VENGEANCE

Chapter 29 – More Clowning Around

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Chaos Piedmon lounged silently back at what seemed to be a small tavern at the Tree Top Village, under the shadowy corner over the windows. An Apemon owned the place, and Chaos Piedmon was too engrossed with his capture to even bother the propitiator of the tavern. He just ordered a drink and told Apemon to leave him alone if the champion Digimon wanted to stay alive. The poor champion Digimon, out of fear of the Mega, quickly scurried out from his bar, not wanting to risk the wrath of the Chaos General.

The harlequin was admiring two keychains: that of a DigiDestined, and a Wargreymon.

A smile formed from his blood-red lips.

The fact that he didn't really like his former comrade Chaos Wargreymon seemed to bring a twisted sense of poetic justice, upon the capture of the Wargreymon. If he couldn't turn Chaos Wargreymon into a keychain (a secret wish he had harbored for quite a long time) then another Wargreymon would have to do for the time being.

Thinking slowly, he knew that he had now the upper hand to bring the DigiDestined to their downfall.

He had a DigiDestined and a Digimon on hostage. His enemies would do anything to get them back. This would prove beneficial for him and his master in a great way of sense. Chaos Specter would be glad to have one DigiDestined captured, although that did not seem to be his mission upon entering this dimension. However the Chaos General knew better than to question his master intention, and decided to let the matter rest. Besides, why would he care? The master had given him pretty much a free reign of what to do to the Digital World.

Taking a sip of his drink, which was a dark green liquid emitting faint smoke, Chaos Piedmon remembered the time when the Digimon he had sent to Harmona Town were thwarted by two DigiDestined. Paildramon and MagnaAngemon; those were the ones who had even chased the mega level Chaosdramon out of that peaceful town.

Smiling evilly, he decided that Paildramon and MagnaAngemon would be the next on his list. Oh what the heck. Now that victory was at the palm of his hand, why not just capture all of them at one go? That would rid everyone of their current problem.

"But where's the fun at that?" he laughed, and took another sip. "The show would be over so soon, when it has just started. Let them have some form of entertainment with Zanbamon first. When they are worn out, that's when I'll make my grand entrance, again, and sweep my little hanky on all of them at one go. If it doesn't work I still have something up my sleeves."

Laughing merrily, he finished the remainder of his drink in one fast gulp, and leaned against the chair contently.


Upon their arrival on Asuka Laboratory, Davis, Kari, and their partners were quickly attended by Gennai and HolyAngemon. Gennai ran a quick diagnosis on the four of them, while HolyAngemon used his healing powers to cure the gashes and wounds on their body, as well as rejuvenating them back to a perfect state of health. They soon found themselves able to stand and move freely, whilst immobilized just a few seconds before.

However, that didn't make any of them happy. Davis and Kari were extremely distraught of learning that Tai and Wargreymon were left behind.

"I don't get it," murmured Kari, wiping her eyes from some unshed tears. "They should have teleported with us. Why didn't they?"

Gennai, who was standing nearby the DigiDestined, lowered his head grimly upon the inquiry.

"It's the code I've programmed in the Diginizers. It is programmed only to enable the wielders of the Diginizers to open a Digiport or to teleport themselves around at will. While at it, they can bring along any company they choose to. However the same is not true in the other way round; a non-wielder can never use a Diginizer. That's the reason why when Tai activated the teleport function on your Diginizers, only you two and your partners were brought here, leaving him and Wargreymon there."

"So what should we do know?" Davis asked impatiently. "I say we go back there, fight that overrated bozo and free Tai."

"It's not that simple," Kari replied quietly. "We've fought a Piedmon before; the Dark Master's leader four years back. That time, he had turned everyone into keychains except for me, TK and Patamon. All seemed lost back then when Piedmon managed to throw all three of us out from the balcony of his castle, sending us into what would be our impending doom...if it weren't for MagnaAngemon's first arrival. He was a match for Piedmon, as well as the only one who had the power to revert the keychains back to Tai and the others."

