--------------------------------Digimon Tribute Keep the digital spirit alive----------------------------

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Shinjuku Park: 7:41 PM…

Like the color of an orange, mixed with the color of a lemon on the bottom, the sun set far behind the mountains that stood miles away in the land of Tokyo. Building, trees, etc. stand tall with the color of the skies coating their shells. But within those trees, kids stay in the park no more, expect for those who are Tamers and DigiDestined.

The battle was long and hard down in a local parking garage, which was now in blazing fury, thanks to the Digimon. It was all because of Rika for starting a meaningless fight, and then Terriermon Digivolving into Gargomon and tearing up the place against his will. Luckily, Guilmon gave him a blow to snap Gargomon out of it.

Anyways, the group was able to escape the garage before the authorities showed up, and now they hid deep in the park, trying to figure out a way to de-Digivolve Gargomon. With many ways tried, they resorted to one crucial task.

"Can I stop this now?"

By having Gargomon stand on his hands…er, guns.

Henry shook his head at his dizzy Digimon. "No, Gargomon. You still haven't de-Digivolved yet. You won't be able to fit through the door, and Susie or any of my family defiantly won't believe you're a toy in this form."

In the past of the DigiDestined, when Digimon waste their energy, or when the battle is over, they de-Digivolve back to their previous state; it has always been that way through Champion, Armor, Ultimate, or Mega; they always go back to their Rookie, In-Training, or Fresh form. Although for some reason, Gatomon always stay in her Champion form. But now, seeing this, it is very confusing to why Gargomon haven't reverted back to normal.

TK paced before the big boned Digimon, with his fingers placed on his chin. "Hmm…it's very strange. How come you haven't de-Digivolved back to Rookie? Usually when our Digimon Digivolve, they immediately go straight back to Rookie after a fight."

"How should I know? It's hard to think when your digital blood is rushing through your head!"

"Really? Neat! Guilmon wanna try!" The virus Digimon flipped up to stand on his clawed paws, but within three seconds, he fell to his side. "Ow! I go boom."

"Not so easy, is it?" Gargomon laughed before turning to the DigiDestined Digimon. "I like to see you guys try this!"

"Forget it, pal. A kitty does not enjoy feeling her own blood inside her head." Gatomon explained.

"I don't have any hands. I'm a worm."

"And my paws are too little." said Patamon.

However, Veemon, Hawkmon, and Armadillomon gave it a go. Armadillomon didn't hold out for a second, due to his heavy weight, and that he has four legs. Hawkmon tumbled right after, but Veemon held out the longest, walking a few paces toward Gargomon before falling straight on his back.

"Ha! I win!" cried Veemon.

The Tamers and DigiDestined chuckled at their Digimon trying to break Gargomon's record; although, there were two people who didn't join in on the laughter. One was Davis, because after the argument he had with his members, he left to another part of the park, and told his Digimon that he wanted to be alone for a bit. Two was Henry, because he was too much into thought about an obvious reason.

"Say, Henry…uh, how come you didn't want Terriermon to Digivolve?" Takato asked.

"Well you saw the reason why. He loses control when he Digivolve to Champion."

TK came up to the two kids. "Well this kind of thing happened when Kari's brother Digivolved Greymon to SkullGreymon, but by the sound of this, this might of happened before. Care to explain?"

Henry hung his head while turning it away from the blonde. "I rather not say."

"But did you had to remind me about that SkullGreymon thing, TK?" a familiar voice asked, which was none other than Tai, who dug through the bushes.

"Tai…what are you doing here?" asked his sister.

"Henry just bounced off the minute we tracked Rika. I couldn't help but hear that Gargomon went berserker, huh?"

Veemon sighed. "Even a Tyrannomon is more peaceful than he was."

"Hey, it ain't my fault I couldn't help myself!"

Tai studied the large gun-bunny. He looks calm right now, so it couldn't be the same problem as SkullGreymon. Maybe there was evil within him. "Hey, Veemon, did you sense anything funny about Gargomon?"

"Nope…other than he was acting as crazy as a Piedmon, or looney as one of them Looney Tune cartoons, or as wacky as-"

"We get the picture, blue-boy!" shouted Gargomon as he tried to keep his balance strong.

Though their senses weren't as keen as the Tamers' Digimon, the DigiDestined Digimon can sense some drops of evil that may possess another Digimon, if it wasn't completely hidden. These new Digimon are a lot different from the old ones, and based on the info Tai heard about them, he figured that these Digimon are a bit hostile when they can't control their forms.

"I guess he can't control his Champion form. But I'm pretty sure that if he has some time this form, he'll get the hang of it."

Shuddering, Henry looked the other way and walked a few steps away from the gang.

Tai saw this and felt concern for the young boy. But his eyes, averting from that feeling, notice something. "Hey, I see Veemon, but where's his compadre?"

Snorting, Yolei spoke, "He took off in a bad mood after I scolded him for almost getting us in trouble!"

Cody sighed, "He was like that when we arrived to Shinjuku."

Takato rubbed his cheek, raising his brows with worried expressions. "How come he's so mad?"

Kari shrugged. "We're not sure. His new attitude started like this around last year, and when things like this happen, he gets a tantrum."

Lifting her head off of Ken's shoulder, Yolei snapped: "Oh you know he has a huge crush on you, Kari. He's probably still pissed off that he couldn't get to patrol with you…again!"

I don't know about that, Yolei. Yes Kari knows about Davis' crush over her, but even she knows that Davis doesn't hold a grudge this long.

"Man, I gotta say, Foxy-mon was something." Veemon said, hiding the fact that he almost got his butt handed to him. "And what is she, a Rookie? Even Guilmon there top any V-Headbutt I mustered; nearly brought the house down, too."

The blonde nodded at Veemon. "I know. She seems pretty powerful for a Rookie, if Palmon had to Digivolve to Ultimate to stand a match against her. Not even our Rookie Digimon can match to that power."

"Well I guess it's because we use modify cards." Takato modestly said as he held a card.

"Boy, I wish we can do that card slash thing, too." Yolei said. .

Tai took a few steps between the gang. "Come on, it's getting late. I'm pretty sure Takato's parents wants him home soon."

"Yeah, I'm in a mood for some pizza! Hooo wee!" Armadillomon howled as he licked his lips.

Soon, both human and Digimon walked through the bushes home. Takato took one last look at Henry. "Hey, you gonna home?"

The blue haired boy had his eyes over at his Digimon. "Not right now. I have to make sure Terriermon de-Digivolves."

"Well…okay, see ya."

From their leave, the Wong boy turned back to his upside-down Digimon. Once again, he felt pain and guilt just from looking at his Champion form. Not only that, it takes him back to their first meeting.

(Flashback)

The night hangs on the sky like curtains. It shines upon the household of the Wongs, giving off the city background, behind their large window like their home was a fancy restaurant. It was the day Henry and his siblings' father, Janyu Wong, came back from his work trip, and within that day, he brought them gifts like he promised.

Last was Henry to receive his gift. Opening the package, his face showed satisfaction when his eyes laid upon a small box, containing what the box said to be a Digimon World 4 for the CD-Rom. (A/N: Well since that Digimon might not come out with anymore games, I can pretend that there are more.)

"Wow, Digimon World 4! Thanks a lot dad!"

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Within his small room, Henry still had excitement written all over his face. The young boy collected three of the Digimon games for the Playstation, but now he has a new one for the CD-Rom, and he slid the CD in his computer.

On screen first showed all the legal stuff, then went down to the fun parts, with the opening movie, which, as usual, was fantastic.

Anyways, the title screen came on, with all its fancy galore, and after pressing start, Henry starts off with a character, that he gets to change the name, and then he gotten to the part where he can choose a Digimon. There was Wizardmon, Devimon, Endigomon, and of course, Terriermon himself.

"Let's see…who to choose…? Wizardmon..? Nah, I'm not in to that magic stuff. Um, Endigomon…? Hmm…anyone can win with a big strong guy. Hmm…Terriermon…someone small…yeah, it's more challenging that way. Short and small like me,"

As soon as he selected Terriermon, the little dog/rabbit did a little victory dance that amused the boy. "He even dances like me, too."

(End Flashback)

"Yo, Henroid!"

His flashback broke from his thoughts. He found the sky slowly about to darken, soon. Then, he felt a light weight jump on his shoulders, which was little Terriermon.

"All done. Can we eat now, Henroid?"

The lone boy nodded with a frown. "Yeah…"

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Nonaka residence: 8:19 PM

"Unbelievable! Just what the hell is up with the world today?"

Night drawled upon the land, and around a Japanese style mansion. Yes, a mansion, but it's not as big as the ones you may find in, like Connecticut, or Beverly Hills. No sir, it was about the size of a block in a half, and only one

stories. However, in the middle of this Asian house, lied a small yard, decorated like a Japanese field, with a small pond and a tiny bridge that crossed over the pond.

Anywho, inside one of the rooms, near that yard, an angry Rika looked over her Digimon cards like fortune teller would looks over tarot cards. Placing on the small table was a card of Flamedramon. Below it were two cards of Terriermon and Gargomon.

"That Goggle-Face I can understand, since he is a DigiDestined; a weak one, but still. But Brainaic? How did he Digivolved his weenie rabbit with that 'make peace, not love' attitude?" Rika felt like life was not playing fair over her heard work. It's like a hard working student being livid because the stupidest kid in class got a high grade on the final exam without even studying. Her eyes glanced at a mysterious figure that stood all mystifying outside in the yard.

"Make no mistake, Renamon; you will Digivolve. I will not be bested by wanna-be Tamers, like Brainiac, or especially to any Goggleheads!"

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Odaiba: 10:38 AM...

Once again, morning has arisen, like it has for centuries. Today was Sunday, the day when some folks go to church, the day when most stores close early or do not open at all, the day when Daisuke Motimiya spends most of his time just playing soccer on the empty field in front of his school. Actually, right now he's just waiting for the others to show up so that they can keep an eye on Rika Nonaka.

"Hey Davis!"

The goggle boy smiled when he saw none other than Hikari Kamiya running down the stairs. "Hey, Kari."

"Hey, yourself. The others haven't showed up?"

"Not yet. I'm the first one here."

"There's a shocker."

"What? Just cause I'm always late?" he decided to ignore her giggling as he kicked around the soccer ball.

"Um…Davis…is there something bothering you lately?"

"Nope, why?"

"Well… look, I think I have a hunch of why you always were so grouchy…more than usual. But I want to make sure first. So Davis, can you please-?"

Just then, a distant call from Takeru Takashi was heard as the blonde boy came running up to the two.

"Hey guys. Is everyone here?"

"Just us, TP."

TK decided to ignore that, again. "Okay, we all agreed to not bring our Digimon, considering that Rika might start a fight if she sees them."

"So what's the rest of the plan, co-leader?"

Co-leader? TK and Kari mentally cleared their ears after that one. Did they just hear Davis say that?

"What? TY does all the planning, while I do all the prep talk. Sides, thinking hurts my head."

"Do tell…" the two muttered.

"Anywise, Izzy told us that the problem with tracking the D-Arcs is that it only works in a short range, so we still have to keep hunting for her."

"Yo, but Izzy tracked her down with his laptop all the way to the other side of Shinjuku."

"Well, Davis, that's because his laptop was logged onto the net; our Digivices are not." TK said, with Kari continuing. "So we still have to keep searching for her, and this time, no fighting."

Davis knew that shot was aimed for him. "Whoa, it wasn't my fault. I was just trying to save Takato."

The blonde sighed. "Okay, I think we should start by pairing in the same groups like yesterday."

