"Does anyone know where we are?" Matt asked after they landed in the real world.
"Do I ever," Jade yelled, "we're in the mall."
"We are," Jennifer said.
"No shopping," Matt said.
"Please," the girls all pleaded.
"If we don't hurry up and destroy UFOmon," Matt said, "there might not even be a mall to shop in later."
"Okay," they all said sadly.
"Now lets hurry up," Matt said, "we have to find UFOmon."
"The closest exit is this way," Chris V. said and began to walk towards a hallway with a couple of restaurants in it.
They all walked outside to find that UFOmon had just landed. To their surprise, he looked just like an unidentified flying object. He was a round ship built with some very strong and reflective armor.
"This is it," Jake said, "are you digimon ready?"
"We sure are," all thirteen yelled and then digivolved. They didn't look like they could possibly win because there was one mega, one ultamite, and eleven champions. But then to their surprise another digimon appeared with them, an ultamite. It was Shane's digimon, now as idiotmon. Not that he was going to be much help, but at least it was better than no help.
UFOmon also did something to surprise them, he began to open up on the sides and Alienmon came running out of him. He then reclosed after six Alienmon had walked onto the ground.
"I hope you won't waste my time and fun by trying to fight my Alienmon friends," UFOmon laughed, "because they could beat you so easily and I won't be able to fight you."
"If you wish," Metalgarurumon yelled, "come on guys, let's teach this recycled trash a lesson about the digidestine."
Metalgarurumon jumped at UFOmon, followed by the rest of the digimon. The Alienmon just began to slowly sneak behind the digidestine, all except one. The Alienmon were super geniuses. They could tell almost everything about a person just by looking at them. They could tell what kind of make-up a person wears by their complexion. They could tell hobbies by the muscles and how much TV a person watches by their eyes. Once five of them were behind the digidestine without the kids knowing, the last one stepped in front of them.
"Please don't make this any harder on yourselves and just come with me without any hassle," it said.
"Shouldn't we call for our digimon?" Jade asked.
"They're already having a hard time fighting UFOmon," Matt said, "Don't."
Everyone who had just joined the digidestine from L.A. began backing up quite quickly.
"I suggest that we run for it then," Chris V. said.
"No," Matt said turning around to look at them, but it was too late, they had all tried to run, but were caught by the other five Alienmon.
"Just two left," the Alienmon in front of Matt and Amanda said taking a step closer, "how easy."
Amanda grabbed Matt by the wrist and pulled him away just as the Alienmon tried to grab the two of them.
"Hurry up Matt," she yelled at him pulling him back into the mall, "We are going to have to hide."
"Hide?" Matt asked.
"We can't run forever," Amanda replied. "Calfmon told me about these guys. She said that they are really smart so chances are that if we go through the mall too many times he'll be able to interpret our moves."
"So where are we going to hide?"
"As soon as we lose him, Hot Topic's"
"Why there?"
"Besides this, I'd never be caught dead in that store."
Little did the two know that there was a small robotic fly that had landed on Matt's shoulder with a camera on it so the Alienmon could follow them without even being in the mall.
As soon as they lost the Alienmon, Amanda led Matt to Hot Topic's. Of course people were running out mall all over from seeing an alien. Pretty soon the mall was empty except for the three of them. Luckily for Matt and Amanda, Hot Topic was in the shape of a very thin "U." They ran to the back of the store, then even further back and into the dressing room. That's where they sat with their feet above the bottom of the door so that even if the Alienmon did come in there, he wouldn't see them.
Meanwhile, the Alienmon had taken all the other digidestine into UFOmon and tied them into chairs there. They were all facing a TV, big screen obviously, that wasn't on yet. One Alienmon turned on the TV and said, "Let's see where you two friends have gone to."
They all watched as Amanda pulled Matt into Hot Topic's. Of course none of them knew where the two were because they never went in there either.
"Where are they?" Jade asked.
"That's a good question," an Alienmon said, "and the first to tell won't be killed, of course your digimon will but you'll still be alive."
No one spoke. What could they say? If they did know where Matt and Amanda were and they did speak up, they wouldn't be killed, but their friends would be killed. What's the point of living without friends?
Outside, the digimon were just blasted and landed in their in-training form in front of where the digidestine should have been. All except Metalgarurumon.
"Amanda," Antlermon said turning around to find that the digidestine were no longer there, "where are they?"
