Demona was in a foul mood as she walked the streets of Odaiba. She had been
awoken earlier that morning. A girl from her school had come by, wanting to
know if she knew some missing girl. How rude, she thought to herself.
She knew the girl who had come to see her. The missing girl she had only met the other day. Strange she disappeared. But that wasn't what bothered her. It was the fact that ever since yesterday, she had had this weird feeling inside her. Like someone she knew was in trouble. Yesterday night she had a horrible dream, that somewhere, someone she cared about was trapped and needed her. Normally she didn't care for anyone; but something about the person in the dream.Something about that person was familiar. She felt like she knew them, somehow. It didn't make a lot of sense; she couldn't really describe the way she was feeling.
Another thing that bothered her was that little prep. From the moment she saw her, she felt like that girl had done something horrible to her, and she didn't know why. Just thinking about her made it worse. She tried to remember the name.Kari, that was it. Kari.she was so cute and innocent it was disgusting. But something about her made her feel ill. It wasn't just the fact that she was a little goody-goody; there was something more.
She walked into a park, just pondering all the strange things in her head. The hot sun beamed down on her. She hated the heat, and she hated the sun. She liked the dark, always had. Normally she'd stay indoors on a day like this, but for some reason, she wanted to walk around. She wasn't sure where she was going or why.
Suddenly she stopped dead in her tracks. She thought she had heard her name, but there was no one there. Demona decided to just keep walking; she was starting to feel like she was losing it. She just felt strange all over. Then she heard it again. She spun around and yelled, "What?!" But there was nothing, no one.
Demona cursed under her breath. She figured the heat was getting to her. She pulled the sunglasses out of her dark red hair and adjusted them over her eyes. But as she did she heard her name again. This time when she turned around she saw small silver and black egg in the direction the voice was coming. Demona just cocked an eyebrow.
"I didn't know Easter eggs came in those colors," she said, walking over to the egg.
"It's not an Easter egg." a male voice informed her. Suddenly, everything became very dark and foggy.
"What the hell?" Demona yelped, turning around. She nearly fell over when she saw the man behind her. Piedmon smiled.
"I didn't mean to scare you, little one," he lied through his teeth. "Don't you want to meet your partner?" He then pointed to the egg. She just stared at him. Now she thought she had really lost it: a ten-foot-tall freaky clown was talking to her. He realized she was still baffled.
"Just take this; you'll understand everything soon enough," he told her, throwing her a black Digivice. He didn't have time to explain to every one of these human brats what was going on; let their Digimon deal with that. Demona caught the device and before she knew it the egg started to glow. A small little puppy thing took its place.
"Hi, I'm Salamon!" it said happily, running over to her and snuggling her legs. It then looked up, its big blue eyes twinkling. "I'm your Digimon, and I've waited for you for so long," she said, smiling.
"Oh, how cute." Piedmon said dryly. "Tell her everything on your trip to the Digital World. I will contact you when you're all together." He held out his hand and huge light appeared, sucking Demona and Salamon in. Piedmon laughed as he heard them scream.
"Now." he said. "It appears my partner is all that is left." He was about to go when a screen appeared in front of him, causing him to fall back in shock. Teena was laughing hysterically while the others smirked behind her.
"Oh man! That was great!" she said, smiling evilly. Piedmon glared at her. "Oh, what's the mater, Piedmon? I thought I'd give you a taste of your own medicine."
"Yeah, how does it feel, clown boy?" Jenny asked, laughing so hard she thought she'd burst. "That was great, Blue! How'd you do that?" Piedmon could see the young boy and his Digimon in the background at the main computer of Machinedramon's old tower. The whole group of them were laughing; even the quiet Jane couldn't help it. Piedmon jumped up in anger, his face as red as his jacket.
"Damn it, Machinedramon! What are you doing? You're supposed to be preparing our armies for take over, not playing games!" he shouted. The large dragon didn't seem to care; it wasn't his idea to do it. But even he found it amusing.
"Calm down, Piedmon; we have something important to tell you," Talia said. Piedmon just glared.
"What?!" he snapped, annoyed.
"Geez; if you're going to be like that, we don't have to tell you," Erika taunted. It seemed like all of them were enjoying this.
"Stop acting like little children and tell me what the hell you're talking about!" he demanded, trying to calm down.
