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?

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 that are ahead, 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.

T.K. still on his mission to see how the International Digidestined have fair has no clue that he is being watch by minions of both Alex and Daemon. This is just a ploy to distract the good guys from seeing their true purpose. While all of this is happening, Gennai enlist the aide of the four Digimon Guardians and their allies as well.

Additional Notes: Please take into accord, the four Digimon Guardians, Edonwumon, Zhuqiaomon, Azulongmon, and Baihumon were introduce in the 2nd season of Digimon despite the fact that the only Digimon Guardian that was showed was Azulongmon. Also with the Devas, I have a theory that they also around at the time of the 2nd season despite the fact that they won't introduce in the season. Plus, I think that the four Digimon Guardians' personalities are the same despite the two different seasons of the show.

Chapter 26 – Rescue! Save the International Digidestined: Part 1: Angel's Escape

T.K. and Peagusmon were traveling through the dark and cloudy night sky of this world, while the two of them have seen many dark nights before, it seem that this dark night sky was a little different than the others that two of them have experience before. It seems to them that it was a little more threaten than normal, also like the night sky was telling them to "Turn around now or else". T.K. knew that was something that he couldn't do no matter how much the night was telling him, this was because he had to do something and nothing was going to stop him.

As the two of them exited the place was Roger calls home and they entered into another area of this great and heavy urbanized city. This section that they were currently in was just like the section that Roger lived, it was outside of the dooms and it showed it. With building that were just barely hanging on and this could be because the repair construction that these building went through was shady at best. Seeing this, T.K. couldn't believe that human beings just like him could live in a place like this and T.K. wouldn't of believe it if he wasn't told that there were people that live in that area.

To further stress the point that people did live in these places, T.K. saw a couple of regular people that were walking on the streets. T.K. could see that these people were use to a hard life, with their long shelve shirts that appeared to be piled up in layers to keep the cold out. Yet another sign to T.K. that the people here were poor, or the inner circle of this city didn't care about these people like they did inside of the dooms. T.K. didn't know for sure, but he thought that was the latter. While T.K. had compassion to their plight, he knew that he didn't have the time to involve himself with their issues. Right now he was on a mission and a very important mission and that was to see how the International Digidestined had faired while they were in their world. While it was only two weeks in their world, here almost a year had passed them by while they were trying to find the reason why Alex and Daemon had enter into their world.

So, T.K. pass them by and because of that he had enter into yet another part of this city, it seem that it got worst with buildings that whom windows were broken and pieces of the buildings' frames were broken as well. Seeing that T.K. guess that this area was a place were raw materials, materials that were either unavailable to them or they couldn't afford to the people in the pervious area that he was in, were used to build or repair the buildings in that place. Despite the horrible appearance of the current area that T.K. was in, he knew that he had to get through this area to reach his goal, the hotel that the International Digidestined were held up. So T.K. and Peagusmon sailed through this area with little attention to the ground that were flying over.

After going through that area, T.K. recognized the series of buildings that were on the horizon that they were heading to. He knew that this was the place that International Digidestined were at. So now it would only be a matter of time before they would reach their goal and while victory was so close, T.K. knew that he shouldn't let his guard down. T.K. nor Peagusmon let their guard down for they scan the entire area that they were in before they would set down. When they were sure that it was safe for them to set down, they did. When they did the skies open up with rain and the wind also started to kick up.

"T.K., I think that we should get inside of the hotel," said Peagusmon.

"I also think so," agreed T.K.

With that duo of them walked toward the office of this hotel and while the place was while lit, that still didn't mean anything. So T.K. headed up to the door of the office with caution and when he got into visible range of the door. When he did he notice that the door was slightly ajar and that meant either two things, one somebody had enter into this place, or two the clerk that was on duty had to do something really fast.

"T.K., I think that we shouldn't go into this place," said Peagusmon.

T.K. knew that Peagusmon was correct with his worry about entering into this place, but something inside of him told him that he had go into this place to find out what had happen into this place.

"You are correct about that, but we should go into this place, because we have to find out what happen here, to find out why this door is ajar," said T.K.

"All right," said T.K.

So the two of them walked into the room and when they did they found out that the lights were out. Naturally T.K. tried to turn the light on and he found out that the lights didn't work, seeing that T.K. got worry about this place to the point that he shouldn't be in here. With that T.K. knew that he should of listen to what the night sky had told him.

"Peagusmon, I think we should get out of here," said T.K.

Peagusmon didn't response to him like he normally did and because of that T.K. knew that something was wrong. Something inside of him didn't want to turn around because he knew what was going to behind him, but he knew that he had to do it. So T.K. brace himself for the worst, which was that somebody or something had token control over his Digimon and put him in state in which he couldn't told T.K. what was wrong with him. Having that image in his mind, T.K. turn around and found out that his worst fear was confirmed, somebody had token control over his Digimon. Not in the state that T.K. thought it would be and that was, somebody had forced Peagusmon to go into this Rookie form of Patamon. That wasn't so, this was because Peagusmon was still in his Armor-Level state, but he was tided up by something.

"Are you T.K., the Digidestined that holds the Crest of Hope?" Asked the person.

T.K. just nodded his head in the answer of yes.

"Good, you should come with us," said the person.

T.K. was forced to come with that person and when he did he could see that International Digidestined were also there as well. He could see that despite the year of being on their own they were in good shape and that grave T.K. a piece of mind, that he didn't have to worry about them being dead. Now the only thing that he had to worry about them was if they wouldn't be killed and that went the same for him as well.

"Where are we going?" Asked T.K.

"I think you know to the answer to that question," answered the person.

Hearing that T.K. knew where they were heading to, they were heading to the sit of power of this city, The Paradigm Group's Headquarters, a place that he had visited before. Knowing that T.K. had a great feeling of dread, that this time he wouldn't be able to escape it like he did before.

While T.K. and the other International Digidestined were being head off to Paradigm Group's Headquarters the person that had caught T.K. and his Digimon was busy with his own affairs. One of his affairs was putting a piece of paper on the door frame telling anybody that would past this place what had happen here. He stuck the piece of paper with a steak knife and when he was done doing that he return to his car. His car was trailing the car that contain T.K. and Peagusmon, to make sure that if the two of them had escape he would be able to head them off before they could warm people about what just had happen to them.

Back in the Digital World, Gennai stood in the center of the Digital World, the neutral zone of the Digital World. The place were the sphere of power of the four Digi Guardian overlapped each other, a safe zone where Digimon themselves could go to find a place to rest. Gennai knew that this was a good place to call four Digimon Guardians themselves to meet each other. Gennai knew that if had summon them in their own zones, the one Guardian that had power there would have advantage in the meeting and that was something that he didn't want to have happen.

The first Digi World Guardian appeared was Azulongmon, the Eastern Zone Guardian, the one that was of peace, the one that the Digidestined were most familiar with, the one that gave Gennai one of his orbs that were around him. He could see the giant blue dragon that had chains around him and numerous of small wings that help him to fly through the air.

"It is nice to see you again, Old Friend," said Azulongmon.

"It is the same with you," said Gennai.

"I would like to know why have you call me and my fellow brothers?" Asked Azulongmon.

"For two reason, one I would like to return the Orb that allow the Digidestined's Digimon to Digivolve despite the present of the Control Spires," answered Gennai. After that Gennai's held up the Orb and seconds after that the Orb returned its owner.

"Thank you, and the other," said Azulongmon.

"It also about the what is going on the world of Paradigm City," answered Gennai.

"Yes, I have monitor it as well, it seems that Alex Rosewater has gained to much power and not only a threat to his own world, but other and the Digidestined's as well," said Azulongmon.

"You worry to much, Azulongmon," said another voice.

Both Azulongmon and Gennai turned around and could see that yet another Digi World Guardian had appeared on the scene. This one was Zhuqiaomon, the red Phoenix Digimon that guarded the West Zone of the Digimon World, one of the more aggressive Digimon that were in this world.

"You must be Zhuqiaomon," said Gennai.

"Yes, I am, and I would like to know why you, a simple Digimon had summon me from my watch on the Western Zone of this world," said Zhuqiaomon.

"If you have come on time, you would of heard from Gennai himself and you forget yourself, Zhuqiaomon, Gennai might be a Digimon, but you forget he was one of the few survivors of the Ancient Ones that guarded this world before our birth," said Azulongmon.

This didn't impress Zhuqiaomon at all, for while Gennai was a Digimon, he had the appearance of being human and Phoenix Guardian share no love of humans. His hated of humans was further deeper with the fact that it was humans that had save his world, the world that he was made to protect from evil. To add insult to injury for him was the fact that these humans were children that had save the Digital World from danger, not once, but twice.

"He is just piss off that you are bothering him," said yet another voice, but this voice was different from the other voices, and this was because he had an Irish Accent to it.

The trio of them turned their head and could see the last two Digimon Guardians had shown up. These two were Edonwumon, the two-headed turtle with a tree on the top of his back Digimon, who guarded the western zone of this world. The other one was Baihumon, the white tiger Digimon that guarded the north zone of this world.

"That might be true, Edonwumon, but we have to respect his opinion," said Azulongmon.

