DISCLAIMER: I do not own Big O or any of the characters

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Big O or any of the characters. All are property of Sunrise and their respective parties. Digimon belongs to Toei and their respective parts. I don't own either show. I am not making any money on this story either. Now I own Mary Sanderous, Nivernmon, Aggymon, Metal Aggymon, Metal Nivernmon, the Crest of Order, and the Digi Egg of Order. Please don't use them without my permission.

AURTHOR NOTES: This story is a Big O Digimon Crossover. This story also features some of my own theories about Big O as well. This is also a slight AU for the Digimon part of the story, Gatomon has the ably to go to her Ultimate Level of Angewoman, without any type of help, like she did in the First Season of the show, plus she also can Armor Digivole as well. This goes the same with the first season Digidestined as well. I am also including the third movie sentiment of the Digimon Movie, the one with Willis, even if that part of the movie dose not takes place in the story line of the show.

I am sorry about the long explanations in the stories, but I am writing this for fans of Big O that hasn't seen a signal episode of Digimon of either season. I don't want them to feel like they are lost in the story telling, for I used a lot of references from that show.

Everybody plans to head to File Island, but things go horribly wrong. Everybody is tested she is for they truly worthy of their Destiny, especially Roger.

To CyberAngelOne: I sorry that there isn't a lot of Dorothy is my fic, there is a good reason why. I can't write her good, so I turn her important a little down. I am sorry about that.

SETTING: Reminder the Digimon Episode of His Master's Voice, the episode where Kari is brought to another part of the Digi World by other Digimon. At the end of the episode we see a huge shadowy Digimon with red eyes come out of the water. What if she wasn't really in the Digital World, but in Paradigm City and that huge Digimon-like creature weren't a Digimon, but a Megadeus?

WARRING: This one chapter does get a little more graphic that the pervious ones, this is the reason for the ratting change from PG to PG-13.

Keepers of the Light

Chapter 10: True Destiny: Trial by Fire: The Tests and Training of Everybody(Part 1)

Mary Sanderous was piloting her Digimon, Metal Nivernmon through the blue sky of the Digiworld. She wanted to know why she had to bring all of the International Digidestined here and she wanted to know why she had acted on something with little to no information. This wasn't her, she was the type of person that wanted to know everything before she jumped head long into a thing. Look, what she was doing right now, she was jumping head long into something with little to no information about the thing.

"Do you know what this all about?" Asked Tai.

"No, I don't, but if Izzy under the orders of Gennai tells him that we must all be together in the same spot, we have to listen to it. Tai, this is basically a 'Call to Arms' and when that happens everybody listens to it," answered Mary.

"I don't care, I just hope our Digimon are there waiting for us," said Matt.

"You aren't the only one, I was picked up by this Digimon right when I was heading to class. I don't want this to be all for nothing," said Joe.

Mary wanted to say something at this, but she made the choice to keep her mouth shut on this part. She hoped that this was just for nothing, a false alarm.

Metal Nivernmon continue her trip to File Island, her huge metal wings flapped in the air caused huge blast of sound to jet out like ripples in a pound. Even if they didn't see who was causing all of the noise, they would know who was doing it because of the way that there were disrupting the air. That what it did, he had caused the rest of the Digimon that were around the flying Digimon and with that they knew that something major was going to happen, because Metal Nivernmon was the bearer of change. Whoever had this Digimon as their partner was the trigger of this thing.

Roger, Kari, Davis, Ken, and their Digimon were sleeping, because it was talking longer than they thought it would be. Roger didn't like the fact of sleeping down here, but he knew that he had to stay here because of Izzy. He swears that he would come back to tell them what was going on in the Digiworld and since the others believe him, he was forced to trust him. Trust was something that Roger didn't give freely to another person, no matter who they were allied with. To him trust was something that had to be earned through action and just given away just because a person was a friend with a person that he did trust. He knew that this wasn't him, but he had to take a leap of faith with these people and that what he did.

Like the others he was dreaming, like before his dreams were different from the others that he had before.

In this one he found himself in a dark room that was circle in nature and he was by himself once again. He tried to look around the place to find out where he was at, but he couldn't make heads or tails of where he was at, it was way to dark. The darkest that was all around him felt like a vial that was covering his eyes, it was that thick. It was so think that he had to strain his eyes to see where he was going and it was that strain that started to make his eyes start to tear. He closed his eyes and let the tears ran down his face, with that he wipe them away from his face.

He open up his eyes once more and this time he found out that his eyes had adjusted to the darkest, that was still as thick as ever, but this time he didn't hurt his eyes as much as it did before. That still didn't mean that he could tell where he was at, he couldn't tell where he was at, that was still a mystery to him.

"So you are the one that pilot the great land guardian," said a voice from the darkest.

That caught Roger off-guard, the same way that he felt when he had the dream about R-D. He knew that they were talking about him and Big O.

"What if I am, why should you be worry about it," shot Roger back as he tried to get his location, which was hard without a point of reference for him to judge where he was. He did, he used the echo that he heard when the two of them spoke to each other. That told him that this place was huge and it was open, the only thing that he didn't know what this place look like.

"We worry about everything," said the voice. Seconds after that Roger found himself forced to his knees and then he found out that there was a shape pain on the side of his face. He put his hand on where the pain was at and he found out the reason why he felt pain, he was cut and he was bleeding a little.

"And nothing," said the voice again. With that Roger heard the sound of a metal slicing against metal, he reacted to the thing like a cat, stopping the sword from cutting his face again. Even stopping the sword from cutting his face, he got an injury from the attack, his hand was cut by the thing.

Stopping the sword also allow Roger to view the weapon, he could see that it was a huge broad sword, a type of sword that would be used by an excusitioner. He had never seen a sword like that and to further deepen the mystery of the thing, he saw the strange script that was on the pictures that Izzy had brought up on his laptop computer. He wanted to know what was written on the sword.

"Good, we will meet again," said the voice.

With that the sword was gone and after that he was all alone in that dark place.

Then he woke up from the dream in a cold sweat and because of that he wiped off the sweat and that when he noticed something that was different from the sweat. He could feel that it was sticker than the sweat and in the small amount of light that was available in the place, he saw it. It was blood, his own blood, and that was something that he didn't understand. He didn't know how he could bleed, there was no wound on his face that could produced something like this.

"Sleeping over?" Asked a voice that Roger recognized.

Roger turned in the direction of where the voice had came from, he saw that it was Dorothy, the Android that sometimes acted like his little shadow, sometimes following him whenever he went. Sometimes it was a pain in the butt for him, and sometimes it wasn't for her he wouldn't be here to talk about it.

"Dorothy, what are you doing here?" Asked Roger defensively as he tried to hide the blood away from her view. He had no clue how she would react to seeing this.

"I got worry, when you didn't show up last night," answered Dorothy.

