Disclaimer: Last time I'll say this for this story is that I do not own the categories that go into it. I do, however, own this idea of meshing them all together. It's mine, MINE I TELL YOU!

Naruto: Jeeze, ego trip much?

Mellra: Oh shush you. Without me, where would you and Dracmon be at?

Dracmon: Multimillion dollar genres with numerous DVDs, toys, video games, clothes, and fanfictions to our names?

Mellra: …I hate you. Hate you both.

Naruto: Oh c'mon mellra! You know you've wanted to write a story like this ever since you discovered this category on this site.

Dracmon: Yeah! So smile buddy, we're all your dreams coming true in your sad, pathetic little life.

Mellra: Thanks, please excuse me as I go curl up on my bathroom floor and cry a little now.

Naruto: Cheer up! With the responses you've received so far, it looks like me and Dracmon are sticking around for a while provided you keep getting comments in the affirmative.

Mellra: Yeah? Well keep it up and I'll have the two of you sucking cactus juice again!

Dracmon: I've been meaning to ask you about that. What the shit, dude? You totally are just ripping off our comedy shticks from other fandoms and meshing them together! Try being original, dammit!

Mellra: Tell that to the millions of writers on this site who do the exact same thing. Besides, you know how hard it is to find original humor these days? Would you prefer I make you as bland and as tasteless as Donald Trump? (Puts on bullet proof vest and riot shield to hide from fanatical Republicans) What? It's the truth!

Naruto: Okay, moving along before this becomes a huge ass political debate.

Dracmon: Yeah, sooner we get this chapter done, the sooner we get to my Digivolving and strutting my stuff in –

Mellra: Don't say how many chapters are left before that! I want to give the readers some sense of surprise!

All: Please Read, Review, and Enjoy!

Chapter 3: Robots and Toys and Digimon, Oh My!

"I'm so tired!" Mimi whined as she collapsed onto her knees. Gomamon, Palmon, and T.K. weren't looking much better as they too collapsed to the ground.

"I guess we should take a break," Matt suggested and the others agreed.

"Don't know what you guys are complaining about," Naruto commented as he walked by on his hands.

"Yeah, this is pretty much a cakewalk to that desert. Mmm, cake," Dracmon added as he did a handstand on Naruto's feet, drooling a bit at the last comment that Naruto expertly avoided his head.

"How do they have so much energy?" Sora murmured as she sat down.

"My dad says Naruto's mom drank a pot of coffee a day when she was pregnant with him. She'd then add a bag of sugar to said coffee." Matt supplied as he sat down beside his brother.

"And Dracmon's always been like this since he hatched," Palmon added helpfully.

"We think he was born with limitless energy," Agumon nodded his head in agreement.

"Made trying to go to sleep a difficult task more than one night," Gabumon finished with a slightly resentful tone.

"Anyway, I guess there's no reason to hurry," Tai commented as he joined the others in their rest, sans Naruto and Dracmon who were attempting to form a two person/mon pyramid.

Matt then nodded his head towards Izzy who was currently working on his laptop. "Check out Izzy. I bet he's trying to email the aliens," he joked, referring to the redheaded boy's theory that they were abducted by aliens.

"Maybe he's asking them to beam him up!" Tai cracked.

"Silly Tai, that was Scotty's job!" Naruto exclaimed from his position in the now collapsed pyramid of him and Dracmon. Seeing the others give him a look, Naruto shrugged his shoulders. "What? My mom likes to watch Star Trek sometimes and I sometimes watch it with her. Sue me."

Izzy sighed as he failed to get a signal once more. "Still crashed and the warranty has expired!" he complained.

Tai then, unhelpfully, tries smacking the laptop around to get it working to which Izzy frantically grabs it back from him while asking the taller boy if his brain cells were malfunctioning. Naruto, seeing the commotion then walks over with Dracmon deciding to work on his cartwheels where they were. Reaching the older boy, Naruto asks, "Hey Izzy, mind if I give it a shot?"

Izzy looked dubious on having the young, hyperactive goofball of the group messing around with his laptop. "You're not going to smack it around, are you?" he asked, figuring he'd at least humor the younger boy.

Naruto snorted, "Please, only a complete moron thinks that stuff works."

Said moron, who was investigating some smoke he saw in the distance with Agumon, gave a sneeze at the comment. Thinking that the laptop couldn't get any more crashed then it already was, Izzy handed the computer over to the whiskered boy while keeping an eye out if he tried anything funny with it. Said boy then began typing commands on the keypad.

"While I appreciate the effort, Naruto, I've been working on that computer for a while now and I don't think that –" Izzy began before Naruto then shoved the laptop back into his hands.

"Done," the blonde said simply as he walked away while whistling a jaunty tune with his hands behind his head.

Incredulously, Izzy looked at his screen and was shocked beyond words to see that everything was in perfect working order. "Wha-? But I-? How-?" he stammered before shaking his head and asking the retreating blonde, "How'd you do that?"

