Chapter 3:
"Fire ball" shouted a Meramon suddenly as a ball of flame burst onto the hilltop top as the children and Digimon ducked out the way.
"Digivolve" all the kids said at the same time. The Digimon rose to their under a hail of fire balls.
"Agumon digivolve to…Greymon."
"Patamon digivolve to… Angemon"
"Palmon digivolve to… Togemon"
"Gatomon digivolve to… Angewomon"
"Gabumon digivolve to… Garurumon"
"Hawkmon digivolve to… Aquilamon"
"Armadillomon digivolve to… Ankylomon"
"Biyomon digivolve to… Birdramon"
"Veemon digivolve to… Exveemon"
"Wormmon digivolve to… Stingmon"
"Gomamon digivolve to… Ikakumon"
"Tentamon digivolve to… Kabuterimon"
"Nova blast" yelled Greymon knocking a few Meramon to their feet.
"Lightning Strike" Stingmon said tearing through the Meramon.
"Grand Horn" Squawked Aquilamon.
"Hand of fate" said Angemon as an orange and white beam tore holes in the Meramon.
"Harpoon torpedo" yelled Ikakumon releasing three torpedo's into the crowd.
"Meteor wing" said Birdramon releasing flaming rocks onto the Meramon.
"Electro Shocker." Kabuterimon said sending out a beam of purple electric.
"Tail hammer" roared Ankylomon smashing the nearest ones.
"Heaven's Charm" said Angewomon releasing a purple blast from her hands.
"Veelaser" Exveemon said blasting into the Meramon.
"Howling Blaster" roared Garurumon as a blue bolt stopped some Meramon dead, literally.
"Needle Spray" Togemon said sending needles flying everywhere.
The Meramon stopped and vanished. The Digimon suddenly turned back to their rookie form as a dark shadow clouded the hill. A dark deep voice spoke,
"So you think you may stop me. Ha, you Digidestined were always stupid. Remember when I broke you up? Well it's about to happen again!" he said laughing. A wall of black gears separated the group into two. One side T.K, Davis, Matt, Tai, Kari and Sora the other side Mimi, Ken, Yolei, Cody, Izzy and Joe.
Mimi and her group saw the world shift around them in a blur of darkness. It slowly started to take shape again in the form of a canyon desolate of life. Izzy took out his laptop and opened the map.
"We're on Server. The far side from File Island." he sighed "It'll take a few weeks to reach the other side." He finished glumly. The group stood still till eventually a small voice spoke.
"Izzy," said Cody
"Yeah" he replied.
"If you have your laptop you can open a Digiport home." He said suggestively.
"That's right," yelled Yolei happily. Izzy reopened his laptop quickly. Yolei pulled out her D3 and walked up to it and said "Digi Port Open!" a small crackle of white light came from the screen but fizzled away. "What's the matter?" she said shaking the screen till Izzy wrenched her off.
"All I can think is that the canyon is blocking the data transfer." He sighed. "The only way out is if we climb the sides." He said pointing at either wall.
"That's not a problem." Said Armadillomon "I'll dig a tunnel up there." He finished
"Yeah great idea." Cody said "Digi Armour Energize"
"Armadillomon armour digivolve to…Digmon the drill of power." He walked to the wall and started tunnelling a way out from the canyon.
"Well we'll have a few hours before he's done" said Izzy "What shall we do?" he asked
"I don't know but I'm going to sleep" said Hawkmon lying on a rock. "And I think we all should for now." he said
"Wait we've got to have a look out." Said Ken.
"That's right" Izzy said looking at the rest they all looked tired. "I'll take the first one and wake up someone in and hour or two" he said sitting on a rock.
Back on File Island, things were looking bad. The Digidestined were being chased by hordes of Numemon. They had reached the beginning of the old forest. Eventually they found the only tree left standing in the forest. Tai looked at it and memories of there first day in the digital world came flooding back into his mind. He pushed the rest into the tree. "Stay quiet" he said looking up the metallic insides of the tree. Eventually the noise of the Numemon had passed. Agumon looked at Tai.
"Why can't we digivolve any more?" he asked him
"I don't know but I bet it's something to do with the black gears and Devimon, there stopping you I think." He sighed and rested his back against the inside of the tree.
"What are we going to do?" asked Davis suddenly.
"I think we should carry on with our original plan, destroy the black gears and save File Island." Replied Matt. "We did all agree," he said.
"This is true," said Gabumon. "Let's vote. Who wants to carry on with the original plan?" he asked. Everybody's hands rose in the air. "That's that then, we destroy the black gears."
"Right" said T.K "Come on then we've got work to do."
"Just one problem," said Sora
"We can't digivolve," Biyomon finished.
"I can still armour digivolve!" Veemon yelled.
"I wonder where he gets that from," Kari whispered into T.K's ear. He smirked slyly.
"It's worth a try," said Kari.
"Of course it might be that Control Spire on the edge of the forest" Davis said. The rest looked at him
"Why didn't you tell us this before?" asked Tai standing.
"No-one asked!" he said shrugging.