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The Tamer v2.0: In His Name

Chapter 35: New Plan, Do We Have One?

Kenta kept his eye on Juri anxiously, wondering what could be going through her head in light of seeing everyone return safely with their digimon. Well, mostly everyone. Kazu and Guardromon were still out cold from whatever had happened. The others were also being oddly quiet about what happened, apparently not willing to recall what had happened with perfect clarity. Whatever had spooked them had been bad.

"More information needed. Continue observation. Raising threat level of all targets. Exercise caution," she said. Kenta jumped at the sound of her monotonous voice and alarmed phrase, "Juri?"

"It's not Juri," Calumon whimpered quietly, "She's not okay! She's not! She's really not!"

Kenta raised an eyebrow at the little digimon, unsure of what to make of the little digimon's panicked expression. He'd always been a little anxious but this was ridiculous. He was treating Juri like she was one of the Devas. What was there to be afraid of? It wasn't like she was staring with cold, dead eyes at them like she was planning on killing everyone. At least, that's what he tried to tell himself as she continued to stare at him unblinkingly, "Um, Juri. How are you holding up?"

"Query received. Compiling response. Response compiled. Answer: I am fine. Query: What is your basic chemical composition?"

"My what?" Kenta asked, dumbfounded by the question. That was when Ryo pulled him back by tugging on his ear, "Give her some space, Kenta. She's been through a lot."

"Sorry, she's just acting weird and it's freaking me out," Kenta answered defensively, allowing himself to get dragged along by Kenta until they rejoined Sakuyamon and the Sovereigns. He took a deep breath at the sight of her, still processing what he'd been told. She had reached the next form of digivolution and become something in between human and digimon. It was like some kinda hybrid. He sighed, wishing he could have a digimon partner of his own already.

"Hey! We're back!" Tamerkato's voice called out. They looked up and saw him and WarGrowlmon riding atop a large mechanical version of Terriermon wearing Rapidmon's armor soaring through the air. It touched down just beside them and revealed how large it truly was when standing beside the other digimon - about the size of the other Sovereigns. That was something. Hell, it could probably even dwarf Megidramon - not that Kenta wanted to find out. But there was someone's else with them: Henry's little sister and a chocolate version of Terriermon with three horns instead of the usual one.

"Wow! You're all okay! How was the Digital World!?" Henry's sister greeted, "Everything is all so big! Wow! So Pretty! It's a flying snake, and a glowing tiger, and fire bird, and a two headed turtle! I bet they argue a lot."

"Wait, aren't you Henry's sister? What are you doing here?" Kenta pointed at her in disbelief, "How did you get here? And where's Henry!?"

"Well it all started when there was a noise in daddy's computer, and then there was a pretty light, and then a giant bunny and then," she paused, "Oh no! The bunny! Is she okay?"

She hurried back to the chocolate Terriermon and examined its unconscious form. It jolted awake at her touch, and shook its head in disbelief, "Ow! That hurt…wait…you got taller."

"I didn't get taller, you got smaller!" Xiaochun said happily, pointing at her body. As the bunny took a moment to examine herself, Xiaochun squealed in delight, "Ooh! You're so cute like this! I love it! I just want to give you a great big hug!"

"Don't you dare!" she tried to protest but it was too late. Xiaochun was already holding the bunny in her arms and squeezing her as hard as she could. As the bunny tried to protest, a small light appeared in Xiaochun's pocket and the girl dropped the bunny in surprise, "Hm? What's that? Oh! Hello, what's this? Henry! Look! Look! I got a digivice too!"

She held up a pink digivice and showed it to the big green mecha that sighed in frustration. Then Azulongmon remarked, "Would you look at that - a Deva chosen as a partner to a human girl. You must've done something truly spectacular to earn that, Antylamon. Or should I say Lopmon?"

"It doesn't really feel spectacular," the rabbit frowned. Kenta had no idea what the hell was going on and looked at the others from some explanation, "So is someone going to translate any of that?"

"We're just as confused as you are," the giant robot dog said. Sakuyamon came over to join him, "Alright, Henry. So what's this big guy called?"