"You are correct, but we shouldn't waste our time on these pointless war of words. There are more important things that five of us should talk about," said Gennai.

"Correct," said Baihumon.

Everybody looked in the direction of the White Tiger Digital Guardian, who rarely spoke, for he was the type of Digimon that was more action rather than words. So when he did speak it had to be for a very good reason.

"Gennai, please continue," said Baihumon.

"As Azulongmon said before, the three of your show up, the problem in the world of Paradigm is getting out of hand. At first it was bad, but controllable, now it seems that Alex has gain enough power not to only threaten the world that he lives in, but our world, and the world in which the Digidestined live in as well," said Gennai.

"We haven't face threats like this before," said Zhuqiaomon.

"That is true, but you have to understand this, Alex had allied himself with Daemon and because have that he had access to all of the power and man power that he has," said Gennai.

"To make the problem worst is the fact that there are reports that Daemonicusmon has been awoken as well," said Edonwumon.

"What?" Asked a stunned Azulongmon.

"Who?" Asked Zhuqiaomon.

Baihumon remained silent on this matter for he made the choice in his mind that he should let his oldest brother explain who was Daemonicusmon was.

"Daemonicusmon is supremely powerful Digimon Demon Lord that was formed shortly after the Digi World was made. The Ancient One, the ones that Gennai was apart of and the ones that formed us, sealed him away so that he couldn't threaten the Digi World with his evil influence. At last their efforts were in vain and this was because what Daemonicusmon couldn't influence through his own actions, he influence through the use of Digimon that he had made while he was sealed away, i.e. Daemon," said Edonwumon.

"How do you know this?" Asked Zhuqiaomon.

"You forget, that I am the oldest out of all of us, and because of that I have access to information that you might not be aware of," answered the turtle Digimon.

"If this is so, then we must muster our forces to stop this newest threat to the safely of our world," said Zhuqiaomon. "I will rally my Devas to attack and defeat this new threat."

"Don't be fool hearty, Zhuqiaomon, even if your Devas attack him with all of their most powerful attacks together, they would barely scratch the surface of him. Plus when he was sealed away, he lost his physical form, right now he dose not have a physical form. The only form that he had right now is a spiritual form that wouldn't even flinch with your Devas' attacks. If we are going to attack him we should prevent him from reaching his physical form, if that fails then we should attack him as soon he reaches his physical form. I said this because logic states that is when he will be at his weakest," said Edonwumon.

"If we are going to prevent him from reaching that state, what should we do?" Asked Zhuqiaomon.

"We can't do anything, but the Digidestined in the world of Paradigm City, can do something. That something is to stop either Alex or Daemon from assembly the four Digi Jewels, which were scatter to prevent this from happening," answered Azulongmon.

"Why is this? I demand to know why?" Demanded Zhuqiaomon.

"It how that world works there, Digimon Guardians like us can't enter into that world, but other Digimon can. Don't ask why because we don't know for sure," answered Azulongmon.

"If that is true, than why can Metal Nivernmon Battle Mode can enter into that world despite the fact that she is a Digimon Guardian?" Question Edonwumon.

"This is because she achieved that state via evolution through her numerous Digivolutions that she went through," answered Azulongmon.

"So it we can't go through to that world, but can we send other types of Digimon through to that world?" Asked Zhuqiaomon.

"Yes, I see why not," answered Azulongmon.

"Then, I will rally my Devas to enter into that world," said Zhuqiaomon.

"Wait, my brother, you must do it a way not to sock this world, while yes, they have their share of encounters with strange and mysterious creatures, a good majority of them have come out of the water, which would make them accustom to your 12 Devas. It is still not a good idea to sent them to that world without a good warring," said Azulongmon.

"Then what do you suggest that we do," said a mocking Zhuqiaomon.

Azulongmon knew that Zhuqiaomon's tolerance of waiting wasn't his best trait, for he was a Digimon Guardian that was of action. While this was his strength it also was his weakest and this was because he would rush into a place without thinking it through and when the dust cleared, that was the time that he would ask questions about what he did. Even that was a rare for him to do. This was because he thought himself so superior in his thinking that there wasn't a need for him to do so. While Zhuqiaomon's actions and way of thinking didn't get him into trouble, the other Digimon Guardians knew that it would only be a matter of time before this would catch up with him.

"I suggest that Gennai, here send an e-mail to Digidestined telling them about Zhuqiaomon's Devas," answered Azulongmon.

"But, Old Friend, the Digidestined only know you, Azulongmon, they don't know rest of the other Digimon Guardians, but they do know of them," said Gennai.

"Then you should tell them about us," said Edonwumon. "I think it wouldn't to hard to do that. I few lines in that thing that you call e-mail about us, should be good effort for the Digidestined to find out about us."

Gennai nodded his head at that.

"Agree then, I will rally my Devas, come here again in one hour time, and I promise you that all 12 of time will be here," said Zhuqiaomon.

"Right then," said Gennai.

With that the blue and white dragon that was Azulongmon, the Digimon Guardian of the Eastern Zone of the Digi World flow off in the direction of his sphere of influence. When he was gone, Zhuqiaomon, the red phoenix also flows off in the direction of his sphere of influence, which was the southern section of the Digital World. When the two flyers were off to their sphere of influence the two grounders also head off to their areas of power. In doing this, Gennai was once again all by himself. But Gennai wasn't worry about this and this was because one of his friends, Centarumon quickly appeared on the scene.

"I hope that went well," said Centarumon.

"Better than I thought, but it seems that Zhuqiaomon hasn't change from the last time I have seen him. He still harbor a hate for the humans despite the fact that they have save this world more than once," said Gennai. "Despite that, he had agree to send his Devas, his 12 warriors to the world of Paradigm to stop the formation of the four Digi Jewels. Which will give Daemonicusmon, physical form that is require for him to take over the Digi World, and maybe the other two worlds as well."

The half-human, half-horse Digimon just nodded his head at this news. "Then, what is your role in this as the human put it, 'The Big Picture'?"
"I will be the one that will send them a message via e-mail the Digidestined, that will explain everything for them." Answered Gennai. "But, I must head to my house to do so."

"I will take there," said Centarumon.

Gennai mounted Centarumon and two of them head back to Gennai's house at race neck speed despite the different terrain that they were traveling across. It seem that Centarumon knew the urgently of this joinery, so much that, he didn't take a look around his surroundings, but luckily for him there were no Digimon that were around them that would want to stop the two of them.

"It is nice that your youth was restore," said Centarumon.

"Why?" Asked Gennai.

"This is because, if you were still an old man, I know that I wouldn't be able to run at my full speed like I am doing right now," answered Centarumon.

Gennai just nodded his head at that.

Zhuqiaomon made his way back to his citadel, a huge red building that made out of multiple spires that were in the shape of triangles. As he flew toward his citadel, he past, one of his Devas, Antiramon, the rabbit Deva. Zhuqiaomon knew that she was there because she was guarding the entrance to his citadel and if he told her to leave then that might be the opening that some of his enemies might need to destroy that building and even him. That was a risk that he knew that he had to take if he didn't want this world destroyed, the other two worlds that would be save were just side effects, his main worry about the safely of this world.

"Antiramon, come with me back to my citadel," said Zhuqiaomon.

Antiramon nodded her head in agreement. As Zhuqiaomon moved away from her point of view, she called forth a bubble that encases her and with that same speed that Zhuqiaomon had she made her way back to Zhuqiaomon's citadel, still having no clue why her sovereign want her. That didn't matter to her because her sovereign wanted her and that was the only reason why she should follow him despite the fact that it meant that it would be a lapse in her job.

While she was traveling across the ground she could see that Mihiramon, the Tiger Deva, Shindiramon, the Rooster Deva, Kunbiramon, the Rat Deva, Maijiramon, the Dragon Deva. Of course on the back of her the dragon Digimon, there was Makuramon, the Monkey Deva, were also heading to the same location that she was. Seeing that she guess that something was up five of her follow brother Deva were heading in the same place that she was.

As she made her way to the door of Zhuqiaomon's lair she found out that other five were also there. All of them were on the ground.

"Do you have any clue where we are here?" Asked Makuramon.

"No, and you shouldn't be asking that question," answered Mihiramon.

"It dose not matter," started Kunbiramon. "This is because the door to our sovereign's inner circle is opening."

With that Mihiramon, Shindiramon, Kunbiramon, Makuramon, Maijiramon, and Antiramon walked into the portal that was opening up for them. When all five of them had cleared the entrance the door behind them closed and that was something that wasn't new to them. Inside of there they could see that Zhuqiaomon was standing behind his altar, waiting for them, and Chatsuramon, the Dog Deva, and their leader was also there. They also could see that with the exception of Chatsuramon, they were the only Devas, which had no made their way to this location.

"Ah, I can see that you have listen to Zhuqiaomon's command to come here," said Chatsuramon.

"Yes, we have, but I would like to know why we have been summon to this place?" Asked Makuramon despite the fact that Mihiramon had warned him not to ask that question.

"Don't…," started Mihiramon.

"Be silent!" Demanded Zhuqiaomon. "I will be the one that will be doing the talking here, and after I explain myself, then you will be able to ask questions about what we are about to do here."