Davis crossed his arms across his chest, his face set. "So, what you're saying now...is that we need to call back TK and Patamon to help us."

Kari nodded. "I really hate to disturb his vacation again...but I guess we don't have a choice. I really want to save Tai and Wargreymon."

"You and me both," replied Davis grimly, touching Kari's shoulder with one hand as a gesture of support.

Gennai and HolyAngemon exchanged a quick glance with each other, and the ultimate angel Digimon nodded slightly. He walked towards the two grieving DigiDestined, an idea came to his mind.

"Perhaps I can be of assistance for you," he said. "I am, after all, a MagnaAngemon as well...only with a different name."

Instantly, the expressions on Davis and Kari's face lifted considerably.

"Can you really turn Tai and Wargreymon back?" asked Kari hopefully.

HolyAngemon smiled assuringly. "There is nothing MagnaAngemon can do, that I can't. You need not call on your friends TK and Patamon, at least not for the time being. It was bad enough his vacation was disrupted a couple days back; let him enjoy a rest and I will take on his place."

"What about the other angels? Will they come to?" asked Veemon.

"Right now, they are currently in deep meditation...practicing for a new method which will be a great help to all of you in future battles. I don't recommend on calling them right now unless it is absolutely necessary," said HolyAngemon. "But more numbers will indeed be of help; I suggest calling on the other DigiDestined right away. Two of them have already attained the Transdigivolution ability, and will be able to assist us with our cause."

Davis and Kari nodded in understanding, and Davis quickly typed on an urgent message on his D-Terminal, to be sent to Ken, Yolei and Cody.


It was barely nine in the evening when the other DigiDestined (except for TK, who was still at France) received the message.

In his room, Ken was about ready to turn in for the day when immediately his D-Terminal signaled the arrival of a message. Quickly getting up from the bed, he took the device and read the message quickly. Seeing the urgency of the message was bearing, Ken decided to help out, despite still feeling a little sore from his fight with Asuramon and Bastemon earlier that day. Quickly changing from his pajamas into a pair of comfortable T-shirt and pants, he then briefed Wormmon about what they needed to do before opening a Digiport with his device.

At the same time, Yolei was watching the television with mild disinterest, with Hawkmon beside her on the sofa. Her sisters were out shopping, while her brother was helping out their parents watching over their family's convenience store. She was yawning, tired of all the day's work when she heard a faint beeping sound coming from her bedroom. Hawkmon, possessing sharp hearings, quickly flew towards Yolei's room to retrieve her D-Terminal and Diginizer. After reading the message, Yolei decided that it was time for Sylphimon to make a second appearance for the day...to Hawkmon's absolute dismay.

Deciding to get Cody as well, Yolei bolted out from her house towards the Hida's residence. She was glad to find Cody to be the one answering the door, and found out that Cody had gotten the message as well. However he had just finished cleaning himself up after practicing Kendo, and was about to have dinner with his mother and grandfather. As it was the family's tradition to have dinner together, Cody reluctantly told Yolei to go ahead, and he would come as soon as he could after having his dinner.

And several time zones away from the nighttime of Japan, TK was touring the city of Paris, appreciating the relaxing afternoon he was having.


Two columns of violet and red lights materialized on top of the circular podium inside Asuka Lab. Out came Ken, Wormmon, Yolei and Hawkmon...finding themselves facing a grim looking Kari and a worried Davis. Yolei explained Cody's reason of absence, while Davis told her of the reason why TK wasn't contacted when the violet-haired teen inquired of the missing blonde.

"HolyAngemon here will be taking TK and Patamon's place for today," said Davis, gesturing towards the holy Digimon who nodded upon the acknowledgment given to him. "I really would hate to ruin their vacation once more."

"Should we wait for Cody?" Ken asked.

Yolei shook her head. "Nah. He said to go ahead first. He'll be joining us as soon as he could."

