Sorry, I took a while with this one. Had a final yesterday that took some time, and then my attention was turned to Disney's Phantom Manor in Disneyland Paris. Man, they need to make a film about that!

Shout out to GreenD109 for the fave and follow.

As for reviews, thank you DigimonAT0318, GreenD109, and MadDogLucario96 for your kind words, or in Green's case, question.

Anyways, I think it's time I start putting some of my cards on the table.

Chapter 5: Kind and Honorable! Tetermon and Waibanmon!

New Remagen, Digital World. April 12th, 2002. 1436 Hours.
P.O.V. – Third Person

Fear and worry. That was the atmosphere that could be used to describe the town. For the past couple of days, convoys of refugee Digimon were arriving in the town. They were all desperate to try and escape the Kaiser who had conquered their homes. However, the Kaiser's reach was now just hovering over the town. There was only one choice for all that were now there: evacuate once more. Guilmon was currently in the town organizing the evacuation and trying to keep things organized and calm. The last thing he and many other Digimon wanted was a full on panic.

"Gather what you can carry! But make it just the essentials! We need to leave now before the Kaiser comes. Escape to the southwest, you'll get further away from the Kaiser's territory." Guilmon announced to the escaping refugees.
"What does it matter? The Digimon Kaiser will conquer everything anyway." A tired Gazimon muttered. Guilmon quickly found the defeatist Digimon and took him aside.
"Listen, I know you're tired and that things look bleak, but take it from me… Never give up until it's truly over. Right now, there are Digimon out there that are fighting the Kaiser and beating him. And their strength grows every single day. The Kaiser is not invincible, he will be defeated. But right now, we escape so we can return one day." It seems like that little pep talk had an effect on the Gazimon as he regained his fortitude and nodded at Guilmon's words.

"Guilmon!" A Floramon ran up to Guilmon, panting as she was out of breath.
"What's wrong?"
"They're coming! Large amounts of Digimon under the Kaiser's control are coming to the town!" She shouted.
"Hold on, like right now?"
"Well, not yet, I didn't get a great look but a large group of Digimon will be coming around those hills on the main road and crossing the bridge."
"Any flying or swimming Digimon with that force?"
"I couldn't really tell, but I don't think so. They'll be here in a few hours."
"And we're only just evacuating… By the time we finish, they'll be on top of us, making everything we've done all for naught." Guilmon quietly said to himself. He soon began running away from the town.
"Wait, where are you going?!"
"If you said there's still time, then I'm going to get us some help to try to slow down the Kaiser!" Guilmon soon ran over to a nearby hill where a lone TV stood on. "Alright, if this worked for Agumon back on Monday, then it should work for me. Come on, Ross… pick up!"

Odaiba District, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan. April 12th, 2002. 1442 Hours.
P.O.V. – Ross McGlathery

I left class a bit early today. Thankfully, it was my history class and history was always my strongest subject so I felt I wasn't missing too much. Besides, I already read ahead in our textbook so there wasn't going to be much of a surprise waiting for me. Under normal circumstances, I would've been heading down towards the station and heading back to Yokohama and spend the weekend with Dad. That all changed when we got caught up in a whole new adventure. Hikari was keeping both Taichi and I well informed about what was going on. It was nice to hear that Tailmon and Patamon could Armor-Evolve now. That was going to be helpful in our fight against the Kaiser. However, the problem was that we were just annoying him right now; we were doing nothing in the way of truly giving him misery or breaking his power. I certainly hope Koushiro or someone can figure out something, we need to truly put the hurt on the Kaiser.

I finally reached the elementary school where it looked like most of the students were being let out of class. I walked my way through the crowd until I finally got upstairs to the computer room, and sure enough, there were the others all gather around the computer with their Digimon.
"Already going somewhere?" I questioned, though I had a bit of a smirk on my face.
"Ross-chan!" Hikari exclaimed.
"I take it you guys were about to head out."
"Yes, we were. Is anyone else coming?" Takeru asked.
"Not that I know of; looks like you're stuck with me today." Both Hikari and Takeru chuckled at that joke but none of the new kids laughed. Its fine, they just don't know me that well.
"Well, if we're all done talking, then let's get going!" Daisuke certainly is gung-ho about all this.
"Slow it down there, Daisuke, we don't even know where we going today." Miyako brought him back to reality.
"Don't know where? I thought we were going to the Digital World?"
"I think she meant, where in the Digital World are we going, Daisuke-san." Iori explained.
"Does it matter? Just so long as we're showing up that creep, anywhere is fine!" I nodded at Daisuke's statement.
"I agree with Daisuke-kun." Never thought I'd say that. "Right now we don't have an overall plan on combating the Digimon Kaiser, so all we can really do now is just give him a headache until we-"

