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Cheese for the Mouse

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Kevin and Snow Agumon walked up a good deal ahead of Michelle. They were pushing through groups of ferns and other semi-tropical plants. The trees all had a light green moss that covered them and often times glided over the ground in small circles around the base of the trees. The boy was getting more concerned. They had walked a very long time and not come up on Amy or Penguinmon.

"Maybe she didn't come this way?" said Snow Agumon. He looked up at his human partner.

"Maybe," said Kevin quietly. He stopped and looked back at his sister, "Michelle, are you ok?"

"I'm ok, Kevin," said the girl quietly. She sighed and looked down.

"No you aren't," Kevin turned around and walked to his sister. "What's wrong?"

"I just feel responsible…we were kind of hard on Amy," said Michelle. Her eyes were distant, "and I started thinking about why we were chosen. I mean out of how many kids there are in the universe, why us? Why not the others in the park…what if we aren't really the chosen ones and they missed…? Whoever they are…"

"Because we all have something special to offer," said Kevin quietly. He looked down at his sister. "I mean we have to, right…? Other wise Boogeymon would've thrashed us…"

"Michelle?" Labramon leaned against the girl's leg, "Are you saying that you aren't really my partner? I really don't think I'd want a different partner…"

Michelle looked down at the retriever. "I don't think I would want another partner either…"

"Come on…" said Kevin softly as he put his arm around Michelle's shoulders, "We have to find her…"

The girl nodded and the two of them pressed forward.

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"So, is she near by?" asked Janet to Renamon. The fox looked up and shook her head. Janet sighed. "How'd she get so far away?"

"It's not difficult," said Jason quietly. He walked passed Janet. "She just had to start off…knowing Amy she wasn't paying attention to where she was going, and then she just…" Jason stopped and looked down. "Damn…"

Janet walked up next to Jason. "What is…?" she looked down and saw Penguinmon laid out on the ground. "Dear…God…!"

Janet's shout roused a movement from the small aquatic bird. Renamon and Otamamon immediately moved to the bird's side and helped her up. They pushed aside a fern and to get to her.

"He came…" whispered Penguinmon. The other two looked down at the bird.

"Who?" asked Jason. The boy lowered to one knee to converse with the digimon.

"Assaultmon was what he called himself," replied Penguinmon. She looked weakly up at the two children, "I failed her…he was so strong and he took me out with one shot…and then disappeared…he wanted Amy…so he could lure you to him. He was going to use her as bait…"

"Oh no…" Janet and Jason looked at each other. "We have to get to the others!"

Jason and the others turned and ran back through the forest.

"This way!" shouted Renamon. "I can smell our tracks it's this way!"

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Steven looked down at his brother. The boy was carrying Puttomon in his hands. The baby digimon was gurgling peacefully in his hand, and bouncing every once in a while. His little, marshmallow body jiggled with each bounce.

The sand was soft. The air was filled with salt and loud squawking gulls. The two of them were trudging through the beach like it was deep snow.

"I wonder how long he'll stay as Puttomon…" said Mark suddenly.

"I don't know," replied Steven. Steven reached out and stroked the marshmallow like crest on Puttomon's head. The baby responded with a loud purr. Suddenly the baby started to fuss. A whimper rang out from the marshmallow mouth.

"What's wrong baby?" asked Ryuudamon as he stretched to look up.

"PUTTO, PUTTO PUUUUUTTTOOOOOOO!!!" screamed the baby loudly. Ryuudamon cowered slightly at the earsplitting shriek. Suddenly the digimon exploded in light. The ball of marshmallow changed and turned into a little semi-human form. He had a marshmallow body and little marshmallow wings and the crest was still on the creature's head. Half its body was a dark black and the other half was a creamy white.

"Cupimon…" Mark gasped as the digimon landed on the ground.

"Mark!" chirped the little digimon. The digimon looked up at the two humans, "You do realize she's not this way…Amy went the other direction."

