Hello again, got this one out eventually.

Shoutout to DigimonAT0318, GreenD109, and MadDogLucario96 for the reviews. And sorry, DigiAT, I decided that Ken telling his parents would change a later chapter, but don't worry, the parents knowing about the Digimon is going to play a part within a few chapters.

Anyways... let's keep going with the story.

Chapter 12: A Familiar Enemy! MetalGreymon!

Odaiba Middle School, Odaiba District, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan. May 14th, 2002. 1440 Hours.
P.O.V. – Ross McGlathery

Talk about a dreary day. A heavy rain had descended on the city today which I have to assume was also reflecting Taichi's feelings at the moment. He's probably very antsy to get out of his geometry class and head down to the elementary school so we can look for and rescue Agumon. Hopefully, Tentomon, Guilmon or one of their contacts could maybe track down where Agumon had been taken or where Osamu was currently hiding. I shudder to think what that sick bastard is doing to poor Agumon at this moment and Taichi's feeling worse, as he mentioned during lunch. I did try to tell him there was nothing he could've done about it and that it's just something we're going to have to deal with. I certainly hope we can resolve this crisis as quickly as possible before things get much worse… because according to Hikari yesterday, I think I got an idea what Osamu's plan is with Agumon.

When the school bell rang, Taichi, Koushiro and myself met up and sprinted through the rain until we got to the elementary school and the computer lab. The only person that was waiting in there for us was Iori however; the others were missing until almost a quarter after three.
"Sorry for making you wait!" Daisuke apologized as he, Hikari and Takeru ran in.
"You're late!" Taichi shouted.
"Sorry, Onii-chan…" Hikari also apologized.
"Taichi-senpai, you have it wrong." Daisuke tried to defend. "It's not Hikari-chan's fault, Okada and the guys started playing hockey with the brooms, so…" If he thinks that's going to help ease the tension, he's dead wrong.
"Yeah, and the teacher yelled at us too." Takeru added.
"Who's this Okada?" questioned Taichi.
"Ah, he's part of the same cleaning crew…" Taichi's face melted into a look of some serious anger upon Daisuke's explanation.
"It's okay, Daisuke-kun. It was my fault too for not stopping them…" Hikari said.
"But…"
"Really, it's okay. Thanks."
"Really?"

"By the way, where's Miyako-san?" Takeru asked.
"Still not here…" Poromon informed.
"Does she still have class?" wondered Koushiro.
"Class ended a long time ago." Daisuke told him. "She must be wasting time somewhere…"
"Then go look for her!" Taichi ordered.
"R-Right!"
"I'm going too!" Iori followed along.
"Listen, Taichi, I know you're upset, but try not to take it out on the others, okay?" I suggested.
"Miyako-san…" We looked back to the door and saw Miyako slowly walk in.
"Sorry, I'm late." She said.
"Alright, so we're all here now." Koushiro assumed.
"Hold your horses, where's Ken?" I reminded.
"I don't know if he's going to be coming in with both this weather and recent events." Hikari observed.
"Well, then I'm counting on you guys." Taichi told the group.

"Come on, Miyako, the usual cheer!" Daisuke cried. Miyako just kept that downtrodden look on her face. "What's wrong?"
"Are you sick?" worried Poromon.
"It's not that…" She informed.
"If you don't tell us, we won't know…" Chibimon said.
"You're not up to it, right? Then, it's better if you don't come with us." stated Taichi.
"Onii-chan…" Hikari walked up to him.
"Don't get me wrong… I'm not angry, I just don't want to put you guys in danger. Worst case, I was thinking of going just with Ross and Hikari." The both of us nodded.
"It's fine, Miyako-san. We're not forcing you to come." Takeru assured her.
"That's right, we go because we want to go." Iori added.

