DFusion Tamers: Unite! Rewrite Chapter 8: Who Are the Devas! The True Meaning of Friendship!, a digimon fanfic

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, Dungeon Dice Monsters, the Battle City Tournament or any of its characters. .

SSJ4T: We hope you had time to read both the Zero Two and Tamers stories. We've just seen Dimitri warn the Digi-Destined about the Artificials and Growlmon digivolving into War Growlmon to defeat Mihiramon.

Coral: Now we move on. The second part to the Deva series is underway. We hope you enjoy it!

SSJ4T: So without further delay, on with the fic! Enjoy!

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[Digimon Tamers Opening "The Biggest Dreamer" plays]

Who Are the Devas?! The True Meaning of Leadership!

Meeting over at the park to discuss the issues of the recent incident that occurred just a couple of days ago, the Tamers and their digimon were looking back to those turn of events and the motivation that Takato had received to help. Paildramon helped Growlmon to digivolve. As a result, Growlmon super evolved into War Growlmon.

Henry was the first to speak amongst the group.

"Well it looks like its up to us to help save the world from more of those evil digimon," Henry said, "Plus we got the older Digi-Destined to back us up."

"That just suits me just fine," Rika said, "I've been dying for a good battle. Sitting around just plain sucks on my part. Renamon and I are always ready."

"Hey, by the way, Guilmon and I have a surprise for you guys," Takato announced, "Ahem, Guilmon. If you will…"

Guilmon just looks at him dumbfounded and wasn't sure at what his partner was just saying.

"Guilmon. The banner. You can bring it out now."

"Oh ok! I get ya!"

Guilmon pokes his head into one of the crawling tunnels and then pulls something out with his mouth. Takato goes and holds it up. He waves it up and it is a banner with all of the Tamer's faces along with their digimon. It read Digimon Tamers. This brought a mixed reaction amongst the group.

"Ta-da! So, how do you like it? I said to myself that since we are going to be the new heroes, then we might as well have our own official banner name. Copyrights are included."

"So, what are we exactly supposed to do with it?" asked Henry.

"All teams have a flag or a banner to let people know who we are."

"Congratulations! That is the lamest thing I have ever seen!" Rika remarked, "How typical."

Just then, Guilmon was quickly losing his balance and then falls over Takato's foot. Guilmon loses his footing and falls on top of both the banner and Takato. As a result, the banner was destroyed.

"Ah no! Guilmon, I spent all night working it."

"Sorry, Takatomon!"

"I sure owe you one, Guilmon," Rika said with a sarcastic tone in her voice.

Calumon watches them from a nearby tree and a smile comes across the little digimon's face.

"Ha! Like I said, humans can be so silly."

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On the other side of the city, a local bus dropped by and loads of passengers stepped out. Amongst the crowd was a teenage boy with short brown hair, a shirt and baggy jeans. He carried a backpack with a heavy load inside.

"Hey, Cody! You think you can open the ol' bag? I need some air to breath."

"Sorry about that Armadillomon. I didn't want people to see you."

Cody unzipped his backpack, which allowed more air room for Armadillomon to breath.

"It was a good idea to use this weekend off to see our old friends," Cody said. "I haven't seen Yolei and Ken for quite a while. I can't wait to finally graduate and move out here."

"You think you can afford it?"

"Just give me a year, Armadillomon. I can I can manage to support myself."

"This is one big city. Do you even know where we'll find our friends?"

"Yeah. They gave me directions."

"Ok, let's go and find them. After that, let's go get something to eat. I bet there's some really food around here."

Just then, something caught Armadillomon's attention as he turned to see pint-sized imp with a red bandana. It was Impmon. The tiny imp had a piece of bread in his hand.

"Aw. Lunch time for ol' Impmon!"

Impmon tossed the bread piece up and opened his mouth like a garbage disposal. However, he did not see the bread coming down into his mouth. Instead, he found Armadillomon taking it.

"What? What? What? That's my bread, fat boy!"

"You snooze you lose."

With that said, Armadillomon stuffs the bread piece into his mouth. Cody came running by and guided his partner through the crowd. Impmon was left a broken and defeated rookie. His stomach growled and he let out a scream heard around the city.

"SHIT!!!"

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Elsewhere, in a local subway station, a transit official was helping out a drunk out from the train after the commuter had passed out for some reason.

"Ugh, no more shots of whiskey for me…"

"Whiskey? Just what the hell have you been doing, sir?"

"Partying. I wish it was New Year's already."

Suddenly, a digital field appears at the end of the tunnel with crimson, blood-shot eyes glowing within the fog. A loud hissing noise was then heard and the drunk quickly took notice of it.

"Help! It's coming to get me! Help me!" the commuter exclaimed.

"What are you talking about? There's nothing down here," replied the official.

"Oh yeah?! Explain what's behind you!"

As soon as he did so, the official's eyes widened in fear as the creature approached him and loud, horrifying screams were echoing through the subway station.

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Cody looked through a piece of paper, which contained the directions to Ken's apartment.

"This must be it," the teenager said.

"Ring the doorbell, then."

Cody pressed the doorbell and waited for anyone to answer it. Just then, he heard a girl's familiar voice.

"Who is it?!"

"I'll give you a hint. I'm the quiet boy, who has a glutton of a digimon. How's that for you?"

"Cody?!"

With that said, Yolei opened the door and her eyes were glistened.

"Cody! You're here?! It's been almost a year since we've seen each other. You've grown!"

"You haven't that much."

"Oh, well thanks for being observant. So, what brings you here?"

"I've been hearing about the reports of monsters appearing in this city. So, Armadillomon and I agreed to come down here. Besides, it's nice to see you guys again."

"Don't you have school?"

"I have several days off. So it's a long weekend for me."

"That's good. Oh, there's somebody that wants to see you."

Yolei walks over to the crib and holds up Naomi. The sight of the baby took Cody back by surprise.

"Yolei! Since, how long have you had her?"

"For nearly a year. Isn't she just cute?"

"So you and Ken are really married?"

"Duh. You know that already."

"She's such a cute little thing. She has your eyes, but Ken's hair color."

"Hmm. So, you want to make yourself at home?"

"Yes. Where is Ken anyway?"

"He's out doing some errands. He should be back later. Why don't we wait for him until then, okay?"

"No problem."

"Oh by the way, don't worry about the mess in this home. I'll clean it up. We're a messy couple."

"Yeah. I see you haven't changed about it."

"Hee. Not a bit."

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The next morning, Henry was quickly awakened by what seemed to be his digimon partner, Terriermon. But he then soon realized that Suzie was holding him. He was very surprised that Suzie was up this early and looked over at his clock. It was 6:30 in the morning.

"Henry! You got a call from that 'angwy kid'," Suzie said while hugging the now suffocating Terriermon.

"When will the hurting stop?"Terriermon said to himself.

Henry gets out of bed and then picks up the phone to answer the call to Takato himself.

"Ok, Takato. This had better be important, since its 6:30 in the morning."

"Morning, Henry! I was thinking, since we are Tamers and all, that we should jump onto any potential threat that comes our way!"

"Ok…"

"How about we patrol the city today?"

"Um. Actually, I got things to do today and I will be pretty busy."

"Oh, okay then. I guess Rika and I will have to patrol then. Talk to you later."

"Bye."

Takato hangs up the phone and then picks it up again as he quickly dialed up Rika's cell phone number. He waited and then heard somebody answering. It was Rika.

"Hello?"

"Hey Rika! Since Henry has things to do, why don't we go out and patrol the city today, in case we bump into anymore bad digimon."

"No. I can't. I'm supposed to go to the theatre with my grandmother."

"Ok, well. Call you later then."

Takato hangs up the phone and then sighs to himself. Now he would have to patrol himself on his first day as an official Digimon Tamer.

"Man, I must be the only one who takes taming seriously."

Just then, a voice calls out from downstairs, which belonged to none other than Mrs. Matsuki.

"Takato! Your friends are here to see you!"

"Coming, mom!"

Takato ran downstairs and was hoping that Rika and Henry had both changed their minds but saw none other than Kazu, Kenta and Jeri with some of the other classmates.

"Hey, buddy. Surprised aren't you?" Kazu said.

"We're here to see Guilmon. Can you take us to see him," Jeri asked.

