A/N- I'm skipping the whole 'explanations' thing. The information of digimon levels, digivices, and anything that doesn't advance the plot. I'm not a patient man.









"Up and at 'em, digidestined!"

The digidestined children and their digimon stumbled out into the clearing, rubbing their eyes and shaking their heads. Ryuu said, "Don't *call* us that! This isn't some kind of anime!"

The figure in the brown, monk-like robe looked slightly taken aback. "Uhh...*You're* the digidestined?"

"I don't see any other group of children with the ability to make digimon digivolve around here, do you?"

If the figure was taken aback before, he was shocked now. "But...but...you're just *kids*!" he practically wailed.

This, in turn, shocked the digidestined. "Ummm....Who *are* you?"

"Oh dear oh dear oh dear...."

"WHO ARE YOU?"

"AH! Oh, I'm Gennai. Oh, nobody told me to be expecting children!"

"What were you expecting?"

"Five all powerful warriors, come here to smash evil into dust, of course."

Rei looked at Ryuu for a moment. "Big brother, you might want to rethink your postion on this being an anime."

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The eleven of them were sitting in a circle. Gennai was explaining things to them. "Well, you don't have to worry about your families. Time passes differently here in the digital world. You won't be gone long enough for anyone to notice."

"Well, that's a relief. Why'd you wait so long to contact us?"

Gennai looked uncomfortable. "Well...It was dangerous, before. This is the first time you've been out of areas controlled by Blightmon."

"Blightmon?"

"...He's a fully digivolved digimon. He's a virus, and he rules most of this land with an iron fist."

"And when were we going to find out about this?"

"We were either going to tell you, or he would pierce the cloaking fields on your digivices and torture you to death."

"WHAT!"

Five angry kids and five *furious* digimon loomed over Gennai, scowling.

"Ummmm....It wasn't my idea!" he squeaked out desperately.

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Later, after the swelling went down a little bit, Gennai was able to speak intelligibly again.

"Why'd you do that?"

Ryuu jerked his head at Mark. "Blame Mr. Kendo here...Not that I didn't enjoy it...You risked our lives, you know...You risked Rei's life...BIG mistake..."

"I'm...sorry?" said Gennai, then sighed. "No...sorry doesn't even begin to describe it...If it makes you feel any better, I'm not the one who makes the policies...I'm just sort of the messenger boy..."

"Lovely. Mark, haven't you ever heard the expression, 'Don't shoot the messenger'?"

"I didn't. I thwacked him upside the head."

Gennai looked upset. "Semantics. Kids these days..."

"How old are *you*?"

"Two hundred." he said matter-of-factly. "Digimon live *much* longer than humans. In our terms, however, I'm very young."

"Great. Just great. Now, will you tell us who Blightmon is, or do we let Saishi at ya?"

"Well, Blightmon's the reason we summoned you here. He controls most of the digital world. This area is ruled by one of his generals, Forsamon."

Before he could say anymore, a mocking, feminine voice rang through the clearing. "Found you! I shall destroy you for Lord Blightmon!"

Gennai spun around, terror on his face. "No! Not *her*!"

"Yeppers, young one! *Her*! And me, too!"

Two figures, one tall, one short, stepped into the clearing. The short one, a male, introduced both of them. "Greetings, digidestined! I'm Warumon, digimon of deee-struction! This here's Altamon, deee-lightful digimon of death dealing! We serve Lord Blightmon, and it's his will that you *DIE*!!"

Warumon held up one hand and spoke a short phrase. "Decaying Claw!"

A sickly, green and yellow light swirled around his upstreched hand, and then a monstrous purple arm shot out of the light, striking the ground and knocking the group to their feet.

Altamon held her hand just in front of her lips and said, "Deadly Kiss!"

She moved her hand like she was blowing a kiss, and flames poured from her open palm.

Directly towards Gennai.

The flames engulfed the young man.

Screaming in pain, he writhed around on the ground.

"Nekomon digivolve to...Sutenekomon!"

The sudden shout caused Altamon and Warumon to turn around, only to be confronted by a *very* angry Saishi and Sutenekomon.

"Neko Ryoku!"

The red energy slammed into the two digimon, who stumbled back, looking stunned, but not hurt.

Then, several things happened at once.

Altamon and Warumon attacked Sutenekomon.

Saishi started to rummage aroung in his bag.

Gennai gasped out the phrase, "Mantle of Light!"

He glowed and dissappeared.

Altamon and Warumon spun around in time to see him vanish.

Sutenekomon hit them with a Neko Ryoku.

Mitsukai and Rei had their digimon retreat.

Ryuu and DemiLeomon started to get up, while Mark unlimbered his Kendo stick and Pokumon prepared a DarkFang Shot.

Saishi finished rummaging around in his bag, drawing out a small egg shaped object and his machete.

He pulled a small pin off of the object and threw it at the two evil digimon, where it exploded in a dazzling flash of light.

He and Mark charged at the two, weapons ready.

Then, there was an explosion.

When the smoke finally cleared, the small glen was empty.

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Far away, two digimon approached a shadowy figure. "Lord Forsamon, we have a gift for you."

Behind them was Saishi and Nekomon.

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"Mitsukai? Where...where are we?"

The fear in Rei's voice was apparent. Mitsukai answered, struggling to contain his own fear. "I..I don't know, Rei."

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"Kamiya."

"Ishida."

Mark and Ryuu faced each other. The wind howled over the barren peaks of the vast snowfield they had landed in.

"We're screwed, aren't we?"







A/N-- There. How'd ya like? Please read and review. I'm sorry it took me so long to ge this part out. School's been hell recently.