Chapter 4:
That Day Six
Years Later



Shawn had been with Myotismon for a few monthes under six years earth time. It's hard to tell how he could know but in Digiworld's time it's milleniums. He was now incharge of Myotismon's army and Myotismon's most trusted minions. Along with this Shawn had begun to act older than he was. But Shawn was missing something, he needed a vacation. Myotismon refused to give him off because of Shawn was very valuable to Myotismon's plans. "Master, I must have a break from my duties or else I'll be too tired to serve you." Shawn pleaded. "That maybe true but how do I know you will come back." Myotismon countered. "I shall be back no later than one digiworld years. And if I'm late then I will serve you three more years than I must." Shawn said. "Ahh, I see you realize I will no longer be needing you and that I will set you free, yes, you may have your break and if you do not return in one year, you must serve me three more years than I need you." Myotismon told Shawn. "Thank you, Master." Shawn said as he went to his room and took enough supplies for a couple monthes.

Hours later Shawn was walking really nowhere. He was in almost to the area where Etemon was incharge. Suddenly a presence of a darkness like Shawn's appeared. Shawn turned and sent a Dark Prince beam at the presence only to see another Dark Prince. "Impossible!" Shawn yelled. "No its not. Justice Blade!" the other Dark Prince said as he slashed at Shawn with a long sword. Shawn blocked with his sword but found the other Dark Prince was almost equal in strength to him. "Thiefmon, a little asistance, please." the other Dark Prince suddenly said. "Thief Blade!" another voice came as Shawn was slashed from behind. "Ahh! Can it be...you're a digidestend, too." Shawn suddenly realized. "Correct, and this was quite an interesting battle. Being I already know you, I'll introduce myself. I am Seth Roithenburg and this is my digimon Thiefmon." he said taking off his hood and his digimon getting beside him. "And your crest is the crest of Justice, I take from your attack Justice Blade." Shawn told Seth. "Very good observation, Shawn." Seth told Shawn as he put his sword in its sheath. "And I guess Genni trained you." Shawn said. "Yes, and he's currently training Katie." Seth informed him. "Thats got to be interesting." Shawn said as he took a closer look at Seth, "You worked for Devimon, didn't you?" "What!!! How do you know?!?" Seth asked surprised. "I sense a great darkness around you, and you're eyes are showing signs of long exposure to the Dark Prince World." Shawn explained. "Yes, Devimon trained me horribly there. I constantly was tortured by him if I couldn't defeat every enemy in my way." Seth explained. "Yes, Myotismon did the same almost to me." Shawn related. "Hmm, and I do feel sad that your digimon ran away." Seth said. "It's for the better." was all Shawn could say about it. "Oh, by the way Genni needs us. I tried to ask Devimon to let me off but he almost did his touch of evil attack on me, so I stormed out and I no longer work for him. So we better get to Genni's lab quick." Seth told Shawn. "I agree." Shawn said as they rushed towards the area where Genni's lab was.

The lab hadn't changed at all. Everything was the same to Shawn. As usual it was full of Genni's kind checking readings on things. The ony thing strange was a door leading out to an open field was open. "Wonder what's out there." Seth said. They both walked out the door only for the door to shut. "What the.." Shawn said then a figure in a white robe attacked them. "Seth, I'll take this guy on." Shawn said as he charged to do a Dark Prince beam but the figure did a strange attack that disabled Shawn's beam. "Hmm, an attack with the attribute of light...well, time to fight old school!" Shawn yelled as he pulled out his sword and slashed at the figure. The figure tried to dodge but Shawn was too quick. Shawn moved back from the figure as the figure fell forward. "Ahhh, can't believe this, I failed at protecting this place." the figure suddewnly said with a sad soft voice. "Katie?!?" Shawn said realizing the indentity of the figure. "Shawn!?!" she suddenly said as Shawn took off his hood. "This is strange, and I have a feeling Genni had a part in this little trick." Seth said looking around the area. "Yes, Seth, I did plan this trick. I wanted to see how strong Katie would be against a Dark Prince like you or Shawn." Genni's voice came then he appeared. "And how did she do?" Shawn asked. "Well, she was able to stop your ability temporarily to use Dark Prince beam. But being each Dark Prince has a different weapon or attribute besides the Dark Prince ones she isn't ready." Genni explained. "So that all you needed me for?" Shawn asked. "No, I need you to fix some data I just scanned. I need you to remove a certain flaw from one of the panels so we can seperate the data." Genni told Shawn. "But, I'm only an expert on digital technologies..." Shawn tried to remind him. "Yes, but you also are very good with computers." Genni reminded Shawn. "Oh...yeah." Shawn said realizing Genni was right.

