Normally, I'd thank all the people who are reviewing my story, and giving me inspiration. But considering that only like four people are actually reviewing this, I'm not going to. I'm just going to give you the fourth chapter, and hope that someone other than that same guy who keeps reviewing reads this, likes it or hates it, and decides to review it.

Chapter Four

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When Izzy woke up he found himself in a cold, dark, dungeon. His head felt like it had been hit with a sledgehammer, and he could feel something could around both his wrists. He couldn't see anything, and he had a feeling that he wasn't alone suddenly. Shakily, Izzy stood, and tried to move but found that his leg had been chained to the wall. Izzy also felt that the coldness on his wrists were two other chains.

"About time you woke up", a voice said, "for awhile there I thought you were dead".

"Who are you?", Izzy said looking around in the dark for the source of the voice.

"That voice, it sounds familiar", Izzy thought to himself. Has Izzy's eyes started adjusting to the light, he found that he was in a dungeon, and he could make out the outline of something leaning against a wall. When he got no answer, Izzy asked again.

"Who are you?", Izzy asked again.

"Don't you recognize my voice?", it asked.

It was a females voice, sarcastic, and oddly catlike. Izzy's eyes widened to the size of baseballs when he realized who it was.

"Gatomon!", he said surprise, "what are you doing here?"

The lights turned on suddenly and Izzy found that it wasn't the white furred cat like digimon that he'd come to know and love. This Gatomon was black, and had a more menacing look to it.

"Well you came close on the name", it said coming towards him, "but it's Black Gatomon. And I'm here, because my partner wants to talk to you about something".

"Partner?", Izzy said surprised.

"Yes, Izzy, a partner", another voice said from behind him.

Izzy whirled around to see a girl behind him. She was leaning against the wall casually with a sort of amused look on her face at Izzy's predicament. She wore all black clothes, and had black hair with red highlights and wore black lipstick and masquera and fingernail polish.

"Who are you?", Izzy asked.

"Just call me Lady Black", she said smirking at him.

To Izzy, Lady Black seemed amused by his situation.

"What do you people want with me?", Izzy asked her.

"That's what I'm here to talk about", Amy said to him, "this is the part where you pay attention to every word that I say".

Lady Black walked towards Izzy, and knelt down in front of him so she could be on his level.

"Well, so far, you have two options", she began, "the first one is that you can help us with a little problem we've been having, and get out of this unharmed".

"And the second?", Izzy asked.

Lady Black smirked, "let's just say, that if you don't do what we say why we politely ask you to do it, you're not going to like the consequences".

When Izzy didn't reply and Lady Black stood up, and headed towards a wall in the cell that Izzy was in. When she approached the wall, a door appeared in it and she and Black Gatomon went through it.

A few seconds later the chains on Izzy were released and he was free to move. Izzy stood and ran towards the section of wall where the doorway had appeared. Lady and Black Gatomon were standing in a corridor that was being gaurded by a Dark Bladedramon.

"Follow me", she said to him.

Izzy followed Lady Black down the long dark corridors of the castle, and up and down a series of stairways until they came to a heavy metal door. Lady Black stopped here, and then turned to face Izzy.

"I really hope your computer skills aren't exaggerated", she said to him before opening the door. "You'll need them".

Lady Black opened the door, and Izzy suddenly stopped in his tracks at what he saw. Inside the room, was a huge computer. There were at least twenty Datamon working on it. In the center of it all, was another human girl.

This girl was a red head, and she had a stern and serious expression on her face. She had on a blue shirt and jeans. She appeared to be the one in charge of the huge computer. Lady Black led Izzy over to her.

"This is Lady Blue", Lady Black said to her, "from now on, you're to do whatever she tells you. If you don't, well, let's just say that you'll wind up like all the evil digimon you and your friends destroyed".

