DFusion Tamers: Unite! Rewrite

by Kanius

Takes place after the events of Zero Two & the Virus Saga Read at your own risk! With the Devas defeated, Shintomon gathers the Tamers and the DD to help him stop Dark Magimon from reawakening the DReaper in the Digital World!

5. Guilmon Evolves! Rika’s Hesitation!

Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon, the Digi-Destined or any of the Tamers! They're copyrights of Toei animation! I also don't own the references to Yu-Gi-Oh, Duelist Kingdom, the Battle City Tournament or any of its characters. .

SSJ4T: Yo! We're back with another edition of Digimon Tamers Fusion. It's time for Guilmon to digivolve and for Icedevimon to make his debut.

Coral: This is going to be one long fic, so I hope you're ready for a long read. I almost fainted after reading this… @.@

SSJ4T: Take your time and don't read too fast, guys. Enjoy!

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[Digimon Tamers Opening "The Biggest Dreamer" plays]

Guilmon Evolves! Rika's Hesitation?!

The start of nightfall descends upon the now quiet streets of West Shinjuku. Residents have all left home, in order to get their rest. Others decided to take a nice relaxing walk through the park.

There was a couple walking down towards the park with their arms around each other. They were eyeing each other as if they were two little happy, lovebirds. They just couldn't resist the urge to finally show their true love and affection towards each other.

"Osashi?"

"Yes, Reiko? What is it, my love?"

"I love you."

"Oh, I love you too."

The couple both sat down on a nearby bench as they drew closer towards each other. Reika took her boyfriend's hand and then leaned over to kiss him. But just as soon as she was about to plant a kiss, something came popping out of the bushes behind them. It looked like a little flame, but as soon as they leaned over to see who was lighting up the flame, a black, little creature came popping out making silly grunts and faces.

"Boo!!"

The couple looked over at Impmon and they both ran away from the scene. Impmon looked over towards them and fell backwards as he let out a laugh that was heard all over the park.

"Ha! Ha! Oh, I love you Reika! I love you too, Osashi! Ha! Ha! Bleh!" mimicked Impmon. "I can't believe these humans with their ol' love and affection. Just makes me want to bring out the barf bag."

Impmon was unaware that a young woman, around her early twenties, was watching him. This young lady had quite a distinctive figure. She has long black hair and is wearing a white blouse with red pants. She could hardly believe that the tiny pyromaniac was disrupting the courtships of romantic couples.

"What a little creep! How could he do such a thing? If only I could transform and burn his little ass! Oh well, he's not a problem for me. Next time, he's mine."

"Hey, Rei!" another voice called out.

The blonde-haired girl with the white cat came walking over to Rei.

"Hey, Mina."

"I just say a couple running out of the park. What just happened?"

"You won't believe it if I tell you."

"Try me."

"Ok, how does this sound? A little pyromaniac is going around scaring couples in this park."

"How terrible! We ought to get to the bottom of this!"

"Aren't we here on vacation?" the white cat asked.

"But this little punk has gone too far," Rei replied. "We're taking action."

"Couldn't we first get some rest?" Mina asked. "I'm getting pretty tired."

"Tomorrow is just another day. We'll catch this little bugger," Rei said.

Elsewhere in the park, Guilmon was digging up something in his bunker home and it looked like he had a crazed look on his face. He was so hungry that he could eat a bus right about not, but what he was really in the mood for was his favorite meal, bread.

Guilmon picks up a small basket full of bread and gazes over the delicious-looking bread. He picks one out and then stuffs it right in his mouth.

"Ahh! Good bread! Takato's parents know how to make some really good bread!"

Just as soon as he was going to stuff another loaf of bread into his mouth, it fell right out of his hands and started to roll away. Guilmon goes chasing right after it.

"No! Come back bread!"

But just as he was going to grab, a red-gloved hand comes out of nowhere and snatches up the bread. Guilmon stops at his place and looks over to see Impmon holding the loaf in his hand. Guilmon had a confused look on his face but then realized that Impmon looked like no threat.

"Hey, who must you be? Are you new around here?"

Impmon quickly stuffs the loaf into his mouth and then swallows it right up while ignoring Guilmon's question at the same time.

"This bread is too dry. Ech. Ahem."

Impmon sticks his hand right through the gate and extends his hand out, as if he were demanding more bread to be handed over to him. Guilmon gazed over and then innocently places another loaf into his hand. Impmon pulls his hand right away and stuffs the second loaf into his mouth.

"Hey, mister. You must really like the bread if you wanted another one."

"Hah. What makes you think so? I think this bread is too bland. Ech. These humans have no taste. Give me some more."

Guilmon hands him another loaf and then begins to speak up once again.

"Um. Could you leave a little more for me, because I'll have to wait for Takato to bring some more bread tomorrow morning."

Impmon sighs heavily and then grabs the loaf. He bites into it and then starts speaking up.

"Don't you realize how stupid you really sound? You so-called digi-pets are all the same. Its always, Takato this! Takato that! Look palsy, you're living in a cage, for cripes sake! Are you really that happy for being locked up like a zoo animal? Well, are you?"

"I am happy and Takato is my friend."

This comment quickly caused Impmon to choke on his bread and fall backwards with a thud. Impmon quickly gets back onto his feet and peers over towards Guilmon with a sneer.

"A friend?! You call him, a friend?! Reality check! Do friends lock up their big, red pals in cages? Get my drift? You make me sick to my stomach with those comments. Ugh. No I'll have to go somewhere and puke my freaking guts out! You better take my advice, pineapple head!"

Just as Impmon was walking away, Guilmon simply just shrugged his shoulders and resumed to consume the last portions of his midnight snack. Not even Impmon's words would even get through with Guilmon.

While Impmon walked off towards a sidewalk, a pair of two glowing eyes was peering through bushes. Unknown to everything around it, the eyes faded and a dark feminine figure came walking out. She smiled a toothy grin and sharpened her claws.

"Tasty data. I must have it."

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The next day, since it was still the weekend, Kari decided to kick back and relax on this beautiful Sunday. She laid on her couch after a good morning jog. She looks over to see Gatomon and Patamon playing a game of checkers.

"Well, you two are sure having fun. Maybe we can all go out to the park later on," Kari said, "How does that sound?"

"Sounds like a plan," replied Gatomon.

"I could use a little fresh air. Hopefully, it won't rain," said Patamon.

"By the way, where is TK? I thought I saw him here before I left to go jogging," said Kari.

"He went out to go see Ken and Yolei. They just came here today for a visit," said Gatomon, "I tried to call you but you probably had your headphones on."

"Crap! Now I'll have to take a quick shower and meet up with them, where ever they are."

With that said, Kari goes running into her room and pulls out whatever clean clothes she could find and then rushes into the bathroom as she turned on the showerhead.

"Crap! Crap! I won't even have time to blow dry my hair. Oh my god!"

"Wow. I've never seen Kari like," said Patamon.

"Human women are so weird," said Gatomon, "C'mon, lets go see what there is to eat for lunch in the kitchen."

"Mmhmm."

The two little digimon headed over towards the kitchen, to make themselves some tuna and squid sandwich, certainly not the best choice of a snack for people, but definitely something worth while for digimon as these two.

"Next time, don't put too much Miracle Whip on mine," Patamon said with a whiny tone in his voice.

"Alright. Geez."

Just then, Kari comes running out with a pair of pink shorts, a white halter-top and a pair of tennis shoes. Her hair was still wet and didn't even bother blow-drying it. She threw her dirty clothes in the laundry basket. She then looked around as if she were missing something. She grabs her hiking backpack and rushes over to the two digimon. She picks up Gatomon and places her in the bag. She then does the same to Patamon.

"Now, don't you two go leaving any bread crumbs in my bag, got it?"

"Yeah, yeah. We promise," said Patamon.

"If there's a mess, I'll blame it on Patamon. He. He."

"We're heading out. Hopefully, I can trace them through my D-3."

She looks over at her D-3 and begins to pickup the signal of three other Digi-Destined. She then heads out towards the local flea market area within the middle section of West Shinjuku. It wasn't too far from where the apartments were and she would make it there by foot.

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Elsewhere, Takato and Henry were meeting up as they were heading out towards the park where they would go visit Guilmon. Henry speaks up to end the silence.

"Takato, have you heard any stories of a certain prankster in the park that has been scaring away local couples away from the park? Sources claim that it could have been some pyromaniac of some sort?"

"You're not thinking that it could be Guilmon, do you?"

"I don't know, but we have to get to the bottom of this. It just doesn't sound right."

"I know. Guilmon wouldn't the type to even pull off such pranks."

"Well, he is a dinosaur after all," remarked Terriermon, "They're certainly not one of the brightest ones of the bunch."

"Terriermon. What did I tell you about making comments of others," Henry scolded.

