Takuya: Alright so last time Ray, Sam, Jon, Alex, Rebecca and Jennifer were all pulled into the Digital World. After running around for awhile they finally ran into each other and then Angewomon appeared and told them they were all destined to save the Digital World from the evil Serpentmon and his Dark Generals. Of course first they'll have to find their partner Digimon and learn how to work together as a team. Hope they can figure it out soon cause they're definitely gonna need it. And Alex needs some shoes ASAP!
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Morning came quickly for the humans. Each of the group rose with varying degrees of wakefulness. The one that was least happy with having to get up with the sun, was Alex. His grumbling made for some tense moments when the Floramon tried to cheerfully wake everyone. After everyone was up and gathered, the Floramon started to pass out bowls with a soupy concoction. As they bowls were handed to them, the humans stared down at it in bewilderment. They didn't want to be rude to their gracious hosts, but at the same time they didn't know if it was safe for human consumption.
"So...who's going to be the first to try it?" Jon asked, scooping and draining the soup from his bowl.
"Not me. This stuff looks like..." Alex started to comment when a swift elbow from Jennifer shut him up.
"Looks like good food, right Alex?" Jennifer asked the grumpy boy.
"Whatever." Alex growled as he tried to move away from Jennifer and her elbow.
"Can't be all that bad," Ray tried to encourage them, though he himself still looked into his bowl uncertainly.
"It's fruity." Rebecca said emotionlessly.
Despite his better efforts, Ray snickered a bit at her comments.
"What's your problem?" Sam whispered to him.
"Uh...nothing," he replied quickly.
"Whatever," she shrugged then tried the soup herself. "Hmm...actually it's really not that bad. Kinda reminds me of something though."
"It's kind of like honey and fruits. I like it." Jennifer commented after she had tried the soup.
Alex took a sip and nearly spit it out. "It's too sweet."
"Fruit punch," Jon spoke up.
"That's it!" Sam shouted, slamming a fist on the table in her excitement. "That's what it reminds me of! Thank you!"
"Do you like our food?" One of the braver Floramon asked the humans.
"It's good. Thank you very much for your hospitality." Rebecca replied before anyone could comment.
"So then Angewomon, where do we go after we finish breakfast?" Ray asked, looking towards the winged Digimon.
"I believe it would be in our benefit to head to the west," she replied before taking a sip of the soup. "Hmm, this is really good."
"Thank you," one of the Floramon bowed their head.
"Now as I saying there are many villages to the west and I believe some of you will find your partners along the way." She suddenly stopped and a small smile spread across her lips. "In fact, for one of you the journey had ended before it even began."
The others stared blankly at her and before they could ask what she meant, Ray's Digivice began to beep. He dug it out of the pocket from his too belt and looked at it to find an arrow pointing towards the door. He looked up in time to find someone walking into the large hut that served as the Floramon's dinning hall.
"Excuse me I was just-" the new comer stopped and stared up at Ray.
For a moment the two simply looked at one another, feeling some kind of a strange connection between them. Once he was over that feeling, Ray studied the creature before him. It was a large light red bug with big green eyes and yellow antenna sticking out of his head. He had four arms, to large ones that ended in gray, rounded claws while the shorter ones barely stuck out from his torso and were three fingered hands.
As the seconds ticked by in silence, one of them was about to speak up but before they could someone else broke the quiet with a loud shriek. Jennifer stood to the side of the door, spraying the red bug with her can of bug spray, obviously freaked out by the bug's appearance. The scene itself took everyone by surprise, so no one automatically tried to stop the girl.
The bug went into a coughing fit from the spray and fell onto his back, twitching slightly. After he overcame his surprise, Ray jumped over the table and ran towards the crazed girl.
"What do you think you're doing?!" He shouted as he slapped the can from her hand.
"Getting rid of that giant bug! It could be diseased." Jennifer replied as she grabbed the can of bug spray from the ground.
"It's not just a bug. It's a Digimon! Sheesh! You could try to think of these things before you act, ya know?!"
"Calm down. You should know that Jennifer tends to over-react, Ray. Jennifer, you should put that away, I think that Digimon is Ray's partner. We don't need to lose a partner Digimon before we even begin this journey." Rebecca said as she tried to diffuse the tension before either person decided to do more than yell.
Ray nodded in agreement then gave a small glare to Jennifer before kneeling next to the injured Digimon.
"Hey little guy, you OK?" He asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine," the bug coughed. "Or at least I will be. That stuff's strong."
"It's suppose to be. So what's your name?"
"Tentomon. Who are you?"
"I'm Ray. Pleasure to meet you," the young man said as he held his hand out to shake one of Tentomon's claws.
"A pleasure to meet you Ray. Though...I can't help but feel like we've meet before."
"That's because you're to be his partner on our quest," Angewomon said as she walked up to the two.
"Partner? Quest?" Tentomon asked, tilting his head to the right.
"I shall explain later. For now though, please sit down and join us. That is, if it's alright you?" She asked one of the nearby Floramon.
"Of course, we love having guests." The Floramon replied.
A short while later, the humans were saying their farewells to the Floramon village and heading towards the west. The group would have made better progress, if Alex hadn't been complaining about his feet and how much they hurt. Jennifer had apologized profusely to Tentomon for spraying him with bug spray, explaining that he had startled her. Rebecca stayed closer to the back of the group, keeping an eye on Alex. She remembered what her cards had shown her last night, and Alex was the one person who could destroy the very world they were meant to save. Keeping him in line and helping him to a more positive attitude would be helpful.
"So I'm really suppose to help you save my world?" Tentomon asked Ray as he flew beside him.
"That's what she told me," he responded, nodding towards the aforementioned Digimon.
"Huh. And to think I was just stopping by there to get something to eat."
"You're taking this really well. Better than any of us did."
"It's probably because Digimon are used to having to fight for most of their lives."
"Really? I can even imagine having to live like that."
Tentomon shrugged. "It's a living. Though I do agree it's not a very good one. That's why I try to keep away from it as much as I can."
"So what do you do then?"
"Mostly explore. Look for any kind of work I can find. What I'd really like to do is get a job building things."
Ray's eyebrow arched slightly at this revelation. "You like to build things?"
"Oh yes. Of course it is kind of hard with these," Tentomon held up his large, claw ended arms, "but I make due."
"Guess you'd have to. Still I can see why we'd be paired up. I like to build thing too."
"That is quite a coincidence. Maybe sometime during this quest we'll get to build something together."
"I'd like that."
"If he likes to make things so much.... why doesn't he make me a pair of shoes?" Alex asked with his usual annoyed tone.
Jon looked back at the annoyed, and annoying, boy and then snaked his fingers around the handle to his sword.
"'I should take your head just to shut you up'" he mused.
"You do that and you're screwed, and you know it." Alex replied.
"A man can dream."
"That's a rather bloody dream." Jennifer commented, "Not that I could blame you, having to deal with Alex."
"Hey! You try being all cheerful and perky, WITHOUT shoes!" Alex exclaimed.
"It doesn't bother me," Tentomon added to the conversation
"You're not walking bug-boy." Alex told the flying Digimon.
