Palmon ran as fast as she could through the forest. She had been running for hours, but her eyes where still filled with tears. She knew she had to escape, since she had the only two digivices and Izzy's computer which she scooped up as well. But still, Tai had been beaten and captured. He had even risked his life for her even after she insulted him. She also knew that she was almost ready to attack him, until Devimon had dropped down between them. She was so unaware of her surroundings that she did not even notice the forest was thinning out, and slowly turning into a city. She did however notice when she heard her name screamed.

Awoken from her catatonic state, she whirled around, almost happy that she had an enemy to lash out at. But she was even more happy when she discovered it was Agumon, Patamon, and, "Mimi!" Palmon ran forward, dropping the computer and wrapping her hands around Mimi's neck as she bent down. She was still crying as she expressed her joy, "I was so worried about you! After the fog, Tai's..capture, I didn't know what to do." Palmon buried her face in Mimi's dress, letting all of her emotions come out.

Mimi just stood silent, stroking the back of Palmon's head. "There, there, Palmon." She replied when Palmon had stopped crying enough for her to be heard, "We're together now, and we've got Patamon and Agumon with us too."

"That's right!" Patamon happily replied. "We'll be with our friends in no time!"

A thousand pellets of energy landed around them in a heartbeat, throwing the group to the ground. "You've got that right! In the next cell!" Puppetmon laughed from atop of the log cabin.

"You again!" Agumon angrily cried. "I thought we dropped the curtain on your act!"

Puppetmon laughed in his childish voice. "This is the encore presentation." He leaped down to face Patamon and Agumon. Palmon was standing by Mimi's slumped form. A large cut on her head was dripping blood.

"Mimi! Wake up! Are you all right?" Palmon cried, but Mimi just lay motionless on the street. Behind her, Patamon and Agumon's brave stand quickly came to a close as Puppetmon quickly knocked them both into the cabin, where they did not emerge.

"BWHAHAHAHA!" Puppetmon's maniacal laughter filled the air as he turned around and started walking towards Palmon. "Three down, one to go. Sigh, I almost wish their was something more challenging. This game is boring."

Palmon stood up, fire in her eyes. "You heartless creature." she whirled around, "How dare you and your kind hurt my friends!" Suddenly, one of the Digivices Palmon had on her began to grow brightly. Palmon realized that, it was hers! And that Mimi was here, that meant, "Palmon digivolve to TOGEMON!" Not even pausing to catch her breath she went on, "Togemon digivolve to LILLYMON!" She screamed as she flew out of her flower.

Lillymon landed in front of Puppetmon, who stood their grinning. "Well, well, This may be a minor challenge, but face it lady, I'm still a mega digimon and your only an ultimate."

Lillymon turned back to Mimi for a brief instant, and her anger welled up inside her. "You wanted a challenge? You've got it!" And with that she flew towards Puppetmon, landing a right hook on his wooden jaw.

The wooden digimon rolled on the ground landing on his feet. "Puppet pummel!" He shouted firing blasts of energy in the air. Lillymon skated on the skies like a waterbug, not one of the energy pellets coming close.

"I've improved." Lillymon told Puppetmon as he stood there with an enraged look on his face. She placed her hand together, "Flower Cannon!" and fired a blast, at Puppetmon, who was just able to block it in time with his mallet.

Puppetmon grimaced under the force of the blast. "This is fun, but you have an appointment with Gatomon." He raised his hands, and strings shot out from them. Lillymon tried to dodge them, but they followed her like snakes, until they latched on to her gloves, boots, and dress. Lillymon struggled as she was pulled down from the skies, but the strings grip was to great. "That was a fun game, but playtime's over." Puppetmon sneered, angry that she had given him so much trouble. "Now, to take you and the others back to Gatomon."

"Pepper Breath!" "Boom Bubble!" Puppetmon had been so intent on Lillymon, he had failed to notice the other two digimon crawl out of the cabin. They had each fired a blast into Puppetmon's face. While this didn't hurt him, he was blinded for a second from the light of the micro-explosion. When his vision cleared, he angrily tossed what he thought was Lillymon at the two rookie digimon. A clear expression of shock spread across his face as instead of a large flower fairy, a few large flower petals collided with Agumon and Patamon. Puppetmon quickly turned around, his face barely an inch away from Lillymon's fully primed flower cannon. In the brief distraction that her friends had provided her, Lillymon sprouted petals from her gloves, boots and dress. Luckily, Puppetmon had neglected to attach any strings to her flesh, so she was free.

