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, this August. I would like to tell you all, that new 13 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 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.

Roger and Schwarzwald fight each other, at the same time Daemon finds were Swanmon had hidden the Digimon.

Chapter 30 – Royal Rumble, a Fight Between the Megas

"Let me do this one on my own," said Roger.

Marry nodded her head at that and with that Roger took Point. He stood his ground despite the ground trembling that was going on wherever Big Duo walked.

"You want me, Schwarzwald, here I am. But you will fine out that I am not easy prey," said Roger.

Roger stood his ground much in the same fashion, as a mountain would do in the strongest type of wind. Unlike Marry that was trying as hard as she could to get out of the way of these two titans and she knew how far she had to go and that went the same for Roger. He also knew that Schwarzwald knew the distance that she had to go as well and he knew that Schwarzwald wouldn't allow her to get into that safe distance. Then as soon as he thought that, he could see that Schwarzwald had made Big Duo pick up speed and he was hiding right to his location.

Roger did a little smile on his face and that was because he knew that Marry and her Digimon, Nivernmon was in safe distance. With that he started his transformation by closing his eyes and opening up once again. When he did that his eyes glowed white and that triggered the nanites that were in bloodstream to convert the extra protein that was in blood to same material that the Big O was made out of. Roger could feel it through out his body and while he did this before, knowing what this was going to entail for him. Which was the pain that was going to go through his entire body, but that still didn't mean that he would be used to it and he wasn't. So he wrapped his arms around his body and yell out in pain as his body was changing. Then Roger's skin was ripped off and in doing that it relieved the black armor Megadeus that they knew as Big O, but only smaller. The size problem was no different because Big O went to normal size in a matter of seconds and with that Roger in that form headed off in the direction of Schwarzwald.

Marry stay out of this one said Roger telepathic to Marry and Nivernmon.

Knowing that Roger in this form could take care of himself and that neither herself nor Nivernmon could do anything but hinder Roger in this fight, Marry nodded her head in agreement to what he just told her.

Good he said again in the same fashion and connived that neither the two of them would try again once again. After that he turned his attention away from the two of them and to Schwarzwald. In doing that he could see that the small ground of human and Digimon that Marry had connived to come along with her on this mission, still haven't moved from this sight.

Move! Ordered Roger. The sound and the force that was behind his voice coming from the type of machine that Big O was connived almost everybody to listen to what he said to them. But there was an exception to that, and that person was Major Dan Dastun that stood a little transfix at what he thought that he had heard coming from that Megadeus. He thought that it was Roger's voice that had talked to him and then thinking more about what he had heard come from that machine. The machine didn't actually talk to him, but spoke into his mind and that made it sound like it was talking to him. With that gone he could pay more attention to sound of the voice that was speaking within his head. In doing that he found out that it was Roger's voice that was speaking to him and in doing that he found out that Roger was the pilot of that machine.

He had always suspected that he had something to do with that machine, the way that he disappeared whenever that thing show up and the same way that he had reappeared whenever that thing went back underground. But now, this confirmed his guess that Roger was indeed in control of that thing and now that he found out that his suspicions were corrects about these two. Now, with this new information he wondered what he would do with Roger now he knew that somebody that he did considered his friend. But this also explained how the thing acted whenever he was around it; it always did something to keep him safe. Dastun thought that was just part of its hidden motives, motives that he didn't know about, until now. Now he understood some of them and with that he knew the reasons why it talks to him in his mind. Roger wanted him out of no-man land that Dastun sudden realized he was in the middle of it. He found this out by looking on the other side of him and he saw the other Megadeus that Roger had fought with almost a year ago heading to meet him. He knew from the last time that that these two meet each other, a good portion of the city was leveled by them. While it was something that he didn't want to have happen again, he knew that it was something that he couldn't stop from doing. The only thing that he could do was to try to keep the innocent civilians safe from harm when the two clashed with each other.

Knowing that, Dastun quickly moved with the others out of the no-man land that they were in to an area that they thought would be safe from them. As he ran out of that place to the safe zone he took a look at the face of black Megadeus, which Dan thought was Roger's face. It didn't react toward his look to him and Dan thought that there were two reasons for this action that Roger was taking. One, Roger didn't see him, or two, Roger did see him, but opted not to show it, to keep him safe from the red Megadeus, which was on the other side of him.

"Hey, Roger kept the damage to a minimum," said Dastun. Not knowing if Roger heard what he said to him or not.

"Hey, Major get out of there!" Yelled Tai.

The yelling of the teenager snapped Dastun out of the funk that he was in and when that happen he soon realized that he was in the middle of no-man land. It didn't take a second thought for him to realized that if he stay in the this place longer he might not life another day, so Dastun got out of the way of these two titans.

"What the hell where you thinking? Standing there, not listening to what that thing said to you?" Asked Tai.

"I don't know what happen there, it seemed that the world just all suddenly stop for me when I heard that thing speak to me," answered Dastun.

"Whatever the reason why that did happen to you. You were lucky that Tai, here snapped you out of it like he did," said Matt. "You know better than any of us, that standing between that thing and its target is dangerous."

"I'm sorry about that, but it just happen, I just don't know why it happen," lied Dastun. He knew the reason why he just stood there; it was because he heard the voice of Roger coming from that thing. Even with that he knew that he had to get out of here and he did that by getting on the back of the Digimon that was known as Garurumon. With that Dastun rode off on the back of Garurumon with the others.

"Are you sure?" Asked Alex.

"Yes, it is the only place that she could take him and be sure that he would be safe," answered Daemon.

"Then go," said Alex. "But be careful, Roger and his group are out there. Also hurry up, your forget the time duration that is behind our two worlds. "

"I know. Speaking of him, do you think he will notice?" Asked Daemon.

Alex took a quick look at his TV and he could see that Roger was about to face Schwarzwald, both of in their new forms. While Alex knew that this fight that was about to come up was going to caused a lot of damage to the section that they were in. But Alex didn't care about that for it was going to clear a good section of the slumps of this city for future development of the domes. Also it was like to brothers that had enough of something and they have tried everything to settle their differences peacefully. That the only option that was left open to them, was to fight about it no matter what. So to him this was like a cooling off fight between the two of them.

"No, he is currently busy with other affairs," answered Alex.

Daemon nodded his head and with that he left Alex's office by walking through the walls of this building. Out of the building Daemon started to head toward the roof of the dome that Alex's office was in and like what he did with walls of the building, he phase through them. With that he headed toward the sky and look upward to the gray clad sky.

Daemon looked around the landscape of the city that was below him and he could see that none of the people that were out there at the same time that he was, paid any attention to the sky that was above them. It seems to Daemon, which they care little about what was going on above them and that the only thing that they cared about was their own personal affairs. The only time that they cared about what was going on above them, was when it directly effected them. So this was perfect for Daemon to open up a portal to the Digiworld from this world and that what he did.

He started it by with a wave of his hand and with that a small rip started to appear on the gray sky. The rip that Daemon produced was red in color.

Roger did indeed hear Dastun said to him and while he would have loved to acknowledge Dastun that he did indeed hear what he told him to do. He knew that he couldn't do that with Schwarzwald in front of him just waiting for the right moment of weakest.

How touching thought Schwarzwald. I am still amaze at your stubborn nobility toward this corrupt city. A city that I told you before won't last to long.

And you think you are that person? Asked Roger.

Yes, I do think that I am that person, for I have seen the truth about this world, and this city. Yes, I have suffered from my search, but the ends have justify means answered Schwarzwald.

You mean, "your means"? Did you know that the truth is subjected, fluid, it changes faces to suit what we want to see? Asked Roger.

