D3: THE DEAMON'S STRIKE

by max acorn

the final chapter with the best ending yet; max, son of tai and sora vs. tyler, son of takuya and zoe in a all out brawl. plus a new direction is taken

5. race for the box

MA: hey peoples. I've good some good news. Soon I will kick start my yahoo group based on the d3s. After I'm done with the writing part, I start and ask for members.
Max: will there be pics?
MA: if I can find people to draw them.
Max: cool.
MA: I don't own digimon but I do own the d3 saga so on with the fic.
D3: THE DEAMON'S STRIKE
THE RACE FOR THE BOX
" Hurry up! This is taking too long!"

" don't rush me!" snapped the warlord. We find our evil villain inside a dark cave, desperately working the solving the puzzle that was the yin yang box. And it wasn't helping that the deamons were constantly interrupting him as he worked.

" this isn't exactly easy you know. AHHH!" he yelled in pain as the magical noose around his neck tightened.

" watch your tongue slave! Or I'll rip it out!" said the leader.

" of course. I'm sorry." he said, catching his breathe and continued to move and shift the box until the box shot out of his hand and floated in the air. It then projected a large holographic map of the digi-verse. The view then shifted to one of the planets that seemed to be nothing but volcanoes. Then as suddenly as it appeared, the images stopped and the box hit the ground. the warlord looked over the box and found that one of the symbols on top of the box was raised.

" ok what the hell was that?"

" fool. The box has revealed the location of the first portal."

" but who's portal?"

" why, it's your portal, shendumon." Said the blue female digimon to the leader.

" excellent! Now, slave, you must travel to that world and open the portal."

" and I will get my revenge?"

" we'll see."
It was sunrise on central planet but not really since it was at the center of the digital universe but it just seemed like it. all over the planet, digimon train under the watch and guidance of the high ones. Once there were only four, thanks to buumon, but since the restoration, there were now hundreds on the planet and still more in the digital universe. Here, we find takuya kanabara taking in scene of the many digimon training from the round domed building he and his friends were staying, along with the tamers. So wrapped up was he in scenery that he didn't notice the person sitting next to him.

" how's the view?"
he turned to see his fellow digidestined and girlfriend zoe smiling at him.

" sorry zo. I didn't see you."

" that's surprising. You usual can sense me coming a mile away."

" I know. It's just this place. I can't believe we're here, the center of the digital universe. It's like going to heaven but you're still alive."

" it is breathtaking."

" but look at them. back where we come from, the digimon all have different issues and goals but here, every lost one of these digimon have one goal; to train and be the strongest they can be."

" I know the feeling."
The duo turned to meet the leader of the tamers, takato and his girlfriend, rika standing behind them.

" you do?"

" yeah. I had to wake up gogglehead from his day dreaming too." Said rika.

" well I guess we both have the same problem with our boyfriends." Joked zoe.

" I can see why you girls don't understand. I think this place affects fighters, I guess." Said takato.

" I agree but I feel like something happened here, something great." Added takuya as he and takato seemed to drift off again.

" they are at it again. come on zoe. Let's go scare up something to eat." Recommended rika.

" yeah. Anything's better that this." Zoe agreed as they walked off.

" you bored?"

" yep."

" wanna spar?"

" you read my mind."
" AHHHH! LOOK OUT BELOW!" Tai screamed as he fell from the sky and hit the ground. earlier, the digidestined, minus Joe, and their digimon did as Simms asked them and met up at his building only to go on a wild ride between the worlds. Next out of the rift in the sky came agumon but tai was able to catch him.

" you ok buddy?"

" I think I'm gonna be sick." He said as tai dropped him on the ground. sora and biyomon were next to fall. Tai raced forward and caught sora while the digimon hit the ground.

" tai, you caught me."

" of course I did. What kind of guy would I be if I didn't?" he smiled.

" why didn't you catch me agumon?!" yelled biyomon.

" sorry, I was kinda......" he said before he went behind a bush and vomited.

" never mind." She said as matt and gabumon dropped out of the hole.

" matt you ok?" asked tai.

" yeah. I'm cool. Gabumon?"

" I'll tell you in a minute." He said because at that moment, his horn was stuck in the ground and his fellow digimon tried to remove his horn from the ground.

" SOMEONE CATCH ME!!" screamed mimi as he landed followed by palmon who landed in her lap.

" thanks mimi." She said.

" uh nice landing mimi." Sora said as she and tai tried not to laugh but we failing badly.

" what? What wrong guys?" she asked.

" meems, are you even wondering what you just landed on?" asked tai. Curious, mimi looked down to see she had indeed landed on matt but in a strange way.

" mimi, even though I am enjoying this position very much, I need to breathe so please get your ass off my face." He said, a little muffled. Realizing where or who she was sitting on, mimi get up, allowing matt to get some air.

" you ok there man?"

" yep but if I die, that would be my way to go." He joked, just before mimi punched him in the head, while having a little blush on her face.

" keep that up and you can die." She threatened while tai and sora exploded with laughter.

" PRODIGIOUS!!" yelled izzy as he raced to the ground but was caught by tentomon.

" thanks tentomon."

" no prob, izzy."

" hey tentomon, I thought you couldn't hold more weight than yourself."

" yeah so."

" I weight more than you."

" uh-oh."
With that, both digimon and human crashed to the ground.

" tentomon, if we get back, I'm putting you on a workout program." Izzy said as he rubbed his back.

" what are you taking about izzy? I am the model of the perfect digimon. Look at these pecks!" tentomon said as he began posing and flexing what little muscle he had while everyone else sweat dropped.

" BOO YAAAAAA!" davis and veemon screamed as they were next to drop in.

" wow! Now that's what I call a ride!" cheered davis.

" can we do it again?" asked veemon.

" maybe later." Tai answered as his sister and TK came down next, holding on to each other.

" well that was scary. You ok Kari?"

" yep. thanks TK." She thanks as they got up only to find that everyone was looking at them with smiles. Tai rubbed his fingers against each other while Davis was have a spaz attack.

" how come I did land with Kari? Lucky bastard!" he sighed when patamon floated down with gatomon hanging on to his legs.

" hi everyone."

" we decided to travel first class." Said gatomon while it was veemon's turn to have his attack.

" but I like first class." He whimpered as he and davis tried comfort each other.

" YEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAW!" Whopped armadillomon as he hung on to cody as the fell and hit the ground.

" did you have to make so much noise armadillomon?"

" what's the point of flying through a big old hole in the sky if you can enjoy it?" said armadillomon.

" BANZAIIIIIIIIII!" roared yolei as she and ken came down next. TK and Kari dove out of the way as they landed in a cloud of dust.

" well that was a soft landing. You ok ken."

" just............dandy." He stranded. Yolei looked down to see that she landed on his crotch and he absorbed the impact of her fall. Hawkmon flew down with wormmon on his back, completing the team.

" it pays to have wings." Hawkmon stated as he landed on the ground.

" speak for yourself. I get air sick." Wormmon said dizzily.

" this coming from one half of the fastest digimon on four legs." Joked davis.

" WOOOO HAAAA!" whooped the last person to fall out of the portal, Simms. He did a summersault and landed on his feet. After he landed, the portal closed behind him as he dusted himself.

" sorry about the bumpy ride. I forgot it was kinda rough for everyone else." He said sheepishly.

" you can say that again." said ken as he recovered from his fall.

" Mr. Simms, can you tell me how you did that without a digi-port?" asked izzy.

" it's easy to travel between the dimensions for some one like me."

" someone like you? a billionaire?" asked tentomon.

" I'll tell you later."

" sir, where are we? I haven't been to this part of the digital world." wondered ken.

" that's because we aren't on your digital planet anymore." Said tai.

" what's that mean tai?" asked davis.

" later but we are already running late. Let's go! Simms announced.

" yo, Simms. Shouldn't you change?" tai asked, causing the man to look himself over.

" oh crap! You're right. I'd better change."
Snapping his fingers, a brief flash of light preceded his change of attire, from his business suit to his robes.

" that's better." He smiled as everyone looked at him in awe.

" ok people and digimon, let's get moving!" he commanded. The digidestined looked at tai and sora who were the only ones with some idea of what was going on. they simply nodded as they followed the man down the path. Following their lead, the rest followed them. as they walked they began to notice the area around: the trees were more like real world tree than digital world trees, the air was the freshest and cleanest they had ever smile, and the sky had almost a heaven blue glow to it as they marveled at the number of moons around the planet.

" wow." TK said, summing up what they all thought at that time.

" I know, TK. This place feels strange." Said patamon.

" do you feel the same?" Kari asked her digimon.

" yep. it feels like we shouldn't be here but it also feels like we are suppose to be here." Answered gatomon.

" tai, what is this place?"

" I guess I can tell you now Kari. This is central planet, at the very heart of the digital universe."