"Well!" Teena scoffed, looking hurt. "Now you've just hurt our feelings.I don't think you really need to know what the DigiDestined are up too." she tantalized, trying not to smile. This got his attention.
"What?" he asked.
"Well, I don't know if we should tell you, now." Talia said teasingly; she couldn't help but join in on this. "You called us children; you should say you're sorry." she said, crossing her arms. Piedmon glared at the image on the screen.then an idea came to him. He gave an evil look to Erika.
"Erika, if you don't tell me what's going on, I might just sneak into bed with you tonight."
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! GOD, NO!" she screamed. Tuskmon started yelling at him, but he didn't care.
"Piedmon, you're one sick case, you know that?!" Jenny shouted. "You try to touch her, and I'll make sure you live to regret it!" The others were now completely serious and glared at him.
"What's the matter? Can't you take a joke.?" Piedmon smiled. "Now tell me what's going on!" he ordered. Teena glared at him
"We found out a group of kids are in that Gennai guy's old hideout." she said, trying to control her temper. Piedmon frowned.
"Machinedramon, there is a file on that chip I sent you-The guardians used it to remove people who didn't belong in the Digital World. I want you to use it to kick those little brats out of here. You know what to do after that." he commanded, then disappeared. Teena slammed her fist on the large computer.
"That asshole!" she shouted in anger.
"He wouldn't really do that? Would he, Tuskmon?" Erika asked her Digimon.
"No, Piedmon just likes to mess with people heads." Devimon said. "Don't let him get under your skin." Erika just held her head.
"So what's the plan, then?" Jane asked. She was starting to feel a little more comfortable around the other kids now.
"Okay, I'll explain everything to them," Blue said, as they gathered around him. He typed in a few keys on the keyboard and a map appeared. Machinedramon just trundled off to the other end of the room to activate the Digital World protection mechanisms on the disk.
"Okay, this is the Digital World right now. What we have to do is create a shield around it, so that we can control who gets in and out. This disk can help us do that. That way, we don't have hundreds of kids showing up to fight us. Plus, not only can we prevent the DigiDestined from getting in here, we can also use it to keep the four guardian Digimon out. Without them, the Digital World will be ours to take over, or at least that's what Piedmon explained to me when I first got here," he said.
"So we have to make this shield.alright, then what?" Talia asked.
"I guess then we start to take over the Digital World," Blue responded.
"Yeah, that's the part I never really got.why are we doing that?" Jane inquired.
"Don't you get it?" Teena said. "This is our chance to have a world of our own, a world where we belong. Plus, we have to get back at those little brats for what they did to our Digimon!" she added, looking at Devimon and winking. This shocked him; Devidramon chuckled, watching his younger brother blush.
"I agree; I'm tried of being a good guy and always being stepped on!" Erika put in.
"Me too!" Jenny agreed. Jane looked down at her partner. The little plant Digimon smiled up at her, reassuring her they were doing the right thing. Talia and Blue were a little more down-to-earth about it, and were still wondering what was right.
"I think it's time for revenge!" MetalSeadramon announced.
"That's right; as soon as we kick out the guardians, we can rebuild our world, the way we want it!" Mushroomon agreed, smiling up at Jane. He liked having a friend; now when he regained his power, he wouldn't feel so empty inside. It seemed all the Digimon were eager to retake the Digital World. They were ready to fight, and punish the ones who stood in their way of power.
Just then there was a large flash of light, and a girl fell onto the floor.
"Owww..." she groaned. "What the hell was that?!" Demona got up to see six other kids looking at her.
"Hey, I remember you!" Erika exclaimed. "You were the girl who helped me.are you one of us?" Demona just looked up, confused.
"Hey, you're all the kids that were reported missing on this mornings news," she said, getting up. Salamon walked over to her and nuzzled her again.
"Don't worry; you're with us now, and everything will be alright," she assured. Demona didn't know why, but for some reason she believed her. For the first time she felt like everything was right.
"All right, time to take over the world." Machinedramon said, pushing a button with one of his large claws.
~
TK was frantically trying to revive Gennai when there was a sudden burst of light.
"Hey, what's happening?!" Yolei shouted. The kids screamed as the light grew brighter. They felt themselves falling. Everything was spinning around them.
"Help!" Davis shouted.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.!" Cody screamed. Suddenly, they all hit the ground with a large thump. They looked around to see Izzy just staring at them in disbelief. They were in Tai's house.
