Altered Rules

Chapter 3

Memories

(Note, due to the fact I came up with a better name, Ice is now Kitsune)

Hazard's eyes started to flutter. He got glimpse of the red energy around him and he sat up. Everything had a red over layer to it, and for a second he thought it was odd. However, then it seemed normal, and yet odd. Normal and Odd? Hazard thought, that doesn't make sense. He shook the thought out of his head. He noticed he was in a cage, but wondered how he got there.

Where was I last? He wondered. He remembered himself going through the digital port he had just found. No, that's not it... is it, I think it is, but I thought I was fighting with some digimon. No... I was going through the port... Did I fight the digimon and get thrown into the port. No, the digimon was in the digital world.

Ebemon sat their watching Hazard in curiosity, as he struggled to define who he was. It was entertaining to watch as he would get an idea, then his face would fall. Hazard was less worried about any thing else besides the fact that he didn't understand who he was. Ebemon drank his tea and turned to Henry.

Henry was staring at Hazard as well, trying to figure out someway to help him discover his identity. But how do you help somebody discover who they are when they really are two people? Hazard looked up at the ceiling and down at the floor, much in the same style that Guilmon would. He turned and cocked his head towards Deva, who lay in the cell beside him. Henry looked, willing Hazard to make contact with him.

The creature was so out of it though, trying to make sense between his two memories that made up who he was. "Enjoying the show?" Ebemon asked, "very quite interesting, the defining of one's self. Especially when you're really two people."

"Eat Numemon poo." Henry told his captor.

Ebemon didn't say anything, but looked over to see Deva starting to wake up. Henry turned as well to see what used to be his little sister try and go through the same process as Hazard was now. She sat up, looked around, stared off into space, then seemed to have collected herself. She stood up to Ebemon's great astonishment.

"Henwy?" she asked looking over at her brother, "you're still Henwy!" she cried in joy.

"Suzie?" he said amazed.

"Well, I guess sort of." she said. She looked at her body, then glared at Ebemon. "Why did you do this you Jewk." she demanded.

Ebemon looked over at her, "I'm surprised you were able to assert yourself so fast." he said.

Henry thought for a moment, "yeah, that is pretty odd." he mumbled to himself, "I wonder if the hormone levels have anything to do with it.

Ebemon continued, "as for what I'm going to do with you, that's something else that you'll figure out as it happens. I do have a way to control you, however it hasn't been quite developed, so enjoy yourself for the next few days." he looked over at Hazard. The creature was still stumbling with himself, and wasn't even listening to their conversation. He grinned.

Deva was quiet, letting her eyes pierce into Ebemon. She noticed Kitsune move, and the creature stood. up.

Kitsune awoke fairly fast, and got up, feeling in a position of weakness on the ground. She thought of what she did last, but couldn't seem to figure it out. She looked around at her surroundings and new something was wrong. This was her first thought that actually fit together. Cage's were bad. She shadow melded herself outside it.

Henry watched as Kitsune got up, then disappeared from her cage and reappeared outside it. She bumped a table and Ebemon turned around to see her. "How in the Dark Zone." he swore.

Kitsune held her thigh where she had slammed up against the table, it was sore a bit. She looked over to see a human being in a cage. Henry, what was Henry doing in a cage? Ebemon looked at her. "Don't move." he told her.

She looked over at Henry for advice, cause even though she wasn't able to think clearly, she knew she could trust him. "Run Kitsune, get out of here as fast as possible!" He yelled. Kitsune understood and shadow melded out of their immediately.

Ebemon turned on Henry, "You little Brat!" he yelled at him. Henry glared.

"Their's nothing you can do now. You and I both know what Kitsune's capable of, and now she knows you're the enemy. She won't let you come near her." he told him with a hint of smugness.

Ebemon glared, "You'll pay." he said, and walked out of the room. Henry fell down inside of his cage, looking over at Hazard, who was still trying to figure out what was happening. Henry worried about Kitsune. He looked over to Deva.

"Henwy..." She said softly, "awe we going to be ok?" she asked.

Henry's heart broke as he saw his sister and what she had become. He broke down as tears started to stream down his face, "I'm sorry Suzie... Lopmon... I'm so sorry." he cried in fear.

Deva cocked her head at Henry, "What for?" she asked.

Henry stared up at her, and didn't say anything, too afraid of what she would think if she knew it was him who put her in this state.

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Gomamon popped open a can of Cream Soda, "Alright all you maggots." he said playfully to the In-trainings. It had a been a day since the attack, and Gomamon could see the stress in the kids, and knew they needed a time to relax. "I want this thirty six pack of this stuff out of my sight. You got that!" he "yelled" at them.

"Sir yes Sir!"

