Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon. But all the digidestined in this story and some Digimon I do own.

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New characters, continued…

Name: Lexi Hana

Age: 14

Eye Color: Hazel

Hair Color: Black with long red bangs

Chapter 5: Lexi

By: Rika24

"So this is their so called secret base? It's right out in the open!" Carmen exclaimed.

"Well actually, I think this is a trap," Said the floppy eared purple Digimon.

"It won't be for me Mammalmon." Carmen said with a smirk. "I'm an expert, I sneak out of my house all the time without getting caught."

"Don't be overconfident." Mammalmon warned.

"I'm not." Carmen scanned the building. "First, we need to find an entrance."

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"I hope Patamon's okay with Lan," Jason said in a worried tone.

"I'm sure he'll be fine," Aguadramon said, trying to reassure his partner.

"So who'll stand watch?" Kaylee asked as she walked up to them.

"Well we know it's not gonna be him," Randy said as he pointed at Veemon who was snoring loudly. "Sheesh, at least give me a quieter partner," he muttered to himself.

Jason got up from where he was sitting, "I'll take the first night then."

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"We're in." Carmen whispered as she balanced on the beam high above the ground.

"Now we just have to find that girl Ogremon was carrying." Mammalmon replied.

Carmen scanned the floor below as she walked across the beam. She then caught sight of her. This is too easy, Carmen thought. She started for the wall to climb down when Mammalmon stopped her.

"Wait, this is way too easy, they're waiting for us."

Carmen sighed at her partner's warning. "So what do we do then?"

Mammalmon looked around below her. "I'll check it out." Mammalmon looked right into Carmen's eyes, "stay!" she ordered.

Carmen crossed her arms in front of her, "Who do you think you're talking to? I'm not a dog." She whispered.

"Whatever," Mammalmon said as she jumped down. As she fell she vanished.

Where'd she go? Carmen thought to herself. She watched Leah, waiting to see when Mammalmon would reappear. Suddenly there was a flash of red light by Leah and Mammalmon reappeared as she was thrown back by the force field around Leah.

Carmen quickly climbed down the uneven stonewall. "Mammalmon!" she cried as she rushed to her partner.

"No stay back!" Mammalmon yelled, her eyes widened as she saw a blur of black fly by her.

"Too late!" The feline said as she moved in to attack Carmen. Mammalmon jumped up and tackled Carmen down, getting her out of the way of BlackGatomon's attack.

"If you use the crimson stone you can give me more power." Mammalmon said.

"How do I do that?" Carmen asked as they both jumped out of the way of another attack.

"Concentrate and focus your mind on me." She said.

"Dark lightning!" BlackGatomon shouted as her body glowed with a dark blue light, she released a large bolt of lightning at Mammalmon but she dodged it.

The orange parts of Mammalmon's body began to glow. "Raging brushfire!" a burst of flame shot out of her and became like a wave of fire. Before BlackGatomon could react the fire hit her. As soon as it did the shield around Leah went down.

Carmen immediately ran over to Leah and grabbed her hand. "Let's go, hurry up."

"Right behind you," Mammalmon said as she started to follow.

"I don't think so." Said a girl standing in front of the exit. "BlackGatomon." She said.

"Right here Lexi," the black cat said as she ran to her side.

Lexi held up her left arm and used two fingers to touch the little red stone in the center of the watch-like item. As soon as she did the stone began to glow. A dark reddish purple light surrounded the cat Digimon.

"Dark lightning!" she shouted. Mammalmon braced herself and absorbed the attack.

Carmen gasped. "You can do that?"

"Go, get out of here now!" she shouted.

"But…" Carmen began to say.

"NOW!" Mammalmon demanded.

Carmen grabbed Leah's hand, "Let's get moving."

"But what about Mammalmon?" Leah asked, but Carmen didn't answer her.

Back inside the building BlackGatomon and Mammalmon continued to fight. The two Digimon dodged each other's attacks with lightning fast reflexes.

Lexi watched the two Digimon, amazed at Mammalmon's speed and strength. "You're good, we could use you." She said.

"I'd never join the Knights of Darkness!" Mammalmon shouted, never taking her eyes off of BlackGatomon.

"You used to belong, you and Jade." Lexi said with a smirk.

Mammalmon turned and glared at Lexi. "Until you killed her. You killed my partner because she wouldn't let me attack Primary Village."

"She was weak," BlackGatomon said. Narrowing her yellow eyes. "And now you help the Digidestined!" With a loud hiss the black cat lunged at the purple Digimon.

As Mammalmon dodged, all the red parts of her body began to glow. She stood on her hind legs and started spinning as the fire wrapped around her body. "Flaming twister!" she shouted as her body turned into a fiery tornado.

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Safely far enough away now, Carmen and Leah had stopped running. "Mammalmon," Carmen said in a worried tone. Suddenly Mammalmon appeared between the two of them and Leah jumped.

"You're okay!" Carmen said, relieved. "And you can turn invisible!"

"Yeah, the invisibility thing is cool, but it doesn't last very long, and if I touch anything or get hit by someone, the effect is doubled."

"Meaning…" Carmen said.

"If I get attacked while I'm invisible, the attack does more damage to me than it normally would."

"That's bad," Carmen replied.

Seeing the worried look on her face, Mammalmon replied, "Yeah, but I'm pretty good at avoiding contact and evading attacks." She turned to Leah, "I got your crimson stone back."

"Thanks!" Leah exclaimed. "But I don't know what it's for, it isn't a Digivice."

"I'll explain as we leave this place." Mammalmon said as they started to leave.

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Sorry I haven't updated this in a long time. But hopefully you enjoyed this enough to forgive me. Please review. (btw you can see what Mammalmon and Carmen look like on my site, Digimon Ultimate).