"This way," Tai said as he ran into a cave. He was leading only a few to safety. His group was himself, Sora, Kari, Joe, and T.K and all their digimon. Everyone followed and lined up against the wall as soon as they were in. WarGreymon was still trying to hold off Magnapiedmon. FairyPattimon was up against Metalpuppetmon while Patti lead Izzy, Mimi, Jamie, and the replacements to safety in the opposite direction. They ended up in what looked an awful lot like Patti and Amanda's current house. Then they went down into the basement and all hid in the storage room where they couldn't be seen.
"What are we going to do?" Kari asked Tai, "These guys are each a lot stronger than Misspuppetmon, and there are two of them."
"We'll just have to get one at a time," Tai said, "Matt and the others will be back before long and then we'll have two megas and FairyPattimon. Combine them with all the other digimon we have and we're a pretty strong team."
"Tai," Joe said, "They're in the real world. Every minute there is a day here. If they're lucky and it only takes an hour there, that's sixty days here."
"Oh yeah," Tai said, "I forgot that little detail."
"Tai you're hopeless," Sora yelled.
It was only a minute later when little Koromon came rolling into the cave. Koromon looked like he had just been wrestling a razor sharp knife in the mud.
"Koromon," Tai yelled as he dropped to his knees to see his friend, "what happened to you?"
"Magnapiedmon," Koromon said, "way too strong. I barely dodged his handkerchief attack. Beware of the blue ones. They explode. And the green have knives on the inside."
"As in the handkerchiefs that turned everyone into key chains last time?" T.K. asked.
"The very same," Koromon said, "except only the white ones turn it's victims into key chains. All the others are worse attacks. Stay away from the blue and green if you are cornered. The orange aren't so bad as long as you're only under them for a second."
"Where is Magnapiedmon?" Biyomon asked.
"He left laughing," Koromon said, "him and Metalpuppetmon had their fun for the day."
"Patti," a small Duchessmon yelled outside, "where are you Patti?"
"I'm here," Patti said sticking her head out of a window from the storage room.
"How was the battle?" all the digimon asked Duchessmon as soon as she was inside.
"Dreadful," Duchessmon said, "Simply dreadful. As FairyPattimon, I broke a nail. It hurt. Then I began to really take it out on Metalpuppetmon. He had to call for Magnapiedmon for help. Good thing too, because Wargreymon had taken on too much of a beating."
"What do we do now?" Mimi asked.
"Calm down," Izzy said, "we'll be moving soon to find Tai and the others."
"Not that I'm trying to be rude or anything," Jamie said, "but who are you seven?"
"Oh, sorry," Joque said, "that old man, Gennai, he called us the replacements. We are here to, well; we were here to destroy the book. He didn't tell us anything else. But, my name is Joque. This is Bridget, Delila, Babo, Lenny, Lor, and Maria. And our digimon are Dinomon, Tweetmon, Leafmon, Octomon, Flymon, White-Beltmon, and Gingermon."
"Nice to meet you all," Jamie said, "I'm Jamie and this here is Dandimon. Then there is Patti and Duchessmon, Izzy and Tentomon, and Mimi and Palmon. If you ever feel like messing with anyone, I suggest Mimi because she a girly girl wimp. Izzy can confuse the hell out of you with just a sentence out of your own mouth, and I am not someone to mess with. Patti used to be evil and if she returns to the dark side after someone messes with her, everyone will turn on that person and Patti will probably eat that person for breakfast."
All the replacements and their digimon cocked their heads to the side in confusion.
"Don't mess with Patti," Jamie said.
"Oh," everyone replied.
"So," Lenny said looking at Patti, Jamie, Mimi, and Izzy, "you do this often."
"Only when it's for the sake of the world," Patti said.
"Why?" Maria asked, "why would you risk your life for a digital world?"
"Our friends," Mimi said, "this world, our world too."
"Yeah," Izzy said, "with so much computerized these days, if the digiworld was taken by evil, the real world would be doomed too."
"That's a good reason," Bridget said, "nothing isn't computerized these days. Our world would be destroyed."
"Do you think that we are taking on too much?" Babo asked, "I mean those two guys were awfully powerful. So many digimon were hurt during that battle."
"Yeah," Lenny said, "but if those flying dudes hadn't fled it wouldn't have been so bad."
"Believe it or not Lenny," Lor said, "but not everyone in the world is as in love with fighting as you are."
