Sorry for the late update. I would have posted this sooner but for some reason the site wouldn't let me. Anyway, this is the second chapter of my story, so enjoy it and please review when you're done.

Dark Mastermind

Chapter Two

When Davis woke up he was no longer in the Digital World, he was in the real world. And he had a huge headache. Upon realizing that he was lying on the floor in his bedroom, Davis jumped up and looked around, confused. "How did I get back?", he thought to himself. And then another thing occurred to him, "Izzy! Where'd he go!", Davis thought frantically.

"Davis you finally woke up!", Demi V-mon said.

"Demi V-mon how did you get here?", Davis asked surprised.

"When the gate back to the real world was opened and sucked you through it, I went with you", V-mon explained.

"But I don't remember a gate opening, who did it?", Davis asked.

"I don't know I didn't see. All I remember is……………………"

Flashback

"God Tornado!", Airdramon roared.

The flaming tornado hit the ground right between where Davis and Izzy were standing, effectively separating them from each other. Before anyone could stop him Musyamon snuck up behind Izzy and grabbed him.

"I have him. Let's get out of here", Musyamon said.

"You aren't going anywhere!", Kabuterimon yelled, "Electro Shocker!"

Before Kabuterimon could launch the attack however, Musyamon held Izzy up like he was a shield, and grinned evily.

"You wouldn't hurt your friend would you Kabuterimon?", Musyamon said chuckling.

Kabuterimon reluctantly backed down, as did XV-mon. The three evil digimon all stopped attacking.

"We have what we wanted! We don't need this one anymore", Pyromon said.

"We won't let you take him!", XV-mon said, "Let's get 'em Kabuterimon!"

Before they could do anything however, a gate opened up behind Davis, and started to suck him through it……

End Flashback

"Izzy and Tentamon!", the both exclaimed at the same time.

"What happened to them?", Demi V-mon said.

"I don't know Demi V-mon. We need to get everyone together and figure this out", Davis said.

Davis picked up the phone and his bedroom and frantically dialed Tai's number. After a few rings nobody picked up so he put the phone down and tried another number, and got the same thing. After he tried calling all the digidestined, and got no answer, he slammed the phone down in frustration.

"Why isn't anybody answering!", Davis yelled.

"Maybe somethings wrong", Demi V-mon said.

"I don't know. I'll try logging onto the internet and see if anybody is online", Davis said.

When Davis logged onto the internet, a message popped up onto his computer screen that read, 'you have mail'. Davis quickly went to check his e-mail, and found two new e-mails. The first one was from Yolei, and it was short and simple.

Davis come to the park has soon as you can

"Come on V-mon!", Davis said, "we have to get to the park!"

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At the park, Yolei, T.K., Kari, Tai, Matt, and Ken where all waiting for Izzy and Davis to get there. They were also waiting for Cody, Sora, and Joe. They had all gotten the transmissions that Gennai had sent them, but they hadn't been able to get into the Digital World. They had all decided to meet at the park and try and figure out why Gennai had sent the transmission and how to get to the Digital World.

"Where's Davis?", T.K. said, "we've been here for over twenty minutes".

"He's probably on his way right now", Ken said, "he probably has a good reason for being late".

"Knowing Davis, he's just late", Yolei said.

"Yeah, and the others usually are never late", Kari said.

Cody, Sora, and Joe, hadn't been with them when Gennai had sent the transmission, and neither had Izzy and Davis. The fact that none of them were here right now, when they had all been waiting at the park for twenty minutes, made them all worried. When Davis finally showed up with Demi V-mon in tow, they were all a little relieved.

"Hey, you finally made it", Yolei said, "we were beginning to worry"

"Hey at least I got here", Davis said sitting down on a park bench.

"You look worn out. What's the matter?", T.K. asked.

"I just got back from Digi World, and it wasn't pretty", Davis said.

The other digidestined all had shocked expressions on their faces, which Davis didn't understand. He had assumed that they just hadn't gotten Gennai's message.

"Well you seem surprised all of a sudden", Demi V-mon said.

"We tried to get to the Digital World, but none of us could open a gate", Tai explained.

That surprised Davis. He and Izzy had both been able to go to the Digital World. And when they had gotten their, Primary Village, or what was left of it, was being destroyed.

"How did you and Izzy open the gate Davis?", Kari asked.

"That's just it, I don't know", Davis said, "after I got that transmission from Gennai, the first thing I did was try and open a gate but it wouldn't work. Then Izzy came over and when I opened the gate for him it just suddenly worked".

