Previously on Digimon the College Years...

"HEY! Suzie here ^^. I'm here to bring you back up to speed. With Cody's help, I finally forced Rosa down. It was just in time too because Puppetmon, an old Dark Master foe of the Digidestined, showed up making a mess of everything. He strang up the unconscious ChaosGallantmon and forcing the unconscious Mega to fight. To make matters worse, four of the digidestined were back recovering at Jyou and Izzy's apartment, and my daddy was with Yamaki back at Hypnos. We all know how anxious Mister Yamaki gets when he has to test his programs to stop digimon and boy did he ever. Just as we had the upper hand, he opened up the old Juggernaut program again and right over Odaiba this time. I'm starting to feel more scared than ever!"

HeroKazu to the Rescue: Trojan Horsed

(The Battlefield)

Everyone was silent for a moment before Matt grabbed Takato by the collar. "The Jugger-what now?"

"Juggernaut, the same program that was used to get rid of the D-Reaper years ago. Unfortunately, we also lost our Digimon to it for almost half a year." Henry reconfirmed.

"WHAT?! Lost your DIGIMON?!" Matt furiously let go of Takato and instead grabbed Henry, "Are you saying we'll lose our digimon to that thing this time?"

"I-I," Henry gasped for air, "I Don't know!"

Tai stepped up and placed a hand on Matt, "Let him go Matt, there's nothing we can do." He looked back up at the sky and grimaced remembering the conversation he'd heard between Yamaki and his fellow employees. "So that's the Juggernaut thing those agents were fussing about." He turned his head back to Henry, Rika and Takato. "How long have you guys known about this plan?"

Rika snapped: "Hey, don't ask us about it! We didn't know our pal Yamaki was going to rip open the sky again!"

"She's right." Henry defended their position and mused further: "This does explain Yamaki's true intention for being here in the first place."

"Really? I just thought that Yamaki was here to teach. I didn't think he had an ulterior motive."

"Oh sure you didn't!" Terriermon piped sarcastically, "Seriously, no one thought it was weird that three of our former government agent friends just show up to teach at the same college that you guys were going to?

"Terriermon..." Henry groaned, embarrassed with his Digimon's usual unapologetic and blunt attitude. "It would behoove you to be quiet as we are in a dire situation!"

"Oh come on Henry! Momentai!"

Tai and Matt looked behind them. "Henry's got a point! We've got to figure out a way to stop both the Juggernaut and AncientTroiamon!" Tai motioned.

Terriermon felt compelled to cut in again:"Hey! Maybe the Juggernaut will suck in AncientTroiamon and get clogged up in the process!"

Beelzemon overheard the dog eared rabbit and agreed. "That just might work, bunny boy. Let's try it."

Sora was unsure with the idea of risking their digimon for this. "Do you think it will work?"

"What other choice do we have Sora?" Matt replied, "We have to save this world no matter the cost!"

"But our digimon!" Mimi cried.

"We've been through tighter spots than this Mimi. We'll get out of this one too!" Guilmon wisely pointed out. "Right Takatomon?"

"YEAH!" his Tamer cheered

"There's only one way to validate this supposition then." Izzy proclaimed.

Everyone gazed at Izzy with blank looks until Henry interpreted the phrase in layman's terms: "He means we need to confirm the idea."

"Let's do this then!" Tai motioned the Tamers on, "Get going guys!

Takato, Henry and Rika and their Digimon each lined up in their respective spots. "BIOMERGE ACTIVATE!" In one bright flash, three Megas replaced the former 6 beings.

As they flew up with Beelzemon to engage the destructive Mega, Tai and the other Digidestined began planning their strategy. "Kenta, I want you and MarineAngemon to fly in and provide a distraction. This should allow the other Megas time to strike him into the Juggernaut. Yolie, you and Aquilamon need to make sure everyone else in the city gets as far away from here as possible."

"Hey Tai, what about me and Suzie?"

Tai turned behind him to find Cody and Suzie standing behind him; each of them strenuously lugging an unconscious Rosa. With everything going on, he had forgotten about their involvement in this. He scratched his head and sputtered, "Well, uh, let's see..."

As always, Sora had a motherly solution: "You two should take Rosa to a safe spot and get out of here."

