GREEN ZONE_ _ _| NIGHT 1_ _ _| THE NEAR BY FORREST_ _ _|

"So, what's that thing in the sky?" Zenjirou asked as he looked up. "It looks like some sort of mirror."

"It's another zone." Lila smiled. "The only one close enough for us to freely travel without harm."

"Eh?" Zenjirou blinked. "What does that mean?"

"It's..." she looked away suddenly. "Nothing you need to be concerned with."

"Hmm..." He frowned. "Hey, um, didn't you say something earlier about the human world?"

She looked back, a confused look on her face. "Huh?" Then, confusion switched to realization. "Oh! Did I? Right... Well..." She closed her eyes and thought for a moment. "My parents always said that they were native to that world... But, I was born here, and I've never seen it in person."

"It's nothing special, really." Zenjirou started. "Just school and work and loads of political problems."

Lila laughed. "Well, that's the way I feel about this place!"

He stared at her for a moment, then laughed as well. "Yeah, I guess I can see that."

Then, silence, excluding some chirping bird somewhere, and the distant beat of drums from the village.

"Hey, um..." he started. "If we- er- Yeah, if we ever find a way back to the human world, would you come with me?"

She stared at him in return, a blank look on her face. "Zenjirou..."

Made of Data and born in the digital realm: Digimon. They laugh, and fight, and cry Just like us! They're our special friends! Let's gather up as many teammates as we travel through the world on our marvelous adventure! "DIGI-XROS!"

*Cue Never Give Up! (Tv Size) By Sonar Pocket*

*cue Title theme*

Kiriha! The Blazing Blue Flare!

DAY 2_ _ _| BAGURA EMPIRE_ _ _| UNKNOWN ZONE_ _ _|

The Three Generals, Tactimon, Lilithmon, and Blastmon, each took a step forwards towards the communication screen that connected them to their leader, Baguramon.

"Welcome, my generals." Baguramon's voice echoed through the bright monitor. "How goes the conquest of the Digital World?"

Lilithmon cast a glance at Tactimon, and Blastmon just lowly mumbled "Tac-chan's gonna get it."

"Well?"

Tactimon coughed. "My lord, Baguramon. I'm... Sorry to inform you, but the Green Zone has proved to be a substantial road block in our plans."

Bagura laughed. "How much resistance can a small, measly village put up? Perhaps I should replace you all with someone more... competent?" although there was a joking tone to his voice, the three Generals knew not to tempt their master.

Tactimon narrowed his eyes, and decided to hold his trump card in reserve. "A boy with an Red Xros Loader arrived in the village not too long ago, and is the cause of all of our trouble."

Lilithmon, had she been drinking anything, would have spit out her drink at that comment. "W..What!" Tactimon made a "Shh!" sound in reply.

"A Red Xros Loader, you say?" Bagura's voice trailed off into thought. "As if we needed that wrench thrown into our plans."

Tactimon nodded. "Agreed. This is most unfortunate, when we count the Blue Xros Loader already in existence."

Blastmon went to say something, but Baguramon began to talk as well. "Well, then. I'm afraid I'll have to cut this meeting short. We'll re-convene tomorrow afternoon." and with that, the monitor cut to static.

Tactimon sighed as the static filled the chamber for the few short moments that it took for his fellow generals to realize that the meeting had adjourned, then...

"Ah, Tac-chan?" Blastmon started. "Why'd you tell Bagura-sama that it was a boy who had the Red Xros Loader?"

"And since when did a human boy enter the mix?" Lilithmon growled. "I didn't hear anything regarding that!"

"Yeah, where did you get the idea that a boy was there anyways?" Blastmon continued.

Tactimon held up his hand to silence his comrades before they began to argue. "I said what I said because according to MadLeomon, a boy did fall into the battle involving Xros Heart." Even saying the name in causal conversation made the three shiver in fright. "I don't want Baguramon to know that the Xros Loader, even if it is Red, is in the hands of Hinomoto's daughter." he paused for a moment, then added. "Not yet, at least."

Lilithmon glared at the armored warrior for a moment, then turned towards a nearby polished pillar to adjust her hair slightly as she replied. "Well, I hope you know what you're doing, Tactician."

GREEN ZONE_ _ _| THE VILLAGE OF SMILES_ _ _| JIJIMON'S HUT_ _ _|

Kiriha took a sip of the tea in his cup, then nodded at the elder. "Thank you, it's Delicious."

"It's been a while, Kiriha." the elder digimon started. "You usually don't visit unless something's crawled under your skin."

