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, it labor of love. Now I own Mary Sanderous, Nivernmon, Aggymon Griffinmon, Metal Aggymon, Metal Nivernmon, the Crest of Order, the Digi Egg of Order and Marry's Digi Jewel. 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.

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?

Alex, Daemon, and the other members of the team are in the real world. They fine out that the life in an American city is fare different from living in either a Japanese City or living in Paradigm. While that is going on Marry tries to figure out why Daemon and Alex wants with the city of Philadelphia, the city of where she grew up in.

Special Notes: In the light of the acts of terror that our nation suffer on Sept. 11, 2001 in both NYC and Washington DC, this chapter's battles scenes are NO way glorify the destruction of the World Trade Centers Towers and the Pentagon. Unlike my pervious chapter that was wrote before the acts of terror, this chapter is currently being written during the events. I state before that I don't glorify what happen on that date, but the battles scenes are require in these chapters for if they are token out they would weaken my story. Again I morn the lose of all of the people that die in both attacks, I hope that there are people that are alive in both buildings. God blesses you all. Plus this chapter is also a tribute to the all the firefighters, police, and EMT that had die trying to save people and the ones that are right now trying to find survivors right now.

More Notes: This chapter dose not picks up right after the other chapter end. Some episodes of TV shows do that as well. In this chapter one week has pass by since the events that took place in Chapter 19.

Chapter 20 – Welcome to the City of Brotherly Love

It was almost a week ago when she enters into the vortex that connected both her world and the world that Paradigm City existed in. A world that was a little strange would compare to her world, while she missed the unique look that world had, nothing beat her world. A world that she knew, but it was just like that world that Paradigm City was in, with the fact that she couldn't completely trust this world, that she still had to kept her guard up. Unlike that world she nothing to turn on when her chips were down, but here she did have something, that something was her mother and her father, both who were pretty affluent. So affluent, that she didn't have to go to further her education to have a good life, that was something that she chose on her own and her mother and her father did support her for choosing that path in all forms that they could. She had the strange feeling that they didn't like the idea that she wanted to work for her money. They wanted her to run the business that the two of them started. Marry felt that wasn't for her, but despite that she knew that she was on good terms with them, she still was in their will and if she found out that she was in hard times they would help her get out of the hard times. Never once while she was on her own ask then to ball her out of the troubles, but right now she felt like she would need their help, but it wasn't for her it was for the saving of two worlds. She didn't know how her mother and her father would think about this, that she was helping a cause, and that cause was to help save another world from the forces of evil. Yeah, that sounded so stereotypical, but she didn't care right now. She hoped that her father and her mother would understand something like that.

Thinking about that and while she was doing that, she riding on the back of Griffinmon, the Armor Form of Nivernmon.

"Griffinmon, I have a question for you," said Marry.

"Yes, what it is?" Asked Griffinmon.

"How do you think my mother and father would think about you when they see you and fine out what I am doing?" Asked Marry.

"I think they would like what you are trying to do, try to save a world. With me? That is something that I can't really say," answered Griffinmon.

"Thank you very much with that part of my question," said Marry.

"I sorry, but that is a question that I can't answer," said Griffinmon.

"It dose not matter, because we are here," said Marry.

With that Griffinmon took a look at Marry's childhood home and she could see that it was a huge white house that was complete with Greek style columns. In front of the huge house Griffinmon could see that there was a series of lawn gardens that were equally spread out between each one. There was a law garden that was located dead center of the huge campus there was a refection pool that was complete with a water fountain. To complete this lavish scene there was a broad set of black Iron Gate that was blocking the outside world from the inside world in which this huge house had all to itself. A world that Marry knew all to well and was a world that she hated to be apart of.

"You didn't tell me that you were from a rich family," said Griffinmon.

"It is something that I am not proud of," answered Marry.

"Why?" Asked Griffinmon.

"It personal, okay, and it is something that I don't want to talk about, so just drop it," said Marry.

With that answer Griffinmon noticed that there was a slight change in her voice, it was more harsh than normal. To Griffinmon that was something that she shouldn't touch no matter what, but something inside of herself told her that she had to probe deeper into her past to find out why she shy away from having a rich family. Griffinmon knew for a fact that if she came from a family like that she would be happy to have a rich family like hers.

Before Griffinmon noticed it, she saw that Marry had disembarked the back of her Armor-Level Digimon and was now at the black Iron Gates that were guarding this house from the outside world. The Armor-Level Digimon could tell that Marry was having trouble standing there. It looks like she was shaking a little at what she was seeing there and she wanted to know what was going on in her mind right now.

"What is going on with you?" Asked Griffinmon to herself. "I might be an expect on how your humans work, but I can tell there is something that is ready bothering you there. What happen to you and your family to make you act like this? I have to know, you are my human partner, and your friends and friends don't kept secrets between each other."

Griffinmon was right about Marry's history with her family she did have troubles with her family, what family didn't. Marry's troubles with her family were more disturbing than most other families. It was something that Marry didn't like to talk about with others, it was something that she thought that she had bury deep inside of her, but right now she found out that all of her efforts to forget what happen were coming back up to the surface. A clear sign of that was the trouble that she was having in pressing the button that would allow her to talk to the people that were inside of that house. While she knew that she was daughter of the wife and husband that called this place home, that the two of them would accepted her with open arms despite the fact that she didn't pick their way of life. This was the fact that she was family, their flesh and blood, which was something that none of them could deny any matter what. Even with that in her mind she still found it hard to take the first step in going back into this world that she thought that she would never find herself back into that world.

I have to get this over with, but why I am having trouble taking the first step with this Marry asked to her. Maybe it has to do the fact of what happen so many years ago with my family, something that I couldn't accept no matter what and was something that made me so determine to get out of that world when I was old enough. Even with that I have to take the first step in clearing this stuff up. Okay, then let's go for it!

