Digimon Tribute Chapter 5: Tamers and their Digimon, a digimon fanfic

A reminder, for those of you yearning for the Frontiers to show up too soon, don't bother. You won't see them fully show up in this fic until the Pig Deva shows up.

Now on with the story.

Digimon Tribute

Keep the digital spirit alive.

Shinjuku Market Place: 9:23 PM

The dark night still clouded above the east side of the planet earth, but the stars still gave that piece of land the sparkle light of the heavens. The stars, to some, are the resting spirits of the retired ones, like the souls of the past smiling down on their loved ones. Many have theories of what stars really are. Why, if you ask a cartoon meerkat, he'll say they're fireflies that got stuck in that blackish…blueish thing. If you ask the warthogs, they think that they were great balls of gas burning millions of miles away.

However, one is not taking the time to watch the blue sky that holds these stars. No sir, this troubled soul stared into as far as his eyes can see through a dark street; a street where another troubled soul ran off after a gruesome night. This young child felt such grief for the other, not even paying attention to others that stood on the side of an empty sidewalk. He wondered why the girl announce her hatred for furtive, but media creatures called Digimon. Why? It doesn't make any sense. Oh how he felt pity for her, but the others' thoughts about her…well…

"WHAT? HOW DARE SHE!"

It was that moment when Davis decide steer clear from Gatomon, whose fur frizzed up and her claws were ready for the kill.

"That girl seriously needs a cat-nip!"

Not just a Digimon felt the same way; a purple haired human took this news as an insult. "What is up with that kid? She's so freakin impossible!"

Ken gently laid a hand on Yolei's bare shoulder. "Look, being held hostage by a dangerous Digimon can really put shock and fear to the human mind. Maybe she just…"

"OH! I get it! Miss Big-All Mighty can't take the fact that she was a damsel in distress and the fact her Digimon got dragged like a rag-doll and Takato suddenly got better than her! Am I right?"

"Yolei!"

Finally, she calmed down when she heard her boyfriend's call. "Oh…sorry, Kenny. I just felt a little insulted."

"A little?" Davis repeated before Yolei threatened him with an elbow.

"I do understand that," said Hawkmon. "Course, I can't help feel insulted as well, being a Digimon. Perhaps she just needs a rest from all this roughhousing."

"I agree." Tai said, coming up to the group. "Look, I doubt she meant what she said. All Rika probably needs is some time to herself."

Matt nodded, leaning on a rusty lamppost. "Hopefully that's all she'll needs. That IceDevimon really screwed up her head."

"Man, what rust bucket these lame Digimon crawled out of? Not even that girl deserves to be a Tamer of that freak, and now he gave a bad impression to Digimon in front of her!" with that, Davis kicked off some dust from the pavement. "This sucks!"

"Look, let's just go home." Said Joe, before point to the second generation DigiDestined. "Especially you guys. I mean, living far across of Tokyo and all."

Referring to the Odaiba kids, TK nodded. "Yeah, it's getting late anywise, and I still have some homework lying on my desk."

Soon, the DigiDestined started to walk out towards the market place for home. Tai waited for all them to make way, with Sora holding his hand by his side. But the only persons left was Henry, who was about to make way home with a disturbed face, and Takato who sat on a stoop since after they faced IceDevimon.

"Henry, you feeling alright, bud?"

Henry startled from his thoughts, and then looked up to the tall pre-adult. "Um, yeah…just thinking. See ya around."

After he and Sora watched Henry and Terriermon follow the rest of the DigiDestined to the market streets, the couple approached to sit on the stoop with Takato.

"Takato, you can go home now. Everyone just left." Sora warned him as the boy startled over his shoulder. He gave a slight smile before staring back at the darkness while petting his faithful Digimon.

"It doesn't make any sense. Why did she say that? She couldn't have mean it…right?"

Tai sighed; gesturing his fingers around to think of an answer. "She's just really scared after what happened. You should know that there are some Digimon that are evil to the bone, and IceDevimon was your first example."

On the railing, Sora hopped onto it, next to Takato. She then rubbed her hand around his light brown hair. "Just let her get through this on her own. Somewhere down the line, she and Renamon will forgive each other."

Takato then smiled upon the older woman as she kept rubbing his hair. "You sure?"

"If we're lying, then let Etemon strike us!" Tai laughed, receiving a light elbow on his arm by Sora. "Ow…what…?"

"Stupid Tai…Look, in the meantime, just relax and don't worry about it, okay?"

Takato nodded gently. "I will." With that Takato stood up and motioned to follow the others. "Come on, boy!" Like a dog, Guilmon responded and hurried by his Tamer. "See ya around, guys!" Takato yelled as he ran off home.

"Good night, Takato!" the college couple yelled with a simultaneous wave. They watched the boy running up the street while hugging his Digimon who hopped upon him. They were amazed that the young Tamer instantly cheered up after mopping around about Rika.

"Man he's an emotional little kid. I wonder who I seen that from?" Tai rubbed his chin while giving a sly smile to his red-head girlfriend.

"What? Why you looking at me like that?"

Nonaka residence: 9:41 PM

All the gang went home, preparing to rest for the next new day, and worrying about the troubles of the young female Tamer. Time heals wounds, and perhaps time is what Rika needs. Maybe, in Tai's thoughts: once she gets to bed, she'll forget her worries and come back to her ol, bad self.

Right now, she got home, slamming the sliding door behind her. Her mind has been in a juggle on her way home since that event with IceDevimon. For all she knew, she had to rid it for good, so she tossed her pouch filled with Digimon cards in the trash. Next the most important symbol of what she dedicated to hate…

Her D-Arc.

Memories of her Tamer days trailed by her mind. She was a lonely girl until Renamon came to her life. They've spend their time hunting down Digimon and absorbing their data. It was all simple, but Rika believed that Digimon were just tools for fighting. Just when she realized that Renamon was a true friend, everything she began to see just ripped out in front of her. Renamon never cared for her. All that partner crap and caring, and all that trash were lies. She played her all this time. She was taken for a fool. She used her, just like IceDevimon tried to.

"ARRAAAHH!" from there, she used her anger to slam the D-Arc in the trash, where it can rot.

Despite that horrible wake up, that experience, like being prisoner by IceDevimon was truly frightening. But Rika refused to let her weakness come over her. Fear is weakness. Cowering is weakness…friendship is weakness.

Finally, she dropped to her bed to rest and rid herself of those memories she now call illusions and lies.

"…I hate Digimon."

Shinjuku Central Park: 3:46 PM

Morning has come, once again upon the city of Tokyo. The suns rays bathed the city in warm showers. It wasn't too hot or too cold…it was just right. Sunday was the day; just another weekend (A/N: I think that in Japan, kids still go to school on Saturday….ouch. But I'm used to the American ways, so what the hell.)

Sunday, meaning kids can still go out and play all day…all expect Takato, due to the fact that he came home late again and was punished by cleaning the house and shop, again. This is why Takato was running through the park like he was finally released from jail, and not because he wants to see Guilmon, which is precisely where he's going.

Right as he climbed those stairs, the first thing Takato observed in the den was Guilmon sniffing the air.

"Hey, Guilmon!"

"Is that bread?"

"Yeah, but I only could sneak out one. I'm sorry, but I'll bring a whole box full tomorrow."

Guilmon whined in disappointment, but happily scarfed down the bread.

As for Takato, he felt better after last night when Rika said a shocking announcement that she hates Digimon. But Takato's been looking at the bright side throughout the night. His dream came true as being a Digimon Tamer, he's got a great Digimon, he got to fight along side his heroes: the DigiDestined, he was able to Digivolve Guilmon to the Champion level and took down a powerhouse Devidramon, and he tore up a psycho IceDevimon with a card combo he instantly thought up at that battle.

For once in his life, he felt good…no…great….no…amazing…no…unstoppable! Now that Guilmon can reach to the Champion level, and that he's got a killer card combo, and that he has a little help from the legendary DigiDestined, Takato is invincible.

"We're a great team, aren't we boy? There's not a Digimon in the universe that can beat the two of us!"

Downtown Shinjuku: 3:45 PM

The busy streets of the Asian version of New York: Tokyo; not a day when it gets a day off. From what we experienced, the only time metropolitan places like Tokyo or New York can ever have an off day is if a black out hits the streets.

But enough about talking about events like 2003 New York Black Out. Let us take you to our attentive Tamer, Jenrya Wong, or Henry, as he strolls down the city on one of the street bridges. (A/N: Boy, New York can sure use one of those.)

But alas, a passenger on his head was a being Henry didn't want around. Who you ask? Godzilla you say? You haven't watched the show or read this entire fic, have you? Huh…? HUH?

-sigh-…it's Terriermon. You happy?

Anywise, a slight shade of pink crossed the boy's cheeks thanks to people giving him funny looks. But what can I say; would you wear a plush toy on your head in the middle of a city…? Yes? Well there are some who don't, so there!

"Everyone's giving us looks. I told you that you shouldn't have come." Henry whispered to Terriermon.

"I had to. Susie was about to dress me in a tu-tu!"

Just then, Henry spotted some pedestrians looking over the ledge of the bridge; something that he just had to check what they were looking at. His jaw dropped at the sight of a thick cloud bank covering traffic down the street.

"Oh no! A digital field!"

Hypnos HQ: 3:47 PM

An alarm sounded around the look out comp. room of the Hypnos. The two women, Riley and Tilley, typed furiously on the keyboards to control the readings.

"Sir, I can't secure a tracer on the anomaly!" warned Talley.

Riley sweated; trying to do what she can do to stop it. "Estimate time of bio-merge: 50 seconds! We won't make it, sir!"

"Use Yuggoth while we still can!" Yamaki yelled through the noise.

"But sir, by this time, the application of Yuggoth can cause an extreme meltdown to the city!"

"Don't question my orders, Riley, and do it now! That Wild One is a ticking time bomb!"

The fog grew thicker and thicker, spreading throughout the city street. From the thoughts of Henry and Terriermon, by this time was a good opportunity for a Digimon to bio-emerge in the human realm…which means they had to stop it.

"Okay, the view is nice and everything, but that cloud is just getting on my nerves." With that, the little Rookie leaps off of Henry's shoulder and walks down the ledge.

The blue haired boy gasped at his Digimon's act. For as much as he knows, Terriermon could attract a lot of people, but they're too bust looking at the fog. Not only that, he'll get involved in another fight…something that Henry doesn't want to happen between him and Terriermon again. So he ran up through the bridge, down the stairs, and grabbed Terriermon by his ear.

"OW! Henry!"

"Terriermon, we got to go home!"

"If you'd changed your mind about Susie and the tu-tu, then you can just forget it cause I'm not doing it!" Terriermon struggled for freedom, but Henry just won't let him. "Come on, Henry! Aren't you curious on what's behind fog number 6…? Come…on! I just wanna see it!"

"Terriermon, how many times do I have to tell you?"

"I just wanna see it!" he squealed, struggling to break free.

"You're gonna stay away from this one! Let someone else like the DigiDestined handle it for a change!"

"Yuggoth has located the target, sir!" Riley warned, working on the computer chair tower.

"Make sure that it's completely destroyed! I want nothing left of it, do you understand?"

"Yes sir."

The fog grew thicker and thicker, almost about to reach to the street bridge where Henry and Terriermon are. The little Digimon stood his ground, preparing to battle with whatever will pop out of there.

"Huh?"

But to sheer luck, accident, and to one, disappointment, the digital field suddenly shrunk and shrunk till it was completely gone from sight.

"Whoa…guess…someone else handled it…and it wasn't the DigiDestined."

Henry, in shock, nodded. "Um…yeah."

"The Wild One has been terminated, sir."

As the station crew ran around everywhere in the room, Yamaki tightens his grip on his lighter.

"Talley, get an analysis on the impact in the real world, plus all the data we gathered from the point of termination."

"Yes sir."

Another victory for humans over the foolish so-called living species of cyber space. Yet another way to bring authority of those who dares to defy the human race. Yamaki thought over this as he gazes at his lighter.

"No matter how much they play living creatures, they're still nothing more than trash on the internet."

"I will have my revenge…"

A deep shrouded voice catches Yamaki off guard. He looks and twists around the room, like he'd just seen a ghost.

"I will…have my revenge."

Yamaki grinds his teeth and growls under his breath. From there, his true anger has almost shown as he tosses his lighter across the room.

Shinjuku Central Park Arcade: 6:46 PM

Takato's score: 934 Kazu score: 967

Takato's Digimon:

Etemon HP: 456/776

A: 480

B: 420

C: 260

Kazu's Digimon:

Mammothmon HP: 456/714

A: 450

B: 400

C: 220

We know bring you to the coverage of the Digi-Card Battle between contender Takato Matsuki and long Tamer rival, Hirokazu Shiota. Truly this has been a David vs. Goliath battle due to the expressive skills young Hirokazu. But by the looks of the determined challenger, Takato doesn't seem phased at his reputation like their past fights. Could it be that Matsuki has a plan hidden under his hairy head? We await your bold move, Takato, as we gape a breath from the intense wait for your clever strategy.

"Alright, Kazu, stand clear! Takato's swooping in for the kill. Modify Hyper Speed!"

The puppet gorilla rose its arms and roared, feeling the raw power of the card. Etemon then tackled the hairy elephant with extreme speed.

"Now...Digi-Modify, Hyper Wing activate!"

With the wings, it gave Etemon an extra boost to crush Mammothmon in the force field that protected Kazu. Separating, Etemon launched a Dark Network attack and blew the large Ultimate to bits.

Yes what a play! Takato with amazing use of wits used the same combo he unleashed on IceDevimon!

Um...yay.

"Whooooa...!" Kazu practically had his dry mouth open the entire time as the machine cooled down. "I've never seen a combo like that!"

Grinning proudly, Takato exited out of the stadium, feeling the rare power of victory over Kazu flared in his body. As he touched the carpet floor, Kazu and Kenta hurried up to him.

"Hey, chummily, where the hell did you learn a real combo like that? You usually have no idea what you're doing."

Takato smiled, amusedly. "Oh nothing that real experience can handle. It's hardly even a challenge playing this kid's stuff!"

"What do you mean 'real experiences'?" Kazu and Kenta asked, with suspicion.

Takato gave an innocent face while putting his box of cards in his bag. "Opps, I'm afraid time's up, but thank you for playing. Come again, tomorrow, folks. Good night!" And he made a wild dash, escaping through the crowds.

"Hey, come back here!" they shouted, trying to chase after him, but lost Takato in the crowd.

