Ann was so angry. 'That newbie that Piedmon hired had no clue at all. Jareth should have told him about me. I was so close to destroying those digidestined.' Felinamon could hear Ann's incomprehensible mutterings.
"What about that crest that Lord Piedmon gave you?" Felinamon asked, hoping to take Ann's mind off of the new dark digidestined's blunder.
"Lord Piedmon said this was supposed to make you digivolve to the next level," Ann inspected the small amulet. The symbol inside of it was of an upside down crescent moon, and a shooting star that sliced the middle of it. Piedmon had told her that it was the crest of darkness. Ann could understand why, both the moon and the shooting star were commonly seen during the night.
"We were so close to destroying those two," Felinamon said. "It probably works the same way it did last time." She indicated the crest, "One of us has to be in mortal danger before I digivolve."
"No matter. All I want to do when I see those two is to give them a good butt-kicking!" Ann clenched her fist.
"Who? The digidestined Piedmon wants us to kill?" Felinamon asked.
"No! Jareth and the new guy!" Ann snapped.
"I also want to give the new kid's digimon partner a good wallop as well." Felinamon agreed, "that pesky twerp singed my fur!" Felinamon then began to quicken her pace, so that way she could catch up with the other two digidestined that they had just battled with.

* * *
"Joe," Mimi gasped, "can we take a break now?" Mimi stopped running and clenched a stitch in her side.
"Okay," Joe panted as he tried to catch his breath, "I think we lost them by now. Hopefully they gave up and went back home." He sat down on the ground and wiped the sweat from under his glasses.
"But what about that other one?" Mimi asked, "The one that attacked the big green panther for us. Do you think he's on our side?"
"I really hope he is. We could use some help right about now. That panther thing nearly had us beat." Joe slid his glasses back into place.
The Ogremon that Joe and Mimi had rescued gave a disgruntled snort.
"If you two would have let me, I could have walloped that green fur ball for you, and we wouldn't have this problem anymore." Ogremon waved his club around with his one good arm.
"Not with a broken arm!" Joe protested, "then you'd be worse off than you were back with the Woodmon. Then not even my toilet paper could save you."
"Just let that big green cat come back. Then Palmon and I can go to ultimate and send it back home crying!" Gomamon boldly challenged.
"How about we find out and see if you're speaking the truth?" Felinamon stepped out from behind a bunch of trees off the trail. When she came into full view, they noticed that Ann was riding on Felinamon's back.
"Who are you?" Palmon demanded. She stood in front of Mimi, shielding her from any surprise attacks from Felinamon.
"I am Ann. I am part of a new digidestined group that is more superior than yours. This digimon I have here is mine, and her name is Felinamon." Ann patted Felinamon's back while the digimon gave a toothy grin.
"What do you want with us?" Joe shouted at Ann, "and what do you mean 'superior'?"
"I am part of the Dark Digidestined, and now I must follow Lord Piedmon's orders and destroy you." Ann said in a haughty tone, and dismounted Felinamon. As soon as Ann was on the ground, Felinamon instantly charged towards Mimi and Joe. But in a blink of an eye, their digimon had digivolved all the way to their ultimate forms. Gomamon was now Zudomon, and Palmon became Lillymon. At once, the digimon began their battle.
Felinamon charged at Zudomon first, because it was a much larger target to hit than the tiny Lillymon. Zudomon easily was able to block Felinamon with his massive Hammer, and toss her aside. While Felinamon was down, Lillymon came in and blasted the wounded digimon with her Flower Cannon.
Ann saw how badly injured Felinamon was, and rushed up to her side, trying to fight back her sobs. Felinamon could barely lift her head, and weakly glanced at Ann. But to Ann surprise, she saw her crest was glowing. A dark light emanated from the tag and crest, which gave Felinamon the energy to digivolve.
"Felinamon Digivolve to... SabreFelinamon!" The digimon shouted as she began to change. The dark glow blocked the view of her transformation, but only for a moment. As soon as the glow had subsided, Felinamon was fully transformed into SabreFelinamon. She wore metal armor over her chest, shoulders, and wrists. And she wore black and tattered leather pants. At her back, two katanas were sheathed in a cross formation. She still looked mostly cat-like, with her deep green fur. She roared loudly, showing off her long saber teeth while her long, cat-like tail twitched and she balled her gloved hands into fists.
"Now this shall really even the odds." Ann grinned in delight. She knew now that there was a better chance of winning this fight.
SabreFelinamon began to charge at Lillymon this time with her katanas unsheathed, ready to slice the small fairy up like a vegetable. But Lillymon was too fast and darted out of the way before SabreFelinamon's katanas could strike her victim. SabreFelinamon turned around to take another charge at Lillymon, but saw Zudomon charging towards her with his gigantic hammer raised above his head.
"Valker's Hammer!" Zudomon shouted as he brought the gargantuan hammer down at SabreFelinamon. But she shielded herself by crossing both her katanas in front of her just as the hammer struck. She struggled for a moment, but was able to push the hammer out of her face.
Out of the corner of her eye, SabreFelinamon saw Lillymon charging up for another attack, but SabreFelinamon was prepared. She jumped into the air and struck Lillymon with her Twin Katana attack just as Lillymon fired her Flower Cannon blast. The two were flung away from the back blast, but SabreFelinamon took most of the damage. Both fell to the ground and managed to land on their feet. But Ogremon came and stood between the two battling ultimate digimon.
"Get out of the way you insolent fool!" SabreFelinamon growled. She raised one of her katanas in the air in a threatening pose.
"You're not going to kill any of the digidestined unless you can get past me." Ogremon held his club up in his one good arm.
"Fine." SabreFelinamon said, then surprised the weaker digimon with a roundhouse kick in his ugly face.
"What did you do that for?" Ogremon asked, shocked, and rubbing the spot where he had been hit.
"I had to get past you. Now stay out of this or I'll not be as merciful." SabreFelinamon then started running towards Lillymon, but was stopped when she was hit by a swipe of Zudomon's hammer. SabreFelinamon was tossed aside, and rolled to a stop in front of a tree at the edge of the clearing.
"SabreFelinamon! Get up! You can still win this fight!" Ann shouted at her digimon partner. But SabreFelinamon was weakened too much to fight any longer. She struggled to stand up again, using one of her katanas to help prop her up.
"I'm... Too weak... to fight, any longer." SabreFelinamon gasped then fell back down and de-digivolved to her rookie form again. Ann gathered her digimon up and ran away from the other digidestined, not wanting to endanger her digimon any longer.