"Don't even get me started on you," Lenny said, "thinking you could beat me up."
"I might not look like I could survive," Lor said, "but, unlike you, I know martial arts. It's much more effective than throwing your fists at your opponent. Why do you think they have karate tournaments but not street fight tournaments?"
"That Kung-Fu is a lot of crap," Lenny said.
"Oh," Patti said, "and I suppose that since your arm is much shorter than your leg then that arm must be smarter too because smaller people are smarter than bigger people?"
"Wait," Lenny said, "you're speaking too fast."
Everyone smiled a little bit then began to laugh.
"Okay," Gennai said, "they think that the real world and digiworld are still on different time speeds. Boy, they are going to be surprised tomorrow when they meet up with Matt. Yes, well, I still need to find this first crest. Confidence, yes, this is the guy." Gennai said this when a boy appeared on the screen. "What is this?" Gennai noticed that one the crests that was already in the digiworld was poorly matched. "Hmm, well, Kristen isn't too much of a lose. Plus, it could save her life possibly. Okay, I'll send her back." He pressed a button on his computer and a white light appeared over Kristen and beamed her back to her world. Heartmon reappeared in Gennai's house. After a quick search, Gennai found a perfect match to the crest of Heart; a girl named Natalie who lived by T.K. and Jamie. After pressing a few more buttons, Natalie and the boy who was going to use the crest of confidence appeared outside the cave Tai and his group was in. It was in the middle of the night, but it didn't keep either of them from yelling after falling into a tree. Then yelling even more when Heartmon and another digimon approached them.
Tai was the first to get out of the cave to see what was happening, followed by Sora and Joe. Kari and T.K. both walked up a little more slowly because there might be danger. As soon as T.K. saw Natalie, he ran past Tai and straight to her yelling "Natalie, what are you doing here?"
"T.K." Natalie said slowly, "where are we? And why are there talking creatures?"
"Those are just digimon," T.K. said as if it was normal for creatures to talk, "and you're in the digiworld."
"Where?" said the other boy. He was about Tai's age, and had shaggy brown hair down to his ears.
"An alternate dimension," Sora, Tai, Joe and Kari all said together.
"Is that supposed to comfort me?" Natalie asked.
"No," Tai said, "what is supposed to comfort you is that there are people like us who are making it safe for you to sleep at night."
"Was that supposed to comfort me?" Natalie asked again.
"No," Tai said, "because now you are one of those people who get to make it safe for people to sleep at night."
"Oh gee," the boy said, "Well, my name is Danny. May I ask who you are?"
"I'm Sora," Sora said and then continued to introduce everyone else there.
They talked a little longer until the sun began to climb back into the sky. They had explained to Natalie and Danny the reason they were in the digiworld and then told them about Metalpuppetmon and Magnapiedmon. It wasn't until it was eight o'clock or so that they actually decided to begin to start moving again. As soon as they were out of the cave and into a field, they saw a figure walking toward them. They could tell that it was a person, and that in it's arms was a little digimon. Because of the sun, they couldn't tell what colors the person was wearing or the hair color. And the face looked like a shadow to them. The person stumbled a bit while walking. It stopped, dropped the little digimon and then fell to the ground.
"Should we go see who it is?" Joe asked.
"Yeah," Tai said, "because they're probably a digidestine who landed in the wrong place."
They began to make their trip to the person. As they neared the person, they looked for signs that it was still conscious. It wasn't. As they neared even closer, they could tell it was a boy. Even closer, he was blonde. Finally, when they were about a hundred feet away or so, they realized who it was.
"Matt," Sora said all of a sudden and began to run to him. T.K. and Tai were close behind. The other four just tried to keep up as best they could. Danny didn't know who it was so wasn't trying very hard to run to him quickly.
"Matt," T.K. yelled and jumped to his side, "what happened."
Matt turned over to his back and opened his eyes to see who it was. Seeing his brother, he smiled. Then he looked serious again seeing Tai.
"It was the Elkmon," Matt said, "there were too many of them. We barely escaped. I've been walking all night."
"Where is everyone else?" Sora asked.
"Elkkingmon has them," Matt said, and then he lost consciousness.
"How did they get caught by Elkkingmon if they were supposed to be in the real world?" Joe asked.
"What if Elkkingmon got to the real world," Gomomon asked.
"If that happened," Patamon said, "then the world would be destroyed before we could get there."