Davis shrugged while he put his hands on his head. "Alright, but-"

"HEY GUYS!"

Snapping their heads, they spotted Cody running up, with the couple Ken and Yolei behind, hand to hand.

"Why do you get to go with Kari?" Davis quickly shouted.

Both Kari and TK turned back to Davis with arched eyebrows. It's not that they never heard this from Davis before, it's just the way he said it.

"Once again, Ol' Davis is crying cause he just can't be with his fair Kari." Yolei said with a satisfied look. "Grow up, kid."

"Hey, I'm not a kid, nerdster!"

Cody came between before their usual routine started. "Alright, I would like to live without this for one day, at least."

The two twist their faces from each other with angry frowns. "Fine!"

"At least they didn't go in their usual name-calling arguments." Said Poromon.

"…Otherwise I'd wish I had some earplugs…if I have ears, that is." Wormmon said from Ken's arm.

"What the…?" Davis bends his head down at the two Digimon. "No fair! How come they get to bring their Digimon?"

Ken cleared his throat. "Oh we're going to Izzy's dorm. He said that he just wanted to try something out with the code he downloaded from the Tamers' D-Arcs; which means we're his volunteers."

"That would be Ginny-pigs, Ken ol bud."

The blue haired boy sweatdropped. "Right…thanks, Davis."

A loud throat noise was made from a hyper Yolei who clenched her fist near her neck. "Alright, let's get a move on and teach that girl a thing or two on manners!" with that, the girl did one of those anime victory poses with a peace fingers.

"What do you mean 'let's'? You and Ken aren't gonna help." Davis remined

"I think she's excited about her lunch date with Ken." Poromon explained.

Motimiya then rolled his eyes. "Typical."

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West Shinjuku: 11:01 AM

A day of Sunday…yeah I wrote about it already, but I was trying to open a paragraph rather than just simply getting to the point. Anyway, we find our brash Tamer…I mean soon to be Tamer, Kazu Shiota exiting a local card shop store with his best friend and sidekick, Kenta Kitagawa.

"Hey guys!" but then a sweaty Takato Matsuki ran up to the two. He stood before them, laying his palms on his knees to catch his breath.

"Where've you been, Chumily? We told you when we were gonna be at the store."

"Sorry…my mom…-pant-…made me do…extra chores since I came…-pant-…home late."

Kenta leaned past Kazu. "What for? Why were you late?"

"Uh…"

"Ah who cares? Besides, you just missed the glorious opportunity to see what good cards I got, goggle-boy. By the way, what's with the goggles anyway?"

Takato then grinned. He might as well tell them; after all, they're not going to believe him. "Heh…it's just…I'm a Digimon Tamer!"

Kazu rolled his eyes with a smirk. "Digimon Tamer…Whatever, weirdo. Let's go, Kenta. We gotta Digi-tain our chores!"

"But I don't have any chores."

Kazu ran as he dragged Kenta by his shirt. "You do now! Be smelling ya, Chumily!" but just then, Kazu stopped and u-turned back to Takato. "Oh I almost forgot; Kenta didn't want this and neither do I, so you can have it."

Without Takato's say-so, Kazu placed a card in his hand and then ran off, with Kenta on tow. Takato blankly looked at the new card.

"Training grips? But this is just a training card…oh jeez, thanks a lot, Kazu." He muttered with sarcasm.

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Shinjuku College: 11:03 AM…

The lively campus of Shinjuku College: unknown to its real name, but who cares? We find one of the legendary DigiDestined, the pre-adult heartthrob of rock, Yamato Ishida, just casually walking along the sidewalk that crosses the green grass, just after a meal of brunch.

"Oh, salutations, Matt." said Koushiro Izumi whom just came by the blonde with his pineapple laptop under his arm.

"Hey Izzy, what's up?"

"Just heading out to the gate to wait for the younger DigiDestineds."

"Why are they coming over?"

"Well I thought I e-mailed you about the new kids Tai brought over whose new digital talents are identical to our young murderous rogue?"

"Yeah, I read. What, let me guess: You're curious about their Digivices, huh?"

"In an atomic way…yes."

Rolling his eyes, Matt shook his head. "Little? I know what atomic means, and knowing you, you want all the facts about these Tamers."

The red head bit his lips. "Well if you put it that way…anyway, I better get a move on, unless you want to observe some experimentation on Digivice upgrades?"

"Nah, I already have my own test to study...World Civ."

"Well alright, see ya." Izzy said as he ran off.

Yep, that was Koushiro Izumi for you. No matter how much he grows old, he's still the computer, curious cat that came with the DigiDestined eight years ago to the Digital World. The boy practically glued himself to his computers, always wants all the facts; he just never appreciates the finer things in life. At least with Mimi around him, he can at least lighten up away from computers and experimentations; though there are times when Yamato wonders what Mimi sees in that boy.

"Oh well," he shrugs just like all the time he thinks that. And so he continues to head for his dorm.

"OOF!!!" When he accidentally bumps into something that felt like someone ran into him.

"Ow…watch where you're going, buddy." He mutters on the floor.

"Sorry. I was in a hurry." The bumper said, who sound like a female.

Matt stood up, dusting the dirt off his black jeans. His eyes got a look of the person; it was defiantly female. She had brown eyes, and brown-red hair that hung almost past her neck, but it was curly. She wore a long-sleeved gray shirt

that showed a maroon colored shirt beneath it. The color of her pants was a dark color of brown that had a black leather belt. He didn't get her shoes, but she wore black slipper shoes with a bit a heal.

"Uh that's okay. Here let me get that." The blonde helped pick up her papers and books. Looking up to the girl after he picked up her stuff, she smiled. But then, her brown eyes blinked at Matt before she leaned her head an inch closer, like she was trying to get a better look at the blonde. Shock crept in her eyes as she backed away with a blush. Matt wondered about the girl's behavior now. Maybe she just found out that she happened to bump into a popular rock star of all of Tokyo. Yeah he gets that sometimes; maybe one autograph will do.

"Oh…it's you." she spoke with an icy tone in her voice. Her facial expression changed into a angry frown, though there was still a fainted blush in her cheeks, but it seemed that she was trying to fight it. "I hope I broke any part of your body."

"WHAT? Is there something wrong with you?"

The rude girl closed her eyes with a smirk. "So you don't recognize me, do ya?"

"Uh…we met before?"

"Oh come on, can't you even recognize my face…?"the girl watched Matt's face go into confused mode. "…okay look at it. What friend of yours does my face remind you of?"

Matt doesn't like where this is going, but he decide to give it a go. He stared down to her irritated face, studying any part to click his memory. There was something about her eyes and brows; it almost looks identical to one of the DigiDestined when he gets mad…maybe…Davis…

Matt felt his body cold and stiff. It was like he met something from the dead. He breathed hard, hoping it wasn't who he thought it was.

After plugging her ears with cotton, the girl held her hair up to make it look identical to 's, and she gave a seductive look.

"Oh Matty-chan!"

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"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

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Inside a moving subway train that is in the underground tunnels, Yolei raised her head from Ken's shoulders when she heard a scream.

"Did…you hear something just now, Kenny?"

"No,"

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Matt was breathing so hard, like he experienced a near death, and this is coming from a person who risked his life to help fight monsters. The entire student body stared at the boy, rubbing their ears from that scream. All the car alarms

from a ten block distant now were shut off. Yes, the girl he screamed at happens to be Davis' old sister, Jun Motimiya, Matt's former crazy stalker.

After uncovering her ears with her hands, she pulled out the cotton swabs.

"Uh…hey…Jun. What a pleasure…to see-"

"Stuff it, rock-boy! I know you didn't like me before, compare to that red-head girl."

Matt wildered back from this unexpected surprise. "Uh…actually me and Sora broke up long ago."

"Hmm…smart of her. At least she didn't waste her time much longer to be with a blonde jerk."

Suddenly, his ice blue eyes felt raging fire. "WHAT? Man, what the hell is up with you, Jun? It's not my fault I didn't have any interest over you!"

Her eyes gave a 'boy-are-you-stupid' look as her lips smirked. "Don't flatter yourself, Mr. rock-star; people just change. Excuse me!" with that, Jun walk by him, pushing Matt on the grass.

"Sheesh…from annoying girl to bicthzilla!"

"Prodigious; and thirty minutes before my favorite show, too."

The famous word from the college computer geek was aimed for the younger DigiDestined who exited out of the subway entrance, at the foot of the campus.

"I see you brought Poromon and Wormmon with you, guys."

The couples looked down at their little Digimon who where in their arms. Ken spoke first. "Well we're not helping with the search, so why not."

TK nodded. "Yeah, at least Patamon can give my mom some company. So Izzy, what is it you want with Ken and Yolei anywise?"

"Well, they agreed to try out a program I got from one of the Tamers D-Arcs, though I only needed one volunteer. If this works, you would be able to use a Digimon Analyzer from your Digivices, just like they do."

"Dude, that's sweet! At least with that-ACK!!" course young Daisuke would talk clear if Matt wouldn't do a choke hold on his neck.

"Hey, bro. What's with choking Davis there?"

"Nothing, much, TK. I just need a word with him for a sec." he muttered as he dragged the goggle boy back in the campus.

The others watched the blonde drag the boy with confused looks. Davis rapidly waved his hands at them, signaling them to help him.

"Uh…so anywise, my theory would need lots of focus on…"

"WHAT PART OF THIS YOU DID NOT UNDERSTAND??!!" Davis' faint voice shouted.

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From a distance away from the others, Matt tossed Davis at the greens of the campus. The goggled teen massaged his neck while glaring at his attacker.

"Man, what's your problem, Matt? Is this about that time I spilled soda on your math homework?"

"Sorry, and no, but I need to ask you something." Davis impatiently waited for the blonde's response "What the hell is up with your sister?"

"You mean Jun? Oh, you must have met up with her here, huh?"

"Yeah! Why didn't you tell me she goes to this school?"

"Why? I thought you wouldn't care what she does."

"Yeah; until she snapped at me! Since when did she become a ragging bitch?"

"I don't know why. I think it started after she broke up with her last boyfriend."

Matt blinked at this. "Huh? You mean she finally went out with Joe's brother?"

"Naw, it was some other guy, I forgot his name, but I didn't like the punk. I think he had something to do with Jun turning into a boy hating chick."

This was really strange for Yamato. Four years ago, he met Jun Motimiya when she wanted him to sign her shirt. After when she blackmailed Matt in order for him to date her, Jun has been a pain in his back; constantly following him, especially when he went on a camping trip, miles away from home. Surprisingly, after when she found out that Matt was going out with Sora, she backed off and moved on by chasing Joe's brother, Jim. Obviously, that didn't work out, and Jun must have finally found someone, or so she thought. Life sure is strange, having to turn a boy-crazed girl like Jun into a male-mating girl.

Oh why should I worry? It's her problem, not mine. "Uh, never mind; just wondering. Sorry for dragging you from your work, buddy."

"Eh, no problem, I wasn't gonna help search for that crazed kid anywise. I thought I should stick around here."

"Uh…why do you want to stay here? You hate school."

"Well…there's something just I have to do, okay? Catch ya later, dude." With that, Davis ran off.

Something you have to do, huh? Heh, yeah, whatever. I know what you're planning. The young college student stared off into the blue skies. It's amazing how much things change to forms unexpected for the human eye. Jun's strange attitude, Davis' mysterious ambitions… Life defiantly is strange.

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West Shinjuku: 11:13 AM…

From here in the busy streets of ol West Shinjuku, we find our young goggled hero, Takato, mindlessly walking to the park to visit his bread snarfing doofus of a Digimon, Guilmon. But at this point, he may get some other company, because walking up to his way came a thoughtful Henry and his big-mouthed, sonaofa-

"Hey!"

