Disclaimer: I do not own digimon
Also this story is co-written with Drager
"Remember if you don't try your best then all of you get taken away. Begin!" The red ooze rose from the ground forming wall and tubes the other objects to block their way.
Suzy and Lopmon came to a wall. Lopmon quickly hops up on Suzy and onto the wall. Then she helped pull Suzy up the wall. Henry and Terriermon watch this. "Sorry Henry," Terriermon said, "You're too big for me to help."
"Alright," Henry said throwing Terriermon over the wall. Then took a few steps back and then ran at the wall and push his way over it. He dropped to his feet and grabs his partner. 'I'm sorry Suzy but to keep you safe I need to beat you,' He thought as he came to a long tube.
"Hmm, this looks like it's going to be a tight fit," Henry said as he got ready to crawl through the tube.
"Say for yourself," Terriermon said as he pushed pass Henry and started running to the other end of the tube.
"Terriermon wait up," Henry said, "There's no clue telling what is on the other side of this."
Terriermon looked back and said, "Momentai Henry what could be the worst that happens," he then turns down one of many corners to find nothing more then a dead end, then without warning the wall starts firing energy bursts at him.
Henry hears the sound of something firing and is about to yell for Terriermon, but then sees him come flying out in what looks like a ball and starts bouncing all over the tube like a giant pinball, "I told you not to go running ahead of me and look what happens because you couldn't listen," Henry says trying to keep from laughing.
Henry notices that Terriermon is glaring at him and is saying something that he can't hear because it seems that sound can't escape from whatever the material it is made out of, "Hang on Terriermon I'll try to get you out of that thing when I get out of this tube," Henry said.
Terriermon not wanting to be stuck in the thing any longer does his terrier tornado attack which hits the side causing it to only bounce around even faster then before.
While Henry chases his partner, Suzy leads the way. "This way," Suzy yelled turning down the corner. She ran right into a red wall.
"Suzy," Lopmon said, "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine," Suzy said. Just then her shorts fell down. She pulled them up. "My clothes are bigger."
"You're getting a little smaller," Lopmon said, "Come on lets get back to the race." They turn and ran back to the path to see Henry and Terriermon. The four ran over the open field to the next obstacle. Suzy fell to the ground. She pulledonthe overly large shorts. She pushes herself up and then her shorts. She waddles after the others using her hand to keep her shorts up.
As Henry was running to the other side of the open field he heard Suzy calling out, "Wopmon wait for me," he glanced back to see Suzy looking like she did when she first went to the digital world and thought, 'Hmm I have to be careful or something like that or worse could happen to me.'
"Henry is something wrong," Terriermon asked, "You look a little worried about something."
"I'm not completely sure, I looked back when I heard Suzy calling out to Lopmon for help to see her looking the same as when she first entered the digital world two and a half years ago," Henry said to Terriermon.
"Momentai," Terriermon said, "Suzy will be fine."
"It's not that," Henry explained, "I'm just nervous about what could happen to us if we don't be careful."
As Henry made it to the other side of the open area he noticed a rope. As he grabbed it with one hand to start pulling himself up a trap door opened under his feet, before he could even react the part of the rope he had his hand on snapped sending him plunging into cold water.
"Of course something like this would happen," Henry said, "Terriermon you ok," he yelled only to hear his voice echo in the place he's in. He starts thinking of what could have happened to Terriermon when they fell through the trapdoor, a moment later he feels something land on his head. He grabs what lands on his head to see that it was only Terriermon.
"I thought we got separated buddy good to see you," Henry said only to get no response from Terriermon, "Terriermon this is no time to screw around," he said still getting no answer. He was about to throw Terriermon into the water when he noticed what looks to be a pull string coming out of the side of what he thought was Terriermon. "Great now that digimon has me talking to dolls," Henry said.
"Hey Henry where did you go," Terriermon called from somewhere near.
"Terriermon if you can hear my voice try to follow it to me," Henry yelled out hoping that Terriermon could find him using his voice as the source with all the echoing that happens when they yell.
"I can hear you and I will try to follow your voice," Terriermon responded, "But it will be hard with all the echoes in the area."
"Just try to alright," Henry yelled, "I want to get out of hereASAP because it really stinks in this place."
"No kidding, I'm the one with the sensitive nose," Terriermon responded.
Meanwhile with Suzy and Lopmon.
"Wopmon," Suzy calls out. "Where are you?"
"Here," Lopmon said, "Try to follow my voice."
"Ok," Suzy said. She shod through the water that reach about haft way up her chest. She slowly made her way to Lopmon calls as she held up her shorts. She continued to follow the calls. Then she bumps into wet fur. "Wopmon," She screamed grabbing her partner into a hug.
"Suzy garb onto me and I'll try to lead us out," Lopmon said. Suzy nodded and grab her shorts with her free hand.
Lopmon lead the two for a while until they came to ledge. Lopmon place her paw on the dry floor. "Can you clime up and help me out," Lopmon said. Suzy push out of the pool and then help Lopmon out. "Finally I don't need to swim any more," Lopmon said.
"These clothes are heavy," Suzy said pulling her shorts up. Soon they walk down a dark tunnel. They came to a wall with letters glowing.
"Henry can't I just ride on your head," Terriermon said, "I'm getting tired with all of the swimming I'm having to do."
"No Terriermon," Henry said, "Were already at the ledge, I'll get out of this water and pull you up onto the ledge in a moment."
Henry got up onto the ledge and pulled Terriermon out of the water, as he turned around he noticed Suzy staring at a wall with glowing letters. He walked over to the wall to notice that the letters actually formed a riddle.
"Soaring through the sky
Mighty power at my side
Protecting innocence in my sight
Destroying those who impose my rights
What am I?"
Henry read the riddle out loud and thought, 'Oh great now we have to figure out riddles to get passed this part, what will happen if I answer it wrong though,' he then said, "You have any idea what it is talking about Terriermon."
"Don't look at me," Terriermon said, "You're the brains and I'm the butt wupper."
Meanwhile Suzy was looking over her riddle once more. "Wopmon, what has four legs in the morning, two at noon and three in the evening?"
"I don't know," Lopmon said.
