Me: Long time no see

Muriko: You're right!

Me: Kinda busy nowadays.

Muriko: Yeah, yeah. Get on to it!

Me: Alright (Glaring at her). Digimon does not belong to me and it never will. Let's continue.

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Crossover Adventure (Part 2)

Chapter 2 (Chapter 17): Reliability love

*Real World*

The tamers were having dinner at a fast food restaurant and they were eating like pigs. Poor Ryo was feeling sorry for his wallet. The others were wiping up his money. 'Tears' welled up his eyes.

Ruki glanced at him, 'Hmm…still trying to act cool giving a treat when you have no money.' She turned away from him. Ryo noticed it. Actually he was only trying to gain sympathy from them. However, the others were feigning ignorance and still trying to eat as much as they could. Takato and Jenrya felt awkward chewing up 'Ryo's money'. Finally, Takato spoke up.

"I guess we'd better leave." He smiled weakly. Ryo's expression changed. His eyes sparkled with gratefulness. Feigning smile, Takato dragged Hirokazu and Kenta who were protesting for some more hamburgers out of the restaurant while Jenrya dragged his sister. Juri followed together with their digimon with burger stuck on their mouth.

Only Ruki stayed behind with Renamon. Not forgetting to shun him.

"do you think you're rich, treating us with burgers?" Although she did not like the sight of him, she felt that she was in love with him but she was not sure. Her heart was trumping hard. She sent Renamon away so that she could speak to him alone. Ryo too sent his Monodramon back.

"Finally, we can be alone." Ryo said.

"What do you mean be we? Who wants to be alone with you?" Ruki blushed. Ryo noticed but he feigned ignorance.

"So there is really Digihuman?" Ruki continued.

"Yeah! Tough fight.' Ryo sighed. "They should be talking about it at Koushirou's house." Ruki nodded in agreement.

"So how's Taichi?" asked Ruki trying to come up with something to say.

"He should be out of danger. Sumi and Yamato is with him." Ryo replied with nothing to say to her.

Both of them stayed quiet for a while.

"Err…" They spoke suddenly in unison.

"Actually…" Ryo started off. Ruki seemed to know what he was going to say. "Can you be my girlfriend?" Ryo blurted out and blushed. Ruki blushed as well. She never felt so happy before.

"I…also…kind of…like…you." She stuttered and blushed even more.

"So can we…" Without finishing his sentence, he held her hand without realizing. Ruki grasped his hand tighter. So, they ran beaming with happiness.

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*In Koushirou's house*

The digidestined was indeed discussing about Digihuman, Digital crest guardian and couples' digidestined.

"That Roger is arrogant. Wait till I show him!" Daisuke muttered with anger. Yamato was fanning him with a paper fan calming him down.

"Right now, is there anything we can do?" asked Ken who was feeling more worried. Hikari nodded in agreement hugging Tailmon tighter.

"We can't do anything unless they showed themselves." replied Koushirou.. The other moaned with disappointment.

Sumi was deep in thought. Muriko and Sora noticed it. Muriko understood what she was thinking. "She was trying to figure out why couples' digidestined can contain them for a while." Muriko whispered to Sora who was filled with questions in her head.

'Was she one of the couples' digidestined? Who is her other half?' Sora wanted to ask although she knew that Sumi might not tell her. She decided to ask her when the time was ripe.

"We got to go." Jyou said. Muriko stood up. Both of them actually sensed something and they left with their partner digimon.

"What's wrong with them?" asked Mimi puzzledly.

"To battle." Sumi smiled a little. "They sensed it and I sensed it too." The others just looked at Sumi blankly.

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As soon as Muriko and Jyou were out of Koushirou's apartment, a digihuman appeared. He looked like a human but he was able to transform into a digimon whenever he wanted.

"Hi! Digidestined!" He smirked.

"What do you want from us?" Jyou demanded.

"What do you think?" The digihuman transformed into a fire dragon digimon and started attacking them. Jyou stood rooted to the ground not knowing what to do. Fortunately, Muriko was alert enough and dragged Jyou away from his attacks.

"Gomamon digivolve to…Ikkakumon!"

"Ikkakumon digivolve to…Zudomon!" Gomamon digivolved straight into Zudomon and started to battle. Marine Angemon stood by him.

"Vulcan's Hammer" Zudomon unleashed his attack. However, Digihuman, Eddie was able to dodge it.

"Do you think you think defeat me? You looked so clumsy like a big-sized moron!" Eddie made fun of Zudomon.

Unable to put up with his insult, Zudomon kept attacking Eddie who was able to dodge them easily. Marine Angemon helped out as well but as it was small it hid somewhere waiting for a chance to attack and delete Eddie.

"Vulcan's Hammer!" Zudomon panted. He was tired. Eddie snarled, "Maybe you need to go on a diet. You are too weak for me! Your partner too looked dumb to me!" Jyou clenched his fist upon hearing that. He started cheering Zudomon.

"Go, Zudomon! Let's show him! Don't let him look down on us!" Zudomon understood and continued fighting.

"Here!" Muriko whispered to Jyou as Jyou sneaked into the alley where Marine Angemon was hiding.

Marine Angemon whispered to them. "Muriko, you must trust Jyou and Jyou, you too must trust Muriko!" They did it and their digivices combined and glowed.

"Good! Jyou, you must not let his insults get into you. He was trying to make you lose your mind and got yourself killed." Marine Angemon consoled him. Jyou nodded his head trying to keep his cool.

Marine Angemon peeked at Zudomon and Eddie. Unable to fight any longer, Zudomon tried to sneak away but with no avail.

"This is for you, moron digimon!" Eddie released his attack to finish Zudomon off. Zudomon stared at him with fear.

"Now!" Marine Angemon shouted. Jyou and Muriko unleashed their combined power of reliability from their digivices towards Eddie. Eddie smirked again as he saw his attack going to hit Zudomon.

"What?" Eddie shouted suddenly as the light of reliability shot Eddie through his chest. As he was being deleted he said his last words, "This is just the beginning, digidestined!" With that he disappeared into the thin air.

Zudomon devolved back to Gomamon and jumped into Jyou. Jyou noticed that his digivice 'digivolve' into a D3. His D3 was grey in colour same with Muriko but his outer shell of the D3 is white (for example, Daisuke's D3 was blue at that part.) while the other part is grey.

Jyou and Muriko smiled at each other but deep inside their heart, they knew that this was just the beginning. They decided to run for it as they realized that the surrounding was in a mess after the battle.

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The Tamers except Ruki and Ryo witnessed the battle.

"It seems that we're just in time." said Takato. Kenta and Hirokazu were still moaning about their hamburger.

"Yeah!" Jenrya nodded in agreement. Juri and Shuichon were still excited to see the battle. Shuichon was happy for the fact that they were watching "the show" on live.

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"So…Eddie had been defeated." Roger was holding his vessel drinking for it.

"Yes, sir!" Misa another one of the digihuman, a dark fairy type (looked exactly like Fairymon form Frontier but it is black in colour)

Roger put his vessel down. "They are quite strong. Guess that we shouldn't be rash about taking over the world. We need to plan" Misa nodded her head. "I've something else to do, you may leave." He ordered Misa.

Roger already had plans on what to do and he decided to…tap onto the VCDs the tamers had.

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Muriko: It seems like he knew about the VCDs they have.

Me: Yeah! Next chapter, the tamers found that their VCDs were missing. What are they going to do? Taichi in his dream was wandering in darkness wondering where he should go. Somebody was calling for him. Stay tune. Hope I can update soon! Jaa ne.