"The Battle will continue till one side is unable to fight. All outside help will be dealt with. Begin."
"Come on let's do this Agumon," Jack said as he pulled out his digivice.
"You and your Agumon are going down now," Rick said as he pulled out his digivice.
"Demidevimon attack him now," Rick shouts out.
"Alright Rick, Butt Smasher," Demidevimon shouts out as he attacks Agumon.
"Alright lets do this Agumon, Digi-modify Hyper speed activate," Jack shouts out as he swipes a modify card through his D-arc, and Agumon starts going at speeds that neither Rick or Demidevimon can see him.
"Hey that's cheating," both Rick and Demidevimon shouts out simultaneously.
"Actually that is aloud," they hear the voice of the mysterious digimon say over the speakers in the area they are in.
"But that isn't fair, he can do stuff that I can't even do," Rick starts complaining.
They hear the voice again saying, "Stop complaining child or I will name Jack the winner right now."
Rick pales from the thought of automatically losing the battle and shuts up for the time being and says, "Alright, Demidevimon I want you to digivolve now."
"Demidevimon digivolve to...Bakemon.
Rick smiled at the ghost digimon hovering near him. "Follow me." He turned and ran away.
"You can't run away," Jack yelled. Then he ran after them. He found Rick standing on the other side of a small field. "Where's your partner."
"Here," the ghost digimon said as he came from the tree. He knocked the d-arc from Jack's hand and then used on the Agumon. "Dark Claw," the Agumon screamed as the black covered hand slams into him.
"With out this you don't stand a chance," Rick said picking up the d-arc.
"AGUMON NO," James screamed as he saw his partner get hit with the attack.
Rick was grinning from ear to ear until he saw something leap out of a tree and go after Bakemon, but turns in another direction at the last second, "Huh, what was that," he then looks over towards James to see instead of tears running down his face, he has an evil grin on his face.
"You think you're the only one who plans things through, before attacking," James says while the smoke is clearing from where the Agumon was attacked.
As the smoke finishes clearing, Rick sees what looks to be an Agumon slowly deleting into data particles, "Looks like I'm the winner and you loose," he says.
"That's what you think," James casually responds to Rick.
Rick then asks him, "What do you mean; your partner is right in front and is nearly deleted."
James then throws a card towards Rick that lands at his feet, "Take a look at that and you will see what I mean."
Rick looks down at the card and says, "So what you play a card game based off of digimon, what does that have to do with anything."
"Just pick it up you idiot and take a look at it," James says a little annoyed with Rick.
Rick not wanting to get into an argument picks up the card looks at it and says, "So what, it clones the digimon of the player that uses it at least once and can make up to four clones total if used right when put into play, and it has nothing to do with this fight."
James just keeps grinning, "Remember how I modified my digimon to give him hyper speed," he says.
"What about it," Rick asks getting tired of all this talking.
"Oh that it's just from the same deck as that card you're holding," he says casually, then shouts out, "Agumon you know what to do," as two more Agumon leaped out of the trees around them. While another one came from behind Rick and knocked the D-arc and digivice out of his hand.
Jack smiled as the d-arc came close to him. "It seems that you have a hard time with only being able to make you digimon digivovle. Agumon get ready." Jack slashed a card through only to not have anything done.
"It seems you can't digivovle," Rick said, "Look like you have the tricks but I have the power." The Bakemon faded into a tree. "Look like I have some tricks as well."
"Smart move," Tai said, "We may not be able to use those cards but we can digivolve." He turned to their host. "What is reason behind this? There is something I can't place but what."
"You said something Tai?" Sora asked.
"Nothing," Tai said, "Lets watch the battle."
On the other side of the arena, Takato eyes drift from the battle to the Digimon. "Who is he?"
"Hey goggle head," Rika said look at Takato, "If you not going to watch the fight then leave."
"What ever you say," Rick said.
Jack soon smiles as he saw a card. "Agumon do you remember how we beat that Gatomon." Agumon nodded. The Agumon came close to the Bakemon to doge the attack and le launch. Soon both digimon were breathing heavily. Jack then swiped the card through. With renewed energy, Agumon jump at the digimon and started to bet the tired digimon. With one pepper breath, the Bakemon fell to the ground with his eyes closed.