"What," Tai yelled, "How could Elkkingmon get to the real world? There just isn't anyway."
"Well," Sora said, "Matt didn't just beat himself up Tai. Why else would he come back here so quickly?"
"Maybe Tsunomon knows," Gatomon said, "the little tike is coming to."
Tsunomon slowly opened his eyes. All of a sudden, he jumped as if he had just remembered what had happened.
"Where's Matt?" Tsunomon asked.
"He's here," Tai said, "Tsunomon, what happened? Why are you guys back here?"
"We destroyed UFOmon," Tsunomon said, "and then we were transported back to the digiworld. But we landed in Elkkingmon's castle. I was Metalgarurumon at the time. I grabbed Matt and barely made it out the window. I had to leave everyone else behind or I would have never made it out to warn you. Then there were tons of Elkmon. I had to dodge through them because there were too many. Once out of their reach, I dedigivolved. I didn't have anymore energy. Matt had to carry me. He was walking all night."
"How did you destroy UFOmon in less than a minute?"
"We didn't," Tsunomon said, "it took about two hours at the least."
"That would mean the times are in sync with each other," Sora said.
"That's a bad thing," Joe said, "We've been gone for four days now. Don't you think our parents are getting worried?"
"I didn't even think about them," Tai said, "They are probably freaking out."
"Poor mom," T.K. said, "I wonder what she is thinking right now. What if she called the police?"
"This isn't good," Sora said, "we can't spend days in here at a time anymore because our parents aren't going to understand."
"The soccer finals," Tai yelled.
"This isn't time to think about sports Tai," Kari said.
"They're tomorrow," Tai continued on, "What are we going to do? The coach will kill us if we're not there."
"What's more important," Sora asked, "the fate of the world or a stupid soccer game?"
"Soccer," Tai said.
"That's comforting," Natalie said, "and just like a guy. Sports come first, then everything else."
"Tai," Sora said, "we're not going to leave the digiworld for a soccer game. We can't leave. In one night, everything might be destroyed."
"What are we going to do about our parents then?" Tai asked, "let them worry? I care about the digiworld but I also care about my parents' worries. And I don't want to be grounded for life."
"Tai," Joe said, "if we don't save the digiworld, being grounded for life would only be a few days."
"Oh, yeah," Tai said, "I kinda forgot that little detail."
"He doesn't have that much of memory," Natalie asked, "does he?"
"Not much of a brain if you ask me," Sora said.
"Hey," Tai said, "that's not helpful."
"Umm," Danny said, "Is it me or are there two weird things flying this direction with very 'I'm going to kill you' expressions on their faces? Because if they are here to kill us I'm going to have make a will first."
"They're not going to kill us," Tai said, "They just want to."
"Oh," Danny said, "and is that supposed to scare us or are we just going to stay here in the middle of the open?"
"Well," Sora said, "right now, I'd suggest that we find a place to stay while Matt is unconscious. I mean, its not that I don't want to destroy them, but right now, our only chance is Wargreymon and I think we need Metalgarurumon and Fairypattimon to take care of just one of these guys."
"Then I'd suggest we hurry," Kari said, "because I think they just spotted us."
It was true. Magnapiedmon and Metalpuppetmon had just seen them and were headed that way as they spoke. They had just gotten orders from Elkkingmon. They were supposed to get the crests. Apparently, there was a box of power that could be opened with all the crests collected. Elkkingmon wanted to be the supreme ruler over the whole Digiworld. He knew that with the power, the whole Digiworld together wouldn't be able to bring him down.
He already had thirteen of the crests, which was a bad thing because for every crest he collected he got a portion of the power. But, if he collected what he could now, when he had all the crests, he wouldn't be able to get the maximum power.
The two evil digimon landed on opposite sides of the digidestine. They began to close their way in to get them into a small group.
"Digivolve Agumon," Tai whispered, but Magnapiedmon wasn't going to waste time fight. With one sweep of the arm, he flung Agumon a hundred yards away.
"Today is going to be a lucky day for you," Metalpuppetmon said, "today, we are going to let you off easy. Just give us your crests and we will let you go."
"No," Tai said, "you're not getting my crest."
"Too bad," Magnapiedmon said, "we're just going to have take them from you, and that might not be fun, if you know what I mean."
"Oh," Metalpuppetmon said, "can we play a game with them?"
"What game do you want to play?" Magnapiedmon asked.