With that, Lady Black left with Black Gatomon, leaving Izzy alone with Mrs. Blue. Izzy was somewhat relieved. He didn't feel nearly as intimidated by Mrs. Blue as he did with Lady Black and Black Gatomon.

"There's some sort of error in its programming", Mrs. Blue said to him, "everytime we use it something screws up".

"Like what?", Izzy asked her.

"Like, none of your damn business", Mrs. Blue said to him, "now go set at that computer over there".

Mrs. Blue motioned to the computer terminal that was next to hers. Izzy cautiously sat down next to her.

"Good. And don't even think about sending a message to your little friends", she said narrowing her eyes at him.

"I wouldn't think of it", Izzy said.

"Perfect. Let's get to work", Mrs. Blue said focusing her attention on her computer screen.

Izzy looked at his screen, and noticed what was on it for the first time. It was a computer program of some sort. "This looks complicated", he thought to himself has he looked it over, "I wonder what its for".

"I don't hear any typing", Mrs. Blue said, "you better get to work".

"Well I can't work if I don't know what the program is or does", Izzy said back to her.

"Well the program is a computer program, and what it does is something you shouldn't worry about", Mrs. Blue said.

"Well how am I supposed to fix it if I don't even know what it is?", Izzy said getting annoyed.

"You're the computer expert, not me. You figure it out", Mrs. Blue said shrugging and looking back at her screen.

"What? But you're the one whose in charge of this thing!", Mrs. Blue said.

"True. But I'm not the one who has the crest of knowledge am I?", she asked with a smirk on her face.

Izzy didn't know how to reply to that, and went back to his computer screen. It didn't make any sense. If he could see what the program was supposed to do, then it might make this easier. "But I doubt I'm going to get a demonstration", Izzy thought to himself.

"You know, you'd be better off if you looked for the anomalies in the programming", Mrs. Blue said.

"How am I supposed to do that? I don't know what the thing is or does!", Izzy said raising his voice.

"Temper, temper", Mrs. Blue said sarcastically, "don't make me have to put you in a time out"

Has much as Izzy wanted to bash her skull in, he knew that before he could say "twinky" that he'd be back in the dungeon, or worse. So he went back to his computer screen, and tried to figure out what it was they wanted him for.

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Sora, Joe, and Cody stood in the dessert, caught between Cuervomon and Pyromon on one side, and Skull Scorpionmon on the other. Luckily for them, their digimon had come to the rescue.

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

"Already on it Sora!", Biyomon said.

"Armadillomon armor digivolve to Digmon!"

"Gomamon digivolve to Ikakumon!"

Biyomon digivolve to Birdramon!".

The three champion level digimon faced off against their attackers, standing in front of their human friends defensively. The other three digimon, started to slowly move in on them. And then out of nowhere another missile hit the ground in front of Digmon, and the explosion sent him flying backwards.

"Birdramon, you have to find out who keeps firing those missiles at us!", Sora said to it.

"I'm on it Sora!", Birdramon replied.

"Not if I can help it!", Cuervomon said flying into the air after Birdramon, "Raven's Claw!".

The claw on Ravenmon's right hand extended as Ravenmon threw a punch at Birdramon, who dodged it barely.

"Meteor Wing!", Birdramon yelled.

Ravenmon flapped her huge wings and flew high above Birdramons attack, and then lunged towards the giant bird digimon, knocking it out of the air and into the ground. Meanwhile, Ikakumon and Digmon were having their own problems fighting Pyromon and Skull Scorpionmon.

"Darkness Flame!", Pyromon yelled.

"Blackout!", Skull Scorpiomon yelled.

The blasts of hellfire hit Digmon square in the chest sending him backwards and leaving him in intense pain has the fire burned his soul. Skull Scorpiomon on the other hand, released a fog that started to take away the other digimon's eyesight.

"Where'd they go?", Ikakumon said confused.

"I can't see anything!", Digmon said.