Sorry, Terriermon.

"Hey, Henry." Takato waved.

"Oh hey, Takato. Heading up to Guilmon's place?"

"Yeah…hey you feeling any better?"

Thought that was aimed for Henry, but the lovable rabbit/dog took that for him.

"Momentai! There's nothing that can keep me down. Henroid here, that's a different story."

"Terriermon!" warned the half Chinese child.

Without any permission or question, the blue haired boy walked with Takato over to the park. But right now, Henry Wong still felt disturbed as they trailed through the streets, and that is what Takato is noticing at this very second.

"Maybe we should…ask the DigiDestined about this?"

Henry shook his head. "No, that's okay; I just wanna relax for a bit, then maybe we'll head over there."

"Well, I wanted to continue my game, but noooo… Henry here had to ruin it. I was this close of beating the last boss."

"Terriermon, you beat Sonic Heroes like about ten times already."

"Yes, but not eleven times, thanks to you."

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Down across the edge of the park, TK, Cody, Kari, and even Ken met up to plan how to begin the search. Ken decided to join in, since Izzy really wanted only one volunteer.

"I thought Davis was supposed to help us out?"

"Me too, Ken, but it looks like he had other plans." Said Cody.

TK groaned. "This is just wonderful. Well, at least Ken joined in, but I'm worried that when Rika sees Wormmon, she'll talk with her fists again."

"Take it from me; I don't think she'll bother me. She seems to be one of those warrior types that only want to fight the strongest."

"What does that mean?" Wormmon snapped. "You said this Renamon was a data type; I could take her!"

"I didn't mean it like that, Wormmon, but I apologize."

TK made a stand. "Okay, Izzy said that Rika wondered somewhere around the west side of the city, so we'll split into four ways, then. Ken will take the east, I'll take the north, Cody will take the west, and Kari will take the south. Got it?"

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"Hey Henry, check this card Kazu gave me."

"Who's Kazu?"

"A friend of mine; He gave me this training card." Takato showed the boy the card that had a picture of a steel stretch coat.

"Oh well that's nice of him." He sarcastically muttered. Suddenly, he felt a vibration on his right shoulder. "Uh…Terriermon?"

"There's a Digimon nearby, Henry, and its gaining closer."

"What? Oh no!"

Takato blinked, noticing something he never witnessed. "I didn't know Digimon can sense other Digimon. They never mentioned that in the net or the card game."

"There're a lot of stuff the cards don't mention, now lets get out of here!"

Takato grabbed Henry's shoulder before he ran off. "But…shouldn't we go deal with it? After all, we are Tamers."

Henry pressed his lips. Though he would rather not get involved, but…"Look, lets just run for it, maybe to somewhere with less people."

"Henry, quit your yapping, cause here comes the digital field!" Terriermon shouted as he pointed at the incoming fog.

(Play Night of Fate from Kingdom Hearts soundtrack.)

Takato gazed at the large fog bank. "You mean that fog? But, it's just-"

"Never mind!" Henry pulled Takato with him as they ran from the fog.

"Uh…what's so dangerous about a puff of clouds?"

"That's a digital field. When Digimon enters to our world, they come out through fog like that one behind us."

"Really…? Boy, the cards leave out a lot. But…shouldn't we-?"

"Just keep running!"

The duo ran though the sidewalk, avoiding any part of town that had any citizens for this Digimon to wreck havoc. Takato was confused to why Henry refused to fight this beast. It was either because he wanted to find a suitable battlefield, or what happened yesterday still had him so tensed. Soon, the Tamers approached a street bridge. (A/N: Boy could New York use one of those.)

"Let's split up; hopefully that field will leave us alone if we do."

"Is that a good thing for the city, Henry? I still say we should-"

"Takato, not now!"

The goggled boy ran up to the bridge. "Fine, I'll meet you with Guilmon!" As he tread thought the bridge, he peaked over his shoulder to find "Oh no, it's after Henry!" but then he crashed into something that caused him to fall on that

thing. "Ow…what…?"

"Hey why the rush?"

Takato stood up from what he observed to be a male teen with blue hair that reached his neck. He has dark purple eyes, a gray long sleeved shirt with a collar that had a blue button. The shirt covered a white t-shirt. The color of his jeans was a dark color of gray, and he also wore black sneakers. Strapped in on his shoulders was a dark green bookbag.

"Sorry, I…hey I remember you! Uh…Ken, was it?"

"Yes, that's me. What seems to be the problem, Takato?" he asked as he dusted his clothes.

"There's a digital field that's chasing Henry. I gotta get Guilmon quick!"

"A digital field?" Ken's memory drew back to when Izzy talked about Digimon somehow popping around the city in fog banks. Maybe that was a digital field. "Where did Henry go?"

"Uh…I think he ran toward that construction site where I found Guilmon."

"Alright, you get your Digimon, I'll help Henry."

-

Yes, as young Takato said, Henry did made his way in the construction site to where he found Guilmon. Luckily, no one was around, so Henry stopped for a breather.

"Boy, its times like these that makes me glad to be small." Joked Terriermon.

Right as the boy glared at his Digimon, a fog slowly coated the entire area. "Oh great, it caught up…why is this thing after us?"

"I don't know, but something feels familiar about this one."

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!

"Hey, that wasn't even a joke."

The young Tamer twisted in every direction as that laugh tensed his veins. "I think that laugh sounded more like it was laughing at us."

"At us?" the angry Rookie hopped off of his Tamer and balled up his little paws to punch the air like a boxer. "Alright, come on out so I can bust you up! Nobody laughs at Terriermon!"

"Okay!"

A figure took form from atop a ramp. The size of this creature was about the height of a truck. Its fur was brown, and it looked more like a cross between a rabbit and a gorilla. It has floppy ears like a dog, and large lips. On its head, it wore a strange skull with swirly eyes.

Henry's eyes widened at this familiar creature. "No…Endigomon?"

(A/N: HA! You thought I would bring in Gorillamon, huh? Well this is my fic, and it is an AU Tamers story, so HAHA to you!)

Anywise, how could Henry have known about Endigomon like he met him in person? Well it wasn't from the movie since in this version, the DigiDestined live in their timeline. It all took place in the flashback.

(Song fades volume)

(Flashback)

"Nice work, Terriermon. We just need a few more data for you to Digivolve."

The young gamer controlled his level 7 Digimon around a desert level. The object for Terriermon to require the ability to Digivolve was to reach level 8, which means destroy any Digimon and require their data.

Suddenly, another Digimon popped out from behind some rocks. This time, it was the giant rabbit known as Endigomon.

"HOWLING CRUSHER!!!"

The piercing howl blown Terriermon to about 23 percent of his energy. Henry growled under his breath when his Digimon peeled himself off a rock.

"That Digimon is a Champion level. We better power up for this one." This game however comes with a device that lets you slash Digimon cards to modify your Digimon with different abilities and advancements. "Alright, Terriermon, let's show him what you're made of. Digi-modify, speed, activate!"

The little dog Digimon dashed at his enemy, and ran in circles around Endigomon.

"Now give him some payback! Digi-Modify, power activate!"

"BUNNY BLAST!!" a green blast from Terriermon's mouth blew the large Champion off his feet, shaking the floor as Endigomon fell.

"Yeah, that's the way!"

With work of the cards, Terriermon's strength was about around Endigomon's. But that assault only brought the large beast's anger to about ten times fold, and now the raging Digimon was now capable of crushing the little Digimon flat.

(End Flashback, and turn back volume up.)

"Hey there, big mouth. How's it hanging?" words from the little Digimon only brought the creature's rage up to a over-the-top level.

"ROOOAAAA!!! Endigomon will crush you!" he screamed as he pounded his chest.

"Jeez! Crush you…I crush you. Is that all you giant idiots can come back with? So cliché."

Henry gulped when he saw Endigomon snap his furious face at Terriermon. "You're the big mouth, Terriermon. You're only making him angry."

"So? He's gonna get his ass whupped by yours truly; right?"

That is what Henry was afraid to hear.

(End song.)

-

-

Izzy's dorm: 11:34 AM…

"So…uh…what is this suppose to do again?"

Izzy groaned, feeling like he explained it to Davis a thousand times. "It's simple: Using the program I downloaded from the Tamers' D-Arcs, I can upload the Digimon Analyzer program to our Digivices, thus using the same capability as the D-Arcs."

"Uh…"

Yolei slapped Davis on the back of the head. "He means that we can use the Digimon Analyzers from our Digivices just like the Tamers!"

"Oh…they can do that?"

Yolei held her need to strangle her friend. "Weren't you supposed to help search for Rika?"

"Well…yeah, but it's not fun without Veemon."

"That was the point; if we brought our Digimon, that girl would start a Royal Rumble."

"Yeah, but you brought Poromon; that's not fair."

Mimi gave a loud throat noise. "Hello? Koushy is trying to work here!"

Davis/Yolei: Koushy?

Obviously to Davis and Yolei that Koushy is Izzy's pet name for Mimi. Izzy ignored his blush as he unplugged Yolei's D-3 from his computer.

"Alright, it's done, Yolei."

"Okay, let's give it a try. Do your new magic, D-3!" She said as she grabbed her Digivice. She pointed the D-3 at Tentomon, but after a few seconds, nothing happened. "Uh…"

"Poromon's eyes are the scanners." Izzy corrected.

"Oh. You heard him, Poromon," Yolei said to her Digimon. The little bird glared at the insect Digimon. His eyes surged with glowing computer lines, and then a halo of Tentomon appeared above the screen. "Hey, it worked. Perfecto!"

"Prodigious! The experiment is now a complete success!"

His strawberry haired girlfriend gave him a tight squeeze that gave his face one of the shades of red.

"Oh, that's my little computer geek!"

Suddenly, Izzy's computer sounded an alarm, which switched the monitor to show a map of the city.

"Hey, don't tell me your computer is jealous." Snorted Mimi with a grin.

"Very funny. Actually, it spotted another digital field." The computer typed in some commands to zoom in on the location. "It's downtown in the construction sites, just east from here. Henry's signal is already there, and Ken is approaching at his location."

At least Davis could understand that. He gripped into his D-3 and grinned. "Well then let's go kick some Digimon butt!"

"And just how…?" Yolei asked with her hands on her hips. "You don't have Veemon with you."

"Oh yeah,"

Yolei quickly scooped up Poromon and rushed out the door. "I'll get over there and help out. See ya later!"

Davis groaned in frustration. He maybe Digimon-less, but that doesn't mean he's not gonna sit around and watch Izzy and Mimi go all mushy.

-

"Sir, we have a trace of a bio-emergence, but it just diverted over to the same area where we traced that last breach two days ago."

"Keep a lock on this one. Talley, you call in a search team to stand by in case we need them."

"Yes sir."

-

-

Construction site: 11:32 AM…

"Hey, can't ya take a joke?" Terriermon asked as he leaped over Endigomon's stretched arms.

Henry traveled an upper ramp above the battle to keep track of his Digimon. His forehead was soaked from his sweat from trying think of a way to stop this fight. As his book state: fighting is always wrong, no matter what the reason.

"Terriermon! Get out of there!"

"I don't think ugly is giving me a choice!"

Terriermon answered back with his Bunny Blasts, but the shot was deflected from Endigomon's rough skin. Then, the Champion Digimon stretched his torso to reveal a number of cannons from his stomach.

"WENDI CRUSHER!!!"

If you remember the movie, Endigomon is now shooting multiple lasers from his stomach. The little Rookie ran for his as the lasers followed while blasting holes upon the concrete.

