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Change of plans

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Stephen's heart stopped. The world stopped. One second lasting and extending into infinity. The world around him was a muffled mix of shouts and explosions. Blurred lights wavered around his eyes.

A predominant emerald light seemed to flood his vision. Stephen blinked and saw the sphere of green light hovering above the crater that Mark had been in. Phelesmon's trident was slammed in the ground in front of the demon.

"Pidmon mode change to, Emerald Mode," The sphere of green exploded revealing an armored version of Pidmon. His armor was much like an emerald exoskeleton. His wings unfurled and were a deep forest green. His helmet was now green jewel encrusted. He turned to reveal two elegant swept back wings that were melded to the forehead of the helmet. The angel dropped down and lowered Mark to the ground unscathed. The angel opened his hand; a long jewel encrusted staff shot from his palm. The angel turned to Phelesmon. "You have attempted to enslave the peaceful digimon of this island; you stole the power of balance and destroyed the guardians of the Temple of Calumon. You will submit or be destroyed..."

"I will?" Phelesmon opened his hand and the trident shot into his hand. "Strange, by this time I'd think I'd be saying that to you...Black Statue!"

The tendrils of black energy swept forward. The emerald angel swept his staff forward spinning the tendrils together like spaghetti and drew them into a black ball of energy at the tip of his staff. Phelesmon growled softly. He opened his mouth.

"Exalted Speed!" The emerald angel disappeared only to reappear behind Phelesmon, spinning around to land a round house kick in the back of the demon.

The demon turned his trident raised. "You will pay..."

The angel drew his strength toward the tip of his staff. Phelesmon leapt at the angel. Pidmon side stepped and whirled around to face the demon. His energy continued to draw up into his staff. The black orb that was at the distal end of the rod was engulfed by emerald glazing. Pidmon opened his wings wide. A light swept over them and down over his body and into his staff. "Phoenix Feather!" a beam of emerald light cut forward. Swirls of emerald feathers exploded along the stream yielding their energy to the blast. Phelesmon stood back but the blast washed through him and exploded into the Statue of Calumon behind the demon. The statue shattered into eight large fragments and clattered to the ground. The light faded revealing the contorted form of Boogeymon lying on the ground. The angel fell backwards. A light encompassed him and Lucemon landed in Mark's arms.

"Hurry, we haven't much time," whispered Lucemon. "Destroy him now, without the statue he can't digivolve..."

"We have to attack now!" shouted Mark he looked at Boogeymon laying prone on the ground.

"But..." Amy looked at the defenseless figure.

"No time to argue..." whispered Lucemon. "Now, or never..."

"Lucemon's right!" shouted Kevin.

"Wild Thunder!" growled Shima Unimon.

"Armor Piercing Blade!" Ginryuumon fired his energy blade.

"Ice Blast!" growled Seadramon as a tidal wave of ice swamped the demon.

"Schwarz Strahl!" roared Dobermon sending his nightmarish beam at the depleted devil lord.

"Jaenryuu!" twisting dragons of fire rammed down on the beast.

"La Pucelle!" streams of pink lightning lashed down into the rubble.

"Amy?" Saberdramon looked down at the girl.

"Now, or never..." whispered Amy quietly. She looked at the beaten, burned and bruised creature on the floor, "he showed no compassion towards us...showed us no mercy...but he is defenseless...but so were the people of this island! Saberdramon...do it!"

"Black Saber!" growled Saberdramon as the black blade sliced down.

Boogeymon faded into waves of black dust as the children looked on. The sky cleared quietly revealing the stars and the moon.

"We did it?" Kevin blinked. "It's quieter than I expected...."

"Lucemon..." whispered Mark. The boy was shaking the angel gently, "Wake up Lucemon."

The angel's eyes opened slightly and he looked at Mark, "I think I over extended myself..." A smile cut across his face, "but I did it...I fixed things...I just wish it hadn't been so late..."

"No you can't go," Mark grabbed the angel and held him close, "you can't die! You can't give up!"

"I'll be back...when you need me," whispered Lucemon; he lifted his hand weakly against the boy's cheek as he glowed brightly. The angelic form burst slightly and then like someone pressed rewind the dust condensed down into a small egg. The glow expanded and then disappeared into the egg.

"An egg...?" Mark looked down at the oval that sat in his lap.

The champions de-digivolved and stood next to their partners.

"A digi-egg!" Renamon leapt beside Mark.

"Is this what you meant, Renamon?" Janet ran up next to the fox.

"Yes," said the kitsune quietly. "A digi-egg that will eventually return to Lucemon..."

Suddenly there was a loud crack in the court yard. The kids jumped. The statue of Mud Frigimon exploded and the giant stumbled forward.

"Mud Frigimon!" the children gasped.

"Ugh...why do I have the taste of marble in my mouth," grumbled Mud Frigimon.

