Here we go, probably second to last chapter before this arc is over. I'd like to clarify, this section has been based off of the Digimon movie: Battle of Adventurers, the characters here (Mephistomon, Minami, the V-pet, ect) aren't my own, and aren't OC's. Also I've discovered Summer Wars, but more details on my ideas on what do with that movie and Digimon later. (hint: think crossover)

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"TK, I'm scared." I looked up at Minami. We weren't in an exactly ideal position. Somewhere along the way we both passed out, probably from fear (not exactly my best moment), and now we found ourselves in a circular white room that had a ceiling too high above us, an observation window looked down at us, though no one was in it as of yet.

"I don't know what to tell you." I replied honestly. When we had woken up in here I found my egg still clutched tightly in my arms, apparently I had still been holding him, even in my sleep. I had a bad feeling about his, whatever it was. Footsteps echoed through the empty space as I anxiously paced, Minami watching me, worry etched on her face.

"Ah, the child of Hope, fallen into my grasps yet again." My head jerked up as I was labeled with a title that I had long ago forfeited. A man now stood in the observation room, the same man that had been on TV advertising the V-pet.

"How did you find out about that name?" I snapped at him, my eyes appearing to attempt to make him combust. The name was like taunting me, fueling my anger at the one thing I didn't have in my grasp.

Hope.

"You don't remember me? Well, I am a shadow of my previous self, the last piece of data of who I was. That's the funny thing about your merciful way of fighting, so different from the new ways. That destroyed data just floats around, finding its way to primary village. That should have been my fate, a time of reverie to regain my strength until I could rise up again, but your companions-" The word was spat with content. "-hunted down my data before it could get there, I am the last groupings of it, but I will be returned to my previous glory!" I stared at him for a second.

"Okay, great, and you are…?" I made circle motions with my hand. Minami was trembling, a hand on my shoulder and trying to hide behind me. My angry attitude was now hidden behind a new cocky one.

"I am the incarnation of all those who died." My eyes widened, night terrors of an eight year old boy who had seen too much rushing back like a receded tide. The façade broke, and I gripped my egg so hard that if it wasn't so close to hatching I would be afraid that I was hurting it.

"You, you can't be…" I tried to make out words, but my tongue froze before I could manage to even speak his name.

"Please, call me Mephistomon." I stared at him, and I felt tears prick my eyes. I felt eight again, just scared, and hopeless. After all, in a manner of speaking, this was the guy that took away my hope. His eyes lowered to the load I held in my arms, and a chill ran up my spine.

"What a strange occurrence." He purred. "I know that aging is different here than in the Digital World, but shouldn't you be much older by now?" I couldn't move or speak. "Perhaps we should have a chat, catch up." And then he was gone, and I knew that when I left this room, I'd be going to my doom.

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"We need to meet up with Takato." Henry told Terriermon as he stood on the pier, his phone held up to his ear. "Come on!" He exclaimed as he lowered it from his face and looked at his phone in frustration. He had been trying to reach his family or Rika all day, but nothing was working.

"Um, Henry?" Terriermon spoke up, tugging on end of Henry's pants.

"Not now, Terriermon." Henry replied as he started to put in Rika's number again.

"Henry…" He persisted.

"I said not now!"

"Isn't that the boat?" Terriermon pointed out to the ocean, and Henry looked up. There as the boat, sure enough. On fire, headed right to the docks, and not slowing down.

"Not good, not good, not good!" Henry shouted as he dashed across the dock, splinters and planks of wood hitting him as the dock was torn apart. The planks beneath him lurched as the boat groaned, attempting to fight through the dock before it slowly stopped, leaving Henry on the ground, dust rising around him and his clothes more than a little soaked.

"Henry!" Terriermon rushed over to his partner, who he had been flung from in the frenzy, and attempted to get some of the dust out of his hair, which now looked gray from all the dust.

"Hey… Terriermon…" Henry replied as he slowly got up, wincing once or twice at his injuries. He turned to see the boat, lying now on its side in water. "I guess we're not going to see Takato." His eyes glanced down to see his phone broken. He let out a frustrated sigh. "Great, what now?"