"Henry, make with saving private Terriermon here!" he screamed as he ran from the gaining lasers. Henry grabbed a card that would increase Terriermon's speed, but then-

"SPIKING STRIKE!!!" a large humanoid insect tackled the large beast with his bladed arm.

"Wha…a Stingmon?" Henry said, eying at the savior.

"Henry!"

From that voice, Henry twisted his to Ken who approached him from behind. "Wha…Ken!"

The teen stopped, placing his hands on his knees for a breathier. "Hey…Takato warned me about…-pant-…came as soon as I…-pant-…ran…six…blocks…"

"Uh…I got a bottle of Gatorade if you need it."

-

Terriermon smiled at the tall insect, Stingmon, whose struggling in a grip lock against Endigomon.

"Hey, nice timing, bug-boy, and I'm sorry for cheating in hide-in-go-seek by peaking where you hid."

"What? You…cheated?"

"HOWLING CRUSHER!!" But then, the howling blasted thrown Stingmon over to a pile of steel bars.

"Ouch, that must of hurt." Muttered Terriermon.

Endigomon stomped forward at the bug Digimon, raising his fist for the kill. "Bug man ruined revenge on little rabbit. Endigomon will crush you!"

"Do you muscle guys always have to say that?" Stingmon asked.

"That's what I asked!" said the rabbit.

Stingmon rolled away from Endigomon's fist before it crushed the steel where Stingmon once laid. Hovering back up, Stingmon then launched forward with another Spiking Strike that Endigomon caught. This time, Stingmon kneed dropped the beast in the gut rather than aiming at where the sun doesn't shine; that's the coward's way out. Now released from his grip, Stingmon swung his blade in arcs which the large Champion backed away from and then wrapped Stingmon with his extended arm.

"Me squash you like a bug!"

"Uh…I am a bug!"

"Ooo…much easy then!"

Right as Endigomon extend back his right fist, Stingmon struggled with all his might to break free, but he braced himself for the pain.

"Let go of him!" suddenly, Guilmon flew from nowhere and snapped his jaws on Endigomon's wrist.

"You let go of Endigomon, puny lizard!" the giant beast swung his arm, trying to catapult Guilmon off, but his grip was strong as a bear trap.

Soon, Guilmon';s Tamer joined up with Henry and Ken. "After this…I'm gonna need a good thirst quencher. Henry, is that the Digimon that's been chasing you?"

"Yes…and it seems he came back to take revenge on Terriermon."

"Revenge?" Ken repeated. "You seen this Digimon before?"

Henry kept quite as he sweated to keep it from himself and watching Guilmon and Stingmon getting pounded by the raging beast as Endigomon threw a hard punch on the bug's face.

"We need Terriermon to Digivolve, Henry! What are you waiting for?"

Henry just stared at the fight with a disturbed look on his face without response. If Terriermon wasn't busy, he would mutter that another flashback would start.

(Flashback)

"Watch out, Terriermon! He's aggressive now!"

The battle grew in its difficulty. Endigomon was now as furious as a bull, and continuously charged at the little Digimon with maximum fury. Henry already used a stamina card to recharge Terriermon's energy, but right now he needs a way to stop Endigomon's rampage. He could use a card to trap Endigomon like with webs or a vine attack, but now looking at a new card in his hand, perhaps he can fight fire with fire.

"Get ready, Terriermon! It's time to turn up the gas! Digi-Modify! Digivolution, activate!"

-

(Digivolution)

"TERRIERMON DIGIVOLVE TOOO…GARGOMON!!"

-

The tides had turned, now. With a slash of a card, Terriermon evolved to his Champion level, Gargomon. Using his new abilities, Gargomon fired his Vulcan cannons with trigger happy laughs. The bullets stung through Endigomon's skin so bad, it drove the beast away.

"Yeah, way to go, Gargomon!"

With that all done, Henry would now continue through the level…if Gargomon would stop shooting like a maniac. The boy's eyes rose as he watched hid Digimon constantly blast everything, and every living thing in site.

"Gargomon, what are you doing? You already did your job."

All the innocent Digimon in the level ran in fear from the psycho Digimon; Most of them didn't escaped alive. The young Wong frantically pressed buttons to try to stop him, but nothing was working.

Even though it was just a game, Henry couldn&'t help feel guilty for all those deaths caused by Gargomon at this minute. Their cries of pain…it felt so real…Gargomon's mask of insanity…it was so real.

"Stop…no…you're just like the rest of them,"

(End flashback)

"Hello…earth to Henry?"

The child woke from his thoughts and opened back to the battle, with Endigomon giving a head lock to Stingmon, and grabbed Guilmon with his right hand. Terriermon was on his head, biting and pulling his ear.

Takato drew out a card and slashed through his D-Arc. "Alright…Digi-Modify…power, activate!"

"PYRO SPHERE!!" One shot of the powered up blast to the head was enough to let Stingmon and Guilmon escape from Endigomon's grip. Terriermon glided out of the smoke as well.

"Jeez, cut it a little close why don't you? You almost blasted me there!"

"Sorry."

Suddenly, Endigomon let loose another Howling Crusher. The three Digimon did their best to keep their feet on the ground, but Terriermon was the first to get blown away.

"Curse these big ears of miiiiiiine!!" And from there, he crashed into a pile of dust. "Great…and Suzy just washed me!"

Takato slashed a speed card, which allowed Guilmon to fight through the gust of wind and sound, and attacked with a Rock Breaker to the face.

"CLUB ARM!!"Endigomon hammered his fist to the concrete and forced out a fissure shockwave that pushed away Guilmon. Stingmon attacked with a Spiking Strike once again, and dragged the beast through the floor.

"Okay, this will get him. Digi-Modify…Garudamon activate!"

Launching high into the air, wings of Garudamon appeared spreading from Guilmon's back. "WING BLADE!!"

After Endigomon kicked Stingmon off of him, he saw bird shaped comet rocket towards him. But would this vaccine attack of an Ultimate worry him…nope.

"WENDI CRUSHER!!!"

Endigomon fired his rapid cannons at the fire comet. Since his attacks were virus type, he kept using all his strength to keep on firing, until the attack weakened and vanished.

"Well it was worth a try." Muttered Takato. "Guilmon, go get him!"

The red dragon stood on his knee as he breathed hard. "Okay, Takatomon…need a little nappy,"

"Takato, using an Ultimate attack for Rookie levels takes a lot out of them." Henry explained.

"What…but he was fine after he used it on Renamon?"

"That's because he didn't fight that much, because of Flamedramon."

Ken kept his stern eyes on the field. "Well the good thing about it is that it also wore out Endigomon too." The Tamers observed the beast breathing hard, like he ran a ten lap marathon. "Now I can send him back to the Digital World."

As Ken searched through his bag, Takato asked: "You can do that?"

Ken gave no answer as he ran down the ramp with a laptop in his arm. He stood a yard away from the fight as he pulled out his D-3.

"Alright…DIGI-PORT OPEN!!!" the laptop then set up the famous digital portal to the Digital World. "Alright, Stingmon, bring Endigomon over here!"

"Okay!"

He walked over to the beast and shoved him toward Ken, as the teen flashed the screen right at the view, waiting to trap the Digimon.

"Won't…go…back…won't...go…back…Must…revenge!" he then let loose another sonic screen, making the insect Digimon fly to a pile of steel bars again, but after crashing head first to them, Stingmon de-Digivolved back to Wormmon.

"Wormmon!" Ken cried. With their only Champion level Digimon, it'll be more difficult to bring Endigomon back.

He was mad…really angry…fuming beyond fumed…roaring like an unstoppable dinosaur, Endigomon swung his stretched arms around in fury, making potholes on the floor. But one smashed near Ken, with the shockwave blowing the boy off his feet and tossed him to about a few distances and his laptop away from sight.

"Oh no, Ken's in trouble!" Takato shouted. It was as if this creature had no guilt of what or who it hurts. This monster must pay, dearly. "Digi-Modify…speed, activate!"

The speedy dragon dashed forth; slash upon Endigomon's furry skin as Guilmon passed by. The large Champion's temper increased as it felt the scratches. He threw another Howling Crusher, blasting Guilmon far.

"Shoot, this is not good! I knew I should've brought the rest of my cards."

Takato ran out of ideas, but he need to come up with one; Guilmon is getting creamed. Unless they use another Champion level, they'll stand a chance. "Henry, you have to Digivolve Terriermon!"

"I…won't…"

(Flashback)

"The game is programmed to use the cards as modify programs for the Digimon. The game supposed to have artificial intelligence for the Digimon; almost like they can think for themselves…well, not entirely like humans, but only to make them seem real…but they're not real, son."

That is what his father told him after he paused the game to have a talk with him. Henry went back to his room, staring at the wearily Terriermon. But…why should he feel symphony for this being of zeroes and ones? He's not even real…it's just a game.

"He's not real…it's only a game, he's not real."

Terriermon stood on his little knees, breathing hard for his lost breath. He was so much in pain…fatigue…all because of the energy he wasted…and perhaps been attacked for destroying everything as Gargomon. If it this is not real, why does it feel like it is? Why does it feel like this being has feelings? Why did he…force Terriermon to fight for unreasonable subjects?

"What have I done to you? You can't be real if you're not in pain, that I gave you." Frustrated, Henry slammed his palms to the desk. On his finger tips, he felt a smooth surface; a surface that felt like a card. "Huh…? I don't remember having a blue card."

It held it, examining the new card. How did this get here? Above all, what can it do? Terriermon…he looked so sad…so hurt…wait…maybe this card can help.

"Hang on, Terriermon!"

After he quickly slashed the card, the screen instantly flashed a white light that blinded the blue haired boy. Unknown to him, after the light faded, his card scanner system changed into a D-Arc; a green one. But that did not matter to him. What attracted his attention was Terriermon, live in the flesh, lying on his arms.

Henry felt cold and the loss to feel his body. He was holding…a real live Digimon…Terriermon, on his arms "Y..y..you're…real…and you're…hurt." his shiver of surprise and shock transformed into shock of guilt. His whimper became the sounds of crying. Tears dripped from his eyes, wetting the furry Digimon.

"Hey…can you cut off the water? It's wetting my fur."

Henry was helpless to stop. He had actually hurt a living creature, all for the lust of glory and respect over a game. What kind of a person is he; forcing a creature to fight and get hurt?

"No more…no more fighting."

"Hey, Henry…easy, I'm okay…Momentai."

(Flashback)

"Henry… HENRY!"

Once again, Takato snapped his friend out of his trance. The first thing in his sight was Terriermon, pulling Ken away from danger with his ears.

"Henry, you have to Digivolve Terriermon; it's the only way!"

Henry pressed his lips, seizing his need to yell. "Look…I'm not going to force him. It'll be worse than the last time if I do."

"But what else can we do? I used all my best cards. All I have are these weak ones." Takato showed him a few cards, including the training card Kazu gave him.

"There's got to be a better way to…wait a minute!" Henry's eyes brightened when he saw the training card and took it. "This will work."

"Huh? But it's just a training card."

"Just watch and learn!"

(Card Slash)

Right on thin-air, a card span rapidly for Henry to catch with his fingers. Henry raised his D-Arc high and lowered it while performing some Power Rangers snap poses with that arm before slashing it, vertically, through his Digivice.

"DIGI-MODIFY…TRAINING GRIPS, ACTIVATE!!"

Just then, steel bared grips appeared, wrapped around Terriermon's ears. The rookie Tamer, Takato, gazed at it, wonder where this was going.

"Now, Terriermon!"