Gatomon crept close to Hawkmon. "Hey Hawkmon, I heard that you and Yolei..."

Hawkmon suddenly paled and raised a wing quickly before Gatomon could finish with her question. "Please, Gatomon dear. Not a word for the time being. I'm still adapting to it... oh, the horror of it!" He shuddered slightly upon finishing the sentence. Gatomon merely shrugged and went back to Kari.

"We're ready to go?" Davis asked, scanning the crowd. He got affirmative nods from everyone. "Okay...here we go!"

Together, the DigiDestined, their partners and HolyAngemon stepped up onto the podium. Gennai entered the coordinates for the Tree Top Village and transported them there in columns of multicolored lights.

Upon arrival, they received a rather surprising welcoming from a non-familiar colossal black Digimon with gold and red armor – in the forms of multiple sword-slashings from the two swords it was brandishing. It was incredibly lucky for them that Gennai had transported them a few hundred meters away from the vicious Digimon, out of the swords' reach, or else they would've been dead. The Digimon saw their dazzling entrances and was not pleased. The centaurian Digimon then clapped his foot on the ground, preparing to charge towards the DigiDestined.

HolyAngemon immediately unleashed his own long, white sword and prepared to battle. "I'll hold him while you digivolve!" He then spread his white wings wide and jumped to fight the estranged Digimon.

"Alright guys, you know what to do!" Davis said.

"Yeah! Let's do it!" Yolei exclaimed excitedly, and assumed the pose before Davis could. "Diginizer, ENERGIZE!"

"Hey, that's my line!"

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: TRANSDIGIVOLUTION :

"Veemon Digivolve to... Paildramon!"

"Wormmon Digivolve to... Dinobeemon!"

"Hawkmon Digivolve to... Sylphimon!"

"Gatomon Digivolve to... Angewomon!"

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Paildramon and Angewomon gasped in surprise upon seeing the new form of Sylphimon, whom they hadn't had the chance to see just yet.

Paildramon let out a wolf-whistle. "Hey, not bad looking Yolei...nice form, Hawkmon!"

Sylphimon frowned. "I'd thank you, but I don't think Hawkmon appreciates your comment...so zip it, Davis."

Paildramon sweatdropped. "It was a compliment, FYI. Sheesh..."

Angewomon groaned. "Cut it out, you two...HolyAngemon needs our help now."

"Let's run the stats for that Digimon. I don't think I've ever seen it before," Dinobeemon suggested.

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Name
: Zanbamon
Attribute : Virus
Level : Mega
Type : Evil
Specialty : Dark

Attacks : Prison Gate of Beheading, Cross Slash
Power Level : 88

Zanbamon is one of the cruelest Digimon ever known to exist. He rides the plains with his electric horse and his huge swords to mark him.

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Name
: HolyAngemon
Attribute : Vaccine
Level : Ultimate
Type : Archangel
Specialty : Holy, Flying

Attacks : Heaven's Gate, Excalibur, Holy Antidote
Power Level : 70

A priest form of MagnaAngemon, this archangel employs his mighty sword Excalibur to banish his enemy for eternity.

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- DIGIMON ANALYZER -
Name
: Angewomon
Attribute : Vaccine
Level : Ultimate
Type : Angel
Specialty : Holy, Flying

Attacks : Celestial Arrow, Heaven's Charm, Heaven's Charge(1), Lightning Claw(2), Cat's Eye Hypnotism(2)
Power Level : 75

This female angel Digimon descends down from the sky to wipe out evil with her lightning-charged arrow and holy powers. A Transdigivolved Angewomon can recall attacks from her previous digivolutionary form to complement her own array of attacks.

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"Finally, a completed analysis for us," Gatomon said. "And what do you know; our power's increased too from the last time!"

"Couldn't have done it without you," Angewomon replied back.