It has been an entire day? Asked Roger to himself. How long dose it takes to round up a group of children?

Dorothy noticed the blood that was Roger's hand, even if it was small, she still noticed it. She worries that Roger got injured when he was down here. "Are you all right?" She asked.

"Hm?" He asked.

"There is blood on your hand," she said in her monotone voice.

That dam Android, nothing gets past her thought Roger. "That nothing."

"Let's me see, I can help you," said Dorothy.

"No, I can handle it," said Roger that moved the hand away from her peering eyes. "I have been hurt worst that before. Now is going to look on my resume, that Paradigm City's top Negotiator, can't handle a little blood, hell I have seen more blood than this before." Way to much blood that somebody should see in a lifetime thought Roger.

Dorothy retracted her concern about his will being he was right. He had been through worst than just that, heck this guy was shot in the arm and even with that, he still manages to take down three Megadeuses. Even if they won't strongest types of Megadeuses that she had seen before, it still didn't take away from the fact that he did that, the odds were against him. While he had superior firepower and more advantage Megadeus than they were, they had superior numbers, she knew that having superior firepower was a bigger advantage than firepower. Any normal Megadeus pilot would of turn away, but he took them on, something that any half-witted individual wouldn't of done, no matter what. He did and the most surprise thing as that he won, which was something that nobody thought would of happen. She did, this was because even with her short stay with, there was one thing that she had come to expect from him, the unexpected.

Roger took a quick look at this hand, to see if there was any extra blood that was on it or if was also cut. He saw that there was no cut on his hand and there was no extra blood there, the only blood that was there, was the blood that came from his face.

Weird thought Roger.

After that he took a quick look at the rest of the people that were around him and he saw that there were in good shape, they didn't experienced the same thing that he did. That was good and it was also bad, because he didn't have anybody to talk to about what he just experienced and he wanted to know why he did. As he was thinking about that, he wiped the blood on his black jeans and this was a good thing, because the black didn't show up the dark red that much as it did with other colors.

"I have heard about this before," said Dorothy.

"You have, what is it called?" Asked Roger.

"It is called a Stigma," answered Dorothy.

Hearing that Roger collapsed on the ground, in pain Dorothy thought. She was right, Roger was in pain, but not the physical pain, but metal pain as the word "Stigma" and brought out a latent memory of where he saw a woman that was stripped on a bed that was bleeding from the center of two hands. The woman wasn't dress in their version of clothes, her clothes were more lace like, almost like they were hand-made with a great attention to detail, not like the ones that were wearing, there were mass-produced with little to attention to detail. He could see that the woman was in pain and he wanted to help her, but there was a strange feeling inside of him that wanted this to happen. He wanted to know why he was acting like this.

He furthers looked up the woman and he could see that she wasn't also bleeding from the centers of her hands, she was also bleeding at the temples of her head as well. This was so strange from him to see such a thing, but he also felt like he knew what this was and that this was expected to happen to this woman.

"Is this normal?" Asked another person.

Roger turned his attention to be the voice was at and he saw that the voice came from a man that appeared to be around the same age as he was. He was also dress in the same finely made clothing that the woman was wearing, but it wasn't in the lace-style of dress that the woman was wearing, but it was still different from anything that he would of wear. So Roger assumes that this person could be, the woman brother, husband, or even nephew, he didn't know.

"Yes, this is normal, I am sorry," answered Roger. How did I know that? Asked Roger to himself.

"How long is going to last?" The person asks again.

"Again, I don't really know, I have heard about these things, that can last seconds, minutes, hours, or even days," answered Roger.

"Roger…" started a voice that sounded like it was distance, almost like it was calling him. With that he walked away from the woman and the man, where the voice was coming at, it sounded like it was coming outside. So he walked to where the window was at and with that he open up the window so that he could if he was right. With that, he found himself back in the underground room with Dorothy hovering over him like a Guardian Angel.

Seeing that Roger reacted by getting up from the ground as fast as he could before Dorothy could do anything that would make him uncomfortable. He couldn't stand talking to her about their own relationship that they had to each other, to him it was more of a professional type, and they helped each other while they were on a case. Much like a police detective team would do, the only different with two of them was that they live in the same house, nothing more and nothing less.

"Don't ask, I am fine, nothing to worry yourself about, 'kay," said Roger.

"That not what I am going to ask you," said Dorothy.

"Then what?!" Asked a little annoyed Roger.

"I would like to tell you that, the two children that called themselves Izzy and T.K. are back from a place that they called the Digiworld," answered Dorothy.

With that, Roger walked pass Dorothy and he could see that she was right, Izzy and T.K. were back from the Digiworld. He wanted to ask them some questions, like why did it take about a day to get everybody in that place.

"What took you so long?" Demanded Roger.

"It only took a half-hour to get all of the e-mails out," answered T.K.

"What?" Asked Roger. " 'A half-hour', that can't be."

"He is right, I would like to know, what the deal Izzy, why is our two clocks that set at the same time?" Asked T.K.

"There is an explanation, for this, and that is your world is at a different time rate than ours, time much go faster here, than in our world. This changes everything for us," answered Izzy.

"How dose it changes everything?" Asked Kari, that had just woken up from her sleep.

Roger turned in the direction of where her younger sister was at, he could see that she was all right. That she had a good night sleep despite the fact that she was one of the worst places that a person could sleep in his option. It was still a little hard for him to think of this person not as a regular person that was team up with him, but now as a younger sister, and he was the older brother of the two of them, which made him the protector of her.

"It dose, it mean that we will have to step our plans, it mean that we will have to go to the Digital World, now. If we spend even at least one hour in the Digital World, it means that two days have past in this world," answered Izzy.

"If I know Alex Rosewater, that will be long enough for him to set whatever he had plan in action," said Roger.

"So it agree we have to head back into the Digital World, now, and that also includes you," said Izzy.

"What?" Asked Roger. "I will have to go to that world, if I do you will watch out for this world, and this world is were the unexpected happens all of the time."

"That sounds like our world," said Izzy. "I think that your world can survive without your being there watching over it."

"All right, but if somebody get a simple paper cut while I am not there, you are going to paid for doing that," said Roger.

"Good," said Izzy.

After that the rest of the team that was with them got up from their sleep. Then Izzy told them what they had planed.

With that Ken, Davis, T.K., and Kari put up their D-3s to the Digi Port.

"Digi Port open," said Kari.

After that all of them were pulled into the Digital World.

Mary and the group of Digidestined that she brought from the Real World into this world found themselves on File Island. They all saw that Gennai was there with the Digimon that were belong to Tai's group of Digidestined.

"Agumon!" Shouted Tai. With that Digimon and human meet each other. Agumon, the orange baby T-Rex Digimon started to lick Tai's face.

"Tai," he said. "It good to see you again."

"The same here, I just wish that it was under better terms," said Tai.