The seven Devas kept their mouth quiet, as their master was about to speak to them. After that Zhuqiaomon explain things to the seven Devas that were present at his lair. He explain to them that their world was threaten, not by the humans that can from the Digidestined's World, but another world were the humans lived. This was because the human that was called Alex Rosewater, the son of one of the first series of Digidestined that had saved this world is about to summon one of the worst Daemon Lord that had ever been made in this realm. That he was about to do this through the use of the four Digi Jewels that were separated from each other to prevent this from happening. That while the Digidestined humans that were in that world could hold their own, they would still need help where and whenever they could get it. He also explain that while the four Digimon Guardians wanted to add their power to this fight, they couldn't enter into that world and he have no clue why that was so. Which is the reason why Zhuqiaomon had to send his Devas out to that world and while he wanted them to sent them there as soon as he could, he was warned that he couldn't because of the history of that world. That they had a history of strange creatures have appear numerous of time before and while they knew that they won't strange creatures, the people that called that place home didn't know that. So Gennai would send e-mails to the Digidestineds that were in that world about what they were planning so that they wouldn't be surprise when the Devas would appear in that world.

"My master why are you going along with this?" Asked Kunbiramon.

"The humans have a saying 'The Enemy of my enemy, is my ally'," answered Zhuqiaomon. "The humans no matter where they are located are or enemy, but the humans that live in this other world are the greater enemy and they are also the enemy of the Digidestined. Do I make my point?"

"Yes," said Mihiramon.

Shindiramon just nodded his head in agreement.

Maijiramon grunted in approval, he didn't want to be here he wanted to up in the sky flying through the Digital World's skies without a care in the world.

"Yes, my master" said Kunbiramon.

"Yes," said Antiramon.

"Okay," said Makuramon.

"My I ask a question?" Asked Shindiramon.

"Yes," answered Zhuqiaomon.

"When do we leave?" The Rooster Deva asks.

"When the rest of my Devas come here and after I explain things to them, then we will go," answered Zhuqiaomon.

Back at Roger's house, the rest of the team that remained were busy just waiting for the rest of the other part of their team headed back. This was something that they didn't like doing, waiting and this was because they didn't like the helpless feeling that they had while they were doing this. This was because they were like some many people they were people of action rather than waiting. Even if they knew that waiting was just as important as doing something.

"How long has it been?" Asked Sora.

"For what?" Answered an asking Tai.

"You know what I am talking about," said a mocking Sora.

"Oh, for about 15 minutes," answered Tai.

"That long?" Asked a stunned Sora. "I thought that it was longer."

"The same with me as well," said Yolie.

"You guys shouldn't worry about them, I know that Roger can hold his own and I think the same with Marry. She seems to me, that is a type of woman that know what to do when danger shows its head," said Dorothy.

"That not reassuring," said Yolie.

"You got that right, but if I know Nivernmon she one tough Digimon despite the fragile appearance that she has, she take care of herself as well," said Tentomon. "Heck, she is about twenty-five years old in your terms of age."

"Yes, living that long in your world dose make you thought," said Veemon.

"I don't think that I could do that for as long as she did," said Agumon.

"But she has," said Gabumon. "That is something that shouldn't be laugh at."

Then out of the blue, Yolie's D-Terminal started to beep and this was because she was the only one that left the thing on.

"I thought that you turn that thing off," said Izzy.

"I thought the same thing," said Yolie.

"Why would want to turn that thing off?" Asked Dorothy.

"Privacy, and sometimes it can be annoying. It seems to know the most annoying times to beep," answered Yolie.

"Even if the thing is annoying, I think that you should answer it and at least kept the thing from beep all of the time. Plus I would like to know who is doing this," said Davis.

Yolie unfolded thing and found out who was paging them. She found out that a person called Gennai had e-mail them.

"Who is it? What dose it say?" Asked Davis.

"It from Gennai and it states that Gennai had a meeting with the four Digimon Guardians about what is going on in this world. In that meeting, the Guardians themselves are worry about what is going on here. They also talk about the real reason behind Alex Rosewater, that the two of them are trying to free Daemonicusmon from his prison," answered Yolie.

After reading the e-mail she looked in the direction of Davis. "Don't ask me who is Daemonicusmon is."

"You shouldn't know about him and this is because he was way before your time," said Hawkmon.

"How do you know that?" Asked Yolie.

"Almost all Digimon know about him despite the fact that we won't around at the time of his birth. I will explain how we know this, we know this because it was ingrained into are being as a warring not to forget who he was and what he almost did," answered Hawkmon.

"What did he do?" Asked Yolie.

With that Hawkmon with the help of Veemon explain what Daemonicusmon did to the Digital World. That he not only threatens the lives of the Digimon through his much malevolence acts but he also threatens the very fabric of the Digital World as well. The Digimon themselves tried in vain to stop him, but they couldn't without outside help and that was the reason why the Digimon called out for humans to help them. That was the reason behind the formation of the first team of Digidestined.

"But, I thought that threat was done by Apocalymon?" Asked Tai.

"Yes, that is true, Apocalymon was a threat, but the threat, the real threat is Daemonicusmon because he created Apocalymon and thus Apocalymon created the Dark Masters, the four Mega Level Digimon that you fought when you return back to Digital World," said Hawkmon.

"I guess the four Digimon Guardians were created to protect the Digital World against his evil to watch for his return," said Izzy.

"Correct," said Hawkmon. "But our story dose not end there, as you well know the Digital World is huge even for a Digimon of their size. So one of the four Digimon Guardians, the Phoenix one, Zhuqiaomon, decided to have foot soldiers to be his eyes and hears in places that he couldn't be at."

"Who are these foot soldiers of Zhuqiaomon?" Asked Izzy.

"They called themselves Devas, name after 12 group of legendary warriors that fought against the God, Asura," answered Hawkmon.

"Yes, I do reminder a story about the group of 12 legendary warriors, but they aren't warriors in the terms that we would put it, they were good sprits that fought against the Demon God, Asura. I forget where I heard it," said Ken.

While Ken was add his comments about Devas, Yolie noticed that there was more to the e-mail that Gennai sent to them and because of that she scrolled the screen down. When she did that she notices that Gennai also sent information about Devas. The information that she had there been about the same information that Hawkmon was giving to them, with one exception. That exception was the name of the 12 Devas.

"I have some more information about them," said Yolie.

"What is it?" Asked Ken.

"The name of the 12 Devas," answered Yolie.

"What are their names?" Asked Davis.

"Here I go, Mihiramon, Sandiramon, Shindiramon, Pajiramon, Vajiramon, Indaramon, Kunbiramon, Makuramon, Vikaralamon, Maijiramon, Antiramon, and Chatsuramon," answered Yolie.

"Dose any of those name sound familiar?" Asked Ken.

"No, but you have to reminder this, I knew about them, but I didn't know those names. This is the first time that I have heard of them, just like you," said Hawkmon.

"Yolie, dose that e-mail have any type of attachments to it, like pictures?" Asked Ken.

Yolie once again through the e-mail that was sent to her by Gennai to see if there was any more information then the text information that she had read through. She found out that Gennai did sent attachments and while she couldn't tell what they were. "Yes, he did, but I can't tell what they are," said Yolie.

"Yolie hook your D-Terminal with my laptop," said Izzy.

Yolie did that and when the e-mail that was on her D-Terminal came up, Izzy noticed the attachment and he opens the thing up. When he did that he found out that the attachment was a series of pictures. The first picture was of a Digimon that was a tiger, but it was a strange tiger. The first thing that was strange about this tiger-like Digimon was the fact that this tiger had a pair of wings. The second thing that was strange about this Digimon was that were things that look like to be shields that were topped with spikes. These shield-like things were located at the intersection of where his body and his legs meet each other also around his neck there was a red scarf. Izzy found out that this Digimon was Mihiramon. Seeing that Izzy showed everybody what Mihiramon look like. After everybody took a good look like at what this Deva look like, it was time to take a look at the next picture.

"Who is that?" Asked Ken.

"This is Mihiramon, he is the tiger Deva. An animal-type Digimon at the Ultimate Level, his attacks are Samurai Tiger Tail and Armor Tiger Tail," answered Izzy. "Has everybody took a good look like at him."

Everybody nodded their heads in agreement. "Okay, it time to take a look at the next Deva."

Izzy did so and he found out that next Deva that was on the list was a snake-type Digimon. Unlike Mihiramon, he didn't have a lot of strange things, he only a few strange things to him. One of them was the fact that he had a hooded head, much like hooded position that a Cobra would take when it about to strike or when it in defensive mood. The other thing was that at the end of the Digimon there was an ax that was being coiled by tail of this Digimon.

"This is Digimon is Sandiramon, he is the snake Deva, like Mihiramon he is Retile-type Digimon that is at the Ultimate Level. His main attack is called Venom Axe, also he has another attack that he dose not name in which his breath he can melt almost anything. Like before has everybody took a good look at him?" Said Izzy.

Like before everybody agrees with him.

