(Written in the summer of 2003)

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The Substitute

Chapter Six

TK Advance 2

"A song that keeps us on the move" was playing as the six players from the last game were gaping at Carlos.

"What?" The subbing Emperor asked.

"How did you get back here?" Wormmon asked.

"I just used Chaos Control at the last moment. That's how Shadow survived." Carlos replied.

°PAUSE!°

Carlos: Huh?.! Why'd you make me say that? You don't know if that's how they'll say he survived when Sonic Heroes comes out!

Me: Hey, I can dream, can't I?

°UNPAUSE!°

"Ohhhhhhhh!" Everybody said.

"Well, I guess after an experience like that, we should take a break." Carlos started. "I'll send you guys back to the real world. Be back here tomorrow to play the second game."

"And if we refuse?" Davis asked. Carlos got that sadistic grin on his face again.

"I'll consider that your forfeit & block you all out of the Digital World, allowing me the freedom to make it mine."

"You're mean." The auburn haired boy pouted.

"And you got lucky." Carlos retorted, sticking his tongue out. "How could you have beaten that game if you've never played it before? I thought for sure you would've lost on the first level." Davis shrugged.

"Beats me. Speaking of which, what's with this medallion thing we got from the game?" He handed Carlos the Medallion of Speed. The substitute Emperor inspected it closely. He then handed it back to Davis.

"I don't know. When did you get it?"

"We got it after you & Davis beat Chimeramon." Yolei said.

"Hmmm… You may want to keep it. Like I said, I have no idea why you got it." Carlos said. A hint of a smirk was on his face. He shook it off before anybody noticed. "Anyway, I'll send you back now. Remember; be back here by 5PM tomorrow." A blue light engulfed our heroes and their digimon. When it subsided, they were outside in front of a TV. The Dark Carrier was above them. It flew off in the distance.

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"What do you think he meant by 'keep it'?" Davis asked as he was staring at the medallion. They had gone back to the real world & were eating at a pizza place. It was dark out.

"Beats me. He's crazy if you ask me." Yolei said as she took a slice from the pan in the middle.

"Yeah. What game was that, anyway?" TK asked after taking a sip of his soda.

"I think it was one of those games with that Sonic character or whatever his name was." Kari said. "I admit I've played one of those games when I was young, but I don't recall the character Carlos was playing as."

"Or who you were playing as." Cody said. "I had to play a violent role."

"At least you were able to play." Yolei started in a disgruntled tone. "I had to play as some pink ditz. Can you believe I had to actually TALK to Carlos alone while you guys were having your fun in the last stage?"

"Hey! Don't dis the magnificent pink!" Kari yelled. That earned some stares from her friends, as well as everybody else in the restaurant. Her gaze then shifted to the table.

"Right. Well anyway, that stage wasn't all fun & games, ya know." TK said.

"Yeah! I had to face horrible man-eating robots!" Cody yelled.

"Cody, those robots didn't even have mouths." Kari sighed.

"How would you know!.? HUH!.?" Cody started foaming at the mouth. "You couldn't see them close up! I SAW one of them bare his teeth!" He then reached over & grabbed Kari.

"Do you hear me? The son of a b-.-.- bared his teeth!.!.!.!.!" His voice echoed off the walls as everyone stared at him wide-eyed. It was then his turn to take interest in the table.

"Let me guess, still feeling the road rage?" Kari asked. Cody nodded.

"Sorry."

"It's alright." She replied.

"Well, if we're done with all the screaming, anybody got any guesses as to what the next game might be?" Davis asked. The rest of the group shrugged.

"Well, judging by the title of the chapter, I'd say the next game is one that's on that Game Boy Whatchamacallit." Yolei said.

(Me: Since when were the characters able to look at the chapter title?)

"Game Boy Advance." TK corrected. "And I suppose that I'm playing as the star of that game according to the title."

(Me: °Tosses TK a cookie° Heh. You gotta give him credit for correcting Yolei & for doing all that detective work.)

"…Anyway, we should be getting home now. We'll deal with that game tomorrow." Kari said, wondering where the cookie TK was munching on came from.

(Me: °Whistles innocently°)

The group then separated and went home, Davis still in deep thought (if that's even possible) about the medallion.

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"Ready to go?" Davis asked as Kari & TK walked into the computer lab. It was 4:35 the next afternoon. They nodded and Davis held his D-3 up to the computer. "Digi Port—!"

"Wait!.!.!" They heard a few voices yell. The Digi-Destined turned towards the door & sweatdropped when a few bodies, give or take a face, were trying to get through the door. Soon, the people entered the door and revealed themselves as the older Digi-Destined.

"Hey guys! What's up?" TK asked. Matt was the first to answer.

"We're going with you."

"Ok… Mind telling us why?"

"Well, we saw you guys play that game yesterday." Tai spoke up.

"You were eavesdropping and you didn't even tell me!.?" Kari yelled at her big brother, who just gave a really, really goofy grin.

"Slipped my mind?" He offered.

"I bet." Was Kari's blunt reply.

"Well anyway, we're going and that's that." Matt said. The other Digi-Destined in the room were snickering at the fighting siblings.

"Uhh guys?" Yolei said. "We gotta get going before Carlos locks us out." That shut everybody up.

"Ok. I'll go first." Tai said, not paying attention to Davis & Matt's whining. Davis because he's the new leader and Matt because he's Tai's rival & both refuse to let him get his way, but now wasn't the time to fight. The big haired one held his digivice up to the screen.

"Digi Port open!" He said. Unfortunately, nothing happened. "Hey! Where's the flash? There was supposed to be a blinding flash!" He pouted. Davis walked up.

"Awww don't worry. Let a professional take care of it." He bragged. He held up his D-3, yelled out the magic words, and caused the flash to appear. He stuck his tongue out at Tai right before he disappeared. When the flash subsided, all of the new Digi-Destined were gone, but the old people remained.

"Huh!.?" They yelled dumbfoundedly.

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The group arrived in the Digital World and heard construction again. They walked up to where Carlos was standing.

"Counting your chickens a little early?" TK asked.

"Ahhh… So you got here on time. Cool." Carlos said as he got out the remote. The Dark Carrier flew over them and beamed them up.

Later…

Everybody was in the empty room (now called "The Hub.") again.

