Episode 8: The Depths of Cougar Country
Sakura: Wow, I went to the United States with some of my new friends. There I made new friends. This guy Willis with twin Digimon, Terriermon and Lopmon. They were really nice. But it was soon time to get to work. We split up into two teams, Madison and Willis and Yolei and I. Since Madison doesn't have a Digimon partner, I sent Kero with her. They were in big trouble when a couple of ultimates attacked and started making trouble for the people. The twins and Kero did their best at holding them off, we would have helped sooner, but we had a ghost problem. Bakemon were all around us, and when I was in trouble, Blackiemon digivolved to Woofopawmon. We went over to help Willis and Madison, and I used my magic to wrap things up. It's nice to save the world again, my life was getting kinda boring.
Amy, Mizukoramon, Kari and Gatomon were walking in a town square, Kari held Gatomon and Amy held Mizukoramon like they were stuffed animals. "Do you know where the wild Digimon will show up?" Amy asked of Kari.
"Haven't the slightest clue. But they'll show themselves sooner or later." Kari smiled her innocent smile and they continued walking. "But it sure is beautiful out here."
"I agree." Amy said.
"It's kinda peaceful, I could take a cat-nap right here if I wanted to." Gatomon stretched slightly.
"I bet you could take a cat-nap anywhere!" Mizukoramon said.
"Actually, I can. And that's always a good trait to have." The Digimon giggled.
"Oh no!" A shoot came over from a park-like area, "She's fainted!" This caught Kari and Amy's attention, they ran over to the rapidly growing crowd of people.
"What happened?" Amy asked as they got there.
"A man spoke up, this girl just collapsed right here." He, took out a cell phone, "I'll call an ambulance."
"That won't be necessary, sir," touched him on the shoulder.
"Why not?'" He questioned. Amy smiled and pointed at the fallen girl who was now coming around.
"Here!" Amy gave Mizukoramon to Kari to hold. She picked up the little girl in her arms, and the little girl opened her eyes. Amy spotted a teddy bear next to where the girl collapsed and picked it up. "Here you are, what's your name?"
"Kristy," the child answered.
"Where do you live?" Kristy pointed west. "Over there?" Kristy nodded her head. "Okay, we'll take you home." Amy and Kari walked on towards the direction of Kristy's house.
"Make a left here," Kristy managed to say weakly, "My house is the one with the white garage and blue trimming."
"I see it!" Kari exclaimed, "up a few more houses." By now Kristy was completely passed out from exhaustion.
As soon as Amy and Kari stepped on the porch, the door opened and out came a girl who was about ten years older than Kristy. "Kristy!" She yelled. The girl took Kristy in her arms and the teddy bear that was on top of her and took her into the house. "Please come in." She invited. Amy and Kari followed, and Mizukoramon was with her rightful partner. "Thank you for finding her."
"She collapsed in the park, and she had enough strength to tell us where her house is." Amy told.
"I'm Tracy, her big sister," She introduced.
"I'm Kari, and this is Amy,"
"But why was she outside all alone at her age?" Amy questioned.
Tracy was crying a little, "She became sick a few days ago, and was running a fever. I promised we'd go out to the park today, but then she became sick and I told her to we couldn't go. So when I had my back turned, she was gone. I sent my friend out to look for her," Tracy picked up the teddy bear, and hugged him, "And I stayed here in case she came back on her own. I was so frightened."
Kristy was asleep on the couch, "It wasn't any trouble, we were happy to do it." Kari smiled.
"Yes," agreed Amy.
"Umm, do you want any tea or something? I mean, it's the least I can do to repay you," Tracy offered.
"That would be fine," They accepted her offer.
Tracy left for the kitchen and soon came back with three cups of freshly brewed tea and some cookies for her guests. "Mmm, this tea is very delicious." Amy sipped.
"Oh, thank you," Tracy bit into a cookie.
The girls sat there and talked for a bit, but the time soon came for them to go. "Well, we'd better get going," Kari stood up with Gatomon in her hands.
"Yes, we have urgent business to take care of. It was nice meeting you, Tracy," Amy also stood up with Mizukoramon in her hands, and Tracy stood up to open the door for the girls.
"It was nice having you two here, and thank you again for bringing Kristy home." Tracy let Kari and Amy out, thanked them again, and then shut the door.
"She seemed pleasant," Amy looked back at the door, 'Well, I guess we should get started on finding the roaming Digimon.
"Can we talk now?" Mizukoramon whispered.
"Yeah, you guys can talk." Kari looked down at Gatomon.
"Thank goodness, I actually began to think I was a stuffed animal." Gatomon laughed.
"AAAH!"
"A scream!" Kari spun around looking back at Tracy's house. "Let's go!"
Amy agreed and since she was closest to the door, she opened it and ran inside with Kari and Gatomon quickly behind. "What is it!?" Amy looked around the room they were just in, and saw Tracy kneeling over Kristy, and the little teddy bear running around in circles around the table.
"Oh!" The little bear that had been running realized there were other people in the house, and fell limp. "I can explain the bear.uhhh, it's a robotic teddy bear. Yeah, that's it a robotic bear that my dad got Kristy for Christmas." Tracy looked at Amy and Kari and knew that they weren't buying her story. "Okay, it's not a robot bear. You can get up now," Tracy looked at the bear, and it got up off the ground and stood next to Tracy. "You're not going to believe me, but this bear is from a digital wor-"
"A DIGIMON!" Kari shouted.
"Uh, yeah, how'd you know?" Tracy wondered.