"Hey. I was just making a statement that happens to be true. I'm sorry if you don't like it but it's my personal opinion. He. He," said Terriermon.

"Well, for once, I hope you're wrong. I don't want to find out that it was Guilmon who was pulling off those pranks."

Takato looks down at his drawing of the evolved form of Guilmon. All he could ever think about at this very moment was his partner, Guilmon.

"Oh, I hope they're wrong. I know you wouldn't do such a thing, Guilmon. I'm going to prove them wrong. You're no menace to society."

Just then, both boys stopped as they saw Kari running towards them as if she were in a hurry. Takato calls out to her, which catches Kari's attention.

"Kari. Whoa, you look like you're in a hurry."

"Well, Takato, to tell you the truth. I am and I need to head on over to meet some one of my old friends. I'll talk to you kids later. I've got to run!"

With that said, Kari runs over in order to catch up with her friends, while leaving the two Tamer boys in a cloud of smoke.

"Well, she certainly was in a hurry. C'mon, lets go check on Guilmon," said Takato.

"Sounds like a plan to me."

"At least she could have done was say hello to me," said Terriermon. "Geez, people these days."

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[Hypnos theme plays]

Meanwhile, the Hypnos team were working around the clock as usual and tracing down the locations of newly discovered Wild Ones who were about to bio-emerge.

Yamaki wasn't going to going to let another one of these digital life forms take him down so easily. He swore that he would get even and have the last laugh. Lately, the digimon were the ones laughing, which only infuriated Yamaki even more.

Just then, Riley was picking up a report about sensors indicating a digital anomaly about to surface.

"Sir, I'm picking up another strange, digital anomaly through the sensors."

"Ugh. It's maybe another one of those Wild Ones about to bio-emerge. We've just had Wild One emerge last night. Riley, its time to put a tracer on this one."

"Impossible. It won't lock and it's getting away."

"Hmmm. We had two invaders enter our world? Well then. Looks like we'll have to take a more global approach."

Yamaki pulled out lighter and begins flipping open its top as if he were trying to rid himself of the nerves that were bothering him from within.

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The Tamer boys made it over towards the bunker as Guilmon went over to greet them. Takato walks over towards his digimon buddy and speaks up.

"Guilmon. I need to ask you a question."

"Sure, ask me anything, Takatomon."

"Were you in your bunker this whole time just like I instructed you to?"

"Uh huh. I didn't even go walking out. Heck, not even Calumon came to play."

"Well that's good to know. We've been hearing stories of this pyromaniac who has been disturbing local couples in the park recently," said Takato.

"Yeah and they say this guy might be some sort of prankster," said Terriermon, "And they claim that the culprit was the size of a small child. Well, Guilmon certainly doesn't look like a kid. A rather big kid, if you ask me."

"Heh, I can just imagine you wearing a backpack, Guilmon," said Takato, "You would look great! Ha."

"I would? But who has been doing those mean things?"

"We don't know for sure. But for our sakes, we just hope that it wasn't you this whole time," said Henry.

"Oh don't you worry, Henry. I promise that I will stay in this bunker. I won't even leave my spot," Guilmon said.

"Right. Don't leave from here, even if Calumon says there's a new playground being built nearby. Don't leave. You promise, boy."

"Yes, I promise, Takatomon."

"Momentai, Takato!"

"Maybe, I'll do just that, Terriermon."

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Elsewhere, Kari stops by and looks over towards a local cafe. She sees none other than TK, Ken and Yolei. She waves over towards them and rushes inside into the cafe.

[Random Furi Kuri music plays in the background for the cafe scene]

"Kari! Well, it's about time you came," said TK.

"Yeah, if you called me a lot earlier," remarked Kari as she took a seat.

"But, you had your cell on silent. Well, never mind that."

"Its so good to see you again, Kari," said Yolei as she gave her old friend a hug.

"Me too," replied Kari while giving Yolei a hug as well.

"It's been a while, Kari. You've grown quite a bit," said Ken as he gives Kari a hug.

"Uh huh. And you two certainly have grown as well."

Kari then looks over towards a baby's seat and sees a little girl staring right over towards her.

"Aww! That must be Naomi that you two have been telling me about," said Kari as she walked over towards the baby. "How long have you two had her?"

"About a year and a half already, but she doesn't seem to want to grow up," said Yolei, "Isn't she just gorgeous?"

"She is! Hi there, Naomi. Hi there," Kari said while talking motherly to Naomi.

TK picks up Kari's backpack and then sees none other than Gatomon and Patamon in there looking right up at him.

"You two just remain quiet. I don't think this cafe allows any animals in there, so just pretend to be stuffed toys," whispered TK.

"Alright," they both said while putting on their little 'stuffed animal' act.

"So, where's Hawkmon and Wormmon?" asked Kari.

Ken then points down at his backpack while placing his finger on his lips as if he were telling her that they were safely inside of his backpack. Kari nods and then takes her seat.

"So, tell us everything that has been going on with you, Kari," said Yolei.

"Well. I'm a part-time substitute teacher over at West Shinjuku elementary. And you won't believe at what I'm about to tell ya'll."

Kari goes on and explains everything that has occurred these past few weeks, including the whole Tamer thing.

"I see. Yeah. You've been telling me about these Tamers. Davis just called me. He also told me about them," asked Yolei.

"Yeah and they use these special digivices and slide cards right through them. They call them Card Slash and they are able to give their digimon a much needed energy boost in order to defeat their enemy. The boy, Takato, has a digimon that he created named Guilmon. And you should certainly see how he has improved over these past weeks. Its amazing."

"I'll bet, but why weren't we told of this whole digimon card game? I never knew that they could come up with the idea," said Ken, "Its like as if it happened so suddenly."

"Right and we're going to try to get to the bottom of it. Kari has a card to give you a good example of the cards that these new kids have been using."

Kari pulls out the Gatomon card and then hands it over to Ken. He closely examines it and hands it over to Yolei.

"Whoa and how do they know about Gatomon? Do they even have a Hawkmon card?"

"Uh huh. Just about every single of our digimon has a card of their own," said Kari.

"Wow. Incredible. We certainly need to study this a little further. Maybe Izzy and I can help you guys out on your case," said Ken, "I need a good start on my detective career anyway. That sounds fine?"

"Sure. We can start tomorrow," said TK.

"Great! Looks like we're room buddies, Kari," squealed Yolei, "Even if it is for a month."

"That's for sure. But I wonder how Takato and Guilmon are doing now. With those recent pyromaniac reports, I'm getting a little worried for poor Guilmon."

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Back at the park, Guilmon was beginning to bury the last remaining portions of his bread, in order to eat later. But then, he hears someone whistling over to him. Guilmon turns around and sees none other than Impmon at the gateway entrance waiting.

"Hey, have you come for some more bread? Sorry, but I buried the last of it," said Guilmon.

"What, so you're hoping for it to grow?"

"Hmmm, I never thought of it that way."

Impmon quickly turns around and then stomps around as if he were getting mad at Guilmon's simple comment.

"I was making fun of you, pineapple head! So you don't get it. How are you going to learn if you're locked up in that stupid cage? Come with me and I'll show you a little fun. Well, what do you say? Unless you're not afraid of the dark."

"I'm not afraid."

"You're a chicken."

"No, I don't even like chicken. Takato said that I should stay in this cage and I will do as he says."

"Look, if he told you to set you're foot on fire, would do it? So, why should you listen to him this time around?"

Impmon walks away and then heads out back over to the park.

"Ugh. You're no fun. I'm outta here."

"But I am fun!"

Guilmon quickly breaks open the gate door and goes running up towards Impmon, in order to catch up to him. Impmon turns around as he goes sneeking into the bushes, with Guilmon following right behind him.

They hide to make sure that they aren't spotted from any local civilian, who could easily report them.

"So, what are we exactly doing?"

"Just watch and learn, pineapple head."

Just then, Impmon looks over to see a teenage couple about to make love on a nearby bench. But as soon as they were going to lean over for the climatic kiss, Impmon tosses up a fireball and jumps out of the bushes laughing. The couple go running off and screaming in horror. Guilmon doesn't seem too impressed and looks towards the other way.

"This is too boring. I'm heading back to the bunker."

"Hey, where are you going?! We were having fun! Ugh, who needs you anyway!"

Impmon looks up towards a tall statue. He looked to be staring down right at him. Impmon gets infuriated and tosses a fireball right in the forehead of the statue figure.

"What's with these punks and their staring problems?!"

Suddenly, Rei and Mina came popping out from the bushes with a video camera.

"We've got the little punk on camera!" Rei said.

"All we have to do is tape ourselves kicking this jerk's ass," Mina stated.

"Don't you think we're going a little too far with this ordeal?" Artemis asked.

"He's the one who started it and we're finishing it. We don't even have to transform to teach him a thing or two," Mina replied.