After that Marry press the button on the black gates.

How long has it been? Asked Roger to himself. He wanted to know so much, he wanted to know how long he had been in this alien city that T.K. recognized as the city of Philadelphia. Even with that, it looks like that T.K. was just as out of place as he was in this city and this was because neither of them knew what this city was like. While the two of them did live in a highly industrialized city, it seem that living in cities of both Odaiba and Paradigm did give them some experience in city life, it still didn't help them with the type of city life that was Philadelphia city life. The different from T.K. and the rest of the other Japanese Digidestined expect for Mimi was the fact that there weren't as many cars on the road as there was in Odaiba. For Roger and Dorothy the were major differences between these two cities. One of them was the fact that none of the major parts of this city were covered by domes, they let the real sky cover their most important buildings and another thing that two of them noticed was the way that everything look like it. It was the dark and gothic styling that there were some familiar with that was reelected in the cars and the buildings that made up that city. The cars and the buildings in this city had a more streamline appearance to them, almost like this city was from another world.

"How long has it been, T.K.?" Asked Roger.

"I think about a week," answered T.K.

"A week! We haven't found either Marry or the reason why Alex and Daemon want with this world," said Roger.

"I know, but we don't even know where to look for three of them," said T.K.

"We have to get a break somehow, and I say this because the only money that I have is the money that I took with me when I went into this world. Like with my city everything here cost something," said Roger.

"I know, did you see the prices for the hotels here, they aren't cheap," said Joe. "Plus none of us, expect for Mimi are American citizens and if the INS find us they will deport us back to Japan."

"INS?" Asked Roger.

"The Immigration and Naturalization Service, which is a an agency within the US government who sole purpose is to make sure that no illegal aliens get into the US, to process applications for legal aliens that want to be US citizens," answered Izzy.

"Oh," said Roger. Which was the only thing that he could think of because Roger had never head of anything like that before. Plus he didn't know that an agency like that even existed before. "What are you saying that, people outside of this country come here and they are allowed?"

"Oh, yes, that happens all of the time. Are you saying that nobody like that are in your world?" Asked Sora.

"Yes, but that what I have been told. That the city that I live in, Paradigm is the last city of the human civilization and that there is nothing beyond that city but wastelands, but I know for a fact that is a lie, because I have been outside of the city before," said Roger.

"Yes, dose that happen to do with 'Islesberry'?" Asked Izzy.

"Yes, how do you know that?" Asked Roger.

"We decoded some information and we found the word 'Islesberry' in there and while I couldn't clearly figure out what it was, I had some funny feelings that it was a place that was located in your world. I am right?" Asked Izzy.

"Yes, it is a place, a huge farm that is located a couple of miles outside of the city. I been there before," said Roger.

"So that proves that there are other places where people live that aren't apart of your city," said Izzy.

"No, no, you aren't getting my point, I think there are other places that aren't apart of that city and that Alex Rosewater is hiding that fact," answered Roger.

"Why?" Asked everybody.

"I don't know for sure," answered Roger.

"Hey! I have an idea!" Said Davis.

"Oh great," said T.K.

"What is it?" Asked Kari.

"We have three computer nerds with us," said Davis.

"What! I am not a nerd, Davis!" Shouted Yolie.

"Yes I do take offensive to term of 'nerd'," said Izzy.

"I personally don't care if you call me that, Davis. The one thing that I would like to know is what are you planing to do, Davis?" Asked Ken.

"I plan to used your skills with the computer to hack into a bunch of computer systems to set up rooms for us in one of the many hotels that are located in this city," answered Davis.

"Davis, that is illegal," said Sora.

"So it dose not matter right now, because by what Joe said all of us expect for Mimi are in this country illegally as well. I saw if you are going to do it, I suggest that you do it all of the way," said Davis.

Izzy just closed his eyes at what Davis was suggesting right now. Hack into one of the many hotels' computer system that were all of the place in this city and set up rooms for them so they could have a place to spend the nights in this city. It was something up his alley, but he didn't want to do it, because it would hurt any changes that he would have in getting into collage or university. If he did it, there was another question that pop up in his mind, how would they paid for it, and this was because none of them had enough money to cover all of their costs that they would pile up while they would be in the rooms.

"Okay, Davis, if I do it, how are going to get the money to paid for all of this?" Asked Izzy.

"I suggest that we hack into the personal accounts of this person," said Davis. After that Davis showed a picture of a man with the name of Jarvis Nelson, one of the richest person in this area of the country and unknown to them all was the father of Marry Sanderous.

"Oh no, Davis that is where I drawn the line at. You don't know Davis, but that is a federal crime and I don't want to mess with the federal government," said Izzy.

"Izzy is right about that, I don't either want to screwed with the US government in computer crimes," said Yolie.

"If you aren't going to do it, then what then you suggest that we do to get out of this weather," said Davis.

"I don't know, but we will find something out," said Tai.

Marry found out that nothing had change from the last time that she was here. They still had personal security in this place that had ask who she was and see told them that she was Marry Sanderous, the daughter of Jarvis Nelson. While Marry didn't see the face of this person, Marry could image the face of the person that was on the other end of this communication. The person didn't believe her because they didn't have the same last names. Despite that he still had to job to do and that was to confirm what she was saying was true and that meant that he had to go to Jarvis himself to find out if Marry was truly his daughter.

"Griffinmon, I suggest that you go back to your Rookie Form, because I have no clue how they will react to you right now," said Marry.

