Hey! It's been a week and, as I promised, Chapter 15 is up. Unfortunately for you action lovers this is a talking chapter. Next chapter is loaded though. So, bare with me. This chapter was designed on revealing the couples and giving them some basis of planning.

Notes of the chapter: The information of the Fractal Code is brainstorming on my part. No idea if it's true. If it is, don't sue. If it isn't, use it if you like anyway.

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Chapter 15

Information and Planning

It was a sight behold. Five boys surrounding a single girl shooting questions as fast as possible, two reduced to tears. Meanwhile, another brunette boy was being hugged on one side by a brunette girl and whacked with a hat on the other side by a blonde boy. A redhead boy was having his hand shaken rather wildly by a teary-eyed blonde boy as two girls and a brunette boy sobbed hysterically over a blue haired boy, who was looking quite disturbed. To round off the strangeness of the situation, standing off to the side was the most bizarre assortment of creatures and amused group of kids watching the scene play out.

Except one particular redhead.

"Yeah, it's great, a real long-time-no-see. For those of you who have forgotten, we've got a couple of guys out there after our blood and I for one am not going to sit around waiting for them to come and kicks our butts," Rika drawled.

Ryo rolled his eyes, "Always the Ice Queen." Rika shot him a look but did nothing to deter what he said.

Joe extracted himself from his tearful friends. "Good point. For starters, Takato, Kazu, Kenta, I believe these are yours'." Joe held up an inscribed gold, a brown, and a light purple colored D-power.

The three boys gaped. "Where'd you find those?" Takato asked.

"In the park, you dropped them when we were caught," Joe answered with a smile.

"Everyone has their digimon and their digivices. All we need now is Ken," Henry said.

Kari nodded in agreement, "And a plan. We obviously–"

"Kari!" Joe interrupted her, gawking.

Kari paused and looked at Joe strangely. "Yeah?"

Joe mouthed wordlessly for a moment before choking out, "You're alive? But-But Arukenimon said…she said you were…dead?"

"Oh!" Kari uttered as she realized what he was talking about and blushed, "Well…it was a close call…" Her blush deepened as she sent a quick glance over at a suddenly uncomfortable Kouji.

Rika smirked and told the story of how Kouji had rescued Kari from Arukenimon's Acid Mists and had insisted on carrying her until she woke; happily aware of how redder the two grew. Tai slid an arm across his sister's shoulders. "Hey sis, remember how you used to always play princess and make me rescue you from the monsters? Looks like you've found your own knight in shining armor!"

"And while we're at it playing matchmaker," TK suddenly spoke up, sharing Rika's smirk, "I believe Davis has something to tell us." Davis joined the ranks of brick red as he stuttered unintelligibly.

"Young love, it's so adorable," Mimi told Sora who broke into a fit of giggles.

"I believe Takuya has a secret as well," Sora gasped out as she tried to stop laughing, and failing miserably when she caught sight of a scarlet Takuya side-glancing towards a pink Yolei.

Henry joined the girls, "So that makes it Rika with Kouichi, Kari with Kouji, Yolei with Takuya, and am I correct in guessing Zoe with Davis?"

"That'd be about right," Veemon answered cheerfully.

"And don't forget Takato and Jeri have been going out for two weeks, six days, twelve hours, and thirty-six minutes," Terriermon recited from the top of Henry's head.

Henry gawped at Terriermon to the best of his ability due to the current position of the digimon. "Takato and Jeri? They've been…? And you're counting the minutes?"

Terriermon paused, "I don't think I was supposed to say that."

Takato rubbed the back of his neck tiredly, "Yeah, you think correctly."

Jeri beamed, "That's a thousand yen for me!" (roughly ten dollars in America)

Henry stared at them disturbed, "You betted on whether or not Terriermon would tell that you guys were dating?"

Jeri shrugged, "Terriermon talks a lot, but Takato said that he kept up the act of being a doll for Susie, we wondered just how long he could keep a secret."

"So what else have you let slip, Terriermon?"

"Hey!"

Izzy spread out a sheet of notebook paper and took up a ball-point pen. "Lucemon," he wrote and looked up, "what do we know?"