Steven looked down at the digimon with a bit of surprise… "How do you know…?"

"I was watching her when she left, Janet and Jason have probably already found her…" said the digimon quietly.

Steven looked surprised, "Then we better go back in case they're already back…"

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Brendan looked up from his laptop. Penguinmon, Renamon and Otamamon were running, well Otamamon was scurrying, up to him. Behind them were Jason and Janet. Brendan got a sick feeling in his stomach.

"Where are the others?" asked Jason quickly.

"Amy was caught by Assaultmon!" shouted Jason as he passed by the boy and looked in the direction that Steven and Mark had gone. The waves slapped in soft murmurs against the beach.

"Who?" Brendan asked in frustration.

"Assaultmon," murmured the blue penguin softly. Her head hung low. "He's this large steel encased digimon. He has large barreled guns for arms and hands and he wears this pink stocking hat thing. His hydraulic hoses and pipes are all over his back and he's just a great big metallic centaur is what he looks like…he has a horse like rear and a humanoid torso."

"Not only that," Janet said as she walked up behind Penguinmon, "but he is really, really strong."

"I was Saberdramon and he took me out like I was nothing," said Penguinmon.

Brendan narrowed his eyes. "I'm not sure if this guy is the warlord or not….we don't know how powerful digimon on the continent are…"

"What digimon?" asked Steven's voice. Brendan turned to see the two brothers running up to them with Cupimon and Ryuudamon.

"Assaultmon," said the others.

"Hey where's Amy?" Mark asked innocently. Penguinmon started to cry. Mark looked at Steven and then at Penguinmon.

"He's taken Amy," Renamon said quietly. Mark's eyes widened.

"We have to rescue her…" said Brendan quietly.

"No," Jason stated. The others looked at him in shock.

"What do you mean, 'no'!?" Steven shouted in anger. "She's our friend, sure she was a little bratty recently but that's no reason to just leave in the hands of some weird digimon!"

"That is what Assaultmon wants…" Jason said with little notice of Steven's anger. "He took Amy in hopes of luring us to her. If we go into this half cocked then we'll be turned into trophies…and if he is really as powerful as Penguinmon says then we'll have to be extremely careful."

"We have to get Kevin and Michelle," Brendan said. "We need to get them in case he takes them too!" The others nodded a bit. Brendan turned to Renamon, "Can you follow their scent?"

"Yes…fortunately for us…Kevin has a sardine stuck in his shoe…" said Renamon and she crinkled her nose, "I could follow their scent if it was a week old…"

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"General," Goblimon turned as Assaultmon appeared on the teleporter pod.

"What?" growled Assaultmon as he moved over to a large Plexiglas dome and dropped Amy inside. He turned on the dull green goblin. The room was a scientific white, sterling brightness filled the room. The machinery was perfectly cleaned and even Goblimon was in a clean sack cloth. "What is the matter?"

"We're losing the children's signatures…" said the goblin as he cowered back against the machinery.

"What do you mean?" roared Assaultmon. He stomped impatiently on the white linoleum floor with his metallic hooves causing the floor to make clanky clomp noises.

"Something is causing a sensor disruption…" whimpered the goblin

"FIX IT!" roared Assaultmon. "If those kids get away…"

"Umm, what about your plan?" asked Goblimon. The glowing yellow eyes of Assaultmon caught the goblin coldly.

"I have yet to inform them of where the girl is being held," growled Assaultmon. He gave an angry huff.

"The last known coordinates showed the children moving closer to the Gigimon village…" reported Goblimon fearfully as he stood slowly.

The metal jaw of Assaultmon jerked up into a cold smile. "The Gigimon will do anything to save their hides…Send the girl to the Gigimon tell them to put her up in a mountain cave…we shall use that as our chance to destroy them…"

"Of course, sir," said the Goblimon as he hopped up. "We still…have to worry about the sensor systems…"

"Prepare my cavalcade, I'll check the systems out myself," rumbled Assaultmon. The digimon growled and turned and stomped up to the Plexiglas sphere. He clanked his gun like arm on the top of the sphere. "Wake up you brat!" growled Assaultmon. The girl flickered her eyes open and stared upwards in terror.