"I don't know," Basemon said, "but the Alienmon are gone too."
"Do you suppose that the Alienmon took them?" Pearlmon asked.
"Let's see now, umm, yeah," Adoriblemon said.
"But where would they take them?" Hobbitmon aksed.
"Inside UFOmon," Uncle-Sammon said slowly.
They all yelled at the same time to Metalgarurumon, "Stop, they have our humans inside him."
"What?" MetalGarurumon asked looking at them for one second. UFOmon took advantage of this and blasted Metalgarurumon to in-training form too.
"You were right," UFOmon said to the digimon, "I do have the digidestine inside me. Don't worry you will be destroyed first."
"EEK," the digimon jumped and began the bounce away but were stopped by the Alienmon which had left the digidestine alone in the ship, still tied to chairs of course.
Back inside of UFOmon, all the kids were watching Matt and Amanda, who were being extremely quiet. Every time Matt tried to say something, Amanda "shh"ed him. Everyone was watching because what else could they do, they were tied to chairs. Jake was trying to escape because they were in wooden chairs everyone believed that Jake might be able to break.
"This is hopeless," Anna said, "this just isn't our day. I mean first we all appear in this strange world, then we are looking for Jade and Jacklyn and while Jade wasn't there Jake was like really showing off for that Sora girl. Then this puppet tries to hurt us and we are saved by Shane, I mean that there says something very wrong. Then we are trapped in a book, a book! Now we are inside a living spaceship while Amanda is off with a guy who totally has a major crush on her, which I really don't care about, but poor Mike. Now Jake is trying to free himself by breaking his chair and that isn't really working."
Now Anna spoke just one second too soon because the second she finished talking, Jake, along with everyone else, was just so surprised that she was able to make everyone's relationship completely worthless that he (I'm still talking about Jake here) did one final attempt to break the chair and just slammed the whole thing down so hard that it shattered.
"Yay!" Shane said and pulled his hands out from the ropes to clap.
"Have you been able to do that the whole time?" Maggie asked in shock.
"Yeah," Shane replied.
"Then why can't you just untie yourself and then free us?" Mary-Kate asked.
"Because then I wouldn't be able to sit here with you and hang with you."
"This isn't hanging," Jennifer said, "this is torture."
"Jake," Brad yelled, "wanna start to untie us now or something?"
Jake jumped up and began to untie everyone. Once everyone was untied, they decided to make a plan. Mike, Jennifer, and Anna were to stay inside to keep in touch with the rest and to tell them if Matt and Amanda moved. Jake, Brad, and Chris V. were to distract the Alienmon chasing the digimon. Shane had to make sure UFOmon didn't try to escape to space. The rest of the girls, Jade, Jacklyn, Kristen, Maggie, and Mary-Kate were to keep the Alienmon running through the mall while they all tried to find Matt and Amanda. As soon as they found the two, everyone was to come together at a Starbuck's across the street from the mall. It was crazy, but it might just work, they all decided. Besides they didn't have any better idea than that.
"Hey, you Alienmon," Brad yelled, "your Alien mama is calling you from Mars. She says that you need to take a bath because you stink so bad that she can smell you all the way from there."
All the Alienmon dropped what digimon they had captured and turned to face him.
"What are you looking at," Chris V. asked, "I mean we are much more handsome than you but we aren't movie stars."
"How did you escape?" One asked.
"Why would we tell you," Brad asked, "so you could make sure you don't make the same mistake again."
"If you ever catch us," Chris V. said, "Every man, woman and child for himself"
Jake, Brad, and Chris V. all ran in different directions while the Alienmon waited for a second confused about who should follow who. Then they all just ran after the different boys. Two went for Brad, two for Chris V. and only one for Jake, which was a mistake on the Alienmon's part for not sending for reinforcements."
They immediately lost all three boys in different buildings. For a second they just waited outside for the boys when Chris V. appeared on the roof of one and yelled down to them, "hey, wanna hear one of my favorite Christmas carol? Oh, Alienmon oh Alienmon, why are you so butt-ugly?"
The two chasing after him both jumped onto the roof at the same time. When they reached the top, Chris V. was just standing there smiling. Both Alienmon pounced at him, but at the last second, he jumped backwards, off the skylight he was standing on. The Alienmon both went crashing through the glass landing in a hot tub. Since they were Alienmon, water made them very slippery. Even if they did catch Chris V. in the next ten minutes, they would be too slippery to hold him. They both jumped back onto the roof, but Chris V. had taken the normal way down the stairs and was currently running down the street.