"Maybe you ought to transform," a raspy voice said.

"Did you say something, Rei?"

"Wasn't me?"

"Look behind you," the voice hissed.

The Sailor pair turned around and faced a dark feminine digimon. She was wearing a black leather get-up, a pair of clawed hands, and her skin was pale as snow. Her eyes glowed crimson red and a pair of fangs were exposed.

"Hello, girlies! You mind telling me where I can find some delicious data?" the dark lady asked.

"Hey, Mina. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

"I hear you. This lady has no fashion taste."

"I have no fashion taste. Then, why don't I show you some good fashion taste?!"

The dark lady prepared her attack, but quickly turned to face another direction. She felt the presence of digital life forms. She licked her lips and flew off. She felt the two Sailors behind with confused looks.

"Um, what just happened?" Mina asked. "We didn't even get to transform."

"I guess she chickened out. Who cares? We've got a pyromaniac to catch."

"That's right. Let's go."

The dark lady turned towards another direction. She was feeling the presence of more than just one digimon in the park.

"I feel the presence of several digital life forms. I should get started and feed off of some data. I need my well balanced dinner."

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Meanwhile, Takato walks on over back to Guilmon's home with a bag of bread around his shoulder. As soon as he leans forward to look right through the cage, he gasps and drops the bag.

"Guilmon! No! You promised me! You said you would stay in here!"

Just then, Guilmon walks up the steps to see none other than Takato talking to himself in grief. He speaks up.

"Hey, who are you talking to, Takatomon?"

"Where have you been Guilmon?! I thought I told you to stay in your bunker!"

"Oh Takato! You should have been there! It was so fun! There were people screaming and running away. But then, it got boring and decided to come back home…"

"It was you… It was you this whole time…"

Takato stomps his foot on the ground and then riffles his hair angrily as he started to scold at Guilmon to take out his frustrations.

"Guilmon! Argh! I've had it! I can't take it anymore! I've had it with you!!"

Takato goes running off with sheer anger and sadness in his eyes. Guilmon could only look on with an expression of hurt and guilt on his face. Takato goes running off as fast as he could just to get back home as soon as possible.

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Davis and Veemon were walking through Shinjuku Park, after another heated argument with Sonja. Davis knew that his wife loves him, but he shouldn't be yelled at for every little mistake he makes.

"I'm just so full of mistakes. Why doesn't she understand that?"

"No offense, but she sees you as some sort of ass clown."

"None taken, Veemon. I should be more sincere. Besides, TK and Kari seem to get along just fine. I know they've had their downfalls, but they've managed to patch up those differences. I just hope things will work out between my wife and I."

"I wouldn't worry about her too much, Davis. She maybe too stubborn and proud to admit her love, she still has feelings for you, man."

"Thanks for giving me this advice. Since when did you ever become a walking advice machine?"

"Since now?"

"Nice try, buddy."

Suddenly, Veemon felt an uncomfortable vibe across his skin. He looks around with an angry look.

"What's the matter, Veemon?"

"Davis, we have company."

"Where?"

"Up here, little boys."

They looked up to find the same dark lady, who encountered the Sailors momentarily. She levitates down and faces off with the duo.

"Having a bit of woman problems, aren't we?" the dark lady asked.

"Veemon. Who is this crazy bitch?"

"Ladydevimon!"

[Ladydevimon. Ultimate-level. Virus Type. Special Techniques: Darkness Wave & Evil Wing]

"She's an ultimate level? We've just had a run-in with that Vilemon pair a couple of days ago!" Davis replied. "Alright! This is our chance. That girl isn't here, so let's give it our all!"

["Break Up!" plays]

Davis' D-3 powered up and shoot out a beam of light. The light showered over Veemon as he was ready to digivolve into his champion-level form.

"Veemon shinka! Xveemon!"

Xveemon faced off against Ladydevimon. The dark woman licked her lips aggressively.

"You digivolved? Interesting. I wasn't aware that humans were capable of helping digimon to digivolve. It doesn't matter anyway. You're data will be mine."

"Chew on this, bitch!" Xveemon exclaimed.

"Xveemon! You're going to lay the smack down on her! Don't let her take you're data!"

"Sorry, Ladydevimon. But I'm not on the menu. Care to try another cuisine meal?"

"You fool. I've already won this battle. I've been uploading data recently and my power has gotten stronger. You're just a mere champion. I'll end this in a heartbeat."

Xveemon charges in as he goes to attack Ladydevimon head on. She easily flew up and taunted the blue dragon. Xveemon turns and puts his arms across his chest.

"What's this?"

"V-Laser!"

Xveemon shoots out a V-shaped beam, which nearly made contact with Ladydevimon. Ladydevimon u-turns and flies down behind the champion. Xveemon turns and faces her.

"You're not such a bad shot, but you're only delaying the inevitable."

"I'm just so full of surprises!" Xveemon exclaimed.

Meanwhile, Rei and Mina were watching the battle up close from behind a bush.

"Think we should help him?" Mina asked.

"Nah, I'm sure he has this in the bag. But I was anxiously on kicking some butt again. Ah, I miss the old days," Rei muttered.

"Aren't we supposed to be finding that pyromaniac?" Artemis asked.

"No way. Let's see who makes the next move," Mina stated. "This ought to be fun to watch."

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Elsewhere within the park, Impmon goes walking along while kicking a soda can along the way. He shrugs his shoulders and then continues his walk.

"Ugh, humans are starting to bore me. They're so predictable. Huh?"

Suddenly, there was a large fog cloud and Impmon noticed that there was a bio-emerging digimon inside. It was a rather, large monster. It was completely black with a pair of wings and a dragon-like snout. His eyes opened up with a red flare coming out of them. It was none other than Devidramon.

"Well, you don't look so tough," said Impmon.

Impmon climbs up a platform so that he could get a better view of the large, beast. He puts a finger right through the fog barrier while cutting through to make a hole at the same time.

"Ha. I'm willing to bet that you're here to look for a partner too!"

But just as soon as Impmon was going to make another comment, Devidramon goes emerging from the cloud barrier while Impmon makes an innocent look on his face.

"Hey, hey. Look I didn't mean it, palsy. It was all just a joke."

However, Devidramon didn't take that too kindly as he quickly knocks Impmon away by merely flapping his wings. Impmon goes crashing down onto the ground face first in a bed of flowers.

"Ugh. This just isn't my day…"

Devidramon goes flying up right into the skies above and then swarms all around the central section of West Shinjuku.

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Just then, Kari was picking up a reading on her D-3 and realized that it could only mean one thing. Another digimon has already emerged from the Digital World, somehow.

"You guys. Looks like we got trouble," said Kari.

"What? Hey, I'm getting a reading on my D-3 as well," said Ken.

Soon, Yolei and TK found that their D-3s were picking up the location of two digimon. Suddenly, they looked over to see people screaming and running away at what they saw was a digimon.

"Damn! I really thought that Azulongmon closed all of the gates," said TK.

"I thought so too, but looks like we got our work cut out for us," said Ken, "Its time to get back into the action! Wormmon!"

"Hawkmon!"

The two rookies came hopping out of the backpack with their game-faces on.

"Patamon!'

"Gatomon!"

The other two rookies popped out as well. They were now ready for a fight, something to which they haven't done for so long, but now they would get the chance to work together just like those many years ago.

"Lets go and follow that digimon," said Kari. "We'll split up! TK! You take the one in the park. Yolei, Ken and I will find this moving target."

They all nodded as they headed off to follow the exact location of the Devidramon. TK and Patamon went off to find Ladydevimon's location. They would then find it and stop it at all costs, before it could cause any harm to the people of West Shinjuku.

"Patamon! I'm getting a reading from within the park. It looks like Davis is there and he may need our help."

"Shouldn't we just evolve into War Angemon and get the job done, faster?"

"No, because it will require us a lot of energy to pull off our fusion evolution. Besides, our power would most likely destroy the park. We can't risk it. Besides, I have a feeling this invader isn't all that powerful to being with."

"Whatever you want. Let's move!"

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Devidramon flew across and sent a huge breeze along the way. Takato stopped as he looked up to see Devidramon flying overhead and then heads out to follow the gigantic dragon beast.

"Whoa! Time to get a reading on this guy!"

Just then, a hologram image of Devidramon appears and there was information on him.

[Devidramon. Champion Level. Special Attack: Crimson Claw]

"Oh no! He's going to attack the city if he keeps this up! I got to go find Guilmon..."

But just then, he had just remembered that he had scolded at Guilmon just a moment ago.

"But what if he refuses? I was too hard on him. But how am I able to stop Devidramon at the same time?"

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Elsewhere, Rika was shuffling through her digimon cards until she felt the presence of Renamon appearing in her room.

"Rika. I sense the presence of a digimon. Shall we be heading out?"

