Ophanimon: Hello there beastie.

Lilithmon: Why hello there, old prude.

Ophanimon: *Seeths with rage*

Lotosmon: Ophanimon, I know it's hard to do, but just ignore her. Reacting will just give her more satisfaction.

Ophanimon: I am well aware of that.

The Children and their partners decided to hold a lunch break, so they moved into Novice's kitchen where the system was pretty straight forward. Ask for a food you want, and you shall receive it. Although Mimi had asked if there were any cooking equipment, to which Novice replied that there is. So the pink haired girl asked if she was allowed to use them, and the Overseer replied by giving her an instruction manual to all of the electronic equipment. To Mimi's relief, the manual was simple and straight to the point so it was easy for anyone to follow. With that, Mimi got to do a culinary experiment. Or as Novice liked to call it, "experimental kitchen". Why he used that kind of phrase was beyond everyone.

Anyway, the kitchen system also granted ingredients that Mimi wanted, but what worried Novice a little was the fact that she didn't ask for any recipe.

Later on the group returns to the reading room, although some of them looked a little sick to their stomachs.

"Oh come on guys! It wasn't that bad," Mimi complained at everyone.

"Sorry, Mimi but it kind of was," Sora said, feeling bad for admitting that.

"The taste was a little too strong for my taste," Novice added in though he didn't look sick at all.

"See! Even he agrees," Gomamon, Agumon, Veemon and Armadimon cried out in unison.

"You might want to improve the recipe," Novice then added, earning shocked looks out of most people. "Maybe make the salmiakki taste a little less... overpowering," the Overseer added thoughtfully.

"Thank you!" Mimi cried out while throwing her hands in the air, "At least someone appreciates my efforts." That last one was added with a huff.

"Please don't encourage her," Takeru begged. Who could possibly like salmiakki sauce anyway? And what could it even go with?

"In my experience, it has gone with chocolate," Novice said with a small smile, earning questioning looks out of anyone that wasn't Mimi. The girl having a curious one. "Hey, Mimi can I borrow that bottomless candy box," the Overseer asked. This made Mimi hand over the gift box she had received as she wanted to know what he wanted to do. "Salmiakkisuklaa," Novice said loudly to the box, which instantly opened and Novice pulled out a rectangular item from the box. "Try this," the Overseer said with a grin as he handed both the box and the item to Mimi.

The pink haired girl opened the rectangular wrappin, revealing it to be a small chocolate slab. Breaking a small piece of it, Mimi had a taste of it before nodding in approval, "Salty but sweet. This is nice."

"I knew you would like it," Novice said happily.

"I want some too," Palmon complained from Mimi's feet. With the girl breaking another piece and handing it over to her partner who plucked it in her mouth. Only for a look of disgust to morph on her face at the taste. "What is that!?" Palmon cried out as she spat the chocolate piece out which was revealed to have a black filling.

"Chocolate with a salmiakki filling," Novice revealed, causing everyone to stare at him like he was insane. "Yes, that's a thing," the Overseer deadpanned, guessing what everyone must be thinking.

"Can we just get to the next chapter," Agumon then practically begged, not wanting to hear more of this.

"Alright alright," Novice said as he took a seat and made the book float towards Ken

"Me?" Ken asked as he accepted the book even as it opened on the appropriate page.

Runaway Train! JewelBeemon & Angewomon!

The title card showed the silhouette of a train with the silhouettes that must be JewelBeemon and Angewomon above it.

"JewelBeemon," Wormmon mouthed in slight awe.

"Is this scenario based off of a movie," Hikari then asked out of curiosity.

"Got it in one," Novice said with a smile, "Although it's a movie I haven't seen myself."

"Oh, okay," Hikari said accepting that.

"...it's hot…" Wormmon sighed as he and Ren walked through the desert.

"It can't be helped…" Ren sighed. "Don't worry though, I know I saw a village this way. We'll get to it eventually," he reassured, earning a small nod from Wormmon.

"Again with the desert," Wormmon groaned, earning a comforting pat from Ken.

It didn't take too long after that to reach the town he had seen, and it was in the style of a wild west town (not that either of them know what that was), quickly heading into the saloon and both of them just getting water, relieved to have a moment to relax after walking in all that heat.

"One heck of a scorcher today huh?" the saloon owner, a peacock like Digimon with a bush replacing the back feathers and a crown on his head, said conversationally.

Ren nodded "I'm glad we found this town when we did."

"Yeah, this kind of reminds of that one overly convenient time," Veemon said in mild suspicion.

"Like you saw that coming anymore than the rest of us," Daisuke retorted with a snicker, earning a glare from his partner.

It took a moment before the second generation, along with Hikari, Takeru, Patamon and Gatomon figured out what the two were talking about but it made them laugh regardless.

"Well, we get passerbyers often enough, so welcome to our humble little town. The name's Deramon, what's yours strangers?" Deramon asked in a friendly tone.

