T4L: Hey guys what's up?

Terriermon: Nothing much just waiting for you to post chapter 3.

T4L: Very funny Terriermon... Anyways I posted the second chapter of the Tamers side story yesterday, and again I recommend reading that before reading this chapter.

Terriermon: Anything else?

T4L: Yeah there is actually. I'd like to thank Tyson the Wolf Omega, MindPoison, Gallantmon7196, and plutomoon2 reviewing my last chapter. The moral support is a great help while I'm writing. I remember back in June, school had gotten out and I just felt like writing down a little idea I had had in my head for about a year. Then one night I couldn't sleep so I went to my computer and started editing what I had written for the first chapter. Then at around 6:00 A.M. I just thought to myself 'Hey why not just post it. I just won't write anymore if I don't get any reviews.' But then I checked three days later and I see Tyson the Wolf Omega Reviewed my story. So if you're reading this chapter man thanks.

Terriermon: Wow T4L that was deep... Do you need a tissue?

T4L: Maybe... Na just kidding I'm not gonna cry.Well anyways... Here's chapter 3...

'I will not cry... I'm cool... I will not cry... I'm cool... I will not cry...'

Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon, no matter how much I wish I did...

Digimon Tamers 2

Digital Frontier

Chapter 3: To the Machine zone.

"The road ahead of you is a long and dangerous one..., only proceed if you are sure you can handle the danger..."

"I'm not stopping until I've found all of them... I'm not going to give up and break my promise!"

"Than wake up and press on with your mission..."

Takato awoke with a start. He was on the ground, which was a rocky surface. It seemed to be early afternoon, and hot.

"Hey hey! Look who's finally woken up from dreamland!" Came a voice Takato recognized as Terriermon from the right side of him.

"Quite Terriermon, you might kill him with that voice of yours." Came a feminine voice to the left.

"Hey what's wrong with my voice!" Terriermon shouted indignantly.

Takato took this as his time to enter the conversation. "...Terriermon..., your voice can make the dead want to kill themselves..."

"Well at least it's better then your voice!" Terriermon shouted.

"Hey! What's wrong with my voice?!"

"It cracks every so often." Terriermon said with a laugh.

"Does not!" Takato shouted his voice cracking a bit.

"There it is again!" Terriermon said laughing at Takato.

"Why is your voice doing that anyways?" Renamon asked curiously.

Takato blushed a little at the question. How could you explain to a digimon that your voice was changing because of puberty, without telling them it's puberty.

"It's just because... I'm getting older..." Takato said hoping they'd accept the explanation and leave it at that.

"I see... Do the others sound any differently?" Renamon asked still curious about this voice changing thing the humans seemed to have.

"Well Henry sounds a little more like his father... But for all the others not really."

"I see..." Renamon said.

Takato wanting to change the subject before anymore uncomfortable questions, asked the first thing that came to his mind.

"So... how long was I out?" Takato asked looking at the others.

"About three days." Said Meramon who until now had remained quite.

"Three days huh...? Guess that fight really took the energy out of me..." Takato said looking at his wounds. What met his sight when he looked at his wounds were what looked like stitches. "Huh? How do I-...?"

"Renamon did it with a bit of the string from your pants." Terriermon said answering Takato's half finished question.

Takato looked towards Renamon bemused. "You know how to give people stitches?"

"Yes Rika's grandmother showed me how to do it." Renamon responded.

"Well lucky for me she did then." Takato said as he got up off the ground and dusted himself off.

"Whoa Takato! You sure you should be doing that? You just woke up about four minutes ago." Terriermon said sounding a bit shocked and concerned.

"Terriermon is right you should rest for a bit longer." Renamon said trying to get Takato to sit back down.

"I'm fine guys." Takato said trying to get them to stop worrying. "Really." Takato added as he saw the look of disbelief on all their faces.

"Well if you're sure..." Renamon said looking uncertainly at Takato then the others.

They stood there for what seemed like two very awkward minutes of silence. Then Takato's stomach decided to break the silence.

Takato laughed nervously and scratched the back of his head out of embarrassment.

"Well I guess I am a bit hungry..." Takato said to the others. "Do we have any food left?"

"Yep." Terriermon said as he dug into Takato backpack and took out a loaf of bread.

*Somewhere else in the Digital world*

Somewhere very far from Takato and his digimon companions, a red digimon that resembles a Rapter sniffed the air.

"BREAD!"

*Back with Takato and his companions*

"Well I'm full..." Said Takato after finishing his loaf of bread.

"So what do we do now?" Terriermon asked the others.

