Renamon: That was a good fight.

Takato: it was, but now I have an angry girlfriend and an Egg to deal with.

Betamon: Hey Renamon, since Guilmon's an egg right now, would you go out on a date with me.

Red Egg: What, no, you stay away.

Gomamon: Give it up, she's never gonna say yes.

Renamon: Sure, sounds like fun.

Everybody: (Stares at Renamon in amazement) Say what.

(Note, the Song How Long, By Hinder is used in this Chapter, however, it has been modified as to account for the use of a Curse word.)

Chapter 7 A Message for Tai

Steven had just gotten out of school and was walking home thinking about the gossip for the last 4 days. The main one being that the girl Tamer had run away in the digital world. Of course their where a thousand different variations on it of possibilities that she had become a digimon, died, become so disfigured after a battle that she didn't want to see anybody and million other things. He just stuck to the facts, and that was that the girl Tamer had been missing for some time, other then that he didn't know.

He saw a friend he had just met recently, his name was Takashi and he didn't speak much if at all, Steven had kind of learned to read his expressions, but it was still a pain in the tail sometimes, he ran and caught up to him, "hey Takashi."

Takashi looked at him and nodded, which was more then he usually got. "Hey, you hear anything about Rika been gone for a while, I mean you are a tamer, so I figured you might know something."

"When did you see it?" Takashi asked sharply.

"What" Steven had been joking, and yet was his silent friend really a Tamer?

"I repeat when did you see it?"

"I was just joking,"

Takashi glared at him. He got the message, "Don't worry I won't tell anyone, but I really didn't think their was anymore tamers then just the Trinity, Kenta, Kazu and Ryo."

"There isn't,"

"But I thought you said,"

"Do I look Japanese to you?"

"I guess not," then he got it, "sweet, so there are more Tamers then just in Japan, do you know any other non-Japanese Tamers."

"There's only two of us. No more."

"Really, so, do you have any cool cards, I mean I've seen your deck and all, but do you have any super rare one's that are only given to real Tamers."

"You need to understand that a battle with real digimon is different then one with the cards. A real battle uses a different kind of strategy then the game."

Steven kinda of understood this, "so a weak card in the game could actually be really useful in real life, wow I never realized that before."

"That's part of the reason that Kazu and Kenta suck so badly, and even Ryo a little bit. Ryo has the nicest cards you can find, it's just that he always relies on brute strength alone. Granted he uses strategy with his brute strength, but the battles are different then the card game, it's just something he never got."

"So, what kinds of cards are useful in a real battle?" Steven was really interested in this.

"I'm not the best to be talking about this too. Rika, the one who's gone missing, she would be the one you need to talk to."

"So you know something, about Rika I mean."

"Yeah, but it isn't your business. Any way's about the cards, look at your own deck, it would be better in real battle then it would in the card game. That's why you don't do to well in the tournaments, your strategy's mixed up."

"My decks made for a real battle." He got it out and started looking through it. "lets see, I really don't see anything other then my Hyper speed that could be used in a real battle."

"The thing is, in a real battle, you can use the attacks from other digimon by swiping that card through your power slot, however, if you use too powerful of an attack, it will backfire and completely wipe out your own digimon."

"You mean, I could use a different rookie's attack, if I had a digimon of course."

"You could use a champions attack as long as your gave your rookie a power up and he didn't use it more then 5 times. Unless it's a more powerful champion attack, I would use it a max three times with an endurance card. Other wise your digimon will faint before the battle really get's rolling."

"Wow, hey out of curiosity," Steven was interrupted by Takashi.

"Hold up." Steven stopped and realized that their where a few boys about ten feet ahead of them. They seemed to be fighting over something.

"Hey, give it here I saw it first."

"So what, it was obviously meant for me. I'm the only one deserving of it, now lets see to choose my digimon, I do believe I'll go with a Demi-Devimon."

"No you don't, give it back,"

Steven saw what they where fighting over, and he couldn't believe his eyes, in the kids hands was the one thing he thought he would never see.

A blue card.

"Gogglehead watch out." Rika cried as she shot up from the place where she was sleeping, only to ram her head up against the side of a table.

"What," Sora said as she jumped up from the couch, "are you all right Rika." She said as she moved next to her new friend.

"Of course I'm all right, why wouldn't I be." Rika said in her snobby tone rubbing her head.

Sora backed off, getting the hint that she wasn't wanted. "Sorry, I was just trying to help." She turned around only to run into Renamon.

"I'm sorry, please forgive Rika, she's been stressed ever since she's lost her memory, and sleeping puts to forefront the few she has left." Renamon got on one knee.

"It's all right, I'm sure I would act much the same if I was in a different dimension with people I didn't know and had lost my memory." Sora said understandingly.

"Is everything all right out here?" Tai asked groggily as he came out of his room in his pajamas. "I heard somebody say gogglehead."

"I'm sorry to disturb you, but Rika had a nightmare." Renamon said casually.

"I can speak for myself Renamon." Rika told her partner harshly as she got up. She went and grabbed a pack of ice and placed it on her head.

"Wow, somebody's a grouch in the morning." Sora told her.

"Lay off Sora, it's not like you don't wig out sometimes too." Tai said yawning, "I'm going to get Cari up, T.k. will be here in half an hour."

Sora started to fold all the blankets used for her bed on the couch and Rika did the same for her's on the floor. Sora had asked if Rika had wanted the couch last night, but she said no and curled up on the floor.

"Hey Sora," Tai called from the bedroom.

"Yeah,"

"Where's Agumon and Biyomon?"

Sora looked at her Digimon's perch, it was empty. "I don't know."

"Where right here," Agumon came out followed by Biyomon dragging Agumon's bed out of the Bathroom.

Tai looked at them like they were guilty, "and what where we doing sleeping in the same bed."

"Look Tai, just because your parents said you and Sora can't sleep in the same bed next to each other doesn't mean that me and Biyomon can't." Agumon told his partner.

"Well, when our parent's buy you each your own beds, I think that's what's implied." Sora said looking at the perch her parents had bought Biyomon, it was fairly nice.

"Well, they never said it." Biyomon said flying to her perch and grabbing a sunflower seed and cracking it open with her beak.

"This is just your guys' way of sticking it to us, isn't it?" Tai asked.

"Yeah basically." Agumon said yawning, "What's for breakfast."

"Well, give me a few seconds to wake up why don't ya. Besides, unless you did the dishes last knight I don't think that we have anything to eat off of." Tai said starting to wake up out of his morning grogginess.

Sora sighed, "I'm sorry I should have done them last night. I'll go do them right now."

"Cari's in the shower." Tai said to her as he went back into his bedroom to change into some clothes. Sora sighed in defeat.

Sora and the two digimon went into the kitchen, surprised to see all the dishes done and Rika kneading some dough. "What's this?" Sora asked.

"You guys didn't have anything I liked, so I decided to make some bread." She said plainly.

"but who did the dishes." Biyomon asked curiously.

