*******The Oasis*******

They arrived and found everything looked normal. "Agumon, why don't you guys go see if anything has happened," Tai suggested.

"Okay, we won't go far," Agumon said. He got the other digimon and they began their investigation. Daedelous then appeared from nowhere as he usually did.

"Have you found anything?" Tai asked anxiously.

"I believe I have, please sit," he replied. They moved closer and sat down.

"Well, what is it?" Izzy asked, just an anxious as Tai. Mimi grasped Matt's hand, T.K. and Kari were sitting close to one another and Sora had move next to Tai.

"Late last night I came across his files and planted a tracer in one of them. As long as he doesn't find it himself I should be able to delete him."

"That's great, so why are we here?" Davis asked, a little confused (A/N as usual).

"It's not that simple, he's very quick to relocate himself and repair the damage I cause."

"So what do we do?" Mimi asked desperately.

"If you'll let me finish. I need a distraction, you just have to keep him occupied."

"How are we supposed to do that, we're defenceless," Matt pointed out.

"If you hadn't interrupted me you'd know by now wouldn't you?" Daedelous snapped.

"Sorry," Matt replied sheepishly.

"I have this problem all the time, you spend ages coming up with a plan, you get them all together and it's talk, talk, talk, they never..." Izzy started.

"SHUT UP!" Daedelous shouted. They were all silent.

"Sorry," he apologised, "You don't have to attack, all you have to do is keep him moving, keep him focussed on you and not himself. Izzy, do you still have that digital barrier Genai gave you?"

"Sure, that thing saved my life, I wasn't about to delete it," he replied.

"Excellent, I'll modify that to work here, set one up and if you get into trouble run into it so he can't find you, but then he will probably notice what is happening."

"Great, but how do we find him?" Joe asked.

"I have a feeling that your presence will draw him out, once he's out I'll start to delete him."

"How long is that going to take?" Izzy asked.

"I don't know, but it shouldn't be too long."

"Great, let's devise a plan," Tai suggested.

"If you have no more questions then I will be going, I have to modify that barrier for you."

"No, I think we can handle it from here, contact us when you're ready." Daedelous then disappeared.

"So what's the plan Tai?" Davis asked.

"I don't know, we still have to devise it," he replied.

"We don't have many options here, we can't fight him," Sora said.

"I know that but we have to do something," Kari said.

"I think I have a plan, but I don't know if it's gonna work," Izzy said.

"Well, spit it out, enough with the suspense," Davis urged.

"Yeah, and we promise we won't `talk, talk, talk,'" Matt joked, Izzy blushed, then he continued.

"I think we can play a large scale game of cat and mouse with him. I'm gonna try to set up many digital barriers and we can appear and disappear from his field of view, hopefully that way he won't be able to catch us and he'll be too confused to do anything."

"That's a pretty good plan," Joe commented.

"Yeah, but I don't know the limitations on the barrier program," Izzy replied.

"Well, it's all we've got," Tai said. The digimon came back to the oasis and went over to the group.

"Got what?" Agumon asked.

"We think we have a workable plan, I'll explain later," Tai said.

"Why don't we rest up, I've brought food," Joe suggested.

"Yeah, good idea," Tai agreed. Joe pulled out some sandwiches and they began eating.

*******Later (about an hour)*******

The group had formalised their plan, it revolved around Helios finding them, not the reverse. They would have to pick an area and begin quickly setting up barriers. Then once he had arrived they would begin distracting him and running in and out of the barriers. This would hopefully confuse him somewhat and give daedelous enough time to delete him. All was quiet and the Group was sitting in their usual couplings. Their relevant digimon were with them, but all except Gomamon, Tentomon, Veemon, Gatomon and Patamon, who were asleep.

Matt was sitting with his legs out straight, Mimi had her head on his lap. He was playing with her hair as she was daydreaming.

"You look lost in your thoughts," Matt said, "Anything I can help with?"

"No," she replied, "I was just thinking about things in general. It's strange, everything is so calm, and this is nice when the world is on the brink of destruction."

"Ironic isn't it."

"Yeah." The silence resumed.

"I'm scared," she said.

"We'll beat him Mimi, I'll make sure of it. You and I care too much for this world for him to take it away. You don't have to fight if you don't want to."

"I know, but I'm going to help, as you said, I care too much."

"That a girl." They smiled then she returned to her daydreaming.

Tai and Sora were sitting next to each other holding hands. They were reminiscing about the past.

"Remember that hair pin I gave you," Tai started.

"Yeah, I still have that you know," Sora responded.

