Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon

I hate Mondays, especially if it's the first day of school. I had to wake up early so I could get there in time, which meant a small breakfast. Luckily I wasn't alone as Sis had to do the same, but neither of us really liked the idea of walking to school. Ms Seiko had a great solution to that little problem, use our Alt-forms. Rather than fly we decided to run across the buildings and see who could get there first and since Renamon was already awake we decided to include her. I lost, I can run pretty fast and fly at supersonic speeds but they were just so much faster than me. We shifted out of our Alt-forms as we got to the school and Renamon gave Sis a hug.

"Have a good first day Rikamon."
"I'll try to mother."
"And stay out of trouble."

"Don't worry I'll take care of her." I said

Renamon nodded and headed off to do her morning training while we headed into the building. Considering the fact that it was 7:50 and classes didn't start for another half hour I was surprised at how packed it was. I felt Kudamon appear around my neck yawning, at least he was finally awake. As we made our way to homeroom I started drawing stares, probably because I was standing so close to Sis and no one knew me. When we finally got there I was surprised to see everyone already waiting there for us.

"The school has a pretty strict 'no Digimon' policy." Kazu said

"Well Sis, what'll you do about parent teacher conferences?"

"I'm sure they'll make an exception. But do you think we should leave?"

"No I don't think either of you should but, I do think Kudamon should stay inside." Henry said

"You guys aren't making any sense. You know that right? I mean I can understand it with you Alex but Rika?" Kenta asked

The three of us just exchanged knowing looks before examining everyone else's reactions to our conversation. Kazu looked just as confused as Kenta. Takato looked like he was going over something in his mind, something that clearly bothered him. However Jeri had a look of understanding on her face and she opened her mouth to say something but was abruptly cut off by someone yelling from across the room.

"You with the rat! Get waay from my girl!"

Kudamon looked for the source of the voice and I saw through his eyes a burly kid. He was probably about six feet tall, probably played a sport or two based on his muscled arms and legs. He had long brown hair and blue eyes that currently looked ready to kill. Kudamon began drawing in breath but I quickly clamped his mouth shut. As much as I wanted to hack a lugee on this guy I knew it would be a bad idea.

"Who are you, what are you talking about and why should I care?" Kudamon asked for me
"I'm Blaine," he said in a hostile voice "and Rika is my girl. So get away from her!"
"Sis, do you know this weirdo?" Kudamon asked
"Hey!"
"Unfortunately yes. He thinks that he and I have a thing. In all honesty I'd rather go on a date with Mother than him. Even if he was the last human alive."
"So you want him to leave you alone right?"
"I'd like that but I just can't seem to get rid of him."
"Here that weirdo," I said
"Sis doesn't like you and under no circumstance what so ever would she go on a date with you." Kudamon finished
"Just don't try anything funny with my girl or I'll make you regret it."

Having said that he proceeded to turn around and walk away and take his seat on the far side of the room. When no one but the Tamers was paying attention Kudamon vanished, no point in pushing our luck and having him continue to be miss-identified. Well that and the stupid no Digimon on campus policy that the school has. I made a mental note that I'd probably have to deal with this "Blaine" person again sometime in what would probably be the near future. Hopefully things wouldn't get violent and he would just get the message and leave Sis alone.

"Alex, have you noticed that when you are Kudamon how much taller you are than a regular Kudamon?" Takato asked
"No, why?"
"Well a regular Kudamon stands about one and quarter feet tall and you stand at three feet even."
"I'm probably taller because my human body can't be compressed to much."
"Do you think you'll shrink again and be a regular sized Kudamon?"
"Probably not, at least…well I hope not but I don't really know."

We continued to talk until the bell rang signaling the start of homeroom and I had to go through the whole "I'm so and so from so and so" spiel. Sis and I were rather amused by everyone's reaction when I told them she was my sister. So as not to reflect badly on Ms Rumiko I made sure to tell them that it was by adoption. I also gave the spiel about "if you hurt/ begin to bother my sister I'll kill you", of course in my case I meant it. Most people seemed to get it, most; based on what happened during gym I don't think that Blaine was in that group. Gym was our last class, I say our because I had all The Tamers in that class with me. I was standing there talking to Sis minding my own business when I'm yanked away from her and find myself face to face with, a once again angry, Blaine.