"Right," said Griffinmon and seconds after that Griffinmon devolved back into her Rookie Form of Nivernmon. The little blue dragon that was just likes Veemon, with two expectations. One, she didn't have the v- shape that was located on top of his head and other thing that was different from him was the fact that she had a pair of white wings that allowed her to fly and while Veemon was grounded.

"Why did you want me to go back to my Rookie Form?" Asked Nivernmon.

"Because they will think you are a stuffed animal, so I suggest that you kept your mouth quiet until I tell you to talk," answered Marry.

"I am not a stuffed animal!" Shouted Nivernmon.

Marry pointed her finger at her Rookie Digimon. "You are a stuffed animal now! Because my mother and my father don't know about Digimon, like the rest of us do. I don't want them to call up the police that will take you away and when that happen you might find yourself in some governmental lab or research lab, like Area 51. If that dose happen I won't see you at all and I don't want to have that happen to me. Do you understand that?"

"Yes I do," answered Nivernmon.

"So kept your mouth shut until I tell you to talk," said Marry.

Nivernmon nodded her head at that and seconds after that she heard the voice that was on the other side of the box.

"I talk with Mr. Nelson and he says you are his daughter and that you are welcome to come in, but I have to check you out," said the voice.

"C'mon! I his daughter, he confirm it with his own mouth," said Marry.

"New rules, ever since the Sept 11 attacks, we can't take any risks," said the voice.

Marry couldn't believe what she was hearing right now that she had to be check out despite the fact that her own father had told this person that she was telling the truth about her pedigree with this family. She knew that if she wanted to enter into that house and see her family again she had to bear and grin it. While her father and mother were founders of one of the biggest Defense Companies that had numerous contract with the US Department of Defenses. That might make him a target to these Terrorist groups that attack both the Pentagon and World Trade Towers. What Bush said about these Terrorist cells, that they could come from anybody and that nobody can assume that nobody is beyond approached. That anybody could be an agent in this new war in the new century.

The huge gates open up and with that Marry walk through the gates and on to the huge driveway. In doing that Marry could see more details of the house she used to call her home and when she did that she see that nothing had change as well, everything was the same when she left this place to find her own way in life.

"Okay, Nivernmon," said Marry.

With Nivernmon allowed herself to be picked up by Marry and when she did Nivernmon went limp. Seeing that Marry knew that Nivernmon was doing her act, which was pretending to be a stuffed animal despite the fact that she wasn't one. Seeing that Marry could tell that Nivernmon was doing a pretty good job playing that role. She thought that she might get away from this, but she had funny feelings that it wouldn't happen, she wasn't that lucky. They wound find out that Nivernmon wasn't a stuffed animal, they would fine out that Nivernmon was something completely different from anything that none of them knew about. They would fine out that Nivernmon was something that was alive, with one exception, she was made out data while normal life was made up with a bunch of other elements.

"I hope that this works," said Marry to herself.

Marry continue to walked on the driveway until she found out that there was a sidewalk and with that she continue her walk to the house.

"Miss Sanderous, I have to ask you to step aside so that I check you out," said a voice.

Hearing that Marry could tell that this voice was a type of voice that told her not to mess with this guy and she also could tell that this voice was the same type of voice that she had heard over the box. With that Marry turned around so that she could see who the face was behind the voice that she had heard before. When she did she found out that the man was a huge and muscular guy with a face that showed no signs of be a nice person. With that Marry knew that this guy wouldn't take any crap from her and with that she knew that she had to fellow his instructions to the letter or she might find herself on the other side of the gates once again.

Marry didn't say anything to him, the only thing that she did was to listen to his request, that seem to be more like an order. With that she knew that she had to follow him to the letter because right now he seem to be the one that held the key for her to get back into the world that she once knew.

"Okay, I just hope that this will be quick, I would like to talk to my father," said Marry.

"That all depends on your, Miss Sanderous," he said.

Again his powerful voice sent a chill up her spine because it seem that he was shifted the blame from him to her. That if she wasn't able to get inside of the house it was because of her fault. This is just great thought Marry.

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

With that the person that seemed to be head of security for her father's villa started to patted her down and she knew the reason why. To check if she was hiding any type of weapons and she knew that she wasn't. When she found out that he had reached the same conclusion that she had when this all started she was happy with that.

"Okay, you are clean, but I would like to check out your little stuffed animal," he said.

With that she knew that this was going to be the sticker, because Nivernmon was no stuffed animal and this was because she was a Digimon, a living creature that was completely made out of data. She had no clue how he would react when he found out that Nivernmon was alive. She knew that she couldn't make stupid moves to make him stop this because she knew that she would be gone faster than anything else that she had seen before.

"All right then," said Marry.

With that Marry let Nivernmon go to be check out by that person and when she did that it felt like a part of herself was rip away from her being. Nivernmon was a good friend and a friend that she knew that she never had before. With that she knew that if this person did anything to her she would go after him with everything that she had and she didn't care if she wouldn't be able to get back inside of the house. There were some things that were more important that getting into something and that one thing was friendship. Doing the hard things to protect them from danger and that was something that Marry never understood until she meet Nivernmon. For she was the one that had thought her things that made her stop to think about things.

The guy started to check out what he thought was a stuffed animal and with that Marry heartbeat skipped a beat.

Nivernmon don't do anything that is stupid thought Marry.

She watched as he continues to give her the look down.

"You know this stuffed animal has to be one of the lamest things that I have never seen before. I would like to know how made this thing, it looks like a monsters from those Japanese Animated shows that young children are so over the top with," he said. "Where did you get it?"

"I got in up in New York City before the attack," answered Marry. "So what do you think about it? It is okay, can it come with me?"

He looked at the thing again and with another look at it. "Okay, but I would like to have it x-rayed to make sure that there isn't any bomb that is inside of it."