Takato replied with a smile on his face and nods. Takato runs out and leads the group over towards the local park.

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TK and Patamon were strolling through a street without anything in mind. They were simply taking a break from all the writing.

"Man, all this writing can sure strain your mind," TK stated promptly. "This walk was much well deserved."

"Hey, look, TK!"

"What is it?"

TK turned around to see to what Patamon was pointing towards. He saw a crowd. Then, he looked to see two young kids with a pair of advanced disks around their arms. TK walked over and tapped a boy on the children.

"Say, just what the heck is this?"

"It's Duel Monsters. Actually, it's the pre-season of the Battle City Tournament. The actual tournament hasn't started and will be over at Domino City. These guys are just having a warm-up preliminary. It's cool. Those are duel disks. They place a card on them and a hologram of that card appears. Dude, where have you been?"

"I'm not really into these type of things, but you're right. This looks cool."

"If you want, there's plenty of spots left to sign up for. Heck, I know even a few beginners starting."

"Who's hosting these games?"

"Seto Kaiba. He's the owner of Kaiba Corps."

"I know who he is. I just did not have any idea he was hosting tournaments."

"Well, now you know. Kaiba is also entering the tournament to challenge the best. From what I hear, he's only been defeated once by a kid named Yugi Muto."

"I see. I guess everyone has to lose once in a while."

"Yeah. Well, you might want to check out this duel if you're interested."

"I just might will."

"I wonder if we'll get to see something like this with digimon cards," Patamon said.

"Who knows? Now that would be something I would compete in. Can you just imagine that?"

"Hee. I get to see myself digivolve in hologram form! That would be swell."

"They're starting."

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As soon as they were relocating in the park, Takato stood outside of Guilmon's home and opened the door. The children all grouped up and stayed behind Takato. Guilmon comes walking out and looks over at the children.

"So, here he is guys! This is Guilmon, my digimon."

Kazu turns to face the group with a huge smirk on his face and points over to Guilmon.

"See, I told ya'll so! You didn't want to believe me. But here's a real life digimon. And he's pretty cool, too."

"Oh and he said 'cute', not 'cool," Takato said to Jeri.

"You can call me whatever you want, as long as you brought the peanut butter and bread."

"Ok, you guys better listen up and listen good. Guilmon is our secret and anyone who blabs will have to answer to me," Kazu instructed.

Meanwhile, watching them from a nearby tree, there stood two mysterious figures and they turned their attention over towards Guilmon.

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Back over at the local play, Rika was watching the play with her grandmother. All the young girl could do is moan and want to fall asleep.

"Who the hell wrote the script to this? A freaking monkey?!"

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Henry goes putting on his clothes and then goes over towards the front door as if we were going out. He turns towards his parents.

"Mom. Dad. I'm going to go run a few errands. I'll be back, ok," Henry said.

The boy looked over towards Suzie, who was now putting a thermometer in Terriermon's mouth and playing doctor. A sweat drop comes down his face while watching his digimon being tortured.

"Terriermon. Looks like you got a bit of a fever. I'll have to go and get the medicine for you," Suzie said.

As soon as the little girl left to go grab some medication, Henry runs over and snatches up Terriermon just in time to head out the door and bail Terriermon out of another one of Suzie's 'chamber of horrors', as Terriermon likes to put it.

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Meanwhile, back over at the events of the play, Rika looks and one of the actors was wearing a dog-like mask. She quickly had thoughts about Renamon and started to look back at the recent events.

"I can't believe Renamon has come back to me after I was so cold and heartless. Even after Icedevimon tried to take me away and make me his Tamer. I was so afraid that Renamon would end up being a monster like him if she were to digivolve. But she proved me wrong, once we had our encounter with Harpymon. I never thought I felt so strongly about anything in my life and I was even surprised myself. It was amazing to actually working together for the first time ever. Then when Mihiramon attacked, I thought I had lost her forever. But she didn't and stood right by my side as I looked down at her. How could I have ever thought that my best friend was data?"

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Yolei had finished cleaning up the house with Cody's help. Armadillomon was seen sneaking round the refrigerator. Hawkmon spotted him and launched himself at him.

"You can't be seen sneaking into the fridge like that, Armadillmon! Yolei will throw a hissy fit if she sees you like that."

"Sorry, I was just hungry. I only had a piece of a bread once we got here."

"Piece of bread? Did you go snatching food from other people again?"

"I didn't exactly steal from a human, but a strange little fellow with a red bandana."

"Oh? He must have been a sickly child. I'm ashamed of you, Armadillomon."

"It wasn't a human. It was some sort of digimon. He had a white pasty face like those ol' black and white cartoons."

"I'm saying that you've been watching too many cartoons."

"But I love those cartoons."

"Ok, guys. Knock it off," Yolei retorted. "So, Cody. Tell me how has school been? You ready to graduate?"

"You bet! I'm ready to move out and live here in Shinjuku."

"Can you afford it?"

"Perhaps. I want to see if there are any good universities here."

"I'm sure you'll find one eventually. It gets pretty busy here. So, you'll need to be careful. You can lost pretty easily here."

"I learned the hard way. Tell me, how have Kari and TK been?"

"They're doing good. TK is still writing and Kari is on and off volunteering at a local elementary school. You heard about the new digimon tamers here, right?"

"Yeah. Davis was telling me about it."

"You still have contact with Davis?"

"Through email. I only got his, Joe's and Izzy's email addresses."

"Oh, why didn't you ask for mine? Here, I'll give it to you later. Well, you know the whole story. We're keeping an out for any digimon emergences. We've helped the tamers out often."

"Looks like things have been pretty exciting lately. Life's been boring since Virus was defeated."

"Agreed. Our digimon could use a little bit more action now and then."

"I thought Ken was supposed to be back right about now."

"He'll come. Don't worry. He has a habit of coming late on occasions. I'm used to it."

"Alright."

"Why don't we catch some TV in the meantime? There are plenty of good comedies on."

"Ok."

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Back over at the park, Kenta found an abandoned shopping cart and strolled over to the group. As soon as Kenta was strolling Guilmon inside of the shopping cart, it tipped over and Guilmon was sent flying back as he hit his back across a nearby tree. He could see stars spinning around his head but he quickly shook the cobwebs out. The kids laughed with the digimon and soon Guilmon was sharing laughs with them.

"Ugh! That is just pathetic," a voice called out.

The group all looked up to see none other than the little devious rookie, Impmon. He had a disgusted look on his face.

"You should be ashamed for yourself," Impmon said to Guilmon, "I bet you think its cute playing with these kiddies. You're nothing but a trained monkey!"

"Hey, Takato? Do you know who he is," asked Jeri.

"Yeah, unfortunately. This is Impmon. Do yourselves a favor and just try to ignore him."

"Ugh. How can we ignore anybody dressed up like that," Kazu remarked.

Impmon simply sarcastically replies, "Aww, you're hurting my feelings! Like I care what some knuckle-headed punk and his playmates think about me! I could care less!"

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Elsewhere, Henry and Terriermon were walking alongside a sidewalk on the streets of West Shinjuku. Terriermon quickly sneezed and Henry looks up at him.

"If you say one thing about Nurse Suzie being right, then I'm out of here and jetting," Terriermon said.

"I didn't even say a thing."

"Well, just letting you know right away. I just hate playing nurse and patient…"

Little did they realize that they were being watched by two shadowy figures in a nearby alley way. They had their eyes locked onto Terriermon. Surprisingly, the little floppy-eared digimon didn't detect them.

As soon as Henry came passing by, a teen with slicked back hair was seen passing up some time. The boy is wearing a baggy white t-shirt and a pair of jeans. He looked up and found no traces of the two mysterious figures.

"Damn. Just what the hell were those two? Something tells me that those two are here for a reason," Yuksuke thought. "Oh well. I have a day off anyway. Kuwabara has to get over Yukina. It's not like the last time he'll see her again. Feh. What a stupid lug."

From here, Yusuke would eventually learn that the younger Toguro brother had survived. He would then realize that he, Hiei, Kuwabara and Kurama would participate in the Dark Tournament. Yusuke's team would have to win or else it would be death by Toguro's hands. His madman would slaughter everyone he knows and loves.

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Kenta placed two wadded paper balls into the nostrils of Guilmon and then runs over to the group.