Before Naruto could answer, Tai called over to the group, "Hey everybody, come over here quick!"

The group made some impressive hustling time as they went over to their fearless leader's position to see him and Agumon were staring out into the distance at what became the outline of a large factory the closer they got to them. The smoke Tai spotted earlier was coming from several of the smokestacks that jutted up from it. Thinking that there might be people operating the factory, the group decided to go down and see if they could find some help. However, the factory seemed to be deserted the longer they explored it. Given the size of the factory, the sheer emptiness of it all gave them all slight chills. Despite there being no one in sight, the machines in the factory seemed to be operating flawlessly, though what they were operating for was a big question for the group as the assembly line seemed to be putting together machines no one recognized.

Deciding that they'd cover more ground if they split up, the children and their partners went into two groups. Naruto and Dracmon left with Tai, Sora, Joe and their respective Digimon while the others went into a separate part of the factory. After wandering around for several minutes, Agumon pointed into a room where a figure was lying under a pile of machinery. Going to investigate, the team found that the figure was a Digimon by the name of Andromon, a high level Digimon who was part organic and part machine. Said Digimon seemed to be out cold under a pile of gears. While Joe was hesitant about approaching the machine based Digimon, the others in the group agreed that they should help the mon out.

"We should be careful though," Naruto noted as he observed the pile of gears on top of Andromon. "As far as we know, moving him could cause the gears to shift around and crush his legs, or worse cause the pile to topple over and crush us!"

"Jeeze Naruto, and I thought Joe was the paranoid one," Gomamon joked, earning an indignant 'Hey!' from his partner.

Naruto shook his head at that, "My grandma's a medic and she always warns me about situations like this. That's why, no matter how crazy my pranks get, I always make sure to be careful not to go too far and hurt somebody. She told me that for cases like Andromon's, the most important thing to remember is to be mindful of the surroundings. She also said that while someone pulls the trapped person out, another person should try to keep leverage on the thing keeping the person trapped to make sure it doesn't end up crushing the person." He then looked around briefly before spying a loose piece of metal pipe nearby. "This should do it," he nodded as he picked the pipe up.

Working together, with Naruto and Dracmon providing the leverage while the others pulled, they slowly edged Andromon out of his prison. However, Tai pulled a bit too hard and slipped, causing him to accidentally crash into a nearby switch. Suddenly, the gears above Andromon started to move, and this allowed the Digimon to loosen enough that it was easy to pull him out. Just as they were about to completely release him, Dracmon thought he saw something fall into Andromon's leg out of the corner of his eye, but couldn't quite tell because of how shadowy the area was. The group cheered as they finally got the Digimon out, and Andromon made some groaning sounds to indicate he was coming to.

Tai, being bullheaded as always, thought he'd give Andromon a 'kick start' by slapping him like an old TV, but Sora and Joe stopped him. This didn't stop Agumon though, as he picked up some of his partner's habits and slapped the android Digimon on the head with his claw. Surprisingly enough, Andromon seemed to 'wake up' from the hit, but it seemed like he wasn't one for rude awakenings as he grabbed Sora by the leg and dangled her in the air as he got up.

"I shall punish all intruders!" he said in a robotic voice.

The Rookies wasted no time attacking the hostile Digimon. Biyomon sent her Spiral Twister at the android's back, causing him to grunt in irritation and throw Sora into the air, where she was caught by Tai and Agumon. His attention on the two humans and their Digimon, Naruto decided to do what he does best: distraction. Taking the piece of pipe from earlier, he chucked it at Andromon's head causing the Digimon to turn his glowing blue eyes on the blonde boy.

"Over here, you Terminator reject!" Naruto taunted as he pulled down an eyelid and blew a raspberry at the Ultimate.

Andromon growled and began to advance on the boy, but a grinning Dracmon then leapt to at his face with his hands held out. "Eye of Nightmare!" the undead Digimon cried as dark energy shot from his palm eyes and into Andromon's own eyes.

The Ultimate grunted as he stepped back, his eyes seeming to flicker between dark energy and their glowing blue before finally settling on the blue color. Dracmon frowned when he saw this and stared at his palms. "Huh, that's something different."

Before Andromon could attack the young DigiDestined and Rookie, Tai instructed Agumon to fire his Pepper Breath at the ceiling where a group of steel beams were being held up by cables. The fire attack melted the cables and caused the beams to fall on top of Andromon, pinning him to the ground. Not wanting to wait to see if the robot would manage to get out of his predicament, the team ran out of the room. What they weren't aware of was that Naruto and Dracmon, due to being in the back of the group, turned right at a fork in the road while the others turned left. The two partners ran for several minutes before noticing that they couldn't see the rest of the group.

"Uh, I don't suppose you saw where the others went, did you?" Naruto asked Dracmon hesitantly.

"I was following you," Dracmon shrugged.