Rika soon answered her question by putting on her belt buckle and placing her cards in her back pocket. She then headed out with Renamon following at her side.

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Devidramon landed right on top of the Hypnos towers and looked right down at the city of West Shinjuku while searching for somebody to battle.

"Who down there is worthy of facing me in a battle?"

And just as soon as he said that, he felt a ki presence and looked down to see none other then Guilmon walking on the a bridge. Devidramon let out a scream and then goes flying right down towards Guilmon as if he were an eagle swooping down to catch his prey.

Yamaki could only look on to see Devidramon flying right down from the top of Hypnos. He held his lighter tight and growled under his breath.

"Ugh! That's it! This is going far enough! This has become nothing more than a personal embarrassment!"

As soon as Takato came across Devidramon, he saw none other than Guilmon looking right up at Devidramon with an intensified look on his face.

"Guilmon! Look out!!"

But just as Guilmon was about to make his first attack, something comes shooting out of the bushes. It looked like two pairs of beams and they nailed Devidramon right at the side, but it only held him at bay for a moment. Takato turned to see none other than Halsemon.

"Huh? Another digimon to Guilmon?!"

"No! We're here to help you," a voice cried out.

Takato turned around to see none other than Kari, Yolei and Ken behind him. A smile came across his face and then he turns his attention back over at the battle.

"How dare you interfere, insolent pest," screeched Devidramon, "Now you shall suffer my wrath!"

"I don't think so! Spiking Strike!" a voice called out.

Devidramon felt a sharp pain and was sent crashing down. The attacker was none other than Stingmon. Takato gasps in shock at what he was seeing. The two digimon came out of nowhere to come to Guilmon's aid. Takato runs over towards Guilmon and the dinosaur looked right over to him.

"Guilmon…"

"Takatomon? You came?"

"Of course, we're buddies right?"

"But I thought you hated me. You got so mad at me and told me that you had it…"

"I thought you were the one who was causing all of that trou-"

But soon, he was interrupted as Devidramon was flying right at them once again. Guilmon pushes Takato to the side and then opens his mouth to unleash a powerful, fiery blast at the large dragon.

"Pyro Sphere!!"

The fireball nailed Devidramon right in the head but was ineffective against him. Stingmon and Halsemon come up and start their onslaught.

[Digimon 02 Armor Evolution theme "Target Akai Shougeki!" plays]

"Tempest Wing!"

"Moon Shooter!"

But just as soon as those attacks nailed Devidramon, they merely just exploded like they were nothing. This caught the two digimon by surprise.

"That's not good! Even our two digimon can't take him down," said Yolei.

"Hmm. for some reason, this Devidramon is much different from any normal ones in the Digital World. Usually, our armor and champion level digimon would take down a single Devidramon with several shots like that, but this one, nothing," replied Ken.

"Takato! You have to get out of there," Kari shouted, "You'll get killed!"

"Crimson Claw!!"

The attack from Devidramon was able to take both Halsemon and Stingmon down with ease, which allowed Guilmon enough time to shoot out another fireball. But Devidramon was able to see it coming and nailed him with a single swipe of his tail.

"No! Guilmon!" exclaimed Takato.

Just then, Rika and Renamon arrived at the scene of the battle. Rika then looked over at Devidramon.

"Alright, time to take this guy…"

"Wait, Rika…"

"Huh, why should we? We can take him."

"This is Guilmon's battle. Its best that we not interfere."

"Ok, then who are those other two digimon? They're here to attack Guilmon too? I better take a reading on them."

"Hey, isn't that the Rika girl you and Davis have been telling me about?" asked Yolei.

"Yeah and she's practically a fighting genius in digimon battle. Just watch," said Kari.

"Hmph, if only I got my hands dirty. I really wanted to help Guilmon," said Gatomon.

"Sorry, but Wormmon and Hawkmon insisted and wanted you two to converse your powers for now. Plus, they really wanted a digimon battle to come along they're way someday and this was their chance to get back into battle," said Ken.

"Damn it! I wonder how Pata and TK are taking care of the other one?"

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"Darkness Wave!!"

Ladydevimon blasted Xveemon with a horde of bats. The force of the blast sent Xveemon crashing back. Davis could only look on as he cupped his hands together.

"C'mon, Xveemon!"

"Well dear, I think it's time for me to feed," she replied.

"No, get up! Get up!"

"Davis…"

Just as Ladydevimon was about to strike Xveemon with the final blow, a holy beam came blasting her across the chest. This was strong enough to send Ladydevimon crashing backwards. Xveemon flips up onto his feet and regains his composure.

"Hey, TK! Angemon!"

Angemon hovered down as he and Xveemon were prepared to do battle against Ladydevimon.

"You alright, Davis?"

"Peachy. Where are Kari and the others?"

"They've over with Takato. Some other digimon just emerged and they're trying to stop it."

"Man. This is just wacked! Digimon are popping up everywhere!"

"We should be able to take care of Ladydevimon," Angemon stated. "Xveemon, you ready?"

"Ready and steady."

"Does your wife know that you're out late again?" TK chuckled.

"Very funny, TJ. I'm going to start getting you're name wrong just to annoy you."

"It didn't bother me before and it won't bother me today. Angemon! Trash this witch!"

"Go, Xveemon!"

Angemon and Xveemon made their move against the dazed Ladydevimon. She turned and was nailed by Xveemon's rapid kicks and punches. Angemon follows it up with by smashing his rod across her chest.

"Oh, this one's going to get ugly!" Mina muttered.

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Rika arrived at the battle site where Devidramon was located. She noticed several new digimon. She wasn't aware that a Stingmon and a Halsemon were in the city. She pulls out her D-Ark to get a reading off of them.

"OK. No reading yet. Uhhh, this piece of junk! Ok, here we go."

A hologram image of Halsemon appears on Rika's D-Ark.

[Halsemon. Armored type. Special Attacks: Tempest Wing and Eagle Eye]

Then, another hologram image appears but this being one of Stingmon, which also included his information.

[Stingmon. Champion level. Special Attacks: Spiking Strike and Moon Shooter]

"Renamon. Make sure that they don't interfere. So at least we can have a part of the action too."

"Yes, Rika."

Just as Halsemon was about to get to his feet, he looks up to see none other than Renamon right in front of him. Stingmon rises to his feet and gets into a fighting stance.

"Who are you and what do you want?" asked Stingmon.

"I ask you not to interfere, or else you'll get hurt. This is Guilmon's fight."

Halsemon and Stingmon both looked over at each other with confused looks on their faces. Then they turned towards Renamon. The three turned to watch the battle ensue.

Henry and Terriermon soon arrive after picking up an energy signal from the D-Ark. They stopped once they saw Guilmon facing off against Devidramon.

"Looks like we're in the line of fire here," said Henry.

"No, you think?! We are in the line of fire," remarked Terriermon.

"Pyro Sphere!!"

The little, red dinosaur shoots out a powerful, fireball that Devidramon was able to see coming and uses his claws to smack it away with tremendous ease.

[Card Slash theme "Slash!" plays]

"Alright! Guilmon! Lets try this! Card Clash! Power card!"

Guilmon powers up and then unleashes another Pyro Sphere, but about two times stronger than the previous blast. However, it still wasn't strong enough to affect Devidramon. Takato pulls out another card and slashes it right through his D-Ark.

"Card Slash! Hyper Wing!"

Guilmon quickly flies up as two pairs of wings appear on his back, but Devidramon is able to swipe him away with his hand. Guilmon goes flying down onto the ground. Takato then slashes yet another card.

"Card Slash! Speed card!"

But Devidramon was still able to knock Guilmon around like a rag doll and take advantage of the battle. The tide was turning against Guilmon at the very moment.

"Ugh. Speed is useless here. Why doesn't goggle head just realize that," growled Rika, "Does he having any idea on what he is doing?! He's his own worst enemy if he keeps this up!"

"Well, he is a basket case," replied Henry.

Terriermon jumps down from Henry's shoulder and notices something moving in the background. He went out to investigate for himself.

"Had enough, weakling?" Devidramon taunted Guilmon.

"No! Get off of him! Guilmon, you have to break free! You can't give up," exclaimed Takato.

Impmon was standing on a light post while watching the scene of the battle. Impmon was jumping around and cheering for the demise of Guilmon. Terriermon pokes his head from out of the bushes and looks right up at Impmon with a smirk on his face.

"Ha. I knew it wasn't Guilmon all along. Looks like we got ourselves a culprit. Besides, Guilmon isn't clever enough to pull off such a stunt."

Terriermon quickly hides back in the bushes and finds his way through to escape and report back to his Tamer as soon as possible. Impmon turned around and looked over with bushes with a confused look on his face.

"Call me crazy, but I thought I just say a talking dog with bunny ears. Ah well, no worry. I'm really going to enjoy seeing pineapple head getting his butt kicked."