"Alright! Its time for Guilmon's newest attack, the Snot Blaster!"

"Sheesh. First I get my bread snatched by some armadillo punk and now this? I can't believe he would let some humans treat him as if he were some carnival animal," Impmon said, "I wouldn't be caught dead with those losers!"

Just then, a familiar figure appears from behind the little rookie. It was Renamon and she quickly replied to his remarks.

"Well it looks like you are with them."

Impmon quickly turns around with a disgusted look on his face.

"Oh and don't mind asking. I was just being in the neighborhood," said Renamon, "I just saw your little talk with those kiddies and I was just thinking."

"The hell you babbling about?"

"Its simple. I just think that you're just jealous. Why else would someone so disgusted by those kids would spend a beautiful afternoon watching them."

With that said, Renamon quickly disperses and vanishes with the speed of light. Impmon tries to stop her but was too late.

"I'm not done with you fox-face! I'm calling you out until the next time we meet! I don't know what's worse! Having you're bread stolen by a 'dillo or having a fox tell you off! This just isn't my day!"

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Meanwhile, over at the subway station, Rika and her grandmother were just standing by right before the next subway train was passing by. Rika notices that her D-Ark was starting to go off and then looks over at it.

"I'm detecting the presence of a digimon of some sort. It's being located here. But I don't see anything…"

As soon as she turned around, Rika only sighed a relief as she saw Calumon by awed by some girls nearby.

"Ah. Its just Calumon."

But that relief came to an end as her D-Ark was going off yet again. Rika looked down and it was detecting the presence of a large digimon of sorts, one with an even higher power level.

"This digimon is big and I'm picking up a huge power level from my digivice."

Suddenly, a digital field was starting to envelope the station. Rika looks over to her grandmother and calls over to her.

"Grandmother, you have to get out of here now."

"But, Rika, honey? I can't just leave. We…"

"You have to go now. Renamon!!"

Deep within the city, Renamon goes flying out and then picks up a disturbance at the subway station. She feels Rika's presence and that of the digimon's ki level.

"I'm coming, Rika!"

Rika pushes her grandmother out from the fog but the older woman wouldn't have any of it and was demanding to know why her grand daughter was pushing her out.

"Rika. What's the meaning of this?"

"Its for your own good, grandmother."

Suddenly, Rika's cell phone goes falling out from her pocket and she runs over to retrieve it. A transit comes running by and restrains Rika's grandmother.

"What are you doing? My grand daughter is in there! I have to go get her."

"We have to go now," the transit replied, "For your own safety ma'am. A rescue team should be down there any moment."

With the subway already evacuated, Rika turns to see Renamon rushing to her side. They turned around to see none other than a large, white snake with a cobra-like hood. It arched its head up, looks down at them with crimson- blood eyes and hisses out.

"Alright Renamon! It's clear to attack. Walk all over him."

Renamon goes jumping up and begins powering up. It was barrage of diamonds start shooting out.

"Diamond Storm!!"

The attack all hit the snake monster with direct contact, but it made not even one single scratch or dent into his shining armor. Rika was caught by surprise by this and then looks into her D-Ark and tried to pick up information on this monster. But to her surprise, it wasn't able to pick anything much like Mihiramon before him.

"Why isn't it picking up any information on this guy? This piece of junk isn't working!"

"Well, whatever we are going to do now, we better do it now," said Renamon.

"Lets give the digivice another try!" Rika replied, "Alright here we go!"

[Santiramon. Ultimate-level. Special Attack: Venom Axe.]

"He's an ultimate-level. I've got to make Renamon evolve or else we don't stand a chance in hell."

Santiramon lashes and goes striking at them. Renamon quickly snatches Rika and phases away just in time. She reappears behind a pillar post with Rika at her side.

"Its time to charm this snake," said Rika.

Calumon looks on from a safe distance as Rika pulls out a card and slashes it right through her D-Ark.

[Card Slash theme "Slash!" plays]

"Card Slash! Evolution!!"

Evolution!!

[Digimon Tamers first evolution theme "Evo" plays]

"Renamon shinka!!"

The fox's body starts to grow and her outer skin started to peel away to reveal her new form, which would be her champion-leveled form. Now Renamon was Quadra pedal and a pair of nine tails was in the place of her once, long bushy tail. She became more vulpix-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!!"

A subway train was strolling by and little did the passnengers realize that there would be a battle-taking place at the next stop. Among those passengers were Henry and Terriermon.

Rika and Kyubbimon go as they pursue the escaping Santiramon through the next tunnel to the next station, just where Terriermon and Henry disembark the train.

"Man, I wish something exciting would just take place to satisfy my boredom," Terriermon said.

As soon as he said that, they saw Santiramon being pursued by both Rika and Renamon.

"Well, it looks like you got your wish," said Henry.

Everybody starts feeling from the train at the sight of Santiramon. A woman starts worrying and notices that she had left her baby on the train.

"My baby! Somebody has got to save my baby!"

Santiramon shoots out a blast and it goes towards the train at full speed. Terriermon takes notice of this and goes to stop it. Henry pulls out a card and slashes it right through his D-Ark.

[Card Slash theme "Slash!" plays]

"Card Slash! War Greymon's Brave Shield!"

With that said, Terriermon stood as he held a large shield similar to the brave digimon of courage. The blast from the snake quickly dispersed and Terriermon drops the shield with relief on his face. Henry retrieves the baby and gives him to his mother. She cuddled him safely and goes running out.

As soon as Santiramon was passing by, Rika was seen riding Renamon. Henry takes notice of her and tries to stop her.

"Rika! Where are you going?!"

"Call goggle head! We're going to need his help," Rika exclaimed as she tosses her cell phone over to the boy.

"He's getting away, Rika," Kyuubimon said.

"Not for long. Time for a little boost!"

Rika quickly slashes another card through her D-Ark and Kyuubimon moving a lot faster than last time as she was quickly starting to catch up towards Santiramon.

Henry quickly dials Takato's home number and then waits for an answer. He hears somebody picking up but he heard Takato's mother speaking.

"Hello?"

"Yes, hello. Mrs. Matsuki."

"I'm sorry. I'm not interested in buying anything."

"No, Mrs. Matsuki. Its me, Henry."

"Oh, hi Henry. Are you looking for Takato?"

"Yes. May I speak with him?"

"I'm sorry, but he's over playing with a couple of his classmates. I can tell him once he gets home if you like."

"Oh, no thank, Mrs. Matsuki. I'm sorry for bothering you. Goodbye."

With that said, Henry dials the cell phone off and then lowers his head. He was beginning to think that Takato was the one that wasn't taking Taming seriously.

"Takato. We need you at a time like this and you're off playing games?"

Henry goes off as he searched for Takato, but all he was doing was running in two full circles the whole time and was unsuccessful in finding the park, which was the easiest area to locate.

"Takato was the one all fired up and now I can't even find him."

"Heh, knowing him, he's probably finding some tracks left by the Yeti," remarked Terriermon.

"Well, Bigfoot isn't going to be much of a help for Rika and Kyuubimon."

Just then, a blue-haired young lady came walking out from a bookstore. This was Ami Mizuno, a.k.a. Sailor Mercury. She seemed to be reading a novel based on medical research. She looks over at the boy with the Terriermon.

"Aw, how cute. I wonder why they're in such a hurry. Today is such a good day to relax with a good book. Oh well. Children will be children."

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Meanwhile, back over at the subway, Kyuubimon and Santiramon faced off with one another as they both flared up with auras.

"Now I like to see you pick on me now since you don't have anybody to terrorize at this moment," Kyuuibmon said, "Well what do you say?"

Kyuubimon goes charging right over at Santiramon and phases away in order to psych her adversary out. As soon as she unleashed her 'Fox Tail Inferno', Santiramon quickly phases right behind her and snatches her up with his tail. Kyuubimon screamed which caught both Henry and Terriermon's attention. Henry pulls out his D-Ark and then slashes a card through his D-Ark.

[Card Slash theme "Slash!" plays]

Terriermon quickly powered up for his next evolution.

EVOLUTION!!

[Digimon Tamers first evolution theme "Evo" plays]

Henry's digivice shot out a beam of light and it was now emitting all over Terriermon's body. 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.

"Terriermon shinka!!"

