"The fight is over," Lord Holy Angemon said.
"But TK still has a digimon," Tai said.
"I said the last two standing wins," Lord Holy Angemon said, "I said nothing about the teams winning. Tai and TK won this fight."
"I'll check up on the digimon," a nurse digimon said, "Please help take them to the clinic."
"I'm going home," Kari said.
"Not so fast," Lord Holy Angemon said, "You have to choose which two digimon you're giving up before you go."
"You want me to choose fine," Kari said, "I'll give Davis and Veemon to Tai since his digimon were the ones that beat mine."
"Is this fine with you girl," Lord Holy Angemon said turning to TK.
"One my name is TK and yes it's ok with me," TK said, "I want to have Matt and his digimon stay with me since he's my older brother."
"I already know what your name is and I just don't care at the moment," Lord Holy Angemon said, "Now just get out of the arena."
"MagnaAngemon help get Gabumon and Crystal Agumon out of here so we can leave as soon as possible," TK said.
Kari walks over to the nurse and hands Davis to her, "I could be wrong but I think my friend here might be the worst off at the moment since I'm pretty sure he broke his arm," Kari said, "Just let us know how he's doing." She then goes over to Gatomon and picks her up before heading over to pick up Salamon as well.
"Metal Greymon X don't de-digi-volve just yet, they probably need your help with Ken in his current form," Tai said and walks over to Kari, "Are you feeling ok you seem kind of mad."
"I'm fine," Kari said, "It's just the attitude Davis was having at the beginning of the fight put me in a bad mood with some of the things he said."
Metal Greymon X walks over to where Ken is laying asleep, "I'll help you with him if you need me too," he said.
"Don't worry we can handle him," the nurse said as she pulls out a needle and injects most of it's contents into Ken.
"What was that you injected into Ken," Metal Greymon X asked.
"No need to worry it won't hurt him and will take affect after a few minutes," the nurse said, "What it does is makes the digimon it's used on de-digi-volve once it goes through most of their system."
"Are you sure its safe to use on him," Metal Greymon X asked, "He was originally human."
"Yeah he'll be fine," the nurse said, "We actually had to use this stuff on some of the other human turned digimon who went out of control when they managed to digi-volve, I don't know why but it seems most humans can handle being turned into digimon and digi-volving while some seem to lose it completely when they digi-volve and don't remember what they did after they de-digi-volve."
"Attention," a voice over the intercom said, "The first rounds are over, the next rounds will begin shortly. New rules have been added. Please, study them."
Takato walks from the area. "Takato," a gatomon called out, "The eggs were shaking. They're close to hatching."
"We need to get there," Takato said as he runs off to get to his place. Renamon appears next to him. Without a word she grabs him and both fade away.
The nurse turns to Kari from Davis, "She..."
"He's a boy," Kari said.
"Right now she is girl and a she," the nurse said handing Davis over to Kari, "Her tail is sprained and her arm is broken. She won't be able to de-digi-volve until she fully heals."
"TK," a nurse said running from the back room, "Some thing is wrong with your Black Garurumon."
"What do you mean something is wrong with Ken," TK asked as the nurse starts leading her to the room Ken is in..
"Your Black Garurumon friend seems to be having a strange reaction to the shot I gave him earlier and we can't seem to wake him up at all either," the nurse said, "Though there doesn't seem to be any reason for him not waking up."
"What do you mean you gave him a shot," TK asked, "And is it usually safe for humans that have been turned to digimon?"
"As we told that strange looking Metal Greymon it has been used on other digimon that were originally human," the nurse said, "And it never did anything like this, also did anything happen to Black Garurumon during the fight like him getting hit in the head really hard or something like that?"
"As far as I could tell he wasn't hit on the head by anything," TK said, "Though Mary, the gatomon with orange stripes did use her cats eye hypnotism on him right before he fell asleep."
"Hmm that would explain why we can't wake him up," the nurse said, "I have seen a gatomon force other digimon to go into a deep sleep for up to a week before."
"Also what kind of strange affects are you talking about that are happening to Ken," TK asked.
"Well Black Garurumon's body after a few minutes started pulsing with a strange glow every fifteen seconds I think it was about," the nurse said, "I have no clue as to why that started or what it means either."
"Could something have been wrong with the shot you gave him," TK asked.
"I didn't think of that," the nurse said and pulls out the needle she used to give Ken the shot with some of the stuff still in it and grabs a champion level worker digimon that just came out of a room they are passing by and injects it into the digimon's arm.
"Hey what the hell did you do that for," the digimon said, "I was told I didn't need anything to help me with the cold I have."
"What was that," TK asked.
"It was what's left of the stuff I injected into your Black Garurumon," the nurse said, "I want to see if this is the cause like you suggested."
