Tk: Last time, a transfer student named Adele came to our school. When she went into the computer lab, she received a digivice and Davis saw the whole thing. He ran to get us and when we got there, Adele was accidentally pulled into the digital world! There, she got the crest of confidence and met her partner Babydmon who digivolved into Dracomon to help Davis and Flamedramon take down a Cyclonemon that was attacking them. After that, she met the rest of the digidestined except for Mimi and when we were walking home, she ran away. I wonder why?

Adele was up extremely early that morning. She would have thought that yesterday's events were all a dream had she not been woken up by Babydmon.

"Adele get up! Come on the sun is up, you should be too! Wakey wakey!"

Her eyes opened and similarly to yesterday, she was greeted by excited purple eyes. "Babydmon what time is it?"

"I don't know how to tell time!"

"What are the numbers on that black box?"

"The red ones? 5.3.0"

Adele groaned and rolled over. "Go back to sleep."

"I can't."

"Why not?"

"The sun is up!"

"Can I go back to sleep?"

"No."

"Why?"

"Like I said, the sun is up!"

Realizing that she wasn't going to win, Adele rolled out of bed and got dressed. After slipping on her red beanie, she walked over to a picture of her family and kissed it lightly.

"I hope you guys are okay."

In truth, Adele was a foreign exchange student and living by herself which meant she had definitely lied to TK. She felt guilty about it but at the time, she had to get away and it seemed like a legit excuse.

In the kitchen, she started to prepare a breakfast of eggs and toast for her and her little digimon who watched her full of curiosity.

"What are you doing?"

"Cooking breakfast. It may not be the best but. . ."

"Adele! Confidence!" She giggled lightly.

"Right."

She piled some books onto a chair so Babydmon could reach his plate. Since he had no hands, he had to bend forward and eat like a dog.

"This is great! You should make these all the time!" He yelled while stuffing his face with toast. Adele nearly choked on her own toast with laughter.

"Glad you like it. I have plenty of recipes for you to try."

After finishing his meal Babydmon begged for more so Adele gave him the rest of hers. She didn't want it anyway. Her stomach was churning at the thought of facing the others after running away from them last night. She hoped they weren't mad.

"Babydmon! We're going for a walk!"

"Don't you have that school thing to go to?" He asked, now done with the food. Adele shook her head.

"Not for another hour and a half. If someone hadn't woken up early, this wouldn't be a problem." She sighed.

"Okay!"

It was probably a good idea for both of them to get a better feel for the city before school. Adele grabbed her backpack and decided to hold Babydmon in her arms.

"Listen closely. If anybody asks me anything, you can't answer. You have to be quite and pretend to be a stuffed animal from Germany. As long as we are around people, you don't move or speak. Okay?"

"Yeah yeah, let's go!"

The blond smiled as she slipped her key into her pocket and unlocked her door. Most people were just waking up now so the hallway and elevator were empty.

The streets weren't as busy as Adele though they would be, but it was 7:30. Most few people were already strolling down the street and Adele couldn't help but believe that she shouldn't be one of them. She should be in her nice warm bed and would be had it not been for the little trouble maker in her arms.

They wandered around for another half hour before deciding that they should get back to school.

"What am I supposed to do while you're in class?" Babydmon whined.

"I don't know. I'll ask the Kari or something when we get to school."

The school was approaching fast. At the curb Adele saw Kari and Davis talking, Davis suddenly starting to pout.

"Adele!" Kari yelled with relief. Adele helped Babydmon into her backpack as she made her way over.

"Hi."

"You're here early."

"Babydmon had me up early." She sighed as she gestured to her bag. Babydmon popped his head out and smiled.

"It was light out!"

"Shh!"

Kari laughed. "Anyway, we were waiting since I figured you wouldn't know what to do with your digimon at school. Just follow me. We usually keep them in the computer lab since nobody goes in there anyway."

Kari asked Adele a bit about how she was settling in both Japan and having a digimon. Adele told her it was going well, besides the whole 'we rise with the sun speech' which Babydmon actually gave Kari. Davis had disappeared sulking over to the soccer field.

"What was up with Davis?" Adele brought up quietly.

"Nothing really. He just tried to ask me out again." For some reason, Adele felt like her heart had dropped down to her stomach. "Can you keep a secret?"

"Probably." Adele fake smiled. Kari smiled back at her.

"The truth is, I really like Tk, but the guy is too dense to tell!" She laughed lightly with a slight blush on her cheek. Adele nudged her.

"I don't think he's as dense as you think. I'll keep an eye out for you though and let you know what I think later okay? I bet the results are different then what you're expecting."

"Really?"

"Of course!"

