Disclaimer: I do NOT own Yu-Gi-Oh or anything associated with it, most of the cards I use are cards I made up and hopefully do not exist, if they do then usually it'll be quite obvious which ones I use from the actual card game, but I do not own any writes to the show or cards, so please don't sue me!.

Me: Finally, time for the next phase in our story.

Guilmon: Yeah, I've been waiting to hear this part

Me: Very interesting things are about to occur for everyone

Guilmon: No kidding, I wonder what will become of the foes?

Me: Crushed, under the iron weight of the tamers

Guilmon: Yeah!

( ) Action (In non-fiction areas only)

"Take him down NOW" A voice screamed.

"As you wish," A second figure replied lunging at a creature in front of them, "CYFER DESOLATION"

A scream of agony, then silence. "That was some good work" The first figure replied, "One hit, you're getting much better"

"Thank you" The second replied, "But don't get any weird ideas"

"You're the one who puts those ideas in my head" The first shot back, with a devilish grin, "Now come on and finish up, I'm sure the others are wondering where we are"

"Right" The second blinked, focused momentarily and then followed.

Meanwhile, about fifty feet up in the trees, with their power masked so that they could not be detected. "OKAY, I'M NOT LIKING THAT" Jake muttered through gritted teeth.

"No kidding, one shot" Vic shook his head, "I'm flipping out here, and I'M the strong one"

"Why don't we report back?" Addie asked, "BEFORE we get caught by that thing?"

"I concur," Hana, muttered from a higher branch, "I've seen enough"

"Well, they're gone" Jake growled, "Let's get out of here, anyone want to do the honors?"

"You can if you'd like" Kris mumbled.

"Right" Jake replied, "KARDO SLASH, ULTRA DIGIVOLUTION ACTIVATE!"

"Guilmon digivolve to…….WARGROWLMON" Guile shouted out.

"Wait!" Jake shouted, "You're supposed to jump off the branch first"

"Oh, sorry" Guile blinked, and flew into the air, "All aboard?"

Everyone climbed onto Wargrowlmon's back and returned to the base, giving Ryou an in-depth explanation of what had gone down out in the forest region. Needless to say, he wasn't pleased. "HE WHAT!" Ryou screamed.

"You heard us" Addie mumbled, "One shot"

"Well" Ryou sweatdropped, "That is definitely not good"

"We thought you'd agree" Kris replied blinking.

"Oh, by the way" Ryou commented, "Yamaki would like a word with all of you, he is in the other room"

"All right" Vic said, walking forward with the others following close behind.

"Good afternoon" Yamaki replied in his normal, secret agent type voice as everyone filed into the room, it wasn't the largest room in the digital complex, just big enough for rapid meetings where one could get in and out quite quickly. "Hello Yamaki" Jake replied, "What do you want?"

"I have information about those thugs you guys have ran into," Yamaki said.

"Oh really?" Siaarn asked, "Mind filling us in then?"

"Certainly, sit down" Yamaki replied, continuing once everyone had found a seat. "We located a complex about fifty miles from the desert region. They seem to be operating out of it as a kind of stronghold, but by far this is not their true fortress, we have maps and equipment to allow you guys to stage something HUGE there, first off though, stealing some information, so we can learn more about them, think you can all handle it?"

"You bet" Vic grinned, "We can handle it"

"Common then" Addie shouted, "Off we go!"

"Right!" Kris added in.

"Hmm…" Jake paused momentarily at the table, fingering it, before grabbing up Yamaki's lighter and stuffing it in his pocket and following everyone else out.

Their mission was clear, it was time to go raid the base of their new foes, just one interesting thing seemed to be their foe could take on multiple evil forms, what was worse was they'd found a way to bring the evil terror back from the dead. Meanwhile, at the base…

"Good work kid" A mysterious figure spoke over the video screen, "You've grown strong in these past few days"

"So don't you think its time I stopped being told I was a kid?" The second asked.

"Don't get cocky," The voice continued, "WE'RE the ones who brought you back from the dead and gave you a digimon that didn't know your past, and was willing to become evil"

"Whatever" The second retorted, "Just tell me what my next assignment is"

"Simple, it is time to prove your loyalty to us" The voice replied, "I want you to go find and kill the one who killed you"

"Easier said than done!" The second shot out, suddenly frightened, "That kid, is vicious, and his digimon is worse!"

"You're kidding me right?" The voice said with no emotion, "That KID, is almost a bigger softy than his digimon, they COULDN'T be a threat to someone who's grown as powerful as you have"

"You don't know what its like" The second sighed, "To be roasted by fireballs until you die, with your heart torn out"

"And you don't know what its like to be pierced by pure divine energy from an angel digimon" The voice was growing angry, "Until you do, I suggest you don't make any threats, UNDERSTAND BASTIDAS!"