Now Terriermon was a tall, pant-wearing rabbit-like digimon with two chain guns on each arm, in fact, they were his new arms. And a green facemask covered his face. He gets into a fighting pose and whips out a belt and places it over his chest, which had bullets on them, which would be his ammunition for his two chain guns. Finally, he calls out to his new name.

"Gargomon!!"

Santiramon turns to face Gargomon with a sneer on his face. Gargomon points his guns over towards the mutant snake.

"Open wide! Gargo Laser!!"

Santiramon was merely effected by the shots and then tosses Kyuubimon over at Gargomon, while watching the two champions tumbling over each other.

"Where the hell is Takato?" Rika asked.

"Couldn't find him. I should be asking myself that same question," replied Henry.

Impmon looks on from a far distance while rolling his eyes with a disgusted look on his face.

"Uh, they're some team. Our heroes…"

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Cody and Yolei were having good laughs while watching American sitcom import, Friends. This old school show has caught on to many of the Japanese natives. Despite being an old show, it still remained popular in the heart's of many viewers.

"I never thought they would bring this show back. I love it!" Yolei said.

"I agree," Cody replied.

"Just then, Yolei's phone starting ringing. Cody rushes over to pick it up. He answers it promptly.

"Hello?"

"Yolei… Cody? Is that you? Hey! It's good to hear from you!"

"Kari! It's good to hear from you too!"

"It's Kari, Cody?" Yolei asked. "What does she want?"

"So, what's up?" Cody asked Kari through the line.

"Listen, Cody. I've just received an urgent call from Henry a little while ago. He said that a wild digimon has attacked the sewers! Are you able to help them out?"

"Well. Sure, anything you want! Where is the location?"

"I'll tell you where you and Armadillomon need to go! Hurry! Are you carrying a cell phone by any chance?"

"I carry it like the holy bible."

"Good. Call me as soon as you get outside."

"No problem. You just lead the directions."

"I'm counting on you, Cody. Thanks."

With that said, Cody hung up the phone and ran towards the door. Armadillomon came running after his partner.

"Where are you going, Cody?!"

"Kari needs me to do something! Looks like Armadillomon will be seeing action after all!"

"About time. I was just about getting too comfortable lately," replied Armadillomon.

Cody goes running out through the door with Armadillomon tagging along. Yolei was left behind with her mouth hanging.

"Great and just leave me behind…Sheesh."

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Back over at the park, Takato and the others were still playing games with Guilmon. They were playing a round of tag, as Guilmon was the one who was 'it'. He looks over and then spots Kenta. He quickly shoots out his 'Snot Blaster' and watches as the two wadded up paper nail Kenta in the chest. Kenta gags and then pulls off an Oscar-winning death scene as the kids looked on laughing.

Just then, Guilmon was sniffing the air and then looks down at the ground.

"I can sense the presence of a digimon. Its power level is extremely high."

"Well, you just noticed that, pineapple head," Impmon said as he reappeared on a tree branch. "Its about time that you realized that, because your buddies are in trouble down below as we speak. Meanwhile, you're here playing baby in a stroller."

Guilmon begins sniffing the ground and then points down to the ground. He could also sense the presences of Kyuubimon and Gargomon.

"They must be in the subway system!" Takato exclaimed.

"And they're about to be snake food as we speak," Impmon replied.

"If there's a real digimon fight going on down in the subway system, then I'm going to see it," said Kazu enthusiastically.

"Can we come with you, Takato?" Jeri asked.

"No way! You guys could get killed," exclaimed Takato.

Takato pulls out a card and then slashes it right through his D-Ark.

[Card Slash theme "Slash!" plays]

"Card Slash! Digmon's Drill!!"

With that said, Guilmon's front arms turn into the drills of the armored digimon form of Armadillomon. He quickly drills into the ground with ease and enables to plow his way into the underground subway station. But before Takato could follow Guilmon, he turned to see Kazu giving him a card.

"Here, you're going to need this," Kazu said, "Its a power modify card."

"Thanks, Kazu. Wish me luck, guys."

Takato grabs onto Guilmon as they both going down into the subway station. Impmon just simply looks on and sighs to himself in disbelief.

"I never get credit for anything around here. Sheesh!"

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The battle was continuing to wage on as the two champions were taking on the mighty ultimate. Kyuubimon goes charging up and attacks Santiramon with her Dragon Wheel. But Santiramon was barely affected and simply laughs at her.

"Bunny Pummel!"

The gun bunny went upper cutting Santiramon while shooting at him with his chain guns, but they did no damage to Santiramon. Calumon watches and notices the snake smiling.

"He's smiling. I've got a really bad feeling about this."

"So, you two ready to give up right after I kill you and your pathetic human pests," Santiramon asked, "No answers? Very well. So goodbye."

"Gold Rush!!"

Santiramon begins to power as the ground shook around him and rocks started to rise. He was quickly increasing his power. Just then, Santiramon turns around and is caught by surprise by incoming drills coming right at him. Santiramon growls and then faces none other than Digmon.

[Armor evolution theme "Break Up" plays]

"A Digmon?!" Henry exclaimed with a questionable look on his face.

Rika pulls out her D-Ark and an image of Digmon comes popping out with information.

[Digmon. Armored type. Special Techniques: Gold Rush and Rock Cracking.]

"But, what's a Digmon doing here?" Rika wondered.

"I was sent out by another one of the Digi-Destined. I belong to Cody Hida and Kari knew that you guys were in trouble. So I came in to drop by. And what teeth you got big fella," remarked Digmon with his southern accent, "Oh and I brought along a few friends along the way."

With that said, Takato and Guilmon come falling in right behind Digmon. Rika and Henry both looked over.

"About time you boys decided to drop in," Digmon said.

"Sorry about that guys," Takato replied.

"Well, look who decided to drop in," exclaimed Rika.

"Yeah! Better late than never," said Gargomon.

"Guilmon. We don't have time for this. You have to digivolve as soon as possible," said Kyuubimon.

"Whatever you say!"

Takato pulls out a card and then slashes it right through his D-Ark.

[Card Slash theme "Slash!" plays]

"Card Slash!! Evolution!!"

Evolution!!

[Digimon Tamers first evolution theme "Evo" plays]

"Guilmon shinka!!"

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. 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!!"

"Alright! Time for a boost! Lets hope this works, Kazu," Takato said.

Takato uses Kazu's card and then slashes it right through his D-Ark.

"Card Slash! Plug-in A!!"

Growlmon begins to power up and the ground him started to shake. Rocks started to rise due to his increase in power. Growlmon goes running towards Santiramon and hammers him away with rapid fists and kicks that sent Santiramon flying back. Kyuubimon and Gargomon were now preparing for their attacks as well.

"Fox Tail Inferno!!"

"Gargo Laser!!"

"Hey! Don't leave me out in the cold, guys! Gold Rush!!"

All four of the attacks connected with Santiramon and huge explosion occurred. Santiramon goes falling down onto the ground with huge bruises all over his body but he was still snickering to himself. The digimon were quickly caught by surprise.

"Ok, this guy is creeping me out!" Digmon said.

"He's still laughing at us," Kyuubimon replied, "Just who are you?"

"I am one of the twelve Devas sent by the Dark One. I may have been defeated but my brethren will avenge me."

"What? You mean there are more of you ugly wackos out there," exclaimed Gargomon.

"Prepare yourselves to be conquered. We are the digimon who refused to be tamed by weak, mere humans and we will rule your… realm. The twelve Devas will destroy you all!"

With that being said, Santiramon laughs maniacally as he quickly explodes into tons of data. The digimon and the Tamers were left dumbfounded and confused.

"Just what is a Deva?" Rika asked.

"I have no idea. But who is this Dark One, that they are referring to," pondered Henry.

"All we know is that these digimon are far different from the ones we've faced before and they're ultimate," said Takato, "I say we talk about this later."

"You Tamers are good as Kari says you are. I'm impressed. You even showed me a thing or two," Digmon said, "Well I better split. We will meet again."

Digmon goes drilling himself another tunnel and disappears into the earth below. The Tamers looked up to the hole above created by both Digmon and Guilmon moments ago. The digimon carried their Tamers up and flew up each one by one.

Watching them from a far distance were the two mysterious figures.

