Hello again, everyone. Sorry for the long hiatus from this. The tests, the side story, it all just came at a bad time. But I'm back now.

Shoutouts to MadDogLucario96, GreenD109, DigimonAT0318, God of the Challenge, and Whiteling for all your reviews... to all of you keeping patient with me about all of this.

And an added thanks to DigimonAT0318 for giving me an idea for this chapter, hope you'll enjoy.

Especially since I'm gonna be giving some fanservice at the start... no, not like that, you pervs!

Chapter 27: Brave Evolution! XV-mon!

Yagami Residence, Odaiba District, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan. August 28, 2002. 0937 Hours.
P.O.V. – Ross McGlathery

After the whole Wallace Adventure back in the States, we finished off our vacation and returned home. For the past few days, all of us were catching our breaths after the whirlwind of events that had occurred throughout this month. We also were feeling slightly disappointed. By the time things had quieted down, summer vacation was almost over… seems like fate just didn't want us to have too much fun. Makes sense I guess, there's still that looming threat of a greater darkness that Wizarmon warned about.

However, those worries were in the back of my mind as I had a bigger problem to deal with: getting Taichi to finally ask Sora out on a date.
"I told you to stop bugging me about it!" Taichi groaned at me as I had been pestering him for the past hour. "We're just friends okay? I don't think she likes me that way."
"Bullcrap! You two are as crazy for each other as Mimi and I are for ourselves!"
"But…"
"No 'buts'! What is it gonna take to convince you that she really likes you? I mean, you've saved her life multiple times including as recent as our fight against Chimairamon. And then let's not forget that kiss during-"
"I get it." He interrupted me. "I just… I just worry that if I say something wrong, that'll be the end of it, and I don't want to ruin our friendship."
"The bearer of the Crest of Courage is afraid?"
"Yeah… I can charge forward towards a real nasty Digimon but I can't ask a girl I really like out." He admitted.

I sat down on the couch and looked towards him.
"Taichi, the same thing happened to me with Mimi. I was so gripped with fear about doing something wrong and screwing everything up that I couldn't bring myself to asking her out sooner."
"Okay, then, what finally made you ask her out?"
"I needed a push; that came in the form of Chuumon and Sukamon trying to ask her out and I knew she didn't want to truly go out with them but she also didn't want to hurt the feelings of the Digimon that saved her, so I saw one way out of it and that was to ask her out."
"Hmm… so, I guess… what I need is a push?"
"That's right." I got up and walked over to the phone.
"What are you doing?"
"Calling Sora."
"What!?" He ran up next to me. "Dude!"
"Listen, Taichi, you can't keep waiting and waiting. Sometimes you just need to dive in the deep end. I know it's tough, but what's the alternative? Keep her waiting until you let her run into the arms of someone who took the plunge?" Taichi looked disappointed after I said that.
"No… I don't want…"

"Hello?" Sora's voice rang over the other end of the phone.
"Take the plunge." I whispered. It was now or never for Taichi at this moment. He took a deep breath before he took the phone from me.
"Yeah, hi, Sora? It's Taichi." I backed away to give them some privacy over the phone. "Yeah, I was calling to ask you… I was a calling to ask you…" Come on, Taichi, you can do it. He took another deep breath. "Sora, do you want to have lunch with me next weekend?" For a second, Taichi looked calm, then the next second a bit worried, before he soon had a big smile on his face. "Great, okay, well, I'll call you back about the details. Okay, bye then." He hung up and then looked at me. "'Mom! Mom! He finally asked me out!'" Apparently, Sora didn't keep her voice down and Taichi heard her yell at her mother.
"See? What did I tell you?"
"You were right, thanks for pushing me into the deep end." I smiled.
"You would've done the same for me."
"Yeah, now I gotta plan out my date with Sora and figure out what… to… say…" Uh, oh. Taichi is now realizing that maybe he can't act as he normally was with Sora when on the date. And he still had the problem of letting his mouth run faster than his brain.
"Welp, we're boned." I admitted.

Odaiba Elementary School, Odaiba District, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan. September 3th, 2002. 1057 Hours.
P.O.V. – Third Person

As much as the children wanted it to continue, summer break had eventually ended and they were all back in class again. Iori's class was reading poems and short stories and he was currently the one speaking while Upamon was hiding in his desk.
"'And so, the country was saved. The king was overthrown, and the country was saved. The people were deeply saddened by the king's downfall. That sadness remained forever with the people, and became a legend." He finished and sat down.
"This class makes me want to cry, dagyaa!" Upamon whispered and looked sorrowful in the face.
"Shh…" He shoved him deeper into the desk.