"I told you to stay away from my girl!"
"Weren't you listening earlier weirdo, Sis does not like you." I replied calmly
"Shut up! She says stuff like that to those losers she hangs out with all the time. So I know when she says it to me that she doesn't mean it."
"They are not losers. They are her friends. However, since you seem to be in a violent mood I'll make a deal with you."
"I'm listening." He growled
"We'll fight, right here and right now. If I can beat you in one blow then you leave my sister alone forever, period, no exceptions."
"Alright, but if I win she officially becomes my girlfriend."
"Deal," Sis said "I trust my brother to win this fight."

Blaine took up a typical street fighter stance while I just stood there with my hands on my hips waiting. With a yell he rushed forward and swung his fist aiming for my head. I took a large step back causing his swing to be just shy of hitting my nose. He swung his other fist across trying to once again to hit me only for me to side step his wild swing. I put my hand on his shoulder and gave a hard shove sending him into the fall five feet away and causing the wall to crack. Since he didn't try to get out of the wall he was probably unconscious. He would have some injuries but nothing life threatening, one blow…well push had been enough; fortunately we wouldn't get into trouble because it would all be blamed on an accident.

We left school in a group and headed for Shinjuku Central Park, Sis and I had been dropping not so subtle hints about her being a Gatekeeper to Kenta, Kazu, and to a lesser extent Takato all day. After getting out of sight of the school I shifted into my Alt-form, I may be wearing the uniform in my human form but at least in my Alt-form I still have my khaki cargo shorts. Pants at this time of year was not comfortable, fur was okay because it breathes very well and always fits right…well at least if it's your own fur it does. We made our way to the same place that I had taken Sis the morning after her awakening, it was nice and secluded so we wouldn't be bothered by people. As soon as we entered the clearing Sis demonstrated one of her recently refined skills and summoned a ball of blue flame into her left hand. I laughed as everyone except Henry and Jeri jumped. We had decided that the best way to tell everyone was to just show them, so Sis took several steps forward and shifted into her Alt-form drawing gasps from Kazu, Kenta, and Takato.

"I knew it! I knew it! I thought there was something strange about that Renamon from the other day!" Jeri squealed with delight

"Brother catch!" Sis threw the fireball at me and I promptly extinguished it with ice

Next came the time consuming part where we had to slowly explain everything so that everyone would understand exactly what happened. I even included the dream about Lady Inari and Sis's kitsune heritage, they were understandably skeptical until Onee-chan arrived and backed me up. Why they didn't believe me at first I don't know, maybe it has something to do with me not being a Mega level Digimon. Then everyone wanted to see demonstrations of her powers, both kitsune and Digimon, which is when I left; no way in hell was I gonna spar with Sis so thank God Onee-chan was there to fill in. I shifted out of my Alt-form so Kudamon could appear around my neck before shifting back; I made my way towards the portal to the Digital World. That's when I heard a voice I recognized and since I didn't know many people in Japan that made it important, however what made it even more important was that it was a voice I was sure I'd never hear again. I broke out into a dead sprint heading to the portal knowing that I hadn't heard wrong, and then I saw her.

"Hikari!" she turned and her confused look turned into a smile but everyone else's didn't

"Alex! How are you doing?"

I practically tackled her as I gave her a hug and then…I felt a twinge, a twinge that I associated with my Cu Sith abilities. But it wasn't coming from me, it was coming from within Hikari and that worried me. Kudamon hoped off my shoulder and took Gatomon aside to talk to her about what we had just felt and the plan I had just come up with. As I released her from the hug I looked around at her assembled friends and I mean really looked at them. I recognized them all from watching the show in this world and was reaching out with an invisible veil of ice and seeing how it reacted to everyone. The only person to have any reaction other than Hikari was her boyfriend Takeru, well at least that much was good news to me and would be to her as well.

Hikari suddenly feel to her knees holding her head, I checked her forehead and found she was burning up. "Shit" I instantly switched to my Alt-form and Kudamon turned into light and entered me re-emerging as Chirinmon. Gatomon climbed on and Chirinmon took off heading towards the Wong's apartment. I picked Hikari up bridal style and found she was starting to sweat. "Put your arms around my neck." She did, I turned around and walked a short distance away.

