Well, if you don't get where this picks up, you got to go back to the finished Day 4.

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DAY 5

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Friday, April 25th

5:00 A.M. ET

5:00 A.M. DUT

Robert awoke with a start, he layed there in his sleeping bag with a cold sweat rolling down his head. Visions of a dream he had just woke up from still danced in his head. A large digimon shourded in a black cloak had just brough him to his knees before his friends, yet her was still Smokemon, and the others were not. His energy was weak, but he could still hold up the large sword the black digimon before him held. The others behind him were laughing as he tried to lift the sword high, but it would not budge. A evil sinister laugh started echoing from the evil digimon before him as it lifted the sword and brought it down upon Robert as hard as it could. The sword hit with an explosion... And then, Robert awoke. Kristie beside him awoke also, not because of a dream she had, but of the heavy breathing Robert was doing.

"Whats wrong babe?" Kristie questioned.



"I just had a very horrible dream. I need to get my digivolutions back, because I think I found out who the "Knight" is in the prophecy," Robert panted.

"Who is it?" Kristie said as she wrapped an arm around his shoulders.

"Me..." Robert said as he shot straight upward. He went over to his bookbag and got a shirt out and put it on. Then, he took off the rest of his atire while being behind a rock and then put back on boxers and blue jean shorts, "Lead the rest of the group straight ahead. You should make it to the next port."

"Uh? What?" Kristie said groggily," Your leaving us? But we need you. I need you."

"Its something I have to do. You should have no problem with the next digimon. But I will be back by the time you secure the digimon's fractal code. Jeff has a D-Tector. He will be able to gather the code. I have to go, I got to get something. Without it, we won't be able to win," Robert said as he activated his digivice, "I will stay in contact with you and my digimon with this."

"Why are you going?" Kristie said as she ran over to him and threw her arms around him as she began to bust out into tears.

"I have to. I may not want to, but I have to. The road ahead will be long and hard, but if I don't do this now, we won't be able to win this thing," Robert said as he gripped her.

"What thing? What do you mean?" She said as she cried, "Don't leave me."

"I have to. And it will only be for a day," Robert said.

"Thats too long. A second without you too long. YOUR MY FIANCEƉ FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!" Kristie sobbed wildly.

"I have too. Please understand. We need this. I'll be back in a day," Robert said as he broke her grip and started to run off into the forest. Kristie, back at the camp, fell to her knees and cried wildly, without stopping. Robert, still running, even shedded a tear here and there. Finally, he stopped atop a ridge, just a quarter of a mile away. He quickly brought out his digivice, "ROBERT DIGIVOLVE TO...SMOKEMON."

"Now I can get to the Digimon Temple and release my power," Smokemon said as he jumpped off of the ledge and began to decend very quickly. Just before hitting the tree line, he pulled up as he began to fly north. After about ten miles of flying, he stopped on a sandy beach just before a large ocean. Small Gullmon flew high above as he rested on a stump. He thought in his mind that what he was doing was the right thing, but in his heart, it told him no. His mind raced at a thousand miles per hour by the time he could not take it anymore and stood back up and walked towards the water. He stopped just before hitting the water, were small Crabmon walked around, trying to avoid him. He reluctantly put one foot out as it did not go through the water, but stood above it. He quickly put his other foot on and started to walk very slowly outward. After about fifty feet out, he began to break into a run, breaking through the waves that crested and fell. In his mind, he knew where he was going, but did not know exactly how to get to the position, for the Digimon Temple was under the water, above a mile out from shore. After a few moments, he stopped. Below, he could not see through the murky blue water, and around he could not see anything either except for something that stood out from everything else. A small patch of an island, exactly a five by five square, stood secured above the water. A small key pad stood on a high column that was two foot tall. Smokemon curiously looked at the small island and slowly walked over to it; then, he place one foot after another on top of it.

"Well, I am guessing this is the control pad for getting to the temple. Now, I wonder what the code is. How bout 'D.I.G.I.M.O.N.'?" Smokemon said as he hit the letters on the key pad. A small green button lit up saying, 'Enter.' He reluctantly pressed then button. A weird mechanical gear sound echoed outward from the island as the keypad decended into the island. The water began to slowly part, creating a path downward, which in turn, revealed stairs leading downward into a cave. He shook his head and then felt like this was all too familiar, and then, slowly walked down the stone stairs downward.

Meanwhile, back at the camp, the others had found Kristie crying and Robert's stuff missing. Rachel slowly calmed her down, giving her votes of confidence saying that he will return. After two hours of packing up and calming her down, they were other their way, atopped their digimon. Robert's digimon sat lonely atop of Hioobimon as he carried them beside Kristie's Matuskamon.