"Hide and go seek," Metalpuppetmon said.
"Okay," Magnapiedmon said, "you digidestine have one minute to hide starting now."
The digidestine were so surprised that it was a few second before they moved. Danny and Tai carried Matt to the forest as fast as they could. Then, once inside, Sora, Joe, Tai, Danny, and T.K. gave their crests to Natalie and Kari so those two would have a chance to hide. They also gave them Matt's crest. Gatomon digivolved to Angewomon and held on to the two girls. She flew high, right into the clouds before she actually went forward over the forest.
By the time Kari and Natalie were gone, their minute was up. Before they could take another step into the forest, Metalpuppetmon and Magnapiedmon were in front of them. Magnapiedmon grabbed Tai and Sora by the shirt collars and lifted them off the ground. He quickly looked them over and realized they didn't have their crests anymore. Metalpuppetmon had already discovered the same for Joe, T.K., Danny, and Matt. The two looked around for the girls, but they were long gone by then.
"Oh well," Magnapiedmon said throwing the kids into the open again, "I guess we'll just have to destroy you. Too bad, don't you think Metalpuppetmon?"
"Yeah," Metalpuppetmon said, "Too bad, how sad."
"I don't think so," a voice yelled from above. They all looked up to see Megakabutarimon with the other digidestine on his back.
"What is he going to do?" Metalpuppetmon asked in a sarcastic voice.
"Help me out," FairyPattimon yelled jumping down. All the other digimon jumped down too. Magnapiedmon didn't look half as scared as Metalpuppetmon did.
"You take on the weak ones and I'll take on the fairy," Magnapiedmon whispered.
"Right," Metalpuppetmon said, "prepare to die."
"Not today," Angewomon yelled from behind him, "Heaven's charm."
"Ouch," Metalpuppetmon yelled, "that stung."
"What are you doing here Kari?" Tai asked.
"Well," Kari said, "with Patti here we are at least a little safer. Plus, how is Agumon going to digivolve to Wargreymon without your crest?"
"Right," Tai said grabbing his crest, "smart thinking. Agumon, get ready to digivolve."
"Agumon warp digivolve to… Wargreymon."
"You still don't scare us," Magnapiedmon said, "you see we are ultramegas. Not some puny little mega like you."
"We'll see who's puny," Wargreymon said, "terror force."
Metalpuppetmon just jumped into the air and kicked the attack away as if it were a soccer ball. When he landed, he stood and smiled. "We saw," he managed to laugh out.
"I'm not finished with you yet," Wargreymon charged at Metalpuppetmon. Magnapiedmon and Fairypattimon were already in an intense battle. The rest of the digimon decided to help Wargreymon because he wasn't the same level as Metalpuppetmon. Within minutes, the only two good digimon left were Fairypattimon and a badly beat up Wargreymon. Of course, the battle had moved quite a bit and the kids were having trouble keeping up with it.
"It looks like this is the end of your line," Metalpuppetmon said as he cornered Wargreymon at the bottom of a cliff, "I think it's about time that evil won a battle. What do you say to that?"
"I'd say you were a bit mislead," Metalgarurumon said jumping on top of Metalpuppetmon.
"Hey," Metalpuppetmon yelled, "where did you come from?"
"In the woods," Matt said walking up behind everyone, "where some people who I won't mention left me and Tsunomon."
"Matt, you're up," Tai said, "we were all worried about you."
"Well," Matt said, "you have a funny way of showing it."
"Umm," Danny said, "is a bad thing that the puppet just threw both of the other two digimon over the cliff?"
"Yes," Natalie said, "I do believe that would be a bad thing. Am I right T.K.?"
"Yeah you are," T.K. said.
"What do we do now?" Danny asked.
"There's a famous thing that Winston Churchill once said," Izzy said, "and that was 'never give up.'"
"Yeah," Joe said, "and if it hadn't been for the Americans, the British would have lost and he would have yelled what I'm about to yell. RUN!"
Everyone turned around and began to sprint in the opposite direction. They didn't get very far though. Metalpuppetmon appeared in front of them.
"I'll be having those crests now," Metalpuppetmon said placing his hand in front of them him.
They wanted to tell him no with a statement, so Lenny spit on his hand.
"You'll regret that," Metalpuppetmon said.
"I don't think they will," Metalgarurumon said.
"Neither do I," Wargremon yelled, "Terror Force."
