And now Spring Break has truly started for me. So, sorry to leave on such a cliffhanger, but most of us reading this already know how this goes.

Shoutout to Whiteling, DigimonAT0318 and MadDogLucario96 for the reviews. Oh, and a few things. First, MadDog… shoot! Mr. Blonde ain't here is he? Also, AT... I know what you mean... but... you and Iori clearly have some things to work out there.

Anyways, let us continue... and give you this quote to haunt your nightmares.
"Naughty little fly, why does it cry? Caught in her web, soon you'll be...eaten!"
Thank you, Gollum.

Chapter 34: Web of the Spider Witch! Archnemon!

Giga House, Digital World. October 3rd, 2002. 1535 Hours.
P.O.V. – Ken Ichijouji

This is a really bad situation we've ended up in. We went to Giga House in order to stop that woman once and for all; we knew it was a trap but I guess we thought we could overcome it. Big mistake on our part. Turns out she can control Insect Digimon with a flute and now has control of Stingmon and Digmon who are currently fighting XV-mon and Strikedramon. At the same time… we've fallen onto a giant spider web and can't really move. It would be okay… but a very hungry Dokugmon is crawling towards us and it looks like we're on the menu!

That Dokugmon kept coming as the woman just kept playing her damn flute; at least the good news was that the spider sure was taking his time. Guess he likes his food full of fear before he eats.
"I can't… move my arms!" Daisuke shouted as he kicked his legs. "Iori!" I could see Iori was watching the fight in the attic. Both Osamu and Daisuke's Digimon were now holding but they were stuck in a complete stalemate with mine and Iori's Digimon.
"Stop it, Digmon! Please, open your eyes!" begged the youngest member of our team.
"It's no use, Hida-kun." Osamu told him. "As long as that witch keeps playing, Stingmon and Digmon will keep attacking."
"Uh, guys… we need to think of a plan pretty quick or we're dinner!" I reminded as I kept staring at the large spider Digimon hungrily approaching.
"Dammit… what now then?" Daisuke struggled.

I kept struggling though my arms and feet were stuck to the web. There wasn't anything much I could do at this point, but I looked to Iori who's upper body wasn't restrained by the web. Osamu was similarly stuck like Daisuke with only his legs being free. I then quickly thought of a plan.
"Iori-kun!"
"Digmon, stop it!" He yelled once more.
"Iori-kun!" I shouted once more.
"Iori! C'mon, Iori!" "Hida-kun, please!" Daisuke and Osamu tried to help get his attention. That did it and he turned to us.
"You're the only one with free hands. Contact the others with your D-Terminal!" I explained my idea. Maybe one of the others could quickly swoop in and save us. Iori gasped as he quickly realized it and felt slightly disappointed for not thinking of it sooner.
"B-but…"
"What are you waiting for? Hurry!" yelled Daisuke.
"Yes!"

P.O.V. – Third Person

Iori pulled out his D-Terminal and frantically began to type messages to Miyako, Takeru and Hikari; hopeful they'd answer and save them from being eating by the controlled spider.
"Well, I'd like to help, but…" Miyako said aloud as she typed up a reply. She quickly looked back up as the Flymon were closing in on her and Aquilamon again. They were now coming from two different ways in the hall.
"Miyako-san, hold on tight!" Her partner shouted as he jumped up and the two groups crashed into each other.
"Alright!" The girl cheered. However, it was short lived as more Flymon approached. "Sorry! I can't make it!" She quickly typed as they flew away once more. Iori got the message back almost immediately.
"No luck! She's in trouble at the moment too!" Iori informed.
"What about Takeru? Or Hikari-chan?" Daisuke suggested. Iori typed once more.