"True. But when I do it, doesn't bother me."
"Just ignore him," Ray advised his new partner. "Trust me, I've known him for only a day and I've learned it's best not to argue with him."
"You can't argue with me, cause I'm RIGHT! Having no shoes SUCKS!!" Alex yelled from behind the rest.
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In a castle near the center of the land, the newly appointed ruler sat on his throne. His black hair falling onto his shoulders like it had just been wet. His white dress shirt hung open to reveal his well-muscled chest. From the blue collar around his neck hung his cape, his black pants were just loose enough to fit well, but tight enough to show the muscles in his legs. His polished black boots stopped just below his knees.
"Why do I have to have this wretched land? There's NOTHING here. Crusadermon has a beautiful castle, not like this dump," he moaned, looking around his "meager" castle.
In truth it was a well-sized castle with great, extending halls and overly furnished rooms containing the finest furniture that could be found in this land. But that was the problem. To him, this land held nothing but dirt and simple-minded Digimon. The other generals had large, glorious lands filled with powerful Digimon that they could command as well as enormous castles and plenty of riches. But he was stuck here, with nothing. Why? Why did his talents have to go to waste here?
His complaining was cut short be a soft hissing sound coming from behind him. He spun around quickly to find a large snake slowly descending near his throne. He jumped out of it and was about to blast it when the snake wrapped around itself and clung to the wall. Within the circle it now created a reflect portal shimmered to life. The surprised general stared at his reflection for a moment before the hooded, serpentine face of his master appeared before him.
"Moping around once again, are we Senbomon?" Serpentmon inquired.
"I wa...wasn't moping my Lord." Senbomon stammered while trying to look dignified.
"Oh of course not. I'm sure you were hard at work coming up with a brilliant plan to get rid of the humans wandering around in your sector."
"Humans?"
The snake-like lord sighed in annoyance and barely constrained angry.
"Yes, humans. As in the prophecy of warriors from another world-that being the humans-come to this world to destroy the evil over taking it-that would be us," he explained calmly.
"They're here in MY land? I'll kill them!"
"Yes! That's exactly the spirit I want! And to give you even more of an incentive, if you do kill them I'll give you the choice of any land you want. How does that sound to you?"
"That sounds like a fair price my Lord. I shall dispense of these vermin at once."
A smile spread across Serpentmon's face as he looked at his willing subordinate.
"Excellent. I hope to hear good news from you soon." His attitude suddenly grew deadly serious. "Because if I don't, then you'd better pray that those humans destroy you instead of me. Because I assure you I won't go as easy on you as they will."
His eyes flashed a dangerous red before the image faded and the uncoiled and fell to the floor, slithering off to some dark corner of the castle.
"Ogremon! Goblimon! Come here."
The two Digimon in question quickly appeared in the room and knelt before their master.
"What is it you require of me my Lord?" Orgemon asked.
"I want you to kill the humans that are in our land. Do this and I'll reward you."
"Very well, we shall hunt them down and make them suffer as they have never suffered before."
"Good. Very good. Don't bother to report back to me if you fail. I will not be lenient."
"Of course."
With that the two Digimon left, leaving their master to sit and thinking about what his master would do to them should they fail and the blame fall on him. He couldn't let that happen. He would not be killed until he had reached a better land. He would not die in this land, he swore it.
***
Elsewhere in the continent, the would be heroes each felt less then heroic at the moment. They had been walking for at least two hours now and they were all feeling the effects of their trek. The most audible of course being Alex, complaining about this sore, bare feet. The other one seeming to suffer the most was Sam, who kept growling periodically and glancing down at the motorcycle she was forced to pull along with her. Finally one of her growled turned into a scream of frustration.
"I can't take it anymore! I HAVE to ride! My bike is crying out in pain! Can't you hear it?!" She shouted.
"So are my feet, deal with it blondie." Alex retorted
"Don't make me go upside your head!"
"Try it pretty girl."
She was about to take him up on his offer when Ray grabbed her shoulder to hold her back.
"Come on Sam, it's not worth it," he said in an attempt to calm her.
"But it's sooo tempting," she replied, glaring at the enraging young man.
"I know, I know. Just...try not to, OK?"
She seemed to think it over a second before finally sighing in defeat. "Fine."
"Good," Ray nodded then turned to Angewomon. "She does have a point though. We've been walking for a couple of hours now and it'd probably be best if we took a break."
"Come now. This walk hasn't been that hard," she tried to encourage him and the others.
"That's cause you've been flying for the last couple miles," Ray said in a deadpan voice.
The angelic Digimon suddenly stopped and looked down at herself and found that, indeed, she was floating several inches about the ground. She gave a nervous laugh and smile before joining the others in standing.
"*Ahem* Well then, yes, I think a break would be most advantageous for us all," she relented.
"Finally. Now if you'll excuse me...I'm going to find some water to cool my burnt, blistered feet off," Alex muttered.
"Should we just sat out here in the open like this?" Jon asked, looking around at the large clearing they had stopped in.
"Sure, why not?" Ray asked.
"Because we're surround by the forest on all sides. Someone could sneak up on us."
"Eh, you worry too much."
"Just saying that jinxed it you know." Jennifer commented to Jon.
"Just being here jinx's it. Every time someone stops in a field like this they're always attacked," he advised.
"That's horror movies. This is not a horror movie." Rebecca said calmly
"No, it's a freaking nightmare!" Alex yelled.
"Still..." Jon said, his hand hovering over the handle to his sword.
"Relax a bit. It's not like we'll get the chance to relax all the time. We're basically here to fight a war. Take your breaks when you get them." Jennifer told Jon.
"I dunno. Something just feels...off here."
"Like what?" Ray asked, looking up from his Digivice had and Tentomon had been studying while the others talked.
"I said I don't know. I just feel like we're being watched."
"With all the Digimon around, you think we wouldn't be watched?" Alex asked sarcastically
Jon ignored him and continued to survey their surroundings until Jennifer finally convinced him to sit down and relax with the rest of them. He hesitated for a moment before finally sitting down near the others and sharing in some of the food Jennifer had brought with her. Within minutes the group was talking and sharing stories about their lives back in the real world. It was soon discovered that Jennifer was the oldest human there, while Ray was the youngest. Though they tried to keep their talks happy and mostly carefree, eventually their conversation led back to their mission and just how they were going to accomplish it. When they asked Angewomon about it all she said was that "All would be revealed in time" which, of course, only served to irritate Alex even further. Their talks were suddenly stopped when Angewomon stood up and stared intensely, as far as anyone could tell, at the forest directly in front of the group.
"We're not alone," she informed them.
"I know!" Jon shouted, jumping to his feet and drawing his sword.
The others followed suit, standing up and preparing themselves as best they could for whatever it was that was approaching them. A rustling sound was heard before a large, green skinned Digimon with a large hanging mouth and long, white hair walked out. After that overly large mouth the thing that caught their attention the most was the equally large club he held in his right hand.
"Who is this guy?" Ray whispered to Angewomon.
"Orgemon," she replied still staring at their guest. "He's one of the most despicable and underhanded Digimon alive. He's one of the few the willingly worked for the Dark Generals when they took control of our world."