Back on the trail, Ann cradled her wounded digimon in her arms as she slowly walked on in silence. She hoped that Piedmon would not appear and punish her for her defeat. But she awoke from her thoughts as Enzoromon stirred in her arms.
"I'm sorry I lost the fight. It's all my fault." Enzoromon gave a defeated look.
"Why? It should be my fault for pushing you so hard." Ann tried to comfort her digimon.
"No. I was nearly out of energy when I digivolved to SabreFelinamon. But still, I just got a sprint of energy from the digivolving process, so I couldn't take much more of the battle." Enzoromon explained.
"Just stop blaming yourself now. The only thing we should worry about right now is how Lord Piedmon shall take our defeat. I know it shall not be pleasant." Ann sighed at the inevitable.

Meanwhile, Joe, Mimi, and the other digimon were on a different trail heading in a different direction from where Ann was going. Joe was pondering the battle.
"Mimi?" Joe finally broke the silence they had been walking through since they had departed from battle.
"What?" Mimi asked, tired.
"Do you think that SabreFelinamon or Ann were truly evil?" Joe asked.
"Why do you say that?" Mimi asked, confused.
"Normally, evil digimon will kill any interfering digimon that try to stop their battle. But SabreFelinamon acted like she didn't intend to harm Ogremon." Joe explained.
"I would disagree," Ogremon butted in, "that kick SabreFelinamon gave me was really hard!"
"So do you mean that perhaps those two aren't truly evil. But maybe they're either following orders or just brainwashed or something?" Mimi ignored Ogremon's complaints.
"That's exactly what I was thinking." Joe pointed out.
"Well then, we're going to have to try and see if we can change their minds about being on Piedmon's side." Gomamon suggested. "That brainwash can't be too strong, we could probably get Ann and SabreFelinamon to change sides."
"All we can do, is hope for the best." Ogremon concluded.

----Digimon Analyzer----

Saberfelinamon
Ultimate
Data
Warrior Digimon
Attack: Hyper Blade, Aurora Blast
She is one wildcat you should never mess with!