In the study, Takeru and Hikari were in just as precarious of a situation as everyone else. Takeru shoved a book forward as the two of them hid in the bookshelf… only for a Snimon blade to poke through and nearly impale him. He and Pegasmon pushed the book and crushed the stuck bug on the floor with the book.
"Over here!" Hikari waved from a little shelter that they made. Both Takeru and Pegasmon squeezed in as the Snimon approached. They tried to claw at them but the books were holding them back. The two of them were safe, but they were essentially trapped as well.
"Well, at least this should hold them for a while." Takeru observed.
"But…" Hikari sadly said. "We can't help Daisuke-kun and the rest…"

P.O.V. – Iori Hida

My D-Terminal beeped and my heart sank as I read the message.
"Takeru-san's group can't do it either!" I shouted.
"Dammit!" Daisuke growled. "Maybe the others like Taichi-san or-"
"It'd take too long and they'd be too late!" Ken interrupted him. We all turned our attention back to the fight above.
"Damn it… if we could get rid of that flute…!" XV-mon complained as the woman kept on playing her twisted song.
"But she won't let us through!" Strikedramon angrily cried.
"It's hopeless…" I admitted in defeat.
"Don't give up!" Osamu countered.
"Even though he's the closest to Dokugmon… I have to be strong too." I thought to myself. I quickly look around for something that could help us. I then noticed it. There was an AC control panel right underneath a large AC unit that the cobweb was attached to.
"That's it! If we could turn on that air conditioner somehow, the wind would…"
"Yeah!" Everyone nodded.

Osamu looked around before he saw a chunk of wood near his feet.
"Hey, Motomiya-kun, Ken! You guys ever wanted to be on the same team?" He put the wood chunk between his feet. "Just pretend this is a ball! Ken, I'll send it to you, you pass it to Motomiya-kun, and he kicks it to turn on that air conditioner."
"Got it!" They both replied. Osamu used his feet to pass the wood to Ken who managed to get his knee to bounce it over to Daisuke who essentially bicycle kicked it.
"He shoots!" We watched the wood fly towards the button… and it hit! The AC began powering up. "He scores!" Daisuke cheered.
"Yeah!" "Good job!" "Way to go!" The three of us gave our praise. The air conditioning turned on and the whole web began to bounce before it snapped and Dokugmon fell. However, the whole thing began to come undone and we soon began to fall once more. I thought I was going to die before I felt Osamu grabbing my leg. I looked up and saw that he was hanging on a strand like Daisuke and Ken.
"Don't worry, I got you." We all slowly dropped down on to a large and soft bed.

"XV-mon!" Daisuke called out to his Digimon partner. "Over here! Hurry!"
"Okay!"
"Go! I hold them off!" Strikedramon volunteered to keep Digmon and Stingmon occupied while XV-mon tried to assist us. However, Digmon's attack struck XV-mon in the back who groaned out in pain as he fell down from the hole. He quickly landed on the bed and picked us all up and safely took us to the floor before he finally fell on his knees and devolved back into V-mon.
"Thanks, V-mon." Daisuke picked him up. We then heard Strikedramon yell out in pain. We all quickly looked up and saw him falling down towards us. We jumped out of the way as he slammed on the floor and devolved back to Monodramon.
"Monodramon! Are you okay?" Osamu ran to him.
"Eh… I'll live… but boy am I in pain…" This was bad. Now we had no Digimon that could protect us from Digmon and Stingmon or any other bugs that woman could send our way.

P.O.V. – Osamu Ichijouji

We were pretty exposed right now and needed to find some shelter for our Digimon to quickly rest up for a few moments before they could get back in the fight. Normally, we'd probably have to wait longer, but desperate times calls for desperate measures. We all looked up at a dresser drawer and thought that would be a good place. We ran over to the lowest drawer and slowly began to open it up. Then, Ken and I grabbed a large slipper that we could use as a makeshift ladder and get in there. We climbed in as Ken was the last one in, while Stingmon and Digmon jumped down and headed right towards us.
"We have to close it!" Ken shouted.
"But how?" I questioned as we didn't truly think that far in our plan. Our answer came when the two Digimon crashed into it and closed it for us.
"Lucky!" Motomiya sighed in relief.
"Let's hope so…" V-mon didn't sound very confident. Turns out he was right as a loud rumbling sound came from outside. My guess was that Digmon was doing what he does best and trying to drill his way through the wood and to us.

"I can't believe Digmon turned into an enemy…" Hida sounded really down at the moment.
"Hey, someone quickly explain it to me. How can that flute control Insect Digimon?" Daisuke asked.
"It's the sound. The vibrations in the air." Ken explained.
"If we could eliminate the sound, it would help." I told him.
"But we won't be able to get our hands on that flute so easily…" admitted the google wearing boy. He is right… who know what tricks that woman has if we got within grabbing distance of her. We all quickly went into deep thought. After a moment, Ken looked like he came up with something.
"That's it! Do you know the story about the moths and bats?" I quickly realized what he meant and snapped my fingers.
"Ken, you're a genius." I gave a smile. "Moths listen to sounds emitted by bats in order to escape."
"They don't just listen. Moths also emit sounds that mix up with the bat's sounds and disorient their sense of direction." Ken continued to explain, mostly for Hida and Motomiya.