"Ice wolf claw," Metalgarurumon attacked along with Wargreymon. They two hits didn't finish him off, but wore him out to that point that he could no longer disappear.
"Is that all you got?" Metalpuppetmon asked with fake confidence.
"No," Fairyparrimon yelled, "Star shower."
That was the final blow. Metalpuppetmon was destroyed. Everyone cheered, at least they only had one left to deal with for the mean time.
"So," Sora asked, "what happened to Magnapiedmon?"
"Um," Patti said, "let's just say that he wasn't getting quite what he expected from us and took off."
"Would that be a good thing?" Mimi asked, "now he's just going to hate us and he might resort to dirty tricks against us."
"That's right," Izzy said, "we're going to have to be extra careful."
"Hey," Patti had just noticed Matt, "where did he come from? What about UFOmon? Where's everyone else?"
"You don't really want to know all that badly, do you?" Matt asked. He didn't want to tell Patti he had left her sister with a giant evil elk wearing a crown.
"Matt," Patti said, "What is going on?"
"Well," Matt said, "we defeated UFOmon and." Patti cut him off.
"How? You've only been gone for about a day."
"The two worlds are back on the same time again," Joe said.
"Yeah," Matt continued, "and then, when we returned here again, we wound up in Elkkingmon's castle. The next thing I knew, Metalgarurumon had grabbed me and was jumping out a window."
"WHAT!" Patti screamed, "and you just left the rest of them in there with Elkkingmon. How could you?"
"It's my fault Patti," Metalgarurumon said, "I grabbed him and ran. I figured that if none of us got out, you guys wouldn't know that we were stuck and would only amble towards him. And without Matt, I wouldn't be able to become Metalgarurumon."
"You left them with a giant elk," Patti yelled.
"Woah," Lenny said as Patti continued to yell, "anyone got a tranquilizer?"
"What would Elkkingmon do to them?" Jamie asked.
"I don't know," Tai said, "but I bet that those girls would. Izzy, Matt, where's the girls village?"
"I'm never going back there," Matt said.
"No," Izzy said, "I actually like being alive. Plus, I don't have a single clue where it is."
"I know," Fairypattimon said, "as you can tell, I probably should. I could go there, if you like. But I can only take Patti with me."
"Fine," Tai said, "just don't take too long and get them to help us."
"Okay," Fairypattimon said picking Patti off the ground and zooming off over the forest.
"Well," Matt said, "at least this way Patti can't kill me."
"True," Kari said, "so very true."
"Okay," Lor said, "I'm pretty sure that they won't need us to stay right here for them to find us. How about we start to head in the direction of Elkkingmon."
"There's an idea I'm all for," Tai said, "let's get a move on."
They began to walk in the direction they thought Elkkingmon would be in. They only got the right way because they went in the direction that Matt had come from. It didn't take them long before they ran into their first challenge.
"What is that?" Babo asked as they rounded a corner and saw a sleeping Elkmon.
"That's called an Elkmon," Matt said, "they're megas, but really just a pushover. It's when you face them in numbers that you really have to worry."
"Why are they more dangerous in numbers?" Natalie asked.
"Why is it that anything is more dangerous in numbers?" Sora replied to Natalie, "because they have more support and there are more to fight off."
"Well," Tentomon said, "Elkmon are different. The more of them there are around, the stronger each individual becomes. If you are facing just one, but fifteen more are looking on, they are more dangerous than if there weren't any looking on."
"I say we destroy it now before anymore come," Tai said.
"Hey," Lenny said, "I wouldn't mind a challenge. Bring them on. I'll show them what fight is all about."
"If you don't shut up," Lor was barely able to keep herself from yelling, "it'll be about me knocking all your teeth out."
By this time, Agumon and Gabumon had warp digivolved and destroyed the Elkmon. They only really needed one mega. Wargreymon had finished it off before Metalgarurumon was fully digivolved.
"Well," Sora said, "that was easy. They really are pushovers, aren't they?"
"Yep," Matt said.
"And now we are just going to stand here all day," Danny said, "because if we are moving, I say we start now before they hear the giant group of children."
"That's right," Tai said, "come on everyone. Let's get a move on it."
They began to walk again. Once again, they didn't get very far. This time, most of them fell through a trap door in the path leading straight to the musical world. In fact, the only ones left were Lenny, Lor, Delila, Joque, and their digimon.
"What's happening?" Delila screamed as everyone in front of her disappeared into the ground.