In the lab Shawn sat going through files to trying to find the flaw in the panel. Shawn was quite bored and was getting tired. Suddenly Shawn found the flaw. "A tracer!?!" Shawn yelled. Shawn removed the tracer program just by typing a few keystokes. "Now, who would put a tracer in this panel. Wait....that tracer had the symbol for......The Dark Masters!!!" Shawn realized. Suddenly the computer loaded all the data seperate. On the screen was now profiles of eight children scanned recently by Genni. Shawn then saw a report on what happened. "NO! This can't be!" Shawn yelled as he suddenly looked at the picture of a young boy with red hair. "Shawn, whats wrong?" Genni came into the room asking. "Why, Genni?" was all Shawn could ask. "Shawn, I couldn't control who was scanned. the computer chooses the ones scanned. I'm sorry Shawn." Genni told him. "I never wanted him to expirence what I did!" Shawn yelled. "He won't, because him and the other eight won't come for awhile." Genni tried to calm him down by saying. "I hope so...I better get some sleep while you put the data in the digieggs you chose to use." Shawn said as he left the room.

Monthes had pasted since that day. Shawn and Seth stood in a room with a darkened window on the lab side. They watched as Genni and his kind watched reading and data on the panels of the lab. "Are you sure, it was a tracer from the Dark Masters?" Seth asked. "Yes, and they will be here, any day now, they know the digieggs are going to hatch and the chosen digimon will be ready for the chosen digi-destineds to come. So the Dark Masters will come and stop it from happening." Shawn explained. Suddenly an explosion happened. Shawn and Seth watched through the window as robot digimon, such as a group of Mechaknorimon, attacked Genni's kind. Then after two minutes the leader of the Dark Masters, Piedmon, floated toward the glass container where the digieggs, digivises and crest were. He destroyed some of the glass and took seven of the eight crest. As he went for the last crest Genni came rushing towards him with a sword. Piedmon laughed as Genni came to attack. Piedmon dodged genni and put a small black sphere into the back of Genni's neck. Genni screamed but then ran towards one of the Mechaknorimon, opened in dome and threw the bakemon pilot out. Then he jumped in and piloted it to the glass case and grabbed the digieggs and digivises and flew away through the hole in the wall of the lab. Piedmon ordered the remaining mechaknorimon to chase Genni, and as they chased after Genni, he dropped one of the digieggs. Piedmon had noticed Genni also dropped the last crest on the floor of the lab. As he walked over towards the crest to take it, he was hit by two Dark Prince beams. "Err, who dares to attack me!" Piedmon yelled. "We do, Dark Master!" Shawn and Seth yelled as they revealed themselves with their robes on and hoods up. "Two Dark Princes...Well this is interesting." Piedmon laughed. Shawn saw he was going to take the last crest and sent a dark prince beam at him and dashed at Piedmon and grabbed the seven crests he held and the one one the ground. "No! Die Dark Princes! Attack them!!!" Piedmon yelled and he backed off and disappeared, but as he did a lone mechaknorimon attacked them.

Shawn and Seth looked at the mechaknorimon. It was no ordinary one, it had been upgraded and the pilot was most likely not a bakemon. It fired four missles at them but as they exploded Shawn and Seth were launched back through the window into the room they had been in before. The mechaknorimon flew over towards them and looked at them then flew off out of the lab.

The lab was totally destroyed when Seth and Shawn woke up. Shawn still had the crests in his hand. Suddenly as they walked outside Devimon appeared. "Dark Prince, you will pay for betraying me!" Devimon told Seth. "Wait, Devimon, let him live. I have something that you will find interesting. Legends say you will be defeated by the digidestineds. These crests are their's. We will give you them if you let my friend live." Shawn said. "What!" Seth yelled. "Hmm, you are the Dark Prince of Myotismon. Yes, its a deal. Give me the crests, for I will hide them so the digidestineds will never find them." Devimon said as he held his claw out to take the crest. Shawn put seven of the crests in his claw and hid the eighth in the sleeve of his robe. "Remember this, Dark Princes, I will return one day to destroy you both, this deal is only temporarily, at least till the digidestineds are destroyed." Devimon said as he flew away.

Katie stood on a cliff above the sea watching the sun rise. "There is nothing as beautiful as this." she said to herself. "Not true, for there is at least one thing more beautiful than this sunrise." Shawn's voice came from behind her. "Genni escaped to File Island if you were wondering." Katoe said without turning around. "Katie, you don't have to be afraid. Go to where Genni is, then when the time is right I'll come with Seth so we all can be together for the dangers that will help." Shawn told her. "Um, I should also mention a boy named Nicholli, came a few monthes before two came to the lab. He's one of the two others from the excavation. He refused to let Genni train him. He went to File Island to train. If I go find Genni, I'll find him, then when you two come for me he can be with us then." Katie said as she turned to Shawn, "And please do come back quicker this time." "I can't yet. So good bye." Shawn said as he walked away.