Next on the list was Shindiramon and Izzy could guess that this Deva was some type of Bird-type Digimon, but it was no bird that he had seen before. First at all this bird-type Digimon had a huge belly that was blue. He had wings that also doubled has his hands and they were golden in color. On his back there was pair of things that look like that they were claw like things and just like his wings they were also golden in color. To round all of this out was a tail, which was also golden in color. Just like Mihiramon, this Digimon had a scarf around his neck that was orange in color. Like pervious two times, Izzy give everybody Digimon's status which were that Shindiramon was Bird-type Digimon that was at the Ultimate Level, his main attack was an attack called Positron Pulse, and finally he told everybody that Shindiramon was the Rooster Deva.

After Shindiramon, Izzy went on Pajiramon and Izzy didn't need any type of help to figure out what type of Deva this Digimon was. For Pajiramon was a sheep-like Digimon complete with horn on the Digimon's head. This Digmon also had what look like to be armor around her chest and on this armor there was some type of Japanese or Chinese Symbol, like Shindiramon and Mihiramon this Digimon had a scarf around her neck, which was in the color of red. Izzy check out the status which were, that this Digimon was an Animal-type Digimon at the Ultimate Level, and her attack are Thunder Stomp and Treasure Bow. This process of looking at the pictures of all of the Devas went on for the next eight Devas and they found out what the others look like, and they found out that they had a common theme with them. That was that they were all Ultimate Level Digimon.

"I hope this is good enough," said Izzy.

"You aren't the only other one that think so," said Ken.

"Yolie, dose Gennai tell you when these Devas will be coming here?" Asked Davis.

"No, but he was told by Zhuqiaomon, that he will meet them in the neutral zone in about an hour," answered Yolie.

"So that means they will be coming in about two days," said Sora.

"Correct," said Izzy.

"So, that means that we will have to hold our own for next two days before these new Digimon will come and help us," said a voice.

Everybody turned around and they could see that Marry and the others with a few exceptions, those exceptions were Angel, T.K., and his Digimon, Patamon. While they knew that Angel had to kept her cover from being blow, so not seeing her wasn't to much of a sock, but seeing the other two was something to be worry about.

"I can take it that you little trip was good," said Izzy.

"Yes, it was, and I did find it," said Roger. Seconds after that he brought his the wrist that contained the sword and as soon as he did that the huge sliver broad sword appear and the way that it appear was a little strange. This was because it seems to come out of his watch like the metal was some type of liquid in the color of sliver. When the sword fully emerge from his wrist, they could see the multiple symbols that were etched on the blade of the sword. Everybody recognized the different symbols that were on the blade. The one that was on top of the sword was the symbol for the Crest of Power, the one below that one was the symbol for the Crest of Order, then came the symbol of the Crest of Light, then Crest of Hope, then the Crest of Sincerity, then the Crest of Courage, and finally came the crest of Kindness.

"So that was the sword that Angel was talking about," said Ken.

"Yes, it was," said Roger. After that he pull the sword back into the watch. "So what has happen here, since I left."

"Well, Gennai has just sent us an E-mail that contains information about a group of 12 warriors that are called Devas that serve one of the four Digimon Guardians," answered Izzy.

Roger just nodded his head at this bit of information that came across the wire. While he had to no clue that was just these Devas was. He also had no clue who were the four Digimon Guardians were, he just hopped that they weren't their enemies. They didn't need more of them with what they were going through right now. He figure out that the Devas and the Digimon Guardians were good guys, if a person that he knew was a good guy would tell about them.

"Are you curious about them?" Asked Izzy.

"No, not right now, but you can safely assume that I will be asking questions about them when they do show up. Right now, it is information that I don't need right now. By the way dose any body know if T.K. has return from his little mission?" Asked Roger.

"No, he hasn't," answered Sora. "Why?"

"I was asking because he and his Armor-Level Digimon went out on a mission to find out how the other Digidestined were doing. I thought that he would return from his mission, since it seem that it was a lot simple that the mission that I went on," answered Roger.

"No, he hasn't return," said Sora.

"If anything happen to my little brother, I will swear that I will make you pay!" Shouted Matt.

While Matt knew that T.K. wasn't the little cry baby that first went to the Digital World with him, and he could take care of himself. He still didn't like the fact that his only brother was out in this still alien world with his Digimon as the only ally that he had with him. He knew that Patamon had to ally to go straight to his Mega Level when the time call for it, it still didn't lessen the fact that T.K. was out of his sight.

"Matt, watch yourself," said Tai.

"How, can I watch myself when my little baby brother is out there in a world that he knows little to nothing about," cried Matt. "None of you know what I a going through!"

"Yes, somebody dose," said Tai. "You forget I also have one."

"Don't start with me, Tai. I know about your sister, Kari, but unlike you who grew up with her, I didn't. You forget my mother and father got divorced, since there were two of us. One of us went to our mother, while the other one went to our father. To make matter worst was the fact that two of us lived on opposite sides of the city, so keeping track of each other was hard at best," said Matt. "While I know that T.K. can perfectly take care of himself, he still not easy for me to accept the fact that he went on that mission. A mission by your terms should have been as easy one."

"That is true, but there is something that I have learn when dealing in this real is nothing is easy, everything is hard, everything is a struggle. It could be that reason what is taking T.K. so long to return to this place," said Roger. "But I have funny feeling that isn't the reason that T.K. hasn't return and because of that I will go to that place."

"You will do that?" Asked Matt.

"Yes, I will," answered Roger.

With that Roger monition to Dorothy that they would be heading out to that place by themselves and Dorothy agreed to that. With that she walked toward Roger that was waiting for her to come to him. She could see that while the sword merged with Roger, it had no effect on how he looks and how he thought about things. He was still the type of person that would think about others before himself, but it was to a point. He wasn't reckless that would rush into action with swords blaze. First at all, he would try not to get himself into a position like that, and if he did find himself in a jam like that he would first think how to get out of it. With that then he would go into that.

"Good luck," said Sora.

"Try to stay safe," said Marry.

"We will," said Roger.

With that the door to the elevator closed in forth of them and with that everybody knew that two of them, the two most experience people in the entire group that dealt with the world went out into it. With the goal in finding out what had happen to both T.K. and his Digimon.

"I hope that they find out what happen to him," said Matt.

"I think they will, Roger has a knack of finding things out, if he want to or not," said Marry.

After giving the information to the Digidestined, Gennai once return to the neutral zone in the Digital World, like before he was waiting for the four Sovereigns of the four zones to come here. He looked up in the sky and the first one that he saw coming was Azulongmon, the eastern zone guardian. It was nice to see the blue dragon come back to honor his promise, but Gennai wasn't to surprise to see this, this was because Azulongmon was one of more reasonable Guardians. Following Azulongmon was Baihumon, the white tiger Guardian.

Azulongmon was the first reach Gennai's spot.

"I can see that you have honor your promise," said Gennai.

"Aren't you surprise?" Asked Azulongmon.

"No, not really. I have learned through the many dealing with you, that are one of more reasonable Guardians," said Gennai.

"I thank you," said Azulongmon.

"I can also see that Baihumon has also honor the promise," said Gennai.

Baihumon just grunted in approval. Gennai took that as something that was positive and he also knew that Baihumon was the type of Digimon that wouldn't speak unless it was important. That he would rather rely on his actions to so his speaking for him, and not words like others did.

"Now the only thing that we have to do right now, was to wait for two others," said Gennai.

"True," said Azulongmon.

Right on cue others appeared. They could see that Edonwumon had return and while he was a turtle he was moving at a pretty good speed over the terrain. Up in the sky there was the red phoenix, Zhuqiaomon. Behind him there was a group of 12 Digimon that were following behind him. Everybody guess that these 12 Digimon were the 12 Devas that he was speaking of. Even from this distance they could see that they had a common theme to them and they look like that they belong to each other.

Zhuqiaomon made his way to area first and the 12 Digimon that were behind stopped, they let Edonwumon great the others.

"So they are the 12 Devas," said Gennai.

"Yes, they are, and they don't like this idea to help the humans, but I did some talking to connive them that ally themselves with the humans was for the best," said Zhuqiaomon.

"So, it is go them," said Gennai.

"Not so, you might have told Digidestined about them, but I am not going to risk their lives into a world that they have no knowledge about," said Zhuqiaomon.

"What! With everything that we are going through, you are going to hold out," said Azulongmon.

"These are my 12 warriors and because of that I decide who will go there," said Zhuqiaomon.

"Then, who do you suggest we should send to that world?" Asked Gennai.

"Makuramon," answered Zhuqiaomon.

Hearing that the Monkey Deva was socked to hear that he was the one that was picked to enter into that world. To act like a scout for the rest of his 11 brothers to see if it is safe for them to go into that world, he didn't know what to said to this assignment. It proves to him that Zhuqiaomon was favoring him over Chatsuramon, despite the fact that he was the destined leader of his group.

Makuramon walked toward his master and he was in the direct present of him he went onto his knees and bowed in respect for him. "I will be honor to serve you in this method."

"Please rise my servant, I pick you because you might not know this but you are the easiest to be made to look like a human," said Zhuqiaomon.