"Because, these are Digimon too," Amy set Mizukoramon down, and she started moving.
"Yup! I'm not just a toy!" Mizukoramon and Gatomon bowed.
"Oh, this makes things very different.I don't have to explain to you then where he comes from."
"But we heard screams." Kari looked puzzled.
"Oh, well, Kristy just barfed on my mom's favorite couch, and now she's going to kill me.that's all, no biggie." Tracy cleaned up what she could of the mess, and cleaned up her little sister. "I don't really know all that much about Digimon because MiniMonzaemon just came to me about three weeks ago. He says he's at champion level." Tracy looked at Mizukoramon and Gatomon, then at MiniMonzaemon. "So your Digimon are at Champion level, too?"
"Well, Gatomon is, but Mizukoramon is at the rookie level. They change levels by digivolving." Kari explained.
"Are all Digimon the same size? Because all of our Digimon look about the same height."
"Oh, no, Digimon come in many different shapes, sizes, and colors," Amy answered.
"Well, we're looking for some wild Digimon somewhere in this area," Gatomon spoke, "and we were wondering if you happen to know where some are?"
"Nope! But you could try checking the woods just out of town, some guy ran in saying that it was haunted, but no one believes him." Tracy offered.
"Okay, then we'll check there, thank you!" Kari said cheerfully. Amy, Kari, Gatomon, and Mizukoramon were about to leave when Tracy stopped them.
"Wait! I could come with you guys, I mean I have been camping a lot in the woods and you might get lost."
Amy considered this and agreed, "But who will watch Kristy?"
"My neighbor, Mrs. Baker will. She just loves Kristy." Kristy grabbed her jacket, and took the sleeping sister in her arms and walked out the door.
"I got the door." MiniMonzaemon said. He closed the door, then joined up with the rest who were at Mrs. Baker's house.
KNOCK!! KNOCK!! The door opened and a kindly old woman answered. "Hello, Oh Tracy, how are you?"
"I'm fine Mrs. Baker, could you watch Kristy for a while, something's come up," Tracy asked.
"Sure! I'd be glad to." Mrs. Baker took Kristy from Tracy's arms.
"Thank you! Thank you very much!" With that, Mrs. Baker closed the door, and the three girls and their Digimon ran off towards the woods. "C'mon, we're almost there!" Everyone was out of breath by the time they reached the edge of the forest area.
"I think.we.should have.a little time.to rest," MiniMonzaemon was all trying to catch his breath.
"As much as I would like to, I guess the sooner we find them, the better," Tracy had her hands on her knees, inhaling deeply.
"Maybe we should walk for now, I mean, we're not in any big rush," Kari stood up, it seemed she was ready to continue.
"We're all for walking!" Mizukoramon and Gatomon said, collapsing on the floor. MiniMonzaemon plopped down right next to them.
"Well, no time like the present. Let's continue!" Amy cheerfully said while walking behind Tracy, going into the woods.
"Wait for us!" The three pooped out Digimon ran after their partners.
"So what are we looking for?" Tracy asked.
"Anything out of the ordinary I guess," Kari offered.
"Well, we should be careful because around this time every year, wild cats come down from the mountains," Tracy continued, "So whatever we find, let's hope it's not them."
Time passed, and they came to a lake somewhere in a clearing. "Can we drink from here, I'm kinda thirsty?" Kari asked innocently.
"Sure! This lake is connected by a stream directly to the mountains, so the water is always fresh here."
Kari, Gatomon, and Mizukoramon went to the lake and drank their fill. Amy was looking at something on the other side of the lake though, "Oh, look, a dear and a fawn," Amy whispered. Kari, Tracy, and the Digimon looked as the animals emerged from the line of trees to get a drink of water. They walked closer, and lapped up some.
"What a perfectly peaceful scene," commented Tracy.
WHOOOSH! Out of the water, something arose, and snatched the dear from the surface, and took her under. "Oh, no!" Amy shouted.
"Mizukoramon, digivolve to.Mermon!" Mermon plunged into the lake. Tracy looked as the once little Digimon was now bigger.
"Bring the dear back, Mermon!" Amy said.
"Daba, daba, daba, daba, daba, daba, daba, daba!" A bunch of little things ran out of the forest, and dove into the lake after Mermon.
"What are those!?" Amy and Tracy questioned.
"They're Gizamon!" Gatomon answered. "They're rookie level Digimon, and they don't look too friendly right now." Gatomon and MiniMonzaemon ran over, after three Gizamon got into the water, two were left on land. "Don't go into the lake!"
"Who's gonna stop us!?" One of the Gizamon said.
"We are!" MiniMonzaemon yelled. "MINI BEAR CLAW ATTACK!" MiniMonzaemon punched one Gizamon back, and it fell over.
The other one on land looked at his friend, "Oh, I'm gonna knock the stuffing out of you! SPIRAL SAW!" The Gizamon balled up and started rolling towards MiniMonzaemon.
"LIGHTNING PAW!" Gatomon knocked him out before he reached MiniMonzaemon. "That'll teach you!"
"4-LEG KICK!" Two of the three Gizamon in the water attacked Gatomon and MiniMonzaemon from behind, and the two on land made it in the water. "Haha!"
Mermon rose up, and soon after, the dear walked out of the water to shore towards her baby. The dear was limping, but they made it to the safety of the forest. Bubbles were rising to the surface from deep below, and a large crocodile emerged from the depths of the lake, "Rrraaah!"
"There aren't supposed to be any Crocodiles in the lake!" Tracy looked at it. "It's huge!"
