Episode 6:" Command: Evolution!"

After Ryan cleaned up Jenny and his bedroom, he carried Jenny back to her house, which was a good ten blocks away. He set her in her bed and, thankfully, her husband and kids weren't home yet. He and Kumamon then walked back home and talked about Nyxmon - who he was and why he was after Ryan in particular - until Ryan's grandma got home from her trip. After a little bit of being yelled at for no reason, he called Ruki and told her about everything. After an hour's worth of conversation with him and Ruki, he finally got to laying down.

"Kumamon...?" he whispered.

"Yeah...?"

"Do you think... The D-Plug can really repel Nyxmon?"

"I dunno..." Kumamon began, then remembered something. "Hey, when I was just a little Fresh Digimon, I was told by a wise old guy named Jiijimon that one of us'd be paired up with 'the one chosen to conquer fear'. Lemme see if I can remember the whole prophecy thingy... Um, as said by Jijimon...

'Upon the fall of the sun and the rise of the curse will come great fear. But, there will be one chosen to conquer fear. That human will lead other partners of... maybe yours, maybe someone else's... into the deepest darkness. This darkness was a result of the chosen child's heart. This child is called 'Candle of Courage', for a candle can give light as well as burn. There is no doubt in my mind that whoever this child is, one of you will end up with them. If and when you do, you must promise to always protect him, and help his abilities grow...'

Then of course we all said in unison, 'Yes, Jijimooon.' But that's a little something how it went. I just wonder if that's you?"

"Me?" Ryan asked, a little tone of joking in his voice. "Naah... I'm barely even a Tamer."

"Hey, ya never know," Kumamon yawned. "I don't get the whole 'darnkess a result of the Candle of Courage's heart' bit... But whatever. 'Night."

"Goodnight..." Ryan thought about it for a while... Until finally, his thoughts sent him to sleep.

The next morning, Ruki slowly woke up and stretched. "Aaah, man...! I had some weird dreams last night..."

"No wonder," Renamon yawned. "You had a rough day yesterday."

"I wonder how Ryan's doing?" She asked herself. "He really seemed uptight about this 'Nyxmon'..."

"I'm sure he's fine," Renamon assured. "He just needs a little time to get over some of the things he's seen."

"Yeah... Well, I guess I'd better change now.."

"I'll see you outside, then?" Ruki nodded.

"Sure. Be right there." Renamon then left the room and Ruki tiredly slid her shirt off, trying to wake up. She, however, had no idea that the Gijinka from yesterday was watching. She also had no idea that the human part of the Gijinka was obsessed with her. The Gijinka hid under the window and tightened the glove on his hand.

"Ace, what's wrong with you...?" it asked itself. "... No, there's nothing wrong with me, I'm perfectly human. ... Or am I...? Ah, I don't know.." He peeked back over the window to look again.

"And WHAT exactly do YOU think you're looking at?"

"Whoa!" The Gijinka, who's name we learned was Ace, jumped and truned to see Ryan standing there with his arms crossed and Kumamon growling softly at him. "Th-that's none of your business!"

"I'll tell you what IS my business is one of my only friends' personal privacy, so get ready to reap what you sowed..." Ryan threatened, and cracked his knuckles.

"Hah! You? You're not even worth my breaking a sweat!"

"So what exactly are you gonna do about it?"

"What if I send two Digimon around downtown to crush this little town?"

"Like you can do it..." Ryan mumbled, rolling his eyes. Then, he heard an explosion in the distance behind him. "Wha?!" He quickly turned around.

"Have fun!" Ryan quickly turned back around as Ace ran out of sight.

"Er...! Kumamon, let's move!"

"But waddabout-"

"Ruki, right, I'll go get her! Wait here." With that, Ryan stormed inside and opened Ruki's door quickly.

"ACK!!" Ruki screamed, covering herself with a shirt. "WHAT?!?!"

"S-sorry, but we've gotta move NOW! Some Gijinka sent two Digimon on opposite sides of town to blow this place up!" RUki's expression quickly changed from mad to frightened.

"Gijinka..?! I-I'll be right out..!" Ryan nodded and ran back out to his partner, ordered, "C'mon, Kumamon!" as he went by, and they two ran as fast as possible towards downtown. Ruki came out shortly after, fully-clothed, her hair still down from rushing.