"Huh, well I guess we got separated. This sucks," Naruto mused. Suddenly, the lights of the factory went out. "…This sucks even more. Man, if somebody asked on how this could get any worse, I'm going to introduce my foot to their face!" He then began to stumble his way through the dark. "Dracmon? You still with me buddy?"

A clawed hand grabbed his and Dracmon's cheerful voice greeted his ears. "Yeah, and you should probably stick close to me because, unlike you, I can see in the dark."

"Not true, I can see in the dark. I see a whole lot of dark," Naruto replied sarcastically as the two made their way further and further into the factory. Suddenly, the floor under their feet gave way, causing them to scream as they fell in complete darkness. When they landed none too gently on their bottoms, the two groaned for a moment before taking in their surroundings.

"Where are we?" Naruto wondered as he looked around the crate filled room.

"I do believe we are in some sort of storage facility, my dear Naruto," Dracmon deduced while blowing on a bubble pipe he snagged from Naruto's bag.

Turning to his partner, Naruto asked, "How do you figure?"

"Elementary. You'll notice that unlike most of the rest of the factory, this room is filled to the brim with crates and the like. Then there is the fact that most of this stuff hasn't been used for quite some time, based on the dust accumulated on them. Finally, it says storage on that sign over there." Dracmon explained.

Naruto rolled his eyes at the last comment before starting to navigate around the crates. "C'mon, we better find the others before we end up trapped in this nightmare factory."

The two ducked and weaved between the boxes until they came upon what appeared to be another assembly line, but this one had humanoid shaped beings on them. When inspecting them further, Naruto asked hesitantly, "Hey, Dracmon. Are these guys…Digimon?" He then gently poked one of the robotic looking beings before jerking his head back to see if there was a reaction. There was none.

"Yeah, those guys are Mechanorimon. While they're machine Digimon like Andromon, these guys are more like robotic suits other Digimon can wear to do tasks they'd normally be unable to accomplish," Dracmon explained.

"Are you telling me," Naruto asked lowly before turning to Dracmon with stars in his eyes. "That these guys are basically Gundam?!"

Dracmon looked confused at the question before saying, "I…have no idea what those are. Like I said though, these guys are basically robotic armor that smaller Digimon can wear." He then clutched his ears as Naruto let out a squeal that would rival most pigs. "What?!" he asked, wondering what got his partner so excited.

Instead of answering, Naruto ran over to stand on top of one empty Mechanorimon. "Today, I live the dream of eight year old boys everywhere," Naruto declared proudly before pointing at the mechanical suit. "I'm going to get into this robot, and I'm going to drive it around like a BOSS!" he finished giddily.

Dracmon shared his partner's grin and exclaimed, "Dude, count me in!"

The two quickly found the entrance hatch to the machine Digimon and climbed in. "So many buttons!" Naruto commented giddily.

"Which ones should we press?" Dracmon asked, practically drooling over the many flashing lights and buttons.

Naruto gave a dangerous grin as he proclaimed, "ALL of them!"

Meanwhile with the other DigiDestined, the two groups had met up only to be attacked by Andromon once again. Both Gabumon and Agumon Digivolved into Garurumon and Greymon respectively, but even two Champions working together couldn't bring down the powerful Ultimate. Just as Andromon was about to land a finishing blow on the pair, he was struck in the back by twin lazers. The group turned to the source of the beam attack and saw a lumbering metal Digimon heading their way.

"Who's that?" Matt asked.

"That's Mekanorimon! Their usually mindless Digimon piloted by smaller, weaker Digimon," Palmon explained as she stood protectively by Mimi.

"Question is, is it a friend or just have terrible aim?" Tai asked.

Suddenly, the top hatch of the mechanical Digimon popped open and both Naruto and Dracmon stuck their heads out to grin coly at the group. "Come with me if you want to live!" Naruto ordered in a thick Austrian accent.

"NARUTO?!" the older kids gapped at the younger DigiDestined.

Meanwhile, T.K. had stars in his eyes as he stared at his cousin. "So jealous!" he whispered to Patamon, envious that the whiskered boy had managed to live the dream first.

Before the group could comment on why in the world Naruto and Dracmon were going around in a giant mech suit, Andromon recovered from their sneak attack and was advancing on them menacingly. "New targets detected! Must eliminate!" he said in a monotone.

Both Naruto and Dracmon got back into the Mekanorimon despite Matt's protests, but Dracmon took this opportunity to say to his friends in a similar accent, "We'll be back."

The two robot Digimon started to clash, metal limbs struggling against metal limbs. The driven Mekanorimon fired another Twin Beam point blank at Andromon's chest, but it turns out the android had a much stronger frontal defense than his back did, as he barely flinched from the attack. Instead, his chest opened up to reveal his missiles. "Open Fire!" he ordered, causing the explosives to ram right into the Mekanorimon and drive it across the room before detonating.

The kids gave a panicked cry, thinking two of their youngest members were just blasted into atoms. However, out of the smoke the Mekanorimon blasted forward from the rockets built into its back and shoulder tackled Andromon out of the way. "Go Naruto!" T.K. cheered while Patamon cheered for Dracmon.