"Yes, I know I heard," he said.

This meeting scene was repeated over and over again. As Matt greeted his Digimon, Gabumon, the blue and white stripped fur Digimon with a horn on top of his head. The next in the line greet their Digimon was, Joe. He greeted Gomamon, the seal-like Digimon, even if the last time that he had seen him was when they defeated Malo Myotismon, he still has happy go lucky attentuide toward things. It was Sora turn, as she greeted her Digimon, Biyomon, and the pink bird-like Digimon. While this was all going on, Marry and Metal Nivernmon were watching their surroundings, for that was Metal Nivernmon's job, because she was guardian Digimon. Plus she was the only Mega-Level Digimon that was out right now, so if anything did threaten the Digimon, she wouldn't have to waste time to Digivole into her Mega-Level like the rest of the Digimon had to.

"It is nice to see them greet them," said Metal Nivernmon.

"Yes, but it not like they haven't seen them in years," said Marry.

"They aren't like us, I have lived with you all of my life, I have only seen the Digital World a couple of times, you know what I am, I protect the Digital World from outside forces much like the Digimon Guardians that live in the Digital World," said Metal Nivernmon.

"That is true," said Marry.

"Look," said Metal Nivernmon.

Marry did what her Digimon did and she saw that T.K., Ken, Davis, Kari, and Izzy were back from the other world that they had spoken off. They had also brought their Digimon with them as well. Then Marry noticed something with Metal Nivernmon, she looked like she had just been shot by an electric bolt.

"Marry, I sense that there is something that belong in this world," said Metal Nivernmon.

"What is it? Where is at?" Asked Marry.

Metal Nivernmon didn't respond to her, she started to action and with that Marry jumped on the back of her Digimon, still not knowing what was going on with her Digimon. She had never acted like this before and she wanted to know why.

The others greeted Izzy, Kari, T.K., Davis, and Ken, but they had no clue that neither Roger nor Dorothy was with them. They only found out that when they were about to introduce them to the rest of the other Digidestined.

"Where are they?" Asked Kari.

"I don't know," answered Ken.

"This isn't good," said Izzy.

Izzy was right about that, because the two of them had no clue where they were at, plus they didn't have any protection from a Digimon like they did. Worrying about Roger and Dorothy was the least of their problems, this was because the sky that was around them started to darken.

"I don't like the looks of this," said Kari.

"You are right, the last time that we saw something like this together when my Digimon turned the clock back," said Willis.

Roger found himself on a grass piece of land and the first thing that he noticed was the soft sweet smell of the grass that had woke him up. He got up from the spot and with that he saw that there were in same type of forest, but the trees were trees that he had never seen before. They were bright and they had some type of glitter on them as well that shine whenever the sun touch them, giving them a bewitching luster to them. He took a look at the unfamiliar surroundings and he notice that this world was totally different from his, not because of the strange looking trees that were all around him, but this world was a lot brighter than his world. To prove to him, he took a look up at the sky and he noticed that there wasn't a signal cloud in the sky, the sky was blue. Not the gray skies that he was used to, but a bright almost weird blue, a blue that he had never seen before. It also had the strange type of glitter than was on the trees, but it didn't shine like the glitter did on the trees.

"So this is the Digital World," said Roger. He turned his head and he saw that Dorothy was there as well, she was doing the same thing that he was. She was taking a good look at the New World that they were in right now. It was a little strange for him to see her in so much wonder, but this was indeed a new world for them that wasn't like anything that they had seen before. It looks like that it was untainted by human's hands; it had a beauty that he had never seen before. It had a gentle beauty to it, even if it did an artificial look to it, which didn't take away from the beauty that it had.

Maybe this was what that whack out scientist was taking about when he said "The World was cover by trees" thought Roger.

"Dorothy," said Roger.

Dorothy turned around to face Roger and she saw that a sun beam was in back of Roger, almost giving him a little bit of a halo. The brightness of the sun seem to contrast to the black outfit that he was wearing right now, it also made him stuck out from the rest of the world as well. It did make sense to her, the two of them didn't belong in this world, and it was showing it to them, but it also was showing that while they won't here, they were still accepted to visit this world. It seems to understand that they were important.

"Yes," she said.

"Do you know where the rest of them are at?" Asked Roger. "They don't seem to be around us."

"No, I don't seen them either," said Dorothy.

Roger put his hand on his chin and with that Dorothy knew that he was about to think about what just had happen to them. She was right, he was do something thinking about what happen to them, he could swear that the two of them were with the others when they went into the Digital World. Now they won't together and he wanted to know why, but his thinking had to be cut short, because the spot that the two of them were standing was fired at.

The attack had missed them and Roger reacted by covering up Dorothy despite the fact that she could take the shot. After that he looked up at the sky and then he saw what had caused the attack, it was a huge flying creature that was orange in color and some of the body of the creature was covered in some type of armor. The parts of the creature's body that was cover in the armor was the pair of wings and what to him look like hands, but they won't like any type of hands that he had seen before. For they were square in shape and had three claws at each end, they look like to be some type of missile launcher.

"What is that thing?" Asked Roger as the thing passed him by. It was very much like the same as the winged creature that he had saw before he meet up with Kari. He saw that the thing had climbed up in the sky and with that he knew that it was time for them get out of there.

"We have to get out here!" Ordered Roger and after that he took another look up in the cloudless sky, he saw that the thing was still around them.

With that, Dorothy got up from the ground and started to run, Roger did the same thing, even if they had no clue where they were heading. The only thing that they saw was the weird tree and the two of them thought that would be good enough cover to prevent that thing from finding them, but they were wrong. This is was because the creature's attack had destroyed almost all of the trees without breaking a sweat. That didn't stop them, for they continue to run away from that thing, for that was the only thing that the two of them could do right now. He knew that if this thing was back at Paradigm City, he would use Big O to take that thing out, but he was in the Digital World, since they didn't have the time to take Big O with them. So he was on his own, this was something that had never happen to him before, but that still didn't mean that he was up a creek with out paddle, he still had wits with him. He didn't know was that he wasn't alone, because there was another winged creature that was up in the sky. The other winged creature saw what was going on and moved into action

Roger and Dorothy continued to run as fast as they could and they were stopped, not because they wanted to do, but because they had reached the end of the land. They found themselves at a cliff that was over looking a huge ocean. Roger saw that he couldn't make the jump and he wouldn't allow Dorothy to do that by herself. To make matters worst for the two of them was that the thing was coming toward them. Roger could see that it was bring out the two missile launcher-like hands together and with that he knew that this thing was about to attack them.

"Darkside Attack!" Yelled the creature. With that Roger knew that this thing was a Digimon, but the was the only good that came out of this, because the attack had release a series of missiles toward them. As the attack came to them, the other winged creature flew toward them and in a matter of seconds the thing had picked them up from the ground, right before the missile attack had reach the area where they were.

