Bearmon

Bearmon watched as Rika drove into an empty field. It looked plain, ordinary, and nearly untouched. Her and Jeri followed a long dirt road that lead through the woods. They slowed as they neared an area that had a few small hills. There was a van with antenna and satellites on top parked near a large hill. They stopped behind it, putting the cars into park.

"These are some friends of ours." Rika tells Bearmon, "If we have any chance of finding Madi, it's with them."

The three get out of the car, Bearmon turns, looking to see Jeri, Calumon, and Motimon joining them. As he turns back to the van, following Rika and Renamon, a small digimon with long ears and a horn peeks out.

"Henry! The slackers are here!" it yells, walking out the rest of the way to greet Renamon and Bearmon. "Together again!"

Bearmon gives a faint smile, "Good to see you."

Henry, Terriermon's tamer comes around the side of the van, "Oh great, you guys made it! Takato and Guilmon are over helping my dad. They found the portal, but it's different, somehow."

"Yeah, it's letting off this creepy green glow!" Terriermon adds, "Like it leads to the land of the dead or something!"

Bearmon cringes at the thought as Henry scolds his partner, "Terriermon, you can't just say things like that. We're trying to find Bearmon's tamer in there!"

Rika shakes her head, "You guys never change." The group follows as she walks past Henry to get to the other side of the van.

Dr. Wong and Takato were looking at a laptop. The screen showed the barrier to the digital world.

"That looks like where we started." The young man, with him says. "That's where we first met the digi-gnomes." He turns to see Rika, smiling and waving. "Hey!"

"Where's Guilmon?" Rika asks, looking around. No sooner had she asked, there was a commotion from inside the van, Guilmon falling out with a bag of bread in hand and a loaf in his mouth.

Bearmon, happy to see another friend runs over and helps Guilmon up. The red dinosaur tries to speak but is stopped by the bread in his mouth. He finishes eating it quickly and swallows. "Sorry to hear about your partner Bearmon. We're going to find her."

Takato stands, rubbing the back of his neck, "So you all know each other already?" he asks.

"Uh huh!" Guilmon answers. "We've been trying to hold the nonmon back since they started to attack. Beamon met up with us when a group tried to take out an entire village of baby digimon.

The group catches everyone up on what's happened on both sides. Motimon was welcomed back in the group, everyone surprised to see an old friend come back to life. Jeri and he were inseparable. They all sat around a campfire, a group of friends together again. Bearmon looked around from his seat on the log he claimed. Him and Madi were on their own when they were fighting the digimon that came through. These four had each other. Dr. Wong's drone was scanning the whole time the group was catching up.

"It seems that this area is different than you all described before." Dr. Wong explains, "There is a series of extra portals inside leading to different areas of the digital world. As it stands, only one has been accessed recently. I'd guess that's where they're holding Bearmon's tamer."

"Then what are we waiting for!?" Bearmon stands, stepping toward the portal.

"We can't just rush in." Henry explains, "We don't know what we're in for, and we have more that can help us."

Renamon adds in, "If we just run in without a plan, it may make things worse for her too."

Bearmon frowns, knowing they're right. He looks at the portal one last time, before turning back to the group.

"The others should be close." Takato says, "We sent them a list of supplies to gather. We don't want to get stuck in the digital world again. This is a rescue. We need to get in, get your tamer, and get out. You're our friends now, we're going to do everything we can."

Madi

With a few more controls, Madi had the base working with her and against the army of nonmon. Though no one knew the facility, the digivice allowed them to open all the doors that led to the exit, closing the ones that didn't. Any stragglers caught in the open corridors were quickly dispatched by Beelzemon without hesitation.

"Serves these losers right for what they've been putting us all through…." He walks through the fading nonmon to check the corner. The digimon with them were all young, they barely knew how to fight, yet they were huddled around Madi, ready to fight to protect her. Ai and Mako stayed close to their partner. They seemed to switch off their cards and digivice here and there. Each holding one or the other.

Finally, they found a light at the end of the hallway. They picked up the pace, making their way to the exit quickly. However, there was a loud banging noise coming from each locked door as they got closer.

"Go on ahead!" Madi tells the digimon around her, trying to get them out first.

A gekomon protests, "We'll get out when you do."

"I can move faster if you all get ahead of me. I'm afraid to step on one of you."

Reluctantly, the group leaves her, running ahead. Madi catches up with Ai and Mako as the group passes up Beelzemon.

"We're almost there!" He says, the banging around them getting louder.

Beelzemon passes the last door in the hall, followed by his tamers, then Madi. A door explodes out, sending the three humans to the ground. Beelzemon turns to see the cloaked man step out with several of the obsidian nonmon behind him.

"Almost made it." He says, taunting them. He looks behind Beelzemon to the digimon that were out the door, frowning. "No matter, you're the one that's going to help me repair the digital world my friend."

Ai and Mako stand as their partner takes a few steps forward to protect them. "I ain't helpin ya to do nothin' ya two bit creep!" he narrows his blaster at the group.

Madi looks up to see the standoff. She climbs up, looking to her digivce. "Load door!" she yells holding it out before her to block off their challengers. Nothing happens. Confused, Madi looks to her digivice. The commands took, but they didn't complete. She repeats herself, still nothing happens.

The man in the cloak chuckles, "I had a feeling you might try something like that when we caught up with you. So, I shut down the base control systems. They won't listen to you now."