Rick look at his partner knockout on the ground. Then his entire body filled with pressure.
"And the winner is James," the digimon with the cloak on said.
"Alright Agumon we did it pal," James said as he patted Agumon on the back.
Then Rick whines, "This wasn't a fair fight, he was able to use his digivice to modify his partner."
"Actually the fight was perfectly fair, where James comes from all of the children with digimon can do that," the mysterious digimon said mainly to Rick, but loud enough for everyone else to hear too.
"Hmm this might pose a problem for us, other people here have the ability to modify their digimon partner's just like James," Tai says to the others a little worried, "I think we should try explain that to as many of the others as we can."
Izzy then says, "I agree with you Tai, I think we should tell the other digi-destined in our area, you should let the two by you know as well."
"To bad we are to far up to see what the digivice looks like that James was using," Matt says interested to see what it looks like.
"I was going to tell then about James being able to modify his digimon partner," Tai says not knowing that Takato and Rika can also modify their partners.
Tai turn from Takato and Rika to the host digimon. The digimon stares at Tai.
"Sora can you look for Kari for me," Tai stood up.
"Where are you going?" Sora asked.
"I need to get out of here," Tai said, "There something about that digimon that I don't like."
In the Arena, Rick ran his finger through his hair that was once black now blue like Demidevimon. Jack walk up to the Rick. "Look like you need a partner," Jack said as he picks up Rick's digivice. "You get to stay with your...former partner."
"Like I have any other choose," Rick said.
"Gogglehead where are going?" Rika asked.
"I need some fresh air," Takato said.
The digimon smiled as Tai and Takato was leave as the other stair at Rick's changes. He turned a walk away. "These battles will be very full filling."
Tai then thinks to him self, 'Why does it seem like I know that digimon from somewhere.'
Takato not watching where he is going ends up running into Tai, "Huh, oh sorry I guess I was paying attention to where I was going," he said while rubbing the bump on his head he got from hitting it against the wall.
Tai then says, "It's also my fault because I wasn't paying any attention either, but we should pay more attention or we might end up of that narrow bridge," while rubbing his sore shoulder.
Tai is about to walk off when he turns around and says, "Oh, that's right I wanted to tell you to be careful and watch who you go against," he stops to try to find the right words, "some of the people here it turns out can use something they call digi-modifying on their partners."
Takato not wanting to make Tai nervous says, "Yeah I noticed, I guess we should be careful when we go up against our opponents in the battles."
Guilmon thinking about telling Tai that Takato can do the same thing looks at Takato's eyes and decides against it.
Tai then asks, "Where are you going, I thought you would be watching what's happens after the fight," he then adds, "I had to get out of there that digimon that brought us here is making me really edgy."
Takato then says, "I told my friends that I needed to get some fresh air, but the truth is I couldn't stand being in the presence of that digimon anymore," he then sighs, "I also was thinking about looking around to see if I could learn anything about this digimon or how it brought us here."
"I want to too but," Tai said looking up, "I don't think he would go through
all this and leaves some key to his plan in a place we can easily find."
"I guess we play along," Takato said.
"We don't have a choice but to," Tai said, "We need to gather up more
information."
"Let's search for the digimon's home," Tai said. Tai started to walk away. He
stops and said, "I going to bring some of my friends to my place if you want
you could bring some of yours."
Meanwhile the host digimon walk down a hall with one of his servant
following him. "I told you to find those younger Digi-destined's. How can I
have Tai fight Kari and Matt fight TK if I do not have TK or Kari? Find them
and bring them here. Also list fights I told you about."
The host digimon then turns into what looks like a dead end, as he approaches the wall a beam scans his entire body and the wall slides to the side revealing his place of operation.
"Hmm let's see what Tai and Takato are up to at the moment," he says to himself, and then turns on a wall of TV's that show different areas of his palace except the bathrooms.
On two of the TV's he notices Tai and Takato talking, he turns up the volume on one of them and rewinds the tape in the other one to find out what they have been talking and sees them run into each other and couldn't help but laugh at what happened.