"Boy, you guys sure know a lot…" Motomiya rubbed his head in embarrassment. Guess he was lost or something.
"So what you're saying is, if we could distort the sound of that flute, the insect Digimon would return to normal?" Well, Hida at least figured it out.
"Exactly." Ken told him.
"But is that a sound we can make?" Motomiya pointed out. And now we're back to square one again.
"That's impossible… we need to know the flute's wavelength to begin with." I said.
"So we have a solution, but we can't do anything." Ken clenched his fists. After a few moments, Motomiya quickly came up with an answer.
"Wait, if that's the case…"

P.O.V. – Miyako Inoue

These Flymon just don't know when to give up. The chase just continued until I got a messaged from Iori again. He explained their situation and the plan they had. It could work… but there was one issue.
"Well, that's my specialty, but without a computer…" I said mostly to myself. I messaged to Takeru and Hikari for some help as we went back into the hallway. A quick response later, she informed me that the room she and Takeru had hunkered down in; the study, there was a computer in there. I pulled out my D-3 to try to find where exactly the study was. "Let's seen… Hikari-chan's location…" I almost immediately picked them up. "The left door!" I shouted to Aquilamon.
"Roger that!" He dived down and headed to the hole that was left in the door. I looked back to see those dumb Flymon all decided to try to go through at once and ended up getting stuck together in the door.

As I got into the room, I saw the Snimon horde all on top of each other as they were focused on this large pile of books. The books quickly moved and the horde was all crushed by the large books where it was revealed that Takeru and Hikari were there. Aquilamon soon began hovering over the keyboard and I jumped off, making a perfect landing on the power button. A moment later, the computer screen came on.
"Bingo!" I cheered.

P.O.V. – Ken Ichijouji

Daisuke quickly informed us that Miyako had reached Takeru and Hikari and those two would support her to do what we needed her to do at the computer.
"Nice! Okay, can you explain how to do it?" Our plan was to capture the sound of the flute and then play a loud sound to distort it and free all the Insect Digimon under its musical spell.
"W-well…" "Um…" Both me and Osamu hesitated to ask.
"What?"
"Sound-related software…I'm not exactly interested in music… so I don't really know how to use it." Osamu explained to his disappointment.
"Yeah, the same goes for me, I'm afraid." I added which caused Daisuke and V-mon's jaws to drop.
"What!? The Boy Geniuses of Tamachi don't know something and it's the very thing we need to do to stay alive!?" Daisuke shouted.
"Ah, don't worry about that. Miyako-san is a specialist in that field." Iori assured us.

P.O.V. – Takeru Takaishi

"Really?" Hikari questioned what Miyako had told us while we waited for the computer program to boot up.
"Yeah. My oldest sister, Momoe, is in drama, and I make the sound effects and stuff." She said as Pegasmon and Nefertimon were taking some more books to build a barricade to protect us while we work on stopping that flute. "Oh, and with Izumi-senpai, I help with the synthesizing for Yamato-san's band, the Teenage Wolves." Really?
"I see… so that's how they achieve that sound with only four people." I chuckled. "I mean, I kept hearing brass instruments when no one was playing them, so I thought I was hearing things." A few Snimon began to climb over the barricade before being struck back by Shurimon.
"Everyone, this is not the time!" He reminded.
"Right. Let's hurry." Nefertimon nodded.
"Sorry, sorry." Miyako quickly apologized.

The program showed that it was now fully loaded and we were ready to continue with the plan.
"Takeru-kun, connect the mic to the computer." Miyako ordered me. I nodded. "Shurimon, you cover him!"
"Understood. Now let us proceed, Takeru-san!" I ran over to the mic with him.
"Hikari-chan, you'll help me with the mouse." The girls ran over to the mouse and looked like they were ready. "Okay, let's do it!" A beep from the D-Terminal went off.
"Iori-kun says Digmon and Stingmon are almost through the drawer, we've got to hurry!" Hikari alerted as I grabbed the cord to the microphone and picked it up to plug into the computer.
"I know, I know!" Pegasmon and Nefertimon stood on top of the barricade and kept holding the Snimon back while the girls moved the mouse. "Stop!" Miyako told her before she clicked down on the button. "Takeru-kun, how's it going?" I finished plugging the cord in.
"All set!" I gave her a thumbs up.