"What?" Ken asked.
"I think I just lost my appetite." Veemon said. Wormmon just grunted.
"Hey Davis, get off me!" Yolei squealed.
"What happened? I was just looking up something when all of you came flying through the computer," Izzy said. Then he noticed someone else was with them. "GENNAI!"
Izzy pulled the pile of kids off Gennai, who now seemed to be coming too.
"My friends.I'm so glad you're here." he whispered. They helped him to the couch, but he didn't stay awake for long.
~
All the DigiDestined had come over to see Gennai. They sat in the room quietly. They were silent for a long time before Izzy finally spoke.
"I think I know why you were kicked out of the Digital World." he started. "It appears some program used for defense has been put into operation. Its job is to remove anyone who doesn't belong, but it goes deeper then that, though I don't understand it. From what I've found, this program is very old; it became corrupted a long time ago, but seems to be restored. I think someone it trying to keep us out."
"I knew something was wrong." Kari said, looking at Gennai.
"That's not all. There's more. Two more kids disappeared last night, but we still don't know anything about them," Joe informed them.
"Yeah, I heard that this morning," Matt confirmed.
"I also found out about the Digimon you saw, Kari," Izzy added. "Now I know it's a Virus type, but it's a very rare one. It has one natural evolution to Ultimate...Myotismon." he intoned. Everyone's eyes grew wide.
"Agggghhh." Gennai moaned, waking up again. "Children, listen to me." he whispered. "...Piedmon...he's...he's free.he came to our base.he nearly killed me.he stole all our programs to protect our world." Now the group had jumped to attention. "Listen.I'm weak...I can't stay awake for long, I need rest.all I can tell you is he's back, and I think I know what he's planning.you have to find their DigiDestined before he and the others do..." he said, rambling on.
"What?" Tai asked in shock.
"You have to find them.take this, it will help you." he gasped, pulling something out of his pocket. "You have to find them before they do.they're just children.they don't know what their Digimon are capable of.you have to protect them." His voice faded as he drifted back into sleep, leaving the group in total disbelief of what they had just heard.
~
Piedmon held the small device in his large hand. It was glowing; he was getting close now. He smiled.
"Soon I'll find you.then nothing shall stop me."
She knew the girl who had come to see her. The missing girl she had only met the other day. Strange she disappeared. But that wasn't what bothered her. It was the fact that ever since yesterday, she had had this weird feeling inside her. Like someone she knew was in trouble. Yesterday night she had a horrible dream, that somewhere, someone she cared about was trapped and needed her. Normally she didn't care for anyone; but something about the person in the dream.Something about that person was familiar. She felt like she knew them, somehow. It didn't make a lot of sense; she couldn't really describe the way she was feeling.
Another thing that bothered her was that little prep. From the moment she saw her, she felt like that girl had done something horrible to her, and she didn't know why. Just thinking about her made it worse. She tried to remember the name.Kari, that was it. Kari.she was so cute and innocent it was disgusting. But something about her made her feel ill. It wasn't just the fact that she was a little goody-goody; there was something more.
She walked into a park, just pondering all the strange things in her head. The hot sun beamed down on her. She hated the heat, and she hated the sun. She liked the dark, always had. Normally she'd stay indoors on a day like this, but for some reason, she wanted to walk around. She wasn't sure where she was going or why.
Suddenly she stopped dead in her tracks. She thought she had heard her name, but there was no one there. Demona decided to just keep walking; she was starting to feel like she was losing it. She just felt strange all over. Then she heard it again. She spun around and yelled, "What?!" But there was nothing, no one.
Demona cursed under her breath. She figured the heat was getting to her. She pulled the sunglasses out of her dark red hair and adjusted them over her eyes. But as she did she heard her name again. This time when she turned around she saw small silver and black egg in the direction the voice was coming. Demona just cocked an eyebrow.
"I didn't know Easter eggs came in those colors," she said, walking over to the egg.
"It's not an Easter egg." a male voice informed her. Suddenly, everything became very dark and foggy.
"What the hell?" Demona yelped, turning around. She nearly fell over when she saw the man behind her. Piedmon smiled.
"I didn't mean to scare you, little one," he lied through his teeth. "Don't you want to meet your partner?" He then pointed to the egg. She just stared at him. Now she thought she had really lost it: a ten-foot-tall freaky clown was talking to her. He realized she was still baffled.