"I can't believe... he left," Kristie said is tears.

"Its ok. I've known him for a long time, He'll be back, he wouldn't forget about us," Agumon said.

"Yeah, he would never do that to us," BlueAgumon said as he smiled at her.

"He wouldn't Kristie. He probably went somewhere to get some stronger weapon or something. He always come's back stronger someway," Hioobimon said, trodding along.

"Its just, he's never done this before to me," Kristie said.

"But you said he would only be gone for a day, thats not that long," Veemon said as he jumped over and sat on her shoulder to comfort her.

Meanwhile, in the open path of water, Smokemon had finally made it to the small cave where the stairs led him. The path dipped down alittle bit and then right up into the cave where the water would not enter the cave. After about fifteen seconds, the water path had finally disapated back to its original state.

Inside the cave, stalagtites and stalagmites dotted the cave as some dripped or oozed with water. After a short distance, the cave branched off in three directions, left, right and straight. From the knowledge Smokemon had gained along time ago, he decided to go straight. Dripping and walking echoed throughout the cave as he slowly made his way along the dark path, but after about an hour of walking, he finally came to two massive, metal doors, that had the crests of every known digi-destine embrazed opon it, and directly in the center, was the largest crest of the door; the crest of Digimon, Smokemon's crest. He slowly walked up to the door and stopped, staring at a small hole just below the crest. It was big enough to fit his tag in; so he pulled the crest of Digimon from under his armor and stuck its tag and crest into the door. The blue crest began to eminate a bright light that filled the cave immediately, it lit up every crack and crevas there was inside the cave. But as fast as the light started, it disapated and a small bright blue light split the two doors striaght down the middle as it opened, sending out a large gust of old stale air. The doors opened enough for Smokemon to walk through, as he, himself, proceeded through the doors. Pictures and statues dotted the hall way as it began to light up with lights from ahead. Some writing stood out on the wall, but Smokemone did not pay it any mind. He slowly walked, then stopped suddenly as he came to a hall with thousands of digital characters. Smokemon began to read, line after line after line, he read every single character in the hallways and began to procceed further down the hallway while mumbling to himself.

"So the prophecy of the Legendary Warrior digi-destined, Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Darkness and Light will use mighty orbs to control their powers, then, The orbs of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water wil unlock the final gate, where the Legendary Warrior of Light will battle the Legendary Warrior of Darkness for control of the Digital Universe. When all else had failed, the light of the orb will rain down upon the Warrior of Light and will give him strength beyond strength. I still can't tell if a dark me is the "Knight." Urgh..." Smokemon said as it finally exited the hallway into a large, open room that had a large sky light at the top of a dome, where fish and the blue water could be seen. All along the walls, were huge bookshelves filled with books and other things. In the center of the room, shooting down from the sky light, was a bright white light and in the center, was a tall, young looking guy, who looked to be in his twenties. Small black stubble dotting his chin as he ran his hands through his black hair. Smokemon looked at him very curiously, but stepped forward and stopped just two foot before the guy. The bright light just tipped Smokemon's foot.

"Ah, you must be Gennai?" Smokemon said in its deep voice.

"I am he. You, Smokemon, or shall I say, Robert, have come along way in such a short time. What is it that you seek?" questioned Gennai.

"I wish you to return my digivolutions?" Smokemon said.

"That I cannot grant to you. Only you can grant that to yourself," Gennai said.

"Don't give me that crap, I know you can return my digivolutions. If I don't get them soon, something bad will happen," Smokemon said angrily.

"Be patient young one. You must learn that life cannot be given to you on a silver platter that easily. You must earn your wany to get to that you wish to seek," Gennai said as he started to circle Robert.

"So what do I do?" Smokemon asked.

"You must take three tests. One for each digivolution," Gennai said as he stopped circling Smokemon.

"But I only have two digivolutions left to obtain," Smokemon said.

"Don't always think a digimon can go up to Mega level. Digimon come up with new tricks all the time. So please step forward into the light, and accept your destiny," Gennai said as he stepped out of the circle of light.