"Yes sir.." Robert's voice was barely above a whisper.

While this was going on, there were some more interesting things happening with the others on the trail.

"WHYYY DON'T YOU LIKEE MEEEEE" Jake complained.

"Because you're an annoying gogglehead" Rika blinked.

"I'm NOT EVEN WEARING MY GOGLES RIGHT NOWWWW" Jake whined.

"So?" Rika smirked, "Once a gogglehead, always a gogglehead"

"You're not nice" Jake pouted.

"I know" Rika grinned devilishly, "Now go back to your partner, I'm sure he'll go goo-goo for you"

"NOOO" Jake cried out, "HE'S goo-goo for YOUR Renamon now"

"This must be very embarrassing for you Jake" Vic grunted, "Me an' Tachomon are standing RIGHT BEHIND YOU"

"MEEEP" Jake shouted and jumped into a shrub

"OWWWWW" A voice came from it, "WHAT WAS THAT FOR!"

"Who are you!" Jake screamed jumping from the bush.

"The Name is Allison Franchi, now kindly apologize for squishing Patamon," The girl said.

"Sorry" Jake mumbled.

"That's better" The female Patamon rose up from the bushes and landed on Monodoramon's head, "Ooooh, you're a cutie!"

"Um..thanks?" Monodoramon replied blushing.

"And your cute too" Allison replied coming over to Ryou.

"Um..thanks?" Ryou mimicked, blushing also.

"Easy there Ryou" Vic teased, "Don't melt on us too easily"

"I'M NOT MELTING" Ryou blushed brightly.

"Surrrreeeeeeeee" Vic drew out his sentence with a smirk.

"Let's just…keep moving" Jake muttered sweatdropping.

"WHO DIED AND MADE YOU LEADER GOGGLEHEAD!" Rika shouted.

"Vic did" Ryou mumbled, still blushing madly.

"I..uh..uh-oh" Vic mumbled, "Time to run" and with that, he took off.

"Like I said.." Jake sweatdropped again, "Let's keep moving"

"Fine" Rika muttered, "I hate you, you know"

"Yes, I know" Jake replied, walking "I love you too Rika-chan"

"WATCH IT MISTER" She yelled, "Or I'll beat you until your redder than your dino!"

"My Dino?" Jake replied innocently, then grinned "I thought he was Renamon's dino"

"HEY" Guile shouted blushing.

"Relax" Jake said, "You know I love ya!"

"YOUR SUPPOSED TO LOVE ME DORK!" Rika yelled.

"I thought you hated me" Jake replied grinning.

"I..er..YEAH, I DO HATE YOU!" Rika shouted, blushing slightly.

"Gotcha!" Jake winked and ran off.

"Yeah…well…YOUR LUCKY VIC WAS TOO PREOCCUPIED WITH GETTING KILLED BY RYOU TO CATCH YOU PULLING THAT" Rika replied, trying to save face.

"And YOU are lucky I don't come back there and kiss that hot cheek of yours" Jake called from the front laughing.

"WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU" Rika shouted.

"Baby…" Jake grinned, "THAT'S what I'm countin' on"

"YOU LITTLE MAGGOT" Rika yelled.

"Until death do we part hon" Jake snorted.

"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" She yelled.

"Reiterating my point, you really are quite redundant Rika" Jake smirked.

"I'LL HURT YOU" She screamed.

"But first you'll have to beat me into submission" Jake smirked.

"WHY YOU LITTLE!" Rika shouted.

"I'm not little" Jake smirked.

"YOU-YOU" Rika's face flushed.

"You little slice of beefcake?" Jake grinned.

"I'LL MAKE YOU HURT" Rika screamed.

"That's the point hun" Jake laughed.

"STOP HITTING ON ME" Rika yelled.
"This close to gettin' to score, your kidding" Jake giggled.

"YOU ARE SO DEAD" Rika shouted.

"May I rest in pieces, in your heart" Jake laughed and ran off.

"Finally, some peace" Ryou sweatdropped.

"You're silly, I like you" Patamon laughed, playing with Monodoramon's ears.

"Umm, I like you too?" Monodoramon stared up cross-eyed at Patamon.

"Your SOOOOOO cute" Patamon yelled hugging his head.

"Ryou….help me!" Monodoramon complained.

"I would.. Except I'm dealin' with a "problem" of my own" Ryou smirked at Allison.

"Gotta love you Ryou" Allison giggled hugging Ryou.

"Let's just..get on with it" Vic sighed from the front, now content that Ryou wouldn't kill him.

"Yes..let's" Jake sweatdropped.

"Ohhh, Rejecteddd!" Allison whispered to Hana, Hana nodded.

As they continued up the trail, they soon found themselves emersed into the trees towards the encampment, there were those plotting their downfall, inside of a higher fortress.