"Awwww, you're flattering me," Ogremon taunted.
"You can't defeat all of us."
"Well you're right. *I* can't, but with some help from my friends..."
The green Digimon snapped his fingers and a horde of equally green skinned Digimon appeared out of the forest on either side of them. They were much shorter then Ogremon and carried a smaller version of his club, but it still looked like it could do some damage. They were dressed in a brown wool tunics and had a single wave of red hair spiking out of their heads.
"And these are?" Jon asked, still holding his sword in front of him.
"Goblimon," Angewomon answered. "They're small but they always travel in packs to overwhelm their enemies."
"Wonderful."
"Now we can do this two ways. You can all give up now and *maybe* we won't hurt you, or you can fight and we *will* hurt you," Ogremon offered.
"That's a fair offer. What do you say guys?" Ray asked, looking over the group.
Jon flipped his sword and then held it in a more formidable position. "Not a chance."
"Of course I'm with you," Tentomon spoke up. "This is what we're suppose to be doing apparently."
"I know I'm not going down without a fight," Sam added.
"I can take them! These guys are clowns! Let me at them!" Alex exclaimed loudly.
"I've still have my frying pan, not to mention whatever else is in my bag." Jennifer mentioned.
"I know a few moves." Rebecca told the group calmly.
"Then it's official. Bring it on!" Ray shouted in a challenge.
"Yeah!" Alex said as he charged towards on of the Goblimon.
As he ran, the Goblimon watched him and waited for him to come close to him before finally jumping over the young man and landing behind him. The short Digimon then spun around and hit his club against the back of Alex's kneecap. The shout of the injured man almost seemed like a war signal as the rest of the Goblimon horde suddenly all rushed forward. To their credit the humans did the best they could to defend themselves. Jon used his sword to cut some of their clubs in half and then beat them over the head with the handle of it. Ray fought back with a wrench and screwdriver he had, trying to really to stab his enemies, just cut them a little. His new found partner Tentomon used an attack he called the "Electoshocker" which involved a bolt of electricity launching out from between his antenna and zapping their attackers. Sam on the other hand was kicking and punching as many of them as she could, trying to keep them away from her bike so they wouldn't damage it. She kicked the club out one of the Goblinmon's hands then grabbed it and began to use it herself. Jennifer, true to her word, was using her frying pan to hit any Goblimon that got near her. She managed to his two of them before she was cornered on either side. Ducking as they Goblimon tried to tackle her, Jennifer made her way over to a less congested area. Rebecca's 'few moves' seemed to be a lot more than she let on, as she knocked one Goblimon into two others with a roundhouse kick.
At the very beginning of the battle Angewomon had taken to the air and chased down the instigator of this battle after he had fled into the forest. When she passed by him she swung her foot out and caught him in the head, knocking him down and sending him rolling a bit. She landed in front of him and stared him down as he stood up.
"I will not allow you to hurt them," she threatened him.
Ogremon chuckled. "And how are you going to stop me?"
In response, Angewomon held out her left hand and the wings on either side of her glove grew larger. She then held up other hand and a bow and an arrow of light appeared between the wings, pulled back and ready to be launched. Ogremon's eyes went wide as she fired the weapon.
"Celestial Arrow!" She shouted and let the arrow of light go.
Orgemon screamed in panic and jumped out of the way of the attack at the last second. He stared at the charged husk of the tree that had once been there before the angelic Digimon's attack hit it. He then turned back to stare at her as she readied another attack.
"Please! Don't!" He pleaded.
"Call off your warriors!" She demanded.
"I will! I will!" He nodded enthusiastically. He then looked up and a suddenly spark of glee appeared in his eyes. "On second thought...no!"
Angewomon quirked an eyebrow behind her mask then slowly turned her head around to see what had made him so happy. Her vision was quickly filled with a large, fast moving plot before whatever it was connected with her head and the blackness of unconsciousness overcame her. Ogremon laughed and stood up, walking over to the creature that had just knocked out his enemy. Though it was large it was still mostly covered with shadows.
"Nice work. Now head back to the base while we go about rounding up the humans," he ordered.
Alex had managed to roll over on his back, not that it did him any good. His knee was constantly reminding him that if he even tried to get up, he'd be back on the ground in no time. Alex did all he could to help. He shouted comments, warnings and curses, hoping to distract the Goblimon, They hardly seemed to work, but it did get Jennifer's attention, she made her way through the horde as best she could and was standing in front of Alex moments later. Turning quickly to look Alex, Jennifer winced at the purple bruise that was forming on the back of Alex's knee.
"You're an idiot, you know that?" Jennifer told the boy.
"Yeah, well you're the idiot who started bringing those green jerks over here." Alex retorted.
"Well excuse me for trying to help you."
"Like I needed the help!"
"Considering you can't even stand up...Yeah I think you DO need help."
"They WERE ignoring me until YOU showed up!" Alex shouted at Jennifer.
"Could you two argue later?!" Jon shouted at them.
Unfortunately, his voice was drown out by the sounds of battle. The six humans and one Digimon fought as well as they could but the numbers were quickly catching up with them. The fight continued for several more minutes before they were finally overwhelmed. When it was all over the Goblimon gathered up the humans and slumped them unceremoniously into one while placing their weapons and belongings in another pile. They chuckled among themselves at how the "mighty warriors" had fallen before them. Their celebration was cut short, however, when their leader stormed onto the scene, carrying the unconscious Angewomon behind him by the hair.
"Alright that's enough!" He ordered. "Let's gather them up and get them out of here."
"What about their stuff?" One Goblimon asked, holding Jon's sword.
"Eh, bring it with us, I'm sure we'll find some use for it."
The horde did at they were instructed and carried the humans and the one Digimon as best they could back to their village. The hardest part was Sam's bike, which required a small group of them on both side and one on top to properly pull it along. As they made their way through their village, beaming from their victory they failed to notice the small figure watching them from the shadows. He looked over the humans with an intense interest, especially the one he felt he had seen before. As if he knew her or rather SHOULD know her.
"Could she be..." he wondered then narrowed his eyes. "I must free her and the others."
Jennifer slowly regained consciousness. As she did, she tried to get rid of the haze that seemed to settle in front of her eyes. Once she had, she looked around, trying to figure out where she was. The last she remembered, she had been fighting the Goblimon with her frying pan. Then something hit her from behind, and now she was waking up somewhere else. When the bars came into her vision, she groaned. She and the others no doubt had been captured and were now caged by the Goblimon. Seeing as she was the oldest, Jennifer took it on herself to make sure the others were alright. While her pounding head didn't help her think clearly, she was able to make sure that everyone would be alright. Sure they'd have a headache, but that was livable. Jennifer then looked outside the cage to see if they were being guarded. If they weren't, she might just be able to get everyone out of there. Unfortunately, there were guards, not close to the cage, but close enough, in fact it seemed like they were guarding another cage. Curious as to what was so important in the other cage, Jennifer looked over, saw the Digimon in the cage and screamed.
The others groaned loudly in protest as the hysterical girl's screaming increased the pounding in their heads.