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Cody was seen standing at a café stop with his partner Armadillomon. To prevent people from asking questions, Cody placed Armadillomon in his unzipped bag. This way Armadillomon could breath.

"So, you fought a Deva? What exactly are these Devas?" Cody asked.

"You got me, but when we defeated that no good snake, he said that the Devas were sent by the Dark One."

"This sounds like an invasion of sorts," replied Cody. "We best better watch ourselves. This could get serious."

"You bet your ass, it's going to get serious. So, how about those club sandwiches?"

"Um, they're coming right up! After this, let's head to Yolei's and inform her on the news."

"Right."

The waitress came by as she placed the plate for Cody. As soon as she turned away, he grabbed one club and shoved it to into his backpack. From there, Armadillmon would gobble it down like it were a piece of meat. A loud burp bellowed throughout the café. Everyone turned to face Cody with disgusted looks. Cody's face turned red in embarrassment, but he simply shrugged off the stares and rubbed his stomach.

"Excuse me…"

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Back in the park, Takato's friends were amazed at the Tamer's digimon and looked at each of them in awe.

"Ahem. Guys. These two are the other two Tamers. Henry and Rika. And these two digimon are Gargomon and Kyuubimon," Takato said.

"Cool! I can't believe that I'm looking at real life digimon in person," said Kazu, "And here I thought they were fake during the Virus incident."

Just then, Rika's cell phone started to ring and Rika answered it. It was Rika's grandmother who sounded just as worried as any mother would be.

"Kidnapper! I'll give you anything, jut give me back my grand daughter…"

"Relax, grandma. I'm fine. I'm here in the park with my friends."

"To be quite honest, I don't think we should be out here in the open. We could be seen and reported," said Kenta.

"We better be getting back to the hide out then," said Takato, "Follow my lead everyone!"

"Last one there has to hang out with Impmon," said Kazu.

The group all started to run as since neither one of them would want to hang out with Impmon. They ran across the field and towards the forests, where the bunker home was laying dormant.

Watching the Tamers and the children from a far distance were the two mysterious figures. They had their eyes locked onto the three digimon with great interest.

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It seemed like another normal day within the city of West Shinjuku. Everybody was minding their own business as usual and there were no incidents involving any digimon or Devas, so to speak.

The girl named Rika was in school uniform while looking at towards a nearby shore of a lake. She looks up towards a nearby tree and then speaks up.

"Renamon."

With that said, the mysterious fox instantly appears on the tree branch with a calm look on her face. She looks right down at Rika.

"Yes, Rika?"

"You've done a good job at taking on those recent Devas. I'm impressed and I hope that you will digivolve into your further evolutions."

"I do my best to not disappoint you."

"Good. So that is why I brought you a little something as a gift of some sort."

Rika pulls out a bottled soda drink and then tosses it right over towards Renamon. The neon-haired fox caught with one hand. She looks down at the drink and then backs over to Rika.

"A gift for me?"

"Yeah, so like, drink it. It will give your a bit of an energy boost. And its cherry flavored. Well I got to go. I'm late for school again. Bye, Renamon."

Rika goes running off as she heads for her school. Renamon opens up the bottle cap and examines the bottled drink.

"A gift for me? It's my first gift? Oh. Thank you, Rika."

She quickly takes a gulp from the drink and then her mouth felt a sweet taste in her mouth. Her cheeks blushes a bit as a result of its sweetness.

"Ooo. Cherry-flavored."

Yugi and Tea came passing by. Yugi was getting his deck well prepared for the Battle City tournament. It will take place in nearly two weeks. He wanted to fully prepare himself and practice on new strategies in the meantime.

"Are you ready for the tournament, Yugi?"

"I am. It's my destiny to help the spirit of the puzzle. He helped me free my grandfather's soul from Pegasus and I will help him defeat the forces of evil."

Tea didn't know what to think of the situation concerning the spirit of the puzzle. She would later realize what Yugi means and what his destiny lies ahead of him.

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Later that day after school, Takato was walking to the park alongside Kari as they were discussing the issues that have been occurring with the Devas.

"Its too bad that you had to stop teaching. I'm just kind of glad Ms. Asagi recovered."

"Oh don't worry about me. At least, I don't have to give you too much homework."

"No kidding."

"Now, Cody was able to inform Yolei and I about the Devas."

"So, what do you think is causing these Devas to appear, Kari?"

"I really have no idea. I mean, I was told that Azulongmon had sealed up all of the gateways in the Digital World. There is no way that any digimon would enter this world. However, the way these digimon are entering here into our world is much differently than the ones came here before. All these digital fields are just too confusing."

"I'll tell you what. These Devas are much stronger than any digimon that we faced before."

"I've noticed. During that battle between War Growlmon and Mihiramon, Gatomon told me that War Growlmon was about nearly as strong as Omega X was at when he first fought Burizalor many years ago."

"From what you told me, this Burizalor seemed like a real jerk."

"Worse. He was a mass murderer of many worlds. All he ever cared for was power and destruction. He felt so confident that no fusion warrior would overthrown him, but my brother sure showed him. Burizalor alone make the Devas look like pansies. He would wipe the floor with them."

"And they're at the ultimate level. Burizalor seemed like a strong mega."

"He wasn't really a mega. He was pretty much unclassified, since he wasn't a digimon. But Omega X is a lot stronger after those years of training."

"Wow, he must be the most powerful being alive, with you being a close second."

"Well, to be honest, I haven't been training with Gatomon. I've eased down and took advantage of these last seven years as a time of peace. However, Gatomon and I are still able to fuse."

"Aw, that's too bad. But you seem wise enough to know how somebody should control their powers. You sure showed me that. I like to thank you, Kari."

"Well, your welcome, Takato."

"By the way, I really would like to meet your, brother. He seems like a really cool guy."

"Well… Um…"

"What's wrong with seeing him?"

"Oh nothing. I just have to make sure that he isn't coaching the team this week."

"Oh, well. That's okay. If he's busy, then that's ok."

"No, if you wanted to him, I'll call him and let him know. Besides, he should meet with you. He really wants to meet with the new Tamers of West Shinjuku."

"So, you're going to call him for me?"

"Sure, why not? I insist, anyhow."

"Well, alright then."

Kari pulls out her cell phone and then dials away Tai's cell number. She waits to get a response and after a few minutes of torturous waiting, she finally got an answer and it was Tai himself.

"Hello?"

"Well, about time you picked up, Tai. It took you about an hour. Were you sleeping?"

"Well, I was getting done with practice. You really have to go to our games. We're kicking ass as usual."

"Well no wonder why. You and Sora were one of the best soccer players of your time. Its no surprise."

"Funny. So, what's up? How's my little sister been?"

"Tai. I maybe younger than you, but I'm not little. Anyhow, there's somebody who really wants to meet you."

"Did he ask for my autograph. I'll be more than happy to sign one."

"Ha. No. This happens to be one of the Tamer boys. It's the boy named Takato. You know. The one I was telling you about."

"Oh him! He really wants to meet me? That's an honor. Where is he now? Is he with you?"

"Uh huh. He's right here."

"Cool. Lets see here. I'll be on my over there tomorrow afternoon. Tell Takato that. And don't sorry about practice tomorrow, Sora will do double duty for me anyways. Looking forward to see the new Tamer boy."

"Catch you later, big brother."

She hangs up and then looks over towards Takato with a smile on her face.

"Its a go. He's coming over here tomorrow. Trust me, Takato. You're going to like him. He can be a bit stubborn and full of himself at times, he's a good leader and helped me become the fusion warrior that I am."

"Wow, this is going to be so cool. I'm finally going to be meeting the man behind Omega X. Wait till he gets a load of Guilmon."

"Yeah, he'll probably bring Agumon along too, just for the heck of it."

"Thanks a bunch, Kari. You're very resourceful."

"Well, you certainly done a lot for me. I owe you. You can bring the other Tamers along too."

"Great. I'll call Henry later tonight. Thank you again, Kari."

The boy goes running off while waving over to the Digi-Destined of Light. She returned a wave and then looks back over at the Hypnos buildings with a serious look.

"There's something about those buildings that make me real uncomfortable. Especially after that big hole in the sky and those poor digimon being deleted as a result. Who can condone such actions?"

Kari goes walking off but as soon as she was leave the park, she felt the presence of two figures from within the forests. She quirked an eyebrow and then walks out without any hesitation. The two figures emerged from the bushes as they gazed over towards Kari.

