poindexter into taking control of his lair before Poindexter gave Danny his body back. But Andy also told Takuya that he saw Phantom coming out of Poindexter's body instead of Danny, which confused Andy, before Andy suddenly woke up in the nurse's office, and was then licked and pounced by Dorimon.

Takuya was surprised at what Andy had told him.

"I… don't know what to say to that." He rubbed the back of his head at that point. "It must have just been a very vivid dream. I mean, what else could it be?"

"I don't know… it didn't feel like a dream," Andy said, looking down at his hands. "But I guess it… doesn't really make much sense either… I guess it had just been bothering me."

Takuya put a hand on Andy's shoulder. "It's okay. I'm no expert on the human psyche like Jazz is, so I can only guess, but I think the stress of what happened to Danny got to you, and you had that dream because of your concern and worry."

"Besides, what matters is that you're awake and Danny is back," Dorimon assured. "Everything is alright now."

Andy couldn't help but give a small grin. "Yeah, I suppose you're right. Maybe this weekend is just what we need to recharge."

Takuya gave a grin. "Yeah." He then playfully pushed Andy off of his bed so the boy would go get some sleep. "Now sleep tight, and don't let the Roachmon bite~"

Dorimon shivered. "Eeew! No, no Roachmon, please!"

"It's just an expression," Andy chuckled before he stood up. "Fine, I'll go get some sleep. Being in a coma for a few hours in school isn't exactly re-energizing."

Takuya nodded. "Yeah…" He trailed off here before he shook his head. "Okay, I'm sacking out now." With that, he turned over and promptly fell asleep.

Andy chuckled before he picked up Dorimon. "Goodnight, Takuya."

Andy quietly walked out of Takuya's room while his cousin slept.

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That Saturday, at a flea market

"Jeez, it's too bad Sam got a bad cold today," Andy said as he, Danny, Tucker, and Takuya were walking around the flea market.

Dorimon was snuggled in Andy's backpack again.

"Tell me about it." Takuya said as he looked around. "She would have loved some of this stuff." He pointed at a gothic looking stall just off to the right to emphasize it.

"Yeah… but there's nothing we can do about it now," Danny sighed, wishing Sam could've joined them. "She said she didn't want us to cancel our plans for her though, so… I guess we should just make the most of it."

Tucker and the group stopped near where there was a set of skateboard wheels. Andy and Danny reached out and grabbed the wheels in their packaging at the same time, looking at each other. Danny smirked. "Two for me and two for you?"

Andy chuckled. "You know me, bro~"

Takuya saw a charm that looked like it had flames on it. "Cool! I like this."

Tucker saw a cool little lighter that looked like a skateboard. "I like this thing."

They all paid for their little trinkets, and continued to look around the flea market for anything else they would be interested in. Takuya and Tucker split off at some point from Danny and Andy, allowing the two groups to look around easier.

"Hey, look at all this mystical stuff, bro," Andy said when they approached a short lady wearing some kind of fancy pink robes.

The stand's name was Madam Babazita's Mystical Oddities.

One of the items in question was a bottle that looked like it could hold a genie if those were even real. Andy picked it up. "Is this supposed to be a genie bottle?"

"Yes, they say if you free the genie from the bottle, all of your wishes will be granted," The lady, whom Andy assumed to be Babazita, explained. "But be forewarned, that your words could easily be twisted, and your heart's desire might become your worst nightmare."

Danny and Andy looked at each other.

"Sounds… really ominous," Andy said before placing the bottle down. "I'd rather not take that chance."

Andy and Danny walked away from the stand.

"That was creepy…" Andy said as he looked at his brother. "A genie that twists wishes around? No thank you!" He shivered at the thought of that.

"Yeah, no kidding, besides, who actually believes in genies that grant wishes these days anyways?" Danny chuckled. "The bottle looks pretty for decoration though."

As they were walking by the cotton candy stand, they heard a little girl begging her mom for some.

"PLEASE MOMMY!? I WANT SOME COTTON CANDY! PLEASE CAN I HAVE SOME? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!" The girl shouted in a high pitched squeal and she spoke so fast it was difficult to understand her.

"I think you had enough sugar for today," The mother replied, frowning at her daughter.

"BUT I WANT IT!" The girl cried as the balloon string she had tied to her arm went around the bottle that Andy looked at earlier, and caused it to fall to the ground, shattering it.

A green mist came out of the shattered bottle, and formed into a young looking lady, wearing a light blue hispic type clothing on her. She had no feel, instead they were replaced by a ghostly tail. Her skin was a radioactive green, but a little bit of a darker shade, and her eyes were red. She also had long black hair.

"And your heart's desire is my command," She said with a wicked grin on her face.

All at once, a light blue mist came out of Danny's mouth, Dorimon shivered and growled in Andy's backpack, and Takuya felt sudden heat.

Looking around for any sign of the ghost, Takuya saw where the ghost was. She was by the cotton candy machine, and with a wave of her arms, cotton candy began to gush forth in a geyser of the fluffy treat.

The ghost then aimed the cotton candy machine at the crowd, which began to scatter with people screaming as they ran. As for the little girl, she smiled upon seeing the sugary rush coming at her. "COTTON CANDY!"

Andy suddenly found himself buried in a massive wave of fluffy sweets. Takuya and Tucker were also carried away by the typhoon of cotton candy. Andy groaned as he tried to push his way through the sea of pink cotton candy. Dorimon popped his head out to see what all the commotion was, only to see he and Andy were buried under some kind of pink fluff.

"What is this fluffy stuff?" Dorimon asked, not sure what to make of the sight before him. "Is it food?"

Andy actually had a mouthful of cotton candy when he got buried, and he spat most of it out. "... Uh… sort of. Cotton candy is supposed to be a treat, but if you eat too much, you're going to get a bad stomach ache. I'm guessing a ghost decided to bury everyone in cotton candy for whatever reason."

Dorimon blinked. "Why would a ghost give humans so much of a treat?" Poor little guy didn't understand anything when it came to ghosts, save for they could be dangerous.

"I don't know, but maybe because it heard a little girl screaming about wanting cotton candy," Andy guessed. "Come on, help me get out of this stuff, there's not much air down here."

Dorimon smiled before he opened his mouth widely and took a huge chunk of the cotton candy in his mouth.

"... Don't eat too much, like I said, you'll get a bad stomach ache," Andy warned while sweat-dropping.

"It's so good! It's like eating a cloud!" Dorimon chirped as he continued to eat their way out.

Andy sighed, hoping that Digimon didn't get sick as easily as humans do.

Meanwhile, Takuya was trying to help Tucker get out of the mountain of cotton candy they found themselves buried under.

"C'mon…" Takuya grunted as he tried to pull Tucker out by his arms. "This is ridiculous!"

"You're telling me?" Tucker grumbled as he stuffed some cotton candy in his mouth. "The last time this happened, I was buried by heavenly meat."

"Almost…" Takuya gave one final yank, and Tucker found himself landing on the older boy's chest, knocking the wind from Takuya's lungs. "Ooof!"

"Sorry…" Tucker apologized.

The two of them finally managed to reach the surface of the cotton candy avalanche, they could see most of the area was covered in cotton candy. A few people looked to be having terrible stomach aches, likely from trying to eat their way out. Takuya looked around, hoping to find where his cousins were. He saw Andy and Dorimon just popping out from the cotton candy themselves. Dorimon looking like he was licking his lips.

"If you start having a stomach ache, you better hope we don't end up having to take you to a vet," Andy huffed, looking a tad bit annoyed.

Takuya made his way over to Andy and Dorimon. "Are you okay?" He could see Dorimon was quite happy that he had eaten some food, no matter what it was.

"Covered in cotton candy, I just witnessed how much a tiny Digimon could pack away, and a ghost is somewhere on the loose. I'm perfectly fine all things considered," Andy sarcastically answered.

Takuya sighed. "No need to be sarcastic." Then he remembered the ghost from what Andy mentioned. "Wait… where is that ghost?"

Before Andy could answer, there was a sudden green light in the sky. Andy, Dorimon, and Takuya looked up quickly to see a blue and green ghost was just shot across the sky by Phantom, who just shot some kind of radiant green laser or energy blast. Phantom himself looked at his glowing gloved hand in shock.

"Okay… I think I know where the ghost behind this went…" Takuya muttered with a sweatdrop running down the side of his head. That was quite a blast to send that ghost flying.

Dorimon blinked. "The cotton candy ghost is gone…?" He wasn't sensing her in the area anymore.