The two of them saw that if they had stay there, they would have gotten kill, well not Dorothy, but Roger would of gotten killed by the attack. This was because there was a huge crater where they were standing. With that, Roger turned his attention to his new surroundings, he knew that he wasn't on the ground, he was on the back of a huge sliver color creature and they were on the back of the thing. He also saw that they won't alone on being on the back of this thing, this was because there was another person that was ahead of them. The person look like she was controlling the thing through the used of straps that look like they were made out of leather, that look like they were wrapped around both of the person's wrists.

Roger saw that the person had moved the strap that was around her right hand to her left hand. Then she turned around to face the two of them and with that they saw the face of the person that had saved them. He saw that she was young, but not as young as the other Digidestined, she look like she was around the same age as he was, that was 25 years old. He saw that despite the young age, that she had had been around the block, that she had seen her share of battles and it look like that some of them were hard battles as well. To show that, her hair that was brown in color was put back in a braid. Even with that, Roger could see that she somehow manage to kept in mind that she was a woman, because she had some makeup on her face, not a lot of them, it was just enough to tell him that she was a woman. It was soft and the only place that he could see that she had put it on was around her eyes, and her eyes were green and huge. That huge theme was through out her face, which included her nose and her lips.

"Hi, I am Marry Sanderous," she said.

"Who the hell are you?" Asked Roger.

"Well, I am the person that had just save your life, you were being attacked by Megadramon, trust me that one of the worst thing that you could go through," answered Marry. "I am sorry about the entrance that I had made, but it was require of me to do so."

"Ultimate Slicer!" Yelled Megadramon.

Seconds after that a purple beam of energy was shot at them.

"Whoa! That were to close, well people it is time for me go into action. So you better hold on, because I don't show in-fight movies," said Marry.

[Author Notes: The Digimon Song Run Around in now the playing]

With that Marry picked up the other strap that was on her left arm and place in back on to her right wrist. After that she pull down on the straps and the metal creature that was under them reacted by flying up in the sky. The two of them found out that she was right, they should of held on when she went up in the sky and Roger also saw that the thing that was called Megadramon was still following them.

"Darkside Attack!" It yelled again and like before a series of missiles was shot out of the arms of the dark dragon type Digimon.

"Two play at that game," said Marry and with that she made the creature turned around. With that all of them were face to face with Megadramon.

"Metal Dragon Smash!" Yelled the creature. Seconds after that a second pair of metal wings was brought up and then the creature shot out it series of missiles at the Megadramon's missile attack. The creature missile attack had destroyed Megadramon's missile attack, but the attack was done, for it continues pass them and it had hit Megadramon right in the chest. On impact they exploded and the entire creature was covered in smoke.

[Author Notes: The Run Around song is turned down a little, but still playing, without the lyrics]

The calm that was made because of this attack was used by Marry to clam herself down and that went the same for her Digimon as well. Roger was going to use this break in the action as well to find out more about Marry Sanderous as well.

"Excess me, are you the same Marry Sanderous that Izzy was talking about?" Asked Roger.

"Yes, I am, and so you must be Roger Smith, from the other world that Izzy was talking about. Well if you know, Izzy then you know my history with them, and this is Metal Nivernmon, my Digimon," answered Marry. "I am sorry that we didn't meet under better terms, but when you are dealing with the Digital World, anything can happen."

"I can see that," said Roger.

Seconds after that the smoke that was from the attack cleared and when that happen, they all saw that the attack from Metal Nivernmon cracked some of the armor that was on Megadramon, plus he also had carbon scoring as well. A cleared sing that her attack did some damage to the thing.

"Let's go," said Marry.

[Author Note: The Run Around song is turned back up again and at the end of the song]

"All right," said Metal Nivernmon.

"Sonic Wave!" Yelled Metal Nivernmon. Seconds after that a blast of sound was shot out of the mouth of Metal Nivernmon and the only sing of being there was the ripping effect that was around the attack. The attack from the Mega-level Digimon hit Megadramon with it full force and since Megadramon was an Ultimate-level Digimon, he couldn't stand the attack. With that he fell down on the ground with a loud crashing sound.

"You grounded!" Said Marry.

[Author Note: The song ends]

"Next stop, File Island," said Marry.

"What on File Island? By the way what is File Island?" Asked Roger.

"That is the meeting place for where the rest of the Digidestined are located at, and File Island is an island that is located dead center in the Net Ocean of the Digiworld," answered Marry.

"Then what is this place?" Asked Roger.

"Oh this is Sever, this is the main land of the Digiworld," answered Marry. "By the way, Metal Nivernmon, do you know the way to File Island, because I have no clue where I am at right now," said Marry.

"Yes, I know how to get there," answered Metal Nivernmon.

"All right, take us there," said Marry.

With that Metal Nivernmon straiten herself out and then she flapped her four wings and when she did that, the air all around them was distorted by the sound of the huge metal dragon-type Digimon. After that she went into the direction of where File Island was located at and doing that they passed the forest that both Roger and Dorothy were in. While they were doing that, other Digimon that were living there, heard the sound of Metal Nivernmon flying over head and went out to take a look to see if their ears didn't play tricks on them. They found out that there were right and with that they knew through the legends, that when Metal Nivernmon made an appearance in the Digital World in a symbol of change and good luck. With that they started to run on the ground along with her, for doing that was consider in the Digital World as a blessing for Digivoling the right way into a Vaccine or Data type Digimon and not into a Virus.

The pass over Sever and found themselves over the open ocean, and while they were traveling over the ocean, the water was kicked up by the speed that Metal Nivernmon was going at. She wasn't even going at her top speed, she was going on her cruising speed. Seeing that, and wanting to have some fun with Metal Nivernmon, so she wanted to open her up.

"Roger, come over here," said Marry.

"Me?" Asked Roger.

"No, the other person that is dress in black that comes from Paradigm City, yes you," answered Marry.

"Yes, what do you want me to do?" Asked Roger.

"I want you take the rains of Metal Nivernmon and fly her," answered Marry. "I've heard that you are a good pilot and I want to see how good your really are."

Roger was intrigue by her statement, and he felt like this was a question to his skills as Megadeus pilot. Wanted to prove to her that he was good pilot and put this person in her place, he accepted her challenge by taking the rains from her.

"You really want to see," said Roger.

"Bring it on," said Marry.

[Author Note: Lifehouse's Hanging on by a Moment is background music]

Dorothy just closed her eyes at seeing this, two hot shot pilots together in same spot, and this could only mean something bad would happen to them. She didn't know what was going to happen to them all while these two were going to prove who was the better pilot and the challenge that Marry had brought up just spoke to Roger.