Mike, Jennifer, and Anna were still watching from inside the spaceship. Anna and Jennifer monitored everyone they could from the window while Mike watched Matt and Amanda.
After about fifteen minutes with Matt and Amanda in the dressing room, Matt had to talk to Amanda. He couldn't stand the silence and was truly convinced that they were going to die.
"Amanda," he said, "I need to tell you something."
"Matt," Amanda whispered, "don't be so loud. Remember, we're the only ones in the mall besides the Alienmon."
"Amanda," Matt said, "it's going to find us sooner or later. Plus, I have something to tell you before anything might happen."
"You think we're going to die," Amanda said in shock.
"Well, no, not die but we're not going to win, I can tell you that."
"Well, then we'll just wait for Tai and the others to come and save us."
"They're not coming. Tai said that he trusts me and thinks that we can destroy this UFOmon without him or Patti. He was wrong though."
"No, no he wasn't. Matt, we're going to beat this thing but we just can't right now with an Alienmon after us."
"How?" Matt asked tearing up a bit.
"I don't know. Matt, we are going to be okay."
"Amanda, if we don't make it through, there are some things I'd like you to know."
"Matt don't even think that. We aren't going to die."
"Amanda, I love you." He paused waiting for a response but Amanda was too shocked to talk. He continued, "I have since we first met. I think I always will. Truthfully, there were times I missed you so much that I wished for an evil digimon to attack the digiworld so I could see you again. It hurts me when you call Tai instead of me to keep the group updated on where you and Patti are. Not a day goes by where I don't think about you. And I thought that you might have liked me too because you were flirting but then I found out that that's just the way you are and it hurt me so badly."
UFOmon was surprised that anyone had escaped from him and began to worry. He started his engines and decided to attack a different city instead. He was about to take off when he heard someone yelling to him. It was Shane.
"Um, Mr. Shiny thing, you can't leave yet," Shane yelled.
"Why not?" UFOmon asked.
"Because there are still three people inside you."
"I still have three prisoners," UFOmon said, "that's great. In fact, I think I'll be returning to the digital world now."
"Without your Alienmon friends," Shane asked, "your not a very good friend. Why do they hang out with you?"
"Because I'm their ruler."
"Like a principal?"
"No, like a king."
"Is that like a president?"
"No, I am the ruler forever. They can't vote me off. I have complete power. Besides that, it is somewhat. Do you get it now?"
"No, I don't know what a president is either."
"Why you little brat!" UFOmon screamed and began to try to shoot him with a couple of lasers.
"Weee," Shane said doing gymnastics, "this is fun."
An Alienmon was walking slowly up behind Shane backwards dragging Jake, who it had just caught a minute ago. If it was forwards it would have been fine, but it didn't look where it was going and bumped into Shane. Shane jumped away and the laser from UFOmon went through the Alienmon's head. He was dead in a second.
"Look what you made me do you little thing," UFOmon screamed at Shane.
"Cool," Shane said, "he broke into ten pieces."
"Millions of pieces Shane," Jake corrected him.
"What's the difference?"
"Nine hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety."
"Can I count that on my toes?"
"NO!" UFOmon yelled, "because in a minute you won't be able to count at all. You'll be dead."
"Why do I want to sleep?" Shane asked, "my bedtime's not until eight o'clock."
"DEAD!" UFOmon screamed, "You won't be alive. I'll have killed you. And I'll make sure you don't have a funeral either."
"Oh," Shane said, "okay. I get it. But if you ask me, donuts are better than funnel rolls."
"That's it," UFOmon said, "I'm leaving."
"No you aren't," Shane said grabbing one of his legs, "not without giving me a funnel roll."
Well, meanwhile, the girls were not having fun with the Alienmon in the mall. At least they weren't for a little while but then they took control of the situation. When they first went in, they all split up to look for Matt and Amanda. But they all came running to the same spot when they heard a scream. Apparently, Kristen was the one who went down the part of the mall with the Alienmon in it and when all the other girls found her, she was running in circles up and down the escalators.
"It's one of the Alienmon," Jade said.
"Thank you Miss obvious," Maggie said, "but that isn't much of a help to us. We need to find Amanda and what's his name."
