The Return of the Chosen Chapter 3: I would name this but it's a three in one so, a digimon fanfic

Chapter Two- Imps, Foxes and Guards.

Shiuchon woke slowly feeling someone shaking her urgently. Opening her eyes revealed the worried face of her older brother, sitting bolt upright showed her a landscape that was almost an equivalent to a war zone, or her idea of one at least. This was not the only shock in store for her, for when she looked around the only people she could see were her older brother, Kazu and Juri.

"It seems that we were all split up as we fell. I think I saw our group land in three different places, about five miles apart, but I could be very wrong." She vaguely heard Kazu say as Shiuchon watched her brother kneel down by Juri who was curled up in a ball apparently deeply affected by their surroundings. Listening, Shiuchon heard her brother whisper tenderly in the other girl's ear,

"Come on we have to keep moving. The other tamers may need our help if we can provide it. We have to start."

Takato, Ruki and Ryo were all walking in circles, occasionally stopping and pointing their D-Arcs in the directions they were facing, hoping to get a reading on their Partners or even friends. But not surprisingly they were all out of range.

It was infuriating, although none of them were particularly surprised by the surprised by the landscape; it was only fitting that when they had one shred of hope of seeing their best friends again, that the digiworld would suddenly be thrown into digital turmoil just to inconvenience them. Probably the sovereigns' idea of a good laugh. Ironically enough, none of the tamers, as far as the three standing around could tell, none of the tamers were laughing.

Finally Takato gave up and just stood on the spot and stared at the giant earth riddled with data streams. He knew that even if they wanted to go back, the tamers would have to find their partners and beat whatever evil was controlling this land before the return journey would be possible.

"You know Gogglehead; if you keep staring at the earth like that then we'll never get moving and find any of the others. Digimon included." came Ruki's voice from behind him. Snapping out of his thoughts Takato nodded in agreement, already seeing that Ryo was ready to go. As they set out, Takato only said one thing.

"Gogglehead? You haven't used that name in a while."

Ai had woken up first and had promptly gone over to her brother, not taking any notice of the surroundings since she had never been to the digiworld before, and started to poke Mako's side until he woke up. Kenta then sat up looked around and instantly lay back down again with his eyes shut whispering to himself.

"This all a dream, the Digiworld did not look like a nuclear bomb had hit it. Although I'm sure that a nuclear bomb damage would be far worse." when both Mako and Ai blew in his ears', he shot up and cried,

"Okay I'm awake and this is the digiworld, now stop that before I do something drastic."

The twins laughed and like Takato, Ruki and Ryo, got out their D-Arc and pointed it in different directions, and Kenta did the same.

To Ai and Mako's great surprise, their digivice beeped shrilly and a moving dot was shown heading towards them from an easterly direction. Ai and Mako decided that they would wait for Impmon where they were, because if Impmon, as Kenta pointed out, was going to be their impending doom then they may as well prolong their lives instead of making them shorter by running to meet it. About half an hour later Impmon ran into view.

"Ai? Mako? It really is you guys. You have to come with me. I don't want to but I have to put you guys in prison or it'll blow my cover." yelled the little Imp who was very obviously distressed.

"Impmon, why do you have to put us in a prison? I don't understand." asked Ai as she went to pick up the Imp.

"Follow me and I'll explain on the way. Hey you too four-eyes, this does kind of concern Marine-Angemon." said Impmon as Ai set him on her shoulder and followed the directions he gave her and Mako danced around his sister in delight of seeing Impmon again. Kenta moved to follow them.

Well you see it happened like this..."

As Ruki, Takato and Ryo set of in a random direction, no one noticed Ruki's D-Arc beep quietly. The beeping got faster and faster until after about five minutes, Ryo noticed the shrill whistling sound coming from the young woman's side.

"You gonna get that? 'Cos it's your digimon and not mine that's coming." He asked.

"What?" said Ruki totally bemused. Then suddenly her eyes went blank and her face went slack. "You're right, she's coming, but she's not my friend anymore. There is only hate and contempt for all human life but one sole whom she complies to every wish and whim. Renemon only comes to do harm and damage to us, be ready!" Then she shook her head and returned to normal with a defiant "What?" when she saw the two men staring at her.

"Okay that was weird." said Takato recovering slightly.