"Renamon, let's go! Quick!" She pressed 'Scan' on her D-Plug and the area around them turned blue again. "Command: Evolution!"

"Renamon, shinka!" The same thing as before happened... "Kyuubimon!!" ... causing Kyuubimon to emerge from the data grid.

"We gotta hurry," Ruki reminded Kyuubimon, and she looked at her D-Plug. She hit a button with brought a hologram-type map up from her D-Plug. "There's two, alright... Chapions. Looks like Ryan's gonna take the close one." She hit the button again, making the map disappear, and hopped on Kyuubimon's back. "The other one's down on the highway somewhere! Let's go!" Kyuubimon, without hesitation, began to run.

Ryan and Kumamon had made it to the downtown stretch of the small town, where the police station had been leveled and the courthouse was in flames. The fire station was there trying to put out the flames already. Ryan looked past all of the action to see a Tyrannomon in the distance, stomping on houses, traffic lights, whatever he wanted. "Kumamon, let's move!" The two ran off past the chaos and finally up behind the Tyrannomon. They slipped up in front of it and turned, glaring at him. He just blew smoke and kept walking. "Kumamon, a-" He was cut off by the sound of a crying girl.

"Lopmon! Lopmoon!!" is what she was crying.

"Eh?" Ryan looked around and finally found a young girl trying to pull something out of some debris. She was in Tyrannomon's path. Ryan quickly ooked back at Kumamon. "Hold him off!" Kumamon nodded.

"I'll try...!" Kumamon leaped up to attack, and Ryan ran off to held the girl.

"Hey, kid! You better move!" The girl looked at him as he ran to her.

"But...! But my poor Lopmon's stuck under this big rock!" she sobbed.

"You don't have time to get a-" He was going to say 'toy', but he was cut of by Lopmon's soft groaning.

"Lopmon!!" the girl exclamed, kneeling back down to her friend.

"It's a real Digimon?! Well, in that case, I might as well try..." Ryan took a deep breath and got his hands under the big boulder, than udes all of his leverage to lift it op a few inches. The girl quickly grabbed Lopmon out of it and hugged her tightly.

"Lopmon, you're okay!!" Ryan immediately dropped the piece of debris and panted.

"Shiu... chon...?" Lopmon mumbled, then passed out.

"Just rest.. You'll be okay..." She softly hugged Lopmon again.

"Move!" Her hug was cut off by Ryan's voice.

"H-wha..!" Before she knew it, she was lifted up from behind and on the ground, in Ryan's arms. Tyrannomon just missed them with his foot.

(Oh, wooow...!!) Shiuchon exlamed in her mind. (This feels great...! Now I know what Jen meant by being hugged is a good feeling! Wow....) Suddenly, her thoughts were cut off by Ryan letting her go and standing up. Kumamon was attacking without mercy, but it was going nowhere fast. Shiuchon stood up and stared at Ryan, eyes wide open. (He's a Tamer..?!) Finally, Kumamon was flung high into the air and flipping backwards rappidly.

"Whooa!!" he called out while flipping.

"Kumamon..!!" Ryan let out, his D-Plug glowing. He hit 'Scan' and the entire area around them turned into a solide silver - no buildings, no sky, just silver and the two Tamers and all the Digimon. "Command: Evolution..!" The green light came from the D-Plug and did the same to Kumamon as it did to Renamon.

"Kumamon, shinka!" he called, his voice echoing. The data grid took the shape of a giant bear, and was such wehn it was covered back in this outter shell. "Grizzmon!!" Everything turned normal and upon flipping again, Grizzmon slammed down on his feet, sliding backwards a few yards. He then burst forward and Tyrannomon, biting into his forearm, and Tyrannomon roared in pain.

"That's it, Grizzmon! Kill him!" Finally, Grizzmon was tossed back, landing on his feet again.

"Fire Blast!" Tyrannomon called, throwing flames at Grizzmon.

"Maul Attack!!" Grizzmon set on fire and flew forward. The flames from Tyrannomon were ripped in half, and once Grizzmon collided with his target, a huge explosion occured. When the smoke cleared, all that was left was Grizzmon, growling. "... Try me again...."