Marry closed her eyes at that, because she knew that would be the straw that would break the camel's back. That would be the thing that would tell him that Nivernmon wasn't a stuffed animal, that she was indeed a living creature and he would also find out that she was lying to him about that thing. She knew that if she was in spot and he was in her spot, she wouldn't let that person inside of this place because she had lied to him. That would be something that she would do if she were in the spot that he was in right now, but that didn't matter, because he wasn't her. That he might not consider that as bad as she would.

"Marry, what are you doing here?" Asked a voice that Marry recognized as her father.

Marry turned in the direction of where she heard the voice from and she found out that she was right. It was her father and she could see that he was coming in the direction of where the three of them where. Marry could see that he was a little irate at what he was doing to somebody that was his own flesh and blood.

"Mr. Williams, what the hell are you doing? This is my daughter, my own flesh and blood," shouted her father.

"Sir, it standard operation," said Williams.

"With the regular person, but not with my daughter," he said. Then he turned his attention to her. "Are you all right, Marry? Did he do anything to you, like touch you in wrong way?"

"Yes, and no," answered Marry.

"Sir, I must again strongly object to this, we don't know for sure that it really your daughter," said Williams.

"Do you think that I won't know who my own daughter is," said her father.

"Yes I think you do, but you just can't trust somebody even if they are your family with everything that is going on right now. Again I must object-" started Williams.

"Another thing like that, Mr. Williams, and you will be looking for another job. I am clear!" Ordered her father.

With that Williams quickly retracted his objection to his employer request to leave his daughter alone. He did and to show that he walked away from the two of them, but he gave the two of them a look "that I didn't like what you did and if anything happens to you, it not my fault". Even with that the two of them didn't return the look of his, the two of them just looked at each other.

Marry took a good look at the face her father and while he wasn't that good of a father. She could tell by his face that he was truly happy that she had returned back to her childhood home. That was something that she rarely seem with him when she was growing up.

"I have so many questions to ask you, like how it was up there on Sept 11 when the towers went down," her father said. "Why have your return?"

"All in good time, but I would like to have my little stuffed animal back," said Marry.

He nodded his head at that and with that her stuffed animal was returned back to her. When that happen it felt like a piece of her soul was returned back to the rightful place.

"Okay, let's talk," he said.

With that the three of them walked in the direction of the house.

"I can't believe that I am even doing this," said Izzy.

"You got that right," said Yolie.

"Hey, you have to do what you have to do if you want to survive and since none of us know anybody in this city. Plus we need a regular meeting place in this city," said Kari.

"Kari, I can't believe, you all people would think of doing something like this," said Tai.

"She is right, you know," said Roger.

"Why?" Asked Dorothy.

"That is because uh-", struggled Roger. He couldn't think of the reason why his sister was thinking of something like that. It was one of those unique human traits that are just are that can't be explain in words.

"It is a survival trait and it something that we need," said Joe.

With that Roger was relieve that he didn't need to explain that to her and it was time for somebody else to answer her deep questions that were so hard to answer.

"I tell you, that if we get caught, I don't know you guys," said Davis.

"Why you little-" started Tai. "You the bonehead that suggest that we do something like that. If we caught I am making dam sure that you are the first to be changed with this crime."

With that Davis did a little nervous laugh at what he did and tried to put on a good face on what he just suggested. "I sorry, it was just something stupid I just said. I do sometimes do and say stupid things."

"You got that right," said T.K. under his breath.

"Immune brat," said Roger in the same fashion that turned his attention back to what the two of them were doing.

Izzy and Yolie worked together one of them did all of the money transferring while the other covered their tracks the best way that they could.

"Done, I did it, we are booked at the Adam Mark's Hotel," said Izzy.

"Cool," said Davis and before anybody could say anything to that he pushed everybody out of the way so that he could see the type of rooms that Izzy and Yolie managed to get for all of them. "I hope we got all of the fixing, I want to have a hot tub, a room that overlooks the city."

"No, nothing fancy, just enough to are needs as for now," said Izzy.

"C'mon, I thought that you were going all out," said Davis.

"You are lucky that I went out this far," said Izzy. "Be happy with what you got."

"Yes, Davis, be happy for small miracles," said Kari.

Hearing that Davis went soft with the sound of her voice and whenever Kari said something that opposite of what he was thinking, Davis would agree to it without a doubt in his mind to think about anything else.

"Since you were the one that got the Golden Digi Egg of Miracles, you of all us would be the one that would be able to see a miracles no matter how small it is," said Cody.

Davis knew what Cody was talking about, he was indeed the Digidestined that get received the Golden Digi Egg of Miracles that was key in defeated Ken and his evil creation that was know as Kimeramon. Even with Magnamon they couldn't defeat the creation of Ken, it was Wormmon giving up his own life force to him that allow him to defeat the thing. Thinking about the events that happen on that day made him think about what was going on right now, Izzy was right it was a small miracle that Izzy was able to do this with all of the security features that were but in a firewalls to protect from what they were doing right now. That he shouldn't knock it just because he wasn't getting what he wanted, because there was a good chance that the two of them wouldn't be to do it, and that there was still a good chance that they all might be caught in the act of doing this.

"That is true, Cody, but I think we should act quickly, because we don't know how long that this window of opportunity will be open for us," said Davis.

"He is correct, I don't know the security systems in this world is, but I do suggest that we hurry," said Dorothy.

"It other words, we better get our rooms and take his this free ride before we lose it," said Sora.

"Yes, I have to agree with this," said Roger.

"Okay, let's go for it," said Tai.

"Just one question…," started Matt.

"What is it?" Asked Tai.

"I would like to know where is this Hotel is at, I know that Philadelphia is a major city and has a ton of hotels, but I would like to know what one did you get," said Matt.