Miyako was currently in a chemistry class where she was showing some fellow classmates what to do.
"Take this fluid… Mix it with the other fluid in a beaker; heat it with an alcohol lamp… Oh, and wait three minutes!"
"That looks a little dangerous…" Poromon said as he observed from outside the window. "Huh?" The fluid began to smoke and turn purple as it was bubbling. Miyako watched in utter surprise as the rest of her class mates too cover.
"Watch out!" Miyako moved to slow and the concoction exploded, covering her in soot. She nervously chuckled as she began cleaning up her mess.
"I was wrong…" She muttered.

In the gym, Takeru, Hikari and Daisuke's class was split in two. The girls were dancing on the floor like ballerinas while Hikari danced gracefully, even more so than her classmates. Tailmon, Patamon and Chibimon were all in the gym hiding in the bleachers and watching.
"I want to dance too…" Tailmon said as she looked on in envy.
"Then let's dance!" Patamon suggested.
"Yeah!" The two of them proceeded, and while they weren't as graceful as the girls on the floor, they were at least having fun. A sentiment not shared by Chibimon.
"You two go ahead and have fun. Hmph!" He crossed his arms. On the other side of the court, Takeru and Daisuke and the rest of the boys were stretching and shooting some shots as they were about to play some basketball. Daisuke was feeling pretty smug as he got the ball spinning around his finger when the whistles started blowing. "The boys' basketball game is about to start!" Chibimon cried.

The boys lined up for the tip off. Daisuke was on the white team, while Takeru was on the red team, signified by the small red jerseys they were wearing over their gym clothes, when the ball was tossed up and Takeru won the tip off. He quickly weaved his way past a couple of defenders as he started running for the basket.
"Takeru, go get 'em!" Patamon cheered for his partner. Daisuke tried to block Takeru but he quickly out dribbled him and cleared a way towards the hoop. "Shoot!" Takeru cried out. He jumped up and took the shot, delivering a floater that went in with nothing but net. "You did it!"
"Nice shot!" Tailmon added.
"Daisuke can do that too!" claimed Chibimon as he turned his head in disgust.
"Takeru-kun!" Hikari cheered.
"Alright! We did it!" Takeru high-fived a teammate.
"That Takeru… he thinks he's so cool!" Daisuke growled. When push came to shove, Daisuke would have Takeru's back if there was any Digimon trouble, but on the court, the rivalry was burning hot.

The whistle blew and Daisuke caught the pass in as his team now had procession. He was being double teamed for a moment but managed to escape it and started running for the hoop.
"Daisuke, shoot!" Chibimon cried. Daisuke tried to juke out the defender in front of him but his cross-over needed much work as he just tripped over himself and crashed onto the hardwood, losing the ball. Patamon and Tailmon laugh but Chibimon is just livid. "Don't laugh!" The girls were also chuckling before Hikari got them back on point.
"How about we try it again from the beginning?"
"Daisuke-kun, are you okay?" Takeru walked up to him and tried to offer a hand.
"Of course I'm not okay." He got up back up.
"Why are you upset?" Daisuke huffed and turned his head… and took a basketball straight to the face.

P.O.V. – Daisuke Motomiya

Damn it… this day has really sucked. I'm a laughing stalk on the court and then I get attacked by a rogue basketball which is still stinging. The three of us were sitting at the Headquarters while waiting for Iori and Miyako to show up which they eventually did.
"You're late." I yelled at them which gave the two of them confused looks.
"Miyako-san, Daisuke-kun has been in a bad mood for a while…" Takeru explained. "So hurry up and open the gate." She accepted and walked over to the screen.
"Digital Gate, open! Chosen Children, let's roll!" She shouted.

"You know, even with the Digimon Kaiser gone, we can still come to the Digital World." Iori said as we entered a torn up forest; no real idea what caused the damage from that.
"What do you mean?" Miyako wondered. "Finally, the Digital World is at peace. We can enjoy the Digital World from now on, right?"
"Er, well…" Both Iori and Takeru tried to tell her.
"Don't you agree, Hikari-chan?"
"Eh, I guess…"
"Miyako's right…" I interrupted. "But we're not here to play today."
"I know that. We're volunteering to help rebuild the Digital World, right?"
"We're partly responsible for the damage done here, too." I confessed. Throughout the war, we kind did indiscriminately cause a lot of damage trying to combat the Kaiser, even if we were trying to help.
"Um… quick question?" V-mon spoke up. "Why isn't Ken here helping?" We all looked at him and he got his answer. Ken's got bigger issues at the moment with his brother.