"Well, then Get to it!" Gomamon cheered as he threw cans around, tossing Agumon, Black and Betamon a can as well.

The first digimon to catch a can was a Koromon X. He flipped open the top, and cream soda went everywhere. He started bursting out laughing, as several other cans spewed their contents all around. The little digimon drank their soda in a much needed delight, slipping on the wet grass and spilling the sticky contents all over themselves.

Dorumon was drinking his when a Motimon X slid into him, throwing him into Ryudamon, getting both of them sticky and lying on the ground. Dorumon looked up at her and smiled, while Ryudamon glared. Gomamon laughed his head off, and Dorumon booked away as fast as he could, Ryudamon close on his tail.

"You think you're going to get away with that Gem Head!" Ryudamon roared.

Dorumon gulped and accidentally slipped on some more spilled Cream Soda. Unfortunately, Ryudamon couldn't stop, and flipped over him, right onto the remaining twelve pack of Soda. A Kokomon X noticed this, "hey... Ryudamon trying to hold all the Cream Soda for herself... DOGMON PILE!" she yelled, and all fifteen of the In-training's leapt on Ryudamon. Dorumon slipped away. Gomamon laughed his head off.

Betamon gave him the cue, and the four older digimon disappeared for a few moments. Ryudamon lifted all the digimon off of her. "Yes, The soda is mine!" she cried playfully, holding it above her head. The bottom of it fell out and eleven of the soda's conked her on the head. The young digimon started to laugh again. The last one fell, and Ryudamon didn't feel like having a super sore head.
"KABUTO KENSHI!" she cried as a red light flared on her head, and the last flew straight at the fence, shattering the can and sending cream soda everywhere.

The whole group went silent, almost in fear, then Ryudamon started to laugh and the all indulged themselves on the soda. Tokomon X noticed something was wrong though. "Where's Hero Gomamon?" he asked. The group looked around, then they heard an odd sound coming from by the river. They went over there to see the older digimon.

Betamon was sitting at a drum set and Black and Gomamon had guitars. Agumon was at a keyboard, and had a mike.

"You guys ready for a Rock Concert!" Gomamon cried. All the in-training's cheered.

"Alright!" Black shouted, "Lets Finish This!" he shouted.

They band started to playing, when Agumon broke out into the Lyrics,

"When dreaming guided into another world ,time and time again

As sore eyes I fight to stay asleep

cause I don't want to leave the comfort

of this place

Cause there's a hunger

longing to escape

from the life I live when I'm awake,"

Betamon was having the time of his life playing, and Gomamon was enjoying it too. Black started to sing the chorus.

"So lets go there,

Lets make our escape," He and Agumon leaned their heads closer together and Agumon joined in.

Come on lets go there

Lets ask can we stay"

Betamon took off on his drum set, and Gomamon joined in the singing of the rock song,

"Can you take me higher

To a place where blind men see

Can you take me higher

To a place with golden streets"

Inside the house, Jijimon looked outside, "are you sure this is safe?" he asked.

Tai nodded, "even if it isn't, it's worth it. Besides, word is going to get around we took out a Mammothmon, I doubt we'd be attacked the day after."

"As well as the fact that the in-training's have been working all day, and they deserve a reward." Michael added.

"But all that money used on the soda we could have bought more needed supplies with." Jijimon protested.

Jyou looked up from his book, "Gomamon thought it was high enough on the priority list, and that works for me."

Jijimon sighed, these guys had an answer for everything.

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Kari and T.k were walking home from school with their Digimon behind them. Kari was silent, and T.K. Noticed it. "You alright?" the blond asked putting his arm around her shoulders.

Kari glared at him, "you don't have to be my brother you know." she snapped at him.

T.K. was taken back for a second, when Kari calmed down, "I'm sorry... I shouldn't have snapped at you. No, I'm not alright." she said.

T.K gave her a light kiss on the cheek, "would it help if I told you Sora, Ken and Mimi went looking for him?" he asked.

Kari raised her head to look up at him, "It would a little," she said as a grin appeared on her face. T.K could tell something else was bothering her though.

"What else is bothering you?" he asked.

Kari sighed, "other then the latest attack by the dark ocean..." she said sarcastically.

T.K chuckled, "I know that's not it, you always have that stored away in your mind." he told her.

She gave him a light kiss on the cheek, "You know me too well." she told him. T.K grinned.

She sighed and looked up at the sky, "Well, it goes like this. I've felt a disturbance in the balance of Light and Dark, almost like they've been mixed up instead of acting together..." she said.

Gatomon leapt on Kari's shoulders, "I've felt it too. It's like the Yin and Yang decided to try and fuse together or something." she said.

"Could this have anything to do with the disappearance of those tamers?" Patamon asked flying beside them.

"I don't know." T.K admitted, "I just don't know."