DarkAgumon came in from the outside, "that would be me, I woke up early morning and knew that I needed to pull my weight around here, so I did the dishes then went for a jog."

"What do you mean early." Agumon asked, "it's five o-clock in the morning, so whats early for you."

"Two, I usually get up at four anyways." DarkAgumon said.

"But why," Sora asked.

"I love dawn, it's the best time of day." He said walking into the closet/pantry.

Rika stuffed the bread into the oven muttering about a lack of real food around the house. She started to clean up her mess. "So, where did you go." Agumon asked his new partner. "To meet some Virus friends."

DarkAgumon had been expecting this question, "I just took a jog to Heighten Bue Terris, just to see the sights. Why did Renamon follow me," he said looking at the red head, Rika nodded "I kinda expected that she would, but I got cocky when I didn't see a trace of her. She's really good."

Renamon appeared right in front of him making him fall onto the floor. "Actually, I'm the best."

Sora shook her head as Cari came out of the bathroom, her first words being "what's for breakfast."

"hold your Centaurmon, The bread should be done in a minute," Rika told her shortly.

DarkAgumon decided that it was getting a little bit to crowded and walked into the living room. "I wonder what's on" he said out loud, as he sat down on the couch. As he went to reach for the remote, Renamon couldn't but help to teleport right in front of him and grabbed it at the last second. "Hey, give it here."

"Why should I," Renamon told him as she turned on the TV. DarkAgumon rolled his eyes and admitted defeat.

"Bleck, who wants to watch the News this early in the morning." Renamon said as she started to flip through the channels.

"Hey, go back," DarkAgumon said as she passed a channel.

"Cartoons? You want to watch cartoons?" Renamon asked.

"It's not any cartoons, its .Hack," DarkAgumon said looking at her weird, "how can you not like .Hack."

"Probably because the did the maturation phase on characters who where completely lame." Gatomon said licking herself. "I mean, please, the didn't need to do anything with B.T and taking out the Crimson knights was just complete worthless. They could have had so much fun with that."

"You talking about //Sign." Tai asked coming out of his room dressed.

"Yeah," DarkAgumon said, "personally I like this new series //Core better, I'm still a fan of //Sign though." (//Core is not a real series)

Agumon walked into the room to contribute to it, "I don't know//Sign was alright, I really liked it."

Biyomon, who was standing on top of his head, pecked him on the snout, "how can you say that, Sora died in it."

"You can voice your opinion Biyomon," Renamon said as she put the remote down, "but you don't need to go hurting other people because they don't agree with you, especially your mate at that." She paused as everyone stared at her, "hmm?."

"I wouldn't go as far to say as their mates," Tai said walking into the kitchen.

"Yeah, I mean, unless they have an egg they haven't told anyone about yet, they're not mates." DarkAgumon said thinking for a sec, "You're from the south quadrant, aren't you."

"Yeah," Renamon said, "Why?"

"The mating rules are a little bit different there then they are here in the east quadrant." DarkAgumon said. DarkAgumon thought for a second, "you and her," DarkAgumon pointed to the kitchen, "you're the shaman aren't you." Renamon nodded.

"How do you know that?" She asked staring him down.

"When Azulongmon gave me my body back from sealing the gate, he required that I help him with something."

"And that would be fighting the Deleter."

"Yeah, but D in Lord Azulongmon's name it was strong." DarkAgumon said.

"Don't cuss." Gatomon said to DarkAgumon, "anyways, you two are going to explain what you just said later, but Patamon's here right now, I can smell him."

Agumon checked the clock, "no he's not, he still has ten minutes before he should be here." The doorbell rang, "I guess he's early."

T.k stood outside the door having just rung the doorbell, he was fairly nervous as this was the first time that he would actually have to meet the overprotective Tai before taking Cari to work.

"Dang, what's that smell." he asked Sora as she opened the door.

"It's the bread Rika made, come on in, where about to eat breakfast." She said. T.k walked into the overly crowded kitchen, only to have Patamon jump of off his head and dive into the crowd. "Delicious smelling Fooood."

"I hope she made a bunch, cause this group's hungry." T.k said taking off his shoes.

"hey quit pushing,"

"That's my piece,"

"pass the Azulong Ded butter over here."

"Watch your language DarkAgumon"

"Hey, where's the Honey."

"Purr, this stuff is much better then what Tai makes."

"Hey, my gruel isn't too bad." This silenced the entire room, everybody turned and looked at Tai. There was a short pause, and every single person and Digimon stuck their finger down their throat.

T.k laughed and joined the mad grab for the bread.

Rika started cleaning up a half hour later, T.k had gotten away with Cari while there was a mad dash for the second loaf. Tai was going to really give him a telling in when he came to pick her up tomorrow, but he had gotten away with it today. That had helped make some room in the kitchen without 2 people and 2 digimon, unluckily, it was the 2nd and 3rd most mannered digimon, only Renamon had more manners then them, of course maybe it helped when she could just teleport to grab her next slice of bread.

She started to do the dishes while DarkAgumon dried them, after a few minutes Rika heard Tai starting to vacuum the place and Sora had grabbed all the laundry, it took a few hours, but eventually the place was extremely clean.

Rika was going through those cards of hers, when Tai asked her a question, "hey, you want to go and grab a present for Cody, his birthday is in 3 weeks."

"No." Rika said shortly, "could you leave me some money though."

"Sure," Sora said placing a hundred on the table out of her pocket, "but why?"

"I'm going to go get some groceries so we can have some real food." She said in a why on earth do you ask voice.

Tai shrugged his shoulders and he and Sora went to go get Cody a present.

M Betamon picked up Michael's telephone, "Hello, Betamons house." He loved doing this, it confused so many people. "Oh, hi Betamon, is Michael their," darn, it was just Mimi, he wanted to have some fun, "yeah just a sec." He said disappointed, "Michael that pink haired freak of your's is on the phone."

Michael picked it up from upstairs', "hi Mimi, please do excuse Betamon, he's seemed to be a little bit more mean since DMB arrived. It's driving everyone else crazy."

Hearing this Betamon hung up the phone, "now let's see, where is that traitor anyways." Betamon started searching the house all over, and couldn't find a trace of him. He was about to tell Michael when Michael popped out of his room, "Girls, why do they talk so much Betamon."

"Got me, hey, have you seen DMB I can't find him anywhere."

"I'm right here," DMB said coming out of Michael's room, "I was monitoring the gate that was recently placed between the East and South Sector. I think I may have found a weakness, but I'm going to need's DarkAgumon's help."

"You'll do no such thing." Betamon said coldly. "Who knows what you'd really be doing, I don't trust the either one of you."

"You don't need to trust me or BlackWargreymon for that matter, however, if you're going to start pointing fins, make sure you point one at yourself." DMB told him calmly.

Michael sensing a fight grabbed each of them and put them under his arms, "We'll I found out how I'm going to keep in shape. You guys weigh a ton."

"Be glad we only weigh this much, Guilmon literally weighs 250 pounds on a full stomach." DMB told his temporary tamer.