"Ah, I got rooms at the Adam Mark's Hotel, one of Philadelphia's most famous hotels," said Izzy.

"Oh good," said Mimi.

"This is all in good, but how are we going to get there?" Asked Cody.

With that Izzy quickly tapped a couple buttons on his laptop that made him quickly go to another web site that was on the Internet. The site that he was at was a site that gives directions to a designation of one choosing. In doing that Izzy found out that they were in walking distance from the little web café that were in. That was good because Roger didn't have any chance to bring his car along with them when went into this world. So their only means of transportation was to use the public transportation in this city that was known as SEPTA. Izzy knew that all of the Digidestined that lived in Japan wouldn't have a trouble with that, he didn't know how Roger and Dorothy would take it because Roger had money with him. The way that he got around in his city was through his car, Izzy knew that it would be a hard adjustment for him to use the busses and trains in this city.

"You will like this, because this hotel is located on City Line Avenue which is about three city blocks from here," answered Izzy.

"Oh, that is good, because we don't need to used any SEPTA buses here," said Mimi.

" 'SEPTA'?" Asked Roger.

"Philadelphia's public transit system here and I hope that you know what public transportation is," said Izzy.

"Oh, yes I do know what it is, we do have trains and busses," said Roger.

Izzy didn't say anything with that, the only thing that he did was to turned off the power of his laptop. With that everybody walked out of the little web café and in the direction of where the Adam Mark's Hotel was located. Unknown to them they were all being watched by somebody that was at a small table that was just a behind them all. Since they were in hurry in getting out there none of them give a care in taking a look behind him to see if they were being watched. Which they were, by a person that was dress in causal clothing and that person was drinking some fine coffee and that person was looking at another person that was dress in robes.

"So they are here," said the person.

"Yes, they are, but it dose not matter right now because I think we have found what we are looking for," said the other person.

"What?" Asked the first person.

The person brought out a newspaper, which was the Philadelphia Inquirer, on the newspaper there was numerous headlines that didn't really caught the attention of the first person, this was because they were about current affairs and that was something that he didn't really care for. At first he thought that this was a waste of his time until that person found something that caught his attention. The funny thing was the article was in the direction of where the other person's hand was located.

"Let's see that," said the first person.

The second person let go of the newspaper and with that second person began to read the article that was small when compare to the other articles that were taking up so much space. When he did he found out that there was a discovery in the one the many Aztec ruins that were located in South America, that was done by a group of local archaeologists. That the team leader that came from this area had discovered a pervious unknown temple that seems to have given praise to the weather like there were gods. In the temple there were four weather gods each one for the four known elements, fire, wind, earth, and water. The person continues to read on and while most of the other detail was the location of where the temple was, which was information that didn't worry about. It was what came next in the article that in the temple there was a centerpiece where there were three jewels there were currently found in the centerpiece, but there was another slot next to the other jewels that was empty.

After that the article explain the color of the jewels which were black, red, and golden. The another scientist that was on his team guess that black jewel was the idol for earth god, the red jewel was the idol for the fire god, the golden idol was for the wind god, and the jewel that wasn't there was for the water god.

"What dose this have to do with us?" Asked the first person.

"I think these are the jewels that were looking for," answered the second person.

"What about the fourth jewel that one that wasn't there?" Asked the first person.

"It dose not matter because there was no Big that is in the color of blue," answered the second person.

The first person nodded his head at that, because that was the reason why they were headed to this city because this was the city in which the Three Power Jewels were located. Which would allow them to further take control over the city that was known as Paradigm and even take control over this world as well. Right now they knew that first thing that would have to do was taking Power Jewels out of this city and takes them back to Paradigm City.

"But I do have funny feelings that the fourth Power Jewel will come into play," said the first person.

"Yes, it will, but right now it dose not matter," said the second person.

The first person nodded their head at what that person just said to them.

The entire team was walking down the streets of Philadelphia, a modern city in the USA that was complete with modern style things that included buildings and cars. For Izzy and the rest of the other Digidestined this wasn't anything that out of normal, but Roger it was something that was completely new to him. For Roger had never seen anything like this before, so it was a completely new experience for him and the thing that caught his attention the most was the style of the cars they were completely different from the style of cars that he saw in his city. The cars in this city won't huge and bulky like the cars that were in Paradigm. These cars were more smaller and sleeker than the cars that he was used to seeing it seem that they looked like that were meant be on the streets of this city. If it wasn't the different style of cars that caught Roger's attention it was the different smells that were through the air that also peek his interest as well. Even with that Roger thought that he could take the completely different city, but then the real socker can when a SEPTA bus in red, white, and blue colors rode by them all. With that Roger couldn't believe that something like that could even exist even in his own imagination. There it was, something that look like that it could of come out of the world that was pre The Event that his world suffered.

"You have a world that was beyond anything that I could even imagine," said Roger.

"Do you see why we don't want our world to become like yours, the humans in this world have been through a lot of things that can't forget," said Kari.

"I can believe that," said Roger.

After that everybody turned the corner in which Izzy told them to turn and when they did they found out what City Line was like. It was something that Roger never thought it would be, he thought that it was a main business center of this city, but he found out that it was a huge street with two lanes of traffic in both ways that was controlled with traffic lights that turned three colors not the two colors that was used to.

"Where is that hotel that you were talking about?" Asked Kari.

Izzy took a look around the city and found out that the hotel that were looking for a tan color building that a red tree like shape that was on the side of the building. In the shape it had the name of "Adam Mark's Hotel" in the same color of red. Seeing that Izzy knew that was the place that were going to be at.

"You see that," said Izzy that pointed in the direction of the building.