"What are doing!" Daisuke yelled at me
"I'm going to help her…I'm the only one who can help her…"
"And what's that supposed to mean?"
"Ken, Sora have your partners digivolve and follow me."
"What are" Sora began
"THERES NO TIME TO EXPLAIN RIGHT NOW! Please…just…just trust me."
"It's okay guys…" Hikari said weakly "just do as he says."

Ken and Sora raised their digivices allowing their partners to digivolve and we took flight as a group. The two of them gracefully I leaving a three foot crater in my haste. I had to be careful to fly at pace where I wouldn't lose them, which was hard considering that I knew how much pain Hikari was in right now. The awakening of my Cu Sith powers had been far from pleasant, it had been complete torture. The only reason why the awakening of my ability to properly control Muspellheim and Niflheim had been pain less was because my body was mostly digital data now. We made it most of the way there…most of the way, that's when it all went to pieces as Omnimon flew past me. I looked back at the others with an expression that said "you'll be able to find me by the following the sounds of battle" before I adjusted my wings and instantly accelerated to supersonic.

I came to hover outside one of the apartments windows only seconds later as Janyu opened it and I gently handed Hikari over to him. He gave me a nod and closed the window carrying Hikari over to the couch and setting her down on it. I pulled down my mask and saw that XV-mon, Shakkoumon, Aquilamon, MegaKabuterimon, Omnimon, and Lillymon all approaching me. Stingmon and Garudamon flew past the others and straight to me I waved to them that they should get behind me and stay there. They knew, or at least figured that I didn't want them involved in this. I prioritized my targets; XV-mon and Aquilamon first, then Shakkoumon, MegaKabuterimon, and Lillymon, lastly I'd deal with and hopefully get some answers from Omnimon. Not wasting anytime I immediately put my hands together and began preparing a Shatter Blast.

"I already told you I'm the only one that knows how to help her. If you'll please just let me explain"
"Shut up! Where is Hikari!" Taichi yelled
"I'm not telling you that, for her good as much as yours."

All the Digimon put their partners on the roof across from me.

"XV-mon get him!"

He rushed forward and as soon as I was sure he was in range I unleashed it on XV-mon causing him to tumble to the ground and digivolve back into V-mon. This simple act of self-defense set everything off, and they all seemed to come at me at once. With a cry of 'Imperial Glacier' and a punch of my left fist I repulsed Aquilamon before he could attack and made him revert back to a very tired Hawkmon. I pulled up my mask and Chirinmon dropped down from above slamming into MegaKabuterimon with his Wind Cutter Sword. He would try and keep MegaKabuterimon busy while I a rained Shatter Blasts down on Shakkoumon.

"Flower Cannon!"

I got completely blindsided by that being to busy dealing with Shakkoumon to pay much attention to Lillymon. It was a definitely a good solid hit since it sent spinning down to the tarmac below, where I slid and bounced to a very unceremonious stop. Obviously I'd have to deal with her first before I could do anything about Shakkoumon, I hopped to my feet and took off at mach speed. I slammed into Lillymon carrying her high into the air with me where I spun around at about 1000 feet. With quickly whisper 'sorry about this' I dove back to the ground with her pinned and slammed her into the road surface below at supersonic speed. The effect was instantaneous as she reverted back into Tanemon, Palmon's In-Training form. Two down, three to go.

I took off and headed straight for Shakkoumon…yeah I didn't make it to him before a got smacked in the face by the flat of a sword. I guess the 'high and mighty' Omnimon had finally decided to join the battle; well this was going to complicate things. We had hoped that he would be content to sit and watch until he was the only one left, looks like he had gotten bored. MegaKabuterimon managed to force Chirinmon to the ground, I could feel his weight on my chest, and I put my hands together and flew straight at him before slamming my still connected hands into his side. My hopes had been confirmed when it had the same effect as a Shatter Blast, and that was definitely my last one because my hands were just throbbing in pain. MegaKabuterimon suddenly let loose a Horn Buster which slammed into me and Chirinmon, I slipped out of my Alt-form as Chirinmon reverted to Kudamon. We stood up and stared at Omnimon and MegaKabuterimon, we knew that we couldn't lose…not yet, Janyu still needed more time.

"Do you yield Kudamon?" Omnimon asked
"Hey, Kudamon…we always fight using each other don't we."
"Yeah…I think ever since we came back from the Dark World we become separated people again. It's just that we can share a body if we want to."
"Then what do you say. How about this time we fight together." "Together…yeah I'd like that."
"Do you yield?"