"It's gone from the area, but it's still out there somewhere," Andy pointed out.

Takuya frowned. "Then it's safe to say we will see that ghost again." He didn't like this one bit. I just hope it doesn't come back...

There was a bright flash of light, which caught their attention, and they saw Danny running towards them. Tucker also made his way over. Andy quickly picked up Dorimon.

"Is everyone alright?" Danny asked in concern.

"You mean other than being covered in cotton candy?" Tucker asked. "I think we're good."

Takuya nodded. "Yeah. That was some wave of it."

Andy nodded. "I'm fine, bro. Just a bit covered in sticky candy."

"Yeah, that was pretty wild," Danny agreed. "Thankfully I managed to escape most of it myself."

"By the way, did you see that ghost kid? He just shot out an awesome energy beam from his hand!" Tucker smiled. "It looks like he got a new ghost power or something, that's so cool!"

Danny blushed a little. "Heh… yeah, I saw. That is pretty cool."

Takuya nodded. "...um… yeah, that was cool." He tried to sound excited, but it was hard because he was used to seeing such things when it came to Digimon.

"Well, regardless of that, we may have to go back home to shower for an hour before going to the football game tonight" Andy remarked. "I'd rather not go being coated in sticky, fluffy candy."

Takuya looked himself over, seeing he was still covered in that himself. "Yeah… good idea." He could see he needed a shower himself. Good thing my room has its own shower.

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Later, that night

The group were at the football field at Casper High. Tucker, Andy, and Takuya were sitting at the front row bleachers. There was surprisingly someone else with them. Sam was wrapped up in a blanket, and she looked pretty pale. She sneezed a few times, making Andy scoot away a little since he was sitting next to her.

"Ugh… I'm sick as a dog, and I hate sports. Why am I here again?" Sam moaned as she glared at Tucker, who had dragged her to the game despite her being sick.

"Because Danny's here, and he scored us the best seats in the house!" Tucker smiled.

"She really shouldn't be here." Andy frowned. "Not only is this cool air not good for her, she could get us sick as well!"

Takuya glared at Tucker. "And I don't want to get sick myself." True, it was hard for him to get sick now that he had his Spirits back with him, but it still was possible for him to get sick anyway.

"AND NOW EVERYBODY HERE THEY ARE! YOUR VERY OWN CASPER HIGH RAVENS!" One of the announcers shouted, trying to get everyone pumped up.

There was a raven mascot hopping around the field, waving its arms up and down to look like it was flying, though the way they waved their arms reminded Andy more of a hummingbird's wings than a raven's wings. Then suddenly, the poor mascot was completely trampled by the football team. All but one of the jocks had no remorse over running over the poor guy. Dash actually stepped out of the way from the mascot person, though he looked at the mascot in concern, he had to focus on the game.

"I wonder if these people make it tradition to hurt their own mascot…" Takuya frowned.

Andy had to agree. It seemed like that happened at every game since he had started school. "Yeah… I feel bad for the poor mascot, whoever it is."

Dorimon, who was in Andy's arms, didn't say anything, but the way he slightly winced as a good indicator the little In-Training Digimon felt the same way.

The mascot's beak had fallen off after the abuse, so those in the front row could see the person's face. Andy frowned more when he saw who the mascot was. "Danny!? Why is he-"

"N-no! You can't ruin the illusion, Andy!" Tucker yelped, grabbed Andy when he tried to stand up and go over to Danny.

"My brother just got trampled, Tucker!" Andy snapped.

Takuya wasn't so sure if he got the message Tucker was trying to bring across, so he just sighed. "I don't think I'll understand this culture…"

Danny did stand up, however, and grabbed the beak, grumbling to himself. Other than the bruises, he looked perfectly fine, which did calm Andy down enough to sit back down, but it also made him and Takuya curious. No normal human being could walk off after being trampled by an entire football team so easily, most would have at least a broken bone from that.

"I don't know if it is because Phantom is residing in Danny or what, but there is no way that a human could just walk that off. And yet Danny did." Takuya whispered to Andy.

"It can't just be because Phantom is in Danny… Phantom could only do so much to minimize the damage without influencing him enough to show ghostly traits…" Andy whispered back. "It seems the more we think we figured out, the more questions we get instead of answers."

Takuya could only nod discreetly. "Yeah. That's not normal, and yet there are no ghostly abilities shown."

"Either that or we're using cartoon physics," Andy chuckled a little at the idea.

Takuya gave Andy a deadpan look. "How is it that I can become a Digimon, and yet we assume cartoon physics are in play when it comes to Danny getting trampled and walking away with just bruises?"

Andy looked at Takuya. "Because you turning into a Digimon is more of an anime. Danny getting up and walking off something that should be painful enough to land him in the hospital is more of a cartoon thing."

"What are you two whispering about?" Sam grumbled, her nose sounding stuffed up, then she almost sneezed on Andy.

Andy flinched away from Sam, holding Dorimon close to his chest. "Tucker, do you want to switch places with me? You were the one who dragged her here in the first place."

Takuya looked at Tucker before getting up and grabbing the boy's arm, dragging him from his seat to Andy's seat. "You sit by Sam when she is sick, not us!"

"Okay, okay, jeez! You don't have to drag my arm off," The techno geek grumbled, plopping right down next to Sam.

Sam gave Tucker an annoyed look.

There was a loud whistle, the game had started. The opposing football team were wearing bright yellow uniforms, while the home team wore white. The yellow team was surprisingly strong and tactful. Dash was the only one who could keep up with them, unfortunately, he was only one person. Dash was becoming more strategic with his play, like trying to hide the football he got while he tried to run to the touchdown area, or he would subtly 'throw' the football while keeping it behind him to gain him some time while everyone else was looking where the football went. Dash did manage to get a few scores by doing this. Sadly, it wasn't enough. The entire team wasn't as strategic as Dash, and got easily tackled and lost the ball to the opposing team. Dash got caught and tackled or beaten up by a pile of the yellow team as well.

"Oof… that looked painful," Andy winced after Dash got completely buried and piled by the yellow team.

"Tell me about it…" Takuya agreed, flinching at the impact as well. "That looks like it would put him out for a while."

"This is pathetic…" Tucker muttered at last. "Our team's fading fast."

"So am I…" Sam sniffed. "I'm going home. Later…" She stood up to leave, making Takuya look back at her in concern.

"Hope she gets back home alright," Andy remarked after Sam left.

"Look, the team is calling for a timeout so they could plan," Takuya pointed out. "Maybe Dash could try to get the whole team to be a little more strategic? They're obviously getting overpowered."

"Hard to say, jocks aren't really known for using their brains all that much," Andy sighed.

Just then, Takuya felt a flash of heat rush through him as Dorimon began to growl slightly. Looking up, Takuya could see a greenish smoke coming in overhead, revealing the same ghost that had caused the cotton candy wave.

Dorimon saw the same ghost as well. "The cotton candy ghost is back…"

"The heck?" Andy blinked, seeing the lady ghost for the first time. "Is she going to make more cotton candy to cover the field now?"

The lady ghost spread her hands, and covered Dash with green mist. Dash gasped before looking up, likely sensing her himself, he quickly backed away when he saw the green mist over him. Andy, Dorimon, and Takuya's eyes widened when fractal code suddenly surrounded Dash's body, almost as if trying to protect him from the ghost's mist.

"Oh shit…" Takuya hissed. "That's not good…" If we don't act now, then things will be exposed for me, Dash, and Andy!

"Is he evolving?" Andy gasped.

"Whoa, what's happening to Dash?" Tucker asked in confusion and worry.

Suddenly, the fractal code around Dash grew bigger and bigger. The other football teams backed away as the audience was staring in shock and confusion. Even the 'cotton candy' ghost lady was looking surprised.

Then, the fractal code dissipated, revealing some kind of giant iguana-like tree dragon.

"Petaldramon!" The creature announced.

"Takuya… that's not Arbormon…" Andy said, staring at the Petaldramon in shock.

"That's his Beast Spirit, Petaldramon." Takuya informed Andy. "He's like BurningGreymon in a sense, as in he is a Beast Spirit. Arbormon is the Human Spirit."

"Oh… then everything is fine, right?" Andy hopefully asked.

Petaldramon looked around before letting out an irritated roar. "Leaf Cyclone!"

Red leaves began to cover the entire football field, turning into a cyclone. Everyone began to scream as sharp leaves began to cut their skin.

"... I'll take that as a no…" Andy frowned.

Tucker ran somewhere, heading towards the beaten up mascot costume.