"Would you stop that screaming," Jon muttered as he tried move but unfortunately found himself strung up in chains with his arms above his head.
He looked over at the others and saw they were in a similar state, each recovering from the blows they had been dealt.
"Well this is just great," he groaned.
"Shut UP ALREADY! Yer makin' it worse!" Alex yelled at Jennifer, who had not stopped screaming.
"It's....it's....it's....."Jennifer tried to say something, but she couldn't find the words to describe what she was seeing. She did stop screaming however.
"It's another Digimon." Rebecca said, "and for the record, screaming is NOT and acceptable way to wake me up."
The others looked into the cell to find out what had caused the girl to have such a dramatic reaction. What they saw was a tell Digimon sitting on the floor with his arms chained behind his back. He was a dark brown color with long tentacles hanging off his head and coming out of his Roman-esque helmet. He was dressed in a lose fitting, forest green shirt and equally fitting black pants. He had armored braces on his wrists that were black as well and they could barely make out his large, hairy feet underneath his body.
"That noise was unbearable! How can something so PUNY scream so loud?" The Digimon asked as the humans continued to stare in his direction.
"We have yet to figure that out. She seems abnormal." Rebecca offered.
"I'm not abnormal...if anyone is, it's Alex." Jennifer defended herself.
"Hey!! Just you wait! When I get down form here...I'm gonna...." Alex yelled.
"Enough! Let's just figure a way to get out of here before we talk about what we're going to do when we do get out," Sam suggested.
"She's right guys," Ray added. "What we need to do is figure out if anyone still have anything left on them that could help us out."
"I have nothing." Rebecca said
"Same here." Jennifer added.
"Me neither," Jon spoke up.
"Nothing by the clothes on my back. Thankfully," Sam sighed. "But they better not have hurt my bike!"
"So I guess that means we're all empty handed. What about you Tentomon?" Ray asked his partner.
"I could try my Elctro Shocker, but I doubt it's strong enough to break the bars. And even if I did the guards would just attack us," the Digimon concluded.
"Hey!" One of the said guards banged on the bars with his club. "Keep it down in there!" He then turned to the other Goblimon. "I swear, don't know why Orgemon wanted them alive."
"Probably so he could show them to Lord Senbomon. You know get it in good with the boss so the big boss might notice him," the second one reasoned.
"Yeah I can see that. And then he'd just leave us here to die in this wasteland."
"Eh it's not that bad here. We can probably hold it together ourselves."
"Maybe," the first Goblimon mused and then looked back at their captives. "So you think Ogremon's going to have some 'fun' with the human females there?"
"Wouldn't surprise me. He's always been into that captive stuff. It's kinda freaky. And with human woman no less."
"Well you gotta admit it would be interesting."
The second Goblimon looked over the at the objects of their discussion thoughtful, rubbing his chin wit his hand. After a moment a sick smile spread across his green face.
"Yeah you got a point there. Wouldn't mind having a go at one of them. Maybe the blonde there."
"I kinda like the screamer. I could give her something to scream about."
Jennifer swallowed hard and wished she could move so that she could get away from the Goblimon. Rebecca simply stared stonily at the Digimon.
"I think I'm going to be sick," Sam muttered.
"Me too." Jennifer commented.
"Hey what do you think about having our fun before the boss arrives? Why way for sloppy seconds, right?" The first Goblimon remarked.
"Yeah. Sounds like fun," the second agreed.
The first guard then took the key ring from his belt and unlocked the door to the cell. They chuckled menacingly as they walked up to the two woman they had selected. Sam grunted and struggled against her restraints as hard as she could. She wished she could just get one leg free and kick one of those stupid green, grinning idiots' heads right off. She let out a startled gasp as he reached up and began to pull down the zipper to her leather suit.
"Get away from me you sicko!" She shouted while still struggling.
"Fireblast!" A voice called out from the door. A fireball flew towards the Goblimon and set their backsides on fire.
The captive humans and Digimon watched this display in surprise and confusion then looked on as a small Digimon, not much larger than their captors walked into the room. The Digimon was holding a wand that had a sun at the top of it. He wore beige and red coveralls and a red vest. The cape that was tied around his neck and hid half of his face, seemed to flair with an imaginary wind. The witch's hat that covered his orange hair had a red-eyed skull on the hatband. His gloves and shoes looked like well-worn leather.
"What is Orko doing here?" Jon joked
"My name is Wizardmon. I am here to help you." The wizard digimon told the humans.
"Can you get us out of these chains?" Ray asked.
"Easily. Freeing Winds." Wizardmon said and soon a wind appeared, broke the chains that held the humans allowing them to fall to the ground.
Once she regained her balance, Sam zipped up her leather suit then walked over to there the Goblimon were still laying lifeless on the other side of the cell and began kicking them relentlessly. The others watched in stunned silence for a moment before Ray was brave enough to walk up to her and grab her shoulder.
"Easy, easy Sam. That's enough," he tried to calm her.
"One more!" Sam shouted and then gave them one last parting kick. "There, I feel much better now."
"Yeah I can imagine," the goggle headed boy said still awesome at the display. "So then, now that we're free the first thing to do is get out stuff back."
"Uh, guys? Anyone notice we're a 'Mon short?" Jon asked.
The others gave him a quizzical look then suddenly realized that there was on very important person, or rather Digimon, missing from their group.
"Angewomon!" They all shouted in unison.
"And how are we suppose to get her? Those green idiots caught us once, they'll do it again." Alex commented from the ground while inspecting his purple knee.
"That's a good question," Ray mused then turned his attention to Wizardmon. "You got in here Wizardmon, how'd you get by all the guards?"
"It is simple, when you know how to be invisible" Wizardmon said as he disappeared from sight.
"That doesn't help us much," Jon said. "Unless you can find away to turn us all invisible."
"I can't, but she might be able to." Wizardmon said as he became visible and pointed towards Rebecca.
"Me? How could I do that? I don't have any magic." Rebecca responded, startled the wizard's proclamation.
"That is where you are wrong. You do have magic, you just do not know how to use it." Wizardmon replied.
"You understand what he's saying?" Ray whispered to Tentomon.
"Not at all," the insectiod Digimon replied.
"If I had magic, why couldn't I get us down from those chains? Or heal Alex's knee?" Rebecca asked stoically.
"You could, if you knew how to use your magic. Come, I'll show you." Wizardmon said as he walked over to Alex, "Here, place a hand on his knee and concentrate on it being healed."
Rebecca walked over to Alex, placed a hand on the boy's knee and closed her eyes to concentrate. A faint glow appeared around her hand. It was not enough to heal the knee, but enough to take away the pain. Rebecca was gasping lightly for air as she opened her eyes.
"It doesn't hurt....what did you do? You're a freak, just like sword-boy!" Alex shouted.
"That's a great way to thank her for healing you, ass!" Jon countered.
"It ain't healed dumb-ass! It just doesn't hurt! See it's still purple, and it hurts if I try to bend it, so it ain't healed!" Alex shouted at Jon.
"Guys enough!" Ray shouted, taking command of the situation. "Look we'll worry about all this later. Right now we need to get out stuff back, save Angewomon and then get out of here."
