"Here!" Forestmon said, handing them a bag, "Inside you will find invitations and disguised! Good Luck! We're all counting on you!" He turned around and left.
"There's only 4 costumes here!" Mimi complained.
"Joe, Mimi, Sora and me will go in through the doors! The rest of you, sneak in the basement or something!"
They nodded. "Be careful!" Kari told her brother as she followed Matt away.
"Some disguises!" Tai said, looking at himself. He was wearing an army uniform. The card says I'm Armymon!"
"Look at me!" Sora complained. She was dressed in a pink tutu. "I'm Dancermon!"
"How come Mimi didn't take that one?" Joe asked. He was dressed in a surgeon's uniform. His card told him he was Doctormon.
"It wouldn't fit, too big!" Mimi walked over as Nursemon. "Hey, Joe! We match!"
"Yeah," Joe said, not knowing how to reply.
"Wow!" Mimi said,"Look at this place!" They made it inside with no problems and Mimi was impressed over the fancy part decorations.
"Mimi!" Joe whispered, harshly. "We're not supposed to draw attention to ourselves! Look how many Digimon are here! If they suspected that it was us, we'd be killed without a second thought!"
Upstairs, Piedmon laughed at the image he was watching on the screen. Metalseadramon shot up out of his pond and peered over Piedmon's shoulder. Puppetmon flew over, and Magicmon walked over. They all began to laugh at Tai, Sora, Mimi, and Joe's costumes. "Who are they trying to fool?" Metalseadramon laughed.
"Metalseadramon, Puppetmon, and Machinedramon, search the castle! The others are bound to be here! As for you, Magicmon, you've been boosting that Sora is yours, body and soul! Tonight you will prove it! Sora and her Digimon will lead the attack!"
Tai and Sora started to dance on the dance floor. "You know," Tai said to her through their rapport, "I like the way you look!"
"I thought you would!" she answered back. She suddenly felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned to see Magicmon standing there. "Mind if I cut in?" he asked, pulling her away.
Once again the clock turned back two hundred years. Sora was in her husband's arms dancing around the ball room filled with people. "What the..?" Tai thought. "When I asked Forestmon about him, he said that that Digimon Sora is dancing with goes by the name of Magicmon! I don't trust him, and there's more to my feelings than jealousy! Somehow, he just reminds me of someone!"
Suddenly, Agumon was pulling at his leg. "Tai!" he said,"Look!"
Tai looked to see Sora and Biyomon were being lead upstairs by Magicmon. "Sora! Wait up!" he yelled after her, forgetting they were supposed to be undercover. "She's ignoring me, Agumon!" he said.
Magicmon turned to him. How charming! The stalwart hero is trying to rescue his damsel in distress!" He suddenly changed."Not this time!" he said.
"That face!" Tai thought,"Devimon!" He suddenly remembered that night at the Gekomon's castle, when he saw Magicmon's shadow, it didn't match his body, but he should have recognized him!
"We have to get to them fast!" Tai told Agumon.
They ran upstairs, but lost them in a maze of halls. "Where are they?" he asked as they ran past an open door. Suddenly, they were hit by a ball of fire and thrown back, Tai's costume ripping to his real clothes underneath.
"Magnificent, my love!" Devimon flew out. "But, the Dark Masters wants the Digidestined alive, did you..?"
When Sora turned to him, she still saw him as Magicmon, or the one she knows as Jason. "Don't worry!" she said as Birdramon walked into view, "If my Digimon had struck to kill, there would be nothing of them except for ashes!"
Downstairs, Mimi turned to Joe. "Did you hear that?" she asked, "It sounded like Tai screaming!"
Joe nodded. "We'd better go check it out!"
They both ran upstairs only to find Piedmon waiting for them. "Greetings, Digidestined!" he said,"You can surrender now, or we can do this the hard way!"
"Gomamon digivolve to Ikkakumon!"
"Palmon digivovle to Togemon!"
"Ikkakumon digivovle to Zudomon!"
"Togemon digivolve to Lillymon!"
Zudomon swung down with his hammer, striking Piedmon straight on the head. "No!" Joe cried,"It had no effect!"
"Quite true!" Piedmon said, throwing Zudomon back. He landed with a loud thud on the floor.
Piedmon flew in with his fists ready. He nailed him right in the face, which caused him to become Bukamon.
"Flower Canon!" Lillymon yelled, her attack striking Piedmon in the face.
After the smoke cleared, Piedmon grabbed Lillymon by the leg, and through her into the wall. She de-digivolved back into Tanemon.
"We've lost!" Mimi said, softly.
In the basement, Matt hopped up through the hole in the floor Gabumon had made. "We're in!" he said, helping T.K. and Kari up.
"Yeah!" Izzy said," This is too easy! I've been feeling...nervous all evening!"
"Yeah," Matt said, "So am I! T.K., Kari, don't run off!"
They stared to walk past a corroder when a hammer hit Patamon, causing him to fly into the adjacent wall. "Patamon!" T.K. cried, running over to him.
"Puppetmon!" Gatomon said. Swiping her claws at him.
The others tried to run over to them, but Metalseardamon shot out of the floor, throwing Matt and Gabumon one way, while he followed Izzy and Tentomon.
"Tentomon digivolve to Kabuterimon!" Metalseadramon slammed his nose into Kabuterimon, knocking him out.
"Kabuterimon!" Gabumon yelled, "Gabumon digivolve to Garurumon! Garurmon digivolve to Weregarurumon!"
Weregarurumon ran towards him, but Machinedramon stepped in his way. "Get out of my way!" Weregarurumon yelled.
"Mega Cannon!" Machinedramon whispered, shooting two balls of energy at Weregarurumon, throwing both him and Matt through a wall and outside into the forest.