"If anyone should stay behind, it should me." We heard Ken's voice and saw him walking in dressed in a soaking rain poncho.
"Surprised you made it." I said.
"Yeah, sorry I wasn't here yesterday… Koushiro kept me updated; Osa- the Kaiser captured Agumon, right?" We nodded.
"Look, how's about you and Ken-kun stay here while we go?" Koushiro suggested to Miyako.
"But…" She tried to quietly argue.
"It's fine. It's better if you don't go when you're feeling like that." Tailmon told them.
"That's right!" Miyako was surprised by Poromon's words. "In this state, you would only be a burden!"
"If you're not feeling up for it either, Ken-chan… then I don't mind staying behind." Wormmon informed Ken.
"Thanks, Wormmon."
"Then the usual cheer is up to you, Hikari-chan!" Takeru shouted. She walked over to the computer and held up her D-3.
"Digital Gate, open! Chosen Children, let's roll!"

P.O.V. – Third Person

The Kaiser was feeling very frustrated with recent events. The inability for him to control a Perfect-Level Digimon was burning away at him and he was trying to figure out how correct the problem. If he could have under his control a powerful Perfect-Level Digimon, then the interfering Chosen Children wouldn't stand a chance. However, his ideas on solving this problem were falling apart. Andromon failed because the Evil Ring eventually failed on him so controlling a permanent Perfect was out of the question. Then came Agumon who he thought he could control if he Dark Evolve him into a Perfect but that just created SkullGreymon, an uncontrollable monstrosity. So he was now back to square one.
"Why…?" The Kaiser muttered to himself. "Why can't it control the Perfect-Level?" He was looking on his screen at an Evil Ring. "Does the Evil Ring have a limit? In that case, where is the problem?" He turned his screen back onto Greymon.

P.O.V. – Hikari Yagami

We arrived back to the same place we were yesterday in the Digital World where SkullGreymon rampaged where we were going to meet up with Tentomon.
"Koushiro-han! I've been waiting for you guys!" Tentomon cried as he perched on a scorched tree.
"Tentomon, nice to see you're still doing okay." Koushiro breathed a sigh of relief.
"Yep, though I wish I could say the same for Agumon.
"It was here… here, SkullGreymon…" I told Taichi.
"Yeah…"
"He's as destructive as ever." Tentomon informed.
"It makes me mad… that he would capture Agumon knowing he's Taichi-san's Digimon partner…" Daisuke growled.
"Man, he sure toyed with me…" Taichi muttered. "I never thought I'd get fooled by a kid my own age."
"He fooled all of us, Taichi, especially his own brother. Don't think you're the only one hurting here." Ross told him.
"Unforgivable!" Iori screamed as he angrily swung a stick above Armadimon's head like a Shinai.
"I-Iori, what's wrong, dagyaa?"
"It's unforgivable… and it's shameful that he's also a human!" He put the stick aside like he was sheathing a sword.
"Iori-kun…" Takeru brought him back to reality.
"I'm sorry, I got carried away…"

"Hey, where did they take Agumon?" Patamon wondered.
"That's the problem…" Takeru reluctantly admitted.
"Don't worry, we'll find him soon. Right, Daisuke?" V-mon asked.
"Yup, yup!"
"No false hopes!" Taichi shouted.
"O-okay…"
"Onii-chan…" I muttered.
"It's the first time I've seen Taichi like this…" Tailmon said.
"It can't be helped." Takeru replied.
"Anyway, there's nothing to do here, so… Let's try gathering some information."

"Actually, Guilmon's not too far away and he think he might have a lead." Tentomon informed.
"Good ol' Guilmon, he ain't let me down yet." Ross smiled.
"Okay, here's the plan. Ross-san and I will go with Tentomon to Guilmon's location and try to see what he found out; in the meantime, you guys go try to see if you can find out amongst the Kaiser's servants." Koushiro gave out the plan.
"How do we do that?" Daisuke asked.
"Knock down some towers, there are probably some Digimon that are under his control that might know where he is." Ross said as the three of them began running towards the east.
"Onii-chan, are we going?" I questioned.
"Yeah." He answered and we walked a different direction.