"So they want to find out what's going, hmm maybe I could use this to my advantage and set a trap for them," the mysterious digimon says while grinning evilly.
Back to Tai as he heads off to talk to his friends about setting up a meeting in the area him, Takato and Rika are staying, "Hey guys wait a moment I need to talk to you, I think we should have a discussion about what we are going to do, I think we should meet two hours from now," Tai says to the other digi-destined of his group.
"I agree that we should have a meeting, we need to plan what we are going to do," Matt then says, "also we need to find TK and Kari, their probably confused by what is going on at the moment," he adds.
"Matt we already sent Sora to look for TK and Kari, give her a chance," Izzy says, "with all of the other people with digimon and digivice's we can't use ours to trace their signals because all we will get is a red screen," he says annoyed.
Tai asks, "Couldn't you make a program that would detect them by their digivice's energy signatures."
Izzy says disappointed, "I would but when I scanned Takato's digivice earlier it deleted the stuff I use to create other programs."
"That's just wonderful," Mimi says, "even though your here we're practically screwed at the moment."
Meanwhile, Takato found the other tamers outside the arena. He walks to see
Ryo near another group moving to help his story. If anyone every told him that fame does not change a person, and then he would point out Ryo. Kazu and
Kenta were talking about they would fight. Henry was trying to calm Suzy.
Lastly Rika was resting on the wall a far from Ryo as she could. "Hey,"
Takato said.
"Where were you?" Rika asked.
"I was talking to Tai," Takato said, "He invited me to bring some of my
friends to a meeting."
"Great," Kazu and Kenta cheered.
"If you come then you can't talk about being a tamer," Henry said, "Lets
keep that to us."
"Perfect," Ryo said, "As your leader I get to meet the Tai their leader."
"When did you become our leader?" Rika asked.
"That's not a way my girlfriend should act," Ryo said.
"Well I am not you girlfriend," Rika said, "I'm going to my place."
Get back here," Ryo said as he grabbed for Rika, "I never said you could leave."
Henry then says, "Let her be Ryo, we're all getting tired of the way you have been acting for the last year or so."
"Do any of you know how to mind your own business and do what your leader tells you to," Ryo snaps at Henry.
Rika then mumbles, "Takato would make a better leader then you ever would Ryo," which Ryo over hears.
"What was that, I don't think I heard you right," Ryo says, "I don't like it when my girlfriend disrespects me."
"I said Takato would make a better leader than you ever would in any life time infact," Rika says loud enough for everyone to hear.
Ryo then grabs Rika by her shirt and says, "You will respect me or you will suffer the consequences," and then slaps her in the face.
Takato and the others seeing this were speechless for a moment. Then Kazu and Kenta blurt out, "That's right Ryo show her who's boss."
Takato letting his anger get the better of him brawls out, "Put her down you good for nothing coward."
Ryo just looks at Takato, "Who's going to make me," he laughs.
"Takato calm down, we don't want another incident like what happened when you completely lost control while we were in the digital world," Henry warns him.
Takato not listening walks up to Ryo, "I'm giving you one more chance to put her down," he growls.
"What are you go...," Ryo is cut off as Takato knees him in the stomach and then punches him in the face when Ryo instinctively lets go of Rika and starts to double over in agony.
"It good to know I'm not the only one that can't stand you," Rika said as
she walk away.
"Takato, Rika it may be better if you went allow," Henry said.
"I want to go see the digi-dentined's," Kazu said.
"Tai already knows of Rika and Takato," Henry said, "We can be too sure they
are the Digi-destined's. This way we limit the amount that we risk."
"Fine," Rika said.
Meanwhile Tai sat in his room with the others in his place. "Why would you
invite him?" Matt asked in a voice bordering on yelling.
"I trust him," Tai said, "We need all the help we can get."
"But Tai you only just met him this morning, how do we know he isn't working for that one digimon to lore any of us into a trap," Sora said worried.
"Because that digimon was glaring at me and him for half of the battle we watched at the arena, I think he knows us somehow and wants revenge for some reason or another," Tai said.