"Stop!" Miyako told Hikari once more. "We're recording that sound!" She clicked a button and now was the moment of truth. Would the mic pick up that flute? I guess we were as Miyako climbed on top of the computer and grabbed another cord as she hung over the computer. "Stop recording! From here…" She ran across the screen. "To here!" Hikari complied and moved the mouse to do what Miyako wanted.
"Got it!" Miyako ran up to her after she got back on the keyboard.
"Invert the selected part and delete the parts you don't need, then select it all, reverse sound waves, and save as a new sound file! Then play it on a loop!" Both Hikari and I were completely lost on that.
"I didn't get any of that…" She told her.
"Sorry, sorry… But this should work."

P.O.V. – Third Person

However, as soon as they done that, Digmon and Stingmon had broken through to the boys' horror.
"Ah, still not done!?" Daisuke shouted. At the same time in the study, the Flymon discovered their mistake and began flying out in one by one fashion.
"The moment you've been waiting for!" Miyako shouted. "Play the loop!"
"Here we go!" Hikari clicked the mouse and started the audio as the bug swarm was almost on top of them. The speakers loudly played the song and the bugs all throughout the house began to stop what they were doing.
"It… worked?" Daisuke questioned as Stingmon and Digmon stood still above them.
"I think we did it…" Takeru observed as the bugs slowly shook their heads and began to fly away.
"Huge success!" Miyako cheered once more.

P.O.V. – Daisuke Motomiya

Looks like the plan did work as Digmon and Stingmon weren't currently tearing us to shreds at the moment, so that's good to know.
"Digmon!" Iori ran up to his partner.
"What's wrong, Iori?"
"What are we doing here, anyway?" Stingmon asked in confusion. We all quickly climb back out before I quickly realize something.
"Wait, what? You mean you can't remember anything?" V-mon quickly tugs on my arm and then shakes his head. I quickly knew what he meant." No, it's nothing! Don't worry about it!" I dismiss. Best to keep the whole 'trying to kill us' thing under wraps.

I soon turn my head back towards that hole in the ceiling.
"Anyway, that woman…" She looked completely stunned by this sudden turn of the tables on her. I couldn't help but mock. "Serves you right! Nyah nyah naya!" That may have been a mistake as she got really angry at us. What she did next completely shocked us. She jumped all the way down from the ceiling and onto the floor in front of us. Our jaws nearly dropped and we all got on guard.
"Jumping from that height without getting injured…" Iori said.
"You can't be…" Osamu tried to say something but the woman had him beat on that.
"Not human, you mean? Yeah, that's correct. I am…" Her back makes a sickening crack as she bends forward before her whole body begins to slowly morph… into something else. Her whole lower body and legs became large and round, her arms lengthened and she grew horns. That round bulbous part of her then sprouted out six more legs. She now looked more like a spidery minotaur what with her upper body attached to that bulbous part of her. "Archnemon!" We all collectively gasped in shock.

Suddenly, things made much more sense with the things she was doing, turning Dark Towers into Digimon, controlling Insect Digimon, her superhuman abilities… guess we should've know she was a shapeshifting Digimon.
"I wonder if you're luck to see my true identity… or unlucky?"
"What's that mean!?" I shouted.
"You have no chance of defeating me in this form."
"So, what? You're a Digimon; we'll be you all the same!" Monodramon declared.
"Poor fools… Spider Thread!" These gems on the top of her hands shot out this sickly red colored vine at us, more specifically, me! I scream out in shock before V-mon gets in front of me.
"V-mon, evolve! XV-MON! Strong Crunch!" He quickly snapped the thread with his teeth.
"I have more than one!" She tosses out more.
"Monodramon, evolve! STRIKEDRAMON!" His evolution wouldn't help that much as all of the Digimon were blown out of the room and into the hallway.