"MegaGargomon and I feel like a freaking Gundam," he answered sheepishly, "Watch where you're standing guys. I feel like I'm going to step on someone just because I adjust my feet. It's really weird."

"Where are our Devas? Caturamon and Antylamon?" Zhuqiaomon roared at the top of his lungs. MegaGargomon gestured down at the chocolate bunny, "We couldn't find Caturamon. As for Antylamon, she's right there. But we have a problem. That thing, the D-Reaper, just appeared over in that part of the Digital World! It was all we could do to get away before it got to us!"

Alarm spread through the remaining Devas and Sovereigns as they realized time had run out for them. Kenta could see it plain as day on their faces - they looked like they'd been told the world was going to end. Whatever thing was the cause of this mess was loose in the Digital World now and it was only a matter of time before they'd be able to do anything about it. Azulongmon turned to Calumon, "Little one. You must understand, you must release the power held within you now. For the sake of the Digital World. For the sake of all worlds!"

"I don't know if I can," he whimpered quietly, shying away from the massive flying sovereign.

That was when Tamerkato picked him up, "Don't worry. I think I can help you there. It might sting, but it's better than the alternative."

"Pardon me there laddie but what do you think you're doing with the Catalyst?" Ebonwumon's first head asked, as it guided itself over to him. Once both heads were close enough to examine him, the second head asked, "And who exactly do you think you are that you can figure out what we can't?"

Tamerkato thumbed at his goggles, "You know who I am."

"Who do you think you are to talk to us that way, human!?" Zhuqiaomon snapped angrily. Calumon cowed under Zhuqiaomon's voice, shaking in terror until Tamerkato started patting his head, "Who do you think you are to call me human? See, I can be mean too. Not a lot of fun is it? Come on already Zhuqiaomon, you're smarter than this. Put it together already."

Zhuqiaomon stared at him silently until his four eyes widened. Even his voice carried a mix of surprise and disappointment as he answered, "No."

"Yup," Tamerkato nodded. Zhuqiaomon blinked repeatedly, as if to confirm what he was looking at. Kenta couldn't blame him - it was very hard to believe in itself. Zhuqiaomon remarked, "But...you're so pathetic looking. I recall a warrior's eyes last time we met."

"Times change. So do people," Tamerkato answered, looking from him to the other Sovereigns, "All of you. It's been a while."

"Hang on a tick, who is this whelp and why are we listenin' ya his demands?" Ebonwumon's other head demanded. Zhuqiaomon roared, "It's The Digimon Tamer, you idiot."

"It is?" Ebonwumon eyed Tamerkato quietly. Azulongmon and Baihumon came in closer to better examine the boy but neither seemed to impressed with what they saw. Azulongmon nodded, "It's he's a while Digimon Tamer. I don't like the new look. It's very dopey."

"Yeah, I get that a lot," Tamerkato crowned before gesturing at the Sovereigns, "Can you do that thing where you call all the digimon here?"

Each of the Sovereigns looked at each other quietly, Ebonwumon's second head asking, "Are you sure?"

Tamerkato nodded quietly and Baihumon sighed, "Okay then. This will take time."

The four sovereigns ascended skyward to just above the crevice and came aglow with light. Kenta had to crane his neck back just to get a good look at them before covering his eyes from the blinding light, "What are they doing?"

"Summoning the digimon. Every digimon," Tamerkato answered quietly. MegaGargomon looked from the dazzling display above their heads and asked, "Why would they do that?"

"Because we're going to need more than the Sovereigns to fight back against this thing. We need everyone," Tamerkato answered bitterly. Sakuyamon looked to him, "You mean an army?"

Tamerkato didn't answer.

"I think I've got it right. I'm forwarding my copy of the code to you now. Hopefully it works well with what you guys are working," Zhenyu said as he finished the last few lines of code.

"Okay, that just leaves Curly and Babel. Go ahead and drop it in the shared network folder," Dolphin remarked.

"Already done!" Zhenyu answered with a big smile. He missed this - when all of them were together, they worked with a speed and efficiency that few could match. Except for maybe the Ichijoujis and Izumi, "Where are you at Curly? Babel?"

"On its way."

"Just dropped my part of the code in the computer."

