Disclaimer: Digimon Adventure 02 and its characters were created by Bandai, not me.

Author's Notes: This is set two years after the defeat of Belial Vamdemon, known to those who have only seen the dub as Malo Myotismon. I also base this on the information that since this season took place three years after the first season (summer 1999) in 2002, and the assumption that the overall storyline progressed through the course of a year ending a little ways into the start of 2003. That makes this 2005.

The Infamous Digitamamon's Restaurant

After clearing out the dark towers from the Southern Region of the digital world, the chosen children with the addition of Ryo made their way to Digitamamon's restaurant to celebrate over a well-deserved lunch. Strikedramon had since de-evolved into Monodramon, fitting much more easily with the other chosen digimon.

"So Ken, just who is this guy anyway?" Daisuke indicated Ryo with a slight wave of his hand as though the other boy was unaware that he had become the subject of discussion.

Ken sighed, "It's like I said before. I don't really remember it clearly, but roughly five years ago we teamed up against this evil digimon--"

"Millenniumon," supplied Ryo.

"Right, Millenniumon," Ken continued. "After we won, I was hit with the dark spore and went back to the real world. I had no idea what became of Ryo, but when the dark spore took control I forgot all about what had happened except vague flickers from dreams... I know Wormmon was with me back then, but that's about it. Everything else is pretty foggy."

Ryo decided this would be a good time to explain his side of the story. "All I really know for certain about my past as a chosen child is that I was supposedly destined to defeat Millenniumon, but somewhere along the lines I started getting thrown around into other dimensions and alternative versions of the digital world... and it somehow turned out that Millenniumon was supposed to be my partner, weird I know, and Monodramon forced a jogress evolution and became Cyberdramon while I spent the past few years exploring another digital world."

"And you just got back?" asked Iori.

"Well, for a while there I wasn't even sure I could get back, but I got lucky," replied Ryo. It was silly, but there was just something altogether strange about interracting with a bunch of chosen children that he had spent the better part of the last four years knowing of as the heroes of the popular Digimon TV series. The other tamers would sure be surprised to see him like this.

"Well, how about we pretend that story makes sense and just be friends, alright?" Daisuke seemed a little more confused than usual. Then again, even Koushiro might have difficulty comprehending Ryo's rather complicated history.

"Sure, sounds great." Ryo rubbed the back of his head looking a little embarassed. He always got like this around other chosen children it seemed, but at least in this world he didn't have to worry about being famous. Sometimes Hirokazu and Kenta scared him with their unhealthy hero-worship of him. Really, it was just a card tournament.

In the real world, Koushiro was busy monitoring the digital world for any other abnormal activities after the scenario with the dark towers had revealed itself during the early hours of the morning. Now he was detecting an abnormal data pattern closing in on the familiar coordinates of Digitamamon's lakeside restaurant. In his mind, Koushiro wasn't surprised to think that this location might once again become a battlefield.

"Well, I might as well send them a warning that there's probably some unfriendly company headed their way," Koushiro mumbled to himself as he began hurriedly typing up an e-mail to send to the usual suspects. After they'd finally gotten on positive terms with Digitamamon, why was it that they always found themselves having to save the restaurant from some manner of evil digimon in order to pay off their tab? Oh well, it didn't seem like anything that the team wouldn't be able to handle.

"Does anyone else find this just a tad inconvenient?" asked Daisuke rather obliviously as he watched XV-mon punch a Cyclomon out of the main entrance to the restaurant.

"Not really, you get used to it after a while," replied Takeru sounding indifferent as Angemon hearded several Soulmon out that same door.

"Never a dull moment in the digital world, right?" Ryo sweatdropped as Strikedramon tackled another Cyclomon out the door.

"You'd think with all the times we've saved the digital world from destruction, the digimon would have a little more respect for us," Ken sighed as Stingmon punted yet another Cyclomon out the door.

"At least these guys are pretty weak," noted Daisuke.

Outside Ankylomon, Aquilamon and Nefertimon were attempting to force these rogue digimon around the other side of the lake so they could fight without damaging Digitamamon's restaurant. Iori, Miyako and Hikari cheered their digimon on from a safe distance. That was about when a horribly loud buzzing sound filtered through the area and was immediately followed by the noisy stomping of feet belonging to a truly unusual looking digimon, more commonly refered to as Dinobeemon.

"First dark towers and now the corrupted version of what happens when you mix XV-mon with Stingmon? This is some day we're having," Daisuke spared a glance out the window.

"You could at least pretend to be concerned," Takeru sweatdropped.

Daisuke grinned, "Why? Paildramon will KO that 'mon no sweat."