We followed from a safe distance as Takeru's group arrived with their Digimon.
"Wh-what is that Digimon?" Hikari questioned as Archnemon quickly crawled after our Digimon.
"In any case, the others are in danger!" Takeru said.
"Curse of the Queen!" Archnemon jumped back to avoid the attack that was sent.
"Silver Blaze!" She quickly dodged that one too, though it made her look somewhat worried. She quickly ran up on the wall and jumped towards Nefertimon and Pegasmon.
"Kusanagi!" Shurimon threw his large shuriken but the spider woman merely jumped on it and used it to boost her until she was upside down on the ceiling. Takeru and Hikari were quickly left on the floor while their Digimon turned around and flew up towards the witch.
"Acid Mist!" She released a green gas from her mouth that hit the two flying Digimon that crippled them in pain. "Spider Thread!" They were then quickly whipped to the floor.

"You're not a match for her!" Stingmon reluctantly admitted.
"Leave her to us!" XV-mon told them.
"Ken! Let's go!" I shouted to him.
"Okay!"
"XV-mon!" "Stingmon!" "Jogress Evolve! PAILDRAMON!" The merged Digimon turned his attention back towards the spider.
"You're no match for me, all the same!" taunted Archnemon.
"What!?" Paildramon jumped up and got kicked in the face by her. He crashed right through the paper of a sliding door as she followed him.
"Die!" She screamed.
"Esgrima!" The top spike on his hand glowed and shot forward like a spike, similar to Stingmon's Spiking Finish, and stabbed her in the shoulder. She clutched her gaping wound before landing in a small trash can.
"Keep it up, Paildramon!" "You can't lose!" Ken and I encouraged. Archnemon jumped back out and began running while Paildramon ran parallel to her.
"Spider Thread!"
"Desperado Blaster!" Her little strings were not match for the waves of energy bullets that struck her.
"What?" She was clearly now completely surprised by this sudden turn.

"Let's help them out, dagyaa!" suggested Digmon.
"Of course!" The other Digimon nodded.
"Let's set a trap, in the dining room." Miyako ordered. "Daisuke, Ken-kun!" She called out to us. "We'll go there first, so lead Paildramon to the dining room."
"Understood." "You can count on us!" We assured her. Paildramon grabbed Archnemon and slammed her against a wooden chair.
"Do you give up?" He stood over her.
"Never!" She got back up and tried to jump him but he simply hopped over her.
"Paildramon! Change of location!" I waved at him.
"To the dining room!" Ken shouted.
"Got it!" He complied. We then ran to the dining room first and laid in wait for the ambush.

"They're coming!" Iori exclaimed as he was on look out.
"Guys, get ready!" Miyako said.
"Yeah!" We all replied. Paildramon turned the corner and so did Archnemon… right into our trap!
"Welcome!" Miyako smirked and she and Shurimon threw salt and pepper on her. She fell and crawled away… towards Digmon on a can of bug spray.
"Have some of this, dagyaa!" She turned where she found Strikedramon holding a giant flyswatter.
"Heads up!" Osamu taunted as Strikedramon swatted her away. She tried crawling away once more but Takeru and Hikari on their Digimon were ready with a snapped electrical cord that was plugged in.
"We're not done yet!" "Just getting started!" The two of them said as they charged and fried her with the large amounts of volts that tore through her.
"Now!" "Final attack!" Ken and I shouted to Paildramon.
"Desperado Blaster!" The attack struck her in that abdomen of hers and she collapsed.

"Admit defeat!" I told her.
"We won't go as far as taking your life." Miyako said.
"Why do you destroy the Digital World?" Takeru questioned.
"Answer!" Osamu demanded.
"What a meaningless question…" She chuckled as she slowly got back up, but clearly looked worse for wear.
"What?" Paildramon responded.
"Why do I destroy? Because it's my life's purpose."
"How can you turn the Dark Towers into Digimon?" Hikari now asked.
"Another useless question… Without knowing the true nature of the Dark Towers, you wouldn't understand if I explained it. Not even you." She pointed to Osamu. "They were much more than simple evolutionary jammers or power conduits for Evil Rings and Spirals."