The room was alight with the clicks of keys and whirring of fans trying to cool a powerhouse of processors. Dolphin took a deep breath and copied their code, "Okay, compiling now. We'll be ready to test once its done. It should only take a couple of minutes with all this processing power at our disposal."

"Do you think it will work?" Sora asked, having watched from across the room with the other digidestined who couldn't help because of their lack of any programming or computer knowledge. Dolphin shrugged, "No idea. We're working from scratch in a poorly understood field. Or…unknown field makes more sense. I say we have a ten percent chance of it working."

"And the other ninety?" Sora asked, her tone becoming more serious and worrisome after that. The many Monster Makers looked at each other anxiously, "We overload the power supply and blow ourselves up. And possibly the kids with it."

"Maybe I'll lose my other leg and even myself out," Izumi remarked dryly, snickering at his joke until his wife slapped the back of his head, "Don't joke about that, Koushi!"

"Sorry, I think the pain meds are still messing with me," he chuckled while massaging the sore spot on his head, "I'll review the code and see if it works."

"Koushi?" Zhenyu heard the school teacher repeat stupidly, "Wow, Izzy. Never figured you two for pet names."

"What exactly are we doing again?" Motomiya complained from a swivel chair that he'd been using to spin in place while balancing a pencil on his nose. Daisy, ever the energetic member of their team, snapped her fingers and raced over to a wall with a marker, "Oh, I got this! So, we've modified the Juggernaut's code to force open a gate between worlds without sucking in all digital life that it detects. We then used that same code to create a new program that we're calling 'Ark'. It's a modified version of the rudimentary life program that we created way back when we first made the digimon. Only the 'Ark' is modified to act as transport with room for all the kids and their digimon to come home."

Her explanation didn't really need a visual aid but it didn't stop her from drawing on the wall. And when she was done, she happily presented a crude drawing of a space ship that resembled on the new digivices but with wings. She seemed proud of it too until Yamaki groaned and dragged her away, "Please don't draw on our walls."

"I've got coffee and snacks," Tally announced as she walked back into the office with Riley. Both women held carriers filled with coffees and handily started passing them around to the different members of the digidestined. The group collectively cheered and thanked the women for making a coffee run just as the time came for them to sit back and watch the code compile in front of them.

Just as the anticipation was about to kill them, Ken Ichijouji returned with Matt Ishida lugging a laptop and a power cord under his arm. Matt slammed the laptop down hard, manhandling it as he hooked up the power cord while Izumi complained, "I see you still treat computers rougher than you treat Tamer."

"I'm anxious," Matt answered, "The key to finding Takeru could be on here. And Ken probably just figured out the password. I need to know."

Ken retrieved the laptop before he could damage it any further and declared, "I understand where you're coming from. No one will ever get that more than me. But those clues are going to go up in flames if you don't start treating these electronics with a little more delicacy."

"What's the deal with this anyway?" Zhenyu asked, "Takeru's your brother and he's missing. I've gathered that much. But what exactly makes you think there could be clues on that laptop?"

Ichijouji was too busy setting up the laptop to answer the question so it fell on Ishida to provide the answer for him, "Before Takeru disappeared, he became really withdrawn and paranoid. Kept talking about not knowing who was listening. We could just be hanging out at our apartment and he'd begin worrying about being watched. I guess now we know why."

He shot a deathly angry look over at Yamaki. The government agent adjusted his tie and pretended to not notice, "Don't be so naive to think we were the only ones watching you. There were others watching well before we were. If it wasn't us, it would've been Burnt Leaf, the Central Intelligence Agency, MI6, the Ministry of State Security, or any of the other intelligence agencies out there in the world. You painted huge targets on your backs when you were kids because of the stuff you pulled in the Odaiba Incident."

"Kids? Hang on, the Odaiba Incident was...like...two years ago. They're adults!" Curly protested.

"Getting back on track," Ishida cleated his throat, "We thought it was just jitters from his next book. Digimon Adventure 02. He'd been stressing about it forever because of the details he changed while he was working on it. Most of it was because he wasn't comfortable with lying or covering up the truth. Then he disappeared and our digimon vanished with him. I hired Ken here to investigate for me and figure out what the hell happened to my brother."