"Though this is the second game, I believe you know how this works, so Roulette! Get going!" Carlos yelled. The roulette started spinning and soon everybody's digiarmors were displayed. The crest of Light was slightly faded while the crest of Hope was slightly brighter than the rest of them. "Ok. Everybody's playing again."

"Why is my crest faded?" Kari asked.

"Let me explain." Carlos started. "I recently modified the roulette so that if more than one person is playing, the crest of the main player will shine the brightest while the crest of the person playing as an NPC, or Non Player Character, will be faded."

"And why's that?" Cody asked.

"For the game's story, of course. So let's get started. Dark Door! Open!" The door opened and like last time, a strong wind was felt and the six humans & Hawkmon were pulled in. It then shut.

"Hey! What about me!" Wormmon yelled. He then heard footsteps. He turned and saw the other digimon advancing on him. "Now, now. Stay back! Back, I say!" He then ran for it.

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"AHHHHHH!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!" Everyone screamed as they fell in the dark abyss. Everybody then disappeared in the following colors of lights: TK- blue, Yolei & Hawkmon- brown, Cody- yellow, Davis- red, Kari- white, and Carlos- purple.

°GAME START!°

Leaf Woods Zone, Act 1

The first stage opened with TK over looking a vast forest. He looked down and noticed that he wasn't wearing any clothes except for his hat, a pair of gloves and running shoes. The rest of his body was blue except for some areas, which were his skin color.

"Ok. I guess this is my game form." He said. He then remembered yesterday's game.

"Ohhhh! I'm playing as who Davis was! This might be fun." He started to stretch his arms and legs. After he shook his hands, he took a runner's stance. An announcer's voice was then heard.

"Three, two, one, GO!" He yelled and TK took off to start the stage.

TK dashed ahead past some coins and soon jumped up to go to a higher area of the stage. He ran past a couple of monkey robots. When he got to the end of the platform he was on, he jumped over to some springs that were planted on the side of the opposite cliff. He sprang up and hit an item bubble. A green barrier surrounded him as he jumped over a spike trap and moved on.

Later…

"You know, this running thing ain't so bad." TK said to himself.

He cleared a loop and was now running over the surface of a small pool of water. He hit a rail and grinded up it to a spring. He then did a double jump, which allowed him to get more air. He landed on an upper area of the stage. After some grinding and a few stunts, he reached the end of the act by running through a multi-colored area and then skidded to a stop on some grass. He gave a thumbs up.

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BOSS BATTLE!

(TK: Wait a minute, isn't there supposed to be two acts per zone in this game?

Me: Yeah... But I'm saving time & myself from boredom by doing only one act per zone. And only the acts with better music made the cut!)

The boss music was playing as TK was running along a grassy area when Carlos drove by backwards in a car of sorts. It had two arms on its sides. The left one was wielding a giant hammer & the right one was holding two objects. One was a female rabbit wearing glasses and the other was a small blue creature with pink butterfly-like wings and a yellow ball floating above its head.

"HELP!.!.!" The rabbit yelled.

"Hang on! I'm coming!" TK yelled as he started to chase after them.

"Hahahaha! You won't beat me, Blondie!" Carlos yelled as he swung the hammer a long distance ahead of him.

TK dodged it and grabbed some coins. Carlos started to get away from TK, who started jumping to gain distance. When TK got close again, Carlos swung the hammer a short distance, not even coming close to hitting the porcupine. TK jumped and caused the first hit of the battle.

"Ouch! I won't stand for this!" Carlos yelled.

He swung the hammer and hit TK, causing him to lose his coins. Carlos swung the hammer again, but TK barely dodged it. He grabbed some coins that he was about to pass.

"Ugh! Stand still!" Carlos yelled.

"No way!" TK replied as he ran up and hit Carlos again before he had time to swing the hammer.

The music started to go faster and so did Carlos. He started swinging the hammer like mad. Not a single attack hit TK. The porcupine was able to hit Carlos four more times and the car started to blow up.

"Awww crap! Time to eject!" Carlos yelled as parts of the car started to fall off. He flew away from the car in a gray hovercraft. The car blew up in a blinding flash.

"You may have beaten my Dark Hammer this time, but you won't survive the rest of the game. Count on it!" He yelled at TK as he flew away. TK was still running when the rabbit from earlier fell and clung on to him. The blue creature flew after them. TK then skidded to a halt.

"Are you ok?" He asked the rabbit.

"Yeah, I'm fine." She replied. She got up and started dusting herself off. "My name's Yolei. Thanks for saving me." She extended a hand.

"You know, I think we need name tags! It's me, TK!"

"Oh, hey. Yeah, we need tags." Yolei said. Her eyes then got teary. "Carlos kidnapped me and Hawkmon! It was terrible!"

"And where is Hawkmon?" TK asked.

"Right here." He heard the digimon's voice. He turned around and saw the blue creature that was with Yolei during the battle. TK didn't notice it before, but the creature was wearing a red bow tie. "He turned me into this, this thing! I miss my wings!"

"Hey, at least you now have arms." TK offered. Hawkmon sighed.

"I can't believe he turned me into a rabbit!" Yolei started her rant. "And do you know what he said that my character's name was?.!"

"No, but I'm pretty sure you'll tell me." TK said.

"He called me 'Dumbo the Rabbit!' I mean, I'm not fat, am I, TK?" She gave him a very threatening glare to show that she'll beat him badly if he says the wrong thing. TK sweatdropped.

"Oh no. Of course you're not fat." He replied. "Well anyway, I'm off to the next stage." He started to run.

"Hold it!" Yolei yelled, holding her hand out towards him. "I'm going too. He won't get away with calling me fat!"

°°Yolei joined your party! Congrats!°°

"That's supposed to be a good thing?" TK asked.

"Hey!" Yolei yelled.

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Not-so-cold Crater Zone, Act 2

A fast song was playing as the second Zone opened with Yolei and Hawkmon overlooking a dormant volcano.

"Are you sure you saw him?" Yolei asked.

"I'm positive I saw Carlos enter this volcano." Hawkmon said.

"Ok... But if you're wrong, you know what'll happen." Yolei threatened while cleaning her glasses, which were fogging up due to her sweating in the hot area. She took her runner's stance & waited for the actual stage to begin.