The four ultimate Digimon then charged off towards their enemy, greatly aiding HolyAngemon who was beginning to tire out from the mega Digimon's forceful attacks. The archangel seemed to be unhurt, but for only a short duration of time he had already used a huge amount of energy to battle Zanbamon. However after a short rest he would be able to resume fighting once more.

Paildramon and Dinobeemon stepped up in front of Zanbamon and aimed their powerful kicks towards Zanbamon's torso...only to be met with a very loud clang when their legs touched the Mega's hard-as-diamond armor. The bigger Digimon didn't even stagger, and when the two Ultimates were flustered of what to do Zanbamon shoved both of them aside with a clean kick. All the while, the Mega didn't even utter out a single word save for the names of his techniques, but upon kicking Paildramon and Dinobeemon away he let out a brief snicker, which annoyed the two ultimate Digimon greatly.

"That does it! Desperado Blaster!"

"Irritant Buzz!"

The two attacks bounced harmlessly upon contact with Zanbamon's armor. The helmet he was wearing protected him from hearing Dinobeemon's irritatingly high pitched noise attack.

"Not good!" Dinobeemon exclaimed.

"Cross Slash!" cried Zanbamon, doing exactly what the attack name had dictated. He crossed both arms over the chest, both hands holding the swords, and charged the swords with his dark powers. Deep red X-shaped electricity bolted out from the swords as he uncrossed his arms, hitting both male Digimon squarely on their chests.

It was fortunate for Paildramon and Dinobeemon as they were wearing armor which managed to reduce the attack's effect slightly. However that didn't mean that it wasn't harmful – several chips of the green armor were peeled off after the smokes cleared out from the two Digimon. They felt a little pain on their chests and backed off a few steps, hands holding their chests.

"Celestial Arrow!"

"Top Gun!"

Angewomon and Sylphimon flew right from behind Paildramon and Dinobeemon, shooting off an arrow of light and a pink fireball straight towards Zanbamon's swords. They meant to make Zanbamon drop the swords, but the dark Digimon's grasp on his swords was firm. He slashed those swords forward and nullified the two attacks instantly.

Paildramon saw what they had meant to do, and got an idea.

"Cable Catcher!" he roared, shooting off his claws. The claws were connected to his armor by strong, durable cable which was nearly impossible to be cut off. Paildramon managed to tie the cabled claws around both swords, and tried to pull them off from Zanbamon's hands.

Zanbamon grunted in annoyance, and tried to shake off the cables which were tied around his swords. However Paildramon was undaunted and pulled harder...but his strength did not match the Mega's, and soon he found himself being pulled towards Zanbamon.

Paildramon's eyes narrowed as he saw a way out.

"Elemental Bolt!" he cried, and charged up his cables with bolts of fire, ice, electricity and poison. The bolts, which were colored red, blue, yellow and green respectively, coursed along the cables and the swords before seeping into Zanbamon's unprotected palms. The effect was amazing; Zanbamon actually bellowed loudly as he began to feel the effect of Paildramon's Elemental Bolt technique. His grasp on the swords began to falter, and Paildramon sent out more of his Elemental Bolt power to further force Zanbamon to surrender his swords.

Seeing that the only way to make the excruciating pain he was feeling stop, Zanbamon had no choice but to let go of his swords.

"He shoots, and he scores!" Paildramon cried jubilantly as both of Zanbamon's swords were pulled towards him. However, now that he got full leverage of the swords, he began to notice something else. The swords were...extremely heavy, not to mention very big as well. Paildramon was the largest of the five good Digimon, yet he stood no taller than three-quarter of Zanbamon's height. The swords were two-third of Zanbamon's own height, and when compared to Paildramon... they were nearly the same height as him.

Paildramon found himself being knocked off his foot as the swords rammed onto him. "Ooof!" He fell onto the ground on his back; the two swords were on top of him. He tried to get off, but the swords were too heavy for him to lift.

Dinobeemon and Sylphimon snickered slightly, after seeing that their friend was merely immobilized rather than harmed.

