Disclaimer: Digimon is a franchise owned jointly by Toei Animation and Bandai, and conceptualized by Akiyoshi Hongo. Doctor Who is a property owned by the British Broadcasting Company created by Sydney Newman. The concept of The Tamer: A Digimon Adventure is a fan fiction idea created by me. The Life Of Kari Kamiya is a fanfiction property that extends off that story and belongs to me also. Please support the official properties.

Author's Notes: Hello folks! This story takes place after the events of The Tamer v1.2 - Another Digimon Adventure. If you haven't finished that yet, go give it a read before reading this. Thanks again to all you guys for the support in the creation of this fanfiction universe!

The Life of Kari Kamiya

Digidestined Forever

The New Year passed quickly into spring without any incident. It was like peace had returned to the Real World after all the chaos caused by Myotismon's latest attempt to take over. All was calm.

Or so it seemed, when the strangest of things started circulating on the internet. And, it went without saying, the first of the digidestined to notice it was Izzy in his bedroom as he typed away on his computer. It was the oddest thing but it was immediately familiar - occurring when an email opened on his computer without prompt to display a simple image. His jaw hit the floor when he saw Matt Ishida in sports jacket and Sora in a yellow blouse sitting at a table on a date together.

Izzy did a double take on seeing it, and quickly opened up his web browser to investigate the appearance of the image. His favorite image boards and forums were suddenly blowing up with people posting about weird emails from unknown addresses containing simple images. It was made all the worse when Izzy's screen was replaced by a gate - a Digital gate he had seen so many times before. But this one was different. It appeared older, reminiscent of the temple in the Digital World. When it cracked open, a single jellyfish digimon with a single eye burst out of the screen and into his bedroom. It cooed and squirmed around his bed room. Izzy's jaw fell and his heart sank as he understood what was happening, "Oh no, not this again."

Kari, Gatomon, TK, Patamon, Davis, and Veemon hurried into school in the middle of what should've been their spring break - annoyed by the fact that they'd been called there so suddenly by Izzy. He hadn't said why they'd been called, only that it was an emergency and to come quickly. TK was the first to get the message and he ran to get the others. What he didn't expect was Kari to still be wearing Tamer's coat.

"Do you think he broke something in the school again?" Patamon asked, "He goes through computers like toilet paper."

"If it wash a computer, why would he call Davish?" Veemon asked seriously. Davis groaned in protest at his partner, "Veemon, dude!"

Veemon shrugged innocently, "What? You sherioushly don't know a thing about electronicsh! You tried to fix your gameboy by smacking it with a hammer!"

"Come on, Veemon," Davis groaned, now thoroughly embarrassed by his partner. As they reached the computer, Davis knocked on it and heard Yolei's voice inside, "Digi digi!"

It was a system Izzy and Ken had come up with for secrecy - a series of code words that had to be answered with the right code words. Life had become a lot more difficult for them ever since it came out that they were they digidestined. And the last thing they wanted was to get a bunch of people involved in something that could get them killed. Davis answered, "Mon mon."

The door unlocked and slid open to reveal the darkened computer lab. Everyone was assembled there except for Mimi, Palmon, Sora, and Biyomon. Izzy nodded upon seeing them enter, "Thanks for coming so quickly. We have a serious problem. This showed up in my bedroom!"

He pressed a few keys on his computer and displayed his computer on the projector - on the screen was a jellyfish like blob bouncing around back and forth along the screen. The digidestined all immediately knew what it was, with Matt growling, "Again? Why is there another one here?"

"That's not the worst of it," Izzy explained as he pressed a few more keys, "This one is contained. Tentomon helped me nab it and Ken helped me develop an emergency program to contain them until we figure out what to do with them."

"It was slimy and disgusting," Tentomon added disgustfully while he shuddered. Izzy went on, "After doing extensive searching around the internet, it looks like everyone with a computer or a phone or any other device that can connect to the internet was attacked by a Kuramon shortly after receiving one of these images."

He pressed a few more keys to show the rest - an image of each of the original seven digidestined in their normal lives. Matt and Sora on a date, Izzy staring into his computer monitor, Joe walking into his father's clinic. It also had TK and Kari together in their class photo, Mimi on vacation in Hawaii. Then the last image came on screen - an image of twenty children of varying ages lined up in ranks beside an older man, all adorned in what looked like black uniforms and white armor beside digimon. Beneath it were indecipherable runes that Izzy translated with a press of a button.

'Thirteenth Youth Corp - Commanding Officer Legatus Primarus and Palmon, Second-in-Command The Digital Keeper and Gabumon, The Trainer and Dorumon'. On and on it went until it came upon the last name, 'The Digimon Tamer and Agumon'. Izzy explained, "It's us. It's all of us. Whatever is going on with these Kuramon showing up definitely has to do with Diaboromon last time, otherwise it wouldn't have attached these images of us to it."

"So what are you thinking Izzy?" Joe asked apprehensively, already knowing where this was going. Izzy pressed a few more keys on his computer before answering, "We use the digivices to open a gate into the internet. All the emails came from a single email address. Ken, Davis, Imperialdramon, Matt, and MetalGarurumon will go check it out at the source. The rest of us will stay behind and round up as many of these digimon as we can before we have an army of Diaboromon running around. We'll need to split up into pairs to cover more ground if we want to deal with this. Kari and Gatomon can go with Joe and Gomamon, Yolei and Hawkmon can go with Cody and Armadillomon, and Tentomon and I'll go with TK and Patamon."

"What about Sora?" Biyomon asked sheepishly. Matt frowned, "She messaged me on the D-Terminal. She's on her way back from tennis camp now but it'll be a while. She'll come to pick you up as soon as she arrived. And Palmon is on her way with Mimi. You two can team up together. Oh! While I remember."

He stepped away to open up a bag filled with old laptops, passing them out to each pair, "I rigged these together as quickly as I could. They're spares so I'm not worried about getting them back. The program was copied to each of these devices, so we can contain the Kuramon that way. Oh, and one more thing!"

Izzy passed one to Biyomon, "Mimi's plane will be landing in a few hours. I don't know when Sora will get here but you guys use this one."

"Okay!" Biyomon nodded and tucked the laptop under her wing.

"Should we get the others involved?" Davis asked, "Like Noriko and all those other kids? Maybe even Oikawa?"