"Oh cool, your brother wrote those awesome books!" Daisy said excitedly.

"Moving on. My investigation turned up some scary things. He started renting a lot of properties, moving from place to place at the drop of a hat, and rigged every place he stayed with booby traps. It was like he expected to be attacked," Ichijouji answered as he typed on the keyboard, "We found this laptop in one of those properties, also booby trapped. It's password protected and set to automatically delete the hard drive if we put in the wrong password too many times. We couldn't get in. And the only hint was nonsense. But now I'm starting to wonder if the answer was right under our noses."

"What are you thinking honey?" his wife asked, joining him to inspect the laptop's screen. Ichijouji looked up with the biggest pleased with himself smile possible, "Something that was kind of a theme in Takeru's books. Hell, call it the theme of our fucking lives if you want to believe it. The password! It's DESTINY."

He pressed enter as he finished typing and the computer moved onto the desktop which had a file directory open. Matt cheered and slapped Ken's back "You're my hero right now. I hope you know that. What have you got?"

Ken began scrolling through the different folders and subdirectories, "Let's find out. It looks like he kept everything very well organized. There's saved copies of news articles, this folder looks like drafts of his book at different stages of writing. Here's a folder with a lot of pictures. Hey, Yamaki. Looks like Takeru was on to you."

He turned the laptop to show a selfie of Takeru holding up a peace sign with his fingers. Just behind him was Yamaki pretending to read a newspaper - a sight that made his own subordinates snicker. Riley remarked, "You were always awful at field operations."

"Is that code almost done compiling?" Yamaki tried to divert the subject but was answered with a sharp no from Dolphin still watching his monitor, "I'll let you all know if anything changes. Please continue. I like hearing about how a novelist was outsmarting a bunch of government agents."

"It becomes a lot less amusing when you realize that there were lives at stake," Yamaki pointed out seriously, "This might just be a game to some of you-"

He looked right at the Monster Makers when he said that and added, "-or a childhood adventure-"

He looked at the digidestined, "But this is a national security matter. Monsters from another world invaded ours. You better believe every single government out there wants to be the first to use them as weapons and tip the global power scale. Quite frankly, it all comes down to who you think would be better off in control of the situation. And you better believe that everyone has different ideas of what to do with them."

"And what's your plan for them?" the doctor asked calmly, finally saying something for the first time since they arrived. Yamaki turned on the man, taking a moment to cool before calmly asking, "What are you implying?"

"I've worked with Doctors Without Borders for years. I've been to a lot of parts of the world. Everyone is always after something. So what's your game Yamaki? What makes the Japanese government any better than say the Americans? Or the Chinese? Hell, what makes you think that we would help you just to let you have any kind of control over the digimon?" Doctor Kido stated matter of factly with a finger pointed so close to the government agent that they were pretty sure he was going to jab his eye out.

Yamaki sighed, "Don't be so naive. Everyone has blood on their hands. Even you, Doctor Kido. Or do you believe we don't know about the wild ones you killed? The ones who showed up when you were just a teenager."

"That was two years ago and that man is in his twenties!" another of the Monster Makers shouted out of annoyance.

"We were trying to save the world," Kido stood his ground on the matter.

"Good job with that. You've totally saved the world and made it better for everyone. It's not like we have monsters regularly appearing in our streets and attacking people," Yamaki fired back angrily. There was moment of pause until Kari Kamiya came forward and slapped them both across the back of the head with a textbook, "Focus! We're here to save the kids, not bicker over whose morality dick is bigger."

The computer made a beep and Zhenyu announced, "The program works. Let's give it a run and see if it can enter the Digital World. If this works, then we can go save our kids!"

"But how do we know if it works?" Miss Izumi asked. Dolphin smiled, "We've taken care of that. The Ark will go to the Digital World and acquire a sample of Digital Life. Not anything sentient, but definitely something alive. If it comes here in one piece, then we know it works. If it doesn't, back to the drawing board!"

"And where exactly will the ark be appearing?" Yamaki folded his arms and leered. Dolphin laughed at his attempt at intimidation, "Don't worry. We have it landing on top of the Metropolitan Building."