"Why couldn't you use some other digimon that was willing to test it instead of me," the digimon said only for a moment later to be bouncing around on the floor as an in-training level digimon.
"I don't think the shot was the cause," the nurse said frowning.
"Great why does stuff like this always happen to me," the Koromon complained as he's hopping around, "Every time I get to my champion form something happens to cause me to de-digi-volve back to my in-training form."
"Could it still be the shot that affected Ken," TK asked.
"It might be," the nurse said, "But I would have to run some tests on him to determine if it is or not."
"If you have to run tests on him to make sure he's fine then do so," TK said.
"Black Garurumon is in here," the nurse said as she starts to turn the doorknob.
"Can't you just call him Ken," TK asked.
"Usually I would but at the moment I'm referring to him using the type of digimon he is because there are two other digimon here at the moment that also have that same name," the nurse said, "Though one of them actually is named Kenneth but gets upset if we call him anything else but Ken."
"So there are two other human turned digimon here at the moment," TK said, "Why are they here at the moment?"
"Actually one of them has been a digimon their entire life," the nurse said, "The one that was human is suffering from some sort of illness, while the one that is a digimon had a fight and his opponent went too far and because of it he's in a full body cast at the moment."
As they walk into the room TK sees Ken laying on a bed asleep with his body rapidly pulsing right before a bright light feels the room causing TK and the nurse to cover their eyes, "What is going on," TK asked.
"I don't know," the nurse responded, "But it seems to be coming from Black Garurumon at the moment."
Slowly the light fade. There is a wolf man resting near where Ken was. On his chest is a tattoo of kindness. TK walks closer noticing the symbol of the hope on his shoulder pad. "I'll need to check him," the nurse said.
Meanwhile Renamon lands in the courtyard to see Black Renamon and Jessica there. "Black Renamon wants to see this," Jessica said.
"Stay in the back," Renamon said.
Takato and Renamon enter the place. Guilmon and Rika stood over the nest. They watch the first egg shake. Just then the top part of the egg hop off. "I can't see!" comes from under the top of the egg. Renamon just lifts up the shell to see a golden ball with a short fox like tail.
"Please tell me she's not related to me," came from the other eggs as a red ball with Patamon like ears emerges.
"She's your big sister," Guilmon said.
"No," the red ball cried.
Renamon picks up her daughter. The yellow ball looks at her before cheering, "Renamom!" She turns to Guilmon. "Guildad!" She turns to Takato. "Hudad!" Lastly, she turns to Rika. "Humom!"
"Take a look," the red ball said, "She's a digimon."
"She may look like a digimon but she smells more like Hudad," the yellow ball said.
"Why do I have to have such an arrogant sister," the red ball muttered.
"Be nice to your sister," Renamon said, "And she happens to be right, Rika is usually human but lost a fight four days ago and was turned into a digimon because of it."
"Uh Renamon didn't you mention something about naming them earlier while Rika was still out of it," Takato said.
"Yeah I did but I'm not sure about the name I was thinking of giving my daughter now," Renamon said.
"Renamon I want to talk to you alone for just a minute if you don't mind," Jessica said, "So hand that yellow ball of fur to someone else for the moment."
"Hey I'm not a ball of fur," the yellow ball yelled.
"Actually the other human has a point," the red ball said, "You are nothing more then a head covered in fur with a tail."
"Don't you tell Renamon what to do," Rika said getting in Jessica's face.
"I wasn't telling her what to do it is more of a request I asked of her," Jessica said.
"Rika calm down I'm just going to see what she wants to talk about and she hasn't done anything wrong to any of us," Renamon said.
"Hasn't done anything wrong," Rika growled, "Jessica talked those nurses into making it so I couldn't use my arm!"
"Actually I talked with them after I brought you back here and they told me that they did that because when they looked at your arm they found that part of your muscle had been cut through," Renamon said, "They put stitches inside your arm that will degrade as the muscle heals and also put ones on the out side and covered it up to make sure it wouldn't get infected, if there was any one to blame it would be Kara since she was the one who cut you, but you already know that was an accident."
"I can't believe you're defending her," Rika growled.
"I'm not defending her," Renamon said, "I'm just telling you the truth of why that happened, sure she told the nurses to look at your arm, but I'm pretty sure she didn't tell them to do the other stuff."
"Fine whatever," Rika said as she storms off.
Renamon and Jessica start to walk into the another room, "Black Renamon I want you to stay here for now understand," Jessica said.
"Um ok," Black Renamon said not sure as to how to respond.
As they walk into the other room Renamon asked, "So what is it you wanted to talk to me about?"
Jessica turns to face Renamon with a serious look in her eyes, "What do you mean that you aren't sure what you're going to name her," Jessica nearly yelled.