"I see." Nefertimon nodded. "What should we do, everyone? She won't repent." I quickly realized what she meant.
"You're right. If we let her go, she'll just continue to destroy." Paildramon admitted.
"But still…" Iori was reluctant.
"Come on, don't forget what Ross-san said when we dealt with Golemon." I reminded.
"We know, Daisuke, if we had killed her during the fight it would be okay… but with her at our mercy…" Miyako expressed her hesitation.
"If that's how it is, then let me do it. You don't have to dirty to hands." Osamu offered. "Ken, let me give Paildramon the order."
"Don't try to act cool!" Takeru quickly shouted at him. "How about we find a temporary place to lock her in?"
"Softies!" She taunted us once more. "That will cost you your lives. Die!"
"Everyone, step back!" Paildramon jumped in front of us and swatted away the tread she threw at us. "Is that all?"
"Damn it…!" She growled.
"If you want to settle things… then…"

"Then…" A new voice rang out. We turned our attention to a tall lanky man with a cane and all dressed in blue who was standing on one of the chairs. "What will you do?"
"Who are you?" Paildramon asked.
"Me? I am…" He quickly morphed into a large bandana wearing mummy and his cane was now a large rifle.
"He's also a Digimon?" Ken exclaimed.
"I've come to rescue you, Archnemon!"
"Mummymon…" Well, at least we got a name.
"Mummymon?" I questioned.

He aimed his rifle at us and began to cackle manically as he opened fire. A large electrical beam shot out and struck Paildramon, sending him flying.
"You will pay!" Shurimon yelled as the other Digimon charged at him.
"Snake Bandage!" He threw out a large amount of bandage wraps at our Digimon and they collapsed on the ground, completely entangled in them. He then jumped next to Archnemon as Paildramon got in front of us once more. Mummymon aimed at him once more. "This will do for today. Let's go, Archnemon." He fired at us and Paildramon had to take the force of the shot to protect us once more. Mummymon used the distraction to grab Archnemon and run off with her.

Our Digimon reverted back to their lower forms while we all regrouped.
"Archnemon has an ally?" I shouted.
"What's going on? What's their true goal?" Miyako asked questions that we didn't have answers to.
"She said it's destruction herself, right?" Iori reminded.
"Well, she did, but…"
"Am I able to continue fighting that kind of enemy? One that won't rest until it's destroyed everything? And that the only way to stop them… is by killing them." Iori thought to himself. He then quickly realized something and ran over to bow to Osamu.
"Thank you very much! I thought I could repay you, but I owe you even more now."
"Owe me…? You're the one who noticed the air conditioner. That makes us even."
"No, that doesn't count. I promise I will repay you." Osamu quickly relented.
"Okay." He gave a small but reluctant smile.

"C'mon, Iori, stop being so creepy!" Miyako told him. "But what's this about owing something, huh?" She looked at me very unusually.
"What was it again… Iori saved Ichijouji-san… but I don't think he did it to repay anything… What do you think, Ken?" I turned to him.
"I agree. Iori's probably just embarrassed."
"Well, let's hope it's that…" Miyako huffed.

P.O.V. – Third Person

A small dune buggy was rolling along the desert far from Giga House as the sun began to set on the Digital World. It's only two occupants were Mummymon and Archnemon in the human forms.
"How are your injuries, Archnemon?" Mummymon asked as the woman bandaged her wounds up.
"Can't you tell?"
"That was a silly question…" He nervously stated. "Well, when we get to our hideout, I'll take really good care of your body…" He then chuckled.
"You idiot. Why didn't you finish them off before saving me?"
"Well, I did… but that Paildramon got in the way. Besides, there will be more opportunities to kill the little brats. You, on the other hand, are more important to the plan. So that's why I didn't continue the fight."
"Whatever…" She scoffed. "The more important problem right now is the Dark Towers. It will be a problem if they keep being destroyed."
"Well, you know… those two brothers… they still don't know?"
"No…" She lightly laughed. "But they're on standby just in case… if the opportunity does come… kill those other Chosen Children before them."
"Of course… Archnemon…" He added a bit more passion into that last word, but the meaning was all the same.

These two were clearly planning something big and the Chosen Children still had no clue what it was…

And the stakes continue to raise. And what the hell are those two talking about? Heh, I like to at least keep one of my cards to my chest.

Note, I'm gonna try to make Mummymon and Archnemon a bit more threatening and less Jesse and James like they were in the original... but damn it all, I freaking loved Kirk Thornton as that mummy.

And now our next episode will focus on one of the most emo characters I've ever watched... but Steve Blum's awesome voice makes up for it in spades. Take care everyone.

"Push the button, Frank."