I was suddenly interrupted when all of our Digivices began to beep. We all pulled them out and saw that it was picking up something.
"I haven't seen that feature for some time." I muttered. The feature was that of a Digivice tracker, the same feature we were using when Taichi and I were trying to find the others after returning back from Real World and then when we were trying to look for the ninth Chosen Child, unaware it was Hikari the whole time.
"What is this?" Iori asked.
"It's a tracker. We used it to try to find each other back in our previous adventures." Takeru explained.
"Is it Taichi-san or one of the others?" Daisuke assumed.
"No, it doesn't match their colors." Miyako told him. Colors? On mine, I just see six red dots next to each other and one outside the building.
"Hikari, can I see your Digivice?" I asked her.
"Here you go, Ross-chan." She handed me hers and I looked to see on the screen that it was different than mine. On hers, there were seven dots; six of them were beside each other which I assumed they were us. However, the dots were different. There was a blue, yellow, green, pink, and red dot that were beside a tan dot. Looks like these new Digivices are also color coded with the tracking system.

"Whoever this is, they're coming into the building." I said.
"Do you think it might be a new Chosen Child?" Tailmon suggested. We all quickly looked towards her.
"Do you think it's possible?" Hikari wondered.
"I thought there was only three Digivices that came out of the computer." Patamon recalled what he had been told.
"Well, it was but…" Takeru couldn't finish his answer.
"Come on, let's go check it out!" Daisuke was first out the door. We all followed him out of the room and headed downstairs. We all checked our Digivices and saw that we were getting closer to the mysterious signal.
"It's just right around this corner." Iori informed.
"It could just be one of the others…" Miyako believed.
"Well, we'll find out right… about… now!" Daisuke jumped the corner.

And he suddenly found himself pinned up against the wall by a familiar looking raven-haired boy wearing the all grey Tamachi Elementary School uniform.
"Ichijouji Ken?" I said in surprise.
"McGlathery Ross?" He responded.
"It is you. This is a surprise."
"No, the surprise is that fact that you two seem to know each other. Oh, by the way, can you let go of me!" Daisuke shouted.
"Oh, sorry!" Ken let go of him. "It's just you jumped the corner and surprised me and that whole judo training just flipped like a switch." He explained.
"Thank you." Daisuke dusted himself off. "Now can someone explain to me what's going on!?"
"Well, I was hoping you could explain." Ken pointed towards my Digivice. "Because that looks familiar." He opened his palm to reveal a Digivice. Almost everyone's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
"A Digivice!" We all shouted.

We all went back up to the computer lab where we could have a bit more privacy and could explain everything to each other.
"I just can't believe one of the Boy Geniuses of Tamachi is actually a Chosen Child like us." Iori was surprised by this development.
"'Chosen Child?' Is that what we're called?" Ken questioned. We all nodded.
"Can't say I imagined this when I woke up this morning." Miyako said.
"So I must ask the question, well, actually two questions, but how exactly did know Ross-san, and how exactly do you have a Digivice?" Takeru asked.
"Well, I can help answer that first question." I spoke up. "When was the last time we met? July 27th, 2000?" Ken nodded.
"I probably wouldn't be alive if you weren't there." He informed to the surprise of everyone.
"What does that mean!?" exclaimed Daisuke.

"Let me explain." I began. "See, my friend Takeo told me about this sushi place in Tamachi that he claimed was the best in the city. Long story short about that is I've never been back there. Anyways, that day of the 27th, Taichi and I were on our way to that place when we came across street crossing that both you and your brother were at."
"Yeah, I can't fully remember what we were doing that day, but I do remember that I wanted to get across the street really fast." Ken added.
"Which is where I came in; I saw how anxious he was and grabbed him telling him to look both ways before crossing. I just thought maybe he needed a refresher or something. Plus, I saw this car from further down the road moving somewhat faster than normal."
"Turns out that was a good thing, that car, I think that was a Toyota Vista V40, blasted its way across the street. If Ross-san wasn't there, I'd probably be dead."
"Or your brother would've pulled a Yu Yu Hakusho, either way, I did not want to see a live action repeat of that."
"By the way, that's the only scene he's seen of that show. He refuses to watch anymore." Hikari quickly explained.
"Just not my cup of tea." I shrugged. "After that, Taichi and I had lunch with the Ichijouji brothers and that was the last we saw of each other… until today of course."