"Why did you hate it so much?"

"I didn't, I was just giving you a hard time. But then you insulted my hat."

"It is true, but your hair is nice."

"Stop trying to apologise. Besides, your letter did that very well."

"I wasn't going to send that, but Kari did. Then it didn't go and I was killing myself, but I'm glad you got it."

"So am I." They moved in for a kiss, but Sora pulled back.

"We can't do this now, not at a time like this."

"I suppose you're right."

"Come on, it's not that bad. You can take it as pay back for throwing up in my hat and not telling me before I put it on."

"You can't still be mad at me for that."

"Just kidding."

Izzy and Joe were talking about their relevant studies for the up and coming finals and trying to explain what finals were to Tentomon and Gomamon. Joe was panicking as usual.

"Joe, you don't have any thing to worry about, you're a smart kid," Izzy said.

"Yeah, but what if I fail, I won't be able to be a doctor, or anything for that matter."

"That's not gonna happen, I'll help you if you need me to. Which you don't."

"Let me get this straight, your losing it over a test?" Gomamon asked.

"It's not just a test. They base what you can study at university on the overall marks from your finals," Izzy replied.

"Well that doesn't sound like the end of the world, you don't have to go to university. Say, where is this universe city." Gomamon responded a little confused. Joe and Izzy sighed.

"That's it, the end of the world. If we let Helios win I won't have to take the finals." Joe said, sounding a little on the crazy side.

"Joe!!" Izzy shouted, he snapped out of it.

"Sorry, I was only kidding?"

"So, where is the `universe city'" Gomamon asked.

"It's not a real city, it's a place you go to learn how to do a specific career," Joe replied.

"Oh," Gomamon said confidently. Joe and Izzy smiled, they thought he had finally got it.

"What's a career?" Joe and Izzy groaned.

"A job, something you do for money. Like being a doctor."

"Okay, I think I've got it." He didn't have it, but he was more confused, but he decided to give up.

"Humans sure are weird, they worry about the silliest things," Gomamon whispered to Tentomon.

"They sure are," he replied.

T.K., Kari and Davis were sitting in a group talking. Patamon had his usual perch on T.K.'s hat, Veemon was beside Davis and Gatomon was on Kari's lap. Davis was doing most of the talking while Kari and T.K. were listening. He was rambling on about how he was going to win the soccer tournament for his team that season.

"Okay Davis, enough about soccer," T.K. said.

"Yeah, I think we know everything there is to know about you and soccer," Patamon agreed.

"Sorry, I was rambling again," he replied.

"It's okay, we don't have much else to talk about," Kari said.

"Yeah, I suppose not," T.K. said.

"Maybe we should do something to pass the time," Kari suggested.

"I know, a game of soccer," Davis said enthusiastically.

"Yeah, that sounds like fun," Veemon said in agreement. T.K. and Kari gave them a look.

"Sorry, bad idea. But what do you guys want to do?" he said defensively.

"Good point, but we don't even have a ball," T.K. said.

"I have one for just this type of emergency," Davis said putting his bag down and pulled out a soccer ball. Just as he had it out, daedelous appeared.

The group gathered around him, they eagerly awaited his instructions.

"Are you ready?" he asked.

"Yeah, how about you?" Tai replied.

"I am prepared. We should put your plan into action."

"Okay, how will you know when to act?" Izzy asked.

"I will monitor his movements and strike when I think it is safe."

"Okay, we'll get started," Tai said. Daedelous disappeared and the group got moving the desert soon ended and they walked through a series if lush fields. They had walked for half hour and had come to a large plane that bordered on a forest. The wind was blowing slightly and there was silence except for the faint sound of the leaves rustling in the wind and the wind sweeping the grass. They set down and prepared themselves for the task at hand.

"Izzy, you start to set up some barriers, the rest of us should scout the area. If you find any digimon tell them to leave the area immediately, we have no idea when Helios will arrive," Tai said.

"Right," they all agreed.

"Gee Tai, you sound like an actual leader," Davis said admirably.

"Yeah, how long have you been practising," Matt joked.

"Remember what happened the last time I was gone," Tai rebutted.

"Just joking, no need to bring that up," Matt apologised.

"Sorry, I'm a little edgy and we've all grown up a lot since then," Tai apologised.

"Uh guys, if you're finished apologising then may I suggest we get on with the scouting," Sora said.

"Right," Tai responded. They separated into their human digimon pair and went in different directions. Tai and Agumon were checking in the plain, they had the easiest job. The grass on the plain was thick but there was nothing underneath it. They returned to Izzy who was typing away at his computer.