"Matt?" Jacklyn said.
"Yeah," Maggie said, "him."
"Well, let's start looking," Mary-Kate said, "At least we know where to find the Alienmon."
"How about we stick together instead," Jade said.
"Or at least in this part of the mall for now," Jacklyn said.
"Yeah," everyone agreed. They all chose a few stores to look in. Jacklyn was given the task of looking in Sears. Mary-Kate got the lowest level, Jade the middle, and Maggie the top level. It was Maggie who had Hot Topics. After she finished looking in all the other stores besides Hot Topics (she was afraid to go in there), she met Jade and Mary-Kate on the middle level.
"No luck," Maggie said, "how about you guys."
"No," the other two said in unison.
"Did you check all the dressing rooms?" Mary-Kate asked.
"Yeah," Jade said.
"Almost all," Maggie said, "I mean, who in their right mind would go into Hot Topics?"
"With our luck," Jacklyn said emerging from Sears, "they would."
"So," Jade began, "Who's going up?"
"We all are," Mary-Kate said, "together. That way it's fair."
They all went up the elevator to the third floor and went to Hot Topics. They all stepped in at the same time. All four thought they would feel a shiver like a ghost, but found it quite a normal experience. They looked around and quickly traveled to the back of the store. To there surprise, there was even more to the store than what was seen from the entrance. They saw a dressing room and slowly made their way back towards it.
Kristen all of a sudden screamed, "I've been caught, HELP ME!"
The four stopped and turned around. They were walking out, all but Mary-Kate. She had to make sure, plus, she figured that Kristen's idea of being caught was being safe in the elevator. Jade, Jacklyn, and Maggie ran out to see that the Alienmon had really caught Kristen, but he seemed to be in a lot of pain. It seemed that the Alienmon didn't realize one thing in the world until now, cheerleaders are very strong, especially the ones at the bottom of the pyramids. She was kicking and thrashing and he kept squeaking in pain.
"I think it's time we abandon ship," Jennifer said as Shane grabbed the leg of UFOmon.
"Right," Anna said.
"Mike," Jennifer said opening the escape exit, "stop staring at her and let's move it. If you don't get out now, you'll never see the real her again."
"You're right," Mike said walking backwards.
The door swung open in the screen and both Matt and Amanda jumped. But luckily it was just Mary-Kate. Mike smiled and jumped out the ship.
"There you two are," Brad said to two Alienmon sticking his head out the window to annoy them, "I've been looking for you two."
"Get him," one of the Alienmon yelled jumping at Brad's head. All's Brad did to dodge was pull his head back inside and the Alienmon slammed his head into the hard brick wall. The other one was smarter and headed around to the door. Brad noticed that it was gone, so he jumped out the window and landed on the one that had knocked itself out.
"Never do that again," Matt yelled at Mary-Kate, "I almost jumped out of my skin."
"Just be glad it's her and not an Alienmon," Amanda said walking out the door.
"How did you escape?" Matt asked suspiciously.
"We all did," Mary-Kate said motioning for them to follow her.
They walked out to see that the Alienmon had now caught Jade now too.
"We have to distract it," Maggie said, then noticing Amanda and Matt, "So you were in there. Good thing Mary-Kate decided to stay and look."
By this time, as you would imagine, all the digimon had gathered near-by, but out of UFOmon's sight. They were just inside the mall entrance. As soon as Mike, Anna, and Jennifer got out of Ufomon, they noticed the little dudes and slowly snuck up to them.
"I never thought that humans could be so, what's the word I'm looking for?" Tsunomon said.
"Distracting," Orcmon said.
"Useful," Calfmon said.
"Smart," Tsunomon said, "with the exception of Izzy, they all seem pretty dumb."
Jennifer, Mike, and Anna finally arrived with the digimon.
"How did you escape?" Cutemon asked.
"It's useful to have a best friend who is an eighth grader that the high school football coaches are already trying to recruit," Mike said with a smile.
"Well, he's not the only eighth grader the high school coaches are trying to recruit," said a low voice behind Mike, "the varsity coach was begging me to skip eighth grade so I could be on the team."
Mike froze in place. He knew that the only person who would dare say anything about Jake not being the most athletic guy in the school was Dan, the all time bully champ.
"Back off Dan," Jennifer said, taking a step back.