"Miyako-san, what are the damaged areas?" questioned Iori.
"Let's see… I'll check the D-Terminal. There's the mountain area… A lot of Gotsumon are doing work out in that area."
"We'll go there." Takeru raised his hand.
"Okay, Takeru!" Patamon chimed in.
"Alright, the mountain area for Takeru." I said.
"Next, the city… There's a lot of damage there. Those Gazimon have their work cut out for them."
"Let's go, let's go, let's go, dagyaa! Iori!" Armadimon was really excited and started running off.
"Wait, Armadimon!" Iori chased after him.
"Dammit, they took it!" I cursed.

"Next, the rural countryside. There's Gekomon, Otamamon and even Bakemon working the rice fields out there."
"I guess it's our turn now!" I offered.
"Wait." Hikari spoke up. "I want to go too."
"Yeah…" Tailmon agreed.
"Okay, let's decide by rock-paper-scissors." I suggested.
"Okay."
"Starting with rock… Rock, paper, scissors!" I drew rock, she drew paper. Damn! "I lost!" Hikari and Tailmon high-fived each other.
"Next is the lake…" Hawkmon observed on the D-Terminal.
"V-mon and I will go there!" We started running off. Wonder what terrible place Miyako's got to help with.

P.O.V. – Third Person

By the time everyone was out of earshot, Miyako told Hawkmon what the last location was.
"Only the seaside is left."
"Miyako-san, I guess that's for us." The Chosen Children went to their respective locations and were getting hard at work at trying to repair all that had been ruined by the Kaiser's rampage. Even some the Old Breed was helping out in another part of the Digital World. A little bet had gone around of who could repair their areas faster, which gave the groups more motivation to help repair all the damage. Takeru and Patamon were planting and watering plants in the mountains with the Gotsumon. Miyako was salvaging old boats with the Gizamon pushing the boats and Woodmon assisting her in pulling them out.
"I can't reach the ground!" Hawkmon complained as they pulled on the rope. In the city, Iori was assisting RedVegimon in making a large bowl of soup for the Gazimon workers in the city while Armadimon was dead tired from all the labor work he was doing, like being a pack-animal and carrying a lot of sticks before he fell over.
"You can't eat if you don't work, dagyaa…" Daisuke was at the lake gathering large logs of wood for the Numemon with the assistance of some Vegimon.
"Move, Numemon! You're in the way!" He shouted to the Numemon that were lounging around on the large logs they had piled up. They gave their complaints by getting off but leaving a disgusting gift for Daisuke which just made him moan.

P.O.V. – Hikari Yagami

Tailmon and I pulled out a bucket of water as we were draining part of the river for the rice fields when we heard and saw Patamon and Takeru approaching us.
"Tailmon!" "Hikari-chan!"
"Takeru-kun?"
"Patamon, what's the matter?" Tailmon asked.
"Takeru's been worried about something." Patamon explained.
"What is it?" I questioned.
"The reason why we can come to the Digital World." He said.
"That's because we're needed here, right?"
"That was true three years ago."
"Then… what about now?"
"Are we really needed here?" Patamon wondered.
"But… aren't we needed here to help rebuild the Digital World?" Tailmon was confused by all this and so was I.
"We're just volunteering to help…" I reminded.

"Yeah, but the fact that we could enter the Digital World means that the Digital World needs us." Takeru continued explaining his concerns. "A crisis is approaching."
"Another one?" I questioned. He nodded.
"Remember Wizarmon's warning?" Of course! How could we forget?
"The enemy is not who you are fighting now. There is a far greater darkness.'" I repeated the message. "Do you think a new enemy is coming?" I certainly hope we have nothing more to do with that Dark World.
"I don't know about that… but I think Onii-chan, Taichi-san, and some of the others… I think they've all been kinda worried about that. This is definitely something we should tell the Daisuke-kun and the others about this." Tailmon and I both nodded.

