Chapter 3

Island Zone:

Sera and Marcus were quick to call their partners out, though Sera was almost asleep. Taiki looks at her and readjusts his grip, she must be tired if she was almost asleep. " I can take her, you know. " Marcus says.

" I got her, I can adjust my grip so I can still use my Fusion Loader. " Taiki says, she'd wake up if anyone else touched her. She was in the not-quite-asleep- but-not-quite-awake-either state. She was vicious when disturbed in that state and Taiki really didn't want to deal with her when she was like that. Marcus could probably defend himself but Angie and Jeremy wouldn't be able to.

Shoutmon looks at his partner's girlfriend, BlackAgumon had spent a lot of time teaching him about human courtship and their interpersonal relationships so he didn't make a misstep somewhere. With what he had seen Sera do he didn't want to unintentionally say the wrong thing. They all hear a commotion and go to investigate, the digimon, well, Shoutmon, Ballistamon, Agumon, BlackAgumon, and Marcus all charge in to deal with the problem, which was a bunch of Gizamon attacking an old friend of Jijimon's, Archelomon.

Some other digimon a Syakomon, Bukamon, and ChibiTortomon show themselves after the Gizamon have been driven off. Taiki keeps quiet until they're lead to the Digi Bites and he gently lays Sera down. He makes sure to set some food aside for her, BlackAgumon sat near his partner, it was odd but he trusted Taiki with his partner. Sera's eyes slit open wearily and she holds her hand out for some food. Taiki smiles and hands her some Digi Bites, " I hate to say this but she's got herself a keeper this time. " Marcus says.

Taiki smirks, " You're stuck with me, the quicker you accept that the better for everyone. "

Sera powers through her Digi Bites and yawns, " More please. "

Syakomon brings her some more Digi Bites and the thirteen year old powers through seven more canisters. Then she grins, " Much better. "

" Back in fighting shape, Seraphy? " Marcus asks her.

" Mostly, still a little tired, but I can fight if necessary. "

Time Gates:

Sailor Pluto frowns, she couldn't find the hime, and that was troubling, to say the least. The girl was proving to be very slippery in her new life. Then again she was probably deliberately staying off of the radar. How the hell the bitch had pulled it off was something else. She just got this feeling that the hime was very well defended in this new life. No matter what she way she tossed it things were going to get bad for her. Serenity-sama wanted her daughter found and brought to heel.

Digi World:

The Fusion Fighters have just been informed of the invasion of Divermon. Sera and Marcus stand up, " We'll deal with the landing party, Taiki, you guys take care of the main force. " Sera says.

" Got it, can you four handle it? " Taiki asks.

" We got it, all right. " Marcus says.

Sera, Marcus, and their partners drop down from above shocking the Divermon and then tearing into them like they were wet paper. As the cousins watch each other's backs so to do their partners, out of all the DATS members Sera and Marcus had always worked the best together, and Keenan worked well with them too. The Divermon were stunned that two humans and two digimon were making such short work of them.

The blonde smiles ferally as she continues to mow through her opponents, they may not be high level but she and Marcus didn't care about that. All they cared about was defending this Digital World, as was the true calling of any Digidestined. Sera's Data Link had just appeared in her hand when she met BlackAgumon, Marcus had his given to him, then subsequently was forced to join DATS, she never had officially until Sampson had guaranteed that she would never have to wear that ridiculous uniform. Also that she would never have to deal with all those damn regs either.

Commander Sampson had been surprised at how stubborn she was until he learned that she and Marcus were double cousins. Then there happened to be the fact that Marcus was the biggest influence on her life. Yoshino had given up on trying to get her to join, especially when she had been particularly forceful one day at the headquarters and it had taken Thomas, Nikki, Megumi, and Commander Sampson to pull an enraged Marcus away from her. No one could blame him for his reaction either as she'd been looking terrified of the forceful red head.

That had been when all of DATS had learned that Damon Seraphina was off limits lest her cousin send them to the ER, Marcus Damon section. Yes, he did literally have a section devoted entirely to those whom had been on the wrong end of his temper for messing with his little sister or cousin. Everyone knew that he never started the fights either, he just finished them.

Sera spins down into a sweep kick before turning a backflip and landing on Marcus' up raised hands, " Glad to see we still got our timing down, cous. " Sera says.

" Glad to see you kept up with your gymnastics as much as you could with a hurt arm. "

" My coach was really understanding and even helped with the exercises to strengthen my muscles back up. " Sera admits.

" Oh, yeah, this would be the first time you've been able to use your right arm full force again, huh, and I bet you still do the exercises too, don't ya? " Marcus asks as he pushes up and Sera pushes off at the same time, the girl spins in the air and she sees red, " BlackAgumon, get ready, Archelomon needs help, Gizamon. DNA Charge! " Sera calls out.

BlackGreymon goes charging away to save the elder of the Island Zone while everyone else remains as clean up crew. BlackGreymon could easily handle some measly Gizamon. Sera's eyes widen when she sees a Botamon, Koromon's pre-evolved state, the Fresh Form of both hers and Marcus' partners. The thirteen year old goes into a slide tackle that three different goggle heads would be proud of her for and scoops the little guy up.

Marcus and Agumon have cleared out the last of the Divermon and Marcus' fists clench when he sees Botamon, " How did he get here anyhow? " Marcus asks.

" How the hell should I know, Marky? "

" Shut it, Seraphy. " Marcus retorts as they make their way towards BlackGreymon and Archelomon. Taiki and the others have made it there by this time too.

" Hey, Taiki, could you download Botamon? "

Taiki looks at his girlfriend, " Why? "

" He's the Fresh form of both mine and Marky's partners. I don't know why he was here but it's not safe for him to be around battles. " Sera answers as BlackGreymon deletes the last Gizamon.

Taiki nods and downloads the little guy, if he needed healing then he could get that done while in his Fusion Loader.

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon or Digimon.