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PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE BEGINNING!

AN: Okay, I've submitted two drawings into my DeviantArt account (for which the link can be found on my profile). One is how Kagome should look in Adventure 1, while the other is how she'd look four years later in Adventure 2 along with the Digi-Egg she'd get. Both are a little rough looking since I took the picture to post them with a camera and in a not well-lit environment at that, so that would be the reason for the poor quality in the photos. If you ask about the lighting thing, then all I can tell you is that my entire house is dark and the sky outside is completely overcast with very little light anyway.

And I'm also going to say it again just in case no one read the Authot's Note in the beginning of the last chapter. I've already posted the first four chapters of my InuYasha/Digimon Frontier fic, A Different Frontier. The first chapter isn't much, while the next three are quite close to the episodes. The one after that which I've yet to post will be original, but will tie into the plot.

Anyway, enjoy the chapter!

Review, but if you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all!

-The Ninth Child-

xX-Introducing the Dark Masters-Xx

(AN: I SINCERELY HOPE YOU READ THAT AUTHOR'S NOTE ABOVE BEFORE READING!)

The DigiDestined all shouted and yelled as they were suddenly sent from floating into the sky to falling from it. The children all held tight to their Digimon partners, not wanting to lose them in the trip.

It wasn't long before they all landed on a grassy floor with a loud 'thump'.

"I guess we're back," Tai said, rubbing his head before looking over his sisters to see if they were hurt.

"In the Digital World?" Mimi asked, dazedly.

"Affirmative," Izzy nodded.

"Then why is it dark?" T.K asked

"Yeah," Matt added. "That's a little weird, since all we saw last time was usually sun, sun, and more sun."

Kagome then looked up into the sky and gasped. What could have been a nighttime sky was now filled with patches of a dark-aqua hue filled with tiny glowing specks that looked like stars. "Look up there!"

"Talk about weird," Tai breathed.

"Could that be Earth?" Matt asked.

"It must be," the auburn-haired boy told them. "It only makes sense that if we saw the Digital World from Earth that we'd see Earth from the Digital World."

It was then that Joe noticed something, or rather someone, missing. "Gomamon? Where are you?" He started patting around the tall grass and bushes of leaves nearby, trying to locate his partner.

"Joe!" the white Digimon shouted, popping his head out from within Joe's over-the-shoulder duffle. "I've been snoozing in here!"

"Huh?" Joe commented. "Then we'll just save the world with—ACK!" the older boy fell over as something small scurried over his face and the land shifted right under his feet.

"Joe!" Gomamon shouted. "Hold on!"

'Wait a second,' Kagome's eyes narrowed at the tiny pink speck she saw in the tall grass. She looked at Kari and the sisters nodded.

One by one, each of the In-Training Digimon digivolved back into their rookie forms as they headed over to help the blue-haired boy.

"Wait!" Kari called out to them, stopping the Digimon in their tracks.

Kagome and Kari slowly made their way to the patch of grass where they assumed a Digimon was hiding and knelt down before it.

"It's okay, you can come out," the brown-haired girl told whatever was in the grass.

Kagome nodded. "You're among friends," she said gently, "you don't have to be afraid."

Slowly the grass moved as a pink mouse made its way out before collapsing weakly in front of the girls and the rookie Digimon.

"Oh my goodness!" Palmon exclaimed, perking up when she saw who it was. "It's Chuumon!"

"He doesn't look too good," Mimi commented, looking worried. "I wonder what happened to him?" 'It must have been bad if Sukamon's not with him; those two are inseparable!'

"Mi-Mimi? Palmon?" Chuumon rasped. "I'm…glad you're…back to save us…"

Mimi scooped the little Digimon into her arms as the rest of the rookie Digimon and DigiDestined, bar Gomamon, Joe, Matt, and Tai, sat in a circle around her.

"Whatever happened couldn't have been good," Biyomon said grimly.

"Poor thing," Sora cooed.

It was then that the group heard a yelp from a little bit away from them. Looking over in that direction, they gasped and stared at the crumbling and shifting ground in disbelief.

"Are you trying to get a hold of Gennai?" Tentomon asked Izzy, who sat and typed away at his computer.

"Well, I'm not playing solitaire," Izzy joked.

"Hey, he's waking up!" Kagome told everyone.

"Chuumon?" Mimi asked softly.

The little mouse Digimon groaned as he awoke, still weak from whatever he'd been through. "Mimi? Then I wasn't dreaming? It really is you…"

"Why don't you tell me what happened?" Mimi asked gently.