"Well Rika doesn't seem to like..." Renamon said.
"Who cares about what she thinks as I remember it you named your daughter with out any hesitation," Jessica stated, "You already know who I am and you should have figured it out about Black Renamon already as well, think about it Renamon where do you think I got the idea for the name I'm currently using?"
"You mean that..." Renamon said.
"Yes Jessica is actually Black Renamon's name," Jessica said, "I couldn't think of any other names to use with what happened to me and also my ally suggested that I should use it when I decided to come back to this point, I chose this point because I realized that I have more of a chance to make a difference by telling Takato what I told now then at any other point."
"It's a nice name," Renamon said, "I'll talk to Guilmon about it."
"That's fine" Jessica said, "Black Renamon we're leaving."
Renamon walk over to Guilmon who is holding their children. "Lets talk about names for them. Rika, Takato please leave," Renamon said.
"Fine," Rika said as she grabs Takato and fades away.
Takato blinks as he looks down to see the courtyard. "Why are we up here?" he asked.
"So you stay away from that Jessica," Rika said.
"I want to go on a mission," Takato said, "I plan on leaving Renamon and Guilmon alone for a while."
"Fine," Rika said, "But Jessica is not coming."
Meanwhile a digimon walks up to Lord Holy Angemon, "Uh boss I think we have a slight problem," the digimon said.
"What kind of problem is it now," Lord Holy Angemon growled in anger, "Most of the time all that I hear is that there is some kind of problem."
"It's just that I was looking at the list of humans who won and lost fights and I found that one of the humans hasn't even fought yet," the digimon said.
"What do you mean a human hasn't fought yet," Lord Holy Angemon said, "I made sure that all of them fought at least one fight already."
"Well I think because of the three way fight you had it made it to where one of them didn't end up fighting," the digimon said.
"Who is the name of this human and what kind of digimon do they have," Lord Holy Angemon asked.
"The name of the human is Jessica and her partner is a Black Renamon," the digimon said.
"Don't worry about that human," Knightmon said, "I'll deal with her and her digimon when I get the chance, I don't think it will mess things up if one human hasn't fought yet."
"And what do you plan to do," Lord Holy Angemon asked.
"Oh I'll just turn her into a digimon myself and take her to one of my training places and let the other humans and partner digimon think that she got taken away because she broke a few of the rules," Knightmon said.
"Why is it you seem to have such an interest in this particular human," Lord Holy Angemon said.
"No real reason except that with someone with her attitude and skills under my control I could use her to put fear into the other human turned digimon and regular digimon that don't want to listen to me," Knightmon said, "Fear can work in many ways."
"Very well," The Host said, "Do it quick and quietly."
Meanwhile Kari hums as she rubs foam into Gatomon's fur. Black Gastmon took a sniff of the smelly foam. She pushes herself from it. She never seen stuff like this while being alone on the island. Then Kari grabs her and starts to rub the slimy stuff in her fur. "What are you doing?" Black Gatomon asked.
"It's just to clean you," Kari said, "That fight really made you dirty."
"I can help," Clawz said.
"Your leg is still in a cast," Kari said.
"I'm fine," Clawz said, "She's coming today to take it off."
"No she's coming to check on you and the other gatomons," Kari said, "And until she gives her approval you are to relax."
Takato looks at the list. "There are so many," Jessica said walking up to him, "It looks like digimons around seem to be asking for all types of help."
"Why did you come here," Takato asked.
"Just to see what jobs are here and I figured you would be here as well," Jessica said and lowers her voice to where Takato can only hear, "Also I came to tell that if anything happens to Rika because of something she does don't worry too much because she'll be fine."
'What the hell is she doing here,' Rika thinks, 'I'll teach her a lesson not to get into other peoples business.'
"What are you talking about," Takato asked and nearly jumps from the stunt Rika pulls.
Rika looks to see Jessica with a really angry look on her face, "I guess that will teach you not to meddle in others business," Rika said.
"You just made a huge mistake," Jessica said as she leaps at Rika knocking her to the ground and before Rika even knows what is going on a Kyuubimon with a lighter reddish-orange fur then Rika's is standing over her with her right forepaw pressed against Rika's throat making it a little difficult to breath, "If you ever do anything like that again I'll make sure you're life is miserable whenever I'm around," Jessica growled.
"What kind of freak are you," Rika struggled to get out.
"I'm no more of a freak then you currently are," Jessica growled and starts to calm down a little and realizes how she looks at the moment, "Great because of you I'm going to be stuck like this for at least a few hours now."
"It's not my fault you're a Kyuubimon at the moment," Rika said.