Takato watches as Devidramon was looming over the defenseless Guilmon while holding him down onto the ground. Takato was shuffling right through his cards and quickly ran out of his best ones. He then fumbles and drops all of his cards on the floor. Rika and Henry go rushing up towards him. Kari comes running up to Takato.

"Hey yo, Takato!" Terriermon called out, "You want to know the truth? Well, I just found out that Guilmon wasn't the one. Nope. It was that little puppy-kicker, Impmon. He set Guilmon up."

"So, he didn't do it after all?"

"Hope, he's innocent."

"Takato? Show how much you care for him," said Kari, "Friends must make up their differences. Now go over and tell Guilmon that you're not mad anymore."

"I will."

"They're right. I was wrong about Guilmon. I never should have yelled at him like that. Well, its time to live up to being a good digimon tamer! Guilmon, I just hope your forgive me."

While Devidramon pinned Guilmon down to the ground with his claws, Takato rushes over and demands Guilmon to rise to the occasion and fight out of the predicament.

"You have to use everything within the fiber of your body! Push free!"

"But I can't hold out much longer!'

"You have to! You must!"

Just then, Calumon arrives and discovers the altercation.

"Please, Guilmon! I don't want to lose you! I can't lose! You're my best friend ever! Don't die, please," Takato cried out.

"So, you're not mad at me, Takatomon?"

"Aw, I can't stay mad at you and it's my fault for not trusting you."

But just as Devidramon was pushing down on Guilmon and slowly starts to crush the defenseless digimon, Takato cried out his digimon's name for the last time.

"GUILMON!!!!"

Suddenly, Takato's D-Ark started to unleash a powerful red beam of light and it was sent straight to Guilmon. The light blinded Devidramon. Guilmon could feel his ki level increasing.

[Digimon Tamers first Evolution theme "Evo" plays]

"Digivolve Guilmon!!"

EVOLUTION!!

With that said, Guilmon felt his body starting to change and his energy level increasing. His body starts to grow and his outer skin started to peel away to reveal his new form, which would be his champion-leveled form.

"Guilmon shinka!!"

Now Guilmon was larger with a much more broad and heavy body. He has a patch of white hair on his head. However, he looked much too similar to his rookie form, but has a higher power level as far as he was concerned. He stands while blowing fire from out of his nose. Finally, he calls out to his new name.

"Growlmon!!"

As soon as the smoke cleared away, Growlmon now was standing in the place of Guilmon. The others could only look on with awe looks on their faces. Takato was just as surprised as everyone else was.

"Guilmon?"

Growlmon lets out a roar, which makes Calumon flying away while holding his ears. Growling then turns to face Devidramon.

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Ladydevimon wasn't faring well against the duo. Angemon had damaged her body with his holy energy and Xveemon's physical attacks had done her in.

"You ready to surrender?" Xveemon said.

"Never. I'll never lose to a group of weaklings! How can you be used by these humans to gain power?"

"The humans not only give us power, but we share a common bond. With this common bond, we are inseparable. You don't understand the meaning of friendship. You have a lot to learn," Angemon stated.

"Never! You won't see me with a human as a partner! I work alone! But, you just gave me an idea. Since I can't defeat you, I'll make my new targets those two humans!"

"No! Davis! TK!" Xveemon exclaimed.

"Goodnight, pretty boys!"

Suddenly, Ladydevimon turned around as an energy blast came blasting through her chest. The demon lady screeched in agony as her body broke apart into data. TK and Davis were shocked by the turn of events.

"What just happened?" TK asked.

"I happened," a voice called from above.

Davis looked up and smiled. The blast came from his wife, Sonja. The former artificial levitated down to watch Ladydevimon's data fade away.

"How did you know we were here?" Xveemon asked.

"I don't know to have. I sensed Xveemon's ki. It's not a big deal. So you two were out late again, weren't you?"

"Oh, busted again!" Davis muttered.

"Just be glad that I was able to bail you out of there," she replied. "Besides, I'll let this one slide. She didn't have any fashion taste."

"How so true!" TK stated. "Now it's up to Takato and the others to stop the other one."

"Shouldn't we go and lend them a land?" Davis asked.

"No. I think you've had enough fun for tonight, Davis," Sonja stated abruptly.

"Aw, crap. I never to have anymore fun."

Mina and Rei were stunned by the battle. They had just witnessed their first in close digimon battle.

"Wow? And here we thought our enemies were tough?" Mina said.

"No kidding. Though, we should have gone the pyromaniac."

"I think we lost him, Rei."

"Damn. We didn't get him this time. I say we drop it. I think that little creep would have pissed in his pants and ran off if these battles had taken place. Man, let's get the heck out of here. I've seen enough action for one day."

"I'm with you."

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"Whoa, that's what I call a growth spurt," said Yolei, "But will he even beat this Devidramon? I mean Stingmon was in champion form and he got his butt handed to him."

"We'll just have to see and find out for ourselves," replied Ken. "After all, this digimon is much different from our own was well."

"The bond between the tamers and the digimon are just as strong as our relationship with our digimon, but perhaps a little bit more stronger. This is just unbelievable,"Kari thought.

Growlmon goes charging right at Devidramon and fires a large fireball from out of his mouth, which goes flying right towards Devidramon.

"Pyro Blaster!!"

But even the super fast fireball was unable to nail Devidramon as he quickly phased to the side. The fireball crashes right into the Hypnos building, which catches everybody inside off guard.

"I can't believe that this is happening!" exclaimed Riley.

"That's because it isn't," replied Yamaki, "The public will know nothing of this debacle and I'm placing you in charge of creating a convincing cover story."

"Um, you're kidding me, right?" asked Riley.

Back on the battlegrounds, Growlmon climbs on the top of the building. Devidramon quickly appears out of nowhere and grabs him.

"Are you back for some more?" asked Devidramon.

Growlmon fights back as he executes his 'Dragon Slash' on Devidramon to evade him at the moment. He then grapples with Devidramon. But Devidramon jumps right behind Growlmon and picks him up. He then lifts Growlmon high into the air. Once high enough, he drops Growlmon straight down onto the ground below through the overpass.

"Playtime is over," exclaimed Devidramon.

"Growlmon!! Get up!!"

Growlmon quickly rises to his feet and looks up to see Devidramon flying right down at him with his claws ready to slash Growlmon. Growlmon quickly powers up and then opens his mouth. He shoots out a huge fireball that quickly squeezed out to transform itself into a beam.

"Pyro Blaster!!"

As soon as that occurred, the fire beam goes shooting right through Devidramon as he felt his body quickly melting away and eventually exploding into a load of data. Devidramon's screams echoes right through the city.

"You did it!" exclaimed Takato.

Growlmon then starts to absorb the data from the now-deleted Devidramon and felt his power increasing. Growlmon lets out one last blood curling cry as his body quickly started to shrink.

"Guilmon! You did a great job," Takato said as he rushes over to hug him. "I really want to say that I'm sorry for everything that I said to you."

"Takatomon. We'll be friends forever, right?"

"Of course. And thanks to your advice, Kari. Thank you."

"Well. Its a little experience I learned during my first days as a Digi-Destined. I was sort of in a same situation as you were long ago, but I eventually learned that I would always stick together with my digimon, no matter how bad a situation gets or how bad our relationship may end up."

"Yeah. Guilmon, I promise never to get mad at you for something that you have never done. I should have never doubted you."

"Aww, Takatomon. We're friends. Don't sweat."

The others watched on with smiles on their faces. They were happy to see Takato reconciling his differences with Guilmon, with the exception of Rika. She already left with Renamon.

"That's so sweet," said Yolei, "But what the hell is that girl's deal? She didn't even seem to care for what just happened."

"Well, she might also have to learn a thing or two about the relationship of a digimon and human. She obviously is no team player if she has no feelings for her fellow peers. Kind of reminds me of myself when I was the Kaiser."

"But you eventually changed for the better. I just hope the same happens for that girl."

"Guilmon. We'll never fight with each other again. I promise to be the best Tamer and I will live up to that promise."

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Unknown to everyone around him, a tall figure with bat-like wings, red eyes, and a muscular body was watching the events unfold. The most distinct feature of this beast was the 'D' ensigna on his forehead. He was now ready to send a telepathic message to an unknown source.

"Master. Everyone of the digimon who have bio-emerged into the human world was done in. There's a group of humans, who have dared to oppose us. What should we do now, master?"

"Its time for our next operation. We will send a group of powerful warriors capable of handling these pests. We have to gather as much energy as we can to unleash Armageddon on the multiple worlds!"

"Yes, sire. I shall return back and inform the news to our reinforcements."

With that said, the dark figure fazed out through a small digital field. This eventually will send him back to the other side. From there, he would meet with his master and get started on the next plan of action. This certainly wasn't good news as far as earth was concerned.