That is just what I mean. You refuse to see the truth because you have been told lies and now it time for you see what I am talking about said Schwarzwald. After that Schwarzwald started the fight between the two of them by taking the first swing at Roger despite the fact that he wasn't the human form. But it didn't matter to Schwarzwald if he was in either him human form or his Megadeus form, in which he was.

Roger quickly blocked the attack by crossing his arms, which were Big O's arms into a x formation, the very same one that he used before in battle. Seconds after he prepared himself for the attack and the force that might come from the attack. After he did that, the attack that he saw and prepared himself for came. Since he did that, the only thing that Schwarzwald hit was heavy armor side of his arm.

Even with his arms blocking his view, Roger still could tell that Schwarzwald was still trying to hit him despite the defenses that he was putting up to stop him. He was doing this, to buy his This type of battle tactic that Roger was using was annoying Schwarzwald, it felt like that he was getting nowhere with Roger acting like a tank and not showing any backbone in this fight.

Is this all you got? Asked Schwarzwald and at the same time that he said that he stop from attacking Roger. He made his Megadeus form slightly back away from Roger and Roger sensed this back tactical decision on his part. Once again, this showed Schwarzwald's lack of experience in piloting his machine and like before Roger would teach him that lesson once again.

No answered Roger and after he said that he dropped his arm shields. Before Schwarzwald could do anything to take advantage of this one time opportunity that he would ever had with Roger. He quickly opened fired with his eye beams at Schwarzwald and the twin beams of energy hit their mark. His mark was one of Big Duo's shoulders and parts of the Big Duo's armor was blasted off by a combination of the sheer force that came from the weapon and the heat from it as well.

Normally Roger would expect to see Big Duo, under Schwarzwald control to back away a little to do some type of check on the machine's system and he did that. To Roger this meant that this battle was going to be like the others that he had been in with. When he saw Schwarzwald make the uninjured arm move to covered up the damage section of Big Duo's armor, it told him that this fight wasn't going to be like the others that he had before this one. It also showed to Roger that these forms that they were in where, us very powerful, were still like their human bodies, capable of feeling pain from injuries.

Impressive, Roger, I should have expected something like this from you said Schwarzwald. To test to see if I feel pain despite the body that I am in right now. Well it looks like that your experiment is a success. It looks like that I, just like you, can feel pain in this body in the same fashion as we would if he were in our human bodies. If you think that, pain like this is going to stop me, it not.

Once again, Schwarzwald took the offensive side of battle and ran at full speed toward Roger with open hands, the same style of attack that he first used when he had engage Roger for the first time almost a year ago. Just, like them, the only thing that Roger could do to counter this new attack that Schwarzwald had mounted against him was great him in the same matter that Schwarzwald was attacking him with opening hands. In a matter of seconds both living gods were lock together, trying to out muscle each other for dominance in this fight.

In a year time, you haven't change, Schwarzwald said Roger. Using the same tactics that you used on me almost a year ago. Well it won't work, I have learned from my mistakes.

Then Roger gain the under hand in the fight and he started to bring Big Duo down on the ground. With that Roger pushed Big Duo away from him with as much force as he could mustered. His action with Big Duo being slightly off balanced caused the machine to fall down on the ground, destroying whatever was ground when he landed. Not wanting to stand around to boost in his glory, Roger quickly moved for the kill.

It looks like that you haven't learned from your mistakes thought Roger. With that he primed his right arm for the final blow to finally to remove himself and this city of the threat that Schwarzwald was.

Oh yes, I have learned from my mistakes and it you that haven't learned from your mistakes said Schwarzwald. After that he fired his own twin eye beams at Big O and just like Roger with this weapon, he also hit his mark. Unlike Roger's mark, which was his shoulder, his mark was his face. The energy weapon cut a small slash on the face and the only thing that Roger could do was to wink in pain from the attack. Just like Schwarzwald, Roger instinctively put one of his hands over the wound, as an act to protect it from any more injury. While Roger was doing this, Schwarzwald managed to regain his balance and got back on his own two feet.

And your mistake is that your are way too cocky for your own good. You boast way too much, wasting time that could be used on making sure that your enemy is truly defeated said Schwarzwald.

The pain from his facial injury was still around, but it wasn't to much that would stop Roger from counting his fight with Schwarzwald and to prove it he removed his hand from his face. In doing that he showed to Schwarzwald that he was still injured, but he wasn't afraid to show it to him and in fact that he was proud of it. He was wearing this injury as a sign of pride and not waiting to waste any more time on words, he moved into action once again, taking the offensive for the first time in this fight.

He raced toward Schwarzwald as fast as he could and punched Schwarzwald in the chest region of his body. The force that Roger hit Schwarzwald with, forced him to backpedal a little, but it wasn't enough to make Schwarzwald fall down, which Roger wanted to have happen. This forced Roger get back on the defensive side of the battle, but his quick action wasn't quick enough for Schwarzwald did the same style of attack on Roger. Schwarzwald's attack did hit his mark, but while he did put a huge amount of effort behind his attack, it didn't add up when compare to the force that went behind Roger's attack.

"It seems that the red one is a little out matched," said Tai.

"Don't count that one out, I have seen that one match head to head, toe to toe with the black one. So, I won't count that one out, until I see it down on the ground out of commission," said Dastun.

Do they know? Asked Dastun to himself. No they have to know, they heard his command at the same time that I did in the same style that I did as well. So they have to know.

"If you want that, we can help," said ExVeemon.

"Yes," said Wormmon.

"I'm up for it," said Davis.

"No, the black one wouldn't like it. It seems that to me, that this one is an independent warrior type, that wants to finished this fight on his own," said Dastun.

"Much like the same attitude that Flamedramon has," said Davis.

Dastun had no clue who this Digimon was, but Dastun knew that this was a Digimon, because of the "mon" suffix that was at the end of this Digimon name. But, at least he got a clue of what type of personality that this Digimon had, that he was a warrior-type Digimon that had the warrior code of honor. One of them was that you shouldn't go into another person's fight unless you were ask to, no matter how bad they were getting beat up. It was a type of code of honor that Dastun didn't agree to because it was the type of code of honor that could at best end you up in a hospital or at worst in a grave.

"I don't who that Digimon was," started Dastun.

Davis was about to tell him who this Digimon was, but Dastun was in no mood for him to tell him who he was and Dastun held up his hand to stop him. "And I don't want to know him either, but from what you have told me, this Digmon, Flamedramon is a type of Digimon that has a Warrior Code of Honor, a type of code that I personally don't agree with, but is one that I will respect."

"So what are you saying is that we will just stand here and let the two of them fight it out?" Asked Tai.

"Yes," answered Dastun.

After Dastun said that, they all saw that both of them had charged head long toward each other with their fists leading the way. This caused both of them hit each other and the force of the impact of metal hitting metal produced a sock wave. This very same sock wave that these two being had produced effect both of them as well.

Roger quickly fired both of his chains into the ground as far as the chains would go down, giving him a strong anchor, that he hoped would allow to survive this sock wave and he found out that his actions was the right course of action that allow him to weather this storm. But, he found out that Schwarzwald, on the other hand didn't follow his course of action and he could see that Schwarzwald was struggling to maintain his balance through the force that his machine was talking. Despite that he could see that Schwarzwald, against all odds was some how finding a way to stay up against the force. A feat of pure gusto that Roger bordered on the insane.

