The Final Attacks on the Digital World

by Just Another Fanatic

Begins just after Season one an the Digidestine are fighting to save the Digiworld again, only this time, the evil is worse and stronger. To help them win, they receive help, and a lot of it.

5. Elkkingmon's Rule of the World

Another two years have past since Elkkingmon was sucked into the Door of Shorum, and it has been opened to release him. Within hours, Elkkingmon had taken over most of the Digiworld. Everywhere except the guys' and girls' villages and Gennai's home, which was yet to be discovered by the evil. Gennai once again has to call on the digidestine for help. But he had only time to send Izzy a message before he lost power and control.

At the time, Izzy was luckily at his computer. (What a shock.) The message wasn't even finished, but it made one thing clear, the digiworld was in trouble. He grabbed his phone and called Tai. He gave Tai the message and they continued to pass the word on until pretty much everyone knew. Everyone except Jake, Patti and Amanda that is.

"Where are Patti and Amanda?" Tai asked Kari when he discovered that he hadn't updated their phone number the last time they called.

"They're in Africa," Kari said combing her hair, "the middle of a village with no technology, remember. That's why there isn't a number, no phones."

"Then how are we supposed to call them, or get to them?" Tai asked, "We NEED Fairypattimon if we even want a slight chance of winning."

"I know that," Kari said, "but it's your job to contact them."

The phone began to ring before Tai could think of anything. Tai picked it up. It was Matt.

"Yeah?" Tai asked.

"Tai," Matt said, "No one knows Jake's phone number or e-mail address."

"Not even Brad or them?" Tai asked.

"Not even them," Matt replied, "Oh, yeah, and both Brad and Chris V. have a broken bone."

"Why is this sounding a little weird?" Tai asked.

"Well," Matt said, "according to Mike, Jake's mom was being harassed by this guy everywhere she went. And after he attacked her one day, she decided to change her last name and move. Jake wasn't allowed to give his phone number or e-mail address to anyone because the police just can't find this guy who was harassing his mom. They didn't want him sneaking into their houses and finding out where Jake lives that way. They only get a phone call from him like once a month, and that's made from a pay phone. And when it comes to Brad and Chris V. breaking their bones, there is this Mexican guy who lives near where they do and his main hobby is beating other guys up. The only reason they never really got beat up before was because Jake could defend them. Now Jake can't defend them because he doesn't live near there anymore."

"Mike told you all that?" Tai asked.

"Yeah," Matt said.

"Well," Tai said looking at the clock, it had been an hour since Izzy had called him, "we'd better get going before it's too late don't you think."

"Yeah," Kari yelled, "hurry up Tai, we haven't got all day."

Tai hung up. He made sure he had everything he needed: his digivice, crest, some food, a flashlight, and his goggles.

He and Kari made their way to the computer and prepared for the trip to the digiworld. They took a deep breath and, ZOOM. They were flying into the computer. Good thing too. The second after they went in, the computers around the world began to crash. It soon became impossible for many people to enter the digiworld, in fact, no one could.

Tai and Kari landed in one of the worst spots imaginable, on a patrolling Elkmon. It wasn't very happy when two kids landed on its head, but quickly captured them, deciding to bring them to Elkkingmon.

"Drop them," a voice said from behind them.

The Elkmon turned around to see Emily and JackRusslemon (the digivolved form of Terriermon.) But Emily looked different, back to the way she was before Angepattimon made her the correct age. She looked 12 again.

"What will you do?" the Elkmon asked.

JackRusslemon attacked and before Elkmon could react, it had been destroyed. Emily pulled Tai and Kari onto Jackrusslemon's back and it began to run through the forest.

"Where are we going Emily?" Kari asked as the forest began to look burnt and old.

"The Girls' village," Emily said, "We're taking everyone there. It's the safest place there is."

"Will they let me in?" Tai asked.

"They've already let a few guys in today," Emily said.

"Like who?" Tai asked.

"They have Jake in there, and a friend of his whose name escapes me right now," Emily said, "but we're almost there."

"How did Jake know to come?" Tai asked, "we couldn't get a hold of him."

"I e-mailed him," Emily said, "I knew the problem. Living in the computer I know a lot of things really easily. It's a good thing you came when you did. The portals all began to close once you guys got through. Not very many people got in after you. And very few were in before."

They finally arrived at the girls' village. When they were at the gate, the guard opened it up to let them in, and not a second longer.

Tai and Kari were ushered into a small building. Inside, sitting at a table, were Jake, Joque, Bridget, and a guy and a girl that Kari and Tai didn't know. The two approached the table and were given a warm welcome from Jake, Bridget and Joque.

"So," Tai asked, "who are these two?"

"They are a couple of friends of mine," Jake said, "from Seattle. That's Allison and T.Y."

"Ah," Tai said, "Well, I'm Tai and this is my little sister Kari."

"Is this everyone who got through?" Kari turned around and asked Emily.

"No," Emily, "one other person got through. Moromon has gone out to find the last one."

"Eight," Tai said, "that's a total of eight. Please tell me that somehow Patti was pulled into the digiworld from where ever she was and she's the last to get through."

"I doubt it's Patti," Emily said, "but it could be almost anyone else."

A minute later, the door was opened again. Moromon was back, and she had Jacklyn with her. The last digidestine was Jacklyn.

"Wait a second," Tai said, "where are our digimon?"

"They are all in the spa house relaxing before any fighting they may need to do," Moromon said, "They've been here for hours before any of you came."

"Is there any chance that we could possibly win against Elkkingmon with what we have now?" Tai asked looking at who was there.

"I'd like to say yes," Moromon said, "but I don't want to lie. No, not by a long shot."

Jacklyn had finally grabbed a seat at the table and was talking to Jake, explaining what had happened in the last few weeks since he called last.

"Jake," Jacklyn said, "You have got to come back to L.A. You just have to. We can't handle Dan at all anymore. Even the seniors are afraid of him. When he's not beating people up, he's either pumping iron for football or wrestling or he's harassing girls. No one goes to the police because Dan's little buddies will just pound them and bail Dan out. We can't go anywhere without an adult or chances are Dan will catch us. For heaven's sake, last week, while Anna was walking home after school, Dan tried to rape her. Jake, you have got to come back. The whole neighborhood is afraid of Dan, even some parents."

"I can't," Jake said, "Not until the police catch that guy. I'd really like to go back too, but I can't. I'm not wanted in Seattle by a lot of people either."

"He means a lot of the jocks who live on the other side of the city," Allison said, "we like him. No one's taken on that bad of a beating since he came around."

"Who wouldn't like you?" Jacklyn asked, "I mean besides Dan."

"There are three guys," T.Y. said, "who all lost their girlfriends because Jake was stronger, better at football, and better looking. They never liked anyone from our neighborhood before, but now they really hate us. But, hey, we don't mind. It's just three guys."

"Three guys who carry guns with them everywhere except school," Jake said, "they've already made three attempts on my life."

"Why don't you move again?" Jacklyn asked.

"I'm not telling my mom," Jake said, "I don't want to worry her. She's already freaked about this guy, why worry her anymore?"

"This is all really touching," Tai said, "but fate of the world comes first from now on." He then turned back to Moromon and asked, "Is there anyway to get the rest of the digidestine here?"

"There is one," Emily said, "but you'd have to break into Elkkingmon's castle and find his control room without being seen. Then you'd have to find the machine that has closed all the portals and reprogram it to transport everyone to the digiworld instead."

"Shouldn't be too hard," Tai said, "we'll just sneak in and have Izzy reprogram it."

"Tai," Kari said shaking her head, "Izzy isn't here, remember."

"Oh yeah," Tai said, "forgot that little detail."

"So you are saying that this is just about impossible?" Jacklyn asked Emily.

"That's where I'm headed," Emily said.

"I can rip a hole between the two worlds," Amymon said walking into the room.

"You can?" Moromon asked, "how do you know this?"

"I've done it a few times," Amymon said, "by accident."

"For how long?" Moromon asked.

"Only a few minutes," Amymon said, "And then I can't do it again for a long time."

"How long of a time?" Tai asked.

"About twelve hours," Amymon said.

"We can't have them gone for twelve hours," Moromon said.

"We don't have to all be gone for twelve hours," Tai said, "I'll stay and hold Elkkingmon off for as long as we need. Even if it is twelve hours."

"I'm not going into the real world," Emily said, "I'll help you Tai."

"Me too," Kari said.

"No," Tai said, "you wait until we have as many people here as possible. Take Gatomon with you to the real world for protection."

"Good idea Tai," Jacklyn said, "we can bring digimon with us for traveling purposes too. What faster way is there to travel?"

"Good point," Moromon said. She whistled and all the digimon came into the building from the spa. After a quick explanation, Amymon opened the portal and everyone except Tai, Emily, Agumon, Yorkshiremon, Moromon, and Amymon went through to the real world.

Agumon and Yorkshiremon both digivolved as high as they could. Tai and Emily set out to destroy as many Elkmon as they could, or at least stall the absolute destruction for the next twelve hours.

In the real world, everyone landed in the middle of a small street near Jacklyn's house in L.A. As soon as they all landed, they knew they needed to hide all the digimon for at least a little while. Jacklyn began to lead them to her house; she knew where she was right away.

At Jacklyn's house, they formulated a plan. Kari would go to Japan and get everyone from there (which now included Lar and Lor who had recently moved there from Florida). She would also get Babo in Australia. Bridget would find Danny in London and Patti and Amanda in Africa. Joque would travel across the U.S. and get Lenny, Maria, Mimi (she would live in New York by now) and Delila. Jake, Jacklyn, T.Y., and Allison would get everyone from L.A.

And they're off.