After that Roger made Metal Nivernmon climb into the sky and when he reach the height that he wanted, he made Metal Nivernmon dive toward the ocean, while they were doing that, he was making the Digimon do a couple of twists and turns. Right before they would hit the ocean, he made Metal Nivernmon pull up with only a couple of feet between them and the water. That resulted in the water to be kicked up by the speed that was caused by the speedy and skilled move that Roger had just pulled off.

After that he climbed up again into the sky and Metal Nivernmon did something to add on the style of the move that they were doing. She had reacted her sets of wings fully, to show the true size of the Digimon that resulted in a twenty foot increase to the size of the Digimon that was huge to being with. Then Roger made Metal Nivernmon stop dead in her tracks and with that he made the metal Digimon fall back in the opposite direction that result her stomach in the upward position and the back, which they were on in the downward position. They didn't fall off from the back of the Digimon because Metal Nivernmon had told them to put on the other straps that were all over the back of the Digimon and with that he turned the Digimon right side up

Roger laughed a little at what he was doing and that went the same for Metal Nivernmon, for she had never had so much fun in her entire life, especially in her Mega-Form. Her joy was further deepen as she felt the slight pull on her back that told her to verge out to the left and she did some more twists and turns. As he was making Metal Nivernmon doing barrel rolls, he made the Digimon slowly, but constantly up toward the sky.

While he was doing that, a small group of more dragon-like Digimon that came flying into their direction and there were skull-face dragons-type Digimon that were known as Airdramons. They were the same type of Digimon that Roger first encounter back in his world and because of that the joy that he was felling was gone, replaced by anger.

"What are they?" Asked Roger.

"They are Airdramon, they mean good luck," answered Marry.

"They do?" Asked Roger.

"Yup," answered Marry.

With that Roger did a half smile at that and with that he made Metal Nivernmon go back into mommverous and the Airdramons that were followings them doing the same moves as well. He knew that they were going to need all of the good luck that they could get right now, even if this Digimon was the first Digimon that he meet up with that had cause him so much trouble. That was before he knew what it was, now he knew what it was and because of that he didn't fear the thing. He looked at them and he noticed that they were following him as well no matter what move that he put Metal Nivernmon through.

Roger looked ahead of him and he saw the spire of a huge blue mountain that seems to touch the sky of the Digital World that had no land under it, the only thing that was under it was the water of the Net Ocean that they were flying across. Marry saw that and with that she knew where they were at, they were close to File Island, but she knew they wouldn't be at the island, they still had a way to go. Infinity Mountain was a huge mountain, in was the Mount Everest of the Digital World, it was so big that one could take a look at the entire island.

[Author Note: Hanging by a Moment is done, there is no more background music]

"Look at that, do you know what that is?" Asked Roger.

"Yes, that is Infinity Mountain, the tallest mountain on File Island, but we still have a way to go," said Marry.

"She is right," said Metal Nivernmon.

"That mountain has to be big," said Roger.

"You are right, it is big, it is the Mount Everest of the Digital World," said Marry.

Roger had a puzzle look on his face, he had no clue what Mount Everest was, but he got the picture of how big that mountain was through the example that Infinity Mountain was. It had to be a huge mountain and even the name "Everest" told him something as well. It had to be big to have a name like that.

"I have no clue what you are talking about, but I can get the point of how big that mountain was," said Roger.

"You are right, it is a big mountain, it so big that it has snow on it all year long, its that high up in the atmosphere," said Marry. "That getting off the point, the point is that we still a way to go File Island."

Roger nodded his head and he didn't need to tell Metal Nivernmon that, because she heard what the two of them were talking about. Also she knew what they were talking about, this was because she knew the area well enough to know that won't even close to the island. Knowing that time wasn't on their side, she digs in for more strength and energy to push herself even more. She didn't care that as soon as she reach File Island that was would go back to Nivernmon, because she knew that she would be able to go back to this state when she got her energy back up to the level that would allow her to Digivole to Metal Nivernmon once again. There were more important things right now and her Devolving back to Nivernmon was something that she could learn to live with. She knew that if she couldn't get these people to File Island on time would be something that she could live with herself.

With the speed that Metal Nivernmon was going at the surface of the land that was File Island was getting closer and it look like that they were going to make it to File Island without trouble. Something that was rare when dealing with the Digital World, this was because in the Digital World was when the unexpected happen all of the time. Most of the time the unexpected happen when it wasn't welcome and right now it wasn't welcome.

The unexpected did happen, and it was the blacken sky that they all saw.

"Is that normal?" Asked Roger.

Marry took a good look at the sky. "No, unless the Digital World is changing it theme."

"Marry, there is something in there, something with extreme power, almost like it has the power of both good and evil. I think you should be piloting me, yes Roger is good, but he dose have the experience with me when dealing with the unexpected like you do. I am sorry, Roger," said Metal Nivernmon.

Roger understood the logic that was behind the Digimon's choice of pilot and with that he let up on the rains, allowed Marry to take control of the Digimon. Which she did and Roger could see the look that Marry had that she meet business.

"Look out!" Yelled Metal Nivernmon.

Marry look up and could see that the black cloud had fired out a ball of blue energy toward them. Marry reacted to the attack by veering Metal Nivernmon away from the attack. The attack passes them by and despite the fact that attacks was only a couple of meters away from, both Roger and Marry could feel the energy that came from that attack. The thing had hit the water and it caused the water to be vaporized on impact. They could smell the burring of the water and with that Marry knew whatever that thing was it meant business just like she was.

"What was that thing?" Asked Roger.

"I have no clue, but what I do know is that thing means business," answered Marry.

"It firing again," said Dorothy.

Roger, Metal Nivernmon, and Marry took a look, they found out that Dorothy was telling the truth. The thing had fired that attack again at trio of them, like before Marry made Metal Nivernmon veer away from the attack.

"I don't know what this thing is, but I don't like being fired at, Metal Nivernmon," said Marry.

"Right," started Metal Nivernmon. Then Metal Nivernmon was priming herself up for her most powerful attack, which was her Giga Beam Attack. "Giga Beam!" She yelled and second after that a thick yellow beam of energy was shot out of the mouth of Metal Nivernmon in the same way that her Sonic Wave Attack.

The huge yellow beam of energy hit the dark cloud and the attack started to cut through the darkest like a hot knife through butter.

"You are doing it," said Marry.

She stops firing the attack, so that she could take a little bit of break from the attack. The break was a couple of seconds and after that she started to fire her Giga Beam Attack again to continue the work that she started. Like before the attack cut through the darkest and it look like they were making headway, they could see the blue sky of the Digital World. Metal Nivernmon stopped so that she could take a look at the work that she was doing and when doing that, she saw that the cloud had regenerated all of the damage that she had did to it.

"Ah!" Gasped Marry at what she saw.

"What is that thing?" Asked Metal Nivernmon.

"I don't know, Nivernmon, I honesty don't know what that thing is," answered Marry.