Digimon Analyzer: Deramon

Deramon. Data Type. A Perfect Level Bird Digimon. At first glance one could mistake it for a simple bird Digimon, but it's body has incorporated plant data as well. Though it can't fly, it's still a relatively powerful Digimon. Its special attacks are Royal Nuts, shooting off nuts from the bush on it's back, and Gorgeous Beak, pecking at the enemy with it's solid gold beak.

"My name's Wormmon, and this is Ren," Wormmon said, having finished another glass of water. "We're...kinda looking for our friends," he explained.

"That so? Well...what do they look like? I get a lot of customers, but my memory is pretty good as long as its jogged," Deramon said.

"A Salamon and a person like me but with orange hair." Ren answered.

Deramon tapped his chin in thought with one of his feathers, before shaking his head "Nope, haven't seen them."

"Guess they don't get off easy this time," Patamon commented

"Patamon," Takeru lightly scolded.

"We all think that sometimes," the small mon retorted.

"Well...it was a long shot, but thanks," Ren said politely.

"No problem. Good luck in finding your friends," Deramon smiled.

It wasn't too long after that they were out of the saloon and walking through the town, hoping to find any clue as to the location of any of the others besides the D-Core pointing them in a general direction.

And then Ren noticed something interesting.

"Strange… one of them seems to be coming this way… very quickly at that." he realised as one of the dots was speeding towards his location.

"It's not Yang or Weiss at least, or they'd be easy to spot in the sky on top of their partners." Wormmon said as he looked into the cloudless sky.

"And Garurumon isn't THAT fast." Ren added, his eyes narrowed as he tried to figure it out. He didn't need long, as the ground started shaking, followed by the sound of an engine of some kind being heard.

"Are they on a train or something," Biyomon asked almost idly.

"That sounds pretty ominous." Wormmon said, feeling somewhat worried.

"Is that...a train?" Ren frowned when he heard the sound again. "We'd better get to the train tracks!"

Thankfully the station was almost painfully obvious, and reaching it, they could see a form speeding down the tracks towards the town, a cloud of steam rising up from it.

"At the speed he's going, he'll make enough wind pressure to tear the train station apart." Wormmon said seriously.

"That doesn't sound good," Sora commented in slight worry.

"Think you can stop him?" Ren asked.

"Maybe not, but I can slow him down." Wormmon said with narrowed eyes as Ren's D-Core started to glow.

"Wormmon, Evolution! Stingmon!"

Quickly running out onto the tracks, Stingmon stepped out into the open and released his wings, flying ahead as fast as possible, reaching his target quickly, still a minute away from town.

"You're… Locomon. But why are you doing this?" Stingmon wondered to himself as he hovered overhead for a moment, before diving down.

Digimon Analyzer: Locomon

Locomon. Data Type. A Perfect Level Machine Digimon. A Digimon whose sole purpose is to always move to its destination, never stopping until it reaches the goal. Its movement is confined solely to the tracks, but there are rumors of it being able to cause a distortion by going in a circle fast enough. Its special attacks are Steam Bomb, turning the steam coming out of it's smokestack into an explosive, and Wheel Grinder, using a spike protruding from its wheels to attack anything on its sides.

"Faster...faster! FASTERFASTERFASTERFASTER!" Locomon roared.

"Okay that Locomon isn't sane right now," Armadimon pointed out the obvious.

Even though it wasn't visible, Stingmon's eyes would have narrowed at the words, having the feeling something was off, but decided to focus on one thing at a time as he placed his hands on Locomon's face and shoved his feet into the ground, pushing back against the locomotive Digimon and trying to slow him down, his wings buzzing behind him to try and make enough wind that would normally push him forward.

At first there wasn't any visible effect...but little by little Locomon was slowing down a bit...not enough to stop, but at least he wouldn't be creating a wave of destruction when he rolled through the town. "Okay...this isn't quite working...but at least its doing something…" Stingmon grunted, but he kept on pushing. He needed to slow down Locomon enough for his partner to get on.

"Wait, why would he want Ren to get on," Agumon asked with mild confusion.

"Because they would want to find a way to stop that train," Taichi said simply.

"And judging by what was said earlier about one of the radar contacts moving fast, one of the Remnantians is on that train," Yamato also pointed out, though he left out that it was probably Nora.

When the train rolled into the station, Ren had to wait for an opening, as the cabooses where each too close to each other for him to jump in between, eventually getting on through the last one, as Stingmon lifted his feet and Locomon started to pick up speed again, thankfully getting out of town before reaching his previous speed.

Once Ren was inside, Stingmon quickly maintained his flight near Locomon, looking for a way to stop the Digimon, while his partner was going to try and do the same from inside. Now the only problem was….how the heck was he supposed to get THIS monster to stop?

"That's a billion yen question right there," Jo commented, "Stopping a speeding train is one thing, but a sentient one that is clearly not in it's right mind is another matter."

"Very true," Koshiro admitted.

