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.

More Author Notes: I know that the second season of The Big O has been produced and will be airing on Cartoon Network, sometime during the fall. I would like to tell you all, that new 13th episodes of the new season will have no barring on my story.

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 28: Rescue! Save the International Digidestined: Part 3: The Rescue

Daemon had exited the room where Alex was located and headed off in the direction of where the pilot of the Megadece that was known as Big Duo. The pilot of that machine was a man that was simply known as Schwarzwald. Daemon knew little to nothing about this guy and what he did know about him was that he was an amusement to Alex, which was the reason why he allow him to stay around as long as he did. Even with that Alex had a plan for this guy and it seem that today at this hour that it was time for Schwarzwald to take his role in the grand scheme of things. The only problem is that fact would Schwarzwald accept the role that was being offer to him and the only way to find that out was to go where this guy was located in this city. He knew that only few people knew that bit of information about him and Daemon was apart of that small group of people that knew that. He knew that only reason behind that was the fact that Alex told him and while he didn't like to be told what to do. He accepted this because he knew that this was a necessary evil for him to go through if he wanted to achieve his goals. He didn't know how long he would stand it being told what to do by this human, a human that in this world was the most powerful being, but that was something that didn't impress him at all.

Even with that on his mind he still made his way through this city and he could see that the people here despite the fact that they had no clue where they came from where still living their lives, in the same type of style that the people did in the world were the Digidestined came from. Even with that he knew that he had a job to do and he did that. It only took him a couple of more minutes but he found himself in the location where Schwarzwald called home.

When he saw the place that he called home, he could see that it was a tower-like building that had seen better days. A good majority of the windows that once contained glass windows were either blown out or broken. That was the best feature about this place and the rest of the tower look like that it was either sheer off or it collapsed on itself. Whatever the reason behind this, the top portion of this building was expose to the outside and Daemon knew that would only increase the structural damage that this building was going through. It was going to be a matter of time before this building would be inhabitable. That time wouldn't be too soon, so Daemon knew that it was safe from him to walk up to the building. The people that called that place home were different story. He didn't know how they would reacted to his present in this place that they thought was safe from other people. It was something that he had to do to set his plan into action and so he knocked on the door. A thing that felt so strange to him, this was because he was so used to walking through the doors, walls, or floors of buildings in his world. This strange feeling that he had, wasn't strong enough to stop from doing this, so he did it. Now, the only thing that he had to do was wait for a response from the people that were on the other side of the portal.

The door opens up with a traditional noise that was the squeak, telling him that this door needed some type of oil that would lubricate the gears of the door. Despite that, the door open up for him and the person that was on the other side of the door, reacted to his sight the way that Daemon would think he would, he gasped in horror at him.

A real life demon that came with all of the normal gear that a typical demon would have, horns, claws, and wings had came to visits him.

"W-W-What do you want?" The person struggled get out.

"Your boss," Daemon simply said to him in a stern that told that person that he was here for one thing and one thing only, his boss. There was nothing that was in this world that would stop from achieving his goal.

The person that was at the door understood this and open up the door wide enough that would allow the Digimon to walk into the room. Daemon did that and after that the person close the door behind him. With that the small amount of light that was in this place when the door was open up was all gone when it was close, a thing that Daemon liked, for it made him feel like he was back home. His eyes quickly adjusted to the darkest, but he knew that was going to go by the way side and he found out that he was correct about that because the human that had open up the door for him lit up a candle that was contained within a glass jar.

This flickering light source was the type of light that one should read by, it was good enough for them to navigated the room that they were in. They needed it for the room that they were walking in was full with obstructions that included small and huge shards of glass, fallen beams of wood that without a doubt were used to support the roof of this building. Even these fallen wooden beams were showing their age, with black spots that contained rotted wood that was being held up by shear will of the wood, if it had one.

"Watch yourself," the person said.

"I will," he said, despite the fact that he knew that these items that had worry the human that was with him so much wouldn't have the power to hurt him in the same way that it would to a human. He did this to help relieve the concern that this person had about him.

"Thank you, I don't need a visitor like you to be hurt in this place," the person said.

"I am touched," he said.

The person that was his guide in this place wasn't affected by his compassion, he kept his eyes on the straight and narrow. That was his job and his job right now was to take this person through this place to the person that was his boss. While he didn't know how he would react to this person, the only thing that he knew was that he was doing his job and the rest of it was just details, details that he didn't have to worry himself with.

The two of them made it to a flight of stairs that look like that they were in bad shape with numerous of hole that were both rotten out and punched out by the people in this place. Like before Daemon was told to watch himself while walking up these steps and like before Daemon told the person that he would, despite the fact that he knew that he could easily avoid these traps in these steps. As the two of them walked up the steps both of them could hear the strain that these steps where on, telling both of them that these steps were on their last leg. That steps on this flight of stairs could collapse on them and while this didn't worry Daemon because he could use some of his powers to quickly transport himself out of the way of the danger. For the human, that was his guide, couldn't do that, he would come down with the steps if they fall at this moment and at worst the falling debris would kill him, and at best this would injure him. Luckily, for them this didn't happen to them for both of them made up the steps and the human that was ahead of Daemon, let up a great sign of relief that this time the steps that he just walked on didn't collapsed under their combine weight. After that he wiped off a drop of sweat that was on his forehead.