Like a spin cycle, Terriermon span to build enough strength, and then he tossed the belts right towards the large Digimon that was fighting Guilmon.

"Wha…?!" locks and clicks sounded under Endigomon's ears. To his shock, he found himself wrapped within the belted straps, from his waist to his wrists. As must as he tried with his might, the locks were too strong, like an exercise machine.

"Ha! Not so bad now, are ya, big mouth? TERRIER TORNADO!!" Terriermon span and span like a twister, creating twirling gust of wind. Like a top, Terriermon motioned to the contained Endigomon, and tossed the twister over to him. The tornado engulfed the large beast and lifted him high into the air.

This is what Ken first saw when he woke up. "Un…believable!"

After the twister weakened, Endigomon dropped back down like a rock, and created a dust geyser from his crash.

"Boo yah! Who's da man?" Terriermon cheered. His celebration came to a halt when Endigomon stood up and used his strength to break free from the grips. "Oh boy,"

"Well at least that helped a little." Takato gulped. "Now what?"

Henry slowly shook his head. "I don't…know what-"

"Yo, Henroid," Terriermon leaped up and glided over the ramp to Henry. "I got a plan. Boost me up with some speed cards."

Henry blinked in surprise. "You with a plan? Terriermon, I don't-"

"Just do it, Jen!"

Now the blue haired boy bewildered back. If Terriermon calls him by his real name, that means he's serious, and that is a rare thing from that Digimon.

"Okay, I hope you know what you're doing."

"Of course I do…maestro; you know the song I want."

(Play Sonic X theme: Sonic Drive)

"That's better!" the dog-rabbit Digimon then leaped back down, joining Guilmon to the fight.

Takato blinked at the music. "Uh…does he have hedgehogs for brains, or does-?"

"Never mind…DIGI-MODIFY…SPEED ACTIVATE!!"

Touching the floor, Terriermon lashed at hyper speed toward his giant rival. As he passed by, Terriermon fired a barrage of tiny Bunny Blasts on the beast. Endigomon roared in anger from feeling that attack.

"COME HERE!!" Endigomon tried to hammer the little beast with his fists, but it was far too slow to catch the critter.

"Give me more, Henroid!"

Henry was unsure of this, but he had to trust Terriermon. "DIGI-MODIFY…HYPER SPEED ACTIVATE!!"

Terriermon gave a yelp as he burst a boost of sonic speed. He ran circles around the virus type, completing a lap less than one second. Endigomon grew angry and vivid because it was impossible to crush the annoying Digimon.

Finally, Terriermon dashed up to a beam and ran upwards on it. "Come on! Can't ya hit me, wiener boy?"

That was it; Endigomon will not take any more of this punk's wise cracks. "CLUB ARM!!!"

Hammer his arm, Endigomon unleashed an earthquake beneath the beam Terriermon ran on. The vaccine felt the beam loosing balance, but he tightened his teeth and nerves; trying to keep balance and run high to the sky.

"WENDI CRUSHER!!!"

Terriermon sweated as the lasers blasted smoke bursts behind his path, but he begged himself not to look back as he was almost to the top, and…

BOOM!! A barrage of lasers caught the little Digimon and blasted into a large smoke blast.

"TERRIERMON!!!" Henry cried.

"YA-HOO!!!!" The smoke cut open when a flying bunny leaped out and soared like in slow motion. "YA MISSED ME BY A MILE, BIG MOUTH…HENRY…!!!"

Suddenly, a nail hit him in his mind, meaning he got what Terriermon is up to and agreed to talk to him later about confusing life with video games. "DIGI-MODIFY…GIZAMON ACTIVATE!!"

As Terriermon began to drop, gray spines grew from his back. "Alright…SPIRAL EDGE!!" He then span like a buzz-saw, and dropped toward Endigomon like a comet.

"HOWLING CRUSHER!!!"

Endigomon aimed and fired a wave of sound waves on the in-coming buzz saw, but it was to no use; Terriermon's powerful attack cut through the waves like butter.

"Uh oh,"

BOOM!!! Terriermon crashed through Endigomon, creating a giant dust geyser that blanketed the entire field.

(End music)

"Whoa…that was nuts!" Takato said, covering himself from the flying dust.

After the smoke cleared, only Terriermon was left standing on the large crater, which he now tired out and exhausted.

Henry, yet again, felt sorry that he killed a Digimon. Despite that Endigomon was dangerous to let free in the real world, he was just acting out of nature.

Now the only thing left of him was his data that flowed around Terriermon, who was about to absorb it.

"TERRIERMON NO…I don't want you to absorb his data."

The dog Digimon pouts in disappointment. "Aw nuts…well can I at least do my victory dance; can I?"

-

"Sir, the signal has been…deleted."

The blonde man glanced up at the large dome screen. "Did you…?"

"No sir, I haven't done anything to delete it."

So it wasn't one of his employees…but who or what could have destroyed it before they did, he wondered.

-

-

South of West Shinjuku: 12:07 PM

Beats and melodies played in ears, drowning the noise of the outside world. The ears belonged to Rika Nonaka, who walked along the busy streets, listening to her songs. Once again, like Renamon said, she walks like she's the only person in existents; ignoring the joys of the outside world.

"So there you are."

She felt a tap on her shoulder and then she irritably twisted herself to eye at the female teen, Kari Kamiya; a girl with brown hair and eyes, a pink sweater with a white collar that went around her shoulders, blue jean vest and pants, and red, white and black blazing walking sneakers.

"What is it?" she coldly asked.

"I only want to talk, that's all."

The girl narrowed her violet eyes at the teen. "Let me guess; it's about me attacking your nerd-patrol friends, right?"

Kari was about to ask how she know, but then again, Rika did passed by her yesterday in the garage. "I've been getting rumors saying that you treat Digimon as if they're fighting tools. Even though you take lives, you're also protecting lives of this world. But aside from that, attacking other Digimon is unnecessary, and it'll only result in hurting those who loved them dearly, like what you attempted to do to my friends."

From this talk, Rika answered first by rolling her eyes. "Oh, are all you clowns this naïve? You're wasting your time being emotional to just data, and I'm not gonna be a fool, hugging a mere computer."

As much as how angry she was, Kari controlled it. "They are not just data, young lady! How else could they exist here if they're just data, and what right gives you to think of your own Digimon like that?"

The red head emotionally shrugged. "Call it luck, and Renamon wants only the best, not a best friend, and I want to fight too."

"Why?"

Why? How dare she ask that! Does she need a reason to fight? No. "That's none of your business, goody-good! Now beat it, before I report you for invading my space."

With that said and done, Rika walked away from the DigiDestined. However, Kari would not let her put back her headphones until this.

"I don't know if you think you can live out with this life style. Someone I know was just like you, and like him, if you don't adjust that attitude, eventually it will be your downfall."

Rika, with her head filled with boiling raged snapped to the teen that walked away in the opposite direction.

My downfall…? What a loon…she and her friends' goody-good stupidly will be their own downfall, when I finish them.

-

-

West Shinjuku Park: 12:16 PM

With Endigomon defeated, Takato, Henry, and Ken walked out of the park with weight on Henry's shoulders, and it was not because of Terriermon. Davis and Yolei also joined up after Endigomon was defeated, and Guilmon was left back at his hideout to sleep.

"Man, I can't believe we missed all the fun! If it wasn't for Yolei's directions…"

"My directions? You're the one who got us lost; I can't believe you didn't know which way is the construction site!"

"Hey, I don't come to Shinjuku that much! Jeez!"

Takato smirked as he rolled his eyes. "Hey, where's Veemon?"

"Well TY wanted us to not bring our Digimon, or that nut girl will talk with her fist, and DemiVeemon is back at my place…I just hope my folks are alright with him."

-

"Aw, but honey, it's my turn to pet the doggy." Mr. Motimiya whined.

"Dear, I only had him for a few seconds, and he's a kitty. Ain't that right?" she said to DemiVeemon with a baby voice.

"Actually, I'm a dragon…a little to the left…ahhhh!"

"Aw…" the husband pouted. "I never get to pet the puppy."

-

As they crossed the street, they discovered TK and Cody waiting up for them in front of the Shinjuku game center, a large building with the word Game on the front side of the slab above the doors.

"I heard that another Digimon broke through. How did it go?" TK asked.

"We handled it, but the correct term for Digimon breaking through is bio-emerging." Henry corrected.

"Oh…"

Just then, Kari came up from the right side of the sidewalk. "Hey guys, guess what, I ran into our prey."

TK knew she meant by Rika. "And…?"

Kari held out her hands in a shrug. "She's stubborn. She wouldn't listen to a word I say."

Takato gave out a sad sigh. "Why does she keep doing this to herself, and to her Digimon?"

Kari sighed, shaking her head. I really wish we knew the answer.

"Aw, lighten up, guys! Since we're near the arcades, how about we loosen up and rock this joint? Who's with me?"

TK shook his head. "I guess so. We could use a break, excluding Davis here."

"What do you mean by that?"

Right as Yolei reminded the goggle teen on how he avoided his duty to help the search; the younger goggle boy caught a large crowd across the street, right in a soccer field in the edge of the park. Takato ran up to the field, without his friends' permission. As he approached the crowd, he can see Kazu, Kenta, and Jeri behind the crowd.

"Takato! Over here!" Jeri called.

Smiling, the goggled Tamer ran up to hid friends. "Hey guys, what's going on?"

"Dude, someone guys messed up the soccer field. It's like a freakin three years old drew the field" Kazu answered.

"Huh?" Takato rushed through the mess of people, squeezing straight though.

Finally, as he reached to the front, there was the soccer field, covered in white scribbles with the white chalk that was used to make the penalty lines and stuff. Even the crowd was clueless to what did this.

Wow, um…how did this happen?

-

-

Shinjuku Game Center: 12:27 PM…

The mystery of the scribble masterpiece was thrown from Takato's head. All he wanted was to relax after a Digimon battle. Although, Takato would hang out with Henry, but he's still into thought about Endigomon, so he decided to leave him alone for a while. Davis was showing off his skills on the Capcom vs. SNK 2 game against TK, with Kari watching, and Cody was enjoying playing miniature golf with the couple, Ken and Yolei.

Takato ate some snack near the snack bar with Kazu and Kenta, while overhearing some kids conversation down the table.

"I'm telling you man, there's something weird going around here. Those drawings on the soccer field are just like crop circles; and those are made by aliens." A long haired kid said to his friends.

"You guys are way off bass." Another boy said. "There's no such thing as aliens. What was it really was a ghost."

"Okay but…why would a ghost write up the soccer fields in the park and the school last Friday?"

"Everyone know that a ghost would write up ghost languages to call up its ghost friend so they can dance to old N-Sync music."

Takato practically laughed, which he accidentally blew soda from his mouth.

-

"NOOOO!!!"

All was over for Daisuke. With all his power, he had failed. He couldn't believe that his Shin Akuma fall before TK's mighty Guile.

"And that's three for TK, none for Davis! Go TK!" said Kari.

Davis childishly crossed his arm and made a pout. "Man, forget this, TU's not worth humiliating, and… I'm gonna go check out that new hologram stadium in the other room."

"Uh…one, you're the one who everyone laughed at after losing three times. And two, the stadium is not finished yet."

"Yeah, but I think you can check out the place from above. See ya!" with that, the teen dashed away.

Kari watched her friend run off with curious eyes. "Now that was weird."

"Why is that?"

Kari explained as Ken and Yolei came up, hand to hand. "Well, I guess it's…oh never mind, I seem to have forgotten."