Glancing up from his laptop, Izzy nodded. "Good idea, and take the serum. It's obvious that Rosa needs that to survive."

"That works! C'mon Cody, let's take her to Hypnos."

"Why there?" Mimi asked. "Isn't that where the Juggernaut thing is going down in the first place?"

"Yeah, but my daddy and the Monster Makers might be able to figure out how to help her."

"Understood." Tai put a hand on Cody's shoulder.

"Stay safe Hida."

"Sure thing Tai." Cody turned to face Armadillomon."You ready bud?"

"You betcha Cody!"

"DIGI-ARMOR ENERGIZE!"

Armadillomon's body quickly changed into his armored submarine form and got into the water. "Place Rosa into here Cody. I'll take her across without anyone noticing."

With much haste, Cody and Suzie positioned Rosa inside the armor digimon as comfortably as they could place her. Suzie cautioned Submarimon: "Make sure that she gets plenty of oxygen, her breathing is very shallow."

"You can count on me kiddo!"

This once again struck a nerve in Suzie:"I'm not a–"

Cody snapped her back to reality.

"Suzie, let's go!"

"Oh, right. Antylamon!"

In seconds the Ultimate Deva was on the ground and at Suzie's command. "We have to get to Shinjuku and quick!" She exclaimed as she climbed on; at the same time grabbing Cody's up in the process.

Once they were out of sight, the Digidestined turned their gaze onto the skies where Juggernaut had finished forming and the Biomerged Tamers ready to fight.

"There's one good thing about the Juggernaut, AncientTroiamon! It's going to bust you up!" Terriermon's voice cackled from the MegaGargomon form.

AncientTroiamon laughed in his usual annoying way."HEEHEE! You thought that would stop me?! I came here to halt that Juggernaut!"

"OF COURSE! It makes sense now!"

"What makes sense now Izzy?"

"It's quite simple really, Mimi. Not only is AncientTroiamon based off the mythical Greek story of the Trojan Horse, it also has a different meaning for today!"

"What in the world is he talking about Henry?"

"Izzy's right Terriermon, it is simple! This is a computer term!"

"Meaning?!"

"Meaning, Terriermon, that Juggernaut is useless against him!"

"Oh, that's bad."

"Bad doesn't even begin to describe it," Izzy mumbled, frantically pounding away on his laptop keys. You'll HAVE to destroy him by hand!"

"TOO LATE! Once I unleash my Trojan virus into the Juggernaut, I'll be unstoppable, but for now, meet my other pal that I'm working with! The brains behind all of this."

"You humans have made a grave mistake in opening Juggernaut! You have now allowed for your own demise!"

(Jyou and Izzy's apartment, Odaiba)

Kari polished her ears with her pinky to make sure she was hearing right:"Destroy the digimon? But, why?"

Timothy looked down sadly as he retold the bad news. "It's the downside to the whole Juggernaut thing. I'm sorry I didn't mention it sooner, but I never knew that the Tamers, much less Yamaki or Hypnos, had existed until yesterday. I also wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt that he wouldn't use it until I contacted him."

"T.K.?" Patamon chirped. T.K. did not look so good. He was looking paler at every passing second, fearful of possibly losing everything.

"I can't let this happen! I won't let Patamon or any digimon be destroyed by this thing."

"Calm down T.K. Besides, you're a lover, not a fighter." Gatomon reminded him. Gomamon snorted at this, trying to hold back laughter.

Although confused with Gatomon, Kari grasped T.K.'s shoulders to console him. "She's right...maybe. Although this is out of our hands, I know we won't lose the Digimon. We still have hope and trust in each other, and as long as we have that everything will turn out ok."

This seemed to help him settle down a little bit, "You're right Kari. Thanks."

Kari grinned, "Flattery will get you everywhere Takaishi."

Before he could respond a loud bellowing voice commenced from the T.V. speakers. "You humans have made a grave mistake in opening Juggernaut! You have now allowed for your own demise!"

(Hypnos, West Shinjuku)

"Don't do this Yamaki! For our own safety, you must turn off Juggernaut!"

"I will not Janyu! If we are to give the kids' digimon a chance, Juggernaut is the best chance we have!"

Talley cut into the argument:"SIR! Someone is hacking into our system."

"What?! Get a trace on it, NOW Riley!"