Rika marveled as the digimon gathered - filling the sky and crowding the ground with their numbers. And they all came so quickly and without warning that she barely had time to process the fact that it happened. There were more among their number than could ever be counted and Rika was unsure of what to do with them, "Renamon, how are they all here?"

"Even I don't know that," Renamon answered quietly, "Although I wish I did."

"That is the power of the Sovereigns," Tamerkato answered, still cradling Calumon in his hands, "And we're going to need everyone to fight the D-Reaper."

"You keep saying that. Who's the D-Reaper?" Kenta asked aloud. Tamerkato snapped his fingers, "You remember that camp fire story? The monster who only wanted to devour. I wasn't making that up. The D-Reaper is real and it existed."

"Wait, seriously?" Henry or MegaGargomon or whatever he was calling himself stammered out, "So that thing we were just fighting is the all powerful monster from your campfire story?"

"Anyone care to fill me in?" Rika finally demanded grumpily, tapping her foot impatiently as she awaited the others' explanation of the recent turn of events. Kenta pushed his fingers together quietly, "We went on a camping trip for school not too long ago and told ghost stories. Taka…Tamer told this weird story about a monster that ate everything it came across and got stronger as it did. In the end, it was so strong that no one could defeat it. They just did the next best thing: they buried it."

"And it looks like all that did was buy time," Tamerkato remarked wearily from where he was, still petting Calumon's head. The poor little digimon seemed to shrink and shy away in his arms, eyes welling up with tears as begged, "Can we please stop talking about the scary stuff! I don't like this! I want to leave! Can we go now!? Please, I want to go now!"

"Just a little bit longer," Tamerkato said, stroking the little digimon's head until he calmed down. Rika couldn't believe what she was hearing, "Are you kidding me? So you mean we're up against a something that can't be killed? That thing down there? That's what all this is about? What are we supposed to do to beat it? How did it even get out?"

Tamerkato laughed, "The Digital World has been through a lot of trauma over the years. It's been weakened from attacks from outside reality, had its life force sapped by evil forces, and now its merged with another version of itself. We'll be lucky if that monster is the only thing we have to worry about."

"What do you mean the only thing we have to worry about goggle head?" Rika demanded of Tamerkato. He sighed, "There's a part of that story that Kenta left out. Honestly, it's one of the most forgettable parts of the story. They sent another monster to fight it - hoping the two of them would kill each other. When they realized it wasn't going to happen, then they decided to burry it under the Digital World. We already have one monster coming back up. What will we do if there's two? What will we do if they're working together?"

Her heart seemed to freeze when the thought of something equally as powerful as that thing down there came to mind. The thing he was talking about was directly under them and it was so strong that the Sovereigns - all powerful beings who took Megidramon down - ran away in fear. And now Tamerkato was talking about two of them? They were screwed if even a word of that was true. She took another moment to steel herself enough to talk, "We'll worry about that when it happens. What are we going to do about that thing now?"

"Not we. Us. Well, us excluding you guys," Tamerkato answered matter of factly. That part stunned Rika. She hadn't come all this way to get removed from the big fight. She wasn't going to turn tail and run now.

"Where are we going?" Kazu asked, finally stirring from his unconscious state. Just what Rika needed - headaches on top of her fear. Suddenly, he jumped up to his feet upon seeing all the digimon present, "Whoa! Check out that digimon! Who's she?"

"It's Sakuyamon to you," Rika answered grumpily, stamping the ground with her staff and leering at Tamerkato, "And how can you just send us home now after everything that's happened?"

"This isn't your fight. And quite frankly, you shouldn't be putting your lives at risk for this," Tamerkato answered sternly.

"I agree," Ryo added grumpily. Rika gasped, "RYO!?"

"He's right. This isn't our fight. And to be honest, I've been wanting to go home since this entire thing started. All I've wanted was to go home," Ryo said bitterly, "I've fought enough world ending monsters. I don't want to fight one more."

Rika was stunned and at a loss for words. She knew the Digital World had changed Ryo, she knew that he desperately wanted to go home. But abandoning an entire world to a horrible fate, "That's selfish Ryo."