"Because...you were attacked by Phelesmon," coughed a voice from one of the interior doors. Wizardmon was leaning against the door heavily. Gatomon was on his shoulder. "Demi Devimon just deleted...he was badly hurt...Unfortunately...Nohemon was...not. He escaped into the palace."

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"Master..." Nohemon's voice whispered. The crow looked up at the projection of a shadowy figure. It was a humanoid being and had puffy shoulders and thighs. "Your watcher was destroyed..."

"The statue?" grumbled the shadow.

"It also was destroyed," replied Nohemon.

"You have forfeited your scarecrow..." said the shadow. The crow nodded. "Why?"

"The humans have learned my weakness, it is unwise to give them such a large target," replied the crow.

"Humans?" the shadow's fist tightened. "That old coot...Why have you not destroyed them?"

"I have not been able to," replied the crow.

"Then you are useless to me!" roared the voice. The shadow reached out and the crow dispersed into dust.

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Gennai looked down at the screen. The image of the island was below. There wasn't much time. The transmission from Piedmon had only just finished. He had a short window before Piedmon's dampening field closed. It had to be short, but he couldn't risk going there personally. He pressed a button.

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"Children..." came a voice in the middle of the courtyard. The young humans jumped in surprise. They turned to look for the voice.

An image glowed softly. It was short and stocky. He wore red and black clothes. He had a small bob of grey hair on his head. His face was wrinkled and his eyes were closed.

"Who are you?" the boy in the blue cap asked as he stepped forward. "Are you the one that brought us here?"

The figure looked at them all quietly for a moment before answering, "In a way I did, as I was the one that sent the digivices through the port, but I had no idea that you personally were coming, that, my friends was merely destiny."

"I don't understand, why wait till now?" the boy with the laptop walked up closer to the figure, "Why not contact us immediately?"

"I have many enemies here," said the figure. He looked up as the boy with the laptop slid his hand through the image. "They would attempt to destroy me if I left my hiding place..."

"A holographic projection..." whispered the boy. He looked intently at the figure, "Are you a human or a digimon?"

"That is neither here nor there," replied the figure. He waved his hand. "Right now, all you must know is that my name is Gennai..."

"And?" the boy in the light ice cream orange clothes stepped forward. "I mean that doesn't get us out of here, our parents are probably worried sick about us..."

"I know," said the figure, "but right now there are more important things to discuss, upon the continent of Server there is a warlord, when I heard you had defeated Boogeymon, I knew you could save us...but..."

"What?" asked a girl with short brown hair.

"The warlord is far more powerful than what your champions together," said the figure. "The Statue of Calumon..."

"Was destroyed in the fight," cut in the boy with blonde hair and blue eyes. "It is in eight fragments there on the ground..."

"I see..." whispered the figure. He looked up at the three digimon that had accompanied the destined.  "Wizardmon come closer."

The wizard swept forward and stood next to figure and nodded. Wizardmon turned and walked over to the fragments and carried them to Gennai. The wizard turned and presented the fragments to the children. Gennai started to chant softly. The fragments glowed and lifted up and glided to each of the eight children, as they did they changed and formed into small tags.

"What are these?" asked the girl in the mini-skirt quietly.

"These are tags," replied Gennai quietly, "I know that upon arrival on Server you must find the tags that go with them; it was the original plan, as the statue is half of the power you need. The tags will react to the presence of their crest. It is how you will find the crests. I am afraid my time here is up. I'll talk to you on Server..."

"Wait!" Michelle leapt up. "How are we going to get there?"

"What? I-I can't...." Gennai's image disappeared.

"Well, that was helpful..." growled Jason quietly.

"Do not worry," said Wizardmon. He walked next to the children, "Gennai may seem old and senile but he is very...knowledgeable."

"Maybe we shouldn't stick around here," grumbled Mud Frigimon, "It feels weird here..."

"You are right," replied Wizardmon. He looked all over the palace. He narrowed his eyes, "What happened to Impmon...?"

"He ran away," said Mark. He looked at Wizardmon.

"Nohemon...We should find him..." said the wizard.

"Let me," called Gatomon. She leapt off. "I'll find that overgrown crow in no time! I'll meet you outside...there was a Gotsumon village down the mountain, I'll see you there!""

The cat disappeared into the castle. Wizardmon narrowed his eyes and sighed. "Come along, we must figure out a way to get you across the ocean." The wizard flicked passed them and looked at children. The kids looked at each other and then followed the wizard. Mud Frigimon walked along behind the children.

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AN: And that is it...for Boogeymon, the next installment will be a bit...I have things I have to count up, and I am considering endeavors with the prequel, which is in the 02 01 universe. I think it's difficult sometimes to pull up what happened to the 02 01 universe that caused it to become this one because the main actors of the in between, which I like to call the deciders of the universal make up of this new reformatted universe, are either deleted or hiding and can only speak in short snippets....As to this prequel I've been rabbitting on about. It has some plotting problems right now...I'm working on it, things seem a little...off...though they are cohesive they just seem off...