Izzy nodded, "I emailed them the details. They don't have a lot of experience with fighting and their digimon are still mostly babies. So I told them to protect their neighborhoods and to catch any Kuramon they find."

There was one question sitting on all their minds now, but only Joe was willing to ask, "You don't think he'll be firing nukes again, d'you?"

"I have no idea, which makes it more imperative that we stop this now while we still can," Izzy answered grimly. Cody disagreed quickly, "It could be revenge based. I mean...it's photos of you guys. And you guys were the ones who defeated him last time. He could be after you."

"Izzy thought of that but thought it'd be better if we weren't worried about that," age tomon answered happily. They all had another question on their minds; one that none of them felt too awkward to ask about in front of Kari. In the end, Gatomon had to ask for them, "Anything from WarGreymon?"

Izzy paused before answering, "I messaged him. He says he's still looking for The Digimon Tamer. It seems he's on to something and wants to see if it'll pan out. He also said to let him know if things get out of hand and he'll help us."

"This isn't one of his dumb destiny type things, is it?" Gabumon asked nervously, "Because it'd be weird to have past Tamer show up again."

Cody shook his head, recalling Agumon's own words, "No. He told us he doesn't care as much about destiny. That was Tamer's thing, not his. If they were going to show up again, he'd tell us."

Matt sighed, "Let's not waste any more time. Let's get to work."

"Took the words right out of my mouth," Ken started approaching Izzy's computer and looking over his shoulder at the others. Wormmon, Matt, Gabumon, Davis and Veemon gathered around him - all ready to follow him through. Ken held out his digivice and started, "Digiport Open!"

The falling sensation was replaced by a floating sensation and the blinding white light lead into a large white room complete with floating words and images that connected to each other in a nonsensical way. Davis gasped, "Dude, we're on the internet! Quick, check out Izzy's browsing history!"

"Oh no you don't!" Izzy's voice echoed. A large window appeared beside them with Izzy sitting in front of it. If they had to guess, this was the other side of Izzy's computer monitor, "You guys are on your own separate connection now. That way, you won't have to worry about us when we're not hooked up. Now good luck."

Izzy's window disappeared, leaving them in the empty floating void and floating around aimlessly. Davis tried to correct himself but was unsure which was up and complained, "This is annoying! Does anyone know which way is up? I'm getting nauseous."

"If you puke, we can use whichever way it goes to figure out where down is," Gabumon reasoned. Ken shivered and replied, "Yeah, no. We're not doing that. Here, let's try this instead."

He produced a handful of coins from his pocket and flipped them in the air so that they went flying. Whichever they fell had to be down. Unfortunately, he watched as they drifted off aimlessly in different directions. Ken frowned, disappointed that his idea didn't work, "Never mind. No direction is down. So now where do we go?"

"Following the endless stream of Kuramon sounds like a good idea," Matt suggested as pointed out the endless stream of baby digimon pouring out of a long tunnel at the end of the room. Davis agreed and punched the air and raised up his digivice, "Alright! Let's go!"

The others followed his lead so that their partner's could begin the digivolution.

"Veemon! Digivolve to! ExVeemon!"

"Wormmon! Digivolve to! Stingmon!"

"ExVeemon! Stingmon! DNA Digivolve to! Paildramon!"

"Paildramon! Digivolve to! Imperialdramon!"

"Gabumon! Warp Digivolve to! MetalGarurumon!"

"Imperialdramon! Mode Shift to! Imperialdramon Fighter Mode!"

They climbed aboard their partners and soared after the endless stream of Kuramon who came pouring past them. Davis exclaimed in surprise, "Man, I'd hate to see the digimon who laid all of the eggs for these things. There's gotta be hundreds of them!"

Matt grumbled, "Then let's take them down a notch and help the others. The more we stop on this side, the less there'll be in the Real World!"

"I was just thinking the same thing. Metal Wolf Claw!" MetalGarurumon fired a series of missiles from his back that blanketed the area. In an instant, hundreds of tiny digimon vanished. Imperialdramon followed his lead and primed his arm cannon, "I like this idea! It's our turn now! Positron Laser!"

A large beam of energy fired from Imperialdramon's cannon and destroyed even more Kuramon. But for every one they killed, another would appear to take its place. Whatever was waiting for them in the other end of this stream couldn't be good.

Everyone filed out of the classroom once they were done. With any luck, they'd be able to take care of the Kuramon on this side quickly. Joe remarked as they filed out the door, "We got a long day ahead of us. We should get started while the number of Kuramon is still small."

"Alright, good luck e'erybody!" Armadillomon said as they broke into their group and made their way around the city following the signals on their digivices pointing them at the Kuramon. As they went their separate ways, Kari was stopped by TK at the door, "Hey Kari, you are okay, right?"

"Yeah, why?" Kari blinked, certain she knew where he was going with this. He massaged the back of his neck and added, "It's just...you've been kinda quiet since New Year's. And with this all happening, especially that image of Ta-um, I mean Tai. You're okay right?"

Kari rubbed her arm nervously. She hadn't thought she was being quiet. If anything, she thought he was going to bring up the fact that he was still wearing her brother's coat, "Yes, I'm fine TK. He said he'd come back, and I believe that."

TK went on, "It's just...I thought that photo might bring up some bad memories. He never really talked about the war, even when he was around. And that last time we had a problem on the internet, he showed up with those other Ancients and didn't even recognize us. So…well, I'm just worried about you."

Kari frowned, knowing what TK was implying. They had watched as people Tai and Agumon knew were killed right in front of them, while they and their partners survived. And there were more people in that photo than they'd met - which meant he'd lost more than he'd ever talked about. But there wasn't much point in dwelling on it. That was in the past. And she swore she wouldn't let it hold her down anymore. She smiled anyway, "It's okay TK. I'm fine."

"You're starting to smile like he did," TK observed and Kari blinked, "What do you mean?"

"Just something about him that Davis mentioned. His smile always seemed kinda sad, like he was trying to forget something. As soon as Davis brought it up, I realized the smile always seemed kinda forced," TK explained quietly, massaging the back of his neck again awkwardly, "I'm sorry, you probably don't want to talk about this."