"This isn't a real crocodile, it's a Digimon!' Mermon explained.
"You let my dinner get away!" The Crocodile spoke up, "But come to think of it, that thing wasn't nearly as big as you are. And I've never tried Mermaid before."
"In your dreams, pal!" Mermon yelled.
"SPIRAL SAW!"
"Aaaah!" Mermon was attacked from behind, and all the Gizamon hit her, and she fell under.
"No! Mermon!" Amy ran to the edge of the lake.
"No, Amy! Get back, you might get hurt!" Tracy warned. Kari grabbed Amy, and pulled her back.
"RRRROOAAHHR! Trees fell all around the girls as a huge bear came out of the woods.
"It's WaruMonzaemon!" Kari shouted.
"It looks kind of like MiniMonzaemon...Where is MiniMonzaemon!?" Tracy scanned the area looking for her Digimon. She saw him and Gatomon getting up from where they had fallen earlier.
"Oh, no! Tracy and the girls are in trouble!" MiniMonzaemon ran over in front of WaruMonzaemon and the human girls, followed by Gatomon. "You leave Tracy alone! MINI BEAR CLAW ATTACK!" MiniMonzaemon gave his opponent his best hit.
"Ahh, a love tap, how sweet," WaruMonzaemon said towering above them all. "Let, me return the favor, BEAR CLAW!" WaruMonzaemon hit the little bear, and knock him into a tree.
"MiniMonzaemon!" Tracy Screamed.
"You can join him soon, sweetie! BEAR-"
"ALLEY CAT STRIKE!" A blur hit WaruMonzaemon, canceling his attack. Next to the behemoth bear, stood a fairly large wildcat creature that stood on both legs, and it had a black leather jacket on, wearing brass knuckles, and spiky brown hair.
"Is he a good Digimon?" Tracy whispered. Kari and Amy shrugged.
"I thought I said, 'No one is to attack humans except me.or unless I say so!'" This new Digimon snarled at WaruMonzaemon who flinched in return.
"I'm sorry Cougarmon, it won't happen again!" WaruMonzaemon graveled.
"Go attack something else!" WaruMonzaemon saw Gatomon, and went for her.
"HEARTBREAK ATTACK!"
"Digivolve!"
"Gatomon, digivolve to.Angewomon!" Angewomon flew out of the way of WaruMonzaemon's attack.
"HYDRO COOLER!" All of the Gizamon were piled up on shore, and Mermon went for her next challenge, Crocomon.
"Oooh, spicy!" Crocomon said idly, "Just how I like my meals, REPTILE RUSH!" He swam at high speed towards Mermon, "CROCO SNAP!" Crocomon opened his gaping jaws to reveal rows of sharp teeth, and nearly clamped them around Mermon's tail.
"You'll have to do better than that, scaly!" Mermon taunted. "TAIL SWIPE!" She whipped her tail, and hit Crocomon, and he went under, so she dove after him.
"Three little human girls, ready for the taking," Cougarmon cracked his knuckles. "Hehehe!"
"I don't like this anymore!" Tracy screamed.
"That's to bad, because I was beginning to like you," Cougarmon made advancements towards the girls.
"I said, leave them alone, LITTLE KISS HEARTS!" Tiny hearts flew from MiniMonzaemon, and popped on Cougarmon's body
"Ah, that stings!" Cougarmon was upset, "I'll finish you, now! JUNGLE MADNESS!" Bright beams flew.
MiniMonzaemon was helpless, but Tracy quickly stood in front, preparing to take full force of the blast, "NO! TRACY!" A tear ran down MiniMonzaemon's face, "MiniMonzaemon, digivolve to.Monzaemon! Ahh!" Monzaemon covered Tracy, and was hit with the blast. "No one hurts Tracy while I'm around!"
"Hm?" Tracy dug into her pocket, something was shaking violently, and she pulled out a digivice, "Well, I guess MiniMonzaemon isn't so little anymore," Tracy smiled at the large bear.
"WaruMonzaemon, take care of him!" WaruMonzaemon stopped fighting with Angewomon, and went to mess with Monzaemon.
"These woods aren't big enough for the both of us," WaruMonzaemon began, "So you gotta ask yourself one question: 'Do I fell lucky?'.Well, do ya?"
"Luckier than ever! HEARTS ATTACK!" Monzaemon blasted him.
"That's not how that was supposed to go!" WaruMonzaemon growled.
Cougarmon turned his attention to the humans, "Now, back to you three chicks-"
"CELESTIAL ARROW!" An arrow of light landed between Cougarmon and the girls, "Did you forget me already?" Angewomon floated next to Kari.
Cougarmon looked her over twice, "Hey toots, hows about you come over here to a real mon."
'Toots...TOOTS, oh is he gonna get it!' Angewomon thought. "Sure, thing."
Angewomon sent Cougarmon a flying punch to the face, "Woo-hoo! Way to go, Angewomon!"
"And when meet a real mon, I'll be sure to let you know what one looks like!"
Cougarmon rubbed his face, then regained his composure, "You'll pay! JUNGLE MADNESS!"
"HEAVEN'S CHARM!" The two attacks struggled, to see which was stronger, but Angewomon's charm won, and repelled Cougarmon's attack back at him. "Good riddance to bad rubbish!"
"MEGA BONE STICK!" A flying bone hit Angewomon in the head, and she fell out unconscious, and de-digivolved back to Gatomon. The bone returned to its thrower. A yellow ape stood on a tree branch.