T.Y. and Allison stayed in Jacklyn's house to meet the digimon that were there. Jake and Jacklyn went to find everyone in the streets of L.A. that needed to go to the digiworld. Jacklyn took Jake a new club made for teens their age. Jacklyn assumed that as soon as the others found out that the portals to the digiworld were closed, they would all migrate here. She was correct for the most part. As soon as they walked in, they could see Mary-Kate, Jennifer, Anna, Jade, Mike, and Chris V. (with a broken arm) on the dance floor. But, before they could get in any further, the crowd was very thick, Dan appeared between the two and the people on the dance floor. He was really mad because he wasn't able to break Mike's nose last time he tried to beat him up.

He stormed across the floor, pushing everyone out of his way. He was headed straight towards Mike, ready to cause some damage. He was already cracking his knuckles before he even reached there. Under normal circumstances, Mike would try to run, but there was no use today. First of all, he didn't want to look like a wimp in front of the entire crowd. Second of all, all of Dan's little followers were along the walls, guarding the doors.

Jacklyn grabbed Jake and the two tried to race through the crowd. They had a hard time getting through, everyone wanted to see the fight. They were no where near through when they heard Dan's warning to Mike.

"It's time that you learn why no one messes with me," Dan said as loud as he could, "you dare take a girl on a date without my permission. Now I'm going to have to bash your head in kid."

Since Jake couldn't get through the crowd, he had to get Dan's attention some other way. He saw an empty table on the edge of the floor. It was much easier to get to the table than to the center of the floor. Jake climbed onto the table and yelled to Dan, "You lay one finger on him and you'll be sorry Dan."

Dan just thought it was Chris V. trying to get Mike out of trouble. He grabbed Mike by the collar and held him in the air. The crowd on the other hand knew that there was finally someone who could take on Dan. They made a path for Jake to use to get to Dan. This time, Jake got directly behind Dan before he said anything.

"Put him down before I get angry," Jake said quietly.

Dan looked past Mike, still assuming that it was Chris V. But, then he saw Chris V., along with all the girls still standing there, only they were smiling now. Dan slowly turned around and finally saw Jake. Of course, Dan had gotten a lot stronger since Jake moved. But so had Jake. Dan assumed that now he could take on Jake without getting beat up badly.

"Want me to put him down?" Dan asked, "Okay."

Dan threw Mike across the floor into a crowd of people watching on. Then, without warning, he jumped at Jake. Jake had just enough time to react. They began to fight, and what a fight it was. Finally, Jake was able to punch Dan hard enough to get his point across. Dan got the point, and even if he didn't, being knocked out he wouldn't have been able to fight back anyway.

"Jake," Chris V. yelled once the fight was over, "you're back. I'm so glad. Look at what he did to my arm. He broke it. Just because he was dumb too."

"Guys," Jacklyn said, "we have a problem with the digiworld."

"Well," Jennifer said, "I was on my way to the digiworld, but the computer wouldn't turn on. And Mike had the same problem, so we decided to come here instead."

"Well," Jake said, "we had better get going."

They were barely out when they heard people inside yelling that Dan was waking up. They decided that it would be better to not get into another fight with Dan, and they all ran away from there back to Jacklyn's house as fast as they could. Once they all were inside, they fell down and began to laugh.

Allison approached and said to them, with a smile, "There are more of you now. While you were away, a girl named Maggie left a message on your answering machine. And a weird guy was doing gymnastics on the front lawn for a few minutes."

"That was probably Shane," Jacklyn said getting off the ground, "do we have bring him back to the digiworld?"

"Yeah you do," Stupidmon said from the back of the crowd of digimon coming to greet their partners.

"Shane isn't here yet," Mike said to the little digimon while greeting Orcmon.

"Who are you two?" Anna asked T.Y. and Allison.

"They're some of my friends who turned out to be digidestine too," Jake said, "from," he stopped. He had almost given away where he was living.

"We'd better be getting Brad and Maggie," Jacklyn said, "we can wait on Shane for a while. Jake, you remember where they live. Go get Brad and Maggie."

"What if they aren't home?" Jake asked.

"Brad will be," Mike said, "I'll go with you. Brad can't walk."

"I'll go too," Chris V. said.

"T.Y. can go too," Jacklyn said, "don't want to leave him here with all the girls."

"He'd actually like that," Allison said.

"You guys all go now," Jacklyn said, "and hurry up. If anyone else gets here before you, you're in trouble."

The four guys left the house and immediately knew that they weren't going to have an easy time going anywhere. Dan's little sidekicks had followed them and had told Dan where they were. Dan was out side waiting for them, and this time, he had back up. He had his older brother, a twenty-three year old who had been the Dan for the generation before.

"You dare hurt my kid brother," Dan's brother said looking at Jake, "That wasn't very nice. Now I'll have to teach you a lesson."

"I'd like to hang around," Jake said, "but I'm on a time limit and I really don't have time for this right now. How about this time tomorrow?"

"So you must be Jake," Dan's brother said, "smart mouthing like that."

"I'm not in this mood," Jake said.

"Then you can just stand there while I kick the crap out of you," Dan's brother laughed.

At this point, because he just made this a slightly older than little kid show, the narrator's fingers came and took Dan's brother and placed him in a giant high chair. Now Jake only had to look Dan in the eyes before Dan ran away again.

Mean while, Bridget had already picked up Danny, and the two were flying over Africa already searching for Patti and Amanda. They only knew that the two were in Africa. It was a while, but they finally picked up on their digivice signals. They decided that it would scare the people too much if two kids flew in on a giant bird. So they landed about half a mile away and walked the rest.

When they got there, everyone was going into their huts. Patti and Amanda were still outside, looking up at the stars. They didn't see them anywhere else they went, and thought that they should look at them every night while they had the chance. Bridget and Danny waited until they were the only two left outside before approaching.

"You know," Amanda said quietly to Patti, "after all these nights, they still look as beautiful as ever."

Patti was going to reply, but she heard some one walking toward them. She looked down to see Danny and Bridget standing there.

"What's happening now?" Patti asked.

"What?" Amanda asked, looking down to see the two too, "oh."

"Elkkingmon is out," Bridget said, "and we need to be back at Jacklyn's in less than ten hours."

"Let us get a few things before we go," Patti said, grabbing Amanda and pulling her into a hut. They came out a minute later with their crests and digivices and sweaters, considering both of them were in shorts and a tank top.

Joque was having a very confusing ride on the other hand. After picking up Delila in Chicago and Mimi and Lenny, on their way towards Texas for Maria, they picked up another digivice signal from Florida. They knew that Lar and Lor didn't live there anymore, plus, there was just one signal. They flew down in a town near Orlando. They found the house the signal was coming from and knocked on the door. As it turned out, Gennai had sent out a few more digivices. The kid they picked up had a crest, digivice, and a digimon. His name was Nick, and he was about Kari and T.K.'s age. They finally got to Texas and picked up Maria. They had still eight hours left, they couldn't fly as fast as Bridget on Joque's digimon. When they were almost back, after going too far north, they began to pick up three more signals. The weird thing was that they were black dots instead of green dots. The signals were behind them, and catching up quickly. As it turned out, Elkkingmon had sent out a few digivices too, and instead of giving the three digidestine digimon to fight with, he gave them powers. One of those powers included flying, really fast. Joque was barely able to reach Jacklyn's house before the three were on top of them. By that time, Brad and Maggie were at Jacklyn's house too.

Jacklyn opened the door to let Joque in, but as soon as she opened the door, the three guys landed directly behind Mimi. A little confused, Jacklyn walked outside to ask who they were.

"Hi," Jacklyn said, "I'm not sure who you are. I'm Jacklyn."

"I'm Rob," the one in front said, "and we have business to tend to. Look, a giant Elk said that I'd be able to find a guy named Jake here. Send him out and we won't have to get angry with the rest of you."

"What do you want with Jake?" Chris V. asked sticking his head out the window.

"We have a business matter to attend to," Rob said.

"Jake's not here now," Mike said, ushering all the digidestine inside except for the three guys who flew in on their own. As soon as everyone was inside, he closed the door.

"What was that about," Jennifer asked as soon as the door was closed, "and I thought you were trying to see if you could get Jacklyn's computer to work."

"I was," Mike said, "but when Jake saw those three guys, you would have done the same thing. I've never seen Jake afraid of anything until just now, not the way he was when he saw those three."

"Are they digidestine or something?" Mary-Kate asked.

"They had signals," Joque said, "except they were black signals."

"Black signals," Maria said, "that can't be good. Not by a long shot."

There was a knock on the door. No one moved. There was another knock, this time it was followed by Bridget's voice, "I know that someone is in there. Wanna let us in or something?"

"It's just Bridget," Allison said, "go on, let them in."

Jacklyn opened the door, and sure enough, Bridget was there with Danny, Amanda, and Patti. The three guys were still there, only this time, one of them was holding a gun to Bridget's head.

"Let us in or I will blow her head off," the guy holding the gun said slowly.

"What do you want?" Mary-Kate asked.

"Just give us Jake," the third guy said.

"Why do you want Jake?" Brad asked.

"We have some business to tend to," Rob said.

"And what if we refuse?" Mike asked.

Everyone looked at Mike, mostly thinking 'is he trying to get us all killed, these guys have a gun.' Everyone tried to speak, but they were a little tongue tied at the moment. They reverted to the bump on the head excuse.

"He's just kidding," Delila said.

"He got bumped on the head by this guy earlier," Brad said.

"Bumped isn't quite enough to explain it," Chris V said.

"His head was almost taken off," Jacklyn said.

"What are you guys talking about," Jade asked, "when was this?"

"That didn't happen," Anna said, "I've been here the whole. I would remember that. Dan never got his hands on him. Remember, Jake came to our rescue."

