They spent an hour at the lake before leaving the valley. Before them were more plains.
"We need to have a plan before we continue on," Jason told the.
"I think we should wait for the generals to come to us. I was always told that if you want to find someone, stay put and let them find you," Kyo said.
"That sounds good, but we should probably find a location that suits us, so that we can see them coming," Gre said.
"It should probably be somewhere out in the open," Leslie said.
"No, we should make it so that they can only attack us from one side," Tao said.
"But then we would be setting ourselves up to be trapped between a rock and a hard place," Lao said.
"We'll go out to the middle of the plains. That way we could see them coming from a long distance and we'll be able to prepare to attack and defend," Jason said.
Everyone agreed that that would be the best plan. They walked out about a mile into the plains. They could see in every direction for miles. They each took a turn looking out for any general that may attack. They spent a long boring day doing nothing but lounging around waiting while one person kept lookout.
It was already night when Elie's turn came around. Kyo agreed to stay up with her. Everyone else was already asleep when they began to talk.
"Thanks. I don't think I could survive the night by myself if a general attacked," she said to him.
"Of course you could. You shouldn't give up so quickly," Kyo told her.
"I know it's just that…Well…My partner's the only one that can't warp digivolve…" she said softly.
Gizamon looked up at her. "Don't worry. It'll happen," he said to his partner.
"Gizamon's right. When the time comes, you're going to shine," Kyo said.
Elie smiled. "Thanks," she said to him.
The four of them continued to talk for about an hour before they heard a loud buzzing noise.
"You hear that?" Elie asked.
"Yeah," Kyo replied.
A large object appeared to be flying closer. They woke the others as the object got closer. As soon as it got close enough, they realized that it was a swarm of Roachmon. Soon, the digidestined were able to hear them chanting.
"Capture the digidestined. Bring them to General. Capture the digidestined. Bring them to General. Capture…"
The digidestined quickly activated their armor and their partners digivolved to their champion forms as to not over exert themselves. As the battle begun, the digimon digitized the Roachmon and the digidestined destroyed the black spheres. Eventually, the digimon and digidestined were getting exhausted. Orbmon was having a hard time keeping his Orb Barrier up to protect himself and Lordmon's egg.
The Roahcmon overwhelmed the group and was able to capture the digidestined. The Roachmon carried the digidestined away from their partners and over the plains at a fast speed.
A large digimon appeared in sight. The Roachmon held the digidestined up to the general.
"We've finally caught you. Or I finally caught you, I should say. I, the Great Grankuwagamon, caught the nuisance that was bothering my master. Darklordmon will be pleased," the giant insect said.
The digidestined had all given up trying to escape because they had no energy left.
Everyone except the one that everyone expected to give up….Elie.
"Come on guys. It's not over yet," she encouraged them.
"We've got no strength left and our digimon are miles away," Kyo said to her.
"So? After everything we've gone through so far, you're just going to give up. There are digimon counting on us to stop Darklordmon. What about Agumon or Wizardmon or any of the other digimon who helped us? Are we just going to give up hope? Well, you can go ahead and give up. But I won't. I'm not giving up hope. Not yet!" Elie exclaimed.
As she said this, her crest grew bright. It was like a beacon for their partners who appeared on the horizon. They were all in their rookie forms and Orbmon was carrying them on a large orb.
"Gizamon!" Elie cried out.
The Roachmon tried to stop the digmon but Gizamon felt the energy from Elie's crest.
"Gizamon warp digivolve to Justimon."
Justimon punched through the Roachmon. The Roachmon dropped the digidestined and went after Justimon. Justmon continued to punch through the Roachmon, clearing a path to the digidestined.
"I knew you'd come to help," Elie said to her partner.
"I could never leave you," Justimon said.
"That's fine and all but we still need to take care of this general," Jason said. "Let's go, Velocimon."
The rest of the digimon warp digivolved and they destroyed the Roachmon army and the black spheres with ease.
Justimon had gone after Grankuwagamon. "It's over, Grankuwagamon." Justimon said.
"Not quite. I'll beat all of you with ease. Dimension Scissors," Grankuwagamon said as he shot a blast from his blades at Justimon.
Justimon easily dodged the attack. "You know, I don't like cocky digimon. Justice Punch," Justimon said as he hit Grankuwagamon.
Grankuwagamon digitized into a digiegg.
Kyo quickly shot the three black spheres with his light arrows. "It seemed that my plan worked," he said walking up to Elie.
"What plan?" she asked him.
"Kyo noticed that you weren't so confident in yourself. He suggested that he all hang back and pretend to have given up hope," Gre explained.
"You did that for me?" she asked.
"Well, we need you on board as a team…" he said turning slightly red.
Everyone laughed at that.
"Wait a minute. What happened to the digieggs from the Roachmon?" Gre asked.
"They were probably just shells. It's possible to create a mindless digimon from spare data, but normally they don't have any power. It must have been the black spheres that gave them their strength," Orbmon explained.
"Well, that's four down. Plus, all of our partners can now warp digivolve. We're doing great guys….but let's get some sleep," Jason said, groggily.