Tommy racked his memory, "He's a rookie with amazing power and he once ruled the Digital World bringing peace to the battling human-type and beast-type digimon."

"The power went to his head and the ten Legendary Warriors defeated him. They locked him away for years at the core of the Digital World," Zoe recited.

"And that's you, right?" Davis interrupted from Zoe's side. "You guys are the Legendary Warriors."

"That's six Legendary Warriors then," Ryo counted, "What about the other four?"

"Cherubimon, one of the three guardians of the Digital World after Lucemon's downfall, gave the four spirits to evil digimon. They were Fractal Coded so we have their spirits, but they haven't chosen any humans," Kouichi explained.

"Fractal Coded? What's that?" Tai asked.

Takuya stared at the older boy. "That's a very good question. What is a Fractal Code?"

There came a loud groan from the twins even as Tommy gaped at Takuya. "You've been yelling Fractal Code Digitize since we first arrived at the Digital World, you were even the first to do it, and you have no idea as to what it is!" The older girls giggled, including a certain Yolei.

Takuya's face turned as red as his jacket as he exclaimed, "Of course I know what it is! I was just making sure you guys did!"

Kouji rolled his eyes and answered Tai's question. "Digital monsters, or for short digimon, have a base code that starts them as a digiegg. The higher they evolve, the more codes are added to their base code. Fractal Codes are either an extra code added to a digimon not gained by evolution or all the codes of a digimon minus the base code. What Kouichi meant when he said Fractal Coded was that the digimon had been stripped to their base codes."

"Oh," Tai echoed weakly, both he and Takuya looking like they hadn't caught a word of what Kouji had said.

"Anything else on Lucemon?" Izzy broke in. When the Chosen Children shook their heads, he went on, "Owikawa."

"He created Arukenimon and Mummymon," Kouji said.

"He's not human," Kari murmured thoughtfully, "Remember; Azulongmon said that there was a much worse evil. I know we didn't think of Owikawa, but he's obviously not entirely human or digimon. Maybe the worse evil is something…oh I don't know…something in him? Or maybe he's working for the worse evil?"

"Which would lead us to Lucemon," Joe pointed out.

Tai shrugged, "Why not, I mean he's pretty bad, right? He's only tried to kill all of us."

Izzy tapped the pen impatiently against the paper. "Whether he's the evil Azulongmon talked about or not, can we get back to this?"

Ryo looked up, "In two attacks Owikawa defeated Justimon. What about Lucemon? Does it take him more than two attacks to defeat a mega?"

JP winced, "Yeah, but it's not pretty during the bout. He's too fast to get any attack in."

"Right, how about the digimon? How far can your partners, or you, go?" Izzy asked.

"JP, Tommy, Kouichi, and I can only go up to beast. Kouji and Takuya can take all the spirits, including ours, and reach Unified level. That leaves the rest of us defenseless," Zoe informed the redhead. "They can go into Fusion, which combines their human and beast spirits, but that's not as powerful."

"Terriermon and I, Rika and Renamon, Takato and Guilmon, and Ryo and Cyberdramon can Bio Merge together to get to mega. Takato and Guilmon can mode change. MarineAngemon is already at mega. Guardromon is at champion. Lopmon can go to ultimate," Henry stated.

"What about Jeri?" Mimi inquired.

Jeri smiled sadly, "Calumon is, for lack of a better word, digivolution." She was surrounded by blank stares.

"Without Calumon, our digimon wouldn't be able to digivolve," Takato explained. "The Digimon Sovereigns sealed the power to digivolve into Calumon to keep it safe from the D-Reaper which was threatening to destroy both the Digital World and the Real World."

"Oh." The others realized.

Izzy put his pen down, "Okay, this is what we're going to do…"

The group turned to him surprised.

Chapter 15 has come and gone…well, it's come anyway. I don't think it plans on going anywhere anytime soon. For you impatient folks, Chapter 16 will be updated next week and Chapter 17 the following week.

Sorry for the lack of action, next chapter young grasshoppers, next chapter. (a/n: XD Sorry Salph, couldn't resist!) Review please! Even if it is to rant about the couples! I really don't think any other than the infamous Takato/Jeri has ever been written. Correct me if I'm wrong. Review please! I love hearing from my readers!