"What happened to your friend, Sukamon?" Palmon inquired.

Chuumon, looked even more worn at that. He wore a defeated and sorrowful expression on his face as he answered, "I-I lost him!" With that, the little mouse broke into tears.

Mimi and the rest of the girls did their best to calm the little Digimon with words of comfort as they rubbed his back and ears.

Eventually, Chuumon calmed down enough to tell the DigiDestined what had happened. "After you left File Island, Sukamon and I just went on with life as usual; you know, eating, eating, and more eating. But then one day something weird happened; the ground started shifting and breaking up on us. That's how I lost Sukamon. It wasn't long before a dark force took over the Digital World and rebuilt it to make it easier to conquer. I've been in hiding ever since…"

"The Digital World's been reconstructed?" Tai asked in shock. "But how?"

"It's been completely discombobulated!" Chuumon burst out. "Everything's been bunched up over there," he nodded to a large coloured mountain just a few metres away from them, "It's called Spiral Mountain."

"So it's…all up there?" Matt commented faintly, looking up the tall structure.

"Colour me cynical," Joe added in, "but nothing surprises me about this place anymore."

"Wait," Tai said in realization. "What happened to all the other Digimon? What happened to Leomon?"

"I don't know," Chuumon shook his head. "But I've heard that they'll destroy anyone who gets in their way!"

"Who will?" Kagome asked softly, trying not to spook the little mouse anymore than he already was.

"Who?" the mouse Digimon shuddered. "The Dark Masters, of course!"

"Well they couldn't be tougher than anyone else we've fought before," Tai said.

"No way!" Chumon exclaimed. "They'll beat the pants right off of you!"

"We beat Myotismon, so we'll beat them, too!" Tai nodded determinedly.

"Don't worry," Sora told the mouse Digimon. "As long as the eight of us are together, nothing will happen to you."

It was then that a loud laugh echoed around them.

"Who's there!" Matt demanded.

"I've been waiting for you, DigiDestined!" a voice said with a slight, but barely noticeable accent. That said, the ground before the nine children exploded as a large metal snake-like Digimon shot up through the ground.

(AN: I will assume that we all know what the Dark Masters look like, so I won't be giving thorough descriptions of them. If you need a reminder, you can look them up in the links I will post below.)

"Oh no!" Chuumon all but shouted. "It's MetalSeadramon! That's one hard nose! And I mean hard nose; take my advice, this is one train you'd rather miss!"

The Digimon now dubbed as MetalSeadramon, laughed darkly took a sharp nosedive at the DigiDestined, knocking them all around to different areas, but still close enough to each other.

"Okay," Matt grunted, standing up from where he was thrown, "If that's the way you want it, then we can play rough, too!"

MetalSeadramon only gave a loud growl in response as he flew around in the air to make a comeback.

"Let's go, Agumon!" Tai said, holding up his digivice.

"Gotcha!" the orange dinosaur nodded.

"Agumon Digivolve to: Greymon!"

"It's our turn now!" Matt added.

"Gabumon Digivolve to: Garurumon!"

"Tentomon Digivolve to: Kabuterimon!"

"Palmon Digivolve to: Togemon!"

"Kudamon Digivolve to: Reppamon!"

"Gomamon Digivolve to: Ikkakumon!"

"Biyomon Digivolve to: Birdamon!"

"Salamon Digivolve to: Gatomon!"

"Patamon Digivolve to: Angemon!"

"Nova Blast!" Greymon launched his large fireball at the metal dragon, but the Digimon only broke through it, knocking Greymon out of the way.

"Meteor Wing!"

"Howling Blaster!"

Garurumon and Birdamon launched their attacks as well, but only received the same result as Greymon did. Their attacks had no effect and were shoved out of MetalSeadramon's path.

It was then that the rest of the Digimon launched their attacks together, hoping to gain at least a little leeway.

"Electro Shocker!"

"Harpoon Torpedo!"

"Hand of Fate!"

"Sky Fissure!"

"Lightning Paw!"

"How about some Needle Spray!"

But like before, MetalSeadramon only broke through the combined attacks like it was nothing, bashing the Digimon away as he flew into the air to circle above them, laughing.

"Foolish children!" the metal dragon laughed. "You should know your powers aren't strong enough!"

'I think we just realized that now,' Kagome glared up at the Digimon above them as she went over to see how badly damaged Reppamon was.