Andy and Takuya ducked under the bleachers.

"We have to do something, Dash is totally out of control!" Andy hissed.

Takuya looked at Andy. "Dash is not in control of his Beast Spirit. The only way for him to gain control is to fight. I should know. My friends and I, when we got our Beast Spirits for the first time, had to fight in order to gain control of them." He then sighed. "It may sound harsh, but that is how it has to go."

"In that case…" Andy looked at Dorimon. "You better digivolve."

"Right. We'll worry about cover ups later," Dorimon agreed.

Fractal code surrounded Dorimon's body. "Dorimon digivolve to… Dorumon!"

Takuya grabbed onto his D-Tector. The blue outline of his first Spirit appeared on the screen of his D-Tector as he formed fractal coding around his left hand. He swiped the D-Tector over the coding, calling out the familiar phrase he knew by heart. "Execute! Spirit Evolution!" His clothes ripped away as his body became digital, and the process began. Coding surrounded him as the power of the Spirit flowed into his body. Red armor formed and latched onto his body as his hair changed to blonde and became long and wild. His height increased, as did his strength and agility. His eyes snapped open, now a brilliant blue instead of brown, and his teeth were sharper than a human's as well. He landed, crying out his name. "Agunimon!"

Dorumon lifted his head from under the bleacher, he looked at Petaldramon before his eyes and gem flashed. A holographic version of Petaldramon appeared on Andy's D-Arc.

"Petaldramon is a Plant Digimon. It possesses power over Wood which bears the might of AncientTroiamon. Countless buds sprouted from Arbormon's surface and suddenly grew, and its surface changed into a form like a giant plant lizard," Andy read out loud.

Next to him, Agunimon peered out from the slats in the bleachers, frowning to himself. "We'll need to act cautiously since there are still humans around." Sure enough, there were a few humans still in the bleachers and on the field.

"So… is this the result of a high protein diet? If so, awesome! I want to become a giant leaf dragon!" One of the announcers declared.

"Jimmy, you're a moron," The other announcer grumbled. "That's obviously a robot."

Agunimon perked up when he heard that. Maybe we could use that as our explanation later… He mused mentally before he looked down at Andy. "Have any ideas?"

Petaldramon glared at the yellow team as they all stared up at him in horror. Somewhere in the back of his beastly mind, Petaldramon remembered how much these guys kept ganging up on him. He then stabbed his two tails into the ground. Agunimon paled when he saw this, recognizing the move.

"Thorn Jab!"

Without hesitation, Agunimon jumped into the field, quickly picking up as many of the yellow team as possible before huge thorns and vines burst up out of the ground.

Once he was sure there was some decent distance between him and Petaldramon, Agunimon set down the humans, who turned and ran from the field, screaming like little girls. The Warrior of Flame paid them no heed though, as his mind was more on the battle now.

"Whoa… what is this guy? I don't sense any ghost energy, but I sense something else…" Phantom wondered as he was looking at Petaldramon from the air.

Andy was whispering to Dorumon about something, and Dorumon nodded, before spitting out two iron balls on the ground, and Andy quickly started writing on some pieces of paper, and pulled out some tape.

Seeing what Andy was doing, Agunimon had an idea. Okay, I think we can work with this. He then faced Phantom. "Hey! Ghost boy, listen! I'm going to need your help with keeping this guy distracted so no one else gets hurt." He pointed at Petaldramon. "If we can do that, maybe we have a chance to calm him down!"

Phantom looked at Agunimon, blinking for a moment. "Uh… do I know you? You seem familiar."

"Leaf Cyclone!" The area was getting covered in sharp leaves again.

"Okay, nevermind! Distraction it is!" Phantom quickly said.

Agunimon had never been so grateful for the attack to come their way, as it saved him from being in an awkward situation. "Look, just watch out for his Thorn Jab. That will cause the most damage."

With that, he got his attack ready. "Pyro Darts!" Small bits of flame energy were thrown at the cyclone of leaves, igniting them and removing the threat.

Petaldramon glared at Agunimon, he obviously didn't like fire, and got down on all fours before he started charging towards Agunimon. Phantom flew over his head before he fired one of his green energy blasts at the giant Digimon's head. Petaldramon let out a roar of pain before standing up on his hind legs, showing how tall he was.

Taking a look around, Agunimon tried to figure out what it was he could do. There was no way that he was risking using his Pyro Tornado, as that would set the field ablaze and possibly hurt other humans. Then, an idea came to his mind. Fractal code surrounded his form as he switched out to his Beast Spirit. "Slide Evolution!" The coding cocoon burst and BurningGreymon flared his orange wings. "BurningGreymon!"

"What the heck!? You were that BurningGreymon!?" Phantom shouted in shock.

Instead of responding, BurningGreymon rushed at Petaldramon, slamming into him and knocking the other Beast Warrior back. Petaldramon, not one to back down from a challenge, got back on his feet and launched himself at BurningGreymon with just as much force.

"Phantom!" Phantom blinked, hearing someone calling for him. "Could you come down here for a second? I could use your help!"

With the two dragon-like beasts trying to tackle each other down, Phantom looked at Andy, who had called him. Phantom was surprised to see Andy was still here, and he flew down towards the boy.

"What are you still doing here, b- boy!? You need to get out of here, it's not safe!" Phantom scolded.

"I know it's not safe," Andy said before he held up two iron balls with little pieces of torn paper taped to them. "But I need your help. You're pretty strong, right? I want you to toss these iron balls near the Petaldramon, that giant tree iguana. Try to get one of the balls to hit his head, and the other his feet."

Phantom looked at Andy in surprise before he gave a nod. "Okay, but only if you promise to run once we get this… Petaldramon, or whatever it is, taken care of."

"Thanks, Phantom." Andy smiled, glad to see the ghost boy was going to help.

When Phantom flew away with the iron balls, Dorumon popped his head out from under the bleachers, and waited for Andy to give him the signal.

BurningGreymon growled as he saw Petaldramon try to smack him in the side with his twin tails. The Beast Warrior of Flame caught the twin tails on his three-clawed hand before throwing Petaldramon away from his form.

Petaldramon hit one of the bleachers, breaking the whole thing, thankfully there was nobody there anymore.

Phantom quickly flew over to Petaldramon, a little cautious around BurningGreymon since he didn't know how beastly the fiery dragon was.

"Hey, you overgrown lizard tree! Eat some iron for your diet!" Phantom wittly called out before he threw one of the iron balls at Petaldramon's face.

Andy held up his hand to Dorumon.

"Metal Morph!" Dorumon whispered as his gem glowed.

The iron ball suddenly melted onto Petaldramon's face. Phantom was surprised, but he threw the other iron ball at Petaldramon's feet just as he got down on the ground again, trying to shake the melted metal on his face.

"Metal Morph!"

Again, the iron ball melted into liquid before hardening, trapping Petaldramon.

Seeing the metal on Petaldramon's face and feet, BurningGreymon took the chance to fly up high before diving down towards Petaldramon, driving down one of his feet into Petaldramon's back. The pain was searing, both in BurningGreymon's foot and Petaldramon's back, but it seemed to do a good amount of damage.

BurningGreymon landed with a look to Petaldramon. "Get a hold of yourself! You have to calm down and gain control!"

Petaldramon struggled a little before Phantom flew in front of the iguana tree dragon's face, frowning, this situation reminded him of when Andy went on a rampage. Petaldramon looked at Phantom for a moment, before he stopped struggling and gave a confused look.

"... Eh…? What's going on?" Petaldramon questioned, sounding more confused than angry or beastly.

BurningGreymon perked up when he heard that and sighed audibly. "It worked…" Fractal coding surrounded him as he returned to his Human Spirit form. Now back in his Human Spirit form, Agunimon walked up to Petaldramon. "You had a mishap."

Phantom landed on the ground, putting his hands on his hips, trying to figure something out. He could see these two creatures had some kind of relationship with each other.

Petaldramon looked down at himself. "W-what!? What happened to me!?"

There were still people around, mostly people with phones and video cameras.

Andy quickly jumped over the fence, and ran over to the group. "Ah, looks like the giant robot idea was a bit too dangerous. I mean that glitch was pretty darn massive. I knew they shouldn't have tried to make a monster robot in case things started to go south for our home team."

Agunimon remembered what the announcers had said and looked at Petaldramon before he mouthed 'play along' to him. "It would seem so."

"And didn't I tell you to tone it down on the costumes and the homemade flamethrowers? You could've burned someone with that!" Andy said to Agunimon, sounding like he was scolding him.

