Author's Note: Greetings. Thanks to those of you who have submitted reviews -- your comments, whether constructive or otherwise, are welcome. In response to the critics regarding my character's names, attitudes, et cetera, this does not necessarily pick up exactly where Season 02 leaves off. The DigiDestined had children, and that's the only real relevant fact I'm using in this story about their kids. Anyway. Next chapter. Read. Review. Comment. Flame.
Episode 2: Return of the Dark Master
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Thadeus yawned as he stumbled forth out of his bedroom in his father's apartment. Tai was still asleep, and thankfully, it was a Saturday, which meant no school. For Thad, that was a very good thing. A bouncing ball of energy be-bopped out of the boy's room, happily following him.
"Thad, when are we going to go to the DigiWorld?" Koromon asked cheerfully. "C'mon, you don't have school today, and your dad is still asleep, and you know we have that picnic to go to."
The tousle-haired teen leaned back against the wall for a moment, apparently considering this venture. "We ... could go now, " Thadeus replied slowly. "Or, we could count to ten and race to the computer." A wide grin began to stretch over his face.
Koromon giggled and began bouncing toward the computer just as fast as he could go. Thad shook his head, following his digimon partner. After quickly scribbling a note to Tai, he held his digivice up to the monitor.
"DigiPort Open!"
What neither boy nor digimon noticed was that the note floated down to the floor, blown off of the table by the action of the two being sucked into the screen.
-/-/-/-/-
"It's a peaceful day out here this morning, don't you think, Salamon?" Kayla wondered with a smile, traipsing along a path through a forest. She turned around.
"Salamon?"
The small digimon looked up from where she had fallen into a clump of sweet flowers. "Simply lovely, " she agreed with a blink of her bright blue eyes.
Kay just shook her head. "Come on, Salamon. What happened to meeting the guys for that picnic along the beach?" she grinned down at her partner. "Let's go."
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High atop a shadowy cliff, a figure watched as Kayla and Salamon arrived at the beach, and were soon joined by more beings; namely, the rest of the DigiDestined.
"Well, well, well, " it muttered in its rusted tone. "Maybe it's time for the playtime to begin ... "
-/-/-/-/-
As morning wended toward afternoon, most of the DigiDestined kids had made their way onto the beach in the Digital World. The digimon were splashing about in the water, laughing and carrying on much as a group of schoolkids would.
The kids themselves were sitting expectantly on a purple blanket, looking at Mary as she arrived with Tanemon.
"Hi guys!" Mary called cheerfully, plopping down onto the blanket. A puzzled expression overtook her visage at the looks on everyone's faces.
"Uh, what?"
"Mary, didn't you bring the food for our beachside picnic?" David burst out at last, unable to contain himself any longer.
Leigh rolled her eyes annoyedly. "Let me guess, Dave. Someone forgot to e-mail Mary and tell her to bring the eats, right?"
"I tried to tell you, Dave!" DemiVeemon insisted, running over to his best buddy's side. "I told you there was something you forgot to do, but all you wanted to do was watch football!"
"Um, hello, DemiVeemon, but you were the one who kept begging me to make more popcorn!" David retorted with a slight furrow of his brow. "I'm surprised you didn't get sick, consuming four bowls like that!"
"Forget it, guys, " Sarah said suddenly. "It's not Mary's fault that we have no food for the picnic."
"Yeah. It's ---- " Theodore began, but paused. "Hey. What's that thing over there?"
"Huh?" everyone voiced simultaneously, heads whipping around.
A forlorn wooden structure appeared to be laying in the sand.
"Aw, it's just a boring old piece of driftwood, " Thad groaned. "Now where --- "
"Hello, DigiDestined!" a voice grated. "I'm not boring at all! In fact, I even want all of you to play with me!"
Keith frowned a little. "Excuse me, but who're you?"
"The name's Puppetmon, " the owner of that name stated matter-of-factly. Really, c'mon, everyone knows that. "How would you all like to play house?"
The boys snorted. The girls rolled their eyes.
"I'm sorry, but we're thirteen, " Kay replied annoyedly. "We don't play with dolls anymore."
"I never liked playing with dolls in the first place, " Sarah muttered.
Puppetmon chuckled. Oh, he was going to enjoy this. "Well, isn't that just too bad!" he chortled. "You haven't seen my dolls yet, though, have you? They're very special dolls." He grinned as he pulled out the figures: one each of the children before him.
Mark frowned. "Wait a moment. My dad told me a story once about dolls like those. They --- "
Puppetmon had picked up Mark's doll. "Like this one, for example!" He quickly flipped it upside down, then tossed it through the air into his other hand.
"Ahhhhh! What the ---- " Marcus managed to get out as he flipped over, feet in the air, then went smacking into the sand. "Tsunomon!"
"Tsunomon, digivolve to ... GABUMON!"
Gabumon charged toward Puppetmon from the water, threw back his head and opened his maw as wide as it would go.