"It's coming...coming from inside the Digital World!"

"I told you we weren't finished with the modifications!"

"Mr. Yamaki...",One of the engineers approached him, "we performed a diagnostic before turning on Juggernaut. During the scan it indicated that someone, just a few days ago, tampered with our systems. Done right from under our noses with some sort of encription."

"Sir, it's the same energy signature as the incoming transmission!" Talley confirmed what the engineer had reported.

"What are the odds?" Janyu wondered aloud, not realizing he'd spoken it. What's more, he didn't expect an answer.

"43 percent sir!"

Yamaki shot a glare towards the one who blurted that out. He was a young man around nineteen years old, with freckles, blonde hair and brown eyes; sporting a long-sleeve black mock-turtleneck shirt under a short-sleeved red jersey, brown cargo pants, and white sneakers. "And you are?"

"The name's Ron,sir, I was hired last year to be the statistics-actuary consultant! I'm also the head chef, ah booyah!"

Janyu was amused with the young man's spunk, but Yamaki wasn't. He just sighed. "Then, get back to your position."

Ron saluted in response, "Yes sir, Mr. Yamaki sir!" As he walked away, Yamaki could have sworn he saw a pink rodent appear from out of Ron's cargo pants and preform the same salute, but he didn't have time to question it.

"Report!" He instead yelled to the engineers.

"Sir, we can't seem to regain control of the system!"

"WELL KEEP TRYING! WE CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE HERE!" Yamaki snapped.

(In the hallway:Ron)

As Ron was walking back to his position, he couldn't help but look outside.

"Man...today would be such a nice day if evil digimon weren't trying to ruin it."

A pink rodent popped out of his left pocket and agreed.

"Uh-huh."

Suddenly, the rodent jumped out of his pocket and started tapping on the glass.

"Hey, Rufus! We don't have time to stare at the scen—Holy Bueno Nacho! What on Earth...?"

Ron had finally gotten Rufus's message. A submarine-like creature—a digimon he presumed—was floating towards the building. From what he could see...it looked like...he was carrying a girl. She didn't look conscious but they were still too far away to notice.

"Rufus, come on buddy! We've gotta go tell Yamaki."

Rufus shook his head.

"What? Why not? Oh...because of his mood? But what if they're evil? What if—what if...? Oh okay...you win. Let's go check it out for ourselves first. If it's too much to handle, we're coming back, deal?"

(Yamaki)

"It's no use sir!" Talley reported; "Every override command I input into the system gets blocked! I have no control against whoever is behind all of this." She kept trying to keep confident but to no avail. 'This isn't good', she thought. Yamaki was already in a sour mood and she didn't want to make it worse. However, there was no way to avoid it. Thankfully, Janyu was there to alleviate the impact of her boss's anger. "What are we dealing with?" He wondered. "It's almost as if there's some sort of super computer calculating our every move."

Before any of them could ponder further, the Hypnos screen was completely blanketed over with numbers and then a live video feed took over. "WHAT?! Stop whoever is trying to do this. NOW!" Yamaki shouted.

"You humans have made a grave mistake in re-opening Juggernaut! You have now allowed for your own demise!"

"Sir, it's once again the same signature", reported Riley.

"GET OFF MY SCREEN!" Yamaki bellowed. Janyuu tried to alleviate the situation with calmer words: "Who are you? Why are you doing this to our systems?"

"Juggernaut's power belongs to me now, and there's nothing you can do to stop me! You see, the Digidestined might remember me from years past. I am Datamon and I have the ability to take over any system from my place here in the Digital World. AncientTroiamon is here to destroy your link to the Juggernaut for good giving me full control! First off, however, I am going to use it to take full control of ChaosGallantmon."

"No way! I thought that creep was destroyed."

"He was Matt. Sora and I watched it happen in that fight against Etemon."

"Oh I was kiddies! But as you can see, I was revived by one who intercepted my data from inside the void of space and time and I am going to use Juggernaut next to bring him back from his imprisonment in another world."

"Aaand you caan't stop us!" AncientTroiamon added in a song-like voice.

Matt raised his fists up at the annoying digimon. "PUPPETMON! I'm going to destroy you! I'll make you pay for what you did to me and my brother!"

"Sorry, but we have plans of our own; and you aren't going to get in the way this time. Now be revived ChaosGallantmon and obey me!"