Everybody looked and they could see what Izzy was talking about. They could see that building was a couple blocks away from them and that the building was on their side and that was good because none of them wanted to cross this major artery of this city.

"That is good that we don't have to cross that street," said Sora.

"Yeah, that is a good sign," said Cody.

"Now, that we have found the hotel, I would like to know what name have you check us under?" Asked Roger.

"I check under your last name, Roger, since it a very common name," said Izzy.

Roger just nodded his head at and followed Izzy that seemed to take the leadership role of this trip. Despite the fact that both Davis and Tai seemed to leaders themselves, they seemed to take this without question why Izzy had to be leader today. Even with that they all seemed to take a walk and than when they noticed that walking up that street wasn't as easy as Izzy first thought because they were all walking up a huge hill despite the fact that they were walking on the sidewalk.

"If I knew about this, I would of token the bus that I just saw pass us by," said Roger.

"And how would be able to paid for that?" Asked Izzy.

"Hey, I do have some money with me," answered Roger.

"Yeah, right," said Izzy.

"Hey, my money is just as good as your money," said Roger.

Izzy just rolled his eyes at that and this was because he knew that this fighting wasn't worth the effort because it was petty. Something wasn't wroth the effort and something that should be left alone. So Izzy make the choice to let Roger have the last word in this fight and Izzy didn't want to take a look at Roger because he had a funny feeling that Roger would have a face of being happy in the same style that Davis would have. Izzy took a quick look and found out that Roger did have a face that was in the style of Davis would have. With that Izzy knew that despite the age that Roger still a little cocky despite the fact of being around them. Izzy figure out that was something that would never be completely removed from him no matter how much they would try to remove that trait out of him. That was something that was apart of him and would be something that would stay without all of his life. Even if Izzy didn't like he knew that he would have to accept that if he wanted to continue working with him.

Izzy was about to said something about Roger under his breath but stop because he knew that Roger would be able to hear it as clear as a bell because of the enhanced hearing that he had that would be able to pick that up no matter how much he didn't want him to hear it. So Izzy knew that the only thing that would be safe would be thinking about him, but Izzy was wrong and this was because Roger was telepathic, he could hear other people thought. Roger nor Izzy knew about this special trait of his, but they would fine that out soon.

Right now they had reached their distance which was the hotel and they could see that it was like any multiple level hotel there was a big entrance that would allow the cars of the guest that would be either checking in or out.

"Now it is my turn to take the job of being leader," said Roger.

Izzy knew that he was correct with that so Izzy allowed Roger to take Point. With that all of them walked into the lobby of the hotel and they all could see that the hotel was pretty busy with people coming and going throughout this hotel. They all could see that there were some people that were having meeting about important business that was either company of personal. To them it was something that they shouldn't be worry about because right now this was the acid taste to see how good Yolie and Izzy were with their computer skills.

"We better separate, because it will make us less of a target," said Roger.

Every nodded their heads with that and with that all of the Digidestined started to walked away from Roger and Dorothy. With that Izzy knew that he might have the chance to talk with his other Digidestined that were from Japan about what was going on right now.

"Do you think this will work?" Asked Yolie.

"I hope so, because I don't know where we going to go after this," answered Izzy.

"It has to work, because you did it Izzy, everybody knows that you are a whiz when it comes with computers," said Tai.

"That might be so, but that a sure bet, and plus this was the first time that I did something like this, so I don't know if I did the right things or the wrong things," answered Izzy.

Ken and Sora looked up in the direction of where Roger and Dorothy were located. The two of them could see that the two of them were still talking with the front desk person. Seeing that a question of worry crept into the minds of the two of them, that whatever Izzy and Yolie did, didn't work for them. That they should get out of there before that person would call the cops on them and if that happen they would fine out that they were in this country illegally. If that happen none of them knew how they would get out that, if something like that would come to pass.

"This isn't good," said Ken.

"You are right with that," said Sora. "I don't like the look of what is going on here."

"You aren't the only other one that dose not like what is going on here, I just wish things would come to us easy," said Ken.

"But that is the price of being heroes, nothing every come to easy to us," said Tai.

"Tai, you not helping us," said Ken.

"But what can I do right now? I am antsy, I want some action right now," said Tai.

"You aren't the only other one," said Matt. "I hate just waiting around for something to hit us."

After that rest of the other Digidestined started to talk about what was going on here and just like Izzy thought would happen, Roger could heard every word of what they saying without putting an effort in it. He could tell that they didn't like what was going on, but he knew that he couldn't help the fact that nothing was going on here.

"So you are Mr. Smith?" Asked the person.

"Yes, I am, do you have our rooms ready for us?" Asked Roger.

The woman started to pull up the information that Roger thought Izzy had somehow managed to put into their computer. While Roger no expert on how the computers in this world ran, he could tell by the action of the young woman that somehow Izzy did it. He had put in their false information into their computer and that the only thing that she was doing right now was pulling up the information for them.

"Okay, I can see you are clear to go into your rooms," she said.

Roger just nodded his head at this news and he turned his head in the direction of the other Digidestined. He could see that they were still talking among each other about their status in this place, still have no idea that Izzy did the trick with the computer system in this hotel. That the only thing that they had to do right now was to take their keys and head to their rooms, which they did in a matter of minutes. During that trip Izzy and Yolie were still having trouble with what he just did, he still feared that they would get caught at what they did. That it would only be a matter of time before somebody would figure out what the heck they just did to this place. While what they did was innocent effort and in the long run wouldn't hurt anybody, but in the United States Computer Crimes like that were seen as vicious attacks which one goal in mind to distort or even destroy a computer network. With that fact that Izzy wasn't a citizen here, it would only make the American public seen him even more worst of a person that he really was.