Then Roger realized that he wasn't the only other person that was out on this battlefield and that while he was safe and sound from the blast wave. He knew that Marry who was still behind him. While she was mostly shielded from the sock wave, Roger could tell that some of the sock wave was getting through and hitting Marry, and her Digimon, Nivernmon. While the force that was behind the blast wasn't as strong as the one that was hitting Schwarzwald, but it was still causing both of them trouble and some of the troubles that both of them were having were trying to move around. Seeing that, Roger made the choice to shield both of them all the way and he did that by putting one of his armor hands in front of the two of them acting like a buffer, protecting both of their bodies from the shear force that was coming from the sock wave. Doing did the trick, because neither Marry, nor Nivernmon show any more sings of being battered by the thing.

Ken was the first one out of the group that noticed that there was a huge sock wave that was going toward their position. Unlike Marry and Nivernmon who had the protection of the armor that was attached to Big O, they had nothing like that to help them survive the powerful sock wave that was tearing up the ground like a tornado would do on the United State's plains.

"We better fine some protection," said Ken.

"Where?" Asked Tai.

"Yes, Ken, tell us where are going to hid?" Asked Dastun.

"The same thing that people do if they are caught outside when they see a tornado, they find a ditch or a deep depression in the ground and ride the storm out," answered Ken.

Quickly everybody looked for a ditch or a deep depression in the ground and in a matter of seconds they found. It came in the shape of an artificial one, one that was caused when one of the partial destroyed building topple over and tear up the ground that was under it, making the various supports for the building stick up in the air. Giving this section of the city an appeared of a medieval encampment and also making this ditch a deadly option for them to pick. But time was short for them and it looks like that there was no other place to do, they went for it. Driving into the ditch narrowing missing the various sharp objects. In there Ken, Tai, Dastun, ExVeemon, Garurumon, Agumon, Davis, Wormmon, and Matt tried to find the deepest spot that they could.

Seconds after that the powerful sock wave that they were running from came to their spot and it hit their spot hard. It picked up the various sticks like they were matchsticks by an unseen hand of God and then tossed down in the same fashion. Some of them landed in spots that were yards away from where they were at, while others came dangerous close to where they were. That included some that landed near their heads, arms, chest, feet, and legs. Then sock wave and all of the effects that came from it went away from their spot, but the sock wave itself was still around continuing on its path. Since the thing headed toward an almost desolated area of the city, and the force that was caused by that thing was lessen as well, so the damage that was produced by that thing was minimal. Then thing vanished among the air currents of this world, merging with them.

"Whoa, that was close," said Tai.

"You got that right," said Davis, as he attempted to pull on of them out of the ground, but he found out that it was embedded to deep among the ground. So he had to give up his effort in trying to pull that thing out of the ground.

After that they all look forward and in doing that they could see that despite the huge amount of force that was contain within that sock wave, the two Megadeuses were still standing with little sing that they weathered suck a powerful storm.

"Man, those things are as tough as nail," said Ken.

"They should be they were meant for heavy fighting," said Dastun.

They all knew that Dastun was no expect on these machines, but they all knew was that he had seen them in action more times that they did and it was that fact that Dastun had that made his option on them a weighted one.

Marry uncovered Nivernmon and open up her eyes, she found out that she was in partial darkness, for there were tiny slivers of pale light that were peeking through holes. With closer look she found out the reason behind this light display and that reason was inside the close fist of Big O. Seeing that Marry figure out that Roger had protected her from the sock wave that he help produced in his fight with Schwarzwald.

"What happen?" Asked a weaken Nivernmon.

"It seems that Roger saved us from the blast of the sock wave," answered Marry. "Are you okay?"

"I will be alright," answered Nivernmon.

"Now, the only question is now are we going to get out of this," said Marry.

Roger sensed that Marry had opened up her eyes and she was looking around. So Roger opened up his hand to allow Marry to leave that spot and to face him face to face. He turned his head in her direction and he could see that both Marry and Nivernmon were looking toward his direction.

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

Marry looked toward Nivernmon and Nivernmon nodded her head at the question that she had heard within her head. With that Marry also nodded her head at that.

"Yes, we are," said Marry.

Good said Roger. That was to close, I would like the two of you to leave this area right now.

"I would, but I can't because Nivernmon dose not have the energy to Digivoled to Metal Nivernmon," said Marry.

That was a problem for the three of them and that was because Roger wouldn't fight with Schwarzwald as long as the two of them were in there in palm of his hand. He knew that Schwarzwald wouldn't act the same way that he did when dealing with the two of them. For he would fight him no matter what and it was that small fact that made their situation even more dangerous. For the two of them, they had no way of getting out of this spot fast enough without the help of Metal Nivernmon or any other Digimon that could fly out of this spot. Speaking of the others, Roger looks toward the direction of where the others were located. He could see that they were forced to move out of that spot, but they haven't too much from the general location of their spot. So Roger looks beyond that spot and he could that they had token sheltered in a ditch and he could see that they were climbing out of their shelter. Above them all, there was Davis's Digimon, ExVeemon hovering over them and seeing him, Roger reminded that ExVeemon with the help of another Digmon, Stingmon, could Digivolve to their Ultimate Level of Paildramon, and then to his Mega Level of Imperialdramon.

Davis, Ken, started Roger, but he never got to finished his thought, for Schwarzwald took the change to land a wicked left punch to Roger's face. That caught Roger off guard and that made him lost his balance, but he managed to regain his balance, by putting his right hand down on the ground to support a good majority of his weight. His right knee supported the rest of his weight and he did all of this still keeping both of his passengers safe from falling from his hand.

Very touching, but it is a fatal flaw. For a warrior shouldn't have any type of compassion, because it will get in the way of your job said Schwarzwald.

Roger got up from his spot at the taunted that Schwarzwald said to him. For Roger didn't feel that his compassion and concern about innocent lives, for he felt that they were some of his strongest traits that he had.

I don't agree with you. I don't think that they get in my way, it fact I think that they help me in my job because it allow me not to risk the lives of innocent lives of people that have nothing to do with us said Roger.

But you won't fight me, because of the two lives that you have in your hand said Schwarzwald. Then a twisted thought went through the evil God's mind, that Roger held the lives of the two of them in hands literally. That whatever action he took would result in their deaths.

You know, you hold their lives literally in your hands and that whatever action you take might end up in them dying because of you. You claim to the protector of this city and its people, but it looks like that you can't even protect the lives of two living beings that should be in the safest spot in the city. How doses that make you feel? How dose it feel to have all of the power in the world, but haven to power to save these people?

Roger reminded stoic to Schwarzwald's rant about this, but that didn't mean that he heard it, for he did hear it, but he had no clue that others also heard his rant. This included that Marry, Nivernmon, Ken, Wormmon, Davis, ExVeemon, Matt, Garurumon, Tai, Agumon, and Dastun.

"Will, that guy just shut up!" Demanded Marry. There was one thing about a villain that she hated about them was the fact that they always made long winded speeches about how they will defeat the hero with their secret weapon.

I will tell you how it makes you feel it makes you feel weak, and I will make you pay said Schwarzwald. Then he launched another attack toward Roger and Roger countered the attack by blocking it. This defensive move that Roger did only angered Schwarzwald even more do to the fact that he wasn't getting anywhere with this guy.

"We have to help," said Davis.

Ken nodded his head. "Wormmon."

After that Wormmon geared up for the fight by Digivoling to Stingmon.

"Davis," said Ken.

"Ken," said Davis.

With that Stingmon and ExVeemon Digivoled into Paildramon. After that, Paildramon head off into battle and quickly covered ground and when he was in range for his attack.

"Desperado Blaster!" Yelled Paildramon and after he did that his attack came in the style of rapid-fire series of white light.

"Paildramon!" Yelled a cheerful Marry.

Roger heard Marry's call for joy and saw the dragon slash insect type Digimon attack Schwarzwald with his most powerful attack. He knew that his attack would only bug Schwarzwald like a sting from a bee, but sting from the bee would still hurt and it seem that and it seem that was the case for him.