The Digidestined, Digimon and Hypnos all watched helplessly as power surged through ChaosGallantmon. The mega knight slowly came to,his eyes glowing bright red while power coursed through his body.

"How could I have made the same mistake?!" Yamaki raged in frustration. "I should have learned from the first time!" He clutched his head, furiously messing with his hair. Yamaki stormed off leaving Janyuu to take charge. "Riley and Talley, I want you to keep trying to find a loophole. We have to get Juggernaut shut off", Janyuu instructed. He sighed wishing the other Monster Makers were already there. He knew this was going to be a long day for everyone.

(Kazu and Guardromon, Odaiba)

Kazu and Guardromon looked on from the distance, still dazed and feeling very inferior. They had given it everything, but it still hadn't been enough. Guardromon was still willing to fight while Kazu had lost his confidence. "Come on Kazu...I can still fight! Believe in me!" Kazu's partner urged him.

"You can't! Even as Andromon you still weren't strong enough to beat him. It's not worth it Guardromon."

"Shioda, I've never heard you speak like that before!" Kazu was taken aback by his partner using his real name. No one ever did unless he was in trouble. "You've stood by my side this whole time. You were always confident and loyal; even in the face of danger. You must believe in our combined strength Kazu! Now what do you say we go and help our friends out like we always do?"

Kazu stared for a moment trying to process everything Guardromon had said. He thought back to the time in the Digi-world, back to the dangerous D-Reaper. They were always there to support and back up their friends in battle; so now it was their time to prove that they had it in them. "Yeah! What am I doing sitting here feeling sorry for myself? Thanks Guardromon for reminding me of my confidence."

"That's the spirit Kazu! So then what do we do now?"

"Okay then it's up to us Guardromon, we have to help our friends! I still feel so helpless though. How can we fight when there are two very powerful megas up there?!"

"You have to believe Kazu! There must be a way!"

"The only way then is to fight together. If only we could biomerge."

"Then you shall!"

Kazu and Guardromon looked around in confusion. "Hey, who said that?"

From out of the shadows of the forest came a brown and white armored knight, with two bright white wings, golden hair, a red sash similar to Justimon's wrapped around his waist and wielding a large sword in his hand.

Kazu and Guardromon couldn't contain their amazement and felt a little fearful as they wondered if this was a friend or a foe. "Wow dude, who are you?!"

Kazu pulled out his D-Arc. At first no information showed up, "C'mon, c'mon!" He pleaded. Finally some data popped up under his picture and Kazu read it. "Leopardmon is a Holy Knight Digimon whose names and design are derived from both the leopard and "Duft", whatever that means! Holy smokes, he's a member of the Royal Knights!"

"And a loyal servant to the five legendary beast sovereigns who have granted you, Tamer, Shioda Hirokazu, this power." Leopardmon held out a large, bright orb filled with energy. "Hold your D-Arc in front of you and you will receive the ability to biomerge at will. This is a gift from the Sovereigns."

Kazu did as he was instructed with out any resistance whatsoever. Immediately, the screen on his D-Arc began to shine. Kazu expected to be blinded, but instead he found himself shrouded by data and energy.

"Hey, I recognize this energy. It's the same energy I felt when I first met Guardromon and received my digvice, making us partners. I wasn't so sure of myself back then; sometimes thinking that I was unworthy to be Guardromon's tamer. Most of the time I was overconfident, always getting myself, Kenta, and sometimes Takato into trouble. Other times I was just getting in the way, mocking Kenta or Takato when I made a mistake. But now it's up to me this time. Guardromon and I have to step up, grow up, in order to have victory. It's good to be confident and loyal to my team, but this time I'll do it right. I have a purpose now, and it's to stop evil from entering the world!"

"BIOMERGE ACTIVATE!"

Biomerge Digivolution

"Guardromon Biomerge to!-HiAndromon!"

Back at the beach, the Digidestined and biomerged Tamers were doing all they could to take down AncientTroiamon. Despite all their attacks however, they couldn't put a single dent in the large wooden horse. He was shooting every attack down with his cannons before they even reached him. Even when Beelzemon, Imperialdramon Fighter Mode, Justimon, Gallantmon, MegaGargomon and WarGreymon got in close range attacks, they all careened harmlessly off of the mega's wood.