"Free me, and I will help you." The digimon chained in the other cage said in a deep voice.
Ray stopped for a second to consider that then nodded in approval.
"Alright," he spoke up.
"Are you sure that's wise?" Tentomon asked.
"Sure. Why not?"
"That's a Luxmon. They're known for their violent tempers and eagerness to fight. And they're not every pleasant to be around."
"Yeah, well neither is Alex but we still gotta put up with him."
"Good point."
"Wizardmon, can you help me get the cage open?" Jennifer said as she walked over to the cage that Luxmon was in, looking around she noticed that Wizardmon had disappeared, "Wizardmon? Where'd he go?"
"Girl, there is a rock over there. It should be more than enough to break that lock." Luxmon told Jennifer.
"Right." Jennifer quickly retrieved the rock and started hitting the lock with it. The lock gave way and Jennifer went in to get the lock holding Luxmon's chains. The second lock gave away as quickly as the first. "There you go!"
"You do not seem as frightened of me as you first were." Luxmon commented as he rubbed his wrists to get the soreness out of them.
"You startled me, that's why I screamed." Jennifer told the Digimon.
"Yeah and it doesn't seem to take much to do that," Jon commented as he walked by her.
"You're as much of a jerk as Alex, you know that." Jennifer said to Jon's back.
"Hey I think I deserve more credit than that."
"Why? You're being mean just like he is. I see no reason to give you credit. You don't know me or why I'm so easily startled." Jennifer commented.
"Can we please get on with this?" Sam asked, getting irritated with the whole situation
"And how are we suppose to do that? We don't know where our stuff it, like it matters to me, And there's no way to get it back without getting caught again." Alex said to the group.
"There's gotta be some way. We just gotta figure it out," Ray said.
"Well while we're doing that, might I suggest we not do it in the open like this?" Jon suggested.
"Then perhaps, we should head for those trees." Wizardmon said as he suddenly appeared.
"Where did you go?" Jennifer asked the small Digimon.
"To see where the Goblimon were holding your processions and Angewomon." The wizard Digimon replied.
"Did they hurt my bike?! I swear if they put so much as a chip in the paint I'll..." Sam started
"Worry about that later. We need to find a place to hide. Surely they will be sending others to see what's happened to the guards." Rebecca said as she started towards the trees.
"Point taken. And don't call me Shirley," Jon joked as he quickly followed by the ever-calm woman.
"And how am 'I' suppose to get over there? I can't even stand UP!" Alex fumed from the ground.
"Then let me be your transportation." Luxmon said as he picked Alex up carefully trying to avoid the severely bruised knee.
"Hey man! Let go!...What're ya trying ta do....this is so gay, it's sickening!"
"Well we got him moving, now can you do something to shut him up?" Sam asked.
"If I had a bandana...we could have used it as a gag....but that's in my bag." Jennifer said.
"A pity. We really don't need him giving away our hiding spot." Rebecca commented.
"If you wish, I could knock him unconscious." Luxmon suggested over Alex's protestations.
"Hey!"
"Sounds like a plan to me," Jon remarked.
"It's tempting....but I think we're going to need everyone for this," Ray reasoned.
"In other words, Shut it Alex!" Jennifer told the protesting boy.
"Fine. But just you wait! I'll get you guys later." Alex said before he crossed his arms and looked away from the group.
Once Alex quieted down, the group made it quickly to the forest and found a spot to hide from the Goblimon. When they were sure that there were not Goblimon around, the humans turned to Wizardmon to ask him about what he had seen. The wizard Digimon told them all that he had seen, calmly Sam's fear about her motorcycle when he told them that none of their belongings had been damaged.
"I did manage to get a few things. Things that would not easily be missed." Wizardmon said as he pulled Rebecca's cards, an orange Digivice and a purple one.
"My cards, and my Digivice. Thank-you, Wizardmon." Rebecca said to the Digimon.
"And my Digivice," Ray said taking the orange one from the Digimon. "Alright so that gives us something to work with. Did you see Angewomon there?"
"Yes, she is being held in Ogremon's tent. He has her locked in a cage hanging there." Wizardmon told Ray.
"This guy's got a serious fetish for hanging people," Jon muttered.
"Don't remind us." Rebecca said before her Digivice begin to beep, "No, be quiet!"
"So Wizardmon, did you see anyway for us to get in there?" Ray asked.
"Yes, but it will be tricky." Wizardmon said as he turned away from Rebecca's beeping Digivice to answer Ray.
Opening the cover, hoping that would quiet the Digivice, Rebecca saw an arrow pointing towards Wizardmon. Puzzled, she continued to stare. When Wizardmon turned back to look at her, Rebecca felt a connection to the Digimon, which confused her more.
"So, you are the one." Wizardmon said softly.
"The one? What do you mean?" Rebecca asked in a near whisper.
"You were the one I felt the pull towards. That could only have meant that you were in fact one of the warriors that were destined to come to our world and free it. I've been fighting Orgemon and his band for some time but I haven't made much progress. But with you and the others here I believe we can stop them this time," Wizardmon explained.
"So.. you're my partner...I have a magical Digimon...Cool." Rebecca said, grinning almost from ear to ear.
"Look out! Her face is gunna break!" Alex said sarcastically, before Jennifer elbowed him.
"Well it is weird to see her smile," Jon defended Alex a bit. "And it looks good on her."
Rebecca ducked her head and turned away so no one would see her blush.
"It is a shame you hide your smile from friends." Wizardmon told the blushing girl.
"I haven't had many friends to show my smile to." Rebecca replied.
"Alright, alright we can talk about this later. Right now we have to focus on our plan," Ray interjected.
"Of course. The best way to get into the hut is when Orgemon is sleeping. It will be getting past the Goblimon that will be tricky." Wizardmon told the group.
"Always a problem," Jon sighed. "So how do you suggest we get past them?"
"Quietly. I may be able to put some of them to sleep. It would only be for a short while however."
"It'll have to do," Ray nodded.
The group quickly walked through the now sleeping force of Goblimon. Making their way to the hut that Wizardmon was leading them to was not too difficult, getting in was another matter. Two Goblimon had slumped onto each other right in front of the door.
"Well this is perfect. Anyone have any ideas for dealing with this?" Jon whispered to the group.
"Could someone hold them apart so we can get in?" Jennifer asked softly.
"That might wake them up though," Sam warned.
"Do you have a better idea?" Jennifer replied.
Luxmon quietly walked past the humans and moved the Goblimon blocking their path aside. "Hurry now."
"That works," Ray shrugged then lead the group into the hut.
He pushed the door open and was thanking that the hinges had been well oiled and didn't squeak. They snuck in as quietly as possible and found themselves in a large room, much larger than they would have thought possible from the outside. It was adorned with various weapons, armor, painting and furniture that obviously represented his other conquests. As they scanned the room, Sam nearly cried out loud as she saw her bike resting against a large closet style chest. She ran over to it and began to rub it fondly.
"Oooh there's my baby. Did you miss me? I missed you. Yes I did, yes I did," she cooed.
"Does anyone else think it's just a little unnerving that she's talking to her inanimate bike?" Rebecca asked in a whisper.
