The New Digimon Return
Chapter 2: The Power of Love
"Hey, this is Davis. We were all getting ready to go to the Digital World to rescue Agumon from that slime ball Ken, when suddenly the areas that Garurumon, Birdramon, Gomamon, Togemon, and Tentomon were guarding turned black. We then got this message from this weird guy named Gennai, who knew Tai and the others. All 11 of us went to his home in the Digital World, which turned out to be under water. It was there that us new guys learned about a digimon called Rexmon who had captured all of the digimon except for Gatomon and Patamon, and how 6 new digimon partners were needed to stop him. Gennai then told us that these 6 digimon were our only hope to save the others. We set out to find a cave were Pyromon, who was Tai's partner was sleeping. After we found the cave, Tai said that he had to go in alone to find Pyromon. However, shortly after he went in, Ken showed up with the digimon, and they all digivolved to their Champion forms. Our digimon armor digivolved, and tried to stop them, but they didn't have enough power to do so. Tai then showed up with Pyromon, who digivolved to Dragimon and helped our digimon to fight off Ken."
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Sora ran through the woods, beads of sweat forming on her forehead as she ran. She had been running for what seemed like hours, and finally she was about o find that which she had been searching for. Just up ahead of her, laid a small pink bird, which looked like it was asleep. Sora ran up to the small bird, and picked it up, pulling it into a huge hug. "Oh Biyomon," Sora said as she continued to hug her digimon partner, "I was so worried about you."
"It's ok Sora," Biyomon said, "I will always be here to protect you."
Sora smiled as she and Biyomon separated, but her smile soon faded when she saw that Biyomons eyes were glowing red, and then she looked down at the digimons leg, and found the shape of a spiral there. Sora quickly broke away form Biyomon, and stepped back a few paces. "What's wrong Sora?" Biyomon asked, as she began to digivolve to Birdramon, "Don't you love me anymore?" Sora took another step back, as Birdramon flew up hi, and fired off several fireballs at her.
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Sora sat straight up in bed, and wiped perspiration off her forehead. She looked at the clock that sat next to her bed, which read 6:00 am. She knew that she would be meeting up with the others in only a few hours to return to the Digital World to find Purrmon and the other 4 digimon. She got out of bed, and headed to her small bathroom, to wash the sweat off of her face before she tried to go back to sleep. She switched the light on, and leaned over the sink, splashing cold water on it, and then rose up to look at herself in the mirror. She was about to head back to her bed, when she noticed a red glow coming from under her gown. She opened up the front of it just enough to see what the glowing was, only to see that it was the image of the Crest of Love that had appeared when they were fighting Appocallymon.
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After school, Sora was going to meet up with Tai and Matt before going to meet up with the others. Of the entire original digi-destined, Sora had always felt closest to Tai. The two of them had known each other since before either of them could remember, and she knew there was anyone she could tell about her dream, it was him. However, even though she and known Matt for a long time as well, she had never felt the bond that she shared with Tai. She knew that since they had already found Scalmon that Tai would more than likely go with her to find Purrmon, and she knew that she could wait till they got to the Digital World to tell him about it.
"And when I looked in the mirror, I found the image of the Crest of Friendship glowing on my chest." Matt was saying as Sora walked up to them. He then noticed Sora, and stopped the story.
They all began to walk towards the Junior High School, were they were to meet up with the rest of the digi-destined and then head off to the Digital World. It was while they were walking that Sora decided to tell Tai and Matt about her dream. By the time they had reached the building, Sora had finished her story, and the three of them had wondered if the other original digi-destined had had something similar happen to them.
When they got to the computer room at the Jr. High, they did not even have a chance to find out, because Davis came up to them immediately, wondering were they had been. "Sorry, it is my fault," Sora said, "I was running late after school, and held up Tai and Matt as well."
"It's ok Sora," Joe said, "we all run late at times."
Sora smiled at her friend, and they joined everyone else around the computer that Izzy and Scalmon were working at. "What have you found Izzy?" Tai asked taking immediate control.
Izzy looked up from the computer, "We were able to find all but one of the other 5 digimon." Izzy said.
"Who is the one that you have not found yet?" Cody asked
"Purrmon." Scalmon said, "I just can't quite remember were I left her at."