"Aw that yellow goggle-face!" Kazu shouted, stomping his foot.

"Where did he go?"

While Kazu was making a fool of himself with his anger, in the long line behind the Digimon Stadium, a large kid in a blue jumpsuit and a blue haired boy with a red cap, a semi blue shirt and dark pants watched the boy like they believed him to belong in an asylum.

"What's that all about, huh JP?" the red cap boy asked.

"Beats me, Kouchi; guess ten year olds never learn how to keep their cool…like yours truly."

Kouchi laughed as he advanced through the line. "Yeah…whatever."

To tell Takato's location, he's outside the arcade front door, breathing that fresh air that carries all that pollution we're used to. Takato, again felt he was on top of the world. His powerful combo creamed his card rival, and if that were true, then he's unbeatable. He loves his combo; he loves it so much, his eyes were on high alert for any Digimon to wreck havoc so they can meet defeat under his combo.

"You taking bird watching or something?" Flashing his eyes in surprise, he breathed easy as he turned to find Tai walking along the sidewalk, alone.

"No…just keeping a watch on any Digimon. I'm ready to try out that card combo on Guilmon!" he excitedly answered.

"You mean that move you did on IceDevimon?"

"Yep!" -

Taichi should've figured the young would abuse the power of Digimon…but then again, he should speak for himself. "Aren't you being a little optimistic? Trust me, using the same moves twice ain't…"

"Yo, chumely…!" before Takato knew it, Kazu found him and trapped him in a headlock. "Thought you could hit and run on me, huh, goggle-brain? Too bad, cause you owe me a rematch! You just got lucky I haven't drawn out the big guns that time!"

"Yeah, Takato…!" Tai noticed a young kid around their age who seemed like a mini Joe to him. "If you think you're the big bad Digimon master in town, why don't you take on both of us, huh?"

Takato, clenching his teeth, broke free and nearly caught himself from falling. "Alright, fine! I can take you anytime anywhere!"

"You name the place and time, chumley, and you better pray for a miracle, cause I'm gonna whoop your ass like no tomorrow!"

"Let's go!"

Tai mentally laughed at this cute site. It reminded him of the days he and Matt duked it out, besides with their fists. It defiantly brought him back to his old rivalry with Neo, before he…

Young feminine giggles broke his thoughts. He turned to find two young girls laughing at the little men. One had brown hair with a small ponytail on her side, and she wore a green dress while her friend had shorter black hair, wearing a dark dress with a red ribbon around her collar.

Takato gulped before the sight of his crush and felt his face getting hot. Jeri…oh man, how embarrassing.

"What are you boys doing, you still talking about Digimon?" Jeri laughed. "Aren't you guys a little tired of that? That's all you ever talk about."

Man, does Takato felt like the tiniest man on Earth, compared to Jeri. Why did she have to appear when he was acting like an idiot?

"Well kids will be kids, Jeri." Her friend replied with a giggle.

Having their honor of what they loved suffering in a scar, Kazu and Kenta glared at the girls to defend their favorite hobby. "Maybe we are kids, but at least we have a hobby, now scram!"

Jeri found their looks too amusing and she laughed along with her friend. "Come on, Nikki; let's let these children be with their silly game."

"Yeah, later kiddies!"

Jeri must think he's a childish kid, playing with silly toys. But how could he blame himself? He loved Digimon since the battle of Armageddonmon vs. Paladin-Imperialdramon, and with the card game, he made friends with Kazu and Kenta. But not Jeri; She was never into Digimon. It would be nice if she were and maybe if she was a Tamer too…then he and Jeri…

"Yo, Earth to chumley! Come in!"

Takato snapped his head up. "Huh?"

"You in? Tomorrow after school, you bow before me! I would take the pleasure to get it over with right now, but I have chores to do."

"Alright, deal! You're going down!" Takato just remembered that Tai was there, who just leaned on a rail, watching the kids' dispute. "Hey Tai, you wanna join tomorrow?"

"Sure, what time?"

"About three." Kazu answered.

"Ooo…sorry, I have class that day. Maybe some other time, and probably I'll duel one of you guys myself."

"You're into Digimon too, dude?" Kazu asked with surprise.

"…Live and breathe it, kid."

"Cool, I'll be waiting for that battle, pal! Let's go, Kenta, you got some chores to do."

"Huh? Hey I already done your…GAH!" and Kazu pulled Kenta with him by his shirt.

Takato made a dash home. "See ya around, guys. Bye Tai!"

"Yeah…catch ya later." -sigh-…kids.

Wong residence: 7:45 PM

He just doesn't understand…

We find our troubled boy resting in a hot bath, a place that nothing can beat for a think spot. Henry gazed up into nothingness, concerning for his friend's battle habits. How could Digimon only live to fight? It couldn't be their only purpose; now way. He just wished that he didn't have to fight; that no one will get hurt.

He just doesn't understand…if anything happened to him, I'll never forgive myself

Then we find our dirty mouthed critter lying on Henry's bed, surprisingly in thought. Sure, by now he would be playing around with Henry's computer, checking the net for fanfics, read funny web-comics, download some roms to play instead of playing the games, and look at all the porn he can gaze at. But today, his concern for Henry was greater than his daily activities.

He just doesn't understand…I have to fight at some point…I ain't no house pet.

"Hewwo! Tewwiewmon!" the rabbit quickly switched to doll-mode as Susie happily came inside. "It's time fow youw dippy change! giggle!"

Ugh, I think I'm gonna be sick!

Shinjuku Central Park: 7:57 PM

The night was still young, meaning the perfect moment for a calm romantic stroll for couples. On a bench, far from a small playground, we find our favorite couple (A/N: Not mine.) Ken and Yolei snuggling close together as they watched the full moon above. But far off from where they are, across some trees, the rock star of the team, Yamato Ishida, along with his faithful Digimon, Gabumon, walked along a concrete path home, just quietly minding their own business…

"Ugh, I don't believe this. Don't you ever stop?"

Until a certain girl with downward curly hair and dark clothes suddenly appeared in front of the two. Though Gabumon would hide his living appearance from the public, but this sister of Davis already knew about the Digimon's existence since MaloMyotismon wrecked havoc.

"Stop what? I'm not even following you!" the blonde shouted. Matt couldn't judge what type of Jun was worse; the fan-crazed psycho who followed him on his camping trip, or this boy-hating bitch that calls him a pervert for even glancing her.

"Then you explain why we're always bump into each other!" she growled.

"I don't know but what's your problem? You've been up my case for days! What did I do to pissed you off?"

"Your presence around me, rock-boy!"

"Jeez, Jun, why do you have to be a raging bitch?" Davis said who came up from the stairs on the side of the path. "Man, you've been like this since what's his name broke up with you! Would you stop blaming it on every guy and get on with your life?"

Matt's blue eyes narrowed down at the girl. "Is that what this is? You're taking your frustration on me just because of some goof up you made that made your boyfriend break up with you?"

"Uh…" her face heated of embarrassment. "It…it's not as…simple as you think it is."

Davis walked up between the two. "Then what? I know there's something more to this. What happened between you and that jerk?"

She felt like she was hearing a million voices shouting at her as she held tightly onto her head. Without a word, Jun dashed off to the streets, disappearing in the darkness.

Gabumon blinked in confusion. "What's wrong with her?"

Matt shook his head. "Everything…so…Davis…what are you doing all the way here from Odaiba?"

The goggle boy pressed his lips as he twiddled his fingers. "Uh…just going for a stroll."

"In Shinjuku?"

"Hey, you know the Digimon usually pops up here these days. I'm just keeping an eye out."

Snickering, Matt calmly walked downstairs from where Davis came from. He approached a balcony where you can get a good view of the park's playground and further down a small water fountain. Far to his right, he can see Ken and Yolei making out on a bench.

"Uh huh. I see…" he smiled before noticing Davis running up from behind.

"See what? I don't see anything, except Ken and Nerdster."

"Heh heh…whatever you say, Davis."

Mild irritation flooded Davis as he turned to the blonde college student. "What you trying to say? You think I was spying on Nerdette? EW!"

"-sigh-…" he smirked as he looked behind over his shoulder. "Give it up, Davis. I know you're moping about Yolei. Tai felt the same way when Sora and I went out."

"What? I am not! Me and Miyako? That…that's just down right gross!"

"I don't know." Gabumon spoke. "It does sound strange that…" his voice trailed off as he ran up to the rail, staring out at the left. "Hey, I think I see that Digimon who's partnered with that Digimon-hating girl!"

"Huh?" Davis and Matt ran up by Gabumon and looked over yonder at a dark figure of Renamon sitting on the monkey bars. Below her was a boy whose figure matches Henry's.

"Hey it's Henry. What's he doing with Renamon?" Matt asked.

"Maybe Renamon is trying to partner with Henry, but he has Two Digimon, just like Wills!"

Matt rolled his blue eyes after Davis' thought. "Come on, let's see what's up."

"There's got to be a reason how my friends and I were chosen to be DigiDestined Tamers in the first place. It would help both of us if we could both figure that out and…" Henry's voice was cut off after he caught Renamon fleeing the scene. "Hey! Renamon!"

"Yo, Henry!"

The blue haired boy turned to see Matt, Davis and Gabumon running up to him. "Hey what are you guys doing here?"

"We could ask you the same question. What was that about with Renamon?" Matt asked, crossing his arms with authority.

"Well…Renamon wanted to talk about her problems with Rika, and I guess I was drowned with my own to help."

"Speaking of Rika, what's up with her?" Davis asked, more so to Matt. "We've got Rika and Jun as messed up girls, now. Man, they're everywhere! Next you'll probably see Mimi dressed as a Goth and selling her thousand dollar clothes to the Salvation Army."

Both, Matt and Henry laughed at his statement, but as they did, two pairs of eyes watched the four boys like watching a movie or some entertainment thing.

"Should we go down there? I mean, I did see Renamon just a while ago."

The blue haired boy shrugged, holding Yolei tighter. "Let's just leave them be with their conversation. We'll leave them alone, and they'll leave us alone."

"Hmm, I like the way you think!"

"Listen guys, I better get home quick. I already told my family I was going to fetch some milk, and they'll call in the dogs if I don't get back."

"What kind of dogs you have?" Davis asked.

"It's an expression Davis, and I don't have dogs, unless you include Terriermon."

"I thought he was a rabbit."

Chuckling, Henry mounted on his bike. "No he's a dog. That's what Terrier means; it's a type of dog. See ya around, guys." With that, he peddled away, leaving Davis, Matt, and Gabumon to wave to him.

"What's eating him, Matt." The goggled teen asked the blonde.

"I'm not really sure. Something about Terriermon. Don't worry about; I'm sure he'll come around."

Davis nodded before he looked at something in his left that then disturbed him. He barricaded his sorrow look by trying to look as normal as he usually was, for the sake of not hearing it from Matt. "Um, yeah…I better head off to Odaiba. See ya tomorrow, Matt." and with, he dashed off into the darkness.

-sigh-...poor guy...I kind of know how you feel.

Nonaka residence: 8:11 PM

The room was dark…well partly dark, thanks to the blue light coming from the window (Does she have windows in her room?). Anyways, there on the floor of the sleeping bag lied Rika Nonaka, with for the first time in this fic since Takato's dream does she have her hair down from that weird ponytail. But hairstyles are no concern for this wondering and confused child.

"I hate Digimon…I hate them…all of them!"

Yes, that is what the subject is about here. Her drowned in that scrambled head of hers. Rika shut her eyes tight, feeling that memory burning in her mind like a grill. But she vowed herself to forget all that was she thought now an illusion.

Rustle in the darkness caught Rika's ears to force herself off her back. "Renamon, is that you?"

"Nope, just me." Calumon happily said, jumping out of the bin with Rika's D-Arc and card pouch in hand. "Hey, you dropped all this in the garbage. Why'd ya do that?"

Rika scowled at the tiny white Digimon. "Ugh, you? Get out of my room you little perv!" she plopped back in her covers.

Whenever he's sad or feeling any negative emotion, Calumon would sink his ears in his head, like so. "Oh…you're not happy." He said with pity.

"Why should I be? Now get out!"

Instantly his face switched to perky-mode as he lifted up his ears and flew on Rika. "I know what'll cheer you up! Let's play!"

"Why don't you just go and play in the traffic?"

"Hmm…never tried that. You wanna do it?"

"Leave me-alone!" with one grunt; she tossed her shoulder around, flipping Calumon off her.

Well, even the energetic Digimon knew when he was not wanted, but he never like to see any in a mood other than happiness. Before he left, Calumon quietly laid Rika's D-Arc and cards by her.

"Maybe this will make you happy, later."

Odaiba: 7:34 AM

We go live over to the city that started it all; the home of the original DigiDestiend (At least until we know who the REAL five originals were.) Odaiba: a city outside the main metropolis; just within the sea. It's homed for many space aged buildings, electric cars, fantasy shopping malls, and that famous large Ferris wheel in Pallette Town where Tai and his family lives (A/N: No, not Pallet Town of Pokemon. There's actually one in Odaiba, but spelled different.).

But we don't focus over to Tai, no sir, we go over to the unappreciated character of season 2: Iori Hida, or Cody as everyone calls him. (A/N: I mean unappreciated to all you folks. Shame on you!) The youngest of the DigiDestined steps out of his apartment door, yelling bye to his mother and grandfather as he dashes off to school. He grips on the strap of his bag to keep it hanging behind his back as he hurries downstairs…

"Gee, what's the big rush?"

…Until a young male voice startled him enough to halt his running. Moving his head around, Cody finds a young boy of eight years old, wearing a huge orange hat about the size of Tai's hair. He also wore a white t-shirt, yellow pants, green and white shoes, and a smiling face on his head as he sat on a railing just about three stories high.

"I'm going to school…and you shouldn't be sitting on there so high; it's dangerous."

"I'm used to it."

As much as Cody wanted to convince the kid for his safety, he's not his father and he should really meet up with his friends…but that mature grown up in him couldn't stop worrying for the kid.

"Shouldn't you be in school?"

"I've got time. You're pretty tensed for an older kid and you're not even an adult." The hat kid said to the twelve year old with a smile.

Why does everyone say that? I'm not tense. "Make of it what you will. I gotta go."

"Okay; sorry for saying that." The boy hopped off to the concrete platform and walked up stairs. "But I ain't sorry for what will happen soon with you and your friends."

Okay, now it was getting suspicious and creepy. "What do you mean?"

The boy just smiled, leaning his chest over the railing on the stairs. "Just kidding…kind of. Bye-bye!" with that, he ran upstairs.