" did you say digital universe?" asked izzy.

" yep as in a whole universe of different digimon and we are at the equivalent of heaven." Tai explained as his friend were trying take in this new information.

" ok what's this got to do with you Mr. Simms?" asked ken.

" a lot ken and here, just call Simms. You see, every world in the digital universe has a real world counter part, a different reality as it were. Each world is assigned a watcher as it were; a high one. I am a high one and it's my job to oversee the development between humans and digimon."

" so if you are an overseer, why didn't you help us with some of the creepos that tried to kill us?" asked yolei.

" a high ones job is to guide and observe but never directly interfere with the natural event of a world, even if it's evil. Ah! We've arrived!" he announced as they reached the top of a hill allowing them to see the scene before them; on a huge grassy field, they saw dozens, if not hundreds, of digimon, all different shapes and size, training. Along side them were many high ones, much like Simms and they seemed to helping them train.

" what is this?" gabumon thought out loud.

" basically, these are digimon from all over the digi-verse to train under us. They represent different planets from different parts of the digital universe."
He explained.

" what is that?" mimi asked referring to the large dome like building in the center of the field.

" that is our destination. Now follow me and stay close." Simms warned as the group of humans and digimon walked down the hill to the mass of digimon. The destined marveled at the sheer number of digimon sparing and training on the field. Many seemed to look almost human while others looked likes animals and beast. As they passed through, a majority of them started to shoot glares at them.

" do you get feeling that we aren't really welcomed here?" asked davis.

" I wouldn't worry about it. many of these digimon haven't never seen humans before. Others have and don't think that humans belong here and the rest just don't like humans." Explained tai.

" well that's reassuring." Said yolei.

" I wouldn't worry. These digimon know not to touch you guys or they would be kicked off this planet and I doubt any of them want to leave." Said sora. After a few more yards, the group arrived at the massive doors of the building. Knocking three times, Simms opened the door and the crew of digidestined and digimon walked into the huge and spacious hall. The group ohhed and ahhed at the grandeur.

" you guys can look around for while if you want. I think we have some extra time." Said Simms.

" well, I think that's a good idea." Said matt as they splitting into smaller groups and wondered off.
" I-I can't believe it! he beat ryo!" said kazu.

" there is no god!" said kenta.

" I've never seen anything like this!" said terriermon.

" for once I have to agree." Said Henry.

" I just can't believe it; ryo, the digimon king, beaten by a kid." Continued kazu as he still had to take in the scene before them as Tommy smiled at the legendary tamer who was on the floor and his eyes rolled into his head.

" ryo? Ryo? Come on! wake up buddy!" pleaded monodramon as he hopped up and down on his stomach.

" wow he was easy! I wonder how the really hard ones are!" Tommy cheered as he looked over the cards.

" damn Tommy. You are good." said JP.

" and we just taught the kid how play a few hours ago." Kenta.

" he's what we called a prodigy." Said guardromon.

" say guys, I was wondering something." Said JP sitting down for his turn to play.

" shoot!" said kazu as he moved the still comatose ryo and sat down.

" well I was wondering about that girl?"

" who? Jeri?"

" no. the other one. the one with the spiky red hair. What's her name? Rika."

" yeah what about her?"

" has anyone tried to......I don't know......hooking up with her?" he asked timidly. The boys looked at him and suddenly burst in to fits of laughter at his question.

" dude you're crazy!" said terriermon.

" why? What's up?"

" she's the digimon queen. Sure she's cute but she's as viscous as a digimon but a thousand time more lethal." Said kazu.

" yeah. If you try to do anything with her, she'll hurt you bad. Ryo tried to for I don't know how long and all he got was death threats and beatings." Said Henry.

" besides she's with takato. You don't stand a chance." Said kenta.

" but how did he get her?"

" aside from renamon, he's the one to not get on her bad side and that's saying something."

" aww, man! I just can't win!" JP moaned.

" hey what about that zoe girl?" asked guardromon.

" she's with takuya. Hey what about that jeri girl?"

" man, don't even go there."

" why?"

" as bad as rika is, Jeri's boyfriend is a hundred times worse." Warned terriermon.

" forget chumly. It must be the goggles."

" hey kazu! Remember that time you got that crush on mimi?" kenta pointed out, causing him to turn red.

" you had a crush on mimi?! Kazu you dog!" laughed Henry.

" who's mimi?" Tommy asked.

" in our world, there was a TV called digimon about these kids also called digidestined and one of them was called mimi."

" yeah and she was hot especially in season two."

" uh guys."

" yeah with that short skirt and those shoes and that pink hair. Man she was hot."

" guys, I think you should......"

" yeah, if I had five minutes."

" she was kinda ditzy but that's all right."

" fellas I don't think you should be talking about her right now."

" no worries JP. We ain't offending any one. kenta do you think she could be easy?"

" with her brain and the way she dresses, oh yeah."

" guys, you really need to stop." Said Tommy.

" why? It's not like mimi is stand behind us or something?"
JP and Tommy merely pointed there fingers behind them with grim looks on their faces. The three tamers and digimon turned around to as sight that drained the blood from their faces; behind them stood matt and mimi, along with palmon and gabumon. And the bearer of sincerity was not too happy.

" it-it-it's mimi!" kazu and kenta exclaimed together.

" and she doesn't look too happy." Said terriermon.

"ditzy am I?! Easy am I!?" mimi said almost growling.

" you may want to run right about......... now!" warned matt as the boys took off.

" YOU COME BACK HERE! I'LL SHOW YOU EASY!!" She yelled as she burned after them in dead out run.

" it's a good thing she didn't ask me to join in." said palmon.

" PALMON, HELP ME HOLD THESE BOYS DOWN!"

" oh great."
Elsewhere we find TK, Kari, yolei, ken, davis and their digimon walked down one of the many hall ways.

" damn this place is huge." Said davis.

" much different from genni's place back home." Said Kari.

" but I wonder who this boss Mr. Simms was talking about?" said hawkmon.

" he must have some serious stroke to have all these many digimon behind him." Said yolei.

" but I tell you this much; if they had their way, those digimon would have torn up apart." Stated gatomon.

" yeah but imperildramon would've handed them easy. Right buddy?"

" right davis." Said veemon.

" I don't know davis. Those guys looked like they could eat megas for lunch." Said TK.

" no way. You worry too much TB."

" been almost two years and he still doesn't know your name." Pointed out patamon. Little did they know that at the moment around the corner, zoe, rika, and renamon were walked towards.

" man that food was great!" said zoe.

" we wouldn't know. You ate most of it." said rika.

" it's a good thing I wasn't hungry." Said renamon.

" that's nothing compared how much takuya can eat."

" I know. I've seen those two eat. It's a like feeding time at the zoo."

" yeah. They act like brothers they are so alike. They're not to smart."

" they don't think."

" and they can be a little inconsiderate."

" true but you two love them, don't you?" renamon said.

" well that's true." Said zoe.

" they are lovable." Added rika.

" zoe, you think we have some kind of disease that makes us fall in love with stupid and dense goggleheads?"

" Mmmmm. Maybe but I don't think I want to find a cure."

" but one the other hand, ladies, think about the alternatives." Said renamon, causing the girls to think about what it would be like if they were with JP and ryo. Almost on cue, both girls shuddered at the thought.

" no way!"

" never in a million years!"

" there! Now that's settle." Grinned renamon.

" good. hey! It looks like we aren't the only humans here." Rika said as she caught sight of the digidestined.

" well let's go say hi. Hi there!" zoe yelled as they approached the group.

" hey! I thought we were the only humans here." Said Kari as they met the two girls. Rika did a triple take as she looked carefully at who she was looking at.

" you-you're the digidestined from TV!" she said, in shock.

" what are talking about?" asked ken.

" oh, she must mean when we saved the world a year ago." Suggested wormmon.

" that must be it. we were on a lot of shows." Said yolei.

" no. no. I mean I saw you......"

" I know. I know. A fine guy like me is approached by a lot of beautiful women like you." davis said, winking at rika, who didn't know weather to be flattered or pissed.

" davis, what the hell are you doing?" whispered ken.

" hey man! this chick is hot! She's like Kari with a punk edge ya know!"

" and?"

" I'm gonna try and get her."

" yeah her and her digimon. She's hot!" added veemon, eyeing renamon seductively.

" but davis, she's doesn't look like the getting type."

" yeah and that digimon of hers looks like she could tear us a new one." added wormmon.

" you worry too much. Watch the master at work." he said before he went back over to the girls.

" hey cutie! Since I'm famous, why don't you and I have a little double date with our digimon?" he asked as he and veemon winked at them. rika and renamon were a little stunned; davis and veemon from the show just hit on them and asked them out.

" I'm flattered but I'm already commented to someone." Said rika.