Takato got up to his feet. "We've gotta get moving if we ever want to find the others." Takato said as he pulled his backpack up his right arm.

The others stared at him in disbelief.

"You're serious...?" Terriermon asked not even with a slight bit of a joke in his voice.

"Yeah. We gotta get going, I don't wanna be here to long." Takato said as he began walking. He turned his head towards Meramon. "No offense... it's just I belong in the real world..."

"No offense taken." Meramon said as he began to walk along side Takato.

"Hey Renamon which direction is the Machine zone from here?" Takato asked Renamon once she caught up with him.

"To the east." Renamon said pointing in the direction.

"Alright. So east we go..." Takato said as he and the others turned in that direction.

"HEY! YOU GUYS ARE FORGETTING SOMEONE HERE!" Came Terriermon's indignant shout from behind them.

"More like we were hoping he would fall behind and get lost..." Meramon murmured as they stopped to let Terriermon catch up to them.

"You guys really need to warn me when you're all going to take off like that..." Terriermon said as he finally reached them and jumped on top of Takato's head.

"Can we go now?" Takato asked annoyed.

"Yeah. I think we can." Meramon said as he began to walk.

*Back to the Rapter like digimon*

"I can smell it... It's close... Bread..."

*Back with Takato*

"I give up... I can't do this anymore..." Terriermon said as he dropped to the ground.

"Terriermon get up, we're almost there now." Takato said as he picked Terriermon up off the ground.

"But we've been walking for days now... Lets stop and rest for a while..." Terriermon said to Takato in an exhausted tone.

"Alright, you're right we've probably been walking for a good six days now." Takato said looking at Terriermon and the other digimon. "Alright guys lets take a break for a bit."

"Finally..." Terriermon said as he jumped out from Takato's hold and laid down on a boulder.

Renamon walked over to Takato as he sat down behind the boulder Terriermon was laying on.

"Takato we should remove those stitches now." Renamon said as she sat down next to him.

Takato's face became very uneasy hearing this. He had never gotten stitches removed before let alone even getting stitches. "Alright..." Takato said as he laid himself down and removed his shirt which was hiding a few of his stitches.

Renamon went strait to removing them trying to be as gentle as she could while doing so.

"I've been wondering for a while now... Why'd you come here all by yourself?" Renamon asked starting up a conversation to help pass the time as she removed his stitches.

This had been the question Takato had not been looking forward to answering to anybody. He closed his eyes praying for strength and responded to the question.

"Well I guess it was just something I felt like I had to do by myself..." Takato responded to Renamon's question as she removed yet another stitch from his chest.

"Is that all...?" Renamon asked beginning to remove another stitch which was in his leg.

"Well... no... I had this dream with Guilmon telling me the portal was going to reopen soon and that I was the only one who could bring you guys back..."

"When did you have that dream, may I ask?" Renamon asked curiously as she finished removing the last stitch from Takato.

"While I was unconscious in the real world." Takato responded.

"Bet he did something that got Rika mad!" Terriermon said laughing.

"It had nothing to do with her Terriermon! A heavy tree branch fell on top of me!" Takato shouted.

"Whoa calm down Takato I was just joking..." Terriermon said taken aback.

"I-..."

"Did something happen between you and Rika?" Renamon asked.

Takato who was now siting up lowered his head sadly "...Me and her had a fight the night before I left... I yelled at her before leaving her house... And now she's not leaving her room, because she blames herself that I left." Takato explained.

"You didn't tell them you were coming here?" Meramon asked.

"I wanted it to be a surprise for them... When I bring all the digimon back to them..." Takato said imagining how his return would be like.

*Inside Takato's imagination*

Takato walks out into view of the other tamers. Henry's standing a little off to the side of the other tamers smiling.

The other tamers all have cross looks on them about Takato leaving to god knows where.

Then the digimon walk out into view of the others. The tamers all put on shocked but happy faces on them as they run to they're digimon.

His parents scolding him for leaving without telling them. The tamers listening intently to his story of journeying around in the digital world searching for their digimon.

Being yelled at by Rika about not telling her what he had been up to.

*Back to reality*

"Takato you still in there man?" Terriermon's voice said bringing Takato out of his fantasy.

"Wha... Oh yeah, I'm still here..." Takato responded.

"Well then if you're ready we should start walking again." Renamon said as she began to walk off to where the Machine zone was.

"Right let's get going." Takato said getting up and following Renamon, along with Terriermon and Meramon.

An hour later and the entrance into the Machine zone was visible to them.