We headed out to the lake after we finished helping the Gekomon and Otamamon with some of their work but when we got here, Daisuke was nowhere to be found, much less anyone else.
"Huh? There's no one here…" Patamon looked around.
"That's strange… where did everyone go?" I wondered.
"Heeeey! Don't hide, come out!"
"Daisuke-kun!" Takeru called him out.
"V-mon!" Tailmon called for her fellow Digimon.

Digital World. September 3rd, 2002. 1603 Hours.
P.O.V. – Daisuke Motomiya

V-mon and I broke away from our work and were just walking through the forest. Of course, this was all part of a huge plan I had come up with.
"Hey, V-mon… Maybe you already noticed, but… How come Takeru and Hikari-chan get along so well?" My mind flashed back to the game where Hikari was cheering for Takeru.
"Patamon and Tailmon too…" V-mon said. "They're really good friends…" We both sighed.
"V-mon!"
"What, Daisuke?" I grabbed his hands.
"We have to work together."
"Work together?"
"Do something really cool!"
"Really cool?"
"And get closer to Hikari-chan…" I imagined myself slam dunking a ball before landing next to Hikari who was cheerleading for me.
"I want to get closer to Tailmon…" V-mon had stars in his eyes like me. Guess my crush on Hikari may have had an influence on him.

"The only way to do that, V-mon… is for you to evolve to Adult-Level!"
"Evolve to Adult-Level?"
"Like, UltraAngemon!" I had in my mind a Digimon that would totally impress Hikari. V-mon nodded and got ready to evolve.
"Alright! Why don't I become UltraAngemon?" I clap my hands in encouragement. I stopped when I looked in the air and saw a flock of birds fly away in fear before a loud thumping sound was approaching. Right on cue. A large brown monster tore its way through the bamboo and stared down at us as it began growling.
"V-mon, help me!" I got behind him.
"Daisuke!" I then ran to cover to allow him to fight. V-mon was just looking completely intimidated.
"V-mon! Evolve to Adult-Level!"
"O-okay!" V-mon began spinning around. "V-mon Evolve!" All he accomplished was making himself dizzy and tumbling over into my arms.
"Aah, he can't evolve…"

"Um…" The monster muttered. "Is this good enough?"
"Yeah, it's enough. Thanks." I admitted as I rubbed my head. The plan didn't work.
"You're welcome…" The monster fell over and the Numemon and Vegimon inside all came tumbling out of the fake beast.
"You went through all that trouble… sorry about that."
"See ya!" They all waved and walked away. I chuckled before I got angry and looked to V-mon.
"V-mon, it's your fault!"
"Why is it my fault?"
"Because it is!" I bopped him hard on the head. That clearly set him off.
"I'm mad!" He chopped down some bamboo. "Now I'm mad!" He turned his attention towards me. I started backing up.
"I'm sorry!" I took off running.
"Daisuke, wait!"

V-mon chased me for what felt like a good kilometer until we came across a rope bridge going over a deep river chasm. I ran towards the end of it and stopped for a second before I got an idea.
"Next plan… Upsetting V-mon, making this bridge fall, and getting in a desperate situation… This way V-mon will evolve to Adult-Level, it's a perfect plan!" I thought to myself. I then snapped the rope and the whole bridge began tumbling apart. "V-mon, help me!" I cried.
"Daisuke!" The bridge snapped in half in front of him and he jumped out to me as I hung onto the rope and slammed the cliff wall. He managed to reach me but he was hanging onto my feet.
"V-mon! Evolve to Adult-Level!"
"V-mon… Evolve…" Nothing happened before he lost his grip and fell into the river. I lost my grip on the rope too and fell in with him.

After getting sent down the current, we finally came ashore soaking wet where I came clean with him.
"A plan to make me evolve to Adult-Level?" questioned V-mon.
"If I got in danger, you'd evolve to Adult and save me. That was the plan."
"But it looks like it didn't work…I'm sorry, Daisuke."
"It's not your fault, V-mon."
"Really?"
"Nah, it's mine. I'm sorry about all this, I shouldn't have tricked you and put us in danger like that."
"It's okay, Daisuke." I'm glad he forgives so easily.
"You know, what I was doing… reminded me of that story Taichi-san once told when he tried to get Agumon to reach his Perfect-Level and he evolved into SkullGreymon." We both thought of V-mon going through a Dark Evolution and shuttered at the thought.
"Hey, let's go back with the others!" He suggested. That sounded like a good thing right now.