With that over with, the only thing that he had to do was to take him to where his boss was located. He knew that, his boss, Schwarzwald, could only be in two places, one was the hanger where his machine was located, or his private room, both of places that he couldn't go into. The only thing that he could do was to direct him to and knocked on the door to get the attention of him. The place that he was talking this person to be the Schwarzwald's private room and he found out that the door was closed. That told him that he could be in this room and knowing that he wasn't allow to enter into the room, so he knocked on the door. He waited for him to answer his knock.

"What?!" Asked Schwarzwald.

"There is a person that has ask for you," the person answered with.

"Who are they?" He asked.

"He didn't say," the person answered.

This peaked the attention of the person that was once a reporter for this city, but he had to control himself with this. He had to tread carefully here, this person could be one of Rosewater's men that was sent here to quiet him up like before, but that time he tried to use money, but he had refuse it. Now, he feared that Rosewater would try to use force to do it. In the name of a strong arm men that would at best try to beat him up so badly that he wouldn't want to talk about what he had discovered about this city, or even at worst kill him so that the threat that he was would never resurface again. He also knew that if he didn't answer this person he would come into this place with or without his will, so he made the choice that he would allow this person to enter into this place.

"Let them in," he said.

The person that had lead him through out this place open up the door for him and he did it in a way that he wouldn't be able to take a look inside of the place. Daemon did see the place that this person was in and he could see that it was quiet a little messy with scrapes of pieces of paper that were throw throughout this place in a haphazard way with no attention to detail or organization to it. In center of this mess was the man that was known as Schwarzwald and Daemon could see that he was human or human like. He could tell this by his body shape that was in accordance to the other humans that he had seen before. He was dressed in a ratted suit and his entire body was cover in white stripes of bandages that give him the look of being a mummy.

"Close the door," he said.

Daemon listened to him.

"So you are the man that is called himself 'Schwarzwald'," said Daemon.

"Yes, I am, who are you?" Asked Schwarzwald. "And what do you want from me?"

"I am called Daemon, and by my appearance, I am a Digimon," he said.

That was the first time that he had heard that term before. "Are you the same as the creatures that I saw that had children on them?"

"Yes, but I am not with them, not all of the Digimon that are from where I come from are on the same side, they are some that are on the side of the Digimon that you fought with, and there are others that are on my side. Two answer your second question, I was sent here to give you a 'gift'," answered Daemon.

This once again caught the attention of Schwarzwald and he wanted to know what this "gift" was. "What is this so called 'gift'?" He asked.

Daemon reached for the pocket that was in his red robe and pulled out what Alex Rosewater called a "gift" to this man. Daemon knew what this "gift" was, it was the Red Jewel that he had token from the world that the Digidestined came from. He pulled the thing out for him and Schwarzwald could see what it was, it was a Red Jewel that was in the shape of a diamond. It look like that it could be a red ruby, an item that he knew was a precious stone, a thing that the affluent people would wear to impressive other people or to show that they had a pretty fare share of money behind them to the normal people.

Seeing this and knowing the symbol that it was, it was yet another attempt by Rosewater to shut him up about what he knew. Like before he scoffed at this. "Tell him, that I don't want it." After that he turned his head away from the Digimon.

Foolish human, you don't know what you have right now thought Daemon. "You are indeed a foolish human, you don't know what you have at your grasp now. You have the power within this thing to level the playing field with your rival," he said hanging the worm on the fishhook. He hopped that Schwarzwald would bite on.

This caught the attention of Schwarzwald for he wanted to know what this Digimon Daemon was talking about. So he turned his head back in the direction of Daemon and he found out that he didn't move from the spot that he had started with.

"What are you talking about?" Asked Schwarzwald.

This was want Daemon wanted from him, he had token the bait that was on the fishhook and now it was time to real him. "Did you know that your rival, Roger Smith had found a way to merge with his Megadeus, in a sense they are one being."

Schwarzwald didn't like the sound of this. "How did he do it?"

"I don't know all of the details of how he did it, but the only things that you should know is that one; is more powerful than you are, and two; I have a way to allow you to do the same," the demon Lord-type Digimon said.

"And that thing you have isn't a normal ruby?" He asked.

Daemon nodded his head at that and after he did that Schwarzwald took the thing out of his hand as fast as a human could do it.

"Leave," he ordered.

Daemon acknowledged his order and took the leave from that place. He opted to use the door rather than phase through either than wall, the roof, or even the floors of this place. Outside of the room he found out that his guide was still there waiting for him to leave that room and the only thing that he give to him as a sign that he was done with his business with him was a slight nodding of his head. His guide took that as a sign that he was ready to leave this place and the two of them did, taking the same path that they took before to get to this place.