"Oh that reminds me Tai I couldn't find your sister any where, I think it might be possible that she isn't here and is safe and sound with Davis and them," Sora then said.
"We should keep looking just incase they are here, we wouldn't want them to get hurt or something," Matt responded to what Sora said.
They then heard a knock at the door to Tai's room, "That's probably him with some of his friends right now," Tai explained.
Tai then went to the door to let in whoever was waiting on the other side. When he opened he found Rika and Takato standing outside, "I thought you would bring more of your friends with you to this meeting," Tai said confused.
"We were going to but we decided it would be better if only we came because how some of them were acting," Takato explained to Tai.
"Oh I see, how where they acting," Tai asked.
Rika then said very annoyed, "Well this guy named Ryo who we thought was our friend has been being a total asshole towards some of us just because he thinks I'm his girlfriend when I hate his guts."
Tai surprised by her use of words says, "Well let's not worry about that right now, I want you to meet some of my friends."
"Alright," Takato said.
"We'll," Tai said, "The blond is Matt, the redhead girl is Sora, the other red head is Izzy, The blue hair is Joe and the girl with pink hair is Mimi."
"I'm Takato and this is Rika."
"We would have brought more but the Ego-maniac Ryo need some one to watch him."
"I don't think we needed them to plan our next move," Tai said.
"First we need a secured place to talk," Izzy said, "I think that this place has a bug some where."
"I think that we can leave the city to find a nice place hidden to plan the next move," Tai said.
Then the voice spoke up. "Now here this, tomorrow battle listing is now on the net work. Please check if you're late then you lose."
Tai sighed and says, "I guess we should check to see who is fighting in the next few battles to make sure none of us are the ones fighting."
Rika then says, "Well duh, I think all of already know that Einstein."
"Everyone just stared at Rika for a moment, then Matt asks, "What is your problem, all you have been doing since you got here is make sarcastic and rude remarks."
Rika then gives him her death glare which causes Matt to back away from her.
"I would be careful if I were you, you wouldn't want to get on her bad side," Takato said trying to get them to stop.
"He's right we should be looking at the postings for the fights for tomorrow instead of fighting with each other right now," Izzy says.
"Alright come over here I'm going to open the file and try to activate the holographic program so we can all look at it at the same time," Tai says so everyone hears him.
Izzy then says, "Uh Tai that shouldn't be to hard because it should say how to do it, at least it did in my room and some of the other Digi-destined's that I only just met today said that they found instructions on how to activate it."
"Well when I looked earlier there weren't any kind of instructions that I noticed by this or anywhere else in my room," Tai said a little annoyed with Izzy.
"If you want I could either explain or show you how to do it," Izzy says.
Tai then gets annoyed, "Izzy you know well enough that I don't understand what your saying when you try to explain things when it comes to anything computerized," he says.
"Tai has a point Izzy when you start explaining things you go into computer mode and confuse most people even more then before," Sora said trying to explain it in a way that wouldn't hurt Izzy's feelings.
Izzy then shows Tai how to operate the thing and starts loading the list of who the next battles are between.
"It's here that the first battle is right after breakfast and is between a guy named Henry and some girl named Suzy," Izzy reads aloud.
Takato then asks, "Did you just say Henry and Suzy," Takato sighed, "Does it say what their last names are on the list."
"It says Henry's last name is Wong and Suzy's last name is also Wong," Izzy says to Takato.
"Damnit, if I ever get my hands on that digimon who brought us here I'll strangle him and vaporize every last bit of his data," Takato brawls out.
"Hey calm down, what's the matter," Tai says, "They aren't yours friends are they."
Takato calms down a little and says, "Actually Henry is one of my best friends, I really don't Suzy all that well but the thing is Henry and Suzy are brother and sister," then he punches the wall leaving an imprint of his fist and some cracks around it surprising everyone including Rika.
Takato brush the cement dust from his hand. "Who else did he pair up?"
"Kazu and Kenta," Rika said, "That's all of them I know."
Tai started to look over the list. "Mimi you're the only one on it." Tai study the list more. His fist slammed into the metal table. As he lifted his fist from the indent he made. "Many of them share name. They must be related. He's pairing us off by our relationships."