Makuramon did so and while he didn't like the fact that his very own sovereign was about to do this to him. He knew that he if wanted to stay in the current level and form that he was in, he had to kept his mouth shut about what was going on around him. So he had to deal with this and run with it as far as it was going to take him.

"I can see that you have no objections about this," said Zhuqiaomon. "Do you?"

"No," he answered.

"Good, " he said. "Then let the process start."

With that Zhuqiaomon flapped his red wings and before anybody knew what happen the entire area that they were in was in gulf in a series of high winds that kicked up all of the dust that was on the ground. The dust was so thick that nobody could see the Digimon that was next to him or her, never the less what was going on with Makuramon. When the dust settled, they could see that Zhuqiaomon had changed the appearance of Makuramon, to must of the disgust of his follow Devas. They could see that Zhuqiaomon had made Makuramon look human, in fact a human boy, compete with the clothing that they wore. To top everything off he was wearing a hat.

"I can see that were correct about that one," said Gennai.

"Yes, I know that I am good," said Zhuqiaomon.

"You are," said Baihumon.

"I think that you should open up the pathway behind this world and the other world as soon as you can," said Zhuqiaomon.

"I will," said Gennai.

"Good," said Zhuqiaomon.

With that Azulongmon's eyes glowed white and in a couple of seconds a section of the Digital World started to twist and turned, until the wrapped section of the Digital World produced a circle that was big enough for Makuramon to walked through. Everybody could see that it was black with no clear details of the other side.

"Are you sure this is the place?" Asked Zhuqiaomon.

"Yes, I am," answered Azulongmon.

Makuramon didn't know if Azulongmon was correct about this place, but he knew that he had to go into that place. He did and when he did he felt sick, like he was being kicked in his chest region and this drew a majority of his attention that he didn't pay any type of attention to what was going on around him. If he did he would of saw that the landscape had change from the forest region to a heavy urbanized landscape that belong to a city. Then the it would change again and this change took the shape of an underground location. When that happen Makuramon found himself face first into the ground.

Makuramon got up from the ground and he could see that he got some of the dirt that was from the ground into his mouth. He instantly spit out the dirt and unlike the dirt that was from the Digital World, this dirt had a strange metal taste to it, plus it also toxic taste to it as well. A clear sign to Makuramon that the humans that lived in this realm won't taking care of the this world. Normally he would have been upset at the sight of this, but right now he had a job to do. So Makuramon started to walk in the darken cavern that he found himself in. While he was walking he could see that the walls in this place were not natural occurring, that they were man-made and they were bare. As he continued on his walk through this place he saw that it was starting to get brighter and he thought that he was reaching the end of this tunnel, but he found out that he was wrong about this. The brightness that he had seen was because of the white walls. In there he could see that these walls weren't bare, they were written on. The script that he saw was the Digi-Code that he had seen numerous times in the Digital World and seeing that he wondered why did this world had this script written on underground walls. A word that seem not to know about the Digital World, but that didn't mean that they once did or they once did know about the Digital World. Whatever the reason why this script was written on these walls in a place that was so difficult to get to, Makuramon couldn't worry himself about. He had a reason for being in this world and while this was something that did caught his attention, he couldn't allow that to stop him from finding out about this world. So he just walked away from it, until he couldn't go any further and this was because the tunnel that he was in just ended.

To Makuramon it didn't look like that this was the way that the tunnel was intended to end. Makuramon knew this because the end of the tunnel look like that it had collapsed, and the collapsed look like that it happen recently. Even with that he could tell that this was indeed the way out of this place and he knew this because he was seeing tiny slivers of light that were poking through even the smallest holes. So that give Makuramon hope that he could get out this place, but how? That was the question that he was thinking, he knew that if he used one of his attacks that could bring even more of this place down all around him and make things worst for him. Plus he didn't want to destroy what was put down here for numbers of reasons. One; he wanted to read what was written down here, two; to destroying even more of this place could destabilized this area and cause whatever this was supporting to come down, three; he thought that his Sovereign might find this place interesting as much as he did.

So he decided to climb the wreckage, he was what the humans called a monkey and he knew that monkeys were good climbers. So he started to climb the uneven pieces of wood and cement. He moved so easily over the pile of debris. As he started to get higher on the mountain of debris the pile started to shake from his extra weight. With that it would only be a matter of time before the pile of debris would collapse and it look like that he was only halfway to the top.

Please stay together pleaded Makuramon and to make sure that he didn't have to spend any more time on this unstable mess of wreckage he speed up his ascent. Evenly he emerges from the underground and he found out that he was on the surface of this world. With that he could see what this world look like. He took a look around the place and he could tell that this place was dark and without too much color it to. It didn't help that much that he was in this world when it was night-time and it appeared that it was also cloudy. So he had to wait until daylight that would allow him to see more colors and more details of this world. Right now he could see that it was pretty safe from the rest of the other Devas, but he knew that things like that could chance just like that. So he had to wait and just watch what was going on in this world to make his final judgment about this place.

While it was still dark Makuramon knew that he was on a street and that meant that a car could come by at any moment. So he got off the street as fast as he could and he did just in time and this was because he saw a car come by. He didn't pay any type of attention to car and the driver of the car look like they didn't either. That was a good thing for the Digimon, for while he was quiet able of taking care of himself, it was the way that he look like, he look like a little boy and if he knew how the humans dealt with children that were by themselves. They would put them in social services and in the long run put them with parents that won't theirs. That was something that Makuramon didn't want to have happen to him. So as fast as he could he hide himself in the shadows so that if the driver of the car did see him they won't be able to find him and report what they have seen.

"I think that I will wait here, until day light in this world," said Makuramon.

That what Makuramon did and then he found himself starting to fall asleep among the boxes.

Roger and Dorothy were heading down the street that would take them to the hotel where the other Digidestined and Digimon were located. There were three factors that made the trip the hotel so fast, one of them was the fact that the hotel wasn't to far away from where Roger lived. The second factor was the fact of Roger's aggressive driving, speeding and chasing lanes every so second, despite the fact that wasn't to much traffic on the street that they were on, which also was the third factor.

While he was doing that Dorothy wondered why he was acting like this at this time of night, when there was little to nobody that was on the streets. She could understand if there was a threat to the safely of the city, but to her is seem that there was no threat to the safely of this city and the people that called it home. Unless there was something that he knew that she didn't and that could be a strong possibly. That was because Roger had a sixth sense that enable him to be more in touch in the workings of how this world worked. If that is true, then he wasn't showing any signs that he was aware of something that she wasn't, despite the fact that it seems the two of them trusted each other. It seems with this that Roger didn't trust her with what he knew.

"Is there something that you aren't telling me?" Asked Dorothy.

Roger was caught off guard with Dorothy's question, but he recovered from the sock of her question.

"Yes, there is," answered Roger.

"What is it?" She asked.

"I have a funny feeling that something isn't quite right about this. It seems to me that we might be walking into a trap," answered Roger.

"Then why are we going into it?" She asked again.

"I said 'We might be walking into a trap', that dose not really mean that there is a trap out there, but we shouldn't kept that possibly in the back of our mind," answered Roger.

Dorothy just nodded her head at that, and while she didn't quiet understand what Roger just say to her. She got the gist of what he was talking about, that they could or couldn't be walking into a trap, but that might not be so. She kept that possibly out of her mind.

They reached where the hotel was at and things look like that they were okay, but Roger's newly acquired Sixth Sense kick in and it told him that things won't what they seemed. It was that warring that kick in that told him to be careful in this place. That what Roger did, he prepare himself for anything and everything that could be throw at the two of them.

"Dorothy, be careful, something isn't quite right with this place," said Roger.

Dorothy agreed to what he said about this place and walked through the area with care. While she was doing that she was looking for anything that was out of place and Roger was also doing that as well. Since the two of them had sight that was beyond that of normal humans, neither of them required a flashlight to help brighten up the area. It was this small fact that allows the two of them to move with stealth in the darkest. The two of them couldn't see anything that wasn't out of place and Roger was coming to the cold hard fact that this was a waste of time on his part. With that he was thinking about giving up on this search, then he thought of Matt and how worry he was about the faith of his little brother. It was that made Roger kept on looking through this desert of lack of evidence that would help him figure out what just happen in this place. He knew that he could simply touch something around this place and see what happen here, in the past. He was a little uneasy about doing that, but it was looking like that he had done this to figure out what was going on here.

"Do you see anything?" Asked Roger.

"No," answered Dorothy.

Dam! Thought Roger.

"Wait, I think I see something," said Dorothy.

"Where?" Asked Roger.

"At the door," she answered.

With that Roger made his way to where Dorothy was at and he could see what she was talking about. There was a piece of paper that was being held up by an exotic looking knife with an unusual design of the knife blade. Instead of having a triangle pointed top with both sides slopping down evenly. This knife had its blade slopping longer than the other one. As he got closer to the knife he could see that it was encrusted with gemstones that Roger thought were fake, and that they were just there for decoration reasons. Even with that Roger knew that this knife belong to somebody that had money or was a part of an organization that had money. Who else could afford a weapon with so much work that was put into it?