"Kick his metal butt back to the scrapheap!" Tai cheered as well.

So caught up in the drool worthy robot fight that they missed Izzy tapping furiously at his computer and that Tentomon was slowly glowing brighter with each button pressed. As this was happening, the Mekanorimon trapped Andromon in a Full Nelson that prevented the android from moving almost all of his body. However, his head was still free and he used that to slam in a reverse headbutt on the Mekanorimon's face, forcing it to release its hold and stumble backwards. Andromon's hand began to spin at an alarming rate until it became a metal drill with electrical sparks shooting from it. "Lightning Blade…Fire!" he roared as he sent an arc of sharpened electricity at the piloted Digimon.

The two amateur mecha pilots were able to sidestep in time, but not before the blade was able to slice the Mekanorimon's right arm clean off. Before the fight could continue, a large light caught everyone's attention.

"Tentomon, Digivolve to…Kabuterimon!" was the roar from within the light. Once it faded, a large blue and grey insect Digimon now stood in its place.

"Prodigious! It worked!" Izzy cheered as his now Digivolved partner stepped up to the battlefield.

Andromon, seeing as both Greymon and Garurumon were down for the count and the Mekanorimon wouldn't be of much use with the damage it sustained from their fight, decided to focus on this new challenger. Kabuterimon proved to be a harder opponent as his nimble insect wings allowed him to duck and weave between all of the android's attacks. And any that did land did minimal damage thanks to Kabuterimon's armored exoskeleton. While observing the fighting Digimon, Izzy was able to determine Andromon's literal Achilles heel: his organic right leg which he seemed to favor and was randomly sparking.

"Kabuterimon! Aim for his right leg, it's his weak point!" Izzy instructed.

Kabuterimon nodded in the affirmative as he prepared a large ball of electricity in his four arms. "Electro Shocker!" he called as he fired the ball at Andromon.

The android, due to his damage and fatigue from his earlier fights, was unable to move away in time and the attack struck his leg, causing him to cry out in pain. The leg sparked some more before a black gear shot out of the leg, flying up into the air and disintegrating into data. Afterwards, Andromon collapsed onto his knees as his glowing blue eyes faded into a less possessed looking brown. Seeing that the battle was over, Kabuterimon shrank back into Tentomon as the group went to go check on the Ultimate while Naruto and Dracmon got out of their damaged ride and went to join them.

Once everything had settled down, Andromon formally apologized, saying that he wasn't a violent Digimon by nature. "That Black Gear got inside of me and rewrote all of my systems," he explained.

"Oh, so that would explain it," Dracmon said with a nod of his head, gaining everyone's attention.

"Explain what?" Sora asked.

"Back when Andromon first attacked us, I tried to use my Eye of Nightmare on him but he shook it off like it was nothing. Normally that would mean that his willpower was stronger than mine, but the way it felt was off. Like something else was preventing me from entering his mind, or he was already possessed," the undead Digimon explained.

The others nodded in thoughtful understanding, wondering just where these black gears came from as they remembered another one had caused Meramon to go crazy back at the Yokomon village. After the kids accepted Andromon's apology, Matt went over and smacked his younger cousin and his partner over the head, causing them to yelp.

"Ow! Matt, what the shit?" Naruto grumbled only to get another smack for his mouth.

"What in the world were you thinking, Naruto?! You and Dracmon could have been killed in that stunt you pulled!" Matt chided the younger boy.

"Well at least we would have died living the dream," Naruto grumbled under his breath before saying aloud, "I don't know what you're so worked up about Matt. The two of us were 100…" the Mechanorimon's body fell into pieces at this exact moment causing Naruto to correct himself, "…90…" the Mechanorimon's parts caught aflame, "…80…" they then exploded, "…70 percent certain we would be A okay."

"And I suppose that makes it better?" Matt asked rhetorically while crossing his arms and giving the younger boy his best 'big brother disapproval' look.

"Doesn't it?" Naruto and Dracmon asked innocently, complete with little halos.

Matt sighed and said, "Just…please try to be more careful. Your mother would skin me alive if anything happened to you."

Naruto agreed, "Don't worry Matt, mom always says if I get hurt pulling a stupid stunt then its my own damn fault, so she wouldn't hold it against you. But yeah, I'll try to be more careful." He then turned to the smoldering remains of his robot suit. "Alas, poor Mechanorimon! I knew him, Dracmon," the blonde boy sighed dejectedly.

Dracmon just settled for playing taps on a bugle he pulled from Naruto's bag. The others sweatdropped at the partners' antics and settled for listening to Andromon's explanation on how to leave the factory…that lead to them walking through a sewer system, much to Mimi and Joe's dismay.

The first part of the trip was largely uneventful save for Izzy trying to use the same coding he used on Tentomon to try and Digivolve Patamon at T.K.'s request, but the program shorted out before it could be completed. Tai and Agumon tried to be helpful by giving the laptop a love tap, but Izzy moved the computer out of the way in time resulting the two smacking each other in the face, much to everyone's amusement. Before they continued, Izzy asked Naruto something that had been bothering him since that morning but was unable to ask.

