Disclaimer: I don't own digimon, I do own Jason Johnson, and yamatos.girl, who knows - more to the point, Ralph Wiggum, Demon Spawn, firewall0, Iltatahti and Sarah-chan have been kind enough to let me use their characters.

The End of One Quest.and the Continuation of Another.

When last we left the group, they were looking for the missing gogglehead.instead they found Savannah's Crest Chip. A Yanmamon stole it immediately. When they gave chase a Dokugumon ambushed them. Jason arrived and gave a long enough distraction for Daggermon to free the captives. Kabuterimon and Serenemon worked together to defeat the duo bug digimon. When they finally confronted their missing leader, he had no recollection of them or of the digital world.won't he be in for a surprise?

Pixie wiped a tear away as she began to pick up the pace. She had been leading the Digidestined to find Jason once more. her last attempt succeeded only because he found them.

"CAN WE TAKE A BREAK NOW?" Savannah asked. "Our partners are getting tired."

"Not all of them are tired," Jay said defending his partner.

"Well you and Washimon haven't fought anything recently, neither have I and Ashemon," Meddie said. "That's why they aren't as tired."

"I guess we could stop over there, by those cacti," Pixie said pointing to two large plants standing in the distance.

"It'll be dark soon," Michael revealed looking at the sky. "Maybe we should make camp there?"

A voice called from behind the group. "You all have no survival sense do you?"

They turned to see Jason standing there with Coyomon at his side.

"It's common sense to travel when it's the most comfortable, like when you hike in the forest, you don't want to run into trees so you trudge during the day. Conversely, if you traverse a desert, you should do so at night when it's coolest."

"Ok, ok no camp," Savannah said. "Where have you been all this time? We've been looking for you for hours."

Jason looked confused.

"Why would you be searching for me?" He asked.

".Don't you remember us?" Lauren asked.

"I remember that I saved you from those giant insects," Jason said. "Nothing more."

"Coyomon, couldn't you talk some sense into him?" Sarah asked the small lupine digimon.

The small digimon shook his head, "He seems to think I'm just a strange creature like everything else. Although it seems like a bond is forming between us again, nothing I say seems to jog his memory about anything."

"Well if you all wanted to take a break, let's get going to the shade by those cacti," Jason said.

"Well some things never change," Pixie whispered to Meddie. "Not back five minutes and he's already issuing orders." As they began walking, Jay sped his pace to match that of the leader.

"So Jason.you mean to tell me that you don't remember any of us." Jay began.

"That about covers it," Jason stated.

"You mean to tell me that you don't remember that she likes you?" Jay asked as he pointed to Pixie who was walking beside Lauren.

"A girl like that? Like me? What are you smoking?" Jason questioned.

"You don't remember Pix at ALL?" Jay said quizzically.

"I guess not," Jason stated coolly.

Jay began rubbing his chin and said in a sarcastic tone, "Maybe I should try and make a move on her then."

Jason immediately replied, not with a statement, but a quick sock to Jay's jaw, knocking him to the ground.

"You'd better not," He said coldly, not breaking his stride.

Jay held his jaw, finding that it was not damaged in the least he began to brush himself off and said, "I thought you said you don't remember anything. Why you getting so defensive in regards to her then?"

Jason stopped and shook his head, "I.I don't know. I knew it was a mistake to find you again." He started again, but this time he made a right turn, disappearing into the infinitesimal sea of sand.

Jay stood up straight and finished cleaning himself off, "It sounds to me like part of you remembers."

"Jay.what did you do?" Pixie demanded.

"Why is Jason walking away?" Lauren asked.

"I guess I pushed one of his buttons." Jay revealed while he rubbed his jaw.

"You mean he punched you? What a jerk!" Michael exclaimed.

"But you said that you got through to the real him?" Sarah asked.

Jay nodded.

"Well I don't see how we should change our plans just because of his disappearance, again," Savannah said. "Lets go to the shade.then we'll take his advice and hike at night.but according to my watch, another chip is right there."

"Then lets get going," Lauren said.

The fourteen travelers all made their way to the proposed resting point only to observe the two cacti, there was something strange about them. For one thing, one of them wore boxing gloves on what appeared to be arms. The other wore a Spanish sombrero, a parka, and brass knuckles.

"Um I'm guessing these aren't regular cacti," Michael said.