The other digidestined seemed puzzled at this. Davis and Izzy had obviously been able to open the gate and go to the Digital World, but only Davis had come back.

"Davis, what happened to Izzy?", Matt asked him.

"Well its like this. After we got to the Digital World and found our digimon waiting for us in Primary Village, we found it being destroyed by three evil digimon!", Davis answered.

"What? Who would do such a thing?", Yolei asked.

"I don't know. But I do know that during the fight our digivices detected three others", Davis recalled.

"It was probably just Cody and them", T.K. said.

"I don't think so", Kari said shaking her head, "if it was them they wouldn't have just stood by and let all those baby digimon get wiped out".

"Kari's right", Tai said, "but if it wasn't them then whose digivice's were they?".

"Well they have to belong to digidestined", Yolei said, "but……"

Yolei's voice trailed off as the possibility suddenly occurred to her, and at the same time everyone else.

"You don't think", Tai said.

"That's just not possible", Yolei said.

"Hey it could be", Ken said, "remember how I was when I first went to the Digital World? I didn't know what I was doing because I was under the control of the dark spores remember?"

"How could we forget?", Davis replied.

"But one thing I don't get is that if you're here then where's Izzy and the rest of them?", Matt asked Davis.

Davis lowered his head and a guilty expression came over his face.

"Well, we didn't see the others but Izzy……", Davis trailed off but eventually worked up the courage to say it, "they took Izzy"

There was a long, uncomfortable silence as the reality of Davis words sunk in. Izzy, their friend, and the person they all went to when they had a problem, was gone.

"So", Yolei said finally breaking the silence, "Izzy was taken by three evil digimon, and maybe even some evil digidestined, and Sora, Joe, and Cody are where exactly?".

Davis just shook his head and said, "I don't know".

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Jerome rode on the back of Airdramon with Nathan and Victor. Demi-Pyromon, Demi Devimon and Draconomon were with them. Jerome was busy talking to their master on his digivice's video screen.

"Yeah boss we got the computer nerd and we're on our way now", Jerome said.

"Excellent, you serve me well. And what about our spy?", his Master asked.

"He's on his way to Japan right now, but it's gonna take awhile", Jerome answered.

"Good. I am sending Chris to meet Becky at these coordinates. Jerome, I want you to meet them there. Victor is to come here", the Master said.

Another feature of the D4, GPS built into it. The coordinates were downloaded to the digivice and an arrow appeared on the screen pointing in the general direction.

"Why do you need them to meet Master?", Nathan asked.

"Our little trick with the gate didn't work as well as we'd hoped. Apparently three of the digidestined were able to get through", the Master answered.

"So is our next job to take them out?", Nathan asked.

"No. Nathan, your next assignment is to bring the digidestined to me. Victor will be accompanying you", the Master replied, "Jerome, Chris, and Becky are to……keep them busy for the time being"

"Alright boss I'm on my way", Jerome said.

"Good. I do not want them destroyed right away, I merely wish for them to be occupied for the time being. Make sure they do not leave your sight", the Master said, saying the last part of that sentence in a low, cold voice before ending their conversation.

Their Master was a very powerful evil digimon. Shortly after all eight of them had come to the Digital World a little over a year ago, he had found them and recruited them into his army. Now, that army was almost ready to strike and make its presence known to the Digital World. Primary Village was just the beginning, it wouldn't be long before File Island was overrun, and then Server would fall, and then the continent called Router.

"And no one can stop us", Jerome thought to himself, "except maybe the 'good', digidestined".

"Alright Airdramon you're only a couple of miles away from the place where I'm supposed to meet, so just drop me off when you get there", Jerome said to him.

"Yeah whatever", Airdramon said, intentionally sounding disrespectful to Jerome.

From the moment all eight of them had come to the Digital World and met their digimon, Jerome had assumed the role of leader. Although him and Amy fought constantly over this, when their Master had found them he had made Jerome their leader, much to the dismay of Amy and everybody else. It wasn't that he was a bad leader, he was just way to over confident, headstrong, reckless, and mainly he was a jerk to everyone.

"Well we have this one, and then there's the three who somehow made it thought the gate. That means there's only eight of them left", Nathan said looking at Izzy's still unconcious form.

"If they're all as easy to beat as this guy was then I'm gonna be disappointed", Jerome said, "a challenge would have been nice".

"Yeah I know what you mean", Nathan said, "now, get all of the digidestined versus the eight of us, and that'll be a fight".

"Now you're talkin'", Jerome said.

