Gatomon was sitting in the large throne in her lair. The seat was too large for her, making her look like a child on a over stuffed sofa, but no one dared mention this to her. She was examining Datamon's and Vademon's newest device in her hand when Devimon walked through the door, a motionless Tai under his arm.

"Devimon, welcome back." She jumped off the chair and walked towards him. "You know it's consider polite to knock before entering. I don't want to have to delete you for disobedience."

An evil laughter from Devimon filled the room. "Come on, Gatomon, I know you brought the others back from deletion mainly as cannon fodder, but you brought me back for another reason."

Gatomon smiled at him. "True, we've have a mutual acquaintance, who speaks very highly of you I must add." She laughed as well. "But I digress, we have more important business to take care off."

"Of course." Devimon threw Tai on the floor. "One digidestined for your collection."

"Nicely done Devimon. Ogremon!" The greenish brute came though the door. "Take this human trash and lock him with our other prisoner." Ogremon wordlessly picked up Tai and carried him over shoulder to the dungeon. Gatomon turned back to the table. "It's a good thing you captured a human. My little pet project needs a human guinea pig to test on, seeing as it worked so well on a digimon one. Tai will do nicely."

The doors suddenly burst open. Devimon and Gatomon whirled around and saw Metaletemon in front of them. His armored hide was cracked in a dozen places. His glasses where shattered and he had troubled standing. Gatomon walked towards him, "What happened to you? Don't tell me Metalgarurumon is back in the picture. It can't be Wargreymon, we have Tai here."

Metaletemon collapsed in the chair that Gatomon was sitting in. He struggled with his words. "No, It was one of …the digidestined."

Gatomon looked at him like he was crazy and then began to laugh. "Your telling me that one of the digidestined did this to you? In case you didn't realize it, humans don't have powers like us digimon."

A metal fist slammed on the table. "This one did! The one that's always fiddling with the computer and that tattoo on his hand!"

"The one called Izzy?" Devimon immediately came to attention. "Had a tattoo on his hands and powers like a digimon?" Devimon started to laugh. "I can't believe it! All that time he was on File Island and I never noticed! He must be the one!"

"I don't see what so humorous! Un huh, That kid kicked my mega metal ass good, and he didn't even look like he was trying!" Metaletemon lowered his voice. "You don't stand a chance against him, Un huh."

Devimon walked towards Metaletemon slumping form. "We don't need to defeat him, he's one of us. I'll go and bring him back here out of his own free will. Where did you spot him?" Metaletemon told him where to find Izzy, and with that Devimon flew out the window.

Gatomon turned his back towards Metaletemon. "That'll be all, you can go." Metaletemon started to get up from the chair. "Oh by the way," she whipped out her remote and pressed a button. 100 000 volts seared through Metaletemon's body, causing him to writhe in pain. "Next time, knock. Now get the hell out of here."

Metaletemon crawled on his hands and knees out of the room as fast as he could.



Gomamon was asleep in the corner of his cell when he heard the door open. He jumped up, expecting yet another encounter with Gatomon. He was somewhat relieved when it was only Ogremon, but he was disappointed again when he saw Tai's slumped form was thrown in the cell. He ran over to Tai's body, "Are you ok? Tai wake up!"

Tai opened his eyes and looked at Gomamon, "I'm fine, I was just playing possum so I could listen in an Gatomon and Devimon. I'm glad to see you're alright," he looked over Gomamon and noticed he looked racked and exhausted. "Are you all right? Has she been torturing you?"

Gomamon involuntarily let out a little chuckle; "It depends on your meaning of the word." Tai looked at him like he was nuts, so Gomamon quickly changed the subject. "Did you learn anything?"

Tai nodded his head. "Devimon and Gatomon both know somebody, but I don't know who. In fact Gatomon was never on File Island, so I don't anybody they both can know. Also, I don't believe this myself, but Etemon's back as a Mega digimon, Metaletemon."

Gomamon sighed, "I don't believe it either."

"That's not the hard to believe part, when I saw him he was hovering on the brink of deletion, and apparently Izzy was the one who did it to him."

"Well, that's good for Tentomon and Izzy." Gomamon nodded.

"No, Izzy by himself! And Devimon seemed to think this was hilarious. This whole thing seemed to make sense to him as well. That's the weird thing"

Gomamon shook his head, "Well it doesn't to me, but nothing makes sense now a days. Gatomon's betrayal, Izzy's superpowers. I don't know what to do anymore."

"Well you can both start by putting your hands up."

Tai and Gomamon where so engrossed in their conversation that they didn't notice Gatomon walk in their cell. On either side of her a Tankmon stood ready to fire. Tai and Gomamon quickly put their hands as high as they could reach. "Now then Tai, I'd like to borrow your crest for a minute please." Tai's hand wrapped around the golden trinket as if to protect it. The Tankmon then raised their nose cannon directly at him and Tai quickly realized he had no choice. He removed the crest and threw it at Gatomon. Gatomon snatched it out of mid-air and turned around examining it. "Nice craftsmanship." She remarked as she turned back towards Tai and tossed the crest back.