Kari quickly hugged her. "Thanks Adele. You're a great friend!"

Adele was taken back but smiled. "W-what are friends for."

When they arrived at the computer room, everyones digimon were there except for hers. She let Babydmon out of her bag who instantly ran in and started to play with Demiveemon.

"Behave please!" Adele cried. Demiveemon and Babydmon had already knocked into one of the tables and knocked over a computer mouse. Kari laughed.

"Don't worry. Gatomon and Patamon can handled them. In the meantime, we should get to class."

The rest of the way to class, Kari told embarrassing stories about Tai to Adele and their laughter could be heard throughout the hall.

Davis perked up when he'd heard Kari's voice. What surprised him was that she was walking with Adele and the two of them were together. They split up at the front of the room with Adele making her way into her seat next to Davis.

"M-morning." She whispered, taking her seat. She was officially comfortable with Kari, but the others still made her nervous. For some reason, Davis made her especially nervous.

"Morning." He replied, eyes already on Kari. It seemed as though he had forgotten his failure to ask her out this morning and was thinking of a way to try again. A boy from the front of the room made his way over to her desk. He was wearing a black plaid shirt with long black shorts and sneakers. He had brown hair and brown eyes with a cocky smile on his face.

"Hey sweetheart, I'm John. It's a pleasure to meet you." He smirked. Adele got up and politely bowed.

"I'm Adele."

"Don't worry sweetheart, I know who you are. Just thought you'd like to know who I am." He grabbed her hand and lightly kissed her knuckle. Flustered, she looked around and found Kari starring at John angrily. She gave Adele a quick look.

Don't trust him.

Adele backed up and sat back in her seat. Davis, who was looking at Kari, saw Kari glaring angrily at someone. He turned just in time to watch John kiss Adele's knuckle and Adele start to panic.

"I-it was nice to meet you, b-but you should get b-back to your seat before the teacher comes."

"Oh, I'm not worried about the teacher." He leaned down so his elbows were on the desk and his face was only inches away from Adele's. Davis clenched his fists ready to punch the guy.

Thank god the teacher walked in then. She looked at Adele's desk to see a young girl nervous and fidgeting while a young boy leaned over her with a smirk.

"John! Get back to your seat and stop harassing that girl!"

John rolled his eyes but got up.

"Later babe." He waved. Adele gulped and leaned back on her seat.

Later?!

Davis didn't relax until John was back in his seat. for some reason, it really bugged him that the kid was flirting with Adele.

Half way through the class Adele was looking out the window to the hallway when she saw a blob of green being followed by a blob of blue. She looked closer and noticed two little black and red horns and little blue ears.

That couldn't be good.

She kicked Davis under the desk in the shin. He hissed in pain and glared at her. "Oww! What was that for?"

She jerked her head towards the window. He looked and saw as Babydmon and Demiveemon just as they were escaping their view.

"Shit!" He whisper yelled.

"Okay Davis, play along, I have a plan."

Adele then began to cough violently. Her whole body shook as she coughed and it made her face red.

"Adele! Are you alright?" The teacher yelled. Adele shook her head.

"Can someone take me to the nurse?" She spoke weakly and then continued to cough.

"I can." John volunteered with a smirk. He was already getting up and making his way over to Adele.

"Sit down pretty boy, I got this." Davis snapped. He helped Adele to her feet and supported her as she weakly stumbled out of the room. Once they were outside, she straightened up a bit.

"Okay, let's go find them."

The digidestined pair crept down to the end of the hallway. To the right, they saw the forms of two digimon start climbing up some stairs.

"No you don't!" Davis yelled as he ran up to Demiveemon. He picked the digimon up as Adele raced next to him and grabbed her partner as well.

"What the heck are you too doing!"

"Aww Davish, don't yell! We we're just making sure that they're weren't any enemies here that could hurt you is all!"

"You've never done that before."

"Babydmon said it was a good idea!"

Adele glanced down at her digimon who was giving her innocent eyes.

"Babydmon..."

"I just didn't want you to get hurt!"

She sat down on the steps and pet him lightly.

"I know sweetie but you can't wonder around the school like this. You could get hurt if someone found you and I don't want that to happen. I know we're still working on this relationship but I don't want you to get hurt okay?"

"I'm sorry Adele."

"It's alright." She hugged the baby digimon to her chest and softly thanked him for his concern. Babydmon nuzzled into her and wrapped his tail around her as to hug her back.

"There going to make a great team, aren't they Davish?"

"Yeah, yeah they are." The goggled headed boy was watching them with a small smile on his face, his heart beating just a tiny bit faster.

"Now come on you two, it's time to go back with the others."