"Who's Guilmon," Betamon asked coldly, "one of your Virus friends, I sure as in data haven't ever heard of him."

"Actually yes, and you haven't heard of him because he was created by a boy named Takato, quite the character too."

Michael squeezed Betamon tight so he wouldn't ask any more questions. He could tell his partner was looking for any reason to fight DMB.

Betamon gave up in defeat, "so what are we doing today Michael?" he asked. "are we going to hang out with Mimi again."

"Actually no, their was a tidal wave and quite a bit of damage was done in the digital world, so where going their to help clean the area up and see what we can do for some of the injured digimon."

Betamon shook his head, "don't we ever get a break."

"Not while the Dark Masters still exist." DMB said shaking his head.

"So I guess we'll just have to get rid of you then." Betamon said. The hidden message hit Michael like 3 Snorlaxs had just fallen on top of him. (What, I couldn't think of a really heavy digimon.)

"Come on guys, we need to go." Michael said rushed. He pulled out his digivice and all three disappeared in a white flash into his computer.

Never stopping

never stopping

never stopping now

ohh ohh ohhh

ohh ohh oh

here we go

ohh ohh ohhhh

"You're here Michael great" Joe said as his American buddy ran up to him, " a lot of trees have been washed around and we need Seadramon to move them all. Derak's already working on finding all the injured digimon and moving them to the ocean and the sick bay." Joe indicated to a spot on the beach where about ten digimon lay.

"Joe, there's something I need to talk to you about, Now." Michael said sharply. Betamon smiled to himself. If DMB was going to spill his secret about him, he would have done so already, he relaxed a little bit. Although he was surprised that DMB hadn't tried to take off.

They had rounded up Derak and the 7 of them where tending to the injured digimon. "So, what do we need to talk about," Joe asked Michael.

"Yeah, what's so important as to not and try and find any injured digimon." Derak asked, not accusingly, just interested.

"It's about DMB." Michael told them sitting down on the ground next to an injured Syakomon. He grabbed a Band-Aid and placed it on a spot where some data was missing on the it's head. He closed its shell and handed it to Derak, who had CrAbmon place it in the ocean.

"What about him." Joe asked curiously, splinting a Divermon's arm and having him walk out to sea.

"He's MetalSeadramon." Michael said plainly.

"As, in thee MetalSeadramon." Derak asked looking DMB, only for Michael give him a nod. "that rocks mate, we've got a Dark Master on our side.

"Whoa," Michael stood up, "He's a Dark Master, you know, the ones that tried to kill Mimi, and the rest of the gang!" Michael shouted, surprised to hear this from his friends. "who knows what he's planning to do."

"Relax Michael," Gomamon said to him fiercely, "if I had thought he was a threat I would have told you already. Besides, if Betamon had wanted to strike it would have been at the meeting last night where a Warp Digivolve could have taken all of us down. Besides, you've trusted Myotismon's lackey all this time, what makes DMB any different?"

"What do you mean trusted Myotismon's lackey I've never even met, Myotis" Michael trailed off from his shout he turned and looked at Betamon.

"Back up people," Joe said, "let me get this straight, Michael's Betamon, or MB, is the same one you and me fought while we tried to break the fog."

Gomamon nodded.

"So MB really stands for Myotismon's Betamon." Betamon nodded and looked ashamed under Michael's glare.

Joe started up again, " and DMB is Dark Master Betamon, alright, that's good to know. However, no one else needs to know."

Derek was surprised, "but why Mate, don't you think they would like to know that we have a Dark Master on our side?"

"yes, but they would probably do what I just did," Michael said.

"and freak out." Joe said plainly. "now you're seeing where I'm coming from."

Everyone nodded. Then CrAbmon got an idea, "wait, if DMB really is a dark master, then doesn't that mean he knows a lot about where we can find them?"

"Sorry," DMB said, "I left them before they started this new scheme, but I have a feeling we'll be running into Machindramon in the near future though.."

"Why do you say that mate?" Derak asked.

"Because," he said calmly, "this Tidal Wave was caused by a Giga Cannon fired into the ocean."

Rika grabbed the hundred off the counter, Tai and Sora had left about 20 minutes ago. "Anybody coming with me," she asked.

Renamon walked out the door, and was soon followed by Biyomon and Agumon. As soon as DarkAgumon saw this, he also walked out.

"Well, lead the way Agumon, you know this place better then I do." Rika said to him.

"Well, let's see the best place for grocery shopping would probably be the Digi-Drop. It's only a few blocks from here."

"The Digi-Drop," Renamon asked, "what, did some large digimon leave his sludge lying around their."

DarkAgumon laughed, "I wish, I'd love to beat that Digimon."

Biyomon shook her head, "you are so immature DarkAgumon. No, it's just the name, it was dedicated to the destined after we creamed Diablomon's digivolved form, some of the obsessed nerds hang out there, but the owner is really cool."

"yeah, he's only 17," Agumon said, "and he pushes all the freaks out of there. He's obsessed too, but he doesn't try just to touch a real digimon, those people freak me out a lot. His place is actually really cool."

"That's interesting," Renamon said, "I wonder?"

"Wonder what?" Rika asked.

"Well, they never had anything like that in the south quadrant, of course maybe that's because it was already a show before you guys showed up. But you did save the world." Renamon told her.

"Hey," DarkAgumon said trying to get some of the glory, "I helped out fighting that thing too. You can't take all the credit." Agumon sweatdropped.

"I'll never understand you, DarkAgumon."

"You expected to," he asked as they walked into the Digi-Drop. Rika stared beyond her wildest imagination. "Whoa." She was impressed, and that was hard to do.

DarkAgumon fainted as he saw one of the many statues of the Digidestined and their partners, was actually dedicated to him. Agumon sweatdropped again and shook his head. His pink friend laughed.

"Well, he wanted glory," Biyomon said, "and he got it." She looked around and saw a certain somebody to her surprise, "Brit, how'd you know we where coming."

Rika looked at Brit unimpressed, he was a scrawny little guy with not much width or height to him. She would guess he was a max of 5-3. "I didn't Biyo, I was just coming out here to polish the placks, I haven't done that for 6 weeks, they've gotten really dusty." He said. Rika looked down at his hands, and sure enough there was a rag and some polisher in his hand.

"Where's the grocery store, I need to get some real food for Tai's place." Rika said shortly.

Brit looked at her, "it's over their on the left, but wow, look at this, another Destined standing right before my eyes." He got out his pencil and notebook, and started drawing.

"you can't be serious, exactly what are you drawing," Rika said annoyed, "it better not be just some lame picture."

Agumon shook his head at Rika's rudeness and proceeded to try and wake up DarkAgumon.

"There we go," Brit said, he showed her the picture, except it wasn't a picture, it was design for a statue.

Brit grabbed his paper again preventing Rika from getting a good look at it and proceeded to draw Renamon, and showed it to them. "Their just rough sketches and I haven't figured the dimensions out, so it will take about 3 day's to get the statues made."