"Three, two, one, START!" The announcer yelled. Yolei took off and grabbed onto a zip line and started sliding into the volcano.

"Hey! Wait for me!" Hawkmon yelled and started chasing her.

Yolei got off the rail and ran ahead through a loop. She ran into a turtle robot. She went to jump on it to destroy it, but instead bounced off a spring that was on the turtle's shell. She did a double jump to get up to the upper ledge. She then used a spin dash to get good speed on the rail she was close to. She grinded it, facing the camera & waving her arms madly.

"Wee! This is fun!" She yelled as she got close to the end of the rail.

Later…

"Oh man! This is NOT fun!" Yolei yelled. She was surrounded on all sides by robots. Some looked like small UFOs and had a small fireball revolving around them. Some turtle robots were circling them as well. Hawkmon clung to her for safety.

"What are you doing Hawkmon!.? Fight them!" She yelled.

"You crazy?.! I'm not gonna fight them!" Hawkmon yelled back. Yolei grabbed him.

"Oh yes you are!" She tossed him into one of the robots, which was destroyed, revealing a small digimon, which left the area.

"Hey! That didn't hurt at all!" He started grinning. Yolei grinned back.

"Let 'em have it!" She yelled. Hawkmon crashed into the rest of the robots, destroying each one simply by touching them. After that little rumble, they ran ahead only to reach a wall that was too high for Yolei to jump over. "Oh man! How am I going to get over that?"

"I just thought about something." Hawkmon said. "Why DID Carlos call you Dumbo for, anyway?"

"How am I supposed to know?" Yolei shrugged. "The guy's nuts, remember?"

"Yeah, but wasn't Dumbo known for something other than his weight problem?" Yolei got into a thinking pose.

"The only thing I can come up with is that he can fly with his—" Yolei slapped her forehead. "Duh! Why didn't I think of that!" She jumped up and started to flap her ears like wings. She floated in the air and cleared the wall. "Thanks a lot, Hawkmon!"

"No problem." They continued on to clear the level.

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BOSS BATTLE!

The music started as Yolei was running. Carlos drove by backwards in a small tank.

"Ahh. So Miss. Dumbo & her little pet want to play?" Carlos teased. "Bring it!"

"Oh, you're so mine!" Yolei yelled as she started running faster. Carlos started the battle by firing a bomb at her. She jumped up to dodge the resulting explosion. She grabbed some coins as she dodged another one.

'Hmmmm… I hope she doesn't use one of her character's special abilities.' Carlos thought. 'This battle will be over quickly if that happens.'

"Get 'im, Hawkmon!" Yolei ordered as she dodged another bomb. Hawkmon flew and used a Tackle attack on the tank's cannon.

"Crap! So you do know your character's abilities." Carlos said as he fired more bombs. Yolei dodged every single one that rolled her way as Hawkmon hit the cannon a few more times and destroyed it. The music went faster as Carlos unloaded more bombs. It didn't help as Hawkmon hit the tank two more times and destroyed it.

"Awww man..." Carlos groaned as his pod ejected from the exploding Dark Tank. He flew off as there was a blinding flash much like when TK defeated the Dark Hammer.

Later…

BOSS BATTLE!

TK had just gotten through one of the acts for the third level, Sound Plant Zone, and was now facing off against Carlos in his Dark Totem. It was tall, had three spike discs in the middle, and was orange. Behind Carlos was someone who was tied up.

"Heh. You won't win this time, Blondie!" Carlos yelled.

"Do you villains always have to sound confident?" TK asked. The bad guy grinned.

"Yep! It says so in the villains' contract that I had to sign last month."

"Was it long?"

"Oh hell yeah! I had to sign everything in triplicate. It took hours to read all that!"

(Me: Ya know, you didn't have to read everything. You could've just done the signing.)

"And what about the fine print?"

(Me: That wasn't fine print. Those were ants crawling on the bottom of the paper! Besides, I control you, so I was the one who had to do the reading.)

"Oh. Oops."

"Ummm… Could someone please rescue me?" Carlos' captor yelled. He was an orange fox. His voice sounded familiar to TK's ears.

"Cody? That's kinda cheap, you know. Giving him the same role as in the last game." TK said.

(Me: Hey, it was either that or the bunny girl and I don't think neither Cody nor Yolei would be happy with that decision.)

"Point taken." TK said. And the battle finally started.

Carlos launched the middle spike disc at TK. A machine popped out of the spinning disc and fired an energy ball at him. He dodged it and grabbed a few coins. The disc went back to the Dark Totem and the lower one came out. TK jumped on the machine and destroyed it. He then jumped from the disc and hit Carlos.

"Ugh! Why can't I ever hit you!.?" Carlos hissed. He launched two of the discs at TK. TK jumped on the lower one, but got hit by the spikes on the other one. He lost his coins and stumbled off the disc.

"Ha! Gotcha!" Carlos laughed.

"Ouch! He means business!" TK said to himself.

"What? You thought I wasn't serious before?" Carlos asked. He launched the same two discs again. TK grabbed some passing coins and jumped on the lower disc. He then jumped to the higher one before he got hit with the spikes again and hit Carlos for the second time. The music started going faster. To make a long story short, poor Carlos got defeated again.

"I wanna take over the Digital World and you won't write me to victory!.?" Carlos yelled as he flew away from the usual explosion.

(Me: Hey, you still got a few more chances, so chill!)

TK ran from the explosion with Cody flying after him with his two tails. They then stopped and took a break.

"Ohhh! I hate him! He transformed me into this character again and then kidnapped me!" Cody yelled.

"Yeah. I think we all gotta deal with things like this." TK said. "I'm willing to bet that I'll have to rescue Kari & Davis from Carlos as well." He started to run. "Well see ya!"

"Wait!" Cody yelled. "I'm gonna help you!"

°°Cody joined your party!°°

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Ice Vacation Zone, Act 1

A Christmassy song started to play as Cody was standing in a winter wonderland. In the background laid a city covered in snow. Spotlights were going back and forth. Cody shivered.

"Oh great! I'm freezing & I'm expected to run through this white stuff?.!"

(Me: You can also fly too, ya know.)

"Yeah… But it's cold!"

(Me: So deal with it! You're a fox, for crying out loud!)

"Alright, alright." Cody sighed. He got into his stance.