"Momentai (a/n how the heck do you spell that word?), I'm sure something will go our way." Henry gave Terriermon a disbelieving look.

"Henry." A deep, double layered voice called to him, and his head snapped up to see the sky rippling above him. "I have need of you and your partners assistance, Tamer. Come with me, you must save your fellow men." Henry stared at the rippling sky, catching only glimpses at the being behind it. A steely blue eye, reflecting an unearthly light, stared at them.

"Told you so." Terriermon said.

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"We need to go after TK and Minami!" Takato shouted, as he ran to the boats. Kai followed, grabbing his arm and stopping Takato.

"I agree with you, but what can we do? How on earth do you expect to find them?" Kai asked, and Takato struggled in his grasp.

"Anything! Anything but lay around!" He persisted. Kai glared at him.

"Think this one through, Takato."

"I am! I'm thinking about-"

"Minami." Both boys turned to see Seasermon, his paws up on the boat, staring at the sea desperately. A whine came from him. "I smell her." Takato and Kai shared a quick look, coming to an agreement.

"Seaserman, do you think you could lead us to Minami." Kai asked, and Seasermon turned his head to stare at them.

"Please." He responded, and hoped into the boat. "I must protect her."

"Yeah, let's go." Takato got in as well, Kai and Guilmon following.

"I must find her." Seasermon persisted as the boat started to run, taking off across the sea, his eyes searching the waves as if he could find her in them.

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"Put. Him. Down!" I shouted as I tried to resist my bonds. I was in a room, similar to my previous one, but smaller. The man from earlier, Mephistomon, though he didn't look like the evil Digimon I connected him with, was facing me, a wicked smile on his face. He had chained me to the wall, and forcibly taken my egg away from me, holding it in his filthy hands with a wicked smile on his face.

"Why should I? He's one of those scum that destroyed my previous, glorious form! And now, this world shall pay!" He gripped the egg in his hand, fury written across his face, and then threw it across the room.

"No!" I shouted, my hand reaching out, though it didn't get far before the cold chains bit into my skin, but still, I fought against them, though it was in vain. I watched as the egg, my egg, hurtled toward the side of the wall… and then paused in mid air and lightly landed on the ground. Mephistomon cursed under his breath.

"Dang it," His eyes shifted around the room, on the walls, the ceiling, the floor. "…he's watching us. He's protecting the rat it that egg." Whatever he was looking for, he didn't find it and turned his attention back to me. "That means he's protecting you as well." He rolled his eyes. "I guess I will be seeing you later than, after the real party starts."

I glared at his retreating form, the door closing shut behind him. Once he was gone and strained against my chains once again, trying to reach the egg.

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"Rika, you are needed." Rika looked up from her garden in the back of her house, the double layered voice calling to her from the rippled in the air.

"Get out." She retorted, her radio talking about how several planes had been crashing, and reading the flight numbers. On her bed stand, next to the radio was a piece of paper with information of a single plan on it, though she had it memorized.

"I told she'd be like this." A familiar voice rang through the air, and Rika caught a glance of a green and cream colored ear.

"Terriermon?" She said out loud, and Renamon appeared next to her.

"Come on, Rika, Takato and TK need us." The ripples revealed an orange vest.

"Henry." Renamon said, and then looked at Rika, who gave a nod.

"Let's go save goggle head and bucket hat."

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The sounds of splashes and spluttering bounced off the pristine walls as four heads emerged from a circular pool of water.

"I don't like water anymore." Growlmon (they had a run in with some Digimon on their way here) complained. They had found an underwater pathway to the base where TK and Minami were being held, but it turned out that it was very hard to hold your breath for that long.

"Agreed." Takato commented as he lugged his water logged body onto the floor, Kai and Guilmon following suit. Seasarmon hopped out and shook himself off, immediately turning to the walls, sniffing at them and then turning his head in the direction of a hallway.

"There." He said before bounding down the hallway at full speed. The others fumbled after him, slipping a little on the now wet ground. Kai had been trying to get Calumon to come with them, but the little guy just kept right out of reach, eventually he gave up and ran back in the direction of the others, assuming that Calumon would just follow as well.