Roger put on his gloves and after that he pulled the knife out of the door. The piece of paper fell from the door, but Roger caught the piece of paper and after that he started to take a look at what was written on the paper. With that he found out what had happen here, the International Digidestined, their Digimon, T.K., and his own Digimon were kidnapped by the people that worked for Rosewater.

To confirm it he put his hand on the door and when he did that he found out that he was in a different time. He knew this because instead of being nighttime, it was daytime and with that he could see that a series of vans had pull up in the hotel parking lot. In brief moment he thought that the people that would come out of these vans would see him, but them he reminder that this already happen and he was just an outside observer that nobody could see. So he knew that the people that did come out of the vans wouldn't be able to see him and they didn't. That ably was a two way street, they couldn't see him and he couldn't do a thing to stop what he knew what was about to have happen here. Then he saw it; he saw them take the International Digidestined and their Digimon out of the hotel rooms that he had put them in, with the full knowledge that this was a safe place. He wonder what where they thinking when they were token out of their rooms without knowledge.

In the real room, Dorothy could see what was going on with Roger and that he was in some type of funk, almost like he was out of it, not in the real world. While his body was in the real world, his mind was in another one, which one that was the question that only Roger knew. Seeing that she knew that Roger was in a weaken state right now, that he was vulnerable to anything despite the fact that he was extremely powerful. Knowing that she knew that it was her job to kept an eye on him while he was having one of his visions about the past.

Back in Roger's visions, he could see that more time had past and it look like that only half of a day had past. This time Roger knew that it was only a half-hour or more ago and he knew this because he saw both T.K. and Peagusmon where here. He could see that two of them were looking around the area, looking for the International Digidestined that were in this place the last time that he had looked. Like him, T.K. could see that this place was not as it seemed and to Roger it look like that T.K. had enough sense in his head to tell him to get out of this place as fast as he could. It look like that what T.K. was about to do until Peagusmon got caught by the people that had stuck the piece of paper that was held up by a knife. After that T.K. got caught by the same person, but it look like that neither of them put up much of fight and when with them peacefully. Seeing that Roger thought that was the right thing to do, for the two of them went much help if they were dead or deleted. So he watched as the vans and cars that contained the Digidestined that were from the other countries speed away from this hotel. He couldn't tell what was their destination, but he had funny feelings that they were heading back to Alex Rosewater's Inner Circle of power. With that Roger found out that he had returned back to here and now, to confirm that he saw that the sky was dark despite the presence of thick clouds and he also could see that Dorothy was also there. Seeing that he knew that he wasn't stuck in the past, in a place that he knew that there was nothing that he could do to change it. This was a time period that he knew that he had the ably to change and affect things in either way. For ill or for good, that was something that he didn't know. The only thing that he knew for sure was the fact that he couldn't allow something like that to stop him from doing what he had to do.

"So what have you seen?" Asked Dorothy.

"A confirmation of what was written on that piece of paper. That the International Digidestined, their Digimon, T.K., and his Digimon, Peagusmon were kidnapped by people that worked for Rosewater," started Roger.

"Before you ask, yes we are going to rescued them from him," continued Roger. But I have a feeling that this is just a ploy to draw our attention away from his true goal, but what is true goal. That is a question that needs an answer, which I don't have right now?

Dorothy nodded her head at that and without a signal word for either one of them, the two of them went to Roger's car. With that Roger took off in the direction of his house still with the burning thought across his mind, which was he wanted to know why did Alex Rosewater wanted to kidnapped these people and Digimon. The only crime that he would think that they did was the fact that they were here in this world. To Alex that was good enough to take them away into his glass palace of like that he had no question in his mind was armor like a fortress ever since they have escape from there for the first time.

The two of them made it back to Roger's house without a signal bit of trouble, but encountering trouble on the streets was something that Roger would guess would happen. This was because he knew what was the sense of talking all of the trouble in writing that note, putting it in a place that they would be found, and held it up by something that would get attention no matter what. They wanted them to find this out and they wanted them to take this information but to the others. But why and then Roger answers his own question when he came the horrible truth about this plan of those. They wanted them to know all of this information, because they wanted to come and save their other teammates from Alex Rosewater, so they could set up a trap for them.

Since now, he knew about this, he now had the ably to counteract their trap by throwing them a curve ball. That curve ball was to state the fact that they had the real Golden Digi Jewel and the one the golden one that they stole along with the black one wasn't the real one. That what Roger suggested that they do when he had assembled other of their team and a good majority of the team was happy with this idea, but expect one, Marry.

"Roger, I shouldn't think we do this," cautioned Marry.

"Why?" Asked Roger. "They don't know that they have the fake one."

"That is just my case, it is are Ace in the Hole, an insurance policy when things go bad," answered Marry.

"And this isn't bad? If this is bad by your definition, then tell me what is," said Matt.

"I do agree with you, that this is bad, but what will happen when something else that is even more worst then this come along and we don't have the Golden Digi Jewel. What will we do then?" Asked Marry.

"We will come to that bridge when we cross it," said Tai.

"No, we don't. I was taught a long time ago that you should always cover your bases no matter what," said Marry.

"Then what do you suggest that we do?" Asked Kari.

"This is hard for me to say, but I don't know what we can do hold to get them out of this, but I know for sure that we are going to do it," answered Marry.

"I don't know about your guys, but I can tell you that I am dead tired and I need sleep," said Joe.

"I am a little bushed myself as well," said Izzy.

Roger put his hand up in disgust. "Fine then! We will get some sleep."

After that everybody was getting ready to get some sleep and everybody was happy that they were going on this course of action with the exception of Roger. For he was the one that wanted to get these people and their Digimon back to a place where he knew that they were safe from danger. Right now they weren't in a safe spot, but he also knew that Alex wouldn't hurt them because they were bait for them. Bait that wasn't in top condition wouldn't attract the game that one was hunting. On the other hand, he didn't know if Daemon would be that generous in keeping them alive, he hand funny feelings that he wanted them dead as fast as anybody could think about it.

Up in his Glass Palace, Alex Rosewater was looking down at the city that he controls through the used of many methods. He could see that the rain that had started was now gone, but the effect of the rain reminded. While the effects of rain normally meant that all of the buildings that were outside in the elements were wet and the rainwater collected in puddles in low points through out the city. There was something inside of Alex that told him that the effects of the rain weren't just wet buildings and puddles that were collecting the rainwater.

"So you have found it and you have used it for the first time," said Alex. "But, I have the feeling that you haven't yet master it, like I have."

Even with that he could see that the team that he had sent out was coming back from their mission and he could feel that they were coming back with success. While he couldn't see the fruit of their labor, he somehow knew that they had what he wanted.

"What do you plan to do with these other Digidestined?" Asked Daemon.

"I plan to used them as bait to draw out the others and get them here, but the only ones that I want right now are Roger, Marry Sanderous, and her Digimon, Nivernmon. The others that might come along with them are just an added bonus," answered Alex.

"So if the others do come with them, what do you suggest that we do to them?" Asked Daemon.

"Anything that you want, just make sure that the mess that you might create is quick, and clean. I don't want anything like that to stop the two of us from achieving our goal," answered Alex.

Daemon just nodded his head in agreement and while he was doing that Angel walked into the room holding an open white folder. In was this fact that had cause Angel to bump into Daemon and when she did that two things happen to Daemon. One, he was upset that a human would do such a thing to him and the second thing was that he found out that Angel was indeed a Digimon just like him, hiding under the nose of two of them. Angel realized this and the only thing that she knew was that she had to get out of this place as fast as she could. That what she did, but she did that under protests of Daemon.

"Get her!" Yelled Daemon.

Nobody listens to Daemon and this made the Demon Lord type Digimon furious at the lack of respond to his orders by Alex's men. He did the only thing that he could do and that was to go after Angel him and he did that by heading in the direction of where she went. Alex natural follows him and when the two of them got out of the room they could see that she had disappeared from them.

Daemon just growled in disgust at what just happen here.

"What just-" started Alex, but he never got to finished his question and this was because Daemon quickly turn around in the direction of Alex and hit him square in the face. The force from the physical attack that came from Daemon caused Alex to fall down on the floor and while he was doing that he was holding his face, like he was injured by the attack from him. Daemon didn't react to what he just did, he was more interest where Angel took off at.

Alex got up from the floor and while he was doing that he took off his hand from his face. In doing that he relieved to anybody that was looking in that direction would see that the wounds he caused that healed themselves with no type of aide to them. Daemon didn't see it, the only thing that he saw was the fact that Angel had escape from his hands, which was something that he didn't like.

"You men are nothing but idiots, they didn't listen to me when I order them to stop Angel!" Demanded Daemon.

"They are right not to listen to you, for they aren't your men. They are my men and they will only listen to me!" Stated Alex in an authoritarian voice.

"What are you saying?" Asked Daemon, that now turns his head in the direction of Alex. When he did that he could see the tail end of his wounds that were healing themselves. Daemon reminded stoic at this new ably that Alex was showing now to him. He didn't understand this, he knew that humans didn't heal as quickly as Digimon did, but somehow Alex was showing this ably and he wanted to know how he was doing this.