Looking around, the last caboose didn't have anything in it, it just seemed to be for storage, though it did have some luggage from the looks of it, meaning there were people on this train.

Considering how the train was sentient, at least he didn't have to worry about causing too much noise, since this wasn't like a typical hostage situation. However, when he got through a door...he was met with a...unsurprising sight.

The Digimon were panicking, each and every one of them, and it was honestly rather loud. In fact, they were so panicked they didn't even notice him.

This sight didn't surprise any of the Children or their partners.

Sighing lightly, he walked past them, heading into the next train car, which appeared empty at first glance… until you heard the loud snoring in it. Looking at the source, he was hit with a mixture of relief...and bemusement...when he saw none other than Nora, snoring away without a care in the world.

"...Seriously," Gatomon was the first to comment at Nora sleeping in an out of control train digimon. And everyone else was staring at the impossibility too.

"It's Nora, insanity is her bread and butter," Novice said like that explained everything. And at this point, it did.

Salamon turned around from where she was trying to wake her partner up by tapping her stomach repeatedly, sighing in relief when she saw Ren "Oh thank everything you actually found us."

"How long has she been asleep?" Ren asked, glad to see the two of them were safe at least.

"5 hours… we've been on the train for a while, before it even went crazy." Salamon explained.

"And Nora never woke up," Gabumon said in disbelief.

"My sister wouldn't wake up to a cannon going off when she felt like it," Novice supplied helpfully, "I remember mom and dad threatening to dump a bucket of icewater on her every time she got like that." That last one was added with a chuckle.

Sadly that scenario was familiar to some of the Children. Especially to those with siblings.

"I see...I'm guessing you don't know why the train's gone crazy? Stingmon is trying to stop it, or at least slow it down, but I don't think he'll be able to do it without some help," Ren sighed.

"No clue, I've been trying to wake her up so we can investigate but she's sleeping like a log… and she's loud." Salamon finished dryly.

"Quite an engine she has," Tentomon quipped, earning laughs at the remark. Except from Gatomon who's ears had folded backwards in annoyance.

"That's because she's sleeping on her back, if she sleeps on her side she doesn't snore." Ren said idly as Salamon jumped off Nora's stomach and the stoic boy flipped her onto her side, and the snoring stopped just like that.

"...Odd." Was the smartest comment Hawkmon could come up with at how Nora's snoring was stopped so easily.

"Okay, glad that's over at least," Salamon sighed. "Now how to wake her up? And yes, I even tried jumping on her belly. It didn't work. At all."

In response, Ren raised his fingers, and snapped them, and they both heard Nora groan as she started waking up.

"You're kidding," Mimi mouthed out at someone waking up with a literal snap of fingers.

Salamon was speechless with her jaw hanging until Ren closed it for her.

"Nora tends to wake up if you snap your fingers. Unfortunately I'm not surprised you couldn't do that," Ren sighed, as the puppy-like Digimon was grumbling under her breath, something about 'hands'.

All the while Gatomon glared at the orange haired menace her other had to deal with.

A moment later, Nora was sat up, yawning as she rubbed the sleep out of her eyes, blinking her eyesight clear, before her eyes fell on Ren… and she was suddenly gone from her seat and had her arms around him as she hugged him. "Glad to see you too, Nora," he managed to say through the hug.

"I missed you Renny! It sucked when I woke up and it was only me and Salamon so we kinda looked everywhere for you and all the others but we couldn't find anybody so then I started to worry what happened and if we were gonna find you but now you're here and everything's ok!" Nora said, all in one breath surprisingly.

Everyone found some amusement in Nora somehow saying all of that in one breath.

"Well...I wouldn't say everything's ok," Ren started. "Still don't know where everyone else is, and we ARE inside a runaway train."

Nora blinked as she let go of him, looking around and then peering out the window "Huh… didn't know about the runaway part."

"It happened while you were asleep." Salamon supplied helpfully "Now, can I evolve please? I want to be ready in case anything happens."

"That's what I would want," Gatomon added in, if she wasn't constantly in Adult form.

"Oh, yeah, totally!" Nora said with a grin as she grabbed her D-Core and it glowed.

"Salamon, Evolution! Gatomon!"

"Much better." Gatomon said as she cracked her neck.

"We should head up to the front car, see if anything's wrong with the engine." Ren suggested.

"Okie-dokie! Lemme just grab Magnhild." Nora said before standing up on her seat and sticking in her hand in the small space on the ceiling, pulling out her weapon in grenade launcher form.

"...please be careful with that," Gatomon sweat dropped. "We ARE still inside a Digimon...okay, make that there still are OTHER Digimon inside here."

"Not sure the specification was necessary," Patamon commented.

"I seriously doubt that," Gatomon commented dryly.

"Well, not in this specific car, and the ones in the last car were panicking about the train being out of control." Ren added.

"Right, don't smash stuff too quickly," Nora nodded.

"Why do I feel like it was necessary," Gabumon said with a mild shiver.

