"Davis, are you feeling better?" Veemon asked. He had devolved back to his rookie form.

"NO! I am not!" Davis stomped a foot. "TK! TK! TK! She kissed TK!"

"Davis, calm down!" Veemon shouted.

"With that reject from Gilligan's Island! How could she?!" The spires began to take control of him again.

Veemon jumped up and slapped Davis across the face. "Snap out of it! She was under the control of the spires, and you're going to be too if you don't simmer done."

Davis mustered all off his rationality and buried the hatred towards TK, at least for now. "You're right Veemon."

"Good, then we should go meet up with the others." Veemon smiled.

"Excuse me, are you the one called Davis?" The two first noticed more digimon around them for the first time. A Redveggiemon along with two Veggiemon stood in front of them. "Our master Epsilon sent us."

"You won't take us with out a fight." Davis put up his fists.

"Now, we weren't sent to fight." Redveggiemon shook his head. "Far from it, we would like to invite you to Epsilon's quaint residence." The red plant motioned in the distance to a large bio-dome suspended on a gigantic pillar.

"Do you think we're nuts?" Veemon asked, preparing to digivolve again.

"You would be wise to take Epsilon's hospitality. She has one guest there already." Redveggiemon clapped his vines together. One of the Veggiemon walked forward and handed Davis a shirt.

Davis looked at the shirt. He looked up at Redveggiemon. "If you hurt one hair on…"

"You do not have to worry, our guest is perfectly safe." Redveggiemon turned and started to bounce away. "But Epsilon is not known for her patience, so I would hurry if I were you." The trio of plant digimon waddled back towards the castle.

Veemon looked up at Davis. He could see Davis was angry, even angrier then he was at TK just a few minutes ago. "Calm down, don't let the spires take over. What is it?"

Davis held out the shirt. On it several boys' names were written on it. "It's my sister's. Epsilon has my sister Jun"



"Be quiet." Davis announced for the umpteenth time. They strode through the dome, where the ambiance had a strangely ecological theme. They were in a hall now, lush with foliage, vines climbed up the side of the steel walls. There was even a waterfall that ended several stories down into an enormous pool they passed when they entered the building.

Veemon did know how he could be quieter while still continuing to breathe. He just nodded and covered his mouth. The two had snuck into Epsilon's lair with no plan. He thought they should have regrouped with everybody else and attacked Epsilon's en masse. All he knew now is that he would follow Davis and defend him.

"Welcome to my humble abode! I've seen you've had a chance to admire my décor. I've always had a bit of a green thumb." Davis and Veemon looked up. A loud speaker boomed throughout he hall. The voice was almost strangely melodic, but had a sinister tone to it. "I am delighted you decided to join me and my dinner guest."

Davis shouted up at the loud speaker. "Let my sister go!"

"Now why would I do that?" Epsilon's voice laugh echoed through the corridor. A door swung open in the side of the hall. "Please take advantage of my hospitality, and enter through that door."

"I don't think so, you bitch!" Davis screamed. Veemon whispered for him to calm down, but Davis continued. "Do you honestly think we'll fall for that trap?"

"But, my sweet boys, you already did." The room instantly filled with a mixture of Woodmon and Redveggiemon, popping out of the ground, behind walls, everywhere it seemed.

"Digi-armor-energize!" Davis shouted. These were plant digimon, so fire would be more effective.

Veemon was enveloped by flame, and Flamedramon appeared in his place. "Fire of Courage!"

The speaker at the hall spoke again. "A whole champion digimon. Impressive. Don't kill them, but feel free to have a little fun. All work and no play…well you know the rest." The speaker exploded into shrapnel as Flamedramon fired a blast into it.

A Redveggiemon jumped forward. "Time to tenderize!" The rest of the army followed suit. Flamedramon fired a blast, disintegrating the cocky first digimon, but strong wooden hands from the Woodmon grabbed him from behind. He bent down and threw his attackers over his shoulders, but he realized he wasn't going to win under such overwhelming odds. He needed to get Davis to safety. The question was where he could send Davis that would be safe? That was when Flamedramon remembered the waterfall. "Come on, Davis, we're leaving." Flamedramon grabbed the protesting child under his arm and jumped towards the waterfall.

"Now where are you all going? We haven't even shown you the dungeon yet. You'll love it, trust us." The Redveggiemon's vines wrapped around Flamedramon's legs, pulling him down.

"Sorry, Davis, but my first duty is your safety." Flamedramon threw Davis toward the raging waterfall, shortly before Flamedramon was slammed into the ground. Davis was flung into the raging torment and fell into the pool stories below. Flamedramon allowed himself a brief smile before a Woodmon ended his conscious thoughts with a blow to the head.



"Whoa, that was some party." Flamedramon rubbed his head.

Strong hands rested against his shoulders. "Don't make any sudden movements."

Flamedramon jumped up and landed on his feet, but nearly fell over again. "Who are you?"

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." A shapely body stood in front him. Long green hair/vines hung over her pink skin. "My name is Lillymon. Who are you? I thought the council had all of the digimon either under their control or captured."

"My name is Flamedramon, I am one of the chosen digimon." Flamedramon relaxed his stance.

"A chosen digimon? Is that your champion form, Agumon? Or Gabumon? Did you learn to digivolve further without your digivice like I did? That's great!" Lillymon ran forward and hugged Flamedramon.

Flamedramon shook his head. "I'm sorry. I'm not one of the original chosen digimon. I am from another time-line, one of the new chosen digimon."

Lillymon looked confused briefly at first, but broke into tears. "I knew it was to good to be true. I haven't seen my digimon friends since Ladydevimon destroyed poor Patamon and scattered us over the world. I taught myself to digivolve to help save this world, but Epsilon captured me and I've been here ever since."

"Well, I have some good news at least. Patamon is here too. He came from my time-line, and he's alive and well." Flamedramon smugly said.

"Oh that's great!" Lillymon hugged even tighter. "I saw that… monster Ladydevimon kill Patamon, the rest of us fought back, but as Palmon I just didn't have enough power."

"It's all right, Lillymon." Flamedramon ran his claws threw her green hair. "My friends and I will do everything possible to stop Ladydevimon and her council." Flamdedramon turend white with light, and shrank. "But for now, I need to conserve my energy." Veemon now stood in his smaleer blue rookie form.

"Good idea." Lillymon began to glow white as well, and shrank back to her rookie form of Palmon. "Don't worry, I can digivolve whenever I want to. So what do we do now?"

"Davis will be back shortly to rescue us and his sister any minute, don't you worry!" Veemon replied optimistically.

"Sister?" Palmon replied confused. "But there are no human prisoners, in fact, I'm the only one in the dungeon, present company excluded."

"You sure?" Veemon asked confused. "I mean, Epsilon had Jun's shirt."

Palmon's eyes grew wide. "Her? But," She struggled to phrase her next sentence. "That's Epsilon's real name. Jun is Epsilon."