"You're one to talk, Rika," Renamon's words echoed in her mind. Yes, she was selfish before. She was trying to be better. Before she could get another word in, Ryo answered, "Rika, it's been twenty years since I've seen my parents. My family. Twenty years of non stop fighting and violence and sleeping with one eye open so I don't get eaten in the middle of the night by some random monster digimon. Twenty years, Rika. All I want right now is to see them again. Is that selfish too?"

His words were pleading, almost desperate. She couldn't argue with him, feeling only guilt when she thought about forcing him to stay in the Digital World longer to save a world he didn't want anything to do with. She needed to apologize. To let him know she was sorry but was stopped by a beeping in her backpack. It was the D-Terminal with a message from their parents. It had been a while since they'd heard from them and she read aloud the message they'd received, "To whoever gets this. This is Henry's dad. Is Henry's sister in the Digital World with you?"

She tried typing her response but realized her fingers were too big to touch the buttons properly. Embarrassed, she passed the device to Ryo, "Do you mind? My hands are too big."

"Sure," he began typing a message into the screen, "Yes. She showed up a little while ago and she's got a rabbit with her."

Ryo paused, looking at the little girl, "I guess your family noticed she was missing too. I wonder what my parents think?"

Rika was hit with another bout of guilt, wondering now if her mother and father were just as worried about her. She didn't want to agree to heading back, but she couldn't deny that going home would be nice.

"It's alright to want to go home Rika. I understand completely," Renamon's voice echoed. Did she though? Renamon had done a lot for her world and here she was ready to abandon the Digital World. It was stupid to feel this way though since Renamon would just hear thoughts, a fact she was more than keen to remind her of, "Yes. I'm quite sure. And yes, it is stupid. The Digital World has some of the most powerful digimon overseeing its safety. We can afford for you to return to your family for a small while."

"But goggle head wanted to kick us out of the fight," Rika admitted quietly.

"Then you must be stupid if you think for one second that I believe you're going to listen to him long enough to heed his word. We'll find our own way back if we have to," Renamon's voice answered. That was a relief. At least she knew Renamon didn't want out of this fight.

Tamerkato strolled up to the center of the group and stroked Calumon again, "It's time buddy. This may sting a little. I'll need to release the energy inside of you."

Calumon's ear shrank away further and it seemed like he wanted to run away from Tamerkato, only staying because the boy's grip was apparently stronger than he'd ever let on. He traced patterns onto the little guy's head with his finger, calming the little digimon with each pattern until he finally closed his eyes. He came aglow with soft light, and Tamerkato released the little digimon so he could float gently up into the air.

Calumon's mouth moved, but anything he said was completely inaudible to them. Not that it mattered, since he suddenly erupted into a dazzling display of light that spread out in all direction. Beams of light struck every digimon it could and they all gave out a momentous cry of digivolution. It would've been beautiful and Rika would've loved to admire it if they didn't have to worry about the fact the danger that was just below them. But this was a sight they had never seen before: countless mega level digimon hovering just above them unlike anything they'd ever seen before. Even from the books and the shows, she could only think of maybe five or six mega level digimon appearing at any one time. There were as many mega digimon here as there were stars in the sky. And only a few she could properly identify.

WarGreymon. MetalGarurumon. Pukumon. MetalSeadramon. Those were the ones she could identify. There were more present than she'd ever seen before. And many that she'd never seen in the show, or the card game, or anything else related to digimon.

The light faded and Calumon fell back into Tamerkato's arms with his eyes closed. He stroked the little digimon's head gently and smiled calmly, "Good job, Calumon."

"Is Calumon sleepy?" WarGrowlmon asked.

"To think we sent that to the Human World. We should've guarded it here for our own use," Zhuqiaomon declared, still taking in the sight of hundreds of fresh mega level digimon all around him. Tamerkato took a step back and pulled Calumon away from the Sovereign, "Not on your life. The Catalyst isn't just a power source anymore. It's a living, breathing, being with thoughts, feelings, wants and needs. I have no idea how you managed to even do that. It shouldn't be possible. But it is apparently. And you're not using him as a weapon."

"Then what did you just do?" Zhuqiaomon demanded. Tamerkato gestured around them, "I gave you guys a way to defend yourselves against a beast crawling its way back out of the heart of the Digital World."