"Blue Blaster!"
The Dark Master snorted in amusement. "Was that supposed to hurt?" he questioned aggravatingly. "That barely even tickled." He lifted Kayla's and Leigh's doll, and smashed them together.
The girls screamed, eliciting their digimon running forward.
"Salamon, digivolve to ... GATOMON!"
"Yokomon, digivolve to ... BIYOMON!"
"Lightning Claw!" Gatomon charged Puppetmon, reaching out with a massive forepaw to rake her claws over his body.
"Hey, watch it!" Puppetmon shrieked. "I'm an antique, you know!" A couple of splinters of wood were gouged out of his frame, and fell to the sand.
"Spiral Twister!" Even though Biyomon's attack caught Puppetmon full in the face, off guard, he still managed to shake it off easily.
"Is that all you've got?" he taunted them, eyeing the other in-training digimon who were now beginning to glare at him shrewdly.
"No!" they all responded.
"Koromon, digivolve to ... AGUMON!"
"Tanemon, digivolve to ... PALMON!"
"Motimon, digivolve to ... TENTOMON!"
"Bukamon, digivolve to ... GOMAMON!"
"Tokomon, digivolve to ... PATAMON!"
"DemiVeemon, digivolve to ... VEEMON!"
"Poromon, digivolve to ... HAWKMON!"
"Upamon, digivolve to ... ARMADILLOMON!"
"Leafmon, digivolve to ... WORMMON!"
The rookies and Gatomon faced Puppetmon defiantly, each shielding his own partner and daring the Dark Master to get closer.
Puppetmon merely laughed derisively, and prepared to attack everyone.
Quickly, Thad pulled out his D-Terminal and began typing out an e-mail to the adult DigiDestined, but before he could finish, a blast of cornflower blue light interrupted him.
"Beam of Purity!"
Puppetmon shrieked in pain as he was assuaged by the attack, and stumbled about for a long moment before running off. "I'll be back, you fools! Just wait. We'll play together again soon!"
A bright, blue-and-white dragon hovered briefly in the sky before touching down. "That was close, " she declared with a toss of her head.
The DigiDestined peered over toward this new arrival, and then at the girl who slid lightly down to the ground from the dragon's forelimb.
"Who are you?" Chaz demanded.
"I'm Kimberly, " she replied, and gesturing toward the dragon-like digimon, she added, "and that's Lightdramon."
Lightdramon bowed her great head, then suddenly glowed white and shrunk back down to her rookie form. "But I'm Peacemon, now, " the white digimon giggled.
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What's Puppetmon doing back? Will he succeed in coming back to 'play' with the DigiDestined? Stay tuned!
Episode 2: Return of the Dark Master
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Thadeus yawned as he stumbled forth out of his bedroom in his father's apartment. Tai was still asleep, and thankfully, it was a Saturday, which meant no school. For Thad, that was a very good thing. A bouncing ball of energy be-bopped out of the boy's room, happily following him.
"Thad, when are we going to go to the DigiWorld?" Koromon asked cheerfully. "C'mon, you don't have school today, and your dad is still asleep, and you know we have that picnic to go to."
The tousle-haired teen leaned back against the wall for a moment, apparently considering this venture. "We ... could go now, " Thadeus replied slowly. "Or, we could count to ten and race to the computer." A wide grin began to stretch over his face.
Koromon giggled and began bouncing toward the computer just as fast as he could go. Thad shook his head, following his digimon partner. After quickly scribbling a note to Tai, he held his digivice up to the monitor.
"DigiPort Open!"
What neither boy nor digimon noticed was that the note floated down to the floor, blown off of the table by the action of the two being sucked into the screen.
-/-/-/-/-
"It's a peaceful day out here this morning, don't you think, Salamon?" Kayla wondered with a smile, traipsing along a path through a forest. She turned around.
"Salamon?"
The small digimon looked up from where she had fallen into a clump of sweet flowers. "Simply lovely, " she agreed with a blink of her bright blue eyes.
Kay just shook her head. "Come on, Salamon. What happened to meeting the guys for that picnic along the beach?" she grinned down at her partner. "Let's go."
-/-/-/-/-
High atop a shadowy cliff, a figure watched as Kayla and Salamon arrived at the beach, and were soon joined by more beings; namely, the rest of the DigiDestined.
"Well, well, well, " it muttered in its rusted tone. "Maybe it's time for the playtime to begin ... "
-/-/-/-/-
As morning wended toward afternoon, most of the DigiDestined kids had made their way onto the beach in the Digital World. The digimon were splashing about in the water, laughing and carrying on much as a group of schoolkids would.
The kids themselves were sitting expectantly on a purple blanket, looking at Mary as she arrived with Tanemon.
"Hi guys!" Mary called cheerfully, plopping down onto the blanket. A puzzled expression overtook her visage at the looks on everyone's faces.
"Uh, what?"
