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This story is NOT made by the makers/owners of digimon and if they so choose
I will delete it.
(See Spirited for the difference between thoughts, speech, and quotes).

Dark Control:
Meeting and Explanation

The Digital World:

Takato could not believe what he was seeing, in front of him in a clearing stood the DigiDestined, all of the DigiDestined, Willis, Davis, Tai, Kari, Mimi, all of them, well almost, the International DD from the world tour part of the second season were there. *Woah, it's the DigiDestined, this is amazing, wait, this is impossible, they're a cartoon how can they be real? Could that 'black hole' of taken us to another dimen…*

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Agumon turned as he heard rustling from the bushes nearby, he was just in time to see someone or something hide itself in the bushes, he quickly turned back to his partner, "Um, Tai?"

"What is it Agumon?" Asked Tai, a worried look came across the face of the original leader of the DD at the urgency in his partner's voice.

"I think there's something in those bushes over there, I saw it just as it hide behind them again." As Agumon said this he pointed towards the bushes that Takato and his group were hiding behind.

As Agumon finished the others quickly came over to see what was going on, "What's the matter Tai?" asked his little sister Kari, in her arms Gatomon looked towards Tai to see what his answer would be. The others heard Kari's question and also turned to Tai hoping to find out what was going on, what none of them realized was that they were going to end the day with more questions then answers.

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"Uh oh" Takato quickly hid back behind the bushes when he saw Agumon start to turn towards him.

"What's wrong Takato?" asked Lopmon, the ex-deva who was worried by his quiet exclamation.

"Did any of you watch the Digimon Adventure cartoon?" asked Takato innocently, a silly grin plastered on his face.

 Ai and Mako turned to each other, "Huh?" asked both simultaneously, then the two twins then realized what Takato was talking about, "Yeah we watched it." Said Mako

Ai then asked Takato, "Why do you ask?"

Suzie and the partners turned and looked at Takato strangely, his actions confused them *what is he talking about, and what is with that look on his face, it looks like he got hit with a hammer.* ran thru Suzie's mind (AN: Though she can't talk right yet Suzie could easily be smarter than everyone thinks and also a lot more mature, thus that thought.)

Guilmon was just confused, as was Lopmon, while Impmon was feeling a little jealous, *what digimon adventure cartoon, what's so important about a bunch of cartoon characters, they can't be more important than getting home,* Impmon's thought was cut off by Takato's answer, "Because they're on the other side of this bush, and if they're real they might be the only ones who can get us home.", *or maybe they are.* finished Impmon silently.

Takato saw every jaw drop, except Guilmon who just sat there with a confused look on his face, then Guilmon asked a question that made them all face-vault, draw the attention of every DD nearby and wake up Calumon, "What's a cartoon?"

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THUMP, everyone turned there heads to the bushes nearby, "What was that noise?" asked Matt, a worried look on his face.

Tai's face gained a determined look, "I don't know but I'm going to find out, come on Agumon"

"Hey, Davis, could I go too?" asked Veemon, the blue rookie tugging at Davis's jacket.

"Alright, I guess, but be careful Veemon, alright?" replied Davis, concern washed over his face towards his partners.

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"I'm going to have to talk to you later Guilmon, alright." Said Takato as he got up from the ground.

As they all finished getting up the bushes beside Guilmon, Takato, and Impmon began to rustle, on the other side of those bushes, Agumon, Tai, and Veemon trying to get through them.

The six of them parted the bushes beside them, and scared each other silly, each of them came face to face with another, Agumon got a full view of Guilmon's muzzle, Tai and Takato fell back in surprise, not expecting to come face to face with someone else, while Impmon and Veemon thought that they were staring into some strange funhouse mirror someone had left in the bush until they pulled each others noses, fell back and cried out in pain.

Tai was the first of them to get over the surprise, the leader of the DD got up and yelled at the bush, "Alright, whoever's in there get out now, I know your there."

On the other side of the bush Takato quietly picked up Calumon from where he had fallen and sat surprised from earlier, he turned to the others, he quickly took a look at them, Ai and Mako were trying to calm Impmon, Suzie was holding Lopmon close, scared by the tone in Tai's voice, Guilmon, blinking in surprise looking just as he had when Takato first found him, "I guess we better do as he says ." said Takato as he got up and began to walk through the bushes with the still slightly startled Calumon in his arms.