-

"…and then after all those, then they say that it was caused by demons conjured up by the bad pizza on Saturday…hah, ha…"

Takato was playing Tekken 3, with Jeri watching him. But after he lost the game, he noticed Jeri with a look that looked to be a concerned or nervous look. "What…what's wrong? Don't tell me you ate the rotten pizza!"

"I think I know…what did it." This got Takato away from the arcade machine, and directed his attention to his crush.

"What do you mean…you know what did it?"

Jeri, still with a frightened look, leaned near the arcade. "It all started back home, yesterday. I wasn't feeling well so I took a nap…"

(Flashback; Jeri's POV)

There I was, tucked in tight, with nothing but the smell of my dad's famous fried rice and tuna roast to keep me company. It was so quite, when suddenly…

From downstairs, Jeri heard loud sounds of glass knocking around.

"Huh…hello…who's there?"

I got out of bed, and furiously marched downstairs to the kitchen cabinet to see what was there.

Jeri nervously peaked over the corner of the wall, where she can see glass jars jiggle on the cabinet.

"Probably just a cat."

I moved in, like a lion stalking its prey…step by step…inch by inch.

"Here…k..kitty..k..kitty."

"Uh oh,"

Like a speedy hawk, whatever was behind the jars dashed away in a white blur, and scared Jeri off her feet.

"Uh…where did you run off to, nice kitty cat?" however right as she directed her eyes up, she shuddered when a trail of footprints were stamped on the ceiling. "Since when do cats walk on the ceiling? T..t..that's.. im.. Impossible!"

It was the same footprints I saw on the school yard, and the park soccer field. That's why I think it was that same monster.

(End flashback)

Jeri tightened her grip to the control board. "I was lucky to make it out of there in one piece."

"Man, you're brave!"

-

Across the windows, the kids of the arcades could see two large stadiums on the bottom floor. One had red sides while the other was blue. The stadiums looked like hockey fields. Davis drooled over the site of the stadiums. All his mind could think of is conquering the place with his Digimon deck.

"So this is the new hologram Digimon stadium from the Kaiba Corp., huh?" Davis yelped in surprise from Ken's voice.

"Man, Ken, you scared the shit out of me…-sigh- Yeah it is, and when it opens, I'll rule this joint!" however, he noticed someone else also said that last part.

"You rule..? Please, I'm the master of this game." A kid with green visors, brown hair, a black t-shirt with a cross on it, tan colored pants, and black sneakers.

"You think so? Please, I handled the real thing…OW!!" Davis growled at his friend, who was the one who kicked him on the back of his ankle.

"Real thing? Yeah right, dude! I got so much skill in Digimon; I could be your daddy!"

"Can ya walk the walk from that mouth, pal? Cause you'll be walking with that lip when I'm through with-"

"Excuse me…?" the two looked up with frightened expressions. The man that talked to them seemed to be the manager, and the two, especially Davis, thought they were in trouble. "I couldn't help over hearing that you two play Digimon. We need two people who test out the stadiums. How would you two like-"

"DO I?!?! YOU BET!!!" Davis and Kazu screamed with joy before they raced downstairs.

Yolei sighed as she met up with her boyfriend. "Well we finally found someone who's as thickheaded as Davis." Ken nodded in agreement.

-

Outside, Takato and Henry exited out of the arcades, with Takato delivering some chilly dogs and cheese fries for Guilmon; course he had trouble keeping it away from Terriermon. Henry still need to think and he thought some more air would do him good.

"Nobody had any ideas who drew the chalk lines." Takato told Henry.

As the crossed in the park, Henry placed his fingers on his chin. "Hmm…probably a prank.

"Yeah, but you think they had some clue if they don't."

"Well whoever did do it must be really clever."

Just then, Terriermon raised his head and sniffed the air. "Yo…I smell…Digimon!" Terriermon leaped up to a tree.

"Digimon?!!" Takato shouted. "And me without Guilmon or a weapon, unless it's afraid of cheese!"

Takato gotten a hold of a broken branch and waited and waited for Terriermon to come out with the target. He gripped the branch tightly, on guard if it's a large snarling Digimon, dangerous than Endigomon.

"Found him!" Terriermon jumped off, holding a little white sleeping creature in his ears. It had tiny ears with purple tips, and a triangle symbol on its forehead.

Takato nearly fainted when all his fear dropped off. "Man…it's just a cute little guy." right at that moment, the tiny Digimon opened its green eyes. "Hi there!"

"Don't let down your guard, Takato." Henry warned. "You can't underestimate anyone, no matter how they look."

The little creature blinked at the two boys. Never before had he had humans so close to him, which he never had any experience with them. So in order to handle this situation, he must use a most precarious way, and total calm, mellow impressions.

"HELLO HELLO HELLLLLLLOOOO!!" He sang, spreading his ears wide.

"Oh yeah, I underestimated that." Terriermon sarcastically said.

-

Henry thought it would be best to figure out who this new Digimon is in a private area, namely Guilmon's hideout. The Digimon introduced himself to be Calumon, and they found out that he was the one who messed up the two soccer fields. The reason…he only wanted to play.

"HAHAHAHAHA…THAT TICKLES!!!" he laughed as Guilmon sniffed him.

"I wonder where he came from. I didn't see any digital field when we found him." Takato said to Henry.

"I'm amazed he was out there on his own."

Terriermon eyed at the white Digimon going through the tickle torture that he enjoys. "He's out there all right."

Henry studied the tiny creature. It appears to him that his mind is all innocent, and it can get hurt without anyone to take care of it.

"You know…maybe we should find a Tamer for the little guy; he looks like he can use one."

"Yeah but…who?" Takato took some time to go through all the people he knows, and who would know about Digimon. "Hey, I think I know someone who'll fit the bill."

"Alright, let's go get him."

-

-

Shinjuku Game Center: 1:03 PM

A large group of people surrounded the new Digimon stadium, brought to you by Kaiba Corp8, waiting for the first challengers to try out its wonders. The challengers happened to be Davis and Kazu, who are the first volunteers.

"Dude, you think you can beat the true Digimon master, such as moi?" asked Kazu, giving a shocked look. "Ha! Bring it on, then!"

Davis wiped the bottom of his nose as he smirked, "Dude…it is totally brunged…uh, branged!"

Yolei barely held her laugh. -snicker- Ooo…bad grammer…that outha intimidate him.

Now, the gameplay of Digimon is a little like the card game for Playstation, if those of you played it, you may know it. You have to play Rookie level cards first, otherwise if you play card above it, the power will be weaker than original. In the first turn, you can play other Digimon cards to boost up their energy to Digivolve, much like the Digimon absorbing data in real life. Then in the second step, play option cards, or other Digimon cards that have effects to modify your on field Digimon. You can only play one option card on your turn in the battle phase, but you can also use the Digimon cards laid on the Digivolve pile to do their ability to help your active one by discarding them to the Recycle Bin (Discard pile.)

On the control board for the players are buttons with red, green, and yellow slots to play their attacks. The colors indicate types, like which beats which. The attacks worked like a rock-paper-scissor. A was the strongest, followed by B and C. C attacks usually deals with stats change, such as poison, paralyze and such, but it always cancels A attacks. But you can only use this once per Digimon. This game, you have to guess which attack your opponent made and hope you can counter it. HP is also involved for each Digimon, but you need a card reader for this special rule, which both players have plugged in theirs into the machine.

Davis' score: 0 Kazu's score: 0

Oh and the first person to reach thousand points wins.

"Alright, pal, I go first!" Said Davis. He waved to his friends. "Watch me burn this punk up, guys!"

"Who betted for the other kid?" Yolei asked all but Cody, who wasn't there, raised their hands.

Davis drew some cards, as well as Kazu, and the teen played his first Digimon.

"I'll play… Crabmon!" An exact replica of Crabmon appeared on the field. The crowd sound in awes, seeing a real Digimon on the field, as well as Davis. "Dude!"

"It looks so fake!" Poromon shouted before Yolei clamped his/her beak shut. (A/N: I'm not sure what gender Poromon is.)

Davis looked through his deck and placed a card of Gekomon on the side, to power up its energy to Digivolve. Since that he played a Digimon first, he can't attack.

"My turn! I play in Goblimon!" slapping the card on the scanner table, the image of Goblimon appeared on the field. Kazu searched through his deck and played another card on the field. "And I'll also play in my…Upgrade card."

I'm not sure, but with the Upgrade card, he can bypass his Digimon over the Champion level, straight to the Ultimate.

Davis loss the ability to move his arms. Already, Kazu Digivolved his Digimon to the Ultimate level.

Asuramon HP: 860 Crabmon HP: 506

"You can't do that on the first turn! That's not fair!" Davis whined. There was no way his Digimon can take out an Ultimate. He wasn't ready for this yet.

Takato and Henry watched the battle as well, though they were focused on Kazu like secret judges of a try out.

"The one playing against Davis is Kazu. He's was the one I was thinking of."

Henry kept a close and focused eye on Kazu, studying his traits and personality to see if he's okay.

"Well now I won this round! Doesn't matter if it's fair,"

"Does too," Davis shouted.

With a grin, Kazu played in a Power plug-in card, boosting Asuramon's power to about 200 points. (A/N: I think…if it doesn't…oh well.)

Asuramon:

A: 510-710

B: 490-690

C: 290-490

Davis was in trouble. Sure since vaccine are weak against data, Crabmon gets an extra 100 points on his attack power, but that won't mean nothing compare to Asuramon's power.

Davis snapped back up to reality, just in time to see Asuramon's A attack: Asura God Fist. Its thunder large fist crushed the little Digimon, creating a fire shockwave, and destroyed Crabmon to bits, like a real Digimon.

Oh yeah, Kazu's points went up, based on Crabmon's card point amount.

Davis' score: 0 Kazu's score: 253

"Man, this game is gonna be in the bag less than thirty seconds." Kazu gloat while Davis growled.

-

"He knows almost everything there is about Digimon." Takato said to Henry.

The half Chinese boy came to a conclusion. "Yeah, but even so, I don't think he'll be the right choice. Look at the way he plays that game. He gives his Digimon all sorts of power-ups to beat up the other Digimon, but he takes away all the energy it uses to protect itself."

"Yeah, that's something Kazu would do; he's really big into power." Takato then dreamt of what it will be like if Kazu tamed Calumon.

(Takato's dream)

The scene, a stadium…. The sport…if you're thinking that it's boxing, then dream on; not in this story. This is a fanfic, people; anything can happen in fanfics, and this scene of Takato's is a…

(Play Pokemon theme from Super Smash Bros Melee soundtrack)

"Now we start on the first of the Pokemon League finals; Takato Ketchum vs. Kazu Oak."

On one side of the field is Kazu dressing up like Blue (Gary), and Takato on the other side, dressing up like Red (Ash).

Kazu pulls up a poke-ball and tosses it into the field. "CALUMON, I CHOOSE YOU!!!"

Forming out of the ball as crimson light came Calumon. "CALU!!!"

Like the real Ash, Takato twisted his cap and readied his poke-ball. "GUILMON, I CHOOSE YOU!!!"

Unleashed from the ball was the red dragon, Guilmon: "YEAH! GUIL!!!"

"You're going down, Guilmon!" Calumon taunt.

"Yeah, get him!" unlike a real Pokemon battle, this one uses cards. "UPGRADE, ENERGIZE!!" Kazu shouted with the card raised in the air. "UPGRADE…UPGRADE…UPGRADE!!!"

"Calumon, your trainer dresses you funny!" taunted Guilmon.

"Use tackle, Calumon!"

The tiny Digimon rocketed up to Guilmon, but the dragon merely swatted him away with his tail. Calumon bounced like a beach ball, but he recovered back to his feet and tried another tackle attack.