Even with that thought across his mind, Izzy still went into the room that he was assigned to, playing off his fears with a force smile. Giving the impression that what he just did didn't brother him at all, but it did.

In the room Izzy signed in relief that he was getting away with the crime so far and he hoped that he would get away with this crime all of the way, well up to the point of where he wasn't in the country anymore.

"Man, I hope that I do get away with this, I don't know what will happen to me if they find out what I just did here. I know if they do find out what I just did I can kiss my life good bye. I wouldn't be able to get into any respectable collages or universities anywhere," said Izzy.

"Hey, you had to do it," said a voice.

With that Izzy knew that the voice was his Digimon, Tentomon. Hearing that Izzy unzipped his backpack and with that Tentomon popped out of the backpack.

Izzy signed in relief and after that he went to the bed to lay down and think about the day. Izzy lay down on the bed, but his respite was only short-lived and this happen when he heard a knock on the door. When that happens Izzy's mind was a furry of thoughts and most of them were questions about how did they find out what he just did. So Izzy refused to answer the knock on the door, in hoping that whoever was on the other side of the door was go away from him. He was wrong, the knock continues and every knock felt like a nail being hammered into his coffin.

"They found out about what I did," said Izzy.

"Izzy, clam down, you don't know that for sure, it might be somebody else," said Tentomon.

Then the sound of the knocked was gone and with that Izzy once again signed in relief. The person had gone from him and that he could back to thinking about what was going on here.

"Izzy," said a voice that Izzy knew was Tai.

With that Izzy knew that it was safe to open up the door to let him inside of his room and that what he did. When he did that he quickly looked around the hallway to see if Tai wasn't followed by anybody. Then Izzy pulled Tai inside of his room.

"Izzy, what going on?" Asked a socked Tai.

"It about what I just did to get us inside of here. I lied and a cheated to get into here. That is something that I never did before. I have funny feelings that I am get caught by the police here and when it dose happen, I have no clue what coming to happen to me if I do get caught," answered Izzy.

"Izzy, clam down, nothing has happen yet. If you tell them that we are here that were are here to save the world," said Tai.

"Do you think they will believe a signal word that were are to save yet another world," said Izzy.

"No, but if you tell them that we are Digidestined, the same Digidestined that save the world from evil, not once, but twice. They might be believe you," said Tai.

"Okay, but I would like to know why your are with me," said Izzy.

With that Tai pulled out a newspaper that was the Philadelphia Inquire folded in very unique way and with that Tai give Izzy the folded newspaper to Izzy. "Here, read this."

Izzy took a look at the newspaper and he started to take a look at the newspaper and he tried to figure out why Tai wanted to him to take a look at this newspaper. First Izzy didn't get the reason why he wanted to him view this and then, after taking a couple of looks at the newspaper he figure out what Tai wanted to him to see. Izzy had read the same article those two people at the web café that they were in ten minutes ago. Like him Izzy found out about the Aztecian temple where the three jewels were located. He also found out the history of the jewels and what the archaeologists that discovered the jewels thought they were meant to be. He also found out that the people that found the temple found out that there was four slots were the jewels were located. Despite the fact they have only found three of the fours that were still located in that temple.

"What dose this have to do with, why we are here and why did Alex and Daemon went into this place?" Asked Izzy.

"Read on," said Tai.

With that Izzy did and he found out that article was a lot bigger than Izzy first thought the article was. With that he found out that the temple in which these jewels was located in had hand drawing pictures of great beings that looked like they were covered in some type of armor. Even with that Izzy didn't get the picture of why this article was so important to their cause here and then he found out why. In the second part of the article he saw what look like to be an illustration of what the pictures that were on the temple's wall and he saw that he knew what he was looking at.

"I can't believe this! Whoever found this temple has no clue what this temple was built for, they built it for the Megadeuses," said Izzy. "I am right?"

"Yes, that what I thought when I read this article," said Tai.

"We should give this information out to the rest of the team, because I think we found the reason why Daemon and Alex Rosewater are in this place," said Izzy.

"I think you are right, Izzy," said Tentomon.

With that the two Digidestined and the Digimon that was known as Tentomon walked down the hall. While they were doing that, Izzy didn't noticed at first, but Tentomon was flying down the hall along with them.

"Tentomon! What are you are thinking!? Flying around here, I know that everybody knows about the Digiworld, but I don't think they are yet read to see a Digimon like you are," said Izzy.

"Izzy, I have been stuff in that bag of yours, I don't want to be put back into there," said Tentomon.

"Okay, I won't put you back into the bag of mine, but you can't fly around like you do in the Digital World," said Izzy.

With that Tentomon listen to what Izzy just told him to do and with that Izzy was holding Tentomon like he was a stuffed animal. Izzy did that just in time because a normal looking person walked by them.

"Hi," said Izzy.

"Hello," said the person back to them.

Then the two of them parted their own ways, but not with Izzy looking back in the direction of the person. He still had the thought that this person could still be an undercover cop that was just scooping him out, waiting for the right time to bust him for what he just did.

"Don't worry, and for the love of God, don't want yourself look like your are worry about things, because that is like putting up a red flag," said Tai.

Hearing that Izzy tried his best to listen to what Tai told him to do. Stay clam and don't make them think you did something wrong. But telling a person to do it and actually doing it was a different story all together. Izzy did put up a good show when they walked down the hallway of this hotel.

The three of them reach the room where Roger was at and with that Tai knocked on the door.

"Yes," said Roger.

"We would like to speak to you," said Tai.

"About what?" Asked Roger.

"Why are we are here," answered Tai.

Before they knew it the door to his hotel room open up for them and with thinking about the three of them walked into the room.