"I do. What is so important about that mechanical contraption?" Wizardmon asked Rebecca.
"I'm not even sure I want to know why she's so attached to it." Jennifer commented.
"Hey Sam, we're all happy you're back with your bike but I think we should try to find Angewomon now," Ray said, carefully approaching her.
The leather clad blonde turned her head slowly from her precious motorcycle to glare at him. For a second Ray was afraid she was going to attack him, but then she nodded in agreement and walked over to the rest of the group.
"So where do we start?" She asked.
"First, I think you should all get your belongings. We will no doubt need them. Angewomon is being kept in the next room. I think it is Ogremon's sleeping chambers." Wizardmon told the group.
"There's something I'm going to having ugly dreams about," Jon remarked with a shudder.
"It is most likely the stuff that nightmares are made of." Rebecca agreed.
"So were do you think our stuff is?" Ray asked.
"It's probably in that chest. Why else would Sam's bike be leaning against it." Jennifer offered.
"Good thinking. Now how do we get into that thing?" Ray mused as he walked over to the chest and examined the lock. "Damn, if I only had my tools I might be able to pick this thing."
"I wish I had a rock. Those locks seem to break really easy." Jennifer commented.
"The lock isn't locked. That is how I was able to get those objects out of the chest." Wizardmon told the group.
Every blinked in surprise as they stared blankly at the wizard Digimon. Ray then turned his attention back to the lock and pulled down on it and sure enough it came undone without so much as a click. He shrugged then through it aside and opened the chest to reveal their belongings inside. Everyone but Rebecca and Alex, rushed forward and grabbed what they could find.
"Why do you not try to get your possessions back?" Wizardmon asked Alex.
"Why bother? There's nothing in there that belongs to me." Alex replied.
"Oh, so you don't want this back?" Jennifer asked, holding up Alex's blue Digivice.
"That thing is a menace. Why would I want it? It's the reason I'm here." Alex sneered.
"I thought the reason you're here was to help us save our world?" Tentomon asked, tilting his head a bit.
"Yeah, and having one of those damn things means ya have'ta 'save the world' I can do without it." Alex said as he glared at the device.
"Well then we don't need you," Jon said turning his sword around in his hand. "Now where's this guy hiding?"
"I'd guess over there," Ray pointed to a door on the other side of the room. "Since it's the only other door I figure that's gotta by his room. So then, how should we approach this?"
"Carefully? I mean he could be awake....he's probably a lot stronger than the Goblimon." Jennifer said slightly hesitantly.
That works too," Ray said weakly.
He and the others quickly walked into the room and were surprised to find it empty save for a small cage holding Angewomon, who had her arms chained to the top of it. She looked a little worse for wear but as far as they could tell she was alright. Surprisingly, Orgemon was no where to be seen. They thought they had lucked out when a voice from behind them caught their attention.
"Well, well, well," it began. "Look's like the gang's all here."
The group spun around and found Ogremon and a group of Goblimon that hadn't been effected by Wizardmon's spell standing in the doorway.
"I thought you might break out some time tonight so I kept a close watch on my own hut. And when I saw the big hart wearing freak over there I knew it was only a matter of time until you tried something, so I set up this little trap for you all," he explained with a underlining glee.
"I will gut you!" Luxmon said as he sprang forward to attack.
Ogremon smiled and simply sidestepped the large, angry Digimon and then smacked him on the back of the head with his club as he past. Growling, Luxmon quickly stood and lunged at Orgemon again. The humans had their hands full trying to keep the Goblimon away.
Ray and Tentomon had stayed back near the cage holding Angewomon and worked on trying to open the lock.
"Of course this thing couldn't have been unlocked too," Ray muttered trying to pick the lock with some of his tools.
"Here step back and let me try," Tentomon suggested.
The goggle headed human nodded and stepped back. Tentomon extended his wings and hovered for a moment before building up an electric current between his antenna.
"Electro Shocker!" He shouted, firing the current.
The lock fizzled for a second before exploding in a shower of metal pieces and caused the door to swing up. The two then stepped into the small cage and after a moment of struggling freed the angelic Digimon. She let out a soft moan as she fell into Ray's arms. He grunted a bit as he pulled her out of the cage.
"I really hate to say this, but I think you could stand to lose a little weight," he muttered.
Angewomon smirked a bit. "I'll work on it as soon as we get out of here."
Orgemon grabbed Luxmon and tried to send the other Digimon into the dirt again. Luxmon however was trying to push Orgemon away from the others so that no one would be hurt when he really attacked the ogre. Luxmon succeeded in getting Orgemon away from the main group, however, he was now in a headlock courtesy of Orgemon. Wrapping his arms around Ogremon's waist and lifted the mutant Digimon up, the quickly threw him into a near-by table. Studying the downed Orgemon for a moment, Luxmon turned to help the others with the Goblimon. Ogremon however was not as downed as Luxmon thought and grabbed Luxmon's foot, causing the smaller Digimon to fall to the ground. The ogre like Digimon raised his club above his head to bring it down upon Luxmon's head when it was suddenly met half way with the end of a sword with a resulting "clang" sound. Orgemon looked towards the owner of the sword and saw Jon smirking at him while shaking his head. The longhaired man then pulled his weapon back and readied it for another attack. Before he could, however, another Goblimon tackled him. Luxmon took the opportunity to get up and grabbed Ogremon's club, trying to prevent the digimon from using it on him again. Ogremon shook the club a couple times and Luxmon let go and ducked the next swing of the club. As Ogremon was finishing that swing, Luxmon lunged forward and punched him in the gut.
As Ogremon hunched over from Luxmon's blow, Wizardmon's Thunder Blaster hit him. Ogremon went flying through the door of the hut and landed on the ground somewhere outside. He groaned as he struggled to his feet and watched the fight continue inside and stared dumbfounded as his forces were quickly overwhelmed without him. He was about to charge back into the battle and take control of it when the loud roar of an engine caught his attention. His eyes widened as in horror as Sam practically flew towards him on her bike. He dived out of the way just in the nick of time. He growled and turned back towards the motorcycle-mounted girl and almost attacked her when he noticed the rest of her group walking out of his hut and looking for a fight. He backed up a little bit and smirked.
"So you think you can all gang up on me, eh?" He asked. "Well guess again cause I have a big surprise for you!"
He snapped his fingers and the ground suddenly began to shake. The group of humans and Digimon watched in stunned horror as a large Digimon sprang out of the ground in front of them. He looked to be made of rocks with several sticking out of his back in the form of spikes and a half metal mask covering the top of his head with straps holding it down on his chin.
"What is THAT?!" Ray shouted.
"Golemon," Angewomon replied. "A vicious rock type Digimon that thrives on destruction."
"You got that right sister," Orgemon taunted. "And he obeys my every word. So go get 'em!"
"Yes master," Golemon said faithfully before lunging forward with a feral scream.
He brought his massive, rock like fist down into the middle of the group, causing them all to scatter to avoid being hurt. The humans stared up weakly at the monster before them, feeling completely helpless. They knew nothing they had could possibly stand against that thing. All they could do now was put their faith in their Digimon, those that had partners at least.