"What I am saying is that, my men will only listen to you, if and I must restate this fact, only if I tell them to do so. Since I didn't tell them at that time to listen to you, they didn't listen to you, loyal like that is hard to find these days. Do you agree with me on that part?" Answered Alex.

Once again Daemon just growled at this, this human once again outwitted him and that was something that he thought would never happen to him. This prove to him that it could happen and this sow seeds of doubt in his mind on how he could control his own forces that were in this area. Even with that in his mind he had to kept his eyes on the straight and narrow, that meant that he had to inform Alex about what he just found out about Angel, the woman that he used as his own personal assistant. He also wanted to know how could Alex have the ably to heal himself so fast in the style of a Digimon.

"Yes, I do agree that loyal like that is hard to find nowadays, but I have to tell you something about one of your own isn't who they said that they are. I also would like to know how can you heal yourself so fast with no visible sign that they were once there?" Asked Daemon.

"Who is it? My ably comes with the fact that I am half demon and the ably to quickly regenerate is one of the good sides effects of being like that," answered Alex.

"Oh, I tell you, is it your personal assistant, the woman that was just in here and the one that I tried to chase," answered Daemon. Hearing that and knowing that Roger Smith was his son, he now knew that apart of Roger was Demonic and that meant that there was a part of him that he could turn on his side of the fight.

"You mean, Patricia Lovejoy? What about her?" Asked Alex.

"Well she is a Digimon that has token human form so that she can spy on you and report back to the Digital World about what is going on here," answered Daemon.

"What?! Are you serious?" Asked a stunned Alex.

"Yes, I am serious, when she bumped into me, I felt it. I don't know what Digimon she is, but I know for a fact that she is a Digimon and since she isn't a Digimon that belong to my group or my master's group. She must be eliminated, do you understand that. We can't have somebody like that still around," said Daemon.

"Fine, take care of it, I don't have the time nor the effort to deal with her and that fact. I will focus my efforts on seeing that are guest are well treated. I can't have them be mistreated for they won't attract the game that I want," said Alex.

"Thank you, very much," said Daemon.

Angel who know in her true form, her Digimon form which was Swanmon and she was flying through the gray color skies of this world. She was heading in the only direction of the only place that she knew was safe and that was Roger's house. While she knew that she had tricked him many times in doing things that she knew that Roger wouldn't do no matter what. It was the only place that she knew that she would be safe, despite the fact that the owner of the place didn't trust her even if she show him the way to Sword. It was better that nothing, she knew that if she didn't find a place to hind she would be picked off real fast. She had funny feelings that both Alex Rosewater and Daemon were selecting the right type of Digmon or person that would have the best shot of taking her out before she could give out any type of information about what they were doing. Despite the fact that she knew little to nothing about what they were doing. The only thing that she did knew was the fact that Alex did have Big Trio, but she freed that Digimon and brought that Digimon back to the Digital World.

While she was flying through the air she could see the ground of this city and in doing that she could see that there were little no anybody that was out on the streets at this time of night. This was good because she didn't know what to do if a normal person saw her in this state. Despite the fact that where a couple of Digimon that have made their appearance in this world. There weren't enough of people that have seen enough Digimon to know what they were or not to jump to conclusions about any type Digimon no matter who they were. They would assume that all Digimon are evil and this was because of the bad experiences that they had with them. They would be wrong about that, this was because there were a good group of decent Digimon that were law abiding and the only thing that they wanted was to be left alone with their own worries about their lives.

She saw Roger's house and she headed off in that direction. His house loomed closer and closer as she made her way to his house. She landed on the balcony of his house with a four-point landing and it was this type of landing that she made that produced no sound. Even with that she knew that she wasn't safe and that she had to kept her guard up no matter what, even if the place that she was at looked like it was safe and sound. She looked around and she made the choice that this place was safe. She was about to do commit in entering Roger's house, but before she did it an energy blast struck a portion of his house and this cause Swanmon to turn her head around in the direction of where she thought the energy blast came from.

With that she found out the origin of the energy blast came from. She saw that it came from a Digmon, and to be specific it was the Digimon, Azralemon. Azralemon was the Angel of Depth in the Digital World.

"What are you doing here, Azralemon?" Asked Swanmon.

"To make you paid for the treacherous acts that you have done," answered Azralemon.

Swanmon narrowed her eyes at this Digimon. She knew what she did in the past, she knew that she was in Alex's Inner Circle for a reason and that was to kept an eye out on what Alex was doing in this world. For the reason, she did this was because the Digital World had lost contact with this world and the Guardians and the few reminding Ancients didn't like this idea.

"That is in the eyes of the beholder. You might of think of what I have done is treacherous, but in my eyes and the people that I work for, what I did is an act of a patriot," said Swanmon.

"However you see it, there is one thing that I know for sure that will happen to you, you will be gone and since it look like that you don't have any type of help, you will dead. With that the loose end that my boss is worry about is all tied up," said Azralemon.

"If that is true, then it is my destiny to die," said Swanmon. After that she jumped into the air and went after the Digimon. "White Marie!"

After she called out her attack she flapped her wings and out of the wings came a series of feathers that went into the direction of the Digimon. Azralemon reacted to the sight of the attack by placing both of his arms in a x formation to block the attack. In doing that he could feel the sharp pain that came from attack on his arms. When the attack was gone, Azralemon knew that it was his time to attack the Armor-Level Digimon with one of his Ultimate-Level Digimon attack.

"Ibis Ribbon!" After he shouted out his attack a whip of white energy appeared in the hands of the Ultimate-Level Digimon. With that he attack Swanmon with the energy whip that he produced. When the Ultimate-Level Digimon's attack connected with Swanmon she felt the pain from the higher level Digimon. The attack also forced her from the skies and she landed hard onto the balcony. The force from the impact cause roof to crack slightly and the two Digimon thought nothing of this small detail. The only thing that Swanmon did was to get back up and attack Azralemon. The thing that they didn't know was the fact that the part that Swanmon had fall onto and slightly crack was the same ceiling of where both Marry and Nivernmon were sleeping.

The small amount of dust that came from the crack that fall on Marry's face cause her to wake up from her sleep. She wondered what caused this to happen and she look up at the ceiling, when she did this, she found out that there was a small crack on the ceiling. She wondered what caused this to happen and then she heard what to her sounding like Digimon calling out their attacks. With that she got out of her bed and went to the nearest window. She looks out and found out that she was correct there were two Digimon that were attacking each other. At this distance she couldn't clearly tell who was fighting each other, but what she could tell was the colors that both of these two Digimon had. One of them was black and the other one was white, the rest of the details about these two Digimon was something that she had to find out on her own and the only way to do something like that was to get out of this room and outside.

"Nivernmon," said Marry softly.

Nivernmon didn't react to her call and with that she started to tap on her shoulder to get her attention. This did the trick, it woke up her Digimon.

"What?" Asked Nivernmon.

"Listen," answered Marry.

Nivernmon did that and she found out just like Marry did that there were a couple of Digimon that were attacking each other.

"I see," said Nivernmon. "What are we going to do?"

"We are going out there and find out what is going on out there," answered Marry.

"Right," said Nivernmon.

"Black Death!" Yelled Azralemon and after he did that a huge round circle that was black in color appeared overhead of the Digimon. With that he throw the thing in the direction of Swanmon and despite the fact that she was pretty beat up she got out of the way of the attack. When she did that his attack harmlessly hit a building and since she wasn't in the direction of Roger's house, she didn't worry about the battle damage that was starting to pile up right now.

"You are pretty quick for a Digimon that just got whip into shape, literally," said Azralemon.

Swanmon didn't say anything to this. "Down Tornado!" With that a small white twister appeared and it when into the direction of Azralemon. Unlike Swanmon that got out of the way of his attack, he didn't and with that he got caught up in the attack. The attack went into yet another one of the buildings in this area and the attack put him deeply into the building. Seeing that Swanmon thought that she had defeated an Ultimate Level Digimon despite the fact that she was only an Armor-Level Digimon.

"That one was close," said Swanmon and after that she turned her attention back to Roger's house. When she did that she could see the slight damage that she had caused to his house and with that she thought that the small doorway that was open behind the two of them was now close without any type of hope being open ever again. Even with that she know that she had to hound up that it was her that caused that type of damage to his house.

"Is that the best you got!" Yelled Azralemon.

Swanmon look up and she could see that she didn't defeat Azralemon despite the fact that he had some carbon scoring on his body.

"Ibis Ribbon!" He shouted again and like before a huge white energy whip formed into his hand. With that he aimed it in the direction of the Digimon and Swanmon didn't know what to do with this.

"Pike Spin!" Yelled another voice and with that a metal lance was seen flying through the air in the direction of the attack. The metal lance hit it and when it did it broke the energy whip into two pieces.

With that the metal lance returned to its owner and everybody follow where the metal pike went. In doing that they saw that the metal lance belong to yet another Digimon and this Digimon was with her human friend, the two of them were standing on yet another building that had luckily received no battle damage during the fight between the two of them.

"You hold dare you interfere. This is a matter that is between the two of us, back off and I might spare your life," said Azralemon.

"No," said Aggymon.