" that goes double for me." added renamon.

" aww, come on! what's he got that I don't got?"

" let's just say that if he found out that you were hitting on me, he'd grind you into dust."

" he can't be that bad. Listen, I'll do anything for a date with you. how about I would be your little gogglehead?"
that did it; she knew about davis' determination to get Kari to like him. She knew that once he hooks to a girl, he'll do or say anything. But that was too far. Zoe didn't know rika but she knew what that meant so she and renamon backed up a few feet.

" this is not going to be pretty."

" what......did......you......say?!" rika asked as her hand and her eye twitched. The others saw this and back away but davis seemed to be ignorant of this.

" so what do you say red? I'll be your little gogglehead and we go out on a date?"

" what do I say?" she said as she got up into his face with a smile on her face, getting him to smile wider than he was. That all changed when her smile turned into a face only seen on wild animals as a low growl emanated from her mouth. As if on cue, rika leapt on to davis like a lion and began his punishment.
(authors' note: I would tell you what she is doing to him but there are men who read this.)
The digidestined and the digimon flinched as rika processed to beat the living crap out of davis. Veemon was going to jump in and save his partner but renamon just looked at him and waved her finger at him, meaning for him to not to. When it was over, she rose off her victim and dust herself while the digidestined merely stared at her.

" you guys want some too?"

" NO!" they all said at the same time.

" I'm gonna go see gogglehead." She said as she walked past.

" it was nice meeting you. hope we can be friends." zoe smiled as she took off after rika.

" sorry. I should've warned him." Renamon said before she disappeared. The other digidestined ran to his aide as he groaned and moaned from his injuries.

" davis, you all right?" asked ken.

" I-I-I-I" he slurred.

" what?" asked TK.

" I think I'm in love."
Meanwhile, we find our two young gogglehead doing what they wanted to before; spar. The two fighter traded blows and holds against each other. They were not fighting with the same intensity as before but still above what most people would consider fighting. While they had been training, guilmon wandered into the area and was now playing with a piece of bread he had found.

" did you have to beat him up that bad?"

" he was asking for it. besides, I went easy on him."
The boys stopped fighting when they heard the voices of their girlfriends filled their ears.

" hey girls!"

" how was lunch?"

" oh it was fine. I ate a lot of food, we met some new people and rika beat the life out of some boy." Informed rika.

" oh. That's good." takato said as he and takuya began sparring again while taking to the air.

" you two are just gonna float up there and ignore us?!" yelled rika.

" um, what was that?" asked takuya, causing the girls to yell and shout curse word, death threats, and other obscenities.

" man those two are so alike, it's scary." Joked takato.

" yeah I wonder if they are long lost sisters or something." Said takuya.

" maybe. Why are we with these girls. I mean, they aren't the sweetest girls there are."

" sweetest? Those two are about as sweet as a cold bullet in the ass."

" yeah. Then why are we with them?"
the two boys looked down to see that their girlfriend were still cursing and yelling at them, which somehow brought a smile on their faces.

" who else would have us?"

" yeah. They're great. Now where were we?" takato asked as they boys started to train again, while the girls were not to happy as they got tired of yelling.

" damn them. just wait 'til they get down here." Rika said.

" I'm gonna lay in to takuya so bad, he'll wish he was fighting someone else." Added zoe.

" I wouldn't. those type of boys are always like that."
the two girls to the side at the source of the comment to find a familiar red hair with a bird digimon by her side.

" aww man! you-you're sora?!" shuddered a stunned rika.

" great, you know her too? Don't tell me your gonna beat her up now?" asked zoe.

" it's nice to see you again rika, renamon. Oh, we haven't had the pleasure." She said, extending her hand to zoe.

" I'm zoe."

" my name is sora. And this is my partner biyomon."

" nice to meet you." the digimon greeted.

" wait a minute! If you're here then......" rika said, as sora looked up at the battling boys. Takato and takuya had paused in their match to catch their breath.

" they were right. you guys are good."
the boys looked over in time to see a brown haired teen float up to them with a huge grin on his face. Takato looked him over with surprise in his eyes, probably wondering if what he was seeing was the real thing.

" are you? I mean you're......" he said poking him lightly.

" yes it's me, takato. Nice to see you again and you must be one of the new ones. You seem strong. Name's tai." He smiled.

" I'm takuya. Are you a ascendant too?"

" no. I wish. I'm just normal."

" hey!"
the trio of goggleheads looked down to see Simms calling up to them.

" yeah?" answered tai.

" come on down! We are about to start!"

" well, come on boys! We don't want to be late!" tai said as he floated down.

" who was that guy?"

" I'll tell you later."
Our heroes arrived in large domed room were they were in awe of what was going on: the digidestined, the frontier digidestined, tamers and digimon seemed to be getting along very well. Kenta and kazu ran up to takato with bandages on them and smiles aboard.

" what the hell happened to you two?" asked rika.

" aww man takato! We got our asses kicked by mimi! MIMI DUDE!" kazu exclaimed.

" and we got all the original digidestined's autographs. All except......TAI!" kenta went as he and kazu ran up to tai and sora.

" tai you're so cool! Sigh my head please!" begged kazu.

" I would do it if I were you. they will keep after you until you do." said takato.

" I'm flattered guys but now is not the time. Maybe later."

" ok. hey there's gatomon! Let's ask her to digivolve!" kenta said as they ran over to her.

" hey! Let's all settle down! It's almost time for debriefing!" announced Simms.

" why can't we start now? you're here." Asked izzy.

" not all of us are here." He answered as in a flash of movement, the masked man known as X appeared.

" who's this?" asked tai.

" for those who don't know him, this is one our newest high one."

" call me X." he requested.

" well it's nice to meet you, X." said the masked man.

" well now that Zorro is here, can we start?"

" terriermon!"

" no he is right. we can now start."
All eyes turned to the door; there stood a purple skinned man with large ears, white hair, earrings, and a blue out fit. A larger man with pink skin and long white with a similar but red in color flanked him. The duo entered the room and gazed at all as the door closed behind him. Simms, X, tai, and sora bowed slightly to him as he entered.

" shinmon, it's great to see you again." greeted tai.

" as I am, tai. But we need to discuss what you and Simms did." He said.

" I see. I had a good reason sir." Said Simms.

" no need. Even though you two disobeyed my orders, you did them for noble reasons and for that, I am proud of you."

" thank you sir."

" shinmon?!" takuya and takato both exclaimed. And with out a word, both boys kneeled at his feet.

" we're not worthy! We're not worthy!" they chanted, much to the chagrin of everyone present.

" what's up with those two?" wondered davis.

" please don't bow. I don't really like that."

" ok." takato said.

" whatever you say." Takuya added.

" just who are you?" asked JP.

" for those unenlightened, here's a quick lesson on how this works: here in the digital universe, they is sort of a ladder or more like a hierarchy of beings here. To start, at the bottom, sorry to say is humans, who have no digivolving energy what so ever. Next is low level digimon, like your digimon. They have the power but nothing beyond that. higher up is guardian class digimon, digimon who have been given the reasonability of overseeing all digimon in a digital world, like the four sovereigns. Now here's where things get interesting. Above them are the higher level digimon, digimon who are far stronger than mega level. This class has evolved pass the need to digivolve but now can increase their strength without it. you've met some of them on your way here. And higher than that is us."

" and who is us, exactly?" asked izzy.

" we are the high one; a race of beings neither human or digimon. Our job is simple; each high one is given the task of watching over a digital world as well as the human world that parallels it." said X.

" yep. believe or not, I've been watching over your world years before you even picked your digi-vices."

" but if you've been watching for so long, how come you never helped us when we need it?" asked gatomon.

" it is the law of the high one: to observe and guide but never directly in a world's affairs."

" but why? We could've used your help against malomyotismon." Asked yolei.

" it makes perfect sense if you think about it. If we aided you in every big battle, you would expecting us to help every time something bad happens. You would grow lazy and complacent. You or your digimon would not grow any stronger. We will not always be there and what would you do then?"

" X makes sense." Said agumon as the other digimon agreed with him.

" as we were saying, above us is him." He said pointed to shinmon.

" so who are you, the higher one?" said davis.

" davis, show some respect!" tai snapped.

" you are, after all, speaking to the supreme digi-deity."

" THE SUPREME DIGI-DEITY!" All the digimon in the room exclaimed in shocked at the fact and without hesitation, dropped to one knee.

" what's going on? What are you?" asked Kari.

" he is the highest of the high, the overseer of overseers, the master of masters. He is the final authority in the whole digital universe. There is no one with force in the digi-verse than him. He is the supreme digi-deity, shinmon."

" I had heard rumors but I never thought they were true. Forgive me, master." Bokomon said.

" please do not bow. I have no need for beings to bow before me. basically I'm just like you digimon."