There was a murmur of agreement from Ryo who was still staring at Ruki. ,Finally he spoke up too.

"Okay spill, how do you know that about Renemon? I mean I know that a tamer and digimon were linked, but what you said was absurd."

"I don't know what you're-" Ruki began, but was cut off when a they heard an attack come from behind.

"Diamond Storm!" Ruki and the others had time to turn around and see a multiple of diamonds flying straight towards them when they blacked out.

Kazu had been strangely quiet. He wasn't quite as stupid as the other tamers except for maybe Takato thought he was, nor as shallow. At the moment, he was lost in thought about the currant state of the digiworld. Without knowing it, the same thought occurred to him as it had to Takato at almost the same moment. They would never go back to the real world until this new evil was defeated and the digimon were reunited with their tamers. He only hoped Guardramon was alright, but as he thought this he knew that Guardramon was not alright and he only wanted to do harm to all things but one being who served without question. One other thing occurred to him at that moment too. His D-Arc, unnoticed by all, was beeping and whistling in warning. Knowing that it meant that Guardramon was coming, and he wasn't going to greet his tamer with hugs and cuddles.

"Uh... guys... he's coming. Be prepared for an impolite welcome." voiced Kazu as he came to a standstill as he watched the space over Jenrya's shoulder. Jenrya turned around and asked quizzically, "Who's coming?"

"Him!" said Kazu pointing over the other man's shoulder at the form of Guardramon.

"Guardian Barrage!"

Chapter Three- Lions, Rabbits and Flying Mice.

Juri moaned and sat up and looked about her. She was in a prison cell. There was a widow in one wall that led into another cell and one that led into the outside world. Jenrya and Shiuchon were both still unconscious, while Kazu was awake and staring at her.

"Sorry," he said at length. "an 'impolite welcome' was a slight understatement. How come you managed to wake up, Guardramon's attacks must be getting sloppy!"

"If that's the case, then how you are awake?" countered Juri.

"Um, for some reason Guardramon didn't knock me out. Don't know why."

Dimly through the window in the cell wall, they both heard Ruki's voice and Ryo and Takatos' groaning.

"I told you to be ready. Did you listen to me? Noooo!"

"Ruki?" they both called.

They were answered with the startled voice Takato.

"Juri, Kazu? What are you doing here? Ruki had a weird wipe out and told us that Renemon was going to come and get us, and then all I remember is getting hit by a diamond storm and waking up here. Ruki was the only one who didn't black out. But she and Renemon didn't have the touching reunion that she had planned by all accounts."

"Same with me. My only guess to the digimon behaviour is some kind of mind control, because when I got that weird sense of Guardramon's feelings, it felt like he hadn't always been like that since the D-reaper." said Kazu who again was thinking hard.

The next voice to be heard was Ryo's.

"Kazu are you making that up to impress me?" he asked jokingly, amazed by the clever side that Kazu was now expressing. "'Cos you know I it's working!"

At this Takato laughed. "You can't keep genius bottled up forever Kazu. You should thrive in it like Jenrya, people might respect you then."

At that moment Jen woke up and shaking his sister's side, looking totally unsurprised to hear Takato and the others asked,

"What's this about me?"

The question was left unanswered because at that moment, Impmon appeared at the cell door in his cell. Opened it and ushered Ai, Mako and Kenta inside.

"Okay you now know the plan, after that Lion comes the wall will be blasted and then you follow the rabbits and run like crazy. I'll probably be in the recapturing guards along with the Lion and the Fox, I'll try to stall 'em. See you guys later." He said to Ai, Mako and Kenta through the door.

"Some plan Impmon!" Ryo muttered.

"You think of a better plan Hotshot." replied the small purple dragon.

Suddenly an angery roaring cut the Imp off. Then Leomon appeared at the door. Jenrya had to physically restrain Juri from getting up. He frantically whispered in her ear.

"He's not himself, don't show any recognition."

Leomon growled at Impmon who had turned to face Leomon slapping a nasty grin on his face.

"What are you doing you nasty littlr Imp?" asked the lion his vioce dangerously soft.

"Just taunting them. Don't get you mane so ruffled Leo, it might tangle. With that Impmon left and Leomon with an extra growl for effect left also.

"Okay, so now we just wait." Terriermon, Lopmon and Marine-Angemon should be coming soon." said Mako to no one in particular.