"Hopefully Stingmon finds a way to slow Locomon down while we do this." Gatomon said as they headed into the next car.

"Okay...that's the last of them…" Stingmon sighed, having piled up a small barricade of boulders, hoping that'd stop Locomon. "And here he comes…" he said before getting out of the way. Locomon came...and promptly smashed through the barricade like it was nothing. Stingmon would have had his eye twitching if he could at his hard work going to waste.

"Well that didn't go according to plan," Gomamon commented with a small snicker.

"That would've been too easy," Miyako also sighed.

"Okay...that was quite a bump…" Gatomon blinked once they all steadied themselves.

"Stingmon was probably trying to stop Locomon, but I think we'll need to slow him down from here if we want to be able to help," Ren frowned.

"Right! So… honest question, how do you stop a train? I don't know how they work." Nora asked curiously.

"Not really surprising," Iori commented, "Less because it's Nora and more because no one who was interested would know." For some reason the youngest Child felt the need to add that.

"Depends on the train, this one is steam powered, so we need to cool down the engine at the front." Ren answered easily.

"So the front of the train we go," Gatomon shrugged.

The trip down the train was...strangely uneventful. So far it didn't seem like there was anything to impede them, and soon enough, they were at the front of the train, where the engine was.

"There doesn't seem to be any water." Ren said with a frown as he looked around the engine car, not finding anything that could be used to put out the fire in the engine itself.

"Well that's a problem," Tentomon commented.

"And the grate is shut tight." Gatomon added as she tried to pry open the latch keeping the engine covered.

"Let me try." Nora said as she hefted Magnhild up, with Gatomon getting out of the way before Nora started swinging, striking the grate a few times, denting it and slowly succeeding in opening it.

Just as she was about to give the last swing…

Something green and slimy came at her from behind, grabbing her before she could swing again "Wha-?!" she didn't even get to finish one word before the tentacles pulled her back, over the coal car, and back into the train itself.

Novice shivered visibly at the tentacles appearing.

"What's with you," Sora asked, wondering what prompted that reaction.

"Nothing... just... a bad memory from my early days as an Overseer," Novice said with another shiver of fear.

No one felt like questioning him on that.

"Nora!" Ren and Gatomon said in alarm, before running after her. However, when they left the engine room, the door to the engine room shut tight by itself, followed by what appeared to be more tentacles suddenly wrapping around the door, sealing it off.

"If that isn't a sign there's something else going on here, I don't know what is." Gatomon said with a frown as she looked back at it.

At the same time, Nora was… afraid. Wherever she was, it wasn't good, especially not as she was made to remember.

Her parents, she inherited her mother's hair and her father's eyes, they had lived in Mistral, happy, for the first few years of her life.

Then she lost them, she still didn't know what caused it, but her parents had died one day, and she was inconsolable without them.

Iori was probably the closest to understanding Nora. He had lost his dad and still misses him, but he no longer let it control him. Not that any of the others couldn't sympathize with Nora. After all, they all had fears at some point in their lives where their parents weren't there for them.

Until she ended up in the arms of her grandmother, her only remaining relative.

Her grandmother was strong despite her age, she had always thought the woman was quite possibly a retired huntress. Sadly, that too didn't last, as one day when she had come to wake her grandmother up...she didn't wake up…

After that… she was alone.

The girls had small tears in their eyes as the last living relative of Nora was shown not to wake up. But only Iori was actually crying at the thought of his grandfather dying too in the same manner. Which earned the boy another hug from Miyako, though whether it was to comfort the boy or herself was questionable. Ken also placed a hand on Iori's shoulder for support.

The only thing left being the memory of her family, and the words her grandmother told her.

"You have the brightest smile Nora, never lose it, it would be such a shame if no one ever saw it again."

Hikari was beginning to understand the true reason Nora had the crest of light. As did Gatomon, but she refused to admit that aloud even if it killed her.

So she did her best to smile, just like her grandmother would have wanted, despite the fact she was now wandering the wilderness alone, doing her best to scrounge up food.

And then she met Ren.

She woke up with a gasp, and immediately she was confused.

This… this wasn't where she had fallen asleep, and WHEN had she fallen asleep at that?

The last thing she remembered was something attacked her from behind while on board Locomon. Instead, she was...in a bed?

"Huh?" was the universal reaction.

She blinked as she looked around, finding herself in what could best be described as a normal bedroom, with a whole bunch of dolls and stuff. Oh and it was really pink. Her favorite. Before she could think much of it though, the door to the room opened, revealing…

"G-Grandma?" Nora blinked. There was no doubt about it. There, standing in the doorway, was her grandmother.

"...It's an illusion," Yamato commented with a glare at the screen.

"Probably," Sora added with equally strong glare. Whoever grabbed Nora was probably using her own desires against her. Something that the youngest members of the Chosen could easily relate to.

"Is something wrong, dear? You look like you've seen a ghost," her grandmother asked in that kind voice she'd missed so dearly.