"You just pulled that little stupid stunt of yours that pissed me off," Jessica growled as she removes her paw from Rika's throat, "Come on Black Renamon we're going, oh Takato have a good time with all of your friends."
"Do we have to go now," Black Renamon asked not having payed any attention to what has been going on between Rika and Jessica just now.
"Yes we have to go," Jessica said.
"What do you mean have a good time with all of my friends," Takato asked confused.
"Aw alright," Black Renamon said in a disappointed tone as she turns around and seeing Jessica in her current state she becomes happy and excited.
Jessica grunts in annoyance as Black Renamon jumps up and lands in a sitting position on her back, "Do you have to be on my back," Jessica asked as she turns to Black Renamon.
"But I almost never get to ride you like this," Black Renamon whined.
Jessica sighs, "Fine I'll let you do it this time but don't even think of kicking me with your feet," she said.
Rika rubs her sore throat, "I could take you on any time and defeat you," Rika said in annoyance.
"Don't even try," Jessica said as she begins to fade into the shadows, "You couldn't even handle me for three reasons, one I'm currently a level higher then you, two I'm more experienced they you currently are and three you can't even use your arm at the moment."
"Since when have Kyuubimons been able to teleport," Takato asked.
"They can't teleport," Jessica's voice is heard and Rika jumps because it was said almost right in her ear, "But that doesn't mean they can't blend in with the shadows so they can't been seen by anyone when moving."
"See you later," Takato said.
"Don't say that," Rika responded.
"Why are you so mean to her?" Takato asked.
"I don't trust her," Rika said.
"I think I found one," Takato said, "They need a lot but I can get them."
"You're not listening to me," Rika said.
"Come on lets gather up the others I need," Takato said.
"What do you by the others that you need," Rika asked.
"Well it says I need at least six digimon for the job I want to do," Takato said, "So I'm going to have Terriermon, Monodramon, Ryo, Andrew and Dorumon come with us as well."
"You can't be serious," Rika said.
"Actually I am," Takato said, "You also agreed that we should give Renamon and Guilmon some time alone, the only way we can is to bring the others with us."
"Then if you're so serious this will be a lot faster," Rika said as she grabs Takato and teleports both of them back in front of his room.
"That helps," Takato said, "But I was actually thinking of just you and me talking for a little bit on our way here, I guess we can talk a little later."
"Well you can still tell me right now," Rika said.
"Actually I didn't want anyone in this area to hear what I want to tell you because I don't want them blurting it out to everyone else," Takato said, "So I'll tell you later when we have a chance to talk alone."
"Fine if you say so," Rika said, "Get the others you want to bring and let's get out of here before that girl Jessica starts bugging us again."
Meanwhile, Kari places Gatomon and Black Gatomon on the ground. Black Gatomon drop to all four and shakes. "This is weird," she said, "I can't feel the dirt in my fur and I smell."
"Hello," A nurse digimon said walking in as a gatomon opens the door. "I got her bandaged up," she said placing Davis onto the couch. "Its time to look at the gatomons."
"Me first," Clawz said, "Get this cast off me."
"I'll see if I can," the nurse digimon said, "All those that are hurt please line up."
Just then they hear a short scream. Meanwhile outside Ryo slowly recovers. "You scared me," she yelled at Rika.
"Let's just get going," Rika said, "Takato needs you."
"What do you mean Takato needs me," Ryo asked.
"Takato wants to do one of the jobs and it says he needs at least six digimon from what he told me," Rika said, "So come on."
The nurse comes out of Kari and Tai's room, "Is everything ok," she asked.
"Yeah everything is fine, she just scared me is all," Ryo said as she points at Rika.
"Well that's good," the nurse said.
"What do you mean that is good," Ryo yelled.
"I mean it's good that no one got hurt," the nurse said as she starts to head back into Kari and Tai's room, "With all the fights that have happened we already have enough injured digimon and humans to take care of."
"Well I'm going to tell the others now," Rika said as she teleports back into the room.
A few minutes later all of the digimon in Takato's room walk out, "What's going on," Renamon asked.
"Well Takato decided to take on a job that requires at least six digimon so you and Guilmon can spend some time alone with those two," Rika said pointing at Renamon and Guilmon's children.
"That's nice," Guilmon said, "But with the way Lord Holy Angemon is do you think that is a good idea to leave us here?"
"Actually I was thinking of setting it up to where Tai and Kari are keeping an eye on you while we are gone just in case," Takato said.
"That's a wise decision," Renamon said, "We have no clue what the host will do otherwise."
"Hmm Takato has seemed to change a bit," Rika said, "He seems to be coming up with good ideas lately."
"I doubt you would like someone who can't think," Renamon said.
"I'm not in the mood to talk about that," Rika said.
