Izzy woke up. It has been three months since the Digi Destined left the Digi World. Izzy had been awaiting an e-mail from Gennai ever since. Izzy got up from his bed. He sure missed Tentomon. Izzy went to his computer to the check the e-mail. Suddenly, Gennai walked across his computer screen. Izzy's heart leaped. He had finally got his e-mail! Izzy clicked his mouse on Gennai. Gennai started to talk.

"Greetings. Things are doing well in the Digi World. Most of the Digi Eggs have hatched. The Digi World like what it was before you left. Also, your Digimon are all staying here with me at my house." Suddenly, the transmission started to get fuzzy. Gennai had some fear in his voice. "Who are you?! What do you want?!"

Izzy started to get worried. An evil voice answered Gennai. "Who I am is none of your business! I know you're listening to this, Digi Destined! I have been waiting for you! Either you come to the Digi World, or your Gennai friend will feel what it's like to get deleted!"

Izzy gasped as sounds of a struggle were heard. Then the transmission ended. Izzy got up from the chair he was sitting on which was right next to his computer. Izzy got right to the phone.

"Izzy, breakfast's ready!" Yelled his mom.

"Just a minute!" Izzy responded. Izzy then dialed the number for Tai's house.

"Hello?" He said.

"Hey Tai," Izzy responded, "I think you should come over here. I just got an e-mail from Gennai."

"What did he say?" Tai asked.

"Well," Izzy answered, "he said things are doing fine. I think you should come over and hear it for yourself."

"Okay," Tai said, "I'll call the others about the news."

"Okay!" Izzy said. He hung up the phone.


A half hour later...

All of the Digi Destined showed up. Izzy's mom was overwhelmed and started to make cookies for them. They all went into Izzy's room. Izzy clicked on Gennai. They all heard the e-mail. At the end, they were all shocked.

"We've got to go to the Digi World!" Tai said. The rest of the Digi Destined nodded.

"But how do we get to the Digi World?" Matt asked.

"Well, Izzy replied, "last time we were in the real world, our digivices brought us back to the Digi World." The rest of the Digi Destined nodded. "So basically we have to go outside, bring our digivices together, then we'll get to the Digi World."

"Right," Matt said. "But how do we get past our parents?"

"I've got it!" Tai yelled. Everyone turned to him. "We each tell our parents we're going to the park. There we can get to the Digi World and then return at night so our parents don't worry."

"Great idea, Tai." Sora commented. "We should go to the park this afternoon." Everyone agreed at the idea and then they left."

That afternoon...

Everyone managed to get by their parents and they assembled under a secluded tree in the park.

"If I remember correctly, after we beat Venommyotismon, we brought our digivices together and we flew up to the portal to the Digi World." Izzy told them. Everyone nodded in agreement.

"We should get out from under this tree then," Matt said.

"Good," Joe agreed, "my sinuses were starting to react."

Everyone got up and walked out from under the tree. They made sure no one was around and then each of them hesitantly brought their digivices together. When all eight digivices were brought together, a beam of rainbow-ish light shot to the sky. Wanting to attract no attention, the eight of them quickly jumped in the middle of the beam. The beam brought them higher into the sky, until the beam vanished.

Digi World...

The Digi Destined landed hard onto the ground of the Digi World. The kids slowly got up and looked around.

"We're back in the Digi World! Prodigious!" Izzy exclaimed.

Tai took out his mini telescope and began to scope the area. "Hmm... this looks like a place right near Gennai's house."

"Izzy took out his laptop and began to type away. "He's right, we're very close to Gennai's house." Izzy and Tai put away their items and they started to walk to where they thought the lake concealing Gennai's house was.

"How much longer?" Mimi complained after a few minutes of walking. Everyone ignored her.