"Guilmon, use Flamethrower!"

Emitted from his throat, Guilmon launched a fire breath, blasting a part of the ground to blow Calumon away.

"Fiiiiiight!" Kazu whined.

(End song)

(End dream)

Takato smiled with worry for the little Digimon. He's glad they didn't stick the little guy with a power hungry kid.

"Yep…you're right, Henry."

-

Davis' score: 0 Kazu's score: 609

Though the effects of the power plug in card wore off on the last turn, Asuramon was still able to defeat Davis' Gorillamon.

"Davis is killing himself out there." Ken said.

"I'm almost feeling sorry for the guy; being beaten by a ten year old." Yolei said, almost laughing.

Davis had enough. He needed the right cards now, but the ones he has in his hand won't do any good. He discarded them and drew some new ones.

"Alright! Lucky!"

In his hand was the one to that may help him win. His partner card: Veemon. Now partner cards are cards that you can actually strengthen their attack, like a RPG game. A Veemon's original HP was 500, but thanks to all the training, his HP is now 610. Card reader highly needed to do so.

"I'll play Veemon!" Davis happily slapped the card on the table, and the image of his real Digimon partner appeared on the field.

Veemon HP: 610

A: 370-406

B: 220-231

C: 160-174

"Ooo, I'm so scared!" Kazu said as Kenta cheered him on. "You gotta do better then that."

"I'm not done, dude. I'll play in the Digi-Egg of Courage." Slapping it in, Veemon started to glow. Since the holo Digimon doesn't say any words like real Digimon, Davis did it for it. "Veemon, Armor Digivolve tooo…Flamedramon, the fire of courage!"

Flamedramon HP: 720-731

A: 480-492

B: 400-411

C: 200-207

Kazu played a fake yawn. "Nice poetry, dude, but so what? I'll play in another power plug in."

"Heh, not with his special ability, that'll help. When I use my other Digi-Egg of Courage, his attack doubles, dude!"

Flamedramon

A: 492- 984

B: 411- 822

C: 207- 414

Kazu went pale as Flamedramon's power doubled, and the fire around him flared brighter. Davis pressed the A button, as well Kazu, which Flamedramon's A attack was the Fire Rocket. Flamedramon broke through Asuramon, and blasted it to bits.

Davis' score: 430 Kazu's score: 609

I also forgot to warn that when Champion or higher, the Digimon returns back to its Rookie form, instead of being destroyed.

-

Meanwhile, Taichi and Sora entered the building with Agumon and Biyomon dressed in street clothes and Patamon in Sora's arms. Their eyes caught a familiar boy with blonde hair, a Gilligan hat, and a yellow button shirt with thin stripes, a blue-green t-shirt, black jeans and gray sneakers coming through a large crowd.

"Hey, TK!"

The two caught up with the blonde teen "Hey, love birds. What's-" without warning, Patamon flew into TK. "Patamon?"

"He caught up with us; he wanted to see you." Sora said.

"Yeah, your mom was all stressed about something with work or whatever." TK smiled at the news from his Digimon.

"Oh, what's going on over there?" Tai asked, pointing to the huge crowd near across the room.

"Davis is trying out that new stadium. He's playing against some kid, and getting his butt whipped."

Tai's eyes brightened. "Davis… Trying out the new Digimon stadium?" within a second, Tai dashed through the crowd.

"Tai, you're suppose to go back home to study!" Sora screamed after her boyfriend. "Stupid Tai!"

TK chuckled as he was about to follow them, until he discovered Takato and Henry walk out of the crowd.

"Aren't you guys gonna watch the beating?"

Takato sighed. "As much as we like to, we have to find a Tamer for this Digimon we found."

"A Digimon… Maybe I should help out too. Uh, who do you have in mind?"

The two Tamers hung their heads, trying to think, but then…

"Hey, Susie!" Terriermon yelped.

"Uh, who's Susie?" Takato asked.

"My sis. She's nice, I guess."

-

Davis' score: 609 Kazu's score: 609

The score was tied. Davis succeeded in destroying two of Kazu's Rookie Digimon. Though, it's still anyone's game, and Kazu is one without surprises.

"Come on, Kazu! You can do it!" Kenta cheered, along with Jeri.

"I'll play my partner card: Agumon!" the famous orange dinosaur appeared on the field, roaring about.

"Alright! Go get him, brother!" the real Agumon cheered.

"Agumon, you're supposed to be rooting for Davis." Tai warned.

"Aw nuts,"

-

"So…? Whatcha gonna do, huh kid?" Davis mocked.

"This, loser! I'll play my other Upgrade card!"

Agumon shined bright and formed into a larger beast; the dreaded Ultimate Digimon of flesh and metal, MetalGreymon.

MetalGreymon HP: 872-901

A: 550-564

B: 450-462

C: 310-324

This was bad for Davis. Kazu's MetalGreymon was powerful than his Flamedramon, especially that Flamedramon exhausted his energy to 378. Right now, all Davis can play is a card that'll revive Flamedramon's energy to full health.

"Get him, now MetalGreymon!"

Kazu, of course hit the A button, namely MetalGreymon's Giga Blaster. The crowd gave a awed shout as the missiles blasted Flamedramon in a huge burst.

Flamedramon was still up, but his energy was heavenly dropped. Flamedramon fought back with his Fire Rocket, but it would appear that Kazu equipped a Digimon card that neutralize his opponent to use his A attack.

Flamedramon HP: 167/731

"Come on, Davis! Just hang in there! Believe in the heart of the cards!"

"The what…?" Sora asked her boyfriend. "Where did you came up with that trash?"

"I really don't know. Must be from behind a cereal box."

Davis sweated down to his chin. There were so many people watching, and he really doesn't want to lose to this kid. His heart pumped as he drew out three new cards. Once again, lady luck gave him another chance.

"Alright! I'll go with my Armor-Crush Digivolve card!" With that card, Davis can Digivolve Flamedramon to his Ultimate form: Paildramon. "Beat that, pal!"

Paildramon HP: 860-876

A: 550-562

B: 440-454

C: 300-317

Because of Paildramon being a data type in front of a vaccine, his attack power increases by 100 points.

Before Davis attacked, he slashed in another card, and then command Palidramon for his A attack: Desperado Blaster. However, Kazu used the C attack, which was suppose to neutralize the A attack, but the effect didn't work, and his C attack power dropped to zero.

"What the…?!"

"Oh yeah, I used a C-crash card, so it won't work."

The multiple bullets blasted upon the cyborg, damaging it, greatly. Davis grinned and pumped his fist at his victory, as Kazu hammered his fist. He knew if Davis destroys MetalGreymon, he wins, so he needs to pull out a miracle.

MetalGreymon HP: 239/901

-

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Wong Residence: 1:43 PM

"Miss Pwetty Pants, time to get weady fow tha ball! Let's have my pink summew dwess. It bwings out the colows in my eyes… Whatever Miss Pwetty Pants wants Miss Pwetty Pants gets!"

The trio arrived at the home of the Wongs, which was close by the game center. They watched and studied the acts of the dangerous predator of the jungle, the dreaded Susie.

"By nice, you mean crazy?" Takato whispered to Henry.

"Pretty much."

Patamon clinched at the girl. "Not even I want to stand twenty feet near that girl."

Terriermon grinned "You said it, brotha!"

Takato had another thought. "Then again, Calumon's not playing with a full deck either."

"Yeah, but I wouldn't wish the Princess Pretty Pant treatment on anyone."

"How bad could it be?"

(Takato's dream)

"Kay…let's dwess up for the ball." The two, Susie and Calumon was under a spot light.

"Hewe's youw pwetty dwess, and youw cutest wibbon, and youw favorite necklace, and youw finniest eastew bonnet!"

All that weight on the poor Digimon caused him to topple over.

(End dream)

"See what I mean?"

Takato sighed with a nod. Even TK knew what Takato was thinking.

-

While that happened, Kazu was still pulled into a corner. His Digimon was low on energy, and even Paildramon's B attack can finish it off and win the battle. His only hope is if he can draw the right cards to give MetalGreymon the edge it needs.

"Alright! Boo ya!" he cheered after drawing the cards. "I'll play this Blast Digivolve!"

With that card, MetalGreymon was able to Digivolve to WarGreymon…correction…make that Black WarGreymon, a Digimon Agumon now had to leave the room, because of the bad memories of his old …brother… Also, since BlackWarGreymon can only Digivolve from the virus type, the Blast card ignores that.

BlackWarGreymon HP: 960-975

A: 580-596

B: 520-539

C: 340-356

"Aw nuts!" Davis muttered.

Both Digimon attacked with their A attack, meaning the Desperado Blaster, and the Terra Destroyer. Both attacks collided in a huge explosion that caused a gust shockwave past the audience.

Black WarGreymon HP: 413/975 Paildramon HP: 180/876

But both Digimon were still standing, but Kazu used a Digimon card on his next turn to prepare raise his health by 200 points, so Palidramon's next attack won't destroy him.

"Oh boy, if one more hit like that happens, then kiss Davis' ego good bye…COOL!" Yolei squealed.

"Yolei!"

"I know, Kenny; that was very rude."

Kari hollered: "Come on Davis! You can do it!"

There're two partner cards on the field, but one is a virus type Mega, which means Davis is in for a serious fight, and if he lose Paildramon, he'll lose the battle. But he has one winner up his sleeve; a card that might turns this battle around. Before he did, he gave a flirt grin to one of his friend in the audience; pacifically a certain someone, which Yolei followed his sight over to a person next to her; Kari.

He never quits.

"Yeah, who's da man, who's da man? I told ya you can't match up to my skills!" hollered Kazu.

"I ain't done, kid! I play my Hacker Copy card!"

With that card, Davis can copy one card his opponent previously thrown onto the field, and he'll use it to play Kazu's Blast Digivolve to Digivolve Paildramon to Imperialdramon.

Imperialdramon HP: 1000-1012

A: 600-617

B: 540-553

C: 360-379

This is the end for Kazu. Not only is his attack power increased by a 100 because of his type, Imperialdramon is not effected by the C type effect.

"Take him out, Imperialdramon!" Davis shouted as he pressed the A button: Positron Laser.

The thruster on its back charged with white energy, and aimed the power straight at the smaller beast. It released it in a powerful blast, and the beam gained closer, and closer, and…

SKITZIT...!

The images fizzed like a TV screen. It was like the fake Digimon couldn't hold out their existents. Finally, right when the beam closed in on Black WarGreymon, the holograms disappeared, and everyone sounded some aws and boos.

"Your attention please!" the manager shouted from a mega phone. "A reminder that this was only a test battle. The machines still need some work to fix, but this was a sample before the stadiums begin. I like to thank our volunteers for helping out. That is all!"

Davis groaned as he scooped up his cards. Aw man, I almost had him! Lucky turd! Davis climbed down the stairs and met up with his DigiDestined friends.

"You did well, Davis." Tai said, rubbing Davis' hair.

"Thanks, but seriously, I really won. Do I rock or what?"

Yolei crossed her arms with a smirk. "Really? You didn't finish the battle, so the match really ended in a tie. You won jack squat!"

"I did too, nerd!"

The gang groaned while they walked away, with Ken pulling Yolei from her daily arguments.

-

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West Shinjuku Park: 2:24 PM

Takato, Henry, and TK rest on a bench after trying to find the right candidate for Calumon. They watched a girl skipping happily after her mother agreed to buy her a toy.

TK laid his head back, feeling the sun rays shine on his cheeks. "If you say that this Calumon likes to play so much, maybe a guy isn't the right choice. I mean, handling Calumon sounds like handling your own child."