Marry was sitting at the kitchen table of her father's house, when it wasn't busy, and she was taking everything in. It has been so long since she had talked with her family and because of that lack of speaking between them she missed her mother dying of bone marrow cancer that was one of the worst type of cancer that one could have. Hearing that Marry couldn't believe that her distaste with her family had caused her missed being at the time of her mother's worst moment. When she heard that she felt like that she had to throw-up and she almost did, but she managed to kept him her pervious meal. Even doing that didn't help the fact that Marry had missed her mother and that the only way that she would be able to see her again was at her grave site, no more she would be able to see her alive. Never she would be able to feel her touch or see her glowing green eyes, or even heard her sign a sweet song that would help her fall asleep. Even with that it was something that she knew that she would have to accept it, like what happen in New York City almost two mouths ago.

So to help her kept her mind off the fact that her mother was dead, she went to the local newspaper. In there she read the current affairs both on the national and local scale, while most of it was about the attack in New York City and how President Bush was handling. Marry wasn't the person that didn't follow the political structure of the nation, so Marry went by the article that were about how the senators were doing. Then there was something that caught her attention and it was an article that was about what was found in South American, namely something that came from the Aztecs. Mary already did fine ancient cultures a little interesting so Marry started to read the article like so many people in this city did, but unlike the others, Marry was hit by what was inside of the article. This was because the article was talking about something that was the same her Digi Jewel, that she found in a temple that was located in the Digital World. With that Marry found out just like Tai and Izzy did about these things. When she did she guest that these trio of jewels were the reason why both Daemon and Alex were in this city. With that she wanted to know why did these two living beings wanted with these items. That was something that she needed to know why.

"What you reading?" Asked Nivernmon.

Hearing Nivernmon's voice made Marry jumped. "Nivernmon don't do that! You scared me."

"Oh, I am sorry about that, but you still didn't answer my question. I would like to know what you are reading?" Asked Nivernmon.

"I am reading an article, about how a local team of archaeologists made a discovery down in one of the many Aztecian temples that are located in South America," answered Marry.

"What dose that have to do with us?" Asked Nivernmon.

"Well from what I get from here is that they found three jewels inside of a temple. The trio of jewels were located in a fallen pillar that they assume was in the center of the temple, now in the pillar there were four slots located on the pillar, but they found three of them," answered Marry. "I think that my Digi Jewel is the lost one."

After that Marry pull out her Digi Jewel and she started to take a look at her Jewel and wondered was her guest about the Jewel was the right one.

"What are you going to do with that?" Asked Nivernmon.

"I think we are going to take a trip to Academy of Natural Sciences, in Center City," answered Marry. "To see if I am right."

With that the Marry got out of the chair and Nivernmon, her Digimon friend follow her, own her trip to find out the origin of this mystical jewel that gave her the power to reach her final stage in her Evolution Line, Metal Nivernmon Battle Mode. While it did help her reach that level, Nivernmon had no clue where it came from with one exception, she knew just like Marry that this Jewel was a chip from a Destiny Stone. That was being and the ending of their knowledge of what that thing was. They had no clue where it came from or who made it. Maybe this was the time for them finally figure out what this thing was and who made the extremely powerful object that allow her to reach a level that Nivernmon never thought that she would be able to reach on her own.

"I hope that you are right, because I would love to find out what this thing was," said Nivernmon.

"You aren't the only other one," said Marry. After that Marry put the Digi Jewel away in her pocket so that nobody else would be able to see it.

"I just hope what we do fine out is something that I would like to know about," said Marry.

Nivernmon didn't say anything with that because Nivernmon knew what Marry was talking about. This was because Marry was the type of person that did want to know about things, but she was also a type of person that when she found out something that she didn't like she would never go after it.

Marry stop and this was because she saw her father walking down the hallway. With that Marry knew that she would have to make Nivernmon act like a stuffed animal once again and Nivernmon did that. With that Marry walked down the hallway with Nivernmon in her hands.

"Hello, Marry," said her father.

"Hello, Dad. How are you doing right now?" She asked.

"I am doing okay, but I would like to know why are you still holding that thing, I think you should of put it in your room. I can think that thing can get heavy after awhile," said her father.

"No, I am fine," said Marry a little nervously.

That was the kicker because her being nervous told he father that something was up. Then Marry realized what she just did and that he wouldn't let her go until she told him what was going on with her. That was something that she didn't want to have happen, because she know how her father would react with the news that there was other worlds out there right now that were independent of their own. That stuffed animal that she was holding right now wasn't a stuffed animal, but a living creature that was made out of Data that came from another world that was known as the Digital World.

"No you not, what up, Marry?" Asked her father.

"Nothing, there is nothing going on with me, I am fine. I just want to take a walk," answered Marry.

"If that is so, then why are you holding a Digimon?" Asked her father.

Hearing that both Marry and Nivernmon was socked with the news that her Father knew about Digimon so much that he could recognized one of them without her saying anything about it. Marry tried to explain that she never of the term and that Nivernmon was just a plan all stuffed animal that wasn't alive.

"I can see that I am right, what you have is a Digimon. I would like to know what is its name," said her Father.

"Nivernmon," said Nivernmon.

"Nivernmon, why I…" started Marry.

"I can see I was right, and its Nivernmon, that got a pretty name to it, I can say you are a female Digimon," said her Father.

"Yes, she is, but that dose not matter right now because I have to go to Academy of Natural Sciences to check something out," said Marry.

"Oh," he said.

"Yes, so can I used one of your cars so that I can get into Center City," said Marry.

He nodded his head with that and with that Marry knew that it was safe for her to go out on one of his cars to take a trip to Center City.

"Good luck, Marry," he said as he watched his daughter take a trip to Center City on her own mission.

TBC in

Chapter 21 – A Dance on the Delaware