"Naruto?" he began hesitantly.

"Yeah, Izzy?" Naruto asked while walking backwards on the edge of the sewer water.

"I was wondering…before we found this factory, you were able to somehow get my computer to start working again. I was just wondering how you did that when nothing I tried worked?" he questioned, the others listening in in curiosity save for T.K. and Matt who knew the answer.

"Oh, that's easy! I learned a similar programming in my Advance Computer's class!" he responded in a chipper tone.

"Well I guess that makes-" Izzy was cut off as he started choking on his own saliva when what Naruto just said truly hit him.

'Advanced Computer's class?!' most of the other DigiDestined thought as well, not being able to comprehend how Naruto; prank loving, hyperactive, probable ADD, goofball; could be considered an advanced anything in school. They could only stop and stare at the happily whistling boy as he continued his backwards trek down the sewer before finally snapping out of it, picking their jaws off the floor, and hurrying after the blonde with more questions than answers.

The gang was continuing their trek down the sewers from Andromon's factory and, in order to pass the time, they decided to try their hand at song. After a rather humorous attempt at singing from the other Digimon and Mimi (who like most valley girls thought she could sing, but actually couldn't), it was Naruto and Dracmon's turn as they decided to try their hand at beatboxing. While Dracmon gave him the beat, Naruto sang:

Di Di Di...
Digimon!
Digimon!
Di Di Di...
Digimon!
Digimon!
Di Di Di...
Digimon!
Digital Monsters!
Digimon are the champions!
Digimon!
Digital Monsters!
Digimon are the champions!
Change into Digital Champions to save the Digital World!
Digimon!
Digital Monsters!
Digimon are the champions!
Digimon!
Digital Monsters!
Digimon are the champions!
Digivolve into champions!
Digimon! Digital Monsters! Digimon are the champions!
Digimon!
Digital Monsters!
Digimon are the champions!
Digimon! Digital Monsters...
DIGIMON!

As he finished, the whiskered boy and his partner gave a bow, to which there was silence. "Save your applause, I know we were awesome," Dracmon said cheekily.

"That was…interesting," Sora offered.

"It was basically you repeating the same words and phrases over and over again like the theme song of a corny kid's show," Tai said bluntly.

"Hey! They might seem corny now, but I'm sure theme songs like this will become beloved parts of culture for generations to come!" Naruto defended.

"Beats Mimi's singing," Joe muttered, earning him a punch in the shoulder by the pink obsessed girl.

Tai then suggested a group singing session, which the other's happily obliged to…right up until Sora stopped and started to cry due to her experiencing the ever dreaded homesickness, brought on by the fact that she would always sing when she was doing the laundry at home. This of course proved that homesickness is contagious as the other kids began listing things from their world that they missed. Tai missed playing sports followed by a warm bath. T.K. missed video games and Matt missed steak. Joe missed homework (earning him odd looks from the other kids and a gagging motion by Naruto), Mimi missed the beach, and Izzy missed looking at stars and planets.

"Eh," Naruto thought while scratching his whiskered cheek, "I miss having movie night with my mom. We'd take turns picking out our favorite films and then watch them until we fall asleep." He then noticed the depressed looks on the other kids' faces before deciding to lighten the mood. "Hey, don't be so glum, chums!" the younger boy declared while getting everyone's attention. "So what we're far from home? It'll just make everything better when we make it back! Just think of this as our extended vacation without the annoying travel agents."

Before the others could comment, Tentomon hissed suddenly, "Quiet! Can you all hear that?" The group quieted down and heard what sounded like multiple voices drawing near their location, along with other noises that they couldn't identify but sounded disgusting. "Numemon," Tentomon informed the group with a grim voice.

Gomamon explained that Numemon were disgusting Digimon that lived in sewers and, while not particularly strong, traveled in large numbers making them fairly dangerous. Joe quickly suggested that they run, and the others soon agreed seeing no less than a dozen of the slug like Digimon racing down the sewer towards them. It became apparent why they needed to run from the Digimon, as the Numemon began chucking sewer sludge at them that looked like pink dog shit.

"Ugh! Are these guys slugs or monkeys?!" Naruto gripped as he dodged a sludge projectile.

"Neither, they're Numemon!" Gomamon replied snarkily.

"Rhetorical question, Gomamon!" Naruto shot back as they continued to run down the sewer.

Fortunately, T.K. found a turn off that led to the outside of the sewers and away from the light sensitive Numemon. "Well, I guess we escaped a shitty situation!" Naruto joked, earning groans from the rest of the group for his pun.

"You really need to work on your potty mouth," Dracmon returned, earning more groans.

"Well at least I don't have my mind in the gutter!" Naruto replied.

"For the love of everything good and holy, make it stop!" Patamon cried, holding his ears/wings to block out any more bad puns.