"Are we talking to stuffed animals?" Dan asked looking at the little digimon.
"Who you calling stuffed?" Orcmon said.
"They talk," Dan said, "And let me guess, they keep your feet warm at night." Dan was now laughing his head off.
"Shut up," Mike yelled, "Your voice is annoying enough at school, but to hear it everywhere else."
Dan had stopped laughing so quickly and looked so ticked off that Mike regretted he opened his mouth. "I hope Amanda and you are on really good terms right now because when I'm through with you, you won't be able to hug her, let alone look at her for weeks."
Mike gulped. Then, before Dan could punch him, he set off running through the mall. Dan ran after him as quickly as he could. Unluckily for Mike, Dan was a lot faster than he was, even though Mike ran track. Also, Dan knew the mall a lot better because he was always there trying to pick up girls. Jennifer went running after them and Anna after her yelling, "What are you doing. It's too late for Mike."
The digimon looked after them for a second, then shrugged and looked back outside waiting for Jake, Brad, and Chris V.
Dan cornered Mike by the McDonalds. He was just about to punch him, when Jennifer spotted them. "You better not lay a finger on him," Jennifer yelled.
Dan turned his head to look at her, just long enough for Mike to sneak away from the wall. Mike went running and Dan chased after him. This time Mike went down the right wing of the mall because after passing about five stores, he ran into the girls and Matt.
"Hi Mike," Maggie said as Mike dove behind her for cover.
"Shh," Mike said, "I'm not here."
"I can see you wimp," Dan yelled in his so-called, tough voice.
"You better back off," Amanda said taking a step towards Dan.
"I'm not afraid of you," Dan said, "You don't have any protection right now. No Jake," he bent forward and got in her face, "no Patti. Just you, your friends, your wimp of a boyfriend and some guy who doesn't seem to have any muscle either."
"Don't do anything stupid Amanda," Jacklyn said, but it was too late. Amanda slapped Dan.
Dan was shocked for a second. Then he got so mad that his face turned bright red.
"I don't need muscle to get my point across," Amanda said.
Dan didn't say anything. He just lifted his hand and was prepared to slap her back. No one was doing anything. It was always better to stay out of Dan's way, especially without any muscle behind you. Matt realized no one was going to do anything about this.
"Oh, that's really manly of you," Matt said before Dan could do anything to Amanda, "let's slap the girl. I can see you were raised by a pack of wolves. You certainly smell like you were."
By now, Dan was so angered by Matt, he totally forgot about Amanda.
"You really want your head ripped off," Dan said, "don't you. You just asked for it."
"I'm not afraid of you," Matt said, "you're a wimp compared to things I've fought."
Dan was just about to jump on Matt, when a low, crackling voice behind him said, "I've found you again." It was the Alienmon.
"Not for long," Matt said as everyone except Dan went running down an escalator.
"What about us," Jade screamed while trying to get free from the Alienmon.
"I'll save you," Dan said and punched the Alienmon.
The Alienmon didn't budge a bit, but being shocked, it dropped Jade and Kristen anyway. Both of them crawled as fast as they could away from there. Dan on the other hand didn't get the point and punched it again. This time, it screamed in rage and threw him half way across the mall and he landed on a pile of clothes after crashing through a window and into a store.
By the time it got control of itself, everyone was well out of sight. They returned to their digimon.
"Are you guys up for digivolving again?" Matt asked when they finally returned.
"We're too hungry," Orcmon said, "But if we were to eat, we'd be ready."
"Gee," Jennifer said, "all the cheap restaurants around here are in the completely evacuated mall. Therefore, we can't get any food for you."
"None," Tsunomon asked.
"We could go a few blocks down and buy stuff at Burger King," Mary-Kate said, "but we'd be easy targets for UFOmon."
"Target," Maggie said, "behind the mall would be open. There has to be tons of cheap food there. More than we could get any where else."
"That's true," Jacklyn said.
"All we'd have to do would be to get through to the exit opposite us," Jade said.
"And get past Alienmon," Matt said.
"Lets all just go now before he can get any closer," Kristen said.