"Mary, didn't you bring the food for our beachside picnic?" David burst out at last, unable to contain himself any longer.
Leigh rolled her eyes annoyedly. "Let me guess, Dave. Someone forgot to e-mail Mary and tell her to bring the eats, right?"
"I tried to tell you, Dave!" DemiVeemon insisted, running over to his best buddy's side. "I told you there was something you forgot to do, but all you wanted to do was watch football!"
"Um, hello, DemiVeemon, but you were the one who kept begging me to make more popcorn!" David retorted with a slight furrow of his brow. "I'm surprised you didn't get sick, consuming four bowls like that!"
"Forget it, guys, " Sarah said suddenly. "It's not Mary's fault that we have no food for the picnic."
"Yeah. It's ---- " Theodore began, but paused. "Hey. What's that thing over there?"
"Huh?" everyone voiced simultaneously, heads whipping around.
A forlorn wooden structure appeared to be laying in the sand.
"Aw, it's just a boring old piece of driftwood, " Thad groaned. "Now where --- "
"Hello, DigiDestined!" a voice grated. "I'm not boring at all! In fact, I even want all of you to play with me!"
Keith frowned a little. "Excuse me, but who're you?"
"The name's Puppetmon, " the owner of that name stated matter-of-factly. Really, c'mon, everyone knows that. "How would you all like to play house?"
The boys snorted. The girls rolled their eyes.
"I'm sorry, but we're thirteen, " Kay replied annoyedly. "We don't play with dolls anymore."
"I never liked playing with dolls in the first place, " Sarah muttered.
Puppetmon chuckled. Oh, he was going to enjoy this. "Well, isn't that just too bad!" he chortled. "You haven't seen my dolls yet, though, have you? They're very special dolls." He grinned as he pulled out the figures: one each of the children before him.
Mark frowned. "Wait a moment. My dad told me a story once about dolls like those. They --- "
Puppetmon had picked up Mark's doll. "Like this one, for example!" He quickly flipped it upside down, then tossed it through the air into his other hand.
"Ahhhhh! What the ---- " Marcus managed to get out as he flipped over, feet in the air, then went smacking into the sand. "Tsunomon!"
"Tsunomon, digivolve to ... GABUMON!"
Gabumon charged toward Puppetmon from the water, threw back his head and opened his maw as wide as it would go.
"Blue Blaster!"
The Dark Master snorted in amusement. "Was that supposed to hurt?" he questioned aggravatingly. "That barely even tickled." He lifted Kayla's and Leigh's doll, and smashed them together.
The girls screamed, eliciting their digimon running forward.
"Salamon, digivolve to ... GATOMON!"
"Yokomon, digivolve to ... BIYOMON!"
"Lightning Claw!" Gatomon charged Puppetmon, reaching out with a massive forepaw to rake her claws over his body.
"Hey, watch it!" Puppetmon shrieked. "I'm an antique, you know!" A couple of splinters of wood were gouged out of his frame, and fell to the sand.
"Spiral Twister!" Even though Biyomon's attack caught Puppetmon full in the face, off guard, he still managed to shake it off easily.
"Is that all you've got?" he taunted them, eyeing the other in-training digimon who were now beginning to glare at him shrewdly.
"No!" they all responded.
"Koromon, digivolve to ... AGUMON!"
"Tanemon, digivolve to ... PALMON!"
"Motimon, digivolve to ... TENTOMON!"
"Bukamon, digivolve to ... GOMAMON!"
"Tokomon, digivolve to ... PATAMON!"
"DemiVeemon, digivolve to ... VEEMON!"
"Poromon, digivolve to ... HAWKMON!"
"Upamon, digivolve to ... ARMADILLOMON!"
"Leafmon, digivolve to ... WORMMON!"
The rookies and Gatomon faced Puppetmon defiantly, each shielding his own partner and daring the Dark Master to get closer.
Puppetmon merely laughed derisively, and prepared to attack everyone.
Quickly, Thad pulled out his D-Terminal and began typing out an e-mail to the adult DigiDestined, but before he could finish, a blast of cornflower blue light interrupted him.
"Beam of Purity!"
Puppetmon shrieked in pain as he was assuaged by the attack, and stumbled about for a long moment before running off. "I'll be back, you fools! Just wait. We'll play together again soon!"
A bright, blue-and-white dragon hovered briefly in the sky before touching down. "That was close, " she declared with a toss of her head.
The DigiDestined peered over toward this new arrival, and then at the girl who slid lightly down to the ground from the dragon's forelimb.
"Who are you?" Chaz demanded.
"I'm Kimberly, " she replied, and gesturing toward the dragon-like digimon, she added, "and that's Lightdramon."
Lightdramon bowed her great head, then suddenly glowed white and shrunk back down to her rookie form. "But I'm Peacemon, now, " the white digimon giggled.
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What's Puppetmon doing back? Will he succeed in coming back to 'play' with the DigiDestined? Stay tuned!