"I don't know," Lor yelled.
"Is that a good sign?" Lenny asked, "nothing here is for certain."
"Nope," Flymon said, "that is a bad sign, a very bad sign."
"Is there anything we can do?" Delila asked.
"I doubt it," Joque said, "but lets try any way."
"How?" Lor asked, "I'm not jumping in after them."
"Anyone have any rope?" Joque asked, "We could lower Lor in."
"Wait," Lor said, "I don't remember signing up for even coming here. I am not going down there."
"Well," Lenny said, "we can't send I or Joque because you girls don't have enough muscle to pull we back up. And you, being shorter and younger than Delila, weighs the lest of the girls."
"That doesn't mean I'm going down there," Lor said, "why don't we send one of the digimon down? They probably weigh less than I do. And Flymon could fly down there. I don't think it would be a problem for him to go down."
"What if we get attacked while he's down there?" Lenny asked, "then who'll protect us? You?"
"There's always Dinomon, White-Beltmon, and Leafmon."
"Do you two ever shut up?" Delila asked.
"I think it's the stress of her not gotting her geeky twin brother here," Lenny said, "since she ain't got him here, she needs some one else to argue with."
"No," Lor said, "it's the stress that you're such an idiot that's driving me insane. Maybe if you at least could speak English correctly I wouldn't be so ticked off by you."
"I tell you it's the brother thing," Lenny repeated.
"SHUT UP!" Lor screamed.
"Thank you Lor," Joque said sarcastically, "just what we needed, to attract every digimon in the forest to us."
"Let's make a deal," Delila said, "Lenny and Lor don't speak to or about each other. You three agree."
"Oh," Lor said, "don't you think it'll be a little hard for him? But I'm in if he can keep it up."
"Yeah sure," Lenny said, "let's see if she can take a challenge."
"Yes," Joque said, "but they already both broke it. Let's start again. Now. Now about that rope."
"Once again," Lor said, "I'm not going down there."
"Then we'll lower Dinomon in there," Joque said.
"No," a voice said above them, "you won't be lowering anyone down there."
They all looked up to see Magnapiedmon floating above them. They all froze. They would need Fairypattimon, Metalgarurumon, and Wargreymon to have a chance at beating him. Yet, the best they could get now was four champions.
"Can we take a rain check on the fight we are about to have?" Lor asked, "we kind of have a little problem right now."
"I'm not afraid of you," Lenny said taking a step forward, "bring it on."
"He's kidding," Delila said pulling him back, "he just got a bad bump on the head. Doesn't know what he's saying."
"Bump," Lenny yelled, "what bump? I ain't afraid."
"See," Joque said, "he doesn't even remember."
"You have three seconds to hand over your crests," Magnapiedmon said, "two, one. Beep, time's up."
"Yeah," another voice said from behind him, "your time is up. Star shower."
"Hey," Magnapiedmon yelled, "what the?"
It was Fairypattimon, returning from her adventure from the girls' village. She brought Moromon, Lynnmon, Amymon, and Jessicamon.
"You were saying?" Jessicamon said.
"How did you get here?" Magnapiedmon yelled.
"I'm assuming that they flew here," Joque said, "because, aren't those wings on their backs."
"Be quiet you stupid Jamaican," Magnapiedmon yelled.
"Then can I speak?" Lor asked, "wait, don't answer that because you don't obviously don't have a brain in that small head of yours."
"Why I ought to," Magnapiedmon yelled, but it was just the distraction the five winged girls were waiting for. As soon as he turned his back to them they all attacked using their own special power. Magnapiedmon was barely alive after that attack.
"Can I finish him off?" Dinomon asked, "Please."
"Sure," Fairypattimon said, "why not."
"Yes," Dinomon yelled, and he ran up and kicked Magnapiedmon. Magnapiedmon disintegrated into nothing.
"And I'm assuming that you eight have a good explanation to where everyone is," Patti asked when Fairypattimon finally put her down.
"They fell into the hole," all eight said at the same time pointing to the hole in the ground.
"Okay," Patti said, "that's a good reason."
"Do you know what kind of hole that is?" Moromon asked, "It's a passage to the Musical world."
"Bad?" Joque asked.
"Depends on the crest," Amymon said, "you see, when you are in there, you end up in a cage hanging above water. As you can imagine, music plays, and when a person's crest is mentioned or a synonym of the crest, the person falls into the water. They then have to swim to the edge. There are a lot more things, like the zapping and the cages falling after the person, but let's not get into that."