"Calm down Tai," Sora said.
"Don't you get it," Tai said, "I may need to fight Kari."
"Tai," Agumon said, "I say we go to sleep and take care of this in the morning."
"Fine," Tai said, "I'm going to get this man."
"I want to study the network more," Izzy said.
"I have a fight," Mimi said, "and I don't know how to dress with green skin."
"Rika how about Tomorrow we search for a task," Takato said as the two left the area.
"I can handle them allow," Rika said.
Takato sighed, "What I mean Rika is that with the way Ryo is acting I don't think it would be a good idea for you to be by yourself is all."
"I can take care of myself gogglehead," Rika growled, "now I'm going to go to my room and get some sleep."
"Alright see you in the morning then," Takato said, "We'll meet at breakfast if we don't leave our rooms at the same time ok."
Rika then thinks to herself, 'Gogglehead is really starting to get on my nerves, but he's just trying to be sweet, why the hell am I thinking like this I promised myself I would never let anyone do what my father did to me again,' she mentally berates herself up.
Back to the other Tamers in Henry's room, "I can't believe that digimon has us fighting each other, to make things even worse is that me and Suzy have to fight against each other tomorrow right after breakfast," He says angrily.
Kazu then says, "Hey it could be worse."
Suzy then glares at Kazu and says nastily, "Oh tell us Kazu how could it be any worse than this."
"Yes please tell us how it could be worse than us having to fight each other," Henry asks Kazu.
"You could be facing Ryo," Kenta said.
"Henry," Suzy spoke up, "Your better than me, I'll lose to you and lopmon and me will become your partners."
"I can't," Henry said, "I need to protect you..."
"The best way for you to help is to stay human and stop the digimon," Suzy said, "I want to go home."
"There must be a way out of it," Henry said.
"I want to stay near you as human or digimon," Suzy said.
"Alright," Henry said rubbing his sister's head, "Let's get some sleep."
The other tamers nodded and left to get some sleep as well. The city became dim and still. Henry was woken by a screech in his ear. He walks from his room to see Suzy leaving her room. "So in a while we'll be fighting," Suzy said.
Henry not fully awake glances back in his room to look at the clock and say, "I know we'll be fighting in a few hours, but why are you up so early its three forty-five in the morning."
"I'm nervous and scared about tomorrow and because of it I can't seem to fall asleep, so I decided to have a look around the rest of this place," Suzy said scared about having to fight her own brother tomorrow.
"I know, I'm nervous also but try to get some sleep," Henry said, "if you do go wondering around, please put on regular clothes instead of walking around in only your nightgown."
"What do you mean, I am wearing my regular clothes," she glances down to see the nightgown that she had put on earlier still on her, "oops I thought I did change into my regular clothes."
Suzy goes back into her room and comes out a few minutes later dressed in her regular clothes, "Well see you at breakfast Henry," she says as she starts looking around the area.
"At least try to keep from getting noticed by that digimon that brought us here," Henry says, "and don't be late to the fight tomorrow, it said if anyone is late not only do they automatically loose the fight but instead of the person their fighting and gaining your partner as their's, the digimon partner is taken to some unknown location and kept there for who knows how long."
"I know Henry, don't worry I will get to the fight on time," Suzy yells to Henry.
"Why are you getting so angry?" Henry asked.
"Ever since Lopmon left, I've been trying to change," Suzy said, "Do you know why? I want to be like you. I want it where the next time we have an adventure, you'll be happy to have me by you side. You're my hero and I want you to be proud of me," then tears came over her face.
Henry pulled Suzy in a hug. "Come on lets get something to eat."
"I'm too nervous to eat," Lopmon said, "So I'm just going to rest until the fight."
"Alright yourself," Terriermon said, "I'm going to get a little something to eat."
"I'm going to stay here with Lopmon," Suzy said. Henry nodded and started to leave but he stopped when Suzy called him. "Henry will you take me as your partner," she asked.
Henry lowered his head, "Will you take me," and then Henry left the room.
Suzy just sat in her room for the next few minutes confused as to why he said that, knowing that she would accept himself as a partner no matter what happened.