"I heard it somewhere before," Suzy said, "Henry told me a story about a monster that asks many that. I think the answer is man." Suzy watch the door open up. "Come one Wopmon."
Meanwhile Henry read overhis riddle once more. "Soaring through the sky...that means its flying. What does, Mighty power at my side means?"
"Come on Henry just guess," Terriermon said, "What is the worst that can happen."
"With how things are going I have the least bit of a clue as to what can happen," Henry said.
"If you don't say something soon I'll just blurt something out," Terriermon said.
"Will you just give me a moment to figure this riddle out," Henry said.
"Fine, but the longer you take the farther ahead Suzy gets," Terriermon said.
"I understand most of it but I can't seem to figure out what it means by the mighty power at my said part," Henry thought out loud.
While Henry is trying to figure it out he notices some more letters in red appear underneath the rest of the riddle. When he looks at what the red letters say it says he has only twenty-five seconds left to come up with the answer.
'Great it's not even giving me enough time to come up with the answer,' Henry thought, "The answer is Hawk," he said.
Instead of the door opening a beam of light shot out of the door and hit Henry square in the chest and then opened. He started to feel lightheaded and dizzy right after the beam hit him in the chest.
Henry a moment later passed out from the dizziness he was experiencing. Terriermon heard a thump behind him and looked back to see Henry laying on the ground unconscious, he went over to try and wake him up but failed. As he was trying to think of others ways to awaken Henry, he then noticed that Henry's arms were looking a little odd. As he watches he hears a popping sound coming from somewhere which he can't quite pinpoint until he notices Henry's right arm at the shoulder and elbow practically detached under the skin and started moving around as some feathers started to grow on it. As he kept watching the fingers on Henry's hand started moving closer to his elbow and elongating, while the rest of his arm was getting thinner as the bones in it became hollow. The same thing was happening with his other arm at the same time, but with how Henry was lying on the ground no one could see it.
Terriermon then heard more cracking and popping sounds, he turns to look at Henry's face to see it look like even bone was broken, as he watched with a detached fascination he noticed Henry's teeth starting to fuse together and pushed out of his mouth into a black hooked beak, that began to fuse with his nose. Terriermon also noticed that Henry's eyebrows have been replaced with the ridge that most birds have over their eyes. He watched as Henry's ears slowly disappeared into his head leaving nothing more then two holes; while his hair was turning into feathers at the same time.
Terriermon also noticed his chest was pushing out creating the mussels that would allow Henry to use his wings to fly through the air; by this point Henry's shirt was nothing more then shreds. Terriermon then hears a ripping sound and looks at the lower part of Henry's body to see tail feathers starting to come out of the part of the pants that ripped, as he is watching the tail-feathers form on his friends he hears more ripping and popping sounds as Henrys legs at the hip pop out of place and his hip and legs start to rearrange themselves, Terriermon can see that Henry's legs are shrinking from the knees down to form the lower legs of a hawk; by this time almost all of Henry's upper body is covered by brownish-black feathers. Terriermon notices his shoes starting to bulge and ripping at the seams to reveal birdlike feet and becoming yellow with black nails. Terriermon thinks that the transformation that Henry is undergoing is finished, but then he notices him starting to shrink in size by about a foot and a half.
Terriermon watches as what is left of his partner's clothes reform to fit his new body.
Henry recovers and says, "Ouch my aching head," then looked at an open sky before him. He also noticed rings hovering and asks, "How does he think we're going to pass this?"
"Henry you haven't looked at yourself have you," Terriermon said.
Henry looks down. His shirt was reshaped to allow the wings that replaced his arms. He rests on his talons with reshaped shoes on. His shorts now allow his new tail feathers to come out.
"I guess that we need to fly through those rings," Terriermon said.
Henry looked at his partner.
Meanwhile, Suzy open another door. She stares at the wall. "Another dead end, One door left." The two walk to the only unopened door. They open the door and enter another room with doors. "I do like the wab...waber...this maze," Suzy said.
"Let's keep going forward," Lopmon said. Suzy nods and walks to a door. She opens it to see a wall once more and sighs.
Henry stretches out his wings and try's to fly, he manages to get a few feet off the ground before he looses his bearings and slams into the ground face first and cries out, "Youch, that hurt," as he rubs his beak with his left wing.
Terriermon then blurts out, "Awe poor little birdy fall and hurt his beak," sarcastically.
Henry then glares at Terriermon and says "Terriermon," with a slight edge to his voice.
"Momentai," Terriermon said, "It was just a joke," he then gulped because like that Henry's glares were about ten times worse then Rika's.
"This is no time to be joking around here Terriermon," Henry said, "We have to get to the finish line first so I can protect Suzy."
"Sorry," Terriermon said, "I didn't mean to hit a nerve," he then gulped again.
Henry then tried to fly a few more times and said, "How do birds do this, it's hard as hell."
Suzy and Lopmon enter another room. "Not more doors," Suzy said as she drop to her knees. "I can't stand this, Wopmon," Suzy said.
"Calm down," Lopmon said, "I'll find the next door." She walks up to one of the doors. She jumps onto the handle and twist it. Then she kicks off the wall. After landing on the ground she saw a mist. She walks into the mist. "Ouch," She cried, "There's a wall there." She steps out of the mist.
"Wopmon," Suzy said as she got to her feet. She started to run to her partner but her shorts around her ankles force her to the ground. Lopmon ran to her crying partner. After she got to Lopmon got to her feet; she realizes that she was about Suzy's size or a little more.
"Suzy," Lopmon said pulling Suzy's shorts up. "Remember if you quit both you and Henry lose."
"I know Wopmon," Suzy said, "I just want this part to end."
Meanwhile with Henry and Terriermon.
"Birds have been doing this practically forever," Terriermon said, "You have only been a bird for about halfan hour now."
"I already know that Terriermon," Henry said, "It's just that if I don't figure it out Suzy most likely will beat me in this and there's no telling how long she would last against the other people out there before she becomes a digimon herself."
"Huh, Henry there seems to be a perch of some kind over their, that's about four or five feet off the ground," Terriermon said, "Why not try taking off from it?"
"Sure why not," Henry said, "I've tried every other way that I could think of and it hasn't worked," he said with his voice full of frustration.
