Wizardmon flew the fastest he could, "Don't worry…I'm trying to hurry and get you to the hospital."

Gatomon only nodded.

Why does the hospital have to be so far away from the school!? Wizardmon ducked quickly as a flock of birds almost flew into him. Gatomon groaned.

"Sorry, I'm trying my best."

"It's alright," Gatomon said and smiled.

Finally he made it there, and luckily Joe was out in the waiting room talking to a patient of his.

"Joe!" Wizardmon yelled as he came in, "Hurry, I need your help."

Joe looked over at Gatomon and already could tell right away what they needed, "I need a stretcher fast! Let's get her to the delivery room!"

The lady at the desk nodded, pushed a bottom near the intercom and called for some people and soon nurses and doctors came rushing in with a stretcher. The people in the waiting room couldn't help but keep looking at what was going on, most of them have never seen a female Digimon in labor…let alone even see one pregnant!

"Alright," Joe said to the others, "Let's go."

The others nodded and ran off to the delivery room.

"Humph, everything is settled with this guy," Veemon, who just devolved, said slapping 'dirt' off his hands by slapping/rubbing them together.

Hawkmon nodded, "I hope you've learned your lesson…Hayaimon."

Hayaimon didn't answer; he was too beat up to.

"Alright guys, we should get going," Kari said, worried about Gatomon.

The others nodded in agreement.

"But wait, shouldn't we destroy Hayaimon completely?" Cody said.

"Good point, but I think that broken wing and other bones of his will stop him from moving for a while," TK said.

The others laughed and agreed, then got out their digivices to head back and to the hospital as soon as they could.

"Pain…pain…PAIN!" Gatomon yelled, throwing her head back into the pillow more.

"How much, Gatomon?" Joe asked calmly.

"Just pain, damn you!"

"Well I have to know when it comes the most and how much so I know exactly when the baby is ready to come," Joe said, trying to be calm because of Gatomon's ignorance.

"How about this…" Gatomon started, a tone in her voice that had Wizardmon sigh and step back a bit, "…you get her out of me right now!"

"Gatomon I can't just…do that, not till it's ready all the way."

"I don't care! It hurts so much!" Gatomon cried as another wave of contraction came. Her cry had her lover by her side again, holding her hand.

"Look, I'm sorry Gatomon, but we'll have to be patient for now. I have to go do something with one of my patients really quickly; I'll have some nurses here to come get me when the time comes if I'm gone too long."

Gatomon sighed, "Alright, fine."

Gatomon looked over at a nurse smiling at her, somehow it annoyed her, "What're you smiling about!?"

"Gatomon please calm down a bit," Wizardmon said, looking at the nurse and nodded his head in apology.

"How can I!? I'm in pain!"

"I know, and it should be over soon-"

"No it won't! Joe said this can all last for maybe even a day! I don't want that!" Gatomon started to cry.

Wizardmon hugged her a bit, as much as he could not to harm her or the baby, "It's alright, you can do this; you're a strong, strong Digimon Gatomon."

Gatomon smiled, "I know, and I have you to make me even more strong."

Wizardmon smiled back at her, but soon his hand was squeezed and Gatomon moaned loudly, moving her head side to side; he squeezed her paw in response, "Gatomon remember those lessons we had, you have to breathe when the pain comes and such."

Gatomon nodded and breathed as she was taught to, she squeezed his hand again as it started to hurt even more.

"It won't stop hurting!" Gatomon yelled.

Wizardmon looked up at one of the nurses; she noticed and ran out of the door, knowing what to do.

"I hope we're not too late or anything," Kari said as the group ran into the hospital.

"Don't worry; it's going to be alright she's only having a baby!" TK said.

Kari ignored him and went to the lady at the desk, "Uh, do you happen to know where Gatomon is at the moment? She's having a baby."

"She's currently in labor, Doctor Kido was just called she's having it right now…as we speak," the woman said.

