The Ruler of the Worlds

By WarGreymon01

Chapter III

After what seemed like half an hour of debating on what to do Tai spoke up to everyone, "OK I've decided that the best thing to do would be to see if we can recollect our Tags and Crests. So what I've decided to do is to go to the Digital World, with Sora and Kari, tomorrow and talk to Azulongmon. We'll be able to find out more from him about this new guy and to see if we can get back our Tags and Crests." "I think we should all go, because we have strength in numbers and…" Tai cut Matt off, "And if we go in a large group there is more chance of use being spotted." Tai finished by standing up. "Well, what if you do get spotted? How can you protect yourselves if all you have are three Champions?" Matt said, also standing up. "Matt has a good point, maybe you should take Yolei as well." Izzy pointed out. "You do have a point. So how about it Yolei, you up to the challenge?" Tai asked. "OK. What time are we leaving?" "Well I was hoping to get an early start, say around 8, 9 o'clock…" "Well if you want to leave that early they might as well stay at our place tonight, don't you think so Kari?" The group was silent while waiting for an answer from Kari. "Well, I think that if he wants to start that early then we should spend the night." "Fine it's settled, Kari and Yolei will go with Tai and Sora in the morning to speak with Azulongmon, agreed?" Cody had said. "Agreed" everyone echoed.

Leomon walked through the streets of Andromons dome city. "So this is how the creatures of this world live, in a large, over-populated and smelly snow globe." He said to himself. "Leomon!" someone called out. "How are you Leomon?" He turned around and saw a small dog in a fur coat. "Oh, hi. I'm fine, but I have some important things to do right now." He said as e tried to walk away. "Wait I have one question for you." Gabumon said. "Yes, what is it?" Leomon said trying not to sound angry. "Well it's just that I've heard something that's bothering me. I heard this rumor that there was this weirdo out there saying that he is the ruler of the Digital World and any other world out there. If this is true, I was wondering if Genaii has contacted Matt and the other DigiDestined?" Leomon looked at Gabumon with an evil glint in his eyes. "Say why don't you come with me to Genaiis place and he can tell you himself and on the way why don't you tell me how Matt and the others are." He said placing hand on Gabumons back. 'Finally the identity of who they are and soon I will have enough information to succeed where all they're past enemies have failed' He thought as Gabumon started "Well Matt's about 21 now and is still in his band and…"

"Hello, who's there?" Leomon asked. "Can you please untie me before he does any major damage to our defenses." Leomon tried to look over his shoulder to see who was there with him but couldn't move very much because of his injuries. "Leomon is that you?" Biyomon asked as she rushed toward him. "What happened to you?" she asked as she untied his hands. "I was fighting the one who claims to be the ruler of all worlds and he took me captive and was trying to get me to tell him where Azulongmon is and I told him that Azulongmon was the least of his worries and I passed out. But I think I told him about the DigiDestined without realizing it." Leomon tried to stand up but failed miserably and fell on his face. "Here let me help you. We've got to get you some food and proper rest before you can do anything to help anyone." Biyomon said helping Leomon to his feet. "Very well but I need you to find out what he's up to. Will you help me with that until I get better?" "Of course I will help you until you get back on your feet. But I think you should know something." Biyomon started, while helping Leomon out of the building. "And what is that, Biyomon?" "Well before I came in here, I saw him transform himself into a copy of you Leomon." "WHAT?! We must hurry and alert Genaii about this before he can cause any damage."

"Hi mum." Tai said as he entered his childhood home. "Tai is that you?" Mrs. Kamiya asked. "Yeah it's me. I've come to pick Kari up. How have you been?" Tai said entering the kitchen and giving his mum a kiss on the cheek. "I've been fine, but I think that it's kind of strange to have Kari stay over at your place." "Well we're going to be doing stuff tomorrow and I wanted to get an early start and it's easier to have her spend the night." Tai answered. "Tai, is that you?" Kari called from her room. "Yeah. Are you ready to go?" Tai called out. Kari came out, "Of course I'm ready. Did you doubt that I wouldn't be ready by the time you got here?" Kari said with a sly grin. "Well we should go because Sora's making dinner and it was almost done when I left so if you don't want cold dinner we should go and we've got to pick up Yolei yet." Tai said before hugging his mum. "I'll see you tomorrow night, OK mum. Bye" Kari said while hugging her mum.

"Mum, do you know where my over night bag is?" Yolei yelled out. "Did you try looking in your closet, honey?" Mrs. Inoue called back. "Thanks mum.." Yolei quickly grabbed the bag out of the closet and stuffed her clothes into it. She rushed out of her room and said a quick goodbye to her mum before running out the door. When she reached the elevator and pushed the button, she was looking out over the skyline, at the sunset and saw what she thought was an Airdramon flying across the sky. She took her glasses off, cleaned them, put them back on and looked back to the skyline. She saw nothing but skyscrapers. "Huh, must have been seeing things." She said to herself and got on the elevator.

Leomon was walking through the forest towards the abandoned building that he would call home for now to check on his prisoner. He entered it and changed back to original form and walked into the 'interrogation room' and saw that Leomon was gone. "How did he escape? I had him secured. Someone must have helped him." He stared at the chair with such intensity that it exploded into millions of splinters. He began to yell at the top of his lungs and the building began to shake and fall apart. He suddenly stopped when he picked up that someone else was there, watching him. He turned his upper body so that he was facing the wall to his right and raised his right arm out parallel to the ground. "Come out and I might not kill you slowly." Nothing happened. "Very well. Have it your way. Firewall!!" Flames came out of his hands and came surrounded the Digimon that was standing behind the wall. "Hey let me go. You have no right to put me in this cage and you have no right to say that the Digital World is yours either." "The Digital World is it? When I was here over three thousand years ago it was called Oasia. Who called it the Digital World?"

Tai inserted his key into the keyhole, turned it and opened the door. "Sora, we're back." Tai called out. "Great timing, dinners ready," Sora called back, "and remember it's your turn to do the dishes tonight." "Like I'd forget that since you've been reminding me all day," he yelled out, "Here you two can use the guest room tonight. Just put your bags in and get ready for dinner." Kari and Yolei walked into the room and put down their bags. "So how do you suppose we could get those two together?" Yolei whispered. "Way ahead of you Yolei. I've been dropping subtle hints for about a year now and it's starting to work slowly." Kari said. "Are you coming out for dinner or not?" Sora asked from the dining room. "Yeah. We're coming," Yolei shouted back, "we'll talk about this later OK Kari." "Sure thing."

To Be Continued…