"Wait, what do you mean by that? Who are you?"

"Aw he's just a cabrito, Cody; he doesn't know what he means."

Cody groaned, rolling his eyes as far as they can go. He knew that voice from anywhere as he turned around to meet his doom. Smiling, mischievous at him was a girl with brown braded pigtail, a wild pink shirt that almost hugged her body, with a yellow collar under a necklace that looked sort of from Mexico, and tight blue jeans.

"Rosa, what did I say about teasing me?" he said, narrowing his eyes.

"…That it'll at least loosen you up, Chico!"

Cody closed his eyes in fury. "I never said that."

Now he knew how Davis feels around Yolei; really, REALLY infuriating that Rosa, ever since she moved from Mexico to live in Japan since she had relatives in Tokyo. It was also a nightmare for Ken Ichijouji and Wormmon. Back in the world tour, Rosa had a young lust for the former Kaiser, but she and Wormmon never got along. She is however a DigiDestined, and her Digimon is a Gotsumon, which is now a Motimon that was riding in her bag, like Umpamon is with Cody right now. Since they go to the same school, and are both DigiDestined, she hangs around with Cody, hoping she could meet up with Ken. Though because of that, she gotten to know Cody a little, even by teasing him.

"So…I heard that you're fighting Digimon around Shinjuku."

Cody blinked in surprise as she walked downstairs with her. "How did you know that?"

"Por favor, I overheard you talking the other day, and later me and Gotsumon took care of a Kiwimon, facil."

"Okay…what are trying to ask?"

"Can I help you guys, por favor?"

"Look, you're welcome to, but I'm just afraid you'll cling on to Ken all the time…" And maul Yolei in the process.

"I'll behave; Prometo!"

Now normally Cody would disagree to this, but…well we all know that Cody is very mature for his age, due to the death of his father forced him to be the man of the house. He mostly lacked most male youth of personality. But not even the sophisticated of all men would resist one of women's most powerful weapons. A weapon so destructive and effective it can strike disciplined into the hearts of any wild man, unless he experienced the love that dares not speak its name…

The dreaded…Puppy Dog Eyes. (A/N: Only 14.95 at Epsilon Zeta Corp. Buy now and get a free set of false eye lashes to add better effect.)

"Uh…uh…" No matter how much he fought, he couldn't resist without becoming red in the process. "sigh…alright, you can help out…"

"YAY! Victoreé!" to finish the effect so to work again, Rosa threw herself on him and gave Cody a big hug. "Ahora prisa, we're gonna be late!" with that, she pulled a stiff Cody's arm to school.

Soon, Umpamon poked out of Cody's bag to greet Motimon. "So what's the score, Motimon?"

"Uh…Rosa: 15…Cody: 0."

"Yeah…just checking."

12:09 PM

We now go live over to Odaiba High, just after Cody and Rosa walked off with the second DigiDestined, and after Cody kept Rosa's jealous green eyes off of Yolei, where the gang, minus Cody and Rosa, are having ye lunch.

"Ever wonder if they use real rice in these rice balls?" Davis asked, carefully studying the stale rice ball.

"Well that's one of the mysteries of school life, Davis." TK shrugged, sipping his orange juice.

"Like why are there so many Digimon popping out everywhere or how?" Kari asked, trading her milk for Yolei's grape soda.

"That's not part of the school life, but good question," calmly, TK slipped his orange juice. "I think a visit to the Digi-World is in order."

"Cool, so let's bolt there and solve this mystery!" Davis cheered.

Next to him, Yolei narrowed her eyes. "Dolt...Don't you remember back in the old days, we settle things in the Digital World after school?"

"Aw come on, that was back in the day. I barely remember what I had for breakfast."

TK rolled his eyes. "Okay, once we head over there, we'll start asking questions and then ask Gennai if all else fails."

Suddenly, TK's D-Terminal beeped before he picked it up.

"Dude, didn't you set that thing to vibrate?"

"I wouldn't be able to hear it, Davis."

"TJ, don't you know the pleasures of the...?" that deserved a bop on the head by Yolei.

Ignoring Davis, TK read the e-mail.

'Everyone, I've detected a couple of bio-merge activities in Downtown Shinjuku. So far the Digimon are having trouble entering the physical world, but I suspect it'll be a matter of time before they can enter. Please patrol Shinjuku after school.'

Izzy

"Looks like our group to the Digital World will have to be cut in numbers." TK said, putting away his D-Terminal.

"What do you mean, TD?"

"That's T...never mind...I mean that you two, plus Cody and Ken will have to patrol Shinjuku without us."

Davis blinked with wide eyes. "You mean...you and Kari?"

Yolei's eyes practically did a 360. She just smelled a 'Davis-jealous-of-TK-being-with-Kari' mode from a mile away. "Look, would you just drop it with Kari already, Davis? Just quit acting like a baby and grow up!"

"Jeez, Yolei, I wasn't asking you, and yeah, its not fair TU gets to be with Kari!"

"You just never learn, huh? I might as well say it, but news flash; Kari doesn't have the same feelings for you,"

"Yolei..." Kari warned with worry, but Yolei continued.

"Just because you have a crush on her doesn't mean anything. And besides, TK and Kari kissing were bound to happ...OOPS!"

Soon as Yolei covered her mouth, Davis' eyes spread as wide as pool balls. He slowly, like a rusty door, turned his head over to TK and Kari who were red from embarrassment and sunk lower down the table.

"You...TK...Kari...both...of...you...kissed?"

So ashamed and embarrassed, TK and Kari clocked their eyes around and stuttered. "Uh...no...not really..."

Soon Davis became shocked and a bit furious. "I don't believe this...how could you do this to me, Kari? How...OW!"

Yolei pulled his ear, getting Davis' angry attention. "Davis, just forget it! They kissed, they're together; end of story!"

"Well...we didn't kiss, actually, and we're not together," Kari startled, still feeling flushed. But the uncooperative duo raged on.

"See, they didn't kiss! They're not together...are you Kari?" Davis asked with hope.

The young Kamiya bit her lip as her cheeks burned red. "Well...no...we..."

Suddenly, Yolei tugged Davis' ear and forced his eyes towards her. "Davis, if they are, they are! We really don't wanna hear you cry: Oh but Kari's my girl! Why can't you ever except the fact that these two like each other? Why won't you just wake up to reality? Huh? Look at me, I had a butt load of crushes, but was I selfish? NO! I moved on, and finally found someone to lean on to! Do yourself a favor, and MOVE ON!"

Heat of anger flowed on the ceiling of Davis' head. This girl...what is her problem? Why does Yolei always butting in his business, even when she has Ken? As a matter of fact, why does she always brag to him how great her boyfriend is? The young goggled teen had enough as he shot up straight from his chair and towered over the girl.

"Damn it, Yolei, I had it up to here with you! Who the hell you think you are, butting in my business? I just wanted to know; is that a crime? And how could I be jealous when I'm already...over… Kari!"

That loud echo caused the entire cafeteria to shut in silence and turn straight at the blushing boy. Throughout middle school to high school, Davis' crush on Kari is but a national knowledge to everyone, and hearing Davis saying he's over Kari is like...well let's just say to everyone, Davis getting over his dream girl will happen when Hell freezes.

It was at that moment when Yolei and TK and Kari lost the will to shut their eyes.

"D...D...Davis?" Yolei stuttered in shock.

Davis wished he would drop dead right this second, please. Having the student body shooting eyes at him wasn't very comforting. And now that everyone heard most of his secret straight from Davis' mouth, he's all out of options to escape this one...except...

"Uh...I was just kidding. Had ya fooled there, didn't I? Hehe heh!"

"Did you hear that? Davis' is over Kari?" he heard someone say.

"It can't be! The apocalypse is near! I told you it'll come soon! Did I? Huh? Huh?"

"Is Davis high or something?"

Well so much for that. Nobody didn't believe him, not even Davis' friends who were still spooked. Now he was the talk of the school. Well, when in doubt, there's only one effective way to solve this...

Run away!

"Davis, wait...!" Kari called, but the boy was already out the door, after plowing through some kids.

This cannot be happening. Surely she was just hearing things or there must be a logical explanation. Yolei could not believe it; Davis is over Kari? He doesn't have a crush on her anymore? No way! He must be lying. And if he isn't...how...what's with Davis?

Shinjuku park arcade: 3:23 PM

If you remembered a few paragraphs ago, Takato defeated Kazu with the same combo he pulled on IceDevimon. Being the arrogant boy he is, Kazu couldn't take that lying down and let it cripple his ego. He challenged Takato to a rematch to reclaim his honor and dignity.

"Hey, chummily..." Kazu called from the other side of the Digi-arena. "Guess what..." He slapped a card on the field which neutralized Takato's Tyranomon's A-attack, his partner card. Soon, it left it open for Kazu's MegaSeadramon to finish it off with its Lightening Javelin, blasting it to bits. "I've won, Mr. Invincible!"

Kazu's score: 1000 - MegaSeadramon HP: 133/800

Takato's score: 665 - Tyranomon HP: 0/789

Takato mounted off the stadium, disappointed of the outcome. He never got the chance to use his killer combo, and then Kazu would be sorry of messing with him again. Suddenly, the goggle boy felt Kazu's weight leaping on his shoulders and giving him a nuggie.

"AaAA...cut it out, Kazu!" he growled, pulling away Kazu's arms.

Chuckling, Kazu hopped off of the boy. "I'm hope you enjoyed your last victory cause you'll never have one again!"

"Yeah, Takato..." Kazu's sidekick laughed as he caught up. "You're just gonna have to except the pain we give you."

Yeah, out of Kazu and Kenta, Takato was the worst at the card game. But he doesn't have to take this BS. Sides, what he needs to live on the card game, anyway, not when he has something that towers over the two's life hundred times fold? "Whatever...! It's just a stupid card game, anyway; I have more important things to do at my spare time."

Kazu and Kenta cocked their brows. "What do you mean?"

"Taming real Digimon is what separates the boys from the men!"

"Yeah right! Who're you trying to kid? You're a loser and a liar!" Kazu stated.

"Am not!"

"Yeah, Takato, and I got the Blue Eyes White Dragon in my dog house; wanna see?" Kenta remarked, crossing his arms, rebelliously, making Takato growl. "Come on, show us a real Digimon."

"I will!"

Now he must be joking, Kazu thought, or he drunk his dad's coffee again. After all, Takato couldn't handle de-cafe. "Give it up, chumley; you got no proof. Besides, if you're thinking that fight with PaladinImperialdramon and Armageddonmon is proof, forget it. It was all a trick probably from the government to highjack some deadly weapon in the city, or maybe it was plotted by Bandai to sell the cards, using the Kaiva or whatever's hologram gizmos. It's all just nothing but a trick, chumley! Wake up to reality!"

Speaking of that fight three years ago, it was that day when Takato got into Digimon. Lot of the people of Tokyo thought it was a show, even if they got caught in the middle with the Kuramon. Sure a lot believed it and for some reason never told the government, but the rest were non-believers, and Takato was not one of them. For years he yearned for them to return, and since that he got his own Digimon, it was like a dream come true. Talking about Digimon around his presence...well, it wasn't pretty.

"Come on, Takato! Blue Eyes is waiting." Kenta laughed.

"OH YEAH!" Takato snapped, startling his friends. "You asked for it and you'll get it! Follow...ACK!" But Takato got knocked on his face as two kids a little over his age ran him over.

"Sorry kid...alright, Kouji, let's see what your loser Lobomon is made of! I'm gonna grind it to the floor!"

The bandana kid sneered. "You're gonna wish you kept your big mouth shut, Takuya! Meet ya at the stadium!"

"Bring it!"

Soon as the two rushed over to the giant machine, Kazu and Kenta looked over at Takato, snickering at his pain.

"Ow...shut up..."

West Shinjuku: 3:44 PM

In the busy city of Shinjuku, Japanese counterpart of Manhattan, the four newer members of the DigiDestined, Davis, Yolei, Cody, and Ken ventured through the busy streets, keeping an eye out of any digital activity. In addition, due to Cody, Ken, and Yolei's strain, one of international DigiDestined who moved to Tokyo months ago, Rosa, joined in with her Digimon, Motimon in her bag.

"Cody, I wonder why you let her come with us. You know how she is with me, and Yolei." Ken asked, flushed from being in a sandwich between Rosa and Yolei giving dangerous glares at each other.

"What else could I do? She forced me with the eyes."

"Puppy dog eyes, huh?" Davis said, grinning. "Nuff said."

Ken felt the tension between the girls heat up, so he should lighten things up. "So, Davis, I heard you're finally over Kari."

Suddenly, Davis' face faulted. "Uh...well..."

Grinning slyly, Yolei motioned around Davis and sneered at his red face. "Now about lunch, were you just talking some BS like you always do, or is it true?"

"Uh...what's true?"

"That you don't have a crush on Kari anymore."

Davis looked the other way, shyly, twiddling his fingers. "Um...it's kind of something like..."

"DAVIS!"

"Alright, I am over her! You happy?"

Yolei and the other gave a few blinks as Rosa took the opportunity to clutch on Ken. Davis sunk his hands in his pockets and lowered his head to hide his flushed face.

"Davis..." soon, the purple haired girl's lips grew to a smile. She then pinched his face and shook them. "You finally grown up! Our little boy has finally grown up!"

"OW! Yolei, you're gonna rip my cheeks off!"

Cody stepped forward near his two friends. "So when did it start, Davis?"

After Yolei let go of him, Davis looked like he was drifting in another world.

"Davis!"

He then blinked back to earth. "Oh...uh, about a few months ago...UM...I-I-I mean just today! TODAY!"

Of course, his friends were no fools meaning they knew he really meant months ago. But if that were true, then it opened the book to a lot of questions.

"Wait a minute; a few months ago? If that was true, then what was with the act?" Yolei asked with a demanding face.

"What act?"

"Why were you acting like you still like Kari?"

Great, now he was in trouble. Everyone was staring right at him, expecting an answer. How was he gonna get out of this? How should he explain this without pouring out his secret?

The answer is simple.

"LOOK, A DIGI FIELD!"

That'll work for him long enough to make a run for it...

"Wow, it is a digital field, over at that street!" Cody shouted, pointing to a bank of clouds that coated a quite street field with apartments.

Davis couldn't believe his luck after he made a few feet away from the gang. He meant that to be a lie to make a break for it, and there was actually a digital field. Who better to thank than the man upstairs?

"Thank you!" he whispered to the heavens.