The boy sighed as he closed his eyes. "Understandable, I guess." He looked up at Jijimon slowly. "There's a girl."

Jijimon laughed. "Isn't there always?"

Kiriha scowled. "Not like that!"

The elder slowed to a chuckle. "I joke, I joke!" Then, a serious look began to form on his hidden face. "What's the story on this girl then?"

"She's... Provided me with information on Bagura's whereabouts, what zones they've conquered, and what their next move is." Kiriha started. "Despite her methods, the information's always reliable."

"And this is bothering you?"

"I..." He stopped abruptly for a moment. "Some-thing's always been off with her, but recently..." His eyes started to drift towards the sky. "Some-thing's different."

OUTSIDE_ _ _|

Taiki blinked as he was suddenly handed a small, red, wrist mounted device with the Xros Heart Logo on the top. "Eh? What's this?"

"It's a Lister." Shoutmon explained easily. "There's bound to be a battle coming soon, so we all need one just in case we get separated."

Akari held up her left wrist, showing her own Lister device. "They're really handy, actually. Sometimes the entire events of battles have hinged on our being able to relay information."

Dorulumon growled slightly as Lopmon hopped onto his head to adjust the frequency receiver on his headphones. "How important are these things anyways?"

"They can reach across an entire Zone." Lopmon started. "Even across multiple zones, if they're close enough."

"Like I said, we'll all need one in case we get separated." Shoutmon reiterated. "The only down side is that if an unidentified Xros Loader's in the same Zone it'll mess with the reception."

Akari smiled. "But Kiriha's is accounted for, and already adjusted for communication."

As Zenjirou was handed his own Lister, a sudden thought struck him. "Eh, but what about Taiki's Xros Loader? Isn't that unidentified?"

This comment gave the two Generals a reason to stop all thought processes, and, as they started to stare blankly into space, Lopmon slapped her paw against her face. "Not again." She sighed, then reached one of her ears out over to Taiki. "Let me see it for a moment, okay?"

"Sure." The goggle wearing boy nodded, then handed her the orange device.

Lopmon turned the device over in her paws a few times, then reached up into the bandanna wrapped around her neck before pulling out what looked like an SD memory card with the Xros Heart logo on the front. "The Xros Loaders have a slot on the side for Code Crown fragments and other similarly shaped objects." she elaborated for those who didn't know the internal workings of a Xros Loader.

("That's rather conveinent." Ballistamon commented to himself.)

"So adding the lister's frequency to the wireless communication program so they don't overlap is as simple..." Lopmon then slid the card into the side of the Xros Loader. After a moment, The screen flashed in confirmation, then she pulled the card out again. "As that." She finished, and tossed the Xros Loader back to Taiki.

Taiki frowned as he looked at the device. "Who designed these?"

"I'd like to know that too." Dorulumon added. "They're quite advanced compared to most technology around here."

Akari took point this time. "All I know is that ours fell from the sky, and I think Kiriha said something about his asking him to restore harmony or something."

"Harmony?" Taiki frowned.

'Do You wish to save this Melody's life?'

'Yeah, I do.'

"Are you sure it wasn't 'Melody'?" he asked.

"Um..." Akari paused to think for a moment, then nodded. "Yeah, I think that was it."

"Harmony, Melody, same thing, really." Shoutmon shrugged.

BAGURA EMPIRE_ _ _| UNKNOWN ZONE_ _ _|

Suddenly, the chamber doors were blasted off their hinges. Tactimon and Lilithmon looked up, expecting to see Blastmon, but were equally surprised to see the Defeated MadLeomon, only looking not so defeated.

"My Brother." The MadLion lookalike started. "I was just informed that my Brother was deleted by the Blue Xros Loader boy."

"MachLeomon." Tactimon started. "I should have known you'd be arriving soon enough."

"Don't play coy with me, Tactician!" The Lion roared, pointing one of his long, sharp swords at him. "I know you sent my brother in with full expectations that he would be deleted! And I hope you know damn well that I'm not going to stand by and let his death go unpunished!"

Whatever MachLeomon had expected Tactimon to do- Say "go jump in a lake", "Your brother was weak", "You have no right to be in here"- He wasn't expecting this: "How Correct."

"W...What!" MachLeomon blinked.

"I said, 'how Correct'." Tactimon reiterated. "Your brother's death was not expected, Orochimon was supposed to be the Trump card that finally defeated Green Zone. It's only fair that an experienced General such as yourself would avenge the death of a family member and claim a zone all in one battle."