As we got up, we heard the sounds of rocks crumbling before we looked up and saw that a rockslide was about to begin on the cliff above us.
"Run, V-mon!" I started to move.
"This is a plan to make me evolve to Adult-Level, isn't it?" He questioned.
"It's no plan!" I went back and grabbed him as a large boulder started rolling down on us. We ran as hard as we could until we dived out of the way and it continued rolling on until it crashed into the river. We panted as we were out of breath. "That was too close."
"Yeah."

However, our luck would continue to go downhill as a large reptile-turtle jumped down from the cliff side and landed right behind us. He had a glare in his eye as he looked at us and roared.
"Uh… V-mon, who is that?"
"That's Tortamon… he's a tortoise-like Reptilian Digimon with a sharp-spiked shell. His special attack is Shell Phalanx." V-mon explained before Tortamon roared again and started charging towards us.
"Run!" I screamed as V-mon and I got to moving again. "What's this guy's problem?" I shouted as we kept trying to keep ahead of him.
"I don't know! Is this-"
"V-mon! I wouldn't have thought this far ahead! I'm not Ken or Ross-san!" We ran harder than before.

P.O.V. – Third Person

"Daisuke-kun and V-mon are practicing to evolve to Adult-Level?" Takeru repeated what the Numemon and Vegimon told him and Hikari when they returned to the logs.
"Daisuke-kun… what is he thinking?" Hikari moaned.
"Help!" Everyone soon heard the two of them approaching.
"Daisuke-kun!" "V-mon!" Hikari and Tailmon said as the two of them ran up to the group and began panting.
"What's wrong? All panicked like that…" Takeru asked. They got their answer as Tortamon roared again ran towards them. "What did you do?!"
"Nothing! He just up and attacked us out of nowhere, I swear!" Daisuke explained. They didn't get much more time to talk as Tortamon was already upon them. Tailmon and Patamon stood their ground while Hikari, Takeru and the other Digimon took cover behind the logs while Daisuke and V-mon ran again. Tortamon barreled right through and completely ignored the Digimon as he just kept up the chase.

"Well, it's clear that thing is upset with him, though I think Daisuke was telling the truth." Takeru observed.
"Shouldn't we help him?" Hikari wondered.
"Yeah, we should, but first, let's get Miyako-san and Iori-kun to give a hand, that Digimon looks tough."
"Good idea, Takeru." Patamon said.
"Actually, we only need Miyako, because I think Daisuke is running towards the city." Tailmon noticed.
"Okay, let's find Miyako-san, then help Daisuke-kun." Takeru said.

"Men!" Iori shouted.
"Men!" The Gazimon repeated. Iori was teaching them some kendo while they were taking a break before Daisuke was approaching the ruined city.
"Iori!" Daisuke yelled out.
"Daisuke-san and V-mon?" He questioned as the two ran up to him.
"Help us!" They said as they got behind him.
"Understood." Iori stood in a fighting position with the stick he was holding. However, as soon as he saw Tortamon… he panicked while the Gazimon and Armadimon took cover. "I-I doubt my kendo is good enough against him… I'm sorry!" He threw away his stick and ran for cover too, forcing Daisuke and V-mon to run once more. "I'm glad I didn't get involved… he sure wouldn't be an easy opponent." Iori admitted but felt shameful about his cowardice.
"Exactly, dagyaa! Come on, let's find the others to help him." Armadimon suggested and the two of them went out to look for the others.

P.O.V. – Daisuke Motomiya

Man, I don't know how far we've ran but that guy is still on us! We soon ran up a hill all the while Tortamon was keeping up. We had to stop as we reached a large ledge and saw that if we went any further, there was a long drop onto sharp rocks waiting below for us.
"Trapped!" I cried as Tortamon was now slowly approaching. We turned around and looked at him. He was panting trying to catch his breath as V-mon and I held on to each other.
"It's the end!" We both said. He roared again.
"Wait, Tortamon! Come on man, what exactly did we do to upset you?" I questioned. He stood there for a second before he just roared again.
"I don't think he's listening to us." V-mon admitted.
"What is this guy's problem?" We looked and saw there was no Evil Ring or Spiral on him, meaning he was doing all of this of his own free will. He roared once more before taking a step closer to us.
"I think this might be the end, Daisuke…"

Tortamon tried to crush us with his foot but we dived out of the way. He turned his attention to me while V-mon tried to head-butt him but he was swatted away by his tail. V-mon groaned on the ground in pain before Tortamon turned his attention back towards me.
"V-mon!"
"Daisuke…"
"V-mon! You've got to evolve!" I begged and held up my D-3 in hope for something.
"Daisuke!" V-mon got up and began to glow.
"He's… he's…
"V-mon, evolve! XV-mon!"