" except you got more stroke than genni." Pointed out tentomon.

" if you are all done, I would like to get started." He requested as the digimon got up and sat down.

" digidestined, tamers, and digimon, I think you are wondering why I have called you here."

" the thought had crossed our minds." Said koji.

" well this is because I have need of individuals such as yourselves for a special mission, a mission so dangerous that failure can not be an option. But I will not force you, so when I'm done with my message, I will allow you to choose; you may refuse and my assistances will return you to your places of origin but if you accept, there will be turning back. Am I clear?"
he asked as a wave of nodded rolled through the group.

" good. first off, the room you are currently in is a special. It is called the room of history; here events of the past can be viewed. The story I'm about to tell you is truth and happened before any of you were born. Now behold!" he said as the walls and ceiling of the room seemed to vanished, giving way to blackness. Then as if someone turned on the switch lit up with stars, planet, galaxies and nebulas. The group was marveled at the sight all around them.


" this is the digital universe, well only part of it." said shinmon.

" un-freaking-believable!" spoke kenta.

" understand my friend." added koji.

" it's nice to see you are all enjoying this show but here is why I am showing you this. Here."
With his word, the view changed to focus on a red and black planet.

" this is a planet in the eastern part of the digi-verse called arrakis. Most planets in the digi-verse have digimon who are fight for good and live peacefully, but this world is home to a race of ruthless digimon conquers. Davis I believe you and your friend fought one not too long ago."

" really? I'd think I'd remember fighting a alien digimon." Said veemon.

" you should. It was daemon."

" what!?" the second generation digimon and digidestined.

" you mean to say that daemon was a alien digimon? No wondered he was so hard to beat!" exclaimed davis.

" so what you are saying is that there's a world of digimon as strong as daemon?" asked cody.

" no. among the deamons, his peoples, he was considered a weakling."

" he was weakling?! But not even imperildramon could beat that varmint!" pointed out armadillomon.

" yes. For you see, weakness is a bad sign on that planet and thus he was exiled. But as strong as he was, he was nothing to the power and ferocity of the other ones. The deamons were a race of warlords and conquers but they were spilt into nomadic tribes. That was until one day, they were all united under the flag of a warlord named talonmon. They were united under his single dream: the total and udder domination of the digital universe but before he could carry out this dream, he died."

" if he died, what's the problem?" asked bokomon.

" true, talonmon died but not before he spawned off spring; eight deamon generals who vowed to carry on his wish to rule all digimon." He said as he snapped his fingers and the view changed to a dessert planet. Suddenly, a army of reptile-like digimon roared over the horizon, with swords and axes drawn and ready to kill, and some carry flags with the insignia of the deamons; a red claw on a black field. On the other side came a opposing digimon army from a near by city and in a boom of swords against swords, the forces met and battled.

" from their home world the deamons spread across the worlds like a plague with the eight master deamons to lead them. unlike other deamons, these eight possessed strange powers; each had the ability to draw strength from different element of the digital universe......"

after beating passed the army, the defending army thought they were victorious but that all changed when large deamon in black boots and a vest with the sight of yin and yang on it. behind him was still more solders but they stood behind him. The army charged at him but all he did was smile. Opening his mouth, he fired a wall of fire and in one vicious attack, turned the entire army into ashes. He then motioned his hands and the remaining army charged into the city.

" fire."

The next scene was of a small town with digimon running through the streets as deamon warriors flooded in. leaping from roof top to roof top came the next deamon. From his frog like mouth, a massive gust of wind kicked up and decimated the town. He laughed evilly as the army sacked the remains.

" wind."

Next was a army tanks with digimon at the helm firing at the ground. as the dust cleared, shell shots dotted the ground. suddenly, two large hands tore out of the ground and grabbed two of the tanks and threw them with ease into the others, destroy them. as the hands drew back down, two horns rose up and like a bull, charged at the remaining tanks. After beating them, the deamon that the horns belong to rose out of the ground and roared.

" earth."

In a futuristic city, jet planes flew over the sky line but not to pass but to attack, namely the unbelievably massive deamon stomping through the city. The ships fired at her but the deamon didn't even move other than walking. With one swipe of her claw, she destroyed the fleet of fighters, with some of the wreckage falling and crashing into a lot of buildings.

" mountain."

The next battle was high in the sky as another defending fleet of flying digimon as the looked around for their enemy. Just then, a blur streaked past them and killed one of the digimon without stopping. The digimon scrambled around, hoping to mount a counter attack but before any of them knew it, they were all dead, and never saw their attacker. As their data, the winged deamon looked over his work and smiled.

" sky."

It was night as the next scene played out, as once again, another force came up against another deamon but this one was by far the most evil looking. He looked up at the full moon and then to his foes. From his hands, he focused his energy and created a massive dark ball. With a grin, he threw the ball at the attacks and watched them with glee as the ball crushed them.

" moon."

Next up was scene of total chaos as the defenders fought hard but all that changed when the deamon appeared in his blue armor. His hands glowed with electricity as he prepped his attack. Pointing his finger up, he fired a charge of electricity into the cloud and like any storm, bolts of lightening struck but unlike normal ones, these bolts didn't strike randomly. The bolts hit every one in the city while the deamon snickered.

" Thunder."

The final battle scene was over water as a fleet of ocean digimon sailed for one target, the female deamon in a blue out fit, standing on a lone rock. With a piecing screech, the water around her rose up into some water spouts. She extended her arms and the spouts rolled over to the attacks and blew them away.

" and water."
After view the scenes, the group of humans and digimon were speechless by the power and brutality of the deamons.

" my god." Was all TK could say as he comforted Kari who was visible shaken by the images.

" why? If you were so powerful, why did you let them do that?" asked cody.

" I couldn't at the time."

" what?"

" the position of the supreme digi-deity is not held by a single digimon. Every so often, each deity that passes on, gives his powers and responsibilities to one of the high ones. Master shinmon was not supreme digi-deity during this time." Explained kibitomon.

" my predecessor was at the time. He was not allowed to interfere because he thought it was upset the balance of the digi-verse but this was a mistake. Little by little, the deamons conquer and crush any planet they wanted until over half of the digital universe was under their complete control. If the deamons had taken over central planet than all of the digi-verse would fall easily. In a bid to stop them, he made a choice; to bring together a team of humans and digimon to combat the threat. Armed with the most powerful weapons in the holy armory, they set off to face the eight leaders."

The scene once again changed to a planet near the central planet. In the camp of the deamon army, the fire deamon looked up to see the main planet in sight when suddenly, he was hit from behind by a blast. He looked behind him to see a brown hair human in a green robed out fit with a sword he swung with ease. Angered, he charged the young man with his mouth aflame, but the boy jumped out of the way, almost flying. He fired his flames from his mouth but the boy somehow wrapped the flames around the blade and he threw it back at him, only to have the reptile dodge it. the wind deamon saw his brother in battle and raced to aide him, only to meet a beautiful blonde haired girl also in green but unlike the boy, she sported Japanese fans, one in each hand. he blew some wind at her but she fanned the gust away with a single stroke. With a downward stroke, a blast of wind ripped through the ground and knocks him back. Elsewhere, the earth deamon dove underground with his horns exposed and dug to the battle. Out of no where, a large digimon in green as well jumped in to the path of the deamon. With out a word, he pulled out a large hammer from his back strap and with a mighty swing, smashed the ground, creating a shockwave that uprooted him from the earth. The sky deamon had his hands full as an alterian appeared; wearing robes too, he had ribbon like clothes flowing and moving around him, as if they were alive. Motioning his fingers, the ribbons shot from him and wrapped around him. The mountain deamon was battling too as a girl with black hair jumped and dashed around the deamon's large body, wrapping her in chains with claws on them. the girl smiled as she yanked on the chain and tripped her up. the moon deamon found himself on the receiving end of a large bolder that came from a large muscular digimon with glowing arm bands. The thunder deamon attacked his foe with his lightening but the digimon swung his large drum off his back and hit it once. The drum emitted a massive sonic boom that negated his attack and blew him out of the sky. And the water deamon fired water streams at a human with blue hair but he was ready for her. He deflected the water by spinning a trident around in a circle and fired his own water blast.

" the eight warriors matched the deamons move for move but as powerful as both sides were, neither side could claim victory. It was, for the most part, a stalemate."

" so what did they do?" asked zoe.

" they did the only thing they could. Feeling that they couldn't defeat the deamons, the warriors did the next best thing; combining the mystical energies of their weapons, the warriors bond the deamons and banished them into a shadow realm where there would be no escape. But before he left, the eldest deamon made this vow......"
" it may take us a week. It may take us a year. It may even take us a millennium but me and my siblings shall escape one day and we will regain what we have lost this day. and we shall take our revenge on all; digimon and humans shall feel our wraith!"
" the digi-verse was saved. Without the aid of the eight deamon leaders, their army was disbanded and defeated but not without a price. Concentrating their powers to seal them away had drain them of their life force. They gave their lives to stop their evil. The only thing that was left behind by their sacrifice was a small object now known as the yin yang box. And so, for 12,000 years, the box has been in our safe keeping and guardianship. That is until......" he strangely stopped his story at this point.