MachLeomon glared, and Lilithmon watched on in amusement. So THAT was Tactimon's plan. MachLeomon's army consisted of Apemon and Drimojimon, as opposed to the regular Troopmon, Mammothmon, and Pteramon used in standard land invasions. And MachLeomon always had a plan involving bamboo traps, antlion dens, and bone boomerangs.

Tactimon planned MadLeomon's demise from the very beginning, and MachLeomon knew it.

"You're playing me...! Trying to trick me into becoming so mad I'd blindly walk into a trap!" The Lion roared. "You Fool!"

"I'm appalled, MachLeomon!" Tactimon's voice held no single note of disgust in it. "To think that you would accuse me of planning your moves before they even happened! It's amazing that your mind could think such a thing!"

Lilithmon grinned in delight. This was getting very interesting. MachLeomon had sprung the trap, and there was no-avoiding it now- He would either go to the Green Zone, try to defeat the Blue Flare and Xros Heart teams at once and die trying, OR he would be court marshaled and deleted instantly.

Either way would end with MachLeomon's death- should he not succeed in razing Green Zone and claiming the Code Crown.

"You... You..." MachLeomon roared in frustration, adding in several expletives for effect.

Tactimon smirked under his helmet. 'Perfect.' he thought. 'Absoloutely Perfect.'

GREEN ZONE_ _ _|

MachLeomon begrudgingly exited the portal from the Empire's zone with a snarl. "Fine, Tactimon, we'll play along with your plan for now... But I won't be defeated so easily."

Drimojimon came out of the portal behind him. "Sir, I recommend plan Four B."

"Ah, the Behemoth?" The lion smirked. "Yesss... Not even Tactimon has seen this plan in action..." A glint flashed in his eyes. "Perfect. Drimojimon, set to work."

"Right sir." he nodded, then began to tunnel into the ground.

MachLeomon's smirk grew into a full out demonic smile. 'Soon, my brother. Soon your death shall be avenged!'

UNKNOWN ZONE_ _ _| UNKNOWN LOCATION_ _ _|

Through the screen of a Monitamon, Nene Amano smirked as she watched MachLeomon's army of Apemon begin their approach of the Vilage of Smiles. "Oh you silly, silly kitten."

A Dark, heavily armored form behind her shifted it's weight. "Your plan to test Xros Heart and Blue Flare is an impressive one, My lady."

"Eh, I still don't get it." one of the few Monitamon in the room commented dryly. "She goes to all this trouble to trick Bagura into sending one of it's toughest generals into a fight with two of the leading opposing armies in the war, for what exactly?"

The Monitamon next to him elbowed the spy in the shoulder. "Shh! Don't be so loud!"

Too late, the dark, armored form turned to face the two. "We go to this trouble to find her a groom, and to sire the strongest army the Digital world has ever seen."

This comment made the girl blush slightly, but otherwise seemed to ignore the comment. However, the one last occupant of the room didn't take it so lightly.

SPANG!

A sharp, 9 mm. bullet whooshed past the armored form's helmet. "Hmm, I barely felt the breeze from that." the bulk wryly dismissed the attack.

"I won't miss the next time you joke around like that." A lightly armored, yellow digimon carrying twin 9 mm. guns frowned at the knight, sever annoyance resounding in her high pitched voice.

The armored bulk growled, and The Monimon on the yellow digimon's head paled. "Ne, ne, did you have to make him angry, Sparrow-san?"

The Aeroplane like digimon had no reply.

THE VILLAGE OF SMILES_ _ _|

"Well, I can say this." Kiriha started as he exited the elder's hut. "Jijimon may be old, but he's got good advice."

Akari smiled at the general. "That girl you've been crushing on?"

Kiriha looked away abruptly. "I don't know what you're talking about."

"Oh come on, Anouma." Shoutmon smirked. "You know what we're talking about for sure!"

Zenjirou frowned as he watched the exchange. Who was this guy? Why did Akari and Shoumon trust him so much? Didn't they say he was a rival General?

Lila put a hand on his shoulder, making him jump slightly. "You okay?"

He wanted to say yes, but... "No." He muttered before looking up at the Zone reflected in the sky. "This Kiriha guy just makes something inside me twich like that one Geometry teacher I had once."

The Lilymon blinked. "Geometry? What's that?"

"Ah... Nevermind." Zenjirou sighed. "My point is, that teacher was bad news, he didn't even have a licence to teach Algebra, let alone geometry!"

"Algebra?" the Lilymon blinked again. "What's...?"

"AHH!" Zenjirou stamped his foot into the ground. "Didn't I already say to forget about it!"

Then, there was a sharp crack through the air. And No- before any of you assume it was Lila slapping Zenjirou for his sudden outburst- it was, in fact, the ground splitting open from where Zenjirou had stamped his foot into the ground.