Nora was trying to form a sentence, her jaw working up and down in confusion as she looked at her grandmother, before she was further confused when she saw her parents behind the elderly woman. "M-mom? D-dad?" she asked, her eyes tearing up.

"...Thinking back on when BelialMyotismon used this tactic against us... it was the cruelest thing anyone could do," Miyako said with a sniffle. Which were soon calmed when an arm wrapped around her. It was Ken who was looking away with a faint blush. "Thank you," Miyako whispered, earning a shy smile from the boy.

"What's wrong, Nora?" her parents asked, now very concerned for their daughter, before she promptly hugged them.

"I...I…" Nora sniffed, before they hugged her back, calming her down. Eventually she started telling them a number of things, about how they died, how she was left alone...but eventually they stopped her.

"Its okay dear...it was just a nightmare," the three of them said comfortingly.

"B-but what about all my friends? What about Ren? Or the Digimon?" Nora asked, still so confused.

"Oh, you just dreamt them all up. You've had dreams about that Ren boy before, I'm starting to wonder if he isn't your dream man." Her grandmother teased her, making Nora blush a bit.

"Though this is the first time you've had a dream with Sala in it," her mother chuckled, idly picking up a stuffed puppy toy with cream colored fur and floppy ears.

"That's even worse," Hikari commented as she hugged her friend. This dream was even trying to make it seem like Nora's partner was never real.

Nora frowned a bit as she accepted the stuffed toy from her mother.

She was happy that they were all alive.

But…

Something was… strange.

"At least she isn't taking it all at face value," Novice said with the smallest of smiles.

"Nora!" Ren exclaimed in a combination of worry and surprise when he and Gatomon entered one of the empty train cars and saw her just standing there, still holding onto Magnhild.

"Nora? Are you...alright?" Gatomon asked, worried at the state her partner seemed to be in. She got her answer when Nora suddenly swung her weapon at them, forcing them to jump back.

"Nora, what are you doing?!" Ren asked in confusion, before he was able to get a good look at her eyes.

They were empty, hollow, almost lifeless. And thus they were once more forced to evade as Nora moved, like a puppet on strings, attacking them without hesitation.

"That's even worse," Daisuke growled at whoever was behind this using Ren's own friend against them. A sentiment shared by everyone else.

"This is bad. Something's controlling her, but we don't know what!" Ren growled.

"We need to find out what it is then." Gatomon said as the two of them retreated back outside and climbed up to the top of the train cars, with Ren narrowly avoiding having his foot smashed by Magnhild.

"That would've hurt," Wormmon winced.

"Ren!" Stingmon said in worry as he came down quickly, landing on the roof when he saw his partner and Gatomon come up, only to do a double take when he saw Nora be… lifted into the air by nothing and placed on the roof "What did I miss in the last half hour?"

"Too much, Nora's being controlled by something if you want the short version." Gatomon said with a scowl.

"That's bad!" Stingmon said in alarm. "But what's controlling her? I can't see anything!"

"Then it's either invisible… or it's attached to her back." Ren said with narrowed eyes "The whole time she attacked us, she's been facing us."

"Now that Ren mentioned it, she has," Koshiro confirmed from the footage they had seen so far.

"A classic trick," Novice commented idly as he had some disturbing thoughts about certain parasitic creatures in some of the worlds he had seen.

Right as he realised this, Stingmon moved behind him in a flash, his spikes extended and in the process of ending a swing with his arms.

A second later, a pained screech was heard, as a small mass of green tentacles became visible, after being obviously cut to pieces by Stingmon.

"Not fast enough." Stingmon stated matter of factly, and although it wasn't obvious, he was glaring ahead.

"Tch. Annoying brats," a new voice growled, as the source of the tentacles faded into view.

The first thing they all noticed was how disgusting it looked, having the appearance of a large purple spider with a single eye covering up it's face, and a mass of (currently) cut tentacles coming out from behind it's mandibles, and although it wasn't currently visible, there was also a mouth full of sharp teeth on the back of its abdomen.

Everyone had looks of disgust at that monster, and that's saying something for a lot of them.

"Parasimon? What are you doing here?" Gatomon asked in confusion, her eyes narrowed at the Digimon.

Digimon Analyzer: Parasimon

Parasimon. Virus Type. A Perfect Level Parasite Digimon. A Digimon that survives by leeching off the energy of others, never seen too far from stronger Digimon. It can push the abilities of its host beyond its limits, and tends to take advantage of their desires. Its special attacks are Electric Bind, grabbing an enemy with its tentacles and shocking them, and Digicabolic Steroid, further empowering its host.

"I should be asking YOU that," Parasimon snarled. "I will only say this once. Don't interfere or else…!"

"What are you doing?" Ren asked, already knowing he wouldn't like the answer.

"A little service to my master. With Locomon causing so much destruction with his shockwaves, it will be the perfect diversion from his plans!" Parasimon laughed, shamelessly explaining his plan.

"Causing so much destruction… just to grab attention?" Ren said with gritted teeth, the thought angering him.