All of the Digimon regrouped back with the Digidestined. None of them seemingly confident regarding the circumstances.

"You've got to be kidding me!" Terriermon gasped in utter shock. "We gave it all we got and the wood proves to be stronger?"

"Uh, what are we going to do now Takatomon?"

"Yeah, let me get back to you on that Guilmon."

"We'd better come up with something soon, or we'll all be galloped on! ChaosGallantmon is regaining strength every minute!"

"Rika's has to have a weakness. What exactly is he made of?" Renamon's questioned as her voice rang through Sakuyamon.

"There's a possibility he's made of gopher wood. It was supposedly the wood used on Noah's ark and covered with pitch, but it's supposed to be extinct!"

"Maybe here on Earth, but it likely still exists on other worlds." Sora pointed out.

"FINALLY!" They heard AncientTroiamon shout.

"You are awake and now under our command ChaosGallantmon. I order you to destroy the Digidestined!"

"This is bad!" Mimi panicked. "We're not going to make it!"

"Oh how right you are princess. Once I am finished with altering the physical world side of Juggernaut, we will both take pleasure in destroying you and then feeding you to Juggernaut ourselves!" AncientTroiamon turned to ChaosGallantmon: "Dispose of them all!"

Before anyone on the team could shout orders, or even move for that matter, HiAndromon appeared on the scene. "Not happening today Woody!"

"Yeah! Woody." From inside, Guardromon let out a laugh similar to Woody the Woodpecker to further mock the wooden mega.

"Wow, cool!" Ryo fawned uncharacteristically. "It's HiAndromon!"

Digimon Analyzer: (Ryo) HiAndromon is a mega Cyborg/Android Digimon. He's the perfected form of Andromon with his body made completely of Chrome Digizoid parts that are sure to dent any material! He uses his Atomic Ray from the turbine on the left shoulder, to annihilate his enemies and can also copy and paste another's attacks.

"Yep! My dream has finally come true!" Kazu cheered from the inside.

"Well then, allow me to destroy this dream." AncientTroiamon cackled.

"Surprise Cannon!"

HiAndromon moved gracefully right in front of the blast, stopping short a couple of feet from AncientTroiamon.

"Pasting Copy!"

HiAndromon maneuvered around the blast, and fired his own copy. It went right through AncientTroiamon.

"We might not be able to hurt you, but certainly you can hurt yourself." Kazu said triumphantly.

"Looks like we managed to destroy your dream instead." HiAndromon said smoothly.

"Game over AncientTroiamon." Justimon said in approval.

"No...how can this be?! No one can penetrate me..." AncientTroiamon cried out.

(Hypnos)

A calmed Yamaki finally returned to his position in the engineer room.

"Sir! It seems like we're making some headway." One of the engineers called to Yamaki.

"Energy signature is fading Sir!" Talley confirmed.

"Now THAT'S what I like to hear." Yamaki said with his usual smirk returning.

(Odaiba)

"I could smash you before, but I wanted to have a little fun first! Hope you liked a taste of your own medicine." HiAndromon announced. "Now for the finishing touch!" The android quickly closed in on the highly damaged Digimon; all the while screaming and using all his might. His fist collided with AncientTroiamon's neck, the weak point of the mega. The large horse, unable to keep balanced, fell to its knees. His head spun as he felt a familiar light shine on him. He was de-digivolving and the next thing he knew was back to Puppetmon.

The first thing he saw as he regained sight was Matt. The college man simply picked him up by his marionette;"Give up Puppetmon, it's over." Matt snarled.

"Hey!" Puppetmon whined."Let me go. ChaosGallantmon, attack now!"

The shadowed knight began to attack and was quickly met by his counterpart, eight other Megas as well as HiAndromon and also Lilymon

"Retreat for now!" A voice different from Datamon's commanded through the large vortex in the sky. "Next time humans, you won't be so lucky."

Then in the blink of an eye, both Puppetmon and ChaosGallantmon disappeared without a trace that they had even been there.

(Hypnos)

"Sir, both anomalies are gone. Presumably back in the Digital World."

"Status on the Juggernaut Riley?"