"You two are the two stupidest girls in the whole world," Joque screamed at them, "Is it an American girl thing or something that makes you so stupid, or is it really the blonde hair?"

"What did I say?" Anna asked.

"What didn't you say?" said one of the guys, "so, where is Jake?"

"He went to the store to get some chips," Maggie said, hoping that they would believe her.

"When will he be back?" Rob said, inching his way towards the stairs.

"When will who be back?" a voice asked from just outside the door.

It was Matt. Kari had returned with the final group of digidestine from Japan. They were all staring inside while their digimon came out to greet them. It seemed that they all had packed for the digiworld before leaving. All of them had backpacks that were stuffed full with who knows what. They were all dressed in outfits that would make moving around really easy.

"It doesn't concern you," said the largest of the three guys.

"I was just asking a question," Matt said.

"Well," Rob said, "don't and just move along to where ever it was that you were going to."

"We were coming here," Sora said staring Rob in the eye with a deadly look.

"Is this the national Jake friend meeting or something?" the third of the three guys asked sarcastically.

"It's actually international," Izzy said, not really paying attention to the fact that there were three guys who were obviously there to try to take out Jake. He was too busy trying to get his computer online.

"This isn't the time to be pointing facts like that out Izzy," Jennifer said.

"I take it that you guys don't like Jake," T.K. said.

"Good job," Rob said.

"Why not?" Kari asked.

"Because he's a moron," the second of the three guys said.

"Jake, a moron?" Joe said, "that's a new one on me."

"Look," the third guy said, "present us with Jake now and will leave peacefully."

"Peacefully while trying to kill him?" Danny asked, "that's impossible."

"Then we will leave you all alive," Rob said.

"What's the point in resisting?" Brad asked.

"Why would you give up?" Matt asked.

"They have a gun pointed at my head," Bridget yelled at Matt.

"Oh," Matt said, "didn't see that yet. Then I guess we have one choice. We'll have to," But he was interrupted when Izzy yelled.

"My computer's back online," Yelled Izzy.

"Well what are you waiting for?" Jacklyn asked, "open the portal."

"What are they talking about?" Rob asked his companions. The other two shrugged.

"It's open," Izzy said, "but I need to plug my computer in."

Jacklyn took the computer inside and found an empty outlet near the stairway. They waited a minute and Izzy finally gave the okay for people to enter. Everyone pulled out his or her digivice, but Mike made everyone stop. He ran up the stairs. Once upstairs, he gave the okay for everyone to enter. Everyone shrugged and Izzy opened the portal sucking everyone into the digiworld except the three guys.

They landed in the girls' village. When they opened their eyes, Mike was already there. He had used Jacklyn's computer and went in with Jake. The two were just standing there looking at the large pile of digidestine and digimon.

"We forgot Shane," Stupidmon yelled panicking.

"Oh," Mary-Kate said sarcastically, "so we did. Oh well."

Kari jumped up as soon as she saw Moromon. She ran to her and asked, "Where's Tai?"

Moromon couldn't look Kari in the eyes. She said, "he was a brave fighter and he and Wargreymon destroyed Elkkingmon's computer room. But in destroying it, the two worlds are back on different times. He was captured shortly after while he was on his way back. Only Agumon made it back of the four."

Kari's eyes began to water and she bit her lower lip while shaking her head. No one was happy, they didn't even know how to comfort her.

"Don't worry Kari," Matt said coming to her side, "Tai's a fighter. He'll be all right when we find him. If there's one thing about him I know it's that you can't bring him down."

"Yeah," Patti said, "Let's get moving. The sooner, the better."

Everyone agreed. Once they were all ready, they set off. The gates were opened for them to go through. As soon as they were out, the gates slammed shut.

"Is that just them expressing their hatred of guys to us, or to keep evil out?" Joe asked as they heard the clanging of the gates.

"Evil," Patti said, "now lets hurry."

"Just making sure," Joe said as they began to walk in a random direction.

Because Brad couldn't walk, he stayed behind in the girls' village. He was taken to a medical center where they began seeing if they could mend his leg electronically. It wasn't working very well, but it luckily wasn't making it any worse.

The digidestine, the ones who could walk, were moving amazingly fast for a group of their size supposedly in enemy territory. After three hours, they had yet to meet up with any Elkmon. They would have thought it was suspicious, if it hadn't been for the fact that they could hear the enemy every once in a while.

It happened to be all the Elkmons' breaks, which is supposed to be five minute, but they were going by real world time. All of the Elkmon were getting drunk, gambling, using the break to their full advantage before Elkkingmon changed it back to digiworld time. Several Elkmon actually saw the digidestine, but failed to report for obvious reasons.

The digidestine made it all the way to the castle before any Elkmon challenged them. The Elkmon guarding the doors were not off duty. And there were twenty between the outer gates and the inside of the castle.

"Odds aren't looking so good anymore," Izzy said, "Elkmon are stronger when in groups."

"What are you digimon waiting for?" Patti yelled, "digivolve."

"Right," Rulermon said, but before any of the digimon could digivolve, the Elkmon attacked. They knocked out all the digimon before they could move even. This left a bunch of human kids standing in the middle of a bunch of really strong Elkmon.

"We're dead, aren't we?" Babo asked as the Elkmon began to close in on them all.

"I wouldn't say that," Lenny said, "let me have my shot at them."

"Didn't you get this through your head last time?" Lor asked, "they can kill you with one shot."

"I have an idea," Izzy yelled.

"Hurry up with it," Matt said, the Elkmon were really close by now.

"Run!" Izzy screamed.

As he assumed, everyone shot off in a different direction. Surprised by their plan of action, the Elkmon didn't know what to do for a moment and the kids got by them without trouble. After a moment, the Elkmon began to go in different directions too, following a random kid, not very well. Since they split up the Elkmon, the Elkmon grew weaker as they went farther away from the castle.

After a mile, Lenny, who happened to be in a group with Jamie and the new boy Nick, stopped and turned to face the Elkmon after them. Jamie and Nick simply stopped for the break and the show Lenny was about to make of himself. As soon as the Elkmon caught up, Lenny punched it in the stomach. The Elkmon keeled over and Lenny slammed its head into a tree. The Elkmon passed out.

"It's a miracle," Jamie yelled, kicking the passed out Elkmon.

"No," Lenny said flexing a muscle, "it's my double whopper."

"Should we keep running in the direction away from the castle," Nick asked, "or return?"

"I say return," Lenny said, "Kick a few more Elkmon butt."

"For once I agree with him," Jamie said, "but not to kick the butts of Elkmon, to help our digimon."

"So we can have a bit of protection?" Nick asked.

"Exactly!"

At about the same time, Amanda, who had found her way up a tree where none of the Elkmon were looking, saw Matt on the ground below her. She had not talked to him once since last time they were in the digiworld. She was afraid to. Unfortunately, Matt was leaning against the tree at the time, catching his breath and didn't see the Elkmon sneaking up behind him. Amanda did, but only at the last second.

"Matt, watch out," Amanda yelled jumping out of the tree and landing on the Elkmon.

The Elkmon grabbed Amanda and threw her off his back into a tree branch. She hit her head and lost consciousness. Matt ran to her aid immediately. But, what chance did he have to help her, they didn't have their digimon.

"Back off," Matt yelled when the Elkmon was only a few feet away.

"What are you going to do?" the Elkmon asked, standing right above him.

"He'll do nothing," a voice yelled from above. Matt and the Elkmon both looked up to see Brad standing on a tree branch, looking heroic for a few seconds, then looking stupid as he tried to keep his balance. While not paying attention to what was behind him, the Elkmon was hit by Dwarfmon's ax, destroying him.

"We're a quick healer, aren't we?" Matt asked.

"Turns out that Jessicamon has the power to heal," Brad said, then smiled as he continued, "through kisses. What a great power, being able to heal just by kissing."

"We've got to get Amanda to safety," Matt said, finally returning his attention back to her.

"I don't suppose she would want Jessicamon to heal her," Brad said.

"She was knocked out," Matt said, "I don't think that can be healed."

"Then lets move on," Brad said, "you can carry her, I'll be the comical relief, and Dwarfmon can protect us from any more Elkmon."

They began walking again, back toward the castle. They quickly ran into one more Elkmon, but were easily able to destroy it.

In the mean time, Jake and Sora found a cave just big enough for them to crawl through. The Elkmon didn't see them sneak in, and even if one had, it wouldn't be able to reach them. Jake and Sora ran far into the cave until they could only see outlines of everything.

"This was a stupid idea," Jake said after a while, "do you remember which way we came from?"

"No," Sora replied, "but at least we're safe from the Elkmon."

"My head doesn't hurt this time," Jake said smiling, not that Sora could tell, "like the last time we were in a group, but only last time we had our digimon with us."

"We need them this time," Sora said.

"It would be nice," Jake said, "but them not being here does leave us alone. I've wanted to talk to you, one on one for a while now."

"Are you hitting on me?"

"No," Jake said, "not yet." He leaned forward, found her face, and kissed her. "Now I'm hitting on you."

"Wow," Sora said quietly, "hit on me again." She closed her eyes and Jake's lips found her lips again.

And somewhere else, at approximately the same time, Jacklyn was yelling and screaming as she was brought into the dungeon. She had gotten about four feet into the forest when one Elkmon stepped out from behind a tree and she had run into it. She was the only digidestine to have been caught so far.

"No use in struggling," it said as it threw her into a cell. "There are Elkmon every fifteen feet."

It was true. There was no hope of destroying the Elkmon in the dungeon because there were too many of them. Jakclyn gave the Elkmon who had caught her an evil glare as he slammed the door shut.

"I see you made it back," Tai was also in the cell.

"Yes we did," Jacklyn said, sitting down next to him, "hear you were a little productive yourself."