P.O.V. – Third Person

"Greymon, Dark-Evolve!" The Kaiser ordered. Greymon was being held in a massive dome that was designed to contain powerful Digimon and prevent them from escaping. Just like before Greymon evolved not into MetalGreymon like the Kaiser wanted but rather SkullGreymon once more. Thankfully, the Kaiser was smart enough to test these experiments in a more controlled environment just to keep the rampaging dinosaur corpse from blowing up another Dark Tower. SkullGreymon was smashing and slamming against the walls of the dome in a desperate bid to escape and cause untold destruction. The dome held up and he fell over in exhaustion. "Where is the problem?" The Kaiser tried to wrap his brain around the issue he was trying to solve.

When ramming the dome wouldn't work, SkullGreymon decided to blast his way out and fired one of his Ground Zero missiles. The dome held but part of the structure was exposed. Another missile widened the whole which SkullGreymon tried to leap for but was electrocuted to keep him from escaping.
"So, it won't work…" The Kaiser concluded that the Evil Ring would never control a Perfect-Level Digimon as the Evil Ring shattered and SkullGreymon devolved back into Greymon. "What was that?"
"Did you find out something, Osamu-chan?" Monodramon asked.
"Maybe… Greymon, Dark-Evolve!"

P.O.V. – Daisuke Motomiya

"Take that tower down, Fladramon!" I ordered as we ran towards a gravel hill that had a Dark Tower on it.
"Right!" The ground suddenly exploded in front of us.
"Wh-what's that?" A large tree trunk Digimon popped out of the ground.
"I'm the guardian of this area, Woodmon! If you come any closer…"
"Fire Rocket!" Woodmon didn't even get to finish as Fladramon rammed into him and he crashed into the tower.
"But I wasn't finished…"
"Knuckle Fire!" Fladramon destroyed the tower and it tipped where Woodmon caught it as his Evil Ring was destroyed.
"What was I doing? Wait, why am I holding this?"

"Hey! Do you know where the Digimon Kaiser went?" Taichi asked.
"Um… um…"
"Do you know or not?"
"That way, I think!" He motioned towards the west.
"Thanks! Guys, let's go!" We ran off while we left Woodmon to his own devices.
"What about me!? You over there, help me!" He got buried underground but we thought he'd be fine, after all, he burst from the ground earlier.

P.O.V. – Ken Ichijouji

"We can confirm that the Kaiser went there and that he had Agumon with him. We're going there as we speak. Can you inform Taichi-san and the rest?" Koushiro told me through the screen.
"Of course." I told him.
"We'll contact you later to see how things have gone then."
"Did they find Agumon?" Miyako asked as she walked back into the room after washing her glasses.
"Guilmon was sure about the information so…"
"Where is it? I'll tell the others."
"A place called Locomotown. Sounds like some sort of massive rail hub for trains." She nodded and typed away on her D-Terminal while I looked at the screen. "I don't mean to pry, but I'm wondering why exactly you weren't up for going today?"
"You're not prying, but… it's just with what has happened to Agumon, things are getting serious, and I can't keep thinking of all this as some sort of picnic. I know that, but…"

"Scared of the danger and how everything's changed? I wish I had your problem… at least your sibling isn't a crazed maniac."
"How have your parents been handling Osamu? Did you tell them?"
"I couldn't bring myself to say. I mean, what am I supposed to say? That their eldest son is a psychotic dictator of another world? They're depressed enough; I don't want to push them over the edge."
"I still can't believe it. He seemed nice."
"He is! At least… that's what I thought. When we were little, he actually taught me how to blow bubbles. See, back then, Osamu was the only genius in the family; I was just normal old Ken. He would cut the straws and mix the soap so we could blow the bubbles. I remember, that I was the one who could be able to blow the biggest bubbles and that was the proudest I ever felt in my life… I was able to do something better than Osamu who was perfect at everything."
"If that's the case, then I can't see how exactly someone like that could turn so vile…Ken-kun, did Osamu go with you to the Digital World?"
"Probably, but I can't remember, there's still that fog in my mind and I don't know why."

