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Author's Notes: This story exists somewhere between The Tamer: A Digimon Adventure and The Tamer: v1.2 Another Digimon Adventure.

Burnt Leaf Declassified

'The Interrogation'

A Memo to the Prime Minister

Thank you for another if considerably less generous donation to the third party account. Per our arrangement, we are releasing the following file to your office regarding our involvement in the Odaiba Incident. Please review the file at your leisure. These are for your eyes only. Once again, the documents have been modified to only be readable to you. Should anyone else happen upon these documents, they'll instead see more compromising photos of you with some unsavory company. As an aside, I would strongly suggest that you spend more time with your wife and less time with that intern.

The Last Hokage

Burnt Leaf IV

Transcript of Audio Recording

[Redacted]: Beginning audio recording. This is [Redacted], Head of Interrogations at Burnt Leaf IV. Date and time are [Redacted] for the record, please identify yourself.

SkullMeramon: SkullMeramon, commander in Lord Myotismon's Legion.

[Redacted]: Subject is a digimon captured during the Odaiba Incident and is being held in containment indefinitely. State the purpose of your invasion.

SkullMeramon: To find and kill the Eighth Digidestined Child.

[Redacted]: Can you clarify what you mean by Eighth Digidestined Child?

SkullMeramon:...

[Redacted]:...

SkullMeramon:...

[Redacted]: This is just a reminder that you're being kept alive as long as you cooperate with us. At our discretion, you will be terminated.

SkullMeramon: There are eight digidestined, eight children prophesied to act as the defenders of the Digital World during a time of great peril. One legend suggests that there are four more who will help drive back a greater darkness but that's just speculation. We concern ourselves with the Eighth.

[Redacted]: Why?

SkullMeramon: The Eighth is prophesied to be the one who will kill our master, Lord Myotismon. I suppose they suceeded so it doesn't matter anyway.

[Redacted]: But you had to come to this world to stop the Eighth Digidestined.

SkullMeramon: That's correct.

[Redacted]: Did the Eighth have any power to go to your world of their own volition?

SkullMeramon: Not without the others.

[Redacted]: So then why come to this world? The Eighth can't have presented much threat without any ability to get to you.

SkullMeramon: Don't pretend to understand our reasons. You meddlers have involved yourselves in a game that you can't possibly hope to understand. In this game you're the pawns, the disposable play things of powers you can scarcely comprehend.

[Redacted]:...

SkullMeramon: Scared? You should be. You have no idea what you've become party to. Your world will burn until its surface is but ash.

(Several moving noises and the sound of metal scratches)

SkullMeramon: What is that?

[Redacted]: A television. I'd like you to watch this video.

(Several minutes of distorted audio accompanied with grunts and groans)

SkullMeramon: What is this?

[Redacted]: That would be several of the 'digimon' being killed by our field operatives during your invasion. We've put the tally at fifty killed, and several hundred more captured.

SkullMeramon: And how long do you think you can hold the dead?

[Redacted]: Let us worry about the ghosts.

SkullMeramon: ...

[Redacted]: Getting back to our questioning. During the incident, another world appeared in the sky. Is it safe to assume that it was the Digital World?

SkullMeramon: Yes...it was.

[Redacted]: It's a lovely world.

SkullMeramon: You know nothing of our world or its destinies.

[Redacted]: You know, you think that sounds ominous but it really just makes you sound pretentious.

SkullMeramon: And what makes you think you know what the future holds?

[Redacted]: I'm from there. We kick your ass. Repeatedly. You're barely a footnote at the bottom of the textbook. How small of a foot note? So small, we don't even bother to put it on the text book.

SkullMeramon: Your bluffs need work.

[Redacted]: Whatever helps you to sleep at night. We'll end the interview here for now and come back a few days later.

SkullMeramon: Are you going to leave me here without food again.

[Redacted]: I'm sorry, did you think you were the only ones capable of exceptional cruelty? We've counted the bodies. We've seen the children. If you're looking for pity, you're barking up the wrong tree. Interview ended at...[Redacted]. See you whenever.

End of Recording