"Just in time, Apemon," Cougarmon stood up, looking at Apemon.
"This just keeps getting better and better!" Kari pouted, "Angewomon!"
"Hahaha!" Apemon jumped off the branch in front of the girls, Cougarmon stood next to him. "I'm tired of Monkey-ing around, Hehehe!"
"So, let's finish them, Apemon!"
"HEART HUG!" Monzaemon wrapped WaruMonzaemon in a bear hug.
"Aaah! HEARTBREAK ATTACK!" WaruMonzaemon blasted Monzaemon off of him.
"SWAMP GAS!" Crocomon expelled purple gas from his mouth, which surrounded Mermon who was now coughing. "Haha, a little taste of the bayou for you, my sweet!"
'Everyone is busy fighting, and Angewomon is knock out,' Amy thought to herself. Cougarmon and Apemon were steadily advancing further, 'I can't transform, can I? If I do, my identity will be revealed. I have two choices, either be killed, or try and save us. As a Sailor Soldier, I have a duty to protect people.' Amy took charge, "I cannot allow this to go on any longer. Mercury Star Power!" Amy illuminated herself in bright blue light, and transformed into Super Sailor Mercury.
"What an entrance!" Kari and Tracy gasped.
"What is this?" Cougarmon asked what everyone was thinking.
"I am the pretty suited soldier of Mercury," Amy began, "and on behalf of the planet Mercury, I shall punish you. I am sailor Mercury!"
"No, really?" Cougarmon mocked sarcastically.
"Flashy lights and witty speeches won't save you," Apemon attacked, "MEGA BONE STICK!"
"Shine Aqua illusion!" Sailor Mercury froze Apemon's bone stick to his hand.
"What!" Apemon struggled to free his hand from the bitter frost.
"Now, it's your turn," Amy continued, "You have caused too much suffering here. Your time has run out, Cougarmon."
"You dare talk to me like that, YOU PUNY HUMAN!!" Cougarmon roared, "SAVAGE RAGE!" Cougarmon grew in size and muscularity. "Sit down!" Cougarmon backhanded Mercury, and she fell next to Angewomon and in the same state. Kari and Tracy were trembling tremendously. "Amy, NO!" Mermon leapt out of the water, and started heading towards Mercury.
"CROCO SNAP!" Crocomon closed his jaws around Mermon's tail, and submerged her back beneath the water.
"HEARTS ATTACK!" Monzaemon blew WaruMonzaemon into a pine tree, trough it, and right into another one. He didn't get up after that. "I said to leave these girls alone!" Monzaemon stomped his way over to Apemon and Cougarmon.
"And just what are you going to do about it, fuzzy?" Apemon chuckled, and soon after that, he wasn't chuckling any more. Monzaemon gave him one good swipe with his paw, and he was out cold.
"Oh, so the little toy has some spunk after all," Cougarmon grinned, "Okay, show me whatcha got!"
"HEARTS ATTACK!"
"JUNGLE MADNESS!" Monzaemon's attacked fizzled out, and Cougarmon won that bout.
"Monzaemon!" Tracy screamed. She saw him stagger, then fall to the ground with a loud thud.
"Hahahahahahahaaa!" Don't think you can defeat me with such petty attacks. And now, with no more interruptions, JUNGLE MAD-"
"Mercury Aqua Mirage!"
"WHAT!! No, NOOOOO!!" Cougarmon's body was encased within an icy tomb.
Mercury revealed herself standing behind the frozen Cougarmon, with a fainted Gatomon in her arms. She smiled. "TAIL SWIPE!" PALOOSH!! Crocomon came flying out of the water, and hit the ground hard. "I think we're finished here."
Kari and Tracy let out sighs of relief, "Gatomon!"
"Huh, what?" Gatomon stirred to life in Amy's arms, "Kari!" Gatomon jumped out of Amy's arms into Kari's. Monzaemon de-digivolved back into MiniMonzaemon, and Mermon did the same.
"But what do we do with them now?" Tracy questioned.
"We have to send them back to the digital world where they came from," Kari began, "But to do that, we need something digital to act as a link, like a computer or something."
"I have one at home, but by the time we come back, they my wake up and start causing trouble again." Tracy thought hard.
"Well, we could use my handheld computer, I was transported to the Digital World the first time through here, so in principle, it should work again," Amy took out her little Mercury Computer, and handed it to Kari.
"Well, let's hope this works," Kari took out her D-3, "Digi Port, Open!" The Gizamon, Crocomon, WaruMonzaemon, Apemon, and Cougarmon were sucked back into the Digital World.
"YEAH! GIRL POWER!" All the human and Digimon shouted.
"I'm not a girl," MiniMonzaemon said sadly. "I don't wanna be a girl, but I don't wanna be left out is all."
"I love you!" Tracy picked up MiniMonzaemon, and gave him a big bear hug. Something huge came down from the sky, and landed no too far from them. "What's that!?" Tracy asked. "Did we forget one?"
"No, that's Imperialdramon! He's come to take us home!" Kari shouted.
"Hey Kari! Did you miss me!?" Davis yelled.
"Hey Cody, Trunks, Rowen, T.K., Ken, and Duo!" Kari yelled back, and Davis fell over.
"Well, it was nice meeting you Tracy," Amy picked up Mizukoramon, "But we have to be going now."
"I understand, well, if you're ever in this part of the world again, stop by sometime!" Tracy waved at Kari, Amy, and their Digimon as Imperialdramon lifted off into the air, "Bye!" Everyone shared a heartfelt parting and then Imperialdramon was gone from sight.