Sora moved up behind Izzy and Scalmon, and looked at the computer screen, 'Were are you Purrmon?' she thought as she closed her eyes and remembered the little feline digimon, and all of the things that they went through together on their adventure to find the other four digimon. Suddenly a square on the monitor began to glow red. She opened her eyes, and looked at the monitor, and pointed at the square, "Is that the area?" she asked
"That's it, that's it." Scalmon said enthusiastically
Izzy turned in his chair to face Sora, and was about to ask how she knew, when Tai spoke up, "Ok, now that we know Purrmon's location, it is time that we headed out to find her and the other four digimon." Everyone let out a cheer, Tai then thought about the teams, "Ok, Kari you and Gatomon will come with myself, Scalmon, and Sora to find Purrmon." Kari and Gatomon nodded their approval of the team, "Cody, you and Upamon will take Joe to find Leathermon." Joe and Cody nodded, and Upamon bounced up and down enthusiastically. Tai then turned to face Mimi and Yolie, "Yolie, you and Porumon will take Mimi to find Ivymon."
"Perfecto!" Mimi and Yolie both said at the same time.
"I take it that I am going with Izzy then." Davis said.
"Actually, I was going to have TK go with Izzy, and have you go with Matt Davis."
"What?" TK, Matt, and Davis all said at the same time.
"If you think about it you will see that it is a wise idea for TK to come with me instead of Davis." Izzy said
"How is that Izzy?" Mimi asked.
"Suppose for a moment that the Digimon Emperor sends our digimon after us, that means that if Davis came with me that if Kabuterimon attacked, he would have the advantage of being a flying digimon."
"And Flamdramon is not a flying digimon," Patamon began, "but as Pegasismon, who is a flying digimon, I would be able to better handle Kabuterimon then Veemon could."
"Exactly." Tai said, "And since Flamdramon is more suited for fighting on the ground,"
"He would be a better match for Garurumon." Matt finished.
"Right." Davis said.
And with that said, all 11 of the digi-destined lined up in the pairs that they would head to the Digital World in. Kari, Tai, Gatomon, Salmon, and Sora all lined up in front of the computer first, with their digivices held out. A light engulfed them, and they were gone. Next went Davis, Matt, and Demiveemon, then TK, Izzy, and Patamon, then Cody, Joe, and Upamon, and finally, Yolie, Mimi and Porumon left for the Digital World.
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Ken the Digimon Emperor sat in his control chair, and watched the monitors that lined the wall in front of him. He then spun the chair around to face the group that was lined up behind him. 'Excellent,' he thought, 'my plans to take control of the Digital World are finally coming to reality.' He smiled, and stood up, and paced in front of the 7 digimon that were before him. Along with Agumon, Gabumon, Biyomon, Tentomon, Gomamon, and Palmon, stood his own worthless digimon Wormmon. Ken could not understand how he had gotten such a useless digimon for a partner, and paid as little attention to the small digimon as he could. He stopped and faced the 6 digimon, "Now that you have proven your loyalty to me by attacking your former masters, it is time for us to destroy them once and for all, as well as their 5 friends that have been a thorn in my side for far to long." He held his hand up to the monitors, which all together switched to a giant map of the Digital World. "Each of the squares of this map that are a color are areas that your former masters are currently at. You will each go to destroy them, and whoever they are with."
"We understand!" all 6 of them said at the same time.
Ken pulled out six small devices from a pocket on his cape, and attached them to the dark spirals on each of the 6 digimon. "This device will allow for you to digivolve without me being present. They will allow for you to go all the way to your fully evolved forms." Ken turned to the monitors again, and images of 4 different digimon came onto four different screens, "Gabumon, Tentomon, Gomamon, and Palmon you will each team up with a digimon on these screens, and they will go with you for backup."
"We understand!" the 4 digimon said, and left the room.
Ken looked at Agumon and Biyomon, "I will go with the two of you as you go after your former masters."
"Yes Digimon Emperor." They both said at the same time.
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After emerging form the TV that was the connector between the two worlds, Sora had immediately gotten a signal from her digivice, which they had followed it to a cave that had the Crest of Love carved above it. Tai had been surprised that they had gotten this far without the Digimon Emperor attacking them. At the entrance to the cave, Tai laid a hand on Sora's shoulder, and gave it a gentle squeeze, "Don't take to long Sora, I don't like it that the Emperor has not shown up yet to challenge us."
"Don't worry, I will be back as soon as I can find Purrmon and wake her up." Sora then tuned around and gave Tai a quick kiss of the cheek, "I will be back soon." She then turned and headed into the cave.
Tai watched as Sora entered the cave, and then felt Kari's hand on his shoulder, "Don't worry big brother, she will be fine."
"I know Kari." Tai said as he watched Sora go deeper in the cave until she completely disappeared into the darkness. He then sat down on the ground, Pyromon lying down next to him.
Kari, in the mean time, looked around, and then grabbed the digital camera that was hanging around her neck. "Come on Gatomon," she said, "lets get some pictures for my scrapbook while we wait for Sora."
Tai looked up at his sister, "Be careful. Like I told Sora, I don't feel like the fact that Ken has not attacked us yet."