"Wow, well that explains that, but what about the Digivice?" Miyako asked the more important question.
"Well, that… well…" Ken was about to explain when his bag suddenly began to shuffle. "Oh, shoot! I forgot!" He went over and opened the bag… and suddenly a green worm Digimon popped out.
"GAH! Couldn't you have left the zipper open a bit more? The air was really stale in there, Ken-chan!"
"Sorry, Wormmon." The Digimon soon began to climb up him before he perched himself on Ken's shoulder. "Everyone, this is Wormmon, my Digimon partner."
"Hello." He bowed his head.
"Unbelievable." "Your Digimon came to the Real World too?" "You've been to the Digital World?" That was some of the questions that were asked upon that revelation.
"Well, you see that's the thing… I can't actually remember." Ken nervously admitted.
"What do you mean?" I wondered.

"Well, you see, my mind is a mess right now. I know that I've been to the Digital World once and I remember Wormmon and that I went on some sort of adventure with him… but that's it. Any other memories of the Digital World in my mind are like a haze that I just can't seem to remember. In fact, let me put it this way. I had no memories of the Digital World only on Sunday. On Monday, I heard a strange beeping noise and found my Digivice in a desk drawer that I could've sworn I used dozens of times. The next thing I know, my computer lights up and Wormmon jumps out and latches on my face, which scared the heck out of me before I suddenly remembered him and the Digital World."
"Well, I had missed you so much and was just excited to see you again. And I can't remember much either, which is the reason why I haven't been that helpful to Ken-chan." Wormmon sounded disappointed.
"The only reason why I'm here is because I was trying to find the source of the dot that was on my screen at the start of this week."
"Well, Onii-chan did go out past Tamachi back on Monday afternoon." Takeru explained.
"This whole thing is quite confusing." Hikari sighed.

Any more questions that needed to be asked would have to be put on hold as the Digital Gate made a noise and we could see Guilmon on the screen.
"Guilmon!" I shouted.
"Ross! Where the hell have you all been!? I've been calling for almost twenty whole minutes!" Guilmon sounded really upset.
"Sorry, buddy. What's going on?"
"I need help! The Kaiser is going to be attacking a town that I'm trying to help evacuate." He explained.
"Alright, hang on, support's coming."
"Well, we know what we're going do today." Iori muttered.
"Come on, there are Digimon counting on us! Let's move!" I shouted as I held my Digivice up to the screen.
"You coming too, Ken-kun?" Hikari asked.
"I suppose I am if I'm one of you. Stay close, Wormmon." Ken told us.
"Okay, Ken-chan." The whole room lit up as we were sent straight to the Digital World.

P.O.V. – Ken Ichijouji

The light died down as the surrounding area changed from a computer lab in a school to a large grassy hill overlooking a town that looked German in nature. This was the Digital World no doubt. I looked over to see the small Digimon from the computer room now looked bigger, though the cat and bat-hamster looked the same.
"You evolved?" Wormmon questioned.
"Yep, we do that every time we return to the Digital World." The blue lizard explained.
"We evolve back to our Child-Levels while everyone's clothes change. Just like yours, dagyaa." The yellow armadillo told me.
"My clothes?" I looked down to see that my school uniform had now changed. I was wearing a blue long-sleeved zip-up jacket with I think a teal shirt underneath it. I had on a pair of long light grey denim jeans and some black sneakers. "I'm pretty sure this didn't happen last time." Ross patted me on the shoulder.
"You get used to it." He said.

P.O.V. – Third Person

The arrival of the Chosen Children did not go unnoticed by the Kaiser who was putting the final touches on his next grand advance. The plan was for his forces to march south, run right over the bridge at New Remagen and capture a large amount of Digimon for his ever growing empire. Of course, his plans would have to be accelerated thanks to the arrival of the Chosen Children. As an Evil Ring flew over the unobservant gang, his eyes soon widened when he got a good glimpse of one of the children. However, his surprise was soon replaced with confidence.
"So… decided to play my game, eh, little brother? I must warn you… you're going to lose. Go, Tankmon!" The Kaiser ordered. At the same time, Monodramon looked to the screen and a glimmer of hope began to build in him.

P.O.V. – Ken Ichijouji

"This place looks familiar." Takeru looked around as we walked into the village. There were a lot of Digimon running around, gathering whatever they could as they were getting out of town.
"Should be." Guilmon answered. "This is that same town we found when we were trying to find a way across the river when we all got separated after our fight with Etemon." I had no idea what they were talking about, and it looks like most of the group did too.
"Aw, now I remember."
"Hey, they didn't name it New Remagen because of what I said, did they?" Ross asked. Guilmon just shrugged.
"Look ahead." Guilmon pointed to the river where a large bridge laid. "The Floramon told me that the Kaiser will be coming around the hills along the main road before going across that bridge soon. There's no way we'd be able to get everyone out of the town in time before that happens." As soon as we got towards the edge of the bridge, my Digivice started beeping again.