"I can't help it if I'm a pyromaniac." The Warrior of Flame countered.

"So… that's just a costume? And that big tree dinosaur is just a robot?" Phantom asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Yes!" Andy spoke up before turning to the people who were still around, likely recording all of this. "Don't worry, everyone! This was all just an elaborate prank, more of a backup plan in case things didn't go well for our home team! There was a bad glitch in the robot that made it run on a rampage, and some special effects that also went out of control! The guy in the armor costume was originally supposed to give a good half time show with his flamethrowers, but he tried to play hero and whatnot. That bigger dragon you saw was another robot used to try to stop the malfunctioning one earlier! All of it was just special effects, you could probably post this on the internet to make a movie or something!"

Agunimon couldn't help but chuckle at the explanation. It did sound kind of out there. But it's the best one we have, so we'll have to hope people buy it.

The other people began talking to each other, but Agunimon could hear many of them buying Andy's quickly formed explanation.

"I thought it looked too fake to be real."

"As someone who's watched tons of movies, I know special effects when I see them."

"There's no way that big leafy dragon is real. I'll bet the football team spent hours just gluing on all the grass and leaves they could find on it."

Hearing this, Agunimon felt relieved. Looks like they bought it. He then gave a glance to Andy. "I think we should get the 'robot' back off the field and 'back to the shed'."

"Yes, let's do that," Andy agreed.

Agunimon looked over at Phantom, and saw the boy's face. Phantom clearly didn't buy it. However, before Agunimon could even say anything, the ghost boy vanished.

Taking the chance, both Andy and Agunimon began to move the 'robot' off the football field and away from the people's sights. More like they were pretending to move it, while Petaldramon slowly walked away.

Once they were out of sight, Petaldramon looked at them, and Dorumon hurried over to them, the Rookie Digimon had likely been waiting for them to get here.

"Wow… you're pretty cool like that," Dorumon complimented.

"Thanks, but… how did I turn into this… tree lizard thing?" Petaldramon asked, looking at himself. "What even happened? I mostly remember getting covered by green mist, then the next thing I knew, I was being pinned down by a dragon with bird wings."

Agunimon spoke up at that point. "That was me. I was in my Beast Spirit form, BurningGreymon." He then looked at Petaldramon. "You were covered by that green mist and well, we saw fractal code surround you, and the next thing we know, you are in your Beast Spirit form. Each Warrior has two Spirits, Human and Beast. Arbormon is your Human Spirit. Your Beast Spirit is Petaldramon, which is the form you are currently in."

"A Beast Spirit? Oh, so this is part of being a Digimon, right?" Petaldramon asked. "So why did I suddenly turn into Petaldramon in the middle of a game?"

"My guess is that your Beast Spirit tried to protect you from that ghost lady's spell or whatever she was doing to you, but it caused you to spirit evolve into Petaldramon, and… you uh… lost control," Andy answered. "Agunimon, Phantom, Dorumon, and I had to get you to calm down before you hurt someone."

"Beast Spirits are hard to control at first." Agunimon informed them. "When I first became BurningGreymon, I lost control myself. But you get better at controlling it the more you use it."

Petaldramon sighed. "I wish you warned me about this sooner… or maybe practiced it out in the training field where there was nobody else around. I didn't hurt anyone, did I?"

"Nope, Agunimon managed to get those mean yellow guys away before you did," Dorumon assured. "The other football team ran away while screaming like girls."

Agunimon chuckled at hearing that. "Yeah, they did."

Andy sighed as he shook his head in amusement.

"Well, this is definitely going to make headlines, even if everyone bought our explanation. We're certainly going to get in trouble with the teachers in school," Andy sighed.

"Don't go there." Agunimon muttered. "The last thing we need is the teachers to come down on us."

"More like come down on the football team." Dorumon pointed out. "Since Andy told everyone it was their idea."

Andy smiled. "I totally didn't push them under the bus on purpose or anything~"

Agunimon realized Andy likely did that as revenge on the football team for stomping on his brother earlier, which made him want to stay on Andy's good side since the boy had ways to get back at people who hurt his brother.

Looking back at Petaldramon, Agunimon faced him. "Returning to human form is like with your Human Spirit. Just let the evolution go, and you will return to human easily."

Turning back to his Beast Spirit to give a demonstration, BurningGreymon let his evolution go, returning to his human form of Takuya.

Petaldramon nodded before fractal code surrounded his Beast Form before shrinking him back down to normal size, then the code dispersed, revealing Dash as a normal human again.

Takuya nodded in approval. "Not bad." He then rubbed the back of his head.

"Now if only degenerating was that easy for me," Dorumon pouted.

"Heh, I think we could use more training time, especially for my Beast Form. I rather not go on a rampage again," Dash chuckled sheepishly. "Although after this disaster, of my team's performance, and how much I wrecked the field, there's a good chance I'm going to be staying at school late for a while."

"We could try planning the training around the evening or night if we have to," Andy suggested. "It would be bad if we didn't try to keep up with our training, especially if something like this happens again."

Takuya nodded. "Yeah, I think we could do that." He then looked down at Dorumon. "It would be good if we could do it at night more so, because no one would see Dorumon so easily."

"Yeah, I agree. We just have to make sure we don't stay out too late, especially on school nights," Andy said. "Also… I think we should keep an eye out for Phantom. I don't think he bought our explanation."

Takuya nodded. "Yeah. I saw him before we left, and he clearly looked like he was skeptical of our story."

Dash gulped. "W-wait, really? We have a ghost who might start hounding us now?"

"Don't worry, I doubt he'll be hostile, the most he could do is try to interrogate us," Andy said.

---

At FentonWorks later that night...

"I already told you, they were just robots, and costumes," Andy grumbled.

"I don't believe that for a second, bro, and you know it!" Danny frowned. "What are you hiding?"

Andy was holding Dorimon in his arms, stroking the In-Training Digimon's fur as a coping mechanism to keep himself calm.

"I could ask you the very same question, Danny," Andy threw back.

Danny flinched at hearing that. It only showed how Andy could throw back just as well as he could. "It's not the same question though."

"Technically, it is." Andy pointed out. "You want to know what I'm hiding, just like I want to know what you're hiding. What's the difference about that?"

"We saw BurningGreymon before, we know he's real and not a robot," Danny pointed out. "Yet you talked like you knew him and that Petaldragon thing."

"Yes… and you disappear from school and other places frequently and reappear without any explanation, you get nervous whenever we try to talk to you about what happened, and Tucker and Sam are always covering for you when something… odd happens to you," Andy pointed back. "I think me maybe knowing a dragon is a little less suspicious than that, don't you think?"

Danny frowned. "Yes, but still… You know, and I know, BurningGreymon is not a robot."

"But no one else does, do they?" Andy threw back with a bit of a smirk. "You want to know the reason why I claimed he was a robot? It's because I rather not cause an entire town to start panicking and hunting down what could be a helpful dragon. BurningGreymon may be scary, but he's been helpful whenever we see him. Is that a good enough reason for you?"

Danny blinked. He did recall when BurningGreymon had helped out. Not once had the dragon-like creature done harm to the people of Amity Park. "Yeah. That's a good reason."

"Good, now maybe, unless you want to tell me your big secret, we can end this discussion," Andy replied firmly.

Danny hesitated, which made Andy frown.

"Yeah, I thought so." Andy grumbled before he got onto his bed and decided to try to get some sleep.

"H-hey, bro… are we still on for the movie tomorrow?" Danny hesitantly asked.

"... Yeah, I don't see why not," Andy answered, before something hit him. "Wait… I didn't see Tucker after that Petaldramon incident."

Danny's eyes widened as he paled. "Uh-oh…"

"Danny… what did you do?" Andy frowned.

---

The next morning at FentonWorks

"Jeez, so you two rushed out of the house to go get Tucker from the football field last night?" Takuya asked as they were eating cereal in the kitchen.

"Yeah, don't ask why." Andy muttered bitterly. "When we got there, he was in the mascot suit, which we both saw Danny wearing." After he took a bite of cereal, he continued speaking. "Tucker was all set up like a pinata too."

"I said I was sorry to both of you countless times!" Danny frowned. "Things just… kind of happened."

"On the plus side, at least we got to Tucker before the angry jocks decided to hit him like a pinata," Andy continued. "He was just a little bruised up."

Takuya sighed. "Okay, let's just finish eating so we can hit the movies." He was so ready to spend some time not dealing with ghosts or Digimon.