Victor just watched the two talk. He absolutely could not stand Jerome, or Nathan, and Chris for that matter as well. "Those three have got to be the most reckless people I know", Victor thought to himself, "always trying to get high off of adrenaline. Master should have never put Jerome in charge". He knew his other teammates felt the same way about them. Of course, the way he was thought of wasn't in very high regard either. Sociopath, emotionally dead, disturbed, all words used to describe him. But Victor didn't care.

"I wonder which digidestined I get to fight now", Mini Pyromon said, "I don't care, as long as I get to burn something I'm good".

"Always thinking about blowing something up. Eventually that recklessness of yours will get you into big trouble", Demi Devimon said to Mini Pyromon.

Victor's Demi Devimon was almost the same way as Victor himself was. Cold, calculating, and manipulative were all traits that the both of them shared, and it disturbed everyone, though none of them showed it.

"Aww stop bein' a spoilsport you dumb bowling ball", Mini Pyromon retorted.

Demi Devimon resisted the urge to tackle the other digimon and throw him off of Airdramon. Even though he despised the careless nature he, Airdramon, and Chris's Hagurumon acted, they were still a team and needed to cooperate. "They'll get what's coming to them eventually", Demi Devimon thought to himself.

"Hey Victor, you ever think about talking once and a while?", Jerome asked him.

"Not if it means wasting my time with someone like you", Victor said to him.

"Hey what's that supposed to mean?", Nathan said a hint of anger in his voice.

"Don't bother with him Nathan. Just let him go back to his psychosis", Jerome said.

Glancing down at his digivice, Jerome noticed that they were almost to the place where he was supposed to meet Becky and Chris. He looked down and found that they were over a massive dessert. "Sheesh, this is gonna be a fun day", he thought to himself.

"Yo flyboy", Jerome said to Airdramon, "we're almost right on top of those coordinates so you can just drop me off anytime".

"No problem Jerome", Airdramon said.

Before Jerome or Mini Pyromon could react, Airdramon bucked and threw the two off of him. Jerome and Mini Pyromon screamed as they fell to the ground. "That'll teach him not to be a jerk to everyone", Airdramon thought to himself.

"Hey you can't do that to me! I can't fuckin'f fly!", Jerome yelled as he fell.

"Drink a redbull! It'll give you wings like me!", Airdramon said laughing as he flew away.

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Becky Williams and Chris Bates waited on top of a sand dune for their team leader, Jerome.

Becky had brown hair and green eyes. Becky was materialistic, arrogant, bossy, and somewhat mean on occasions. She wore a navy blue tanktop, black jeans, and a blue jacket. She was partnered with a Ravenmon.

Chris, along with Nathan could be considered the muscle of the team. Like Nathan, he had a large build and black hair that was in a buzz cut. He wore camouflage pants and black boots, he had on a black wife beater and a camouflage jacket. Chris enjoyed a good fight and was always ready for one. The fact that all the men in his family were soldiers, probably accounted for his run and gun personality. He was partnered with a Hagurumon.

"Jerome for once in your life can't you be on time for something?", Becky said to no one in particular.

"Jerome being on time would be a sign of the apocalypse", Chris muttered to himself.

"Look", Ravenmon said pointing up in the sky, "there goes Airdramon!".

Ravenmon resembled a Raven that stood on both legs and had wings on its back and small arms that ended in three small but sharp claws. She didn't have any long range attacks but those claws of hers were deadly.

"He's probably going to the Castle", Becky said, "if I had known Jerome was going to be this late I would've brought something to do".

"Yeah like something to eat", Hagurumon said.

Suddenly the sounds of screaming filled the air and they all looked up in the sky. All four of them almost burst into laughter at the sight they saw. Jerome and Mini Pyromon falling from the sky! Had it been anybody else on the team, except maybe Victor, they would've done something about it, but Jerome was basically an asshole to everyone.

"It's Jerome and Demi-Pyromon!", Becky said somewhat surprised.

"Airdramon must've dropped them off. Literally!", Ravenmon said.

"He probably deserved it", Chris said smirking, "let's let him fall"

They all watched as Jerome fell from the sky and landed in a sand dune. They all ran towards the spot where he fell. Even from a distance they could hear him swearing in anger.

"He seems all right to me", Becky said.

"Yeah, me to", Chris said.

By the time they got to Jerome, he and Mini Pyromon had dug themselves out of the sand and were both furious.

"The next time I see that jerk I'm gonna wrap that Draconomon around his neck and have him wear it like a necktie!", Jerome said angrily.

"Calm down", Becky said, "stop whining and tell us why we're here".

"Calm down? We were just thrown off a flying snake for crying out loud!", Mini Pyromon yelled at her.