"What's going on?" Mimi asked, distraught. "How's he beating us this bad?"

"It's because he's a Mega Level Digimon!" Izzy reported, looking up from his computer. "Even nine champions won't do much damage against a Digimon like that. He's stronger than all of us combined!"

"Then we're toast without extra power!" Tai exclaimed.

"Anyone ever notice that we're always at the wrong place at just the wrong time?" Joe near whimpered.

"Now it's time to take one nasty ride!" MetalSeadramon said his nozzle-like nose began glowing aqua. "River of Power!" The aqua glow in his nose shot out to become a powerful beam that broke up the land the DigiDestined stood upon.

One by one, each of them were shot into the same direction, their Digimon keeping a tight hold on them to stop anything from separating them.

Eventually, they all had landed, however, everyone but Angemon and T.K were unconscious for the time being. When they woke, Angemon had already been shot out from the sky and had de-digivolved back to Patamon.

They turned to the attack and found themselves looking at a large machine dinosaur with a pair of large cannons on his back and hollow eye sockets in the head.

"Guys, get ready for another Mega Digimon!" Izzy warned when he came to and opened his computer. "That's Machinedramon! That metallic mutant can blow a Digimon out just like a birthday candle!"

It was then that all of the present Champion Digimon began to digivolve into their Ultimate forms.

"Greymon Digivolve to: MetalGreymon!"

"Garurumon Digivolve to: WereGarurumon!"

"Kabuterimon Digivolve to: MegaKabuterimon!"

"Togemon Digivolve to: Lillymon!"

"Reppamon Digivolve to: Chirinmon!"

"Birdamon Digivolve to: Garudamon!"

"Gatomon Digivolve to: Angewomon!"

"Ikkakumon Digivolve to: Zudomon!"

"Go!" Tai shouted. "Show him what you're made of!"

"Hope they're made of something strong enough," Kagome commented worriedly, with Kari nodding in agreement.

"Huh?" Tai looked at his sister confusedly.

The DigiDestined watched as the eight Digimon charged at the Mega Level Digimon, but they were no match for him, either. "Giga Cannon!" Machinedramon started firing out bolt after bolt nonstop from his cannons, throwing the Ultimate Digimon away one by one, before he shot the ground the children stood on, causing it to crumble from beneath them.

The group shouted as they plunged into a dark chasm, each holding on tight to their partner, or in Mimi's case, both her partner and Chuumon. But it wasn't long before they all stopped in midair.

"We…stopped?" Izzy asked. "But that's impossible!"

"But it much better than landing on our heads," Mimi pointed out.

Sudenly out of nowhere, Garudamon and WereGarurumon began fighting with one another for no apparent reason, each throwing kicks and punches at each other.

"Hey," Matt called, "can't you give it a rest for a minute or two?"

"What are you doing?" Sora asked. "We're supposed to be on the same side!"

"We can't control it!" Garudamon told them in between punches.

"We can't control our bodies!" WereGarurumon added.

"Not in control of you—Oh!" Sora was cut off when she found her body posing in ridiculous forms all by itself.

"I've always hated any form of exercise!" Joe complained. "What's happened to me!" He hung onto Zudomon's horn as his feet started a running motion in midair.

It was then that Kagome noticed something. She bent her hand at a slight angle and there they were, very thin strings attached to every joint and part of her body.

"Strings?" Kagome whispered, wiggling her fingers slightly and feeling a very faint resistance. "Guys! Someone's turned us into puppets and they're using us like a bunch of toys!"

"Hehehe! Well awen't we a little Miss Smawty Pants!" a voice squeaked from above.

They all looked up to find a Digimon that looked quite like a wooden marionette holding a large metal hammer.

"Hewe, I'ww even hewp you wook up my pwofiwe in that computew of youws!" the puppet Digimon wiggled his fingers, making Izzy's fingers move along to type on his keyboard.

(AN: I've decided to give Puppetmon a slight speech problem that most little kids have when they begin talking, mainly because he's always reminded me of a spoiled young child that does what it wants when it wants because there's no one there to teach him a lesson. So any 'L's' and 'R's' will be replaced by 'W's' when Puppetmon speaks, okay?)

"Guys!" Izzy reported. "He's another Mega Digimon! Puppetmon has a controlling personality and a rotten temper. Get him mad and he'll bop you with his hammer!"

"If you want to hit something then you should go and bop yourself for how you look in that stupid helmet!" Mimi blurted out.

"Mimi!" Lillymon gasped.