Paildramon knew just like Roger, that his attack would do nothing as powerful as that thing was, but that wasn't his goal. His goal was to distract the machine and give Roger some breathing room. He did it, Big Duo was distracted from his attack and Paildramon knew that he would receive the full wraith of this angry God. But that wouldn't be the first time that he would do something like that, nor it would be the last time he would do it either. The only thing that he cared for was the lives of Marry, and her Digimon, Nivernmon.

Before Schwarzwald could react to what he did, Paildramon with Stingmon's insect speed whiz to Big O's face.

"Let me take them," said Paildramon.

While Paildramon couldn't see any facial reaction by the machine, but it was his actions that told Paildramon that the two of them were on the same page. Roger opened up his armor hand and Paildramon could see the two of them were safe from the fighting. But, they were no means sound from the fight. Seeing that Paildramon nodded his head at that and when to pick up the two of them. He quickly picked up Marry, that was holding Nivernmon, and then he tossed both of them on his back.

"Welcome to Paildramon Airways," said Paildramon. "We will fly you no-stop out of this combat zone to a safe zone. Please kept all hands, legs, and wings within the ride until it come to a complete stop."

Marry just signed at this, it seems to Marry that Paildramon had a knack in putting in some of the worst jokes that anybody human or Digimon could think of, in the most worst spot that anybody could possibly think of.

Foolish, do you know what you are dealing with? Asked Schwarzwald.

Paildramon opted not to listen to what this guy was saying to him and continue back to where the others were. For he did what he wanted to do and anything else was just extra stuff that he couldn't deal with at this moment.

"Hurry," said Marry.

"Right," said Paildramon and with that the combo Digimon, headed off in the direction of where the others were at, as fast as he could muster.

You aren't getting away from me, you little insignificant beings! Demanded Schwarzwald.

Marry was afraid to look behind her, because she didn't want to take a look at what Schwarzwald was planing for the two of them. She fought her urge to kept her eyes forward and she turned around and saw what Schwarzwald was about to do. She saw that Schwarzwald was priming himself to fire his version of twin eyes beams at the three of them.

"Move!" Ordered Marry.

Before Paildramon could listen to her order Schwarzwald fire his weapon on the three of them and this action caused Roger to jump into action. He ran toward Schwarzwald and punched him the face. Roger's attacked stopped Schwarzwald's attack on Paildramon.

You are a little late said Schwarzwald. You efforts have done nothing to help them. Right now you can see that Digimon is loosing his ably to fly and it will only be a matter of seconds before all three of them will fall to their depths.

Roger didn't like to admit it, but it look like that he might be right about that because the damage that he wanted was done on the back of that Digimon and Paildramon was that Digimon. For he was hit directly in the back and the weapon also hit Marry. Paildramon yelled out in pain at the force that came from the plasma-based weapon from that Megadeus. For Paildramon it felt like his entire body was on fire and it was this intense pain that was throughout his body that made Paildramon lose his ably to fly. Marry on the other hand, didn't get the full furry of that weapon, but that didn't mean that he got out of this unscathed, for she also got injured from that attack. At first the attack hurt like hell and then the pain went away. The injury the she got from that attack was a burn on her arm that had caused some of her skin to go black and have the same type of burn pattern much like that of an electrical burn. Marry knew that was the reason behind the fact that she had no pain from the injury. For this was a third-degree type of burn and that her nerves in that section of her arm were no destroyed. That was the reason why she didn't feel a lot of pain to the injury that looks like that it would hurt her. She fought the urged to cover the thing up with her hand, but she knew that would caused an infection and an infection was something that she couldn't avoid right now.

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

"No, Marry, I'm loosing it," said Paildramon. Then Marry saw what he was talking about, she could see that Paildramon was started to go back to his base forms of Veemon and Wormmon.

Ken and Davis saw what was going on ahead of them. They saw that Schwarzwald was a little bit of a coward, for he had hit Paildramon in the back while he was escaping the battle zone. In a clear volition of rules of engagement, that they all thought the people here followed. This showed that Schwarzwald didn't care about them, the only thing that he cared about was the fact that they had wronged him and he would do anything that he could do to make the three of paid for doing that to him.

"Paildramon!" Yelled Davis and Ken.

"Garurumon!" Ordered Matt.

"On it," said Garurumon. Then the blue and white striped wolf galloped ahead with all the speed that he could muster.

Garurumon could see that Paildramon had went back both Veemon and Wormmon. Seeing that he knew that he had no time to waste, for their lives were on the line. Without wasting any time he caught all three of them.

No! Cried Schwarzwald at what he saw. He couldn't believe it, this was the third time he had try to kill this person and it seems that ever time that he did that, she would find a way to stay alive despite the odds. That just can't be, nobody can be that lucky.

Yes, they can when they have good friends that will do anything to kept them safe and I am one of them said Roger.

We will see said Schwarzwald.

Then the Champion Level Digimon head off in the direction of where the others were located. Garurumon didn't care how Schwarzwald would act to this and the Champion Level Digimon showed it, by not even looking behind him to see how he had acted toward this. If, Schwarzwald had raised his voice toward him, Garurumon didn't care and it was this fact that allows Garurumon to head back to where the others were.

"Veemon," said Davis.

"Wormmon," said Ken.

"Are they all right?" Asked Dastun.

Marry brought up her head to face them. "I think so, Digimon are amazing creatures, they can take a beating, a beating that might kill a human, but somehow they manage to survive the attack."

Davis and Ken took their Digimon off of the back of Garurumon.

Tai noticed how black Marry's arm was and that worries him a little. "What about you?"

"I don't think so, I think I have third degree burns on my arm and if I don't get to a hospital soon, this injury might get infected," answered Marry.

"Do you know where on is?" Asked Matt.

"Yes, I know where one is, and I know some people there they will kept her appearance there as quiet as they can," answered Dastun.

"Good," said Tai.

"I will go with them," said Matt. After that Matt got on the back of his Digimon, then four of them head off in that direction.

Daemon look at what was going on down below him and while he would of love to stick around to see how this human drama would pan out, but he had things to do. That was to head back to the Digiworld and looking at the portal that he had started. He could see that his trip to the Digiworld was about to start and he knew this because he could see that portal was opened up just enough to allow him to enter into that world. But it wasn't to big that it would drawn any attention to the people below him. That was good for him because he knew that he would be able to slip into that world without anybody noticing it and that exactly what he did.

Roger once again landed a hard right punch onto the head of Big Duo and the force that Roger had put behind that it, caused Schwarzwald to back petal from his spot. Unlike the first time that Roger did this move, Schwarzwald felt a little funny, almost like his head was in a fog, he couldn't see things clearly. It seems that the edges that were once crisp and sharp were now become fuzzy, and that his focus, that Big Duo told him was so important in maintain this form, was starting to become loss. This was clearly shown outside, when he started to kneel over and put his hand on the top of his head.

This caught the attention of Roger because it seems that the rigors of the battle were starting to show on him.

What is the matter? Asked Roger.

Schwarzwald didn't answer him for he was more worry about trying to regain his focus, but it seems that it wasn't happening for him. It seems that he was losing it even more and that he loss his point of view that he had with the Megadeus. He wasn't viewing it via through the eyes of the, machine but through the glass shield of the Megadeus, like he was in the cockpit of the machine. While this was going on, Roger could see that there was something that was going on with Schwarzwald and while he couldn't tell what was going on in his mind, he knew that there was something wrong with him.

Peaking behind a wall of one of the few standing structures in this part of the city, the woman that had escorted Daemon to where Schwarzwald was at saw what was going on. She saw that her master was loosing his edge against this opponent, that which to her, seem to his opposite, but equal.