"I'm able to close it on this side, but I'm afraid I have some bad news. Whoever that Digimon was, he altered the program and now is able to open his own version of Juggernaut at will. It will enable him to send Digimon back and forth through a portal at any time without the need of a computer."

Yamaki rubbed his temples. This day was getting more and more difficult and he was the ensuing result of it yet again. He knew he had to get back on track and try to get one step ahead of the one who was causing him problems. If he didn't figure something out now, he was sure that Odaiba and Shinjuku would be overrun with evil Digimon

"Mitsuo, how about you get some rest. I can take over from here"
Yamaki sighed, "Maybe you're right Janyu." He needed more time to think. Time he knew he didn't have, but his rest was also important.
Everyone watched as he irregularly walked to and fro out of the room. "Gosh, and I thought we were the ones who were supposed to be getting old. Not him." A large, resounding voice quipped as soon as Yamaki was out of hearing range.

"Babel? Is that you?"
"You bet old friend. I must say though, we need to stop meeting under these circumstances."

Janyu let out a hearty laugh, "It has been too long. What brings you by in the first place?"
"Well when I saw the sky had been ripped open again, I just had to check it out."

"Janyu sir, we're in the last stages of stabilizing Juggernaut." Riley called down with the update. "It should be able to be closed in about 2 minutes."

"Other than the kids Digimon, there are no traces of others around."

"Good job Talley. See if you can get to work on permanently sealing the gateway that divides the two worlds via Juggernaut."
"Sir!"

"Digimon coming through Janyu?"
"Yeah. It seems to be a weak point within the program. We don't know the cause yet."
"You leave that to me. I'll-"

"Mr. Yamaki sir! We've got a problem worse than giant monkeys! Wait...where is he?"

Ron jogged in carrying a girl who seemed almost lifeless in his arms. An Armadillomon was right behind him. Everyone turned and looked with him in surprise.

It's the chef...Just when we thought everything was finally going smoothly...Janyu thought to himself.

"What on earth, happened?" Janyu asked as he power-walked to his location.
"Well, Sir, I found this girl unconscious inside this armadillo who was just a submarine and-"

"Long story short, we need help." Armadillomon interrupted.
"You two! Come fill me in on the way."

"Right behind you sir!"

"What? Hey now" Armadillomon panicked, "wait for me!"

"The infirmary is this way Cody. Let's hurry!"
Cody huffed, "I get a lot of exercise in Kendo, but I'm exhausted!"
"Whose the kid now?" Suzie called out from in front of him
"Sticks and stones Suzie. I grew up being 'the kid'."
"Aww c'mon." she pouted, "It's no fun if you take it. Sharp turn to the left!"

'He has a point,' she mused remorsefully to herself, 'I never realized how good I have it.'

"Hey Cody?"
"Yeah Suzie?"
"I'm s-"

Cheep cheep! Her cell phone chirped, drawing their attention away from the conversation at hand.

Cody raised an eyebrow as they slowed to walking pace. Suzie pulled her phone out and checked the screen.

Lopmon moaned from her perched position on Suzie's shoulders. Due to their hurriedness, Suzie had nearly forgotten that her partner was wrapped around her. "Suzy, you know I don't like that ringtone; it hurts my ears."

Suzie rolled her eyes, "I know, but it's the only one that fits Henry though. He's boring, remember?"

Lopmon only responded in a grumble; finally relieved when Suzie answered her cell. She stared back at Cody whom was giving her a sympathetic look. "Almost as bad as the 'It's Princess Pretty Pants' ringtone she has reserved for Terriermon." She told him.

Cody could only open his mouth in silent confusion.

"Henry? Yeah, I just got your text.
["Good. You made it safely?" Henry checked]

Uh-huh. Yep we're almost to the infirmary!

["Good. We've finished the battle. Kazu was the one who defeated them, actually, by biomerging with Guardromon to become Hi-Andromon.]

He did? No way!
["It was impressive. Oh, Tai and Takato probably want you and Cody to keep guard on Suzie. We're discussing it now."]
"Okay, I'll tell him.
["And please call with an update on Rosa soon. We're going to head over, but it will take a few hours."]

"Sure, we'll call with an update as soon as we get the serum to her."

["Then you'd better get going. I'll see you soon Suze."]