" what happened?" asked Kari.

" three days ago, our worse fear was realized; the box was stolen." Answer X.

" who could have taken it?" asked izzy.

" tai, sora, I believe you and tamers have mutual knowledge of our thief." Said shinmon.

" mutual knowledge? But who do we......" the digidestined of courage started but then, after thinking of it, his face seemed to have drained of all blood.

" tai you ok?" asked agumon. His answer came as a surprise to everyone in the room as tai slammed his fist against the wall, his face now the picture of rage and hatred.

" tai?" spoke Kari.

" no! it can't be! He died! I saw him die! He can't be alive!"

" I'm sorry but he is."

" damn it all to hell! I'd rather fight etemon, devimon, and the dark master at the same time than mess with him again!"

" who tai?" asked matt.

" the thief. The evil that seeks to return those deamons. He is a villain who goes by the name the digital warlord."
Sora joined tai in her reaction to the name of someone who brought so much hell into her life. The tamers and their digimon had a wide range of emotion; fear, terror, and anger at the sound of his name. For rika, it brought back nightmare of that boy haunting her and nearing killing her. For renamon, it was memories of him ordering his digimon to pound, beat, and humiliate her. Takato's reaction was the most dramatic. He punched the wall, destroying it as his face was contoured in anger and hatred, pure, raw, hatred.

" that son of bitch is alive!" growled takato.

" No way! Takato beat him a year ago!" said kazu.

" he still gives nightmare. It's okay marineangemon." Kenta said comforting his digimon.

" I can take it that is he's not a friend of yours." Spoke JP, who only got looks of anger from the tamers.

" tai, I believe it's time for you to fill in the blanks." Suggested shinmon.

" I think you are right." he agreed as tai began to pace, trying to figure out how to explain this.

" yeah tai. You do know more than you should." Said izzy.

" you're right. there is a reason for this. Except for you takuya and your group, everyone else has been here before. This isn't the first time here on this planet or meeting shinmon."

" tai, I think I would remember if I met the god of the digital universe." Said matt.

" that's just it. you don't." he responded getting only confused looks on the faces of his friends.

" I guess I should begin at the beginning. Have you ever thought about the future? What life had in store for us? I kinda know. I've seen the future and it ain't pretty. In about 25 years, in a alternate future, we're dead. And it was all thanks to some asshole named the digital warlord. History would've repeated itself if not for some help." He started.

" help?" asked Kari.

" our kids. Well, some of them. they survived and with the help of genni, traveled back into the past to prevent the warlord from taking power. And at the time, he decided to move against us. They were amazing; they had powers and abilities that surpassed many digimon. But one in particular stood out; max, me and sora's son. He was their leader and he hated the warlord for all the wrong he had done his family. Thanks to him, the warlord died and his future was prevented. But for us, it was the beginning. I don't know how he met you tamers but when we were called here, we met all of you." referring to the tamers.

" shinmon explained that a super powerful digimon named buumon was release and we had to stop him."

" what kind of name is buumon?" asked kazu.

" don't think lightly of him. He did more damage than any opponent we've ever faced. He absorbed all of us, destroy our digital world and almost wiped out the digital universe. Max fought him and beat him."

" Ok so why can't we remember and what happened to our kids?" asked yolei. Sora and tai seemed a little saddened on that fact.

" after the battle, we learn that the digital universe was on the verge of breaking down due to the damage cause by buumon and if the digital universe dies, all the human worlds would die with them. there was one hope; the nexus. It was the life force of the digital universe and it had the power to heal the wounds of the battles but it needed energy from something or someone. Max had to give his live so that many more would live his stead. when the nexus was activated, it not only recovered all the planets and digimon lost to buumon but it also transported us back to a time before we met the d3s and wiped out our memories of the events."

" then how come you and sora can remember?" asked biyomon.

" because me and tai are unique. We were born with a super genetic trait called the infinity factor. It's rare to find it digimon but we are the first humans to have this power. It made us some what immune to the effects of the nexus wave. Simms unlocked the memories of what happened and we've been like this for a year now."

" then why didn't you tell us?" asked mimi.

" because I ordered them to. It would raise too many questions that I don't think they could answer." Said shinmon.

" ok I understand that but how do you guys know him?" asked TK, referring to the tamers.

" I really wish I didn't know him. From what you told us, he must have come back but he came to our world. he tore up our town something fierce, killed many digimon, and almost killed rika." takato explained while rika, who was trying to act tough, was shaken from the memory.

" well next time, I'm gonna kill him. Dead."

" ok with that out of the way, what's the problem? I mean, this box sent them there, right?" asked JP.

" there in lies the problem." Said shinmon.

" the name yin yang box gives you an idea. Yin and yang, light and dark, good and evil." Henry tried to explain but JP was some what at a lost.

" I think you lost him Henry." Quipped terriermon.

" what he means is that the box could not only seal the deamons away but if someone knew how, they could locate and open the portals."

" so we have to stop him in one world?" asked kenta.

" no. each deamon was seal behind his or her own portal and each one is located on a different planet. Only one deamon may leave a portal but once all the portals are opened, the box will fade out of existence." Explained X.

" so how do we find the portals?" asked jeri.

" we had a list of all the planets where the portal was hidden but during buumon's rampage, we lost a lot of data on them." said Simms when just then, the doors opened and Russell ran into the room.

" sir, I found it."

" good. everyone this is Russell, another high one."

" howdy. But right now, I have to give you this." He said as he produced a small golden ball.

" thank you." shinmon thanked as he took the ball.

" what's that?" asked bokomon.

" this is the galaxy ball. When the deamons were banished, the deity at that time, had this made to map out the portals. I had thought it was destroyed." He answered as he waved his hand over the ball and a map showing the digital universe popped up. among the stars, eight red light blinked in unison.

" let me take a guess; those lights are the portals?" asked izzy.

" yes. But don't worry. The box can only open portal at a time."

" so where to first? We have no idea where he would go first? And even with all of us, we can protect all the portals." Pointed out koji.

" no problem." X said as he passed his hand over the ball and one of the lights began to beep repeatedly.

" there. This means that the box can now open that portal. It's on the planet pyrius, in the gamma galaxy."

" no problem. Guys, it's time to go." Said tai.

" but how do we get there tai?" asked agumon.

" don't worry. We high ones can take you all." Said Simms.

" alright. Let's go." Tai ordered as everyone got ready to leave.

" one more thing." Shinmon spoke stopping everyone.

" I must tell you now: under no circumstances is he to opened one portal. Even the weakest of the deamons is cunning enough to bring chaos to the digital universe. So if you can't retrieve the box, you must destroy it."
Planet pyrius: one of the hottest worlds in the digi-verse and location of the first portal. The digidestined and their digimon appeared first with Simms.

" wow! What a ride!" said matt.

" speak for yourself." Gabumon complained as once again landed head first in the ground.

" sorry about that. I don't usually do this many people." Said Simms when davis and his group appeared with Otto.

" let me guess: he landed on his horn again." asked hawkmon. The destined didn't have to say anything as their digimon tried to get him out of the ground. next, Russell teleported in with the tamers and a big bruise on his cheek.

" what happened to you?" asked tai. He merely pointed his finger to rika.

" what? He touched my butt."

" I said I was sorry. dang." The southern high one said as the last group with jean appeared.

" I think I'm gonna be sick." Groaned Tommy.

" you're gonna be sick? That woman has been making goo-goo eyes at me since we left." Koji remarked as jean blew him some kisses.

" yeah, go koji!" cheered takuya.

" is it just me or is it hot in here?" veemon asked as he neared renamon.

" watch it or I'll be wearing a veemon skin belt." Warning renamon.

" no he's right. it is hot here." Said palmon.

" it's because of the volcanoes." Said Otto.

" yep all 2,000 of them."

" 2,000?!" everyone went at Russell's words.

" you mean to tell us there are 2000 volcanoes on this stupid planet?!" yelled rika.

" no. there are 10,000 but we arrived at the low season so only 2,000 are active."
The team sweat dropped at his high point.

" oooooo-k. well we're not here to enjoy the climate. We're here to stop that ass hole. We'll split up in to four teams, each taking a direction. I'll lead one. davis you take your group. Takato, takuya, you guys can take your groups. Agreed?" stated tai. Everyone nodded in agreement.

