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Falling Rain

"DARN HIM!" Screamed a very annoyed voice. It waded across the bubbling molten rock and began to scale the burning rock wall, climbing along with the heavy smoke and flying fire. "Why a volcano? I couldn't get a nice tsunami?" The Digimon narrowly passed though the volcano's mouth and followed the lava down the mountain.

Irritated with the tiring climb, he decided to walk towards the nearest source of water, and trailed towards a large lake. "It'll take forever to soak these burns off of my tentacles." It sighed. "Where is everyone? Those portals are a pain… maybe I should have let him do further testing. Oh well, it'll be worth it when they come."

The large Digimon reached the water and began to soak in the water, regaining energy from the climb. The lake was relaxing, but too small for his tastes though. He turned his beady eyes at the smoldering volcano and wondered when they would arrive, after all who could miss that?

"What is that thing?" He heard a voice exclaimed. "It's huge!"

There they were.

"It's so ugly." Another voice exclaimed with disgust.

That was mean.

"Here it is: Dragomon, a demonic priest Digimon that bundles his tentacles into limbs. His Tentacle Claw and his Forbidden Trident attacks are ." A third voice analyzed.

"Then let's turn it into take out! Garurumon!"

HOWLING BLASTER!

The blue flames didn't do much to him, but it irritated the burns that he got from the volcano. Dragomon didn't know why that guy wanted these weaklings, but that guy seemed to know what he was doing so he'll follow orders for now. They didn't even seem that strong. He was the lord of the Dark Ocean, how can five little champions defeat him?

"Matt!" The weirdly dressed one exclaimed to the handsome one. "He's an Ultimate Level!"

"Then let's match it!"

"Right!" The rest of them yelled.

What did he just say? Then flashes of pink, green, grey, blue, and purple lights engulfed each of the Digimon. Then he became surrounded by five Ultimate level Digimon.

They just Digivolved. An old memory flashed through his mind, memories of loneliness. The memories that made him want to annihilate them all here and now. A volley of attacks rammed him in the face. That doesn't help his mood either, it was time for him to get serious.

"The attacks aren't working Izzy." Matt stated.

"We noticed; what now?" Joe squeaked in a panicked voice.

"It's weird." Izzy answered, scratching his formerly well combed hair. "That Digimon has a familiar Digital Signature."

"Izzy, You're speaking nerd again." Mimi pointed.

Izzy noticed that everyone else was also confused by what he just said and sighed before dumbing it down a bit. "It means that there's something about him that my analyzer finds familiar."

"Oh…" The others said in unison.

FORBIDDEN TRIDENT!

VULCAN'S HAMMER!

Zudomon's attack repelled Dagomon's attack, but knocked the Digimon backwards. "Careful Zudomon!" Joe exclaimed. "Are you alright?"

The aquatic Digimon panted heavily to recover from the blow by the Digimon twice it's height, "Yeah… but that was a strong attack… took a lot to deflect it."

WING BLADE!

The large bird-like fire blast struck Dragomon on his burn riddled head, which seemed to irritate him more than it did to hurt him.

"THAT'S ENOUGH YOU FOOLISH DIGIDESTINED!" The octopus Digimon roared. They repressed a shudder as his voice washed over them like crude oil. "I WOULD DESTROY YOU ALL IN A HEARTBEAT IF HE DIDN'T TELL ME NOT TO!"

He? Izzy noticed. There's someone else commanding this thing?

Zudomon took the initiative while Dagomon was raging and threw his hammer at the mollusk. The Chrondigizoit weapon slammed into Dagomon's bundled arm.

"That outta break a few bones." Matt cheered on his friend.

"FOOLS! I HAVE NO BONES!"

"He's right there Matt." Izzy added. "Mollusks usually have a mass of muscles instead of – "

"Now's not the time for a Biology Lesson!" Sora exclaimed as WereGarurumon tried to follow up with one of his own attacks.

GARURU KICK!