Everyone noticed the lake up ahead. They started to run towards it, except Mimi, who walked the way. When Mimi caught up to them, she noticed the kids had stopped to wait for her. "Thanks, a lot for leaving me behind!" Mimi scolded. The kids didn't respond. Instead, they turned to the lake that Gennai's house was concealed in. They started to calmly walk down the stairs leading to Gennai's house. They finally made it down the stairs. Suddenly, the kid's digivices started to crazily go off. Each kid looked at their digivices. They looked up and entered Gennai's house. The house was empty. There was no sound. The kids proceeded through the house...

"Someone's coming!" A small yellow dinosaur creature silently yelled to his comrades.

"It could be one of Hollemon's goons," a plant creature suggested.

The creatures are started scurrying around and they slid under a bed. The door creaked open. The creatures shook in fear. They didn't even want to look who it was.

"There's nothing here, just a bed," Tai told the kids.

"Tai?" A voice said in the room.

Tai turned around. He examined the room. It was empty except for a bed in the corner of the room. Tai looked around some more. He noticed movement and looked down to see the yellow dinosaur peek its head out of the window, followed by seven other creatures. "Tai!" The dinosaur yelled as it got out and ran into Tai's arms.

"Augumon!!!!!!!" Tai said happily as he accepted Augumon's hug. Tai called the others in. The other Digi Destined entered the room and gasped as their digimon ran into their arms. As the digimon let go of their embrace, Tai spoke. "What are you guys doing here?"

"Well," Augumon started, "we were living here peacefully in Gennai's house. Last night, Gennai told us he would e-mail Izzy tonight. We were all excited to get in touch with you guys after three months. We all gathered around as we watched Gennai type the e-mail. But, we had heard a crash and we looked around to see a digimon named Hollemon and his minions running through the house. We scattered, but Gennai was willing to type the e-mail, so he stayed behind and Hollemon captured him."

"So that was the other voice I heard midway through the e-mail," Izzy told them.

Augumon nodded.

"Wait, who's this Hollemon guy?" Matt asked.

Izzy sat down and typed away at his computer. He called up the Digimon Analyzer and looked up his profile. A picture of a pitch black digimon with a red cape and a double bladed sickle came up. "Hollemon, a mega digimon of the virus type. This digimon's powers are unknown but some say this digimon has evil mystical powers," Izzy read from the Digimon Analyzer.

The digimon nodded. "That's Hollemon," Augumon told them.

"How do we find this guy?" Matt asked.

"Easy," Tentomon stated, "we overheard Hollemon telling his minions to go back to the 'castle'."

"Great!" Tai whooped.

"First, before we find Hollemon, we must give you all some things that Gennai completed two days ago." Gabumon told them.

"What is it?" Sora asked.

"Over here," Gabumon motioned to them. The kids and digimon followed Gabumon as he led them to Gennai's room. Gabumon walked up to a cabinet and opened it. Inside was a small brown case. Gabumon took the case and presented it to the Digi Destined. "Behold," he opened the box, "your new tags and crests." The kids gasped as they took their respective crests and put them around their necks.

"All right!" Tai whooped. "Now let's go defeat Hollemon!"

Hollemon's Castle...

Hollemon grunted. "Pesky humans. I don't see how these Digi Destined defeated the Dark Masters and Apocalymon." Hollemon got up from his chair, overlooking a monitor showing the Digi Destined. Hollemon turned around and walked off.

After walking through a maze of rooms and halls, Hollemon stopped at a room in the basement of the castle. Hollemon entered the room. The only source of light was a little light shining down on an old man working with screwdrivers and such. The old man turned slightly.

"What is it?" The old man asked.

"Oh, Gennai, I just wanted to see how you were doing." Hollemon told him.

Gennai grunted. "Your little Prototype Digivice is half way done. What do you want with it?"

Hollemon chuckled. "It is none of your business, old man! By the way, I heard that you tried to escape two hours ago."

Gennai slowly nodded.

"Trust me, old man, once you're done, you will be deleted. I don't want my servants to have to catch you escaping again and having to delete you. I want the pleasure of doing it myself!"

Gennai sighed and waited for Hollemon to leave. After the door was shut, Gennai looked around and pulled a laptop from his pocket. "I must e-mail Izzy"