Soon the gang dug through the thick gray clouds, entering the quite neighborhood. Davis felt the opportunity to wear his goggles to see better through the field. Once they entered the center where the fog doesn't spread, they spotted a large blue creature dressed in some kind of kendo outfit, and he wore wooden gauntlets that had sticks built in them. In addition, he wore a white mask, painted with Japanese marks usually decorated for most mask-wear items.

"Where is he? Coward, come out!" it screamed, smashing car windows and mail boxes.

"Dude, someone needs anger management!" Davis said, shaking his head.

Ken whipped out his D-3, scanning the Digimon with his new portable Digi-Analyzer.

Yashamon: Demon Man Digimon. The shockwave it sends out from its two wooden swords is as sharp as a real sword.

Type: Vaccine

Stage: Armor

Attacks: Gordian Knot, Kendo Blade

(A/N: I really don't understand Puppet Master, so I gave him a new attack.)

"An Armor level Digimon. It looks like he's looking for someone." Ken said.

"Well he just found a can of whoop ass!" Davis grinned, pulling out his D-3 and D-Terminal. "DIGI-ARMOR…!"

"Wait!"

"What, Cody?"

Cody stood straight, eying at the taller teen. "Maybe we can reason with him. If he's looking for someone, there might be a chance we can calm him down without resorting to…deleting him."

Ken nodded with an agreeable smile. "Good idea, Cody." But suddenly, he felt his body getting crushed by a pair of arms, and they didn't belong to Yolei.

"Oh you're such a smart guy, Kenny! Mucho bien plan!"

"But that was Cody's idea!" Ken corrected, trying to slip out of Rosa's grip.

Yolei snarled at the sight, thinking of ways to ridding the child, but all was interrupted when Hawkmon pulled her maroon colored skirt.

"I beg your pardon, Yolei, but I do believe we should have one of us Digivolve incase that brute becomes a bit chaotic on us."

"Good idea," she whipped out her D-3 and D-Terminal from her bag. "And I got just the one Digimon...DIGI-ARMOR ENERGIZE!"

(Armor-Digivolution)

"HAWKMON ARMOR DIGIVOLVE TOOO…!"

Hawkmon grew to a figure not relating in any way of his previous form. But within his new humanoid body, he was hidden in a white samurai cloak with green shoulder pads painted like leaves, only to expose his yellow eyes. His arms and legs were made out of springy vines tied to large shrunkens.

"SHURIMON, THE SAMURAI OF SINCERITY!"

Soon, Yolei, Cody, Armadillo cautiously approached the furious Yashamon with Shurimon as their bodyguard. Yashamon twisted his back away from them, snarling at the kids like a dump dog.

"Whoa, we just want to talk, that's all!" Cody said, holding his hands in defense.

"Talk is a waste, human! Where is that digital filth?"

"We don't even know who you're talking about, but would you like to tell us who and why you're looking for him? Maybe we can help if you promise not to cause any harm."

"Why should I trust you carbon trash? I will find that coward, and his data will be mine!"

Cody's face grimed. He hasn't been in this situation since he went face to face with the big crushing machine himself, BlackWarGreymon. "I don't get it! Why do you Digimon always kill other Digimon for data?"

"To grow strong, live in the rule of the survival of the fittest; that is how we live. Since that coward is nowhere to be found, I'll have to settle for this human lover!" with no time wasted, Yashamon launched over the pavement, aiming for Shurimon. The nature samurai stopped his wooden swords with his shrunken hands, right as Yolei and Cody dove out of the way.

After Yolei rolled on the concrete, she watched the battle with bewilderment. "I don't believe it…he didn't listen to reason. There's no way this kind of Digimon would come from the Digi-World."

Yashamon used his strength to keep Shurimon back as their weapons still held each other. Finally, the two fighters separated and clashed a number of slashes, with each of them blocked by another. With a final swipe, Shurimon swung his star blade in a upward arc, but Yashamon leaped away before the fierce slash created a shockwave that cut a hole on the fog.

"Ah, my thanks to you, warrior!" The kendo creature launched out of the hole. "I will return to you as soon as I find the cowardly Digimon!"

"Who's the coward now? Come back here!" the plant samurai launched after him like a spring.

But Yolei chased after him on foot and with concern. "Shurimon, wait up!" But her little legs could only take her so far.

So there was only one thing for Davis to do. "DIGI-ARMOR, ENERGIZE!"

(Armor-Digivolution)

"VEEMON ARMOR DIGIVOLVE TOOO…!"

"RAIDRAMON, THE STORM OF FRIENDSHIP!"

Suddenly, a large dog-dragon protected in black mech armor with sharp spikes around cut off her path. The rider, Davis, looked at her and pointed a spot behind him.

"Get on, quick!"

Hesitantly, Yolei obeyed and mounted on the large Digimon. After they were ready, Raidramon took a giant leap on the short buildings and chased after the two warrior Digimon on the rooftops.

"WAIT FOR US!" the rest of the DigiDestined cried.

"EL STUPIDOS!"

West Shinjuku Park: 3:50 PM

He shouldn't have done this; it was against the DigiDestined code, but Takato's pride was mocked by Kazu and Kenta, and he must reclaim it back by showing Guilmon to them, thus they will know that Digimon lives.

"Now you guys have to swear not to tell anyone, got it?" Takato told to his friends as he led them up the stairs to Guilmon's den.

"Whatever." Kazu snorted.

"I promise." Kenta replied.

Getting that settled, Takato opened the gate, checking to see his Digimon inside. "Guilmon, you can come out."

Nothing but silence and the shadow of the den filled the area, and clouded the soil below. Not a sign of Guilmon. The two boys let out a sigh of relief, and a tad of disappointment, and marched in the den with a laugh.

"Yeah right, dofus!" Kazu laughed, feeling a bit tensed at the moment when he and Kenta looked in the dark hole. "You're so full of it."

But like a rip from a horror movie, monstrous growls echoed the small den, making the boys spines freeze with chills. Yellow demon eyes glowed in the dark right before the boys' frightened eyes as if the devil himself was staring his dark fire-reign upon them. The boys wanted to run, but the nerves to do so have reached through their minds yet. To conclude this horrific moment, the beast finished it by acting with such terrifying tones that will scar the poor boys for life; using daunting cries that not even the vilest of monsters can ever muster over.

"Ah…Aaaa…AH CHOO!"

With that, Kazu and Kenta escaped like a light to their homes, leaving Takato laughing at their acts and left with the monster.

Scary.

"Takatomon, did you call me?" the monster, Guilmon, asked with his cute baby voice, crawling out of the hole.

"Yeah, were you asleep?"

"Well it was my nappy time," his voice trailed off before sniffing the air.

"Sorry boy. I forgot to bring the bread and peanut butter."

"I don't care about that…" with one sniff after, Guilmon went to ferial mode. "I smell Digimon!"

"YEAH!" finally, time to show everyone his stuff again.

Hypnos HQ: 3:54 PM

The dark computer lab of the Hypnos, covered within a blue computer dome about the size of…well its huge. Over on the trolley chair computers, the two ladies, Talley and Riley, typed fiercely; trying to search the bio-emergence that was already in progress.

"Sir, there was an unexpected bio-emergence around in North Shinjuku; we were unable to stop it…" Talley reported to the man down on the floor. "But we've located the next one. It's the same signature that was spotted yesterday."

"Come back for round 2, aye?" Yamaki muttered, flicking his lighter. "Put a tracer."

Riley typed a few commands and a signal shaped like the Enterprise from Star Trek chased after the energy signal. "Tracer's already on lock. Yuggoth is ready to be deployed."

From his evil chuckle, Yamaki loved the sound of that. Looks like you've lost the match my friend.

"SIR!" the blonde man startled, glancing up at the blue screen. Right before his eyes, the Yuggoth signal was…destroyed. "The Wild One just destroyed Yuggoth!"

Being caught by surprise, he dropped his lighter on the floor…in slow motion. No Wild One had the power to destroy Yuggoth, no one. Yuggoth was their best anti-virus program they had, and it was wasted like nothing…by a digital freak?

"I will have…my revenge!"

Never…never will be left as a fool from a waste on the net. "I need to know its exact location!"

"We've lost him!" Riley warned. "He's about to bio-emerge!"

How…how was he fooled so easily…to filth? "DAMMIT!"

West Shinjuku: 3:56 PM

On the roofs of the metropolitan buildings, Raidramon, with Davis and Yolei riding, chased after the bouncing Shurimon who was on pursuit of Yashamon.

"Davis, look…!" Yolei pointed ahead over to a large fog bank that was lowering over to the Shinjuku Guard Rail.

"Nuts, its another of those Digi-fogs!"

"And Shurimon is heading there! We've gotta catch up to him, quick!"

He sensed her concern for her Digimon. Her love for him was proved back at the battle with Devidramon when Yolei nearly tried to rush in the chaotic battlefield where she could've been crushed. But he can't blame her; Davis would do the same for Veemon.

With a mature face, he looked over at Yolei. "Don't worry…I know how much you care for your Digimon, which is why I'm gonna help his safety for you."

She doesn't know why, but the way Davis is looking at her, something gave her a slight tad of uncomforting and comforting feelings at the same time. "Uh…thanks, Davis." Is there something wrong with him? He looks…different now.

Meanwhile in an intersection of a street, the digital field lowered in the middle of the area, causing all electronic systems to go haywire. Right on time, Takato and Guilmon arrived on the scene.

"There's the field. Come on, boy!" Takato command; running through the fog with his goggles on. Soon, they reached to the core of the fog, but… "Okay…where is it?"

CHOOM! A sudden sound made Takato and Guilmon jump with their hearts skipping pulses. Soon, they spotted two Digimon fighting against one another. One was a blue stick fighting Digimon, the other a star blade samurai with a forest look.

"Uh, that must be them." Takato said, still shocked from the surprise. He already scanned Yashamon and now he aimed for the other one.

Shurimon: Mutant Digimon. It has the power to blend in with nature and sneak up on its enemies like a ninja.

Type: Data

Stage: Armor

Attacks: Double Star, Ninja Wind

"Okay, should we get involved and take both of the down, boy? I have a feeling that Shurimon is gonna cream him since he's a data type."

"I don't think we should worry about Shurimon, Takatomon," Guilmon sniffed the area, pointing at the fighters afar. "That Shurimon is Hawkmon."

"What, really? Whoa, maybe we're not needed after all."

"Takatomon, this field doesn't belong to Yashamon!"

"What, then…?"

"Bwahahahahah!"

Takato froze in his feet when he heard a laugh echoing the air.

"How persistent of that Yashamon to follow me. Hmm…although this boy…you look similar to one of the DigiDestiend!"

(A/N: Ta-DA! To keep this fic interesting and not follow the same boring storyline 100, and being evil as I am, I've replaced Musyamon with a very familiar Digimon villain. Bhahahah!)

"M-M-me? Who are you?"

Black fog formed far before Takato, merging into a tall humanoid creature; a VERY familiar Digimon that grinned with pure evil that gaped Takato's mouth open.

"But I will have my revenge!"

"ICEDEVIMON…? BUT WE DESTROYED YOU…wait…this one is black." Takato then scanned the Digimon.

Devimon: Fallen Angel Digimon. Overwhelmed by the powers of darkness, it lost its place as an angel and joined the ranks of darkness.

Type: Virus

Stage: Champion

Attacks: Touch of Evil, Death Claw, Razor Wing

(A/N: I kind of forgotten Devimon's attacks. Hope this is right.)

"Boy these fallen angel type Digimon are everywhere. Be careful, boy; this guy might be as tough as IceDevimon."

"I will, Takatomon!"

Right as Guilmon rushes for battle, Devimon extended his claws and soared for the kill. "I will have vengeance!"

The red dragon leaped away from the fly devil and shot a Pyro Sphere afterwards. But the black demon sliced the fireball in half and shot at Guilmon again, missing too.

"DIGI-MODIFY, IKAKUMON ACTIVATE!"

A large horn grew on Guilmon's forehead… "HARPOON TORPEDO!" And he launched it like a rocket. As it gained closer on Devimon, it split, releasing a firework rocket.

"Bah, you dare mock me with toys?" like light; Devimon caught the rocket and tossed it back at Guilmon, blasting him off his feet. "TOUCH OF EVIL!" Devimon fired a black blast from his palms, blasting away Guilmon hard enough for him to slide on the concrete road.

"Guilmon!" Takato cried.

Soon, Raidramon came down from nowhere in the fog and dropped off Davis and Yolei. The girl ran to aid her Digimon while Davis joined with Takato.

"Yo, Takato, what's going on?"

"Busy fighting another Devimon type Digimon!"

"Huh?" Davis looked ahead, finding Guilmon firing a fireball that missed the swift Devimon. "Whoa, looks like we got our hands full."

"You better use Flamedramon, Davis. I don't think a data type will stand a chance against a virus."

"Right. Raidramon, get rid of your Armor and suit up as Flamedramon!"

Raidramon did what he said and reverted back to Veemon.

"DIGI-ARMOR ENERGIZE!"

(Armor-Digivolution)

"VEEMON ARMOR DIGIVOLVE TOOO...!"

"FLAMEDRAMON, THE FIRE OF COURAGE!"

(Terra's note: You know, Flamedramon appears in this fic a lot.)

(A/N: Hey, he's my favorite Digimon. Don't dis da Fla!)

(Terra's note: Why do you like him?)

(A/N: He reminds me of Chiller.)

(Chiller's note: Really...? COOL!)

Wasting no time, cause we demand it, Flamedramon raced to battle and leaped up to Devimon's height, performing the Fire Rocket. But Devimon shielded himself with his arms, barricading the shooting Digimon back. He swatted him away, but Flamedramon used some aerial flips to catch himself on his feet.

"FLAME FIST!"

The Armor Digimon tossed a barrage of fireballs, each one of them mowed away by Devimon's claws as he charged for him with drooling sharp teeth.

"RAZOR WING!" flings past Flamedramon, his sharp wings slashed the side of his torso and knocking him on the concrete as well.

"Flamedramon, get up!" Davis cried, but it looked like that attack did quite a damage to the flame Digimon and the pain was making it difficult for Flamedramon to stand.

Devimon turned to Davis with a vile smile caused by Flamedramon's pain. "So...I sensed you are the processor of the leader of the DigiDestined. I smell the blood of him from the eye piece you wear."

Confused, Davis touched hiss goggles. "You know Tai...? Hold up, I remember him telling me about a Devimon! You're the same creep?"

"Indeed! Now submit to me as I shed off your disgusting human blood!"

