Puppetmon's Playtime With the Digi-destined

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[A/N: Don't forget, any flames, any type, I send my angry weasel to you. He'll be happy by the end of the day.]
[Prologue: Shinji and Myotismon were still wondering through the Digiworld and Shinji's self pity for herself created a dark pit that nearly took control of her life. Myotismon, Matt, Kari, and TK were able to pull her out of it. They needed to find Tai and Sora soon.]

Tai and Sora were walking through an extremely warped forest. "Tai, you're being too hard on Shinji." Sora said, "Just because she has Myotismon as her digimon, doesn't mean she can't be trusted!" "Maybe you're right Sora." Tai sighed, "But I just don't know how to say I'm sorry." "Just say that you're sorry and that you trust her." Sora said.

"HEY!"

Tai and Sora stopped and turned around to see who had shouted. Matt, TK, Kari, Shinji, and their digimon ran over the hill. "Hey! Alright you're here!" Tai and Sora shouted at the same time. They stopped and grinned. "You got it!" Shinji said. "Um... Shinji... I..." Tai began. "Time to play..." a voice echoed through the forest, "Time to play... Time to play!" The kids and digimon moved into a circle around one another, the digimon moving in front of their partners. Shinji could easily hear the voice when the other kids and digimon could hardly hear it. She tried to trace it back to its origin but the echo made it impossible. "Time to play!" the voice shouted. Shinji gasped and the others looked at her. "ABOVE!" she shouted looking up.

Everyone looked up and saw a wooden puppet digimon sitting on a treetop. "Puppetmon!" Myotismon shouted, recognizing the evil Dark Master, "Puppetmon has a short temper and a controlling personality! Get him angry and he'll bop you with his hammer!" "It's time to play!" Puppetmon shouted. He looked at TK, who seemed frightened by Puppetmon. "I wanna play with you!" Puppetmon shouted pointing at TK. He leapt off the tree and landed in front of TK. "You keep your hands off my brother Puppetmon!" Matt shouted. He slid in front of TK, blocking him from Puppetmon.

Puppetmon backed up a few paces and threw a red ball of something at Matt. Matt was covered in the red goop and fell to the ground. "TK! Run!" Matt said to his little brother. "Shut up!" Puppetmon said. He slapped some more of the red stuff onto Matt's mouth and silenced him. "Crimson Lightning!" Myotismon shouted. He wrenched the hammer out of Puppetmon's hands and threw it into the forest. "You'll pay for that!" Puppetmon said, "Puppet Pummel!" He took off his backboards and threw them at Myotismon. One of the corners smashed into Myotismon's forehead and he fell backwards, injured and unconscious.

"OK! Stop! I'll go with you." TK said. "No don't!" Sora and Shinji both shouted. Shinji had knelt down next to Myotismon and Sora next to her. "Good!" Puppetmon said. He started to chase after TK and TK ran deeper into the forest. Gabumon hurried up to Matt and slashed through the red junk. It disappeared. "TK! We have to get TK!" Matt shouted getting up. "I'll go after him!" Patamon shouted, flying away. "Hurry Patamon!" Matt encouraged. "What happened?" Kari asked. She had walked over to Sora and Shinji and was looking at Myotismon. The attack had hit Myotismon right in the forehead. A deep gash had appeared from the attack and blood was running down Myotismon's face. Myotismon's face was contorted in pain. "Here." Sora said, "I have a first aid kit. You can use it!" Shinji took some cloth and cleaned the blood away.

She took the gauze and wrapped it around Myotismon's head. Matt was pacing back and forth. "Calm down Matt." Shinji said. She didn't have to look up from tying the gauze, she could tell that Matt was worried. "If Patamon's with TK, he'll be just fine. But it would be stupid to go running off into a battle." she continued, "Anyway, I've got a plan." "You do?" everyone asked. "Uh-huh." Shinji said, "Just make sure that tonight, Myotismon stays safe and you stay out of trouble." Everyone nodded and waited until nightfall. Myotismon was still unconscious and Shinji stood up. They had been sitting around a fire. "Now I'm going to get TK." Shinji explained, "That is, if you trust me enough Matt." Matt nodded and Shinji ran into the night.

Tai was staring into the fire until Sora tapped him on the shoulder. "What is it?" he asked. "You were zoning out." she replied, "Is everything alright?" "No. Everything's OK." Tai said. "No it isn't." he thought to himself, "I had the chance to tell Shinji let I trust her and I don't say anything. I'm going to make it up to her and make sure that nothing happens to Myotismon!"

TK had gotten lucky. Puppetmon had fallen asleep from being up so late and Patamon had found him. But he couldn't find his way out of the mansion Puppetmon had chased him into. He was tired but couldn't go to sleep. His digimon Patamon was ready to digivolve at the first sign of danger.

Shinji was running through the forest and stopped for a few seconds. She checked her digivice and saw a flashing dot in TK's direction. She thought about something for a few minutes and jumped straight up into a tree. She leaped from tree limb to tree limb and finally reached Puppetmon's mansion. She checked her digivice once more and found TK's signal on the other side of the mansion. She jumped from the tree and landed just short of the roof edge. Shinji grabbed the edge and flipped herself onto the roof. She then ran silently across the roof and lowered herself on one hand to see through the window. She looked down and saw the small boy and his digimon standing in front of the window, facing away.

"TK! Patamon!" she whispered. She tapped on the closed glass and the two turned around. TK quickly opened the window. "How are you?" he began. Shinji pointed to her other hand holding the roof. "C'mon! I'm getting you out of here! Give me your hand!" she said, holding out her hand to TK. TK grabbed it and Patamon flew out the window behind him. Shinji pulled TK onto the roof and then pulled herself up. "Now what do we do?" TK asked. Shinji walked to the other side of the roof where she jumped onto and beckoned TK over to her. "You trust me TK?" she asked. "Yeah." TK said nodding his head. "C'mere then." she said. Shinji picked TK up and held him like she was wearing a backpack. "Now you hold on tight." she ordered.

TK wrapped his hand tightly around Shinji's waist and she leapt onto the nearest tree limb. She continued to jump from tree limb to tree limb until she spotted the other kids fire. She jumped down from the tree and landed in front of the other kids. She put TK down and Matt ran over to him. "Oh TK! I can't believe that you're OK!" he said hugging the boy. "Yeah thanks to Shinji!" TK said hugging his brother back.

[Epilogue: Tai never really got around to saying that he trusted Shinji, but they soon found the rest of the Digi-destined. They quickly got rid of Puppetmon. But there was still unrest between the children, which was helped by the Dark Masters and their flunkies...]
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