Schwarzwald, now by himself since, the Digimon that called himself Daemon had left the this room, now had the time to admire and to examine the thing that he took out of the hands of this Digimon. To him it look like to be the precious stone that was known as a ruby and he knew that this thing on the surface was noting more than a decoration that the rich would used to flaunt their money to either the regular working class people that could only image to have something like that or to their rich friends to show them that they were well off. But if, he could trust this Daemon person, despite the fact that he was a Digimon, this thing was much more than that and while there was a part of him that wanted to take him on his word and take a leap of faith on this thing. There was yet another part of him that told him not to do this, because of two reasons, one: this thing came from a Digimon, creatures that did defeated him, and two; it was coming from Alex Rosewater, the same person that had tried to paid him off to kept his mouth shut. But none, of these reasons, stopped Schwarzwald from looking at the thing and moving the thing through out his fingers, letting the small amount of light that was in his room caught the different cut angels that were on this stone that give this thing it luster. While he was doing this he became mesmerized by the thing with all of the many different features that this thing had.

"You have it," said a disembodied voice.

The sound of the voice broke Schwarzwald from his grazed of the thing and it also allowed him to gain control of all of his senses. Which allowed him to see what had happen to him, he was mesmerized by the thing and it was that fact that told him to put the thing away as fast as he could. He did that by putting it into his desk.

Out of sight, out of mind he thought.

But that didn't stop the disembodied voice from speaking to him again.

"I know that you have it," it said. "Putting the thing away like that, won't change that fact."

This caused Schwarzwald to get up from his chair and walked in the direction of where he thought that the voice came from.

"Who are you? What do you want?" He ordered voice.

"I think you know who I am," it said. "Come to me with that thing and find out what I want."

Schwarzwald had a funny feeling who was speaking to him, but it was something that he didn't want to accept, no it was impossible for it to have happen. Was God speaking to him? No, that couldn't be, for he didn't believe in a being like that, like so many of the people here did.

"Are you God?" He asked.

The voice started to chuckle a little at this question. "A part of my name means that."

With that it hit Schwarzwald like a ton of bricks, he wasn't speaking to God, but he was speaking to Big Duo, his own Megadeus. "No."

"Yes," it said.

"How?" He asked.

"Like I said before, come to me with that thing and find out why and more," it said.

After that Schwarzwald pull the thing out of his desk.

Daemon walked out of the building and he could hear that the person that had guided him through this place had close the door behind him. He also could hear that the person had also locked the door behind him as well and this amused the Demon-Lord type Digimon a little, but he couldn't allow himself to get side tracked by that small matter. He had to get back to Rosewater and tell him what he had achieved from him.

The first step on that little trip was to head off in the direction of Alex's Glass Palace that was located in the Main Dome of this city. He did that by using his powers that allowed him to phase through the ground of this city and while he did that, Makuramon, in the human form that allowed him to look at the various operations that this city did. He could see that Daemon was in this world and that wasn't a good sing for them or their allies. It was something that he had to tell his Sovereign about as fast as he could.

Alex Rosewater looked upon the various screens that were in his office and he could see the many different Digidestined and Digimon that were contained within his building. He had separated them on purpose because he knew as a group they were strong and had the power to find a way to escape this place, but by themselves and without their Digimon allies they didn't have this power. The only thing that they could do was to wait to see what would happen to them and what they did, unaware that they were just pawns in this great chess game that he was playing.

They might be pawns, but that didn't mean that they were just objects that could be miss treated and that was because they were still living and breathing things that required care. This care had to be good if he wanted them to do their job for him, while he didn't know who this person that called herself "The woman with the Real Life Griffin" was, so he didn't know how she would reacted to if she saw them mistreated. But he did know how Roger would react if he saw them mistreated. He would call them entire deal off and that was something that he didn't want to have happen because they had the thing that he wanted the Golden Jewel.

He heard the sound of a knock on his door and that caused him to get up from his chair. He headed to the door and opened up the door. In doing that he found out that Daemon was there.

"I see that you are starting to use 'our' ways to enter into buildings and rooms," said Alex.

"Yes, I have been starting to do that," he said.

"So, did you do what I requested?" Alex asked.

Daemon nodded his head at that. "Yes, I have."

"Good, now the only thing that we can do right now, is getting ready for Roger and his company," said Alex.

"I will get the others ready," he said and after that he started to walk in the direction of where Alex had the other held up at.

After that Alex closed the door behind Daemon and started to walk toward the end of his room where his desk was located. He got himself prepare to leave this room and onto the streets of his city, to great Roger. He didn't worry about his safely with the normal people, because he had people that would be around him that would prevent anybody from doing something like that. It was Roger and his group that included the creatures that were known as Digimon, that worry him a little bit and that was because he knew that either of them had the power to take down his security personal that would leave him open to their main assault on him. It was a risk, but it was a risk that he had to take if he wanted his plans to bare fruit for him. So he made the choice that he would go out in the Field and great these people face to face without the use of a proxy. He also wanted to do this because he wanted to know who was this person that called herself "The Woman with the Real Life Griffin" was and that what she looked like. He had his own feelings of what she looked like and that was she was some type of Valkyrie, a female warrior out of Norse Myth, with all of the trappings of that mythical person. That included a muscular body, clothing that would express it, and a face that would tell anybody that she was the type of woman that one shouldn't mess with. But he knew that he couldn't jump to conclusions about her because he knew that what he thought she look like and what she really look like could be completely different from each other. Even with that he was a little interested in a woman that had enough guts to stand up against him and not act like this was her own idea, not like she was put up to it. He had never met a woman like this before that came out of this world, but while he was interested in this woman, he couldn't allow it to distracted him from his goal and what she really was, she was his enemy. A person that would try her hardest to stop him from what he wanted to do and that was enough for him to be brought back to Earth. He also had funny feelings that this woman that called herself by this title was the same person that Daemon was speaking of, the woman that had defeat his master.