"Are you sure about that?" asked Ryo curiously. He hadn't actually gotten to watch Paildramon fight earlier since Qinglongmon had saved them the trouble of having to fight with Zhuqiaomon.

"Reasonably," replied Daisuke as he got up from the table. "Come on Ken, let's clean up this mess."

Ken shrugged and followed Daisuke outside. Several minutes later both of them ran back inside followed by a rather shaken looking V-mon and a nervous looking Wormmon.

Ryo raised an eyebrow, "What happened to "Paildramon will KO that 'mon no sweat."?"

"Uh... didn't work," admitted Daisuke with a nervous sweatdrop.

Koushiro-san,


We've got a serious problem here. This Dinobeemon appeared and now, for some reason, V-mon and Wormmon can't seem to evolve. We'd really appreciate some of that good advice about now.


Daisuke

Koushiro read the e-mail over with a raised eyebrow. First he would have to consult the digimon analyzer about what exactly a Dinobeemon is and maybe find out if it has some kind of weakness. What's strange is that it only seemed to be effecting V-mon and Wormmon, unless Daisuke is leaving out some important details... like maybe the sudden appearence of a dark tower! He looked the monitor over again and sighed with a reasonable amount of relief. No, that area is clear of dark towers. Why would V-mon and Wormmon be having problems though? And why not any of the other digimon?

Koushiro brought up the page of the digimon analyzer that displayed Dinobeemon. Well, that explained at least part of the trouble. At least, Koushiro thought he had a theory about what was going on now.

Daisuke,

Think of Dinobeemon as Paildramon's polar opposite. It attacks with sound waves and, being naturally weaker, is probably using a frequency specific to keeping Paildramon from becoming an obsticle on the battlefield. As much as you might not like it, you're going to have to let the others handle Dinobeemon and sit this one out.


Koushiro

Daisuke frowned at the response. Really, it was unheard of for the leader of the chosen childrento sit out of the fighting. The very idea didn't settle well with him at all. "Let the others fight and not help out, he must be joking!"

"Just calm down. Koushiro-san usually knows what he's talking about." Takeru got up from the table to join the others outside. "We've got this one under control."

Ryo nodded, "You can help by cheering the rest of us on." He glanced out the window to see how Strikedramon was fairing.

"I think I've figured this out now," announced Ken once the rest of the group had been forced back inside with the exception of Ryo and Strikedramon.

"That's good news. So, do we have a plan?" asked Miyako.

"Well, judging from the fact that Dinobeemon seems to emit a frequency that prevents jogress evolution and causes any of our digimon attempting to jogress evolve to revert back to the child stage, it seems that we'll have to find a way to defeat Dinobeemon without necessarily being able to overpower him," explained Ken.

"In plain English for those of us that didn't major in rocket science," replied Daisuke.

"Simple, we have to overwhelm Dinobeemon with our sheer numbers," supplied Takeru.

"Oh, I knew that," Daisuke laughed.

"Blue Thunder!" Lighdramon unleashed bolts of electricity on Dinobeemon from somewhere at the much larger monster's feet.

"Blast Laser!" Aquilamon struck from the air, circling above Dinobeemon.

"Big Crack!" Digmon drilled the ground out from under Dinobeemon to throw the larger monster off balance.

"Heaven's Knuckle!" Angemon nailed Dinobeemon with a shot of holy energy to assist in putting the larger monster into a more vulnerable position to be attacked.

"Rosetta Stone!" Nefertimon pelted Dinobeemon with those magically appearing stones to make the strategy even more effective.

"Spiking Finish!" Stingmon swooped down from above and struck Dinobeemon from one side once the monster was thrown of its feet.

"Strike Claw!" Strikedramon caught on to this plan and struck from the opposite side.

When the smoke cleared, Dinobeemon was gone. Daisuke wiped some sweat from his brow and gave a loud cheer, "Alright! We did it!"

"Yeah, now let's go home before someone else decides it might be fun to challenge us," suggested Iori.

"Good idea," agreed Ryo. "I've actually seen enough excitement for one day."

"I see, so those children are more resourceful than I thought..." Daemon spoke into the shadows of what seemed to be a particularly gloomy cave. "However, you shall be the one to put an end to them for good... right Chimeramon?" Glowing red eyes flashed from within that darkness. Daemon seemed pleased. "Of course, you could never forgive your precious Digimon Kaiser for abandoning you."
The Dubbed Digimon Terminology Guide

Cyclomon -- Cyclonemon

Blast Laser -- Blast Rings

Big Crack -- Rock Cracking

Spiking Finish -- Spiking Strike