"And that's the only reason you gave us this power?" Zhuqiaomon eyed him seriously. Tamerkato didn't hesitate to answer, "Why, did you plan on using it for something else?"

Rika wasn't in the mood to hear them bicker - not after what they'd all just gone through - and cleared her throat to get their attention, "Look, I don't want to interrupt whatever this is but what now? I mean, is there even a plan here? If brute force was going to be enough, then wouldn't the Sovereigns have been enough? What exactly will more Mega level digimon do that four of the strongest digimon couldn't?"

"It's to buy time while we come up with another plan. Unless you guys have another one besides attack," Tamerkato stated bluntly, looking at the Sovereigns with a bit more hope in his eyes than he probably should've had. The four Sovereign digimon exchanged glances before Azulongmon answered, "Our hope was that you would have one when you reappeared."

Tamerkato nodded quietly, "Then yeah, buy time while we come up with a plan. But first, take these guys home."

It was as good a plan as any until Kazu roared up to Tamerkato in a huff, "Hold on! We just got here and you better believe I'm not running away with my tail between my legs! We're going back down there and we're going to-"

The ground began to rumble and gave way just beneath his feet. Rika acted on instinct and leapt into the air, hovering there as the ground crumbled away for the red mass underneath to get loose. MegaGargomon did the same - grabbing hold of Xiaochun, Lopmon, and the unconscious Guardromon. Cybderdramon was quick to grab Ryo and Kazu before the ground gave way under them. The rest weren't so lucky - screaming as they fell to what must've been certain doom.

"Rika!" Renamon's voice echoed.

"I'm on it," she dove down towards the ground to grab them, going for the closest one: Juri. The girl was still staring blankly ahead of her. Did she even realize she was in any danger? No, of course not. She was still hung up on Leomon. She grabbed a hold of her and darted towards the next person she could see. Kenta. But he was too far. And so were Tamerkato and WarGrowlmon. She wasn't going to make it in time. They were going to be eaten by that thing.

"It's arrived on the rooftop. Haz Team is investigating it now," Yamaki said over the radio.

"Test run worked," Zhenyu declared with a sigh of relief. Now it was just a question of what the Ark had brought back and if it survived the process. That was the part that worried him and it made the seconds drag like hours. After a moment, Yamaki's voice rang back, "They're saying it's a plant. Like rosemary but blue. They're securing it now."

It worked. They knew it worked. That was all he cared about. And now they could send something to rescue the kids.

"Test looks good Zhenyu. Your team really pulled through this time. Okay, send a message to the kids and tell them to get ready for an extraction!" Yamaki said again into the radio, "Let's get them out of here."

Zhenyu didn't need telling twice. He and the rest of the team went back to the computers, ready for maiden voyage of their new machine.

"Kahuna Waves!"

Blue heart shaped bubbles descended from the sky and wrapped around them - stopping them just inches before they fell into the red mass. The red mass lurched in protest, belching up a small wave to try and reach them. Thankfully, the bubbles started to pull them away out of reach of the red mass which belched in violent protest. As soon as they were clear, every digimon above them started firing into the red mass below. It seemed to be working, but it was hard to know definitely beneath all the flashes of light and thunder.

Rika looked upward for their rescuer and was surprised to see a familiar pink seal with a big red heart on its chest cooing at them. She'd seen it only in the card game and was surprised that anything in its particularly weak digivolution line survived - MarineAngemon, the aquatic holy digimon. It raced down to them and cooed happily as it helped to lift them up to safety, leaving Kenta wondering aloud, "Wpw. Did you save us? Thanks little guy. But who are you?"

"MarineAngemon. It's a pleasure to meet you human," the little digimon greeted playfully, to Kenta's surprise, "I'm glad to see you're alright."

"Yeah, thanks," Kenta nodded graciously, offering a hand to the creature but realizing one second too late that it had no hand to shake. Still it offered its flipper anyway as a show of gratitude. On contact, a glow of light appeared where their 'hands' met and it jumped into Kenta's pocket. Rika could easily guess what it was and sighed - another digivice.

Until she noticed the light didn't subside - it was now coming from over their heads, and Rika looked upward, "What's that?"