Kari smiled at that - Davis may not have been the smartest person, but always could notice things others couldn't. She turned that smile towards TK, "Thanks for worrying about me."

They were interrupted only when Izzy poked his head in the door and stated, "Hey, hurry it up you two! We're burning daylight!"

"That's right! We're not going to go stand a chance if any of these digimon get to their Mega level! We have to go now!" Tentomon added frantically, reminding them of just how much trouble they were in the first time this happened. Kari nodded quickly and went to go join him, "Sorry Izzy, we were just talking."

"I wouldn't call it talking," her partner added quietly, making Kari shoot her a cold glare. TK groaned and joined Izzy while Kari ran off to follow Joe. Kari could feel TK's gaze on her just a little bit longer but tried to ignore it, "So where do we head to first, Joe?"

Joe shrugged, "Your digivice is the one with the built in tracker. You lead the way and I'll follow you."

Kari nodded and examined her digivice, "We've got a signal from a soccer field not that far from here. No wait, it's moving. We'd better hurry and catch it!"

"Good thing I brought this," Joe smiled as he led the way to a bike rack where his lone bicycle sat chained up. Once he rolled the bike out, Kari climbed on while their partners leapt into the basket on the bicycle. When they arrived, they found several kids playing soccer while a jelly fish blob Kuramon bounced around them. Eventually, it knocked one of the kids over and took the ball, cooing playfully.

If they didn't know what the Kuramon would become, they would've gladly let the game unfold. But this wasn't the time for that. Joe and Kari looked at their partners, "You guys ready?"

"We just gotta catch it and send it back to Izzy, right?" Gomamon repeated, "No problem! YAAHH!'

He leapt out of Joe's bike and face planted as he realized that his flipper like arms weren't going to do him any good in pursuing the digimon. Gatomon sighed, mumbling something about sending a seal to do a cat's job, "Never mind, let me catch it!"

It didn't take long for either Imperialdramon or MetalGarurumon to reach the end of the swarm of Kuramon, where they found a large white room. And in the center was a cloud of the Kuramon dancing around a black sphere in the center. Diaboromon rested in its heart, laughing at them manically while it's chittering voice repeated, "Target world designated for destruction. All will perish. Target world designated for destruction. All will perish."

"That voice will never stop being annoying," MetalGarurumon grumbled, "Let's end this already and shut him up. METAL WOLF CLAW!"

Every hatch in his body opened to fire an endless array of missiles towards Diaboromon. The Kuramon reacted and threw themselves in front of every missile, detonating them before any of them got close. With every Kuramon destroyed, another one would take its place - leaving a thick smoke in the room that obscured the cloud of Kuramon. Still, they knew Diaboromon was alive when the first blast of energy shot out from the haze. Both digimon dove out of the way to avoid the blasts, with Ken pointing out loudly, "We'll need something a little stronger! Imperialdramon!"

"I'm on it! Positron Laser!" Imperialdramon answered, priming his cannon and firing his arm cannon at the mega level digimon. The beam of white light parted the smoke and revealed more Kuramon throwing themselves in harm's way to protect the Diaboromon, still cackling at them manically from across the white room.

Davis growled, "What's with this guy? He's just letting the Kuramon take all the punches!"

"He's got to run out of Kuramon eventually," Matt reasoned, ready to press the attack again. The only reason he didn't was Ken pointing out, "We don't have the time to clear them all out! All it takes is one to digivolve!"

"Okay, so what do we do?" Davis asked grumpily.

Ken answered, "A simultaneous attack. MetalGarurumon, concentrate your missiles on one spot to clear a corridor for us. Imperialdramon will use that corridor to charge ahead and take a point blank shot at Diaboromon."

"That could work," Imperialdramon nodded approvingly, "Let's give it a shot ExVeemon! Okay, lead the way MetalGarurumon!"

"ON IT! METAL WOLF CLAW!" MetalGarurumon cried out, aiming all his rockets just in front of him. As always, the Kuramon threw themselves in front of the rockets to block the projectiles. Each missile cleared the path for the next and pushed the wall of self-sacrificing Kuramon further and further back. MetalGarurumon's attacks cleared the path for Imperialdramon to charge in and slam into the sphere. Diaboromon's cackling stopped when the sphere shattered like glass - then it panicked as it was dragged out of the black sphere and held out in front of Imperialdramon. The Kuramon quickly rushed to protect their creator only to be diverted away by more of MetalGarurumon's missiles.

Imperialdramon saw he only had one chance, one opportunity to end this. And he wasn't going to wait around for it. Imperialdramon jabbed his cannon straight into Diaboromon's chest and roared, "POSITRON LASER!"

The blast shot through Diaboromon's chest, ripping the digimon apart as it cackled its last breath. With one last effort, it strained out its final words, "Misdirection Completed. Initiating Phase Two."

"What?" Ken gasped.

"Phase two? What's Phase Two?" Imperialdramon demanded. It was too late though. Diaboromon was gone.

"Alright, now what? Who's next?" Davis growled at the challenge at the surrounding Kuramon.

The room grew dark as thousands of tiny doors opened in the walls of the room. The Kuramon scattered in every direction, sealing the door behind them as they each fled past. Matt panicked, "They're getting away!"

"Forget about them! We have to get out of here if we don't want to get stuck!" MetalGarurumon shouted out. They scrambled in every direction to escape the room while taking out as many Kuramon as possible. Despite that, no matter how many they destroyed or tried to outrace, one always got through a door before they could. Before either of them knew it, they were trapped alone in a dark room with only each other. Davis frowned, "They got away! THEY GOT AWAY!"

Ken retrieved his D-Terminal and began typing away, "I'm going to warn the others. They'll want to know what's going on before they get overrun with Kuramon."

Before he even finished typing his message, his D-Terminal exploded with messages from Yolei, "Yolei says thousands of Kuramon just showed up in Tokyo. They're all gathering in the Tokyo Bay."

"Let's not keep your girlfriend waiting!" Davis answered, raising up his digivice, "Digiport Open!"

Nothing happened. Davis shook his digivice, smacking it in his hand and then raised if again, "Digiport Open!"

Again, nothing happened. Davis grumbled and examined his digivice closely, "What gives? Why isn't it working? Hey, what's this?"