"How the fuck are we suppose to fight that thing?" Alex yelled
"Wizardmon, can you fight him?" Rebecca asked her Digimon.
"I will try." Was Wizardmon's reply before attacking Golemon with his Thunder Blaster attack. The attack did nothing to Golemon, the golem Digimon wasted no time to returning the attack, sending Wizardmon flying back.
"My turn," Tentomon announced as he flew upwards. "Electro Shocker!"
The current of electricity raced towards his opponent and harmlessly bounced off the other Digimon's rock hard skin. Golemon roared and slammed his fists down onto to the ground, sending a shockwave out that upturned the ground and threw those standing on it off balance. Tentomon flew down towards his partner to make sure he wasn't hurt.
"Are you OK?" He asked Ray.
"Yeah I think so," Ray grunted. "But I think we're in big trouble."
"You can say that again. My attack didn't have any effect on him."
"Do you have a stronger one?"
"Uh...no."
"Great."
Luxmon roared as he ran towards Golemon. His fist was ready to strike the rock Digimon, his eyes were determined to make the strike count. However, before Luxmon could reach Golemon, the rock-type Digimon slammed his fists into the ground again, sending another shockwave towards the group and Luxmon. Luxmon was unable to keep his balance and fell onto the tremoring ground. Once the tremors stopped, Jennifer ran over to Luxmon to make sure he was alright. She was ignoring her Digivice that was beeping incessantly.
"Can't you do anything?" Jon asked Angewomon.
"I'm sorry. I'm still too weak."
"Terrific."
"There's gotta be something we can do!" Ray cried out desperately.
"But what? He's much too strong for us," Tentomon muttered.
"I dunno. We just gotta do...something!"
His attention was quickly turned to another problem as he heard Sam cry out. He looked up and saw Golemon standing over her, as she laid helpless on the ground, his fist held up and ready to make her a stain in the damp grass. Ray's mind raced for an answer. He knew he couldn't stand against that thing by himself, but he couldn't just sit back and watch one of his group get killed either. He just had to do something! Unable to come up with any viable answer he simply stopped up and let out a loud, anguished cry of frustration. During his tirade he failed to notice his Digivice's screen glow brightly. Before he knew it the glow had encompassed both him and Tentomon. He stared down at the outline of hid Digimon partner and felt a strange connection with him. It was much stronger than the one they had felt when the first met. It was almost like that could read each other's minds, feel each other's feelings. It was almost as if they were one being.
While those two where off in their own world, the others watched in stunned silence from the light show going on right before their eyes. The fighting had stopped so that each side could watch as the two beings where encompassed by two blinding lights. The two outlines slowly moved together until they finally collided in an even more brilliant light, illuminating the night sky. Though no one could see it, inside the forcefeild of light a new being began to take shape, combining the best elements of the two separate entities and improving on them. Soon the light dispersed and everyone looked on at the new creature standing there before them.
He was a little taller than Ray and was dressed in armor that resembled an insect's body. He had on a red mask that covered the top of his head with a pair of antenna sticking up from it and bright green goggles that resembled insect eyes and left a human mouth uncovered. On his back he had a backpack with two large arms on its sides that looked like Tentomon's larger arms and two small thrusters on the bottom of it. His hands now only had three, long, slightly clawed fingers that were covered with black gloves. On top of his right arm was a small panel that appeared to open into some kind of small computer. His chest was covered with a red form-fitting piece of armor and around his waist was a belt adorned with pouches save for the built buckle. His legs appeared mostly human save for the two-toed feet at the bottom of them.
"What is that?!" Sam asked, still trying to take in what had happened.
"The true power you and your partners possess," Angewomon replied with a small smile. "That is..."
"TechnoTentomon," the newly created being announced, looking over at Golemon and Orgemon. "And I'm going take you two down."
"That's going to happen to us?" Rebecca asked Wizardmon, who was now beside her.
"So it seems."
"The combination of the two of us will be interesting." Rebecca commented.
"I agree."
Orgemon ignored the comments the two made and continued to look on at the hybrid standing before him in utter terror. That shouldn't have happened. Digimon only evolved into stronger forms, not with humans. That thing shouldn't be in front of him! Despite his best efforts his body trembled in absolute horror as he tried in vain to process what that thing standing right in front of him was.
"What is that?! I don't understand! What is that thing?!" He shouted.
"Dead," Golemon growled before running forward.
He let out a piercing roar as he ran forward, intent on smashing whatever that thing was into a pulp. He brought his fist down but the newly formed TechnoTentomon flew out of the way of the attack then quickly followed it up with a roundhouse kick to Golemon's head, stumbling the rock giant. He stopped and hovered in the air for a second before let out a shout of pain and rubbed his now sore foot.
"Oooow! Man that guy's head is harder than I thought!" He complained.
Golemon shook his head and then growled as he quickly recovered and tried to grab the annoying half Digimon/half human with both of his hands only to get nothing but air. He looked around in confusion then glanced upward when heard someone call out to him. He caught a glimpse of the two-toed foot just before it connected with the top of his head, forcing him to lurch forward. Before he could recover TechnoTentomon flew forward again and punched the rock Digimon in the gut. Frustrated, Golemon grabbed his attacker's shoulder and tossed him aside. The hybrid shouted as he went sailing through several trees. When he finally came to a stop by crashing onto the ground he groaned in pain and shook his head to clear the cobwebs.
"Alright this is getting me nowhere," he muttered. "There's gotta be someway to take this guy out. But how?"
His question was answered by a beeping sound on his right arm. He lifted it up and the mini computer popped open to reveal a diagram of Golemon displayed on the screen with a section of his chest glowing. He stared at it blankly for a second before his lips twisted up into a smirk.
"Oh I got it," he said to himself.
With a plan now firmly in mind he ignited the thrusters on his jetpack and flew through the forest and back towards the battle. By the time he reached the battlefield he saw his friends once again engaged in hopeless battle against the giant stone Digimon.
"Yo rock head!" He shouted to earn his opponents attention. "I'm back for round two. And this time you ARE going down!"
"Take your best shot!" Golemon challenge.
"I intend to."
With that the two insect arms on the sides of the jetpack flipped up over his shoulders and the claws on the end began to surge with electricity. He smiled confidently as the power continued to build up, not seeming to care in the least that his enemy was charging ever so closely to him. When the power had built up enough and Golemon was within range he unleashed his new attack.
"Static Shock!" He shouted and twin beams of powerful electricity shot forward.
The attack hit dead on, striking Golemon square in the upper chest. He let out a howl of pain as the attack continued to assault him and soon tore through his rock laden flesh, traveled through his body and then exited with a larger wound through his back before dispersing. The giant Digimon made a series of gurgling sounds before he exploded into tiny fragments of data then quickly faded away. TenchoTentomon smiled at his handy work before he floated down to the ground and joined the others as they started to slowly advance on the now frightened Ogremon.
The Digimon in question backed away from the group until he bumped into a tree and couldn't progress any further. He gulped as he stared at the group before him. The humans, their Digimon partners, a quickly recovering-and clearly angry Angewomon-and whatever that...thing was. He had no more troops and his trump card had just been taken out of the game. This was it. He had now way to fight back or even defend himself. He was going to be destroyed and he knew it.