'This isn't the time for fashion advice!' Kagome smacked her forehead.

Puppetmon only laughed. "I'm gonna have to wet you go now! But I pwomise to destwoy you! Puppet Pummew!" He shifted his hammer so that the revolver face faced the children and their Digimon as it shot out yellow bolts at the group.

One by one, they were all flung away as each of the Ultimate Digimon de-digivolved back to their In-Training forms, bar Gatomon, Agumon, and Gabumon. And with that, they were all sent spiraling away to some other place.

When they woke up next, the DigiDestined found themselves in a large coliseum with four large pillars erected into the centre.

"Where are we now?" Kari asked.

It was then that a honking noise was heard.

The group turned around to find a clown in a pink-polka-dot out walking out from behind one of the pillars on a large red ball.

"Well hello there, boys and girls!" the clown greeted cheerfully.

'He's too happy…' Kagome's eyes narrowed, her hold on Kyaromon tightening ever so slightly. 'Anyone that cheerful with the state the Digital World is in right now definitely isn't someone to trust…'

"Welcome!" the clown continued. "Today, I'll be telling you all an amazing story!"

He held up a semi-bad crayon drawing of the nine DigiDestined and changed the images as his story progressed. "Once upon a time there were nine DigiDestined who went with their companions to try to save the world. The children discovered that in order to do that, they'd have to climb to the top of Spiral Mountain. But to their dismay, the Dark Masters defeated them, so sad!"

"Hey Clownie!" T.K shouted. "Nobody's laughin' at your story!"

"Oh dear, I'm so sorry!" the clown's tone turning into a mocking one. "Did I happen to mention that this story was true? I was only giving you a preview of the plot!" the clown disguise dissipated to reveal a malevolent looking clown with a black and white mask and flashy clothes with a pair of swords on his back.

"Fools!" the clown Digimon laughed as he leapt to the top of one of the pillars.

"Ah! It's Piedmon!" Chuumon said in panic. "Piedmon's a Mega Phantom Digimon of the worst kind! You never know what he's gonna look like next!"

"Well, I think your plot needs a few rewrites!" Tai retorted. He turned to look at his Digimon. "Agumon!"

"You can do it, Gabumon!" Matt nodded at his Digimon.

Both Digimon glowed as they warped to their Mega forms.

"Agumon Warp Digivolve to: WarGreymon!"

"Gabumon Warp Digivolve to: MetalGarurumon!"

"Show 'em what you're made of MetalGreymon!" Tai shouted.

"Teach that Joker a lesson he'll never forget, MetalGarurumon!" Matt called.

"Terra Force!" WarGreymon launched the giant blazing ball at the clown Digimon, who avoided the attack.

"Metal Wolf Claw!" a freezing icy gust was headed towards Piedmon, but he only broke through it with his swords.

"Trump Sword!" Piedmon threw a multi-sword barrage at the two Mega Digimon, causing them to de-digivolve back into their rookie forms.

"Even two Mega Digimon couldn't take him down!" Sora said worriedly.

"This is not good," Joe stated on the verge of panicking.

"Not to mention he's a walking fashion disaster," Mimi added.

"Your two Mega Digimon are newly evolved," Piedmon stated. "How can you expect them to go up against an experienced, and might I boast, superior Digimon such as moi?"

'He sounds like he's trying to teach us a lesson,' Kagome blinked. 'Or at least he was until he started bragging.'

"Please allow me to present my fellow actors in this charming and captivating comedy of errors," Piedmon snarked. "MetalSeadramon!"

Said Digimon burst through the ground, laughing manically.

"Machinedramon!"

The metal mutant Digimon bust through one of the pillars with a roar.

"Puppetmon!"

The marionette Digimon laughed as he appeared out of thin air. "You thought you wewe thwough with me, but I wanted to pway some mowe!"

"And myself, Piedmon!" The clown Digimon gave a small chuckle. "Now we'd like to ask our audience for volunteers, who would like to be the first to have the honour of being destroyed by the Dark Masters?"

When no one spoke up, as they were glaring at the four Mega Digimon, Piedmon's smile grew. "Oh come now, don't tell me you have stage fright?"

It seemed that the pressure had finally gotten to Mimi because the caramel-haired girl burst out into tears.

"Mimi…" Sora put a hand on her friend's shoulder as Kagome rested her hand on the other, trying to soothe the girl, but to no avail.

"Your incessant whining is getting on my nerves!" Piedmon gritted out through a clenched jaw. "You shall be the first to go!" He summoned a small dagger and threw it at Mimi.