"Like hell he does!"
"We're not just fighting for ourselves; we're fighting for someone important!"
"To keep them from having to endure the same pain I did!" My D-Power was shining brightly as I pulled it out and held it out in front of me "We'll fight together to help and protect this person!"

"Biomerge Activate!"

I tossed up my D-Power and caught it in my left hand then swiped it up my right arm. My entire body was engulfed in light, it felt like a normal Digivolution but at same time entirely different. I felt myself falling backwards into Kudamon.

"Kudamon Biomerge TO!" The feeling of truly biomerging was…was…indescribable

"Kentaurosmon!"

I was up on my hind most legs and brought the other two pair slamming down into the asphalt; I got a good long look at myself in reflective surface of the office building next to me. I matched Omnimon in height standing a good thirty feet tall maybe a little taller. My body was covered in Red Chrome Digizoid, easily the strongest Digizoid alloy of them all, MegaKabuterimon and Shakkoumon's threat levels basically just dropped to zero. On my back was a pair of large gold-yellow flame shaped protrusions that I knew where wings. My breast plate was a giant wolf's head and my own head had a similar shape. Last I noticed my extremely long and large white tail, despite how cool I looked already the tail just added to it. I brought up the kite shield in my right hand, then my left arm pointing it, and the giant crossbow upon it, at Omnimon.

"Bifröst" I said calmly

I massive arrow of ice shot from my crossbow and ignited as it flew straight at Omnimon passing close enough to MegaKabutarimon and Shakkoumon to knock them off balance. Omnimon countered by shooting it with his Garuru Cannon, shockwave created by the two attacks colliding caused MegaKabuterimon to revert to his In-Training form of Motimon. Despite my rise in level to Mega I knew that all I could do was by time, I was very strong defensively but Omnimon could just rain down his shots on me. If he did that…I looked around and saw all the people and Digimon continuing to clear the streets just as fast as they could. I jumped up into the air, surprising myself with my own speed, and floated above the buildings.

"Omnimon…I have questions to ask you."

"Then ask them Kentaurosmon. Hikari is important to us and we want her back."

"Why do you want me to return to the Digital World?"

"Daemon is stirring again. He is trying to return from the Dark World. We need you in the Digital World to help us fight him should he suceed."

"The Sovereigns can and will deal with him should that occur. But what if he were to appear in the Real World?"

"He won't."

"And just how do you know that?"

"…I don't. But he would not choose to appear in the Real World."

"Why not? If all his enemies are gathered in the Digital World to stop him. It would make more sense for him to show up in the Real World where his enemies are not."

"I disagree."

"Then stay in the Digital World and defend it yourself. I may be a sixteen year old kid and a prank-loving Digimon but I'm not stupid. If I'm smart enough to think up that idea then I can guarantee you Daemon has thought of it to."

"As leader and founder of The Guardians the decision of troop deployment is ultimately up to me."

"To bad I quit about a month and a half ago then. I have another question for you, what do you know of Gatekeepers?"

"You, Kentaurosmon, are not one of them. The human you saved and bonded with is however the keeper of multiple gates. Another reason I want you back in the Digital World is so that I may keep an eye on him."

"Brother!" Sakuyamon suddenly appeared flying in the distance

"Sis, get inside and help Janyu as best you can I don't want you getting hurt."

"But"

"No buts, we have to protect them. I alone stand the best chance out here…Sis please."

"Alright."

"Thank you."

"Sis?" Omnimon repeated "So another Gatekeeper has awakened. This troubles me further, is this one Digimon or human."

"Human."

"Speaking of which where is your human?"

"You've been talking to me the whole time Bucket Head." I piped up from within Kentaurosmon

"What!"

"You have your way of reaching Mega and we have ours. The combination of a humans as data into their Digimon partner, hence the name Biomerge."

"There are no words to describe the sort of crime you have committed by doing such a thing! You completely endanger your partner's life by doing that!"

"I know the risks Bucket Head. You weren't listening to us earlier; we said we'd fight together this is not someone sided deal. It has to be something that we both desire."

"Very well then, before I defeat you tell us where Hikari is."

I ignored his demand "Bifröst!"