The crack quickly shot across the village floor for a good ten feet, widening in the middle, and thinning at the edges.

The red Pickmon whistled. "Wow, I didn't think he had it in him."

Everyone else just stared in shock and awe at the sudden fissure in the ground.

Taiki blinked. "Wh...What...?"

Before he could even formulate his thoughts, spontaneously, a Bamboo shoot shot out of the middle of the fissure- catching Zenjirou in his side- and way up into the sky- carrying the hapless Kendo student all the way to the top floor as he held on for dear life.

"Zenjirou!" Lila cried out in shock. "Are you allright?"

Dorulumon growled as, spontaneously, another bamboo shoot appeared off in the far distance- Then another- and Another- and ANOTHER! "Everyone be on guard."

"eh?" Shoutmon looked at the wolf in confusion. "Do you know what's going on?"

Dorulumon narrowed his eyes. "I've heard rumors. Work of a Digimon in Bagura's employ."

Kiriha frowned. "Now that he mentions it, I do remember visiting a zone almost completely destroyed by a bamboo Forrest once."

"The work of MachLeomon." Dorulumon's eyes widened. "MadLeomon's brother!"

At this, Starmon scoffed. "That fuzzy wuzzy wanna be has a brother? Oh Brother!"

"A Twin brother, infact." came the voice of said Digimon. "So you're the ones who deleted my precious twin?"

The two armies turned to their right as, through the Forrest of spontaneously erupting Bamboo shoots, emerged the blade wielding counterpart to MadLeomon, with several dozen platoons of Apemon behind him.

"MachLeomon!" Akari gasped. "He really is that guy's brother!"

"Yess..." MachLeomon sneered at the girl. "so, tell me... Which of you was the one to give the finishing blow?"

Taiki took a step forward, before anyone could react. "I did!" To this, everyone blinked or gasped. What was Taiki thinking? He didn't have any involvement in that battle other then Xrossing a few Pickmon into a rope! "I defeated MadLeomon!" to prove his point he withdrew his orange Xros Loader.

Shoutmon jumped forward next as well. "Hey! Don't forget me! I helped blast that Orochimon to smithereens too!"

"Shouto!" Akari groaned. "Not you too!"

Taiki glanced at the Digimon next to him. "What are you doing?"

"I can't let our new general get deleted by doing something stupid, now can I?" Shoutmon shrugged. "Otherwise, what else are we supposed to do..."

"You Two!" MachLeomon growled. "You two destroyed my brother?"

"Yeah! we did!" Shoutmon slammed his fist into his chest in a rather proud manner. "The team of Xros Heart destroys all who try to attack our home!"

It was now MachLeomon's turn to gasp. "K...Xros Heart?"

Meanwhile, Lopmon quickly put the pieces together. "Oh! Zenjirou!"

Akari turned to face her Xros partner. "What?"

"Zenjirou is still up on that bamboo root!" Lopmon pointed up. "If we can get him down while Taiki and Shouto distract MachLeomon...!" She didn't need to say any more, as the battle began.

"SOUL...CRUSHER!" Shoutmon let loose a roaring wave of music upon the Apemon- whose fur was only mildly singed. "Eh! It didn't do anything? It's not supposed to do nothing!"

"Fool!" MachLeomon began to approach the boy and digimon. "My Apemon are specially modified, having absorbed enough powdered chrome digi-zoid to be immune to any sort of long range attack! My fur is ALSO modified in the same way!"

"Really?" Shoutmon's shock then turned into a confident smile. "Thanks for the tip off!" With that, he jumped towards MachLeomon, a music note shaped fireball suddenly forming in his hand. "ROCK DAMASHIIII!" He threw the fire shaped music note into MachLeomon's face at point blank range.

FWHAM!

The Apemon and even Taiki winced as MachLeomon's body went flying into one of the growing bamboo shoots- splitting it clean in two.

Shoutmon performed a backflip mid air, then landed on the ground next to Taiki with a smirk on his face. "Well, who's next?"

None of the Apemon seemed to want to be "next."

BAGURA EMPIRE_ _ _|

Blastmon cheered. "Woah! Did ya see that Explosion, Tac-chan!"

"You do realize you're rooting for the other team, don't you?" Lilithmon glared at the crystalline bulk.

"Eh...Sorry, explosions make me all tingly inside!" Blastmon smiled apologetically.

Tactimon, however, ignored their conversation. "I'll have to make note in my report then: those in field were mis-informed, it's an orange Xros Loader, not a red one."