So at the desk he touched on of the numerous buttons that were on his intercom that was on his desk. When he did that he had open up a channel to his new secretary.

"Yes," she said.

"Can you tell my group of people that I am ready to leave to leave the office," he said.

"Yes, Sir," said Clara.

After that he touched the same button that was on his desk that ended the transmission that was between the two of them. With that he headed to yet another door that was in his office and he open it up and this was his Coat Room, where he had his many coats. He picked the dark gray one that was made out of the some of finest clothe that were available to him. He put the coat on and after that he closed the door, then he walked out of his office.

T.K. woke up from his sleep and once again he found out that he was in the same dark place that was void of any thing that would help him tell how much time had pass him by. So the only thing that he could do was to do his best guess at how much time has pass him by and he thought that maybe a day or even two has passed him by while he was in this place. He couldn't be to sure about it, the only way that he could be sure is when a person would tell him how much time had pass him by. The one thing that he did know for sure was the fact that he was a little hungry, and he found out that somebody here had given him some food to eat and some water to drink. He took the food that was on the plate and he found out that it was eggs and he thought that they were done badly, but since he was starving he didn't care. For it was food and he was hungry, the taste didn't matter to him, it was something that would full the void that he felt in his stomach at this moment. After he ate the eggs, he took a big gulp of the water that was with his eggs and he found out that the water wasn't half-bad and it was that reason he drunk all of the water up. With that he found out that he was quite contended now. With that gone, he now had to worry about how or when he would get out of this place.

Like before, he could find that there was nothing that could help him get out of this place, he found out that the room that he was in was as smooth as silk with a coldness that of was of stone, maybe even marble. He also found out that the stone that he thought was some type of marble didn't have any type of grooves, it was smooth, with no sings of imprecations in the cut of the stone. This wasn't a good sing for him trying to get out of this place and since he wasn't with his Digimon, Patamon, that could have the power to break down this place, it look like that he wouldn't be getting out of this place on his own. The only thing that he had to do was to wait for something to pop up that would allow him to get out of this place and that what happen.

That happen in the form of sound that he knew was that of a slab of stone that was lifting up and like before he got himself prepared for anything that would come out on the other side of that portal. Like before the sudden shot of light temporary blinded T.K. and caused him to put his hand over his eyes to help shielded his light depraved eyes.

"I can see that you have eaten the food and drank the water that we give to you," said a voice.

This voice was different from the first one that he had heard before that told him of the plan that would used him and others as bait.

"Good," he said. "We wouldn't want you to look like that you were abused in this place. Because we both know that your friends wouldn't like to see that. Now wouldn't they?"

"No," T.K. managed to get out of his mouth.

"I thought the same thing," the voice said.

"What is going to happen to me?" Asked T.K.

"Don't worry, you will be let go soon," answered the voice.

"When?" Asked T.K.

T.K. didn't know that he was speaking to Daemon, the Digimon that they had defeated by pushing him into the World of Darkness after Ken open up a portal to that world through the use of his black Digidevice. But, Daemon on the other hand did know who T.K. was and he knew what he did to him with the help of his friends. Daemon didn't want to give this away to him, he like the fact that he was still an unknown voice that was hidden by the light, the light that T.K. couldn't look into, a great sense of irony. He was a person that was on the side of light and would have the power to look into something like this, but he couldn't, while him, was a creature of the dark, and by all means couldn't have the power to look into something like this, but he was. While Daemon knew the reason behind this, it was because of T.K. being in the dark for as long as he was and his eyes couldn't quickly adjust to great between the light and the dark.

"You will know when," he said.

"What the point of telling me this, when you aren't doing anything?" Asked T.K.

"I was giving you fair warring about it, I did it out of an act of respect to you," he said. "It looks like that my offer of respect has been put on deaf hears with you. I will take my leave with you, but be prepare when you are about to leave this place."

After that the stone door close behind Daemon after he walked away from the place. Once again T.K. found himself surrounded by darkest, but at least now the darkest that he was in was a place that he was in and not a frame of mind. He know knew that he would be getting out of this place real soon, but the only thing now was that he had to wait for that moment to come and with that he started to wonder would this person tell the rest of them about would happen to them.