"So, it is agreed" The young child said, "I deliver you that brat, and you give me the next crystal?"

"Why again do you want the crystal?" A man in black asks.

"Because" The younger one replied, "I already explained it to you, to open the gates of pandemonium and chaos upon the digital world and earth, I plan on desolating the barriers"

"And this will help HOW?" The voice boomed.

"War generals will use digimon to their own vices, human nature is selfish and greedy" The child spoke, "They'll bring about the end of the world"

"And why do you want to help us?" The voice shouted.

"I have my own score to settle with the little jerk" The child muttered, "I'll never forget what happened back there"

FLASHBACK

"I summon Magistrate Palidin in attack mode" Jake shouts. (ATK: 2750/DEF: 2500) "Now I'll use my new card to put an end to hibernating demon dragon (ATK: 2500/DEF: 2400), but since your in defense mode, it'll be okay"

"Wrong bookie" Derek shouts back, "I pay 1000 LP to activate the special effect of my hibernating demon dragon, and summon his full-on form, the regular demon dragon (ATK: 3500/DEF: 2700) in attack mode, your lucky its still your turn!"

"Yes, lucky" Jake sneers, "I place one card face down, and end my turn"

"Fine" Derek growls, drawing his card, "I'll attack, nothing you can do can stop me anyway!"

"Wrong again Derek, that's not like you" Jake chuckles, "I flip my face down card, meet Illusion of Magic, a quick play magic card that let's me pick ANY card I want to change it to, as long as the card is a magic card as well!"

"Ohh babiii" Derek's smile dropped off his face.

"I use it to play dragonic fusion!" Jake commands, "Merging the eye of Timius, the Fang of Kritius, and the Claw of Harmos together, to form DIVINE DRAGON!" (ATK: 5000/DEF: 5000, special effect: When summoned, remove the top 5 cards of your deck from play, and add them as equip cards to Divine Dragon, adding atk and def where required, and treating magic and trap as unused cards that don't take up field space)

"NOT HIM" Derek shouted.

"Yep" Jake replies, "And after the changes, he gets to redirect your attack using one of his quick play magic cards, forced refire, and the monsters, turns out there were four, raise his attack power all the way up to 12000, countered against your 3500, that's 9500, 1500 more than 8000, you'd be beaten even if you hadn't taken a single life point loss this entire duel"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" Derek shouted, "How could you BEAT me, YOU'RE not even in my league"

"When you work hard, and don't try to claim to be God, when your not even the savior" Jake smiles, "Luck tends to fall to your side"

"Get lost Derek" Jake snarled, "You already betrayed me, you stole from me, and you almost ruined my life, I'm usually a forgiving guy, but you don't deserve it, your way too arrogant"

"I'LL GET YOU BACK!" Derek screamed, "I'LL DO IT, I SWEAR I WILL"

END FLASHBACK

"So you want to attack him for revenge eh?" The voice cackled, "PERFECT"

"Exactly" Derek gave a nasty grin, "I plan on making him pay for every single thing he's ever done to me"

"Good, good" The voice replied.

"Just one question" Derek blinked.

"Shoot then boy" The voice boomed.

"Why do you want Jake, he's small fish" Derek said, "Wouldn't it be better to take out Vic, or someone?"

"Because" The voice replied, "He killed Robert, rather his uppity reptile did, so as long as he exists, he's a constant threat, remove him and domination is certain!"

"This sounds like a job Robert should do by himself" Derek sweatdropped.

"He's not up to the task" The voice replied, "He wants you to do it"

"Jake once mentioned to me he always did things like this" Derek growled.

"He does, now get to it, Jake won't kill himself you know" The voice replied.

"Yes sir" Derek mumbled, before running to one of the rooms.

Meanwhile, the group had made it to the outer reaches of the base, and were preparing to scale the large metallic walls and break into the main complex.

"I really hope your right about this dude" Jake mumbled, climbing to the top.

"You're doubting me Jake?" Koushiro's voice came over the communication's port, "I'm insulted"

"I'll bet you are" Jake laughed.

"You'd win that bet" Koushiro responded coolly, taking the bait.

"Okay" Jake laughed, "I trust your know-how"

"You'd better" Koushiro snickered.

"Or what?" Jake joked, "You'll make the fence shock me?"

"Exactly" Koushiro replied, typing something causing just enough power to flow to the fence to give Jake a small shock.

"WAH" Jake shouted, "Okay, okay, I'll stop teasing!"

"That's better" Koushiro chuckled.

"Ouuch" Jake muttered rolling over the fence, "Okay, my turn, I'm a stealth-type, so I can crack the code in this base"

"It wants a password" Ryou called from the door.