GREEN ZONE_ _ _| THE VILLAGE OF SMILES_ _ _|

Zenjirou had his eyes clamped shut as the bamboo shoot swayed dangerously in the wind. "I hate heights, I hate Heights, I Hate Heights!" he chanted to himself.

"ZENJIROU!" Akari's sudden voice made him yell out in surprise and yank his eyes open.

"Who? What! Where? WHEN!" he looked around rapidly, before his eyes fell upon the red Lister on his wrist. "Eh...?"

"Zen. Ji. Rou." Akari's voice repeated from the Lister. "Are You There?"

"Erm, Hai?"

"Good. Now look around." Dorulumon's voice cut in suddenly. "Do you see any patch of ground with a glowing spot on it?"

Zenjirou's eyes widened. "You want me to do what!"

"Just Look to see if you can spot any sort of glowing patch of ground." Dorulumon's voice repeated.

"ROWDY ROCKER!"

There was an off beat guitar riff, and then an Apemon was smashed completely into the ground via Shoutmon's microphone stand.

"Heh... And another one bites the dust!" He smirked.

Meanwhile, Ballistamon had joined the fight.

"HEAVY SPEAKER!"

A Gaggle of Apemon, while not directly harmed by the attack, were knocked into another gaggle of Apemon via the sonic waves.

Taiki was demonstrating his many, many, many talents as he grabbed a charging Apemon's arm and threw him over his shoulder.

And Kiriha had decided to enter the battle as well. "MailBirdramon! Golemon! Gureimon! Reload!"

Said three digimon appeared in a flash of green and blue lightning, making a few more Apemon gasp.

"Gureimon! Use Mega Flame! Golemon! MailBirdramon!" Kiriha ordered. "DIGIXROS!"

"MEGA FLAME!"

"DIGI-XROS!"

There was another flash, and Several Apemon were set to a sudden fire dance while MailBirdramon, with a Golemon modified tail hammer swept in to smash them into data.

Allthough the heavy fighters of the battle were doing a good job of holding off most of the Apemon, a few still managed to escape to cause havoc for the villagers.

"Bone Boomerang!" One cried as it raised it's stick to squash a white pickmon.

"METEOR SQUALL!"

But, before he could do so, several Silver Pickmon jumped in to save their friends.

"You don't mess with our family, Brother!" One particularly brave Silver Pickmon cried before twirling like a top and plowing through an Apemon's chest with intense speed.

"BLAZING ICE!" Lopmon cried out before shooting at another Apemon. The attack did little to provide damage to the Apemon, but it did bring it's attention from a hapless Sunflowmon to the tiny Lopmon.

"You shouldn't have done that." the ape sneered.

"No, You shouldn't have." Before Lopmon or the Apemon realized that neither of them had said that, a blinding blur of Pink burst out of a nearby bush and smashed it's tiny fist into the Apemon's skull with a spontaneous flash of green. "KYU!"

The Apemon was deleted, and the pink blur continued to hop across the battle field, attacking Apemon as he came across it. "What... What was that?" Lopmon gasped in shock as the pink form, no taller than she was, weaved across the village in it's pursuit of... justice?

"ROCK DAMASHI!" Shoutmon once more slammed a fireball into an Apemon's chest at point blank range. "YAHOO!"

MachLeomon, however, refused to find any humor in the situation now presenting itself as he staggered to his feet. "N...Nani...? What is this...?"

Dorulumon growled as he took a step towards the Lion. "MachLeomon."

"D..Dorulumon..." The Lion's confusion turned into a sneer. "The filthy traitor. How nice to finally meet you."

"You can't be a traitor to something you didn't believe in." Dorulumon commented before jumping towards the lion. "DRILL BUSTER!"

MachLeomon smirked as he simply backhanded the Wolf into a bamboo shoot. "You fool! As long as these stalks are in place, The Four Behemoth can NEVER be defeated!"

A Dondokomon cried out in terror as one of the few remaining Apemon raised it's club. "Time to say bye bye, mister drum drum!" The ape sneered.

Then, the pink blur rebounded off a bamboo stalk, off the wall over the Dondokomon, and into the Apemon's chest, sending the monkey into the ground. Dondokomon stared in awe at his saviour, a Pink bunny like digimon, with a long flowing red scarf around his neck, and eyes and fists glowing a brilliant green. "KYUU!"

"W...Wh...?" The apemon managed to groan. "What are you..?"

"Oname wa..." The digimon then back-flipped off of the ape, scattering the digimon's data. "CUTEMON!"

