I don't own Digimon

The Return of an Oldie but a Goodie

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Mimi looked at the directory in her hands. She had been trying to reach any of the digi-destined children that currently lived in New York, or well anyone. Devimon's reappearance was a really, really bad thing, especially if he is trying to take over New York.

"Michael?" asked Mimi tentatively.

"Mimi?" asked the voice of a man on the other end. "Is that you?"

"Yes, your side of the city must have not been as badly hit as the other sections," said the woman quietly.

"Yeah, we still have power, and phones, though they flick… sometimes," replied the voice in a hush of static.

"Oh, is Betamon with you?" asked Mimi quietly.

"Yeah, he's hiding under…., incase...him," replied Michael. There was a brief silence, "Why?"

"You haven't been watching the TV have you?" asked Mimi quietly.

"No, should I?" came Michael's response.

"Devimon…he's on Broadway…" said Mimi quietly.

"Devimon?" asked Michael. There was a long pause and then a short gasp, "You mean Devimon like……..Devimon?"

"Yeah, I think so, it may not be the same one but it's a Devimon," replied Mimi quietly into the phone, "so it's bad no matter how you look at it…I really wish we could get closer, and I need some help to gather a little task force to get rid of him, I don't have Palmon with me…"

"I'll call whoever I can," said Michael quietly, "but Mimi the children with digimon have been taken, there may not be very many…"

"It's ok, we just have to try our best," said Mimi.

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Ken and Davis ran into the empty port station. One of the ports was open. Next to it stood a thirty year old man, a little blue dinosaur creature and a beetle.

"Izzy!" shouted Ken. He ran up to the researcher. "How'd things go in the Digital World?"

Izzy looked up and sighed softly, "Not well, some digimon named Lucemon, has destroyed the Harmonious Ones, he's got some sort of mind control thing and has an army of digimon under his power, including these really powerful mega knight like digimon."

"Dang…" Davis breathed quietly. He looked up. "How are Kari and TB…?"

"They are ok," said Izzy. He looked up. "How are you guys holding up…?"

As if to answer that, Scorpiomon exploded through the wall. Stingmon was right behind him.

"Spiking Finish!" the green wasp warrior dove down and slashed his pink energy blade against the armor of the scorpion. The large tan creature ignored the wasp and turned towards the humans.

"We should maybe think about retreating," called Tentomon as he hopped backwards.

"Nothing doing," growled Davis. He looked down at Veemon, "are you ready little buddy?"

"I was made ready!" chirped the dragon and he leapt forward, "Veemon digivolve to Ex-Veemon!" The little blue dragon grew to a larger winged dragon with an 'X' on his chest. "V Laser!" A blast of light struck the arthropod squarely in the head. Ex-Veemon dove down with his fist clenched and punched the creature into the ground.

"Lord Lucemon will not accept my defeat," growled Scorpiomon as the large bug rose up and snapped his pinchers at the dragon. "Tail Blade!" Ex-Veemon was sent hurtling into one of the scheduling boards that were connected to the wall to show the arrival times and departure times of the port openings. Sparks flew freely as the little light up board's circuits was released into the open air.

"Ex-Veemon!" shouted Ken and Davis. The dragon shook himself and pushed off into the air.

"This guy is tougher than he looks," growled the dragon as wheeled around the large scorpion.

"He's determined too," replied Stingmon. "We may have to digivolve again…if we can…"

"Gatomon gave up her tail ring, we should be able to," said Ex-Veemon.

"The humans are mine now!" roared the scorpion as he lurched forward.

"No you don't!" shouted the two champions as they dove down and grabbed the scorpion's tail.

"Izzy?" Davis looked back at the researcher, "We could really use some help…"

"I'm sorry," said Izzy with frustration. "Tentomon took a bad beating in the Digital World; we drained all of his energy to get to the port station."

"Then we don't have any choice," said Ken. The young detective held up his D-3. Davis nodded and held his up as well.