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Tai waited and watched the bushes, Agumon was beside him, startled but alright, while Veemon was complaining to Davis about his nose, then Tai saw the bushes rustle again, he watched as this boy with yellow goggles on his head, a scared small white in-training in his arms, came out of the bushes followed by a large red dinosaur digimon, two small kids with a black rookie, and a small girl holding a 'Kokomon' in her arms.

"Who are you?" asked Tai, surprised by the group before him.

*I guess I should introduce everybody.*Thought Takato as he cleared his throat, "My name's Takato, my friends and I are lost, we stopped behind that bush to take a break, when my partner heard you guys talking, and when I checked and saw who you were I couldn't believe it."

Kari walked up beside her brother as Takato answered him, "Is that your partner?" she asked as she pointed to Calumon who had clamed down a bit but was still in shock and kind of frightened, he snuggled a little closer to Takato when she pointed at him, not really hearing what she said.

"No, that's Calumon, he's a friend of ours, Guilmon's my partner" answered Takato as he carefully towards Guilmon who walked up beside him.

As the others curiosity got the better of them they began to join Tai, Agumon, and Kari in 'interrogating' Takato's group.

Veemon walked carefully towards Impmon and the twins, towing Davis behind him, Impmon noticed Veemon walking towards him, "What you want? You going to pinch my nose again?"

Veemon's paw made a fist, "You pinched my nose first."

"Did not."

"Did to!"

"Did not!"

Their argument quickly turned into a small wrestling match, the twins cheering on Impmon, and Davis, acting their age, cheering Veemon on.

Over to one side, Willis watched as Yolei approached Suzie and Lopmon, thoughts raced through his head, *who is that digimon, it can't be Kokomon, I left him at home with mom and dad, besides I made him and Terriermon, they're supposed each be one of a kind.* he stopped to watch what would happen as Yolei bent down to ask Suzie a question.

"So, what's your name?" asked Yolei, Hawkmon beside her, just in case in his mind.

"My name's Suzie, and this is Lopmon" said Suzie as she put Lopmon down so that she could introduce herself.

"A pleasure to make your acquaintances." Stated Hawkmon as he bowed to the young tamer and her partner.

"Likewise, it is always nice to be able to speak with someone else civilly." Replied Lopmon, much to the surprise of both Hawkmon and Yolei, the first thought running through their minds was *He's a she?* which was then followed by confusion.

Lopmon looked strangely at the looks on the faces of Yolei and Hawkmon, before she could comment on it Suzie picked her up, "Come on Lopmon, lets see what Takato's doing." (AN: I've grown Suzie out of calling Takato 'Angry kid' but she still will doing other things she did in the show (Use your imaginations))

"Alright" Lopmon replied as she was carried off by her partner towards the larger group surrounding Takato and Guilmon, leaving Yolei and Hawkmon behind astonished.

"So Takato, how did you guys end up lost?" TK queried, beside him sat Kari, and on his other side sat Ken, nearby sat Mimi, Sora, Matt, Tai, Cody, and Joe.

Takato took a breath before starting, "It's a long story, it started when… (AN: If you really want to know what happened, re-read the last two chapters, otherwise just continue on with the story.)… and then we met you guys and the rest you know."

"Prodigious, (AN: I looked it up and Prodigious means Extraordinary or Enormous) that black hole you described sounds like some kind of portal, I'll see if I can find out more about It." Stated Izzy enthusiastically.

"Do you think what happened to them has something to do with what is going on around here, do you?" asked Sora, slight fear in her voice.

"That would explain some things." Said Ken, as he thought about Takato's story.

Confusion crossed Takato's face, "Wait, what do you mean, 'what is going on around here'?"

Just as Tai was about to answer Takato, Suzie wandered up to the group, would of taken Lopmon with her into the group but one of the other digimon, who had formed their own group asked if Lopmon would like to play with them, "Hi" stated Suzie happily.