Henry then started walking over to the perch, when he got there he realized that he would have to try and jump onto it in order to use it. He tried a few times and finally got up on the perch, and then a paper dropped down right in front of him explaining the rules of this particular obstacle course.
The rules read: In order to pass this part of the course you have to fly through the rings while your digimon has to run a separate obstacle on the ground. If miss more than two of the rings you have to start the course all over, also if you and your digimon don't get to the end of this obstacle within three minutes of each other then you will have to repeat the enter course.
"How the hell does he expect us to complete these particular obstacles within three minutes of each other," Henry asked.
"I don't know," Terriermon said, "But if anyone can do this we are the ones," he said trying to raise Henry's spirits.
"I think we can do it too," Henry said, "The thing I'm worried about is what kind of other obstacles he has waiting up there for me and what your supposed to do in yours, and being like this my D-arc is completely useless to me at the moment," he sighed.
A door then opened on the other side of the room that was about Terriermon's size, "Well I guess that is where my course starts at," Terriermon said, he then heard a sound, "Henry move from there now," he said.
"Huh, why what's the problem," Henry asked, he then looked up just in time to see a cage fall on him and the bottom closed shut before he could even react, "Terriermon get me out of this thing," he yelled.
Terriermon just stared at him for a moment and said, "What did you say Henry."
Henry calmed down a little and said, "I said get me out of this thing Terriermon, I can barely move at all."
Terriermon just kept staring because all he could hear was the sounds of an actual hawk coming out of Henry mouth, "Uh, Henry I can't understand you at the moment," he said, "All I can hear coming from you is the sounds that normal hawks make."
Henry was startled when he heard this and just stared at Terriermon.
"Henry I'm going to try and get you out of that cage with my Terrier Tornado attack," Terriermon said, "Nod your head if you understand what could happen if I mess up and you agree to let me use it."
Henry proceeded to nod his head, 'I can still understand him even though he can't understand me at the moment, and I know what the chances of me getting hit if doesn't aim carefully,' he thinks to himself, 'But it is better then being trapped in this cage.'
Terriermon then got ready to use his Terrier Tornado on the top of the cage to free Henry, "Terrier Tornado," he shouted out hitting the top of the cage and taking a few of the feathers on top of Henry's head with it.
"Youch," Henry shouted, "Watch it you could have taken my head off, when we get out of this you I need to teach you how to aim better," he snapped.
"Sorry," Terriermon said, "But you nodded your head when I asked if it was ok if I used it, wait I can understand you again," he said.
"I know that," Henry said, "The cage must have had some sort of device in it that was making it so you couldn't understand me," he said as he turned around and looked Terriermon straight in the eyes.
"Um, Henry," Terriermon said, "You shrunk even more and now your the same size as me."
"Just get going Terriermon," Henry said, "I'll meet you at the end of these obstacles," and then leapt into the air and started flying towards the first ring.
"Henry your flying," Terriermon said surprised, "When did you learn how."
"I'm not sure," Henry said, "Maybe I couldn't before because my body was to large," he said confused, "Now just getting going on your part of the obstacle."
Meanwhile Lopmon opens another door to see a hallway. The two walk down the hall. They came to another door to seat another door with words carved into it. Suzy started to read them. "I jump with great per...persist..."
"I'll take it," Lopmon said.
I jump with great precision when I land; it makes ME gO "Wow"
"What is it, Wopmon?" Suzy asked.
"The last line the M, E, O, and W are uppercase."
"That spells meow," Suzy said, "the sounda cat makes."
A beam came from the wall to Suzy. She drops to her knees as tail slips past the baggy clothes. She shrunk as her hands and feet reshape into paws. Her ears become pointy as they moved to the top of her head. She hid her morphing face. Lastly her clothes shrunk down.
"Suzy," Lopmon said, "Are you alright?" She looks at a small hole in the wall that the kitten that Suzy is now can squeeze through.
"I'm fine," Suzy said. She got to her feet. Then she tried towalk, but her still baggy clothes force her to the ground.
Lopmon picks up her partner. "I guesswe need to get the clothes off you, and you can get through that hole."
Suzy pushes her way through the hole. He ears press against her body. When she got out she found herself in a large yard. She turned to see a huge bull dog growling at her. Suzy screamed and ran away.
MeanwhileHenry flew up to the first ring, as he was getting ready to fly through it he noticed another message that read: Be wary of the things that are least expected or you can loose yourself to your own mind. Reading this confused Henry as to what it could mean. He looks around from where he is to see that the rings he is supposed to fly ends up going over more than half of the audience watching what him and Suzy have to do in order to get through this obstacle course that their host set up for them.
"Great, just great I have to fly over about 2/3rds of the audience," Henry muttered, "So they can see what I have become." He then thinks to himself, 'I could purposely let one go on Ryo if it weren't for these clothes that I still have on.'
In the meanwhile Terriermon has gone through the door that had opened for and found on the other side is an Olympic sized swimming pool that he has to swim through in order to get to the next part of the course and thinks, 'This can't be too bad other than the part that I'm not to well for swimming,' and then as he is about to jump in he notices for about a second there what looks like electricity going through the water.
Terriermon then blurts out, "How the hell am I supposed to get through this without getting deleted." He then sat down to think as to how he could through the water with out getting electrocuted, as Terriermon was thinking he kept an eye on the water and noticed that the electricity went through it about every three minutes. Terriermon was about to look around for a way to get past the water when he noticed a fish jump out of the water and dive back in, he decided to wait for the next voltage of energy to go through the water while watching the fish that he just saw jumping out of the water. When electricity came he noticed that the fish didn't seem to notice it at all.
Terriermon while waiting to see if his assumptions are correct hears Henry's from over head saying, "Hey is poor little Terriermon afraid of getting a little wet."
Terriermon looks up to see Henry using the thermal he's to circle over Terriermon while still in front of the rings he has to fly through, "At least the part of the course you have you don't have a chance of getting electrocuted," he blurted out.
Right after Terriermon said that Henry noticed that only the surface of the water become electrified for about thirty seconds or so, "Hey Terriermon just dive in while it's not having energy running through it and try to only come up for air right after the electricity stops," he said lazily.