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Meanwhile, over at the nearby West Shinjuku Dragon hotel, the Digi-Destined known as Izzy was hard at word while doing his best in translating the Gatomon card that Kari gave him a couple of days. This was perhaps one of his hardest mysterious to ever solve.

[Sonic Adventure 2 Tails' theme plays]

"Anything yet, Izzy? My wings are getting cramped again."

"Not yet, Tentomon. Just sit down or something. That's why your wings are getting cramped."

Izzy was looking at his computer and was hoping for more of the codes from the card to be deciphered, but nothing yet thus far. Izzy could only slam his head onto the table with a sweat drop coming down his head.

"Its no use. Even with modern technology, there's just no chance in breaking into the codes itself. Its nearly impossible."

"Careful, Izzy. You'll get another brain freeze again."

"Ok, maybe a little break would help. Lets go see what they got down in the cafe."

"I might as well wear my disguise just so nobody will scream at the sight of me."

"Good idea, Tento."

Just then, Izzy's cell phone went off and looked into his caller id. It read Ken & Yolei Ichijouji. He then answered and was hoping that Ken would be the one to answer.

"Hello? Ken? Yolei?"

"Its me, Ken. What's up, Izzy? How's the project been going?"

"Thus far, not so good. I can't even decipher the codes in these cards. It's literally impossible. I really hoped that you and Yolei would have helped me. Besides, we were quite a team when we rebuilt Black War Greymon before the final battle against Virus."

"True. Tell you what. Maybe you should stop by here and we can give you a hand."

"You two are over at Kari's house, right?"

"Apartment home to be exact, but yes we're here. Cody is here with us for about a week."

"Cody is here?" Izzy asked. "Tell him that I said hi."

"I will. I tell you what. We can do this later today because Yolei wants to take the baby strolling to the park."

"Alright. I'll meet you guys over at 8:00. How's that sound?"

"That's fine. We'll be home by 7:00."

"Prodigious. See you then. Bye."

Izzy hangs up the phone and then closes up his laptop and walks out the door with Tentomon, who already had his full disguise on.

"You still wearing those clothes?"

"Well, hey, I like them."

"Whatever, I can hear the cafe calling my name."

"Ditto here."

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Later that night, Henry and Terriermon were both walking out of the park after a long day from school. Henry was too focused to even mutter a word, as if he were trying to hide something from Terriermon. But the floppy-eared bunny knew better than that. He knew that Henry was just focusing his mind on another unexpected run-in with another Deva.

"Henry. Why aren't you talking that much today?"

"I'm sorry. I'm just too focused on other things now."

"Well, you could have at least said something. Maybe crack a few jokes while you're at it."

Terriermon quickly turns around and felt a strange ki level from nearby. He runs over towards the trees to go check out what could have triggered his senses.

"Hmmm. I wonder what it is," Henry said, "Wait up, Terriermon! Man, I should run more often."

As soon as Henry stopped, he saw Terriermon looking up towards what seemed to be like a fowl bird of some kind.

"Whoa, what is that thing," asked Henry.

"I don't know. But it's a digimon. And I was just thinking about chicken just a while ago."

"Isn't there anything you like to think about besides food?"

"Good jokes."

Henry looked up at the bird, who was sitting perched on the tree. Henry remembered something about the other Devas that made them so significant. There were 'D' markings on their foreheads.

"I've just noticed something. Those 'D' markings bother me. It looks like some kind of tribal marking. I wonder if that's what the Devas wear to indicate their membership in the Deva Clan. Both Mihiramon and Santiramon had it."

"Umm, hello. Earth to Henry."

The young boy snapped out of his 'trance' and then looked over to Terriermon, who was tapping his foot.

"Momentai. This guy doesn't seem harmful. I say we get back and catch up on some sleep."

"Your right. Lets go, Terriermon. That thing doesn't seem harmful. At least, I hope so."

As soon as Terriermon and Henry both left the scene, another group of people were walking by. Ken Yolei and Cody were walking along while Yolei was strolling her baby, Naomi, along the walk path. Just then, Hawkmon, Armadillomon and Wormmon both felt the same ki presence as Terriermon did. They jumped out from the baby's carriage and both landed onto the ground.

"Hawkmon, what is it?"

"Armadillomon?"

"Shh. I can feel a presence of some sorts. It belongs to a digimon."

"Look up there," Wormmon pointed out.

They all gazed up over to the chicken who was sitting perched on the tree. The digimon trio looked at it with great suspicion.

"I say we get a move on out of here," said Ken, "I just don't like the looks of it."

"Well, it doesn't seem harmful," replied Yolei, "We'll just simply ignore it and hope it will just find its way back home."

"It sure doesn't look like the robin of spring," Cody remarked.

"Agreed. I could go for some turkey right about now," stated Armadillomon.

"I agree. Its getting late and dinner could be ready by now," Hawkmon said.

"C'mon! We can't skip on a meal this time around."

"Yay! I can just smell dinner from here!" Armadillomon said.

"Yet, we haven't even started cooking yet," Cody remarked. "You're such a glutton."

"Am not!"

The digimon ran off with their human partners chasing them in pursuit out of the park, in hopes of getting back to the apartment in time before 7:30 hits.

As soon as everybody left for the day, the mysterious chicken took advantage of this situation and then begins to squawk and begins drawing in energy from the city itself, resulting in widespread black-outs throughout the city.

However, the people over at Hypnos easily used a back up to retrieve their electrical power back.

Once the digimon finished drawing in more power, it began to expand in tremendous size and started to break the branch that he was perched on with his tremendous weight.

"Whoa. The Wild One is growing at great proportions and rapidly somehow!" Riley reported, "We better report this to Yamaki."

"Sir! We got a lock on another Wild One," Talley stated, "You better get in here right away."

"I'm on my way," Yamaki replied through a radio communicator.

Yamaki began rushing out from his office and heads down the hallway leading into the secret Hypnos room.

"I wonder what these 'digital parasites' want! Is this some kind of an invasion," Yamaki asked himself.

Yamaki goes running up the stairs and then makes it over to see Riley and Talley doing their best to keep track of the now bio-emerged Wild One.

"What's the situation?"

"The Wild One is growing rapidly sir," replied Riley.

"It has to be stopped no matter what it takes," Yamaki said with anger in the tone of his voice.

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Back over at Kari's apartment, since the power went down, they went to light themselves a candle to give themselves light through the use of natural fire for the time being.

Izzy meet up with Ken, Yolei and Cody as they began their discussion on the card controversy.

"So, what did you find out, Izzy? Anything on its secrets?" Yolei asked.

"Nothing. The codes were too difficult for me to decipher. As soon as I was coming so close in translating them, a password box came up and from there. I was screwed. I don't even have the password to tap into its secrets."

"Have any idea of what the password maybe?" Ken asked.

"Negative. That's where I was basically stuck. That's it. There's no way I can get further into this investigation without the password," said Izzy, "However, maybe, I can gather some more of these cards if I can. That way, at least, I can find some clues to what the password really is."

"Not a bad plan, Izzy," said Ken, "By doing so, you could unlock its mystery, but in case you have some trouble, we're always here to help."

"Thanks a bunch, I'm glad to know that you will be helping me out. I really needed the help."

"Don't worry. Just call us and we'll be there," replied Yolei.

"Count on us. We've got your support," Cody said.

"Ack! There's too much love in this room!" Izzy said. "But I'm glad to know that you guys will support me."

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The next day, Takato was walking over towards the park after school. He was more than ready to meeting Kari's older brother, Tai. Now he has the chance to meet the Digi-Destined to be responsible for the first digital fusion to have occurred.

"Wow, I can't believe, that I will be meeting the guy behind Omega X. And its Kari's own brother. Well, its 4:00 and Henry said that he would be here any minute."

"Waiting for somebody," asked Henry as he came walking out with Terriermon at his side.

"You were really waiting for us? Sheesh," Terriermon remarked, "You didn't have to."

"Well, now that we're here. Did you manage to get a hold of Rika?"

"No. She said that she had other things to do today," replied Henry, "And there doesn't that much people here today, so I think we should go and get Guilmon right about now."

"You're right. Besides, I'm sure Tai would like to meet him."