"How's it going?" Tai asked.

"Well I'm about to have one set up, but the process is really slow, and they still have to be activated." Izzy replied.

"How long will that take?"

"I don't know, it could be an hour, a second. We'll find out when I do it."

"That's not much use. Oh well."

"Did you guys find any thing?"

"No, it was deserted. It's strange to see the digital world like this," Agumon said.

"It sure is," Tentomon agreed.

"It must be really weird for you guys. I know what it's been like when we're here," Tai said. Sora, Biyomon, Matt, Gabumon, Mimi and Palmon then came back to the group.

"Did you guys find anything?" Tai asked, Izzy had returned to his computer.

"A few Numamon, but nothing else," Sora replied.

"Good, we need this to have no casualties," Tai said. Davis then came strolling back, Joe wasn't far behind him. They hadn't found anything either.

"Hey Izzy, how much progress have you made?" Tai asked.

"Well, they are all set up, but they need to be activated. I'm starting that now."

"Great. Where are they gonna be?" Tai asked.

"One will stretch along the boarder of the forest from there to there," Izzy said pointing to two specific trees. "There's another in the field by that rock, one further in the forest and one just behind us," he continued pointing to the specific locations.

"Good, I suggest you guys go into one of those areas," Tai directed. Mimi, Matt, Gabumon and Palmon took the forest barrier. Joe and Gomamon went to the one in the field. Davis and Veemon went to the barrier in the field. Tai, Sora, Izzy, Tentomon, Agumon and Biyomon would take the one behind them because it was closest and when T.K., Kari, Patamon and Gatomon returned they would join Davis or Joe.

"Are they up yet?" Davis asked impatiently, (A/N As usual, he should take a chill pill.)

"No, we're half way," Izzy replied.

"Tai!" Kari screamed. T.K. and her were charging in from the forest, and Helios wasn't far behind. He had assumed the form of black Wargreymon. Everybody turned around and saw them running in.

"Kari, T.K., follow us," Tai said as he ran toward them, Davis wasn't far behind him. Izzy and Sora had moved into position in the barriers that were still not up. Tai met Kari and T.K. then began running with them. Davis joined them, but they Helios was close behind.

"Izzy, ARE THEY UP YET?" Tai shouted.

"Coming online... NOW," he shouted back. The barriers came online and they disappeared from view. Tai went to Sora's barrier and T.K., Kari and Davis dived into the other. They disappeared from view as well.

"What is going on here?" Helios shouted in Rage.

"Izzy, I think it worked," Tai whispered.

"Yeah, he's fuming," Izzy replied.

"Come out this INSTANT!" Helios shouted, this time louder than before. He began to move around the area, and was dangerously close to T.K., Kari and Davis' barrier. Tai sprang out from his barrier and shouted, "Hey Bucket of bolts, over here." This got Helios' attention.

"Big mistake boy." He began charging over to Tai. Tai ran into the forest and joined Matt and Mimi in their barrier.

"Hey, why'd you have to bring him here?" Mimi joked.

"Sorry, I forgot this was a holiday," Tai retaliated.

"You kids should just admit you can't defeat me and surrender," Helios shouted.

"Ever think he's desperate," Matt joked.

T.K. and Davis then sprang from their barrier and yelled, "Hey, over here Stupid!" Helios liked this less than Tai's insult and was fuming with rage.

"TERRA DESTROYER!!!!" he gathered the energy above his head and was preparing to toss it right their way. They dived back into the barrier just as the ball hit. The attack blasted a huge hole in the ground.

"Kari!" Tai yelled in horror as the blast engulfed the area where her barrier was. The dust settled and Tai ran out from his barrier to hers. Matt gave a distraction joining Izzy. Tai arrived to find the three unharmed, just a little shaken.

"You're alright," he said hugging her.

"Yeah, but I don't know why, we should have been a goner," she replied.

"The barrier must have block the attack as well," T.K. said.

"Well, let's get on with it," Davis said. The DDs kept up the distractions for a while, until Helios froze in his tracks. They emerged from their barriers and he still stood dead still.

Daedelous then appeared.

"What's the matter Daedelous, having problems deleting me?" Helios said, still not moving.

"Sorry kids, I could only stop his mobility in the digital world, but he'll surely repair it."

"That's right, I'll have it done in just a minute,"

Ooh, what's gonna happen, I know, but you don't. I guess you'll have to wait till next week to find out. Thank you for all the reviews. Next week should be the final part, review if you think I should write a sequal\continuation.