Sakura: Wow, I went to the United States with some of my new friends. There I made new friends. This guy Willis with twin Digimon, Terriermon and Lopmon. They were really nice. But it was soon time to get to work. We split up into two teams, Madison and Willis and Yolei and I. Since Madison doesn't have a Digimon partner, I sent Kero with her. They were in big trouble when a couple of ultimates attacked and started making trouble for the people. The twins and Kero did their best at holding them off, we would have helped sooner, but we had a ghost problem. Bakemon were all around us, and when I was in trouble, Blackiemon digivolved to Woofopawmon. We went over to help Willis and Madison, and I used my magic to wrap things up. It's nice to save the world again, my life was getting kinda boring.
Amy, Mizukoramon, Kari and Gatomon were walking in a town square, Kari held Gatomon and Amy held Mizukoramon like they were stuffed animals. "Do you know where the wild Digimon will show up?" Amy asked of Kari.
"Haven't the slightest clue. But they'll show themselves sooner or later." Kari smiled her innocent smile and they continued walking. "But it sure is beautiful out here."
"I agree." Amy said.
"It's kinda peaceful, I could take a cat-nap right here if I wanted to." Gatomon stretched slightly.
"I bet you could take a cat-nap anywhere!" Mizukoramon said.
"Actually, I can. And that's always a good trait to have." The Digimon giggled.
"Oh no!" A shoot came over from a park-like area, "She's fainted!" This caught Kari and Amy's attention, they ran over to the rapidly growing crowd of people.
"What happened?" Amy asked as they got there.
"A man spoke up, this girl just collapsed right here." He, took out a cell phone, "I'll call an ambulance."
"That won't be necessary, sir," touched him on the shoulder.
"Why not?'" He questioned. Amy smiled and pointed at the fallen girl who was now coming around.
"Here!" Amy gave Mizukoramon to Kari to hold. She picked up the little girl in her arms, and the little girl opened her eyes. Amy spotted a teddy bear next to where the girl collapsed and picked it up. "Here you are, what's your name?"
"Kristy," the child answered.
"Where do you live?" Kristy pointed west. "Over there?" Kristy nodded her head. "Okay, we'll take you home." Amy and Kari walked on towards the direction of Kristy's house.
"Make a left here," Kristy managed to say weakly, "My house is the one with the white garage and blue trimming."
"I see it!" Kari exclaimed, "up a few more houses." By now Kristy was completely passed out from exhaustion.
As soon as Amy and Kari stepped on the porch, the door opened and out came a girl who was about ten years older than Kristy. "Kristy!" She yelled. The girl took Kristy in her arms and the teddy bear that was on top of her and took her into the house. "Please come in." She invited. Amy and Kari followed, and Mizukoramon was with her rightful partner. "Thank you for finding her."
"She collapsed in the park, and she had enough strength to tell us where her house is." Amy told.
"I'm Tracy, her big sister," She introduced.
"I'm Kari, and this is Amy,"
"But why was she outside all alone at her age?" Amy questioned.
Tracy was crying a little, "She became sick a few days ago, and was running a fever. I promised we'd go out to the park today, but then she became sick and I told her to we couldn't go. So when I had my back turned, she was gone. I sent my friend out to look for her," Tracy picked up the teddy bear, and hugged him, "And I stayed here in case she came back on her own. I was so frightened."
Kristy was asleep on the couch, "It wasn't any trouble, we were happy to do it." Kari smiled.
"Yes," agreed Amy.
"Umm, do you want any tea or something? I mean, it's the least I can do to repay you," Tracy offered.
"That would be fine," They accepted her offer.
Tracy left for the kitchen and soon came back with three cups of freshly brewed tea and some cookies for her guests. "Mmm, this tea is very delicious." Amy sipped.
"Oh, thank you," Tracy bit into a cookie.
The girls sat there and talked for a bit, but the time soon came for them to go. "Well, we'd better get going," Kari stood up with Gatomon in her hands.
"Yes, we have urgent business to take care of. It was nice meeting you, Tracy," Amy also stood up with Mizukoramon in her hands, and Tracy stood up to open the door for the girls.
"It was nice having you two here, and thank you again for bringing Kristy home." Tracy let Kari and Amy out, thanked them again, and then shut the door.
"She seemed pleasant," Amy looked back at the door, 'Well, I guess we should get started on finding the roaming Digimon.
"Can we talk now?" Mizukoramon whispered.
"Yeah, you guys can talk." Kari looked down at Gatomon.
"Thank goodness, I actually began to think I was a stuffed animal." Gatomon laughed.
"AAAH!"
"A scream!" Kari spun around looking back at Tracy's house. "Let's go!"
Amy agreed and since she was closest to the door, she opened it and ran inside with Kari and Gatomon quickly behind. "What is it!?" Amy looked around the room they were just in, and saw Tracy kneeling over Kristy, and the little teddy bear running around in circles around the table.
"Oh!" The little bear that had been running realized there were other people in the house, and fell limp. "I can explain the bear.uhhh, it's a robotic teddy bear. Yeah, that's it a robotic bear that my dad got Kristy for Christmas." Tracy looked at Amy and Kari and knew that they weren't buying her story. "Okay, it's not a robot bear. You can get up now," Tracy looked at the bear, and it got up off the ground and stood next to Tracy. "You're not going to believe me, but this bear is from a digital wor-"
"A DIGIMON!" Kari shouted.
"Uh, yeah, how'd you know?" Tracy wondered.