No she said to herself. This can't be, for he is a God, a being that can't be hurt by anybody. Unless…

Her train of thought lead to one destination and that was that he was fighting another one that was just like him.

She shook her head in response to that, she didn't want to believe that, she wanted to believe that her master, Schwarzwald was the only one that had this power. That he was alone in this world with this strange gift or curse, that he was unique and that nobody else could do this, but now she could see that everything that she was lead to believe was all wrong. That there was another that could do everything that he could do and it looks like that this one was better at what he could do. That this other was so better at that, so much better then Schwarzwald, that he was on the verge of beating him.

That was something that she couldn't allow to have happen, so she took a leap of faith and she heading onward into the place that would be no-man land. She would place herself between these two batting titans to save him from dying at the hands of this other, the black one, who she was leaning to think of a devil.

Then Roger saw it and it came in the sight of a red diamond shape that was located in the center of his head. Seeing that Roger figured out that was what was causing him problems, that when he had hit Schwarzwald in the head, he had made Schwarzwald lose his focus. That he was trying his hardest to regain his focus, which would allow him to maintain his Megadeus from.

So that how you maintain it comment Roger to himself. And that how I will defeat you vowed Roger.

Then he made good on his vow and he did that by punching Schwarzwald again in the same place. Roger pull his fist away from the area that he had punch and when he did that he could see that the red diamond that shined was shattered. With that Roger could heard Schwarzwald cried out in pain at the same time Roger could see that his Megadeus form had turned into stone. As soon as it did that, it shattered into tiny pieces of stone, as if this form was made out of glass.

Roger didn't rest on his victory, for he could see that he had only deprived Schwarzwald of this form, which made him go back to his human form, which was deprived of any of the clothing that he had wore before this battle. A battle that he had suffered a major set back, and one that Roger thought would of kill him. That the red diamond that he had seen in the center of his head that he had smashed was only figurative, for the thing was still much in tact. Seeing that, Roger knew that it would take more of an effort for him to defeat Schwarzwald for good.

"Stop!" Cried a new female voice.

The new voice caught everybody off guard as if she was a new player on the ground and with that Roger turned his attention to where the new female voice came from. He saw the female voice came from a young woman that look like that she could be in her mid-twenties, standing in between the two of them. She was acting like a human shield.

"You have already, defeated him, you devil! What else do want from him? His life?" Asked the woman, who had no clue that was speaking to

"You see, you aren't the only other one that has friends," said Schwarzwald. "Who will protect you when it is needed."

The sound of the female voice snapped Roger to attention and it forced him to see what he was about to do. He was about to kill Schwarzwald, when he was in a defenseless position. That wasn't him, for he was a gentleman, and he knew that they didn't do this. So he stop what he was about to. So being the gentlemen that he was, he couldn't make himself attack the woman, while Roger thought that she could be a little misguided at protecting this guy, he still had to force himself to stop the attack. With that he turned his back toward Schwarzwald and while he did that the woman that had stopped the attack turned toward Schwarzwald to see how he was.

Alex saw all what had happen between the two of them, once again Roger had won over Schwarzwald and just like that time, Roger didn't kill him for what he had did to him. Once again, Roger shone to Alex that he still stuck to his morals.

Alex folded his arms across his chest. "Impressive. I can see that you are a man of morals, stick morals."

Alex had no clue how close Roger came in breaking his own morals.

"Are you all right?" Asked the woman.

Schwarzwald nodded his head and the woman took that as a yes. With that she started to wrap the body of his in the pieces of clothes that she could fine While she was doing that Roger went back to his human form and just Schwarzwald he was naked with the exception of his Crest of Power that hung around his neck.

Tai being of the same sex and being a teenager wasn't to surprise to his body shape the way that it was, but Tai was more worry about his well being. He could see that Roger was somewhat exhausted from the ordeal that he put his body through, but it look like that his body was getting somewhat used to it. Also the slash that was on her cheek that he had received from the other guy when the two of them fought each other, was starting to heal itself, until the wound was completely healed. Not like the first time he went through this when he was completely exhausted by it, to the point when he could barely lift his head. Now, he could at least walk after it. It was like how his Digimon went through their various stages of Evolution, when they reach a new state for the first time they would be out of energy, but as they gain more experience with it, they gain power over it.

"Are you all right?" Asked Tai.

Roger put his hand up and nodded his head. "I will be fine. By the way, where the rest of your group? I saw them leave, but I don't know where they went to."

"The rest went to a hospital to take care of Marry's arm burn," answered Tai. "I don't know where it is."

Tai didn't need to tell Roger anymore, because Roger knew what hospital that Tai was talking about. In fact it was the only one that was in this city and Roger didn't like the fact that Dastun took them there, because it was ran by the Paradigm Group, like everything else in this city. But he had to do it because it was the only place that he could fine medial attention to the injury that she had received.

"You don't have to worry about it, because I know where it," said Roger. Then he walked up to where he had parked his car, earlier. After that he opens up the car door and he pull out an extra set of clothes. With that he put the rest of his clothes on and after that he fixed his hair to make it more presentable for the masses. He might be a little tired, but he still had an image to keep up no matter what. With all of that out of the way he opened up the driver side door and with that he started up the engine of the car.

"Aren't you coming?" Asked Roger.

"Oh, sure," stammered Tai. With that Tai and Agumon went into Roger's car. After that the trio of them head off in the direction of Paradigm's only hospital.

The Holy Bird-type Digimon, Zhuqiaomon, the Digimon Guardian of the Western Zone of the Digiworld was resting on his stand with his red-fire wings folded. He was waiting for his agent, Makuramon in the world of Paradigm City to report back what he had found out in this world. He knew that it was only a couple of hours when he went to that world, but he wanted a report from him no matter what. He wanted to know if he had made to that world in general and right on cue Zhuqiaomon got what he wanted, Makuramon had contact him. He had informed him about this world and that he still needed time to get an inform option about this world.

Zhuqiaomon nodded his head at this, while he didn't like the news that Makuramon still had to stay there, but he had to kept him there as long as Makuramon felt that he had to stay there get his option about that world.

"Thank you, please report back to me, as soon as you can," said Zhuqiaomon.

With that the transmission that was between the two of them had ended and with that gone he had to go back to his other affairs. One of them was the guarding of the Digimon know as Penguinmon.

Before this, Zhuqiaomon only heard of Penguinmon, and like so many other Digimon that were under his care, he knew little about them, only that they were in his realm and because of that they were under his protection. That was all, nothing more, and nothing less, a fact that he liked because it allow him to focus his attention one more important affairs of this place. Now, he was assigned the duty of protecting this Rookie Level Digimon, which to him looked like any other Penguinmon. It was hard to believe that this Digimon was once a huge gigantic machine that was known as a Megadeus. But he had to keep telling him that fact so that he wouldn't have a lapse in his judgment. With everything that was going on now, he would need every once of his judgment if he wanted to survive this ordeal.

Outside of Zhuqiaomon's citadel, Antylamon was during her duties, and one of her many duties was to guard the gate of Zhuqiaomon's castle. That what he was doing and while it was pretty much a boring job with little to nothing to do, she took her job seriously, since it was given to her by the sovereign himself.

The rabbit Deva looked around the place and she found out that there was nothing going on with this place. It look like that it was going to be like another day and that was good because while she did pine for some action at this place, she was happy that she wasn't getting any.

But she found that her assumption about the day was going to be wrong, dead wrong for her and that first came in the form of a dark shadow that suddenly appeared out of nowhere. This dark figure continued to walk toward her and when she saw that the figure wasn't just a shadow of one of the buildings, she knew that she was going to get some action, but she didn't know what shape it was going to take. So Antylamon braced herself for whatever or whomever was coming up the hill and when she thought that the person that was behind the shadowy figure would come to great her. She was ready for the fight and then nothing came to pass. Antylamon lessened her stance against what she thought was a foe and when she did that, the foe appeared below out of the ground.