"Yeah, well, after Wargreymon and I lost Terriormon and Emily in the forest, we made a full frontal attack and hit the computer room luckily," Tai said shaking his head, "then something happened and all I remember is waking up here."

"I'm wiped," Jacklyn said closing her eyes. She leaned to the side and rested her head on Tai's shoulder.

Somewhere else in the forest, T.K. and Natalie meant to duck behind a bush to lose an Elkmon who had just lost sight of them in the thick trees, but fell into a hole the bush hid. They tumbled and discovered Emily and Yorkshiremon, both badly beat up.

"Emily," T.K. said, "what happened to you?"

"We didn't fare too well against twenty-five Elkmon," Emily said with a smile.

"You took on 25 Elkmon," Natalie asked in amazement.

"No," Yorkshiremon said, "25 Elkmon attacked us."

"I guess that does make a little more sense," Natalie said.

"We just needed to rest a while," Emily said.

"At least your home saved Natalie and me from the Elkmon chasing us," T.K. said.

"Just one?" Yorkshiremon asked.

"One," Natalie said with a nod.

Yorkshiremon ran out of the hole. Fighting could be heard, followed by an Elkmon yelling. Yorkshiremon returned and said, "I don't see any Elkmon out there. Not anymore at least."

"Come on," T.K. said, "let's find the others."

They climbed out of the hole and quietly worked their way through the trees back toward the castle.

And in another corner of the forest, Mike, Jennifer, Delila, and Joque were running from three Elkmon following them. Unfortunately, the forest was about to end at a fifty-foot cliff. They barely stopped before falling over the cliff. The three Elkmon emerged from the forest.

"No where to go now but become captured by us," one Elkmon said closing in on them.

"That's not entirely true," Mike said, "we could jump, but if we did that, I'm sure Elkkingmon would have your skins. Isn't it his job to finish us off?"

"Um," another Elkmon said, "he only said bring you all back alive."

"Sounds like he wants all the credit from the evil digimon of the world," Mike said, shaking his head, "and all he does all day is sit in a chair. You deserve more than to work for him."

"What is Mike trying to do?" Delila asked in a whisper to Jennifer.

"He has some sort of plan," Jennifer said, "I hope."

"What do you mean?" the third Elkmon asked.

"I mean that by capturing us and delivering us to him, you'll just be showing that you are his slaves."

"We are not slaves," all three Elkmon yelled.

"Then show it," Mike said, and the Elkmon began to nod their heads, "stand up to him. Don't capture us, start a boycott, or riot, or whatever you need to do to show that you won't work as his lower."

"Yeah," the Elkmon yelled, "we'll show him who's boss."

The three Elkmon began to march away, heads high, talking about revolting. Mike, Jennifer, Delila, and Joque snuck away as quickly as they could and hid by climbing down to the bottom of the cliff.

"How did you know that would work?" Joque asked.

"Hey, it always works on Dan's spies," Mike explained, "I don't see why Elkmon would be any different."

Meanwhile, "Lar you idiot," Lor screamed at her twin brother, "They'll get us here for sure."

The two of them were on an island in the middle of the lake and two Elkmon were making their way across the lake towards them.

"We'll see who the idiots are in just a moment," Lar said, "there was a reason I told you not to go under, and here it comes."

Suddenly, one of the Elkmon was pulled under the water, then the other. They were then thrown out of the water, over the trees, and at least one hundred yards away.

"You think I never come to the digiworld," Lar said, "I come here all the time to go swimming. This is my favorite lake because if anything attacks me, Squidmon protects me, says I'm the best non-fish swimmer he's ever seen."

"That's because you have no life."

"I do too have a life," Lar yelled.

"But you can't get the one girl you like to even learn your name even though you are good friends with one of her good friends," Lor said.

"Not like you've got a boyfriend or anything," Lar said.

"Not like I like anyone," Lor said, "now how do we get off this island?"

"We swim," Lar said, "But I suggest I go first or Squidmon might attack you."

Lar dove into the lake, and came up thirty seconds later half way back to shore. He motioned for Lor to follow him, so she waded in to her waist and swam from there.

"Where are you leading us now?" Lor asked.

"To get our digimon," Lar replied, "we're nothing with out them."

And somewhere else yet, Jade, Mary-Kate, Maggie, Anna, and Mimi were running from a few Elkmon of their own. He finally cornered all of them at a river, flowing very fast with rocks and rapids. Not even Lar would try to swim this river.

"Give up and I'll go easy on you," the Elkmon said.

"Not in a million years," Mary-Kate yelled, but no one else agreed with her. All the other girls lifted their hands in defeat. "What's wrong," Mary-Kate yelled, "we can't give up."

"We can't fight or escape either," Jade said.

"That's not true," Mary-Kate said, "we might not be able to fight, but we can escape."

"Mary-Kate," Maggie said, "don't do what I think you're thinking about doing."

"It's better than being caught," Mary-Kate said. She jumped into the river. They all watched for a minute waiting for her to emerge at the other end or somewhere for air, but they didn't see her. By that time, Elkmon was able to grab them all and handcuff them all.

Mary-Kate was in fact still under water, but waiting for the Elkmon to disappear. She was holding onto a rock below the surface waiting for him to disappear so she could surface without threat. As soon as he was gone, she let go of the rock and swam to the surface. She was only four feet out so she swam about one foot before she was able to wade back to the shore.

"That was daring of you," Chris V. said from a tree.

"Two questions," Mary-Kate said glaring at him, "one, why didn't you distract it for three seconds so we could slip past him? And second, how did you get up there with a broken arm."

"The tree is practically steps," Chris V. said, "and I didn't want to get caught."

"Thanks. Let's go find someone else," Mary-Kate said, "see if we can't be help."

The two began walking down the shore until well…we'll get back to them later.

And in this corner, we have T.Y., Allison, Izzy and Joe, running for their lives from an Elkmon. It was on their tails until it was suddenly destroyed.

"There's nothing to fear," an annoying voice said, "I am here."

"I think that in itself is worth fearing," Joe said as Shane fell flat on his face, "but you did save us."

"With the help of me," Idiotmon said.

"Yeah," Izzy said, "now let's go back to see if we can get our digimon."

They began to walk, but didn't get very far before they ran into another Elkmon. Once again, Idiotmon destroyed it. They ran into three more Elkmon on their journey back to the castle, and Idiotmon destroyed them all.

The last five, besides Patti, being Kari, Danny, Babo, Bridget, and Maria, were running from the last five Elkmon, until help appeared in front of them. Help came in the form of three digimon. Colinmon, Dannymon, and Zachmon.

"We could use a little help," Kari yelled to the familiar Colinmon who had saved her, T.K. Jamie, Gatomon, Patamon, Dandimon, and Gabumon from Misspuppetmon two years ago when she had captured them from the guys village. Misspuppetmon had changed into Colinmon and Colinmon was returning from a business venture when he saw her carrying a net containing the seven of them. He had not been able to save them again when they were in the forest and Misspuppetmon pulled her book out for the first time.

"What do you think we're here for?" Colinmon asked as he blasted one Elkmon over a mile away. Zachmon and Dannymon both did this too leaving two much weaker Elkmon to fight. The Elkmon were easily destroyed.

"So, why are you out?" Kari asked.

"And who are you?" Danny asked.

"WarlockBretmon has gone insane," Dannymon said, "he's having a meeting with Elkkingmon today about joining sides. We were the only ones in the whole village to object."

"It's morally wrong," Zachmon explained.

"We need to get our digimon back," Maria said, "we had to leave them back at the castle."

"Let's go then," Colinmon said grabbing Maria and Kari and flying above the trees. Zachmon grabbed Danny and Bridget and Dannymon grabbed Babo. They returned to the castle only a minute later, but the digimon were gone.

"I don't understand," Kari said, "do you think they were destroyed or that Elkkingmon took them as prisoners?"

"Kari," Patti yelled from in a tree, "they'll all right. I took them up here so they wouldn't be hurt. A few are waking up, but they're all wiped out."

"As long as they aren't dead," Babo said.

Patti climbed down with a limp Gatomon in her arms. Gatomon was awake, just too hurt to move. Patti gave her to Kari, who held her tight. Babo, Bridget, Maria, and Danny all grabbed their digimon too.

"I'm going to see who else I can find," Dannymon said flying in a random direction.

"Me too," Zachmon said, going in a different direction.

"I'll stay here and protect you from anymore Elkmon," Colinmon said. A few minutes later, Lenny, Jamie, and Nick emerged from the bushes. They were followed a few minutes later by T.K., Natalie, Emily, and Yorkshiremon. About five minutes after that, Zachmon returned with Allison, T.Y., Joe, Izzy, Shane, and Stupidmon. A minute after that, Dannymon arrived with Mary-Kate and Chris V. A few minutes later, Lor and Lar noisily arrived, yelling at each other. Dannymon and Zachmon returned from their second search ten minutes later with Mike, Jennifer, Delila, and Joque. After another half-hour and Dannymon and Zachmon had found no one else, they decided that they had all been caught.

"I say we return to the girls village," Patti said, "that's our best protection."

"We'll never get in," Colinmon said.

"We'll have to try," Patti said, "or we're open bait."

They quickly and quietly returned to the girls' village. Moromon amazingly let the three guy digimon in as soon as she saw them. She had already heard about everything that had happened with Warlockbretmon and Elkkingmon. They had indeed joined forces, but Warlockbretmon had to capture one digidestine and deliver to Elkkingmon.

"You three have done your share today already," Moromon said, "I'll send Lynnmon and Sarahmon to find anyone else who is at risk of being captured."