"That shouldn't be difficult" Vic came over, "Knowing Robert, he wouldn't imagine ANYBODY could make it this far"

"So the password?" Ryou repeated.

"Robelze" Addie muttered.

"Identity confirmed, welcome in new agents" The computer said.

"Pity you'll be leaving us so soon!" A voice yelled, hitting a switch.

"WHAT THE FREAK?" Siaarn yelled before falling into the trap door and onto a slide.

"NOT COOL" Giruie squeaked as he fell.

"DOUBLE THAT" Rika yelled rolling onto a slide.

"HANG ON!" Jake shouted grabbing the side and extending his leg to anyone who could grab on.

"MEEEEEP" Giruie squeaked again gripping his leg tightly.

"STUPID GOGGLEHEAD!" Rika yelled plummeting below.

"I'LL FIGURE SOMETHING OUT, HANG ON!" Jake called.

"YOU'D BETTER" Kris called up.

After a few moments the platform leveled off leaving a slight elevator which Jake and Giruie were dropped upon.

"Congradulations!" A voice chirped from above, "You fell into my trap"

"I know that voice" Jake muttered as the platform raised.

"Follow my voice" The person called.

"Anything to shut you up" Jake rolled his eyes.

"Is it a trap?" Giruie asked softly.

"Of course" Jake replied, "But I know this one, nothing we can't handle"

"Then hurry up" The voice said in a singsong tone.

"Okay?" Jake rolled his eyes again walking down the hall and through a set of double doors, Giruie close behind.

"WELCOME TO MY LAIR" The voice cackled…And the doors all shut and locked, "Stay awhile, in fact, stay for life!" And the person shot something at Giruie.

"OWWIE!" Giruie whined as the dart hit. As it took effect, his eyes dilated slightly and he got somewhat woozie, "I..feel…funny"

"Then my hypno-dart took perfect effect" The young boy who'd been talking approached, he was about the same height as Jake with lighter brown hair, he was wearing all black and his shirt sleeve was covering something up.

Meanwhile in the prison area where the others had been dumped

"This place is sick" Rika replied looking at the walls.

"I'm totally grossed out" Addie gagged.

"Let's figure out a way to escape?" Kris questioned.

"Let's all calm down, we're just not going to get anywhere if we keep just yammering on the way we are" Ryou said softly.

"I agree, let's find a simple way to escape" Vic replied, "Search the area."

"Good idea Vic" Rika smiled.

"Thanks" Vic blushed, shooting a look at Ryou when he grinned.

"LET HIM GO" Jake replied as he watched some special shackles raise from the ground and wrap around Giruie like a python, Giruie's eyes just started to spin hypnotically and he seemed to forget somewhat where he was, "Jake…where…are…you?" Giruie whimpered.

"Right here, don't worry, I'll get you back!" Jake replied.

"Then I want to play" The guy grinned, fingering the vaccine.

"Your call" Jake snarled.

"Good" The guy grinned, "Then let's DUEL!"

"I KNEW IT" Jake growled, "DEREK WARNER!"

"Bow down when you speak to your future master" Derek snarled at him, throwing the cloak aside, revealing a duel disk on his arm.

"Fine, I've used a dimensional gate key on my deck in case I ever saw you again" Jake shouted, using the silver dimensional gate key he had tied around his neck by a string to summon his deck to his hand, along with a duel disk with a Giru-shell on it around his wrist.

"You have a duel disk?" Derek laughed.

"Yep" Jake replied sliding his deck into the deck slot, "Specially summoned, by the magic of the digital world, red with black stripes, and the places that the cards are set up are white with a hazard sign in the middle.

"FINE THEN" Derek roared, moving his disk to the active position.

"Yes" Jake replied, doing the same.

"LET'S DUEL!" They shouted in unison.

Jake: 8000 LP

Derek: 8000 LP.

As they searched, they uncovered many interesting things, including structural information by tapping into the computer through a port found under the floor, but other than that, no way to escape.

"Those two monitors seem to be important" Ryou pointed, referring to the two inactive monitors above the door. At that moment they activated displaying a simple set of figures, one line per screen.

Jake: 8000 LP Stakes: Unknown

Derek: 8000 LP. Stakes: Freeing Giruie

"Oh..my God" They all said in unison staring at the monitor, watching as the unknown changed to read what Jake had staked on the duel.

"OH MY GOD!" They all repeated, screaming when the ante was clearly written above on the monitor.

Jake: OOOOOOHHH, I just LOOVVVEEEEE to leave people hanging.

Guilmon: This is the craziest match I've ever seen, why'd you do what you did?

Jake: Because I was worried about you baby brother

Guilmon: Ooh.

Jake: Yeah.

Guilmon: Well, be sure to catch the next exciting chapter of The Awakening, peace out!

Jake: Yeah!.