The group walked away from the sewer, hoping to find some clue as to where they should go next in their quest to find a way home. They walked for nearly an hour when they came across a surprising sight! Dozens upon dozens of vending machines filled with different snacks and drinks littered the area. Mimi, despite the fact that this was obviously some sort of ploy, ran towards the machines in the hopes of getting a small taste of civilization.

"Welp, she's dead. Dibs on her hat!" Naruto called out.

"Di – dammit!" Dracmon grumbled as he was also about to call dibs on the pink headwear.

"Uh, Naruto, you do realize that you're talking about pilfering from someone who isn't even dead yet?" Izzy asked. "Also, that that's a girl's hat?"

"Eh, rate she's going I doubt she'd last a week. Plus, genderizing on clothing is BS anyway," Naruto replied nonchalantly, earning sweatdrops from the present DigiDestined.

They soon heard Mimi's shriek of terror as the vending machines popped open to reveal a Numemon hiding in each one. Apparently, the leader of the sewer Digimon had developed a crush on the pink wearing DigiDestined and asked her for a date. Receiving a brutal rejection, the Numemon called upon his hidden army that was able to come out thanks to some convenient cloud cover.

Seeing the approaching hoard, Naruto turned to the group and said casually, "Shall we run for our lives?"

"Let's!" the group agreed before running off once more, the pack of sludge flinging Numemon right on their tail.

"Alright everybody, let's split up!" Matt called out and the others soon went their separate ways to confuse the approaching Digimon.

Naruto and Dracmon ran into the nearby woods, a gang of Numemon following after them. The two, in a display that would make any Scooby Doo fan proud, ducked and weaved between the trees trying to lose their pursuers. They eventually found themselves with their backs literally against the wall as a large boulder surrounded by multiple trees blocked their path. The two quickly turned to run the other way but found their path blocked by the Numemon.

"Nowhere to run!" one of the Numemon cackled as it prepared to chuck more sewage sludge at their cornered prey.

Naruto calmly turned to Dracmon and said, "Well, I kind of decided on what we should do with that whole Andromon thing. Would you like a crack at figuring out how we're gonna get out of this one?"

His partner grinned, showing his sharp fangs. "Gladly," he replied before lunging at the tree next to him and taking out a huge chunk of it with an 'Undead Fang!'

"Enough games! You two got any last words?" another of the Numemon asked snidely.

Dracmon turned, spat the leftover bark out of his mouth and said, "Just this: Timber!"

"What are you - ?" the final Numemon asked before staring as the tree Dracmon took a bite out of came crashing down on the tree next to it, which in turn fell into the tree next to it, and again, and again, and again. Finally, the domino effect payed off as the tree right beside the Numemon started to collapse, causing them to cry out in fear and run in the opposite direction to avoid being crushed.

"Aww yeah~! Who da 'mon? I'm da – gack! Splinters!" Dracmon sputtered as he tried to remove the wood fragments from his tongue.

"That's using your head –er– mouth, Dracmon!" Naruto cheered.

"We should probably go looking for the others," Dracmon suggested once his mouth was splinter free.

"Yeah, though if any of us gets lost I'm so lording it over Matt's head about it," Naruto agreed.

The two made their way through the woods, thankfully lacking Numemon. After a few minutes of walking, the two came across an interesting sight. Right smack dab in the middle of the woods was a brightly colored village that looked like it was taken straight from a Disney cartoon. It even had teddy bear themed items like balloons and signs as well as toys practically at every doorstep.

"W-what is this place?" Naruto gasped in awe, his eyes becoming twin stars as he stared at something from his second favorite dream (the first was swimming in ramen).

"This is Toy Town!" Dracmon explained, "It's a place where all abandoned toys in the Digital World go to get fixed up and is guarded by a powerful yet friendly Digimon named Monzaemon."

"Wow! I think I just died and went to heaven!" Naruto replied, looking around giddily. "So…many…TOYS!" With that, he began sprinting down the streets giggling like a lunatic.

Dracmon looked at his partner's odd behavior for a second before shrugging his shoulders. "When in Rome," he said before joining his friend in his shenanigans.

However, it soon became clear that something was up in the otherwise fun looking town. The streets where all but deserted and there wasn't a sound to be heard, save for an occasional toy going off. The duo slowed down and began to walk cautiously through the streets as they noticed the eerie quiet.

"It's more a ghost town than Toy Town," Dracmon observed, causing Naruto to shudder.

"D-don't talk about g-ghosts, okay man?" Naruto asked shakily. Dracmon stared at his partner oddly for a second before shrugging and continuing his search.

They turned a corner and came upon a startling sight! All the other DigiDestined, save Mimi, were running around, seemingly playing with the toys on the street but at the same time it looked more like they were being chased by the toys. What's more is that their faces had a glazed look about them and their laughter sounded forced and hollow. Their Digimon partners were nowhere to be found.