"Wait," Amanda said, "have you learned nothing? Never do anything in large groups if you are trying to sneak. Here," Amanda walked to the edge of the wall and peaked around the corner, "first five, get ready to go. Now." She said right after Alienmon walked into a store. Kristen, Heartmon, Basketmon, Mary-Kate, and Gaurdianmon all quickly sneaked across to the exit, which was only about 50 yards away. Of course, they had to cross one of the main halls of the mall. They made across just in time. Alienmon walked back out. He just slowly walked to the next store. As soon as he did, Amanda signaled the next five to go. This time Jade, Jacklyn, Pearlmon, Cutemon, and Lightningmon crossed. They kept this up until they were up to the last group, Mike, Amanda, Orcmon, and Calfmon. Alienmon was just opposite of them. If he looked down at any point, they would be seen. As soon as he went into a store, they began their journey across. When they were halfway through, Alienmon exited the store. He looked down and saw the four of them. He jumped down, landing in front of them.
"Let's go," Matt whispered because Alienmon still hadn't discovered them yet. He opened the door and all the digimon went outside, followed only by Kristen, Jade, Maggie, and Anna.
"Aren't you coming?" Jade asked.
"I'm not leaving them here," Jennifer said. She, along with Mary-Kate and Jacklyn began to walk toward their friends, but were stopped when Matt grabbed them all by the wrist and pulled them outside.
"What are you doing," Jacklyn asked.
"You don't know how to handle digimon like that," Matt yelled.
"We handled him fine earlier," Mary-Kate said and took a step forward, but Matt pushed her back.
"Yeah," Matt said, "but now he's pissed off. Some easy digimon to fight during normal circumstances are your worst enemy when they are mad. Alienmon doesn't seem too happy. Want to help them, we need to feed the digimon. Believe me, we'll be much more help that way rather than getting caught."
"Gee," Jennifer said, "you don't seem to have a long memory. Before you were found by Mary-Kate, weren't you telling Amanda that you were in love with her."
Matt didn't say anything. When he did speak, he said, "If we try anything now, then we won't stand a chance. We could all be killed. The sooner we get these guys fed, the more likely we are to save them."
"Let's just go," Anna said, "he has a lot more experience with these things then we do."
They all turned to go to Target. As they were walking, Jade said to her friends, just loud enough for Matt to hear, "I doubt that he trusts us yet. Plus, he probably wants Alienmon to kill Mike. That way he'd have the smallest shot at getting Amanda."
Matt didn't follow. What was the point? They didn't like him much, and plus, he didn't have any money he could use. Tsunomon was off to get food with the other digimon so he didn't have to worry about that. He turned around and went back into the mall. It was true that he was sort of rooting for Alienmon to hurt Mike, but he really didn't want that because he didn't want Amanda to be sad. Already, he didn't know where they could be. That was until he heard Mike yell. Matt went running to see that it wasn't Alienmon that made him yell. Instead it was Dan. Amanda was behind Mike. They were stuck between a wall and Dan. Alienmon was no where to be seen.
"Now," Mike was saying as Dan walked toward him and Amanda, "let's be reasonable."
"I am being reasonable," Dan said, "You dared to speak badly of me, and your girlfriend slapped me."
"So?" Mike said, "is that any reason to beat us up?"
"I'm not going to beat you both up," Dan said, "no, I have much better plans for you girlfriend than that."
At this, even Mike got serious. Everyone knew that the only thing Dan liked more that beating people up was girls. Amanda was toward the top of his list of girls he'd love to be with anytime.
"Don't touch her," Mike said, "this isn't even funny."
"She should be worried about you right now," Dan said snickering, "at least she'll still be able to use her body when I'm finished with her. You might not even be alive."
"Wanna bet," Matt said from behind Dan.
"Once again," Dan said, "I'm going to let you run now. I have no previous affairs with you. If you know what's good for you, you'll get to scooting."
"Go get Jake," Mike yelled, "the Alienmon are after only Brad, Chris V. and Shane now. Go now."
"You'd be smart to listen to the loser," Dan said, "at least that way, you would be able to live."
"I'm not leaving them here for you to do with as you please," Matt said, "like I said earlier, I've faced things that would look at you as an ant on the ground."
"I'm not a video game," Dan said, "this is real life."
"I don't play video games," Matt said, "I'm being serious."
During this time, Amanda and Mike had walked around the wall and were headed toward the nearest exit. Once they were there, Matt said, "lose something." He then went dashing off towards the exit Mike and Amanda hadn't gone to so he could continue to distract him. Dan turned around to see that he didn't have anyone against the wall anymore. He went chasing after Matt, assuming that Mike and Amanda had gone that way too. Matt was really headed to the Target. Mike and Amanda were looking for Jake.