"Hey Suzy is something wrong, you have been sitting there in a daze since Henry left," Lopmon asked her.
"I'm just a little confused as to why my brother would ask that question, when he should already know the answer," Suzy said.
At the cafe we find Takato and Tai having a conversation with the other digi-destined, "So what do you think we all should do," Matt asked Tai, "I don't want to end up having to fight with T.K. or any one else."
"What we should do for now is play along so we don't cause our host to suspect anything," Tai says, "Also we have nothing to tell us what the digimon is truly up to."
"What do you mean we should all just play along for the moment," Mimi complained, "I don't want to have green skin and as I said before I wouldn't know how to dress like that."
"I don't want to loose me as my partner, I would be very depressed if that happened," Palmon says.
"Yeah none of us want to loose you guys as our human partners," Gabumon says, "I'm afraid what the person who ends up getting us as their partners will treat us."
"Yeah, I don't what I would do without Takatomon," Guilmon says.
Takato sighs and says, "How many times do I have to tell you it's just Takato Guilmon."
"Now that I think of it Guilmon seems to be the only one of his kind here," Izzy says, "do you know why that is Takato."
"I drew him and this fish like creatures called digi-gnomes made him real," Takato said.
"Amazing," Izzy said, "I need to scan him."
"Not know Izzy," Tai said, "We're fight for some digimon amusement and then change into digimon. I think it would be best if we learn how he can change us so we can reverse it."
Just then Henry walked by. "I'll talk to you later," Takato said before he made his way to his fellow tamer. "Hey Henry, I'm sorry about you having to fight your sister."
"I know," Henry said, "I don't know if I can fight her. I may take a dive."
"Who knows," Takato said, "Both you and Suzy maybe change into a digimon and taken away. So are you going to get something to eat?"
"Na," Henry said, "I'll get Terriermon something and then I'll be at the arena so I can think." Takato came to the breakfast line only to find Ryo waiting. "Come on Guilmon lets find a task. If we're lucky we'll meet Rika before she gets here and warn her where Ryo is."
"Ok, I just wonder where his partner is," Guilmon says, "He isn't over there with Ryo at the moment."
"Now that I think about I really haven't seen his partner since we arrived here," Takato says, "I wonder why Ryo isn't bringing his partner around with him."
Then they heard Rika screaming in the hallway, "Let go of me or I'll have Renamon delete you right now before you even get a chance to battle anyone."
Takato and Guilmon ran out into the hall to find Ryo digimon trying to drag her into the cafe, "Ryo told me to bring you to him so that is what I'm doing, and oh don't bother calling for Renamon I already took care of her."
"Let go of her Cyberdramon," Takato said, "Your partner has changed and doesn't really know right from wrong when it comes to certain things any more."
"Ryo is the same, he hasn't changed," Cyberdramon said, "Move out of my way or I'll destroy you and your partner."
"I don't want to have to do this," Takato said as he motioned for Guilmon to get ready, "But I will stop you if I have too."
"You can try," Cyberdramon said, "But I am the strongest."
"We can try," Takato said as he pulled out a card.
"Stop there," A large digimon said, "No fighting is allowed in these parts of the city. Both Sides must leave at once. Any fighting in a no fighting zone will be counted as a lost."
"I'll see you later," Cyberdramon said securing Rika in his arms.
"Let me go," Rika yelled.
"There are no rules on this," the large digimon said, "I will walk with you to make sure you don't fight."
Takato watch as the large digimon and Cyberdramon walk away. "How can they do that to Rika and get away with it?" He asked as he made a fist.
"Yeah they can't do this and what did Cyberdramon mean that he already took care of Renamon," Guilmon asked.
"I don't know boy, but we can go to her room and see what he meant," Takato said.
"But I thought only Rika could get into her room," Guilmon said confused, "and Renamon with that hand print thing."
"Remember when we went into her room yesterday," Takato said, "She added my hand print to let me in, incase I needed to warn her of something like this."
"Oh," is all Guilmon could think of to say to that.
"I'm not sure if we should follow Cyberdramon and try to rescue Rika from Ryo or go see how Renamon is doing," Takato said confused as to what he should do.