Just then the cacti began to shuffle, revealing feet that were originally covered in the sand.

"They're digimon?" Pixie asked.

"I TOGEMON WILL DESTROY OUR MASTER'S FOES WITH MY NEEDLE SPRAY!" the boxing cactus cried.

"Hola, My Tequila Knuckles and Cactus Bat attacks will smother you into tortillas or my name isn't Ponchomon," the Mexican cactus said.

"Enough talk, Time for some NEEDLE SPRAY," The newly identified Togemon cried. It spun around rapidly, shedding needles in the direction of the seven humans and digimon.

"Well it's time to pull our weight guys," Medusa said.

No way. Washimon digivolve to." the green bird said. He was hit with a green light and evolved. ".Raptormon."

"Ashemon digivolve to." Ashemon said. The burgundy light emitted from Medusa's watch glowed, causing her to shift to the champion level. "Blazemon."

The two newly digivolved champions immediately took action, "Burning Feathers," the green eagle cried. His emerald flames laced the flying feathers that he sent to parry the needle onslaught.

"Heat Wave," Blazemon cried as she fired her fireball at the remaining needles, incinerating them upon impact.

"Tequila Knuckles," Ponchomon cried, lunging at the two champions. His fist collided with the smaller of the two, knocking her to the ground. She rose back up and began flying groggily.

"I'll take the boxing behemoth, you take the Mexican," Raptormon indicated as he flew towards his attacker.

Blazemon gave a thumbs-up signal, hiccups and aimed her attack.

"Heat *hic* Wave," She cried. Her attack was way off target; it sailed towards her human companions.

Dazemon and Bladeramon stepped forward.

"Knife protection," Bladeramon said coolly, the purple energy hastily erected a shield which stopped the attack in its tracks, but did not dissipate it. Dazemon could see Bladeramon straining to keep the shield up. He immediately sprang to action.

"Dazemon digivolve to." Dazemon said. A blue light hit him, shifting him to become his winged tiger form. ".Daizetmon."

"Bladeramon, get ready to drop your shield and get out of the way," He urged. As soon as the purple energy dissipated Daizetmon flew forward, it's paw glowing, "Shadow Claw," he cried, burrowing his claw into the fire attack, sending the flames to the sides, missing the humans.

"Blazemon, Watch where you're firing," Medusa called.

"Sorry *hic* I just can't see straight.Must've been that attack," Blazemon said defensively.

"Well we'll just have to remedy." Daizetmon said as he flew towards the confused fairy. ".This situation." He rammed into Blazemon at full speed.

"Hey what did you.hey I can see straight again. And I'm not hiccupping," Blazemon stated.

"Lets go get that cactus," Daizetmon said.

They both flew towards Ponchomon, ready for anything.except when he suddenly swung a bat made entirely from a cactus, knocking them away.

"That stings," Blazemon cried.

"Get it away from me," Daizetmon said.

They flew back a safe distance to analyze their enemy.

"Ok I'll burn the bat, you go in for that sombrero," Blazemon said.

"Roger," Daizetmon replied as he started flying at Ponchomon.

Ponchomon swung his bat at the two fliers, but they were ready, Daizetmon flew above the cactus, while Blazemon held back a little bit charging her fire attack.

"Heat Wave," She cried. The fireball hit the cactus bat, igniting it. This caused a long enough distraction for Daizetmon to drive his claw through the cactus's sombrero. The hat disappeared leaving only the poncho and the "tequila knuckles."

"Tu vacas. Mi sombrero!" Ponchomon let out a growl. He lunged forward swiping at the two champions.

"I think it's time to end this," Daizetmon said as he dodged.

"I agree, follow my lead," Blazemon said.

She fired one more flame missile, but it bounced off the poncho armor that the digimon wore.

"Let me try, Shadow Claw," The tiger cried. This attack too rebounded off the armor.

"Nothing can get through my armor," Ponchomon taunted.

"We'll see about that. Attack the same point," Blazemon urged.

The two champions attacked the same spot on the armor. The heat wave attack heated the poncho and weakened the "fabric", which then gave way as Daizetmon applied his own technique.

His attack not only broke the armor but also punctured a hole through the middle of the cactus. It began to break up and finally vanished in the sea of sand.