"Right!" growled the two champions.

"Ex-Veemon!" The dragon glowed brightly.

"Stingmon!" called the throaty voice of the wasp.

"DNA digivolve to…" the combined voice of the two of them called as they merged. "…Paildramon!" The armored dragon warrior pulled hard and drew Scorpiomon up by its tail, "Let's take this outside!" Paildramon twisted and swung the large arthropod through the hole in the wall it had created earlier. Paildramon glided out after the large bug.

"Stinger Surprise!" A laser shot past. The humans ran up to the hole and saw the battle. Paildramon was weaving back and forth trying to evade the stinger of the scorpion.

"Cable Catcher!" four large cables shot out of Paildramon's arm armor. They snagged around the scorpion's claws. Strikes of electricity ran through the cables and into Scorpiomon. The large armored scorpion roared and reared against the cables. The claws yanked hard and pulled Paildramon forward.

"Now you're mine," gritted the scorpion under his breath. The tail rose.

"Or are you mine?" growled Paildramon. The dragon warrior pulled hard and withdrew its cables and turned its arms on their sides opening gun ports in the armor. "Desperado Blaster!" Thousands of spitfire energy pulses rammed into Scorpiomon's face. Paildramon dropped down. "Have you had enough?"

"I will never give up, Lord Lucemon won't allow it!" growled the scorpion and its claws slashed forward slamming Paildramon into a building.

"He's not going to give up," growled Ex-Veemon's voice.

"Then we have no choice," replied Stingmon. "We have to finish him off, before he hurts some one."

"Tail Blade!" Paildramon leapt out of the way as the slice of stinger blade cut cleanly through the wall that the dragon warrior had been implanted in.

"Desperado Blaster!" Paildramon opened the gun ports on the sides of his arms but contained the energy in them until he couldn't hold it anymore and then unleashed volley after volley of super-energized plasma into the large scorpion. Scorpiomon screamed in pain and then suddenly fell silent. The dust cleared and the only thing left behind was an out line of soot that marked Scorpiomon's position. Paildramon glowed and separated into two figures. One was a small plusher baby like form of Veemon and the other was a small insect lodged in a pine cone.

"Demi-Veemon!" Davis ran up and picked up the chibified form of his digimon partner.

"Minomon…" Ken walked up the insect and lifted it up.

"It must be inexperience," chirped Minomon.

"It has been a long time since we've done that," agreed Demi-Veemon. "You know, I'm getting hungry…"

"Surprise, surprise," smirked Davis as he looked at the blue creature in his arms.

"Me too…" said Minomon. "Ken and I haven't eaten all day…"

"Now that I think about it…" murmured Tentomon…

"Right, so we best find ourselves some food or else we'll have a riot on our hands!" Davis said with a bit of a playful scowl.

"Everything's closed…" said Izzy. "Don't you remember, Digimon attack, everyone's in a sanctuary…"

"I didn't become a millionaire by making crummy noodles!" said Davis and he started walking down the street.

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Datirimon nodded slowly and turned to the children. "Oikawa says that the destined digimon are separated throughout the world. We must take a train to get to them…"

"Datirimon…" it was Sumi. The girl stood. She was tall, unlike her father but her hair was red. "Wouldn't it be more productive if we separated? I mean we would cover more ground that way…"

Datirimon was silent for a while. Suddenly the little digimon glowed softly and eight pulses fired forward and were absorbed into the children's new digivices. "Oikawa has given your devices the ability to track the destined digimon through him. When he finds a digimon that is close to you he will display its position to you…It seems that, though Oikawa doesn't want you to separate, he doesn't have much choice in the matter."

"Right, so now what?" asked Ai.

"You will come with me to the rail station," said Datirimon. He hopped up on Kitai's Patamon's back, "It is this way." Butterflies appeared ahead of the children.

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AN: thanks to Saber-Lightning. So now they have split up.