"Hey there it is! Finally!" Terriermon cheered.

"Yeah finally now maybe I can have my head to myself again..." Takato said as they continued to walk towards the entrance.

Suddenly the sky above them turned dark and a shadow was cast down upon them.

"What's that!?" Takato shouted looking up.

In the sky was a dark colored dragon with machine like hands and dark purple hair.

Takato raised his digivice at the digimon in the sky and read the details to the others.

"Gigadramon. Ultimate level, virus type. This powerful cyborg dragon digimon can destroy entire cities with his Genocide attack."

Gigadramon seeing Takato and the others flew down towards them.

"Ah oh! Looks like he's spotted us!" Takato yelled panicking a bit.

"I will destroy you!" Gigadramon shouted as he aimed his arms at Takato and the digimon.

"Ah... We didn't mean to offend you or anything..." Takato said nervously.

"TAKATO this guy's not going to listen to what we have to say! He wants our data!" Terriermon screamed as he began to run away from Gigadramon.

"Ah... Nuts..." Takato said as he too started to run away.

"Genocide attack!" Gigadramon shouted.

The attack hit the ground behind them and caused a powerful earth quake.

"Have any ideas Takato!" Renamon asked as she ran.

"Just one! ...But it's crazy!" Takato shouted to the digimon.

"Better crazy then dead by default. Let's hear it!" Meramon said as he caught up to Takato.

Takato looked at him as they ran, considering his idea. 'It's crazy... but it just might work... I mean it's never failed me once yet...'

"...Alright fine..." Takato said in resignation. Takato reached into his pocket and took out the digimon destabilizer, and proceeded to turn it into the Katana of Doom.

"Grab onto this!" Takato instructed Meramon.

Meramon took a hold on part of the katana as Takato had instructed him to not knowing what his plan really involved.

"Now throw it as hard as you can at Gigadramon!" Takato instructed Meramon.

Meramon doing as Takato said threw the katana at Gigadramon.

The digimon watched as the katana and Takato flew through the air towards Gigadramon.

Gigadramon seeing Takato and the katana coming towards him prepared to swat him away. But as he was about to do so Takato's body suddenly jerked in another direction and avoided Gigadramon's arm.

A few seconds later Takato was standing on the ground behind Gigadramon.

'...How did I just do that...?' Takato asked himself as he watched the top half of Gigadramon slide off of the lower half of his body.

'Now this is interesting...' Thought the dark figure from before as he watched Takato destroy Gigadramon.

'This boy is special... One of a kind... Like he was made for the purpose I intend for him... Hmm... This requires more research...' The dark figure thought as he once again vanished from sight.

"You were right Takatomon that was a crazy idea." Terriermon said as he and the other digimon walked over to him.

Takato scratched the back of his head. "Heh... Well at least it worked." Takato said as he looked down at the digimon destabilizer.

"Man what else can this thing do?" Takato said as he put it back into his pocket.

"We should get moving before another digimon comes looking for any of our data." Renamon said.

"Right. Machine zone here we come!" Takato said as he and the others walked through the entrance of the Machine zone.

Once through the group found themselves falling. But not downwards like you would think. They were falling upwards.

Because of this odd occurrence Takato was reminded of the strange and impossible things that can happen in the Digital world.

"Does anybody know when we stop?!" Takato shouted ready to be sick.

"I don't know but I hope it's soon! I'm not cut out for this!" Meramon shouted back to Takato.

"I'M GONNA BE SICK!" Terriermon shouted next to Takato.

"NOT ON ME YOU'RE NOT!" Takato said as he pushed Terriermon away from him.

"We should be stopping right about... now." Renamon said as they found themselves on solid ground.

"Is everyone alright?" Meramon asked.

"K-...Kinda..." Terriermon said shakily.

"...K-KINDA!? KINDA!? WHAT ABOUT MY POOR CLOTHES!?" Takato shouted. "AND MY HAIR!?" He added as some of Terriermon's puke dripped onto his face.

Yep that's right Takato got hit by Terriermon's puke. He could remember it as though it had gone in slow motion.

*A minute ago*

They were flying upwards, and Takato had just pushed Terriermon away from him.

Renamon just started to say something as Takato saw Terriermon turn in his direction and opened his mouth... and saw some stuff come out of it.

"Nnnnnnoooooo...!"

*Back in the present*

And that's how it happened.

"I'll get you back for this one Terriermon..." Takato said as they were walking around the area looking for any sign of Gaurdromon or MarineAngemon.

"I said I was sorry..." Terriermon said on the other side of Renamon who was a good distance away from Takato.