Then Takuya realized something, it was just the three of them, four if he counted Dorimon in Andy's backpack, at the table today. There was no sign of Maddie, Jack, or Jazz. Jazz was especially alarming since she was always such a morning bird and the first one at the kitchen table, whether it was the weekend or weekday.

"Hey, um, where are Uncle Jack, Aunt Maddie, and Jazz?" Takuya asked as he looked around. "They're normally here before us."

"You didn't know?" Danny asked. "Mom and Dad are down in the lab, they have a cold, I think, like Sam does. They claimed they're using a Fenton Ghost Catcher to expunge any viral ghost in their system or something. But I'm pretty sure they just have a normal cold."

"As for Jazz, she's laying in bed. She told me she wasn't feeling well when I went to check on her, so I left her alone," Andy informed. "I might bring her up some chicken noodle soup later."

Takuya frowned. "Why is everyone getting sick lately?"

"It's the sick season," Danny shrugged. "Summer's coming to an end, the cold air is starting to pick up, changing the temperature a bit too constantly."

"So the human body tends to get sick pretty easily around this time," Andy added.

Takuya gave a bit of a smirk. "You two are talking for each other again~"

Danny and Andy looked at each other for a moment before they looked at Takuya. "No we're not!"

They both said that at the exact same time.

Takuya couldn't help but laugh. "Yes, you did~" He waved a finger at the twins.

Andy picked up his bowl of cereal. "Oh yeah? You know what else I picked up from Danny?"

Takuya suddenly had a face full of milk and cereal.

The older boy spat some out from his mouth. "Okay… That was a bit much on my part." Takuya then grinned. "It's on!" He did the same thing to Andy.

Andy, however, ducked and the bowl ended up hitting Danny.

Takuya's hands flew to his mouth to hide his grin. "Oops! Sorry Danny!"

The bowl fell off of Danny's face, and he gave an annoyed look before he picked up his cereal bowl. "Someone's getting this to the face."

---

Later, at the movie theater

"You three are late, jeez! We'll have to catch the evening movie now!" Tucker frowned when Danny, Takuya, and Andy finally met up with him in the theater.

"Sorry… due to someone causing a food fight, we ended up having to clean up the kitchen, ourselves, and bring Jazz, Uncle Jack, and Aunt Maddie some chicken noodle soup," Takuya grumbled, looking at Andy.

"Well, if you hadn't been teasing us, then we wouldn't have had a food fight, now would we?" Andy threw back, a bit annoyed at his cousin's teasing.

"But it was pretty fun," Danny chuckled.

"... Now I wish I was a part of that," Tucker mumbled.

"Well, we're here now, so let's go get our tickets, get some snacks, then find some seats," Andy spoke up. "I could use some relaxation after this morning's mishap."

Takuya looked at Andy. "Yeah, it was pretty crazy."

Danny chuckled. "We haven't had a food fight like that since the first grade."

"At least it was less chaotic than the one you started at the school cafeteria," Andy remarked.

Takuya grinned. "At least that one was a bit more involved since more people were in on it."

Tucker groaned. "You three can cause so much trouble sometimes."

"Anyway, let's see if we can get our tickets and decent seats," Andy suggested as they reached the ticket counter.

Once the boys paid for their tickets, they headed into the concession stand. There was the heavy smell of butter and popcorn, a smell that Takuya had missed about this place. There were other teenagers here too, most of them from Casper High as Takuya recognized some of the teens. Danny took out his cell phone and called Sam while they stood in line to get some snacks.

"Hey, Sam? Yeah, I just called to see how you're doing," Danny said. "You sure you can't come to the movie theater and watch Dead Teacher 4?"

"No, I can't..." Sam mumbled over the phone, sounding stuffed up. "My parents are taking good care of me…" Knowing her parents, that probably meant a bit overreacting.

"Okay, then feel better soon." Danny said, hearing what sounded like electricity crackling from Sam's phone before he hung up. "Wow, Sam must be sick if she is missing Dead Teacher 4."

"This Time It's Personal," Tucker finished, saying the entire title of the movie.

"Andy, I'm surprised you're watching this with us," Takuya said, looking at his younger cousin. "I mean, from what I remember, you didn't like horror movies very much. Then again you were like 8 the last time I saw you, I guess taste changes with age, right?"

"Eh… I still don't like horror movies, but I wanted to spend time with you, Danny, and Tucker." Andy shrugged. "Besides, they might come in handy for in case we find any ghosts who are like those in the horror movies."

Takuya chuckled at that. "That's a pretty big if." But then again, one can never be too sure when it comes to ghosts.

As they were almost at the cashier counter, Danny's blue mist came out of his mouth again, Dorimon shivered and growled in Andy's backpack, and Takuya felt a sense of heat.

"Are you serious right now? Again?" Andy frowned.

Looking back, Takuya groaned as his hand went to his head with a smack. Why? Because a big-headed anime style Paulina was floating before them. Can't we ever get a break?!

"Look at me! I'm so cute, and cuddly, and ever so wonderful, don't you think?" The big-headed anime Paulina cooed as she ran around the movie theater and everyone around her instantly fell in love.

"WE AGREE! WE LOVE YOU PAULINA!" The mindless crowd cheered.

"Takuya… What the heck am I looking at?" Andy questioned, seeing his worst nightmare come to life.

"That would be an anime style Paulina…" Takuya mumbled. "And I think it is related to that ghost that created the cotton candy wave…"

Paulina started growing into a much bigger size. "Why squander my popularity here? I'm so adorable, I bet I could become super fairy queen of all of teenagedome, isn't that lucious?"

"No, no no no, NO," Andy frowned. "That thing must burn with fire!"

Takuya frowned. "Andy, I get what you are thinking, but no."

Andy looked at his cousin. "You must! That thing has to burn!"

"Andy, I can't do that, and you know it!" Takuya protested as Andy began to grope for his D-Tector. "Andy! There are people here!"

Takuya smacked Andy's hand away.

"Hey, uh…" Danny spoke up, snapping Andy and Takuya out of their argument. "Why don't you guys go and get seats in the theater? I can handle the snacks. Uh… the drinks though… Tucker, could I borrow the thermos please?"

"Do what you gotta do," Tucker sighed, giving Danny a Fenton Thermos. "And you two, let's go!"

Tucker grabbed Takuya's and Andy's arms before dragging them with him, he was surprisingly strong despite not being very athletically gifted.

"Hey!" Takuya yelped. "Geez! When did you get so strong, Tuck?" Andy was still trying to grab Takuya's D-Tector, only for Takuya to finally smack Andy on the head. " And knock it off!"

"S-sorry, I'll stop." Andy frowned.

Tucker managed to get them into a movie theater, but it was empty.

"Tucker… I think this is the wrong theater," Andy spoke up.

Takuya frowned. "Yeah, this isn't Dead Teacher 4."

Tucker frowned. "Whoops… b-but uh… hey, best seats in the house in here, right? Besides, who wouldn't want to watch a movie about…"

Tucker looked at the screen, only to see a cute pony on there. "... Uh… My Little Pony?"

Takuya groaned. "Great… Can't we just go back to Dead Teacher 4? I mean, we have tickets for it and all."

"Yeah, and I'm going back out there. I didn't tell Danny what else I wanted other than a medium sized popcorn with butter," Andy said.

"W-wait! You can't! Uh… we could just… enjoy the quiet here for a little bit," Tucker quickly suggested.

"Enjoy it yourself, I'm going back out there." Andy frowned. And see what it is you're trying to hide from us.

Takuya followed Andy. "Wait up!"

By the time Takuya and Andy got back into the concession stand, however, there was no sign of that big anime headed Paulina, or Danny, anywhere. But a lot of the other teens looked like they just snapped out of a daze.

"That's odd." Takuya noted as he watched a teen walk past with a confused look on her face. "These people look like they snapped out of some kind of trance."

"Likely from whatever spell Paulina was putting them under while she was that… big headed anime Paulina," Andy shivered at the idea of having Paulina in any anime. "But the question is… what happened to Paulina? How did she become like that? Where did she go?"

"Hey! There you two are!" Danny spoke up, running over to them, he also had the Fenton Thermos strapped to his back. "I… uh… had to use the bathroom and lost our place in line. Sorry about that."

Takuya could see the thermos, but didn't comment on it. "Eh, it's fine. We… just went to get some fresh air for a moment."

Andy raised an eyebrow at Takuya. We don't have a reason to come up with an excuse. "Danny, did you see what happened to Paulina? Tucker did kind of drag us into the theater room."