Rika heard him ramble on a little bit more, but she wasn't listening, she was looking at the pictures. He had just gotten a look of Renamon standing their, yet his design for his statue showed a perfect mid air flip of Renamon's body with details down to exactly how each hair would move.

"Wait, my design, why does it look like I'm,"

"Shadow Melding?" Renamon said finishing her sentence.

Brit looked at it, "I don't know, that's just how I imagined you're fighting motions." He pointed to WarGreymon's stance of forming a Terra Nova. "That one I actually drew the design's for it before I saw him take down VenomMyotismon. I thinks that maybe I have the ability to know a digimon's attack stance."

Rika thought about that for a second, "you know, that actually would be pretty useful if you think about it, you could see an enemy's weak point in their stance before you ever fought them."

Brit wasn't really listening, he was just writing numbers on his paper, "I'm going to be working on this design, if you need anything, just show one of the staff your D-Ark, and they'll know how to contact me." He walked away chewing on the end of his pencil looking at his figures.

By the time Agumon had revived his virus partner Rika had already gone to grocery area, "I'm hungry, lets go eat." Agumon told them.

DarkAgumon's stomach growled, "yeah, how much do you guys have?" he asked.

Biyomon grabbed a wallet that had all their money in it from underneath her feathers. She handed it to Agumon, "Let's see now, I still have nineteen from my allowance, Biyomon still has another two forty-six." Agumon raised his eye scale at her, "how'd you get a raise?" he asked.

"I didn't," She said preening her feathers, "I just don't buy thirty five Big-Mac value meals."

" That only explains 190 of my expenses, where'd my other ninety go?"

"You spent on our last date, " Biyomon said twisting her head to freakishly large angle to clean up some of her harder feathers.

Agumon sweatdropped, he hated it when she preened her feathers, he knew it and she knew it that she was expecting a date out of him. He looked at his nineteen dollar's, their was no way he was going to be able to take her on a date unless they used some of her money, and that would just be downright disrespectful.

DarkAgumon saw his friends predicament, and got a huge smile on his lips, "how about I treat this time."

"You have some real money, digi-dollars don't work here." Agumon said perplexed at why on server DarkAgumon would do this.

"Yeah, what's the allowance, three hundred," he grabbed some bills he had stuck in the side of his mouth up by his teeth. "Let's see, I grabbed five-hundred just to be safe, so if I give two hundred to Renamon."

"What are you planning." Agumon asked carefully.

"Nothing, why do you ask." DarkAgumon said to him plainly.

"It's just the saying that a Virus Digimon will only give you money to get some food so he can steal what you've already got on your plate."

"That's just a stereotyping cliché, it doesn't mean much, besides, you have nineteen dollars, what good would that do me."

Agumon shook his head, "I don't know, I just feel like your up to something, I just can't place my finger on what."

DarkAgumon smiled, "So what if I'm up to something, you hungry."

"Do you even haft to ask." Agumon said while Biyomon laughed.

Biyomon smiled standing behind Agumon, with DarkAgumon standing behind her. She watched as her orange friend went up to the counter. "Oh, let's see, give me 6 Big Mac value meals, sprite on all of them please."

DarkAgumon went up next, "double that order and make the drink Rootbeer." He turned to Biyo, "and what would you like." He asked.

Biyo thought for a moment, "oh, I'm not hungry, I'll just eat a few of your guys fries."

DarkAgu looked at her weird, "are you sure," Biyomon nodded, "wow, I never met a digimon who didn't want to scarf down the entire meal, hey Kitsune, you want anything."

Renamon looked at the menu, "No thank you, they don't have anything worth really eating."

DarkAgu was perplexed, he watched as Rena and Biyo went over and sat down, "will I ever get to understand girls?" He asked Agumon.

Agumon shook his head, "no, you'll never understand them, but you will learn to know how to act and what to expect of them, but you still won't understand them."

DarkAgumon handed over the 70 dollars and he and Agumon carried a tray in each hand and one on top of their heads, they sat down.

"You wanna duel." DarkAgumon asked.

"Your on." Agumon said competitively.

"On your Mark, get set," DarkAgumon started eating his burger, box and all. Agumon like wise started eating, but threw the box on the ground. In three seconds they where already on their second burger.

Some kids noticed it and came on over making a circle, "Come on Agumon, you can do it, you gonna let some virus wanna be beat you."

"Come on Agumon."

"Scarf it in."

"I've got 6 dollars on DarkAgumon,"

"Yeah, I'll raise you 12 for Agu,"

"30, for Agu" Another kid said throwing in his money.

"23 for DarkAgu,"

"41 for DarkAgu," And the bets where closed as each where on their fifth burger, matching each other bite for bite.

"D, he's fast," thought DarkAgu as they were on their last burgers. "Pepper Breath," he said in between bites.

Agumon was caught completely off guard trying to cram in his last burger. The attack nailed him in the face sending him too the floor. "Gotcha," DarkAgumon thought chewing his last bite.

On the floor Agumon opened his mouth, "and the winner is Agumon." Cried one of the kids. DarkAgumon was in disbelief.

"But how?" He asked astounded.

Agumon got up, "well, when you Pepper Breathed me the attack shoved the burger down my throat. All needed to do was show the kids my mouth, which was completely empty, too win."

DarkAgu laughed, "fine, you beat me fair and square."

Biyomon pecked at a few fries as she watched a two kids gain 35 dollars. She shook her head.

"and to think you guys call your selves male Digimon," Renamon said.

"What you mean." Both Agus asked at the same time.

"Guilmon could have had all six burgers down by the time you guys where half way finished with your second."

Biyomon chuckled, DarkAgumon muttered something under his breath about Kitsunes and Agumon rolled his eyes.

They had been in the store for an hour now. They hadn't done too much, Biyomon had bought a bag of sunflower seeds, and when Agumon asked her about how many bags Sora allowed her a month. Biyomon standing on his head, grabbed both of his ears hard with her talons. DarkAgumon had laughed and bought her 2 more bags of sunflower seeds.

"So what do you guys want to do know." DarkAgumon asked.

"Anybody else up for a game of Laser Tag?" Agumon replied.

"That would be great." Biyomon said eating another Sunflower seed.

"Sounds good to me," Renamon said non-chalantly.

"Well, then laser Tag it is." DarkAgumon said heading over that direction.

The clerk noticed the 4 digimon walking his way, "the usual?" he asked Agumon and Biyomon .

"Do you have anything new for me?" Biyomon asked.

"Not any new suits, but I do have a few accessories available." Biyomon nodded. "Sure, whatever you think is best."

"yeah, give me the usual, better make that two, DarkAgumon needs one as well." The clerk nodded and went and grabbed everything. He gave a quite a few different guns and items to Biyomon, who started putting it one mechanically.

DarkAgu looked at what the "usual" was. He strapped on two shoulder pads that blinked and where his "death spots". He threw a rifle over his back and strapped on a belt with another sensor, 2 pistols, 1 grenade and a "lightsaber". Agumon had on the same things.