"What I do know is that thing is firing again," said Roger.

With that, she saw what he was talking about, the thing was firing again at then and like before Marry tugged on the straps to make Metal Nivernmon moved. She did, Metal Nivernmon moved in the way that Marry wanted her to do, but she wasn't fast enough, because the blue ball of energy had hit Metal Nivernmon in one of her wings. That cause her to loss her balance while she was in the air and that made Marry lost her footing on the back of Metal Nivernmon. With that Marry fell on her side and found herself on one of Metal Nivernmon's huge metal wing, but she wasn't safe, because she was slipping on the metal surface. The only thing that she could to stop herself from slipping was to take hold of the side of the wing and hold her for dear life. She didn't want to go down into the Net Ocean, not because she didn't know how to swim, she did know how to swim, it was because she had no clue what would be swimming in that water at the same time.

Metal Nivernmon righted herself again and in doing that, she found herself turn around, heading back to the direction of Sever, which wasn't where she wanted to go. She was about head back in the direction of File Island and was when the dark cloud and fired once again, this time it was the kicker for Metal Nivernmon, she had totally lost everything that she had. That meant that she had lost of her balance when flying and she had also lost all of the energy that she had. She could feel her ably to maintain her Mega-Form starting to slip through her fingers.

"Marry, I am lost it," said Metal Nivernmon.

"Nivernmon, don't quit one me," said Marry. She looks in any direction to fine land and she found out there was a piece of land that was in the middle of water. It was weird, because she has not seen this piece of land before and she wanted to know where it came from, why she didn't notice it before. It was strange for her, but that was something that she shouldn't come to expect when dealing with things that came from the Digital World. Thing will the norm in this world, but it was so long since her trips in the Digital World, that she almost forgets has weird things could get in the Digital World.

"Marry, do you see that?" Asked Roger.

Marry knew what Roger was talking about, it was that piece of land that was in the middle of the ocean that she had noticed before. "Yes, I do, see it."

"Can you make Metal Nivernmon go there?" Asked Roger.

"I think I can, but I know as soon as I land there, I am going to back to just being plain old Nivernmon," said Metal Nivernmon.

"That okay," said Marry that had climbed her way back to the center of her Digimon's center back. "I don't care, when you get to the land, you can quit."

Metal Nivernmon did what Marry wanted her to do, she made it to the piece of land and the landing that she had wasn't the best type of landing that a person could think of. This was because while she was setting down she was crashing into the trees, cutting them into two through the used of her duo pair of shape metal wings. After that Metal Nivernmon hit the ground and at the speed that she was heading at, it caused some of the earth to moved. Then Metal Nivernmon's body glowed a yellow light and with that Marry knew that she was about to devolved, now in her Rookie or her In-Training Form, she didn't know for sure. All she knew was that she was devolving to a lower level.

Seeing that, Marry knew that she should get off the body of the Metal Digimon.

"You two better get off her, because I don't know what form she is going to devolved into," advised Marry.

Roger and Dorothy listen to her, they got off the body of Metal Nivernmon. They all saw that she had devolved to a much smaller form. The smaller form of Metal Nivernmon was a small blue dragon that came with a pair of white wings, it was much like Veemon.

"Nivernmon," said Marry.

"I am sorry," she said.

"Don't be, you got what I wanted, you got us on land," Marry paused to take a look around her surroundings. "And I don't know what this land is."

Izzy and the group of Digidestined that were with him didn't see Metal Nivernmon go down on the mysterious island, this was because their view was being block by the dark clouds. That was staring to form into something.

"I don't like the look of this, but reminder expect anything," said Tai.

"Right," said Sora.

"I understand that," said Kari.

"I am with you," said T.K.

The rest of the other Digidestined agree with Tai in their own way.

"So we Digivole?" Asked Tentomon.

Tai took a look at the fog bank and looked at the still dark form that didn't have any form that they could recognize and knowing that Digivoling require energy. Not wanting to waste energy on something that didn't require it.

"No, not yet, until we know what this thing is," answered Tai.

What is that thing? What is doing here? Asked Tai to himself.

Then they all found out what the dark thing was shaping itself into, they found out that the shape of the thing was Devimon, the first evil Digimon that they had fought with. The one that also scared T.K. for life because he was the one that had forced his Digimon to finally Digivole into Champion, but also made him used all of his energy to defeat him. The present of the black demon-like Digimon didn't affected the rest of the other Digidestined, but it did affected Tai's group, especially T.K.

"This can't be, no, this can't be!" Cried T.K. that still had bitter memories of the battle that they had with him.

Matt saw how his younger brother was being affected by the present of the thing and tried to comfort him, but his own rival Digimon had appeared. That was, Puppetmon had appeared out of the fog as well and seeing the wooden puppet-like Digimon, Matt harden his face. It had only been four-year since they had battled with these Digimon, but the memories of what they did to them were as vibrate as ever. Matt reminder what Puppetmon did to him, trick him by playing on his own personal fears and he did it in the worst way, he used another Digimon to do it and that Digimon was Cherrymon. He didn't even enough guts do it himself.

Matt couldn't understand why he was seeing this Digimon when he knew for sure that Metal Garurumon had deleted him through his Ice Wolf Claw Attack. It didn't matter to him for he knew that he wouldn't fall for his tricks for a second time around, for he knew what they would be.

"You won't fool me for a second time," said Matt.

Puppetmon didn't say anything to this, he turned his wooden head to right. All of the Digidestined turned their heads in the direction of where the Dark Master Digimon had turned his head and they saw why. They saw that all of the Evil Digimon that they had faced in the past were returning through that black think cloud. That included MetalSeadramon, the Mega-Level metal covered sea snake, Piedmon yet another Mega-Level Digimon that was a clown-type Digimon that was the leader of the all of the Dark Masters, Machinedramon a machine-type dragon-type Digimon that was also another Mega-Level Digimon, and finally Etemon. Etemon was an orange-like monkey that was not a Mega-Level Digimon, but an Ultimate-Level Digimon. As that was going on, they were being separated from the other Digidestined by an invisible wall.

"Who are they?" Asked Davis that didn't recognized any of the Evil Digimon that were forming right now.

"They are almost all of the evil Digimon that we have faced that when we were in the Digital World," answered Tai.

"You said 'almost all', what are the ones that aren't out there?" Asked Davis.

"There are three that aren't there," answered Tai.

"Who isn't there?" Asked Davis.

"VenomMyotismon, Myotismon, and Apocalymon," answered Izzy.

"Why are they doing here, since you defeated them?" Asked Davis.

"I don't know," answered Tai.

"I tell you one thing, Tai, we better get ourselves ready for a fight, because I know that what going to happen," said Matt.

"Right," said Tai. "Everybody in time to suit up."