Before Terriermon could respond to Henry, he flew off and started his part of the course he has to do. Terriermon then jumped into the water and noticed that he could see perfectly fine under it and saw a bunch of rings moving around that he realized he has to swim through.
Meanwhile as Henry flew through the first ring he thought he heard what sounded like a buzzer going off for a moment there, as he got closer to the second ring and was about to fly through it he noticed it starting to move around all over the place making it harder for him to fly through it and also noticed that almost all of the other rings he could see were doing similar things also.
"It doesn't surprise me that they are doing this," Henry says, "I figured that this wouldn't be as easy as it looked."
Suzy scream as the dog got closer. She ran to a fence. She squeezed under the fence. After, she drops to her the ground. She notices a note nearby so she crawls over to it to read it. "So, all I need to do is to find the key and unlock the door. No problem," Suzy said.
She started to walk across the yard she's now in. Thanks to a sliding door open she was able to get into the house. "Where were you Fluffy," A huge woman said running up to her. Suzy try to run but the woman was too quick.
"Stop," Suzy yelled as she was in the woman's crushing hug.
"My poor baby," the woman yelled, "Mommy was looking everywhere for you. It's time for your bath."
Henry was about half way through the course of rings when he heard a sound, when he looked behind him he saw what looked like some sort of rocket-like projectile coming towards him. "Awe crap this isn't good," he squawks out startled.
Henry started flying at a faster pace, but not to fast to where he would miss any rings. Even with doing this the thing was still gaining on him slowly but surely, 'How am I going to get out of this one,' he thinks to himself.
As the thing is getting closer he then thinks, 'Maybe I can loose it if I go into a dive bomb,' but when he looks down he realizes he is over the audience where most of his friends are sitting except Takato. 'Shit if I do that then a lot of people are going to get hurt if not killed,' he realizes.
He glances back to see that the rocket is at most a hundred and fifty feet from him and still gaining on him, 'What can I do,' Henry thinks to himself, 'If I go down it will hurt and or kill a lot of people including my friends, but I don't think of something I'm a goner.' He then sees that for the next ring he will have to practically fly straight up at a ninety degree angel in order to get through it with out slowing down, but he realizes that would be impossible for him and starts to slow a little while trying to gain some more height.
As Henry is trying to gain more height in order to get through the ring he comes to a point where he is looking straight at the rocket and sees the nose starting to open for some reason, by this time it is only about ninety feet away and getting closer. 'Why the hell is the nose opening,' he thinks to himself, 'Now I'm confused, is it going to explode or what is it going to do.'
As the rocket gets with in forty feet of him it fires some sort of net, at first Henry doesn't notice, but then he glances back just to see the net coming out of the thing only a few inches away from him, before he could even react he gets tangled up in the net. The rocket still having part of the net attached to it, passes over Henry and starts pulling him along through the last of the rings besides the one that he was trying to go through. He would try to cut through the net with his beak, but when the rocket started pulling him part of the net wrapped around his beak making it to where he couldn't open it.
After what seemed like forever to Henry the part of the net that the rocket was using to pull him along detached and he fell about five feet before something caught it and let him down slowly to the ground. The net never became looser, but with the way it had wrapped around him he still had use of his feet at least. Henry finally got a good look at the net that was wrapped around his body and realized that even if he had use of his beak he wouldn't have been able to break it because it was made of mainly metal.
Suzy screamed as she struggled to get free from the woman. She tries to squirm but the woman has her in too strong of a grip. Then she tilts her head back. She then opened her mouth hoping a part of the woman's would flesh enter it. The woman smiled at Suzy and said, "Is my Baby smiling at me?"
"No," Suzy yelled, "I want to bite you. Now stay still."
"Now your singing," the woman cheered.
Suzy watch as claws came from her paws. She smiled before she ran her nails over the woman arms. Suzy watch the ceiling as she fell. Acting on its own her body flipped itself. "You scratched mommy," the woman yelled.
"You're not my mommy," Suzy yelled as she ran away, "If I get out of here, I'll never squeeze another animal again."
Terriermon started swimming through the rings that were under the water in the Olympic sized pool where his part of the obstacle course started. He looked up for a moment to see the electricity go through the surface of the water, 'Good at least if I stay under the water I won't get electrocuted,' he thought to himself.
As he was going through one of the rings the same fish he saw jump out of the water started biting one of his ears, 'Ouch, what the hell is that thing biting me for,' Terriermon thought. While he is trying to get the fish off of his ear he notices a part of the wall starting to open, he doesn't pay too much attention to it until he sees around five more fish that look the same as the one biting his come swimming out of there.
He's trying to figure out what they are then he remembers a while back that Henry was doing a report on them and he had been looking over his shoulder at the book that he was reading. Terriermon then remembers Henry telling him that they were called something like piranhas and that they're usually scavenger's but every now and then go after living prey. 'Shit, this isn't good,' he thought, 'I have to get out of here now,' he then starts trying to swim faster then before but isn't having much luck with how his body is built.
"Ouch, it just ripped a chunk out of my ear," Terriermon yells in pain and forgetting that he's under water. He then has to swim to the surface to take a breath of air because he let it out when he yelled.
When he comes to the surface for a moment to take a gulp of air he realizes he is about three-fourths of to the other side of the pool. 'At least I'm going fast,' he thinks to himself as he dives back under water just in time to miss being electrocuted, 'Crap that was close, I have to be careful,' and then feels another chunk of flesh ripped from his leg this time.
A couple minutes later and a few bites he makes to the other side of the pool, but he has to wait for the electricity to stop flowing so he can grab onto the latter and pull himself out of the piranha infested pool. As soon as the electricity stopped he pushed up and grabbed onto the metal bars of the latter and pulled himself out, only to find himself in the back yard of some house and the pool has changed into a pond with all kinds of fish. He realized that there was still some wait on one of his ears and found one of the piranha's still attached to it, he tried pulling it off with out ripping more of his ear off, but couldn't to get it off that way so Terriermon had to yank it off causing another chunk to be ripped out of his ear.
Terriermon started looking around the yard he's in, when he heard a door open and two Doberman's came running out of it and started to come in his general direction, "Awe crap," he said, "They probably think I'm a new chew toy," and then started running for the hole in the gate he noticed. As he got closer to the hole the head of another dog came through and started barking like crazy at him.