"It all sounds so confusing… and hard to comprehend. I mean, I'm not as close with my siblings as say like Takeru-kun or Hikari-chan are with their siblings but… I couldn't possible imagine what you're going through."
"Well, I do appreciate that you're trying to help me… I guess we're both having issues. You not exactly ready for true fighting and I'm trying to fight my own brother."
"Then how's about we help each other?"
"Excuse me?"
"You try and help me with my problem and I'll try to help you with yours, what do you say?"
"I get the feeling yours is easier to solve then mine… but I truly thank you for the help, Miyako-san." I held my hand out for her.
"Hey, what are friends for?" She shook it.

P.O.V. – Third Person

The same result… SkullGreymon was causing damage once more but now the Kaiser was feeling more confident on solving the issue that had been plaguing his mind. Another Ground Zero attack brought down part of the dome paneling on SkullGreymon and he soon devolved all the way back to Agumon.
"I see… The Evil Ring can easily control the Adult-Level, but it can't process all the data needed to control the Perfect-Level… The issue would be power… what I truly need is to expand its function. So do I need to add more rings on a Digimon? No… adding yes, but rather by changing the ring's shape…" He laughed. "The word 'impossible' doesn't exist for me." It appeared that the Kaiser had reached a breakthrough in his experiments…all the while unaware that Monodramon was sauntering off.

Monodramon was taking a large risk with what he was planning to do. He ran the risk of taking the full force of the Kaiser's wrath with what he was going to do next. He walked into the dome where Agumon laid unconscious from all the stressful evolving that he was being forced through for hours. Monodramon went up to him and then deactivated the Evil Ring around his neck. The Kaiser was so preoccupied with his own work and conquest that he didn't realize that Monodramon was watching everything and was actually one of the only beings in the Digital World who knew how to deactivate the rings. He may have been fanatically loyal to the Kaiser, but he didn't want to see poor Agumon suffer anymore. He began to walk out but threw the ring away on his way out before Agumon began to regain consciousness.
"I'm free… why?" Agumon questioned. He felt serious pain in his arm like it was broken and he grabbed it as he saw the exit being left wide open. "I have to get out of here…"

"No good… processing power has improved, but it's still not enough." The Kaiser growled. He knew he was on the right path but that final hurtle was still in his way. "Wait…" He suddenly reached a breakthrough. "This is it! I should have done that from the beginning… Why didn't I think of this earlier? Numbers bear strength." On the screen, the rings merged together and formed a spiral. "This way, processing and transmitting power increase, so a Dark Tower's power isn't needed…" The evil grin that spread across his face would be quite worrisome to the Digital World. "Let's test this ring." He flipped the screen back to the containment dome, only to find that Agumon was missing. "He's not there…? Why?"

The Kaiser sat back down in his chair, trying to figure out what had happened.
"How did he escape?"
"What's wrong, Osamu-chan?" Monodramon asked.
"Agumon has escaped. But how did he get the Evil Ring off…?"
"Hey, Osamu-chan!"
"What!?"
"Forget about him! Use me for your experiments on evolution! I'll evolve, evolve and fight for you, Osamu-chan! So use me…"
"It was you who let him escape!?" The Kaiser roared.
"W-well, I'm your partner! I should be able to evolve! So if you're going to do tests, do your tests on me!"
"What kind of splendid Digimon would you evolve into? And you're my partner? Heh. No chance. How could the Digimon Kaiser have a partner like you?"
"Osamu-chan!" The Kaiser kicked him when he shouted that.

"From now on, calling me 'Osamu-chan' is unacceptable. My name is Digimon Kaiser."
"I'm sorry, Osamu… I mean, Digimon Kaiser-sama… So please… I…"
"Shut up!" He lifted his whip up and Monodramon prepared for the strike but a buzzing noise was made on the screen indicating that Agumon had been located and the Chosen Children were getting close to him. "His friends are coming to his rescue… I won't let that happen." He began to walk away before he turned his attention back to Monodramon. "You got lucky."
"Osamu-chan!" The whip cracked right in front of him.