Everybody agree to that, and everybody that could Digivole did and before anybody knew it, the area around them was full with Digimon that were either at their Ultimate or Mega Level. The Megas included WarGreymon, Metal Garurumon, Magma Dramon, Seraphymon, and Imperialdramon. The Ultimates that were there were Lillymon, Zudomon, and Mega Kabuterimon and Sora's Digimon.

"Okay people, who is going to take who?" Asked Tai.

"I am talking Puppetmon," said Matt.

"I am talking Devimon," said T.K.

"I am talking on that huge metal thing that look like something that out of bad 1960's SF movie," said Davis.

"His name is Machinedramon," answered Tai.

"I don't care, are you with me?" Asked Davis.

"Yes," said Ken.

"I take on Metal Seadramon," said Kari.

"I take on Etemon," said Joe.

"Mimi, Izzy and Sora you will be backup. The rest let go for it," said Tai.

With that everybody took up their spots and got themselves ready for the battle.

Roger, Dorothy, Marry, and Nivernmon were walking through the mysterious land that had made an appearance out of nowhere. That was something that had made Marry a little worry about this place, but right now she had to put that worry on back of her mind. Right now she had to worry about finding out what this place was. She saw that the place was like the rest of the forest regions of the Digital World.

"Wait," said Roger.

The group stops dead in their tracks.

"What?" Asked Marry.

"I would like to know where are we going? We aren't just going to walk until we see something?" Asked Roger.

"That is the plan," answered Marry.

"What! No way I am going to follow a plan like that,…that just plane stupid," said Roger.

"Well that was the plan that I follow when I did have my trips in the Digital World," said Marry.

"That reckless course of action, that type of action is what gets people killed, I know I have seen it," said Roger.

"Yes, maybe in your world, but reminder we aren't in your world, we are in the Digiworld and reminder that when you are here, anything is possible, that all of the rules are changed. So maybe a reckless course of action might be the right course of action," said Marry. "Are you going?"

After that Marry started to walk again and Nivernmon followed her, because she was her Digimon. Being that, she knew that she had to go wherever Marry would go and it didn't matter to her.

Roger just looked at her and couldn't believe that she was doing this, it was something that he knew that he wouldn't do if he were the leader of this group. He knew that he would try to find out what this place was by looking around at their surroundings and then if he couldn't fine anything around them, then he would go ahead, not go head first into this without first taking a look first at things. That what she wasn't doing right now, she simply blew over whatever could be around here, which could help them. So he tried to get as much as he could, but he found out that there was nothing here that could help them.

"Look like she was right, I can't fine anything here," said Roger that had no clue that he had spoken that out load and because of that Dorothy heard it as well. She agree with him and with that she started to walked just like Roger did in the direction of where Marry was taking them to, even with that, Roger was still causally looking at their surroundings, hoping to find something about this place. The result of that plan of action was that Dorothy and Roger was a little behind Marry and Nivernmon.

"Hey, look at this," said Marry.

Roger looked up and saw that Marry was standing on a hill of some type. She had her head turned in their direction, but her body was in the other direction. He also saw that her Digimon, Nivernmon was also looking in the same direction as well.

Seeing that, Roger jogged up to where the two of them were at, of course Dorothy follow him as well. They made up to where Marry was.

"Okay, what up?" Asked Roger.

"That," she said and after that she pointed in the direction. Roger looked in the direction and saw what she had seen. They all saw that there was a large stone temple of some type that look like that it was there for years, because it was over grow with tree veins that had also crackled some of the stone blocks that had made up the structure.

"It looks like it has been around here for a long time," said Roger.

"Well dud!" Said Marry. I could figure that out on my own add Marry to herself. "Yes, and that could be the perfect place to find out where we are at."

Seconds after that, Marry started to go to that place, but she was stop by Roger. "Where do you think you are going?"

"I am going to that place," answered Marry.

"No, I am going down there, I have been in places like that before, places were information is hidden and needs the light of the day to undercover them," said Roger.

Before Marry could say anything to this, Roger was off heading to the building and the only thing that she could was to shake her head at what she was seeing. She couldn't believe that he would so something like that. He talked about her being reckless in their action, he was being reckless in his and he thought that he would get away with it, just because he was a man. No way, not in her book and as long as she was alive, she wouldn't allow him to do that.

"Dose he always acts like this?" Asked Marry.

"Yup," answered Dorothy.

"All great," said Marry. That's what we need, another Davis thought Marry to herself, that knew about Davis's attitude toward things, because of the trips that the two of them share with each other. If she had the choice to be trapped in a room with either Davis or Tai, she would pick Tai hands down.

"Well it time to back him up, just in case he get into trouble," said Marry to Dorothy. "Like all good woman do with their men, back them up when they get into trouble."

With that the two women and the female Digimon went after Roger. While they were doing that, Marry wondered what made this guy do this, what was his angel is all of this, she wanted to know what made tick. She wanted to know why would a person that look like that he was doing pretty well would act like this, she knew that she wouldn't act like this. Dorothy on the other hand knew this was typical Roger, always running into thing first, and when things got out of hand calls on Big O to deal with it. Most of the time that type of lifestyle was good in the place that they were living in, but right now they won't in that world and if he got into trouble they would be no way that he could used Big O to help get out of it. This was because they didn't have the time to bring the Megadeus along with them when they went into the Digital World. So he would have to relay on his own skills get out of something and the thought of that didn't sit all to well on Dorothy.

"You know," Marry paused. "I didn't get your name, what is your name by the way?"

"It's Dorothy R. Wayneright," answered Dorothy.

"Okay, thank you, you know that him acting like this is going to get himself killed," said Marry.

"That's right," said Dorothy.

"Hey, wait up," said Marry.

Roger stopped his advanced toward the building and he wondered why she was worry about him, since she did the same type of action that he did. He thought that she wouldn't question his action the way that he did, but it looks like that he was wrong about her. Seeing that, he had no clue what made this person tick.

"Why?" Asked Roger.

"You don't know what that place is like," answered Marry.

"Look at how you and me are switching roles. I thought that you would praise me for taking the lead," said Roger. "You did."

"Yes, I did, there is a good reason and that is I have been in the Digital World before and two I my own Digimon that is with me, so that she can protect me when danger dose show its head. You I don't know and I don't want to have anything to happen you," said Marry. "Now, we are going into that place, I suggest that I go first."

Marry knew that it was going to be a lost cause in trying to convince him that they shouldn't go into that place, she knew that they were going in there, but she could at least lessen the damage that was going to happen. The only way that she knew to do was let herself go first into that place, because she knew that Nivernmon could Digivoled into any level that she felt would defeat the danger that was a threat to her human friend, Marry.

"All right," said Roger.