The wolfman charged forward and lunged quickly at Dagomon. The Viral Digimon shook out the hammer from his bundle of tentacles, which slammed into WereGarurumon's head. The wolf tumbled into the giant octopus Digimon.

He has had enough, they were getting on his nerves. It's time to finish them. "You're first." Growled Dagomon in a voice that promised intense pain with every breath.

TENTACLE CLAW!

Dagomon's right arm split apart into a forest of tentacles, engulfing WereGarurumon within them.

"No!" Matt screamed for his partner. A glaring red light flashed from the bundle of tentacles. Matt kept on screaming and collapsed to the ground. Dagomon roared and flung an object from the bundle. Gabumon crashed into Lillymon. She dropped a few feet to balance out the sudden weight.

"What –What just happened?" Matt groaned as he steadily picked himself up.

"That's weird, you just got tired all of the sudden." Joe verified.

"You don't say." Matt growled. The Bearer of Friendship looked up and gasped. The other Digidestined also noticed what had happened. A glowing red orb rested in the mass of tentacles, shimmering with red lights. Incased within it was an enlarged crest of Friendship. Dragomon added the stone to the rest of his necklace beads.

"Who's next?" Dagomon growled. Izzy shuddered at the mollusk's sinister smirk.

The Digidestined of Knowledge took a glance at the smoldering volcano. There's no way he can miss that. We need back up, where are you Tai?

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Earlier:

"Ah! What are we gonna do?" Rei exclaimed. "TELL ME HIDETO! Are they dead? What happened? What are we gonna DO?"

Hideto sighed. "I'll check on them, you can call for help."

"Right!" Rei said as she searched for her cellphone. She pressed a number on speed dial.

- Hi! This is Mari!

"Mari! Thank goodness, Neo just – "

- I can't come to the phone right now. I'm going to go to an awesome photo shoot! It's gonna be so fun! Call me back later!

Rei shut off the phone. Mari's at another one of those shoots, ugh, they take forever. Though there were some pretty dresses. She heard Neo groan and snapped out of her trance. Right, let's try Sigma.

- Hello, this is Sigma speaking.

"SIGMA! Wait why are you whispering?"

- Shh! Don't speak too loudly she'll hear – oh no.

- SIGMA! I've got an extra ticket for you!

- NO! Never Again! Let go! …Why are you so strong?

- Hey you noticed! Let's get going!

- (Dial-tone)

"We have no help." Rei said flatly.

Hideto sighed and held his hand to his head. "It's no problem, they're unconscious." He said to her visible relief. "We should bring them somewhere so they can recover. Your house is near right? We can carry them there."

"Right. We can each carry one over our shoulders and lift them home." She said dryly.

"Oh, um, right…" Hideto muttered. "So what do you suggest we do?'

Rei thought for a minute and came up with an idea. "You could give me a piggy back, then we stuff them into the wheelchair and you can push us home."

Hideto racked his mind to think up an alternative plan. He could think of none, unfortunately.

"You're kidding, right?" He asked.

To answer his question, Rei pushed herself next to him and grabbed her crutches and shakily stood up. "Then I guess I'll just walk home." She said determinedly.

Hideto sighed. "Just wait a minute." He walked over and grabbed the two boys by their collars and dragged them on to the vacant wheelchair. "Get on." He said.

Rei climbed on to his back and he put away the crutches. Push the chair, slowly getting it to move. This is heavy. He thought.

As they went away, neither of them noticed that one of the bags they left hopping along behind them.

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"Yay! We're home." Rei exclaimed.

"Thank goodness." Hideto groaned. He heaved the boys into the house and quickly dumped them on to the soft carpet. After that, Rei went back on her wheelchair. Hideto then dragged each of the boys on to a couch. Satisfied with his work, the collapsed on the floor and groaned with exhaustion.

Hideto watched as Rei hovered over her brother, checking if anything else happened to him. After that she moved on to check the other guy, Tai, if he remembered correctly. "I wonder what happened to them." Hideto mused to himself.

"Ugh! This is frustrating! What could have happened? It's not like they both got really bad brain freeze! This is so weird."