"Because, these are Digimon too," Amy set Mizukoramon down, and she started moving.
"Yup! I'm not just a toy!" Mizukoramon and Gatomon bowed.
"Oh, this makes things very different.I don't have to explain to you then where he comes from."
"But we heard screams." Kari looked puzzled.
"Oh, well, Kristy just barfed on my mom's favorite couch, and now she's going to kill me.that's all, no biggie." Tracy cleaned up what she could of the mess, and cleaned up her little sister. "I don't really know all that much about Digimon because MiniMonzaemon just came to me about three weeks ago. He says he's at champion level." Tracy looked at Mizukoramon and Gatomon, then at MiniMonzaemon. "So your Digimon are at Champion level, too?"
"Well, Gatomon is, but Mizukoramon is at the rookie level. They change levels by digivolving." Kari explained.
"Are all Digimon the same size? Because all of our Digimon look about the same height."
"Oh, no, Digimon come in many different shapes, sizes, and colors," Amy answered.
"Well, we're looking for some wild Digimon somewhere in this area," Gatomon spoke, "and we were wondering if you happen to know where some are?"
"Nope! But you could try checking the woods just out of town, some guy ran in saying that it was haunted, but no one believes him." Tracy offered.
"Okay, then we'll check there, thank you!" Kari said cheerfully. Amy, Kari, Gatomon, and Mizukoramon were about to leave when Tracy stopped them.
"Wait! I could come with you guys, I mean I have been camping a lot in the woods and you might get lost."
Amy considered this and agreed, "But who will watch Kristy?"
"My neighbor, Mrs. Baker will. She just loves Kristy." Kristy grabbed her jacket, and took the sleeping sister in her arms and walked out the door.
"I got the door." MiniMonzaemon said. He closed the door, then joined up with the rest who were at Mrs. Baker's house.
KNOCK!! KNOCK!! The door opened and a kindly old woman answered. "Hello, Oh Tracy, how are you?"
"I'm fine Mrs. Baker, could you watch Kristy for a while, something's come up," Tracy asked.
"Sure! I'd be glad to." Mrs. Baker took Kristy from Tracy's arms.
"Thank you! Thank you very much!" With that, Mrs. Baker closed the door, and the three girls and their Digimon ran off towards the woods. "C'mon, we're almost there!" Everyone was out of breath by the time they reached the edge of the forest area.
"I think.we.should have.a little time.to rest," MiniMonzaemon was all trying to catch his breath.
"As much as I would like to, I guess the sooner we find them, the better," Tracy had her hands on her knees, inhaling deeply.
"Maybe we should walk for now, I mean, we're not in any big rush," Kari stood up, it seemed she was ready to continue.
"We're all for walking!" Mizukoramon and Gatomon said, collapsing on the floor. MiniMonzaemon plopped down right next to them.
"Well, no time like the present. Let's continue!" Amy cheerfully said while walking behind Tracy, going into the woods.
"Wait for us!" The three pooped out Digimon ran after their partners.
"So what are we looking for?" Tracy asked.
"Anything out of the ordinary I guess," Kari offered.
"Well, we should be careful because around this time every year, wild cats come down from the mountains," Tracy continued, "So whatever we find, let's hope it's not them."
Time passed, and they came to a lake somewhere in a clearing. "Can we drink from here, I'm kinda thirsty?" Kari asked innocently.
"Sure! This lake is connected by a stream directly to the mountains, so the water is always fresh here."
Kari, Gatomon, and Mizukoramon went to the lake and drank their fill. Amy was looking at something on the other side of the lake though, "Oh, look, a dear and a fawn," Amy whispered. Kari, Tracy, and the Digimon looked as the animals emerged from the line of trees to get a drink of water. They walked closer, and lapped up some.
"What a perfectly peaceful scene," commented Tracy.
WHOOOSH! Out of the water, something arose, and snatched the dear from the surface, and took her under. "Oh, no!" Amy shouted.
"Mizukoramon, digivolve to.Mermon!" Mermon plunged into the lake. Tracy looked as the once little Digimon was now bigger.
"Bring the dear back, Mermon!" Amy said.
"Daba, daba, daba, daba, daba, daba, daba, daba!" A bunch of little things ran out of the forest, and dove into the lake after Mermon.
"What are those!?" Amy and Tracy questioned.
"They're Gizamon!" Gatomon answered. "They're rookie level Digimon, and they don't look too friendly right now." Gatomon and MiniMonzaemon ran over, after three Gizamon got into the water, two were left on land. "Don't go into the lake!"
"Who's gonna stop us!?" One of the Gizamon said.
"We are!" MiniMonzaemon yelled. "MINI BEAR CLAW ATTACK!" MiniMonzaemon punched one Gizamon back, and it fell over.
The other one on land looked at his friend, "Oh, I'm gonna knock the stuffing out of you! SPIRAL SAW!" The Gizamon balled up and started rolling towards MiniMonzaemon.
"LIGHTNING PAW!" Gatomon knocked him out before he reached MiniMonzaemon. "That'll teach you!"
"4-LEG KICK!" Two of the three Gizamon in the water attacked Gatomon and MiniMonzaemon from behind, and the two on land made it in the water. "Haha!"
Mermon rose up, and soon after, the dear walked out of the water to shore towards her baby. The dear was limping, but they made it to the safety of the forest. Bubbles were rising to the surface from deep below, and a large crocodile emerged from the depths of the lake, "Rrraaah!"
"There aren't supposed to be any Crocodiles in the lake!" Tracy looked at it. "It's huge!"