Mimi's tears stopped as the children huddled together, before the targeted girl, when something happened that no one expected.

Chuumon leapt out of Mimi's arms and took the hit for her.

"Chuumon!" Mimi shouted. "Please! Speak to me!"

"I'm sorry, Mimi," Chuumon said, his voice growing fainter and fainter with each word, "but I think it's time for me to be deleted." And with that, the mouse Digimon's form dissipated into multicoloured sparks that drifted away on the wind.

"So now that that fool is out of the way," Piedmon coninuted as though he hadn't just destroyed an innocent Digimon, "who would like to be the next one to make their grand exit?"

"Pixi Bomb!" A small bomb with wings and an evil smile came flying before Piedmon and the Dark Masters, where it promptly exploded, causing a bright light to break out and blind the Mega Digimon, even if for a moment.

And before they knew it, the nine DigiDestined and their partners were whisked away in an invisible bubble by Piximon.

"Piximon!" T.K grinned. "Perfect timing!"

"I missed you guys, too," Piximon greeted.

"Prodigious," Izzy observed. "You used one of your famous barriers to avoid detection."

"Yup," the pink fuzzball replied.

"Piximon, you said that if the nine of us were together, we could save the world," Tai spoke, "but what's goin on? We're getting creamed by those bozos!"

"The truth is," Pizixmon said slowly, "that just being together isn't enough. There's more you need to do before you can defeat him."

'Him?' Kagome wondered. 'He's not referring to Piedmon, so there someone else out there that we need to take down before everything'll be all right?'

"But how can we know what to do if you don't help?" Sora asked.

"I'm with her," Joe agreed. "Enough with the riddles!"

Piximon shook his head. "This is something you must discover on your own."

Just then, a blast from the outside shook the bubble, allowing the field to be seen for a brief moment.

"There you are!" MetalSeadramon laughed, slithering ahead with the rest of the Dark Masters following them.

"I'll try to hold them off," Piximon told the children and Digimon before them. "You just make sure you start climbing Spiral Mountian, but you better move it."

"You can't stop them," Matt protested. "They're all Mega Digimon!"

Piximon nodded. "I know I can't win. But I should be able to distract them long enough for you to get away."

"Then I'm staying with you!" Tai said determinedly.

"No way!" Piximon shook his head. "Besides, we need you on Spiral Mountain!"

"River of Power!" MetalSeadramon shot his aqua beam at the area where he knew the DigiDestined were being hidden, exposing the bubble for a second time.

With that done, Piximon phased out of the bubble, but turned back to it to speak his last words to the children. "Please go! You all have an important task ahead of you, and once you succeed, no one will ever be able to stop you again. I know you all will make me proud!" And with that said, the pink Digimon held up his staff and bashed it against the side of the bubble, sending it flying in a certain direction.

"He's stronger than he looks," Gabumon said, trying to be optimistic through the silence that overtook the bubble.

"He'll have to be," Matt shook his head.

"Do you think he can do it?" Kari asked, looking up at her older siblings.

"I don't know, Kari," Tai told her quietly. "But I really hope he can."

Although that was meant to encourage the young girl, the elder DigiDestined and Izzy knew better. Piximon would be outmatched by the four Mega Digimon.

Just then a bright glow enveloped the collisseum.

"Oh!" Kari cried out. "Are you sure we should be leaving him there?"

"He wanted it that way, Kari," Kagome said quietly, putting her hand on her sister's shoulder. The raven-haired girl looked at her partner and asked a silent question. "Is he…"

Kudamon only nodded grimly.

Here are a couple links to the digimon I've personally added into the plotline. I've honestly wanted to put these in earlier, but I kept forgetting and the yeah... So here you go:

Kudamon: digimon . wikia wiki/Kudamon

Reppamon: digimon . wikia wiki/Reppamon

Chirinmon: digimon . wikia wiki/Chirinmon

Kyaromon: digimon . wikia wiki/Kyaromon

Locomon: digimon . wikia wiki/Locomon

Dracmon: digimon . wikia wiki/Dracmon

Sangloupmon: digimon . wikia wiki/Sangloupmon

Matadormon: digimon . wikia wiki/Matadormon

FanBeemon: digimon . wikia wiki/FanBeemon

Waspmon: digimon . wikia wiki/Waspmon

CannonBeemon: digimon . wikia wiki/CannonBeemon

Ciao,

TsukiyoTenshi