Suddenly Shurimon flown past Devimon, sliding to the floor by the humans. A smirk played on Devimon as he turned around for his old opponent that chased him throughout the real world.

Yashamon marched to the floating devil, slashing his swords around. "I've found you at last, coward! Now submit to my challenge! GORDIAN KNOT!"

So much like the Tasmanian devil, Yashamon span like a razor top and flew over to Devimon. But no concerns played within the fallen angel before firing a dark blast that stopped his attack and blasted him higher in the sky.

"You lose, fool! DEATH CLAW!" and then after launching the stretching claw, his crimson claw impaled through Yashamon's gut, which his hand came out from his back.

"Oh my...god!" Yolei gasped, covering her eyes like in a horror flick.

Soon, Yashamon dissolved into data, but that's not even the half of it for the eyes out of the battlefield who was a veteran to Devimon's wrath. The black former angel harnessed the data, adding it to his strengths.

"Bwhahaha! How disappointing...barely he put up any work. The fool! Hahaha!"

Why, why do these Digimon act like killing their kind is no big deal? It is a big deal; you're killing a living being, no matter if anyone says they're just data. This burned in Takato's head as anger.

"Alright, I had enough! Go get him, Guilmon!"

"Right!" the virus dino dashed at Devimon for round 2.

Fortunately, Takato has an ace up his sleeve. "DIGI-MODIFY, SPEED ACTIVATE!"

Devimon's dark beams harmlessly missed Guilmon and his increased speed as he ran circles around the demon. "That's enough out of you! DEATH CLAW!" Right as he lashed his claws at the dino, like what he did to IceDevimon, Guilmon caught his hand.

Takato's eyes flashed. "NOW! DIGI-MODIFY, HYPER WING ACTIVATE!"

Still gripping Devimon's hand, Guilmon soared up to the demon like a missile, ready to strike with the same combo.

"Is this all, weakling?" with swift reflexes, Devimon flipped back and dropped an axel kick on Guilmon's jaw when he got close.

Takato froze in the shock at his best combo that failed. His eyes were the only thing that seemed to move as they watched Guilmon fly out of control. "I don't understand…it worked before!"

By this time, Flamedramon recovered and made a angry dash for the hovering demon, while surrounding himself with flames. "I ain't finished with you, devil-boy! FIRE ROCKET!"

The dragon man blasted off like a rocket, shooting for the dark foe. Devimon defended himself behind his arms, which were crossed as an X. The mighty, comet-worthy attack was intercepted by his arms, even through it shoved the monster back a good few meters.

"Begone!" Swinging his arms away, Devimon swatted the Armored Digimon off of him, before harnessing dark energy before his palms. "TOUCH OF EVIL!"

Unleashing the wave of dark power, Flamedramon soared, uncontrollably through the air, and crashed hard on the street. As his body skid on the surface, he morphed back into Veemon.

"Aw man; no fair! He barely even touched him!"

"DOUBLE STAR!"

Devimon was caught in surprise when a large ninja star nearly sliced off his wing, if he didn't dodged at the last second. He spotted the nature ninja flying straight at him and tossed his second shrunken. The fallen angel swooped to the side and grabbed the vine attached to the shrunken and reeled Shurimon back to give him a harsh knee drop to the gut.

Yolei covered half of her face, shocked at the sight. "SHURIMON!"

"Say hello to the floor!" Devimon spat, twisting his body around as his arm danced around like a hose. "DEATH CLAW!" Grabbing his head, Devimon shoved Shurimon to smash hard in the road, where a crater was made from impact.

Yolei grew pale; looking like someone stabbed her in the back. Even Davis cringed in shock. Their eyes were finally able to see Hawkmon lying motionless, after the smoke cleared.

No…damn it, why didn't I move my butt? I promised Yolei that I made sure Hawkmon will be fine and I blew it…I'm so sorry, Miyako.

"Wow that must have hurt."

"Don't worry, he should be fine, but I can't believe Devimon is back after all these years."

"What do you expect, Tai? These evil Digimon are too stubborn to know when to stay dead. MetalEtemon and MaloMyotismon proved it."

Tai and Agumon stood by the sidelines to watch the gang handle their old and first enemy, Devimon. Tai was surprised he came back from the dead. Devimon was the very first villain they ever faced. He used his Black Gears to control Digimon of File Island; the devices that seemed related to the Dark Rings and Dark Spirals. Right in the final battle, Patamon finally Digivolved to Angemon, but sacrificed his life to defeat Devimon. From the looks of this, Devimon seems almost as strong when he was engulfed with his Black Gears, nearly as strong but still lacked to even Tai's new strengths and even most of the DigiDestined.

"Let's get in there, Tai!"

"No, only when it gets rough. I want the Tamers to learn to handle these things." But suddenly, Tai's ears heard some whistling sound that seemed to sound like an incoming rocket. "Sides…someone else has an old score to settle."

"HAND OF FATE!"

Like a deer harmlessly gazing at headlights, Devimon spotted a large white beam before it smashed him right into the street.

"No way…TG?"

Right on cue, Angemon charged into the fog and swooped near the road to drop TK off. The blonde joined with the gang as Angemon hovered in position up in the air, standing guard at his old foe.

"Hey, I've seen you with Devidramon!" Guilmon said who harmlessly flew past Angemon with controlling his wings.

"Hey, TY, I thought you were at the Digi-World."

Normally TK would correct his name, but not right now. "We've sensed trouble…stand back; this is our fight now."

-Battle theme (Night of Fate, Kingdom Hearts)-

Devimon pulled himself out of the crater, but as he glimpsed at the angel, his face instantly flashed to a happy insane look. "GAAH! AT LAST! I have found you! VENGENCE WILL BE MINE AT LAST! DEATH CLAW!"

Angemon deflected the attack with his staff, which bounced Devimon's claws away. Swatting his hand, Angemon charges at the demon where their staff and claws met in a struggle.

"Devimon…how can this be? Last time we saw you were at the Dark Tunnel!" Angemon growled as he steadied his strength against Devimon's.

"Yes…but it led me to a strange Digital World where I've gained new abilities, such as absorbing Digimon's data!"

"A strange Digital World?"

Soon, Devimon kicked Angemon off of him and then charged up some dark energy. "Nothing of your concern! I've trained for these past years and now my dream of vengeance will be mine! TOUCH OF EVIL!" And he blew a powerful stream of dark aura towards his foe.

Soon, after Takato watched Angemon put up a barrier to defend from the blast, he went up to Davis. "He said that he knew you guys. What's the story?"

"I've never met him, and neither did Kari, Yolei, Ken and Cody. But back when Tai and the dudes first became the DigiDestined, this turd was their first villain."

"Whoa, really? Wow, I was fighting their first villain…cool!" but concerns for Guilmon came running back as Takato looked up at his little dragon. Man, I really blew it for you, Guilmon. I've became too arrogant that I almost got you killed…but…shouldn't those wings run out by now?

A claw slashing about and Angemon parried the attack. Another one and Angemon swatted it away. Angemon fought back with his staff, thrusting the stick with swift speed, but Devimon gracefully defended with his palms with such speed. While he did, he picked up his wings and used them to push himself away from the angel.

"TOUCH OF EVIL!"

"HAND OF FATE!"

Both blasts collided within one another in a powerful explosion that forced the gang to shield themselves from the gusty force. After it died away, Angemon and Devimon floated afar from each other, giving battle glares at one another.

"Ah…" However, Devimon's attention was aimed for TK. "The young child of hope…it's good of you that you are here too. Allow me to let you witness your Digimon's death like before." He ended with a vile chuckle.

The blonde grinned his teeth like a terrifying tiger. That creep! He's still twisted as before! "Not a chance, Devimon! I'm not a helpless child anymore! You've forget; there's no way you stand a chance against Angemon! His holy powers are great against the darkness! You might as well surrender!"

Yolei haven't seen TK like this since around BlackWarGreymon's wrath. Now she knew how Cody felt; it's scary to watch TK's hatred over the darkness…even though Cody said that TK doesn't hate…she's doesn't buy it.

Devimon laughed like TK's threats were a joke. "You think so? Ha! Do you believe that I came unprepared?"

This gotten both TK and Angemon tensed. "What do you mean?"

Answering that question, Devimon kicked the wind with his wings and soared over the floor at Angemon, like a rabid panther. Luckily, Angemon swooped out of the way to let Devimon shot past him, and buy some time to charge for another holy beam.

"Say good bye! HAND OF FATE!"

…But for some reason as the blast rocketed toward the demon, Devimon smiled wickedly.

"Behold my latest power! YAMI ADAUCHI!" Cupping his hands together and facing them before him, a dark energy wave emitted in a shape of a saucer, and secured the holy beam in the bowl shaped shield like milk in a cereal bowl. The shield wrapped around the holy energy and sunk through Devimon's palms. After this, Devimon flared with dark fire around his body.

"HAVE AT THEE!" Facing his hands forward again, his entire body unleashed a powerful wave of dark fire, engulfing Angemon in the flames, even though he had his barrier up.

TK clenched his teeth in shock. He wasn't expecting Devimon to come up with a move that can convert holy energy into dark energy; it was impossible…but then again, these are Digimon. "Angemon…!"

Outside of the field, the police barricaded the streets due to the very thick fog that covered the street. It's so thick, who knows when a car might drive by. The young Tamer, Henry, and his Digimon, Terriermon, were also part of the crowd, but only he knew what was going on inside the digital field. Lucky for him and his friends, for some reason the digital field barricades any sound and most energy waves within the field that is digital, or for any Digimon that caused the field.

"Come on, Henry. Aren't you even curious?"

"Don't you even think about it, you hear me? I already told my reason."

"…Which makes absolutely no sense."

He won't understand. He won't risk Terriermon to get hurt in battle, or have him lose control in his Champion form. Ever since the trouble he made of hurting someone, Henry vowed to never believe in violence.

"My balloon! Come back here!" but a little girl ducked under the barricade and chased after her balloon in the fog.

Herny gasped when he spotted her move, and then he jumped over the fog while sneaking away from the officer. "Wait! Come back!" He shouted as he entered the fog with his shades on. "Get back here, it's dangerous!"

Right as he reached to the core, he discovered the little girl froze in fear when she saw Devimon glaring menacingly at her, even though he was really focusing his attention on an exhausted Angemon.

"Well, well, little girl. I'm flattered you wish to die; I do enjoy a good bonus."

Henry's eyes bugged wide when he figured that Devimon was gonna kill her with his claws. He quickly drew a card as Terriermon leaped off his head and raced to the rescue.

"DEATH…!"

"DIGI-MODIFY…!"

"CLAW!" Devimon then lashed his stretching arms, aiming for Angemon and the girl.

"…HYPER SPEED, ACTIVATE!"

Terriermon felt his sprint growing faster and faster, and Devimon getting closer very quick. "COMING AT YA!"

BOOM! Once he headbutted at Devimon's face, his attack flew off course and flown over Angemon and the girl.

"Come on, child, get away, quick!" Angemon said, carrying the girl to the gang.

Now Terriermon was back in business, standing eye to eye against a spawn of evil who recovered from his burning eye given from the little dog.

"You little prick! I'll gut you nice and slow! DEATH CLAW!"

Terriermon quickly leaped out of the way as the attack harmlessly crashed on the floor. "HA…BUNNY BLAST!"

The green blast pierced on Devimon's shoulder, making the beast scream in agony as the pain burned and smoke raised from his shoulder. "Gaaahhh…you are strong…how interesting…a Rookie is able to do great damage against me? YOU WILL DIE! TOUCH OF EVIL!"

Using his ears, Terriermon leaped over the blast and used the force of the explosion to hover higher. "Yuck! I don't go that way, pal!"

(Play Two Worlds from Rockman EXE Access)

There's no other choice…Devimon is almost as powerful as IceDevimon, so he might as well take this risk as he held his D-Arc tighter.

Watching from atop a night light post, Calumon watches the fight with curious interest, unaware that the symbol on his forehead lit up.

(Digivolution)

"TERRIERMON DIGIVOLVE TOOO…!"

"GARGOMON!"

Soon after the Digivolution was complete, Devimon angrily spread open his wings and arms for the kill. "That will not save you! PREPARE TO DIE!" And he charged for his new foe.

"Heh…you never learn. GARGO LASERS!"

His laser blasters forced Devimon to not only defend himself with his long claws, but slow down enough for Gargomon to leap over him and then he continued to blast him Devimon from the air.

Impossible! How can this cretin match power with me? Dammit, and my new attack only works on holy energy! "TOUCH OF EVIL!"

Soon as the dark blast comes sailing at Gargomon, the gun bunny's barrel guns opened some slots, releasing green flames. "BUNNY PUMMEL!"

BLAM! Gargomon uppercutted the blast, cutting through it and hurtling between through the burst. He caught Devimon in surprise when Gargomon dived at the beast, grinning with arrogant delight.

"I've got a present for ya, Eguano-butt, and it starts with BUNNY PUMMEL!"

PLOW! Before the kids' very eyes, Gargomon hammered the fallen angel far up in the air, but Devimon quickly recovered and gained control of his altitude, but his anger reached over the roof.

"BLAST YOU, BASTARD!" he screamed, as Yolei covered the girl's ears to prevent that swear from being heard. "I'LL KILL YOU! TOUCH OF EVIL!" he launched a powerful beam with all the energy he held….but…

"HAND OF FATE! ARGH!"

Angemon appeared out of nowhere and fired a tremendous amount of power to retaliate against the beam. His holy energy overpowered the dark beam, and slammed into Devimon so hard that he was deflected higher. Finishing the job, Gargomon chased after him and aimed his guns while flying.

"GARGO LASERS!" with the final blow, the lasers pierced through Devimon's gut and he felt the pain of the shots drilling holes in his body. Course, Yolei covered the girl's eyes from seeing this almost rated PG-13 fight.

As the devil was limping in the sky, Gargomon approached him, while flexing his arms for the final blow. "Those Street Fighter dudes better eat their hearts out after this! BUNNY PUMMEL!"

BLAM! He swung his barrel-gun, upwards, like a uppercut. The streaks of green light that was left by its path tore Devimon's body in half.

With his body giving out, Devimon finally dissolved into data. Gargomon hovered up in the air to absorb the data…but then the particles flew away from the gun-bunny on its own and disappeared in the sky.

"What the…?"

"I will have my revenge! I WILL!" his voice echoed.

"Hmm…that was new." Gargomon shrugged.