Meanwhile Suzy ran into the small area between the couch and wall. As she walked down the area, she started to look for the key or a new place to hide. Then she came to a crack in the wall. She forced her way into the crack. In the darkness, she saw a golden glimmer. She came closer to it but then the glimmer moved away. Every time she got closer to it kept moving back until she saw that it was a key strapped to a rat. The rat quickly turned and started to run away. "Come back her," Suzy yelled.
She moved as fast as she could with the outside of the wall on her sides. She watched the rat jump from the wall. Suzy use the same crack to enter the dinning room. "There's my baby."
Suzy turn away and started to move as fast as she could. "Must live," Suzy muttered, "Then get the key." She turned the corner and ran down the hall. She moved between a door. There she saw a large bed with blanket draped over it, she scurried under the bed.
Terriermon turned in another direction trying to find a place to hide or escape from the dogs that are after him. He then thought, 'Why don't I just use one of my attacks to scare the dogs, then I can take my time and look for a way out of this yard,' he turns his head to see that the two dogs that were chasing him are now preoccupied with the dog that is sticking its head through the hole in the fence. "At least their not chasing me anymore," he mutters to himself.
Terriermon starts to look for a way out and finds what looks like a window near the bottom of the house that is open just enough to where he can squeeze through, 'Its going to be a tight fit,' he thinks to himself, 'but at least I'll get away those dogs.' He then proceeds to go into the house through the window; after he lowered himself as close to ground as he and dropped he took a look around to find himself in a maze of mirrors. As Terriermon starts to walk through the maze, he notices that instead of showing his reflection its showing what has happened to him and Henry in the past. As he is walking past one of the mirrors it shows when Leomon got deleted by Beelzemon and Takato lost it and summoned Megidramon.
Terriermon even though he's seen Megidramon before is scared out of his mind even though it is just an image from the past. Least that is what he thinks until one of Beelzemon's bullets came flying out of the mirror and nearly hits him square in the chest, "What the hell, I thought it was only a recording of the past," he yells out surprised and starts backing away. While he's backing up he ends up bumping into one of the other mirrors, instead of stopping it sucks him into it and he finds himself in his Megagargomon form in the process of fighting the d-reaper, 'How did I get here,' he thinks to himself and then realizes that he is reliving one of the most important battles in his life.
"Hey Terriermon is something wrong," Terriermon heard a younger Henry ask, "You seem to be acting weird all of a sudden."
"No I'm fine, just had a feeling of Deja-vu for a moment their," he then heard himself answering, but he realized he wasn't the one that answered, but the one that exists in this reflection. 'This day just keeps getting weirder and weirder,' he thinks to himself. He realizes after a while he is more like passenger on train then the one who is driving, he ends up just watching the fighting from going on and haves to wait till it ends. As he's thinking he realizes that when he was fighting this battle all those years ago that he actually got a feeling of Deja-vu, and he watches the battle going on he notices a few key differences then when he fought it.
When the fight finally ends he finds himself back in the room with all the mirrors and wonders if he just remembers it wrong or if something was different in the part where he relived it, but wasn't able to do anything. After a while he comes to a dead end in the mirrors, "What this maze can't be all closed off," he says confused, as he looks through the mirror he notices Henry on the other side all tied up in what looks like metal netting of some kind. Terriermon looks at what he sees in the mirror not knowing if it is actually happening or a trap of some kind that has been set for him, 'I know that Henry has been changed into a bird,' he thinks to himself, 'but is that actually him or just a false image set up by our host.' He looks around at the other mirrors to see up to the point where Henry had started on his part of the obstacle course.
"I don't think I have a choice," Terriermon says, "This was the only path and I can't get out of here the way I came so I have to take the chance that its a trap," he then walks up to the mirror and starts to walk through it. He then finds himself surrounded by nothing but blackness, 'Great it must have been a trap,' he thinks and then a moment later finds himself laying flat on his face, when he gets up he see in front of him what he saw in the mirror a few minutes ago except Henry's now has a hood over his eyes and beak.
Moments earlier Henry for the last few minutes Henry has been trying to get out of the net he is tangled in, 'There has to be a way to get myself out of this thing,' he thinks to himself and then hears movement; he looks around to hopefully to find Terriermon. He doesn't see anything except some kind of machinery coming his way, he's getting ready to run when the thing just stops about five to ten feet from him. He starts to think its nothing to be concerned about; until a mechanical arm comes out that grabs him and holds him in place, 'What the hell does this thing want with me,' Henry thinks to himself, 'Maybe if I'm lucky it will get me out of this net that I'm tangled,' he then watches wary as another mechanical arm starts moving towards him while holding something.
As the arm gets closer he realizes it is a hood that hunters usually put over their birds eyes to keep it calm until they are ready to use it to hunt, but Henry notices that it looks a little different and that's when he realizes that the way it is designed it will also cover the top part and the sides of his beak to the point where no one will even notice the metal netting tangled around it. He starts struggling to get out of the grip of the mechanical arm holding, but all he can really do is move his head which doesn't help any, as the arm starts to put it over his head he notices that it has to air holes right where his nostrils are now. As the hand finishes putting over his eyes and beak he realizes that it is loose enough that he could shake it off when the arm lets him go, until he hears a snapping sound of something securing it to his head.
After a while of dead silent, Suzy crawl from under the bed. "Now I need to find the mouse and the key." She started to run off. "Mouse like cheese time to got to the kitchen."
Terriermon walks towards Henry and ask, "Henry you ok," and gets no response except for his head turning in his direction. "Hey you don't have to give me the silent treatment," he says, "You could at least say yes or no." He continues to walk towards Henry wondering why his friend isn't answering his questions at all, 'I wonder if Henry is upset at me for some reason or another,' he thinks to himself. Terriermon then gets right next to Henry and starts trying to pull the net off of him, he thought about trying to use his bunny pellets attack but realizes that if he did he would more then likely hurt Henry, 'Damn what can I do, if I use any of my attacks I could seriously hurt Henry,' he thinks, 'But what else can I use to get him out of this, and what is the deal with this hood.' Terriermon then proceeds to look at his surroundings to see if there is anything to use to cut or break the net holding Henry.