Everyone's gaze shifted to the other battle raging between the two jade creatures. Raptormon was flying circles around the boxing cactus, which was a good thing because the hot-tempered plant was spinning, firing needles just behind his tail feathers.

"I REFUSE TO BE A PINCUSHION!" Raptormon exclaimed. He suddenly nose- dived, dropping below the rain of spikes, and positioning for an attack. "Burning Feathers."

The emerald flames laced around the feathers as they approached the now stationary Togemon. She merely blocked with her two gloved hands. She noticed that the clothed eagle had wandered into physical attack range, so she ran forward yelling "Light Speed Jabbing". Few of her punches collided with Raptormon before he managed to get out of her reach.

"No more Mr. Nice Eagle," Raptormon cried. He flew and landed on the ground with his back turned to the cactus. As soon as Togemon got in close to use her punching attack again, Raptormon used his boots to shovel dust and sand into the cactus's eyes. With a final kick he shot upwards into the air once more. Togemon fought furiously to get her vision back to normal, but with gloves on it was hard tedious work.

"Time to end this," Raptormon said from behind the cactus. "Burning Feathers." The emerald feathers of destruction flew true as they embedded themselves into the boxing digimon like her needles. These "needles" passed the jade flames to her green body, igniting her. As the flames died down, only her gloves remained, which then disappeared in a sea of data.

"Well that was fun," Jay said as their partners reverted to their rookie forms. "Can we go home now?"

"We gotta try and find Jason and the rest of the crests," Sarah pointed out.

"We will," Lauren assured her companions. "We're bound to find the rest of the crests sooner or later. And if what Jay said was true, Jason'll be back before you know it."

Just then a rumbling sound became present. Everyone looked around thinking a large digimon was approaching. Suddenly a geyser spurted a torrent of water upwards, right under Medusa. The upward blast of H2O flung her into the air. She shrieked in surprise as she flew. Michael watched both her ascent and the beginning of her descent before taking action. He gauged her landing point and stood right on that spot. Michael's guess was a little off and Meddie ended up landing on his head.

"Thanks for breaking my fall," Meddie said to her savior as she blushed.

Michael blushed as well as he groaned "Don't mention it."

Jay was trying to contain his laughter, "Nice move slick," he said.

"Shut up you bloody cowboy," Michael responded.

"Make me you nerdy brit," Jay called back.

Noone else was listening to the conversation; their gazes were all fixated at the geyser. It began to sink and stopped as abruptly as it started, but not without making some of the surrounding sand wet. One such area was shaped like a circle, with an "X" in the middle. Lauren appeared to be admiring how the water could make only that area wet. The wet area of sand shone blue. It rose up and formed a chip. It spun around Lauren before entering her watch. Her watch glowed as it upgraded.

"Now to find the goggleboy and his crest." Pixie said as she led them all the direction that Jason was heading, and into the distant jungle.

Jason was sitting by a large lake, trying to find himself. His thoughts were so jumbled he didn't know if he'd ever be able to sort them all out.

"Coyomon, you said something about those people being my friends.but why can't I remember anything about them?" Jason asked his partner digimon who was sitting right beside him.

The small lupine digimon shook his head. "I don't know," he said. "You were fine before I got knocked out, but when I came to you became.different."

"The main thing that bothers me is that one girl.the one with the pink hair.the guy with the green bird said that she liked me."

"Well the feeling was mutual before." Coyomon began. "What was that?"

"I didn't hear anything," Jason said standing up.

"It was kinda faint.but close by." Coyomon revealed.

"You mean probably underwater.great," Jason said as he searched through his bag and found a pair of swimming trunks. "How'd this get in here.and what's with all of these pieces of girl clothes?"

"Um those are Lauren's.that little girl. You look after her a bit." Coyomon revealed.

Jason slipped into the trunks and threw aside his clothes. He covered his eyes with his goggles and dove into the water.

Underwater everything was quiet and peaceful.save the "laughing" of one creature, and the squeals of another. Jason looked in the direction of the "sounds" and saw a large crustacean like creature with a dark aura surrounding it, holding onto what appeared to be a dolphin. The dolphin let out squeals of despair as it attempted to get away from the shelled creature.

"You won't get away from me. lunch," the shelled creature said menacingly.