"I'm just glad I didn't get hit with any of that stuff..." Meramon said.

They would have continued this conversation if Takato hadn't broken into a sprint. Leaving the others dumbfounded.

"...What... is he doing...?" Terriermon asked the others.

"Gaurdromon!" Takato yelled as he kept running.

The digimon turned to each other.

"Gaurdromon...?" They asked each other trying to figure out what was going on.

"Gaurdromon!" They all said in unison as they realized what Takato was running to.

"Gaurdromon!" Takato yelled as he came within fifteen feet of the digimon.

"Who goes-..." Gaurdromon said as he turned around. What Gaurdromon saw made him stop mid-way in what he was saying.

"Takato? ...Is that you?" Gaurdromon asked as the boy finally came face to face with him.

"Yeah... It's... me..." Takato said trying to catch his breath.

"What are you doing here?! Where are the others?! Where's Kazu?! Is he alright?!" Gaurdromon asked trying to figure out what was going on.

"I came here to bring you and the others back to the real world." Takato explained still out of breath.

"The others are they here?!" Gaurdromon asked excited.

"So far I've found Terriermon and Renamon, and now you... Is MarineAngemon with you?" Takato asked.

His question was answered as a bubble passed by his face and cleaned off all of Terriermon's puke from Takato.

"I guess that's a yes. How ya doing MarineAngemon?" Takato asked.

"Pu! Pu!"

"Well that's good to hear... I think..." Takato said not really understanding what that meant.

"Takato!" Terriermon shouted from behind him. "You've really gotta warn us when you're gonna run off like that!"

Takato turned around to face the others. "Heh... Sorry about that... But look we've found Gaurdromon and MarineAngemon!" Takato said pointing behind him.

"That just leaves Guilmon, Impmon, and Monodramon..." Renamon said.

"Sweet we're almost done!" Takato cheered.

"Done with what?" Asked an innocent voice behind Takato.

Takato knew that voice. "Calumon!" Takato said as he turned around and grabbed the tiny digimon out of the air, and hugged it.

"Oh... opps... How could I have forgotten Calumon...?" Renamon said.

"Takato, Terriermon, Renamon, Gaurdromon, MarineAngemon I've missed you guys so much..." Calumon said as he flew around them all.

"Hey Calumon, you wanna come back to the real world with us?" Takato asked.

Calumon turned towards him. "You mean the place where they have cream puffs...?" Calumon asked.

Takato chuckled. "Yeah Calumon.. The place they have cream puffs..." Takato said.

"Sure! When can we go?!" Calumon asked.

"Well first we've gotta find Guilmon, Impmon, and Monodramon." Takato told Calumon.

"I've seen Impmon." Calumon said happily.

"You have?! Where?!" Takato asked excitedly.

"He was in this place that the ground is all broken up..." Calumon said seeming a little scared. "I didn't really like it there..."

Takato's eyes that were so full of excitement contorted to sadness and shame. He knew the place Calumon was talking about. It had been the place where he had made his biggest mistake ever.

That was where he had created the terrible and powerful, not too mention frightening dragon god digimon Megidramon.

"Takato...?" Renamon asked concerned.

"I'm alright..." Takato said trying to seem calm and collected. "... I guess we should go get him..." Takato said feeling dead inside.

"Well the fastest way to get there would be through a data stream." Renamon said as she looked for one.

"Actually there's a better way to get there than that." Gaurdromon said to the others.

"Really how?!" Takato asked looking at him.

"There is this one data stream that has never moved once sense it appeared. They say that it leads to the

Sovereigns Palace." Gaurdromon said pointing to where the data stream was.

"It doesn't seem to be to far away... Yeah why not. It's worth a try." Takato said as he and the others started to walk towards it.

End of chapter 3

T4L: Well that's the end of chapter 3. Hope you liked it.

Terriermon: Hey T4L, this the digimon you drew?

T4L: *Turns head in Terriermon's direction* HOLY CRAP IT ACTUALLY WORKED...! *Looks at the digivice that he had taken from Guilmon* SWEET...

Ultimon: Sorry it took so long, I ran into an Armegedamon along the way here.

T4L: And he's just as powerful as I wanted him to be. He's a rookie level who has the power to digivolve into any digimon he wants to. His main attack is deletion joust, deleting any and all digimon that it hits.

Henry: You sure it's a good idea to make a digimon that could very well be unstoppable?

T4L: *Looks at Henry* Nope...

Henry: Just asking...

T4L: Well rate and review, and please no flames well maybe a little...