Everyone else shared Ren's anger, especially Ken.

"But of course. And Locomon are simply ideal for this task. They're Digimon who will serve a purpose. I'm simply giving it a more useful one!" Parasimon laughed. "Now, I believe I'll even push this plan into the next phase. Digicabolic Steroid!" he said, stabbing his backmost legs into Locomon's body, and the result was… powerful.

"Locomon, Evolution!" the train Digimon shouted as its eyes glowed, its body rearranging itself, parts moving around and panels opening, soon looking like a far more deadly train that was like the combination between a locomotive and a hot rod, with several exhaust pipes coming out of its body, and with one large spiked wheel at the front "GrandLocomon!"

Digimon Analyzer: GrandLocomon

GrandLocomon. Data Type. An Ultimate Level Machine Digimon. Breaking beyond the limits of speed of its previous form, this Digimon can easily surpass the speed of sound, and is difficult to stop. Whereas it originally needed a railway system to move, it can now create rails wherever it goes. Its special attacks are Destroyed Crash, attacking its enemies with the spiked wheel at the front, and Limited Express, ramming into the enemy at supersonic speeds.

"He forced the Locomon to evolve," Taichi commented with a look of slight horror.

As did Ken, because this reminded him a little too much of the time he forced Agumon into MetalGreymon as Digimon Emperor.

Everyone not flying or being helped by Parasimon had to hold onto to something to avoid being thrown off at the sudden increase of speed. Parasimon however was laughing maniacally. "That's it! That's it! Run wild! Destroy everything!" he laughed.

"S-Stop it…!" came a pained voice...from Locomon.

"No, you're doing as I say!" Parasimon snapped.

As soon as that line was finished, Ken dropped the book, breathing erratically.

"Ken! Breathe!" Wormmon cried out in concern as moved to his partner's shoulder to hug his head. But it seemed like the poor boy was still in a dark place.

"Ken!" Miyako shouted out as she wrapped her own arms around Ken, forcing his head into the crook of her neck. "It's okay, that's not you anymore." Miyako didn't need to guess more than once to realize what this scenario made the boy feel.

It took a moment, but it seemed like Ken was calming down from whatever episode he was going through.

"Do you need a break," Novice asked in concern.

"No, I'll keep reading," Ken said, still looking a little shaken.

"...You sure," Daisuke asked from his seat.

"Yeah... just... I shouldn't react like this anymore," Ken said, now feeling ashamed of himself.

"Don't kick yourself," Taichi said, also realizing why Ken reacted the way he did, "It's water under the bridge now."

"...Thank you," Ken said as he picked up the book to continue where he left off. Only for Miyako to put her hand over his arm.

"I'll be here for you if anything else happens... and so will Wormmon," the purple haired girl seemed to add that last part as an after thought as she blushed a little.

"Cruel… You're just too cruel!" Ren said through grit teeth as he kept his body low, shielding his face from the wind as his Crest started to glow softly.

"Why thank you!" Parasimon said condescendingly, before laughing again.

"Someone like you, who takes pleasure in the pain of others… I can't forgive someone like that!" Ren added as the glow of his Crest grew.

"That so? And what could you POSSIBLY do about it?" Parasimon asked condescendingly.

"We're going to stop you. THAT much is a promise," Ren growled, wanting nothing more than to stop the suffering this creature was so callously causing onto others. At that moment the glow of his Crest reached its peak.

At this point, even Ken found himself smiling at what was about to happen next.

(Play Brave Heart)

Ren's D-Core vibrated before changing into a shade of Magenta with green buttons, before the beam of light was shot out, going through the Tag and releasing the Crest, which flew past the clouds, gathering power as it reached its peak and released the burst of energy that shot down the beam into Stingmon. "Stingmon, Super Evolution!" he called out, before his body was covered in energy, slowly hardening, before from the back of his shell, a crack developed and a split appeared, his new form soon emerging from within his old form. His new armor was a lighter shade of green than the previous, with red ridges, and yellow gems embedded into the armor, the gauntlets holding blade like claws at their tips, his helmet now covering most of his face, but exposing a human mouth, his antennae being thinner, but far longer than before, his wings now constantly released, and a spear with an almost star shaped tip appearing in his hand "JewelBeemon!"

Digimon Analyzer: JewelBeemon

JewelBeemon. Virus Type. A Perfect Level Insect Digimon. His armor is covered in radiant jewels that reflect the light of the sun, blinding his enemies. A grappling expert, he is a graceful fighter, and wields his spear like a master. His special attacks are Spike Buster, swinging his spear at the speed of light and generating a shockwave, and Shot Claw, launching the claws at the tip of his gauntlets.

"I look so cool," Wormmon said with stars lighting in his eyes at his other's new form.