"It wasn't a nightmare…" whispered Amy. She tried to stand but the curved, slick surface of the plastic prevented her from doing so. "You let me out you, you, vocalized Volvo!"

"Heh, soon it won't matter if you are free or not…" The digimon lifted the ball between his guns and walked it over to the teleporter pad. "Send it to these coordinates, Goblimon…"

"Yes, General," replied the goblin as he looked down at the screen. Amy was surrounded by light and the scene faded out again.

"We'll start our search near the Gigimon village," said Assaultmon with a snort. "Kill two birds with one stone…"

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Kevin and Michelle walked slowly up to the periphery of thatched houses and small wooden sheds. Snow Agumon and Labramon both nuzzled their way closer.

"Be careful…" whispered Michelle as the two digimon snuck closer. "We don't want to get caught…"

"Caught by whom?" asked a small squeaky voice that made the children jump. The two adolescences spun around to be confronted by nothing. The voice coughed, "Down here…" the children looked down to see a small, red, fox dinosaur thing looking up at them. Its tail swished softly and its large, golden eyes looked at them innocently.

"Umm, hello," said Kevin in a 'not quite there' sort of way.

"You must be the digi-destined…" said the creature. The two children looked at each other and blinked.

"Umm, that sounds…" started Kevin quietly. "Wait…how did you know?!"

"Well, it's not often that humans come to the continent…" replied the creature as it padded forward on four stubby legs.

"So…" Michelle spoke. "You are…?"

"I'm a Gigimon, but there are many like me in the village," replied the digimon quietly. "I sorry to hear about your friend…."

"What?" Kevin looked down at the creature in surprise. "What do you mean you feel sorry about hearing about my friend?!"

"Well, the human girl, she was captured by General Assaultmon," whispered the digimon, "in fact he has her trapped up in the mountains up there!" The digimon's tail flicked up to the mountains that encroached around the village.

"Which one of the girls!?" demanded Kevin as he grabbed the digimon up and shook it vehemently.

"They say it's the one with the dark hair…" whimpered the digimon as its body was shook back and forth. "She has green eyes! That's all I know!"

"Amy…" Snow Agumon and Labramon whispered together.

"We have to get her!" growled Kevin. He dropped the red digimon and turned to run.

Suddenly Renamon appeared in front of the boy. He nearly fell backwards as the fox's paw pressed against his advancing chest.

"I was hoping that technique would work," whispered Renamon quietly to herself. Her goldenbody shifted slightly as she grasped the front of the boy's shirt impeding his fall. Her ice blue eyes caught Kevin's. "Don't go anywhere until the others have caught up to you, they are only a few minutes behind me. We have to inform you on what has happened…" Kevin stood up and nodded dumbfoundedly. Renamon smirked softly. "That was easier than I thought…"

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AN: Thanks to Alforce again…I think I tried to fit in more description. I often find myself more worried about moving the plot along than I do describing it. I know it can get rather bad…

Oh and on a side note…hehe…I umm…have been misspelling D'Arcmon for a very long time, and as such…I will be rectifying that, but I don't think I'm going to go back at this time to fix those parts where I screwed up the spelling. I may in the future, but at this time I find that it would be just…too time consuming to search out every D'Archmon.

On yet another side note, I have started to put forth my prequel of sorts to this titled, Fall of Harmony. I will say this, it is a tad more, dark than this story, or at least I think it is. I have several of the chapters already finished and I am posting them sporadically, sometimes in couplets sometimes not. I believe I'm up to chapter 14 finished, not posted. Those that are reading it…it gets a tad bit darker than what it is at now.

Next chapter…we'll see how things go and we may see some other stuff!