Locomotown, Digital World. May 14th, 2002. 1601 Hours.
P.O.V. – Taichi Yagami

A quick ride on Pegasmon and Nefertimon got us to the outskirts of Locomotown where Agumon was apparently being held captive if Guilmon's information was correct. As we stood over the hill of the town, we could see dozens of railroad tracks leading to it.
"It's Locomotown, no doubt!" Daisuke believed.
"It's like a big railway set…" Iori observed.
"Wait for me, Agumon… I'll rescue you for sure!" I said under my breath as we ran towards the town.

After a few minutes, we were deep in the center of the town but other than the Dark Tower, there was little here in terms of some place to hold Agumon.
"Alright… which way should we go?" I wondered.
"Should we split up and search?" Hikari suggested.
"I think that's best…" Tailmon agreed. We heard a train whistle in the distance and it sounded like it was getting closer.
"A train's coming…" V-mon listened.
"From there?" Daisuke looked towards the tunnel under the hill. We were right as we saw the locomotive steam ahead to us. And conducting the train himself was the only being I wanted to see.
"That's Agumon!" I cried. "Agumon!" I shouted over the sound of the train.
"Taichi?" He turned his head. Tailmon switched the tracks the train was on so we could have Agumon stop his train.

"Agumon! Are you alright, Agumon?" I ran to him.
"Taichi? Is it really you, Taichi!?" He jumped into my arms.
"Of course it's me! I'm so glad you're okay!" I hugged him but he groaned in pain. "Sorry, are you hurt?"
"Don't worry, I'll be better soon."
"Onii-chan, we should get away… before the Digimon Kaiser comes again." advised Hikari.
"W-wait a second!" Daisuke shoved her out of the way... which actually surprised me. Doesn't he have a crush on her or something? "We came this far… and we're just going to run away?"
"Yeah, that's right. Our goal was to rescue Agumon. We'll come back for the tower another day." Daisuke looked slightly disappointed in me, like I had become a coward or something. "Don't worry, Daisuke. After what Osamu has done to Agumon, I'm not going to let this go. We'll get him for this soon enough. But right now, we need to get Agumon to safety."
"If you say so, Taichi-senpai…"

"Agumon, does it hurt?" I asked him as I carried him on my back as we tried to head back to the nearest TV.
"I'm fine. Thanks, Taichi." We stopped when we heard a sinister laugh behind us. We turned around and saw that Osamu was standing at the top of a tunnel we just walked out of.
"Osamu Ichijouji!" Takeru shouted.
"Will you ever call me Digimon Kaiser?"
"I'll call you whatever I wanna call you! Osamu, Osamu, Osamu! Osamu Ichijouji!" Daisuke was kicking the nest with his words.
"You really want to make me angry, huh?"
"That's my line!" I countered. "Doing what you've done to Agumon… You better be prepared!"
"A middle schooler getting all angry at a genius… how pathetic." He chuckled.
"What!?"

"I may be younger than you, but I look down on you!" declared Iori. "You're a disgrace to all humans!" He threw his stick at him but the Kaiser swung his whip and snapped it in half.
"I won't be affected by what some insects say." Three Airdramon flew beside the Kaiser before he cracked his whip once more. We soon found five DarkTyranomon surrounding us.
"Daisuke, evolution!" V-mon cried.
"Got it! Digimental Up!"
"V-mon, Armor-Evolve! Burning Courage, FLADRAMON!"
"If I don't fight, you won't be satisfied, dagyaa!" Armadimon chimed to Iori.
"Right! Digimental Up!"
"Armadimon, Armor-Evolve! Steel Knowledge, DIGMON!" A DarkTyranomon fired a blast at Fladramon but he simply shrugged it off.
"Fire Rocket!" He knocked down one DarkTyranomon before doing one of those no-look punches that destroyed another Evil Ring.
"Big Crack!" Digmon's attack dealt with the three remaining DarkTyranomon.

