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Sorry, I just like saying that….please enjoy the next part of the story!!

Once again, I'd like to thank the reviewers, you guys are great!!

I don't own Digimon, and even if I had said I did, you probably wouldn't have believed me anyhow…

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The Digiduds! Part V-Lost In the Woods!!





"There's another?" asked Joe. "Where did you get it?"

"Well, while fighting Dizzy, he dropped it. Conveniently, I received a chance to more thoroughly examine it." Izzy reached into his pocket and pulled out the small object. "It appears to be similar to the crests we have…"

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"Tai?" Kari called softly. It was dark outside. She was scared. Kari jumped at lest 3 feet off the ground as she felt a tug on her shirt. "Gatomon, don't do that!"

"Sorry, but I just heard something over there," the little cat apologized. They both looked over to the bushes. They could hear footsteps, and the brush was rustling. Gatomon stood in front of Kari, ready to protect her from what was in that bush, be it a bug or Piedmon.

A tall, shadowy figure emerged from the brush. There appeared to be something large on its head, and it had a ferocious-looking stubby thing next to it.

"AHHHH!!!!" Kari ran like nuts into the forest with Gatomon in her arms.

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Tai and Agumon had been walking through the forest, looking for Kari, even though it was dark outside.

"Tai?" Agumon asked, "does your Digivice say anything?"

Tai glanced at the small screen of the gadget in his hand. "Hmmmm…" he mumbled, "it looks like there's something that way. The boy and the dinosaur headed into some heavy brush. It was so thick, it took them forever to get through. They made quite an unnecessary racket, too, because Agumon kept arguing about how he was getting caught.

They slowly stepped out of the bushes. As soon as he put his foot in the clearing, he heard a scream and saw something short run away.

"Let's go after it!!" Tai cheered. Maybe it was just Agumon, but did Tai actually sound excited?

They scampered through some heavy foliage. After this "thing," until they came to a rather large tree where they lost the figure. Suddenly something dropped out of the tree and clamped on to Tai.

"What the…?!" Tai yelped.

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Kari and Gatomon paused to catch their breath but they could hear the thing coming, and if they didn't know better, Kari and her Digimon could've sworn they were arguing.

Gatomon motioned to Kari to follow her up a nearby tree. Once they were safely in its branches, they observed the two figures below talking. They seemed to have stopped their chase. Suddenly Gatomon leapt out of the tree branches and clamped onto the tall thing. Kari slowly made her way down the tree, as to observe the figures better.

"Get it off!! Agumon!!" the figure yelped. Kari immediately recognized the voice of her brother and his frazzled dinosaur patner, attempting to pry Gatomon from his shoulders.

"Tai!!" she bust out of the bushes and grabbed onto her brother's legs. Gatomon jumped off of Tai shoulders and apologized for ambushing them.

"Kari, where did you come from?" Tai asked in a puzzled tone.

"We got washed up on shore after the wave hit, then we started looking for you," Kari explained, still wrapped around her brother's mid-section.

"So did we! I'm just glad you're okay," Tai stated, relaxing a bit. "Sooo," Tai fidgeted," I guess you guys haven't seen anybody else, right?" Kari and Gatomon shook their heads in unison and Tai looked a bit letdown. Suddenly, something beeping and glowing red in Tai's pocket caught Agumon's attention.

"Tai what's in your pocket?" He looked down and reached into the pocket of his cargo-shorts. Tai's hand fumbled among gum wrappers, pieces of loose paper, Sora's phone number{That's for the Taiora fans!!} and….his Digivice!! The thing was beeping and glowing like crazy, and it startled Tai as he held it in his hand.

"Hey!! There are some dots on here!!" Tai happily exclaimed.

"How many?" Kari inquired.

"Just two…" Tai said, looking down at his Digivice. "Let's go!! It's gotta be our friends!!" Tai pointed. "That way!!"

The quartet quickly raced in that direction. They had been fairly close to where the dots were, and were well on their way to reaching them. Tai glanced down at the Digivice. "They're right up here!!" he called. "Wha…?" Tai raced up to a small clearing in the dense trees. "There's no one here? But we're right on top of them!"

"What's wrong?!" Kari yelled to her brother as she and Gatomon raced to catch up with Tai and Agumon. Tai looked at his Digivice, then at the empty clearing, then at his Digivice again. Unbeknownst to them, two figures had been watching the whole episode unfold from the treetops.

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"Are you saying our crest are the same as theirs?" asked Joe. Izzy shook his head.

"No, I'm saying they're more like warped copies…" Izzy stated thoughtfully.

"They seemed pretty real to us!" Tentomon and Gomamon said in unison. Izzy and Joe sighed. "What's that noise?" Gomamon looked around.

Beep, beep. They heard it again. Izzy turned his head towards the strap of Joe's bag.

"Joe you're Digivice!!" Izzy pointed.

"Huh?" Joe looked a bit confused as he slipped the small device from its position on his shoulder strap. "Four dots…" he said slowly.

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Ta-Da!! Don't touch that dial!! More to come later!! (This series will probably span about 20 parts, knowing me, just to warn you…^_^;)Thank you for reading!!