Roger drove his car through the various streets of this city until he reached the point that he was told to go to. That was the entrance to the Main Doom of this city and now he was outside of his car, leaning on the car. He now was waiting for the other party to show up in the spot that he was waiting at and that was the X factor in this great scheme of things. Roger was a patience man, but he didn't know about the others that were with him that were put in various different locations among the spot that he was at. He knew that Dorothy with Marry and her Digimon where on his right, that was its armor-level form, Griffinmon were standing up top of a building, waiting for the right time. On his left, was Ken and Davis who themselves where with their Digimon, Veemon and Wormmon, just like Marry they would waiting for the signal that would tell them to jump into action. Now the only thing that they could was wait for Alex to show up with the T.K., Patamon, the International Digidestined and their Digimon. He knew that Alex would come to this spot and that was because they had something that he wanted. Alex was the type of man that wouldn't missed an opportunity to further his plans and this was something that would do that for him. His pride and the power that he had wouldn't allow him to make such a big mistake, so the question of him showing up wasn't the one that they would be asking themselves. The question that they would be asking, was when he would grace them with his appearance and Roger looked ahead at the entrance to the main dome. With his vision, Roger could clearly see that there was some type of activity that was going on up there. This caught the attention of Roger and it only made him take on a tighter zoom on what was going on there. He found out that there were a series of cars that were leaving the safely of that place and he had a feeling that they were heading in their direction. Seeing that he returned his vision back to normal and he slightly turned his head in the direction of where the trio of Marry, Griffinmon, and Dorothy were standing. He slightly nodded his head at that and both Griffinmon and Dorothy saw what he did.

"Its time," said Griffinmon.

Marry nodded her head at that and see knew that it was time for her to play her trump card in this great card game. While she didn't like the fact that she was giving up their trump card in this game so early on, it was bad tactually move on their part, but Alex had played on all of their fear and their fear was hurting children. So they had to do this despite the fact that none of them liked doing this and this was what they were doing. So Marry and Dorothy got on the back of Griffinmon, with that the Armor-Level Digimon glided down from the tower building. The Armor-Level Digimon reached the ground of this city and after that the two of them dismounted from the Digimon.

"Do you have it?" Asked Roger.

Marry pulled the golden jewel that she had in her shirt pocket and she showed it to Roger. "Yes."

"Good, because it looks like that Alex is coming out of his Glass Palace to greet us," said Roger.

Marry closed her eyes at that and the same time that she did that she shook her head at this. "Let's get this show on the road and get this thing over with," said Marry whom voice has a sicken tone to it.

Roger knew by the tone of her voice that she didn't like the fact that she was doing this and he shared the same feelings that she had about doing this. But he couldn't allowed Alex to hurt these children and if that meant that he had to deal with the Devil itself to prevent it from happening he would do that. That what he was about to do right now.

"Agree," said Roger.

So with that Roger, Marry, Dorothy, and Griffinmon started to walked up to the road with neither of them taking the lead. For all four of them were heading in the same destination and none of them felt like they needed a person to take point in the group that they were in. At first this idea of those did work out, but as time pass them by it became a reality that they couldn't do. This because each one of them had their own gate that covered a different amount of ground while they were walking and out of their group, it was Roger was talking point among them, with Marry a close second to him. Dorothy and Griffinmon were watching the back of the two of them. Even with this all of them were stopped from reaching the entrance of the main doom and that came in the style of a caravan of vehicles that included a limo, two black color vans.

"Talk about your stereotypes," said Marry.

This made Roger slightly turn his attention to her and that was because of the term that she was using was one that he had never heard before. While he had never heard before, he could tell by the way that she was using it that it meant that something that always happened despite the fact that most of the time that it didn't.

"I don't know what that term means, but I can tell by the sound of your voice that it isn't a good thing," said Roger.

That made Marry do a little smirk on her face. "You are right about that one. I should explain that term to you."

"You should, but not right now," said Roger.

Marry could see why, and that was because the black limo with its two black vans had reached their location. After that the black limo stopped right in font of Marry and Roger, then the door that was closest to them started to open up. Both Marry and Roger knew who was going to step out of the car. Roger thought to warm Marry that Alex Rosewater could be a little intimidating to people, but he knew that Marry was the type of person that didn't response to that type of person, so his warring about him would be unfounded. So he opted not to warm her about him.

Alex Rosewater step out of the limo in all of the style of a super villain and that made Marry think that she was in a middle of a movie.

Oh God, did I step on the set of a James Bond's film? Marry asked to herself. While Marry herself haven't seen all of the films of the franchise, she had seen enough of them to recognized the repeating elements that those films had and of this moment she was seeing one them. That almost made her act like she was on a set of a movie and that nothing could hurt her, but then she realized that this was as real as anything that she had been through. That the things in this world could hurt her just as they could do in her world and it was that reason that told her to watch herself. So she knew that she had to act the same way that she did when she walked down the streets of either Phily or New York City. That was to kept her eyes open to all possibilities and expect anything and everything to happen and that what she was doing now. So that made Marry gasps her metal bo that she had hidden among her clothes and that made her body tense up, much in the same fashion that a spring that has been rounded up to tight, just waiting for the right moment to spring in action. She didn't know if Alex Rosewater, while being his father, had the same powers that Roger had, in sensing her emotions at that moment. She was right, Roger was sensing her emotions despite the fact that he has promise them that he wouldn't do such a thing.