As she sat down Tai started again to answer Takato, "Right before you and your friends got here Takato the digital world was invaded, *Takato and Suzie gasp, in the background you can hear Impmon and Veemon along with their partners, playing around with the other digimon.* it looked like something the digimon emperor would do *an embarrassed look crosses Ken's face* only it was more than one person… (AN: Once again I'll cut the dialogue short, if you really want a recap then re-read the previous chapters.) …and that's what happened."

Takato paled slightly at Tai's words, a new fear for what had happened to his friends grew in his mind, *more that one person? Could whoever those guys who had us of made other do that, are the others behind what Tai's talking about?*

"Takato, you mind if I take a look at your digimon, that white one, Calumon, he didn't look all that great." asked Joe, the resident medic for the DD was worried by Calumon's ill health.

Takato turned to Joe, "Alright, that would fine." Said Takato, nodding his head, not really listening to Joe, his mind still on Tai's words.

"So Takato, where are you and the others going to be staying tonight?" asked Kari in a kind voice.

That when Takato realized that he didn't have any idea where he and the others were going to stay, "That's a good question."

Davis, who had joined the group just as Kari asked her question, spoke up, "Hey, why doesn't Takato and the others stay at my place, Jun's gone all week so we have plenty of room."

A chorus of "Alright" could be heard from the others in the group, then Guilmon crashed into Takato, he and the other digimon hadn't been paying attention to where they were going so Guilmon was soon followed by other digimon who crashed into either Guilmon and Takato, or the rest of the group.

Tai managed to mumble a "I think it's time to go anyways" from underneath the pile of digimon and humans on top of him.

After everyone untangled themselves, the now larger group of DD and tamers walked quickly to the nearest digi-port, then Davis suddenly turned to the group and stated, "Hey, why don't we have Takato have the honors."

"I guess I could try." Said Takato as he pulled his D-ark out and pointed it towards the digi-port.

Before Takato could say, "digi-port open", Izzy noticed Takato's D-ark, "Wait a sec, Takato could I see you digivice please?"

Takato carefully handed his digivice to Izzy with an "OK".

Izzy carefully gripped Takato's D-ark in his hands, "Prodigious, your digivice seems to be of a newer design than even the D-3's"

Before Izzy could look over Takato's D-ark further, Davis spoke up again, "Wouldn't it be easier to check it out once were back at school?"

Izzy then muttered a "alright" as he handed the D-ark back to Takato, who then once again pointed it towards the digi-port and said, "Digi-port open"

To Takato's surprise the digi-port opened, pulling the group out of the digital world.


END OF CHAPTER 3




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In one of the recent reviews the question of how the Modified Spores used in the fiction differ from regular Dark Spores, I decided to put here a small incomplete comparison of the two, I'll talk about 2 way's the two are similar and 2 ways the two are different. If you don't want to spoil the mystery of the Modified Spore (or at least part of the mystery) then wait for me to write the rest of the fic, otherwise continue reading at your discretion.

          Signed,
                   QuestionDeca.

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Comparison of the Dark Spore verses the Modified Spore.

Both the Dark Spores and Modified Spores increase the intelligence of their victims (Both make people geniuses).

Both Spores increase their victims overall physical abilities (i.e. make them better at sports, athletics, etc. (stronger, faster, more agile, etc.)).

Here is where they begin to differ, the Dark Spore changes the victim's personality making them cruel, temperamental, etc. while the Modified Spores don't, the Modified Spores have a more insidious effect, while they don't change the victim's personality they do make the victim completely and utterly loyal to whom so ever the maker chooses, any and all feelings for a person, item, or partner will remain the same, as will the victim's actions, but if the victim is ordered to do something by their superior then they will do it, no matter what.

For example, if Rika was ordered to kill Takato with her bare hands (will not occur in fic so don't worry) she would have to, though she would not like it she would have no other choice, the same scenario could occur between Henry and Suzie (also will not occur in this fic, I'm not that evil, (yet)).

The spores are also different physically, the Dark Spore (if you looked carefully that one episode) is a small spherical object with spikes that imbeds itself into the victim, the Modified Spore is a little larger, though still spherical instead of spikes the Modified spore has small indents and does not have the capability of imbedding itself into a victim, which is why it must be inserted, or if you wish, implanted.
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Thank you for reading,

                                      QuestionDeca.