"Three, two, one, get going!" The announcer yelled. Cody fell over, then started running. He went up to a rail and grinded up it. He then hit a zip pad and was brought to the top of a loop. He grabbed the shield that was nearby and slid down some ice. He slid through the loop & hung on to a hook that was at the loop's end. He jumped off it & moved on.

Later, Cody was flying through most of the level.

"I wonder what Kari & Davis' parts in this game are." He said to himself.

(Me: Sorry, you're gonna have to wait just like the rest of us.)

"Awwww!.!.!"

Cody landed on the snowy ground and started running again. He was about to collide with a penguin robot when he stopped and swung his tails, destroying the robot. He then ran ahead and jumped into an ice chute.

"Too cold! Too cold!" He yelled as he slid down the icy slide. Before the slide ended, he jumped up and went through some red rings, which propelled him upwards. Cody landed on a platform and then started flying again. After a few more rails and some ramps, he passed the level.

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BOSS BATTLE!

Cody was running through an empty area when Carlos flew by in his latest contraption. It was blue and looked like a small car. Underneath the car was a small tail made of three spiked balls. At the end of it was a small circular platform. Carlos looked back at the fox.

"So it's Fox Brat's turn, huh?" He sneered. "Alright. I won't lose this time."

"We'll just see about that!" Cody replied. Carlos dropped a bomb from his machine as Cody got some coins. The fox then dodged the debris from the bomb's explosion. After avoiding another one, Cody jumped on the platform and bounced up to where Carlos was.

"Ouch! I'm gonna wind up with a major headache before this is over." Carlos said. He dropped another bomb. Cody dodged it again. He jumped to catch up to Carlos, who dropped another bomb. Cody couldn't move out of the way and got hit, causing him to lose his coins.

"Ha ha!" Carlos yelled, sounding like Nelson from The Simpsons. Cody, now severely pissed off, grabbed a few coins and ran after Carlos again. He jumped repeatedly to catch up to Carlos, who dropped yet another bomb. Cody dodged it and bounced off the platform and onto Carlos. The boss pinch started to play. Four hits later, Carlos' machine crashed as he made his escape again.

"Yo is too lazy, ya know."

(Me: Well too bad. I want this chapter done before Saturday.)

"Why?"

(Me: You'll see.)

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Sky Gorge Zone, Act 2

The fifth zone opened with TK looking ahead. He gulped.

"One drop & it's all over. I guess that, going by the pattern, I'll have to rescue someone after this zone."

(Me: You got that right! Now get started.)

TK got into his stance and waited for the countdown from the announcer.

"Three, two, one, GO!.!.!" He yelled as TK started his run.

Later…

BOSS BATTLE!

"Why!.?" TK yelled as he started running.

(Me: °Shrugs° I had no idea how to do commentary for that stage?)

"Ugh! Whatever. Where's Carlos?" Just then, a giant wheel rolled by. There were three sections on it. One had a laser on it, another had a giant hand, and the last section had a pod. Inside the pod was a red mole. The white in his eyes were replaced by a bloody red color. TK gasped.

"Hey! You're not Carlos! Who are you?" A small machine flew by him. A hologram turned on, revealing Carlos.

"Hiya!" He yelled as he waved. TK didn't look so pleased.

"Ok. Who is that in whatever that thing is?"

"That 'thing' you're referring to is my Dark Saucer." Carlos replied. "And the pilot is someone you know personally."

"Davis!.?"

"Yep. He was a little against the story of the game. At least until I gave him a token of esteem." TK's eyes narrowed.

"What kind of token?"

"Oh, just a little piece of jewelry." TK gasped at this.

"A Dark Ring!.?.!"

"Hey, you're pretty sharp, huh? Wanna be on my staff?"

"There is no way I'll be anywhere near your staff." Carlos then looked at the camera.

"Is it me or did that sound wrong?" He then turned to TK. "Anyway, if ya expect to rescue your friend, you gotta beat him first."

"Fine! I'll defeat him!" TK yelled. Carlos just laughed as the machine flew away. The battle then started.

TK grabbed a few coins as Davis launched the hand at him. TK dodged it and jumped at the laser cannon. He hit the cannon and jumped back on the ground. He started to run again. After dodging the hand again, TK hit the pod. Davis instantly increased his efforts to defeat TK. He fired the laser and hit TK. He then fired the hand. Luckily, TK dodged it and got some more coins. He hit the laser again, causing it to fall off. TK then stopped & ducked in order to dodge the hand. He began to run again and hit Davis before the mole even fired the hand.

This pattern continued for °looks at watch° let's say two minutes before the Dark Saucer started to fall apart. TK ran from the explosion with a charred, and volatile, Davis hot on his heals. They stopped and Davis grabbed TK & throttled him.

"Alright TA, you got ten seconds to tell me why I'm burned up like this!" He threatened.

"Ok. I'll talk!" TK croaked. Davis let him go & he started explaining how he ended up in that position. Davis sighed.

"Alright. First thing I'm gonna do is find Carlos & then I will murder him." He said as calmly as possible.

"I think that's what we all want." TK sighed and rubbed his forehead. He got ready to run again. "Well, I'll be going now, unless you want to tag along too." Davis got in a thinking pose (again, if that's even possible) and shrugged.

"Yeah. I guess so."

°°Davis joined your party!°°

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Technicolor Base Zone, Act 1

(A/N: I LOVE the music for both acts, so I had a bit of a problem deciding on which act to do for this zone.)

Techno music started playing as Davis looked at his surroundings. The place reminded him of a night club. There were lights of different colors everywhere. The background often flashed a bright light. Ahead of him was a bridge made of green light that would disappear & then reappear a few seconds later. The whole place was dim, despite the many lights.

"Why am I here? I'm not old enough to start clubbing!" He yelled into the dimness.

(Me: Not to meet girls, I assure you. Just run through the level.)

"Ok, but why?"

(Me: You get to fight Carlos afterwards.)

"Cool!" He then stretched his arms a little bit and got into his runner's stance.

"I'm soooo sick of doing this! GO ALREADY!.!.!" The announcer, who needs anger management, yelled. Davis sweatdropped, then started the stage. He ran past the energy bridge before the light disappeared. He then ran up to a rail. This rail, like the others in the zone, is blue mixed with red in a candy cane-like pattern. He grinded up it and hit a loop. After running through it, he got some coins and came up to a light display that looked like a set of spikes.