*Oh well, better to die a quick death by their hands then what Lord Senbomon would have done to me,* he thought wistfully.
Just when TechnoTentomon was about to strike the finishing blow, a howling came from the sky. TechnoTentomon paused in his strike and looked to see what the noise was. Diving down was a Devidramon, it looked as if it were going to attack the merged Digimon. As Devidramon swooped lower, his course changed and it flew over Ogremon, snatching the ogre off the ground at the last second. Devidramon then used the air currents to lift himself and Ogremon away from the humans. The two Digimon were out of sight before anyone knew what was happening.
"What the hell just happened?" Jon asked.
"I believe his master wanted to see him about this failure," Angewomon explained.
"OK, so then what do we do about them?" Sam asked, pointing towards the now fleeing Goblimon.
"There are of no threat now that they don't have a master to lead them."
"If you say so."
"I have a question," TechnoTentomon spoke up, raising his hand a bit. "How exactly do I turn back to normal?"
Angewomon chuckled a bit. "Don't worry, you'll reverted back to yourselves soon enough."
"That's a relief. I mean this is cool and all but no way would I want to be stuck like this!"
"Too bad. You actually look like a freak now, instead of just acting like one." Alex commented from beside the hut.
"Can't you say anything nice? They just saved our lives." Jennifer angrily told Alex.
"No, no I can't. I tried once, it didn't suit me." Alex replied hardly looking at the dark haired girl.
"You are such a jerk!" Jennifer yelled as she took Alex's blue Digivice from one of the pockets on her bag. She then threw the Digivice at the red-haired boy. "This is yours. I'm not going to carry it around for you."
"So if we're done here can we go?" Sam asked. "I'd like to get away from this place as soon as we could."
"Leaving sounds good to me." Rebecca said.
"Yes, the sooner we can get away from here, then better. The enemy will not know where to find us." Luxmon told the group.
"You're going to help us?" Jennifer asked Luxmon, forgetting that her Digivice was beeping.
"Yes. Your group needs to have someone with muscle.....could you please stop that beeping?" Luxmon asked.
"Beeping....OH! My Digivice!" Jennifer pulled her Digivice out of her pocket, opens the cover and looked at it. An arrow was pointing directly at Luxmon. When Jennifer looked up, something inside her pulled at her, as if she knew more about Luxmon, but not. "You.....you...you're my digimon?!"
"Indeed," Angewomon nodded with a smile.
"Rebecca...I think the combination of Luxmon and me will beat out your combination for weirdness..." Jennifer commented.
"Yeah, you'll probably look like a big foot and be scared of yourself." Alex smirked.
"Be silent foolish human." Luxmon growled at Alex, then speaking to Jennifer, "It will be an honor to fight beside you."
"Yeah I'm happy for all of you, but can we please get going now?" Sam asked again.
The group all nodded in agreement and they set off once again. They continued to walk through most of the night before they finally settled down in a wooded area to sleep the rest of it, and most of the next day, away. By that time Ray and Tentomon had separated and had split off from the group to go think about what happen. Ray sat leaning against a tree and stared at his Digivice while Tentomon simply stood next to him.
"So how do you think we can fuse again?" Ray asked his partner.
"I don't know. That's the first time anything like that has happened to me," Tentomon replied.
"Yeah no kidding. It was cool though, wasn't it? I mean as TechnoTentomon as really kicked ass!"
"That's true, but I don't think we should take it lightly. We did have a tremendous amount of power."
"Afraid we might end up like Ogremon and the rest?"
"Well..." Tentomon halted, lowering his head a bit.
Ray sighed and looked at his Digivice more intensely.
"It is a possibility. But then again we're suppose to be some kind of legendary warriors for good so I doubt we could corrected that easily. But you do have a point, we'll have to be careful when we merge."
"If we ever figure out how to do it again," the Digimon pointed out.
"Yeah," Ray chuckled. "Still...I think when we get a grip on how to fuse and handle the power we'll be able to take back this world from all the evil overrunning it. Yeah, we can do it."
The black Digimon, Devidramon, led Ogremon into Senbomon's throne room. The ogre Digimon had tried to escape several times, but no he found himself standing before Senbomon. Devidramon shoved Ogremon forward and the ogre fell to his knees in front of Senbomon. Ogremon didn't even dare to look up at the dark general.
"You disappointed me Ogremon. You failed to kill the humans like you said you would." Senbomon said icily from his throne.
"I...I...that changed! One of the humans and the Digimon with them merged! They shouldn't do that! Please, spare me!" Ogremon pleaded.
"I could do that, but then how would that make me look if I let a failure live. No...I told you I would not be lenient. Devidramon, take him to the pit. Let the Bateman deal with him." Senbomon said, waving his hand in a dismissive gesture.
"No! Anything but that! Please! PLEEEEEEAAAAASSEEEE!!!" Ogremon cried as he was dragged away.
"That was pathetic," a shadowed figure from behind Senbomon's throne scoffed.
"Indeed is was. You heard what he said. Blaming his failure on a human that merged with a Digimon." Senbomon said to the figure without facing it.
"To be fair it is a strange phenomena but nothing a REAL warrior wouldn't have been able to handle."
"This is true. So, you should have no problems with these humans. I want them destroyed."
"I shall assemble my team at once and I promise you, we WILL finish the job that weakling Ogremon couldn't."
"Good. Make sure to finish the job, or I will allow the Betamon to deal with you next." Senbomon told the shadowed figure.
"It shall be done," the figure replied with a bow before leaving the room.
"Very inspirational," a new, all-too-familiar voice remarked from directly behind Senbomon's throne.
The Digimon general jumped up and spun around to find himself face-to-face with his own master's visage from his usual coiled snake communicator.
"M-Master Serpentmon!" Senbomon stuttered.
"So I hear your first attempt to kill the humans was a failure. Why am I not surprised?" The serpentine lord mused.
"One of the humans and a digimon helping them merged, my Lord. It was not something I had anticipated. No one has every heard of such a thing happening."
"Unless of course you have read the ancient texts and know of the prophecy," Serpentmon corrected his lackey.
"But, my Lord, I have no ancient texts." Senbomon complained.
"Of course not! Do you really think I would let a simpleton like you hold onto something so precious? No, those are safely locked away in my castle."
"But, how was I suppose to be prepared for this merged Digimon, my Lord?"
"It's called improvisation. You have to learn to handle unexpected things if you're going to be a proper despot. I mean if I can't count on you to deal with something like that, well then perhaps you don't deserve the land that you've been given."
"I will do better, Master Serpentmon. I was just sent my personal Strike Team after the humans. They will not fail."
"They had better not, because if they fail you fail. And remember you yourself are not above torture."
"I will not forget, Master Serpentmon."
"Good. Now get to work!"
With that the vision faded and the serpent fell down and snuck back into it's hiding spot, leaving the distraught general alone with his thoughts.
"Should my strike team fail...the cannot fail....but should they fail...they shall feel my wrath before I feel Serpentmon's. I will NOT die alone."