Brad, Matt, and an unconscious Amanda had been heading for the castle, when Dwarfmon had seen something suspicious over head. They hid in the nearest cave, which turned out to be a bad idea. They had been in there for only a few minutes when a few Elkmon saw them and attacked. The Elkmon missed, but caused the cave entrance to collapse and Brad and Dwarfmon got stuck outside while Dwarfmon tried to attack. They were captured and taken back the castle dungeon. Brad and Dwarfmon got a cage with Jade, while Anna, Maggie, and Mimi were in the cell across from them.

Matt and Amanda were stuck inside the cave on the other hand. Matt laid Amanda down carefully and began to look for a secret passage for a while. After that, he tried to clear the rocks a little, but that wasn't very successful either. He even traveled into the cave a little, but finally, he returned to Amanda believing that nothing could be done.

Jake and Sora had heard the rock slide echoing through the cave and decided to check out what had happened. They took about an hour feeling their way through the cave, hand in hand, until they could see a little light coming from the ceiling. The entrance was completely blocked besides that. At the bottom of the rocks sat Matt, head in hands shaking his head. Amanda was laying a few feet away from his feet.

"Matt," Sora asked, letting go of Jake's hand, "how long have you been here?"

Matt looked up. When he saw them he stood to greet them. "I've been here a little less than an hour I guess. How about you?"

"A few hours," Jake said.

"What happened to Amanda?" Sora asked kneeling beside her.

"She got knocked out by an Elkmon," Matt said, "and Brad was with us for a while, leg healed, but then he got stuck outside when the Elkmon caused the entrance to collapse."

"That sucks," Jake said, sitting down, "don't suppose if you remember if this was the way we came in Sora, do you?"

"Not a clue," Sora said, "sure hope not."

"We should at least check it out," Jake said. Sora and Matt nodded. Matt picked Amanda off the ground and they began to work their way back into the cave. About an hour and a half later, they could see the light of the night at the cave exit. They began to walk faster to get out, until Warlockbretmon appeared at the exit. They could see he looked evil.

"Two digidestine to deliver as a peace offering to Elkkingmon," Warlockbretmon laughed, "and two to keep as my own."

"I knew he would be evil," Sora said shaking her head.

"You'll have to catch us first," Jake said. He grabbed Sora and Matt and they began to run back into the cave.

"What are you talking about," Sora asked, "you know that the other exit is…"

"You'll see," Jake replied. He took Amanda from Matt because he could carry her more easily. They ran for about five minutes after they couldn't see anything when Jake stopped Matt and Sora and pulled them to crouch against the wall of the cave. They stayed there for about ten minutes until they heard Warlockbretmon's footsteps go by. They waited another five minutes and began to make their way back to the open entrance.

"Tricky," Matt said once they were out of the cave.

"Learned it in Seattle," Jake said.

"That where you are?" Matt asked.

"Uhhh," Jake said, "wasn't supposed to say that out loud. But I think I already told that to Bridget, Joque, Tai, Kari, and Jacklyn when we first arrived here before we had to go back to the real world. Just don't tell anyone else, especially not Brad, Chris V., Anna, Jade, or Maggie. I don't trust them to keep their traps shut."

"What about Mike?" Sora asked.

"He's a little more trustworthy," Jake said, "plus, he's too focused on Jennifer right now."

"What's going on between him and Jennifer?" Matt asked.

"I guess they went to a few clubs together and Dan of course thought they were going on dates," Jake said, "Dan assumes that one date means boyfriend/girlfriend. That isn't true, it just means a few dates."

"That means that Mike and Amanda aren't going out anymore," Sora said to Matt noticing him looking at Amanda. "I hope you didn't think that they would be going out still. It's been two years, they were only 13, and Amanda has moved about twenty times since then."

"I knew that," Matt said, "I'm not that thick."

"Could have fooled me," Sora said.

They were walking for about an hour before they found a large tree they could rest in for the night. They were all tired. Jake volunteered to stay watch for a while, so Sora and Matt fell asleep.

"We didn't find anymore digidestine," Lynnmon said to Moromon when she and Sarahmon returned. "But we did see Warlockbretmon and he looked very angry and was yelling a lot."

"That must mean that he saw a digidestine but was unable to catch him," Zachmon said, "or his forces are falling apart without their general."

"Which should be you," Moromon said, "but no use in thinking about the past. We have got to assume that he couldn't capture a digidestine or two. Amymon, get Lilymon and Jessicamon and I want you three to search until after the sun is high in the sky."

"Okay," Amymon said and flew off to find Lilymon and Jessicamon.

"This isn't good," Moromon said, "we're missing Tai and Matt. Without them, Agumon and Gabumon won't be able to digivolve, and if we even want a chance, we're going to need them."

"Let's not forget the fact that we only have one mega, and while that's a start, it's only a start," Izzy said.

"We could help a little," Moromon said, "but only five at a time, and it's risky."

"What do you mean?" Joe asked.

"We have a training room," Moromon explained, "five of you and your digimon partners could go in and train for what would be a week, but only a day out here. You could put the challenge high enough that by the time you came out, the digimon would be able to warp digivolve."

"We'd better get started then," Patti said, "who'll go in first? How about Izzy, Joe, Jamie, Lor and Lar."

"What about you?" Lor questioned Patti's authority.

"My digimon can digivolve to ultramega," Patti said, "would you like to question that?"

"Sorry," Lor said, and Lar silently cheered for Patti defeating his sister.

"Wake up everyone," Amanda whispered while shaking Sora and Jake, "there are Elkmon crawling all over this area."

"Amanda," Sora said, "you're up."

"With a major head ache," Amanda said, "I'm glad to see I didn't get taken by the Elkmon, but I've seen three walk by since I woke up. Come on, everybody up, you too Matt." Amanda reached up and tapped on Matt's shoulder to wake him up.

Jake, Matt, Sora, and Amanda all quickly climbed out of the tree. They made their best guess as to where the girls' village was and began to head there. Sora explained to Amanda about Warlockbretmon going evil.

"I found you again," Warlockbretmon appeared in front of them. "And there will be no escaping this time."

"That's what you think," Amymon flew up behind Warlockbretmon and blasted the back of his head.

"Come on you four," Lilymon said swooping down and grabbing Amanda and Sora. Jessica grabbed Matt and Jake. They flew back to the village while Amymon fought Warlockbretmon.

"We found four of them," Jessicamon reported to Moromon when they returned.

"Where's Amymon?" Moromon asked.

"She was holding off Warlockbretmon," Lilymon said.

"No," Moromon said, "she'll lose. Patti, do you think that you and Fairypattimon can go find her? Fairypattimon is the only one who will be able to fight off Warlockbretmon."

"Sure," Patti said and she and Rulermon ran out of the city.

"You four looked so tired," Samanthamon said to Amanda, Jake, Sora and Matt, "follow me to the spa. You can get some rest there, and all the other digidestine just left so it won't be crowded."

"First time I was in this village, I was thrown in jail," Matt said, "now they're offering a free spa."

Sora and Amanda were both given a bathing suit to change into, while Matt and Jake had to settle for staying in their boxers. They all went into the hot tub, which none of them ever wanted to leave immediately.

"There's something going on between you two," Amanda said to Jake and Sora after about half an hour in the hot tub.

"What are you talking about?" Jake asked.

"You are whispering a lot, and not to mention Sora, you're on his lap," Amanda said.

"So we kind of got a little closer when we first were hiding from the Elkmon," Sora said, "if you're feeling lonely, you've got Matt next to you."

Amanda blushed a little for a second, shook her head and got out of the tub. "I've still got a head ache," she said, "I'm going to find a dark quiet place to rest."

"I'm going to leave you two by yourselves," Matt said crawling out too after another minute. He left and went to find where Amanda had gone to. He wanted to talk to her. He needed to talk to her. He found her sitting in a chair alone in a small room not far from the spa. "You're afraid to talk to me," Matt said when he walked in. He closed the door behind him.

"What makes you say that?" Amanda asked, though it was true.

"You're never online," Matt said, "even when other people say you are on. You once asked T.K. not to tell me you were on when he was at my house a few weeks ago."

"Well," Amanda said, "think about what you said to me last time we talked. That might give you a clue."

"We were hiding in a dressing room together," Matt said, "I was afraid."

"So was I," Amanda said, "but I didn't feel the need to confess love." She got up to leave, but he stood in front of the door.

"I still do," Matt said.

"You still do what?" Amanda asked trying to get him to move.

"Love you."

"Don't say that Matt," Amanda said shaking her head, "you're too young to know what love is."

"No," Matt said, "I'm not too young. I do love you."

"Please don't say that."

"It's true," Matt said, still not letting her out the door.

"Please let me out," Amanda said.

"Let me kiss you and I will," Matt said, taking a step toward her. He was positive it would work.

"No," Amanda said, "no. Let me out."

Matt was shocked. He had been so positive she would have said yes. He was even mad that it hadn't worked.

"Only if you let me kiss you," Matt said.

"I said no," Amanda said, not seeming to be about to back down.

"One kiss," Matt said, "that's all I'm asking for."

"No Matt," Amanda yelled, "now let me out."

"No. If you won't let me kiss you, you won't leave this room."

"I guess we're going to be in this room a long time," Amanda said sitting back down on the chair.

"Why are you being so stubborn?" Matt asked.

"Me?" Amanda said loudly, "I just want to get some rest." She closed her eyes.

Matt decided that this would be his only chance to kiss her. He quietly walked over to her and bent forward until he was only inches away. She opened her eyes suddenly, but she wasn't able to push him away or escape before he grabbed her and pulled her into a kiss. Amanda was amazed at how much stronger he was than she was because as much as she tried, she couldn't get him to let her go. She was still trying to push him away after half a minute when she realized she was kissing him too. She stopped trying to escape finally.

Matt finally pulled away after a minute. He was expecting Amanda to slap him, or hit him, or anything but what she did. She laughed. She began to laugh, and was laughing too hard to stop.