Upon closer examination, the screen of his digivice displayed a new set of characters he didn't recognize. Ken examined his and found the same exact characters on his screen. He frowned on reading them, "Oh, that's not good."

"What is it Ken?" Imperialdramon asked. Ken frowned, "It's Ancient but I still recognize this symbol. I'd know it anywhere. Our digivices were just disabled."

"How do you just disable a digivice?" Davis demanded in confusion, "If our enemies could always do that, why didn't they do that before?"

Matt answered, "Last time we fought this digimon, Tamer said something about how they were smart weapons able to end worlds. It probably figured out how to disable our digivices."

"Okay, but then how did it survive our last battle?" MetalGarurumon asked. Ken posited, "We're not in the Digital World. Maybe because it couldn't reformat in Primary Village, its data was left to freely wander around the internet. Four years is enough time for it to pull itself back together."

"So what? The digimon just reassembled itself? How are we going to beat it!?" Davis asked. Ken shrugged, "Let's worry about that after we get out of here."

Armadillomon and Cody caught up to Yolei just as she tackled the little Kuramon to the ground. It was late now, and the digidestined were annoyed that there was always another one that needed to catch. Her partner joined her, helping to keep it pinned while shouting, "How can something so small be so hard to hold down?"

"Ew! Gross! Gross! Gross! Gross! It's disgusting," Yolei complained as she did her best to keep it wrangled, "It's all slimy! Cody! Sent this thing back to the computer already!"

"Got it," Cody said, opening up Izzy's spare computer to send the digimon back to store it. With a brilliant flash of light, the digimon was absorbed into the computer and vanished. Yolei breathed a sigh of relief before complaining, "I hate these things! How many more of them are there?"

As soon as she said that, another Kuramon scurried past. Then another. They followed the ever growing number of Kuramon down the street to see them leaping out of cell phones, televisions, computer monitors, lap tops, and electronic bill boards. Yolei shrieked, "What the hell!? Where are these things coming from?"

Cody looked up at each of the giant billboards before pointing one out, "Yolei, look!"

A larger screen hanging off the side of a building was no longer demonstrating an image of it usual ad, but footage of Imperialdramon and MetalGarurumon chasing the Kuramon out hundreds of open gates while the room they were in darkened. Yolei gasped out, "KEN!"

"I don't think we're going to be able to do anything from here," Hawkmon reasoned just as the last of the gates closed - leaving them stranded. Yolei was too distracted by seeing her boyfriend be trapped to notice the direction the Kuramon were going. But Cody wasn't and he followed them to see them storming towards the Tokyo Bay. Cody's mouth fell open, "That's not good! Look! They're heading out to the bay!"

"Then I have to warn Ken," Yolei replied, retrieving her D-Terminal to message him. Armadillomon pointed out the obvious, "Not for nothin', but what good is tellin' 'em gonna do iff'n they can't get out to help us?"

"So they will know what's going on when they get out," Yolei explained, hitting send on her D-Terminal, "Now let's hurry! We need to get to the bay and catch as many of these things as we can!"

"Right behind you," Cody said as they hurried off in the direction of the bay. When they arrived, it was to see a crowd beginning to gather at the bay's edge to watch as the millions of Kuramon simply sat on the surface of the waves. They bounced around, off each and the endless torrent without a care for their own safety and Yolei groaned, "There's millions of them! What are we going to do!?"

"At this junction, I would suggest that catching them is no longer an option," Hawkmon stated with a frown, "I would surmise that our only course of action would be to destroy as many of these digimon as we can before they start their digivolution process."

"But they're just kids!" Armadillomon pointed out and Cody added, "Yeah, and just one was able to mess with the internet years ago and nearly destroy the city when it fired a nuke. We can't wait for that to happen again. I don't like it...but we have to stop them."

"I...okay," Armadillomon quietly agreed with his partner, "I'm waitin' on you partner."

"Then let's get out there! DIGIARMOR ENERGIZE!" Cody raised up his digivice so that his partner could digivolve and Yolei did the same. Although they were in a crowded place, now was not the time for subtlety. Both Hawkmon and Armadillomon leapt out over the bay as they were absorbed by the bright light.

"Hawkmon! Armor Digivolve to! Halsemon, the Wings of Love!"

"Armadillomon! Armor Digivolve to! Submarimon, Reliable Guardian of the Seas!"

Halsemon swept over the waves while Submarimon disappeared beneath, and the peaceful waters rocked with explosions as they began attacking the Kuramon. The crowd gasped in surprise at the seemingly unexpected attack but the Kuramon remained where the were. They made no attempt to flee for their lives or get to safety, content to sit where they were while they were attacked.

"It's a good thing they're not moving," Yolei cheered, not realizing the concern that was on Cody's face. In fact, she began to worry when he asked, "Why aren't they, though? Something seems wrong. It's like…they know something."

That was true. Why weren't they trying to protect themselves? The other Kuramon did - they ran to protect themselves. So what was their plan?

"Guys!"

They both turned to see TK and Izzy racing to join them while MegaKabuterimon and Angemon raced by overhead. Seeing them rush in to join the fray was enough to make the entire crowd roar with approval. Both digimon joined the attack while Izzy came to a stop beside them gasping for breath, "I…need…to…get…out…more…"

"It's because you spend too much time in front of that computer of yours. Mimi may not like it if you don't keep yourself healthy," TK teased. Izzy tried to respond by raising a fist but was too busy gasping for breath to actually do any more besides place a hand on TK's shoulder.

As if the universe enjoyed teasing Izzy, they heard Mimi's voice say, "What wouldn't I like?"

Izzy suddenly jumped up and straightened himself out in front of the others, doing his best to not gasp for breath in front of Mimi. That didn't stop him from getting red in the face when Mimi walked up to him, "Hey Izzy. You're all sweaty, what happened?"

"Just…stressed," he managed to say in as few words as possible to hide how out of breath he was. Then Palmon appeared at Mimi's side to ask, "You sure it wasn't because you were running real fast?"

"Oh…shut up," Izzy frowned while turning to hide how red his face was. Mimi turned her head quizzically before looking back at the others, "So what's the plan?"

"We were trying to catch as many of these Kuramon as we could before it got out of hand. Now it's just destroy as many of them as we can before we have an army of Diaboromon running around," Cody answered, "But something's not right. They're not running away or trying to protect themselves. They're just…sitting there letting themselves be destroyed."