All eyes turned skyward as something else joined them - a comically large vessel shaped like one of their digivices appeared over head and hovered there in the air just above them. Both Zhuqiaomon and Azulongmon encircled it, readying to attack it if needed. Their display seemed more for effect than anything else, since they were the only ones stopping all the new digivolved mega digimon from attacking it themselves. Azulongmon asked, "What is this? Is this one of yours, Tamer?"

This didn't stop Kazu from elbowing Kenta in the arm, "You may not have got the coolest partner, but it looks like you got the coolest digivice. That thing is huge, dude."

"Very funny Kazu. My digivice is right here," Kenta lifted his up with a big toothy grin.

"I have no idea what that is but I could hazard a guess," he answered knowingly, looking to the others with a smile. Then a new message came from Rika's D-Terminal. Ryo read the message aloud, "It's from your parents. Get on the ship. It will take everyone home."

"Perfect timing, too," Tamerkato remarked with a big smile, "MarineAngemon, do you mind bringing us on board?"

"Of course!" the little digimon waved its fin and the heart shaped bubbles ascended towards the digivice shaped vessel. Ryo patted Cyberdramon and two darted ahead, getting aboard that ship before any one else had. Rika hesitated just long enough for Renamon to notice, "Rika?"

"Are you sure you're okay with not staying?" Rika thought quietly. Her partner's voice was calm but agreeable, "I understand why you're concerned and appreciate it. We will come back. First, we should go see your parents again."

"Okay," Rika agreed, kicking off against the digital World and flying off into the sky. She landed gently inside the machine and felt a sudden fatigue wash over her. She looked down at her arms and saw two regular human hands, "Huh, we're not Sakuyamon anymore."

"So it would seem," Renamon said from behind her, making her jump in surprise, "Geez! Give me some warning why don't you?"

"Forgive me, Rika. I didn't mean to alarm you," her partner said half apologetically, half with an uncharacteristic smile that made her uneasy. MegaGargomon tapped the ship and asked, "Huh, how do I get-"

As soon as he put his hand through the entrance, MegaGargomon appeared to lurch forward until both Henry and Terriermon were standing in front of them, "Whoa. That was trippy."

"Wonder how that worked?" Terriermon asked.

"How does this ship work? There's no controls!" Tamerkato remarked from further inside. Now that Rika was able to get a better look, she realized he was right. The ship consisted of nothing more than a large empty room - no seats, no safety measures, just an open door that probably was a safety hazard if the ship jolted too fast. Ryo returned Rika's D-Terminal, "Here, you can tell your parents we're on our way back. Hopefully calm them down."

She took it back with a quiet nod and typed into it, "We're all on board. How do we fly this ship?"

It took a moment longer for her to get a reply, "It's on autopilot. Hang on."

Suddenly, the ship lurched ahead. Tamerkato was ecstatic at the activity, "Oh that is just awesome."

He darted back towards the opening, "We'll be back, Azulongmon. You have my word!"

"We'll be waiting, Tamer," the Sovereign digimon said. Not a second longer, the red mass lurched upward and began its counter attack. The Digital World was now a battlefield.

Author's Notes: What's next for the children now that they're leaving the Digital World? Can the digimon and the sovereigns hold the line by themselves? And how will Tamerkato face the real Takato's parents? Find out all this and more in the next chapter of the Tamer v2.0 - In His Name due out next Friday January 10th at 8 PM CST. Let me know what you guys think in the reviews section - love it, hate it, thoughts, I can't wait to hear it. And hey, don't forget to favorite the story to show support and follow the story to keep up with all the latest updates. I hope you guys have had a great holiday weekend. That's all for now, let's look at previews for the next chapter!

It should have been a happy moment. It could have been a happy moment, until Tamerkato hopped out and was greeted by several of the security personnel with their weapons drawn. He threw up his hands immediately and groaned, "Why does everyone feel the need to threaten me with a weapon today?"

"Are you seriously asking that question right now?" another boy asked from inside that Yamaki didn't recognize. And of course they brought back another human too. Yamaki called out, "It's a standard procedure. They're not going to hurt you. Just let them make sure you're safe."