" we'll be waiting here when you want to go."
AGUMON WARP DIGIVOLVE TO----- WARGREYMON

GABUMON WARP DIGIVOLVE TO----- METAL GARURUMON

TENTOMON DIGIVOLVE TO----- KABUTARIMON

BIYOMON DIGIVOLVE TO----- BIRDRAMON
" ok guys. We'll look around the planet and meet back here." Tai ordered as he took to the skies, followed by Wargreymon, matt on metal garurumon, sora, mimi, and palmon on birdramon and izzy on kabutarimon.

" aww man! He can fly and order. Tai is so cool!" said kazu.

" is he always like that?" asked koji.

" yeah."
As the first gen digidestined flew in the air, tai was flying ahead of them, looking around, when metal garurumon came next to him.

" tai, what are you doing?" matt asked as tai looked around.

" I'm looking for the warlord with my sense."

" sense?"

" it's something max taught me. it's like combining all the senses into one. with it I can track down any one as their power level is high enough. Most digimon can do too."

" so tai how long have you been like this?"

" about a year. I've been training but I'm not as strong as I use to be."

" and what about you and sora?"

" umm, yeah. We've been going out since we got our memories back. I'm sorry matt."

" no problem man. I sorta knew you two would get together some how. I'm just glad it's out in the open now."

" yeah so now you can openly date mimi."

" yeah so I can-wa-what?!" matt caught himself as tai grinned. Meanwhile sora and mimi were in a conversation of their own.

" so you two have been going out all this time and you never told me? I'm shocked." Whined mimi.

" well we couldn't tell. We wanted to but shinmon ordered us not to."

" she's right mimi. If I was ordered to by him, I would have to do it." said palmon.

" I guess I can understand that."

" but does that mean we can tell her about your crush on ma......" the plant digimon was cut off by the hand of her partner.

" what was that meems?"

" nothing. It was nothing, right palmon?" she asked through gritted teeth. Her digimon nodded her head while sora just grinned and looked ahead at her airborne boyfriend.

" tai, sense anything?"

" no sor."

" tai, I have to ask. Just how bad was this warlord?" asked Wargreymon. Almost immediately, tai aura changed from joyful to bitter and hateful.

" tai?" matt poked.

" how bad is he? There's good, there's evil and there's the warlord."

" he was that evil?" asked izzy as he and his insect digimon came along side.

" no, worse. He was human, as shame as that was, but don't think he was like ken was. He was dangerous, malicious, powerful, but most of all, he was evil. All the enemies that we have ever faced killed for power or because they got in their way but the warlord, killed because he liked it. didn't matter who it was, didn't matter what they did, if he was bored, he'd kill. Trust me, he thinks of evil 24/7."
Evil, evil, maim, torture, kill, destroy, American idol.
That was what the digital warlord was thinking at the time. He was wondering in the woods wearing a large black cloak around him. In his hand was the box he stole from central planet and watched it glow as it led him to his destination.

" damn them! why didn't they say it would this hot? I should've went with the lighter cloak. Now where is that portal......huh?!" he stopped himself.

" I'm not alone. Someone else is here but he said that there were no digimon here."
He closed his eyes as he zoomed in on the beings.

" a few digimon and some humans." He said as he floated above the tree line.

" ok, let's see. A few I've never felt before and what's this?"
in his mind's eyes, he view tai flying with his group.

" tai?! What's he doing here? And flying? He shouldn't be able to remember that after the restoration. Wait, if he's here......"
his view changed to davis and his group.

" ahhhh! Kenny boy! I knew he would bring him along. There was a chance tai would remember but I doubt the others would. I'm getting a evil idea."
Meanwhile davis and his team searched the woods for the warlord while our goggle headed leader was thinking about something else.

" Mrs. Rika motomiya. Has a nice ring to it huh?"

" yep just like Mrs. Renamon veemon."
Both human and digimon signed at the idea of both rika and renamon in matching wedding dresses while everyone else groan.

" davis, you have a vivid imagination." Said yolei.

" what do you mean?"

" davis, buddy, let's go over the facts: one, she doesn't like you, two, she has a boyfriend, three, she doesn't like you, four, she beat the daylights out of you when you first met, and let not forget the most important reason, she doesn't like you!" explained TK.

" you don't get it TG. We can find a way to make it work. umm sorry Kari but it's over. You're nice and all but it just wasn't working." He said as she walked down the path thinking of kids names.

" did he just dump me?"

" you'd have to have been going out to be dumped." Said gatomon.

" well, I don't know weather I should be relieved or insulted."

" don't worry about Kari. True rika is a hottie but she still doesn't hold a candle to you." TK commented as he walked ahead leaving a speechless Kari behind.

" Kari, you can breathe now." quipped gatomon.

" what? Oh sorry. I was just......I was just......"

" drooling over TK. I understand."

" no, that's not it. gatomon!"
she ran after he digimon as they continued the search when suddenly, a figure jumped out of the bushes and on to ken.

" you won't take me alive you bastard! I'll...............ken?"

" who are you!? get off me! let go.........I don't believe it. s-s-s-sam?"
both boys rose from their positions and looked over each other. With a big grin on their faces, they hugged each other and whooped and hollered.

" ken you know him?" asked yolei.

" oh guys! This is my brother sam."

" WHAT?!" they all exclaimed.

" wait! He's your brother? Your dead brother? Your long dead brother?" asked davis.

" yes. I am."

" but how? I went to your funeral."

" I don't know. I was messing with the digivice and this light swallowed me. I was in some woods and I saw another me walk pass. I've wandering around for years looking for a way home."

" it must have been some kind of digital clone. Like what datamon did to sora all those years ago." Remembered patamon.

" so ken I see you are a digidestined. Who are your friends?"

" oh right. these are my best friends; davis, yolei, Kari, TK, and cody. And these are our digimon, veemon, hawkmon, armadillomon, gatomon, patamon, and this guy right here is my digimon, wormmon." He introduced as his friend waved.

" nice to meet all of you. you're much better company than that crazy guy."

" what crazy guy?" asked yolei.

" well, as I was wandering around this world when I meet up with some guy with a strange black box, muttering something about a portal."

" really? Where did you last see him?" asked cody.

" yes. He was heading to a clearing up ahead."

" well let's head over there now and see if we can find anything." Suggested davis.

" I'll show you." sam said as he lead the group down the path. Meanwhile gatomon and patamon were strangely lagging back.

" hey. Gatomon, what's wrong?" asked Kari.

" I don't know Kari. It's some thing about sam that scratches me the wrong way." The feline answered.

" do you feel the same way patamon?"

" a little. All I can tell you is that he's more than he seems."

" hey, you love birds coming?" yelled yolei. Slightly blushed, the two digidestined and their digimon ran back to the other.

" it's great to have you back sam."

" it's great to be back, Kenny boy." He answered back but when he turned back to the front, a sick smile rolled onto his face.
That was too easy.
" huh?" tai went as he came to a halt in the air as the others did as well.

" tai, what is it?" asked Wargreymon.

" quiet. I think tai senses something." Sora answered for tai as he seemed to search the area with his eyes.

He's hiding his power but I can barely catch it. there. Takato!
Miles away, takato and the tamers walked along the path, until takato stopped his tracks.

" gogglehead! Why'd you stop?"

" be quiet."
Yeah tai?

I got a hit of something but I'm not sure. Take a look.

Alright.
" you guys stay right. I'll be right back."
The tamers and digimon nodded as the boy floated up past the tree line. Using his sense, he scanned the area until he got something.

Yeah I got it. he's trying to hide it but he still stands out.

You think takuya got it?

Don't worry about me guys. I'm cool.
Takuya, all the while, was hanging off the top of a tree as he looked over the horizon.
So that's him huh?

Yep. so what do we do?

He's too bad to straight out fight. We have to do this different.

Wait fellas! There's more.

Yeah. There is some people with him.

Crap! That's davis and his group!

But why would they be with him?

DAMN IT!

Oww!

Not so loud tai!

No! for all my warnings about the bastard, I never told them what he looked like.

But what does that have to......

No time takuya! Both of you, get your groups together and head there!

Ok.

We're on it.
Tai woke out of the mental conversation and turned back to his friends.

" guys, let's move! we don't have time to waste!" he barked as he dashed off.

" well matt?" asked the mega.

" you heard him! Let's go!" matt answered, causing metal garurumon to followed tai with the others, who were having a hard time keeping up with tai.

If he hurt Kari, I'll kill him dead!
" right here." Sam spoke, pointing to a spot in a green meadow.

" you sure about this sam?" asked wormmon.

" yeah. That guy was doing something around here then he left."

" alright guys, fan out. He must have left some tracks or something behind." TK suggested as everyone began to look around.

" so is this digital warlord as bad as they say he is?" sam asked his younger brother.

" yeah. From what tai says, the guy's very evil and sadistic."

" really? Sounds pretty bad."