Mimi grimaced at their concern, but it turned to a smile, "You're over thinking it. Let's wrap this up and get some food, Palmon! Time to digivolve!"

Palmon nodded and let the light take her as she began to digivolve, "Palmon! Digivolve to! Togemon!"

"Togemon! Digivolve to! Lillymon!"

Lillymon soared into the fight and fired upon the waves of Kuramon. Again, nothing they did seemed to reduce the number of Kuramon who were present - nor did it do anything to make those digimon run away in terror. They seemed content to simply sit there and let themselves be destroyed. And the more they destroyed, the more unsettling it became.

"If they weren't afraid to be destroyed, why did they go through so much trouble to trap MetalGarurumon and Imperialdramon on the internet?" Izzy asked himself once he caught his breath, able to think clearly now. TK scanned the waves carefully and saw nothing to answer the question. All he could see was more things to scare him, "I don't know, at this rate we'll probably just-"

He was cut short when the Kuramon started to glow and gathered together in the air to create a small cloud. The cloud condensed until the light was so bright that lit up all of Tokyo. Yolei shouted, "What are they doing?"

Their digimon began attacking the giant cloud, concentrating their attacks to destroy as many Kuramon as they could before they finished what lever they were doing. Another flash of light followed and a thundering roar sounded, blinding everyone briefly. When they could see, they saw a large digiegg where the Kuramon had been before. Matt shouted, "What the hell? They can do that?"

Izzy's jaw hit the ground and he retrieved his laptop to examine the database for any kind of hint to explain this behavior. A quick run down of the database told him nothing he didn't already know. He looked up from his screen, "If they could, the Ancients sure as hell didn't know. There's nothing about this in their database."

"Great, what else could go wrong today?" Yolei groaned out in frustration, "What I wouldn't give to have WarGreymon or Tamer here right about…now."

"If only we could get Davis or Ken or any of them off the internet," Cody frowned.

"How about us?" Kari declared as she finally joined them. Gatomon ran up along side her and looked out over the bay, "We saw everything on our way."

"Sorry we're late," Joe gasped out as he rolled his bicycle to a stop beside them, "I've been pedaling all day and…I need a break. I think I've got my work out in for the rest of the year."

"Look at it this way Joe: you'll have some killer leg gains today," Gomamon added in the hopes of cheering his partner up. Joe merely groaned, "Yeah, and some killer leg pains."

He kicked out the stand for his bike and collapsed onto the sidewalk, trying his best not to pass out in the middle of such an important moment. Gomamon waddled to his partner's side to make sure he was okay before asking, "So what do we do now? Does anyone have any ideas on how to get the others off the internet?"

"We're trying to figure that part out ourselves," Cody answered. Behind him, their digimon were laying into the giant egg with everything they could muster but none of their combined attacks were able to put a dent into its tough outer shell. Gatomon looked up at her partner, "It's about time that we helped."

"Right," Joe nodded and gestured to his partner. Gomamon nodded in agreement and made his way to the water's edge, "Let's get in there."

"All together," Kari acknowledged and turned to Yolei. Without a word, the two understood what the other was thinking. Cody and TK swapped glances as well, calling out to their partners to return. As Hawkmon and Armadillomon, the two digimon were confused about why they were recalled until they noted Kari and TK's arrival. Then they understood.

"Hawkmon! Digivolve to! Aquilamon!"

"Gomamon! Digivolve to! Ikakumon!"

"Armadillomon! Digivolve to! Ankylomon!"

"Aquilamon! Gatomon! DNA Digivolve to! Silphymon!"

"Ikakumon! Digivolve to! Zudomon!"

"Ankylomon! Angemon! DNA Digivolve to! Shakkoumon!"

The two ultimates rejoined the battle, firing into the giant egg hovering over the bay in the hopes of finally bringing it down. Despite bringing their three new ultimate digimon into the fray, they were still unable to harm the egg.

Or so they thought when the first crack appeared. Then another crack appeared. Then another. The egg was cracked. Everyone paused for a second, convinced that they'd finally damaged the egg. Their brief moment of joy vanished when the first black spindly leg broke through the egg shell. It spasmed for a moment as it tried to get its bearings on the water's surface. Then another leg broke through the egg shell. When the third leg finally appeared, the egg shell shattered into a thousand tiny pieces and a large black monster of a digimon that made VenomMyotismon look small landed in the middle of the bay. The sheer force of its weight crashing into the water was enough to shake the ground around them, knocking everyone back.

Before it had a chance to attack, their digimon began attacking again - doing everything they could to take it down before it did any more damage.

"Flower Cannon!"

"Vulcan's Hammer!"

"Horn Buster!"

"Justice Beam!"

"Static Force!"

Attack after attack laid into the giant digimon that didn't even flinch in response. Its large bulbous eye darted around from one digimon to another before resting on the digidestined. It let out a thunderous growl and turned its head to look at them. Then it started moving. Yolei panicked, "Uh…should we be moving?"

"Definitely yes," TK nodded, trying to usher everyone away, "Let's get out of here!"

"Oh, come on!" Joe complained as he pushed himself back off the ground to join the escape. As they started to flee, a flash of light appeared beside the large digimon bearing down on them. Then a flash of light followed by a thunderous boom echoed. Something had struck the digimon. And when they turned to look, they saw MetalGarurumon ridden by Matt, Imperialdramon ridden by Davis and Ken, and WarGreymon charging into the fight.

"WARGREYMON!" Kari cheered excitedly as the mega began pummeling the large insectoid digimon with all his might. With each blow, WarGreymon roared, "WHY! WON'T! YOU! JUST! DIE! ALREADY!?"

When he saw his hits did nothing, he sped around and called out, "MetalGarurumon! Imperialdramon! Follow me!"

"What're we doing?" MetalGarurumon asked, going as fast as he could to keep up while Matt held on for dear life. Davis and Ken were just as frightened as Imperialdramon followed his lead. The giant digimon dwarfed them all in size, making them look like the insects in comparison. And the irony wasn't lost on any of them. But that didn't stop WarGreymon from rallying the other digimon to follow, "I have an idea!"

"Are you going to explain?" Lillymon asked impatiently, following WarGreymon anyway as he led them underneath the giant monster, "This has got to be the worst place to be right now."