"Bye Henwy" She whispered into the phone. Her efforts at discretion were futile; judging by the sound of Cody attempting to hide his laughter.
She blushed a bright red as she shut off her iPhone and put it in its case. As much as she hated to admit it, she missed the days where she could be a carefree little princess again. 'He just wouldn't understand' she told herself. There was no more time, however, to think any further about it as her dad had appeared from the doorway to the infirmary. "Suzie! You're here!" He glanced at Cody; whom was behind her. "And I see you brought someone with you."

"Yes sir" Cody replied, "I'm Cody."

"I see. Armadillomon's partner, no doubt. He mentioned you were Digidestined. Please hurry, Rosa needs the serum! Her condition is stable now but maybe not for long.

"Mr. Wong sir?!" Ron called from the room with panic in his voice, "Something's happening!"

"Oh no! I hope we're not too late..." Mr. Wong said as Cody and Suzie whizzed right past them.

(Odaiba- Across from Odaiba Elementary)

As Matt watched HiAndromon close up the Juggernaut core, a dormant anger towards Puppetmon was growing inside him. Every blast HiAndromon shot inside the Juggernaut mirrored his increased fury/heart-rate.

Henry noticed Matt's mind was elsewhere as he explained to him what was happening. "This should work, albeit temporarily." Matt nodded slowly. It seems he had heard that part. Unbeknownst to Henry, Matt was hoping he was right.

"But didn't Datamon say that they would be able to use Juggernaut anytime they wanted?"

Henry shook his head:"No, at least not yet, Takato. They'll be able to open it temporarily, like an unstable wormhole, allowing for Digimon to come in and out."

"So it's weakened the barrier?"

"Looks that way Mimi." Izzy confirmed. "Gennai says that we'd better find the source quickly or the effect on both worlds will be catastrophic!"

"So much for wishful thinking..." Mimi said with a sigh.

Matt angrily slammed his right fist into his other palm "Wishful thinking won't get us anywhere! We must keep them from coming here! They must be stopped!" He glared at Henry.

"Your friends better figure out a way to permanently fix this or else!"

"Matt! There's no need for that-" Sora said softly while she reached for his hand. Matt yanked his hand away and cut her off.
"Sora, cut the act! Seriously..."

"What on Earth are you on about?! Just calm down already. You're not helping the situation..." Sora said with a hint of agitation in her voice. She walked closer to Matt and put her hands on his shoulders. He pushed her away half-menacingly, half-reluctantly and watched as she nearly
fell to the ground. A silent "I'm sorry" ran through his head as she was saved by Tai.

"Matt, what the heck man?!" Tai said angrily as he helped Sora get back to her feet.
Matt remained quiet.

"Matt! Please just stop this!" Sora pleaded. She gripped on to his shoulders to try and calm him down.

"No Sora. We must show them justice for hurting us so much!" Matt paused for a moment, then added: "This effects me! I don't need your help."

Sora jerked her head forward, her tears flying off her face as she did so. "NO! You need us more than you think Yamato!" Matt wouldn't listen however and started walking away. "DON'T RUN AWAY FROM YOUR PROBLEMS!" His walking turned into running. Pretty soon Matt had disappeared over the beach's horizon. For a second MetalGarurumon stared at everyone sadly and then silently pursued after his partner as well. He too was gone in a matter of seconds.

The Tamers and the remaining Digidestined looked on somberly; each of them knowing the team was in danger of dividing. Izzy laid his laptop aside so he could console Mimi; Sora had lost all strength due to her mental state and was being cradled by Tai. He had an angry glint in his eyes, but they still revealed that he cared his best friend. Davis and Veemon just sat in the sand confused with nothing to even talk about, not even a peep from Veemon, while Yolie and Ken stared at each other blankly.

It wasn't all silent since Guilmon and Terriermon were playing. Meanwhile, Takato, Kenta, Rika and Henry talked over the current events. Soon after they were all joined by Hiroaki, Nancy, and the heroes of the battle: Kazu and Guardromon.

"We have returned!" Kazu proclaimed joyously. "Heroes of the day!"

"Heroes of the day!" Guardromon cheered, repeating his partner, much to Kazu's annoyance.

"Could you be a little more modest?" Terriermon jibed.

"You WERE awesome!" Guilmon cheerfully pointed out without pointing out any of Kazu's arrogance.