"What is so funny?" Matt asked after a few seconds.

"I think I must be crazy," Amanda said, "but I can't be sure of anything anymore. Kiss me again."

"What?"

"You heard me," Amanda said grabbing his arms and pulling them around her waist, "kiss me again."

Matt had no objections. He had really enjoyed the first kiss, and now she was asking him to kiss her. He pulled her close to him and kissed her again. They kept making out for the next half-hour until the door was opened again by who else but Patti.

"What are you two doing?" Patti yelled. She only saw them kissing, Matt in his boxers still, and Amanda only in a bathing suit. Not to mention they were lying on the ground with their legs tangled.

"Hi Patti," Amanda said, smiling.

"We're just talking," Matt said.

By that time, everyone had gathered to see what Patti had yelled about. Behind Patti, a lot of snickering could be heard. Patti herself was fuming. She had never really liked Matt, and to see him win Amanda over only made her hate him more.

"Get up," Patti said slowly trying to control her temper, "we're splitting into groups to go Elkmon hunting. The more we destroy now, the more training we get and the less we have to fight later. We also want to see if we can find out about their dungeon. Maybe even break in and free those captured."

"Sounds like a plan," Amanda said standing up and brushing herself off.

"Put on some clothes," more snickering could be heard, "and get to the dining room in ten minutes," Patti said.

By the time Matt and Amanda arrived in the dining room, the groups had already been picked. Somehow they were in the same group, along with T.K. and Lenny. They had been given the mission to infiltrate the dungeon and see if they could break out the prisoners. Patti figured that Matt wouldn't try to kiss Amanda with his brother around, and the dungeon mission would require full concentration from everyone and a lot of keeping Lenny quiet.

Mike, Jennifer, Chris V., and Mary-Kate quietly snuck behind an Elkmon with their digimon fully digivolved.

"You guys are going to jump in on the count of three," Mike said, and the digimon nodded.

"Three," Chris V. said loudly before anyone could say anything else.

All four digimon jumped in and attacked the Elkmon at once. It was lucky that all the digimon were there, because even though they only saw one Elkmon, three were there. It took a few minutes, but they were able to destroy all three, after separating them and pulling them far from each other.

The digimon, Chris V., and Mary-Kate returned to the clearing after the Elkmon had been killed. Mike and Jennifer were kissing next to a tree.

"Nice to know that you two are cheering us on," Griffenmon said.

"We are," Mike said, "but we know that you'll be the victor so there's no need to watch another battle."

"Come on," Armormon said, "no use in staying here. There are still dangerous Elkmon out there."

They continued to walk looking for more Elkmon. At one point, Chris V. tried to put an arm around Mary-Kate's shoulders, but she ducked and walked behind him from then on. One time he turned to talk to her and the first thing she said was, "don't even bother thinking about hitting on me."

"Where were you two?" Joque asked Jake and Sora as the three of them and Delila slowly climbed down a cliff to where an Elkmon was standing guard.

"We were hiding in a cave," Jake said, "until one entrance collapsed and we found Amanda and Matt. Then blah blah blah, and we found a tree to spend a night in. Woke up the next morning and were found and taken back to the village."

"Was something going on between Matt and Amanda the whole time?" Delila asked.

"Amanda was passed out until this morning," Sora said, "hit her head or something. And there was definitely no love vibes between the two of them in the hot tub. Amanda didn't even talk to Matt."

"As I understand it," Jake said, "Matt said something to Amanda in LA while they were hiding from an Alienmon, and Amanda has been afraid to talk to him since."

"What did he say?" Delila asked.

"I couldn't get it out of anyone," Jake said, "not even Mike would tell me. I know that Mike didn't particularly care for what Matt said for a while when he was still going out with Amanda. After they broke up, he just didn't mention it ever."

They finally made it to the bottom of the cliff where Rexmon and Branchmon worked together to destroy the Elkmon. Because they were two champions, it took them a little longer than it would have taken if Foosmon and Garudamon had helped. But as Patti figured it, the more the champions fought, the sooner they would become ultamites, and the sooner they can possibly become megas. So, Basketmon and Biyomon were only there if they were needed, which it didn't look like they would be unless they fought more than two Elkmon at once.

"Be quiet Lenny," Matt yelled in a whisper. He, Lenny, Amanda, and T.K. had just arrived at the back of the castle. Lenny had already attracted several Elkmon on more than one occasion while they were sneaking around and caused them much annoyance. Flymon had had to digivolve to Beemon every time to destroy the Elkmon.

"If we knew where the dungeon was we would be able to blast through the wall and allow everyone escape," T.K. said.

"And attract every Elkmon in this hemisphere to us," Amanda said. "It's too risky. We're going to have to find a way in without being seen."

"Not going to happen with him," Matt said gesturing toward Lenny.

"But he could draw out the Elkmon from the dungeon," Amanda said, "which I'm sure he'd love to do. He could lead them out of the castle where T.K. and Angemon are waiting to attack the Elkmon, or at least grab Lenny and Flymon and escape. Meanwhile Matt and I can sneak into the dungeon and break everyone free. It's our best chance. And we could blast our way out if we need to and save everyone in the process."

"That's a great idea," T.K. said, "but we're not supposed to leave you two alone according to Patti."

"T.K.," Matt said, "ignore Patti. We won't say anything if you don't say anything. Plus, our digimon will be with us. And do you have a better plan?"

"No I don't," T.K. said, "let's break them free."

T.K. and Patamon took station in a tree outside a side entrance into the castle. Meanwhile, Matt, Amanda, Lenny, Gabumon, Calfmon, and Flymon sneaked inside. They quickly scanned the hall. No Elkmon. They continued until they saw an Elkmon standing guard outside the dungeon door. With careful aim, and perfect timing, the three rookies were able to destroy it without making any loud noise. Matt, Amanda, Gabumon, and Calfmon all hid pressed up against the wall next to the door, Matt holding the keys on the wall, while Beemon blasted the dungeon door down and Lenny called in, "Hey, Elkmon. Bet you can't catch me, even if all of you came at once."

Of course, his words had been planned very carefully to force as many Elkmon out as possible. So, all but about three Elkmon ran out of the dungeon after Lenny and Beemon, who made a mad dash to the side entrance they had come through. Lenny scrambled up the tree with T.K. while Magnaangemon began to help Beemon fend off the Elkmon. Since there were a lot, the digimon began to throw them into the distance to thin out the crowd.

Inside, Metalgarurumon was easily able to destroy the remaining Elkmon and Matt and Amanda quickly ran into the dungeon to find the remaining digidestine in there. With the Elkmon gone, Trollmon found no harm in blasting the cage door apart for Brad and Jade to crawl through and then ripping the cage door off the cell across from them for Maggie, Anna, and Mimi to escape through.

"Jacklyn," Tai said shaking her slightly, "do you hear that?"

Jacklyn opened her eyes and listened. She could hear several people calling for Tai. A few times she heard her own name, followed by, "if you're in here."

"What's going on?" Jacklyn asked.

"I think they're breaking us out," Tai said. They were in the furthest back cell, the only one with a non-cage-bar door.

Jacklyn tried to look through the keyhole to see what was going on exactly. She couldn't see anything. She did remember that she thought the Elkmon was throwing her into a janitor's closet until the door was actually opened. It was actually marked "Cleaning supplies" so it was no wonder she thought that.

"We should yell for them," Jacklyn suggested, "or they'll never find us. It's marked for cleaning supplies. Elkkingmon must have had you thrown in this particular cell because it wouldn't be searched if there was a jail break because he knew you have a mega."

Tai nodded. The two began to yell for help. They mentioned they were in a janitor's closet. After about five minutes, they heard a jangle of keys and the door opened to reveal Amanda.

"Hurry up you guys," Matt said as soon as they exited the cell, "we've got to get back outside. I don't know if Beemon and Magnaangemon can hold off the Elkmon for much longer."

Once outside, they were surprised to see the last of the Elkmon get destroyed by a blast from Waspmon, who had just digivolved.

"Well," Matt said, "that's a surprise."

"Let's leave," T.K. said climbing off the tree, "before the Elkmon thrown into the forest begin to return."

"Okay," Matt said. He climbed onto Metalgarurumon's back. Anna jumped on too, much to the dismay of Amanda. Tai, Jacklyn, Maggie and Mimi climbed onto Bullmoosemon's back with Amanda. Jade and Brad rode Trollmon, Lenny rode Waspmon, and Magnaangemon carried T.K. They quickly made their way back to the girls' village.

"You're going to have to work a lot harder to digivolve to ultamite," Patti said to Tweetybirdmon, Hollymon, and Coralmon. They had just finished destroying four Elkmon, after much work.

"Don't you think they are working quite hard?" Babo asked as Coralmon panted to catch his breath.

"Are they ultramegas yet?" Patti asked. "No. Therefore, they need to work harder."

"I'd like to point out that you only got your ultramega when you stole the crest power of the other digidestine and used it for Rulermon to warp digivolve and then digivolve again," Bridget said. "I suppose that you having been evil before must give you the power over us because you went the easy way while everyone else had to work really hard to help their digimon out."

Patti lowered her eyes to a glare at Bridget. She coughed quietly and asked, "What did you say?"

"I said that you cheated in getting an ultramega," Bridget said, slightly shaking. "Don't push our digimon too hard because they're much newer at this and aren't as capable of digivolving as easily."

"Please don't mess with Patti, Bridget," Maria begged, "I don't want to witness a lynching here."

"I won't lynch her," Patti said looking straight ahead toward the path they were traveling on.

"What do you suppose Elkkingmon is planning?" Babo asked a few minutes later to break the silence.

"Destroy the world," Patti said, "what else? I remember when I was evil; all I wanted to do was destroy the world. It was a weird feeling, like nothing in life mattered."