DarkAgumon watched the clerk look over Renamon, "hmm, I don't have anything for you immediately, but I could find a few things in the back after the game has started and see what I can get you."

Renamon nodded, "that will be fine."

The clerk nodded and turned to the other digimon, "ok, the games starting in 5 minutes, just go on in and do whatever, I will announce when the Game starts. Have fun."

The clerk turned his attention to the kids that where in line behind the digimon.

DarkAgumon went into the arena and mapped it out, the area was fairly large, he would say ¾ to a mile squared. He finally found a nice little notch to hang out in tell the game started. He looked around and saw a monitor in the middle of the arena. It had how much time was left tell the game stared, and the top 5 ranked people/mon who were in this game.

Biyomon, Total score to date, 5748, hit percentage, 96, Game ranked, 2nd.

Agumon, Total score to date, 5741, hit percentage, 89, Game ranked, 4th.

Young, Total score to date, 4890, hit percentage, 100, Game ranked, 22nd.

Jacob, Total score to date, 5750, hit percentage, 22, Game ranked, 28th.

Emily, Total score to date, 6904, hit percentage, 73, Game ranked, 29th.

DarkAgu looked at the stats and deduced a few things, one Biyomon was one heck of a dive bomber, 2. Agumon wasn't going to be a push over. 3. Young was one d good sniper, 4. Jacob used a lot of explosives and 5. Emily played this game a lot. One thing was for sure though, somebody's rank was going to move down in this game.

"The game is now starting, Go." Came a metallic voice over the intercom. DarkAgu came out of his hole and started to sneak around. He dove forward into a summersault firing 6 shots, 3 from each pistol to the side.

"Dang, I'm out already," cried 5 voices at once. The last kid got ready to fire back at DarkAgumon, when a sniper laser hit him.

"Ranked first is DarkAgumon

"Tied for second are Young and Agumon." Came the metallic voice. DarkAgumon had seen where the sniper had come from and dove behind some cover.

"Crap," he muttered under his breath, "Young's already got his target's locked on me." He was in trouble, if he moved, he had no doubt Young was good enough to get him. If he didn't move, somebody else was going to maul him.

"New Ranking's

"First, DarkAgumon

"Second, Agumon

"Third, Emily has just taken out Young and stole his seat."

DarkAgu smiled to himself and thanked the girl. He got lucky this time, but it wasn't going to last. Agumon and Biyomon where both out their hunting for him. A few minutes passed and all he had done was taken out a kid who had watched where he was going and practically ran into DarkAgu's gun. He saw a flash of commotion, he put away his pistols into his belt and grabbed his rifle off his back.

He got into a good position and saw what had happened, somebody who liked to use explosives had led 4 people into a grenade. Their where 3 people behind those four who where still alive, he aimed his rifle.

"like my little trick," came a voice from behind him. He knew the gun was pointed at his shoulder light. "the names Jacob, and you know what, I'm nice to newbes, mainly because only a newbe would fall for this trick, but anyways. Since I'm nice, I'll let you take out one of those kids so you can make a few points."

DarkAgumon shrugged in defeat and fired and so did Jacob. DarkAgumon spun his rifle around and snipered off all three of the one's who hadn't fallen into the grenade. He turned around and smiled at Jacob, who was staring at him in disbelief. "what just happened."

DarkAgu smiled, "I may be a newbe, but I know all the tricks. I saw your shadow a while ago sneaking around, so I got set up to sniper those three. Problem was, I guess I got the but and the barrel of the gun mixed up, sorry." DarkAgumon smiled and started walking.

The metallic game voice came on a 30 seconds later.

"Five minutes into the game. Starting number of players, 269, Current # of players, 189. Leaders.

Agumon

Biyomon

Emily

DarkAgu

Scott

DarkAgu looked around, he saw some movement and shot twice with his rifle. One shot missed while the other killed a kid. He continued going along when he stumbled over something. He looked down and saw a stash of some weapons, looking along, he grabbed a small mini-gun. He set it down and started walking with a grenade in his hand.

"I can't believe you actually falling for this." The human laughed behind him.

"I can't believe that you're actually stupid enough to think that I would fall for that." DarkAgu said glancing back and somersaulting forward.

"What?" The kid cried as a barrage of laser came bursting down at him, hitting his sensor.

DarkAgu chuckled to himself, "darn, that's going to look bad on my hit percentage, but that was defiantly worth it." Sometime later 6 more kids ran through the area only to get hit by the mini-gun going crazy.

"Number of Players left, 124. Current leaders

"1st Biyomon

"2nd DarkAgumon

"3rd Palmon

"4th Scott

"5th Agumon.

DarkAgumon smiled, he had gotten into a few duels since the mini-gun incident and had wasted everybody, but currently he had five kids trying to rifle him down as he hid behind the barrier. "This is getting old," he said he grabbed his grenade, pulled the pin and let it fly.

The grenade only hit two of the people, but they where surprised as all five where hit. DarkAgumon was smiling as he was crawling out of their, he had used the light of the grenade to distract the other three and hit all five with his rifle, it was fairly effective.

As he was going along he thought about the latest rankings, Agumon was in 5th, which he was surprised, and Palmon was in third, "wait a sec, Palmon's here." He said out loud.

"And right behind you too. You're also at a full disadvantage here. I'm sorry to say DarkAgu, but I need to take your second spot." Palmon grinned, she had her "usual" weapons, which consisted of three guns in each hand held by her poison Ivy attack wrapping themselves around it.

"I don't suppose we could make a team and wipe everyone else out." DarkAgumon asked her.

"Nah, I'm doing fine on my own."

DarkAgumon shook his head, "fine do it the hard way." He leapt in between some barriers to the side of him. Palmon jumped and started firing, which should have killed him.

DarkAgu checked his stats, he was still alive and kicking. Palmon had unwittingly jumped into a flash of lasers from a grenade he had dropped. She realized this too.

"But I saw you use your only grenade back their on those kids." Palmon said like she had been cheated out.

"I ran into a weapon's cache somebody had set down. I picked up an extra."

Palmon started muttering something about cheaters and walking off when the announcer came on again.

"We have a new player, Renamon is now entering the field." Crap Dark Agumon thought. "Fifteen minutes into the game, number of current players left, 58. Leaders

"1st, Biyomon

"2nd, Agumon

"3rd, DarkAgumon

"4th, Scott

"5th, Pal, no, wait a sec, she was killed, 5th, Emily"

DarkAgu knew what he had to do know. Hunt down his friend. He put away his rifle and grabbed both pistols. He started to hunt for his partner when he saw streams of light hit around him. Knowing instantly what it was and who it was, he back somersaulted having Biyomon fly over him. He fired a few shots, they hit her, but he never hit a sensor.

He shook off the fact that he almost was killed, and by a girl no les, but started moving forward again. He saw his partners shadow. They both jumped and rolled, but neither fired a shot. "Well this is quite the predicament." He said staring down Agumon's Barrel while Agumon was staring down his.