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From another sand dune, Jerome, Chris, and Becky watched their digimon take on the digidestined. They hadn't expected Skull Scorpiomon to be there, and were completely surprised to have discovered him there. Jerome pulled out his digivice and used it to call Skull Scorpiomon. All of the digimon in his Master's army could respond to the device if they were called.

"Hey, Skully", Jerome said into the phone, "the boss doesn't want 'em taken out yet. Just fool around with them".

With that he hung up. Chris stood on top of Tankmon surveying the battle. In the air, Ravenmon had just tackled Birdramon and the two were now on the ground fighting each other.

"Tankmon, fire another shot into the fight!", Chris said.

"You got it. Hyper Cannon!", Tankmon roared firing off another missile.

Jerome turned to look up at Chris and said, "eventually they'll figure out where those are coming from. We'll have to keep moving to confuse them".

Before Chris could do anything about it, Jerome had climbed onto Tankmon and Becky soon followed. Tankmon took off, circling around the battlefield from a distance.

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"Birdramon!", Sora yelled has she watched it wrestle with Ravenmon.

"Sora we've got bigger things to worry about! Look out!", Joe yelled.

Pyromon had launched his Dark Flame attack straight at the digidestined! Joe pushed Sora out of the way and the attack missed them both and narrowly missed Cody.

"Harpoon Torpedo!", roared Ikakumon.

Even though he couldn't see what he was aiming at, he still had Pyromons voice to guide him. All Ikakumon could do was hope that he got lucky and his shot hit its target. Instead, the torpedo missed Pyromon completely and hit Skull Scorpiomon on its head! Skull Scorpiomon just chuckled.

"It's gonna take a lot more than that to defeat me! You're just champions and I'm an ultimate!", Skull Scorpiomon said cackling. "Poison Pierce!", he roared.

Skull Scorpiomon stabbed his tail at Ikakumon and Digmon, trying to poison the two digimon with it. Now that they knew that they were facing two champions and an ultimate, they decided to retreat.

"We can't win this battle easily!", Cody said, "we will just have to retreat and regroup!".

"Sounds good to me", Joe said, "come on Sora let's get out of here!".

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Jerome watched has Birdramon and Ravenmon continued to wrestle on the ground. Somehow, Birdramon managed to break free of Ravenmon's headlock and fly away towards Sora. Skull Scorpiomon, Pyromon and Ravenmon started to chase after them as they retreated but Jerome called them on his communicator.

"Let them go", he said, "we'll have Leormon follow them and keep an eye on 'em!", Jerome said.

"Whatever you say Jerome", Pyromon said back.

"Yeah, just get back here so we can head to the lodge", Jerome replied.

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As soon as they had gotten a safe distance away from the evil digimon, Sora hugged Biyomon tightly. It had been way too long since they had seen each other, and Biyomon returned Sora's hug happy to see her friend again.

"It's so good to see you again!", Sora said happily.

"Yeah I know. It's been ages", Biyomon said.

"What's happened to the digital world since we've been gone?", Cody asked Armadillomon.

"Yeah, I was about to ask the same thing", Joe said to Gomamon.

All three of the digimon looked at each other before turning back to their partners. Armadillmon was the first to answer.

"Well its like this. For the longest time there've been rumors about some evil digimon plottin' to take over the world", he began.

"Yeah. Weird things have been going on here", Gomamon said.

"What kind of things?", Sora asked.

"Nothing serious", Biyomon said, "just small unimportant things happening".

"Unimportant? Haven't you noticed that all of our friends are disappearing!", Gomamon said.

That got the digidestineds attention right away. They had made countless friends in the digital world, and they cared very much about them.

"Which friends?", Sora asked worriedly.

"Well first Andromon went missing. Then the Yokomon said that Meramon dissappeared from the top of his mountain. Leomon went looking for them but never came back", Armadillomon said.

"Another weird thing is that there are more virus digimon running around", Gomamon said.

That was unusual. Considering that Malo Mayotismon had been defeated two years ago, all evil in the Digital World had gone away to. The fact that there was an increase in virus digimon meant that something was going on somewhere.