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The Next morning…

The Hypnos crew was hard at work at tracing a recent digital life form trying to bio-emerge. And this one was said to be the biggest ever thus far.

Riley looks over at the tracked 'Wild One'. She couldn't believe how big it was.

"Sir, I'm picking up a Wild One. This one seems to be the biggest one thus far."

"Its trying to bio-emerge and I have no idea of what its bringing along, but all I know that its bigger than the life form itself."

"Unbelievable!" replied Riley, "Um, sir. The Wild One has succeeded in entering our realm."

This certainly meant that they were unable to trace and take out the Wild One.

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The busy streets of West Shinjuku have been as heavy as ever during the time of noon. Everybody has been either rushing over to their jobs or were leaving from their occupations to call it a day. But others were just bored and decided to take a walk.

Well, there was one girl who certainly would take a walk just to prevent boredom. And that would be Rika Nonaka. She is the Digimon Queen.

Rika walks across the street with her headphones on to full blast. She was listening to one of her favorite CDs and decided to walk to get a lot of crap off of her mind, especially ones involving Takato and Henry.

She is still upset over the fact that Renamon has been unable to get and stronger when she digivolves. She soon realized that both Terriermon and Guilmon's ki levels managed to increase to new heights, but Renamon's remained the same despite the evolution into Kyuubimon.

"I just don't understand it. Why is Renamon not able to get anymore stronger? Is it just me or am I not even trying hard enough? Maybe I should be sterner with Renamon. I mean, look at those two boys, especially that goggle head. It all started with Guilmon, just a couple of days ago. Then it happened with that floppy-eared bunny, Terriermon. Then Renamon… We all went through the same common predicament. We all nearly get killed and then our digimon respond by digivolving to protect us. But Renamon's power still remains the same. I just know it is. Do I possibly know any other way to help her become stronger?"

Just then a dark and shadowy figure was creeping up from behind and Rika and quickly sent a chill down her spine. She turned around and saw what was coming near her and to her surprise, there was nobody. She quickly sighed a relief and then turns around to see none other than Calumon looking up right at her with a smile.

"Hi!" Calumon managed to say.

Rika simply rolls her eyes and walks away, simply ignoring Calumon along the way. Calumon followed Rika along while the girl was trying to find a way to ditch the little digimon.

"I don't have any food, so why are you following me?"

"Want to play?"

Calumon smiles and then jumps right into Rika's arms. Rika tried so hard to push Calumon off but the little guy had quite a tight grip on her and couldn't let go of her. Just then, the crowd starts crowding her as a young, blonde woman comes running up to Rika. Rika turned to face none other than her own mother.

"Rika! Oh there you are! I was looking all over for you."

"What are you doing here?"

"Oh I had a photo shoot but before we could start, all of these people started showing up, wanting my autograph and to the secret of my youthful, good looks. I swear they wouldn't even leave me alone and they couldn't get anything done, being famous is such a pain in the neck."

Rika listened to her mother ramble and decided to hightail it out of there as soon as possible, in order to get rid of Calumon.

"Well, I have to go now, mother."

"Oh, before you go. I must say that toy you got there is very cute."

"You have got to be kidding me, right?!"

Rika looks down at Calumon, as the little digimon smiled.

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"Badda-Boom!" exclaimed a voice.

A flock of crows were flying away as Impmon stood at the entrance of a shrine with a smirk on his face.

"C'mon! Fight back ya cowards! Ah, I guess my firepower was a little too much for you to handle anyways. I guess I'll just have to wreck havoc elsewhere."

Deep within the shrine, Rika was sitting on the porch as she placed Calumon down on the ground. A frown formed across her face as he gave Calumon a very cold look.

"Look. I'm immune to your little cutesy act, so why don't you scram!"

Calumon is heavily taken by this and ran away while crying. Rika watches on and sits up with a smirk on her face.

"That's it! Keep running shorty!"

Just then, a mysterious cloud appears around Rika and it gave her the chills just like earlier today. She turns around and sees nothing.

"Renamon!"

Rika stands there looking over at what may have sent her chills and made her cold all of a sudden. But just as soon as she was going to investigate, Renamon appears on top of a tree.

"Rika? You called for me?"

"Where have you been?!"

"Watching you from over there."

"Oh."

"There's something troubling you, Rika. Is there something you need to talk about?"

"No, nothing at all Renamon. I just need to clear my head a bit."

Rika goes walking towards her home and over towards her room, but then she once again feels a cold chill from behind her once again. She managed to blow out icy breath and quickly rushes inside of her room.

Just as Renamon was about to follow after Rika, she suddenly heard footsteps from behind her. As soon as she turned around, she saw Impmon gazing at her.

"Well, well. We meet again, fox-face."

"Oh its just you."

"Huh?! What do you mean just me?! I guess a good fight will knock you off of your perch! By the way, I heard Terriermon called you a fat-tailed bully. So if I were you, I'd teach that egg-shaped loudmouth a lesson."

Renamon simply chuckles which started to further irritate Impmon even further.

"What?! Your just going to let him get away with that?!"

"Terriermon won't fight."

"Huh? Why not?"

"Because his Tamer has forbidden it."

Renamon walks away leaving Impmon looking dumbfounded as ever. He was appalled at how Renamon treated him as if he were just an amateur.

"What kind of a digimon doesn't want to fight?! But since those kids turned him into a pet, I can whip his doughy butt. Just think of the possibilities!"

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Rika breathe heavily while clutching her chest. She then sits down and kneels to regain her composure.

"Renamon…"

With that said, the neon-colored fox appears from out of nowhere while replying to her Tamer.

"Yes Rika?"

"Can you take a look outside and see who is there?"

"As you wish."

Renamon opens the door and then pokes her head out. She looks around her surroundings and sees nothing. She closes the door and turns to face Rika.

"So, who was it?"

"Nobody."

"Don't lie to me! I know somebody is out there!"

Renamon looks right down at Rika as if she were about to say something, but then Rika gives her a cold look.

"What the hell is that look for?"

"Don't worry, Rika. I'm always here to protect you."

"No! You don't need to protect me! I don't know why you even bother saying that!"

"But we're partners…"

"Look! I don't buy into any of this partners and feelings crap! You hear me?!"

Renamon is taken by shock at the tone of voice and the language that Rika was using. Rika looks down and goes walking out the door.

"I don't need you. I don't need anybody."

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Elsewhere in the park, the two Tamer boys are seen practicing their card slash skills, while Terriermon and Guilmon watched on. Guilmon decided to play on the grass. The butterflies attracted Guilmon.

Takato shows off his card slash pose and then looks right over to Henry as if waiting for some opinions.

"So, how did I do?"

"Hmm, nod bad."

"Not bad?"

"Yeah. We just need to work on certain strategies. That is what makes a Tamer shine and it's very important to know. Have you heard of combos?"

"Um, when you use two or more attacks all at once at the very same time?"

"Yep and if you use two of them in succession, you can get some pretty nifty results."

Just then, their conversation was quickly interrupted as Impmon pokes his head out from a tree nearby. He then hangs onto a tree branch in order to hold his balance.

"Well, well. If it isn't the dumb-dumb club! Did you miss me boys?"

"Ugh. Just ignore him," said Henry.

"Easy for you to say. You can't even you even smell him."

"Guilmon! We're leaving now," said Takato.

Guilmon quickly reacts to his Tamer and then runs right over towards him as they headed off out of the park.

"Aw, c'mon! I just want to hang around and give you guys a nice, friendly butt kicking!"

But then he notices the gang leaving out of the park. He peers right over at Terriermon as if he were already picking out his target already.

"Renamon was right! They won't fight back. But looks like I'll just have to blast some sense into them."

Terriermon quickly looks right back towards Impmon with a suspicious look on his face. Henry then looks to Terriermon giving him the 'don't attack' expression on his face. Impmon points over towards Terriermon as a flame appears at the tip of his finger. He tosses it right towards Terriermon.

"Bada-Boom!!"

"Terrier Tornado!!"

The attacks collided with one another but the Terrier Tornado certainly proved to be superior to the Bada-Boom flame. Impmon is taken back by surprise and watches as he gets blown right back by the force of the attack.

"Terriermon, I just said not to touch him."

"Well, I didn't really touch him."

"Ha! You're incorrigible," Henry remarked.

Far off from where the Tamers were goofing off, Yugi and Joey watched as a purple little devil came flying through the air.

"Yugi? What the heck was that?"

"Didn't look like no bird."

Impmon screamed through the air, until he was smacked into a building window. His face was crunched against the glass and he peered through to find several undressed girl models screaming.

"Ack! Pervert!'

"There's a peeping john!"

"Like, what an ugly mug! Totally!"

"Ugh, human females. They're the worst," Impmon thought to himself.