Tai caught the crest and put it back around his neck. Suddenly the crest began to glow, except now it was glowing black. "What's going on?" Tai screamed.

Gatomon was smiling now. "What you have there is a little project my scientists Datamon and Betamon whipped up. In case you hadn't noticed, there is a little disk on the back of the crest, changing the crest into the anti version of the crest. Since each of you children has a dominant emotion, that crest removes it and allows the opposite negative emotion to take over. For Matt, we have the crest of enemies. Izzy is the crest of ignorance. Sora is hate, TK is despair, Kari is darkness, Mimi is deceit, and Joe is failure. And we have one for you too." She motioned to Tai's chest. "That one you have on now is called the crest of fear. Appropriate, n'est pas?"

"Leave him alone!" Gomamon charged Gatomon. Gatomon was expecting this though. She threw another black gear that connected with Gomamon in mid air. Gomamon tried to shift his position in mid-air, but the gear still collided with his back flipper. The gear quickly buried itself down in Gomamon's body. When Gomamon landed he was back to his evil self. He looked back at Tai and realized he couldn't care less. He walked up to Gatomon and licked her once on the cheek.

"In a minute." Gatomon chuckled as she playfully pushed Gomamon away.

"What did you do to him you feline bitch!" Tai angrily yelled. The crest on his chest grew dark black. Tai suddenly clutched his chest. He could literally feel his emotions drain away from him. The feeling was indescribable, almost like being drunk, yet his senses where heightened instead of dulled.

Gatomon laughed. "You see, now whenever you lose control of you negative emotions, they consume you. Like the black gears, it's only temporary, and you will regain your composure in a little bit, but for what I have in mind it's all I need. You become evil, it's an unusual feeling when it comes over you, but you feel so much better when it's all over." Tai looked down at Gatomon, his eyes looked hard and dark under his brown hair. Gatomon stepped forward, "The funny thing about true evil is, you don't go out killing and maiming at random. True evil is when you allow you passions, desires to take over. You do for you alone, anyone else is inconsequential." Gatomon ran her paw through Gomamon's bright red mohawk, who was standing right beside her. "Isn't that right Gomamon?"

"Absolutely."

Tai got up and sat with his back against the wall. Gatomon curled up on his chest purring. "Now then, now that I did a favor for you, I need you to do one for me."

"What do you want?' Tai asked.

"Nothing much," Gatomon replied, "Just any news about where your friends are, or anything else that might be of use. You want this war of ours to end quickly right?"

"Your right, Gatomon." Tai agreed. "I don't know where anybody is, but Gennai gave us this prophecy." Tai took a scrap piece of paper and pen that he had in his pockets and wrote down what Gennai had sent him.

The fallen angel shall show herself

In the guise of a friend

The sky shall turn dark

And friends shall become foes

She shall then raise the defeated and destroyed

To take their revenge against the ones who banished them

To the state of none-being

The son of fallen angels

Shall reveal his power

To save a loved one

The chosen ones shall than be tempted by the dark side

To let their evil selves take control

Then the fallen one shall reveal herself

In her true form

And then we shall see friends reunited

With the writings from the past

Hidden under the cover of shame

To travel back to the past

And the writer of these prophecies shall be revealed

Tai continued, "The last line was damaged, so we don't know it."

Gatomon nodded in thought. "That's good, it helps my plans." She climbed off Tai's chest, and walked over the now sleeping form of Gomamon. "You two stay here. You're going to just hate yourselves when you come to. I don't think you'll like me quite as much in an hour or so. But we can always play later." And she walked out of the cell door, locking it behind her.



Gatomon was relaxing in her gigantic chair after her little escapade with Tai and Gomamon. These black gears and anti-crests are going to provide her with more entertainment, especially after she finishing capturing the remaining digidestined. The prophecy had intrigued her though. The fallen angel line intrigued her, since only her and Devimon knew the true meaning. The digidestined probably had the completely wrong idea of who it was referring to. A knock at the door diverted her attention from her thoughts. She grinned; glad that her knock before entering rule was being followed. "Enter."

A Geckomon bowed low as he entered. Gatomon smiled; the black gears worked well, to bad they only affected Data and Vaccine digimon by turning them into virtually mindless puppets. That's been why she's had to use other methods to control Puppetmon, Metaletemon, and the other Viral digimon. Betamon and Datamon may be Data type as well, but she needed their skills. The black gears would have removed all that. She motioned for the Geckomon slave to move forward. "Your report scout."

The Geckomon bowed again. "Yes, your empress." Gatomon liked that title; maybe she'll keep it when she rules both worlds. The Geckomon continued speaking. "Our scouts have located the ones you call TK and Kari in the valley to the north. They appear to be alone. Shall we dispatch one of your viral servants to capture them?"

Gatomon got up from her chair. "No need, I could use the exercise. Besides, I would like to capture Kari personally. After all, I am her digimon."