The other Tamers ultimately ceased their chat and went over to greet their friend. "I guess now's a good time as any to congratulate you on reaching the biomerge stage." Henry congratulated.

"Yeah, it's about time!"

"Oh yeah? You haven't even gotten there yet Kenta." Kazu attempted to remind his friend.

"Tut tut, you fail to remember; MarineAngemon is a Mega Kazu."

Kazu slapped himself mentally. His best friend always got to be with a powerful mega Digimon.

Takato laughed, "Nonetheless, you were really cool out there." He slapped Kazu on the back.

"Thanks Chumley." Kazu looked around confused; as if he were forgetting someone. Then he remembered, "Hey, where's Ryo?"

"WHO CARES!" Rika immediately snapped, getting the attention of everyone else. She blushed when all eyes, even the digidestined, gazed on her.

"I was asked by Azulongmon to send him on a mission."

Kazu immediately recognized who was talking. "Leopardmon! Why are you still here?" he gasped.

"Simply just a message from the Sovereigns. The threat in this world, the Digital World, and other worlds in this universe has escalated. I've been asked to recruit someone to go undercover and find out what it is. This does not change your mission as the threat you face is also very dangerous." Leopardmon turned to leave.

"Wait!" Rika called out. "H-how long will he be gone?" she asked uncharacteristically.

Leopardmon paused and pondered over her query. After a moment he answered, "Possibly within a day or two young lady. Ryo Akiyama has proved to be very skilled in his work. Should all go according to plan, this threat should not affect you for a long while. Deal with your current situation as is. I must go."

"But what..." Veemon started to ask, but Leopardmon disappeared in a flash.

"Well that was clear as mud." Izzy sighed. "However, much more informative than Gennai ever is."

"If our experience with the Sovereigns taught us anything, it's that they usually are clear in their demands or intentions." Renamon pointed out.

"Yeah! Their butt whoopings make that pretty clear!" Terriermon proclaimed, proving his response by rubbing his back as if remembering the pain.

"Terriermon..." Henry groaned.

"What?! It's true!" the rabbit defended.

Everyone laughed as Henry playfully added: "You're incorrigible!"

"Uhm, where's Matt?" Nancy queried suddenly.

The digi-destined acknowledged her and Hiraoki glumly. Tai, still holding Sora, looked at them and just shook his head signifying that he didn't know.

"You don't-"

"Maybe now's not the time Nancy." Hiroaki advised, realizing that this was a private matter. "What matters is that everyone here is safe and we owe it to someone for saving the day."

"That's your cue Kazu!" Terriermon prodded, "Take a bow!"

Everyone laughed as he did; their spirits lifted despite a missing comrade and a sickly friend. After all, this was Kazu's day!

Next Time on Digimon the College Years...

Cody has returned to Odaiba as Suzie continues to research with her dad and Ron on how to save Rosa. In the meantime, tensions are high as Odaiba University prepares for its soccer rematch with rival, Shibuya University. Kazu and Kenta decide to take one last shot at their rival; thus they recruit someone to take a janitorial job at Shibuya U. What will they use this time? A certain STMT product under test may hold the key to their ultimate prankster victory. Also before Timothy is called back to the Megaligo Rangers to investigate an attack on Avatar Aang's world in the M-51 galaxy; he and Renamon have a discussion about his role within the groups.

A/N 1: If you are reading this and are confused, I suggest you check out the Create Cards previous stories first. You will understand this better if you read the original portion of the College Years better.

A/N 2: Sorry this took so long. Battles make things so complicated it seems. I have it planned out what I want to accomplish, but for some reason it takes me longer to do it. I'm not the greatest writer so it takes me a bit longer. However, I have so many fun ideas and I expect them to take a little less time to do. I guarantee you'll see some improvement in how things go here. You'll love the shenanigans that I am coming up with, from Kazu and Kenta, to Terriermon and his motley crew of Digimon friends. Also, expect to not see as much of my character. Ryo will be around more often here and in my Power Rangers MEGALIGO Series (still a work in progress). Stay tuned to when Power Rangers MEGALIGO comes out, because halfway through it, Renamon will be making some often cameo appearances with Calumon and Beelzemon.

Power Rangers MEGALIGO will begin after I complete the Digital and Dino-Thunder Power Rangers Series.