"Ha! What do you think I am? Stupid? That's just light! It can't hurt me!"

(Me: °Trying to hide grin° Then why don't you jump on it?)

"Ok!" Davis yelled. He then jumped on the bed of light spikes. As expected, he lost coins.

"OWWWWWWW!.!.!.!.!" He yelled as he jumped up into the air, holding his red butt.

(Me: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!.!.!.!.!.! What a sucka! He fell for it! °Falls over laughing, then looks up° Huh?)

It seems that Davis went so high, he broke through the ceiling of the zone.

(Me: …Ummmm… How about we just skip to the battle? °Grins nervously°)

BOSS BATTLE!

Davis, who somehow got back into the zone, was running (big surprise) through a corridor in the base. Above his head was what looked like a track. Carlos then rode by on the track in his newest toy. It was a yellow pod, which had four moving platforms connected to it. Half of the platforms were yellow & the other half was gray. In the center of each platform was a blue light. In the center of the pod was what looked like a gun. Carlos yawned.

"Man! That was a great break." He then noticed Davis. "Hey Davis! What's up?"

"What's up? I'm gonna kick yo' ass! That's what!" Davis yelled. Carlos sighed.

"I guess Blondie defeated you after all. Oh well! I'll just beat you myself! D"

"Damn. He's creepy..." Davis grabbed some coins as Carlos started charging up the gun. The lights on the gray platforms turned red & they rotated. Davis jumped on one of the yellow platforms and jumped on the cockpit, causing the first hit. He would've made the second hit right there if it wasn't for the yellow energy balls that Carlos fired. The first of three hit Davis and sent him back to the ground. The other two were aimed up high, so Davis didn't have to worry about them.

"No wonder TK beat you! You're just a wimp!" Carlos taunted. Davis got up after hearing that.

"Oh you did NOT just say that!"

"I believe I did. And judging by the way you're fighting, I seem to be right!" Carlos' machine sped away with an irate Davis on its heels. He got some coins and then dodged Carlos' energy ball attack. When he got up to the machine, the lights on the yellow platforms turned red and a bed of spikes emerged. Since one of the gray platforms was close by, he jumped on it and hit the cockpit before it started to spin again. The boss pinch started to play.

"Ouch. I wonder if that was such a good idea." Carlos muttered as he fired the energy attack again. Davis dodged the energy balls and came up close to the pod. All of the platforms did their maneuvers, so he couldn't make his attack. The platforms stopped and they all activated again.

"Hey! Let me hit ya already!" Davis yelled.

"Ha! I knew this tactic would work!" Carlos laughed. He was about to do the energy attack. Davis noticed this and rolled. The machine sped away again. The energy balls didn't even come close.

'Hmmmmm… that was pretty smart of him.' Carlos thought. He started charging up again. Davis ran up to the machine and—

"You know, this machine has a name! It's called 'The Dark-Go-Round!'" Carlos yelled at the narrator.

Oh, sorry. Anyway, Davis ran up to the Dark-Go-Round and the platforms activated again. After they did their thing, Davis jumped up and quickly struck the cockpit again. This went on three more times before the Dark-Go-Round started blowing up. The platforms blew up in mini explosions and the main pod bounced off the track.

"Oy! We were so close to doing a whole battle without skipping!" Carlos yelled as he flew away.

(Me: Close, but no cigar! Take five, everyone! We need to set up for the next stage.)

Behind the scenes…

Carlos walked up to the other Digi-Destined, who were at the concession stand.

"That battle was pretty good, even though I lost." He said as he grabbed a doughnut.

"Heh. Thanks." Davis replied.

"Still, why is the author rushing this?" Yolei asked. "It's worse than how the last game went."

"Beats me." The raven haired boy shrugged. "The boss did say that he wants it done by Saturday."

"Why?" Cody asked.

"He didn't say".

"Is it his birthday?" TK joined the conversation.

"No." Carlos shook his head. "His birthday is next month."

"Maybe he's going on vacation." Yolei offered.

"Ha! He hasn't been on vacation with his family in years!" The villain scoffed.

TK snapped his fingers. "I know the reason! It's because—"

"Alright!" I said through a megaphone. "Everybody take your places!"

"AWWWW!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!" The five characters groaned.

(Me: And… ACTION!.!.!)

TK and the others ran up to Davis after the battle.

"Ugh! That was tough!" Davis said.

"Where did Davis go?" TK asked.

"I'm right here!"

"Oops! I meant where's Carlos?" TK grinned nervously.

(Me: Don't worry. Just a slight blooper. Continue.)

"I saw his pod going to Outer Space on the way over here." Cody said.

"How are we gonna get up there?" Yolei asked.

"We'll have to take a spaceship to the next zone." Davis replied. "And nobody better mess it up!" He glared at TK, who whistled innocently. The porcupine then snapped out of it.

"Hey wait! What about Kari?"

"She seems to like getting lost, doesn't she?" Yolei piped in.

"She's probably in the next zone." Cody said. Davis got hearts in his eyes.

"Then let's go!" And so the group of furries searched the base for a spaceship. After finding one, they took off, after tying up TK, of course.

"Hey! Let me go! I'm the star of this game!" He protested.

"And let you try to crash again? I don't think so." Davis replied.

"So who gets to do the next zone?" Cody asked.

"I'm supposed to do it! Davis already did his zone!" TK yelled.

"Yeah. I know." Davis said, rubbing his still sore butt.

"Well, that's too bad. You're tied up, so we're taking over!" Yolei said with a grin. TK started screaming again. Yolei snapped her fingers & Hawkmon put a gag on him. "Ahhh… That's better."

"So how do we decide who does it?" Cody asked. They got in a thinking pose, ignoring TK's muffled screams.

"How about we play Rock, Paper, Scissors?" Davis suggested.

"Ok." The other two said. They got in a circle and started shaking their hands.

"Rock, Paper, Scissors shoot!" They revealed their hands. Davis and Cody had rock and Yolei had paper.

"Ha! Sorry boys, but I win." Yolei laughed.

"Humph Hmph?" TK asked. Yolei pulled off the gag.

"What?"

"Who's flying the ship?" He asked. The other three Digi-Destined looked at each other, then at the cockpit. Hawkmon was seen piloting the ship.