"Ok," Smokemon said as he stepped forward. Suddenly, movement could be felt from under him. He began to decend quickly downward. He went down faster and faster and then its slowed down as it stopped. A long hall stood before him as he began his walk forward. It was pitch black darkness, but with Smokemon's extra-sensory preseption and infered vision in the dark, he could navigate himself down the hall without tripping. Slowly, a white light came seeping out of a crack of a wall up ahead. As Smokemon neared it, he began to feel a surge of evil power coming from within the wall. He paused about three feet from the wall and began to form his Smoke Claw attack. He pulled back his arms and fired the attack right into the wall, but after four seconds, the data of the wall exploded and dispersed. A rush of evil force swept over Smokemon as he neared a large platform in the middle of the room. Frozen, on top of the platform was a large digimon, that was made out of a skeleton of a large dinosaur type digimon. The white, frozen bones shimmered in the candle light of the room. There were only three things on this digimon that stood out because they were colored. The first thing was its eyes, they were a cold blank green and looked very empty. The other two things were the red orange color of its heart and a large organic missile on its back. This digimon was known as SkullGreymon and was Smokemon's first challenge. Smokemon walked closer and knocked on the frozen body, which made a dull thud. He gave a small laugh and started to walk away.

"Ha, this is my first challenge. Wow, I'm so scared," Smokemon said as the evil green eyes glowed, then the ice began to crack all around it, "Uh oh!"

The ice shattered as the digimon stretched out its massive arms; then set its sights on Smokemon, with evil, sinister eyes. It shot one boney arm straight forward, Smokemon did a backflip and landed out of harms way as SkullGreymon retracted its arm. It then spun around, swining its massive tail at Smokemon. He, in turn, grabbed the tail and pulled it, knocking SkullGreymon off balance and sending it to the floor. SkullGreymon regained its barrings and began to charge up for its main attack.

"Dark Shot!" SkullGreymon roared as it let loose its attack, headed for Smokemon's head. Smokemon brought its claws to bare as the missile got to two feet away, he then, shoved his claws into the organic projectile. The force of the missile pinned Smokemon up against the wall, as for the time being, SkullGreymon began to charge up for another attack.

"Not this time!" Smokemon said as it used all of its might and forced the missile upward, sending it into the ceiling and causeing a massive explosion. Rock and other debris began to fell as Smokemon began to charge at SkullGreymon. He jumped and landed on the huge digimon's head as the rocks and debris finally began to settle. SkullGreymon clawed at its own face, causing some blood to come out, but Smokemon dodged his attack. Finally, SkullGreymon charged at the closest wall, as it impacted, the charged missile on its back exploded, sending both digimon across the room. SkullGreymon quickly got to its barrings and brought another Dark Shot attack to bare. Smokemon layed there, no moving, just as SkullGreymon fired. The projectile came closer and closer and finally exploded right on top of him. Blood spewed everywhere as he screamed in a blood wrenching pain. Smokemon's digivice was taking alot of damage just as it started to glow. The explosion settled just as Smokemon slowly, painfully, got to his feet. Crimson blood ran down from cuts on his face, chest, legs, and back. His hair was soaked with blood as he raised his hand up to wipe the blood from his mouth. Cut, bruses, and broken bones ran through his body. His breathing was heavy as he forces his broken legs to hold himself up.

"I am not going to lose this battle," Smokemon said as his digivice began to get brighter every second, "SMOKEMON DIGIVOLVE TO..."

A light started from his digivice began to wrap around his appendages as they began to change. His armor began to encase more body parts and get thicker. The blood and broken bones disappeared as his whole skeleton wrapped itself in the metal that was of his claws. His shoulders became broader and more rounded as a big spike on each shot out and stopped after five inches. Two large spikes on the side of his helmet shot backward and stopped after three inches. A long, spike ended tail shot out from top of his butt. Two dragon like wings protruded from his back and ended it two large spikes. A large cannon formed on his chest and then armor encased it. Two larger laser guns formed on his arms, but were retracted into his gauntlets. His claws became bigger as the rest of his body and his hair did. Finally, the last thing to form, was a small silver staff, in a sheath, on his back, with a white strap over his shoulder. His katana sword stayed the same, but moved to his waist, "METALSMOKEMON!"

SkullGreymon did not even blink as MetalSmokemon jumpped from his spot and was right in his face. MetalSmokemon drew his sword and trusted it into SkullGreymon. The blade started to glow, even within the evil digimon.

"SMOKE BLADE!" MetalSmokemon said as he forced his sword downward and then twisted, causing SkullGreymon to roar in pain; then, he forced it up and out of the evil creature. MetalSmokemon stood only nine foot tall to the eleven foot tall beast, but it shrunk and dropped to the floor. Its data began to disapate from the slice mark outward. After a few seconds, it was gone. MetalSmokemon turned around as another door open, that was directly across the room from the other door. He began to walk towards the door, but when he got there, had to duck down because he could not fit through the seven foot tall door.