"Uh what's up with Impmon? He's different to Renemon and Leomon." asked Ruki, who was deeply confused. If she wanted an answer from either of the twins of Kenta then she would be disappointed, because just as Ai was about to answer they were again cut off. But this time it was from a different source.

"Bunny Blade!"

"Terrier Tornado!"

"Poof! Ocean of Love!"

The attacks collided with the wall which exploded into a million small fragments which miraculously missed the tamers. In the remenants of the wall stood two Rabbit-Dog, one brown and pink the other white and green and a thing that looked like a flying mouse.

Hey Buddy. How you been?" Kenta asked his digimon as it floated into hi pocket.

"Jenrya." Called Terriermon as he ran to hug his tamer showing one of those rare moments of emotion. At that moment a piercing siren wailed and Shuichon yelled out.

"Time for reunions later, now let's just blow this joint."

There were shouts of agreement and the tamers ran in the directions that were given by their rescuers. Behind them they were dimly aware of Impmon firing fire balls in all directions some 'accidentally' hitting Renemon and Leomon. There were shouts and curses as the Imp's fireballs hit their mark. Taking advantage of this, Terriermon produced a small disk seemingly from nowhere. Throwing it into the air he cried desperately,

"The desert, pixies, house!"

The tamers looked confused and then scared as their bodies were engulfed in light as they teleported away to an unknown destination.

Chapter 4- Deletion, Rebels and the Beginnings of a Plan

The room was dark and all that Impmon could see was a set of feet, human, some red hunches and some purple ones as well. A voice laughed above him. Impmon knew something bad was going to happen

"You failed me again Impmon. First you fail to tell me where those three traitors went, and now you let those prisoners escape. Do you know the price of failure, Impmon?"

The terrified Impmon gulped.

"Deletion, Master?"

"Yes Impmon, you are right. Who shall do it, however, is a greater question."

"My Lord, maybe you should reconsider and give Impmon another chance. He's a good fighter and can digivolve to Beelzemon who is a powerful mega." said the Monodromon by the humans side.

"You're soft Monodromon. Oh well I guess my other friend here will have to do it."

"Yes Master. Pyro-Sphere!"

Impmon's eyes widened as the ball of fire hit him. He didn't even have time to scream before his data floated away on the slight breeze that was passing through the darkened room. A form in the corner chuckled to its self a sit slipped in to the darkness. The plan had succeeded.

The Tamers emerged into a desert. The land around them was very uneventful, just rolling dunes in which one would need pint upon pint of water to survive in. While the tamers looked around confused, Marine-Angemon, Lopmon and Terriermon had looks of utmost concentration on their faces while all training their eye's on the same spot of normal looking sand. Suddenly an archway began to rise out of the ground. You could walk around the arch, but looking through it the tamer were able to see a rainforest and two digimon, a Tentomon and a Monochromon standing guard. Ignoring this the Tamers walked through the arch into the jungle.

"Uh Terriermon, I know this is a foolish question, but where the hell are we?" asked Jen as he and the other tamers looked around in astonishment.

It was not however Terriermon who answered. Instead it was a small pink digimon with wings and a staff. It whizzed around their heads yelling angrily.

"What do you mean 'Where are we?'? How can you not of heard of my marvellous hideout and training grounds. Do you even know who I am, or are you so ignorant that the name of Piximon is foreign in your ears?"

They could all tell that Piximon was about to continue, but Terriermon cut him off.

"Shut up and go and bother some one who cares about what you have to say!" Piximon flew off as Terriermon returned his attention to the tamers. "Sorry about him, the torment that the digiworld has been through left him slightly unhinged. Now he has an ego larger that Ryo's-"

"Hey" Ryo interjected angrily pretending to be hurt by the snide comment.

"As I was saying," continued Terriermon. "no one really likes him anymore though some do pity him, I don't but that's beside the point, but we have to have him around to use his base. If he dies then this whole area collapses. He never fights, we don't let him, so for now we are safe from the master's prying eyes."

There were some looks of understanding from the tamers but it was only those who had seen the TV program so much they could quote it, who actually knew about Piximon.

Walking farther into the forest, a camp became visible where digimon who were part of the rebel army worked and relaxed.

The tamers looked around looking for faces they had not seen yet.

"Where's Guilmon?"

"And Monodromon?"