"Really!? Where!? Where's the room! I want to be with her!"

"The delivery room is down the hall…far, far down the hall but you're not allowed to go in."

Kari didn't listen and ran down the hall, with the others following. When they got there they could see a nurse coming out with towels, rags, and an empty bowl (used for water) and probably coming back with newer materials of the ones listed. They could hear Gatomon yelling in there, she seemed kind of…angry.

"Sheesh, I've NEVER heard her this mad," Davis said, eyes wide as he heard her scream a really colorful curse word.

"Well, it is supposed to be painful you idiot!" Yolei said, hitting him on the head.

"Ow! What was that for?! Sheesh," he said and whispered to himself, "I'd hate to be around HER when she's in labor!"

"What was that!?" Yolei said, raising her fist again.

"Nothing!"

"Gatomon you have to push!" Joe said, getting really frustrated.

"I'm trying, damnit, but you're not helping me!"

"I am too trying to help you, but I can't do it all alone if you won't help me by pushing!"

All the yelling back and forth was really starting to hurt the nurses' and Wizardmon's ears, although…his hand was currently in more pain than his ears could ever guess what pain was.

Soon the others outside could hear her saying something and then throw a glass cup of water across the room.

Everyone's eyes widened then looked at Kari.

She shrugged, "What? Do you think she gets it from me or something!? I'm surprised too…she's just stressed that's all."

"That's it! Get…her," Joe said to another one of the nurses, she nodded and went out of the room and soon another nurse came back in with a bowl of water, fresh towels, and a fresh rag, she had to be careful though…not to step on broken glass on the floor. Wizardmon tried to support Gatomon the best, hold her hand, and keep her cool with the rag all at once…although Gatomon seemed not to want it.

"Get that away from me!" She said, swatting the rag away from her.

"Gatomon…please…"

She only winced, and so did Wizardmon as she squeezed his hand tight and her claws were digging deep into his hand, and cried out more.

"Push, Gatomon, please push…" Joe said, trying even more to be calm.

Gatomon held her breath, "I am but you're not helping…"

"Yes I am, I'm trying to pull it out the best I can but you've got to push."

"I AM!"

Suddenly the nurse that was sent away came back with Swanmon following.

"Thank god, she's here," Joe said, sighing a bit.

Swanmon smiled, "I see, it's always hard when it's your first time…for both of you eh?"

"Shut up and help!" Joe and Gatomon yelled at the same time, although Joe added in a "please".

"Sorry," Swanmon said, "Alright you do remember the lessons right? Remember to-"

"I'll KILL you if you don't shut up! You obnoxious duck!" Gatomon said.

Swanmon sweat dropped, stepped back a bit and then whispered in Joe's ear, "She's an angry one…"

"Pfft…you should see what she's like during the fights," Joe said.

"Hello! No chatting! More helping!"

"We ARE, Gatomon! I said so, so many times!"

"Yes and then you're going to say I have to push, I'm trying!" she said and bit on her lip as she gave it another try and whimpered.

Wizardmon sighed and bent down closer to her face toward he was putting his forehead to hers, "Don't worry, Gatomon, I'm here, I'm here to help you through this; I wish there was a better way for me to help but the only was is for me to be there and comfort you. Now the time has come and you can't just keep our child waiting, just do what Joe says."

His voice was so soothing that the pain didn't matter to her, she nodded and, with her other paw, grabbed onto the bed sheets and gave another push.

"Here we go!" Joe said, "This helps, come on a few more."

Gatomon kept trying, one point she was just out of breath.

"Breathe in between, remember, breathe!" Swanmon said.

Since Gatomon was in too much pain at the moment, she didn't feel like yelling at her and did what she said. Another time she tried, she whimpered very loudly and yelled out Wizardmon's name really loud.

"It's alright, it's alright, I'm here…I'm here, you're doing good, Gatomon," he said, putting his forehead to hers again.