With that their group walked into the building as they walked into the entrance, the Digi Code that was written on the blocks, reacted to them. It reacted differently to everybody, for Nivernmon it didn't do anything, for Marry and Dorothy it did the same thing, but for Roger it reacted in a different way, it didn't glow green, it glowed a white light and started to flashed on and off, like it was signaling something. The thing that it did signal was it closed the door behind them.

Everybody reacted to that.

"This isn't good," said Marry.

Seconds after that the floor under them gave way and with that all of them except for Nivernmon fell down the steep incline. Then they found themselves down on the floor of a room that was in totally darkest.

"Is everybody all right?" Asked Roger, that tries to figure out where they were. He couldn't because of the darkest that they were in and with that he knew that he had been in this place before. The dream that he had before he went into this world.

"I am fine," said Marry. With that she noticed that Nivernmon wasn't with her and because of that she got worry about her. She wanted to know what happen to her, she might be a monster, but still was her friend and that meant that she would almost do anything to make sure that she was safe. "Nivernmon," she started. She got nothing from her. "Nivernmon! Where are you?!"

"I am right here," answered the Digimon.

"Where, I can't see you," said Marry.

"Flame Candle!" Yelled Nivernmon. Seconds after that she saw a flame of fire light up the darkest and she saw that it was Nivernmon that had lit a candle that had lit up the darkest. While it wasn't enough for them to see the entire room that they were in. It was just enough for them to judge where they were at.

"There you are," said Marry. She walked to where her Digimon was at while she was doing that, Roger was checking to see if Dorothy was all right after that fall. He knew that it was pointless to do it, because he knew that she could survive a fall like that, heck she survive a machine gun fire and missile barrage both of them were at point blank range, something that he knew that a human wouldn't be able to survive. He didn't understand why he was doing it, he just knew that he was doing it.

"Are you all right?" Asked Roger.

Dorothy blinked unemotionally at him. "Umm."

Realizing what he was doing he caught himself, he knew that he was having a rare moment of showing his emotion when he wasn't home. The damage was done, because both Marry and Nivernmon saw it, while Marry didn't have a lot of love experience in her life, she did have enough experience to know that these two did care for each other or some level. Maybe it wasn't love, maybe it was something higher, something that was much cleaner than that, and it was, it would be something that she would never be able to figure out. It was a connection that the two of them would only understand, but what she did see, was that Dorothy some how made Roger more human than he was before.

"Are you guys are all right?" Asked Marry.

"We are fine," answered Roger that tried to hide the fact that he was acting like that. Marry knew it and that went the same for Nivernmon as well.

"I think that we should fine a stick or something that burn easy, because I think that Nivernmon wouldn't be able to hold that attack for that long," said Roger.

Marry looked at Nivernmon and she saw that her Digimon was still maintaining her fire base attack. He was right, no matter how strong that Nivernmon was, she knew that she wouldn't be able to keep that attack up.

"Look at this," said Dorothy that had picked up something from the ground and it look like that it was a huge wooden stick. "Will this do?"

"Yes, that is prefect," said Roger.

"All Nivernmon do you stuff," said Marry.

Nivernmon stop her Flame Candle Attack and got herself ready for other attack. Doing that made the world all around them turn back to black, even with that, Nivernmon floated up to the level of where the stick was.

"Baby Dragon Flame!" She yelled and seconds after that a small ball of flame was shot out of the mouth of the dragon. It the wooden stick and made it burn.

"Nice shot," said Marry.

"Thank you," said Nivernmon that did a little smile at what she just did.

After Nivernmon set the stick on fire, Roger started to look around the room that they were in right now. He could see that the walls themselves were a dark polished wooden color that reflected the light of the flame in the wall. As Roger was doing that, he saw more of the strange Japanese script that he recognized as Digi Code. Even with that, he knew that he still couldn't translated the thing, but what he could recognized was the pictures that were hand carved on the wall. Even if he didn't know what the pictures were doing, he did recognized the things that were in the picture, they were people, Digimon, and the huge Mecha-like things that can from his world. While he was looking at the pictures, Marry and Dorothy also did it as well, Marry recognized the script as Digi Code and just like Roger she had no clue how to read it, because she didn't know the script. Dorothy on the other hand did recognize the script that was written on the walls of this room. Of that, she started to read what the script had to said and with that she knew what this place was meant for.

She was about to tell Roger that, but she was stop when Roger had touch the wall and with that Dorothy knew that Roger had started something. Right after that, it happen, and it did by the wall shooting something out, so fast that no human eye could kept track of what had happen. The next thing that Nivernmon and Marry saw was that Roger was up against a wall with a blue crystal-like brace that had him up against the wall.

Roger tried to free his hand from the thing and the only thing that he got for his efforts was pain. He could feel that the thing was cutting into his wrist and he look at his wrist, he saw that he was right, it was cutting him, he could see his own blood that was staining the thing. Seconds after that he felt the same type of pain his other wrist and it was so much that he was forced to drop the stick. Then his wrist went up without his thinking about, against the wall, like his other wrist the crystal-like brace had made an appearance as well. It also was cutting him as well and Roger had no clue what was going on with him. That went the same for Nivernmon and Marry, but Dorothy knew what this was, it was beings of "The Trail By Fire" that he had to endure. She had no clue that it was going to be like this.

The three of them watch in horror as the two crystal-like braces that were on his wrists started to grow on him. As it was growing on him the crystal thing was starting to form a blue shell over his body until it had completely cover him. Seeing that, Mary and Nivernmon ran to break him out of that thing, for they could see that he was in pain, whatever that thing was, it was hurting him and that was something that she couldn't allow to happen while on her watch.

"Nivernmon, let's go," said Marry.

With that Marry and Nivernmon were about to jump into action, but they were stopped by a person that was dress in robe.

"Don't interfere," he said in a holy-like voice.

The voice stopped the two of them dead in their tracks and Marry turned her head in the direction of where he was.

"Why?" Asked Marry.

"Because if you do, he will die no questions asked, the best thing that you should do is let this go its course, but you should know there isn't sure that he will live through this," said the man.

"What! Why?" Asked Marry. "What is going through?" Then Marry ran up to the guy and took him by the lapels of his robes. "What are you talking about!"

"You better put me down first, before I tell you anything," the person said.

"You better do what he said," said Nivernmon.

Marry listen to her Digimon and put the person down. "You better start talking."

"I will, and to answer your question of 'What is going through', he is going through 'The Trial By Fire', and to answer your question of 'Why', he has to go through this. To see it he is truly worry to use 'Great Black Giant'," answered the man.

"What are you talking about?" Asked Marry.

The robbed man looked in the direction of where Dorothy was. "She knows what I am talking about."

Marry look in the direction of Dorothy and had the look on her face that told her that she needed to know everything about Roger, not just the broken information that Izzy give to her. Marry couldn't believe all of the information that she was being given by Dorothy.

TBC….in Chapter 10: True Destiny: Trail by Fire: The Testing and Training of Everybody (Part 2)