"Okay…I'm officially weirded out," Dracmon murmured as Tai ran past laughing blandly being chased by a toy firetruck. "As the resident expert on hypnosis and mind control, I'd say these guys have one heck of a mind whammy on them!"

"Oh, really? I thought they just got into the cactus juice as well," Naruto replied as he took out a camera and began snapping photos of his friends.

"What are you doing, Naruto?" the Virus Digimon asked.

"Collecting potential blackmail material," Naruto responded as he got a good shot of Matt being chased by a toy train. "You never know when it'll come in handy."

"Psst!"

"I know this is a serious situation, but when I'm I going to have an opportunity like this again! No need to get touchy," Naruto defended.

"I didn't say anything," Dracmon said as he got his own camera and began snapping pictures.

"Didn't you just hiss as me?" Naruto asked confused.

"No I-"

"Psst!"

"There it is again!" Naruto exclaimed, looking around for the source.

"Over there!" Dracmon pointed with a clawed finger at a nearby alleyway, where what looked like a dinosaur made of building blocks was gesturing to them while looking around nervously.

"Who's that?" Naruto asked.

"That's a ToyAgumon. They're Rookie Digimon that help operate Toy Town under Monzaemon's leadership," Dracmon explained. "It would appear it's asking us to go down a lone, dark alley with it. What do you think we should do?"

"…Despite multiple lessons on stranger danger, I think we gotta follow it to find out what happened to our friends," Naruto decided, receiving a nod from his partner.

The two quickly ran over to the alleyway and, once in front of the ToyAgumon she whispered in an urgent tone, "Quickly, follow me!"

The ToyAgumon then darted down the alley, the two following close behind. At the end of the alley, the ToyAgumon pulled a loose plank from the wooden fence to reveal a secret passage. The partners followed the toy Digimon through it to find a baker's dozen ToyAgumon huddled around in a hidden alleyway. They all turned to the two and began talking all at once.

"Oh thank the Sovereign someone's come!"

"Can you help us?"

"Please, save us from Monzaemon!"

Dracmon interrupted the tirade by whistling sharply on his fingers. "Yo! One at a time, huh? What's this about Monzaemon? I thought he was the guardian of Toy Town?"

One of the ToyAgumon came forward and said with tears in his eyes, "It's terrible! Several days ago, something happened to Monzaemon! He was always a kind hearted 'mon who would never harm a fly, but he suddenly became a big meanie! He'd force us ToyAgumon to work night and day on the toys to play with their user instead of the other way around and any other Digimon that would come by he'd either chase off, imprison, or enslave with his Heart Attack! We were only able to escape today because he was busy chasing after those humans and their Digimon earlier, but I'm sure he's going to come after us again before too long!"

"Wait, is that why my friends were acting like zombies?! What about their Digimon, what happened to them?" Naruto asked, suddenly serious and looking slightly worried.

"Monzaemon locked them in the Community Toy Chest. We need to get out of here before he does the same to us!" another ToyAgumon said nervously.

"No," Naruto said firmly, standing up on a barrel to get everyone's attention. "My friends are in trouble, and I don't plan on abandoning them to some deranged Digimon! As my one uncle says, 'Those who break the rules are trash, but those who abandon their friends are worse than trash!' I'm not giving up on them and you shouldn't give up either. This is your home, and Monzaemon was your friend. If he's acting weird, you need to smack some sense back into him!"

The ToyAgumon looked slightly down yet hopeful at Naruto's berating/encouragement. One raised her blocky arms, "But how are we going to do that? We're just Rookies while Monzaemon's an Ultimate! We'd get deleted if we went up against him!"

"Don't worry about that, with the right amount of planning and stubbornness, even an ant can take down a tree! Besides," Naruto said with a mischievous grin as he looked around at the toy making supplies the alley contained, "we have more than enough here to bring Monzaemon off his high horse."

He then gathered the ToyAgumon and Dracmon into a huddle to begin his plans.

Monzaemon, a large teddy bear like Digimon wandered around Toy Town with sharp eyes, trying to spot the two DigiDestined he had yet to capture. His ears suddenly heard the sound of what sounded like a swarm of bees. Turning his head, the large Digimon saw over a dozen toy airplanes heading his direction. Most of them were being piloted by ToyAgumon, but both Naruto and Dracmon flew one themselves. Suddenly, the planes started shooting building blocks at Monzaemon, causing him to grunt in annoyance. He swatted his large arms in an attempt to knock the planes out of the sky, but they nimbly dodged his attacks. Suddenly, Naruto and Dracmon's planes flew over his head and dropped two water balloons on his head, which caused his face to be coated in orange and black paint. Sputtering, he stumbled around trying to rub the paint from his eyes but one of the ToyAgumon threw a roller skate right where he was about to walk, causing the Ultimate to slip and fall screaming into one of the nearby buildings.

"Yes! My master prank plan is coming to fruition! Keep up the pressure and he'll crack like an egg!" Naruto cheered.