It was getting late, almost 10 o'clock, and everyone was tired…only Kari stayed awake. And then finally, she heard Joe's cry "You did it! You did it!" and shortly after that was the infant Digimon's cry. Kari, despite having her boyfriend sleeping in her lap, shot up quickly, "She had it! She had it! It's here!"

Her yelling woke everyone up, mostly TK since he was now on the floor…tasting it too.

"Why don't you just wake up the whole damn hospital while you're at it," Davis said as he rubbed his eyes. Kari had to wait a little bit for them to wake up more before she could announce it again. But she wasn't patient enough and said it again anyway, "Gatomon had the baby! It's here, finally!"

Everyone was finally awake, "What!?"

The nurses, taking turns…almost like…in a row, cleaned off the child and put her in a warm blanket and handed the child to her father to give to the mother. But as soon as the baby was in Wizardmon's hands, something odd happened…very, very, odd. She stopped crying, glowed and then seemed to evolve. At first she was like a SnowBotamon with a pink jewel on her forehead, now she looked somewhat like Gatomon's in-training stage…but her fur was peach, not yellow, and the ends of her ears had a pinkish-purplish look on it and her tail only had two hair like end to it, not three, and she had two stripes near her cheeks, the same color as her tail and ears.

"W-what just happened!?" Swanmon asked.

"I don't care!" Gatomon said, very tired but held out her arms, "Let me see my baby!"

Wizardmon sighed, still rather confused, and handed her their baby.

Gatomon smiled, having tears already falling from her eyes from happiness, "She's beautiful."

The baby stopped crying, and opened her eyes to look up at her parents and revealed large, sparkling emerald eyes.

"Look at that, she's got your eyes," Gatomon said, smiling up at Wizardmon.

He smiled back, but eventually winced and held his left hand with his right. His left hand was the one Gatomon was tearing apart a few minutes ago.

"Oh, that's a nasty wound," Joe said, "Let me get some gauze bandages before you bleed too much."

"I'm sorry," Gatomon said, her ears dropping.

"No, it's alright Gatomon, it's alright," Wizardmon said and smiled.

The two could hear Kari outside of the door yelling, "Let me see her! Joe please can I see her!?"

And in response they could hear Joe saying, "Alright, alright fine!"

Soon Kari and the others ran into the room, all yelling "where is it? Where is it!?"

Gatomon only smiled and waited till they got closer to look at the bundle of joy in her arms.

"Oh…my…god," Yolei started, "It's so cute!"
"She…" Gatomon said, looking down at her now sleeping child with a smile.

"Damn," Davis said, not really taking notice of the child and noticed Wizardmon's punctured hand instead, "Did Gatomon do that!?"

Gatomon blushed and Wizardmon nodded.

Joe then walked in with bandages, and had Izzy following him.

"Izzy is here too!?" Kari asked.

Izzy nodded, "Yeah, well I just got here. I meant to be here sooner, I've always wanted to see Digimon birth, but I had work and they made me do a lot since I said I had to leave early, so I actually ended up staying later than normal. They tricked me again!"

The others giggled.

"Anyway," Izzy said ignoring them, "Can I just…analyze her?"

"How do you three know it's a she and not us!?" TK asked.

"Easy, she resembles her mother so she's …a she," Izzy said.

"Sumimon told us," Wizardmon and Gatomon said, Joe was currently bandaging Wizardmon's hand.

"And you never told me?" Kari asked, disappointed.

"Sorry, we kinda forgot," Gatomon said and grinned sheepishly.

"Alright, well Izzy you can follow us, but we need to get Gatomon to another room and let her rest. Gatomon let me see the child so we can take her to the nursery room," Joe said, with his hand open to take the baby.

"No," Gatomon said, holding her baby close to her, "I want her to stay with me, it's alright I can rest with her with me."

Joe sighed, he was really getting tired of her stubbornness, "You have to Gatomon, all the other mothers had to."