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I was still struggling against my bonds, in the same position I had been in for a while now, when the doors opened. I jerked my head up, ready to face Mephistomon again, preparing myself for his cutting words, and willing to take whatever he threw at me (earlier an Ogremon had come in a given me the black eye I know sported) as long as he didn't even look at my egg.

"What game are you playing?" The figure that stepped into the room was small, had a high pitched voice, and long ears.

"Calumon?" I said in shock, more of a statement than a question. Bounced over to the egg, putting on of his big ears up against it, occasionally twitching it, a smile appeared on his face.

"He sounds like fun!" He turned to look at me. "That doesn't look like a very fun game."

"It's not." I assured him. "Is there any way you could help me out here?" I asked though I knew the answer was no. He approached me, and looked up at me, opening his mouth as if to answer. But he didn't, instead he looked me straight in the eyes, and his mouth slowly closed like he forgot what he was going to say.

"Hey, are you okay?" I asked, his ears had retracted and he was holding his head like he had a brain freeze or a headache. I reached my hand out towards him, but the chains cut into my wrists again.

"UwaaaaAAahhHhhh!" He cried, a red light filled the room, blinding me, slowly changing to orange, and then to yellow. The light slowly died down and I blinked away the dark spots that danced in front of my eyes, my hands coming up to rub them. Wait a second… I opened my eyes to see the chains gone, like they had never been there, though my wrists were still raw and in a few places bleeding, and the stinging sensation around my eye told me it was still sporting the lovely bruise.

"What the…" I gaped, and a familiar warmth rested against my chest. I pulled out my tag, except it wasn't just my tag anymore, my crest, the crest of hope, sat in it, like it always had, like it had never left. I clutched in my hand, and looked down at Calumon. "How in the world…?"

"YAY!" He jumped up at me, and I barely succeeded in catching him. "You feel all warm now! Now you really are like me!" I awkwardly hugged his head, my mind wandering off to possible meaning of that phrase.

"Wait, how'd you get here, Calumon?" I held him a little away from my body so that I could see him better.

"Everyone else was coming here, so I tagged along!" He exclaimed happily.

"So Takato and Kai came too?" Calumon gave a nod. "Then we need to go find them." I put him down and went to pick up my egg, a little bit of a bad feeling coming into my stomach. I loved Patamon, and after all he had done for me, I was forever in his debt, but I had to pray that he hatched soon, as things got more and more intense I was just putting him in harm's way.

"Lead the way Calumon." The egg shifted slightly, tilting towards my chest, like I was warmer now or something. I felt better now, I felt complete, I felt like with Rika and Takato and Henry, whatever I was here to do, I'd accomplish it.

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"I'm sorry, Tai, but I'm not getting any readings for Omnimon." The two friends sat in the apartment, looking over a computer.

"I swear that it was him!" Tai inserted.

"I know, you might be right, the reading have been going haywire recently, it's prodigious really, he could have contacted you, but if he did he's gone now." Tai practically deflated. "By the way, I was wondering, why didn't you call the others and tell them?" Izzy asked curiously.

"You know I can't remember their numbers, much less their fake names, wanting to start over and everything." Tai looked at a picture wistfully, one of eleven kids, all smiling and content with life. "I never understood how they managed to do that, try and forget everything that happened." His hand lightly brushed against the younger blond haired boy who stood proudly next his older brother. "…even the tragedies."

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"Nothing, sir." Riley reported.

"Then try again!" He shouted in anger, playing with his lighter. There was no way it wasn't him, he double checked, tripled checked his memory. Maybe if Omnimon was okay, than that meant that- no, don't think like that, you abandoned that delusional dream long ago. You faced reality. You're saving others from the same fate.

He didn't even kind of believe himself.

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Well, we'll end this here. Sorry, school's started and things have become a muddle, I really am sorry. I'll try to work as fast as possible, but homework can do a really good job at making things like that hard, so just wish me luck! ;) You're reviews will make me work harder. I promise. Thanks for all the support.

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