He actually did it. He evolved. XV-mon looked like a larger version of himself with a larger horn on his face, an 'x' on his chest and two wings on his back. Cool, guess he can fly now.
"V-mon evolved to Adult-Level!" I cheered, mostly to myself. XV-mon went to work and charged forward where he grappled with Tortamon's head but was knocked down once more before he stepped on his chest. He was quick to respond however and gave him a sharp kick to the face that knocked him on his back. XV-mon got up and grabbed him by the tail and started to spin him around like it was Super Mario 64. He was thrown hard to the ground but recovered quickly.
"Shell Phalanx!" The shell glowed and fired large boulders at XV-mon who punched and roundhouse kicked them all to dust. Tortamon charged now but XV-mon jumped over him and kicked him into the ground before he turned around and put his hands to his chest.
"X Laser!" A 'x' shaped beam fired out of his chest and slammed into Tortamon, who withdrew into his shell, before knocking him off the cliff.

"Yeah!" I cried as the two of us looked over the cliff and saw him below… trying to climb back up. "You've got to be kidding me!" Tortamon looked really upset, especial now that part of his skin was this weird looking black color. Guess we must have burned his skin really bad.
"Daisuke… he's coming again." noticed XV-mon.
"I know… what do we do?" XV-mon smashed part of the cliff and cause a small rockslide that knocked him back down to the bottom once more… but he just turned around and started climbing once more.
"Daisuke…"
"He won't stop coming… and he's not under the influence of anything… but he seems quite hell-bent on harming us." What do we do? What do we do?

"Listen, not all Digimon are good, there are some that are just evil and will go out of their way to try to harm you. We all had to make the decision to destroy Digimon in order to stay alive…" I recalled Taichi's words when I once talked to him about his earlier adventures. I gulped before I made the decision… I seemed to be making this one the past couple of fights.
"XV-mon… you're gonna have to destroy him."
"What?!"
"Look, he's not stopping, we only have one choice, as painful as it is. We have to, or we're goners." XV-mon looked conflicted before he gained a determined look on his face and cause another rockslide that put Tortamon on his back.
"X-Laser!" He fired a powerful blast at Tortamon's exposed underbelly… and the Digimon exploded into data. Both of us now felt terrible about what we just did.
"We… we had no choice…" I muttered.
"Yeah… let's… let's go back to the others." He suggested and we soon walked away.

P.O.V. – Third Person

"Hm… that was a bit unexpected… was kinda wishing that he had just killed the boy and demoralize the rest of them." A strange white haired woman in red with sunshades said as she had overlooked the fight. "Oh, well, there are plenty of other chances to cause destruction and other chances to kill those brats."

P.O.V. – Daisuke Motomiya

"Are you done with your games?" Hawkmon questioned as we regrouped with the others. I was enjoying the ride as best as I could while riding on XV-mon's shoulder.
"We weren't playing… Tortamon was really upset at us." I told them.
"Sorry we didn't help Daisuke-kun, we were looking for Miyako-san…" Takeru tried to explain.
"It's okay. We… took care of it." I lied. I don't know how they respond if they knew the truth. I then realized something. "Oh, yeah! What do you think? V-mon evolved to Adult-Level as XV-mon!" I tried to play off my shame with a sense of arrogance and pride; just making sure they don't realize something is wrong.
"This means we can rebuild faster now." Iori believed.
"We have to get XV-mon and Daisuke to work extra hard!" Miyako said.
"Right!" Everyone agreed.
"Eh?!" I shouted before I slipped off XV-mon's shoulder and fell to the ground, to the humor of the others. I then just sighed and accepted the arrangement.

Still, my decision and what we did, it was the only thing we could do about that… wasn't it…?

So, I went a bit of a different route for this one. Hope you guys like it. As AT said, the others felt a bit OOC in this episode, what with not really helping Daisuke. Plus, V-mon evolves in a more misunderstood situation of accidently catching Tortamon while he was relieving himself and rather a more precarious situation with an active hunter out for blood.

Anyways, next chapter will be soon and it's gonna be a good one. Take care.

"Push the button, Frank."