Antylamon was tossed up the air like a rag doll, but Antylamon used her agilely and righted herself much like a cat would do if the animal fell from a high position. This caused her to land on her two feet and with that she saw who her attacker was. It was Daemon himself, the Lord of the Demon Corp, that had attack her and seeing that Antylamon prepared herself for a fight.

"What do you want?" Asked Antylamon.

"You know," answered Daemon.

Antylamon knew what Daemon was talking about and that only intensified her resolve not to left this Demon past her. "You can't have him."

"Yes I will have him," said Daemon. "And you know just as well as I do, you can't stop me, you don't have the strength to do so. So I suggest that you back down from this fight and save yourself the effort."

Antylamon knew that this Digimon spoke the truth about herself. She knew that there was nothing that she could muster that would be able to stop him, but at least she could slow him down or even weaken him a little before he would face her sovereign.

"No, I won't back down, not you, not anybody!" Vowed Antylamon. With that Antylamon jumped into the aired.

"Bunny Blades!" She cried and seconds after that both her arms turned into axes, which she used to shot out energy blasts. Both blasts hit Daemon and the Ultimate Level Digimon's attack did no damage to the Mega Level Digimon, who just stood there like it was nothing to him, but a simple touch on his face.

"Now you done it!" Yelled Daemon and after that the Mega Level Digimon moved his hands in a position that formed a cup. "Evil Inferno!" He yelled and seconds after he called out his attack a ball of fire formed in Daemon's cupped hands. Then Daemon released the fire base attack on the body of Antylamon.

Antylamon tried to block it with her axes, but the Deva found out that the attack was to strong for her to try to block and because of that it went through her defensives like a hot knife through warm butter. When it did that it burned her body and caused her to fall down on the ground with carbon scoring all of her body. Then Antylamon's body deleted into a million tiny pieces that themselves disappeared without a trance.

"Now it is on the main event," said Daemon. Then Daemon looked beyond the gate and to the castle of Zhuqiaomon. "Zhuqiaomon, the Guardian of the Western Zone of this world."

Zhuqiaomon, who had nodded off a little, was sock back to being fully awake, for he had sense the death of Antylamon.

"My Deva! Who dares to question me!" Demanded Zhuqiaomon.

The doors of Zhuqiaomon's lair slammed open as an answer to his question and that caught the attention of the Digimon Guardian. With his attention turned toward that, Zhuqiaomon could at first just heard the footfalls of the thing that had killed one of this Devas and then he saw who it was. Zhuqiaomon didn't need the Digimon to introduce himself, because he knew who this Digimon was, it was Daemon.

Zhuqiaomon narrowed all four of his eyes at the Digimon. " Daemon, I should have expect something like this from you. Whatever you want, you can't have and you know that you don't have the power to take me out. Phoenix Fire!"

Seconds after Zhuqiaomon yelled out his attack a huge fireball shot out of the mouth of the Phoenix-type Digimon. Daemon didn't panic at the sight of this attack for with a quick monition of his hand a shield that was made out of fire was formed around the Digimon. Zhuqiaomon's attack was quickly absorbed by the fire shield and before the last remains of the attack disappeared for good, Daemon quickly used the added power that was given to him to increase his own attack.

"Evil Inferno!" He yelled and like before a huge fireball was formed in the cupped hands of the Demon Lord-type Digimon. Then enhanced fireball that was fused with the energies from both Daemon and Zhuqiaomon was launched in the direction of Zhuqiaomon.

The attack hit Zhuqiaomon right smack in his neck and this caused Zhuqiaomon to yell out in pain from the attack. But Zhuqiaomon quickly recovered from the attack from Daemon and while the attack didn't do any physical damage to Zhuqiaomon, it did a little psychological damage to the Digimon.

How could he get to so much power? Zhuqiaomon asked himself. He never had this amount of power, there must be something that is feeding him, giving him this extra shoot of power. Whatever the reason behind this, I must stop him here and prevent him from getting that Digimon.

"Impressive, nice little trick, but you will find out like you did before, that my attacks are far more powerful," said Zhuqiaomon. With that Zhuqiaomon rose slightly from the ground and open up his wings. "Blazing Helix!" He yelled and with that another one of his powerful attack came in the style of series of fire streams that shot out of his wings that formed a lattice of fire.

The lattice of fire hit Daemon and even with fire shield that he had produced quickly wasn't good enough to block this new style of attack that Zhuqiaomon hit him with. For it broke under the fire and the only thing that Daemon could do to kept himself from getting burn from the fire that was raining down from above, was to used his arms to block. This cost him seriously, for he experienced pain on his arms and the robes that he wore, that covered almost all of his body, started to get burned under the fire. Even with that Daemon still stood despite Zhuqiaomon best efforts to eliminate him from this spot.

"Impossible! No Digimon could stand against that!? How can this be?!" Demanded Zhuqiaomon.

Then Zhuqiaomon got his answer and his answer came in the form of a new, much powerful attack that came from voice.

"Pandemonium Flame!" Yelled the new voice and second after that a blue flame that was in the shape of a line. This whipped Zhuqiaomon in the chest and this attack unlike the fire attacks that were put up by Daemon, that felt like tiny slaps, this felt like it was a slap that was done at the hand of a titan. It was this force that knocked Zhuqiaomon down on the ground and with him on the ground, it allowed Daemon to proceed to his goal.

The only thing that Zhuqiaomon could do was to nurse his wounds and watch this Digimon go pass him, something that had never happen in his entire lifetime. While Daemon was doing this, once again Zhuqiaomon wondered who yelled out that attack that had stopped him dead cold in his tracks. So Zhuqiaomon turned his head in the direction that Daemon used to be and then he found out who yelled out that attack. He saw a shadowy image of a yet another Digimon that had all of the trappings of a demon.

"No, it can't be, you can't have enough power…" stammered Zhuqiaomon.

"I have always had the power despite what you high and mighty Digimon Guardians have long thought, about me," said the shadowy image. "Now, I will take my prize."

With that the shadowy image of the Digimon that Zhuqiaomon spoke to vanished into the walls of his citadel. Then Zhuqiaomon was forced to closed his four eyes for he couldn't maintain his self-awareness of what was going on all around him. Because of that he didn't see Daemon have Penguinmon in his claws

"My Sovereign," said a distance voice.

Zhuqiaomon woke up at the sound of the voice and he found out that it was Vajramon, his ox Deva that had spoke to him.

"Are you all right?" Asked Vajramon.

Zhuqiaomon didn't like the fact that one of his Devas was asking about his well being and he showed his disgusted at what this Deva was doing. "How dare you! How dare you, a simple Deva ask about my will being! If you should know, I am fine!"

Vajramon quickly covered onto his knees at the thundering voice that was coming from his master. "I was just a little worry about you, I have never seen you knock out before, I thought that something had happen to you."

He is right about that one, something did happen to me thought Zhuqiaomon, but that is something that you should never know about. "Well, you worry is unfounded, nothing had happen to me, I was just sleeping. But that is something that you need not worry about, for there are much more pressing issues that we should worry about."

"Like what?" Asked Vajramon.

With that Zhuqiaomon told him.