Henry rubbed his chin, in his usual thinking mode. "Yeah, a girl isn't a bad idea, but we need someone of our age." Henry already concluded that the girls in his class are out of the question, considering that he doesn't know them. "Is there anyone from your class we can use Takato?"

"Hmm…a girl from my class?" there was only one girl he can really think of: Jeri Katou.

(Takato's dream)

"You seem nice!" Calumon said as he hopped on Jeri's shoulder. He spread his ears, showing his appreciation. "Let's be friends!"

To show her greeting, Jeri turned blue and screams to the world.

(End dream)

"Man, mom's right; my imagination can be a curse."

-

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West Shinjuku: 7:31 PM

"But playing is like breathing! I'll pass out if I don't do it soon!"

Back in Guilmon's humble abode, the little Calumon tried to persuade the Rookie to leave the boring burrow and play with cheerful joy.

"We can't leave."

"Pretty please? We could…play tag, or race each other…I'm so bored, I'll even play chess."

"I'm bored too, but we got to do what Takatomon says. He'll be really mad if we're not here."

"But he'll be even more mad if you're not happy right?"

Words ready to come out from the virus type suddenly lost. Guilmon found himself lost without words when the little In-Training Digimon gave large puppy eyes. Guilmon tried not to fall for it, even sweating to do so, but who could resist the cute little thing?

"Um…maybe we should play."

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"I can't believe it. We didn't find anyone right for Calumon, and it took all day." Henry complained as he, Takato, and TK passed by the school to deliver food to Guilmon and Calumon.

"We'll try again, tomorrow, and I'll get the others to help out." TK said.

Takato nodded from the lead. "Yeah…come on, we better get back before Guilmon eats the whole park."

"Let's wait. Maybe he'll eat Calumon and solve all our problems." Terriermon suggested.

"Let's not." Said Patamon.

The game center was about to close, but it was no matter for Rika. She already seen the capabilities of the Kaiba's Digimon Stadiums, and above all, it seems fake, but at least she can rule in a new, yet sham level. As she was about to leave home…

"Hey, are you the Digimon Queen?" an eight year old child with a large orange hat came up to her, with a Trailmon card on hand. Far behind him, it seems a twelve year old kid with squared goggles on a yellow cap waited for the kid. "Can I have your autograph?"

Rika's mind pointed to just beat it; it's bad enough she has to be around another Gogglehead with a Kid-in-a-hat, but her senses felt Renamon around. She motioned her eyes up to her Digimon who glared back at her before leaping away. However, her hunches tell her that a Digimon is nearby, otherwise Renamon wouldn't show up.

"Uh…hello? Can I have your-?"

Rika clenched her face, but her conscience wouldn't just leave her be. Rika swiped the boy's card and pen and quickly wrote some scribbles before tossing the card back and rushing after Renamon.

"Jeez, you're a nice bitch." The goggled boy muttered as his young friend awed at Rika's name on his card. "And I thought Zoe had problems."

In the back of the Tamers' school, Guilmon and Calumon ran around the yard with a line marker wagon. Calumon led Guilmon to a shaft, but it was locked. But Guilmon dug underground and got out the wagon to make their own version of a soccer field.

"Looks good, Guilmon." Calumon said, awing their master piece of what looks like the symbol of Calumon's head. But at the middle of the drawing, a smoky geyser gushed out. "What did you do?"

"Me? What about you?"

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"AW MAN! THEY'RE GONE!!!" Takato jet out of the shaft with a panic streak. "Man and I told like about twenty times not to leave!"

"Doesn't matter if you told them about a thousand times if they're not listening." Said Terriermon.

"Everything will be fine, just relax, I'm sure Guilmon will be alright." TK insured.

Takato breathed easy. "Yeah…I guess you're…" but from the view, he can see a digital field clouding over his school. "THAT DOESN'T LOOK FINE TO ME!! DOES THAT LOOK FINE TO YOU?!!"

"Is that the inky void that makes you water like Penmon?" Guilmon asked as he watched a black puddle grow on the floor.

"I don't know, but good idea!"

Right on that cue, two demon imps with large razor teethed mouths, orange hair and black wings leaped out and cackled wickedly. They are creatures of the night, nightmares of innocent children, and above all…

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…They're only a foot tall.

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The two Digimon leaped back when Guilmon sniffed on them. "Get back, hideous creature! Beware our wrath!"

"Don't be scared, I won't hurt tiny things like you."

"We're not tiny; we're dangerous Digimon whose powers make you tremble in fear!"

"Yeah!" its brother said.

"And you're both tiny."

"We're overdue for a growth spurt, okay?" one of the black demons flew up and crossed his arms before his mouth. "NIGHTMARE SHOCKER!!" It blew sonic rays that almost nailed Calumon, and disintegrated the wagon.

"Good work, brother! Not so tiny now, are we? NIGHTMARE SHOCKER!!!"

Guilmon and Calumon spread out before the blast chunked a hole on the dirt. The two split up and chased their targets.

"Why are you picking on me for? Guilmon's the one who insulted you!"

"Hey!"

"I don't care!" the black Digimon said. "DEMON DARTS!!"

The furry demon tossed energy darts from the air. Calumon ran from the blasts,

like a solider going through a field of landmines. One blast did however bring

him off his feet.

"Bwhahaha!!!" the evil Digimon prepared to blast the poor Digimon to bits

"BOOM BUBBLE, POP!!!" Until a blast of hard air cut off his path.

"Hey!" it glared angry at a small orange winged piglet that flew in after him. His brother charged in behind the creature to double attack him.

Rika appeared near the edge of the school, where he can see Takato, Henry, and some other kid coming through the field. She grinned as she planned to steal the spot light…

"GET OUT OF THE WAY!!!" Takato dived forward, and pushed the red head with him, before the ceiling gave in and fell where Rika once stood.

That vision almost clouded her mind. Rika forced that thought out. She never wanted to remember that event; an event that plays her as the weak one. If that Gogglehead ever saves her again…she'll wear a paper bag over her head. Still…maybe she'll entertain herself by watching these three losers attempt to deal with those Digimon.

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Vilemon (Evilmon): Small Demon Digimon. One blast from these Digimon will put

you to an eternal sleep. Itll show you a nightmare from which youll never wake

up.

Type: virus

Stage: Champion

Attacks: Nightmare Shocker, Demon Darts

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After Henry seeing those stats, Takato decided to help out Patamon who was surrounded by the Vilemons.

"This will even out the playing field! Digi-modify, hyper wing, activate!" white bright wings appeared on the back of Guilmon. "Get him!"

"Right!" and then the dragon soared up to meet Patamon.

The two Digimon were back to back, keeping close eyes on their chosen targets.

"Let's nail these shorties! BOOM BUBBLE, POP!!"

"PYRO SPHERE!!"

The two attacks plowed through the tiny Digimon and caused them to drop to the dirt.

"Not so easy now that Guilmon and Patamon can fly too, huh?" TK said.

"Aw nuts!" the Vilemon Bros leaped back into the air to begin their next attack.

"DIGI-MODIFY, SPEED, ACTIVATE!!" But with the modification from Henry, Terriermon traveled at top speed and tackled both of them with a Terrier Tornado, swatting them back to the dirt. But that did not stop their Nightmare Shockers, and the gang had to duck as the blasts past by and blew some dust like a sonic boom.

"Had you had enough yet, fools?" The Vilemon said from the air.

"Hurry up!" Henry warned Takato who looked at his hand.

"I can't decide!"

Though these two are seriously easy for TK to handle, but they are getting annoying. If things get out of hand, TK may have to Armor Digivolve Patamon to stop this, and-

"Yeah right!" the group and the Vilemon Bros bewildered back and saw Rika and Renamon standing behind the demons. "You two are too tiny to bother with…but a fight's a fight. Renamon?"

"Should we, brother?"

"Well I hate to beat up on a girl, but if you insist," the two Vilemon rocketed down toward their new opponent.

"DIGI-MODIFY, ALIAS, ACTIVATE!!"

"NIGHTMARE SHOCKER!!!" the two beams blew a blast on where Renamon stood. "Ha! Gotcha!" the Vilemons cheered as they slapped fives.

"The only thing you two nitwits got is the serious case of the uglies. Look above you."

Though afraid to, the brothers looked up to their last sight: Renamon with her diamond shards.

"DIAMOND STORM!!!" the painful rain of shards darts through their bodies until they gave in and blew into bits of data for Renamon to absorb.

Takato, Henry, TK, Guilmon, Terriermon, and Patamon had wide jaws of surprise and shock of the cold Tamer attempted cold blood murder on the furry creatures.

Takato bit his lip, feeling pity for the Digimon she just killed. She didn't even think twice about absorbing them.

"Don't bother with the thanks. I only did it for the data, and that's all." She coldly said to the gang.

Takato felt boils of anger in his heart over this girl's heartless attitude. "…Data?"

Rika gasped softly at this unexpected act.

"Digimon are living creatures…and you…you…KILLED THEM!!!"

Rika's felt cold and numb. She couldn't come to a thought of why they were right now, but she felt stiff as she watched Takato and his friend and Digimon glared at her with poisonous faces.

"Kid, they're living beings, not toys of an RPG game!" TK grimly said.

Takato narrowed his eyes more. "Yeah, they're not a game only for you to kill and destroy!"

Rika never would expect this kind of rage within Takato's crimson eyes. Normally she would plow his head for back talking her, but for some reason…she felt helpless before him. But, why would this kid give her grief? He and these clowns mean nothing to her.

"No…Digimon are nothing more than data. Renamon?" the two turned back for their leave, until Rika felt something feeling her feet. "Huh…what is that…little thing?"

The tiny Calumon looked up to her with playful eyes and wide ears. "Hi…wanna play?"

Normally a Digimon only wants to fight, but…how could this Digimon only want to play? She thought Digimon were just fighting machines. Why would this little-?

"Hey, don't you dare touch him!" she heard Takato's voice shout.

Rika grinded her teeth, but cautiously motioned around Calumon. "Come on, Renamon…why do I wanna waste my time with these Goggleheads?"

"Yeah…well…GOOD RIDDANCE!!" the group watched Rika and Renamon disappear in the darkness. Takato frowned angrily at her direction, crossing his arms. "Man…what's her deal?"

"Finally, a little fun!" the gang attempted to chase after the skipping Digimon that was about to leave in the dark as well, but decided not to.

"Wait, it's dangerous out there alone!" Takato warned.

"It's dangerous with you too, and there must be someone out there who's more fun than you! Good bye Guilmon! See ya soon!"

With that, the In-Training Digimon named Calumon vanished.

"He's a strange little Digimon. I never had seen anyone like him." TK said, "I don't know if he wants a Tamer."

"Well how long a Tamer can survive with him?" asked Terriermon as he climbed on Henry's shoulders.

"-giggle-… yeah!" Patamon laughed as he perched on TK's head.

Henry was distracted from scolding Terriermon when he saw Takato with a worried look at a direction Rika went. "You gonna be okay?"

"…yeah…."

-

Over in an alley, Rika faced the wet floor. Renamon could feel such pain that her Tamer was now feeling. Rika clenched her fist, while giving cracking noises. And then…

POW!!

She punched a garbage can to about five feet. She pressed her lips as she massaged her bruised knuckles.

"Ungrateful bastard,"

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End of part 2.…

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For those who don't know, I've been getting a angry review, regarding about my bio. I don't know what's his/her problem, but I wish someone like that would just e-mail me something like that, rather than treat this site like it's a Digimon forum. This is fan fiction, we're just trying to have fun.