The digimon were frantically trying to find Demiveemon and Babydmon in the computer lab.

"Come on you guys! This isn't a game of hide and seek!" Patamon yelled.

They heard the door start to open and instantly hid from sight.

"Don't tell me they all left!" Davis exclaimed. Demiveemon sniffed the air.

"Nope! They're all here!"

He jumped out of Davis's arms and strode in like he owned the joint. "Come on out guys!"

The other digimon came out from where they were hiding. Gatomon had a mad look in her eyes.

"What's wrong with you guys! Where did you go?!" As Demiveemon tried to explain himself, Adele got this weird feeling. Something was telling her that she had to go to the digital world and she had to go right now.

"Davis. Cover for me and don't follow."

"What are you?"

"Digiport open!"

Adele and Babydmon's form flashed and they were sucked into the computer. Davis started to panic.

"What do I do now! Should I go after her or get the others of just cover for her?!"

"DAVIS!" Gatomon screamed. He looked over at her.

"Go get Kari and Tk. I'm sure Adele will be fine until then."

"Right!"

Adele landed on her butt when she got to the digital world, but this time she didn't pass out. She got up and dusted herself off, then pulled up Dracomon who was next to her.

"Come on Dracomon, there's something going on here, and I don't like it."

In the distance, their was a loud boom. Smoke came from it and their was a burning smell.

"The forest is one fire!"

"Come on Adele, let's go!"

"I-I" All of her former confidence was now gone. "I don't know what I could do t-to help. I might only make it worse."

"Adele! Confidence!"

"O-okay." The partners took off running into the forest.

what was I thinking! I can't do anything to put out a fire this large. . .

The deeper they got into the forest, the louder the fighting got.

"Solar ray!" I ray of light shot through the tree's causing Adele and Dracomon to drop to the ground, avoiding the attack.

"Fireball!"

"Dracomon we have to do something!"

They ran further into the woods until they came upon a small clearing. The area around it was on fire and two digimon were fighting. One looked like a man made of fire and the other looked like a centaur with canons for hands.

"W-who is that?"

"That's Centarumon and Meramon! I don't understand why their fighting though. They're usually peaceful digimon!" (if you guys don't remember them, shame on you!)

"Fire fist!"

Centarumon was hit by a fist of fire and sent flying backwards into a tree. Meramon approached him body blazing.

"No!" Adele yelled, running between Meramon and Centarumon. Meramon growled at her.

"Get out of the way so I can finish him! Only the strong shall survive!"

"I won't! Why are you fighting him?"

"Girl, step out of the way. You'll only get hurt." Centarumon mumbled as he got back on his hooves.

"That's better then you getting hurt! Why are you fighting him?"

"I told you. Only the strong shall survive. Fireball!" A flaming ball of fire was shot at Adele. Centarumon pushed her out of the way, taking the full force of the attack.

"Centarumon!"

Dracomon growled and charged towards Meramon. "I don't know who you are, but nobody hurts my partner like that! Baby breath!"

Dracomon opened his mouth and released a powerful gust of hot wind. It knocked Meramon back a few feet, but did no further damage.

"Ha! You're weak. You can't defeat me! Fire fist!" Meramon punched Dracomon which sent him flying back into the ground.

"Dracomon!"

"You're next Centarumon! Girl, get out of the way or be burned to a crisp!"

"Never! I won't let you hurt anyone else. You shouldn't be fighting as a test of strength. This is just nonsense!"

"What's nonsense is letting the weak survive! They don't deserve to exist in this world!"

"Adele, get out of there!" A female voice yelled. Kari was running down the hill frantically trying to get her friend to stop. Davis and Tk were right on her heels.

"I'm sorry Kari, but as long as I'm alive and can do something, I won't let another innocent digimon get hurt. I know that I can't do much, but if there is anything I can do to help, anything at all, then I'm going to do it!"

Her digivice began to beep and glow and a beam of light shot down onto Dracomon. Dracomon rose from his spot, a new power washing through him.

"That's right! If we believe we can do something, then we can! That's the true power of confidence! Dracomon digivolve too..."

Dracomon's body became at least 5x bigger. The horns on his head became longer and red spikes trailed down his back. A red horn emerged from his nose. His body changed from Aqua to dark blue.

"Coredramon!" (Gooooggllleeee! Also, make sure you click Coredramon blue because theres a blue and a green. I'll be using the blue evolution line in this story.)

Coredramon leaped in front of Adele and swiped away Meramon's fire with the wave of an arm.

"Blue Flare Breathe!" A streaming blue flame fired from his mouth. Meramon laughed, absorbing the flame.