'Hey, where did Terriermon go,' Henry thinks to himself, 'He was just here a moment ago, I hope he's still here it's kind of nerve racking not being able to see or talk,' he then starts struggling to get out of the net again. He then hears a sigh right next to him and calms down a little.
'Great looks like I have no choice but to use my bunny pellets on the netting,' Terriermon thinks and then says, "Henry, I um can't seem to find anything that can cut the net that is holding you," Terriermon says, "So I'm going to have to use my Bunny pellets on it to try and free you."
Henry hearing this is scared out of his mind and starts struggling to get out of the net even more then before, only causing him to get tangled even worse in it and pulling one of his wings into an extremely painful position. Which causes him to stop struggling completely, 'Ow, ow, ow, my arm hurts like hell,' he thinks, 'Why did I panic like that, now that I think about it I haven't been acting like my self since I was changed, will this happen when I become a digimon.'
"Henry calm down before you breaks one of your wings or something else," Terriermon says worried for Henry's safety, "I'm going to try using my attack now to get you out of the net." Terriermon then proceeded to use his attack, "Bunny pellets," aiming them all at one spot, only to have seventy-five percent of them to get thrown right back in his face. "Ouch, that didn't work as planned," he complained, "Looks like it's made to withstand stuff like that." As he is trying to think of another way to do it he notices that the part of the net he hit with his attack has been cut about half way through, so he tries again and this time his attack cuts the rest of the way through the net and all of it except the part wrapped around his beak becomes a lot looser and Terriermon helps get it off Henry.
Meanwhile Suzy was walking into the kitchen. The fridge was closed; she steps into the room only to have her paws slip making her head in the She push herself up only to have her hit the floor. She tried once more but this time her nails came out. With her claw digging into the tile she searched for the mouse. By luck, she found the key still one the mouse.
Slowly Suzy moved here way to the mouse. Her nails click on the tile as she moved to her prey. The mouse turned to her. Before Suzy could react the mouse was off. "What was he drinking?" Suzy asked. She licked the white liquid. "Yummy," she screamed before she start to take as much in as she could.
Terriermon then proceeded to help Henry out of the net, "Henry, how did you get tangled in this net," he asked but received no answer, "I guess your to embarrassed to answer or your just giving me the silent treatment."
'If it weren't for the net that still tightly tangled around my beak I would yell right in his ear,' Henry thought, 'At the moment he doesn't seem to be thinking to much, maybe it's just the stress of the battle.' Henry then feels the net come off of his wing that got stuck in a very painful position earlier, the moment he moves it the pain that he was feeling before seemed like nothing compared to the pain that just shot through it. Henry entire body tensed, 'Fucking shit, it hurts like hell,' he thought, he would have screamed it out loud but couldn't, 'I must have broken it when I was struggling and got it pulled it in that position it was in.'
Terriermon feels Henry tense up the moment his wings are free enough to be moved, the one that he is looking at looks just fine but when he gets into a position to see the other one he grimaces, "Shit what happened to your wing Henry," Terriermon asked, "It looks like someone grabbed it and twisted it in three different directions at the same time." Terriermon then thinks to himself, 'I hope when Henry changes back to human that it heals immediately or he won't be able to use it for a long time.' He then finished pulling the net off of Henry and then started looking at the hood to figure out how to get it off; as he is looking at it he doesn't see any kind of zipper or anything that he can loosen to get it off of Henry.
"How the hell did they get this thing on you," Terriermon said, "I don't see any kind of straps or anything that will loosen it."
'What does he mean that he can't find anything to loosen it,' Henry thought, 'I felt them snap something on the back of it,' he then realizes that it feels completely sealed on the back of his head, instead of it feeling like there was a gap in it when it was finished being put on. 'Great some how while I was trying to get my self out of the rope the hood completely sealed itself making it harder for anyone to take it off,' he thinks to himself.
"I'm going to see if I can pull it off," Terriermon said, "If I can you won't have to worry about me using a attack on it to get it off of you." He then proceeds to try to pull it off of Henry; he's able to get a fraction of the way off before the part he has a hold on rips off causing to fall on his back. He gets back up to see if the missing piece loosened it any, only to see it starting to replace the part he ripped off. "This going to be harder then I thought," Terriermon says, "It seems to be replacing the part that got ripped off when I fell," he then thinks, 'What is that thing made out of it shouldn't be able to do that,' he then grabs the two parts that are trying to become one again and starts pulling them, causing a rip to slowly appear on the it as he pulls.
After what seems like forever Henry can actually see again, even though the hood isn't completely off, 'At least I can see again,' Henry thinks, 'But it hurts my eyes after not being able to see for however long it was,' he then notices a door in front of them. He watches as the rest of the hood is slowly pulled apart, but becomes really annoyed when he sees it completely separate from the part that is still covering his beak. He starts shaking his head to get it off but it doesn't seem to be budging at all, 'Why won't this thing come off,' Henry thinks, 'It's not attached to anything anymore, so it doesn't make any since,' he then notices that it has a snap thing on it holding it on by the side.
Terriermon walks over to one side of Henry, "Huh, that snap thing wasn't their before," he says, "But then again the opening was on the bottom where I wouldn't have really been able to see it a few minute ago." Terriermon then proceeded to unsnap it and the noticed then netting on Henry's beak and realized that is why he hasn't been talking, "Don't I feel stupid," he said, "I thought you where mad at me," as he starts trying to get the netting off but isn't having much luck because it some how got knotted.
Suzy walk from the bowl that was filled with milk. "My tummy hurt," She said as she stumbles. There saw the mouse. It was in the corner smelling the cabernet. Suzy slowly moved to the mouse. She came as close as she could. Then she lowered her body. She leaps at the mouse.
The Mouse squirm and soon it drop to the ground and ran off. Suzy smiled as the key hang in her mouth. She turned to find her way to the door.
Henry turning his head slightly took a look at his injured wing and grimaced, 'No wonder it hurts like hell,' he thought to himself.
Henry, keep still so I can get this off your beak," Terriermon said, "its already hard enough for me with out you moving around," he complained. He finally managed to get it untangled and was able to pull it off of Henry's beak.