"Yeah but they were human mothers," Gatomon said, making a good point.
"Well," Izzy said, "Since she is a mammal Digimon she should do what all mammals do, feed their young once their born. So Gatomon can just rest lying on her side while the baby eats."

"You have those?" Kari asked.

"I think so, wow this is sad…" Gatomon said, running her paw around her belly and searching for what she was looking for, and eventually felt four small lumps, "Yeah…I do."

"Wow, never noticed them," Wizardmon said.

"Yeah me neither, and it's my own body," Gatomon said.

"Oh well, now let's get her out of here and clean up the place," Joe said, heading toward the door and stepping over the shards of glass on the floor.
The nurses nodded and got the stretcher again and took her to another room.

"Kari, you and the others should go home and sleep," Joe said.

Kari sighed and nodded, "Alright."

Joe smiled and walked out of the room, leaving the young digidestined behind.

"Well, I'm off, I'm exhausted," Davis said, yawning and stretched.
"You know, we shouldn't have left the others outside alone like that," Kari said, talking about their partners.

"Yeah, they'll be fine," Davis said, yawning again, and walked out of the room. The others followed.

"Here, we gave you a room with two free beds, that way Wizardmon can rest too," Joe said.

Wizardmon only nodded.

Gatomon lay comfortable, she lay on the bed to the left which was nearest to the window, "It's hot in here, can you open the window?"

Wizardmon nodded, although it was actually pretty cool in the room, but once he opened the door he sighed happily, "Look at that, fresh snow and it's still snowing."

Gatomon lifted her head a bit to see, smiled and looked down at her child, "Did you hear that, it's snow!?"

Their baby only made a noise as she continued to eat away.

Izzy walked in the room, "Sorry, kinda got lost, those nurses go too fast!"

Gatomon laughed, then sighed and closed her eyes.

"Yeah, don't mind me," Izzy said as he got out his laptop and some wires," You two can rest I'll just analyze the baby."

He put little wires with small suction cup-like things on the child and connected the wires to the computer.

Wizardmon looked over his shoulder.

"Alright, her name is Hamamon, and she's an…in-training!? Isn't she supposed to be a baby Digimon!?"
"Yeah, about that," Wizardmon started, "Once the nurses handed me the baby, she glowed and evolved."

"Odd," Izzy said, looking back at the computer screen, "Did you notice anything about her when that happened?"

"Other than she was crying? Um no not really, but her jewel glowed."

"The jewel…" Izzy said to himself, looking at it, "Hm…keep your eye out on it. It might have some kind of powering/healing source to it."

"Yeah, also now that you mention it, my hand didn't sting much when I was holding her."

"But Gatomon felt nothing when she was with the baby?"

Wizardmon shook his head.

"Maybe it only works on certain Digimon; we'll have to figure it out later. Now, let's see according to this her rookie stage is called Purmon. Supposedly to resemble Gatomon, of course, but I think that jewel of hers will stay on no matter what stage she's in."

"Do you know what her champion stage might be?"

"No, since she could become anything. Maybe a whole new Digimon, maybe one of you two; who knows. Anyway I'm going to leave you two alone to sleep," Izzy said and turned his laptop off. He pulled off the wires, off of Hamamon, and then packed up.

"Sleep well," he said and walked out of the room.

Wizardmon smiled and pulled up a chair next to Gatomon. He slowly petted Gatomon on the face, rubbing her cheeks and getting a smile from her.

"You did wonderfully," he said.

-That morning-

"I hate hospitals, and I hate hospital food," Gatomon said, looking down at her plate of food as her child nibbled at her tail.

"Well it's good that you're doing better," Wizardmon said with a smile, but hadn't exactly touched his food either.

"Well, I am hungry and it seems to be better than what Mrs. Kamiya can cook," Gatomon said, shrugging and took a bite of the food.

Soon Sora and Tai walked in.

"Tai, Sora! Hey!" Gatomon said, smiling.