"What?!" The Kaiser was taken aback.
"Knuckle Fire!" The attack nearly blew the Kaiser but he jumped and landed on an Airdramon.
"Me too!" Both Tailmon and Patamon were itching to get into the fight.
"Go for it!" Takeru and Hikari responded. "Digimental Up!"
"Tailmon, Armor-Evolve! Light of Smiles, NEFERTIMON!" "Patamon, Armor-Evolve! Soaring Hope, PEGASMON!" Takeru and Hikari climbed aboard their Digimon and took to the skies to deal with the remaining attackers.
"Curse of the Queen!" Nefertimon drew away two of the Airdramon away which left the one with the Kaiser wide open.
"Needle Rain!" Pegasmon's attack was aimed straight for the Kaiser and hit him… but the shots bounced off his cape like armor. Bit surprised about that attack, beat up Osamu yes, but I don't think we should kill him… yet. "Silver Blaze!" The attack hit the Airdramon and sent Osamu flying off.

"It's my turn!" Agumon ran forward.
"Wait!" I shouted, trying to catch him. I knew he could be able to fight as well, but he was hurt and I didn't want him to suffer any permanent damage.
"It's too bad… you're just a little late." Osamu said on the mound of dirt he was standing on before he pulled a strange item out. "The Evil Spiral is complete." Evil Spiral? It glowed red and he threw it which latched itself onto Agumon's arm!
"Wh-what's this?" Agumon then screamed in pain as he collapsed to the ground.
"It's the improved Evil Ring, the Evil Spiral."
"What?" I shouted as I got closer to Agumon as he got back up. However, his eyes were glowing red meaning that he was under Osamu's complete control.
"Watch out!" Daisuke pushed me out of the way before one of Agumon's Baby Flames could nail me in the chest.
"No good! He's already controlled!" Iori cried.

"Now, Agumon… Dark-Evolve!" Osamu held up his Dark Digivice and Agumon began to glow. When the purple light died down, standing before us was MetalGreymon, but he had a darker color scheme, kinda like when Leomon had all those Black Gears in him. "Just as I planned. You could evolve the way I wanted now." This was pretty foolish of me but I ran forward to him.
"Agumon!" I called out.
"Taichi-senpai, it's dangerous!" Daisuke warned.
"It's me! Don't you recognize me?"
"Talking is useless." insulted the Kaiser. "He's not your Digimon partner anymore, but my slave. Go, MetalGreymon! Show us the power of the Perfect-Level!"
"Watch out!" Daisuke grabbed me again before I could be skewered by MetalGreymon's claw.
"Stop MetalGreymon!" Takeru ordered the other Digimon.
"Nefertimon, let's go!" Pegasmon said.
"Sanctuary Bind!" The two of them tied up MetalGreymon and threw him to the ground.

"Don't hurt him!" I yelled as Daisuke was trying to hold me back.
"I don't we can hurt him. What should we do?" Fladramon asked.
"What? I have no idea!" Daisuke worried.
"Digmon! Can you attack just the Evil Spiral?" theorized Iori.
"I'm not sure… it's a small target, and he's moving a lot…" Digmon feared.
"I'll try!" Fladramon got ahead of him.
"No, stop!" I yelled once more.
"Watch out!" Daisuke pulled me back once more.
"Stop! Don't attack Agumon!"
"But, like this…" Hikari spoke up.
"We have to do something quickly!" Takeru cried.
"This is all we can do! Shouldn't we at least try?" Iori insisted.