"Yeah, uh… don't worry about her, she's back to normal." Danny assured. "It might've just been one freaky thing that was only temporary."

Sure it was. Takuya thought. "Well, it's passed, so let's get our seats."

"But… what about our snacks?" Andy pouted. "I can't watch a movie without popcorn."

Takuya sighed. "Okay, we'll get the popcorn." He looked at Andy. "What size popcorn do you want?"

"I usually get a medium, but if you're offering…" Andy grinned.

---

Takuya was carrying a monster sized popcorn with drinks, and some boxes of candy.

"Did you have to have a monster sized popcorn?" Takuya groaned.

"It's meant for all of us to share, and I did say I would carry the drinks," Andy pointed out.

"Yeah, but you were the one who insisted on carrying everything, so there you go~" Danny smiled.

"Sometimes you two are just too much…" Takuya grumbled. But I still love them anyways.

When they came into the theater room, it was already almost packed with people.

"Let's head to the back, it's easier to see the screen from there, and less people are usually up there," Andy suggested.

"Wait, where's Tucker? Shouldn't he be saving our seats?" Danny asked before he started to look around for their friend.

"He… didn't come?" Takuya frowned. Sure enough, Tucker was nowhere to be seen. "Is he still in that empty theater for My Little Pony?"

"What?" Danny blinked.

"I'll go check on him. You and Danny go ahead and save our seats," Andy volunteered.

Takuya nodded. "Okay. you go do that." He turned and walked off to the back of the theater room with Danny, leaving Andy to go and search for Tucker.

When Andy looked around in the My Little Pony theater, he didn't see Tucker anywhere, and frowned. Did something happen to him?

"Something's not right…" Dorimon spoke up, seeing how they were in an empty place. "I smell the stench of ghost power around here."

"What?" Andy frowned, now even more worried. "That doesn't bode well for us… or Tucker."

"Yeah…" Dorimon murmured. "Tech boy is gone…"

Andy looked back at Dorimon. "Can you smell where the ghost went?"

Dorimon sniffed the air. "... Odd… I smell two different ghost aura, one is much closer though."

"Where is it?" Andy asked, deciding to go for the closer one.

"It's… in that last movie room you were just in with Takuya and Danny," Dorimon answered.

Andy frowned. "That's not good…" He then turned to leave. "We have to get back there in case Danny and Takuya are in trouble."

Dorimon pulled himself back into the backpack as Andy hurried out of the empty theater, and went back into the Dead Teacher 4 one. When Andy got there, he saw a series of odd things happening.

Before Andy's eyes, he watched as some unknown force munched on an old lady's popcorn, took a slurp from a woman's cup, moved an old man's toupee onto a child's head, and wrapped a nerds arm around a teenage girl before she raised a hand and punched the nerd in the face.

Dorimon shivered in Andy's backpack at the same time this was going on. "Ghost energy…"

Andy frowned, he cautiously made his way up the theater, trying to find where Takuya and Danny were sitting.

Takuya stood up and waved a hand to Andy; they were in the back, with Takuya sitting near the edge of the seats, close to the aisle. Andy quickly made his way over, but also tried not to step on anyone's toes as he made his way over.

"Takuya, Danny, hey," Andy whispered before he sat down next to Takuya, he then whispered in Takuya's ear. "Dorimon says there's a ghost here, and I did see some weird things going on earlier, so I'm inclined to believe him."

Takuya frowned at that. "I did see the nerd get punched by that girl earlier too, so… if Dorimon senses a ghost, I'm inclined to believe it was the work of a ghost being up to mischief."

"Did you say 'ghost'?" Danny asked, looking at them, which caught Takuya and Andy by surprise that Danny heard them at all. "Are you two talking about the movie or… something else?"

"The movie, of course," Takuya quickly said.

Andy nodded before he whispered quieter to Takuya, Takuya had to strain his hearing to hear it. "Just keep an eye out in case this ghost does something bad."

Takuya gave an imperceptible nod, trying to remain focused on the movie. When we get back to the house, Andy and I will have to talk about what happened today, hopefully in my room where no one can hear us easily. And that includes Danny hearing our whispering.

For the rest of the movie, Takuya couldn't help but jump whenever someone screamed during a quiet moment. The fact that there was a real ghost in the theater room they were in really didn't help his nerves with the horror movie that was playing on screen. Andy was grabbing a lot of popcorn from the box, and he was also feeding Dorimon some, who really liked the popcorn and almost jumped into the entire popcorn box. Danny was grabbing some popcorn too as he was really into the movie.

Even though he was jumpy, Takuya somehow found he was still enjoying the movie, despite jumping at least ten times while the movie was playing. It made him feel oddly excited as well. But then again, when fighting Digimon I felt the same way before. Takuya couldn't help but muse to himself.

There were a few more odd occurrences going on during the movie, more people's popcorn suddenly got eaten by an invisible being, and another person stared at their drink when they heard the sound of it being sipped. There was someone who let out a bit of a yelp before they glared at the guy next to them.

Takuya couldn't help but feel bad for the poor confused man who was getting glared at by the girl. The way he looked so confused indicated he didn't do what she thought he did.

Okay, I'm sure this ghost is causing mischief now. Takuya thought as he tried to spot the ghost, but to no avail. He didn't have his other form's enhanced senses when as a human, so he was pretty much like any other human, save for the Digimon instincts he had when he sensed ghosts.

What was odd, however, was that Danny didn't seem to notice the ghost's presence. Usually when a ghost was nearby, Takuya would see a blue mist coming out of Danny's mouth, but he hadn't seen any mist coming out lately since the big headed Paulina incident.

The movie was finally over. As the credits rolled with creepy music playing in the background, the people began leaving the theater room. Takuya, Andy, and Danny could hear the people, mostly the girls, complaining about being touched at an inappropriate spot.

"Jeez, lots of pervy guys here today," Danny muttered as they were walking out of the theater room.

Takuya saw nothing but bits of popcorn leftover in the box, and he proceeded to throw it away at the nearest trash can.

"Seems someone enjoyed the popcorn~" Takuya teased, knowing it wasn't all just Andy who ate the box.

Dorimon was licking his buttery lips while Andy held him.

"Hey, it was a monster size, we might as well all enjoy it," Danny chuckled.

Takuya chuckled as well, knowing that Dorimon had eaten at least a quarter of that large box by himself, not that Danny knew it anyway.

Takuya did notice that the presence of the ghost that was in the theater room was gone, so it had likely left after the movie was over.

Looking around, Takuya tried to figure out where the ghost had gone, but he couldn't sense it. He frowned to himself. Okay, why can't I sense this ghost? I mean, Dorimon sensed it, so that means I should have been able to as well. He then remembered what the difference between him and Dorimon was. Of course, since Dorimon is pure Digimon, he has a sharper sense for this, so it makes sense now that I think about it.

And unfortunately, Takuya couldn't ask Dorimon to track the ghost with so many people around.

The group left the theater, heading outside.

"I'd like to know where Tucker went at least, did he go home early?" Danny frowned as they stood outside of the movie theater doors.

"I don't know," Takuya mused. "I think he may have, but I'm only guessing at this point."

"That's all we can assume right now, maybe we can ask him when we see him later," Andy suggested.

Suddenly, the blue mist came out of Danny's mouth, while Dorimon shivered but suppressed a growl in Andy's arm, and Takuya felt heat again. They heard someone screaming above them, before looking up, only to see a flying car with a surfboard on its roof flying around uncontrollably.

"... Either the future is now, or a ghost is making that car fly," Andy said, staring up at the car in disbelief.

Takuya frowned to himself. "And I'm thinking it's the latter because of that green mist around it." He then gave a glance at his D-Tector. Should I risk it? Takuya shook his head. No. BurningGreymon is too large to handle that, and my Fusion form? No way. That's a last resort only.

"Ah…" Danny looked around for a moment. "Andy, you and Takuya should get home."

"What about you?" Andy asked, seeing his brother starting to move to behind the ticket booth.

"I'll meet you two later, just go!" Danny said frantically.

Takuya frowned, as did Andy. But in the end, the older boy sighed and grabbed Andy's arm gently. "C'mon, Andy. It's obvious he wants us to leave." Takuya gently pulled Andy along, away from Danny.

Andy frowned as Takuya pulled him away. Not long after, they both saw Phantom flying into the sky, going after the flying car. Though they could've sworn they saw a yellow, green, and red blur going after Phantom and the flying car as well.