"Just take this; you'll understand everything soon enough," he told her, throwing her a black Digivice. He didn't have time to explain to every one of these human brats what was going on; let their Digimon deal with that. Demona caught the device and before she knew it the egg started to glow. A small little puppy thing took its place.
"Hi, I'm Salamon!" it said happily, running over to her and snuggling her legs. It then looked up, its big blue eyes twinkling. "I'm your Digimon, and I've waited for you for so long," she said, smiling.
"Oh, how cute." Piedmon said dryly. "Tell her everything on your trip to the Digital World. I will contact you when you're all together." He held out his hand and huge light appeared, sucking Demona and Salamon in. Piedmon laughed as he heard them scream.
"Now." he said. "It appears my partner is all that is left." He was about to go when a screen appeared in front of him, causing him to fall back in shock. Teena was laughing hysterically while the others smirked behind her.
"Oh man! That was great!" she said, smiling evilly. Piedmon glared at her. "Oh, what's the mater, Piedmon? I thought I'd give you a taste of your own medicine."
"Yeah, how does it feel, clown boy?" Jenny asked, laughing so hard she thought she'd burst. "That was great, Blue! How'd you do that?" Piedmon could see the young boy and his Digimon in the background at the main computer of Machinedramon's old tower. The whole group of them were laughing; even the quiet Jane couldn't help it. Piedmon jumped up in anger, his face as red as his jacket.
"Damn it, Machinedramon! What are you doing? You're supposed to be preparing our armies for take over, not playing games!" he shouted. The large dragon didn't seem to care; it wasn't his idea to do it. But even he found it amusing.
"Calm down, Piedmon; we have something important to tell you," Talia said. Piedmon just glared.
"What?!" he snapped, annoyed.
"Geez; if you're going to be like that, we don't have to tell you," Erika taunted. It seemed like all of them were enjoying this.
"Stop acting like little children and tell me what the hell you're talking about!" he demanded, trying to calm down.
"Well!" Teena scoffed, looking hurt. "Now you've just hurt our feelings.I don't think you really need to know what the DigiDestined are up too." she tantalized, trying not to smile. This got his attention.
"What?" he asked.
"Well, I don't know if we should tell you, now." Talia said teasingly; she couldn't help but join in on this. "You called us children; you should say you're sorry." she said, crossing her arms. Piedmon glared at the image on the screen.then an idea came to him. He gave an evil look to Erika.
"Erika, if you don't tell me what's going on, I might just sneak into bed with you tonight."
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! GOD, NO!" she screamed. Tuskmon started yelling at him, but he didn't care.
"Piedmon, you're one sick case, you know that?!" Jenny shouted. "You try to touch her, and I'll make sure you live to regret it!" The others were now completely serious and glared at him.
"What's the matter? Can't you take a joke.?" Piedmon smiled. "Now tell me what's going on!" he ordered. Teena glared at him
"We found out a group of kids are in that Gennai guy's old hideout." she said, trying to control her temper. Piedmon frowned.
"Machinedramon, there is a file on that chip I sent you-The guardians used it to remove people who didn't belong in the Digital World. I want you to use it to kick those little brats out of here. You know what to do after that." he commanded, then disappeared. Teena slammed her fist on the large computer.
"That asshole!" she shouted in anger.
"He wouldn't really do that? Would he, Tuskmon?" Erika asked her Digimon.
"No, Piedmon just likes to mess with people heads." Devimon said. "Don't let him get under your skin." Erika just held her head.
"So what's the plan, then?" Jane asked. She was starting to feel a little more comfortable around the other kids now.
"Okay, I'll explain everything to them," Blue said, as they gathered around him. He typed in a few keys on the keyboard and a map appeared. Machinedramon just trundled off to the other end of the room to activate the Digital World protection mechanisms on the disk.
"Okay, this is the Digital World right now. What we have to do is create a shield around it, so that we can control who gets in and out. This disk can help us do that. That way, we don't have hundreds of kids showing up to fight us. Plus, not only can we prevent the DigiDestined from getting in here, we can also use it to keep the four guardian Digimon out. Without them, the Digital World will be ours to take over, or at least that's what Piedmon explained to me when I first got here," he said.
"So we have to make this shield.alright, then what?" Talia asked.