"Hey Terriermon," Henry said, "Where have you been," he asked, "I mean before you showed up a few minutes ago." He then started walking towards the door he noticed when Terriermon pulled the part of the hood off that was covering his eyes, causing jolts' of pain to go through his wing. "Hey you coming or not Terriermon," Henry asked, "I noticed a door over hear when you pulled that off my head," he said gesturing towards what was left of the hood.
"Ok, I'm coming," Terriermon said, "Just give me a moment," he then started walking towards Henry. "Hey Henry where did your digivice go," he said when he noticed it missing.
"What do you mean I have it right here," Henry said and noticed it missing when he looked at the pocket it was in earlier, "What the hell I had it in this pocket before I got hit by that beam that did this to me," he then realized that he didn't bother checking to see if it had fallen out of his pocket after the beam hit him or when he got dragged along by the rocket. 'Great it's probably back at the place where I got changed, or it fell out off my pocket when I got tangled up in that net over there,' Henry thought to himself. He continues walking towards the door, when he gets there he notices writing on the door that reads:
"I have a fur coat that I cannot remove
I walk on four legs or two
I speak as fluently as any human can
I can fly like no other can
Unless you saw it with your own eyes you wouldn't believe that it's almost impossible for me to die
What am I?"
Henry also sees more words near the bottom the door that says, 'on the other side of this door resides the finish line if your or an obstacle then the main finish line if your wrong.' He then thinks, 'If I answer this right then I win, but if I don't I have to go through another obstacle course to get to the finish line.'
"I wonder what it could mean," Terriermon says, "But I'm no good at things like this, you're the genius Henry," he says as he looks over at Henry.
Suzy proudly move to her way to the door the key hanging from her mouth. She came to the sliding door she entered from. She smiled as she ran to it he shoulder caught the leg of a small table. She started to spin. She pawed at the tiles hoping to stop. When she did a power drifted around her. "Look at the pretty colors," Suzy said as she stumble.
Henry looks over at Terriermon, "No one ever said you were very smart," he says and grins to himself.
"I never said, hey that's just wrong Henry," Terriermon replies to Henry's commit.
"So you can dish it out but it seems you can't take it though," Henry says to Terriermon, "If it weren't for the bottom two-thirds of it I would be able to figure it out easily, but I'm not sure what it means by 'Unless you saw it with your own eyes you wouldn't believe that it's almost impossible for me to die'." 'Why is it I'm getting hard riddles that are practically impossible to solve and Suzy got that really easy one earlier,' he thinks to himself.
"Hey Henry what's taking you so long to come up with the answer," Terriermon asks him, "I thought you were good at this kind of thing."
"Will you just give me some time to think," Henry snaps at Terriermon, "Usually I am, but the ones I have been getting today are ones that I have never seen before," he then thinks to himself, 'The only thing I can think of at the moment is that it might be a gryphon or a sphinx, but as far as I know a gryphon can't speak and neither of them can stand on two legs as far as I know from what is said about them.'
"Henry I think you should hurry," Terriermon says, "The door is starting to glow and is acting kind of strange," while pointing at the door that has the riddle on it.
Henry then looks over at the door to see it glowing and shimmering in and out of existence, every time it fades out of existence he can see what looks like a course or finish beyond where it was. "Ok, what the hell is going on," Henry asks, "The other door didn't do this," the door then stops glowing and seems normal again. "That was a bit strange, I wonder what it could mean," he thinks out loud.
"I think you should say something Henry," Terriermon says, "Before it starts acting weird again, or zaps you and turns you into who knows what."
"Fine then," Henry says, "If I'm right the answer is Gryphon," the door then slowly starts to open, but right before the door finishes opening a beam of light comes out of the door and hits Henry right in the chest sending him flying back about 5 yards. "Sheesh, that one packed a wallop," Henry said, "At least I landed on my back and not on my broken wing."
"Henry," Terriermon yelled, "are you ok," he asked worried for Henry.
"Yeah I'm fine," Henry said, "I wonder why the door did that, the last one when it sent the beam of light didn't send me flying or have any force to it," he then started feeling strange and slightly dizzy at the same time. 'Great the dizziness is coming back,' he thought as the room started to look like it was shaking, 'but at least it isn't as bad as last time.' Henry then looked at his chest where the beam hit and noticed that his shirt has a whole in it and his chest has a circular burn mark on it.
"Ouch that burn looks painful," Terriermon says, "Huh, Henry you're getting bigger," he says surprised, and then both of them heard ripping sounds as Henry's clothes slowly started to become too small for his body.
"I am," Henry asked, "at least it isn't causing my wing any pain," he then notices that his legs are starting to feel kind of like putty. Henry looks at Terriermon to see him staring at his legs, he glances down at his legs to see the feathers falling off and his feet are starting to look more like that of a lions back paws. As he's looking he realizes that a part of him is actually enjoying what's happening to him, while the scientific part of his mind finds it fascinating and disturbing at the same time. 'This weird, it actually feels comforting while also disturbing simultaneously,' he thinks to himself and then without any indication both his legs start itching like hell and not having any hands to scratch them with is starting to drive him crazy.
"Hey Henry you ok," Terriermon asks, "Because you started fidgeting like crazy."
"Wouldn't you be fidgeting like crazy if your legs itched like hell and you couldn't scratch them," Henry snapped at Terriermon and then grimaced at the way he came off, "Sorry Terriermon about snapping at you but my legs are itching like hell at the moment." He then turns his head to look at his back, because he started to feel a tingling sensation and notices a whip like tail replacing the bird tail he has for most of the obstacle course. When he looks at his legs he notices that they are more lion like and that his clawed bird feet have been completely changed to that of a lions and the fur from his ankle down has finished growing, while above that it's looks like it is nowhere near being finished at the moment. He then feels a stabbing pain as his broken wing as well as the other one starts to move around and shrink and become almost exactly like his back legs and feet were before they started changing, but instead are shaped more like human hands then a birds clawed feet. Henry then starts to feel a twitching on his back while most of the feathers on his upper body starts to change to the color of the fur on his lower body and becoming so fine that from far away you would think that his entire body was covered by nothing more then fur, he turns his head around to look at the area of his back where he feels to see two almost nonexistence wings grow out of his back, 'Those won't even hold up a humming bird,' he starts thinking and then the wings grow to about his body length each with in a minute, 'Wow I guess I started complaining too soon,' and then noticed the itching had mostly stopped and when he turned towards Terriermon backed away terrified.