"I think we should go see how Renamon is," Guilmon said, "Rika seems to be ok for the moment, while we have no idea what shape Renamon is in at the moment."
"I guess your right Guilmon, but I don't want Rika to think that we abandoned her either," Takato said.
Just then a Leomon walks from around a corner; they don't think anything of it until they see Jeri walk out from the same corner. Takato surprised to see Jeri with Leomon says, "Jeri is he the same Leomon that Impmon deleted and downloaded in the digital world," he then grimaced at the choice of words he used.
"Alright I guess we'll talk to him later," Jeri said.
"We should talk to him later," Leomon said, 'I have some information that he and the others might find useful,' he thought to himself.
Jeri just watches as Takato and Guilmon run off to where ever they think Renamon might be and then turns around and starts heading for the cafe again.
Back to Takato and Guilmon.
"We should check Rika and Renamon's room first to see if she is in there," Takato said.
"Were we going to check if she isn't in there," Guilmon asked.
Takato sighed, "I'm not sure, but we will keep looking until we find her," he said.
They get to the area where their's and Rika's rooms are to find his door open and the room completely trashed, "What the... how did someone get into our room and trash it the only people who have access at the moment are Henry, Suzy, Rika, and the Digi-destined," Takato said surprised.
"What's going on Takato, who would do this to our room," Guilmon asked.
"I don't know, but I'm sure Ryo had something to do with this and all of the digimon that work here have access to all of the rooms," Takato trailed off as he realized how it happened, he then turned around just in time to see the same digimon that followed Cyberdramon attack Guilmon with one of it's attacks.
"What should I do Takato," Guilmon asked.
"You're going to have to attack him back," Takato said.
The digimon that is attacking Guilmon then said, "This is a no fighting area remember."
"If this is a no fighting area then why are you attacking us," Guilmon asked.
"Oh, that rule only applies to the guests and their digimon, but not to those of us who work for the digimon that brought you here," it said.
"That isn't fair, you can attack all you want but if I even try attacking it will count as an automatic lost," Guilmon said as he jumped out of the way of another attack.
"Then if we can't attack I'll just use this card to keep you from attacking us," Takato said, "Digi-modify... Taomon's Talisman of light activate," he shouted out as Taomon's force field surrounded him and Guilmon.
"This can't save you forever," the digimon yelled. "I moment it drop I'm going all out."
"Sure," Takato said as he slip a card out. Takato waited for the moment the shield around them faded away. "Digi-modify...Hyper speed activate," Takato yelled as he slash the card through. Guilmon move the two before the attack could hit them.
The digimon turn from his attack and ran after the two. About halfway across the bridge he smiled. "You think that this will slow me down." He jumped over the gap and continued to run.
Off the bridge, Takato nodded to Guilmon and then his partner release his pyro sphere. Takato watch at the large digimon grab the tilting bridge before it took him into the mist below.
"Hey you," Another worker digimon yelled, "If your going to practice then don't do it near that bridge. Now I need to repair it."
The Host digimon watch this from a TV. "So they won with out fighting. No matter I have many more tricks to get Tai and Takato out of my way. But the fights are about to begin for the day." the digimon stood up and walked away.
Takato and Guilmon just stood there for a few minutes staring at the area where the large chunk of the bridge fell down with the digimon that had attacked them.
"That was close," Takato said.
"Yeah it was, but how are we going to get across to our room now," Guilmon asked.
Takato sighed, "I guess we'll just have to figure out a way without revealing to Tai and the others that we can use digi-modify," he said.
Just then they heard a noise coming from the other side of the bridgeless gap. When they turned around and looked they saw Tai just coming out of his room.
Tai and Agumon looked around, "What the... was someone fighting over here," Tai asked. He then turned to see Takato and Guilmon standing on the other side of the bridge.
Takato saw that Tai was starting to run towards them and realized that he and Agumon couldn't see that half of the bridge was gone.
"Hey Tai, Agumon wait the bridge is out," he yelled, but it was to late for them to stop in time and they went over the edge.