"Okay," Joque said, "so some one with the crest love would be down relatively quickly because like every song is about love."
"Exactly," Lynnmon said.
Meanwhile, in the hole.
"He caught us," Tai yelled when he woke in his cage.
"No Tai," Kari said, "this is a different world. Eventually we will fall out of our cages. Sora, Bridget, and Natalie have already fallen."
"Oh," Tai sighed, "what a, what is that music playing for?"
"We think that when a person's crest is mentioned," Izzy began, "is the trigger for falling."
"There you have to go and ruin it Izzy," Matt said, "we wanted to see how long it would take Tai to realize and we could all be like, so you finally found out."
"I'm not that stupid," Tai yelled and was about to continue, when the song mentioned courage and Tai fell in the water.
"Tai move," Kari yelled, "The cage will go down in a second."
Tai barely got out of the cage when it fell.
"Now what?" Tai yelled.
"Come here," Sora yelled from a ledge on a wall, "it's the only way out."
Tai began to swim in that direction, but, as luck would have it, as he was going by, the bottom of Matt's cage dropped out and Matt fell down onto Tai. Before either of them moved, they were in a fight.
"Did you have to fall right when I was under you?" Tai said trying to stay above water.
"Did you have to be under me when I fell," Matt said kind of jokingly, but still serious.
"Well," Tai began, but the cage fell down on top of them before he could continue and they were both pulled to the bottom under the weight of the cage.
"Tai," Kari yelled from her cage, "Sora, you have to help Tai."
"What about Matt," T.K. yelled, "He's down there too."
Sora jumped off the ledge and dove under the water. She came back up right above the cage. She took a deep breath and dove back under. Tai and Matt were both trying to lift the cage, but even together they couldn't lift it. When Sora got to the bottom, they were both about to pass out. Sora found a crack and was able to get a few fingers under the bars. She tried her best to pry the cage off the floor, but she wasn't strong. Tai and Matt both tried to help, but they could barely do anything now.
Back outside the hole, a bit earlier because time goes by slower in the musical world. A ratio of about every five minutes in the digiworld equals one in the musical world. Lynnmon and Moromon were flying to Elkkingmon's castle. They figured the only way to get anyone out was to send them to the Musical World. As long as it was Moromon who sent them there, afterwards they would land in a spot chosen by Moromon. They found his castle and were looking in through a window. They saw all the children and then they saw the crests. Elkkingmon wasn't in the room. There was too much light for his liking. There was only one Elkmon guarding them so, they decided a surprise attack and killing the Elkmon would do. When the Elk's back was turned, Moromon made a piece of the glass disappear. She walked in and Lynn followed. Lynn quickly flew down like a hawk and destroyed the Elkmon. Moromon opened a special passage to the Musical world that would send them there, but they wouldn't be in cages when the got there. She untied the knots and the kids all grabbed their crests and were instructed to go into the portal.
They all fell and landed in the water. Extremely confused, they looked around. No one had noticed them. They were all looking at the same spot. The L.A. kids looked there too. Sora's head popped up and she took a breath. She dove back under.
"What's happening?" Mike yelled.
Everyone looked at them. Kari pointed down ward and yelled, "Matt and Tai are stuck under a cage down there."
Jake took a breath and dove under. Lar followed.
"What are they doing?" Maggie asked, "Why's that kid going under."
Under water, Lar reached the cage about the same time as Sora. He was the best swimmer of all the digidestine. Jake wasn't too far behind. Matt and Tai were both turning blue from holding their breath too long. Lar and Sora were having no luck at lifting the cage, but as soon as Jake got down there, he lifted it almost with ease. Right as he did this, both Tai and Matt passed out. Sora and Lar each grabbed one and pulled them out from under the cage. They then swam them up to the surface.
"How are they?" Kari yelled when they surfaced.
"I think they'll be okay," Sora yelled back, "as soon as they come through. I don't think they inhaled any water, but I might be wrong."
"Get them to the ledge," Izzy yelled, "that way you can find out if they did or didn't. You might want to perform CPR on them, even if you don't think they inhaled water."
"The only good time to not know CPR is now," Brad said, "good thing I don't."
"You seem to be taking their almost drowning experience extremely well," Jacklyn said, "Maybe you would like to have a try." With that said, she dunked Brad under the water and swam to the ledge.