"Hey, is that Mimi?" Dracmon called over to his partner, causing him to look and see the pink wearing DigiDestined with Palmon waving at them from the street. This distraction cost him, however, as Monzaemon got up from where he fell, his eyes glowing red in anger.

"ENOUGH!" he roared, turning and firing beams of energy from his eyes. The beams cut through the airplanes left and right, severing wings, blasting propellers, and destroying engines.

"Oh shit! EVERYBODY BAIL!" Naruto called out before jumping out of his falling plane. The other's soon joined him and pulled on their parachutes, causing large blanket shaped chutes to be released and slow their fall. Unfortunately, this left the attack force open to Monzaemon's Heart Attack, which engulfed them all and knocked them unconscious.

Naruto groaned as he got up. "Ugh, not again. Really gotta work on not getting knocked out like a bitch," he moaned, only to yelp when he got slapped upside the head. Looking for the perpetrator, Naruto was greeted by a less zombie like Matt looking sternly at his younger cousin for his language.

"Matt! You're okay!" Naruto cheered.

Matt broke his serious façade to smile at the whiskered boy. "Yeah, and I hear you helped with that from Mimi and Palmon."

"Are they okay? I didn't see what happened after that giant teddy got us in bubbles. Never before would I think I'd use that sentence," Naruto asked.

Matt explained that after Monzaemon took care of the air force, he turned his attention to Mimi and Palmon. The two were helped, surprisingly, by the Numemon from earlier as the leader still seemed to have a crush on the valley girl. The Numemon were unable to hurt the larger Digimon though and were easily batted aside, as was Palmon as she tried to help. In their desperation, Palmon activated her Digivolution and became Togemon, a large cactus Digimon. The two large Digimon duked it out, cactus vs teddy bear, until Togemon launched her signature Needle Spray attack, defeating the enemy Digimon and forcing another Black Gear to force itself from his back. Once that happened, Monzaemon became friendly again and released all their friends from their spell/imprisonment.

Naruto, Dracmon, and the ToyAgumon went to join the others as Monzaemon apologized for his actions. He explained that Toy Town was meant to be a safe haven for abandoned toys and that he developed a way to allow toy owners to walk in the toys' shoes. However, one day an evil feeling came over him caused by the Black Gear.

"Ya'know, I'm starting to see a pattern here," Naruto commented to which Izzy nodded.

"Yes, it appears that whenever we come across seemingly nice Digimon, they're under the control of those Black Gears and make them act in ways out of their original character," the computer whiz observed.

"And crazy too," Dracmon added, causing Izzy to roll his eyes.

Monzaemon then turned to the ToyAgumon and bowed his head, "I'm especially sorry for all the trouble I've caused for you guys. You've all been with me since Toy Town's beginning, and I truly regret hurting you."

The ToyAgumon were quick to forgive Monzaemon and even apologized for not being able to help him more when he was clearly not himself. They then turned to the DigiDestined and thanked them for making Toy Town fun again.

Naruto stepped forward and apologized, "I'm sorry I ended up getting you all caught. Guess it kind of makes my big dramatic speeches seem a little lackluster, huh?"

"Don't be silly Naruto!" one ToyAgumon exclaimed. "If it wasn't for you, we'd probably sat cowering in that alley instead of trying to help our friend and protect our home. Even if we didn't win, you showed us we can fight to protect all that we hold precious if Toy Town is ever threatened again and we won't have to hide behind Monzaemon for protection."

The other ToyAgumon all agreed and Matt ruffled his cousin's hair in a proud manner while T.K. and Dracmon gave him twin fist bumps. Naruto smiled widely and said, "Thanks guys!"

In thanks for saving him and protecting Toy Town, Monzaemon gave them all a big Heart Hug that had the group laughing merrily. The leader Numemon then reappeared to ask Mimi for a congratulatory kiss, to which she swiftly denies. They spent several hours enjoying Toy Town's hospitality before heading off onto their next adventure. What future adventures await our heroes?

Naruto turned to Mimi and said, "Ya'know Mimi, maybe if you give that Numemon a kiss, he'll turn into a handsome prince!"

"NO!" Mimi declard firmly as she swatted the younger boy over the head.

…Only time will tell!

AN: So this is the third in my three chapter binge on this story. After this I plan on working on Naruto and Tora followed by my other continuous stories. By the time I update them all, I will have decided two things. 1. Will I put one of my other stories on temporary hiatus in order to focus on this one? 2. Should I continue the pre-chapter discussions? It will largely depend on the response I get for this story from now until then, so please let me know how you all feel via Reviews and PMs.

I'm sorry this took so long, was trying to figure out how to mix it up this chapter so its not just a rehash of canon and focus a little more on Naruto and Dracmon while still keeping the other DigiDestined relevant. I'm really hoping the second half of this chapter showed that Naruto, while tough and unpredictable like canon if not more so, is not invincible. He's prone to mistakes and loses just as much as anyone, but he has his friends and partners watching his back in case he messes up. Hope you all enjoyed and as always, READ and REVIEW!