Parasimon looked up at the newly evolved Digimon and sweat dropped...maybe he shouldn't have ran his mouth in retrospect. Whatever the case, he shook his...body...and quickly focused again. He still held the cards after all. "Fine, if that's the way you want to play!" And with that, Nora ran forward, aiming to take someone's head off with her hammer. However, before she could hit anyone, JewelBeemon easily stopped her, before knocking her back (careful not to hurt her). "Gatomon, now!" he called out, to which Gatomon used his shoulder as a springboard, and jumped over Nora to get at her back. When she got close she saw a small purple and green spider attach to her back, grabbing hold of it and starting to pull, Nora's body going rigid "It's stuck pretty tight!" Gatomon said through grit teeth as she pulled.

"I hope it doesn't harm her," Biyomon said in worry.

"I'll help!" Ren said as he joined her in trying to pry off the spider from his friend's back.

"Oh no you don't!" Parasimon growled, before suddenly from within the train, a large number of 'Drones' appeared. "Let's see you try to stop me when you're under my control!" he said, and the drones began attempting to swarm them, only for JewelBeemon to quickly intercept and destroy a large portion of them, keeping them away.

"I'll hold them off! But hurry!" he said urgently, to which they nodded and resumed trying to get the drone off.

"Get them!" Wormmon cheered on Ken's shoulder, clearly being excited about this. Something that made Ken smile.

(Song End)

At the same time, the home Nora was inside of was slowly crumbling away, as she sat in the living room with her family, looking down sadly.

"This… it was all in my head… wasn't it?" Nora said, as her D-Core and Crest faded into view on her body.

"We're sorry Nora. We never wanted to do this, but Parasimon's drone took control of the memories you had of us, and created this world to try and keep you in it." the memory of her father explained sadly, as he and the rest of her family were slowly fading away.

Nora nodded, still looking down "I kind of wish you guys actually were still alive though."

As did Iori about his own father, but he had come to terms with it enough to just keep moving forward like his father would've wanted him to.

As for Ken. His talk with Osamu was still fresh in his mind, which stopped him from getting sad again.

"We know Nora. I really wish we could have watched you grow." the memory of her mother said with a sad smile.

"But remember, you're not alone anymore. You have all of your friends, and you have something even more important." the memory of her grandmother said with a kind smile.

"More important than my friends?" Nora repeated in confusion.

"You know what it is." the old woman said with a kind laugh "It's the most important thing to you, or rather, the most important person, they are your light."

Hikari hugged Gatomon slightly tighter with the feline placing her paws over Hikari's arms.

"My light." Nora repeated, a whisper, as she looked down at her crest, before smiling a bit as it started to glow.

"Go back Nora. They need your help." the memory of her father said with an encouraging nod.

Nora grasped her D-Core and Tag in her hand, before nodding, and getting up. "I love you," she said before turning to the door.

"We love you too," her Grandmother said warmly before she was out the door, while the world crumbled around her.

Nora gasped, like she was taking the first of many breaths, as the drone was pulled from her back, and her crest glowed.

She shook her head, before turning back to Ren and smiling at him "I'm back!"

"Welcome back." he answered with a nod and a sigh of relief.

She then looked to Gatomon "Ready?"

Gatomon grinned as she flexed her claws "Born ready." With that, she charged forward, and soon helped JewelBeemon fight off the drones, something Ren and Nora did as well, but the drones were numerous.

"Okay, this isn't working so well," Gatomon frowned, as while they were killing off drones by the dozens, more seemed to take their place.

"Then let's take out the leader!" JewelBeemon grunted, before going for Parasimon...only for Parasimon to suddenly dive under the train, easily maneuvering and hiding away from them, before reappearing again on another section.

"Of course he has to be fast," Gatomon grumbled at the parasitic menace.

"I'm sure they'll figure out how to beat it," Veemon said confidently.

"Hahahaha, talk all you want, but its no good if you can't hit me!" Parasimon laughed. "Give it up already, the only fate you all have is to become my puppets!"

"I won't let you do that to anyone else." Nora growled "You won't hurt those I care about!" she shouted, her crest finally reaching its peak.

(Play Brave Heart)

Nora's D-Core vibrated, before changing color, turning pink with white buttons before it released the beam of light, which shot through the Tag, releasing her Crest into the sky. As it reached its peak, the Crest gathered power, before releasing a burst of energy which soon shot down a beam of light into Gatomon. "Gatomon, Super Evolution!" she called out, before her body began to glow, and soon began to change, going from its small cat-like form into a larger human-like form. Her clawed gloves fell off, before a ribbon wrapped around her right arm and extended around her body, resting on her shoulders, while a white glove with a pair of small wings slipped onto her left hand, eight holy wings appearing on her back. Boots slipped onto her feet, a Holy Ring acting as an anklet on her left ankle, while the rest of her outfit formed onto her body. It was honestly rather revealing, having several holes around her abdomen and missing the right leg completely. Finally the glow of her body died down as her upper face was covered by a grey helmet with a cross design on it and wings on its side, and her long hair showing itself as blonde "Angewomon!"