(End music)

Just as the digital field was disappearing, Tai led the gang out of sight, not before Guilmon returned the balloon to the girl and placed her back to her mother without being seen. Yep the DigiDestined and Tamers successfully escaped without the public knowing that they were responsible for the large craters and holes created on the road that the people gaped at…

…Except for a mysterious man with blonde hair, dark shades and a lighter he played with.

"Such anger. The darkness scares this blonde soul."

High on top the mighty skyscrapers, a dark, humanoid being gaze at the sight below. Sure, the scene seemed like the size of ants to him, but it didn't seem to matter for this man in the black armor and lion mask.

"Wow-wee! Did you see that too?"

The dark man took a small glace at his right, noticing a small white creature, happily hovering near him.

"Do you wanna play, big dark person? Huh? Huh?"

The armored man growled. "Sorry…" And he sprung away, disappearing from sight.

"Hey! Where did you go! Come back! I'll let you choose the game! We can play chess, for all I care!"

"Say Tai, how come you didn't help us?" Takato asked after the gang fled to a safe area.

"Well I wanted to see how you guys would handle the situation. I knew TK had a score to settle when Devimon came back. Agumon sensed his energy level was pretty low. That's why we didn't bother yet."

"Didn't seem low to me." Patamon grumbled.

"Guess he was training himself to get back at you, Patamon." Agumon figured.

"Oh I'm flattered."

"Course, I could've wiped out Devimon in my Rookie form, maybe in my In-Training form."

Tai smirked at his arrogant Digimon. "In your dreams, Zero."

"DON'T CALL ME THAT!"

Conversation done for the DigiDestined, Gargomon gazed back at his Tamer with concern. "Hey, Jen, you okay with all this?"

Henry took a big sigh. "Well there really wasn't any choice. Gargomon, I sure owe you an apology; there are some battles worth to fight for. I admit that now that we're working together, I'm gonna have to learn a bit more about taming."

"Well at least you two arrived when you were needed. I mean, Gargomon made whipping out Devimon look easy." TK said, patting Henry's shoulder.

"Yeah, well..."

"Hey...!" Gargomon called. "Momentai!"

Well since everyone was throwing apologies, Takato might as well make his. "Hey Guilmon, I'm owe you an apology too. I really messed up today; I just kept swiping one card after the next and relying on some dumb combo I didn't think what would happen to you. I guess I let that IceDevimon thing go to my head."

"But you learned from it, Takato." Tai said, joining in on the conversation. "Believe me, I made my share of mistakes and learned from them. Sides, even Davis here has a bad habit of making the same moves in Street Fighter."

"Hey, quit making me the living joke!"

"Can I help it if I'm the king of Capcom games?"

"Please, you couldn't beat one level any of the Megaman games!"

Yolei ruined their guy to guy mood by hitting them on the back and making them whine. "Would you two babies can it?"

"Jeez, there's a side from Sora I never notice from you, Yolei." Tai said, massaging his back.

Guilmon went up to Takato. "Don't worry, Takatomon, I liked flying. Flo-me-mon!"

"Um, Mou-men-tai!" Gargomon corrected.

Takato chuckled lightly, feeling the words flow in his head. "Momentai...MOMENTAI! Hahahahah!"

Tai laughed as well. "Hey guys, where's Ken and Cody?"

A moment of silence for Davis and Yolei was made before they slapped their foreheads. "Aw shoot, we left them behind!"

"Nice going, you two." TK sighed, e-mailing the others on where they are.

Out of nowhere, Takato came between Davis and Yolei and patted them on their backs. "Aw relax. Come on, let's all Momentai and look for the others!" he ran and cheered away like he won a baseball game.

Well if you can't beat them, join them, the others thought as they joined in on the cheering and running to destiny.

"Come on, y'all, just say it!" Gargomon shouted. "Give me an M-O-U-M-E-N-T-A-I! What does that spell?"

"MOMENTAI!" the gang cheered, running on the street with youthful cheer.

"SHOU-MEN-MAI!"

"NO GUILMON, IT'S MOMENTAI!"

(Terra's note: How come you spelled Moumentai right that time?)

(A/N: Avoid complaints maybe.)

And so, the Digi-gang runs off to the blue, ripping off one of those Pokemon endings as they embraced the youth adults yearn for...unaware that a certain blonde man with shades and a lighter was watching them with stern eyes.

Shinjuku College Dorms: 4:45 PM

"Whoa, talk about a busy day, Tentomon."

Flying out of his nest made out of computer junk, Tentomon perched on Izzy's bed to check the monitor. "Unbelievable! It's like today is a field day for these Digimon!"

Incase you're not getting it; there were a number of bio-emergence signals all around the Shinjuku map.

"Indeed, my friend. Thanks to my energy sensor, I've detected the level energies the Digimon are emitting. Other than those other two bio-emergence, the other are producing a low level of power, but still, we're gonna have a busy time in our hand."

"IZZZZY!"

Yes, that lovely, yet piercing cry was none other than the girlfriend of this awkward pairing, Mimi Tachikawa, who was by the door holding another of her edible experiment.

Izzy looked at her stiff and relaxed back in his seat. "Mimi, it's only you. -whew-"

That easily insulted her. "What do you mean it's only me?"

"Sorry, you just scared me. Anywise I'm glad you're here. We have a crisis."

"Uh oh, another Digimon problem?"

"Correct...lots of bio-emergence emitting across Shinjuku. The good news is that we're only getting weak Digimon, and some of the signals might be a dud. The bad news is that we may need all the DigiDestined on the case."

"Right now? Shoot, I have class in a few minutes."

"I was afraid of that. Well at least the others are free, expect Joe (No surprise), and so are the Tamers."

"Well that's good...oh I want you to try this." Mimi said, holding a try filled with a decorated ice cream."

"Mimi, I like to, but you know your cooking will distract me...MMph!" too late; Izzy was already under the spell of Mimi cooking.

"It wouldn't hurt to save some for me." Tentomon muttered.

West Shinjuku: 4:50 PM

Yamaki walked further down the road, on the trail of the kids he found that was with some of those Wild Ones. How typical for kids to be befriending with those dangerous creatures. As always, it's the adult that must put some sense in the youth of...

Just then, his cell ranged. "What?"

"Sir, we're getting a disturbance in the network data stream."

"Origin…?"

"Unknown, but, you're not gonna like this, but the signals are coming around everywhere in the Shinjuku area."

"What?"

"Although most of the signals are false for some reason and the rest are weak. We should take them down with just the tracers."

"Then what are you doing talking to me? Get on with your duty, Riley and make sure none of them sets foot in the real world."

"...Yes sir."

Employees; always panicking on something so easy to handle, although he'll have to look in to that report later. But for now, Yamaki needs to make some brats see the light.

"Okay, Izzy just reported that a lot of Digimon are appearing around Shinjuku." Tai reported to his team after reading his D-Terminal.

"Really…? That blows! What are we gonna do, Tai?" Davis asked his hero.

"Simple; we split up. The Tamers will scout the park since that's the best place they usually show up..." Takato and Henry nodded. "...Davis and Yolei will scout deep in the small town past the park..."

"US...?" Davis and Yolei screeched.

"Yes you..." Tai corrected, narrowing his eyes at them. "TK..."

"Actually Tai, I was supposed to meet with Kari to find out what's going on in the Digital World."

"Good idea. Get over there and find out what the heck is going on over there. I'll check the north side of West Shinjuku. I know this may sound cruel...but we're gonna have to delete them once we find them..." the gang raised their brows. "I know, we did that before a few days ago, but I know you guys didn't like it, and if you had the chance, you guys would try to send them back to the Digi-World. Well, they're too uncontrollable to bring back to the Digital World; probably another big boss Digimon has something to do with this. Never the less, you all have to do it; clear?"

The gang gave an unsure nod.

"Now move out, troops!"

And the gang head off to their destination, as Davis and Yolei glaring at each other.

West Shinjuku Park: 5:04 PM

When Takato and Henry reached the park, they decided to split up. However, Takato noticed Guilmon looking pretty exhausted from the fight with Devimon, so he led him back to his den for a quick rest while Takato hurries back home to pick up some bread like he promised.

Running through the park, he spotted Kazu and Kenta playing the card game under their usual playing spot. He decided to talk to them about what happened a few hours ago.

"Hey guys, why'd you ran off like that, earlier?"

"Oh we had...stuff to do." Kenta replied with a monotone. "By the way, how were you able to make him real?"

Takato shook his head up, blinking his eyes. "That's cause he is real."

Just like that, the two scooped up their cards and headed out, even though Takato just got there. He couldn't believe his friends would ditch him without even a reason why, unless they think he's crazy.

"You're starting to freak us out, dude." Kazu said, walking off. "Cute little trick using flashlights and rubber and some tape recorder. Real sweet, chummily."

"But why would I do that? I know it's creepy but he's real, and you guys ran off before he got a chance to say hello."

But like a curious cat, Jeri hid behind some trees, eavesdropping on the boys. As much as she's not interested in Digimon, she would like to see a real one.

Another part of the park takes us in an empty baseball field where another digital field appeared, coating the diamond area. Soon a swarm of strange insect Digimon called Flybeemons appeared, taking the field as their territory...that is until Renamon appears out of nowhere and crashed the party.

The battle was an odd number and pretty much a disadvantage for the vulpine. Sure these Flybeemons pack low power as Renamon proved it by smashing her paws at them to KO, but they could easily catch her from behind, like so, and shoot their stingers to stun her to her knees, like so.

Rika, where are you?

Soon Henry and Gargomon arrived outside the baseball field, spotting the fog that hid it. But more than that, they found someone watching the battle through the gates.

"Rika!" as Henry approached the girl, and Calumon who was looking at her with concern, he noticed her watching the fight with a dead face you see in one of those...depressed chicks. What is her problem? My god, she looks out of it. "Rika, why are you standing here? This isn't like you!"

"Yeah, Renamon needs you, Rika!" Calumon pleaded, tugging her jeans.

"DIAMOND STORM!"

Rika's face crushed in sorrow, like she was trying to hold back her tears as Renamon threw the final blow at the last of the Flybeemons.

"Or...maybe not." Gargomon muttered.

Before Henry can say anything else to Rika, she ran off and disappeared as the digital field disappears. "Rika!"

Suddenly leaped out of the baseball field, watching Rika run off. To Henry and Gargomon's point of view, it was hard to tell how Renamon was feeling from her face due to her always being expressionless. But no face was needed for Henry to feel the tension around Renamon; saying like she was surprised that Rika was here...and left without even helping out.

With no word, Renamon faded from vision.

"Boy, those two have social skills of a Goth."

"Gargomon, shush!"

Uptown Shinjuku: 5:16 PM

In the small town by Shinjuku, where Takato lives, we find Daisuke Motamiya and Miyako Inoue traveling the old urban town filled with small buildings, aged and some ruined. They haven't found any Digimon around, which was good for Yolei cause she doesn't want to kill living creatures, and bad for Davis cause Veemon needed the exercise.

But it was awkward being around Davis in this day of age. Neither one of them said a word to each other, not even any insults. Yolei couldn't identify the feeling she felt around Davis; it was too hard to describe. But...something strange is wrong with Davis, and she's just finally noticing. Sure, change is good, even for Davis, but it was scary...all of a sudden he shouts to the world that he doesn't have a crush on Kari and he's a lot nicer to Yolei...scratch that. But still, it's nice that Davis is finally showing some maturity but why...why does Yolei feel...weird around him? Shouldn't she be glad that Davis let go of Kari...? Better yet, why should she care what Davis feels for Kari?

"Look, Yolei, I'm sorry that you didn't get paired up with Ken, but there was nothing I can do about it."

Yolei was caught in surprise at this. Since when did Davis become concern about her feelings? "Why are you apologizing? What makes you think I mad about not being with Ken?"

"Come on, Yolei, I know you're complaining about it."

"Okay...you're right...but then again, we can't be all lovey dovey on patrol."

Davis snickered. "Oh, so Tai and Sora can French kiss at work and you and Ken can't?"

"Hmm...yep. Life; go figure."

And with that, Davis and Yolei shared a good laugh. But that only lasted for a few seconds and when they stood in silence, the two shyly looked away, mostly for Davis to hide his red face.

"Hey, Davis…I know that this may be…"

"I'm sorry."

Confusion spread in Yolei's mind. "Huh? What are you sorry for now?"

"I…" Davis shamelessly rubbed his hair, looking away from Yolei. "…I promised that I would make sure your Digimon wouldn't get hurt…but instead I let Devimon kick the tar out of him…I'm sorry…I failed to keep that promise."

This was so strange…Davis never was serious for Yolei. She never expected him to be serious about…something for her…but as she looked at Davis' sorrow look as he hung his head in shame…she felt sad for him.

"Davis, you don't need to kick yourself for that. You didn't really have to do that, but there was nothing you can do. Besides, Poromon is okay; right Poromon?"

The little ball shaped bird peaked out of Yolei's bag. "Sure, I've dealt worse. Nice to know you were concern for me, Davis."

It would seem that the weight in Davis was lifted as he gingerly smiled. "Uh…yeah…thanks guys."

It's kind of nice for Davis to be…caring for once…besides with Ken, but still… something is up with Davis, and it must have something to do with him finally getting over Kari. "So...Davis...I'm a little curious but...if you gotten over Kari a few months ago, why did you acted like you still liked her?"

Davis swallowed a lump before turning back to her. "Uh...no really I gotten over her around today."

"Just drop it, buster. I know it's none of my business, but just tell me why; you're kind of...worrying me...I-I mean us."

Davis lowered his head, nervously rubbing his hair. "Uh...well..."

"Davis, you can tell me."

Davis gulped like swallowing something hard as his face heated. If only it were that easy. "Yolei...I can't..." Suddenly, Davis felt his bag madly wiggling thanks to DemiVeemon. "DemiVeemon, what are you...?"

"Someone's coming!"

Right on cue, Davis and Yolei spotted a blonde man in a black suit approaching them with a dark appearance. Every one of these two felt bad vibes about this man, although Davis thought this guy might be those guys from the MIB movie.

Looking down at the teens and looking over at a terminal, the man smirked. "Daisuke Motamiya and Miyako Inoue I presume?"

Davis took a step back, on his guard in case this man is a Digimon in disguise. Just knowing their names brought all their guards up. "Yeah, what about it?"

"You were seen over at the Shinjuku Guard Rail moments ago, were you not?"

Yolei didn't like where this was going. "What business do you have about where we go, huh?"

"You were seen with couple of boys and highly dangerous life forms. You will be placed in observation if we find out that you have anything to do with them. You might as well stop playing these childish games and act your age."