" yeah. But now that you are back, I feel like me and wormmon can take on anyone." Ken smiled as he and his digimon walked ahead of him.

" don't worry ken. As long as I'm here, you won't have to worry about a thing." He said as he reaching into his cloak.

" you won't have to worry about anything ever again."
a sick grin appeared on his face as he prepared to take him down.

" BACK OFF YOU MONSTER!!!"

a energy blast erupted through the area, surprising the brothers. From the sky came a very fast and very pissed tai followed by the other digidestined. As he landed, his stare locked on his face to the confusion of ken.

" Kari! Where are you?" he yelled as the other digidestined ran to the disturbance.

" tai? What's going on?" Kari asked.

" Kari, just get back and that goes for the rest of you." sora ordered.

" you sick bastard! You would do that to him?!"

" tai, what are talking about? Should you be looking for the warlord?" asked wormmon.

" I don't need to. I found what I'm looking for." He answered pointing to sam.

" m-my brother? But tai there's got to be some mistake. Sam can't be the warlord."

" he is and it would be best if you move away from him now." tai ordered as the frontier digidestined ran up.

" hey guys! Something tells me that this is not a good time." Said JP.

" ken, I know you miss your brother but no matter how he looks, or sounds. He's not your brother. You don't know what it is or what it's done."

" tai, this has to be a mistake. This is sam, my older brother and he would never hurt anyone." Ken pleaded.

" ken, what's going on?" he asked innocently.

" so are we gonna fight or not?" asked takuya. His answer came when tai created a ki ball in his hand.

" tai?" pondered davis.

" ken, you're my friend but I will go through you if I have to."

" then do what you must." He said grabbing his digivice.

" I will as well. Wormmon."

" but ken, this isn't right."

" hey are we too late?"
all eyes fell on the tamers as they ran on to the scene. Almost immediately upon setting eyes on sam, cringed back in fear, surprise, and anger.

" it-it can't be!" said leomon as jeri clung to him.

" he really is alive!" added Henry.
Takato had no words to speak on the account of the rage he was feeling, all of it directed to one person. Rika, as tough as she was trying to be, was obviously scared out of her mind. Guilmon's eyes were already viral while renamon's fur was standing on end.

" takato, is that him?" asked tai. He, as well as everyone in his group nodded grimly.

" then that settles it. ken, everyone, say hello to sam ichijoji, now know as the digital warlord."
Ken shook his head to himself, in disbelief at the news but his faith was again shaken as out of nowhere, a laugh began to fill the air. It wasn't like any laugh the digidestined had ever heard before; it dripped with evil and malice and it came from sam.

" it's about you figured it out. You digi-fools were always so slow." He said, all the kindness drained out of his voice.

" sam, what is this?"

" oh wake up, Kenny boy! You should've known that I was lying. You always were a little slower than me."

" hey! He's your brother! How could you?"

" quiet davis! Least I kill you and your blueberry colored partner. Well it was true that the sam you knew was killed all those years ago and, yes it was a clone but it was a clone I created to remove all the weaknesses. But I go on. I am surprised to see you tai. I thought the restoration would have wiped out your memories."

" I'm just full of surprises."

" yes, you're also full of something else but we won't get into that right now. but I'll tell you one thing: you should've come alone because bad things can happen to little and girlfriends." He said with a sick grin towards those he spoke. Kari hid behind TK while sora was being guarding by tai.

" let's see who else is here with you. ahh! The wannabes!" he said referring to the tamers.

" takato, old friend. how are things? How's the bread shop?"

" I'm not your friend!"

" what? Just because I tried to kill you and your friends doesn't mean it should but a damper on our friendship. And who is that hiding behind you? is that? yes it is. rika, dear rika. you as beautiful as last time I saw you." he shot as she hid a little more behind her boy friend.

" you come near me again and I'll remind you what else is the same as last time."

" I would believe you if you weren't hiding in fear of me. and it looks like we have some new faces in the group." He said as his gaze fell on the frontier digidestined. Even to the battle harden digidestined, his look still sent a chill up their spines.

" let's see, we have a fat ass, a little punk, the lone wolf......"

" hey who are you calling a fat ass?!" yelled JP.

" well, if the shoe fits, but in your case, that would be a hard fit." He laughed.

" hey, lay off, ass hole." Spoke takuya.

" let me guess, you're the leader? Geez, what is with you guys and goggles. And who is this?" he asked as his eyes fell on zoe.

" is it true? Do blondes have more fun? At least I'll give you this; you guy have good taste."
He laughed at his own joke as, by now, everyone was by now wishing he was dead. Even ken was now sure that this creature was not his brother.

" so many women, so little time. Now what to do; rape, torture, murder? On all of them? maybe half? Now which to do? maybe all three? But in what order? Doesn't matter. I'll have fun either way."

" man! this guy is crazy!" said JP.

" that's speaking lightly." Said kazu.

" do you know what will happen if even one deamon is let loose?" leomon asked him.

" death, destruction, terror, brutality, utter chaos. Yes. It will be glorious." He answered with a far off smile on his face.

" enough of this! Give us the box!" barked tai.

" I see. Well, tai if you want this box......" he smirked as he threw open his cape, revealing a all black outfit, and rested his hand on a long kitana. He spread his legs far apart as a dark aura kicked up around him.

" come and take it!" he roared as his power whirled around him.

" tell you what; I'm feeling sporting so all of you, digi-volved. I don't care how or how high, but just remember, MY POWER IS RAW!!!!"

" you want it raw? Fine!"
PALMON DIGI-VOLVE TO----- TOGEMON----- LILLYMON

KABUTRIMON DIGI-VOLVE TO----- MEGA KABUTRIMON

BIRDRAMON DIGI-VOLVE TO----- GARUDAMON
" you guys heard! Let's bring it!" said davis.
VEEMON DIGI-VOLVE TO----- EXVEEMON

WORMMON DIGI-VOLVE TO----- STINGMON

STINGMON, EXVEEMON, DNA DIGI-VOLVE TO----- PAILDRAMON

PAILDRAMON MEGA DIGI-VOLVE TO----- IMPERILADRAMON

IMPERILADRAMON MODE CHANGE TO----- FIGHTER MODE

HAWKMON DIGI-VOLVE TO---- AQULIAMON

GATOMON, AQULIAMON DNA DIGI-VOLVE TO----- SLYPHMON

PATAMON DIGI-VOVLE TO----- ANGEMON

ARMADILLOMON DIGIVOLVE TO----- ANKLYOMON

ANKYLOMON, ANGEMON, DNA DIGI-VOLVE TO----- SHAKKOUMON




" let's show him what tamers can do!" rallied takato.
GUILMON MATRIX DIGI-VOLVE----- WARGROWLMON

RENAMON BIO-MERGE TO----- SAKUYAMON

TERRIERMON BIO MERGE TO----- MEGA GARGOMON

CYBERDRAMON BIOMERGE TO----- JUSTIMON
" alright guys! Let's not get left out!" said takuya.
EXECUTE SPIRIT EVOLUTION

KAZEMON

BEETLEMON

LOBEMON

KUMAMON
" well now, so many digimon and me being alone. Wonder who would win?"
without warning, he dashed forward, unsheathed his sword and sliced the ground in front of them, kicking up a cloud of dust. Everyone began coughed and hacked at dust.

" mimi, matt, any body there?" Lillymon yelled, not knowing that the warlord was creeping up behind her. With a smile, he slashed her with his sword. Lillymon froze in silent horror, she de-digivolved back to palmon and hit the ground.
HORN BUSTER
The warlord dodged the attack of izzy's digimon. Flying out of the cloud, mega kabutarimon clawed at him but missed as the warlord maneuvered behind him and cut him. He fell to earth with a thud as tentomon.

" tentomon! You ok buddy?" izzy asked as he ran to his side.

" maybe. Are you my mommy?"

" you fools! Did you think I would come here with out a weapon? This sword was forged from one of the fangs of my overseers. They thought it would come in handy but I never knew how handy. Who's else wants a taste?"

" I do!"
POSITRON LASER
Imperildramon fired his cannon at him but he deflected the beam with the blade. The mega dashed down at him with all his super speed but he vanished before he got there and appeared behind him.

" you two are fast......" he said before he slashed him, turning him back to veemon and wormmon.

" but compared to me, you might as well be moving in slow motion." He taunted as the rookies fell to earth.
TERRA FORCE

METAL WOLF CLAW
The warlord was surprised by the mega's attacks but he easily dodged them. Wargreymon charged with his dramon destroyer but the warlord blocked it with his sword. Metal garurumon attacked from below with his mouth open but he blocked him with his feet. First he hit him with the handle of the sword and kicked the other away and in one big swipe, he cut both megas and watched as they too fell out of the sky as rookies.
STATIC FORCE
KACHINA BOMBS
Both attacks hit him right in the back. The two fused digimon cheered as he began to fall slowly until he vanished in a puff of a dark cloud. Before either of them knew it, he was now above them.