"I'll say, we'll both die."

"We could team up for a little while."

"That would be nice, at least tell the count gets below 20. Then we'll give each other a minute to run."

"Sound's good." DarkAgumon said. They both lowered their barrels and shook claws.

"Bomb's away boys." They heard Biyomon call as she let go a grenade.

"Numemon Sludge!" They both cursed at the same time.

Biyomon landed next to each of them as DarkAgu checked his damage report, "Interesting," She heard him mutter.

"Gotcha." She said standing next to them.

"Yeah, I guess you did, but it was fun while it lasted." Agumon sighed in defeat.

"How awesome," They heard a voice behind them say. "You just took out both the second and third ranked mon's. Which puts me up at second, and when I fire, I'll be in first."

Biyomon looked at her two friends, neither of them had heard him come up either. She figured the person was Scott and now she was going to lose.

She heard Scott chuckle as DarkAgumon raised his gun. "You know, when somebody has the will to live on for some reason, mostly being in love, you never know what kind of power they have." DarkAgumon fired a single shot taking out Scott.

"But how," She heard Scott say.

"I checked my readings, it said as soon as I took a step or fired a shot I would be dead, so I figured I would use it to protect Biyomon." DarkAgumon replied.

"Thank you DarkAgu." Biyomon said, she hugged him and took off leaving her two friends to go outside to wait the end of the game.

She heard the Metallic voice go on again.

"Number of Players left, 14,

"Current Rankings

"1st Biyomon

"2nd Renamon

"3rd Emily, Nope never mind, she was just killed. 3rd, Phil,

"4th, Harry

"5th, Andrew, no wait, Renamon got another person, 5th, Kazu.

Biyomon shook her head, Renamon was wiping out everybody. She saw somebody and dove into a dive letting the Cannon on her back do its work. The kid walked off fairly glad that he had survived to the top 15 spots. Spinning Biyomon turned around and let out two shots from her Pistols in her hands and hit another kid. They're where only 5 people left in the game. She flew up and saw one.

Breaking into a dive she dove towards the person letting her blaster cannon on her back, again do it's work, but this time instead of going all the way into the dive, she looped around and fired a few more shots, hitting Renamon who had just appeared, taking out the last person.

She landed next to Renamon, "you did really well for coming into the game late."

"You didn't do to bad yourself, Biyomon, how'd you know I was going to appear there."

"That kid, you and me where the last one's left. I figured you would try to get me after my dive, so I looped and got you."

Renamon nodded, "I bow to your superiority."

DarkAgumon was looking at the stats when the other Renamon and Biyomon came out.

"Well, let's see, I would say we did fairly well." He showed them the stats.

Biyomon, Score to date, 5923, Hit percentage, 95 . Total Ranked, 2nd

Renamon, Score to Date, 129, Hit percentage, 100, Total Ranked, 3rd

Agumon, Score to Date, 5900, Hit percentage, 91, Total Ranked, 4th

DarkAgumon, Score to Date, 101, Hit percentage, 8, Total Ranked, 5th

Palmon, Score to Date, 2398, Hit percentage, 73, Total Ranked, 61st

"Wow, Renamon, you knocked Tai out of the 3rd place spot." Agumon said.

"So did you Agumon, otherwise you'd be in 5th." Biyomon told her lizard friend.

"Wow, you guys really didn't do to bad in there, did you." Mimi said from behind them.

"Hey, Mimi." Agumon said seeing their pink haired friend. He looked around, "I thought you'd be hanging out with Michael right now."

"He said he had some stuff to do with the guys." She told him.

DarkAgumon looked at the stats again, "hey, who's in first anyways?" he asked.

Agumon pulled up the top ten stats, "that would be Gomamon, he's never missed a shot in this game. He once cleared an entire arena of 100 people in 5 minutes. The rest of us digimon weren't in that game though."

"That's still pretty impressive, though." Renamon said looking at the stats.

Gomamon, Score to date, 11,150 Hit percentage, 100,

Biyomon, Score to date, 5923, Hit percentage, 95 .

Renamon, Score to Date, 129, Hit percentage, 100,

Agumon, Score to Date, 5900, Hit percentage, 91,

DarkAgumon, Score to Date, 101, Hit percentage, 8,

Tai, Score to Date, 7865, Hit percentage, 91

Takeru, Score to Date, 9275, Hit percentage, 98

Izzy, Score to Date, 7, Hit percentage,  .

Gatomon, Score to date, 7643. Hit percentage, 81

Michael, Score to date, 234, Hit percentage, 86

"Hey DarkAgumon, I notice that your hit percentage is only eight. I take it that it was your Mini-Gun I saw take out a few people?" Renamon asked him.

"Yeah, I led a kid into a trap and didn't go back to stop it. I wonder how many it killed after I left it though." He paused to think.

Renamon was contacted by Rika, "We got to go guys, Rika's leaving." Everybody said goodbye to Mimi as they walked home.

It was already 12:00 when Izzy got home and turned his computer on. "So, Izzy, what did you find out." Tentomon asked.

"Not a lot, just that that card has digital matter fused into it. That's how Rika was able to use it to perform attacks."

"We'll it's a start. Any way's Izzy, I thought you would like to know that your mom and Dad decided to go camping for their Anniversary, so your home alone tonight and tomorrow." Tentomon told him.

"That's nice," he said logging onto his computer.

"Izzy, why aren't you excited, you could have a party and have lots of friends over and have fun and be social, wouldn't that be nice Izzy."

"What, yeah, sure."

"Izzy are you even listening to me. You go to work all day to work on those equation's then you come home and stay up all night working on things with the digital world, why don't you go and do something."

"Tentomon, can we have this talk later, what the, Impossible. This, this cant' be." Izzy couldn't believe what he was staring at, "but who."

Sora woke up to her cell phone going off on vibrations in her pocket. She sat up and answered it groggily, today had been an extra hard practice at soccer and the last thing she wanted to do was do some community service in the digital world. "Hello."

"I know it's you Izzy, you're the only one who ever calls me this late at night."

"What?"

"Why?"

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN?"

"Yeah, we'll be right over." Sora hung up the phone pale white. She got dressed as quickly as she could and got Rika up quietly.

Rika looked up into Sora's scared eyes, and understood immediately what was going on. She nodded and got dressed. A few minutes later Cari was also up as silently as possible and so where the Digimon. They all walked outside.

"Biyomon Digivolve to

Birdramon"

Sora hopped onto Birdramon's leg. Cari spread her wings and grabbed Gatomon and dove off the edge of the building catching flight and coming up next to Birdramon. Sora saw a problem, "uh Rika, Birdramon can't carry both you and Renamon."

Rika shook her head, "don't worry, we can take care of ourselves," She tossed a card up and grabbed it between her two fingers, "Digi-Modify, Hyper Wing activate."

Renamon grabbed her partner and dove off the edge in the same manner as Cari and all three started flying towards Izzy's house.

T.k was already there by the time the girls got there, he was pretty quiet. Which Cari noticed immediately, "how much of a chance do we have." She asked him.