As if on cue, a fireball streaked over them and slammed into the symbol of the Crest of Love. Tai, Kari, Gatomon, and Pyromon all looked up, and saw the Digimon Emperor standing on top of Greymon's head, with Birdramon flying right over them. "Now you are finished, Greymon, Birdramon attack!"
"I don't think so Ken," Tai said as he turned to Pyromon, "Go get them Pyromon."
"Lets do it." Pyromon shouted, as he began to glow, "Pyromon digivolve to…Dragimon!"
"You ready Gatomon?" Kari asked.
"You bet I am." The small digimon replied to her.
"Digiarmor energize!" Kari shouted.
"Gatomon armor digivolve to…Nefertimon, The Angle of Light!"
Kari jumped on Nefertimon's back, and Tai jumped on Dragimon's back, and they went after the Emperor.
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Sora had not been wonder through the cave for very long when she started to pick up a signal on her digivice. As she walked through the cave, Sora remembered what Tai had told her and the others the night before about how he had found Pyromon. "I heard the battle starting outside," She remembered Tai saying, "and I knew that I had to find Pyromon so that he could help you guys out. I sat down on a rock, and suddenly my digivice started going off. Then a weird light filled the chamber of the cave, and when I jumped up I realized that the light was coming from the rock that I was sitting on. That was when I realized that I was actually sitting on Pyromon."
'If Pyromon was a stone, then I bet my entire allowance that Purrmon also turned into a stone when she went into hibernation.' As she continued on, Sora looked down at her digivice, and smiled. According to the digivice, she was close to Purrmon. She then turned into a chamber of the cave, and heard an explosion outside, which caused some small stones and dust to fall from the cave's ceiling. "Sounds like the Digimon Emperor might have found out that we are here and is attacking. I have to find Purrmon, in order to help out Tai and Kari."
Sora turned to look the way that she came, when suddenly her digivice began to go off like crazy. A strange light then filled the room, and as Sora turned around, she saw that a stone at the far side of the chamber was what was giving off the light.
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"Lava Flame!" Dragimon shouted as he dove in to attack Greymon and the Emperor. Greymon was able to dodge the attack, but his sudden movement forced ken to regain his balance, or fall off of him. Tai quickly took advantage of this, and stood up on Dragimon's back. "Go for another pass Dragimon, I am going after the Emperor."
"You got it Tai." Dragimon said as he swung around to another pass on Greymon and the Emperor. "Lava Flame!" Dragimon shouted, as he once again sent a fireball at Greymon.
As before, Greymon moved to dodge the fireball, forcing Ken to once again regain his balance. Only this time, before Ken could accomplish this, he was hit by something, and fell hard to the ground. As Ken stood back up, he saw what had hit him, it was the inferior digi-destined known as Tai. "How dare you do that to me?" he shouted at Tai.
"You dare to ask why I did that to you, after you captured Agumon and the others, after you tried to conquer the Digital World, after you attacked us, you dare to ask why I did that." Tai then brought his fist back, and thrust it forward, connecting with Ken's chin.
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Kari watched Tai tackle Ken and fall hard to the ground. She then watched as Tai's fist connected with Ken's jaw, and a fistfight began between the two of them. She then turned her attention back to the fight that they were in right now. "Rosette Stone!" Nefertimon shouted, as sent a blast of energy at Birdramon. Birdramon was able to dodge the attack, and fly around behind Nefertimon.
"Meteor Wing!" Birdramon shouted, as several fireballs shot out at Nefertimon. Nefertimon tried to dodge the fireballs, but one of them hit her, and she went down. Both Nefertimon and Kari hit the ground hard, and Nefertimon reverted back to Gatomon, sending the power of the digi-egg of light back to Kari's D-Terminal.
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"Kari!" Tai shouted as he saw her and Nefertimon hit the ground. He then saw stars, as Ken caught him with an uppercut, and sent him to the ground.
Ken watched Tai as he rubbed his chin, "So you thought that you could best me in a fistfight, well you were wrong." Ken then turned to Birdramon, "Finish them off."
Birdramon set up to finish off Tai, Kari, and Gatomon, when out of nowhere, a blast of blue fire hit Birdramon, and sent her to the ground. Tai looked up, and saw Tigramon flying in, with Sora on her back. Sora jumped off of Tigramon when she came close to the ground, and ran over to Tai, "Are you al right Tai?" She asked as she helped him up.
"I am," Tai said as rubbed his chin, "but he won't be as soon as we are done with him." He finished pointing at Ken.
"We will see about that." Ken said, as he held his dark digivice up, "Greymon, Birdramon, dark digivolve."
"Greymon dark digivolve to…Metalgreymon!"
"Birdramon dark digivolve to…Garudamon!"