"A little help here?" Paildramon pleaded. "Oh man...these swords sure are HEAVY!"

Dinobeemon and Sylphimon together tried to move the swords away from Paildramon's body, but failed. Angewomon wanted to try to, but seeing her physically stronger friends failed to lift up those swords she was sure that she won't be able to lift them off as well by physical means. So she opted for another method.

"Heaven's Charm!"

This earned a gasp from Dinobeemon and Sylphimon, and a surprised cry from Paildramon. However the pink energy that Angewomon had released merely enveloped the swords instead of Paildramon...and destroyed them instantly into bits of data.

"That was rather impulsive," Dinobeemon noted.

"But it works," Sylphimon continued.

"Woah...Kari, for a while I thought you've lost your mind back there," Paildramon said weakly as he attempted to stand up. "You nearly gave me a heart attack...but thanks. I owe you one."

Angewomon smiled slightly and nodded, but her expression grew serious as she turned back to face Zanbamon. The mega Digimon was not pleased to see his swords destroyed, and roared angrily as he stampeded towards the four ultimate Digimon. Without his swords he could no longer attack, but he was still dangerous. Seeing how the Mega's eyes were glowing red, the DigiDestined knew there was only one way out.

"We're going to have to delete him," said Angewomon.

The others grimly agreed, but HolyAngemon approached them quickly and told them to stop.

"Don't waste your energy on this Mega...there is still Chaos Piedmon. Leave him to me."

The four DigiDestined agreed to HolyAngemon, and the ultimate archangel Digimon flew upwards. He held up his silvery-white sword up and instantly, the dark forest was brightened by holy white lights coming from HolyAngemon and his sword. His sword shone brilliantly as HolyAngemon flew over the air in circle to form a circular band of gold light...and instantly a gate similar to MagnaAngemon's Gate of Destiny appeared. The only difference is that while the Gate of Destiny was gold, HolyAngemon's gate was silvery-white.

"Heaven's Gate!" he summoned; and the gate opened revealing the cosmos, a dark multicolored backdrop decorated with yellow and white stars.

Zanbamon was pulled towards the mighty gate, and attempted to resist when his body glowed with black energy. The black energy was absorbed by the Heaven's Gate, and Zanbamon reverted back into two BomberNanimon and three Nanimon, all five were unconscious.

HolyAngemon waited until all the black aura was absorbed by the gate before closing it.

"That was amazing!" Paildramon cheered.

"Thank you..." HolyAngemon replied, but was cut off when a loud, theatrical voice interrupted him.

"Amazing indeed! But even a good show has to end, and I'll perform the closing act! Clown Trick!"

From above, the DigiDestined and HolyAngemon saw a massive white handkerchief looming down towards them. Immediately, Angewomon charged a Celestial Arrow and fired it towards the handkerchief. This was immediately followed by Paildramon and Dinobeemon, whom both called upon their Sting Strike and Spiking Strike attacks respectively. The three attacks successfully shredded the handkerchief into tiny bits of pieces.

An annoyed Chaos Piedmon descended from the trees, hovering just a few feet away from the DigiDestined.

"Oh well. I certainly didn't expect that...but some improvising would do the trick. Clown Trick!"

All of a sudden, hordes of multicolored balloons showered down from the thick canopies of the trees. Chaos Piedmon jumped onto the nearest branch and sat there with an amused look. "Let's see how you will react on my amazing balloons! Don't destroy them, though. I've spent quite some time to develop this technique."

The DigiDestined and HolyAngemon instantly charged up their weapons to protect themselves from the incoming balloons.

Paildramon held up his guns high towards the balloons. "Let's pop those balloons! Desperado Blaster!"

Chaos Piedmon's smirked upon seeing Paildramon's reaction. "Don't say I didn't warn you...because I did. You're the one who's not willing to listen."