He shook his head, "I just don't know how where going to pull this one off." He looked at the clock, 12:13, they only had seventeen minutes. Sora, who Izzy had talked to was the first one to understand the situation. "Where's the Email." She asked.

Izzy had them come into his room. "Here's the scoop, this email was sent to every address in the world, somebody wants it to reach Tai. Here, it's hard for me to explain, just read it yourself." He opened the letter.

Everyone read it in silence.

Dear Tai

How about a rematch, been a while since we duked it out, thief.

If your too, scared, that's fine by me, you where just a loser who knows how to steal something.

However, I do warn you, if you don't show up; I will shoot both of your parents and then come after the little brat of a sister of yours. You have half an hour. Thief.

"What's this next piece?" Sora asked looking at a jumble of letters below the letter.

"It's the destination point. It's the same place we battled Diablomon both times." Seeing their expressions he went on, "no it's not Diablomon, he wouldn't make a threat."

"What's it mean my thief?" T.k asked, hoping against hope that it wasn't what he thought it was.

"I don't know, I think that's a clue to the Digimon's identity." Izzy told him.

"What about the place, how is he preventing other Digi-Destined from coming and fighting him." Sora asked.

"I already checked that, theirs a barrier that will only open to Tai, however, I think it may open to Cari, their data code is close enough that the system will mistake Cari for Tai." Izzy told them.

"So where going to go in their and kick some tail's," Rika asked leaning up against the wall.

"That's the plan, but I don't know how anybody else but Cari is going to get through."

"Simple," Rika told him, "we register ourselves as digimon, there isn't limit to how many Digimon Tai can take with him, so we can send all of us."

"and how do we do that." Izzy asked her, "it's not like you can just have pieces of Digimon data in you."

"Why not." Sora asked.

"What do you mean why not, it would completely mess up the equation," Izzy started saying.

"Except that you're not adding a Biomerging factor into your equation. Right now the only two people who would register as humans are you and Sora." Rika told him.

"T.k and Cari both have Angelic digital qualities about them. Me, I have certain shaman qualities." Rika disappeared and reappeared behind Izzy. "So, that means Sora will be the only one registering as human."

Izzy jumped and was spooked out of his mind by what Rika just did, but understood what she was saying. "Alright, but do you think that the four of you can handle whoever was expecting two WarGreymons?"

"We'll be fine Izzy." Sora told her, "we have hope and light, how can we lose." T.k and Cari laughed at the small pun and Sora was glad to relieve some of the tension.

"We have a problem though." Tentomon spoke up.

"What's that," Biyomon asked.

"We can't possibly load you all up onto the internet in time." Tentomon said frantically, "and we have to have Cari and Sora in the group, and we'll barely have time to upload them, much less everybody else and all the digimon."

Izzy grinned possibly the biggest grin anybody could have ever possibly given, "you forget on small detail, Tentomon."

"And what is that, Izzy."

"I have 25 Terrabytes of RAM."

Yamato looked at the letter he sent, and hoped it would get through to Tai. He didn't want Cari to hurt anymore then she had too. She was still T.K's girl after all.

Gabumon interrupted his thinking. "Matt, I know this will get Sora back, but don't you think it's a little extreme."

"Look Gabumon, I don't want to explain this to you again. If Tai's gone the destined are going to have either me or Davis for a leader. I honestly don't care. You remember what Daemon said, if we delivered Tai unto them, then the dark ocean will recede from this quadrant and no dark master or anybody else from the dark ocean will bother us again. I'm just securing this world's safety."

Gabumon looked depressed, "I guess so, it just doesn't feel right."

"Their it is," Rika called out, "you guys ready."

"I was ready the day Tai was born Rika." Sora said thinking about her love.

Cari laughed, "And I was ready the day we met Koromon, also known as the day Tai threw up in Sora's hat and she put it on without knowing."

This time it was T.K's turn to laugh, "I'm only doing this because if Goggleheads not around, then who am I supposed to ask if I can take Cari on a data." Rika laughed this time, but something inside of her stirred. Gogglehead isn't around.

Rika shook the thought out of her head, "Here we go," she shouted as the gate opened up for them. The place was just like she remembered from the movie, except there wasn't any of Diablomon's baby forms around and instead of Diablomon was, "aemon." Rika said softly.

Daemon turned around expecting to see Tai with his claws, WarGreymon and BlackWargreymon next to him, what instead he saw was 4 rookie digimon, Hope, Light, the girl named Sora, which he recognized as Love (What a disgusting emotion) and Inyỡ.

"What's this, how did you get through." He asked astounded.

"Why, did you think you plan was fool proof. Then again, where not fools." Rika told him sharply.

"Rika, how good to see you, I did not believe it when Piedmon told me that you where still alive. It does not matter now, you will die here and join Chaos and complete the trinity. Except you'll all be dead of course." He laughed, " and then I shall destroy Hope, deliver Light unto my master and use Love as bait for destroying Courage. How wonderful."

"yeah, just try and go through me." Gatomon yelled.

Daemon laughed, "do you honestly think you can defeat me. Imperialdramon alone couldn't even push me back, what chance do you think you have of destroying me." Sora knew the truth of his words, yet he was cocky, maybe they could use that to their advantage.

"Ready everyone."

"yeah"

"Biyomon digivolve to

"Gatomon digivolve to

"Patamon digivolve to

"Do you honestly think I was just going to sit here while I let you digivolve." Daemon said "Evvviiil INF, what on earth."

Rika and Renamon had pushed off of each other creating enough of force to fly towards the walls in this Zero Gravity place. They landed on the walls and pushed off them flying towards Daemon. He just laughed. "Fine, if you insist I'll take you out first Inyỡ,"

Rika and Renamon both grinned "Fireball of Darkn, Huh" Renamon and Rika shadow walked into each others shadows, causing them to gain momentum and switch spots, which surprised Daemon enough that he stopped short of his attack. Renamon kicked him up hard while Rika jabbed into his stomach a few times and leapt back.

"Digi-Modify, SubZeroIcePunch Activate," Rika shouted driving a card through her digivice as Renamon pushed off the ceiling and dove into Daemon.

"ICE PUNCH" She shouted as her attack landed. Daemon shook his head as his hood had a layer of frost on it. Renamon jumped back and landed near Rika.

"Garudamon,"

"Angemon"

"Angewomon"

Daemon looked back at the entrance, all the little brats had managed to Digivolve. Well no bother, except that the both and Hope and Light had a pair of wings. "By Azulongmon's Beard I'll kill you all," He cursed. "Evil inferno." Everyone scattered in different directions.

"Celestial Arrow," He heard as a arrow shot through his arm, he cursed again and turned his attack downwards towards the where it had come from, but Angewomon had already moved.

"Hand of Fate," he heard only to get smacked in the thigh by the attack Again he cursed and turned his attack towards the where the attack had come from only to miss again.

"Wing Blaze" this time he turned around and used his attack instantly, again to miss and catch Garudamon's attack full on with his face.