"Must have sucked," Maria said, "to not even care about friends and family and want to destroy them."

"I almost did destroy Amanda," Patti continued, "but she was able to get away and give me a bruised nose. I don't know how she ever got that strong."

"I would have paid to see that," Bridget murmured.

"I can hear you," Patti said, ignoring what was actually said.

Bridget sighed. How did she ever get into this?

Kari was as confused as Natalie was as the two listened to T.Y. and Allison talk ahead of them. The two girls didn't know that the two elders were greasers from the slums of Seattle. T.Y. seemed slightly jumpier than he had earlier. Finally, he couldn't take it and growled, "I need one."

"Can't you wait until we are at least back at the village?" Allison asked, "not here, in the forest."

"I can't help it," T.Y. said. He bent down for a moment, pulled a cigarette and a lighter from the cuff of his pants, and lit it, as he stood straight again.

Kari and Natalie were shocked for a moment, unable to talk. They couldn't imagine how anyone could smoke while the world was in danger. Not to mention, they knew he was too young.

"What are you doing?" Natalie yelled.

"Calming my nerves," T.Y. said, "I need to."

The four digimon cocked their heads. Besides the smell, they couldn't tell what T.Y. was doing.

"There are healthier ways," Kari said, "like not smoking at all so you don't need cigarettes to calm your nerves."

"Everyone does it where I'm from," T.Y. said, "my mom gives me cigarettes to do her grocery shopping for her. Only time she ever leaves the Shack is to get cigarettes when she runs out."

"Your mom gives you cigarettes?" Kari and Natalie asked not believing him.

"She gives me them too," Allison said, "sometimes. My parents don't smoke, but won't stop me from smoking if I want to. They say, 'if you want to ruin your life, then go ahead. We're just not going to finance it.' It's so not fair."

"What's not fair is that you guys weren't protected from the harm of tobacco companies and are now addicted," Kari said.

"Next they're going to say Jake smokes," Natalie said, jokingly, but from the looks on their faces, she knew he did too.

The cigarette smoke repulsed the Elkmon, so the four of them had no trouble as T.Y. finished his cigarette. As soon as they continued searching for Elkmon, they realized that there were no more in the area.

Danny, Nick, and Shane were positioned directly outside the girls' village. If any Elkmon stumbled upon it, it wouldn't have time to react before it would be destroyed. Danny and Nick were just getting started working with digimon, and Shane couldn't find a group that would actually take him in.

"I see something coming," Flamemon said as the trees began to shake a little.

"What does it look like?" Danny asked his digimon.

"A pair of antlers," Flamemon said.

"Digivole," Danny said, "it's probably an Elkmon."

"Flamemon digivole to… Infernomon. Inferno Blaze."

There were a few yells from in the distance. Suddenly, Angemon, with T.K. in his arms flew out of the trees.

"Stop," T.K. yelled as Waspmon with Lenny followed. "That's Bullmoosemon you're attacking. Not an Elkmon."

Soon afterward, Metalgarurumon, Dwarfmon and Bullmoosemon emerged from the trees carrying the remaining digidestine. Bullmoosemon looked aggravated, but not mad, as Amanda did.

Tai, who was sitting inside Bullmoosemon's left antler, climbed out and asked, "What was that about?"

"All I saw were a pair of antlers sticking out of the trees slightly," Flamemon said.

"The Elkmon antlers look like fuzzy sticks," Amanda yelled, "not like moose antlers, but elk antlers. You're a digimon, you should know what Elkmon antlers look like, especially after seeing so many."

"Sorry," Flamemon said, "honest mistake."

"I would have attacked if he hadn't," Nick's digimon, Twistermon admitted.

"Learn to tell the difference," Amanda yelled, and she stomped into the village. Jade, Maggie, and Mimi quickly followed Amanda, eager to join her in the hot tub. T.K. and Lenny quickly greeted Nick and Danny before following in the girls, along with all the digimon who were now tired from the fast get-away.

Matt, Tai, Jacklyn, Anna, Brad, Danny, and Nick stood outside the gate with only Twistermon and Flamemon. Nick and Danny looked at Matt for an explanation to Amanda's sudden mood swing. Everyone else was lost by this point.

"You're the one she's in love with," Danny said to Matt, "what's her bloody problem?"

"Where does this 'she's in love' begin?" Brad asked, totally confused. "Amanda's not one to fall in love."

"She didn't tell you?" Nick asked smiling. "She and Matt…"

"Are finally back on speaking terms again," Matt said, after kicking Nick to get him to stop talking.

"Why weren't you talking?" Anna asked, stroking her fingers down Matt's arm.

"It was something stupid I said to her," Matt said, "and not your business."

"Oh," Anna said, "that declaration of love you gave to her hiding in the dressing room at the mall?"

A lot of eyes moved from Anna to Matt very quickly. Matt was baffled that Anna knew about this. He did not know that Anna, Jennifer, and Mike had witnessed the conversation while still inside UFOmon.

"You told her you loved her," Tai asked.

"While she had a boyfriend?" Jacklyn questioned.

Now, Matt was even more nervous.

"Dude," Brad said loudly, "that is hilarious. I so wish I could have witnessed that. 'Oh, my darling, I am deeply, affectionately in love with you.' That is genius comedy there."

Matt was glad that Brad turned the situation into a joke. All eyes were off him. Matt, of course, did not see any motives of Brad or Anna here because he did not know them well enough. Anna was flirting with him, hoping she could steal him from Amanda. Brad, seeing Anna's motives, saved him with the joke. Jacklyn only realized this as Brad began a fake love declaration.

"I'm going inside to see if there are any better pants for me to wear inside," Jacklyn said, "I can't imagine that this place would be without a mall."

She had mentioned the sacred word. Anna followed Jacklyn inside just as she hoped she would. Jacklyn knew that Anna's flirting methods usually worked on all guys, with the exception of Jake, Brad, Mike and Chris V. It also should be noted here that Anna flirts with Chris V. without knowing or meaning to, but not in the, find a way to touch him but the call one another names and say they're gross way. Both Anna's parents and Chris V.'s parents have wanted the two of them to date since they were about, born.

"Now that Anna's gone," Tai began, but Matt shrugged him off.

"It's just us guys now," Brad said, "what's going on between you and Amanda? You know we're going to find out."

"T.K. will tell us," Tai said, "you might as well sugar-coat it before T.K. gives us the plain truth."

"We just, well," Matt didn't know if he should tell them. What if Amanda didn't want anyone to know? What if she was just using him?

"They had a major make-out session," Nick said, breaking into laughs.

Tai and Brad both lifted their eyebrows at Matt and smiled evilly. "That's something guys usually brag about," Brad informed Matt, "not try to hide. Especially with a girl like Amanda. I remember when I began going out with her; she was instantly popular at our school because she traveled so often, not one guy in our school was not jealous. It was my longest relationship. Two weeks."

"You have some dating issues," Tai said to Brad, "You don't date very often, do you?"

Brad looked at Tai, not believing him. He then fell to the ground laughing. "I… have… probably… dated… more… girls… in… a… week… then… you… ever… will."

"He almost never goes without a girlfriend," Matt clarified for Tai. "He usually has several every day."

"I take back what I said," Tai said, slightly shrinking in ego.

"Well," Brad said, "don't feel bad. It's hard for girls to resist my charm."

"And what charm is that?" Danny asked.

"My perfect looks," Brad said, "the way I sweep them off their feet, the fact that I live in Hollywood and am extremely rich. You know, the usual."

"Does that ever really work?" Nick asked.

"For him it does," Jake returned with Sora, Biyomon, Basketmon, Joque, Dinomon, Delila, and Leafmon.

"The world is an unfair place," Tai said shaking his head, "I can't get one girl to look at me and he's got girls clawing at one another to be his girlfriend. Is there any hope for me?"

"Not with that haircut," Sora said, "ever ask someone to trim it? Or a hedge trimmer?"

"It's not a bush," Tai said scornfully.

"Of course not," Matt agreed, "it's much too ugly to be a bush."

"That's not even funny," Tai said trying to pet his hair down, but it wouldn't budge.

"Maybe that's where you keep losing your house keys," Sora joked.

Tai was not in the mood to have his hair teased, so he stomped off into the village and to the spa, which he still hadn't visited yet. Everyone else waited outside for the rest to return. However, things were about to go terribly wrong. Elkkingmon, enraged that his prisoners had escaped, finally came out of his castle and attacked himself. He started by randomly blasting all movement in the forest.

His power was so strong, that even the blasts that were within ten feet of someone would knock him or her out. Everyone in the forest who hadn't returned to the village was knocked out and hurt really badly, including Patti and Rulermon. He then sent out his Elkmon to pick up everyone and throw them into the dungeon, digimon all at one end and digidestine all at the far end. That was, everyone except for Patti, she got special treatment in a cage hanging in Elkkingmon's throne room and guarded by at least twenty Elkmon at all times.

Then Elkkingmon had Warlockbretmon's army begin to tear through the digiworld looking for the girls' village. Moromon knew that it wouldn't be long until they found it. She told everyone to prepare to fight, including the digidestine and their digimon. But, after an intense battle, the boy army won with the help of a thousand Elkmon. Everyone was thrown into the dungeon, except Tai, Matt, and Moromon, who were all thrown in with Patti. Not even Moromon could take on twenty Elkmon alone.

"All hope is gone," Tai yelled after discovering that there was absolutely no way they could escape.

"Not all hope," Patti said quietly. "We still have Izzy, Joe, Jaime, Lor, and Lar."

"Big help there," Matt said.

"You never know," Moromon said. "Plus, Gennai and I have one more card up our sleeve, and Amymon's going to help out."

"What's that?" Matt asked.