"Oh... Whew." They sighed.

"Uhhh... Little help here?.! I can't reach some of the controls & my co-pilot won't help!" Hawkmon yelled.

"Co-pilot?" The others asked. The chair next to Hawkmon turned and a robotic version of him was looking at them.

"Hi! I'm Omomon! I'm here to help!"

"AHHHHHHHHH!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!" Everybody screamed as the ship spiraled and crashed into the hangar of a gigantic space station. The ship's hatch opened and everybody fell out.

"Ouch… That was scary." Davis groaned.

"See! It wasn't my fault we crashed! Let me go!.!.!" TK yelled.

"I think we just have bad luck with flying spaceships." Cody said.

"Whatever. I hope we don't have to go into space anymore." Yolei said.

"Keep your health meter above zero!" Omomon yelled as it flew out of the ship.

"AHHHHHH!.!.!.!.!.!" Everyone screamed as they ran. They picked up TK as they ran off.

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Dark Utopia Zone, Act 1

"You ready, Hawkmon?" Yolei asked as the zone opened. She was in a small room surrounded by mechanical stuff. There was a rail, which stretched in space over the Digital World. The rail served as a bridge to the rest of the station.

"I'm ready, as long as the author doesn't decide to skip." The digimon replied. They then looked at the camera.

(Me: °Sighs° We'll see what happens.)

Yolei then got ready to run. Hawkmon was getting prepared too.

"You know the drill! Now GO!" The announcer said. Yolei ran & Hawkmon followed.

She hit the rail & grinded down it. When it ended, she got a few coins. She ran up to a spike trap. She jumped over it & bounced off the spring that was next to it. She was launched up to a hook. After spinning around it a little, she jumped into a little alcove to the left. She spin dashed up a half pipe and destroyed a worm-like robot, freeing the digimon inside. A spike trap stopped her from going too far and she landed in front of a rail. She backed up, then ran at the rail to get more speed. After grinding down it, she was between an item bubble and a transport vehicle of sorts. Above her was a bee robot, which charged at her.

"Hawkmon! Deal with this!" Yolei yelled. Hawkmon charged into the robot & destroyed it. Relieved, Yolei attacked the item bubble. A green shield surrounded her.

She walked up to the transport vehicle and was propelled at an insane speed. She hit a spring and landed on a circular platform. The platform slid down an incline and jerked up. It almost took Yolei into space if it wasn't for her noticing the beginning of a rail. She jumped up and landed on it. After grinding down, she ran past a sign post that had an arrow pointing up on it. Instantly, she & Hawkmon wound up on the ceiling of the area. She ran ahead. She clung to a pole and started sliding down it. After sliding down another one, she moved on.

Later, they were at a circular platform. After going down it, she ran past the goal post. Hawkmon started tossing confetti over Yolei as she cheered.

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BOSS BATTLE!

Yolei was running through a section of the space station when Carlos rolled by in his Dark Frog. It was a gray pod with two flexible legs that has a rolling mechanism at the ends. The Dark Frog was currently sticking to both the floor and the ceiling. That soon changed, however, as the Dark Frog let go of the ceiling and was now on the floor. Carlos cursed as he saw who he was up against.

"Aw crap! Not you two again!"

"Did ya miss us?" Yolei teased.

"I felt more comfortable with TK. What happened to him?"

"Oh, he's tied up at the moment." Yolei giggled at her inside joke.

"Do I want to know?"

"No. No you don't."

"°Sighs° Alright. Let's get started then." The Dark Frog jumped up and tossed a bomb as Yolei got some coins. The flames from the explosion spread and hit her.

"Ow! Go! Hawkmon!" Yolei yelled. Hawkmon flew up to the Dark Frog and hit it. The Dark Frog then stopped, allowing Yolei to get ahead and grab some coins. The Dark Frog then jumped down from the ceiling and came up behind Yolei. She jumped and ordered Hawkmon to attack again. Yolei jumped behind the Dark Frog and ordered Hawkmon to hit Carlos again. Three hits later, everything started going boom.

"Oh, I get it. They would use the same pattern and you skip 'cause it would be too boring to the readers." Carlos said as he flew away from the explosion.

(Me: Yep!)

The others ran up to Yolei as she saw Carlos fly towards a nearby satellite.

"So, now what?" TK, who was released, asked.

"I guess we'll have to ride the spaceship to that satellite." Davis replied. Everybody exchanged worried glances. "I know, I know, but what choice do we have?"

(Me: Ya know, I could just teleport you guys over there.)

"And I bet you could've done this before we rode in that spaceship, right?" Yolei asked.

(Me: Yep. I wanted to use that Omomon joke for a long time.)

"You little son of a—" Everyone yelled before I teleported them to the next zone.

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YY Zone

The Zone opened with everyone running out in space.

"Wouldn't we die from lack of air?" Cody asked.

(Me: Nope. The zone has its own atmosphere. Now then, separate.)

"What?" TK asked.

(Me: You heard me! Separate! Only one of you can go through this zone at a time!)

"Ok... I guess we decide who goes first."

"But we don't even know what we're supposed to do in this zone." Yolei said, clearly started to get tired of running.

(Me: °Sighs° I wanted to make this a surprise, but here goes. In this zone, you have to battle Carlos eight times.)

"Is that a fact?" Davis asked, a grin creeping up on his face.

"Cut the grin, Red. I'm going first." Cody said bluntly.

"Oh, he's so brave!" Yolei squealed. Everybody else sweatdropped.

"Alright, you go first then." Davis said as he and everybody else fell back, leaving Cody to take care of the zone.

Shortly after, Carlos drove by in the Dark Hammer. Yes. The same one from the first zone. Carlos was silent and had a dark look on his face. Cody grabbed a few coins as Carlos swung the hammer a long distance. Cody wasn't anywhere near it though. He ran up to the Dark Hammer and jumped at the cockpit. Carlos gave a light grunt at the attack and swung the hammer. It hit Cody and sent him back, his coins scattering away as well. He stayed away from the machine and got some passing coins. After the hammer made its next strike, Cody ran up and hit Carlos again. The guy in the car still showed little signs of pain. Cody waited for the hammer to strike the ground again. After it did, he ran up and whipped the machine with his twin tails. The Dark Hammer blew up with Carlos running away again.