Chris and Hagurumon just watched the exchange fighting back the urge to explode with laughter. When Jerome finally calmed, down, he pulled out his binoculars and stood on top of the sand dune.

"Some of the other digidestined made it threw the gate, but I guess they wound up here instead of Primary Village", he said still angry, "Erin tracked the signals from their digivices here. So all we have to do is search this dessert and……………Hey! I found them!".

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SkullScorpionmon was still stalking the digidestined, playing pranks on them here and there, just to see them squirm. It was fun to see the scared expressions on the humans faces. "I'll wait till their so scared that they can't even think straight, and then I'll reveal myself", he thought to himself.

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"Here's the plan", Jerome said to Chris and Becky, "Hagurumon, you're gonna digivolve and shoot at those kids from as far away as you can get. Ravenmon you're gonna fly Pyromon over to where the are and unleash all hell on 'em!".

"Got it", they all said in unison.

All three of their digivices started to glow as their digimon digivolved into their champion forms.

"Mini-Pyromon digivolve to Pyromon!"

"Hagurumon digivolve to Dark Tankmon!"

"Ravenmon digivolve to Cuervomon!"

Cuervomon is the champion form of Ravenmon. She resembled a giant bird woman with black feathers. It had a white breastplate with spikes on its shoulders and a helmet, and over its hands it had three long, sharp steel claws.

Chris's Tankmon was different from your normal Tankmon. Rather than the typical olive green that was seen on most Tankmon, this one was pitch black, and rather than the Data type, it was virus.

"Alright you know what to do! Get those kids!", Jerome ordered.

Cuervomon picked up Pyromon and flew towards the digidestined. Tankmon stayed on the sand dune with the humans and aimed his huge cannon like nose down at them.

"Alright big guy, when I say shoot you shoot", Chris said jumping on top of him and pulling out his own pair of binoculars.

"Got it", Dark Tankmon said.

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Meanwhile, Joe, Cody, and Sora were still walking in the dessert, being vary wary of the mysterious thing that was attacking them from under the ground. Cody looked up at the sky just in time to see a huge birdman digimon in the sky heading straight towards them.

"Hey look at that!", Cody said pointing.

"It's heading straight for us!", Joe said.

"Let's get out of here before it attacks us", Sora said.

"Wait. We don't know if it's here to help us or not. It might be a friendly digimon", Cody said.

It was then that they noticed that the huge digimon was carrying another digimon that they didn't recognize. The second digimon looked like a black demon wearing red armor with three long claws on each hand. The two digimon landed in front of them, and suddenly Cody didn't feel so good about them.

"You three wouldn't happen to be the digidestined would you?", the demon looking one said.

"Yes we are", Cody answered.

"How did you know?", Joe asked.

The response that Joe received was for Pyromon to raise his clawed hands with a sadistic evil grin on its face.

"Darkness Flame!", Pyromon yelled as twin blasts of hell fire shot from its hands.

"Raven's Claw!", Cuervomon yelled.

Cuervomon's attack was to extend the claws on its hands and slash at the three digidestined. They all jumped out of the way at the and the attacks missed them. Cuervomon jumped into the air and started to attack from the sky.

"Run!", Sora said.

"My plan exactly!", Joe said turning the other way.

They didn't get three feet before a missile hit the ground in front of them. The explosion created a huge dust cloud that the digidestined became trapped in. After the smoke cleared, they digidestined found that the explosion had created a crater, and Skull Scorpionmon was in it!

"Oh no! He must've been the one who was following us in the dessert!", Cody said.

"You're right I was following you, and now you shall all die!", Skull Scorpionmon yelled.

"Not if we have anything to say about it!", a familiar voice said.

The three digidestined whirled around and looked behind Pyromon and Cuervomon to see their salvation.

"Gomamon!", Joe yelled, "boy am I glad to see you!"

"And Biyomon and Amaradillomon are with them!", Sora said excitedly.

"You three have to digivolve and fast!", Cody said.

"We're already on it!", Biyomon said.

The three rookie level digimon stood defensively in front of their human partners, facing off against Cuervomon, Pyromon, and Skull Scorpionmon. From a sand dune a good distance away, Dark Tankmon, Chris, Becky, and Jerome watched.

"Damn", Jerome said with a grin on his face, "this is gonna be one hell of a fight!

This is chapter two. Thanks to all the many people who reviewed the last chapter, they were really supportive! That is, if more than one person had actually reviewed. Anyway, maybe you can get it right this time. Press the little button at the bottom of this page that says submit review, and then critique my story.

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