"What else has been happening?", Cody asked.

"Well out of all them virus types, there've been eight that have been seen around lately", Armadillomon said.

"What digimon are they?", Cody asked.

"Well, from what I've heard, there's an Airdramon, Pyromon, Tankmon, and a Musyamon", Armadillomon answered.

"But that's only seven. You said there were eight", Sora said.

"There are, but there's only four that we know about. I've heard other digimon talking about seeing a Seadramon and a Monochromon but those are rumors", Biyomon said.

"I heard that they aren't normal, and that they're all black and are a lot stronger than they normally would be", Gomamon said.

The three of them absorbed all of this information. It was almost certain that evil was back in the Digital World. They all remembered the transmission they had gotten from Gennai, and the reason they were here.

"Um, Biyomon. We were told that Primary Village was being destroyed, but we got sent to the middle of the dessert. What happened?", Sora asked.

The three digimon all seemed to get confused looks on their faces at the question. Sora also noticed something mixed in with the confusion: guilt. "That doesn't seem good", Sora thought to herself.

"Well, we don't know why you got sent to the dessert. But Gennai told us that Davis and Izzy were able to get to Primary Village", Gomamon said.

"What happened to them?", Joe asked

"Well, Gennai told us that they tried to beat the evil digimon that were destroying the village, but that it was a trap all along. He said that Izzy was kidnapped and Davis was sent back to the real world", Gomamon answered.

At that exact moment, a hologram appeared from the ground and Gennai appeared to them. Under normal circumstances, they all would have been happy to see their old friend, but the news they had received and the expression on his face changed all that. Gennai didn't look like the news he was about to give them was good.

"Hello kids", Gennai said trying to sound happy to see them, "I'm afraid I've got some bad news".

"We already heard about Primary Village", Joe said, "we're really sorry we didn't get there".

"It wasn't your fault. For some reason the gate wouldn't open", Gennai said, "this will be easier to explain if you're here".

"Ok where do we go?", Sora asked.

"Just follow your digimon, they all know the way", Gennai said, "I'm afraid I'm going to have to end this now. I hope to see you soon".

"Bye Gennai", the three of them said in unison before the transmission ended.

After the transmission ended there was a long silence between them all. Evil was back in the digital world, and it looked like they would have to fight it again.

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Amy was in her quarters in her Master's castle when Victor entered. Even though he could move without making a sound, Amy could always tell when he was near. She could always feel the darkness that seemed to attach itself to Victor, and that scared her. Out of all the darkness she felt when she was in her Masters castle, she could always feel Victor more.

"What do you want Vic?", Amy said not bothering to turn around.

"We're leaving together", Victor answered.

That sent a chill right up her spine. Amy didn't mind being with Victor, it was just the thought of being alone with Victor that frightened her. Amy turned around to face him, making sure she didn't show any fear on her face of him. "That'll just make it more fun for his sick little mind", she thought to herself.

"Where are we going?", Amy asked him.

"Master wants us to go to Server and protect the towers that are being built there", Victor answered.

Amy nodded her head in understanding.

"Maybe we'll get lucky and the digidestined will show up. That way we won't be bored", Black Gatomon said.

Even though Amy wasn't as aggressive has Jerome or Chris might be, a good fight sounded nice now. For the past year they'd only been operating in secret, and all the fights they'd been in had been won easily. "A challenge does sound kinda nice", Amy thought to herself.

"Well, are you coming?", Victor said to her.

"Yes Vic, I'm coming", Amy said walking out of her room and pushing him aside has she did so.

Amy now felt excited, and she knew exactly why. The digidestined would have to come to the digital world sooner or later, and that meant they would finally get to meet.

Ok, for like the fourth time people, review the story. I know you all at least look at the chapters, but nobody's reviewing except for like one person. I don't care if its a good or bad review, just review the story.

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