A volley of bullet projectiles shot up towards the balloons, causing each and every one of them to burst. However, the effect it generated was not what the DigiDestined had in mind.

Instead of releasing the air within them, the balloons burst with a loud pop and a flash of blue light. This caused everyone to close their eyes and cover them with their hands as the light was blinding. To their confusion, they could hear Chaos Piedmon laughing madly. Curious, they lowered their hands and opened their eyes again...only to find that they were now trapped!

Around all five of them was a massive transparent bubble which contained them.

Paildramon immediately tried to pierce the bubble with his Sting Strike technique, but failed as the bubble bounced his blades back.

Dinobeemon fired rains of his Moon Shooter needles, only to find those needles deflected back towards all of them. Angewomon fired a controlled measure of her Heaven's Charm to delete the needles from harming each and every one of them.

After two failed attempts, all of them knew that they had fallen to a trap. A trap, which Chaos Piedmon had blatantly lured them into by egging them to attack his balloons. Ironically though, the Chaos General did warn them not to destroy the balloons. They then tried to teleport out, but were hauled back into the bubble upon ramming against the wall. Their attempt to open a Digiport was unsuccessful as well. They were trapped, in all sense of word.

Satisfied, Chaos Piedmon then took out the keychains of Tai and Wargreymon and tossed them into the bubble. Surprisingly, the keychains did enter the walls of the bubble. After entering, the keychains glowed and reverted into Tai and Wargreymon, both falling on one end of the interior side of the bubble harmlessly. Wargreymon then devolved back into Agumon, and each Transdigivolved Digimon regressed back into their composite selves.

The Chaos General then smiled sinisterly and pointed his index finger towards Davis. "Well DigiDestined...it's too bad that your leader here have ignored my advice. You should've listened to me and leave the balloons alone. You'll know better next time...except there WON'T BE a next time!"

"Our friends will rescue us, Chaos Piedmon!" Davis growled back.

The clown shrugged, smile still intact. "I'm counting on that."

Turning his attention towards the unconscious Nanimon clan, Chaos Piedmon decided that they were still of use to him as they were alive. Granting them power from his own, the five Nanimon and BomberNanimon merged again to become Zanbamon, swords equipped once more.

"I'm counting on that... Zanbamon, you'll wait here to greet them."


Cody had finished eating his dinner, and offered to take the empty dishes towards the kitchen sink. His mother collected the empty dishes, emptying some of the leftovers in one bowl and stacked the plates and rice bowls for Cody to bring to the kitchen. Being the responsible boy he was, not only Cody took the dishes to the sink, rinsed them with warm water before loading them inside the dishwasher.

Returning to the table, he saw Armadillomon eating the leftovers. Cody's mother, Minako, was more than glad of this; this way she wouldn't have to throw the leftovers as she hated to waste the food, and was not fond of reheating them back. Armadillomon was more or less, an answer to her problem. It was the reason why she was so fond of having Armadillomon in the house.

"Armadillomon...we got to go," Cody chided his partner gently.

"Aw Cody... just a little bit more."

Minako Hida smiled. "I'll put it in the microwave and let you eat it when you got home."

"In that case, ok," Armadillomon replied.

Glancing at the clock, Minako saw that it was close to ten in the evening. Normally, any parent wouldn't let their child wander off in the night, especially one as young as Cody. However, she trusted both her son and Armadillomon, knowing that Cody knew how to protect himself and Armadillomon would do anything to prevent harm from coming to the child.

"Is it just a normal outing for the DigiDestined at the Digital World?" Chikara Hida, Cody's grandfather inquired.

If Cody told his grandfather and mother that a trouble was brewing at the Digital World nowadays, it would get them to worry. He hated to lie to both of them, so he thought of for a possible explanation. An explanation which would be beneficial for both Cody and his family would be best. Saying that a powerful Digimon had his friends turned into keychains definitely was out. He needed to do it with tact.

It was just his luck when he heard knocking at the front door.