It wasn't the fact that he was trying to do, it was the fact that the emotions that she was giving off was like a kind of a flood light. One couldn't help the fact that they would go looking at the source of the light and that was the same thing with Marry. He couldn't help himself from sensing them and it was that reason that made Roger turned toward her to see what was going on with her. He could see that her body was a placid and not showing any type of emotion, but he knew that was just a front that she was putting up to make herself look stronger than she was at this moment. Also at closer look at her, he could see that she was clasping a hidden weapon that she had brought among with them. He didn't know if this was a good idea of hers, but he did know that Marry knew how to use it and in her hands the thing wasn't just a fancy walking stick, it was a weapon that she could used to disable or even kill anybody that she thought was a threat to her life.

Don't worry, you won't need to use that thing he said telepathically toward Marry.

That made Marry feel better and Roger could sense it, but it didn't make Marry give up her hold on the hidden weapon that was among her clothes. He knew that Marry knew that the weapon was hidden among her clothes, but he also knew that the longer that she held on that thing, the greater the chance that Alex might find out about this thing. That might tell him to call this deal off all together and force him to use another method to obtain the jewel. Methods that might not involve them and might not even involve getting the rest of the other Digidestined that were in his hands.

Let go of that thing, it not going to help us he said again in the same fashion toward Marry.

Maybe he is right about that thing thought Marry. I do have Griffinmon with me also well, and I know for a fact that she will do everything that is in her power to protect me and that goes the same with Roger. With that she let go of the metal pike that was in her clothes and when she did that she felt stronger and a great weight was lifted from her body. When she felt that she knew that she could face this person without fear of what would happen to her and this feeling that she had was also felt by Roger. Feeling that he knew that she was ready to face Alex. Knowing that he turned back to him and he could see that he had started to walk toward them.

"Hello, Mr. Smith," said Alex. "What a wonderful surprise, it seems that the woman that gives herself the title "The woman with the Real Life Griffin", is either very stupid or very smart."

"I would think that she is latter," said Roger.

"We will see," he said. Then he turned his attention away from him and to new face that was among this group. It was the woman that was slightly behind him. "And who is this new person?"

Marry kept her face as stoic as ever, she didn't want to give this man any indicator that she was the woman that he was speaking of.

"A friend," said Roger. "Who shares the a vested interest in the same things that woman shares."

"And that is saving the rest of the other Digidestined and their Digimon," said Alex.

"Yes," said Roger.

"Do you have it?" Asked Alex.

Marry knew that this was her cue and she quickly reacted toward it, by pulling the thing out of her jeans pocket. Then she held the thing up at her face level and in clear view, allowing Alex Rosewater a full view of the thing. To make sure that the thing that she had was the real thing and not a fake one, much like the one that he had back at his Glass Palace. Alex could see that Roger nor the woman that called herself "The Woman with the Real Life Griffin" were lying about having that thing, they indeed had it.

"I can see that you really have it," said Alex.

"I don't lie about things like this, now I would like to see your part of the deal," said Roger.

"Of course," said Alex. After that he snapped his finger and seconds after that doors on both of the two black vans open up for him. Out of the open doors came the rest of the other Digidestined and their Digimon. Both groups were allowed to great each other, but after they tried to walk in the direction of Roger and the others, they were stopped by Alex's men.

"It looks like that you also kept your part of the deal," said Marry for the first time.

The sound of the new voice on the field caught the attention of Alex. Whom could tell by her voice that it was a voice that was mixed with strength and a bit of sexually to it. Much in the same fashion of a siren, the mythical creature that would use their beautifully voice to lure men to the depth. The long pike that she had hidden among her clothes would be the weapon that would kill men that she felt got to close to her.

"So you do speak," he said.

"Yes, I do have that ably, but I am the type of person that let my actions do my speaking for me rather than my words. If I feel that I have to use my voice, I will only do it when I feel that it is a requirement of me to do so, if not, then I stay quiet," said Marry. "I must restate that we are here for one thing, and one thing only, that is the trade. Anything else is just a distraction."

"You are right, so can I have it," said Alex and after that he had his hand outstretch, waiting for Marry to deposit the thing in his hand. She was about to do that, but Roger stopped her.

"No, wait, we do this at the same time," said Roger.

"As you wish," said Alex and after that he once again snapped his fingers to command his men to let Digidestined and their Digimon start to walk toward Roger. With that Marry started to put the thing in Alex's hand and wit this she knew that this simple act that she was doing now would cause her so much trouble down the line, but it she knew that they would find a way to deal with that problem when it would rear its head. So with great regret she put the thing in his hands and at the same time that she did that she could see the rest of the team where safely on their side of the line.

With that Alex started to look at his newly acquired treasure and he could feel that this Jewel was the real thing, not the fake one. Seeing that and knowing that these pawns that were in front of him were now just fat that was on the bone, that needed to be cut away from the streak if one would want to have a healthy meal.

"You are indeed people of your word, an honorable trait," he paused to put the thing in his pocket. "Something that I don't share." After that he snapped his fingers for a third time and his men knew what was this command meant. But they won't the only other people that knew what this meant and because of that everybody reacted toward it.