"So, what do you think that other blur was?" Takuya asked as he and Andy walked down the street. "It was flying after Phantom and that car for some reason."

"It was another ghost," Dorimon answered quietly. "The same one from the movie place."

Takuya looked down at Dorimon, as did Andy.

"The same ghost?" Andy asked. "What would it be doing going after Phantom?"

"I don't really know," Dorimon answered. "But… I did notice there was something… familiar about that ghost."

"Familiar?" Andy repeated.

"Yeah… like the smell of technology… but not quite as buzzing as Technus's smell. There was also a hint of meat, like the same ones we eat as food," Dorimon described.

"Technology and meat…" Takuya murmured. It sounded familiar, but he wasn't sure how it was. He knew Tucker loved meat and technology, but that didn't quite seem right.

Andy looked thoughtful for a moment. "I think Phantom will handle it for now. How about we call up Dash and see if he's up for training tonight?"

Takuya grinned. "Sure. Besides, it will help him control his Beast Spirit if we train with that this time."

Andy chuckled. "Then training it is."

---

Later, that night, in the outskirts of Amity Park

"Uh… is there a reason why you two are wearing those masks?" Dash asked Andy and Takuya.

Andy and Takuya were wearing those masks doctors usually wore when dealing with patients. Dorimon was on Andy's head, he too wore a mask on his mouth, though his was bigger since his mouth was bigger.

"I think FentonWorks should be under quarantine right now," Andy grumbled. "I saw Danny starting to get the sniffles too."

"And I don't want to get sick myself." Takuya added as he looked back at Andy. He then reached up and removed his mask. "But that's enough. We're away from FentonWorks, so we don't need them right now."

Andy nodded before he removed his own mask. "At least I was able to change into my hazmat suit. Just hope Mom and Dad didn't put their icky germs all over it…"

Takuya looked at Andy. "Well, it will at least provide some protection, although against Digimon, I'm not sure how well that will work out."

"It's for training, Takuya. I'm not getting my regular clothes all torn up," Andy rolled his eyes.

Takuya sighed. "Okay, so, should we evolve?" He held up his D-Tector.

Dorimon jumped down from Andy's head, using his little stubby limbs to remove the mask from his mouth. "I'm ready!"

"Wait, so we're going to be working on our Beast Forms, right?" Dash asked. "Would it be a good idea for Andy and Dorumon to be a part of this training? Won't it be too much for them?"

Takuya paused, realizing Dash had a good point. "Huh… That is a good point."

"Don't worry about us," Andy spoke up. "Considering how many times we ended up facing with Ultimate level Digimon, it might be best for us to be able to battle against stronger Digimon to better prepare ourselves. We may not be able to match power with power, but there are still ways to take down a stronger opponent."

Takuya chuckled. "That is true."

Dash wasn't so sure, but if it would help Andy, he could go for it. "I guess we just need to watch where we step then." It was an attempt to lighten the mood.

Although Andy and Dorimon didn't show it, they were a bit nervous, and unsure themselves.

"Right, let's evolve then!" Takuya said. "You know how to activate your beast spirit, right?"

Dash looked down at his D-Tector. "It's the same as the Human Spirit, right?"

Takuya nodded. "Yeah. It basically is, it's just more powerful."

Dash gave a confirmation nod. He focused and a ball of fractal code appeared around his left hand as the tan outline of his second Spirit appeared on the screen of his D-Tector. He slammed the D-Tector against the coding, running it along the scanner. "Execute! Beast Spirit Evolution!" The phrase came out like he knew it all along. As the code cocoon swirled around his body, Dash cried out at the power flowing into his body. His skin became bark and twin tails grew from his spine's base as his legs became more like an iguana's with his arms following suit. Leaves sprouted from his back, and a large flower appeared around his neck. Landing, the newly evolved creature called out it's name. "Petaldramon!"

As soon as Dash was evolved, coding surrounded Takuya and he became BurningGreymon once more. At the same time, coding surrounded Dorimon and he digivolved into Dorumon.

Once the sparring began, Andy and Dorumon quickly jumped away as Petaldramon charged into BurningGreymon. The two dragons began to duke it out physically with each other. Andy and Dorumon watched from a bit of a distance away.

"... Andy? Doesn't it feel like they're always getting stronger much faster than we are?" Dorumon asked after a while. "I mean… just last week, Dash discovered he can turn into a Digimon, and now he's rivaling BurningGreymon. Yet here I am, still unable to even go to my Champion level."

Andy put a comforting hand on Dorumon's head. "I understand how you feel, buddy. Sometimes I wonder if I'm actually helping or if I'm just being in the way. We haven't been able to really do a lot of damage to most of the Digimon we come in contact with, we've mostly just slowed them down for Takuya or Dash to hit."

The two of them watched as Petaldramon seemed to be physically stronger between the two, which made sense since his human form was much buffer than Takuya's, and he was pushing BurningGreymon back.

However, BurningGreymon had the experience that Petaldramon lacked, so he was already planning something. Flaring his orange wings, BurningGreymon took to the air and away from Petaldramon. "Heh, gotta love flight~"

"What do you think we should do?" Dorumon asked as they kept watching the two giant beasts go at it with each other. "We don't stand a chance in a fight against two powerful Beasts."

"Don't worry, I think we can come up with something to at least give them a run for their money," Andy chuckled. "Come on, let's move, we don't want them to see us."

Andy moved through the bushes, and Dorumon hurried behind him.

Both BurningGreymon and Petaldramon were not aware of what Andy was doing, they were too caught up in their battle with each other.

Dash stood up on his hind legs before the leaves on his neck began to spin. "Leaf Cyclone!"

The area was covered in razor sharp leaves that were in a cyclone, trapping BurningGreymon in midair. While BurningGreymon was trying to break free from the cyclone without burning the leaves that would no doubt cause a forest fire, he suddenly felt something heavy and hard slam into his head with a THUD. BurningGreymon gave a confused look at where he thought the thing hit him came from, but he didn't see anything. He felt another hard thing slam into his tail next.

Looking around, BurningGreymon tried to figure out what had hit him. His head gave a slight ache, and his tail was throbbing a bit, but he felt fine overall as the leafy attack faded away.

"You'll have to try better than that, I am the Warrior of Fire after all!" BurningGreymon stated.

"Then come down here and fight me like a real mon!" Petaldramon challenged.

BurningGreymon did just that, flying down and landing before he ran at Petaldramon, forgetting all about being hit by whatever it was that hit him earlier. While the two big beasts were fighting again, Andy and Dorumon were standing on a tree branch. Dorumon was flapping his wings a little, hovering over the tree branch.

"Okay, try this one," Andy whispered, holding up an iron ball in his hand.

Dorumon chomped down on the iron ball, and held it in his mouth before facing the two beasts.

Andy held up his hand before pointing forward, making that the signal for Dorumon to spit the iron ball out. It ended up hitting BurningGreymon's arm.

"No good, it keeps bouncing off. I need the ball to stick for it to work…" Andy frowned.

BurningGreymon looked down, only to see an iron ball on the ground. He cocked an eyebrow mentally, but paid it no heed. It's most likely Andy trying something new. He thought.

Andy frowned some more. How can I get the balls to stick long enough? Looking around, Andy could see some things, like a stream running through it, etc. Then an idea came to him. Maybe mud could get it to stick?

Andy looked down to see he was still on the tree branch, with no mud nearby. No, too limiting… and the streets of Amity Park don't always have mud readily available.

Andy did get an idea from the water, however. Liquidation…

Andy quickly took out his notepad and pen and began to write something down. I don't know, this might take double the time to pull off, but I might as well see if I can do it.

"Thorn Jab!" Petaldramon stabbed his two tails into the ground, and caused several thorns and vines to pop up from the ground that grabbed and sunk their needles into BurningGreymon's armor.

BurningGreymon struggled against the vines and thorns; even though he was the Warrior of Flame, he was not risking setting the forest on fire. Then, he had an idea. "Slide Evolution!" Fractal code surrounded him and he reverted to his Human Spirit form of Agunimon. This allowed him to slip out of the vines and thorns, landing away from where he had been trapped earlier. "Heh, have to have more than one way out of a trap."

"Oh, so we're also free to just turn into our Human Spirits too?" Petaldramon blinked.

"Yep." Agunimon chuckled. "Although I was going to return to my Beast Spirit anyway." Fractal code surrounded him once more and he reverted back to his Beast Spirit. "I didn't want to set the forest on fire trying to get out anyway."