"Wait! Please, wait a second!" I cried again.
"We can't wait!" Iori shouted.
"Wait! Taichi-senpai says to wait, so we wait!" Daisuke agreed with me. At the same time, MetalGreymon escaped from his bindings and sent both Pegasmon and Nefertimon to the ground. Then his chest compartment opened up and those of us that knew MetalGreymon knew what was coming.
"Everyone, run!" Takeru yelled.
"Giga Destroyer!" The missiles flew out and exploded right in front of Digmon and Fladramon, creating a massive wall of smoke. All the while Osamu was laughing to his heart's content.
"As expected from the Perfect-Level! This will be too easy." MetalGreymon began flying in the air. "MetalGreymon! With your power, I'll take over the Digital World in no time!"
"Agumon!" I called out once more as they turned and flew away.
"Now go, MetalGreymon! To the next area!" The Kaiser laughed once more.

"We can't follow them any further!" Iori said the words I was dreading to hear. We've basically abandoned Agumon to the Kaiser's control now…
"Still, MetalGreymon is incredible…" Daisuke admitted.
"What do I do… what do I do to get Agumon back…" I muttered. Lord, if you're out there, some help would be nice.
"Guys!" We suddenly heard Miyako's voice. We looked up to the tracks and saw Miyako, Ken and Yamato riding in a few rail carts, one of which had a sail on it.
"Miyako-san!" "Ken" "Onii-chan!" Iori, Daisuke and Takeru called out. They ran over to them while Hikari stuck by me.
"Sorry about earlier." Miyako apologized.
"No, we believed you would come!" Iori told her.
"Yeah, we both realized staying behind wasn't going to solve anything…" Ken admitted.
"These two staying behind was a big help for me." Yamato said. "Takeo's back at the computer lab before any of you ask about who's watching the computer. Anyway… what's the situation?"

The others were filled in with today's events very quickly. All the while, I was still trying to think of what I could do to try and get Agumon back.
"So that's how it is…" Yamato nodded.
"What do I do… what do I do…?" I kept whispering.
"Taichi." I turned to look at Yamato… and he decked me in the face.
"Why'd you punch him!? Agumon was captured, and Taichi-senpai is in shock…! And yet… why!?" Daisuke augured.
"Wait, Daisuke-kun!" Hikari stopped him.

"Taichi." Yamato held out his hand for me to help me up off the ground.
"Yamato… Thanks, Yamato." I still can't believe it takes our group a punch to the face to get us back on track. Damn, he hits harder than he used to.
"No problem, you're welcome."
"You opened my eyes. I can't hesitate anymore. I don't even know if I can keep up normally… If I hesitate, there's no way I can keep up. If we don't use all our strength, we won't get Agumon back."
"Yeah. That's what Agumon would want too. He'd rather be destroyed than be used by the Digimon Kaiser."
"Yeah." I nodded. I hope it doesn't come to that… but… if that's our last option…

"Guys, listen! Next time we fight MetalGreymon, please don't hold back!"
"Is that okay…?" Hikari asked.
"Yeah."
"It's like Taichi says. Listen, everyone! If you care about Agumon, don't hesitate for a second!" Tailmon barked orders like she was a drill sergeant.
"Understood!" The other Digimon agreed.
"What about you, Ken-kun?" Miyako wondered. "Can you be willing to fight the Kaiser, even if he's who he is?"
"I can't give a definitive answer. But if the others can fight Agumon… then I'll sure try to fight Osam- the Digimon Kaiser." Ken nodded.
"That's all we're asking from you, Ken." I told him.

"Alright, let's go!" Takeru pumped his fist into the air. "Ah, that's Miyako-san's line, right?"
"Chosen Children, let's roll!" She pumped her fist into the air with a determined smile on her face. We all climbed aboard the rail cars and head down the tracks in the same direction of MetalGreymon.
"What's up with those two?" Daisuke whispered to V-mon in reference to Yamato and I.
"No idea."
"I don't get it…"

Hang on, Agumon; we're coming to save you…

Boy, Osamu's really stepping up the game. It bodes ill for the Chosen Children.

I haven't really go more to say with this one so see you all soon. Christmas Eve or Christmas Day for sure, you're getting a chapter as a present! However, the present will be delivered by Jack Skellington dressed as Sandy Claws... so heads up. (Sorry, was listening to the Haunted Mansion Holiday Soundtrack.)

"Push the button, Frank."