Outside, Gabumon shook his head. "What happened?" he asked.
"I don't know!" Matt said, getting to his feet."But we have to get back inside!"
Upstairs, Tai, Mimi, Joe, T.K., Kari, and Izzy were tied up in the Dark Master's main hall. Their Digimon were asleep at their feet. "What's going to happen to us now?" Joe said, sacred.
"We won!" Puppetmon said,"The Dark Masters beat the Digidestined!"
"What do you mean The Dark Masters?" Devimon asked."It was my doing that Tai and Agumon were captured!"
Metalseadramon laughed. "We could have done it with out!"
"I don't think so!" Devimon said,"Not without my new weapon!"
"What does he mean by that?" Izzy asked.
"Don't listen to him!" Piedmon said,"You are now a Dark Masters, Devimon! Show us your weapon!"
A door opened and two shadows appeared in the door. Devimon said,"Fellow Dark Masters, and Digidestined, I present to you, our Dark Mistress, Sora!"
The Digidestined gasped as Sora walked in, dressed in a black dress, with a dark cape. Biyomon was trailing zombie like behind her.
She walked over to Devimon and to the surprise of everyone, kissed him.
"Guys!" Joe said, "I don't understand. I know that's Sora and Biyomon but.."
"She isn't!" Mimi said, sadly. What did they do to her best friend?
"Is Sora still our friend?" Kari asked, turning to her brother. Tai's silence broke Kari's heart.
Sora walked over to Mimi. "I expected better from you! When you placed under my care to work on my husband's plantation, I never mistreated you like a slave! I trusted you, only to see that trust betrayed!"
"What is she talking about?" Mimi whispered.
Sora raised her hand and slapped Mimi across the face. "Now you ally yourself with my enemies!" she said, mentioning to the rest of the Digidestined.
Mimi looked straight into Sora's eyes. "There's such..evil in them!" Mimi said to herself. "Sora, please! We're best friends..."
Sora slapped her again. "Friends? You are my personal servant! I am your mistress! You wish to betray me like a slave, so you will be treated like one!" She slapped her again.
"Leave her alone!" Kari screamed, tears flowing down her cheeks.
Sora walked over to her."So, I see your father didn't teach you proper manners!" she said, mentioning to Tai. "It is not a child's place to speak to adults that way!" "Father?" Kari and Tai both thought to themselves.
"I've got to find a way to stop this!" Tai thought to himself. Then he remembered the rapport he and Sora share. "I've got to enter her mind! If I concentrate hard enough, maybe I can do it!" He closed his eyes.
For an eternity, nothing happens. Then, an invisible stream of psychic energy left Tai's crest and entered Sora's. Tai opened his eyes and gasped at what he saw.
Piedmon's castle had disappeared. In its place was a giant mansion with huge windows to see the land outside. "This must be what Sora's seeing!" Tai said,"I recognize the architecture of this house, its the 1700's in America! She see everything in terms of the 1700s in America!"
Tai looked at Sora standing there, she was the same, except Biyomon looked like a real bird. The Dark Masters all looked human and were all dressed in British uniforms, except Devimon was dressed as a gentleman. They all were armed with swords
Tai then looked at himself and the others. "I'm dressed as some sort of American Revolutionary soldier! Our Digimon look like dogs! Mimi's dressed as an indentured servant, Kari's a regular 1700's girl, T.K.'s a drummer boy, and Izzy and Joe are soldier's under my command! Sora must still see me as being in charge!"
"Sora! he yelled at her.
She turned to him. "Do I know you, sir? Your voice is strangely familiar, but you are an American Rebel, King George's enemy, and mine!"
"Try to remember, I'm Tai Kamiya!"
"So!" Devimon said, walking over to him,"You're here! In Sora's mind, I mean!"
"How do you know about our rapport?" Tai asked, struggling against his bonds."You have no psi-powers! And you have no shape changing powers! How did you disguise yourself as Magicmon?"
"Just a little device that I whipped up, it allows me to create illusion directly into her mind! I can see that you are determined to free her! Since you are in her mind, if I free your astral body, your real body will remain where it is!"
He walked over and slashed Tai's bonds away with his sword. "Face me!"
Tai pulled out his sword. "En garde!"
Their swords clashed together. "Once I destroy you, Sora's last connection will the Digidestined will be severed! Then she will be mine, body and soul!"
Tai ignored his comments as be blocked another thrust. "All the odds are in Devimon's favor! He knows how to use a sword, I don't!
Outside, Matt and Gabumon were hiding in a tree, waiting for the Digimon soldier to pass. "They're looking for us, now!" Matt told Gabumon."We have to get back inside!"
"But how?"
Matt sighed. "The basement is no doubt blocked now, so the only way in is through the front! We have to go in with our rockets blazing, right?"
Gabumon smiled and nodded. "Gabumon, warp-digivolve to Metalgarurumon!"
Back in Sora's mind, the duel continued. ""No matter how hard I try," Tai thought,"Devimon keeps pushing me back on the defensive! I'm tiring, while he is as fast as ever!"
Suddenly, Devimon swung and knocked Tai's sword out of his hand. "No!" Tai cried.
"If I were a chivalrous Digimon, "Devimon said," Then I would allow you to serenader, but I am not chivalrous!"
He reached back with his sword, "And our duel was to the death!" he cried as he rammed his sword through Tai's chest.
Back inside Piedmon's castle Devimon said"You were a noble foe! Tai, all a hero could hope to be, but in the end the best one won!"
The Digidestined were horrified when they saw Tai just fall over. "Wh-what happened?" Kari asked.
"I don't know!" T.K. said,"He just cried out and fell down!"
"His chest isn't moving!" Izzy said, horrified, "Guys, Tai is dead!"
to be continued..