Marry reacted toward it by getting on the back of her Armor-Level Digimon, Griffinmon that took Marry up in the sky. Roger and Dorothy did their best to get the others out of the line of fire that took place. That was the signal that Ken and Davis knew that it was time for them to jump into action. Veemon and Wormmon did it by first Digivoling to their Champion Levels, then DNA Digivoling to their Ultimate Level of Paildramon, and finally into Imperialdramon. The huge Mega-Level dragon took Ken and Davis on his back protected by the blue bubble that he made to protect the two of them. After that he took off from his perch that was the building that was behind Roger and Dorothy. He landed on the ground and acted like a barrier that took all of the bullets that were being fired.

The huge Mega-Level dragon could feel the pain, as the bullets hit his not armored skin, all could see that this Digimon was taking one for the team.

"Get on!" Ordered Roger.

"Listen to him!" Yelled T.K.

Rest of the Digidestined did that and got on the back of Imperialdramon. After that Roger and Dorothy got into his car, then the two of them burned rubber to get out of that spot. With that Imperialdramon took off from that spot and to make sure that they didn't fellow them, Marry took Griffinmon were a pass.

"Griffinmon," said Marry.

The armor level Digimon knew what to do and she did it.

"Ice Beam Blast!" Yelled Digimon and second after that she shot a beam of ice out of her mouth and aimed it toward the street. It made the section of the street turn into ice and without taking a curtain call from her action she turned around to head back Roger's house, the same direction that Imperialdramon was heading toward.

Even if she didn't take the curtain call that would no doubt would of allow Alex to see that she was the woman that called herself "The Woman with Real Life Griffinmon", for it didn't matter because Alex had connected the two of them. Seeing her riding on the back of the Digimon that look like to be a Griffin, he knew that this woman that was with Roger was that woman. That the thing that she was doing, was just an act that she was putting up to hide the fact that she and that woman were one and the same. It also confirmed the fact that she was the Digidestined whom Digimon was part of the Nivernmon line. Seeing that he was a little happy and that was because he would be removing Daemon's rival at the same time that he would be removing his. But that time wasn't now and he could clearly see that as they were getting away from him. This didn't upset him because he had acquired the thing that he wanted and that thing was in his pocket at this moment. Also he had given Roger's rival, Schwarzwald, the ably to become what he has become, to ascend to the position that Roger was at.

With that thought across his mind he had achieved what he wanted and that was the only thing that matter to him.

"Sir, should we go after them?" Asked one of his men.

"No, that would be a waste of our efforts," answered Alex.

His men agree to him and after that Alex went back into his limo. That also went the same for his men and after that all of them went back into the main dome of this city.

"It will only be a matter of time," said Alex.

Marry and Griffinmon caught up with the others that were contained within Imperialdramon's blue bubble that was on the back of the Mega-Level Digimon. In doing that she could see that all of them were okay and without any physical signs of the peril that all of them went through only a couple of days ago. She could see that Alex took care of them and that told her something about this guy. That was this guy did care about his pawns until they served him no more use to him and that idea only further stressed the idea that she had about this guy. That he was a an inhuman person who didn't have blood running in his veins, but some type of liquid that was a combination of ice water and snake venom. It was the only thing that could allow him to use human children in such a fashion and she knew that if he lived in her world he wouldn't get as far as he did in this world. In fact her justice system would make an example of him and hit him as hard as they could do with the book. But he wasn't living in her world, he was living in this world where he was the judge, jury, and the executor, in he deemed to be. No human, should wheel that type of power without a person watching his back, to make sure that he did the right things, and if he didn't, make sure that he did. But that wasn't to be in this world, and that made her wonder how could a signal person acquire so much power. But a history lesson about the origins of this city wasn't in her near future, so the only thing that she could do was to wonder about it. That what she was doing as she was heading toward Roger's house for the numerous times.

"Do you wonder?" Asked Marry.

"Wonder what?" Answered Griffinmon.

"How a man, like that, can achieved so much power?" Asked Marry.

"Reminder, what Izzy say about this place," said Griffinmon.

"Yes, I do, but this guy must of have rivals of some type," said Marry. "Nobody, and I repeat nobody is born into that much power, without a rival of some type that wants a piece of the action."

Griffinmon had a little confuse look that was on her face. "'Piece of the action'?"

"It is an expression, it means a person wants to share something that another person has," answered Marry.

"If he did have any rivals, trust me, they either dead or just simply disappeared from this world. Much in the same fashion as mist on a lake during twilight," said Griffinmon.

That surprises the Digidestined a little because Griffinmon didn't speak in this fashion despite the fact of her phase that she called herself. She was more of the type of Digimon that would talk in simple slag that didn't have a deeper meaning to them. "Whoa, Griffinmon, I didn't know that you could speak like that."

That made the Armor Level Digimon smile a little at that. "Thank you very much on that part, I do come up with one of them from time to time. You should-."

Griffinmon never got a chance to finished what she was about to said to Marry and that was because she felt pain in her mind. Pain that was so much that she couldn't simple ignore it long enough until they got to Roger's house and it was also causing her to lose focus on what she was doing. That thing was flying and Marry only notice this when the two of them started to loose their spot that they had in the sky.

"Griffinmon what up?" Asked Marry.

Marry wasn't the only other one that had noticed that, the others noticed as well. The other Digidestined noticed what was going on with Griffinmon.