I launched an arrow at him and again he countered with his Garuru Cannon, this was going to get very painful very quickly. Omnimon began firing a barrage at me from his cannon. I tucked my shield in front of me and began moving in my odd sort of three jump fashion. Pushing off on all three pairs then landing and pushing off with my hind once. Landing again and this time using my middle pair for landing and pushing. Then landing a third time with the same action on my foremost pair before I took a final leap and landed on all three. I returned fire every so often; just enough to keep him distracted so I could jump again, but my rate of fire was far below his and I was getting hit quite a lot by his shots.

Strong as my armor was it could only take so much of this punishment. Even as string as I was I could only keep it up for five minutes before I was standing on the asphalt again. My armor was now heavily battered and my shield slightly beaten up. Surprisingly my crossbow, Muspellheim, was in the best condition of everything. I jumped again hoping to get in close enough to Omnimon to prevent the continued use of the Garuru Cannon. Next thing I felt was a searing pain in my chest before I was somehow looking at my back with the Grey Sword's tip protruding from it. I heard gasps and yelling but I either couldn't or didn't want to understand any of it.

"KENTAUROSMON!" I yelled

"I…I'm fine," he said forcing himself off of the Grey Sword and landing atop a nearby building "Take a good long look yourself Alex."

I flew towards him and everyone's movements seemed to slow to almost a dead stop. Kentaurosmon had clean stab wound in his chest, nothing fatal but definitely painful, his armor was cracked in some places and shattered in others. Acting on instinct I put my hands over the wound in his chest and felt energy surge out into it and watched as the wound quickly closed up. Then I saw my hands, and I mean really saw them, my skin was pale blue like ice and it glowed and around that was on orange red glow like fire. I looked down and saw that my body was human and featureless, completely smooth; reaching my hand around my back I felt that I had the same wing protrusions as Kentaurosmon, and to top it all off I was now back to my five and a half foot tall stature.

"This is your true Alt-form." he rumbled reaching out a hand for me to land on "You are in perfect synchronization with the gates for Muspellheim and Niflheim. Based on what I saw when you flew over to me your speed is probably unmatched by anyone now. However, you are not a combat machine but a survival machine. As far as physical damage goes your body is nothing short of indestructible, but you will tire easily like this."

"I understand…please rest. I'll take over fighting Omnimon until…well you know."

He nodded and I flew in a zig-zag path way directly in front of Omnimon's face and noted the startled look he had when I stopped moving. It felt great to move around and I myself felt like I was getting fatigued but also well…giggly…like a little kid who was having fun. He brought the Gray Sword up to hit me but I stopped it with my hand and a smile spread across my face at the look of shock on his face. I may not be built for combat but I was pretty damn strong none the less, probably for survival reasons, after all most mythical monsters were insanely strong. Had I been paying attention I would have noticed the Garuru Cannon being brought level with me, unfortunately by the time I did it was to late. The shot sent me flying into the air, but oddly I didn't mind it was actually kind of fun, I stopped myself and flew at him again while he fired a barrage at me. His shots moved so slow! It was so easy and fun to weave betwixt and between them stopping occasionally to watch his expression change.

Shakkoumon had decided to stop standing on the side lines and actually attack me, which he did so silently. He used his Justice Beam and it pushed me back into Kentaurosmon's hands as he caught me. I was sitting with my knees up and suddenly felt extremely exhausted but still giggly, I watched as my colors drained away and my body became human again. I fell over in Kentaurosmon's hand started giggling which shortly broke out into full on laughter. Even though I hadn't been able by much time in my true Alt-form I had had lots of fun.

"Tell us where Hikari is!"

Something caught my attention out of the corner of my eye; it was Sis standing atop the Wong's apartment in her Alt-form. She looked pleased, downright happy, that could only mean one thing to me and I sighed with relief. Omnimon brought the Garuru Cannon level with where I was sitting. If he fired, I wouldn't survive, not in my human form and I was to tired to shift. A blue-ish green streak flew out from the apartment to block the path between Omnimon and myself. I recognized the Digimon and the person within instantly and also felt the Gatekeeper family bond when I spoke to her.

"Hey, I hope you weren't in pain for to long," I gave a long pause "Hikari-chan."

Hope ya'll liked it and sorry about the cliff hanger

We now have glimpse of the kind of power that Alex has, but like the first time you do anything its not perfect

Later ^^;