"Gatomon! Oh I wish I could've been there, we had some more exams to study for," Sora said, "Anyway, where is she?"

Gatomon moved her blanket, revealing the child that underneath messing around.

"She's so tiny!" Sora squealed.

"Yeah, but it still hurt a lot!" Gatomon said, rolling her eyes.

"How are you feeling, by the way?" Tai asked.

Gatomon smiled, "I'm feeling good."

"Hey, sorry we kind of got lost from the water fountain," Biyomon said as she and Agumon walked in.

"They should start putting up signs, too many people get lost," Gatomon said.

"Nah, Agumon was the lost one…he wanted to lead the way," Biyomon said and rolled her eyes, then spotted little Hamamon, "Oh my god! Is that her!?"

Gatomon nodded.

"She's so cute!" Biyomon said, blushing from the cuteness.

Tai looked over at Wizardmon, "Hey, how'd it go?"

"Oh, alright," Wizardmon answered.

"Ooookay, than what's with the bandaged hand?" Tai said, pointing at it.

"Um…" Wizardmon said, and looked around.
"I did it," Gatomon said, "Guess I don't know my own strength."

"Sheesh, I wonder what my hand will look like when the time comes for Sora," Tai said, seeing that the bandages still had blood on it.

"Oh don't worry, you guys only have 2-3 more months you can practice for it till then," Gatomon said sarcastically, then she remembered something, "Did Kari and the others ever defeat those…"

"Yeah, they said they got rid of Hayaimon," Agumon started, "But they said they couldn't find VenomHebimon's and those spies, his hideout just disappeared."

"What!?" Gatomon yelled, startling the child and she started to cry, "Oh, I'm sorry Hamamon, go back to sleep."

The child eventually calmed down and went to sleep.

"Don't worry, Gatomon," Tai said, "All of us are keeping our eye out for him, we wont let him hurt you, Hamamon, or Wizardmon."
Gatomon sighed, "Thank you." She then sighed again.

"What's wrong?" Wizardmon asked.

"Nothing, I just want to get out of here."

"Joe won't let you? Aren't you doing better?" Sora asked.
"Yeah, I told him that. But he kept saying I have to rest…for like a week!"

"Wow, that sucks, you'll miss Christmas than, and today mom and dad are putting up the tree," Tai said.

"Yeah, yesterday way the 19th wasn't it?" Sora asked and Tai nodded.

"I really am feeling well, my lower body part hurts, but that's it. Wizardmon could carry me," Gatomon said, whining a bit.

Joe came in, "Did I hear more whining."

Gatomon sighed, "Yeah, yeah, I really just want to go home. And now, thanks to you, Hamamon will miss the first time getting to help decorate a tree."

"Gatomon, she's only a few hours old," Joe said, raising an eyebrow.

"So! She's a Digimon! That's different," Gatomon said, "And I'm a Digimon too, I'm strong and heal fast…can't I just go home? I'll get plenty of rest there, I just don't like it here."

Joe said, "I'm so going to get in trouble for this, fine."

"Really!?" Everyone said.

Joe nodded, "Just be careful with yourself."

"Heh, I am!" Gatomon said, wrapping her child in her blanket and getting up, but stumbled a bit.

"See what I mean?" Joe said.

"Don't worry, I just need to strengthen my legs," Gatomon said and tried to walk again, nothing happened, "See."

"Alright, whatever," Joe said sighing.

"Kari should be coming soon, want to wait till then?" Tai said.

"Yeah, we don't want to leave and then she'll come and we're not there," Wizardmon said.

Gatomon nodded, "Alright."

Eventually Kari came and everyone walked home. Kari had brought along Ken, Yolei, and TK. Davis had to do something with his family and Cody had to do something with his grandfather.

Once they walked out the door, a chill went down their spine.

"Wow, it's really cold!" Tai said, but then felt he shouldn't look up.

But so they all did, and looking down at them was VenomHebimon.

"Hello," he said and grinned.