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Elsewhere, Rika is walking through a building and then is quickly overcome with the same sudden chillness in the air. She shivered and was shaking like there was no tomorrow. Something was appearing from behind her. Two glowing eyes looked over at Rika as if she were a piece of meat. She quickly turns around and sees nothing.

"Am I seeing things?"

She then turns to see something transparent flying up some nearby stairways. She goes chasing right after it with an enraged look on her face. She would now find out who has been stalking her this whole time.

"Hey you! I saw you creep! There's no where for you to escape now!"

Rika goes running up the stairs and quickly runs out of breath. She leans against a wall and then her eyes are now filled with shock and bewilderment. But just as she was about to make her next move, a hand reached out and grabbed her from behind. Rika tried to scream but the hand covered her mouth. Then a heavy fog came and swallows them both up. The mist fades away and they both disappear within a matter of moments. A deep, cold laughter was heard echoing.

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Rika finds herself within a dark and icy room. Her body was shivering just as ever and she was rendered helpless without her partner to protect her. She was alone at the moment.

"Its… so… cold…"

[Metallica's "Enter Sandman" plays without the lyrics]

Suddenly, an icy cold figure emerges from the ground and it quickly appears behind Rika while wrapping his wings around her. It looked just like the old, black-gear possessing Devimon, but this one looked a bit smaller and was made out of ice instead. He looks right down at Rika.

"Hello there, Rika Nonaka. I've been waiting a long time to finally meet you."

"Are you a digimon?"

"Yes."

"And are we in a digital field?"

"Yes, we are. Isn't it just beautiful? This area suites you perfectly."

"Really? How…"

"The way you treat others, thinking you are cold as ice. You have no room for any warm and weak relationships. You demand perfection not just from yourself but from others as well."

Rika looks down and nods as if she were agreeing with everything that the icy demon is telling her. All of these traits sure make up her entire personality.

"Which is why we are destined to become partners."

"Us, partners? No, I already have a partner… Renamon…"

Just then, Renamon lifts her head up while sitting on a rooftop and looks out into the city ahead of her. She could feel Rika's presence and actually heard Rika calling for her help.

"Rika? Where are you, Rika?"

Renamon goes heading out towards the location of where Rika was being held captive by the creature known as Icedevimon.

"Oh, Renamon. What have I done?"

Just as she was about to reach over to her D-Ark, Icedevimon places a hand over her.

"I want to show you something."

"What is it?"

"To prove my loyalty to you. I brought along a little show and tell. So you may my power for yourself."

With that said, Icedevimon's wings pull back and the lights start to flicker on. Surrounding them was a circle full of icicles. Inside each and every one of them icicles were digimon. Rika couldn't believe at what she was seeing and gasped in horror.

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Outside of the icy building, Calumon was gazing over and could see none other than the two Tamer boys heading over towards the building. Guilmon and Terriermon were running alongside side of the boys. Kari and Gatomon were catching up with the boys.

"These boys sure run fast," Kari stated. "I shouldn't be complaining since I jog almost every morning."

"You just need to work out a little more," muttered Gatomon.

"Hey, guys! Whatca doing?!"

But they were in no mood to answer any questions as they rushed past Calumon. Calumon turns around and then goes flying right after them.

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Back inside of the ice chamber, Icedevimon began explaining of what he has done for the past few years in the Digital World.

"For years, Rika, I've hunted hundreds of digimon and absorbed their data. They were friends of some, maybe even partners. But just like you once said, they were merely stepping stones."

"No! I never said that."

"Ah, but you did. I fight to digivolve and you make your digimon into the exact same thing."

"No, there's more to digimon than fighting. I would never turn Renamon into something that you already are, a monster."

"Better a powerful monster than a weak nobody. Is that what you really want?"

"I'll tell what I don't know and that's not to be the partner of a murderer!"

Rika eventually breaks free of Icedevimon's icy grip and faces him with eyes full of tenacity and rage.

"You don't know a damn thing about me! Why do you even care?! I suggest you go scare somebody else with your act, because I sure no buying it!"

"Ah, you have no idea on how exquisite you are when you're angry. I've been searching for so long for a partner like you, someone with a heart of ice and a will of stone. Now my search is finally over. I want you to become my Tamer."

"Up yours pal!"

Icedevimon quickly launches out an arm and quickly grabs Rika by her hand. She struggles with the icy demon.

"You even said yourself. You want to become the strongest digimon tamer and I want to become the strongest digimon! Together we shall be unbeatable!"

"Never!"

"Oh. So you still must be thinking of that pitiful excuse of a digimon, Renamon. Why do you even settle for second best? Why waste time with beauty when you can tame the beast?"

Rika then reaches over to her D-Ark, which Icedevimon quickly notices as a smile forms across his face.

"Go ahead, summon her. Perhaps she could prefer a live demonstration of who is the superior digimon really is."

"No!"

"Then I'll just have to call for her myself.

With that said, Icedevimon powers up and then shoots a powerful ice beam right through the ceiling and watching it penetrate through and releasing an beam, which could signal the location of the lair for Renamon to find.

Suddenly, a door opened and standing there were the two Tamer boys. Takato and Henry looked over to see Icedevimon holding Rika captive. Kari, Gatomon, Guilmon and Terriermon came into view next.

"Look over there! It's Rika! And she's being held captive! I wonder who that is," exclaimed Takato, "But he better let her go before things will get very nasty!"

"My god! How did this whole place turn into a giant refrigerator?" Kari asked.

"That's the reason! Look!" Gatomon exclaimed.

"He looks almost like Neo Devimon," Kari stated.

The young woman quickly looked back to the time when Neo Devimon kidnapped her and TK. This took place when Kari was still a little girl. She remembered it as if it were yesterday.

"I won't forget a face like that," Kari growled.

Henry took out his D-Ark and a hologram image of Icedevimon appears with information about him.

[Icedevimon. Champion Level. Special Attacks: Frozen Claw, Tundra Freeze. A Fallen Angel Type]

"Rika, I thought you didn't have any friends," taunted Icedevimon.

"You better let her go," Takato cried out.

"I don't think so boy! We were getting acquainted."

"You're not her partner! Rika already has Renamon," Takato exclaimed.

"You kidnapped her!" Kari exclaimed. "Let her go!"

"Well, I say its time for a little upgrade," said Icedevimon.

"Let me go, damn it," Rika cried out.

"So, what are we going to do now," asked Takato.

"Hmmm. This one is going to be hard. Icedevimon is more powerful than all of the previous digimon we have defeated."

"But never say never until we try to fight him!"

"We're going to need a effective strategy to take him down."

"Right! You hear that, Guilmon?! Go get him!"

"Stay back, Gatomon. They should be able to handle him."

"Alright then. Be careful, guys!"

Guilmon and Terriermon both nodded as they went out charging right at Icedevimon. Icedevimon saw them coming and his eyes started to flare into a metallic, blue color.

"Goody, goody. Time to fight!"

With that said, Icedevimon shoots out a beam and it nails the two digimon directly and freezing them along their tracks. Takato and Henry looked on in horror as their digimon were now encased in solid ice cubes.

"Guilmon!"

"Terriermon!"

"Well, things just didn't turn out right at that moment," Gatomon stated.

Icedevimon simply stands there laughing maniacally while holding Rika at his side. The Tamer boys were shocked in disbelief at what just happened. Rika turns away and could only hope for her savior, Renamon.

"Oh this doesn't look good. Not at all," remarked Calumon while catching the battle from above the ceiling.

Takato and Henry tried to break open the ice cubes with rocks and tools that were found nearby. But to no avail, they were unable to break free of their digimon. Gatomon tried to use her claw attacks, but it was hopeless. Nothing seemed to break through the ice block

"Ok, lets try this!"

Henry pulls out a card from his pocket and then slashes it right through his D-Ark.

"Card Slash! Heat card activate!"

With that said, the ice contained Terriermon was about to burst open in flames but to no avail. Henry could only look on with shock on his face.

"It didn't work," exclaimed Henry.

"What are we going to do now?" asked Takato.

"If only I could fusion evolve with Gatomon and we could become Celesta X, but I don't want to put the boys in danger. My power could be too much for them to bear," Kari thought.

"Rika! Where is Renamon?" Henry called out to the young girl.

"She's gone. She's not coming. Even if I called her, she wouldn't come."

"Aw, c'mon, Rika. Fess up, did you two get into a fight," Icedevimon taunted her, "That just proves that she's too weak to handle a special Tamer such as yourself. You need a partner that appreciates her and craves her cold strength."

Rika backs away with an angry look on her face. IceDevimon lifts his hands up and embraces himself.

"Embrace the future that I offer you!"

"Oh, Renamon…"

[Disturbed "Fear" plays]

Suddenly, a shower of diamonds came shooting out from the top-level entranceway, which quickly catches everybody's attention. Icedevimon looks up to see none other than the neon-colored fox, Renamon. Rika looks up and gasps.