Dondokomon could only watch in amazement as- from the back flip- Cutemon landed slightly on a wall, then rebounded off towards another Apemon. "Wow... What a cool guy...!"

By now, only three or five apemon were left, and all but one were fleeing for their lives.

"You Fools! Get Back here!" MachLeomon growled in anger. "You filthy deserters! Traitors!"

Then, the Last Apemon was sent crashing into the ground with a combined attack from Shoutmon and Lopmon, with all of the other villagers standing behind them.

Now it was Dorulumon's turn to smirk at MachLeomon's shocked expression. "Sorry, what was that? I couldn't quite hear you. Something about not being defeated?"

*Cue BATTLE IN THE DIGITAL WORLD*

"Everyone!" Shoutmon held his microphone stand up into the air. "Let's Defend our Home and make sure these Bagura goons never come back!"

There was a resound cry of agreement from everyone who had been fighting.

"Bah!" MachLeomon growled. "You think your petty little army can defeat me!"

"Well, let's just say that we've got a few tricks up our sleeves!" Starmon grinned. "Take It away General!"

"Shoutmon, Ballistamon, Starmons!" Taiki held up his Xros Loader. "DIGI-XROS!"

"OKAY!" Then, with three harmonious cries, Shoutmon, Ballistamon, Starmon, and several Silver Pickmon merged together to form the creation known as... "BALLISTAMON XROS TWO PLUS STAR AX!"

"Eh?" MachLeomon gasped in shock. "Digi-Xros?"

Ballistamon X2 shouldered the giant Golden ax (formed via Starmon and the Pickmon attacked onto Shoutmon's Mic-Stand) and grinned, well... not that we could see it. "Heh... Your brother was just as surprised!"

Before MachLeomon's shock could even start to abate, the Xros-Digimon jumped forward, Ax Swinging. "STAR BLADE!"

The Lion ducked, dodged, and blocked with his two swords, but it wasn't enough.

SLICE!

The right hand sword was cut cleanly through with one strike.

"Heh... Not so tough now, are ya?" Ballistamon X2 laughed.

Then, seemingly out of nowhere, MailBirdramon's Golemon Hammer Tail came swinging from behind, smashing MachLeomon into the air, from which he was then hit by a glowing sphere of energy launched from Gureimon's tail.

As MachLeomon fell to the ground from the combo, Kiriha smirked. "You forgot about us, didn't you?"

The Lion grumbled something under his breath, but then caught sight of one of the fleeing Apemon. "Come Here you!" With the use of that strange absorption skill, the Apemon shattered into data, and was loaded into MachLeomon. There was a flash, and MachLeomon had absorbed several traits from the Apemon, in adition to several spikes growing off of his joints. "Heh... Now you're all done for!"

"ARM BUNKER!" X2, however, had other ideas. With a mighty swing, MachLeomon was sent flying again...

"TRIDENT TAIL!"

...Right into MailBirdamon's Golemon hammer, again, sending him crashing down towards...

"HORN STRIKE!"

...Gureimon's sharp horns. The Blue-grey dinosaur headbutted the Lion, and sent him flying again...

"DRILL BLADER!"

...Into Dorulumon, riding on a giganitc Drill like a toy figure ontop of a happy meal top.

Needless to say, the brother of that Mad Lion wasn't fairing nearly as well as he would have had he simply not barged into Tactimon's lair eairliar in the day.

Then, suddenly, there was another, female, cry of "DIGI XROS!" (from Akari) as a glowing set of white Pickmon and one red pickmon flew up towards the top of one of the bamboo shoots.

"Rare Star Sword!" the White Pickmon called out as they formed into a blade, with the red pickmon forming the hilt. "BAMBOO LEAF RHAPSODY!" The Red Pickmon called out as the Xros Finished.

Everyone took a moment to stare at the sword as it continued to fly up, and land in the hands of- none other than- Zenjirou Tsurugi, Kendo Student.

Zenjirou blinked at the sword for a moment, then grinned as a rush of enthusiasm flooded his body and pushed the fear of heights away from all corners of his mind. "ZENJIROU C.S.!" {Note: C.S. = "Chibick Sword."}

"Did he really just call himself that?" Akari sighed in disbelief, then shouted into the Lister. "Now Throw it!"

"Eh! What!" MachLeomon (Final Mode) gasped.

"CHORD CRUSHER!" with that, Zenjirou threw the sword with seemingly no aim at all. But, if one were to see an Ariel view of the village, they would see that the sword was flying straight for a glowing patch of ground- a patch of ground that Drimojimon happened to be hiding under.

MachLeomon growled in shock and anger as his finial companion was hit by the makeshift kendo sword. "NO!"