Dragimon and Tigramon both flew over head, "Time for us to take it to the next level then to."
"Right Dragimon." Tigramon said.
"Go for it you two." Tai shouted as the images of the Crests of Courage and Love began to glow on Tai and Sora's chests. Both digivices activated, and Dragimon and Tigramon both began to glow.
"Dragimon digivolve to…" Dragimon was engulfed by a fireball. The ball grew larger, and out of it emerged a black wing on either side, a tail out of the back, and claws out of the bottom. The fireball then broke, and a bigger meaner looking Dragimon came out of it, "Ultradragimon!"
"Tigramon digivolve to…" Tigramon stood up straight, both of her paws turning into hands. A tight tank to appeared around her chest area, and pants appeared on her legs. Her wings disappeared, and a bandana appeared around her head, and finally, her top fangs grew out. "Sabertoothedtigramon!"
Ken's mouth dropped open, "Not again." He said, and then turned to Metalgreymon and Garudamon, "Ok, get them, and destroy them."
Metalgreymon and Garudamon nodded, and headed off to fight Ultradragimon and Sabertoothedtigramon. Tai turned to the 2 Ultimate digimon, "Remember, they don't have any control over what they are doing, so try not to hurt them."
"Understood Tai." Sabertoothedtigramon said, as she jumped up to try and tackle Metalgreymon. Ultradragimon then flew after Garudamon.
"I am sorry Metalgreymon," Sabertoothedtigramon said as she drew her arms back, "Fire Stripes!" as she brought her arms back together, a line of fire shot out, and flew out at Metalgreymon.
"Mega Claw!" Metalgreymon shouted, as his mechanical arm shot out and through the line of fire, striking the spot that Sabertoothedtigramon was just standing in. "Giga Blaster!" he then shouted, and shot out two missiles at the other digimon, both of them exploding right in front of her, and sending her flying back into a tree, which she knocked over.
Gatomon, Kari, and Sora came running over to the digimon. "If only I could digivolve into Angewomon," Gatomon said, "then I could help out in the battle."
Sora then looked up, and saw the control spire that prevented Gatomon from digivolving poking over the trees, "Sabertoothedtigramon can you hit that spire up there?" she asked, pointing at the control spire.
Sabertoothedtigramon looked at the spire, "I think that I can Sora." She then turned to Ultradragimon, "Ultradragimon, can you cover me as I go for the spire."
"Go for it Sabertoothedtigramon." Ultradragimon shouted as he flew into battle both Metalgreymon and Garudamon. "Mega Flame!" Ultradragimon shouted, and released a powerful fireball at the 2 digimon.
Meanwhile, Sabertoothedtigramon jumped up over the trees, and through the palms of her paws together, "Energy Ray!" she shouted, and a powerful blast leapt from her paws, right at the spire, destroying it in a massive explosion.
"Now Gatomon digivolve." Sora shouted.
"All right." The small feline digimon said joyfully, "Gatomon digivolve to…Angewomon!"
"NO!" Ken shouted as he saw the angel floating above them all.
"Now Digimon Emperor, you shall see the power that you tried to lock up."
Ken just smiled at Angewomon, "You think that I am afraid of you?" he then turned to Garudamon, "Garudamon destroy her!"
"As you wish my Master." Garudamon said, "Wing Blade!" a giant firebird leapt away from Garudamon, and headed right for Angewomon.
"Forgive Garudamon for what I must do." Angewomon said, "Celestial Arrow!" she shouted, as she drew back on a bow that had formed from her gloved hand, and shot the arrow at the firebird. The arrow flew through the firebird, and hit Garudamon hard. Garudamon then fell to the ground, and reverted back to Biyomon.
Ken leapt up onto the back of Metalgreymon, "You have only won a battle, not the war." He shouted, as he drew out a whip and snagged Biyomon with it, and pulled her up to him. Metalgreymon then flew off with both of them.
Ultradragimon and Angewomon landed next to Sabertoothedtigramon, and they all reverted back to Pyromon, Gatomon, and Purrmon. "Good job you guys." Tai said as he walked up next to his sister and Sora.
"Thanks Tai," Purrmon said, "but it is strange fighting digimon that we worked so hard to free."
"I know," said Pyromon, "but we have to fight them in order to save them from the Digimon Emperor."
"Your right Pyromon," Sora said, looking in the direction that Metalgreymon went in with Ken and Biyomon, "and hopefully soon we won't have to fight them anymore."
With that thought, they all headed back to the TV, and headed for home.
(Narrator) "Will the digi-destined find the last 4 digimon, and will they be able to free their friends from the Emperors control. The answers to these and other questions in the continuing saga of the New Digimon Return."
To be continued in Chapter 3: Friendships Bond