Digimon Analyzer: Angewomon

Angewomon. Vaccine Type. A Perfect Level Archangel Digimon. A normally gentle Digimon, she cannot forgive those with cruel and evil hearts. She holds some of the strongest holy power in the Digital World, with few Digimon stronger than her. Her special attacks are Holy Arrow, creating a bow from the wings on her glove and firing an arrow made of pure holy energy, and Heaven's Charm, creating a cross of pure holy energy, which binds evil in its light before destroying them with the cross fired as a shockwave down the beam of light.

Angewomon descended, flying alongside JewelBeemon, both of them glaring at the approaching swarm.

"Looks like we both reached Perfect, huh?" Ren couldn't help but say as he and Nora saw both Perfect Digimon.

"Yeah, now break his legs guys!" Nora cheered.

"For once I agree with her," Gatomon admitted, earning a knowing smile from Hikari.

"With pleasure!" both of them said, before going straight for Parasimon, though the drones soon got in the way again.

"Out of the way! Spike Buster!" JewelBeemon said, swinging his spear, and releasing a shockwave that destroyed a number of drones.

"Holy Arrow!" Angewomon called out, forming an arrow of light as the wings on her glove extended, before she notched the arrow in her hand, pulled back, and fired, the arrow spearing several drones. However, even as they decimated the drones, Parasimon's speed still proved to be a problem.

"We need to get him to stop, or we'll never catch him," JewelBeemon growled.

"Leave that to me!" Angewomon nodded, before spreading her arms. "Saint Air!" she called out, bringing her hands upward, creating a ring of energy which released particles of light into the air. The moment it was released, Parasimon who had been darting in and out froze.

"Can't….move!" he grunted, struggling to move.

"Now they got him," Agumon said with an evil grin.

"Get him!" Gomamon cheered too.

Seeing what was happening, Ren and Nora nodded to each other, before bringing their weapons to bare, and firing at any remaining swarms of drones, destroying them in the ensuing hail of bullets and grenades. "Finish it now!" they both shouted, earning nods from their partners.

Angewomon stopped the flow of Saint Air, the remaining particles slowly dissipating, but it would still last more than long enough for what they had planned next. "Holy Arrow!"

"Shot Claw!" JewelBeemon added, firing the claws on his gauntlets.

"Nonononono!" Parasimon panicked, before he was speared by the attacks...through his big eye… "L-lord Myotismon!" he managed to choke out as his body started breaking down.

"Another pawn of Myotismon," Takeru said with a scowl at the evil monster.

"Ouch…" the two hunters winced at the sight, but didn't say anything more as Parasimon was soon deleted.

(End song)

With his deletion, all his remaining drones disappeared as well, and GrandLocomon's eyes stopped glowing as he started to finally slow down.

"Finally." Ren sighed in relief, glad the crisis was averted.

"Yeah! We win!" Nora shouted, before jumping at Ren and hugging him.

He expected that much, catching her with practiced ease.

But he didn't expect her to kiss him.

"Whoah." Came out of everyone, not expecting that. Except maybe Sora and Mimi, seeing as they had wide smiles.

Although no one noticed Miyako stealing a glance at Ken before the girl blushed and turned her gaze away. Except Novice who chuckled discreetly. "Kaikki aikanaan.(All in it's time)" Novice thought as he figured that Miyako wouldn't be able to gather the courage for a kiss just yet.

JewelBeemon and Angewomon both stared at the sight of Ren freezing in place while Nora continued to both hug and kiss him, looking at each other for a moment before going back to the sight "This is new." they both said together.

Once the train finally stopped (and Ren finally recovered from Nora basically admitting her feelings out of nowhere), the group disembarked from the roof, and the two humans were slightly surprised as their partners reverted to being Minomon and Nyaromon.

"Thank you for freeing me from his control. It's nice to have a clear mind again." GrandLocomon said, relief in his voice.

"Well, look on the bright side, you got a power boost out of it all." Nora said with a grin.

GrandLocomon laughed "I suppose you're right, I'll certainly be able to do my job even better than before now. How about in thanks I give you a ride to the next station? It's up in some mountains not too far from here."

"Gyro and the others were at the last chapter," Gabumon pointed out with a smile.

"We'd greatly appreciate it." Ren said with a thankful smile.

"Just don't go too fast please." Minomon requested slightly nervously.

"We've had enough speed for one day." Nyaromon agreed with a nod, earning a few laughs.

With that, the book shut itself.

"How are you feeling, Ken," Novice asked the Chosen of Kindness.

"Much better, thank you," Ken replied with a small sigh as he turned towards Miyako. "Umm... Miyako... thank you... for helping me," Ken stammered with a dusting of pink on his cheeks.

"Y-you're welcome," Miyako stuttered back as she dared to look back before realizing that she still had one hand over Ken's arm. With that, the Chosen of Purity and Love quickly retracted the arm away.

Novice couldn't help smirking a little. Those two would be a couple by the end of this reading. But the question is, will his little project be finished by then? Oh, well that's not important right now.