"Huh? What's this?" I questioned as I saw something beeping up ahead.
"I think that might be a Digimental!" Miyako exclaimed.
"A Digimental?" I asked.
"It's a special item that allows our Digimon to ignore the powers of the Kaiser's Dark Digivice and allow them to Armor-Evolve, rather than just normally evolve." Takeru explained to me.
"If your Digivice picked it up, then it probably must be yours." Iori said.
"Yeah, but the only problem is that… the Digimental is on the other side of the river." worried Hikari.
"So what do we do?" Daisuke wondered. "We probably should try to get that Digimental, but we also should help the Digimon of the town."

"Alright, here's the plan." Ross began. "I'll go with Ken-kun and we'll find that Digimental. The rest of you focus on evacuating this town and then putting the bridge underwater. I assume there isn't any flying or swimming Digimon with this force?" Ross looked to Guilmon.
"Not that I'm aware of."
"Good, so if that bridge goes down, the town can evacuate properly and when the Kaiser eventually takes it, all he's got is an empty town."
"Wait, Ross-chan." Hikari spoke up. "What happens if we take down the bridge and you're still on the other side?"
"Can't Pegasmon or Nefertimon just fly to us and pick us up?"
"Oh, right."
"If that's the plan, then let's hurry while we still have time!" The red bird shouted and the others went on to their jobs while Wormmon and I followed Ross and Guilmon.

"I see. So this Digimon Kaiser wants to subjugate the entire Digital World under his control." I said as Ross finished explaining what was going on by the time we reached the other side of the river.
"He's scary, Ken-chan. Before I found you, I was trying to keep running away from him." Wormmon explained.
"Oh, Wormmon, I'm so sorry. I should've been here for you."
"Don't blame yourself, Ken-kun. It's not like we could've done much anyways before this week. Now, with those Digimentals, we're taking the fight right back to him." Ross assured me.
"The only problem is that we're only stopping him. Every Digimon we free could just end up being captured once more and we keep just losing ground. Sooner or later, there will be nowhere left to run." Guilmon admitted.
"We'll find a way to turn back the tide. There's got to be a way." Ross muttered. "Right now, let's just get up this hill." Ross then climbed over a bit of a rocky ledge that was in the way. "Here, give me your hand." I reached up and he pulled me up.

"Okay, if your Digivice is correct, then that Digimental is straight ahead." Ross observed.
"Hey, why is the ground rumbling?" Wormmon wondered. We all looked at him before Ross seemed to notice something. He pulled out a pair of small binoculars that he was keeping in his front pocket.
"Oh, dammit. Of course that's what had to be coming. The whole XXX Corps situation.
"What is it?" I asked him.
"Take a look." He handed me the binoculars and I looked ahead to the base of the hill. Driving right down the road was five tank-like Digimon.
"Tankmon. Devastating mechanized Digimon. Their Hyper Cannon is something you do not want to be hit by, and it looks like they're all controlled by the Kaiser." Guilmon explained.
"Think they know we're here?" I concerned.
"Probably, but they're not looking at us yet… wait, they're turning an- SHIT! Get down!" He shoved me to the ground as the Tankmon fired and their massive shells flew right through the woods above us. "Don't say anything!" Ross angrily pointed to Guilmon.
"One of these days you'll be wrong." Guilmon gave him a nervous smile.
"I wish! Come on, Ken-kun, we can't fight them without that Digimental!" He helped me back up and we ran towards the top of the hill, all the while, explosions were bursting all around us.

At the top of the hill, the fire died down a little bit as the Tankmon must have thought we were still further down the wooded hill. We saw in front of us this small clearing and the sun was shining through the tree canopy to this stone pedestal with two objects on it. One was green with a pink symbol on the front while the other one was black with a grey symbol on it.
"Well, I recognized the black Digimental, that's got the Crest of Honor on it, but the other one…" Ross was confused. The closer I looked at the green one, my mind suddenly recognized the symbol.
"I've seen this before." I spoke up.
"Where?" I dug into my pocket and found what I was looking for. I held up a small pink object that had the symbol on it. Ross's eyes widened. "That's a Crest."
"A Crest?" He reached into his shirt and pulled out a necklace with a golden colored object and inside it was the symbol on the other Digimental.
"This is a Crest. It signifies the greatest trait in us Chosen Children. Mine's honor, Taichi's courage, Hikari's light, and so forth. Of course, this is just a replica, our real ones were destroyed in our fight with Apoclymon."
"Who?"
"Story for another time." We nearly fell over as a blast hit not too far away.