"I guess then we start to take over the Digital World," Blue responded.
"Yeah, that's the part I never really got.why are we doing that?" Jane inquired.
"Don't you get it?" Teena said. "This is our chance to have a world of our own, a world where we belong. Plus, we have to get back at those little brats for what they did to our Digimon!" she added, looking at Devimon and winking. This shocked him; Devidramon chuckled, watching his younger brother blush.
"I agree; I'm tried of being a good guy and always being stepped on!" Erika put in.
"Me too!" Jenny agreed. Jane looked down at her partner. The little plant Digimon smiled up at her, reassuring her they were doing the right thing. Talia and Blue were a little more down-to-earth about it, and were still wondering what was right.
"I think it's time for revenge!" MetalSeadramon announced.
"That's right; as soon as we kick out the guardians, we can rebuild our world, the way we want it!" Mushroomon agreed, smiling up at Jane. He liked having a friend; now when he regained his power, he wouldn't feel so empty inside. It seemed all the Digimon were eager to retake the Digital World. They were ready to fight, and punish the ones who stood in their way of power.
Just then there was a large flash of light, and a girl fell onto the floor.
"Owww..." she groaned. "What the hell was that?!" Demona got up to see six other kids looking at her.
"Hey, I remember you!" Erika exclaimed. "You were the girl who helped me.are you one of us?" Demona just looked up, confused.
"Hey, you're all the kids that were reported missing on this mornings news," she said, getting up. Salamon walked over to her and nuzzled her again.
"Don't worry; you're with us now, and everything will be alright," she assured. Demona didn't know why, but for some reason she believed her. For the first time she felt like everything was right.
"All right, time to take over the world." Machinedramon said, pushing a button with one of his large claws.
~
TK was frantically trying to revive Gennai when there was a sudden burst of light.
"Hey, what's happening?!" Yolei shouted. The kids screamed as the light grew brighter. They felt themselves falling. Everything was spinning around them.
"Help!" Davis shouted.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.!" Cody screamed. Suddenly, they all hit the ground with a large thump. They looked around to see Izzy just staring at them in disbelief. They were in Tai's house.
"What?" Ken asked.
"I think I just lost my appetite." Veemon said. Wormmon just grunted.
"Hey Davis, get off me!" Yolei squealed.
"What happened? I was just looking up something when all of you came flying through the computer," Izzy said. Then he noticed someone else was with them. "GENNAI!"
Izzy pulled the pile of kids off Gennai, who now seemed to be coming too.
"My friends.I'm so glad you're here." he whispered. They helped him to the couch, but he didn't stay awake for long.
~
All the DigiDestined had come over to see Gennai. They sat in the room quietly. They were silent for a long time before Izzy finally spoke.
"I think I know why you were kicked out of the Digital World." he started. "It appears some program used for defense has been put into operation. Its job is to remove anyone who doesn't belong, but it goes deeper then that, though I don't understand it. From what I've found, this program is very old; it became corrupted a long time ago, but seems to be restored. I think someone it trying to keep us out."
"I knew something was wrong." Kari said, looking at Gennai.
"That's not all. There's more. Two more kids disappeared last night, but we still don't know anything about them," Joe informed them.
"Yeah, I heard that this morning," Matt confirmed.
"I also found out about the Digimon you saw, Kari," Izzy added. "Now I know it's a Virus type, but it's a very rare one. It has one natural evolution to Ultimate...Myotismon." he intoned. Everyone's eyes grew wide.
"Agggghhh." Gennai moaned, waking up again. "Children, listen to me." he whispered. "...Piedmon...he's...he's free.he came to our base.he nearly killed me.he stole all our programs to protect our world." Now the group had jumped to attention. "Listen.I'm weak...I can't stay awake for long, I need rest.all I can tell you is he's back, and I think I know what he's planning.you have to find their DigiDestined before he and the others do..." he said, rambling on.
"What?" Tai asked in shock.
"You have to find them.take this, it will help you." he gasped, pulling something out of his pocket. "You have to find them before they do.they're just children.they don't know what their Digimon are capable of.you have to protect them." His voice faded as he drifted back into sleep, leaving the group in total disbelief of what they had just heard.
~
Piedmon held the small device in his large hand. It was glowing; he was getting close now. He smiled.
"Soon I'll find you.then nothing shall stop me."