Part 4:

Tai held Sora in his arms. "No!" he yelled, squeezing her lifeless body. "What have you done?"

Dark Tyranamon appeared and laughed. "It was your idea to escape. I didn't force you, nor did I force your Digimon to blast her or her Digimon."

Greymon glared at him as he held Biyomon's body in her arms.

Dark Tyranamon continued,"I'm here to take you back to your cell and Sora and Biyomon it seems, down to the morgue!"

"Sorry!" Greymon yelled, shooting a blast of fire at him, incinerating him.

"Not the brightest was he?" Biyomon asked, opening her eyes.

"He couldn't have known the psychic power I got from the Crest of Love allowed me to psychical tell them our plane," Sora bragged, standing up.

They started running down the hall. Suddenly a group of Mekanorimon appeared behind them. "Twin Beam!" the blasted.

"I don't understand this!" Sora said as they ran to the end of a platform and turned a corner, "Why are Apocalymon's followers following Seiji?"

"Don't worry about that now! We have to get out of here and alert the other Digidestined to the....."

They stopped when they saw a small baby boy attached to a machine coming out of the wall.


Apocalymon slowly opened his eyes to see Mimi, Kari, and Daisuke standing over him with their Digimon. He could see that he was in their med-lab behind a cell wall. "I have completely recovered from my battle with Spacemon, we can now resume negotiations."

"Oh?" Gatomon growled,"Were we in the middle of a deal when you pasted out on the front stoop?"

"You should listen to me! Seiji is holding Tai and Sora! I can help you!"

"Your services in exchange for ours, as you've said, "Daisuke said,"But why in the Digiworld should we trust you?"

Apocalymon smiled. "Because I can do what you cannot. I can cure Geni!"

"Whose to say you can?" Kari asked.

"I...I can." Mimi said.

"What?"

"Don't be so surprised! My crest was the Crest of Sincerity. I can tell if someone's being truthful. Just tell me this, Apocalymon, how?"

"You were brought to the Digiworld to fight me! Devimon, Etemon, Myotismon, the Dark Masters, they were all my creations, they worked for me! The Dark Network Virus was my gift to Etemon. There is a cure, and because I created it, I know it!"


"They can't!" Akira yelled.

"But they are!" Matt said, emerging from the communications room. Akira, Matt, and T.K. were still in Digi-Force's HQ, trying to come up with a way to find Seiji, when the others contacted them and told them of Apocalymon's offer.

"I know he ruined the future you grew up in, "Matt said,"But Mimi trusts him to save Geni, and I turst Mimi!"

"Fine!" Akira said,"But after we get Seiji, I'm going after him!"

"Let's get back to searching!" T.K. said."Where can he be?"

They thought for a while. Suddenly, Gabumon spoke up. "When I was younger, I can remember running from Kuwagamon. I used to hide in the sewers because the Numemon were down there and that would be the last place he would look!"

"That's great!" Mechmon said,"But how's that supposed to help us find Seiji?"

"What he's saying, "Matt said,"and I'm inclined to believe him, is that Akira's double is probably hiding among his enemies."

"Geni's house?" T.K. asked.

"His defenses would have peg him," Matt said.

"Here?" Akira asked.

"Like wise, our defensise would have got him."

"That would leave Apocalymon!" Patamon said.

Matt nodded and turned to the computer console in front of him and began to type something. "I'm setting the scanner on all of his safe houses. We'll have an answer in a minute."

The others nodded and Matt thought to himself. "Why hasn't Sora used her telepathic powers to cry for help?"

Unbeknownst to all, even himself, Matt took one of his keys and started to scratch a circle in the wooden wall beside him.


"I don't believe this!" Tai thought to himself as Sora walked over to the child. "That baby looks like...like Sashi! But when Sistermon took him, she said it was for forever, that I would never see him again!"

The baby had parts of the machine connected to him. Parts Sora was looking at. "Tai, I know how tough this is for you, it seems Seji knew exactly how to hurt you, but how would he know? Was he there? What can we do for this baby?"

They suddenly heard a voice echo through the walls. "Nothing!"

"Seiji!"

"That's right! That child's conciseness has been directly linked to my own, also, his bodily functions have been interwoven with the life support systems of this entire facility!"

"Are you saying we're powerless to hurt you, without hurting him?" Biyomon asked.

"Hiding behind a baby, what kind of person are you?" Agumon asked.

"No, no, you misunderstood! I don't hide, I invite! You have the chance to ride the Digiworld, of myself, Apocalymon's followers, even this complex, all you have to do is kill the child!"

Tai and Sora looked at each other, then back to the baby. "Well?" Sora asked.

"If I was Izzy or Joe,"Tai said," or had a month to figure it out, I could remove the baby without harming him, but, as it now stands, if I attempt to free him, he'll die."

"We have no choice then. We'll have to give ourselves up."

"No!" Seji screamed,"You can't do that!"

Apocalymon's followers appeared, attacking them. Seiji watched the battle from his control room. "Don't look so surprised Spacemon," he told his Digimon,"They would no doubt sacrifice the child to save themselves. You see, it happened once before!"

"We've got to leave!" Tai said, dodging energy blasts, "For the sake of the child! Greymon, blast the wall, Birdramon will carry us out!"

"Brilliant!" Sora said as the Digimon digivolved.

"Nove Blast!"

Tai and Sora jumped on Bidramon's feet."Great now..."

Suddenly, they felt themselves being sucked towards them hole. "A vacuum?" Tai yelled, as they were pulled through"But how? Where are we?"


Matt slammed his fist against the console. "Scan is negative! Where the devil is he?"

"How can we find him?"

Matt suddenly saw the circle he had been drawing. It looked kinda like the moon, complet with the face of the Man in the Moon. "That's it!" Matt yelled,"That's why Sora hasn't been able to give a psychic cry for help, there not in the Digiworld, or on Earth at all!"

to be continued....