Davis narrowed his eyes; lowering his arm he held out protectively in front of Yolei. "What the heck are you talking about?"

"You've been warned." he replied, walking past the teens.

"Hey! Who are you?" Yolei shouted, but the man ignored and walked in an alley.

Davis chased after the creepy blonde, but once he approached the alley he went in. "Nuts, he's gone!"

"Just who was that, Davis?" DemiVeemon asked.

"Beats me, but he looked like he's from the government or some crap."

Yolei caught up with Davis, looking over his shoulder for the man. "Great...we better tell Tai and Izzy about this. I hope the others don't bump into that creep."

5:56 PM

Somewhere else in the west side of the town, we find Henry walking with Takato who was carrying a bag full of bread and peanut butter down a steep street through a quite neighborhood. Gargomon just returned back to Terriermon after battling a Snimon.

"I'm gonna have a long talk with computer nerd." Terriermon muttered, resting on Henry's head. "Weak Digimon my ass!"

Takato laughed at the comment. "Sorry for not helping but Guilmon was really tired...so...you say you seen Rika?"

Henry nodded with no expression. "Yeah...you should've seen her; her face was out of it, and Renamon didn't let me talk to her, even last night."

Takato frown with pity for Rika. He couldn't believe he forgot about her after not seeing her for nearly two days. "So...what would you say to her if you had the chance?"

"Hmm...Probably about the aspects of partnerships, I don't know...you?"

"Not sure...though compared to Rika and Renamon, I guess me and Guilmon only enjoy to have fun. He really isn't your average Digimon, that's for sure, but he's my friend and I can rely on him a lot...but Rika...and Renamon don't understand that and I wish I can help."

"But knowing her, she's too stubborn to listen to reason. She keeps herself hidden under cold skin."

Takato's eyes soften, feeling so worried. "Man...I bet it's eating her up."

"I imagine that, but with Rika you just never know."

Suddenly, as they turned a corner, the same man that was with Davis and Yolei approached them with a dark authority written on him. Takato and Henry froze with their guard against the man's death stare.

"Are you Takato Matsuki?"

"Um...yeah?"

"That must mean you're Jenrya Wong."

"Yeah, what do you want, sir?"

"You've been under close observation in the Shinjuku Guard Rail where we were handling a situation there. This game you're playing is dangerous. I suggest you find a new hobby."

Now the Chinese/Japanese boy was getting impatient and angry. "What are you getting at, and what do you care what we do? Who are you?"

"Takato! Takato!" the goggled boy gasped when he heard that familiar cry.

The man adjusted his shades and turned to leave. "Consider that your warning."

"What do you mean 'warning'? This isn't exactly normal human behavior!" having enough of this and hungry for clear answers, Henry chased after the man.

Takato was about to do the same, but his cheeks heated up when Jeri approached him. "Uh...Jeri, what's up?"

"Well..." she rubbed her arm, looking nervous to ask something. "Takato I know it's not nice to eavesdrop, but I couldn't help overhearing what you were arguing to Kazu and Kenta. It sounded like you were arguing over a real Digimon."

"Um...a real Digimon?"

"I may not be a fan of Digimon, but is it true you have a real one?"

"A real...one?"

"Would you stop repeating everything I say? Is it true?"

What to do, what to do? Should he trust the girl he really likes or not? "Uh...if I tell you, would you believe me; you wouldn't be scared?"

"I believe you! I wanna really see it!"

Oh she wants to see it. Is that all? Hehehe... "WHA...!"

Although that he couldn't do...even though he tried to show Guilmon to Kazu and Kenta. Sure he would decline his crush's offer, but...how could he...resist...the Puppy Dog Eyes? (A/N: Remember, only 14.95 at Epsilon Zeta Corp.)

Oh great...

Digital World: 5:13 PM

In a world beneath the layers of cyberspace, unlike our very own, lies the Digital World, homed by the Digimon. This world is famed for its abnormal environment like soda machines growing like plants, plug outlets found in trees, grasses, deserts, everywhere, and of course, the Digimon. This world had gone through trauma after MaloMyotismon reigned in terror in a controversial battle against all the DigiDestined…by talking.

…..

But with Oikawa's essence around the Digital World, the barriers were returned to their full healthy shape and the Digital World was rebuild…again.

But enough about that crap; Let's get to the good stuff!

We find the young attractive teen, Hikari Kamiya and her Digimon Gatomon, waiting by a colorful forest for their friend that just left to settle an old business.

"Guys, we're here!" Kari smiled when she spotted Takeru Takashi and Patamon running up to the girls, or flying in Patamon's case.

"About time guys...so what happened?"

TK figured his explanation had to involve back in the DigiDestineds' first adventure in the Digital World, since Kari was never there. Perhaps Tai told her about that adventure, but TK explained it to her in his point of view, when he watched Angemon die before his eyes.

"TK...You never told me that."

TK grimed, pressing his lips together. "Yeah well it was hard to forget...it also bothered me when we were battling BlackWarGreymon; remember?"

"Yeah...I heard from Yolei that Cody was uncomfortable around you that time."

TK nodded, falling to a frown as he watched the road they walked on. He really took the evils of darkness really seriously. If he would've continued that, he would've suffered the same fate as Tai with SkullGreymon.

"Uh, TK…were you…um…feeling alright the other night?"

What she meant by that, TK thought. "Uh…what do you mean, Kari?"

The girl lowered her head to hide her red face. "I…I mean…about back in the park…when we…almost…" She looked like she was trying to open her lip. Then she inaudibly whispered. "…kissed."

TK stopped his pace. "What was that?"

Kari slowly raised her red face, closing her eyes like with shame. "Wealmostkissed!"

"Huh?"

Suddenly, Gatomon hopped on TK and glared at his face. "She wants to know about when you two almost kissed! Jeez!"

Kari embarrassedly covered her face. "Gatomon!"

"Hey we kitties are impatient about most things." She replied, jumping off the boy.

This is when things became quite. TK was hoping they wouldn't come to that subject, but how should he answer this? His father once said when stuck in this situation, you have to be very careful on what to say, because you don't know how the other person feels. Yes, he wanted to kiss her so much…but if he tells the truth and she doesn't feel the same way…he's afraid it might cost their friendship. But what about the other way around…?

Boy he's screwed.

"Uh…well…" Come on, TK; think! "Well it's just that…uh…"

Looking at her eyes, Kari was waiting for an answer, but Takeru just doesn't know how to explain it without…effecting their friendship for the worse. Should he lie? Should he tell the truth? If only he knew how Kari felt about him. But wouldn't he give to kiss this sweet girl who owns those sparkling, innocent brown eyes? Everything, that's what, except dealing with the devil; Kari would hate him for it.

Funny…Kari doesn't seem to be saying a word; she keeps staring at his eyes like she was searching for something. But…why does it seem Kari's face is getting closer to his? Is he moving towards her? Is she moving towards him? He should stop this before it's too late. Pull back, TK!

Oh hell with that!

"Helllllooooo!"

The two jumped away from the shock of returning to reality….er…digital reality.

"NUTS!" someone like Gatomon screamed, gripping on Kari's camera tightly while Patamon kept away like she was an insane mammal that she is.

Just then, a man with a cloak ran up through the road to greet the kids. "Takeru and Hikari, it's been a while.

"Gennai…!" Patamon flew on TK's head, snapping towards the man. "You picked a rotten time to interrupt the magic!"

"YEAH!" Gatomon agreed, raising her paw up from off-screen.

"I beg your pardon…? Never mind…anywise, I'm glad you're here. I'm sorry we couldn't make contact, but we couldn't risk it."

"Risk it?" Kari repeated. "Why?

West Shinjuku Park: 6:02 PM

We join now at the park with Taichi Kamiya and Agumon doing their routes to find any Digimon they missed. They already took down a number of them, but that's not why Tai looks beat; heck Agumon was still stoked to take out a hundred Digimon, as thus Tai. But he wasn't tired or anything; he was just bummed that he couldn't find Sora.

"Huh…is that Takato and Henry?" Agumon asked.

Tai got a closer look at the young goggled boy leading someone through the bushes that his the stairs of Guilmon's hut. "It's Takato, but that's not…aw shit, that idiot!"

Boy, Tai is really gonna kill me for this. Takato stood at the front of the den, having second thoughts of showing Jeri Guilmon.

"Does he…live here?" Jeri asked, frightfully gripping on Takato's shoulders.

Course after having Jeri this close, how could he pass this up? "…Yup! His name is Guilmon and I created him."

"You did? Wow! What's he like?"

A wide smile spread on his lips. He then happily opened the gates like a gentleman for a woman. "He's tough and baby can he fight! His special attack is…!"

He trailed off when he noticed Jeri freeze in fear when yellow eyes glowed in the darkness and a ferocious growl was heard as well, giving Jeri's stomach chills. Whoops, this could get ugly. Forget it. From his experience with girls, Jeri might shriek at the sight of the little dinosaur. "I was just joking; it's nothing but flashlights and a tape recorder. You know how we boys are. Heh ehe."

"Huh? But you just said…"

"Nah…I'm sorry that I…"

"Hey Takatomon…?" Takato cringed hearing that. He didn't have to turn around to find Guilmon exposing himself out of the den. "I'm hungry. Did you bring any bread?"

"GAAAHHH!" Jeri shrieked, just like in the movies.

"Wow, you brought a friend instead."

He's done now. Takato hid his face in shame. Now Jeri's gonna run and then she's gonna hate him which means he'll never tell her how he feels and they won't date and…

"HE'S SO CUTE!" Jeri squealed.

Gee he never heard that in the movies. Opening his eyes, he was surprised to see Jeri hugging the dragon rather than running away like a Godzilla extra. "Uh…cute…you mean cool, right?"

"No, he's so adorable!"

Aw jeez, as a boy, he really was expecting what he has to be cool, phat, anything that sounds manly; not cute!

"I don't mind adorable but who is she, Takatomon? Is she your girlfriend?"

His body hopped like he had the hiccups, burning in heat. "Uh…well she's a friend." Man, who told Guilmon about that stuff? I'm gonna have a talk with that Terriermon.

Happily, Jeri released the dino. "Whoops, I'm sorry. I'm Jeri."

"I'm Guilmon, nice to meet ya."

"And I'm greatly disappointed in you, Takato."

And from the red body comes pale skin. Takato felt the executioner nearing him as Tai walked up the stairs, giving Takato a death glare. "Uh…heh heh…hi, Tai, fancy meeting you here. Uh…this is Jeri. Jeri this is Tai…my…angry boss."

"Uh huh…and what made you think showing Guilmon to someone else was a good idea?"

"Um…" Takato's head sunk in shame while twiddling his fingers. "…the Puppy Dog Eyes?"

"Ooo, I don't blame you." Right as Takato dropped with relief, Tai came up to Jeri. "I don't think I need to tell you to keep this a secret, right?"

"Oh don't worry, sir. I won't tell anyone."

"Okay, but call me Tai. Sir makes me feel old."

"Sure thing, Mr. Tai…" the college boy groaned after that name. "Besides, why should I tell anyone? Guilmon's so cute, like a giant baby!"

"Hey…!" Jeri gasped when she saw Agumon running out of the bushes. "I can be cute too; watch!" Tai held a laugh when Agumon tired to do his best cute look; with large sparkling green eyes and pouting his lips.

Jeri giggled as she petted Agumon. "You're both so funny…hey I almost forgot! I got a present for you!" she reached into her pocket as Agumon squealed: 'Oh boy!'. "I'm gonna put it right here…and here…perfect."

Agumon sweatdropped; lowering his eyes at a little flower sticker on his nose, but Guilmon just smiled at the present.

"Wow! Not bad, huh?"

Both Tai and Takato cringed in embarrassment at the sight. Agumon had it worse, though. If Gomamon saw him like this, he'll never hear the end of it.

"It's…cute." Tai and Takato said, uneasily. I can't believe I just said that.

Downtown Shinjuku: 6:38 PM

The skies grew dark…since it was spring time and still haven't reached the end of day-lights savings time. But its not the skies that grew so dark, one person was feeling dark before the sky; Rika Nonaka. Her attempts to forget about everything she knew about Digimon failed, so she decided to go for a walk. She refused to talk to anyone…well that's no surprise, but she wouldn't talk to her grandmother, the only person she mostly relates to.

"Rika you barely even speak to me; it's like you're treating me like the enemy…-sigh-…alright I'll leave you alone, but just remember: No one can make it in this world on their own and humans and living things are meant to be together. You're expecting too much on yourself…you're not Wonder Woman, you know. Even she needs others."

Yep, that's what her grandmother said…though that last part was strange. Ugh, don't tell me granny reads comics.

No one can make it alone? Ha. Who needs anyone? Rika will not be weak…even though the emptiness does hurt inside. Pausing from her thoughts, she focused on walking around an in-coming person and continued to walk mindlessly.

"I've been looking for you. Your grandmother said you weren't home."

Rika just wished someone would shoot her now. She didn't have to turn to know that voice belonged to that helmet girl of the DigiDestined, but she did stop.

"Its funny, I thought your grandmother was your mother at first. She seems too young to be a grandmother."

Rika rolled her eyes. "What were you doing at my house, without my permission?"

"Taking a break from fighting Digimon…and I wanted to talk to you."

"I have nothing to discuss, helmet-girl, so back off." Rika bounded to walk away.

"Renamon is worried about you."

This stopped her in her tracks. "Yeah right." She muttered.

"For what I heard when you say that you hate Digimon…I don't believe that shit."

Rika shut her eyes, stopping her tears. "You don't understand…she used me…"

"And I don't believe that either. I've heard how cruel you were, but shouldn't you be at least surprised that Renamon stuck with you through thick and thin?"

"She used me! Don't you understand that? She Digivolved when I refused her to."

"Back with IceDevimon…? Rika, she didn't Digivolve…"

"What are you…?"

"You made her Digivolve."

Rika was lost of words for a moment. She couldn't figure it out. She made her Digivolve? How? She didn't…

Suddenly, Sora's D-Terminal ranged for her to read it. After reading her message, Sora put away the device, with Yokomon grabbing the device from the bag.

"Duty calls," Sora walks off, but took a moment to halt and speak without facing the young girl. "You're free to follow me…if you like to talk to Renamon that is." With that, she ran off.

Renamon? She never wants to see her again…does she? Does she miss her? Does Renamon care for her?

"Wait up, helmet girl!"

Stopping, Sora smiled in victory. Never thought I could pull off that calm dark talk. Eat your heart out, Taichi.

