A/N Thanks to everyone who's reviewed and in response to a review I'll try to make the chapters longer. I don't like short chapters myself but I have trouble making them any longer than they are. This one is my longest yet so I hope you enjoy.

Disclaimer-I do not own Digimon

After walking, for what seemed to them to be forever, the digimon lead them to a rocky cliff side where the other digimon were presumably hiding.

"So where exactly is everyone?" Henry asked looking up at the jagged cliffs. "It doesn't look as if there are much hiding places around here."

"Inside." Guilmon responded walking over to a shadowed corner of the cliffs. Puzzled the group followed Guilmon over to the shadows only to realize that the shadow was actually an entrance to a cave. "Come on in."

"Hold on." Takato said rummaging through his bag for something. "Ah ha! Got it!" He exclaimed pulling something out of his bag. Flicking a switch on it the object came to life shedding light on the cave entrance, Takato had pulled out a flashlight.

"Great thinking! Here, I should have one as well. You can walk in front with your flashlight and I can walk behind with mine so that both ends have a light." Henry said going through his own bag and coming up with a green flashlight. So Takato took the lead keeping his flashlight trained on the floor of the narrow passage. They walked along this passage for a few feet before it widened into a cavern. Takato stood near the exit to help out those who came after him. After the entire group was reassembled Takato and Henry shone their flashlights around the damp room.

"Wow." Kazu breathed looking around. The cavern had many stalactites hanging from the ceiling, and stalagmites jutting out from the floor, they could hear the drip, drip of water falling from the stalactites and could also faintly hear the sound of running water. The cavern had many passages leading out of it; it was obviously a very large cave.

"This is just gorgeous." Jeri said walking over to the cavern wall and running her hand across the surface. Her hand came away wet and with bits of moss clinging to it.

"Henry I'm cold." Suzy complained pulling on Henry's pant leg.

"Here ya go Suzy." He said fondly helping Suzy into a jacket from his bag. "So where is everyone? Unless they've become invisible I don't think they're in here."

"Follow us." Culamon said flying off into a passageway along side Guilmon and Gaurdramon. The rest of the group followed at a more sedated pace walking through several side passageways and caverns. Kenta was just starting to complain about his sore feet when their three leaders came to a stop in a huge cavern. This cavern was even more beautiful than the first they'd been in with crystals and interesting rock formations throughout it, and a gurgling stream running through it. But this the kids hardly noticed, what they did notice were the three digimon that rushed them nearly as soon as they entered it. Shouts of joy rang through the cave and the others got comfortable to wait out another reunion of Tamer and digimon.

"So why are you guys hiding in these caves?" Kazu asked Gaurdramon.

"It's dangerous times anymore. There're four digimon who are creating havoc our world. The guardians are trying to sort our things and put these digimon in their places but they're strong digimon. And even worse they have supporters." Gaurdramon replied in all seriousness.

"They've started wars all over the place. They may be fighting against one another but they all have one common enemy, the guardians. So when they engage in battles with one another whenever a guardian shows up to stop it the two armies will create a temporary truce and attack the guardian together." Guilmon continued.

"It's hard times. We support the guardians completely of course but there are many more that support one of the others. No one knows who's to trust. Everything is in chaos." Culamon finished sadly. After a few moments of shocked silence Jeri ventured to ask,

"Who are these four digimon?"

"Discordmon, Strifemon, Faminemon, and Alertmon." Culamon replied reciting their names. The other digimon upon hearing the names drifted over to the rest of the group.

"Well we can deal with these guys later, right now we have to find Rika and Ryo. Sorry Kenta but MarinAngemon is sure to find us, the other two are in danger." Takato stated.

"How are we going to find them?" Ai asked.

"Simple, we'll follow the D-Arc's. They'll lead us straight to them." Takato responded pulling out his D-Arc to demonstrate. "See this button here? If you press that then you'll get a map of the area you're in. On that map are little dots, the dots represent each of us. Hey look! They're not that far away from here." Takato exclaimed watching one dot continue moving westward.

"But wait, that's only one. Where's the other?" Jeri asked pulling out her own D-Arc.

"I don't know, there's only one other besides ourselves on the map." Takato replied confused.

"That can't be right, expand the map. Maybe it's just that the other one isn't close by." Henry said, and so the group sat in silence for a few moments as they all tinkered away with their D-Arcs.

"Ok I've gone as far as the map will show, and I haven't found the other one." Kenta said after a while.

"So what? Does that mean one of them is missing? Or what?" Mako asked looking up from the D-Arc he shared with his sister.

"I guess so." Takato answered puzzled.

R&R please. To explain the D-Arcs, the way I have it is that on the map a dot represents each of the kids. But when they are gathered together in a group like Takato and the others are now there is only one dot but with a number by it saying how many of the kids are together. If you watch Dragon Ball Z it's kind of like how the Dragon Radar works. I'm not sure whether or not that's how the show has it cause I haven't seen it in a while so I thought I'd explain it just in case I did it differently then they had it. MoonlitChaos