"It's also the last place he'd expect us to hurt him! Quick! Knock his legs out from under him!" WarGreymon roared, rushing towards one leg and striking it as hard as he could. The digimon's leg gave under the pressure and it roared in anger. With that demonstration - MetalGarurumon, Imperialdramon, MegaKabuterimon, Zudomon, Lillymon, Shakkoumon, and Silphymon each went for a different leg to kick away. The large digimon groaned in protest before the combined might of their digimon partners were enough to throw its legs out from under it - and they raced out of its way before it crashed into the water with its full weight.

Everyone cheered as the digimon shot up a huge wave of water. But WarGreymon gave them no time to rest as he directed them, "Alright. Matt, this will be hard for you on your own but MetalGarurumon and I will need to fuse."

"Is Tamer here?" Matt asked, already suspecting the answer he was going to receive. WarGreymon shook his head and Matt understood, "What do I have to do?"

WarGreymon answered, "Concentrate. It's just you, but you should be able to do it as if there were two of you. The digivices channel emotional energy. You need to concentrate on the two of us becoming one - like what happened last time."

"You remember that?" Matt asked, annoyed that neither WarGreymon nor The Digimon Tamer had ever brought it up before. WarGreymon pointed out the large digimon starting to stand back up, "Not the time for this."

"What even is that?" Matt demanded.

"Armageddemon!" WarGreymon roared, "Now can we please fight it!"

"We're talking about this later," Matt clicked his tongue angrily as he concentrated as hard as he could on MetalGarurumon and WarGreymon fusing to become one digimon. The digimon who'd defeated Diaboromon before - Omnimon. Or Omegamon. Or whatever he was called. He concentrated as hard as he could but…nothing. The two digimon simply wouldn't fuse. And Armageddemon was getting back up on its feet.

Kari looked on in disbelief. They needed Omegamon. But nothing was happening. Matt had started waving his digivice around in frustration, but they wouldn't digivolve. He couldn't get them to digivolve together on his own. It was just too much for him on his own. And without Omegamon, they were doomed.

It couldn't end like this. Not after all they'd been through together. They couldn't fail. Not like this - there was…something warm in Tamer's jacket. Something vibrating violently too. She looked down and noticed something coming from on the front pockets. And when she reached inside she found an odd device - something resembling a digivice but…different. It had only a single red button and no screen. More than that, it had a note scribbled onto its side.

'In Case of Emergency, Press Friendly Button'

Kari stifled a smile, knowing this had to be her brother's work. It shook violently in her hand and gave off a soft warm glow. She clutched the device in her hands and pressed the button. A burst of light shot out of the device, scattering out towards WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon. When the two digimon absorbed the light, they cried out in unison, "WarGreymon! MetalGarurumon! DNA Digivolve to! Omegamon!"

A hush fell over the crowd and Kari looked down at the device in her hand. She had no idea what she had done, or what this device her brother kept in his pocket was, but it was helping. And with any luck it would give exactly the push they needed to finally end that giant digimon rampaging in their city. Omegamon stood beside Imperialdramon, giving Matt time to move over to the other digimon while stating, "Don't let him run. We'll go in and end him here."

Before Imperialdramon had time to respond, Omegamon was on the move - raising out his sword to stab at Armageddemon's legs so that the digimon didn't stay on any one appendage too long. Imperialdramon and the others retreated away to let Omegamon work, letting Matt, Ken, and Davis rejoin the other digidestined who were watching in a stupor. Izzy was the first one to meet them, "I'm glad to see you guys got out okay. What happened?"

Matt answered with a stubborn growl, "We were stuck! Our digivices weren't working and we were trying to find a way off the internet when suddenly this gate opens up and WarGreymon appears. He fixes our digivices, tells us he's going to open up a portal to the Real World, and the next thing we know we're fighting that thing. What'd we miss?"

"All the Kuramon fused together to become that thing," Kari pointed out, "Whatever that is."

"WarGreymon called it Armageddemon," Matt offered up sheepishly, only for Izzy to grimly answer, "There's no information on it in the Ancient database either. Which means they probably didn't know much about it including how to beat it, or that they knew a lot and intentionally deleted it to keep it secret."

"Which is worse?" Kari asked.

"Well that's just great," came a familiar voice. They all spun in place to see Sora dressed in her athletic uniform and wearing her tennis gear. Beside her was her partner Biyomon flapping her wings to stay aloft and happily saying, "Hey everyone! Sorry we're late!"

"Sora!" Kari said excitedly, but not as excitedly as Matt who went up to hug her, "I'm glad you're safe."

"Me too," she answered with a smile, returning the hug before pulling away to watch the fight unfold, "So what's the plan guys?"

"Well Omegamon's here so hopefully this'll be over quick," Mimi said with a big smile. Her smile was illuminated by a flash of light behind them and followed by another thunderous explosion. When they looked back at the fight, Omegamon was in the mouth of Armageddemon - using his sword to prop the mouth open while he fired his cannon down its throat, "EAT! THIS! SUPREME! CANNON! SUPREME! CANNON!"

Each shot traveled down the digimon's throat, illuminating its innards and organs through its chitinous armor as each shot exploded. Finally, Omegamon kicked himself away and slid along the water's surface while still firing at the large creature. Then he took off at a sprint around the large creature while still firing wildly away at it, "It's not going down. I know that. Do you have any other bright ideas? Yeah, one. TRANSCENDENT SWORD!"

He raised his sword over his head and raced towards the large digimon, leaping into the air and driving his sword straight between its eyes - only for the blade to crack like glass and shatter to pieces. Omegamon recoiled in surprise and at the turn of events and was left wide open for Armageddemon to begin his counter attack.

One blast was all it took to knock Omegamon back into the water. And then another sent him beneath the waves. Sora looked around at the rest of their digimon and called out, "Don't just stand there! We have to help him! BIYOMON!"

"On it!" the little bird said, flying out to do battle just as Sora raised her digivice. A brilliant flash of light followed suit as Biyomon digivolved from Biyomon to Birdramon to Garudamon. The large bird led the charge for the other digimon who raced in to help Omegamon, "Wing Blade!"

"Vulcan's Hammer!"

"Flower Cannon!"

"Justice Beam!"

"Static Force!"