"Can't tell," Amymon said as Brad persisted on asking her what she was up to.

Amymon scanned the nearby cells. She was in luck; Lynnmon wasn't more than five cells away. With careful aim and a pebble, Amymon got her attention and pointed to her own head signaling Lynnmon to use her telepathic powers. Moments later, all the girls and the three winged guys began attacking the guarding Elkmon. After a few seconds of confusion, the other digimon began to join in, some digivolving and others unable to get near enough to their partner to get the power from the digivices. Amymon flew over the battle, blasting Elkmon she passed, but only to help others. She was on a mission to find T.K., Natalie, and their digimon partners. She found T.K., Natalie, and Magnaangemon at one end of the room, but Heartmon was no where in sight. She swept a look over and finally found Heartmon helping Colinmon attack an Elkmon. Amymon grabbed Heartmon and flew back to T.K. and Natalie. She placed Heartmon on the ground and opened a portal to the real world.

"You four need to go through and find all the remaining digidestine," Amymon yelled.

"Why us?" Natalie asked.

"I don't make these decisions. Now go."

Amymon pushed them through. Everyone looked at Amymon in the general area. Finally she gave in and yelled, "All digidestine that want to go home for a short time are welcome to leave too. But don't tell Moromon."

All the digidestine who could ran to get through, but only eight did before the portal closed. Those eight, 16 if you include all the digimon partners, were Danny and Flamemon, Mary-Kate and Armormon, Chris V. and Lightningmon, Joque and Rexmon, Mike and Griffenmon, Nick and Twistermon, Maria and Hollymon, and Bridget and Tweetymon. But, a few Elkmon got through too.

Once on the other side, they had only three Elkmon and a lot of pissed digimon digivolved as high as they could go. The Elkmon didn't have a chance.

"How in the world did you manage to get yourselves into enough trouble that you would be thrown in this cage?" Patti asked as half the digidestine were thrown into the cage along with digimon partners of the other half of digidestine whom were still in the dungeon and a few winged girls.

"You know what they say about hard work and determination," Amanda joked.

"It was insane," Anna cried, "I have no idea what they were thinking attacking the Elkmon like that. We could have gotten killed. And then Amymon sent some digidestine through a portal to the real world. What was that about?"

"Good," Moromon said, "this'll give us a fighting chance hopefully."

"Good?" Anna asked, "good would have been if I had gotten home. I'm feeling mall withdrawal. Don't you think Amymon should have sent us all home Matt?" Anna grabbed Matt's hand and pulled herself closer as she said this.

"I don't know," Matt said, "I wasn't there."

Amanda looked Matt in the eyes. She liked what he said, but not the way he said it. She wanted him to say it to make Anna seem stupid, not just like he was reminding her and confused himself.

"I wish you had been," Anna said, "you could have protected me."

"Anna," Brad said glaring at her, "knock it off. The poor kid has been after Amanda for quite some time now and it's not helping that you are all over him. Give the kid a chance."

"I think we can let Matt decide for himself," Anna snapped at Brad. She pouted her lip and widened her eyes as she stepped even closer to Matt. "You're a big strong man, aren't you Matt?"

"Uhhh," Matt was quite torn. He still felt he loved Amanda, but the truth was that Anna was better looking and she seemed to have an actual interest in him in public.

"Hesitation, minus one point," Jennifer said.

"What?" Matt was very confused.

"Not a direct answer minus two points," Jade said.

"That's three gone already," Brad said, "andon bothsides. You might want to hurry up and choose because if you lose ten points it's an automatic slap."

Matt gulped. He wasn't used to have to choose between two girls.

"Gulping that's minus one," Jennifer said.

"Oh, we almost forgot about the minus five on Amanda's side for letting Anna ride on Metalgarurumon earlier," Jade said.

"He chooses Amanda," Lynnmon said after getting the signal from Moromon. "Now would you cut that out because we have more important things to deal with."

"How do you know who he chooses?" Anna asked.

"I'm a telepath," Lynnmon said.

"A what?" Anna asked.

"It means she can read minds," Amanda snapped.

There was a long pause. No one moved, except Matt who stepped away from Anna. Moromon looked at her watch for what Matt thought had to be the hundredth time. She smiled.

"The doors are opening now," Moromon said quietly.

"I am never trusting Patti again," Lor yelled as she practically fell out of the training room.

"It didn't work," Izzy said, "why didn't it work?"

"Because there aren't any prophecies for our digimon to warp digivolve," Joe said.

"Maybe we just need to go a little longer," Lar said. Jaime giggled slightly.

"Like I said," Lor yelled, "I am never trusting you again Patti."

Everyone expected to have someone approach them by now to see what all the commotion was about, but surprisingly no one did. In fact, there wasn't even a sound.

"Where is everyone?" Jaime asked.

"Do you suppose that they were taken prisoner?" Lar asked.

"Let's see," Izzy said. He pulled out his digivice and checked for the digivice signals. They were all in the direction of Elkkingmon's castle.

"I'll take that look of utter and complete horror that the answer is yes," Joe said. Izzy nodded.

"So, what do we do now?" Matt asked.

"What we will do ought to be different from what you will do," Brad said, "that is if you ever want Amanda to speak to you again."

Matt glanced at Amanda through the corner of his eye. He could swear she was doing the same as she was talking to Sora. He wanted to go talk to her, redeem himself and earn the points back. He wasn't even sure how this point system worked, but he knew that the girls judged boys by it.

"I do believe that you are down nine points," Brad said, "and unless I am mistaken you have three left. If you lose those, you're a goner. She wants you to talk to her."

Brad ignored Matt for a few moments. Matt decided that he would talk to her. What choice did he have? Brad made it seem like he had none. He walked the length of the cage toward Amanda who now was looking out the window a bit away. Sora saw him and quietly walked away.

"Hey Amanda," Matt began. Amanda turned, surprised to see him, and almost unsure of what she knew he was there to talk about.

"Hello Matt," Amanda was very stiff while talking.

"About earlier…"

"There have been several earliers," Amanda said.

"The whole choosing thing between you and Anna…"

Amanda lifted an eyebrow. "I'm listening."

"I'm sorry about hesitating," Matt said.

"Don't be. It puts everything into perspective. Clearly you wanted me so much that you had some wild fantasy about how wonderful it would be to have me, and I didn't meet your expectations, so now you're choosing someone who you think will."

"That's not it at all," Matt was shocked that Amanda thought he would be so shallow. "It's just that I don't know if you want me or if it was just a bit of a show of what I was missing. I mean, back in the room by the spa was probably the happiest time of my life."

"You need a happier life if that's the case."

"Will you listen."

"I am."

"It's just that afterward, you didn't seem to want to talk about it, or to me."

"What makes you say that?" Amanda asked.

"When I was trying to talk to you as we escaped from the dungeon you refused to talk to me."

"That was because you had Anna clinging to you."

"She jumped on," Matt said.

"You could have told her to get off."

"Then she would have had to ride Bullmoosemon."

Amanda didn't respond. She hadn't even thought about this. It was true though, if Anna hadn't ridden with Matt, the only other digimon that could have carried her was Bullmoosemon.

"I do love you Amanda."

"Love is a strong word."

"And I have strong feelings."

Matt took a few steps closer to her. She was looking into his eyes. He bent forward and gave her a soft kiss on the lips.

"There you ten are," Samanthamon had sneaked out of the dungeon during the battle using her invisibility and her small body to her advantage. She finally found Joe, Izzy, Jamie, Lar, and Lor and all their digimon partners. "You need to go to the real world and help T.K. and everyone else locate the new digidestine.

"Are you sure we are allowed to?" Izzy asked, "I mean, Moromon won't get mad?"

"Or more importantly Patti?" Jamie asked.

"They would want you to go," Samanthamon said, "It's our best chance of surviving."

"Patti included?" Jamie asked again.

"Yes," Samanthamon said.

"As long as Patti is included, I guess we could go," Izzy said.

"I would hate to piss off Patti," Tentomon agreed.

"If you don't hurry to the real world you'll piss her off," Samanthamon said.

"Where's the closest portal?" Jamie nearly yelled.

"This way," Samanthamon said and led the ten to one of Genai's hidden portals.

"Real world," Joe said, "allergy medicine, here we come."

In a flash of light, all eleven of them were sucked out of the computer and into the real world. Where they landed, none of them could tell. They could see it was a house, but they didn't know who's or why they had come there…until.

"What in the world are you two doing in my house… and who are they… and what are those."

"Lor has a twin," Joe said, pushing his glasses up his nose.

"Nice observation," Lor said rolling her eyes.

"I mean an identical twin," Joe said.

"We're not related," yelled Lor and the other girl who looked almost exactly like Lor except a slight bit taller, greener eyes, and better hair as in exact same color but longer and no split ends.

"And we're leaving," Lar said grabbing everyone and pulling them all out.

"Who was that?" Izzy asked.

"Her name is Randi and she is evil," Lor said.

"She can't really be that evil," Tentomon said.

"You'd be surprised," Jamie said. "I don't even go to their school and I fear her."

"Let's just say Elkkingmon looks like a messiah next to her," Lar said. Lor nodded in agreement.

"They agree on something," Gomomon gasped, "the world is coming to an end."

"Well," Izzy said looking at his computer(big surprise), "There seems to be a digivice in that house."

Everyone checked to makesure they had grabbed his or her digivice. "If no one is missing a digivice," Lar said glancing at the house, "then that means that..."

"Why does God hate me?" Lor asked.

For those of you that haven't noticed, this is getting to be a long chapter, so I've decided to stop it here. Plus, I don't know when I'll finish it, and at least you can have one more chapter if I never write this story again. If I do, it'll probably be The Fall of Elkkingmon and the Rise of Freedom.