This act of defiance that this Digimon was doing to him surprise and socked him so must that he couldn't believe what he was seeing. That there was a Digimon out there that didn't fear him of the group of Digimon that he belong to. He just had to see who this Digimon was and who was this human that was with her.

"I am not done with you, yet," said Azralemon. "But this new face, this new Digimon had caught my attention and when that happens I am bound to find out why."

Azralemon moved away from Swanmon and to Marry and Aggymon. When he did that he instantly recognized whom this Digimon was and who was with her. That went the same for Marry and Aggymon, both of them knew who this black winged Angel was, it was Azralemon, one of the two Digimon that attack her father's house and stole the fake Golden Digi Jewel from there.

"You," said a stunned Azralemon.

Marry could sense from the sound of his voice that he realized who he was dealing with and that he had stepped into a something that he didn't want to go into.

"Yes," said a malicious voice. "Now, we will finished what we started almost two weeks ago."

Aggymon nodded her head in agreement at what her human friend just said. She also wanted to finish the job that Marry had started almost two weeks ago. With that the Champion Level Digimon jumped into the air and when she did that she felt a slight air current under her skin flaps which allowed her to glide in the air, almost like she was flying. Then she went right after the Angel-type Digimon that belonged to the Wind Guardian Family of Digimon

"Fool!" Shouted Azralemon. With that the Digimon put both of his hands palms facing Aggymon. When he did that he made an invisible barrier in front of him and when that happen he used it to blasted Aggymon away from his body.

When that happens Aggymon found her smack up against a building. "That good of went better."

"Aggymon!" Shouted Marry. With that her Crest glowed its blue color and Aggymon felt the energy come from he Crest.

"Aggymon Digivolve to…" started Aggymon.

"…Metal Aggymon," ended Metal Aggymon.

With the new surge in power Aggymon that was now Metal Aggymon got up from the side of the building and went in the direction of Azralemon. Azralemon could see that Aggymon got a new set of clothes, metal armor that was on her wrists and legs, a helmet that was also made out the same type of metal armor, plus she also got a set of metal wings.

"Oh, look at this, a new set of clothes and armor, but that dosen't mean anything! Black Death!" Like before, he raise both of his hands on top of his head and when that happen a huge black circle appeared above his head. When it appeared he throw the thing at Metal Aggymon.

"That won't work with me now," said Metal Aggymon. After that she brought out both of her metal spikes that came out of both of her gauntlets that were around her wrists and after that she brought both of them together in a defensive stance. Her defensive stance held up when the attack came and while she could feel the strength from the attack.

While both of them were of the same level, Ultimate, but it seem to Metal Aggymon that Azralemon had more experience in attacking at this level, then she did. It has been many years since she was at this level and it was showing. She knew that she couldn't allow this attack to go through and defeat her.

"Don't give up," said Marry. "You can't allow that freak that is dress in black to win!"

Drops of sweat started to form on her head that clearly showed the sing of the stress that she was under. "I am trying, but this is a lot harder that it looks. You know that I haven't been in my Ultimate Level for years, until recently. I think this guy has been in this level for many years and you know that experience helps when fighting somebody that is of the same level that you are."

"You just can't let him win, no matter what," said Marry.

"I could say that calling somebody that is dress all in black a freak," said a voice.

With that Marry turned around and found that Roger had appeared on the same rooftop that she was on. Marry didn't feel like trying to explain to herself how he got up here like she did, he just did and right now that was good enough for her. Right now she was more worry about how her Digimon was going fair against this guy.

"I know," said Metal Aggymon. She is right, I can't allow this guy to win, no matter what, there is just to much on the line if I lose this fight. Oh, great Guardians give me straight to fend off this attack and bring it back to the attacker twice fold.

With that she being to think about everybody that she knew that lived in the human world, the Digital World, where her friends lived, and this world, despite the fact that she knew almost nobody here, there were still innocence people that lived in this world. She knew that if she fail with this that these people at best would fine their lives shattered and not wroth living and worst they would find themselves dead. That was something that she couldn't allow to have happen no matter what and thinking about these people, what would happen to them give her the strength plus the propose to fight this attacker back with the same strength that he had. She did. She did by overpowering the attack and then she slashed the attack with both of her blades until the present of the attack was gone.

[Author Notes: HooperStank's Crawling in the Dark in the background music]

Metal Aggymon didn't feel like wasting anytime on words, it was time for action and she did that by bolting at full speed in the direction of the Digimon, with so much speed that Azralemon didn't have time to react at the attacking Digimon. Metal Aggymon hit the Angel type Digimon square in the face and that cause him to fall out of the sky like a falling star, but with more speed.

To look over her work, Metal Aggymon hovered over the creator that was accomplishing when Azralemon landed there. She could see that there was a huge smoke screen that blocked her view of what had happen to him and before she knew it a huge black blur appeared out of the smoke. The black blur smacked Metal Aggymon in the face and that cause her to fall slightly down, but not out, she was still in the sky. With that Metal Aggymon return the favor by hitting Azralemon in the face and the power that came from the attack socked Azralemon. Even with that Azralemon took the hit on the chin and did a full spin kick. The attack hit Metal Aggymon in the stomach and Metal Aggymon spitted something out of her mouth that look like the Digimon equal to blood.

Metal Aggymon didn't have enough time to recover from this salvage attack that she had received and this was because Azralemon had move around to make another attack. Then Azralemon blasted her with a same invisible shield that he had used before on her. That causes her extreme pain and so much pain that she couldn't maintain her flight status and fell from the sky.

"It looks like that your Digimon is taking a beating, do you think that she is going to need help?" Asked Roger.

"No, Metal Aggymon is a tough little Digimon," answered Marry.

Then the two of them saw that Metal Aggymon took the same fall like Azralemon before her, Metal Aggymon fell into a pit, but this pit was the pit that was caused when Azralemon had landed there.

"Look at this, it seems that fortune has favor me, and it now time for me to finished the job that was sent here for. Swanmon, prepare for your end," said Azralemon.

"I don't think so!" Yelled a voice.

The sounds of the voice knock Azralemon a little off guard and that was the slight end that Metal Aggymon needed to take on Azralemon. Even if she was still in pain and that didn't discouraged Metal Aggymon from her fight, for she fought against the pain that came from her moving around. Even with that she knew that she had to stop this Digimon from killing Swanmon no matter who she was at what her past action had spoke for her.

"It is time for you to return to the heavens in which you belong to," said Metal Aggymon.

"What?" Asked a still dazed Azralemon.

"Scared Cross!" Yelled Metal Aggymon and after that she crossed both of her arms across her chest. Then she let them go and out of her metal wings came a blast of energy that didn't appear to have a shape, but when they gathered up and restrained Azralemon, they made their shape known. It was a cross in the color of red and Azralemon was in the middle of it.

"Now it is time to put an end to this," said Metal Aggymon and with that she brought out both of her metal spikes together. She pointed them in the direction of Azralemon. "Double Side!" Yelled out Metal Aggymon and seconds after that a beam of yellow energy came out of the two metal spikes. The attack headed in the direction of the Digimon and seeing that Azralemon tried to escape from the prison that Metal Aggymon put him in. He found out that he couldn't move from it and the only thing that he could do was to watch as the attack from came into his area.

"This might be the end of me, but this isn't end of our idea," said Azralemon. After that Double Side attack that Metal Aggymon fired in the direction of Azralemon reach its destination and the attack hit Azralemon in the chest region of the Digimon. Azralemon's body absorbed the attack, but it wasn't with a price and the price that he paid was the fact that his entire chest was destroyed by the attack.

[Author Notes: The Song reaches its end]

The destruction of the region of this Digimon was so compete that everybody could see through the hole and the cross that Metal Aggymon had formed. After that Azralemon's body started to deleted itself slowly, but steady until there was no more of Azralemon. With that the cross also disappeared from view as well.

[Author Note: The Song ends]

Knowing that victory was ashore, Metal Aggymon did a little bit of a victory dance in the air of her own. She did by first crossing both of her blades across her chest in a x formation, then she brought both of them out of that formation, and after that she made both of them come either side of her body.

After that she made her way to where Roger and Marry where at. When she was on the roof of the building that was when Metal Aggymon Devolved from her Ultimate Level back to her Rookie Level which was Nivernmon. When she did that duo of them could see that the battle damage that occurred during the fight somehow got transferred to this level as well. She also was weakened as well, but the good thing was that she was still alive and not deleted like how Azralemon was.

"How are you?" Asked Marry.

"I feel like a Lynxmon just burned me with her fire fur," answered Nivernmon.

"'Lynxmon?'" Asked Roger.

"Another Digimon, who is at the Armor Level and she is completely cover in flames, just like Birdramon is," answered Marry.

Roger just nodded his head at that. "All right, then, I think that we should return to my house and try to figure out what the hell just happen here."

"Okay then," said Marry. After that Marry picked up her Digimon, Nivernmon from the ground. With that the two of them followed Roger down the stairs, knowing the fact that Swanmon, Angel was still on top of Roger's rooftop still wanting to find out what would happen to her because of what just happen a couple of seconds ago.

TBC…

In Chapter 27 – Rescue! Save the International Digidestined: Part 2: The Plan