Meanwhile TK closes the door to Matt's room. "He will be fine," she told Gabumon and Mimi. "The Nurse says that some humans feel uneasy from the change because they are changing much faster then planned."
Elsewhere, Gomamon whined, "Why do I need to do this?" He finish stitching up a digimon's cut.
"Because Doctor Gomamon, they need more help," Jenny said hand scissors to Gomamon, "And other than the nurses and Joe you're the only one with medical knowledge."
"Thank you nurse Jenny," Gomamon said as he cut the end of the thread.
"Your welcome," Jenny said, "For someone with just flippers instead of hands you're doing this stuff pretty good."
"Yeah well the ones who gave us the stuff to use said it was designed more for a digimon with out hands then with," Gomamon said, "So I guess that helps a lot."
"How did you learn this?" Jenny asked.
"Joe force me to learn," Gomamon said, "He calls it broadening my horizon."
Elsewhere "Why should I come," Takato recently won terriemon asked.
"Because I order you to," Takato said just before he walks to the mission desk.
"I'm sorry sir," the digimon behind the counter said which happens to be a Meramon, "but this mission was changed just a little bit ago."
"Changed how?" Takato asked.
"Well this mission requires that there at least has to be two humans going," Meramon said, "So I can't give it to you at the moment."
"And why was it changed," Rika asked.
"I'm not sure," Meramon said, "It just was."
"Let's just find another one to do," Andrew said.
'This should keep them from doing this particular mission,' Meramon thinks and frowns as he sees Takato grinning as another human walks into the area a few moments later.
"Hey Kazu want to join us on one of the missions," Takato asked.
"Sure why not," Kazu said.
"He is not coming along," Rika stated.
"Rika calm down," Takato said, "We need him if we want to do the mission."
"Fine," Rika said annoyed.
"There is still one problem," Meramon said, "The amount of digimon required has been raised to nine."
Rika getting annoyed walks over to Meramon and grabs him by the back of his neck, "Are you completely blind or just an idiot," she growled as she points to Kazu, "He has three digimon with him."
Meramon takes another look at Kazu and sees MarineAngemon sitting on one shoulder and Kenta on the other, "Well I didn't see those two before because they are so small," Meramon said.
"So now will you give us the job," Takato asked.
"Give me a few moments to check the requirements again," Meramon said.
"Are you sure this is even worth it," the Terriermon asked.
"I'm sorry but there is still one requirement that you don't meet, you need at least two nonhuman and nondigimon creatures with you," Meramon said, 'This should keep them from wanting to take the job, I doubt they know the only two humans that has been changed but not into digimon.'
Rika is about to attack Meramon but Takato grabs her and takes her to where the digimon can't hear them, "Rika calm down," Takato said, "I know that Meramon is getting on your nerves but you have to keep a cool head and we can beat him at his own game, before you say anything else I want you to listen to me."
"I'll listen I guess but if I don't like what I hear I'll beat both you and Meramon into the ground," Rika growled.
"What I want you to do really quick is go tell both Henry and Jeri to come to the mission place as soon as they can with their digimon," Takato said, "Eventually he'll give up and give us the job we want to do."
"Fine," Rika said and teleports away before Takato can say anything else.
"It looks like one of your digimon decided to give up," Meramon said.
"No Rika didn't give up," Takato said, "I just sent her to check to make sure I didn't forget to do something when I left my room."
"I could have sworn you two were fighting about something," Meramon said.
"No it's just that she doesn't like having others tell her what to do or when others are being rude to her or her friends," Takato said, "Now I'm sure you can overlook the part with the creatures that aren't human or digimon and just give us the job."
"Sorry but I can't," Meramon said, "Lord Holy Angemon would torture me or worse if I did."
Meanwhile Rika stands outside of Henry's room waiting for someone to answer and after a few moments Suzy opens the door, "What brings you here Rika," Suzy asked.
"Is Henry here? Takato wanted me to ask him something," Rika said.
"No he isn't and I'm not sure where he went either," Suzy said, "Though lately I noticed him and Jeri have been together a lot more then usual."
"Thanks for letting me know," Rika stated and teleports to just outside Jeri's room and knocks on the door.
"Uh can I help you," Julie asked as she opens the door.
"I'm looking for Jeri and Henry if you have seen them," Rika said.
"They aren't here," Julie said, "But Jeri did say something about going to meet Henry to get something to eat and then going to have a little fun."
"When were you told this," Rika asked.
"I think it was an hour and a half ago," Julie said and then points towards the sky, "Wait I think I see them heading towards us right now."
"Are you sure about that," Rika said, "This is the digital world and it could be anyone or anything that you see."
"Well I haven't seen any kind of HippoGryphomons here and I don't think there is any other flying digimon that has brown fur and feathers in the palace like Henry and Jeri do," Julie said.