"Horn Buster!"

"Positron Laser!"

Each attack hit the large digimon, not harming it but creating enough of a smoke screen for Imperialdramon to race in and carry the wounded mega to safety. It was just in time too as Omegamon began regressing back to his prior forms of both Agumon and Gabumon who lay there unconscious. He rested the two digimon on the ground beside the digidestined before racing off to rejoin the battle against Armageddemon. Gabumon's head spun in place as he tried to make sense of his surroundings while Agumon slapped himself, "Wow, haven't taken a hit that hard in a while."

"Are you okay Gabumon?" Matt knelt beside his partner and placed a hand on his head. The little critter nodded, "Yeah...just...stop dancing, will you?"

"Okay, I'll try," Matt nodded with a smile, relieved to see his partner was at least still breathing. Then Kari looked to the little orange dinosaur, "So what happens now?"

"No idea," Agumon shrugged, "Tamer's usually the one with the plan, not me. And he's not around. My plan was basically wing it and hope for the best. I'm not as good at is as he is."

"So you still have no idea where-"

"No, we're on our own this time," Agumon frowned, pushing himself back up onto his feet and steadying himself. The little dinosaur then looked back out over the fight, "I've never seen that digimon before either. Heard of it but never faced it. If the Dark Masters had anything like that back in the war, you'd think they'd have used it more often. Honestly, the only plan I had is keep hitting it until it goes down. That has to work eventually, right?"

"It's not. I mean look," Joe gestured back out as their digimon scrambled around the large monstrosity - combining every attack they had to bring the gargantuan monster down only to see their attacks mounting to nothing. Joe then added, "Omegamon was our strongest hitter and he went down like nothing."

"What's with that attitude, Joe?" Davis rebuked the older boy, "Our digimon haven't given up and neither should we."

"Do you have any other plans because that was Agumon's plan and it didn't work," Ken countered, making Davis fall quiet. Then the boy smiled, "All the more reason to keep trying until it does work!"

"That's not how-" Ken paused when he realized who was talking to and sighed, "Never mind. Does anyone else have a better plan?"

Kari looked down at the odd device in her hand and thrust it into Agumon's face, "What about this? It turned you and MetalGarurumon into Omegamon! Could this work?"

"It just might," Agumon nodded approvingly before asking, "Where'd you get it?"

"Tai's pocket," Kari answered and Agumon smiled, "Of course. Why else would he give you his coat?"

Kari looked down at the coat she'd been gifted. She never presumed there was any hidden meaning to the gift beyond that it was a parting present to her. She also knew it was full of all kinds of odds and ends but she never expected any of it to ever be useful. Or that he'd planned on it. She smiled as she realized even when he wasn't around, he was still looking out for her. It was almost like he was here.

"What is it?" Sora finally asked and Agumon snatched the device, "Well, you know how I gave my energy to Imperialdramon that one time with BlackWarGreymon? Or how The Tamer did the same for Ken? Same thing. Only the device acts like a battery - it can store energy from anyone willing to give it and send it to anyone else."

"And the writing?" Kari asked, turning it over for Agumon to see. The little dinosaur turned his head as he read it and frowned, "That's his handwriting alright. I don't know when he wrote that. Never mind that, let's focus on using the device to redirect energy"

"Okay, how?" Kari asked. Agumon put a claw to his chin and mulled it over, "Well, you probably used all of the charge from when we defeated Apocalymon that one time so we'll definitely need more."

"That energy was from Apocalymon?" Mimi moaned, "I thought you said there wasn't enough energy for that!?"

"I never said that!" Agumon folded his arms disapprovingly and turning away, "Tamer did. And he lies. A lot and often. I thought you guys figured that out already? Forget it for now. Where are we going to get that much energy?"

"Where else?" Ken rapped his knuckles on the dinosaur's head and gestured out towards the other digimon busy fighting - MegaKabuterimon, Garudamon, Lillymon, Zudomon, Silphymon, and Shakkoumon. He added, "Between them, there's got to be enough energy to at least create another mega level digimon. Throw all of that into Imperialdramon and who knows what'll happen!"

The digidestined all looked at each other nervously until Cody finally nodded, "I don't hear any better ideas. I say we do it."

"Alright!" Yolei shouted out to their partners, "Silphymon! Fall back!"

"We're a little busy right now!" Silphymon spat back angrily while she busily retreated away a barrage of blasts from Armageddemon's mouth. Kari insisted, shouting out to get their partner's attention, "We got a plan!"

"Say it quick!" Shakkoumon shouted over the roar of the explosions, "This guy's tougher than BlackWarGreymon and it's kinda hard to concentrate on dodging while we have to listen."

"We're pulling you all out of the fight! Leave this to Imperialdramon!" Davis shouted at the top of his lungs, earning him a collective, "WHAT!?"

"Me? What am I going to do?" Imperialdramon was just as perplexed by the announcement.

"Trust us!" Kari shouted too. Their partners hesitated for a moment, but eventually they all retreated away to rejoin them. Imperialdramon kept on a brave face as he was left alone to fight the large digimon now but that didn't stop the two digimon inside his head from bickering, "Okay, that's fine. I can make this work! I mean...we can make this work. What do you mean we? I'd be running already if I could get out of here! Hey! I thought we were a team! That doesn't mean I'm stupid."

While Imperialdramon tried to hold his own, the other digimon began to prod them with questions.

"So what's the plan?"

"What are we doing?"

"Is it such a good idea to leave Imperialdramon on his own?"

"Guys!" Sora snapped at them to calm them down and get their attention, "We don't have a lot of time. We need to borrow the energy you guys use to digivolve?"

"What? Why!?" Garudamon asked. Kari was happy to answer her by raising up the device from her brother's pocket, "We're going to use this. It'll borrow the power of your digivolution and redistribute it to Imperialdramon?"

"How does that work?" Silphymon asked skeptically, frowning when Ken answered, "Tamer's Ancient Tech."

"Of course. Why am I not surprised?" Silphymon threw up her arms in frustration before asking, "So what do we have to do?"

"Just sit back and relax," Agumon smiled, "And maybe don't be flying in the air - if your rookie form can't do it. Whenever you're ready Kari, press the button to absorb the energy - then press it again to distribute the energy."