"I think these Digimentals must belong to you guys! You've got to pull them out!" Guilmon shouted.
"Hurry, Ken-chan! They're getting closer!" Wormmon insisted.
"Listen to me, Ken-kun. You need to grab your Digimental and pull it out. After that, you need to say 'Digimental Up' and that will allow Wormmon to Armor-Evolve." Ross explained.
"Got it." I agreed.
"That is, if it's even ours…" He mumbled.
"What?!"
"Just ignore me, it's probably ours." Way to make worried there. I'm barely keeping it together when I get interviewed by reporters, so I'm not that great when it comes to being nervous. I took a deep breath and looked back to Wormmon.
"You can do it, Ken-chan!" Wormmon cheered for me. I gave a determined smile and looked back at the object. Ross and I grabbed the Digimentals and pulled them out with little effort. I then saw my Digivice morph until it looked like the rest of the group's Digivices but it had a deep green side. Ross' did the same but his was a dark grey color. We looked at each other and nodded. Time to take this fight back to the Kaiser.
"Digimental Up!" We cried.
"Wormmon, Armor-Evolve! Stinging Kindness, TETERMON!"
"Guilmon, Armor-Evolve! Honorable Fire, WAIBANMON!"

That evolution was truly amazing. Tetermon was a larger bug with a large purple stinger on his tail, two large claws, and two silver objects sticking out of his back that had four exhaust vents, like it was some sort of rocket booster. He was also coated in green armor. Waibanmon on the other hand, was a large dragon with two large black armored wings and a black armored chest and head. The rest of him was red with black stripes along his skin.
"Now this feels right." Waibanmon said as he closed his claws.
"How do I look, Ken-chan?" Tetermon asked.
"Great… you look great." I smiled.
"Come on, you two! Show those Tankmon true armor!" Ross pumped his fist.
"Right!" Both Digimon flew up past the trees and speed down the hill towards the attacking Digimon.

The Tankmon redirected their fire towards the two Digimon but they were fast enough to dodge all the fire coming their way.
"Waiban Flame!" Waibanmon's mouth shot out a stream of blue flame, which meant that fire was white hot, and coated the road right in front of the Tankmon who had to roll backwards. The Tankmon redirected their fire towards Tetermon and opened fire with the smaller chain guns that were on their arms. The rounds flew right towards him but he didn't try to avoid them.
"Teter Spin!" Tetermon spun towards them rapidly and all the shots simply bounced off of him before he appeared right in front of three of the Tankmon.
"Tetermon! Target the Evil Rings around their cannons!
"Precision Sting!" His stinger glowed a dark purple and he made three quick jabs that destroyed the rings. While three of them had been freed from the Kaiser's control, the other two turned to shoot Tetermon in the back. Thankfully, Waibanmon was there to stop them.
"Steel Swipe!" He dived down fast with his wings glowing and struck the two remaining Tankmon before flying back up, with the rings being destroyed.
"Alright!" Both Ross and I cheered.

P.O.V. – Third Person

"Always full of surprises, aren't we, Ken?" The Kaiser viewed another defeat. However, he wasn't upset. All the Chosen Children had been doing was stopping his plans in a small area. It was nothing compared to what he was doing. Sooner or later, the Chosen Children would be up against the wall, and victory would be his.

P.O.V. – Ross McGlathery

We arrived back to the town while riding on the Tankmon just before we sank the bridge. The Kaiser would get the town but he wouldn't get the Digimon who escaped in good order.
"That's going to take a while to rebuild." Wormmon observed.
"The Kaiser relies on slave labor. He'll have it back up in a few days." Guilmon darkly admitted.
"But we saved the Digimon, and that's important." Ken said.
"Spoken like a true Chosen Child. Welcome to the gang, Ken-kun." I held out my hand and he shook it. "It's getting late, and I take it your folks don't know about the Digimon."
"No, they don't."
"Alright then. Let's go home, everyone!" I shouted. "Today we made a difference." Ken's going to fit in just fine with the younger group. And it'll also help us thanks to his genius intellect in our fight against the Kaiser. If we can get him and Koushiro together in a room, suddenly I pity the Kaiser.

He won't stand a chance now…

Oh, if only they knew.

Tetermon's design is also on that neoarchangemon did on DeviantArt while Waibanmon is MegaloRex's Wyvernmon. The differences is I changed the name to how Wyvern is said in Japanese and changed the armor from Courage which MegaloRex drew to Honor.

Ken's now join the gang and he'll be playing a major part of the story much earlier than he did in the original timeline.

Hope you'll stick around for that. Take care.

"Push the button, Frank."