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As soon as they made it over to the bunker, Guilmon comes walking out after Takato opened the door for him.

"Hey, Takatomon? So, what are we doing today?"

"We're going to be meeting somebody. Its a surprise."

"Oh, I love surprises, Takato. But, have I met this person before?"

"Well, no. But you might remember his name if I told you. Remember that guy named Tai that I kept bringing up earlier this morning when I came to give you bread?"

"Yeah and you said that he was one half of Omega X or something like, but I was too busy eating the bread."

"Well, you're going to get the chance to see him. Lets go, its almost 5:00. Kari told me he would get here at around 5:15."

"Right. We better be heading out now," said Henry.

The Tamers headed off out of the forest with their digimon following right behind them. But little did they realize that they were being watched by the same two mysterious figures that were watching the Tamers and several of the Digi-Destined over the past few days.

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Takato and Henry waited over at the entrance of the park with Guilmon and Terriermon at their side. Just then, they could see a red convertible driving by and they peered over to see who it was. They couldn't recognize him. The convertible parked in a nearby parking lot and the young man comes stepping out. It had some rather noticeable big hair and a soccer uniform, but only much taller.

"Is that him?" Takato pondered, "No way. Yeah that's got to be him."

"Are you sure?" asked Henry.

"It's got to be."

Just then, a girl goes walking up to Tai and Takato quickly recognizes her as Kari. Takato quickly stands up and waves over towards them to get their attention.

"Its Kari! And that guy has got to be Tai! Without a doubt!"

Takato goes running up towards them and Kari greets the boy. Tai looks down over to Takato.

"Hey, Takato. Here he is. I would like you to meet my brother, Tai Kamiya."

"Wow, I can't believe I'm looking at the guy who is apart of Omega X. Its a privilege."

"Um, yeah. So, you're Takato. Nice goggles, kid."

"Um, thanks. I picked them out myself."

"So, show me this digimon of yours."

"Not a problem. Guilmon! Over here quick!"

The crimson-colored dinosaur comes running out and hearing Takato's call. He stands right by at Takato's side.

"Did you call me, Takato?"

"Yeah, here's the guy I was telling you about. Tai."

"Oh! You must be Mr. Omega X."

"Well, when I'm in battle of course. So this is the Guilmon I've been hearing about?"

"The one and only," replied Takato, "And this boy coming our way is Henry. His digimon is Terriermon."

"Hi there. I'm Tai Kamiya. So you're Henry and this is your Terriermon?"

"Yeah, but be careful, he's a little bit on the cynical side."

"Hey! What's that supposed to mean," exclaimed Terriermon.

"Don't sorry. I can be like that most of the time," Tai said, "But you two got some pretty cool digimon. Now it's my turn to show you mine."

Tai walks back over to his car and then opens the back door. Agumon comes jumping out while dusting himself off.

"Agumon! Its so good to see you again," Kari said.

"So, where are they?" Agumon asked.

"Right over there, buddy."

Agumon looks over to Takato and Henry. He then runs over towards them as he begins to greet them.

"Hello. You two must be those two Tamer boys that have been taking out the evil digimon, right?"

"Yeah. We've had our run-ins but we've overcome the opposition. So, you're Agumon?" Takato asked.

[Agumon. Rookie-Level. Vaccine Type. Special Techniques: Pepper Breath & Claw Attack. Agumon can warp digivolve to War Greymon and can fusion evolve with Tai to become Omega X.]

"That's right. And this red guy must Guilmon. Wow, your must have handled your job quite well."

"Yeah, plus Takato brings me the bread after we win a battle."

"Sounds good. And this little guy is Terriermon?"

"Yeah, but I'm a lot tougher than I look."

"Its not a surprise, Patamon sure proved us wrong on several occasions."

"Yeah and I beat me at a bread-eating contest," Guilmon said.

"But you know what they say? Payback is a bitch," Terriermon chuckled. "You owe me a rematch."

"You're on!"

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Later that day, the four had their discussion about the digimon, the cards, the Wild Ones and the Devas.

"Whoa, these Devas sound bad. But believe me, Burizalor and his thugs were much worse," Tai asked, "I don't know what to say, but I'm sure you guys can handle it. But in case, you need help. We're always here to back you up. Besides I wouldn't mind getting a shot at this dark one that these Devas are talking about."

"I bet you would," replied Kari, "Takato and Henry have modify cards which help make their digimon stronger. So looks like we got ourselves a pair of warriors here."

"No kidding, but after hearing your conversation, I'm sure you handle those Devas and perhaps get as stronger as we were seven years ago."

"Ever since I saw the War Games, I always wished to have a digimon and become a fusion warrior of my own. Then during the fight between you and Virus, I quickly got inspired," Takato said.

"Well, your dream may well very come true if you keep up with your digimon's powers. It just might be a reality. But always believe in yourself and become a leader for your team. Now this Rika Girl sounds stubborn but she will have to realize that you are the one in charge here," Tai said.

"Yeah. I won't any of you guys down. Now it's my turn to be a leader much like you were Tai."

"That's the spirit, Takato. Always be prepared for the unexpected."

Just as soon as he said that, an explosion occurs over at the lake in the park. The Tamers and the two Digi-Destined looked over to see what it was.

"What the hell was that? An explosion of some sorts," Tai exclaimed.

"I'm picking up a huge ki reading over at the lake," Agumon said, "Alright, guys. We better get heading on over there."

"Right. I'll lead the way," said Guilmon.

[SSJ Trunks' Ascension American dubbed theme plays]

The three digimon headed over towards the park as more explosions occurred, but there didn't seem to be huge nuclear explosions that a monster such as Burizalor or Virus would cause. As soon as the three digimon reached to the lake, they came face to face with a large armored chicken with a fluff of feather on his head. The 'D' marking on his forehead was glowing profusely.

"Hey! That's the chicken we saw yesterday," Henry exclaimed.

"Dang! That sucker got huge!" exclaimed Terriermon. "He was this small when we last saw him. Talk about weight gain."

"Why didn't you warn me?" asked Takato.

"We figured that it was harmless in that form. But, hey wait a minute! I remember the power going off in the entire city," said Henry.

"And I was watching the whole thing," Guilmon said, "It was feeding off of the electricity and it got bigger. I tried to do something but I got stuck in my home."

"Well, then. Looks like we're going to have to take this Kentucky fried freak out," Takato said, "You ready Guilmon?!"

"Go, Terriermon!"

"I'm going! I'm going!"

"Agumon, you better go and lend them a hand as well."

"Gotcha!"

The three rookies went right at the chicken as they all attacked it head on with rapid punches and kicks, but the chicken deva was easily able to maneuver from their furious blows. Takato pulls out his D-Ark and tried to get information on the deva.

"Oh man! I'm not getting a reading on him. How come it's like this when we face any kind of a Deva. They must be secret agents for the Dark One or something. Aw here we go!"

[Shinduramon. Ultimate-level. Deva. Special Techniques: Poistron Pulse.]

"Agumon has been trained to take down even the strongest ultimates. I'm sure he can handle this dodo bird," said Tai, "Believe me. Fighting Burizalor and Virus was a bitch."

"But never under-estimate the enemy," Kari replied, "He may look stupid but looks can be deceiving."

"C'mon, Agumon!"

"Guilmon!"

"Terriermon!"

"Pyro Sphere!!"

"Terrier Tornado!!"

The two combined attacks nailed Shinduramon with great contact. Shinduramon cried out as he stumbled back a bit. Agumon goes jumping at Shinduramon and hammers away at his face with rapid punches and kicks. One kick from Agumon sends Shinduramon flying back.

"Whoa! Geez! What do you keep feeding him? You must have put some vitamins in his cereal every morning," Takato exclaimed.

"I told you. He's been training and can even take out some of the strongest ultimates. So, Agumon should have no problems with this hen."

"Well, lets hope for your sake," said Henry.

"Whoa, are you seeing what I'm seeing," asked Terriermon.

"Yeah. No kidding," Guilmon replied, "Its like as if he weren't even trying."

Agumon then powers up as an aura forms around him. A ball of energy forms in his hands and then shoots it right at Shinduramon right in the face. Shinduramon goes flying back but then catches himself in time and powers up.

"Positron Pulse!!"