"Oh," Brad yelled, "that was evil. Did you have to do that?"
"Yes," Jacklyn yelled back, "I believe I did."
Everyone in the water finally crawled onto the ledge. Then, from the girls came the questions.
"How's my hair?"
"Is make-up gone?"
"Is my mascara smeared?"
The boys found it easiest to just smile and shake their heads. It was quite a while later when they were finally down to the last person in a cage. Who else would it be besides Izzy? The only person they wouldn't leave behind.
"Hurry up Izzy," Joe yelled from the ledge, "they're getting restless here."
"Well," Izzy yelled back, "It's not like every song has the word 'knowledge'" Izzy didn't get to finish his sentence because as soon as he said knowledge, he fell to the water.
"Finally," Chris V. yelled, "we can leave."
As soon as Izzy reached the ledge, they began to crawl through a tunnel on the end of the ledge. The end of the tunnel was the digiworld. They all fell out of the tunnel into a building. They didn't know where they were, at first, but then Moromon walked in and Matt, Izzy, Gabumon, and Tentomon freaked.
"Calm down you four," Patti yelled from behind Moromon, "She's on our side. We're here as guests of the girls. Don't act like the biggest fools in the Digiworld."
"Why I think it comes naturally to them," Sora joked.
"You couldn't be more correct there," Tai said.
"Well," Patti said, "I would include you in that group Tai."
"It's all right," Moromon said, "I won't hurt you. In fact, I brought you here. It's for your own good, so that Elkkingmon will not be able to reach you."
"How can you be so sure he can't reach us here?" Tai asked, "What makes you so positive?"
"Because," Moromon said, "he doesn't know where this is. Not a clue."
"So does that mean that it's time to party?" Brad yelled, then everyone joined him ready to have fun.
"No parties," Patti yelled at everyone.
"First Matt won't let us shop," Maggie yelled, "now Patti won't let us party. This just isn't working out the way I thought it would."
"I have a few more things to add to the list of things that are just going wrong," Anna announced to everyone, "we were probably saved by Shane's stupidity back in L.A. Then Dan tried to kill us all. And we barely escaped the Alienmon. Then a giant Elk captures us. I think his intentions were to eat us. And then those two over there almost drowned under a cage."
"Enough Anna," Mike said, "you haven't made anyone feel any better with your little speeches today."
"I was just pointing out the bad things about this," Anna said, "not my fault that so many things have gone wrong."
"Just don't point the bad things out then," Chris V. said, "it would help a lot."
"But," Anna began, but was cut off.
"No Anna," Jennifer said, "No more. Please, no more. Don't try to destroy anymore relationships."
"I'm not doing that," Anna said, "well, at least I don't mean to. Who's relationship have I destroyed?"
"Come with me Anna," Jacklyn said taking her to the side, "I'll explain everything."
As Jacklyn was explaining to Anna what she caused with her first speech, everyone began to talk about their problem with Elkkingmon.
"Does any one have any suggestions on how we could destroy Elkkingmon?" Tai asked.
"We could poison him," Jade yelled.
"How?" Everyone else asked.
"We could give him Shane to eat. That would make anyone sick," Jade joked.
"Anyone have any real suggestions?" Matt asked.
No one said anything. Mike, Brad, and Chris V. began to make cricket noises.
"That's enough," Patti said giving the three of them the evil eye, as they called it when she wasn't around.
It was then that the ground began to shake. It was shaking so hard that they all ran outside so that the building wouldn't collapse on them. What they saw shocked them. There was a door in the middle of the air. It was acting like a vacuum, but only the evil digimon were being pulled in. The last digimon pulled in before it closed was Elkkingmon.
"What was that?" Joe asked.
"That was the door of Shorum," Moromon said, "when opened, it sucks in all the evil digimon. Now that it closed again, it shouldn't be opened because it won't work if opened by hand. The evil digimon inside will be free to wander out again.
"Wait," Sora said, "if that thing just sucked up all the evil digimon, then we should be free to go home again, shouldn't we?"
"I do believe so," Moromon said. After she finished talking, a white light came over all the digidestine. When they opened their eyes again, they were all in their own home. Safe and sound.
Don't worry. That isn't the end of their adventures. They will be needed again when Elkkingmon is released again by an even stronger evil. Stay tuned for the next adventure, Elkkingmon's rule of the world. Yerx.
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