Terriermon then said to Henry shock and surprise, "Henry I know you're probably hungry after that but please don't eat me."
"What are you talking about Terriermon," Henry said, "I would never eat my friends let alone my digimon partner," totally mystified by why Terriermon would say something like that.
Terriermon then all of a sudden broke out laughing, "Jeez Henry I thought you of anyone would have realized I was only joking," his laughter suddenly stopped with out warning.
"Hey Terriermon you ok," Henry asked, "and that little joke you just played wasn't funny."
"Henry your digivice," Terriermon said, "most of the feathers that fell on the ground just became it."
"I guess that explains where it went," Henry said, "at least I didn't drop it like I thought I did, bring it to me will you," he then turned towards the open door and just stared at the obstacle course that he has to do, 'How the hell am I supposed to do some parts of it as far as I can tell I won't be able to get under or through some of the stuff with how big I am.'
"Hey Henry, earth to Henry," Terriermon said, "I have your digivice do you want it or not," he asked as he was waving it in front of Henry's face.
"Huh, sorry I was wondering how I'm supposed to some of the obstacles that it expects me to be able to do," Henry says as he takes his digivice from Terriermon and it feels kind of flimsy in his hand/claw and notices a cloth cuff on his wrist that has the same color his shirt is, when he looks over where the rags of what's left of his clothes to be, he notices that they are gone. 'Where did they go,' he thinks to himself, 'they should still be there,' Henry then looks at himself and notices that around his arms and legs are what looks a lot like wrist bands and a belt holding his digimon cards around waist with a spot to put his digivice in, he can also feel what seems to be some sort of collar around his neck. Henry then pulled his cards out and searched through them until he found the one he was looking for, "Digi-modify, regeneration activate," he yelled out as he swiped the card through his digivice, healing all of the injuries that Terriermon had sustained earlier.
"Thanks Henry," Terriermon said, "that feels much better," he then sighed in relief.
"No problem little buddy," Henry says, "To bad I can't use it on myself to heal my arm," he says as he tries to move it and his left arm screams in pain. Henry then starts heading over towards the door that leads to the obstacle course and thinks out loud, "Most of these would usually be easy for me, if it weren't for one I'm not used to this body yet and two I'm unable to use my left arm," he then sighs in a defeated tone.
"Henry don't tell me your giving up," Terriermon asks, "if you do then both you and Suzy lose and that maniac of a digimon will take us all away," he then looks at his Tamer and friend.
"No, I'm not giving up," Henry said, "I'm just trying to figure out how I'm going to get through this course," he then glances around at the course again and realizes that it looks just like the one he's seen in the American army commercial on foreign channels and tapes he got from a friend in the USA, he starts walking/limping forward again and ends up stepping on a part of the floor with right arm that sinks about a foot and then closes around his right foreleg/arm and then he sees what looks like a strange weapon attached to a mechanical arm coming towards him, 'Just great, my left arm is broken and right arm is now stuck in the floor and I have a coming towards me,' he thinks to himself while trying to get his right arm free from the contraption it's stuck in. When the thing is practically next to him, he sees it starting to glow a strange color and starts trying even harder to get his arm out of the contraption and also closes his because the glow from the thing is getting to point where it's hurting his eyes no matter where he's looking. Henry then here's a clicking sound right before he feels like he's getting shocked with a couple thousand volts of electricity, that seems to be entering his body through his left arm and he also can here someone screaming, at first he thinks it's Terriermon but realizes that he's actually the one who's screaming from the pain of being electrocuted and of the stabbing pain going through his left arm. When it finally stops the thing releases his right hand/claw and he collapses and mutters, "Ouch," before passing out.
Terriermon who has been trying to destroy thing that was electrocuting Henry, notices it has stopped and looks over at him to see him lying on his side unconscious but still breathing, he runs of to Henry, "Henry please get," he says while trying wake him up by shaking him, "if you die who's going to protect your sister Suzy." He then turns his head and notices that Henry's left foreleg/arm looks like it's been completely healed, 'Huh, why would it heal his arm if it was trying to kill him,' Terriermon thinks to himself confused, and also notices that Henry doesn't seem to be hurt in any other way except for the large bump on his head from when he collapsed and hit the floor.
After a few minutes Henry starts to stir and mumbles, "Did anyone get the license number of the airplane that hit me."
"Henry your alright," Terriermon yelled, "I thought you were going to die from the shock that thing gave you," he then tries to hug him around the neck the best he can.
Henry lifts his head and stairs at Terriermon for a few minutes before trying to get up, "You can let go of me now you," he says and then takes a look at the rest of his body and sees he's fine, as he is looking he notices smoke coming from the spot where his digimon cards are being held. He pulls them out of the holder carefully and when he starts to try going them to see if any of them are fine, all of them crumble into nothing but ash, "This fucking sucks I had a couple of one of a kind cards in that deck," Henry says really pissed off.
"Henry calm down," Terriermon says, "you can buy more cards later when we earn some of the digi-chips."
"I know," Henry says, "but five of those cards where one of a kind and I can't get them back ever," he says really disappointed about losing some of his best cards. He then goes through the obstacle course, making it look easier then it actually is for most people.
"Hey Henry wait for me," Terriermon calls out, "you know that I'm not as fast as you."
As Henry gets to the point where he is about ten yards from the finish and is turning towards it he notices out of the corner of his eye a door opening about twenty yards away from him, when he turns his head to look he notices Lopmon running with a kitten by her side the same way he is. He turns his head back around to see something out of ordinary on track two and a half meters in front of him and jumps over it when he gets close to it and ends up getting frozen in midair long enough for Suzy and Lopmon to catch up most of the way to him and notices, 'Huh, how the hell did they get this close so fast,' not knowing that he and Terriermon where frozen for a few minutes. As they are both closing in on the finish line Lopmon ends up tripping on Suzy and causes them to get tangled up in a ball and can only watch helplessly as Henry and Terriermon crosses the finish line.
"The winner is Henry," The host digimon yelled.