Kari nodded, thrusting the device forward in her arms, "Here goes nothing!"

A simple press was all it took and their partners glowed a soft white light that drained out of them into the device. As each light faded, their Ultimate forms were replaced by their dazed rookie forms. Against Agumon's advice, Shakkoumon chose to stay in the air and Armadillomon was left to fall a few feet onto Joe's gut, "Ow! Why me? What did I do?"

"Sorry partner," Armadillomon apologized and rolled off of Joe's gut. The device shook violently in Kari's hand now, glowing with the same energy it had just moments before. It was warm to the touch and gave her a comforting feeling that few other things did. She wanted to hold it safe and keep it close. But she knew she couldn't - not now. She aimed the device out towards Imperialdramon and shouted, "GO IMPERIALDRAMON!"

She pressed the bottom button and witnessed the light leap out of the device towards Imperialdramon. And it scattered through the digimon the same way it spread through WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon. The knightly figure absorbed the light so that his armor bleached itself a pale while and he cried out, "Imperialdramon Fighter Mode! Digivolve to! Imperialdramon Paladin Mode!"

His new form was unapologetically reminiscent of Omegamon - all the way down to his pale white armor, wings, and golden trim. He even had a pale white sword to accompany his arm cannon now. The only discernible difference was that he didn't have the head of either WarGreymon or MetalGarurumon for arms. But that didn't make his new size any less imposing.

Armageddemon was made to pause at the sight of the new digimon form in front of him - its eyes darting every way it could as if to scan the new knightly digimon for any weakness. Then it took a step back before breathing fire at it, "Destiny Destroyer!"

The blast shot forth towards Imperialdramon, who reacted only to strike the blast back into the ocean with his sword. Armageddemon followed his own attack all the way to the water's surface where it exploded and sent a rush of water skyward. The blast was so large that it started to rain on everyone gathered to watch the spectacle unfold. And, for the first time, Armageddemon seemed afraid. It turned to flee from the city towards the ocean.

Imperialdramon didn't give him a chance, grabbing it by the tail and dragging it down into the shallower waters. Then it raised up the large insectoid digimon just to slam it back into the water. Dazed and confused, Imperialdramon saw the chance he needed to finish the fight and raised up his sword to strike a killing blow, "OMEGA BLADE!"

One stroke was all it took to end the fight - Imperialdramon's blade disappeared into the top of its skull and came out beneath its jaw. The digimon let out a single drawn out grown, its last dying gasp before it finally collapsed into the water and started dissipating into data. It was over. Imperialdramon Paladin Mode had ended the fight.

They were quick to get away from Tokyo Bay once the battle was over, escaping before the police could arrest them or the reporters could harass them with interviews. The only safe place any of them could think to meet up afterwards was the school building where they hoped to lie low until the police stopped looking and the press gave up their hunt. They gathered in the computer lab where Izzy first called them all together, buying their digimon snacks from the vending machines while they sat around to relax after a long day chasing down Kuramon and fighting Armageddemon.

As the digimon ate their many snacks, Biyomon turned to Agumon to ask, "So what're you going to do now, Agumon?"

"Have a couple more snacks, then head back to looking for my partner," Agumon answered between mouthfuls of food, "I found a shoe of his so that's a good sign."

"A shoe?" Davis asked, peering away from the rest of the group to face the little dinosaur. Even Kari's interest was peaked, "What do you mean a shoe?"

"Oh, his shoe," Agumon said, producing a dirty old sneaker from nowhere, "Found it where we fought Myotsimon - which mean he survived his reformatting and wandered off in a daze. He probably just now realized his shoe is missing and has no idea where he is. Or she."

"Where were you keeping that?" Mimi asked disbelievingly. Agumon put a finger to his lips, "Ancient secret."

"Wait, what do you mean she?" Gabumon tilted his head and Agumon laughed, "Oh, that happens sometimes. Don't worry about it. Besides which, not bad you guys. I can see why you got picked to be the digidestined - a problem showed up in this world and you all jumped on it right away."

"Not all the way. We got stuck on the internet," Ken pointed out. Agumon laughed, "You would've figured it out eventually. All I did was give you a push."

"And you helped Kari figure out how to use that weird digivice," Gatomon added. Agumon shrugged, "Yeah, but beating Armageddemon was all you guys. I didn't do a thing. You guys were amazing. You're really suited to this digidestined thing. Which is good - until I find Tamer, you guys are going to have to help make sure no more bad stuff happens. However long that takes. And so far, you're doing a great job."

Agumon stopped eating as his head turned towards Izzy working on his laptop. He dropped everything he was holding, and silently raced to Izzy's side so that he could peer at the screen. Then his jaw dropped further when he saw what was on Izzy's screen. Once Kari saw, it was hard not to understand why. Agumon's attention had been drawn by the photo on Izzy's screen, "Where'd you get that?"

Sora looked over too and her mouth fell open, "What is that?"

Izzy looked up from his computer briefly, then returned to whatever he was doing, "These were from Armageddemon - he emailed them to everyone when all the Kuramon were showing up. Actually, I wanted to ask-"

"That was our unit back in the war," Agumon answered sheepishly, "Back when the whole thing started. That photo was before our first deployment date - when we got sent to Aca'dehmia. Then they all got wiped out, one after another. In the end, it was just the two of us."

Agumon paused after that, but smiled anyway, "But that was a long time ago. Anyway, I should get back to looking for him before he hurts himself. Or herself. I'm not picky."

He made his way over to one of the computers and stopped to turn to Kari. The little digimon eyed her up carefully, until she realized he was examining the coat. The orange dinosaur smiled and added, "It looks good on you. Take care of that coat."

She was perplexed by that statement - as if Agumon had just admitted that he cared more about the jacket than anything else. But then she realized it was Agumon's advice to her. Tai had left that device in his jacket, and given it to her for her to use later on. Who knew what else could be in there and when else she would need it.

Agumon made his way to the nearest computer and waved, "I'll keep in touch you guys. Digiport Open!"

Author's Notes: And that's the middle story between The Tamer v1.2 - Another Digimon Adventure and the upcoming sequel. If you guys loved it, let me know in the reviews section. And keep your eyes on Burnt Leaf Declassified for its update and an eventual post for the sequel in the Tamerverse. See you all in the new year, January 9th!