"Jake," Mike yelled as soon as they saw him standing watching the Alienmon chasing Brad, Chris V., and Shane. It was quite entertaining, but wasteful of time. "What are you doing?" Mike asked.
"Watching," Jake said as Brad and Chris V. tricked four of the Alienmon to run into each other at once.
"Yeah," Mike said, "while you were here having fun, we've been dealing with Dan. Are you listening to me? Dan, you're arch rival."
"I'll take care of him in a minute," Jake said as all four of the Alienmon tried to get up, but were delayed as Shane went jumping over them and the last Alienmon went stumbling into the other four, making them all fall down again. "Okay," Jake said, "just point the way."
They went back to the mall. Before they were in, Brad and Chris V. went running past them.
"Hurry up," Brad said opening the door, "we can't keep it up too much longer, so we're going to a place that is big but filled up with lot's of things."
"Like Target," Amanda asked as they all ran through the mall.
"Exactly," Chris V. said.
"Good," Mike said, "because that's where we're going."
They all ran outside and through the parking lot to Target. Right as they reached the doors, Matt came running around the building. He had a black eye, but didn't seem to notice. Dan jumped on him as soon as he finished the turn.
"This time you're not getting away," Dan said as he threw Matt against a wall.
"Nor will you," Jake said taking a step toward Dan.
Dan dropped Matt and looked at Jake. He gulped and then went running. Dan never did well against Jake. Jake didn't follow because he had more important things to worry about.
They all went inside to find their digimon, all of them were there, eating and drinking.
"So we finally returned," Jennifer said referring to Matt, "because it was stupid to try to save them without digimon to help out."
"At least they aren't dead," Matt said, "I know how to distract digimon. I've seen it done plenty of times. Plus, they weren't even up against Alienmon. They were up against, umm, what's his name?"
"Dan?" all the girls asked.
"Yep," Mike said, "if it hadn't been for Matt, I would be dead and you don't want to know what his other plans were."
"I'm full," Basketmon said after eating a whole box of cookies.
"We all are," Tsunomon said finishing his food.
"Ready to fight?" Brad asked.
"You bet we are," Elfmon said.
They all went outside and back through the mall. Then, when UFOmon wasn't looking, they all jumped out and into plain sight.
"Remember us?" Matt yelled when UFOmon turned toward them again. "Ready, digivolve."
All the digimon did, and to everyone's surprise, there weren't eleven champions, two ultimates, and a mega, but thirteen ultamites and a mega.
"You still can't hurt me," UFOmon said.
"Is that so?" Foosmon asked and blasted an Alienmon to dust as it ran by.
The other four Alinemon were destroyed as they were running by Diamon, Beautifulmon, Venusmon, and Gryffinmon.
"They were pushovers," UFOmon said, "they couldn't even catch a bunch of teenagers."
"Well, you couldn't even keep the same bunch of teenagers trapped," Metalgarurumon said.
"Face it," UFOmon said, "you can't win."
"Wanna bet?" Matt yelled.
All the digimon blasted UFOmon at once and he was destroyed. The celebrating didn't last long. As soon as they had done this, a white light came over them and they were transported back to the digiworld. They had no idea where they were, until they heard someone muffled behind them. They all turned around to see Lar and Sharkmon. Behind them, a great shadow sat. They could only see his eyes glowing red. Then they heard him laugh.
"Don't move," Chris V. whispered, "maybe he doesn't see us."
"I say run," Jacklyn said.
"I agree," Matt said, "wait, now."
Everyone went dashing for the nearest door. But they didn't stand a chance. The door was bolted shut and they were stuck. There was only one window for escape. Metalgarurumon saw this and grabbed Matt and jumped through it before he could be stopped.
"He's ditching us," Jennifer yelled as a huge hoof slammed the window closed.
Before they could do anything else, a bunch of Elk walking on their hind legs walked out of the shadows with rope. They tied everyone up, including the digimon once they dedigivolved. The elk didn't have anything to worry about; they were mega, not to mention that Elkkingmon was an ultramega.
What will happen to everyone now that they are in the clutches of Elkkingmon? And why didn't Metalgarurumon try to help anyone else out? And how are Tai and the others doing? Find out the answers to at least the second two questions in Return of the Dark Masters.