"They aren't digimon at the moment," Rika said.
"I know that," Julie said, "I just meant is that I don't think there is any other flying digimon then HippoGryphomons with fur as far as I know."
Rika stands there for a few minutes waiting to see if it is in fact Henry and Jeri like Julie thinks it is and when the two land Henry asked, "What brings you here Rika?"
"Takato wants you to meet him at the place to get jobs," Rika said, "He's having some problems with the digimon that gives out the job adding requirements to the one he wants to do and just in case bring your partners along as well."
"Alright let him know that we'll be there as soon as possible," Jeri said, "You heard Rika lets go Julie."
"Ok let me tell Gabumon and Leomon too then," Julie said.
"They're here at the moment," Jeri asked.
"Yeah they came back about half an hour ago," Julie said.
"Well I'll let you two get your partners while I go see Renamon and Guilmon back in the room really quick," Rika said.
"Aren't they going," Henry asked.
"No they aren't," Rika said, "The main reason Takato wants to get a job or as he keeps calling it a mission is to give Renamon and Guilmon some time alone."
"Ah ok," Henry said.
'I finally told them and I hope you'll be happy about that Takato,' Rika thinks to herself.
Meanwhile back with Takato and the others, "Why can't you just give us the job," Kazu yelled.
"Thanks for telling..." Takato said as he turns to where he thinks Rika is only for no one to be there and stops, 'I could have sworn I heard Rika say something just now,' he thinks.
"Hey Takato are you feeling ok," Monodramon asked.
"Nope I think Takato has finally lost it," Kazu said, "He's now talking to himself."
"Kazu just shut up," the Terriermon said, "Takato's probably just a little stressed out from the fights he had and from how that digimon there is being a prick at the moment."
Meanwhile as Rika teleports outside of Takato's room, "I need to stop thinking so much about some things because it's starting to cause me to imagine hearing certain people," Rika muttered to herself.
"Why are you back here," Renamon asked as Rika walks into the room, "I thought you would have left with Takato and the other digimon he took already?"
"I just felt like coming back here for a few minutes and that digimon at the jobs place keeps adding requirements for the one Takato wants each time we meet them," Rika said, "It's just getting really annoying."
"That must be annoying," Guilmon said.
"What kind of stuff are they adding," Renamon asked.
"Oh the first thing that was added was that there has to be at least two humans and then the Meramon added that there had to be nine partner digimon because he didn't see MarineAngemon and Kenta at first when Kenta surprisingly showed up after he said that," Rika said, "And now he said that at least two nonhuman and nondigimon creatures had to go as well, so Takato sent me to ask Henry and Jeri to meet him there which I already did."
"You love that teleporting," Guilmon said as he places his sleeping daughter in the nest.
"Of course," Rika said, "I like appearing behind them."
Meanwhile, Ice looks at her healed leg. 'It feels great to have it off,' she thinks, 'But now they want me to spy more.'
"Hey Ice how are you feeling?" Tai asked.
"I'm doing better," Ice said, "My leg is healed."
"About that," Tai said as he lowers himself down, "She said you should still take it easy for a while so I think you should just rest here while the other gatomons are working."
"Alright," Ice said. 'Should I try to get in a good place to spy,' she asked herself.
"What do you mean you can't remove my cast," Clawz yelled.
"Calm down Clawz," Maria said, "Your leg is healing but it's going to be another few days to a week before the cast can be removed."
"Why is it that Ice got her cast removed and I can't," Clawz complained.
"Ice's leg was only broken in one place," Maria said, "While your leg had three fractures, two of them have healed mostly while the worst one has only just begun to heal it looks like."
"Well it would have healed fully if you had stayed off your leg Clawz like we kept telling you," Kari said.
"Actually Kari it wouldn't have made much of a difference," Maria said, "Unless Clawz had been using up a lot of her energy in the process."
"What do you mean," Kari asked.
"Well I'm not sure how it is with humans but for digimon healing has to mainly do with the energy their bodies put into it," Maria said, "Now if they stay completely active as much or more so then they usually are then it could cause the healing process to go very slow or not start at all."
Meanwhile Takato is still arguing with Meramon about the job, "Just give me the job will you," Takato said.
Rika then appears right in front of Takato causing him to jump in surprise, "I did what you wanted me too," Rika said as she's just sitting on the counter and Meramon shoves her off, "Hey what the hell did you do that for," she yelled in the digimon's face.
"No one is allowed to sit on the counter," Meramon said.
"You could have just told me," Rika yelled, "And you're sitting on it yourself."
"What I mean is no one besides me is allowed to sit of it," Meramon said.