"What up with Griffinmon?" Asked Ken.

"Do you feel it?" Asked Imperialdramon.

"Feel what?" Asked Davis.

"There is something that is wrong with this world," answered the Mega Level Digimon.

"We know that," said Davis.

"No, not that, there is something else," said Imperialdramon.

"What?" Asked Davis.

Before Imperialdramon could say anything to Davis's question, they all saw that Griffinmon couldn't take it and she showed sings of the pain that she was under by yelling out in pain. Then Griffinmon lost touch with the world and pass out. That caused Griffinmon to fall out of the sky like a falling star and Marry was on it as well that caused her to also fall as well. Marry tried to snapped her Digimon back into the living world before the two of them would hit the rapidly approaching payment. A payment that Marry knew wasn't going to be slow, it was going to as hard as rock and would caused her pain. What type of pain? The answer to that question would be the way that she would land, but that all depended on if she could get Griffinmon to wake up and it look like that she wouldn't be able to do that. So the only thing that she could do was to brace herself for the impact that she knew was about to come and it did. Both Marry and Griffinmon hit the payment, they did it in a hard way. Griffinmon landed with her belly hitting the payment first and since a good majority of her body took the impact of the hard landing she didn't break anything on or in her body. Marry wasn't as luck as Griffinmon and that was because Marry had landed in the direction of her left arm.

Marry got up from the hit and at first she didn't feel any pain from the impact. That made it feel a strange and the pain numbing chemical that her body was making was starting to ware off. That was when the pain came and she could tell that she did something to her wrist. Then she started to yell out in pain from the injury and while she was doing that she was holding her wrist.

"God dam it!" She yelled out. "I broke my wrist!"

Imperialdramon landed down on the ground and at the same time Marry could hear a car coming in her direction. Marry looked in the direction that she thought that the sound was coming from and she could see that it was Roger's car that was coming to where she was at. She also could see that he had stopped the car and got out of the driver side of the car. After that he ran up to where she was.

"Marry, are you all right?" Asked Roger.

"No! I broke my God dam wrist!" Yelled Marry.

"Calm down, Marry, I saw what happen. You are lucky, that you didn't get kill from a fall like that," said Roger. "Let me see it."

"What are you going to do it? Heal it? You are no Jesus Christ, God's son, that was given the ably to heal people of their affections," said Marry.

"You got nothing to loose and everything to gain," said Roger.

"Don't even think about using your voice on me," said Marry.

Roger put both of his hand up in the air. "I wouldn't even think about it. Are you going to show it to me?"

Marry could tell that he wasn't going to give up on that part and show she allowed Roger to take a look at her wrist injury. Roger held her wrist and he could feel that Marry was right about one thing, she did break her wrist, but it was a simple break and not a complex one. It wasn't going to take to long for him to heal her injury.

"To answer your question, yes," answered Roger. "I am going to heal it." Then he put both of his hands on her wrist and after that he closed his eyes. Marry could feel some type of heat from his hands in her wrist and then the feeling was gone. With that Roger removed his hands from her wrist.

"It done," said Roger and then he started to walk away from her.

Marry could feel that he was right about that, there was no pain in her wrist and it felt like that there was nothing wrong with her wrist. He did it, he actually did it, heal it with his hands. Almost like out of the Bible, when Jesus spit on the ground and made a mud that he used to place on the eye lids of a blind man, to allow him to see for the first time in his life. Marry stood in sock at what just had happen to her and then the sock wore off when she saw the state that her Digimon was in. With that she went to her aide to find out what happen to her.

"Griffinmon are you okay?" Asked Marry.

Griffinmon manage to lifted her head off and she slightly nodded her head at.

"What just happen up there?" Asked Marry.

"I felt something wrong with this world, it the sudden flow of it that caught me off guard and since I wasn't used to it, I couldn't kept focus at this world. Me, passing out was the only thing that I could do from loosing myself in," answered Griffinmon.

"What is it?" Demanded Marry.

"A strong energy at the same level as Roger's energy but in the opposite direction as his," answered Griffinmon.

After that an ill wind kicked up and to Marry it felt cold, but it stop Roger dead in his tracks as if he was hit by an electric shot. Unseen by everybody Roger was in disbelief at this, for him this wind wasn't a sudden guest of cold air, for him it was a message that it seems he was the only one that got the entire meaning of it. The Digimon that were around him only got the feeling of it, but he got everything, the feeling and meaning behind it. The meaning behind it was that, Schwarzwald, the other Big class Megadeus pilot had somehow ascended to the level that he was at.

Roger didn't know how he could do that, but the only thing that he knew was that he had achieved it. If he knew Schwarzwald he would want to test his new found power on something and he wouldn't allow that to happen, not on his watch.

"What are you talking about?" Asked Marry.

Roger turned around to face everybody. "I tell you what she is talking about, Schwarzwald has reached the same level that I am at right now."

"No, that can't be, are you sure?" Asked Marry.

"I am dam sure about this one! I don't know how he did it, but I have all of the intentions to find out how he did," answered Roger.

TBC…

In Chapter 29: Two Can Play at that Game.