"Whew!" Cody breathed as he continued running. He ran past a wall, signaling a checkpoint of sorts.

Soon after, Carlos rolled by in the Dark Tank. He resumed the battle by shooting a bomb at Cody. The fox dodged it with ease and hit the cannon. He bounced up and hit it one more time before coming back to the ground. He barely managed to dodge another bomb as he destroyed the cannon. He got hit, though, by the bomb that Carlos quickly shot. After regaining his composure, and grabbing some coins, he hit the Dark Tank, destroying it. Carlos gave a slight sign of protest as he flew away.

'What's with him?' Cody thought as he ran past another wall. This time, however, Davis came out running by him.

"It's my turn. Chill for awhile." He said.

"Alright. Good luck." Cody replied as he slowed down and stopped.

Back with Davis, the Dark Totem just rolled by as he got some coins. Carlos still had that dark look on his face as he launched two of the spike discs at the mole. Davis jumped up on the lower disc. The two discs started to shuffle and Davis wound up on top. The discs started moving back to the Dark Totem. When he was close enough, he jumped and hit Carlos. He didn't even flinch.

'What's his deal?' Davis thought as he landed on the ground and started running again. Carlos launched the lower disc this time.

After destroying the little machine, Davis proceeded to attack Carlos. Unfortunately, he miscalculated and hit the spikes on the two higher discs. Carlos gave a grin as Davis scrambled to get some coins. Carlos took advantage and launched the two higher discs again. They shuffled as Davis grabbed a passing coin. He dodged the energy ball that the middle disc's machine shot and jumped on the disc. After dispatching the machine, he jumped and hit Carlos again as the discs were retreating. He bounced and hit Carlos again, destroying the machine. Carlos STILL had that look on him as he flew away.

(Me: Ok, WHAT'S with that dark look you have, anyway!.?)

"You won't tell me why you want this done by Saturday!" Carlos yelled.

(Me: Is that all!.? I'll tell ya after the chapter.)

Davis ran by another wall and was followed by the toy Carlos had at the Ice Vacation Zone.

"What is that called, anyway?" Davis asked.

"You know, the boss couldn't figure out how to spoof the name, so call it 'The Aero Darkness.'" Carlos replied. He started the next battle by continuously dropping bombs.

Davis jumped over the first set of debris and onto the platform. He bounced off it and hit Carlos. Davis landed on the ground and quickly jumped to avoid another bomb. He then ran up to the Aero Darkness and would've jumped it if wasn't for the platform not being in a horizontal position. So he just kept dodging bombs as best as he could. Unfortunately, fate had other ideas as a bomb struck him just as he was about to jump. Davis stumbled back a couple of feet and started running again.

'Crap! This is hard!' He thought as he got some coins and continued dodging debris. He ran up to the Aero Darkness again and jumped on the platform. Again, he managed to hit Carlos. After another hit, Carlos' machine blew up with him fleeing the scene. Davis ran by another wall and Yolei & Hawkmon followed.

"It's our turn." Yolei said.

"Right. Watch out for the Dark Saucer's hand attack. It can beat you in one shot." Davis replied.

"Got it!" Yolei yelled. Davis fell back. A few seconds later, the Dark Saucer appeared in all its glory.

"Crap..." Carlos groaned when he saw Yolei & Hawkmon. "Can we just skip this?"

(Me: YOU actually want to skip?)

"Yeah. You & I both know she's playing as like the easiest character ever created. She'll just sic her digimon on me. Please spare me the embarrassment."

(Me: °Sighs° Alright. Quit your whining. °Snaps fingers°)

After Yolei defeated both the Dark Saucer & Dark-Go-Round, she ran past a wall and TK ran by her.

"It's all up to you now. Good Luck." Yolei said as she stopped. TK ran ahead. The Dark Frog then appeared.

"Ok. This should be a little easier now." Carlos said as the Dark Frog lowered onto the floor.

TK grabbed a few coins and was about to jump if the Dark Frog hadn't already done that. Carlos dropped a bomb in the process. TK jumped and cleared the flames. The Dark Frog cruised on the ceiling above TK, occasionally dropping bombs in which the blond porcupine dodged effortlessly. The Dark Frog jumped back down and started to chase TK. He jumped and hit the cockpit. He was now behind the frog. Carlos stopped the frog and TK jumped over it and on the cockpit again. It jumped again and arrived above TK.

'Hey. I wonder if I can get on the ceiling too.' He thought. He concentrated, then jumped up. He started to head towards the ceiling. TK hit Carlos again and the Dark Frog started to explode.

"How did you know you can do that?.!" Carlos yelled as he started to fly away.

"I just guessed." TK replied.

"Ugh! No matter. You won't beat this next creation!" Carlos yelled back. He flew ahead of TK. TK ran a little further, then stopped after collecting three coins.

Ahead of him was just space. Above him was a bunch of spikes. The ground had three orange sections on it. Speaking of the ground, it started to shake as a giant robot appeared. It was gray with some orange mixed in. It had spikes on its shoulder blades At the ends of the arms were these orange claws. The head was gray and seemed to have flashlights for eyes.

"Blondie, prepare to die." Carlos said through an intercom.

The battle started with the middle tile rising up towards the spike ceiling. TK wasn't on any of the tiles though. The robot then shot a huge laser from the eyes. The left tile then started going up as the middle one lowered. The robot's left claw started to move. After the robot shot its beam again, the left claw shot out towards TK. He dodged it and jumped on the detached claw, causing a hit. The right claw started to move too. After the left platform lowered and the right one went up, the claw fired, almost hitting TK, but he hit that one as well. He then jumped on the right platform that was coming down and jumped & hit the head.

"Ouch! You'll pay for that!" Carlos yelled as he fired another beam. He fired the left claw again, which narrowly missed TK. TK, in turn, hit the claw again. Carlos then launched the other claw. Again, it missed and TK hit it. Carlos then launched each claw in succession until TK destroyed both of them.

"Oh no..." Carlos groaned.

"Oh yes!" TK yelled. He then focused his attack on the head.

He would attack it every time the right platform started to come down, but before Carlos can fire the laser. This went on for a few more times before the robot, and the whole zone, started to fall apart. The satellite crashed into the space station and they both fell towards the Digital World. All of our heroes jumped off the zone when it got through the Digital World's atmosphere. The Dark Utopia Zone was falling behind them and crashed in a HUGE explosion. Unbeknownst to them, however, a gray dot flew from the zone before it crashed.