Marry woke up and found out that she was lying on a white sheeted bed that itself was located inside of a very simple and clean room. She was dress in a green grown and the room that she was in was titled with a soft off white title, which made her feel as if she was traveling in either the Baltimore or Hudson Tunnel, not a room that she could get some sleep. Then she saw that her arm where she got the plasma burn at was all wrapped up with a white cloth, in the same style of the wrappings that an Ancient Egyptian Mummy would have. She looked around her body and saw that there was yet another bandage on her body, this one was on her right leg. This one was red, wet, and gooey, and Marry assumed that this could be the donor site where her own skin would be used on her arm in the Skin Grafting process.

Now, that she was up, she felt the pain in her leg and the center of the pain was the exact spot where they took off her skin. Marry gritted her teeth as her own response to pain that she was feeling right now. With this, she now knew why recovering from a burn was one of the most painful recovery process that a human being could go through. Experiencing this pain she now felt for the burn victims that she saw in all of those reality Hospital Shows, it was something that she would wish on nobody, not even her own worst enemy.

Seconds after that Marry heard the door open up and so she turned her head in the direction of the sound. In doing that she found out that it was the doctor that was overseeing her care. She saw that the doctor that was taking care of her was a female and it seem that she was in her fifties, with all of the trappings that would come from being that age.

"I can safely assume that you are the doctor that is overseeing my care?" Asked Marry.

"Yes, I am," answer the woman doctor.

Marry welcome this answer for it was the first time that she had been back to this world that she had guess right about something. It made her a little happy that she still could do something right for a chance.

"So, how I am?" Asked Marry.

"You are pretty much all right, but you did suffered a third degree burn on your arm and we think the donor skin that used are going to take %100," answered the doctor. "Now, the only thing that we have to worry about is infection. I will have to warm you that the next 14 days are going to hard for you and your state of mind," answered the doctor.

Marry nodded her head at that. "Thanks for the heads up. Can I ask you something?"

"Yes, what is it?" Said the doctor.

"How do you know this producer? It seems to me that this could be something that was lost during The Event," said Marry.

"You are correct about that, but somehow this information was given to this hospital as with the right equipment to make this happen. I don't know how this happen, all I know is that it did and as it help us save a many lives that were touched by fire. As a doctor who has swore an oath to help save lives, I do not question where it came from," answered the woman doctor.

Once again, Marry nodded her head at this, showing on the surface that she was grateful for this and she didn't care where it came from as long as it was here to help her. But deep down inside of her, she knew where it came from, it came from Alex Rosewater and his firm. She didn't know the reason behind it, but she had funny feeling that he did this to quiet the masses to make them look like that they were some kind of beneficial deity. Thinking of that, sicken Marry down to her very core and she thought that would be the same for Roger, if he found out that she was accepting a treatment that was available in full or in part by Alex Rosewater. There wasn't any other option that she could chose at the moment so she took it.

"Thank you, now can I start my recovery," requested Marry.

With that a couple of nurses came into the room and started to work on Marry's wounds. The first thing that they did to her body was taken off the bandage that was her donor site and when that happen, it felt like her skin was ripped off. The only thing that Marry could do deal with the pain that surged through her body was to yell out in pain. If that was bad enough for her they went for her bandage that was her burn wound, when they did that, once again her body had a shape surge of pain. Like before she cried out in pain and she pleaded for them to stop it, but they didn't listen to her. For they told her that this was for the best for her and that she had to endure this if she wanted to stay alive.

Her rational side told her that she had to endure this and that the pain was just apart of the healing process. But her irrational side, the one that dealt with her emotional side, told her that she had to stop this no matter what, and that was the one that was in control of her body right now. That every time that her body felt pain the voice that her irrational side was speaking of was only getting louder. Finally the pain that she thought would never end, stop, but it only stops when the nurses finished up their work for today. When that happens Marry felt exhausted by this ordeal and she was happy that it was over with, but she knew that this was only the being, for she would have to endure this for at least another fourteen days.

Major Dan Dastun was waiting in the Waiting Room of this hospital with Matt, Davis, Tai, Ken, and their Digimon, that quickly pose that they were stuffed animals for these kids. This drew a many of the passer by that were in this hospital, some of them were the workers while some of them were regular people that were here for various reasons.

Some of the passerby recognized the Major and quickly ask the reason why he was here with all of these children. Dastun quickly told them a lie that he was here with them because of their mother, a good friend was in the hospital and she didn't want these children to be by themselves. This lie was good enough for them and so they left them alone.

Then the doors to the ER that Marry was rolled into when they signed her in, open up and out of the door came the female doctor that talk to Marry about the Skin Grafting Process that she had to go through.

"Major Dastun," she said.

Hearing his name, Dastun got up from his spot and walked toward the female doctor. "Yes," he said.

"You are the one that brought in that woman with the third degree burn on her arm?" Asked the doctor.

"Yes, I am. How is doing?" Asked Dastun.

"She is fine, the skin graft that we put on her arm is taking 100%," answered the doctor.

Dastun left out a great sign of relief, this was good news, she had a chance to live through this. "This is good news."

"Don't get your hopes up, Major, we still have to worry about infection, her skin was broken and it completely gone. This is prefect for infection to set up," she said.

"Can we see her?" Asked Dastun.

"Sure," she said.

With that they all followed the doctor to where Marry was recovering from her burn. While they were doing that they passed various doors that were the portal to different rooms with different people doing various things that were important to the hospital. Then they came up where Marry was. With that, they could see that she was sitting up, eating some food, and talking to some of the nurses that were working with. Seeing that everybody hoped that she wasn't telling them that she wasn't from this city and that she was from another dimension.

But they would have to wait a little longer and that was because they would have to wait for the doctor to tell them that her friends where there. While they couldn't hear what was spoken between the female doctor and Marry, but they could tell by her body gestures that she was pleased that they were here. With that the female doctor come out of the room to great up with Major Dastun and his group.

"She is ready for you," the doctor said.

Dastun nodded his head at what she said to her and with that his group went into the room that contained Marry. They all could see that she was in good spirits despite the injury that she had on her arm.

"Hi, guys," she said.

"I can see that you are yourself," said Tai.

"Who else would I be? So how are you guys?" Asked Marry.

"We are doing pretty good, but there is somebody that really want to see you," said Dastun.

"Who?" Asked Marry.

"I think you will know who they are," said Dastun. Then Dastun moved and it allowed the person that he was talking about to make their appearance. When they did, Marry was happy at it and that was because it was Nivernmon, her Digimon that show up to see her.

"Nivernmon, you made it," said Marry.

"Yes, I did Marry, and I wouldn't be two seconds after from my partner," said Nivernmon.

"No, you wouldn't," said Marry. "So what has been going on with this city, since I was out?"

"Nothing much, and you wouldn't off for two long, maybe about a half-hour," answered Dastun.

Marry nodded her head at that and it was good for her because it felt like to her that she had slept for about good couple hours. This only meant that she didn't miss to much about what had happen in this world. "That's good to hear."

Roger quickly drove his black car down the uniform streets of this city until, with Tai and Agumon holding on for deer life reach the location of this city only hospital. Tai and Agumon found out that hospitals no matter where you found them were always busy with people heading into their doors seeking medical treatment for their injuries. This told both Tai and Agumon that humans no matter where they took up resident would always injured themselves. For Roger it was nothing new for him because he had seen this before when he had to go to this place to guard some patient, who was a witness to a certain crime. It wasn't a place that he like going to, but it was a place that he had to go to, if he wanted to see how Marry and Nivernmon faired in the fight.

So Roger quickly found a place to park that allowed them easy access to the doors of the hospital, but without blocking the main doors of the place. With that Roger, Tai, and Agumon entered to the building. The appearance of Roger Smith in this place caused some of the worker of the place to stop what they were doing to see if they won't seeing things. So they had to do a double take to make sure and they found out that they wouldn't see anything, in fact that Roger Smith was back at this place. For what reason? They didn't know and right now they didn't care because they had other things to worry about.