"Renamon!"

"Well, well. If it isn't the illustrious Renamon, I'd love to stay and chat, but I have to destroy you."

"No! Look out, Renamon!"

Renamon starts powering up and flies up into the air. She crosses her arms and then goes to shoot out her Diamond Storm, but Icedevimon quickly phases right in front of her and cuts off her attempt by thrusting his fist into Renamon's gut. He then raises his hand back and smacks her away with ease.

"Frozen Claw!!"

Renamon goes flying down but then lands on her hand. She flips backwards and then goes for another attempt at her Diamond Storm, but Icedevimon phases right in front of her yet again. He winds back and then smacks Renamon onto the ground once again.

"Frozen Claw!!"

Renamon tries to stand up but she felt weakened after taking those blows from Icedevimon. She collapses onto the ground.

"Rika! You have to make Renamon evolve right away," exclaimed Takato.

"Rika! Listen, you can't win without Renamon! You have to help her! You're her partner!" Kari exclaimed. "Don't let fear overwhelm you!"

"But I can't! If I let her evolve, she'll end up being a monster like Icedevimon,"Rika said to herself. "I just hope you forgive me, Renamon."

"Tell me! Why you look at Renamon like that? A digimon is only useful when it's fighting! Why do you care for her so much?!"

"She's my friend! I care cause she's my friend!!"

Just then, Rika's D-Ark started to emit a beam of light and Calumon stood with his head diamond emitting a red glow.

[Digimon Tamers First Evolution theme "Evo" plays]

EVOLUTION!!

Her body starts to grow and her outer skin started to peel away to reveal her new form, which would be her champion-leveled form.

"Renamon shinka!!"

Now Renamon was Quadra pedal. There was a pair of nine tails were in the place of her once, long bushy tail. She became more vulpine-like, but retained of her Renamon features. She also has a pair of rings on her back that were red and white spiral-like. She flies up and her tails start to flare up with blue fire. Finally, she calls out to her new name.

"Kyuubimon!!"

Icedevimon peers right over at his newly evolved adversary and growls to himself. Kyuubimon begins to raise her ki level as the ground around her started to shake and small icy rocks floated around her. Icedevimon did the same thing but only this time he was able to lift much larger icicles. Kyuubimon lifted her nine tails and they were now emitting a fire glow.

"What's the matter frosty? How about some warm fire to lighten your mood? Fox Tail Inferno!!"

Just as she was shooting out several fire balls over towards the icy demon, he was able to maneuver away just in time and then phases right out. He appears right above her and then shoots out two icy beams from his eyes.

"Tundra Freeze!!"

Kyuubimon was able to maneuver away as she began charging right over towards Icedevimon while ready to pounce on him. But Icedevimon saw her coming and went to use a second attack to keep her at bay.

"Avalanche Claw!!"

Soon, the devil man's sharp icicles struck down Kyuubimon. It quickly sent her flying down onto the ground, but she was lucky enough to survive such a disastrous head on attack.

The Tamer boys could only look on helplessly without their digimon. But then Henry had another idea.

"We've got to do something!" exclaimed Takato.

"I got an idea. Here goes nothing!"

Henry pulls out yet another card and slashes it right through his D-Ark.

"Card Slash! Expansion card!"

All of a sudden, Terriermon began to expand as if he were a balloon and then breaks out of the ice with tremendous force. At the same time, Guilmon was able to break free since they were both frozen together. Guilmon shook his head to get the ice out from his ears and Terriermon shrunk back down to his normal size.

"Not a bad strategy," Gatomon stated.

"That's one way of pulling yourself out of a predicament," Kari replied.

"Alright! Now its our turn!" Takato cried out.

"I don't think so, boy!" replied Icedevimon.

From out of the smoke, Kyuubimon used the last amount of strength to lift herself up and then shoots out another fireball from her tail. But as soon as it went flying towards Icedevimon, he was able to move his head away and watched as it blasted away a nearby ice cube.

"Alright, Guilmon! Its time to attack! This time, no failures," exclaimed Takato.

Guilmon nods and then goes charging out into the battlefield. Takato pulls out a card of his own and then slashes it through his D-Ark.

[Card Slash theme "Slash!" plays]

"Card Slash! Speed card!"

With that said, Guilmon began to charge with rapid speed and was able to catch up towards Icedevimon.

"I see you're back for more already," said Icedevimon.

"Pyro Sphere!!"

Icedevimon managed to maneuver away from the powerful fire blast by phasing out, but then he goes flying down at Guilmon with relentless force.

"Frozen Claw!!"

"Look out, Guilmon!" Gatomon cried out.

Takato pulls out yet another card and then slashes it right through his D-Ark, but this time being a different type of card.

"Card Slash! Hyper Wing card!"

Guilmon looked over to see two pairs of angel-like wings instantly appearing on his back. He then lifts himself from the ground and grabs Icedevimon.

"No!! Let go!!"

Guilmon rams Icedevimon into the ceiling head first and this allowed Guilmon enough time to power up for his next attack. A bright aura formed across his body and then shoots out a fire blast from his mouth.

"Pyro Sphere!!"

The blast goes shooting right at Icedevimon as it quickly vaporized his entire body, and the ice demon let his final screams before he exploded into a cloud of data. Rika watches as Icedevimon's claw came falling down which gave her a bit of a scare.

"He's gone… He's really gone…"

Guilmon then began to absorb the last remaining data that was left of Icedevimon. Slowly, the digital field was dissipating.

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The group was now found on the top of the building's roof while all of their digimon were gathered in one corner. Henry walks up to Rika slowly.

"You guys were great," Kari complimented. "You're really coming through this quicker than I thought."

"Are you okay, Rika?" asked Henry.

"I hate him," Rika said under her breath.

"Well, you don't have to worry. He's gone," replied Takato, "He won't back ever again."

"Not just him. I hate digimon! All of them!" Rika snapped.

This caused Kari to gasp in utter shock. She couldn't believe she was hearing that from the pre-teen. The young girl walks off and doesn't even bother looking right back at the Tamer boys or even Kyubbimon. It was as if she were alienating herself from everybody that tries to be her friend.

"Tell you didn't mean that!" Takato said.

"Kari, tell me she did not just say that!" Gatomon hissed.

"She did… Oh Rika…"

He then turns around and sees Kyuubimon walking away in an opposite direction.

"Hey, where are you going?!"

Kyuubimon simply jumps right off the building and then disappears without a trace.

"Hey! Aren't you two even supposed to be friends?" Takato cried out.

"Just drop it, Takato. There's no use in talking sense into them," said Henry, "We better get home."

"You're right. It's getting late anyway."

"I'll take you boys home," Kari replied. "I'll just tell you're parents that I was tutoring you."

The boys nodded and followed Kari through the door to evacuate the roof area. The digimon followed along side of their three human partners.

"I can't believe I heard that from Rika," Kari thought. "Looks like trying to reason with her was difficult from the start."

"I just don't want Rika to beat herself up like this. I know she doesn't hate digimon. I just hope things will work out for herself and Renamon,"Takato said in thought.

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Later that night, Rika returned back home and she was none too happy after what had just happened to her tonight. It had to be one of the scariest things she has ever encountered; yet she wasn't going to let weakness overcome her.

She looks at her D-Ark and then tosses it right down into her garbage can. Rika looks right down at it with a hateful look on her face.

"I hate digimon!"

She then throws herself onto her bed and then begins to fall asleep, in order to rid herself of the memories of Icedevimon and Renamon.

Is it possible? Does Rika really hate digimon? Will she overcome this phase? Can Takato and the others help her to understand the meaning of friendship?

[Digimon Tamers first opening theme "My Tomorrow" plays]

[Preview]

Terriermon: Henry? Why can't I digivolve? What if something happens, what are you going to do then?

Henry: I won't let you digivolve. I'm sorry.

Takato: Musayamon! This is one bad samurai!

Terriermon: I need to digivolve to beat him!

Rika: I… Do I hate digimon? Should I just give it up?

Renamon: Can I actually get stronger by not absorbing data? What is my destiny?

Calumon: Culu! Next time on Digimon Tamers Fusion, episode six!

A Two Way Digimon Rumble! The Tamers Must Act Now!

Gatomon: Don't miss it!

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SSJ4T: That was some exciting digimon action!

Max: But, who was that guy that came after Growlmon digivolved? The guy who had the 'D' ensigna?

SSJ4T: You'll just have to find out soon. He's going to play a major part later in the saga.

Coral: We're getting awfully close to the Devas, aren't we?

SSJ4T: Yeah. You guys don't forget to check out the Zero Two fic! The mysterious kid faces off against Burizalor! Check it out when you have the chance. Until then, we're out!

Coral: Peace everyone! Don't forget that Halloween is next month. I just love Halloween…

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