He shoots out an electrical blast over at Agumon and watched as the little dinosaur was able to phase just in time. This caught Shinduramon by surprise as he looked down to see Agumon shoots out another energy blast at Shinduramon.

"Ok, guys. I've done with my warm up. You can take it from here," Agumon said as he walked away with a confident look on his face.

"Um, ok. Thanks," Guilmon said with a confused look.

"Lets go, Guilmon!"

From high above a tree, Impmon was looking down with his eyes almost bulging open at what Agumon had just done. His mouth was about to drop open.

"I can't believe that little dinosaur was able to put him down! And he didn't really need the help from a human. Wow, he really showed me something. Maybe I can strong like that. Feh, what's the use? I get my bread nabbed by an armadillo and get punked by both a fox and a weenie rabbit."

Calumon was also looking on from another tree and was also just as shocked.

"This is what I call fun! Yay! That Agumon sure knows how to put up a good fight. Hopefully, he has enough time to play with us."

"Guilmon!"

"Terriermon!

"Time to digivolve now!"

The two boys pulled out their cards and then slashed them through the D-Arks.

[Card Slash theme "Slash!" plays]

"Card Slash!! Evolution!!"

Evolution!!

[Digimon Tamers first evolution theme "Evo" plays]

"Terriermon shinka!!"

"Gargomon!!"

"Guilmon shinka!!"

"Growlmon!!"

Growlmon and Gargomon go charging right over towards a beaten Shinduramon as Agumon continued walking away while brushing dust off of him.

"Way to nail it to him!" exclaimed Tai.

"But why didn't you finish him off?" asked Kari.

"Ah, cause I already know what the result of the fight would be. Besides, I want to see how skilled Guilmon and Terriermon are."

"Oh alright. So, he wasn't worth you time?"

"Bingo."

"Gargo Laser!!"

The gun bunny managed to knock Shinduramon away with several shots. Growlmon takes advantage and then delivers a barrage of punches at Shinduramon. Shinduramon goes flying up and then powers up. He shoots down an electrical blast over towards the two champions and blasted them away. But they managed to get back onto their feet with a quick recovery, which caught Shinduramon by surprise.

Growlmon goes over at Shinduramon and nails a devastating head butt, which sent the monstrous chicken flying back. Gargomon delivers a Bunny Pummel executing an uppercut to Shinduramon. Growlmon then flies up, powers up and shoots out a Pyro Blaster. The powerful fireball goes flying towards Shinduramon and it nailed him straight into his chest. Shinduramon goes flying back and goes squawking crazily before exploding into data.

"Alright, Guilmon! So, how did you like that," Takato asked.

"You guys are da 'mon!" Tai exclaimed.

The two champions walk back over towards their respective Tamers and were applauded for their efforts.

"That wasn't so tough. I was pretty disappointed. I expected a much tougher Deva," Growlmon said.

"No kidding. I mean, c'mon! Where's the competition to that?" Gargomon asked.

"Oh, there will be plenty of competition ahead for you Tamers. The same goes for you too Digi-Destined," a voice said from behind them.

[Anonymous dark, mysterious music plays]

The group all turned around to see two figures stepping out of the shadows. The digimon all stood in front of their partners in defense. The two figures looked over towards the four humans, then Tai looks over at them with a confused look on his face.

One of them figures was a medium-sized young man with blue skin and white hair. His top outfit looks like a piece of kimono with a rope-like belt around his waist. His hair is spiky with a small ponytail in the back. He also wore a bead necklace, his pants look leather and wears standard boots.

The other one looks like a giant panda. He wore a karate gi with ripped sleeves, a black belt, wearing a red headband on his head with a huge bead necklace and some red wristbands.

Agumon and the others looked on and could easily read off their ki levels. These two individuals have enormous power levels, yet the two Digi-Destined and the Tamers had no idea.

"What do you mean by plenty of more competition to come. Do you know these Devas?" asked Tai.

The spike-haired individual simply smiled.

"Good day. You are Taichi Kamiya, aren't you not?"

Tai simply nods. He managed to quick an eyebrow afterwards.

"H-how did you know my name?"

"I heard rumors concerning you. I've always wanted a shot against the almighty fusion warrior known as Omega X."

Tai and Kari gasp at what the individual just said. How would he know about Tai's ability to fuse to become Omega X? The Tamer boys were just as confused as well.

"Whoa, this guy is kind of freaky, yet, I don't see Guilmon or Terriermon attacking him for some reason," said Henry.

"Weird. I don't get it. Maybe there's something about these two that we don't know. Plus they've been watching us this whole time," Takato said.

"Yes, we have been observing your battles against the Devas, Tamers. You have impressed us, yet you have no idea of how powerful the next set of Devas shall be. You're nowhere near the level of Omega X. That is why Agumon easily took down Shinduramon. Omega X has trained to become the best, and now I have searched far and long for a great adversary. Tai, you as Omega X, shall be a very interesting opposition for me. Am I right?"

"Ummm… Sure, why not?"

"Of course, we can not be sure who will come out the victor. However, I do want to test my powers against yours."

"How does this guy know so much about us if we haven't even seen him before,"Kari said to herself. "And why would he even want to fight my brother?"

"Taichi. By all means, may I shake your hand?"

Tai just looked at him with a confused look on his face and then looks down at the mystery person extending out his hand. Tai nodded and then stuck his hand out.

"Mm? Ah, good to meet you, whoever you are."

They shake hands and Tai looks down at the blue man, who was simply smiling. Something was behind that smile and Tai is anxious enough to find out. He chuckles and Tai stares down at their hands, confused, and then both of them withdraw their hands.

"I see. As the rumors have said, you possess a fine soul."

The mysterious blue man then bows and walks away behind the big panda, who in turn follows him along as they quickly faded out.

Agumon walks behind Tai and speaks up.

"Who was that, Tai?"

"I don't know. But it's no mistake that we aren't the strongest beings in the two worlds. Couldn't you feel their powers?"

"Yeah and its uncanny. I couldn't believe it myself."

"Really? Well, then, Tamers. Looks like we got ourselves a pair of warriors on our hands. But are they really friend or foe?"

"Are you sure?" asked Takato, "He didn't appear all that great. I mean, to me, he seemed like some strange-looking fellow."

"Remember, looks can be deceiving, just as Gatomon always tells me," Kari said.

They all look on still with shocked looks on their faces.

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Watching the crew from behind the shadowy corners of the city, the dark devil-like figure took a good observation at Tai.

"So is this one? I sensed a great ki from his Agumon. That Agumon was able to put down an ultimate? Interesting. It seems that there are digimon who have surpassed the powers of the Sovereigns. No matter, my lord will be informed of this. It seems we will double the fun. Enjoy your victory, humans. Soon, doomsday will reign."

With that said, the dark figure vanished within the speed of light. It was clear that this dark figure was in cahoots with not just the Devas, but this Dark One. This was the one that Santiramon spoke of.

Well, this has gotten quite interesting. Here we got the two mysterious figures already revealed. But who are they? Are they really friend or foe? And will the Tamers be able to defeat the next set of Devas?

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

[Preview]

Tai: Just who were those strange guys? They knew a lot about me.

Kari: Should we even trust him?

Takato: It shouldn't matter since we have a city to defend.

Rika: Wow, pretty observant of you, Sherlock.

Yamaki: Two Wild Ones are bio-emerging?!

Riley: That's right, sir.

Vajiramon: The human world shall be our taking.

Pajiramon: I sense the presence of numerous traitors. We shall punish them for taking the side of humans.

Davis: Just give us your best shot, Devas!

Terriermon & Renamon: Shinka!!

Izzy: Next time on Digimon Tamers Fusion, episode nine!

A Rumble in the Bronx! Rapidmon's Rapid Fire & Taomon's Dance in the Moonlight!

Guilmon: Don't miss it!

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SSJ4T: Whew! The team has beaten two more Devas. Now, it's a double dose!

Coral: This is shaping up to get better. I knew those two guys were going to be the Kibito and Kaioshin of the series.

Max: Without a doubt, even I knew it.

Coral: Sure you did…

SSJ4T: Be sure to check out the fic next time. You'll get to see two more Matrix evolutions, two Devas and a rumble in the Bronx! Don't forget that the Artificials will make they're debut on the next Zero Two chapter. Until then, peace!

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