"Shit," Tai shouted, "With all that we have done to keep both worlds safe and this is how it is going to end," he said sadly.
"Crap, we have to help them," Takato said, "But how without revealing the fact that I can use cards to give you different abilities."
"Takato we have to do something now or they will more then likely die," Guilmon said seriously.
Takato and Guilmon ran to the bridge to see Tai hanging from the bridge. He held the bridge with one hand as he held Agumon's tail with the other. "Swing Agumon up and we'll get him," Takato said. Tai nodded and with one swing he sent Agumon flying.
"I'll get him," Guilmon said. The red digimon ran off.
Takato pulled Tai up and onto the bridge. "Sorry about that. Some digimon attacked us and it was the only way to win."
"I guess we need to watch the fight on the TV," Tai said.
"Yeah we should, and I need to see if Renamon is in Rika's room and if she is ok," Takato said.
"What happened to them," Tai asked.
"Ryo had Cyberdramon grab Rika and take her to him," Takato said, "While he was taking Rika to Ryo he told her not to bother calling for Renamon because he had taken care of her."
"Ok, but please tell me that it isn't the same Ryo that Ken had his adventure with and kept him from getting infected with a dark spore," Tai said.
Takato thought about for a moment and then remembers a few episode where it showed Ryo with some of the Digi-destined and how Ken said that if it wasn't for him this person named Ryo would have been the one under the influence of the dark spore and the digimon Kaiser instead of him.
"I think he is the same one, but I'm not sure," Takato said, "Wait a moment I have a picture that all of us took before our most troubling battle," he said and then pulls out a picture from one of his pockets and hands it over to Tai.
Tai looks at the picture and says, "Yeah that's him alright," he thinks, 'I wonder what could have changed him so much.'
Takato then thinks to himself, 'So it seems that Ryo has some sort of ability that allows him to travel between dimensions,' he then says, "Where I come from we have this game called digimon cards and he is one of the best at it and the press started calling him the digimon king because of it."
"I guess fame can change a person then," Tai says.
"I'm going to go see if Renamon is in Rika's room and to make sure she's ok," Takato said.
"Alright, I'm going to turn on the TV in my room and you can come in when you're ready," Tai said, "It looks like most of the stuff in your room is destroyed," he then opened the door to his room and went in leaving it open for the moment.
Takato went over to Rika's room and was about to put his hand on the scanner when he noticed it was practically destroyed, "Great now how am I supposed to get into the room," he said.
Takato looks over towards his room seeing the one for his door is completely destroyed, but then again his door is lying in the middle of the corridor he and Guilmon are standing in. He then leans on the door to think about what he can do to get into Rika's room, only to have the door to suddenly collapse causing him to fall on his back.
From his resting place on the ground he looked up to see Renamon wrapped with metal wires. Takato lowered his hands and pushed himself to his feet. With the help of Tai and Guilmon, Renamon was freed. "I need to save Rika," Renamon said.
"You can't," Guilmon said, "I broke the bridge."
"What!" Renamon yelled.
"We're stuck here until they fix it," Tai said, "The first fight is about to begin." They walk into Tai's room on the screen Henry and Suzy walk out to face each other.
"I have made the rules of this fight a little different," the host digimon said, "Not only do they have to fight each other till the other's digimon is unconscious or reformatted and sent to the store to be purchased, the kind of fight they have is one where they have to do an obstacle course with their digimon while trying to keep the other from completing the course by attacking them," he explained.
"That doesn't make any since," Takato said, "Why would that digimon change the rules of the fight without letting us know what to expect."
"To keep us on our toes I guess," Tai said, "That or he knows more about everyone here then we know about what is going on and is making us fight all out no matter what."
"The fight will now begin," the host said. The arena then changed to what looked like Takato's home when the D-reaper attacked his world, with Henry and Suzy floating above it for the time being.
Tai then shouted, "What the hell is that thing!"
Takato sighed, "That thing is or was the D-reaper, it tried to destroy the digital and real worlds from where I come from," he explained.
"What do you mean I have never heard of anything about that thing attacking any part of the world," Tai said.
"I'll explain later, I think we should continue watching the fight right now," Takato said.