She slammed her head on the table in annoyance.

Thump.

Hideto relaxed for a moment. He heard one of the two guys muttering in their sleep. Other than that, the house was relatively quiet and peaceful.

Thump.

"Rei, stop hitting your head on the table." He groaned.

"What are you talking about?" Rei sighed.

"Wait, that wasn't you?"

Thump. Thump.

"Wait, I heard it that time." Rei said, squirming in her chair.

Thump! DING-DONG! Thump.

Hideto grunted as he stood up and lumbered over to the door. He opened it and found that no one was at the door. Irritated, he closed it.

Thump! DING-DONG! Thump.

Hideto pulled open the door again and found no one there, but then he looked down and his eyes widened slightly. "What is this doing here?" He mumbled as he picked up Tai's bag. It was still half-opened and he could see the stuffed animal looking at him with the realistically sad eyes.

He walked inside and tossed the bag on the table. "Hey Rei, did you drop this on the way over here?"

The girl shifted her eyes to the bag. "No… Oh no! I left Neo's bag at the park!"

Hideto turned away and walked over to her. "Don't worry. Given the circumstance, I'm sure he'll understand."

"Yeah, I'm sure you're right. Oh right, can I see that toy again? It was pretty cute."

"Alright, alright." Hideto chuckled. He went over to the bag again, but he was unable to find anything other than some maps, a phone, and a large can of hair gel labeled 'Matt's Gel – Use at least one can a day'. The stuffed animal had disappeared. "Where is it?"

Hideto looked around to see if it had dropped somewhere, and then saw that it had somehow gotten on Tai's chest. "Weird…" He muttered. "How did you get over here?" He asked no one in particular.

Suddenly, the stuffed animal blinked, and then it turned over and looked Hideto in the eyes. "I just hopped over here."

Nobody spoke for a couple of moments. "Did that toy just talk?" Rei squeaked.

"Of course I can talk… Is there any reason I can't?" Koromon asked politely.

There was another pause. "Hideto…" Rei broke the silence. "Don't freak out."

"Freaking out," He said, his voice cracking slightly, "Is the last thing on my mind." Hideto said trying to calm himself down. "After all, it's not like those movies where dolls come to life and destroy everything right? Yeah. Hahaha."

It was at that time when an incredibly loud ringtone echoed through the house. The sudden noise freaked everyone out. Koromon suddenly jumped and landed on a ceiling fan.

"Get him off there," Rei hissed, "It's already weak from holding up your physics project. Who hangs ten heavy cans on a ceiling fan and expect everything to be alright."

"It was only eight… Alright, let's get down now buddy." He said to the pink digimon.

"OH Thank Goodness! You know Tai!" Rei exclaimed to the person on the other line.

"Is that Sora!" The ball exclaimed happily and leaned towards Rei. He suddenly lost his balance and fell off of the fan on to Hideto's face.

Hideto freaked and toppled over on the table. "Get it off of me!" He shrieked.

"Gah! Calm down Hideto!" She exclaimed, dropping the phone and scooting over to her friend. Koromon suddenly jumped off of the guy who looked like he was about to have a panic attack and landed on the relatively calmer girl.

"Ah! It's on me!" Rei said.

"Get it off!" Hideto flailed. He looked like he was about to fall. Koromon decided to help him out. "Get it-"

Bubble Blow!

That should help him up. The digimon thought.

"Ooh pretty bubbles." Rei observed. A harmless bubble hit Hideto in the eye, tripping him over Rei. "Wait- Don't do that! My chair's tipping! Ah!"

Rei sank out of her chair and Hideto landed on top of her, crushing the phone underneath her and Koromon between them.

An awkward moment of silence passed between the two of them. Koromon felt extremely uncomfortable and tried to say something to get them off. Someone beat him to the punch.

"Hideto." A cold and vicious voice growled. Koromon could feel both human's heart skip a couple of beats in fear. "Would you kindly get off of my sister? Immediately."

"Hey, Neo. You're awake." Hideto said weakly.

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