West Shinjuku Park: 6:48 PM

"Bye guys! See ya around!"

And so, Jeri waves off as she leaves the den for home, leaving Takato, Guilmon, Tai, and Agumon to wave bye. To his amusement, Tai noticed Takato going in a blank and dazed look, waving like a sick zombie.

"Bye, bye, buh-bye, bye…bye, bye…bye…" and Tai tapped him hard on the head. "OW! That hurt!"

Tai crossed his arms, slyly grinning at Takato. "So…you just showed her Guilmon to impress her, huh?"

"Um…" Takato sheepishly blushed. "Well it's like I say; it's the Digimon. Chicks dig the Digimon."

Guilmon blinks at his Tamer. "Huh?"

"Nuts, I lost him!"

The boys then spotted Henry standing at the foot of the hill, searching for someone.

"Who, that creepy blonde guy?" Takato asked.

"Yeah; he's a sneaky one!"
"You guys bumped into him too?" Tai asked.

"Yeah, you…?"

Tai shook his head at Takato. "No, but Davis and Yolei did. I'm gonna have to talk to Izzy about him. He could be trouble."

"You mean like that?" Terriermon replied, point down yonder. Soon the gang spotted a large digital field down the distance. "For your sake, I hope that's someone just burning ants."

(Play Event: Strain of SA1.)

The smoky fog flowed around in a circle, surrounding a group of flying creatures that cried in a horrible, ear piercing shriek. Flipping in the fog, Renamon landed on the other side of the field, prepared to strike in battle, except for clearing her head about a question that rumbled in her head. She's been all around the city, finding anyone to answer her problem. Henry was too drowned in his own problem, Takato would shake in his knees by her presence, the DigiDestined would only say for her to rekindle with Rika, and Impmon's advice was just to watch out for yourself.

The screaming beast spotted their next prey on the ground, which stood staring at them with cold eyes.

My heart still feels empty...

They spread their wings, stiffing their razor claws.

...but it's useless to rekindle with Ruki now.

Two of them swooped down, diving for the kill.

I must draw upon my inner strengths, for I am alone in this world.

(Switch to SA1 theme: Chaos 0, 2, 4)

Soon when the humanoid creatures closed in on the yellow vulpine, Renamon shot up to the sky, performing a spinning dance. A third monster soared for the airborne fox, but she surprised the bird with a spinning roundhouse kick, smashing the beast of course while losing some feathers.

As gravity pulled Renamon down, she twisted around to focus on the other two fliers, and rained a Diamond Storm, piercing their bodies deeply with the crystal darts.

After she landed on earth, another monster tackled her from behind, shoving Renamon on the floor, which she quickly leaped on her feet.

Just then, Tai, Takato, Henry, and their Digimon arrived on the scene. Far from the fighting field, they spotted Renamon.

"Rika, are you here?" Henry shouted.

"I don't see her, Henry. I don't think she's here." Takato replied.

Henry looks over his D-Ark and a hologram image of the winged creatures appears with some information about them.

Harpymon: Phantom Beast Digimon. With its giant wings, it can control the wind and fly freely through the air or over the sea.

Type: Data

Stage: Armor

Attacks: Wind Seeker, Silent Sympathy

"There sure are a lot of them." Takato exclaimed. "I think there's...one...two...three...

"There're seven of them." Henry corrected.

"I knew that...alright, boy, go help out Renamon!"

The red dragon slouched down in battle pose. "…As long as she doesn't punch me in the funny bone." And he charged away.

"Wait for me!" Terriermon cried.

Guilmon tackled one Harpymon like a football player that was trying to sneak up on Renamon while Terriermon fired a Bunny Blast at the other. Guilmon nearly was caught in a grip lock, but he swung the Harpymon over his head and slammed it on the floor. Terriermon twisted around in Terrier Tornado, blowing away his foe.

"WIND SEEKER!"

Another one launched a blade shockwave that scratched the concrete floor a good deep scar. Guilmon and Terriermon nearly avoided the attack, but fell on their backs.

"Alright, let me in there, Tai!" Agumon shouted, itching for action.

Tai crossed his arms with a serious look. "Be my guest."

"Yes! Here I go!"

Agumon launched into the battlefield, soaring past Guilmon and Terriermon as he raced for the Harpymon who attacked them last.

"PEPPER BREATH!" Much like the Pyro Sphere, Agumon shot an amazing blast of fire that punched the Harpymon to the floor, causing a crater from impact.

"Wow!" Takato gasped.

Landing on the floor, Agumon again hopped over to the Harpymon that was pulling itself up. "SHARP CLAWS!" Closing in, Agumon gave an upper slash right through the torso and face, blowing the beast to data.

"Man, did you see that, Henry? He took down an Armor Digimon with two shots!"

Henry nodded at Takato's observation. "Pretty amazing, especially since data types are strong against vaccines."

Renamon backflipped away from a Wind Seeker strike and returned fire with a Diamond Storm that the two Harpymons dodged away from. They motioned in each side of the vulpine, hoping to surround Renamon.

"POWER PAW!" But Renamon smashed her paws at their faces with quick agility.

"Guys!"

Tai flashed his face with glee when he saw his helmet wearing girlfriend coming through the fog along with her pink bird Digimon. "Sora, you're just in time!"

"Great, but look who I bumped into!" pointing behind her, Rika Nonaka gloomily walked in the fog core.

"Hey, Rika, you're here! That's great!" Henry exclaimed.

Takato happily flapped his arms and cried like a little kid. "Renamon! Look! Look! Rika's here!"

Renamon halt her battle to make eye contact with her Tamer for the first time since two days ago. Rika stares with her spiritless eyes, suffering the memories of the battle with IceDevimon. Still in her point of view, Renamon doesn't need her.

Soon a Harpymon tries to dive for Renamon, but she leaps back and swung a crushing kick that made the beast spin like a flying top. Then the fox finished it off by unleashing a Diamond Storm, coating sharp shards around the phantom's body and bursting it to data.

Impmon was right; I wielded the strengths within me, without Ruki's help!

Renamon was powerful without my help. She didn't need me. Rika was at a point to cry and then run, but Sora's hand on her shoulder prevented that.

Biyomon joined Agumon in the fight, but were surrounded by a Harpymon that flew in circles with great speed.

"No sweet, I got a way to counter that!" Tai insured with a grin, nodding at Sora. "Agumon, Biyomon! Back to back formation!"

Agumon moved closer to Biyomon, touching his back against hers. "Is this what you had in mind? SPIT FIRE!"

"SPIRAL TWISTER!"

Agumon attacked with his new attacks, meaning shooting a number of small fire darts from his mouth while Biyomon used her old green twister of energy. They created mostly a closeline on both sides until the Harpymon got hit by the fire, like so.

"Nice one, Taichi!" Sora commented. "Forget aim, with all that fire power!" She playfully pressed her cheek against her boyfriend's and smiled at him, who smiled back.

Renamon jumped high with a spinning dance, tossing some Diamond Storms from her hands like she was tossing Frisbees. A flying Harpymon suffered the hits until it lost the will to stay in the air and drop to the floor. Renamon touched near the fallen beast and charged her fist with energy for a Power Paw…but for some reason, she took no action and died away the energy.

"Hey, why'd ya stop?" Agumon asked. "Aren't you gonna finish it?"

Renamon hung her head to look at her paw. "I could load all the data of every opponent I vanquish…but what's the point once it's all over?"

Just then, a Harpymon managed to stir itself up after the attack of Agumon and Biyomon. Right from behind, it flew to Renamon and surprised her with a Wind Seeker. After soaring and scaring the floor in the process, it nailed the fox and sends her flying back with tremendous force till she crashed into a light post and dented it badly.

The Tamers and DigiDestined looked in horror at the sight as Harpymon prepares to zoom in for the kill, but none was more frightened than Rika.

"PEPPER BREATH!" A giant fireball tackled the deadly Harpymon away from Rika, with the power of five football players, and exploded with the beast with it.

Sensing the that the danger was thwarted, Rika opened her eyes and found Agumon, a few feet from her, with his mouth releasing some smoke.

"Great job, Agumon!" Tai said, gratefully. But then his ears, along with everyone else's, directed them up in the air as new screams came from two Harpymons. "Uh oh, two more!"

That's right, those two Harpymon saw the power the orange dino possessed, and immediately saw him as a great threat. With this, Agumon was now under the pile of those Harpymons.

"Get off! I just ate!"

Meanwhile, Renamon pulled up, still feeling weak after getting blown like that. But then two more Harpymons surrounded the fox. Renamon swung a kick at one Harpymon that tried to dive in, but after she laid the attack, another Harpymon rammed her on her back and made her slide on the floor.

Rika couldn't take this lying down. She reached in for her cards…but she just remembered she left them at home. But…why was she aiming to help Renamon? She shouldn't help her; she used her…But now seeing Renamon getting double teamed by the Harpymons that were stomping on her wounded self…memories of her days with Renamon flashed in her eyes. She was her only friend…even if Renamon is just data…she may have used her but Renamon don't deserve this.

Soon, Rika noticed a broken tree branch. Grabbing it, she rushes behind a Harpymon and stabs it in the back, making the beast scream in bloody murder. The two Harpymons stopped ganging up on Renamon and gave deadly stares at the helpless girl who tumbled on her back from their dangerous looks. Rika rolled away and tried to run for her dear life, but the two phantom beasts jumped over her and blocked her path.

"Oh great, Rika's in trouble…Sora, what's that light show in your bag?"

Responding to Tai's question, she pulled it out of her bag which was a blue Digivice; Rika's D-Arc. She remembered after she visited Rika's home, she found the device in her garbage bin and decided to give it back to Rika…like right now.

"Rika…HERE!"

The ice Tamer responded to Sora's call but then she saw her D-Arc flying over to her. Without thinking, she caught the device, but once she did, her D-Arc burst in white energy, meaning Renamon was Digivolving…again.

(Digivolution)

"RENAMON DIGIVOLVE TOOOO…!"

"KYUUBIMON"

(Play Sakura Mankai from Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha soundtrack)

The Harpymons screeches loud soon as Kyuubimon tackled the beasts away from Rika. Another Harpymon tries to dive at her from behind, until it got blown away by Guilmon's Pyro Sphere.

"Yeah…!" Guilmon shouted as his mouth died away the yellow energy. "Got get em, Kyuubimon!"

The Harpymons shot over the floor, shooting at Kyuubimon like missiles, but Kyuubimon leaped back and whipped them away with her tails. With the flying beasts down on the count, Kyuubimon lifted up her flaming tails.

"FOX TAIL INFERNO!" the nine fireballs struck the Harpymon in a multiple explosion, destroying them into data. Another Harpymon launched up in the sky and fired a Wind Seeker, but Kyubimon cut through the attack with her Fox Tail Inferno, destroying the Harpymon in the process.

Soon the fox studied the area, noticing remaining Harpymons attacking Terriermon, Agumon, and Biyomon. So, Kyuubimon jumped as high as she could till she was in front of the full moon, and spun in a blue flaming ball.

"DRAGON WHEEL!" A powerful flame with the spirit of a dragon within flew from Kyuubimon around the field and engulfed the Harpymon and the ally Digimon. Surprisingly to the allies, they were surprised that the fire didn't hurt them, but the murderous screams from the Harpymons did as they suffered the pain of the flames till they gave into as data and floated up at the sky.

As the fog died away, Rika watched her Digimon fall through the data, but she did not see a single one downloaded into Kyuubimon's body. The fox touched the floor, letting the light from the blue flames that surrounded the battlefield. Rika cautiously approached Kyuubimon like nearing a dump dog.

"Kyuubimon…why didn't you downloaded their data?"

"I don't need to."

"I don't understand."

"I do…I don't need to download an opponent's data…" Her dark crystal eyes gazed at Rika. "…Because I have you…You saved my life, Rika."

Rika lowered her head, feeling flushed. "I had to…you saved my life once."

"That's what partners do…do we not?"

In a rare moment…Rika raised her eyes to Kyuubimon…and smiled. "Yeah…" she then threw herself on Kyuubimon and hugged her neck.

(End music)

The Tamer and DigiDestined watched the warm sight as the fire lit the scene in its blue, heavenly light, even Sora was touched by this and laid her head on Tai's shoulder. Though Takato scratched his head in confusion at Rika's moment.

"Man, I don't get it."

Smiling, Henry crossed his arms. "It's obvious…Rika and Kyuubimon were worried about each other. Problem is that they're too stubborn to admit it."

Soon, Rika and Kyuubimon walked over to the others, letting Tai and Sora approach the girl and fox.

"Hey…helmet…er …I mean…"

"Sora."

"Sora…" Rika hid her red face from the group. "…Thanks…and tell that other girl with the Gatomon that too."

Sora responded with a nod and a smile. "I will."

Tai walked over to Rika, towering the girl. "Well Rika, I'm proud that you've understand the true meaning of a human and Digimon. I hope that the next time we meet, we'll be fighting side by side." He then raised a hand by the girl.

Rika cautiously studied the hand. "Well…just don't get your hopes up I'll be nice to you bums."

"Aw come on, Rika…" Takato pleaded. "He was…"

The girl raised a finger for him to shut up. "But…my tolerance for you people just increased…" she met Tai's offer and shook his hand. "It's a deal…" With relief and happiness, the other smiled. "…sides, even Wonder Woman need a little help."

Like light, Takato dashes by Rika. "You read Wonder Woman? Cool! Hey, did ya read the issue where she tore…?" His voice trailed off when Rika gave him a death glare. "Um…I'll just go over there…" and with that, he leaped a safe distance away from Rika and stood by Henry. "Man, she'll never change."

The gang laughed at Takato's attempts to be friendly with Rika failed; But as they were about to leave Rika to reconcile her differences with Kyuubimon, a dark figure spies on the kids behind a tree, gripping his lighter tightly.

"Can't they see the danger; seeing that these digital beings are a threat to human kind! I cannot allow this obscenity to continue. There're too much at stake here." With that, Yamaki tossed his cigarette on the floor and crushed it. He walks off, leaving the kids alone with their 'friends'…for he hopes they'll savior it while it lasts. "I'm sorry, kiddies, but playtime's over."

Chuckling evilly, he looks at his terminal at the stats of his latest project: Juggernaut.

But unknown to anyone, within the shadows by the trees, a dark figure watch on; a figure with its face shaped as a lion…a deadly, dark kind of lion.

"The time…is almost upon us." With that, he faded in the darkness.

End of part 6…..