He shrugged it off, these attacks where annoying, but nothing he couldn't handle. He watched the shadows this time instead of the Digimon. Angemon flew in front of him releasing his attack, He shot around, "Evil Inferno!" He cried as Angewomon and Garudamon's attacks met his.

"Renamon, Get over their now," Rika shouted, "DIGI-MODIFY,

(Start Music)

Why'd you go and Break what's already broken.

WARGREYMON'S SHIELD ACTIVATE."

I try to take a breath, but I'm already choking

Renamon shadow shifted into front of Angewomon. The attack flowed over the shield.

How long till this goes away,

Rika looked at her partner, Renamon was floating their lifeless next to Gatomon and Biyomon. She turned her eyes to Daemon.

(music)

"Why, why do you torment me so."

"Excuse me?" Daemon asked.

I try to remember to forget you.

"Haven't you taken enough of my life away."

But I break down every time I do

Daemon felt her glare pierce him.

It's left me less then Zero.

"I try to forget what happened to me and move on,"

Beat Down and Bruised

"But I can't go by a minute without seeing him and her."

I can't see him with you

"DIGITIZE it," Rika growled.

Why'd you go and break what's already broken,

I try to take a breath but I'm already Choking.

" YOU KILLED GOGGLEHEAD!!"

How long till this goes away.

Rika shadow leapt and Nailed Daemon with a spinning kick

I can't seem to get my heart over you

Cause you creep into everything I do.

She was in the next instant jabbing him twice in the stomach.

And now I'm dying to know, How he touches you

I can't see him with you.

She teleported and threw him over her shoulders slamming her into the wall.

Why'd you go and break what's already broken

I try to take a breath but I'm already choking

As soon as Daemon slammed up against the wall, he felt her knee collide with his chin.

Cause everywhere I look I can see how you hold him

Daemon took her next blow on the stomach to the full, and landed a punch onto her chest "Evil,"

How long tell this goes away,

How long tell this goes away.

Rika shadow shifted and nailed him in the head.

She said she wants to be friends

I took a big step back

"Evil Inferno," Daemon launched his attack at the wall.

She said

She said

She said she's sorry

The attack blasted both of them back. Daemon recovered and looked at Rika slammed up against the wall. "you want more?"

Digitize it,

Rika pushed off against the wall, she was pretty badly injured.

Screw that. (fade music)

"You think I give up that easily." She said.

Daemon was surprised, "you're still standing?"

"You killed Gogglehead, I've lost my memory, I don't belong in this world, what else do but put Gogglehead's data at rest."

"Sora," Came a weak cry from an injured pink bird, "please Sora, we have to help."

Sora had tear's in her eyes, she grabbed her pink friend "I know Biyomon, but what can we do?"

T.k put a hand on her shoulder, "your not giving up that easily, are you." Sora shook her head.

"Rika's putting all her effort into protecting the one she loved, maybe it's about time that I do the same." She grabbed Biyo and slightly pushed off the wall. She stopped about where Rika was, except 50 feet to the right.

"you have some fight as well, Love." Daemon laughed, "what are you going to do, Angemon used up all his energy in that one attack and is now Patamon again. Give up you're selves now and I won't kill any of you."

"You're trying to kill Tai, but not on my watch." Biyomon flapped off to the side of her, Sora could tell how weak she was.

Daemon laughed and released a weak attack trying to knock them out Sora pushed Biyomon to the side, and they both flew to the walls. Sora landed with a thud.

She felt a power flow through her, she saw Rika's rage and love for a certain Gogglehead, she saw her Aura triple that of anybody else's she's ever seen, including her own. She saw the bond that flowed between Rika and T.K, she felt the worriedness that T.K had for Kari, his desire to protect her, but most of all, she could feel her own.

She took in this power, it filled her to the brim and overflowing, she could feel Biyomon reenergize, she looked at the one who wanted to kill her lover.

She threw her digivice forward at Daemon and leapt after it.

"DIGIVICE SHINKA TO

Daemon's eyes widened as he saw the digivice change,

THE DIGIVICE OF LOVE."

Sora grabbed it in midair and put it next to her side.

"DIGI-MODIFACTION,

THE STAFF OF LOVE"

Izzy watched as the screen went into a cinematic form and Sora twirled her staff around slammed it down, with one foot in front of the other and her whole left side a bit more forward then her right, she placed the staff down in between her feet with the back going behind her shoulder.

"Biyomon! Digivolve!" Sora cried.

"BIYOMON, WARP DIGIVOLVE TO,

PHOENIXMON." Phoenixmon circled around and Sora landed on her shoulders with staff in hand.

"Do you honestly think you can beat me?" Daemon roared, but Rika could see the fear in his eyes.

Rika shadow shifted in front of him, "Take this, your majesty," she said as she flip kicked him and shadow shifted away.

"PHOENIX BLAZE," Phoenixmon roared as Sora leapt off her. She watched as her partner became a blazing flame.

Rika saw Phoenixmon rip through Daemon, and he fell to his knees, "fool," he swore, "what now, I still live and you have no power left, how do you expect to beat me now."

"She doesn't," Sora roared, "But I do!"

Sora slammed her staff through the top of Daemon, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO, I AM DEMON LORD, I CAN NOT BE BEATEN," Daemon shouted into a billion pieces, all go being absorbed by Renamon.

All the adrenaline left Rika's body, she just let her body glide. She half saw T.k and Kari take Sora and bring her back near the entrance.

Sora watched as they got near the entrance, she had no strength left. She let go of her staff and watched it fall, shattering into a billion pieces upon hitting the ground.

Izzy, watched from above, "sora, you fool… how… you shouldn't have," Izzy shook his head, not really understanding the force that drove somebody to give up everything. He was comfortable in his world of numbers and equations, this stuff was Greek to him, or maybe more jock to him since he knew not only how to speak Greek, but also knew the culture very well too.

Izzy picked up the phone, and all the blood drained out of his face, "…".

"Tai…, I'm…I…, I don't… Tai…, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry."

F.t: I know this chapter doesn't explain too much, but you'll understand later as the story goes on.

Gomamon: or you'll be even more confused, just depends on how much we like you.

Betamon: (shakes head) oh, about the kind of abrupt ending, this chapter was going on for pretty long. Don't worry either, we'll have more Tamer's in here.

Riley: I don't know how you guys manage this.

F.T.: What do you mean.

Riley: You're a really bad writer, and yet you keep me reading.

F.T: ohh, hheey, Yeah, about that, Dear All Readers, (all 4 of them, 3?, let's see, Minwolf, Pyrochan, and one other. Those are just the one's of the top of my head.) Sorry about pulling a Frontier, I'll try not to anymore, it's just, pulling a frontier is so fun. And it keeps readers.

Betamon: but gets bad reviews.

Gomamon: shh, their not supposed to know about that.

Renamon: (sweatdrops,) uhh, Gomamon, there the one's giving the Reviews.

Gomamon: oh, mon do I feel like and idiot now.