Puppetmon shudder involuntarily just before Lillymon whispered, "Boom." A huge burst of energy flew from her hands directly in his face at point blank range. Puppetmon released a high pitched scream as he flew into the cabin, which shattered around him. Before he could recover, Lillymon rushed forward, a lasso made of flowers instantly formed in her hands. She ensnared the virus-type so that only his head was out, and removed his mallet from his slumped grasp. Lillymon then stepped back, ready to release another blast onto her weakened foe. Just before she released her deathblow, Agumon and Patamon grasped her from behind. "Let me go! He killed Mimi! He deserves it!"

"No he didn't! Mimi's just unconscious." Patamon announced. Lillymon turned around, her rage subsiding. She saw that while Mimi was still out of it, but clearly breathing up and down.

Lillymon flew over to Mimi and stroked her hair. She lifted her gently and carried her inside another undamaged cabin, and placed her on the couch. She plucked a petal from her head, and crushed it in her palm. She then rubbed the salve on Mimi's head wound, knowing it would act as a painkiller as well as a sedative to help her sleep it off.

"Is she comfortable?" Agumon asked, dragging the slumped form of Puppetmon behind him with the flower leash Lillymon had tied on. Patamon flew over Agumon's head into the cabin as well.

"Yes," Lillymon turned around as Agumon locked Puppetmon in the cupboard. "My flowers will keep him powerless as long as he wrapped in them. But why did you keep me from deleting Puppetmon? After what he did to Mimi!" She stood up over the two smaller digimon.

Lillymon," Patamon said. "We need to rescue our friends from Gatomon. Puppetmon's our only link to figure why Gatomon turned against us, and what she is planning to do with us."

Agumon had pretty much the same idea. "As long as we got Puppetmon, he can't hurt anyone, and he'll have to help us."

Lillymon had accepted their answer and decided to check up on Mimi. She was resting comfortably, the wound already looked like it was closing already. She remembered she had something to give to Mimi before she forgot. She placed her hand into Mimi's bag when she heard movement beside her.

"How is she doing?" Agumon had cleaned himself up and stood next to her, barely standing as high as her knee. Patamon was flying just over Agumon's head, staring at Mimi's wound.

Lillymon removed her hand from Mimi's purse. "She's fine, and I'm doing better to." She smiled at her friends beside her.

"Excuse me!" Everyone's attention was diverted to the voice from the closet. "Did we forget about someone?"

Lillymon flew over to the closet and pulled out the evil marionette. Puppetmon grinned as Lillymon held him up to her face. "What do you want? I still think I should vaporize you before you give us more trouble."

Puppetmon chuckled. He had a plan. While the flowers prevented him from using his powers, he had managed to slip his hand into his pocket, and work it out of the flowers. After the group escaped the first time, he went back to the castle. While he was there, Gatomon gave him a toy that would be very useful right about now. "You know what cutie?" He smiled at the angry look he got from Lillymon. "You're right, you should have deleted me."

Puppetmon placed his hand on Lillymon. Lillymon screamed as Puppetmon pulled it away and she dropped him. She had just enough time to see the black gear burrow itself into her skin before she felt her positive emotions wash away.

"Lillymon? What's wrong?" Agumon pushed Puppetmon away and grabbed her hand.

Lillymon stared down at the small dinosaur. "You're wrong." One quick backhand sent Agumon flying unconscious into the floor. Patamon only had time to squeak out a "Huh?" before Lillymon kicked him into the corner next to Agumon.

"BWAHAHAHAHA!" Puppetmon laughed from his flower cocoon. "It's good to see you come to our side. We need some more female companionship on our team."

Lillymon whirled around and pulled Puppetmon up by the collar. "Who said I was on your team?" She threw Puppetmon down on the ground. "I'm evil now, and revenge against you is right near the top of my list." Her flower cannon formed on her hands, inches away from his face.

"But you don't want to hurt me, 'cause you might get hurt yourself" he said, "but if you work with me then the rewards could be great."

"Give me one good reason why should I trust you?"

"Because," Puppetmon winked, "I'm may be a cruel, vindictive, homicidal, and psychopathic, but I am no liar."

Lillymon smirked and withdrew the cannon back. "Good point." She made a gesture with her hand and the flowers disappeared from Puppetmon. He jumped up and walked over to the slumped forms of Agumon and Patamon. He held out his hands and strings shot all around them. The two fallen hero's got up and started walking towards the door, still clearly asleep.

"Shall we?" Puppetmon motioned to the castle in the distance.

Anger filled up in Lillymon as she waited for her revenge. "We shall." And the group started towards the castle.