"HEY HEY! We hit it!" The red pickmon cried out in delight as Drimojimon was deleted, and the Bamboo stalks that were invading the village began to recede into the ground.

"Yeah yeah!" Zenjirou cheered. "I'm good!"

"NO! My..." MachLeomon had little time to complain, as Ballistamon X2 sent his main attack forward.

"BUDDY BLASTER!"

MachLeomon (ape mode) went soaring again, and kept on sailing through where a Bamboo shoot would have blocked it, and ONLY Stopped as Dorulumon hit him with another...

"DRILL BLADER!"

There was a flash of data, and MachLeomon was sent back to normal.

"Damn you humans..." He cursed his bad luck. "You're getting the full treat of my special attack..." With that said, he began to expand and glow red. "KAMAKAZI!"

"EH? Kamakazi?" Dorulumon gasped. "He's going to destroy himself to get rid of all of us!"

"Not if I have anything to say about it!" With a sudden jump, Ballistamon X2 swung his Ax up and prepared to slice through the lion, but the blade just glanced right off of the expanding Lion, whose body impacted X2 and sent him back to the ground as Shoutmon and Ballistamon.

"Gah! What's with this guy!" Shoutmon exclaimed in exasperation. "He won't just Die!"

"This is your end!" MachLeomon's distorted face sneered.

Taiki glanced around the village quickly, hoping to see something to help quickly turn the tide. And then he saw Gureimon, and Shoutmon, and Ballistamon, And Dorulumon. And the dream he'd had before came rushing back. The Fusion swinging it's sword, and obliterating the Bagura army. "That's it!"

*cue DIGIXROS!*

Before anyone could react, the Orange Xros Loader was up in the air, and an order for another DigiXros was given out. "SHOUTMON! BALLISTAMON! DORULUMON! DIGI-XROS!"

Three beats of music cried out in harmony, and the three digimon in question began to glow their respective collors.

"Okay!" Shoutmon Roared.

"N'Gah!" Ballistamon Nodded.

"DORULUMON!" Dorulumon Made his presence known to the growing Bagura commander.

Three beams of light- Red, Blue, and Orange- flew into the air, and then... Another Fusion was born.

*Switch to WE ARE XROS HEART!*

"DIGI XROS!"

Shoulder pads in the shape of Dorulumon and Ballistamon formed from the glowing sphere of energy. Then legs, as strong and as powerfull as Dorulumon's (for they were his) appeared, soon followed by Ballistamon's arms. The torso (Ballistamon's) flared into existance, with Shoutmon's V emblem dead center. Then, a pillar of light emerged out of where the head would appear, and when it vanished, said head was there: A white helmet with three golden horns with triangular openings for the red eyes underneath to stare out of.

The Fusion crushed a boulder under it's right foot, stuck a pose, then called out his name as that same old off beat guitar rift played. "SHOUTMON XROS THREE!" (The voice, if you're interested, was a fusion of Dorulumon and Shoutmon's voices with a small amount of Ballistamon slipping through.)

Xros Three wasted no time from emerging from the Digi-Xros, immediately running towards, jumping up to, and subsequently punching MachLeomon right in the face before back flipping and kicking the Lion in the chest with his left foot. The now Bowling ball shaped Lion began to roll off his center, right towards the awaiting MailBirdramon and Gureimon.

"Tail Hammer and Horn Strike!" Kiriha ordered, which the two Digimon followed, using their two attacks to send the inflated MachLeomon Up into the air.

With the lion in the air, Xros Three grabed the V emblem off of his chest, and threw it at the Lion. "VICTORIZE BOOMERANG!"

The flying V flew straight and true, cutting through MachLeomon's chest, coming out the other side, and blasting back through (forming an Identical, glowing V shape on the ticking time bomb's chest), before returning to Xros Three's hand as MachLeomon Exploded in a violently orange explosion of data.

"WE ARE XROS HEART!" Shoutmon Xros Three echoed. "Engrave it on your heart!"

And so, with all danger passed, both Xros Three, and The Golemon tail hammer Xros split back into their component forms.

Dorulumon blinked as he looked up at the falling data of MachLeomon. "So... That was Digi-Xros?"

"Yeah..." Shoutmon nodded as he stared at his hands. "It's not normally that awesome though!"

"Weren't all of your Xroses between only two digimon, and not three?" Ballistamon offered. "Perhaps the more digimon involved means there's more power?"

Shoutmon and Dorulumon stared at the mech for a moment, before the former commented. "You know, I think that's the longest sentence I've ever heard out of him!"