This caused the dolphin to squeal even more. Jason didn't know what happened, he just seemed to snap into action. Locating a nearby tower of rocks (don't ask.just don't ask.) he began pushing and straining against it. Just as the shelled beast was about to take a bite of his so called lunch, the tower collapsed covering the digimon in rubble, but freeing the dolphin. Jason's first instincts was to see how the dolphin-like creature was doing, but as he saw it swim away, he turned towards the pile of rubble and began trying to free the infected digimon.

'Oh no,' he thought. 'I need to get some air.'

Just as he was about to make for the surface, the rubble moved and a pink hand grabbed him, pinning him to the ground.

Jason opened his mouth in surprise, letting the little air he had left out and filling his mouth with water. On the surface Coyomon was waiting patiently for his partner to return, wagging his tail. He suddenly sees a large bubble emerge from the lake, and none following.

Thinking it was Jason's air supply, he jumped into the drink yelling, "Hang on buddy I'm coming."

He swam underwater (doing the doggy paddle what else? How it works underwater only Coyomon knows for sure) until he saw the head of his partner poking out from under one of the crustacean's huge hands.

He heard the shelled digimon say; ".Now I, Shellmon will have to have you for lunch."

This was too much for the lupine digimon to handle. He went up and began gnawing on some of Shellmon's tentacles that appeared to be his hair.

"Two being's dare to rob me of my lunch in the same day. I should be more careful with my food," Shellmon said as he felt the little teeth on his head. He used another of his tentacles to pry the small coyote from its perch and threw it against the ground.

Jason looked up slightly and saw his traveling companion fall to the ground. And then he blacked out.

Just then the small dolphin returned with a large blue dragon with a yellow head. "That's the one Seadramon," the dolphin said.

The Seadramon nodded. "Then his day of reckoning has come Dolphmon."

Seadramon moved in closer and shot the Shellmon with an "Ice blast", knocking him away from his prey. The Dolphmon scooped up Jason and Coyomon and took them to the surface.

After placing the two forms.or flinging them.on shore, the little digimon swam back to help with the undersea battle. Now Seadramon had wrapped his body around the Shellmon and caused it to retract back into it's shell.

"Now. do it now." Seadramon told his companion.

"Pulse blast," The dolphin cried. The energy blast began pounding on the shell.and finally cracked it.it eventually caused the infected digimon to disperse into data. The twin swimmers then surfaced.

Jason came to, and began coughing up water.he noticed his partner awakening as well. Then he noticed two additional figures watching him. He turned towards the lake and saw the dolphmon that he saved and it's large dragon friend.

"What do you want?" Jason asked backing away slowly.

"Just want to tell ya thanks," the dolphin stated.

"Thanks? For what? From what I can tell is that you two saved me and my companion," Jason said.

"But you risked your life to save him before.that took great courage.your benevolence will be rewarded," the Seadramon said before placing a small sphere on the ground in front of jason.

"That pearl will give ya something to remember us by," The Dolphmon said.

"Well we need to go and make sure there aren't any other infected digimon. Farewell," the Seadramon said.

Jason went and picked up the pearl and held it in his hand. It began to glow white with a black glow in the shape of a star.

It began to become cube shaped and much smaller.the symbol remained but it became similar to a computer component. It entered his watch with a flash.

"Well now we have your Crest Chip," Coyomon said. "I wonder how many more the guys have to get."

"I guess we'll find out if we run into them again," Jason stated as a shriek echoed from somewhere nearby in the forest. "What was that?"

"Lets go find out, it sounded like one of the girls," his companion said.

They ran from the clearing after packing everything away (and changing clothes too). When they got to where they believed the scream originated they didn't see anyone.

"I wonder what could've happened.hey what's this?" Jason said as he tripped on a pink cowboy hat.

"It's Pixie's hat," Coyomon revealed. "She would never leave it behind."

"Then they must be captured or something," Jason said. His voice darkened as he said. "But no matter what, I'll find them.and I'll punish anyone who's harmed a hair on their heads."

What could've happened to the digidestined? Is Jason starting to remember? What'll happen now that the crests are found? Find out next time on the New Digital World.

Ok so there was a request about the website address to appear on the chap: http://www.angelfire.com/tx5/newdigitalworld/index.html There.now that that's over.um I got nothing.no threat or anything.wow.well I'll try to update again soon.