"Just give us the stupid job already," Rika growled as she's getting sick of Meramon's smug attitude, "Or I'll rip your throat out."
"Rika just try to calm down," Takato said.
"You know if she attacks me and tries something like that you'll be the one held responsible human," Meramon said.
"We have names you know," Rika growled.
"I really don't care if any of you have names you stupid bitch," Meramon said.
"That does it," Rika yelled as she lunges at Meramon only for Takato to stop her, "Let go of me Goggle head or else."
"Rika please just calm down, Meramon is just trying to get you worked up," Takato said and then lowers his voice to a whisper, "I also want to beat Meramon to a bloody pulp but I don't want any of us to get in trouble for it."
"I really don't care any more," Rika yelled, "Now let go of me."
Takato manages to get his arms into a position that makes it impossible for Rika to use her good arm, "I'll try to help you with Rika," Kazu said as he approaches them.
"You even try to touch me and you're dead," Rika growled and kicks Kazu in the chin.
'What's up with him,' Takato thinks as he sees the sudden change in Meramon's facial features from a smirk to a frown and notices that he's looking past them and turns his head to see Henry and Jeri walking up with their digimon, "Oh hey Henry and Jeri," he yelled, "About time you two got here."
'So they do know them,' Meramon thinks, 'This is turning out to be harder then I originally thought it would be.'
Takato starts walking backwards as he pulls Rika with him, "So why did you want us to meet you here," Henry asked.
"That digimon over there is being a pain and keeps changing the requirements for the mission I want to do every time they're met," Takato said, "Part of the reason I wanted you to come here is that he changed it to where at least two nonhuman and nondigimon creatures had to go on the mission with and I also figured both of you would want to get out of this place even if it's just for a few days at most I think."
"Yeah I wouldn't mind getting out of this place for a while," Jeri said, "There really isn't much to do here most of the time."
"Why exactly did you want us to come," Julie asked.
"I didn't tell Rika to tell any of the digimon to come but you're welcome to come if you want to," Takato said.
"I guess we're all ready to go then," Henry asked.
Takato nods, "Hey we have all the requirements so now will you give us the job," he asked.
"Sure why not," Meramon said with a huge grin, "But I have seemed to forgot to mention till now that those two will have to wear collars and leashes."
"You can't be serious," Takato yelled as he's very tempted to let Rika attack the digimon and not care about any kind of consequences, "I would never do something like that to any of my friends."
'That should keep them from taking the job now,' Meramon thinks, 'Especially since they're friends.'
"Before you do anything hasty let's talk about it first," Henry whispered.
"Why should we talk about something like that," Takato whispered through gritted teeth as he's still holding Rika, "I'm not going to let him treat any of my friends like animals."
"Who says we can't just take the things off once we get out of sight of this place," Jeri whispered, "I doubt they can make it so we can't."
"Jeri has a point," Henry whispered, "We don't like the idea of putting them on ourselves but we can ditch the things once we get out of here."
"Are you actually sure about this," Takato asked, "I don't want to force the two of you to put them on if you don't want to."
"Takato let go of me," Rika said as she finally stomps on his foot, "And they already made up their minds and you won't be changing them so get the stupid job you want before that digimon can think of anything else to add to the requirements."
"Fine," Takato said as he's holding his sore foot and turns to Meramon, "We're still taking the job after I talked to my friends here."
"W-w-what," the digimon asked in surprise.
"Takato said we are still taking the job moron," Rika said.
"I heard him," Meramon said annoyed and points at Henry and Jeri, "I need those two to come over here as well as the human next to them."
"Why is that," Takato asked.
"So I can put the right size collars on them so they don't choke them," Meramon said, "The reason I want you over here is so I can set up the leashes properly."
"What do you mean you have to set up the leashes properly," Jeri asked.
"Well the leashes we use link up to the digivices because it's a program that requires a digivice to work properly," Meramon said, "I'm not sure how it works other then that though."
"Just hurry it up," Takato said, "You already annoyed me enough today."
A little later Takato and the others walk away from the palace after finally getting the job, "I'll be right back," Rika said as she teleports away.
Meanwhile back at the job place, "What is it you want now," the digimon asked as Rika appears in front of him.
"I just wanted to say this," Rika growled, "Power Paw," she yelled as she slugs him in the face.
"Thank yousth and comth againth," Meramon said right before passing out from the blow.
"That will teach you to insult me," Rika said before teleporting back to Takato.
"So where did you go Rika," Takato asked.
"I just went to teach that digimon a lesson for insulting me," Rika stated, "Now let's get going and find some place to remove those collars from Henry and Jeri."
"Yeah I want to get this thing off me because it feels really uncomfortable," Jeri said and stops for a moment and starts walking again, "I can't even stop for a few moments because of that leash set up that digimon did, because it feels like I'm being choked if I do when your still walking Takato."