Out heroes landed safely on a grassy island among many in-training digimon. They jumped around in victory until TK remembered something.

"What about Kari!.?.!.?.!" The others stopped their celebration.

"Hey yeah. What DID happen to her?" Davis asked.

Elsewhere…

Many bird-like in-training digimon where flying around Kari, who was a tall rabbit. She was wearing a flowing purple dress. She was standing in a field. Suddenly, out of nowhere, the area in front of her got wavy and she felt a strong wind. It sucked her & the digimon in and flew away. Our five heroes then entered the scene.

"Oh man! He's gone too far!" Davis yelled.

"It went into Outer Space!" Cody replied.

"You know, I have a feeling this is going to happen to her throughout the rest of the fic." Yolei said.

"How are we going to catch up to him?" Hawkmon asked.

"I know!" TK said. He then turned to Davis. "Do you still have the bad time emeralds from the last game?"

"Yeah, but why?" Davis replied.

"No time! Hand them over." Davis did as he was told. The emeralds started floating around TK. They went faster & faster until his body started flashing. After a blinding flash, his entire body was gold. TK had reached super mode!

"See ya guys later!" Super TK yelled as he flew up at an incredible speed.

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True Area 52 ½

The battle opened with the wavy entity & Super TK appearing in space. The Digital World was in the background.

"Alright! Time to drop the cloaking device." TK heard Carlos' voice say. The wavy entity was replaced by an orange snake-like machine. At the end of the tail was the nozzle of a laser. At the head was a pod, which served as the cockpit.

"Give her back, Carlos!" TK yelled. Carlos gave an evil laugh.

"No way! Ya gotta beat me first."

"That's what I intend to do." TK said. A fifty second countdown started counting as the battle started.

Carlos shot three missiles out of the machine. TK dodged the missiles and got some coins to add to the countdown. The missiles started to chase TK around as Carlos fired a gun at him. TK got through by ramming through the barrage. A missile was in front of him & he rammed it in the direction of Carlos' machine. It flashed gray when the missile hit it. A light bulb flashed above the blond's head.

"So that's what I gotta do!" He yelled. The other two missiles by now exploded and Carlos fired another barrage.

TK charged through them and got some more coins. He got close to the machine and it fired three missiles, The tail started tracing TK's movements. He was too busy dealing with the missiles to notice. He hit the machine with a missile when the tail fired a beam. It hit TK and he was frozen. The machine sucked in TK and spit out some of his coins. It then spit TK out. He had only ten seconds left! In a panic, TK ignored Carlos for the moment to grab any coins he saw.

When the countdown was at a healthy thirty seconds, TK started his attack again. He got close to Carlos and he, in turn, started firing his guns and added three more missiles to the mix. TK watched the tail as he dodged the attack and got some more coins. After the tail fired its ice beam, TK went up and quickly rammed all three missiles into Carlos before they blew up. TK repeated the pattern one more time and instead of grey, the machine started flashing red after the last missile hit it.

"Ugh! He's too close to beating me!" Carlos muttered. He then yelled, "Alright TK! No mercy!" He fired three missiles. "And now, Rollout attack!" The machine rolled into a ball and started following TK around. He couldn't get a single coin or knock the missiles into Carlos. Worst yet, Carlos was also firing the gun as well.

'This ain't looking too good.' TK thought. His meter was now down to fifteen coins. After Carlos finished the Rollout attack, TK concentrated on getting some more coins. He avoided getting too close to Carlos, who simply fired his vulcan gun to distract TK from his goal.

After getting a healthy amount of coins again, TK started coming close to Carlos. He fired three missiles and started to use Rollout again. TK went low to prepare for the attack. The machine started to roll towards TK, who went up.

'This better work.' TK thought after he passed the machine. He moved passed the gunfire and moved so that the missiles were between him and Carlos. He charged backwards into a missile, which ricocheted into Carlos. His machine started blowing up.

"No! NO! NO!.!.!" He yelled while banging the console of the machine. It released a capsule that held Kari and the digimon. The machine started going down. A ball of purple light flew away from the machine and followed TK, who was guiding the capsule through the Digital World's atmosphere.

TK was hanging onto the bottom of the capsule as it passed through the atmosphere. The purple light ball was spinning around the capsule. A crack was forming on the side of it.

"What's with this ball?" TK asked, completely oblivious to the cracking capsule. The ball spun faster & faster until the capsule finally broke, knocking TK out of his super mode. Kari started falling.

"TK!.!.!.!" Her voice echoed as she fell. TK went into a dive.

"Don't worry! I'll catch ya!.!.!" He yelled while holding his hand out toward her. As he got closer to the falling bunny, he noticed a green coin falling with them. He ignored it for the time being. The in-training digimon that were captured were flying by them as TK got closer & closer until...

°GRAB!°

TK held Kari close as they descended towards the ground. He flipped when he got close and safely landed. Their friends ran up to them and the coin landed by TK's feet.

"YOU DID IT!.!.!" Their comrades yelled. In a flash, they went back to their normal forms.

"Alright! The game's over!" Yolei cheered, glad to be back to her human self. Hawkmon was flying around the group happily.

"Hey. What's that?" Cody asked, eyeing the coin. TK picked it up. It had the engraving of a wing on it.

"Congratulations! You got the Medallion of Flight! This is proof that you practically flew through the levels!" The same voice from yesterday's game said. "Please start the next game."

"Another one, huh?" Davis asked. "I guess we gotta collect these things."

"Yeah, but what for?" Kari asked. They then disappeared in the same colors of light that they came to the game in.

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Post-chapter Conversation

"YES!" I cheered. "I finished this in time!"

"Now will you tell us why you wanted this done before Saturday?" Carlos asked.

"Of course! I needed this chapter done to celebrate the arrival of Sonic X!"

"You mean an animé featuring the blue hedgehog himself?"

"Yep!" I replied, turning to the camera. "The preview's tomorrow at 10AM on the Fox Box. Don't miss it!"

"Uh-huh." Carlos said boredly. "And what's so great about this show, anyway?"

"It's got the great Shadow in it." I sighed contently before waving at the camera. "See ya next time!"