"Flame's can't hurt me!"

"But this can! Strike Bomber!" Coredramon emerged from the middle of his flames and smashed his tail into Meramon. The digimon was sent flying over the forest and out of sight completely.

"Home run!" Davis and Veemon cheered. Tk, Patamon and Gatomon glared at them while Kari ran over to her female friend.

"Adele are you okay?" She asked enveloping her in a hug. Adele nodded but winced when pressure was added to her arm. Kari pulled back immediately to examine it.

"You're burned!" Sure enough, the flesh on Adele's skin was pink and raw with blisters starting to form on it.

"I'll be okay. Let me just go talk to Centarumon for a sec."

Reluctantly, Kari let go of Adele. With a small smile, Adele walked over to Centarumon and knelt down beside him.

"Are you alright?"

"Well, I've been better." The horse pushed himself off the ground and used the tree next to him for support.

"Why were you two fighting?"

"You mean, you really don't know?"

"No."

"Then let me explain everything. After the defeat of Malomyotismon, the digital world was a peaceful place. Everything seemed to be perfect. That is, until another group of digimon came. They call themselves the Puritans. They believe that in such a perfect world, only perfect digimon should survive. The word was spread that when the perfect digimon was found, here or she would receive anything they wished for. Digimon are fighting everyday and many have been destroyed. Digieggs are being sectioned off into prison like area's of the digital world as well as losing digimon who manage to survive. Because they have lost in previous battle, they cannot fight again, even if most of them don't remember what happened."

"You mean, the entire digital world is a giant battle field? And it won't stop until the strongest digimon is found and all other digimon are blocked from the rest of digital world?"

"That's correct."

Adele felt her knee's buckled and she fell to the ground. The other digidestined who had heard Centarumon's explanation felt weak as well.

Innocent digimon were being forced to live their lives with no freedom while others had to fight to live.

"That's. . ."

Adele felt tears begin to fall from her eyes and onto the cold hard ground. This was insanity.

"I-I have to stop them."

Tk was the first to break from his trance. He knelt down beside Adele and put a hand on her shoulder.

"Adele, it isn't that easy. Before, we at least new who the enemy was. This is a fight against almost the entire digital world!"

"I have to! Why do you think I was given this." Adele unclipped her Digivice from her shorts and held it up for him.

"I-I know it's going to be hard and that I won't be able to do much, but I have to believe that I can help fix this. If there are still digimon out their like Centarumon then there's still hope. I may not know that much about the digital world, but I do know that I can't turn my back on it."

Tk smiled at her. The digital world definitely made a good choice choosing her to help protect it.

"You don't have to do this alone. You've got Dracomon and now me and Patamon by your side."

"And Gatomon and I!"

"Hey! Don't forget me and Davish!"

"And the rest of the digidestined."

"Thank you." Adele smiled back. Tk helped her up the ground and she smiled at her new friends. Now, she was positive that the seven kids and digimon in front of her were friends that she could absolutely count on.

"OWCH!"

They landed in a pile on the floor. Adele rolled and landed against the wall with her feet vertical in the hair leaning against the wall and the rest of her body on the ground. If gravity was different, one could say that she was sitting on the wall. Gatomon and Patamon were on her chest and next to her, Tk had fallen over with Kari on his stomach. Adele giggled lightly when she saw the red tint on both their faces. Davis landed in an extremely odd angle with Demiveemon on his stomach, and on top of Demiveemon was the little trouble maker himself. Babydmon.

"Who's the king of the castle now!" He yelled happily.

Adele put weight on her arms as to get up, but her burn told her otherwise. She yelped in pain, falling back to the ground.

"Oh Adele! You're burn!" Kari helped her up and examined her arm, which did not look good.

"We need to get you to the nurses office. Come on!" The girl began to yank on her friends arm to pull her out of the room.

"Kari hold on! What am I supposed to tell the nurse when I get there and she asks happened. 'Sorry, I was in the digital world and got burned by Meramon?' She'd never believe me."

She released the girls good arm and smiled sheepishly. "Right. Okay, Tk, come with me. I should have some wrap I can use for her arm in my locker."

"Aww! Why does Tk get to go?" Davis whined. Only Adele heard him as the other two had already left the computer lab. He sighed as he sat back down in his chair in a state of depression.

Adele sat down feeling a bit disappointed and touched her arm gently. A stinging pain shot through the length of her arm and she winced, opting to not touch it again.

Babydmon jumped up with a smile and landed on her lap.

"Did you see me earlier Adele! I digivolved! It was so super awesome huh?"

She giggled. "It sure was. I'm so proud of you."

"You should be! I kicked some serious digital ass!" Her eyes widened when he said that.