"I'll get it," he offered, and darted towards the door. Opening it, he got a surprise.

Outside were two familiar teenagers; a lanky blue-haired bespectacled teen in white shirt and blue pants, and a shorter brown-haired teen wearing green sweatshirt and brown pants, holding a laptop at his side.

They were Joe Kido and Izzy Izumi.


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Author's Note:

Sorry for the delay. I wanted to update this story earlier, but was dissatisfied with what I have written, so I end up erasing it and typed them back all over again. Besides, I'm also working on my other fic. However I am glad to see the reviews. Probably the most reviews I ever have for one chapter...more than 10 if I am not mistaken. Some are multiple reviews from the same reviewer, but I'm glad nonetheless. Thanks everyone, and keep them coming.

(1) Heaven's Charge is equal to the name 'Halo of Light' which I came up with when writing the name for one of Angewomon's attack. It was dubbed as Heaven's Charm, but the name is also true for the one Angewomon used against LadyDevimon and Airdramon in the series, so I changed it. I change it again because I decided that I don't really like the name 'Halo of Light'.

(2) These are Gatomon's attacks, complimenting Angewomon's own attacks. I've also done an analyzer for Angewomon because her profile was done before the Digimon Analyzer was 'updated'. :)

Something is really wrong with the FF(dot)net editing features...it messes up the structure for the Digimon Analyzer. Notice that the chapter title doesn't have that line like the other previous chapters. Darn.

Anyway, onto the reviews!

Dark Qiviut – I never realized that Chapter 23 is like that, because it works just fine when I view it with my browser (IE5). There are no super-paragraphs like you have mentioned, but I'll try to fix the problem by re-uploading the chapter. Hopefully it'll work fine. No apologies needed, Dark Qiviut. I am glad to hear that, because I might never know that that chapter is glitched.

DTV – Am I glad to hear back from you. As for Tai and Wargreymon being able to communicate with each other, I don't know that for sure as there's no evidence from the series that they are able to do that. As for your second question, I think you might find the answer at the last sentence of this chapter. About Gabumon's ability to warp digivolve...I'm not sure what did you mean by this. Sorry. As for Wizardmon, I purposely leave this hanging, it will be revealed after the Cody's arc is finished. According to this story's plan, they'll have some sorts of cameo. As for now, you can see their partners appearing from time to time. Thanks for the list of Digimon appearing in the end of 02...it will definitely be a huge help for me to write the planned sequel. I notice the difficulty of having Willis, Henry and Suzie in the same story too due to their partners, but I'll work on that. For Frontier, I do know the basic storyline and the main characters, but don't know about the various Digimon that appear in them (save for the other Spirits, the Celestial Digimon, and Bokomon Neemon). The Digimon Encyclopedia website is really a huge help for me when making research. I don't know yet whether I will be writing Frontier stories and some other anime, my current priority is to finish this story and Legends of DD first.

Digi Fan – Eventually they will, so stay tuned.

Gerjomarty – You're back too! And thanks for the reviews. I'm glad that you're enjoying the story, and for the feedback you've given me for each and every chapter. I really love reading your in-depth comments for each chapter.

Jack the ripper – Wow...lots of question there. Okay, let's see. Eventually they will reach Mega, but probably not in this story. Chaos Wargreymon's origin will be revealed towards the end of the story. I'll exploit all kinds of possibilities for his origin, maybe you've already known about it, but it will be answered eventually, just not now. As for the Dark Spore kids, I am not sure yet. I can only recall that only Hiroshi, Takeshi, Keiko and Noriko are referred by names in the series. Takeshi will be making his appearance much later. My other story is called Legends of the DigiDestined.

Quinton Notwen – I agree with you about Season Three being darker, I kinda like it that way. All the problems with the Devas, the D-Reaper, Zhuqiaomon hating the humans, Hypnos trying to destroy Digimon in the first half of the season... it makes Tamers different from Adventures and 02.