"This isn't a real crocodile, it's a Digimon!' Mermon explained.
"You let my dinner get away!" The Crocodile spoke up, "But come to think of it, that thing wasn't nearly as big as you are. And I've never tried Mermaid before."
"In your dreams, pal!" Mermon yelled.
"SPIRAL SAW!"
"Aaaah!" Mermon was attacked from behind, and all the Gizamon hit her, and she fell under.
"No! Mermon!" Amy ran to the edge of the lake.
"No, Amy! Get back, you might get hurt!" Tracy warned. Kari grabbed Amy, and pulled her back.
"RRRROOAAHHR! Trees fell all around the girls as a huge bear came out of the woods.
"It's WaruMonzaemon!" Kari shouted.
"It looks kind of like MiniMonzaemon...Where is MiniMonzaemon!?" Tracy scanned the area looking for her Digimon. She saw him and Gatomon getting up from where they had fallen earlier.
"Oh, no! Tracy and the girls are in trouble!" MiniMonzaemon ran over in front of WaruMonzaemon and the human girls, followed by Gatomon. "You leave Tracy alone! MINI BEAR CLAW ATTACK!" MiniMonzaemon gave his opponent his best hit.
"Ahh, a love tap, how sweet," WaruMonzaemon said towering above them all. "Let, me return the favor, BEAR CLAW!" WaruMonzaemon hit the little bear, and knock him into a tree.
"MiniMonzaemon!" Tracy Screamed.
"You can join him soon, sweetie! BEAR-"
"ALLEY CAT STRIKE!" A blur hit WaruMonzaemon, canceling his attack. Next to the behemoth bear, stood a fairly large wildcat creature that stood on both legs, and it had a black leather jacket on, wearing brass knuckles, and spiky brown hair.
"Is he a good Digimon?" Tracy whispered. Kari and Amy shrugged.
"I thought I said, 'No one is to attack humans except me.or unless I say so!'" This new Digimon snarled at WaruMonzaemon who flinched in return.
"I'm sorry Cougarmon, it won't happen again!" WaruMonzaemon graveled.
"Go attack something else!" WaruMonzaemon saw Gatomon, and went for her.
"HEARTBREAK ATTACK!"
"Digivolve!"
"Gatomon, digivolve to.Angewomon!" Angewomon flew out of the way of WaruMonzaemon's attack.
"HYDRO COOLER!" All of the Gizamon were piled up on shore, and Mermon went for her next challenge, Crocomon.
"Oooh, spicy!" Crocomon said idly, "Just how I like my meals, REPTILE RUSH!" He swam at high speed towards Mermon, "CROCO SNAP!" Crocomon opened his gaping jaws to reveal rows of sharp teeth, and nearly clamped them around Mermon's tail.
"You'll have to do better than that, scaly!" Mermon taunted. "TAIL SWIPE!" She whipped her tail, and hit Crocomon, and he went under, so she dove after him.
"Three little human girls, ready for the taking," Cougarmon cracked his knuckles. "Hehehe!"
"I don't like this anymore!" Tracy screamed.
"That's to bad, because I was beginning to like you," Cougarmon made advancements towards the girls.
"I said, leave them alone, LITTLE KISS HEARTS!" Tiny hearts flew from MiniMonzaemon, and popped on Cougarmon's body
"Ah, that stings!" Cougarmon was upset, "I'll finish you, now! JUNGLE MADNESS!" Bright beams flew.
MiniMonzaemon was helpless, but Tracy quickly stood in front, preparing to take full force of the blast, "NO! TRACY!" A tear ran down MiniMonzaemon's face, "MiniMonzaemon, digivolve to.Monzaemon! Ahh!" Monzaemon covered Tracy, and was hit with the blast. "No one hurts Tracy while I'm around!"
"Hm?" Tracy dug into her pocket, something was shaking violently, and she pulled out a digivice, "Well, I guess MiniMonzaemon isn't so little anymore," Tracy smiled at the large bear.
"WaruMonzaemon, take care of him!" WaruMonzaemon stopped fighting with Angewomon, and went to mess with Monzaemon.
"These woods aren't big enough for the both of us," WaruMonzaemon began, "So you gotta ask yourself one question: 'Do I fell lucky?'.Well, do ya?"
"Luckier than ever! HEARTS ATTACK!" Monzaemon blasted him.
"That's not how that was supposed to go!" WaruMonzaemon growled.
Cougarmon turned his attention to the humans, "Now, back to you three chicks-"
"CELESTIAL ARROW!" An arrow of light landed between Cougarmon and the girls, "Did you forget me already?" Angewomon floated next to Kari.
Cougarmon looked her over twice, "Hey toots, hows about you come over here to a real mon."
'Toots...TOOTS, oh is he gonna get it!' Angewomon thought. "Sure, thing."
Angewomon sent Cougarmon a flying punch to the face, "Woo-hoo! Way to go, Angewomon!"
"And when meet a real mon, I'll be sure to let you know what one looks like!"
Cougarmon rubbed his face, then regained his composure, "You'll pay! JUNGLE MADNESS!"
"HEAVEN'S CHARM!" The two attacks struggled, to see which was stronger, but Angewomon's charm won, and repelled Cougarmon's attack back at him. "Good riddance to bad rubbish!"
"MEGA BONE STICK!" A flying bone hit Angewomon in the head, and she fell out unconscious, and de-digivolved back to Gatomon. The bone returned to its thrower. A yellow ape stood on a tree branch.
"Just in time, Apemon," Cougarmon stood up, looking at Apemon.