Roger made up to the front desk of this hospital and he found out that there was a little bit of organized chaos behind the desk with several people that were dress in lab coats handling clipboards. Out of this chaos there was a person that was acting like a lighthouse that would guide these people to safe harbor to what they had to do. Since this person was doing all of this, Roger assume that it would take some time before they would even notice that he was there, but he found out that he was wrong. This was because the person had quickly resolved the storm of chaos that was buzzing around her and now she was free to help Roger.

"How can I help you?" She asked.

"Did you recently emit a woman that had a burn on her arm?" Asked Roger. "And was this done my Major Dastun of the Military Police?"

"Yes, we have. Are you family?" She asked.

"She has no family, but I think of her Next of Kin," answered Roger.

"What's you name and her name?" Asked the woman.

"Her name is Marry Sanderous and my name is Roger Smith," answered Roger.

With that the woman went to check up Marry Sanderous name and found out that Mr. Smith was indeed right about Miss Sanderous. She was omitted into this place for a third degree burn on her arm by Major Dan Dastun of the Military Police, he had named that Roger Smith was Next of Kin despite the fact that the two of them weren't family.

"It looks like that you are speaking the truth about her," answered the woman.

Roger just nodded his head at that and fought the urge to give the woman the "I told so" look on his face.

"Where is she?" Asked Roger.

Then the woman told him where she was and with that Roger with Tai and his Digimon with the woman permission walked through the doors. Just Dastun and the others did when the woman doctor told them that Marry Sanderous was all right for them to visit her. Like them, Roger saw the various things that were required to make this place run and just like them he took a sneak peck of what was going on there. Most of the rooms that he casually look into were empty or were being clean up for the next person to put in there. Tai and Agumon on the other hand, opted not to look into those rooms.

Then Roger saw what he was looking for, the room that held Marry, seeing that Roger, Tai, and Agumon quicken their pace toward that room. The sound of his footfalls on the wax floor caught the attention of the woman doctor who saw the three new visitors to this place. Since she didn't recognize any of the three of them, she got defensive and walked up to the three of them.

"Who are you guys?" Asked the woman doctor.

Roger pointed to himself. "I am Roger Smith," he started and after he did that he pointed toward Tai, who was holding Agumon as a stuffed animal. "And this is Tai."

Seeing the teenager with the grown up man, the woman doctor started to assume that this teenager could be related to man. But right now, she had to get down the business with these two, she now knew these guys names, but she wanted to know why where they here.

"Okay, why are you here?" Asked the doctor again.

"We are here to see a woman that you omitted her that goes by the name of Marry Sanderous. I know that you omitted her earlier, so don't tell us that she isn't here," said Roger.

"You are correct about that one, the woman that you have request is here, but she is currently busy with others. You will have wait until she is finished with them, but you can go and take a look on her to see how she is," said the woman doctor.

"Thank you, that is all that I wanted to hear from you," said Roger.

With that woman doctor allow the three of them to head to the room where Marry Sanderous was located. When they reached that room Roger, Agumon, and, Tai could see that the woman doctor was telling the truth about her, she was busy with the others. So talking with her would be out of the question until the rest of their team was done talking to her. But at least they could see that she was okay, and that the plasma burn that was on her arm was just that a burn on her arm, nothing more. This greatly relieved Roger because he had expected much more worst from an encounter from that energy beam, then she got.

"It looks like that she didn't get as bad as you first thought," said Tai.

"True, but she was lucky. I didn't want her to be there because of that," said Roger.

"But you can't change the fact that she did that and you shouldn't beat yourself up because of that. You might be protector of this city…" started Tai.

Roger quickly snapped his head toward Tai. "You are right about that one, I am the protector of this city and what type of protector I am if I can't even protect her."

"You can't control her, for she is a little bit of a free spirit, she dose what she think is the right thing," said Tai.

"That type of attitude of hers is going to get her killed one of these days and I can't allow that to happen, while not in my city, most definitely not on my watch," said Roger.

Tai was about to say something about this, but he was stopped due to the fact that Dastun and others ended their visit with Marry. So both of them took that as their cue to entered into that room and have their own conversation with her. They did that by walking to the door that led to Marry's room. While they were doing that they passed each other. This caused everybody to said hello to them and ask the question how was Marry doing despite the injury that she had received in battle. They all found out that all of them were doing fine and that her appearance, Marry was still herself, including her sick sense of humor.

Roger allowed Tai and his Digimon, Agumon to take point and be the first to great Marry. He stays back and he did this because he saw that Dastun had opted to be the last one to leave that room. He let Dastun to pass him by and when he had his back to him, Roger knew that was the right time to talk to him.

I've heard your message, even if I so no sing of acknowledging you thought Roger to Dastun.

Dastun was about to turn around and talk to Roger face to face, but he felt that he shouldn't do that. That Roger waited for this long for a reason.

Good, I don't want anybody else knowing this said Roger once again.

Then why? Asked Dastun.

Because I didn't want Schwarzwald to purposely seek you out. You had nothing to deal with that fight, you were caught up in it because of Marry said Roger.

But she was right about you, you won't risk the lives of others if you can avoid it said Dastun.

Unseen by Dastun, Roger slightly bowed his head at this, but Marry was right about himself. He would never risk the lives of people that had nothing to deal with is battles, if he could avoid it. That still didn't lessen the fact that Marry had risk his life in something that he didn't have to go to and that was something that he totally had distaste for. Yes, she is right about me, but that dose not lessens the fact that she had risked her own life and yours. That is something that I don't subscribed to.

Well, it is good to hear that you got my message and it looks like that you did what I requested said Dastun. I think that you should talk to Marry and see how she is doing. After that Dastun started to walk away from Roger until he couldn't see him no matter. Then Roger went into the room that had Marry in and he found out that she was talking to Tai.

"It is good to see that you all right, despite that burn you got," said Roger. Then he looked at the wrappings that were on her arm and her leg. He understood the reason that was behind the one that was on her arm, but leg, that was something that he didn't understand. "What are they doing to you?"

"Yeah, I would say that I got off lucky from that attack," said Marry. Then Marry pointed toward the red bandage that was on her leg. "Oh, this, they are doing a process called Skin Grafting, they take a piece of my own skin and they put in on the sight of the third degree burn."

Roger just nodded his head at that and that was the only thing that he could do. This was because he had never heard of a process called that. He assumed that Marry knew about that process because it was something that was commonly done in her world, or they could be another reason behind her knowledge of the process. That was that the doctor had told her about it and she was just repeating what they told her. " Oh, it looks like it is painfully and I did warn you not to go there."

"I know, and I was foolish from doing that, but I can't go back and change it, but the only thing that I can do is learn not to do that. You are right about it being painfully and the stories that I heard and read about this don't do this justice. You have to experience the thing first hand to truly understand the pain," said Marry.

"You know that I can fix that," suggested Roger.

Marry put up her hand. "No, I won't learn any lesson, if you kept bailing me out of it."

Roger nodded his head at that and respected her wishes with this. "I will honor that, it was nice to see you again."

After that Roger let the room and this allowed Tai to talk with Marry in peace.

Daemon immediately give Penguinmon the once over and he found out that the Rookie Level Digimon was safe to travel back to the world of Paradigm City, even if he liked or not.

"I am not going back to that world!" Vowed Penguinmon. "I an not going to be that thing again!"

"Shut up! You are going and that is final!" Shouted Daemon and after he said that he slapped the Digimon hard. So hard that he knocked him out cold and with the Digimon out cold, Daemon knew that it was time for him to head back to that world

TBC…

In Chapter 31 – Retreat, the Digidestined's First Defeat