" thanks for the massage but I'm not in the mood."

He dove down and once again, sliced them both.
SPIRIT STRIKE
Without even looking behind him, he cut the attack in half, canceling it out. He turned around to see sakuyamon floating there, with staff in hand.

" rika, let's not fight. I still want you to join me."

" really well I still want to you to die." She spat back.

" and she ain't the only one."
He looked around him to see that justimon and mega gargomon surrounding him.

" what do you say to that?" the dog mega taunted. Smiling, he opened his palm as a pink energy ball forming in his hand.

" this!" he exclaimed as he threw the ball down and it exploded in the air. The shockwave from the blast radiated from it spread and hit all three megas but nothing seemed to happen.

" what's that suppose to do?" justimon asked as he, and the other two megas flew at him.
SIN HARVEST
When said this, halos appeared above their heads and they began to slow down. In a flash of pink, all three turned back into digimon and tamers. Wargrowlmon jetted up and caught them all before he landed.

" what the hell was that?" asked a upset ryo.

" a little move I've been working on. it's call sin harvest; that first move was just a tracer on your energy. Alone it can't do jack but once I call out the attack, it absorbed your energy easily. It doesn't kill them, just drains them to about a fraction of the strength you could have. The range may suck but it results can't be beat."

" well them, I just won't get that close to you then!"
ATOMICE DESTROYER
The massive beam erupted from the side of the ultimate and plowed right to him. The tamers cheered as the attack passed his position unstopped. Just then, wargrowlmon groan loudly as he fell over as guilmon. Behind him stood the warlord, licking his sword.

" missed me."
takato, pissed at his arrogance, launched himself at himself at the warlord but was punched aside into a bunch of trees.

" takato!" exclaimed rika.

" so young, so stupid."
BLIZZARD BLASTER
The sneak attack knocked the weapon from his hand while he looked at him with a death glare. Before the warrior of ice could move, the warlord used his speed and punched him.

" I liked that sword."

" hey! He's just a kid!" shouted beetlemon.

" and the reason I should care."

" try this!"
THUNDER FIST
He roared at him as electricity flowed from his fist but the warlord caught it and looked at him strangely.

" you're kidding, right? I could see this attack coming. Next time......" he said before he punched him in the gut.

" think about your attack fat ass."
With a roundhouse kick, he floored him. Before he could make a remark, he stepped to the side in time as kendo garurumon zoomed back. He pulled a quick u-turn and faced him again.
LUPINE LASER
The warlord once again vanished before the attack hit and he reappeared to his side.

" bad dog! Play dead!" he roared as his foot met his ribs. Kazemon jumped in, with a barrage of her kicks but he grabbed her legs and threw her onto a tree. As she tried to get up, the warlord held her down.

" my, my. And I thought you couldn't get anymore hot. So what do you say? Let's have some fun?"

" get off!"

" there is a thin line between pleasure and pain. I would like show you." he laugh until someone grabbed him in a full nelson.

" excuse me? I'm trying to get some booty!"

" sorry. that booty is mine. Allow me to introduce my self; the name's takuya and she's my girlfriend."

" interesting. By the way, I'm the digital warlord and one of my top pet peeves is dudes trying to cock blocking me!" he yelled as he elbowed him in the ribs, causing him to release his grip. Now free, he spun around and landed a kick to his head, sending him flying into a boulder. Wiping the little sweat off his fore head, he looked over all the digimon and humans he left laying. Smiling he walked over and retrieved his sword.

" this guy beat us all by himself. Unreal!" said koji. Leomon, guardramon, and marine Angemon were the only digimon left standing but they knew they didn't stand a chance against him.

" mindless violence. How I've missed it so. Now what was I gonna do? ahh yes! Come here fairy?" he said as he turned back to kazemon.

" and rika, you better take notes! You're next!" he threaten. Just then, a pair of low growls began to ring out and with deep yells, takuya and takato erupted from their resting places as ascendants, both of them looking right through them.

" I had hoped to got this one day without messing with you golden haired goons."

" you are not touching zoe, turd burglar."

" and that goes triple for rika."

" well then, you blonde haired bozos want some? Come get cut!"
the boys took his challenge as they flew at him. The warlord barely dodged their punches as he flew up. the boys looked up and fired ki shots at him but flew out of the way. They leapt into the sky and tried punching at him at high speed but he moved to fast for them to catch him. Meanwhile the digidestined with tai should in silent awe at the radical changed boys.

" tai, I think you need to tell us something." Said davis.

" have any of you wondered what it would be like to digivolve? That's what they've done. that is the next level in human digivolution. Those boys are part of a elite few who have attention this honor, the level of the ascendant. In this form, they are much more powerful than a mega." Tai explained as takato and takuya continued their assault.

" sora, watch the digimon. I'm gonna go have some fun!" he said as he took off into the sky to join the battle. The warlord saw him coming and block the oncoming punch but let himself open to an attack to the gut from takato. He floated back as he grabbed his gut as the trio of leaders faced off against him.

" that was a nice shot but it's your last freebie."
Takuya was the first to break ranks and attack but just as his fist was getting close, he vanish in a dark cloud and reappeared behind them.

" what the hell?" said takuya.

" is that speed?" asked takato.

" no. I didn't see him move." answered tai.

" he's right gogglehead. It's not speed. I call it dimension slip; I slip between this dimension and another. I can't stay there long but it's long enough for move a great distance here and only as far as I can see."

" I said don't call me gogglehead!" takato screamed at his use of rika's pet name for him and fired a energy beam at him but like he said, he shifted out of the way and to the ground. takato fired again and once again, he moved, which frustrated the tamer. Out of anger, he let loose a barrage of energy balls over his located but the warlord shifted his way around the attacks. After it had ended, he shifted back up into the air with a cocky grin.

" nice try, gogglehead. Now let's see what this technique can really do."
with that, he vanished and punched takato as he reappeared. Tai came from behind but he got a kicked in the back and punched in the gut, causing him to fall. Takato regained his bearings and charged him. In a split second, he shifted down, grabbed tai, and shifted back up in time for tai to take the blow. As takato reeled from the shock, he elbowed him in the back of the neck and threw them back to earth. Takuya tried a sneak attack but he got the worst of it as the warlord shifted and hit him over and over before dropping him. He reappeared just as sora was checking on tai and approached her.

" well, since your bastard son is dead, I might as well bring the happy family together. Say hi for me, would you?" he said before he drew his sword and prepare to strike them down.
Stop!
" huh?" he grunted as he stopped his blade.

" what is it?" he asked to seemingly no one in particular

we didn't realize you from here so you could enjoy yourself. Open my portal!

" but I'm just about to......"

NO! YOU SEEM TO BE FORGETTING THAT YOU WORK FOR US! NOW RELEASE ME! AND THEN YOU GET YOUR REVENGE!

" fine! But if I don't get some revenge soon, I'm gonna bust a gut." He grumbled as he seethed his sword.

" count yourselves lucky. I have work to do!" he announced before he took off.

" but next time it won't be so fun!"

" what was that about?" wondered mimi.

" I don't know but I have to stop him." Tai said as he jumped back to feet along with takato and takuya.

" but what about them?" takuya asked, referring to their friends.

" never mind us. Just stop him!" said zoe.

" Blondie's right. get moving goggle head!" added rika.

" right. let's rock boys!" tai called as he and the boys took off.

" excuse me? Blondie?"
The warlord reappeared some miles away, near a huge lake of lava that was fed by three volcanoes.

" so this is the lake of fire. It sure lives up to it's name." He said as he wiped the sweat from brow. Suddenly, the box glowed brightly and began to pull away from his belt.

" ahh this must be the place!" he smiled as he removed the box.

" alright. Time to let out the dragon."

" STOP!"
he looked up to see the trio of goggled leaders flying right for him.

" sorry boys! Too late!"
with a yell, he threw the box over the lake and, to the horror of the boys, it stopped in mid air, and fired a green beam of energy in front of it. it craved a symbol in the air and locked itself onto it. it then created a door with green trim and inside swirl the energy of the dark realm. The boys landed just behind the warlord. Out of the door emerged a massive figure. It stepped on to the lava but even though it burned the bottom of his foot, it didn't seem to bother him.

" game over boys. Game WAY over!"
NEXT TIME: our heroes have failed and now, the first deamon is out. Now tai, takuya, and takuya are the first to face off against shendumon, the deamon of fire.
ENTER THE DRAGON
MA: damn that was a long ass chapter. To my fans, I'm sorry for the lateness but you have to admit, it was cool.
Max: and to those who can draw, send them to ma.
MA: and if you have questions or comments, I'll responded them in the next chapter.