"I'll see if I can do anything about it," Takato said as he pulls out Rika's d-arc and realizes that the one that Jessica gave him is missing but doesn't worry to much about because something tells him that she took it back for now and looks at the program the digimon set up on the d-arc and finds the option to adjust it which only lists the length in yards.
"Find anything to do with it yet Takato," Henry asked.
"Yeah I did I'm just having trouble getting it to actually do the changes I want to make," Takato said, "It's currently set to three yards and I'm trying to change it to thirty yards to give you a lot more slack to move around."
"Why did you have him install it on my d-arc," Rika asked.
"I wasn't sure how mine would react to the program and didn't want to take the chance of screwing it up," Takato said.
"So you rather have mine get screwed up," Rika stated.
"No Meramon said the program works fine with the d-arcs and only some of the digivices," Takato said, "I think he means it won't work with the digivices like the ones Sora has at the moment and I think I finally got it set up for thirty yards."
Jeri stops for a moment only to feel like she getting strangled again and Takato stops, "I thought you said you solved the problem," Jeri complained.
Takato looks at the program again and sweat drops, "It might help if I disabled this one feature," he said.
"What feature is that," Henry asked.
"It looks like that prick of a digimon enabled a part that automatically causes it to lock the leash thing in place if you stop while I'm still walking," Takato said, "But I disabled it now."
"I think now would be a good time to get these things off," Henry said, "We're in a forest area so we won't be seen taking them off."
"Yeah now is as good a time as any," Takato said, "Let's get them off the two of you."
Henry's Terriermon looks for a way to get the collar off Henry but can't seem to find any way to take it off, "Uh Takato I don't see any way to remove the collar," he said.
"I can't find it either," the other Terriermon said also on Henry's back.
Henry turns to look at the other Terriermon, "And why are you on my back," Henry asked.
"It looked like he was comfortable so I decided to hop up here as well," the other Terriermon said as he's pointing at Henry's Terriermon.
Takato walks over to Jeri and looks at the collar around her neck and moves around for a few minutes not finding any kind of buckle thing to undo on it and proceeds to try to pull it only for it not to budge at all, "I can't seem to get it off," Takato said.
"Let me try something," Rika said as her hand starts to glow a little bit.
"Uh are you sure that's a good idea Rika," Takato asked, "We want to get the collars off them with out hurting them."
"Just watch and learn Takato," Rika said as points her hand at the collar on Henry's neck, "Diamond storm," she said as she creates ten around her hand and aims them all to hit the collar on Henry.
"Rika stop," Henry said, "Whatever you're doing is making the collar really hot."
"I'm not doing anything at the moment," Rika said as Takato walks behind Henry to get a better view of what's happening to the collar he's wearing.
As they are looking at it the collar starts to glow and after a few moments the glow starts to gather in one spot before rising off of it in a ball and it flies right into Rika's face and explodes causing her to scream mainly in surprise and some pain.
"Rika are you ok," Takato asked in a worried tone as he walks towards Rika.
"I'm not sure," Rika said and with out warning she jumps at Takato and pushes him to the ground with her on top of him, "Are you ok Takato?"
Takato is about to say something but his face goes completely pale as he sees some kind of metal disk like item go flying by and it happens to pass right where his head was before Rika knocked him to the ground.
"Damn it Takato are you ok," Rika said as she pounds her fist in the ground next to his head getting his attention.
"Y-y-yeah I'm fine thanks to you," Takato said, "Are y-you ok R-Rika?"
"I don't know," Rika said.
Meanwhile Knightmon walks into the room Lord Holy Angemon is currently in, "So what did you want me to meet you here for," Knightmon asked.
"I just want to know if you learned anything from the spy near the Kamiyas," Lord Holy Angemon said.
"Not much," Knightmon said, "It not that easy to contact her and keep who she is hidden."
"You should have left her there without all the other gatomons," Lord Holy Angemon said.
"It fun watch them handle all those gatomons," Knightmon said.
"A meeting is called by the others," Lord Holy Angemon said, "I'm leaving you to handle the important matters, the workers should be able to handle most of the events."
"Now that I think about it I haven't seen Maidmon around lately," Knightmon said, "What happened to her?"
"I decided to turn her into a digi-egg," Lord Holy Angemon said as he's playing around with a digi-egg.
"So what are you going to do with her digi-egg," Knightmon asked as he's watching Lord Holy Angemon tossing the digi-egg back and forth.
"I really don't know yet," Lord Holy Angemon said as he tries to spin it on his finger like a basket ball but he loses control of it and it smashes against the floor.
"Please tell me that wasn't Maidmon's digi-egg," Knightmon asked.