Suddenly, BurningGreymon felt something wet and cool hit him from behind, and it stuck to him like super glue.

"Hmm? What's this?" Petaldramon questioned, rubbing against something silver and liquid on his chest. There was a small piece of paper in the liquid.

BurningGreymon tried to lift his left wing, but it was stuck to his back. "Whatever it is, I can't lift my wing because of it."

Then BurningGreymon and Petaldramon heard something that made them both pale.

"Metal Explosion."

"Not again…" BurningGreymon groaned before the explosions hit, sending him to his stomach and Petaldramon onto his back with a loud THUD.

Groaning as he tried to regain his senses, BurningGreymon figured out what that was. "And that was Andy's doing…" Looking around, he didn't see the boy anywhere.

"Where is he anyways?" Petaldramon questioned, groaning a bit from the explosion as he managed to get back on his feet.

Andy and Dorumon were hiding in the bushes. Andy wished he could've been cool and did tree hopping like ninjas did in anime, but he wasn't anywhere near skilled for that.

Still, I suppose this is just as good. Andy thought as he watched the two Beast Warriors trying to figure out where he was hiding. Seeing them looking around cluelessly made him grin.

Okay, now for our next move~ Andy smirked.

Suddenly, there were three more iron balls, rolling towards them. BurningGreymon and Petaldramon quickly moved away before they exploded like the bombs that they were.

BurningGreymon knew Andy was in the area, but where was the question. Then, he did something a bit odd; he sniffed the air. The scent of latex and body odor hit his nose, and BurningGreymon was able to get an idea of where Andy was located.

BurningGreymon, of course, wasn't planning to attack Andy since he could seriously hurt the boy. But he could catch him at least. BurningGreymon went towards the bush Andy was hiding in. Of course, Andy didn't expect that, and he gasped before he and Dorumon were suddenly grabbed by the dragon.

"So that's where you were," BurningGreymon joked. "Not bad, but a Digimon could sniff you out just as I did."

Dorumon had something in his mouth, however, then he spat it out at BurningGreymon's face.

The Beast Warrior of Flame was startled and he accidentally dropped Andy as it hit him in the face. Andy, thankfully, landed in the bush, followed by Dorumon who was also dropped.

Andy and Dorumon quickly scrambled away as BurningGreymon was trying to get the liquid metal off his face. Thankfully Dorumon didn't aim for the eyes, just the mouth.

BurningGreymon was able to claw the metal off, gasping in air once it was gone.

"Sneaky kid…" He chuckled.

"Great lesson, keeping my scent covered, I'll have to remember that. I only got lucky this time because Dorumon already had an attack ready in his mouth," Andy commented.

---

In the end, Dash and Takuya were exhausted from battling each other. Andy and Dorumon were covered in leaves and twigs. Andy was covered in a lot of dirt and metal liquid himself, likely to try to keep his scent as hidden as possible.

"That wasn't a bad trick, with those sneak attacks…" Takuya panted as he looked at his cousin. "The metal liquid… was new…"

"I mean… I think he… used it before, but… only after it was… thrown, and hardened… the liquid afterwards…" Dash commented.

"Yeah… but doing so does take up a lot more time. I have to write the code for liquidation, stick it to the iron ball, have Dorumon put it in his mouth, then have him melt it, then spit it out, and then activate the next code attached with it," Andy explained. "It would only work effectively if the enemy is distracted with something else. We do need to be more immediate with our attacks, so liquidation will only be used if it's necessary."

Takuya nodded. "Yeah… good idea to save it for if it is necessary…" He then remembered that flying car. "Oh! There was something weird… that happened… after we saw a movie…"

"What?" Dash asked as he looked at his two friends. Well, three if Dorumon was counted in.

"There was some kind of… green mist around a car… and it was flying…" Takuya explained. "Andy saw it too…"

"Green mist…? Oh… maybe it was that… ghost woman we saw… back at the football field… I remember she tried… to use that green mist… on me," Dash remarked.

"The cotton candy ghost?" Dorumon frowned.

"I… think she does more than create a sea of cotton candy, Dorumon," Andy chuckled slightly.

Takuya frowned at that. "I remember that girl said she wanted cotton candy. It was like it was what she desired." Something was nagging at him, and he wanted more information. He then looked at Dash. "Did you say anything before that mist came out before you evolved that time?"

"I… did remember feeling really frustrated about constantly getting ganged up on and beaten up whenever I had the ball. I said 'I wish I could turn into the kind of monster to crush these guys single handed'. Not that I actually meant that, if I did I would've spirit evolved into Arbormon," Dash quickly explained. "It was just something I said out of frustration."

Takuya nodded. "Well, I think I can say that this ghost seems to grant wishes." He mused. "Although it's just a guess based on two incidents."

"That girl did really want cotton candy, I could hear her screaming, it really hurt my ears," Dorumon groaned.

"And Dash wished to become a monster… which I guess, technically came true when he turned into Petaldramon," Andy chuckled at the irony of it. "There was that incident with Paulina becoming that big, freaking, scarier than any horror movie monster, anime bobble head. So… Dorumon did say he thought he smelled that ghost woman again briefly in the room Tucker was in while we were at the movie theater, and then he smelled another ghost that was in the theater room we were in during the Dead Teacher 4 movie. And then we saw that flying car. So…"

Andy frowned as he started trying to put two and two together. "... I think… Tucker may have made a wish, and that was why we didn't see him at the theater anymore."

"But what kind of wish?" Dash asked. "I mean, what could he have wished for?"

Takuya frowned. "I'm not sure…" He trailed off, wondering if Tucker would be okay.

Andy looked worried.

"Did you figure something out, Andy?" Dorumon asked.

"... Maybe… I don't want to say anything until I know for sure though," Andy said. "Because… it's… or it should be… impossible, or…" Andy shook his head. "I think we should keep a close eye on Tucker at school tomorrow."

Takuya blinked, as did Dash.

"Okay… That might not be a bad idea." Takuya agreed.

"So we have to keep an eye on Foley? Great…" Dash sighed.

"It'll be easier for Takuya and I since we usually hang around him, Danny, and Sam, but… if he does wander off, you'll have to keep an eye on him for us," Andy said to Dash. "Maybe we should get some walkie talkies or something so we can stay in touch with each other."

Takuya held up his D-Tector. "Well, Dash and I can use our D-Tectors, and you have your D-Arc. All three of these things were once our phones, so we can use these if we have to."

Dash looked at his own D-Tector. "Hey, that's right."

"Uh… how do I use this to call you two then?" Andy asked, looking at his D-Arc.

"I think there's a call button on it?" Takuya suggested.

Andy looked at Takuya. "You don't know, do you?"

Dorumon chuckled a little. "Maybe you should just push buttons and see what happens?"

Takuya chuckled sheepishly. "Well, I know the button combination on my D-Tector for that, but a D-Arc is different from a D-Tector so I'm not sure how to help with that. Sorry…"

Andy sighed. "I'll play with it when we get back home, maybe I'll figure it out then."

"Sounds good," Dash said. "Until then, we'll keep an eye on Foley, and that genie lady ghost."

"Yeah, and until we do, nobody make a wish," Andy grumbled. "Genies are known for twisting your words."

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Titanic X: ZAFT: Glad you liked it. :)

Titanic X

I loved this! :D Especially the ending. :) How it was easily resolved without violence. :)

Luna Lillyth: DarkFoxKit: Well, to be fair, I doubt the idea that Danny is half ghost ever came to mind. It was either believe Danny had a ghost living inside him or… he is the ghost, and that means he's dead. I'm pretty sure it's easy to see why they chose to believe the former.

ZAFT: It makes sense, since neither would want to admit their brother and cousin is dead. It would be hard on both of them, namely poor Andy.

GirlFish: ZAFT: Okay…? Well, it is possible to have a Digimon warn Takuya, but we will have to see as the story goes on.

DarkFoxKit: Yes, I have seen that movie, a long time ago. It had quite an interesting concept.

Oh? You think Bakemon isn't scary? *Gives an evil laugh* Well, unlike the Box Ghost, the Bakemon did trap and round up a lot of humans in the Digimon series.

ZAFT: Bakemon are scary. To me at least. *Shivers*

DarkFoxKit: And let's not forget their cousins the Soulmon~

ZAFT: *Screams*

DarkFoxKit: Calm down, ZAFT, there aren't any Bakemon or Soulmon here. Or are there? :3

ZAFT: XD Anyway, we might do the Demon Lords, but we will see.

DarkFoxKit: As of right now, we have no plans for the Demon Lords.