"Who taught you that word?"

"What? Ass?"

"Don't just go saying it again! So who taught you that?"

"Davis did!"

If looks could kill, Davis would be six feet under.

"Davis!"

"Huh?" He had just snapped out of his 'Kari rejection' state and was now looking at her oddly. Upon seeing her glare, he felt him self jump into the defense.

"What did I do?"

"You taught him a swear word!" She whisper yelled as she pointed down at her digimon. Davis began to laugh.

"What? Ass?!"

"Don't say it so lightly!"

"Come on, it's not even a bad word."

"Yes it is."

"No it isn't."

"Is."

"Isn't."

"Is."

"Isn't."

"Is!"

"Isn't!"

"IS!"

"ISN'T"

"IS!"

"We're back!" Tk announced as he and Kari walked back in. When they did, they found Adele and Davis head to head both seeming very angry. Adele gave him one last glare before sitting back down in her seat with a huff.

"What's got you so upset?" Tk asked.

"Nothing!" They snapped at the same time. Adele stuck her tongue out at Davis before turning her attention back to Kari holding the wrap for her arm.

"Let me wrap that up for you." She offered nervously. The tension in the room was so immense Kari and Tk felt as though they could reach out and touch it.

Wordlessly, Adele raised her arm and allowed Kari to wrap it up. Besides the occasional twitch and wince from the former, it was wrapped up smoothly and quickly.

"All set! Though we should still have Joe look at that later."

"Thanks Kari."

It seemed that each of them were trying to avoid the elephant in the room, also know as the information they'd just learned in the digital world. It was a really hard thing to process for them, especially Adele. She'd just discovered what the digital world was yesterday and now she was supposed to help save it?

"We have to tell the others, don't we." Adele sighed. It was more of a statement then a question.

"Yeah, but my brother isn't going to handle it well. You know how strong headed Tai can be."

"Matt's not going to take it well either."

"Can't we just tell them when Mimi get's here?"

"Davis, we can't withhold such important information."

There was a collective silence. Nobody wanted to be the one to speak the truth.

"Call another meeting at the playground. I'll tell them." Adele decided. She was freaking out on the inside, but it was something that had to be done, and she felt it was her that should say it. The others looked at her.

"I-if you don't think it's a g-good idea, Kari can tell them. I mean, I'm sure they would listen to her more then me anyways."

"Adele." Davis, Veemon and Babydmon started. They shared a grin.

"Confidence!"

A single tear fell from Adele's face as she finished telling her story about the digital world. Babydmon was held close to her chest for comfort and fear of losing him, even if they were currently in the real world.

The silence around them was painful. Hearts were beating faster, anger was raising, and the air was full of despair. Tai punched a tree as hard as he could causing his knuckles to bleed. Joe tossed him some medical wrap from his bag and then the silence swallowed over them once again.

Adele stood up and bowed lightly.

"I understand now why the digital world gave me a digivice and a partner. I'm not sure of the specific reason for being chosen, but I know that I'm going to do everything in my power to help." She turned to address the older children.

"I know that you've saved the digital world more then a fair share of times, so I won't ask you to help but. . ."

"Of course we're helping!" Sora exclaimed. Not only was her digimon involved but so were all of her friends and if they were going to fight, so she was too.

"But-"

"Please. Even if you begged us not to help we would anyway." Matt smirked. Adele smiled at all of them with an appreciating look.

"Okay you guys. Tomorrows friday so how about on saturday, we all head over to the digital world together for some damage control?" Tk asked.

Everyone agreed.

Tk and Adele were riding in the elevator up to their respective apartments. Adele seemed nervous and shaky with Babydmon trying to make faces to cheer her up which she didn't notice.

"Hey. No need to be so worried." Tk said jokingly as he nudged her side. Being extremely ticklish, she giggled before straightening out.

"I know. It's just, you guys have all been to the digital world before and even saved it, but I don't have any experience what so ever. I'm just afraid that I won't be able to do this."

Tk looked thoughtful.

"There was always a first time for us too. Of course Davis and the others had the older kids to help out, but there was our first mission too. Kari and I were only eight, and Kari didn't come until later. I was scared and didn't know what to do. Since I was the youngest, I thought I would be the weakest but I wasn't. My strength was just different from the others. Yours is too, you just have to find it."

The elevator doors opened on Adele's floor. She smiled at the boy next to her before getting off.

"Thanks Tk."

Babydmon had already fallen asleep in her arms. When she entered the apartment, she instantly moved to the couch and sat down. Her eyes started to close. With the last of her energy, she changed, set an alarm on her phone(doubting she'd need it) and then fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.