"This just keeps getting better and better!" Kari pouted, "Angewomon!"
"Hahaha!" Apemon jumped off the branch in front of the girls, Cougarmon stood next to him. "I'm tired of Monkey-ing around, Hehehe!"
"So, let's finish them, Apemon!"
"HEART HUG!" Monzaemon wrapped WaruMonzaemon in a bear hug.
"Aaah! HEARTBREAK ATTACK!" WaruMonzaemon blasted Monzaemon off of him.
"SWAMP GAS!" Crocomon expelled purple gas from his mouth, which surrounded Mermon who was now coughing. "Haha, a little taste of the bayou for you, my sweet!"
'Everyone is busy fighting, and Angewomon is knock out,' Amy thought to herself. Cougarmon and Apemon were steadily advancing further, 'I can't transform, can I? If I do, my identity will be revealed. I have two choices, either be killed, or try and save us. As a Sailor Soldier, I have a duty to protect people.' Amy took charge, "I cannot allow this to go on any longer. Mercury Star Power!" Amy illuminated herself in bright blue light, and transformed into Super Sailor Mercury.
"What an entrance!" Kari and Tracy gasped.
"What is this?" Cougarmon asked what everyone was thinking.
"I am the pretty suited soldier of Mercury," Amy began, "and on behalf of the planet Mercury, I shall punish you. I am sailor Mercury!"
"No, really?" Cougarmon mocked sarcastically.
"Flashy lights and witty speeches won't save you," Apemon attacked, "MEGA BONE STICK!"
"Shine Aqua illusion!" Sailor Mercury froze Apemon's bone stick to his hand.
"What!" Apemon struggled to free his hand from the bitter frost.
"Now, it's your turn," Amy continued, "You have caused too much suffering here. Your time has run out, Cougarmon."
"You dare talk to me like that, YOU PUNY HUMAN!!" Cougarmon roared, "SAVAGE RAGE!" Cougarmon grew in size and muscularity. "Sit down!" Cougarmon backhanded Mercury, and she fell next to Angewomon and in the same state. Kari and Tracy were trembling tremendously. "Amy, NO!" Mermon leapt out of the water, and started heading towards Mercury.
"CROCO SNAP!" Crocomon closed his jaws around Mermon's tail, and submerged her back beneath the water.
"HEARTS ATTACK!" Monzaemon blew WaruMonzaemon into a pine tree, trough it, and right into another one. He didn't get up after that. "I said to leave these girls alone!" Monzaemon stomped his way over to Apemon and Cougarmon.
"And just what are you going to do about it, fuzzy?" Apemon chuckled, and soon after that, he wasn't chuckling any more. Monzaemon gave him one good swipe with his paw, and he was out cold.
"Oh, so the little toy has some spunk after all," Cougarmon grinned, "Okay, show me whatcha got!"
"HEARTS ATTACK!"
"JUNGLE MADNESS!" Monzaemon's attacked fizzled out, and Cougarmon won that bout.
"Monzaemon!" Tracy screamed. She saw him stagger, then fall to the ground with a loud thud.
"Hahahahahahahaaa!" Don't think you can defeat me with such petty attacks. And now, with no more interruptions, JUNGLE MAD-"
"Mercury Aqua Mirage!"
"WHAT!! No, NOOOOO!!" Cougarmon's body was encased within an icy tomb.
Mercury revealed herself standing behind the frozen Cougarmon, with a fainted Gatomon in her arms. She smiled. "TAIL SWIPE!" PALOOSH!! Crocomon came flying out of the water, and hit the ground hard. "I think we're finished here."
Kari and Tracy let out sighs of relief, "Gatomon!"
"Huh, what?" Gatomon stirred to life in Amy's arms, "Kari!" Gatomon jumped out of Amy's arms into Kari's. Monzaemon de-digivolved back into MiniMonzaemon, and Mermon did the same.
"But what do we do with them now?" Tracy questioned.
"We have to send them back to the digital world where they came from," Kari began, "But to do that, we need something digital to act as a link, like a computer or something."
"I have one at home, but by the time we come back, they my wake up and start causing trouble again." Tracy thought hard.
"Well, we could use my handheld computer, I was transported to the Digital World the first time through here, so in principle, it should work again," Amy took out her little Mercury Computer, and handed it to Kari.
"Well, let's hope this works," Kari took out her D-3, "Digi Port, Open!" The Gizamon, Crocomon, WaruMonzaemon, Apemon, and Cougarmon were sucked back into the Digital World.
"YEAH! GIRL POWER!" All the human and Digimon shouted.
"I'm not a girl," MiniMonzaemon said sadly. "I don't wanna be a girl, but I don't wanna be left out is all."
"I love you!" Tracy picked up MiniMonzaemon, and gave him a big bear hug. Something huge came down from the sky, and landed no too far from them. "What's that!?" Tracy asked. "Did we forget one?"
"No, that's Imperialdramon! He's come to take us home!" Kari shouted.
"Hey Kari! Did you miss me!?" Davis yelled.
"Hey Cody, Trunks, Rowen, T.K., Ken, and Duo!" Kari yelled back, and Davis fell over.
"Well, it was nice meeting you Tracy," Amy picked up Mizukoramon, "But we have to be going now."
"I understand, well, if you're ever in this part of the world again, stop by sometime!" Tracy waved at Kari, Amy, and their Digimon as Imperialdramon lifted off into the air, "Bye!" Everyone shared a heartfelt parting and then Imperialdramon was gone from sight.