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(See Spirited for the difference between thoughts, speech, and quotes).

Dark Control:
"Hopes and Nightmares"

Controlled Sector (HQ (Briefing Room)):

FDF was not pleased, "If you had not succeeded in capturing the boy I would seriously be considering ending the lives of you and your insignificant packs of data you call partners! You, on your first mission against the Destined lose one of your better team-mates, and almost lose us control of another quadrant of this digital world. All of you are dismissed, except Mr. Wong I need to speak with him."

The controlled tamers got up, Kazu put his hand on Henry's shoulder as he walked by, "Nice knowing you Henry."

FDF didn't look at Henry as he got up and looked on the wall, "I have a project for you Mr. Wong, I want you to report to the lab where you had the boy dropped off, there you will receive instructions on your project, this project will be your top priority until it's completion, you will eat, sleep, drink, and do whatever else you need to in that laboratory until the project is complete, do I make myself clear Mr. Wong?"

Henry nodded, "Yes sir."

FDF nodded, "Good, now report there immediately, GO."

Controlled Sector (HQ (Laboratories)):

The Tech continued to hum as he finished his work on the correction for the collars, "...like humans do."

As the Tech finished humming Henry entered, "I'm here to work on the project."

The Tech pointed to an empty desk with a console and lamp, "There's your station, I hope for your sake that your intelligence was high before you gained your modified spore, that project drove some of our best mad beyond even human standards, they had to be deleted before they could do harm to us or themselves."

Henry looked at the Tech with wide eyes while Terriermon lost all color, "What is this project? How could it drive people mad like that?"

The Tech just looked at Henry, "The math, the equations mathematically make sense, but when you look at what the math is saying, it makes no sense, and doesn't solve the problem. The project's a paradox, it should work but it doesn't."

Henry looks back at the desk, "I guess I should get working on it then."

File Island (Destined):

The Destined moved back as Renamon shifted her body, then jumped when she woke up and got into a battle stance, then she saw Rika, Renamon turned to the destined, "What have you done to her?"

The Destined felt a collective chill down their backs as Renamon's voice made it plain what she would do to them if they didn't answer or if she didn't like their answer, surprisingly it was Joe who spoke first, "We didn't do anything, when you two split we didn't know that anything was wrong, then she screamed and started that, and I... ...I have no idea what's wrong with her, and if any of us did, we'd be doing everything we could to help her."

If the Destined weren't being stared down by a fierce Digimon thinking they had harmed her partner, their mouths would have been on the ground, while the only thing going through Joe's mind was, God, If don't die, then I'll never, ever, wish I hadn't studied medicine, because this is the hardest thing I've ever done, and I'll probably have to do it again too.

Nothing on Renamon shifted but her eyes, which shifted between Rika and the Destined, nothing else, no-one dared to move, then Renamon's eyes and body sagged like she had lost all her energy, the Destined's tension and fear quickly turned to sympathy.

Renamon carefully moved over to Rika, as Renamon put her arm around Rika's shoulder, Rika stopped, her eyes went wide, Renamon was barely able to brace herself as something forced Rika into her arms with great force, all as Rika gasped.

Rika's Nightmare, a few moments prior:

Rika was still running, her mind was beginning to fray at the edges, the two silhouettes were beginning to get past her mind and at her soul, then the world shattered again, but this time, the silhouettes shattered to, colors, normal colors, began to flood her vision, she felt like she was being thrown, and then found herself in Renamon's arms, "Renamon?"

File Island (Destined (exact same time)):

The Destined watched with surprise and awe, as Rika was thrown into Renamon by some invisible force, her eye's seeming to regaining something they didn't have before, the first word out of her mouth her partner's name, Renamon smiled, "Are you alright?"

Rika felt tired, "I'll be alright, I just need to sleep..."

With that Rika fell into a deep, true and peaceful sleep. Renamon carefully lifted her Tamer off the ground and walked towards the Digi-Destined.

Within Takato's mind:

Megidramon was livid, raving, acting like the Megidramon that haunted Takato's nightmares, yet strangely it was of that Megidramon Takato was less frightened of, "THAT &#%, I'LL EAT HER PARTNER FOR BREAKFAST, I'LL BREAK HER AND REND HER BROKEN SOUL FROM HER BODY!!"

Takato stayed out of the room that once caged the darkness that had become Megidramon, and had been the entry point for the modified spore, "When's he going to stop?"

Secretly Takato was glad that Rika had knocked Gallantmon out, Megidramon had taken control easily and Guilmon had been knocked out, and strangely was now sleeping right beside Takato within his own mind.

Takato looked at Guilmon, "I wonder how the others are doing."

Digital World (Controlled Sector (HQ)):

FDF's mood had deteriorated greatly over the day, his only consolation was the that collars would no longer destroy the spores, he had no faith in Henry at all, and doubted that even with the spore's powers Henry would succeed, or at least without losing his mind completely as those had before him.

What sane being could design such a device?