"N..N'gah..." Ballistamon jumped slightly.

"OI! Did you have to kill the guy without us?" Akari called out as she and Lila came up, both carrying Zenjioru by having his arms over their shoulders.

"Eh? What happened to him?" Shoutmon had to ask.

"Oh, he just fell off of the Bamboo shoot before it was completely down." Lila smiled. "He'll be fine!"

The red pickmon jumped up onto Zenjirou's head then. "Yeah yeah! Such a brave guy! But he can't even handle a five inch fall!"

Lila glared at the Pickmon. "Oh be quiet! And it was more than nine inches!"

Kiriha laughed. "I'd forgotten how lively it is around here."

"Kiriha..." MailBirdramon cut in suddenly. "Look."

The sudden intrusion made EVERYONE look up. Just in time to see a glowing yellow diamond slowly descending from the sky.

"Is that a...?" Akari gasped.

"A Code Crown!" Shoutmon's eyes widened in delight.

"YAHOOO!" The Dondokomon form earlier came sliding in, banging his drumsticks onto his head. "The Code Crown For Green Zone is Ours! Everybody Dance!"

Behind him came Lopmon, staring up at the gem for a few moments, then simply commenting. "It's about time."

Dorulumon sighed. "And another one's found."

BAGURA ZONE_ _ _|

Suddenly, the monitor on MachLeomon cut to a red screen. Tactimon frowned under his helmet. "And Another one is taken."

Blastmon sighed. "Another tasty gem wasted on someone else."

Lilithmon smirked slightly, "You knew they'd win, didn't you, Tactician?"

"Call it a 'trial' run, if you will." Tactimon offhandedly commented, otherwise not seeming displeased by this turn of events.

GREEN ZONE_ _ _| THE VILLAGE OF SMILES_ _ _|

"DORULUMON!" The cute, chipper voice of Cutemon cried out suddenly, causing the wolf to look up...

"Eh? Wha- OOF!" ...Just in time to be (lightly) knocked to the ground by the speedy little pink blur. "Cutemon... You're here...?"

"I Found you again, sensei!" The pink bunny smiled. "I'm so happy, Kyu!"

"Oi, oi, not so loud..." Dorulumon sighed. "You're making everyone stare."

No, not really- the only one staring was Lopmon, who was merely watching out of having nothing else to do.

"So... Who gets the Code Crown?" Kiriha asked.

"Huh? What do you mean?" Akari asked in return.

"Which General?" Kiriha rolled his eyes. "You or Taiki?"

"Eh?" The girl blinked. "You mean you're not going to take it?"

"This is your home zone." Kiriha replied. "It wouldn't be right."

"Huh, I guess you're right."

Then, Gureimon started sniffing the air. "Kirihaa..."

"Yes? What is it?" The Blond haired general turned towards his towering partner. "Don't tell me you're mad that you didn't get the killing blow."

"It's not that." The dinosaur pointed towards the sky, where a yellow bird like Digimon was floating, with Nene Amano riding on the digimon's back. "Your girlfriend's here."

"Eh!" The comment made the boy jump. "She's not my girlfr-" A scowl broke out on his face. "Not you too, Gureimon..."

"Well, Sparrowmon..." Nene smiled. "Shall we go introduce ourselves?"

"Allright." Sparrowmon tightened her fists, feeling strangely empty without the familar grip of a 9 mm. in them. "Let's go."

TO BE CONTINUED.

Data Search is Fun!

"Looking up Data on our enemies..." A Chibi-Monitamon recites to the Chibi-Audience. "DORULUMON! He shoots the drill on his head for his Drill Buster attack, Spins like a top for Drill Blader, and uses his tail drill for Dorulu Tornado. I wonder why, with all those drills, he didn't become a carpenter: Think of all the Screw Holes he could prepare! Or how about you go fix that door?"

Chibi-Shoutmon jumped up on stage, jaw dropping. "W...Weekend Carpenter?" Meanwhile, a Chibi-Akari blushed at the thought of Dorulumon in overalls... Don't ask me why she was thinking this, because I honestly Do. Not. Know.

Stop asking!

Seriously!

NEXT TIME!

"Green Zone is ours! Yahoo!"

"But Island Zone is...!"

"I can't turn our backs on our neighbors!"

"EVERYONE! Let's Keep Neptunemon's army at bay!"

"Hand Over the Code Crown, old man, or we'll brush away every single grain of sand until we find it!"

"Shouto-nii-san! Be carefull, kame!"

"Next time, Digimon Xros Wars! Island Zone, Uphevial!"

"Don't Miss It, Kyuu!"