MAGMA ZONE_ _ _|

"BOOM BOOM! BANG BANG!" AncientVolcamon roared as he fired a blast of Magma at a support pillar, melting it clean in two. "Surrender to my Might!

"Taiki!" Dorulumon started. "Digi-Xros us to Xros Four!"

Taiki reached for the orange Xros Loader and pulled it out in preparation, but paused as the entire cavern shook with sisemic activity. "We can't! If we keep fighting in here, the prisoner's...!"

AncientVolcamon sneered at Xros Heart. "So what will it be, children? Kill me? or Kill the pesky prisoners?"

Akari growled. "That's not a fair choice!"

"Silence!" AncientVolcamon roared at her, then turned towards Taiki. "Hand over your Red Xros Loader, boy!"

"Red?" Taiki blinked.

"Yes! The one you used to defeat DeathMeramon!" AncientVolcamon grinned. "The device in his back pocket!"

"As if we'd give you our Xros Loa-" Shoutmon blinked. "Wait, you said red? That's orange!"

"Orange!" AncientVolcamon's eyes narrowed. "Then that means...!"

"A Trick of the Lighting!" Taiki cut him off. "Everyone we've fought said it's red, even though it's orange!"

"Oh..." AncientVolcamon's face looked bemused for a moment. "So, do you surrender or not!"

Taiki, Shoutmon, and Akari all shared a glance, then, as one, they said "We surrender!" (Within a second, several Meramon surrounded them.)

This, however, made everyone else blink, gasp, and or jump in surprise. Dorulumon gasped "S-surrender!"

Starmon's sunglasses slid down his face, letting his eyes stare in confusion. "Oh Brother... They can't be serrious!"

"Taiki! What are you thinking!" Zenjirou started. "We can't surrender to the likes of him!"

Taiki just smiled. "Zenjirou, think about the prisoners. I'm sure one Xros Loader is worth their lives, right?"

BlueMeramon then approached them. "The Xros Loader."

"Here ya go!" Taiki handed it over with a smile.

BlueMeramon stared at the three smiling Generals for a moment, quickly glancing to Dorulumon for a moment, before turning around with the Xros Loader. 'What Strange People.'

*cue Title Theme*

General Tactimon Approaches!

UNKNOWN AND NEVER WILL BE KNOWN ZONE_ _ _|

The Landscape was a complete and total mess. Burned to the ground, razed, and trampled upon by Troopmon boots.

And Tactimon was surveying it all with satisfaction. "Ahh, another successful run." His eyes narrowed suddenly. "And what do you want, Shinigami?"

"Oh, Nothing." Ba'almon offhandedly commented. "I was just checking in, how goes the destruction?"

"That is none of your concern." Tactimon sent a glare at the 'Mon out of the corner of his eye.

"Fine, Fine, I know when I'm not wanted." Ba'almon quickly disappeared in a flurry of paper talismans. "I've got heads to slice anyways."

A few moments passed before Tactimon sighed and shook his head. Just what was with that Assassin?

"Lord Tactimon!" Alas, peace was not on the horizon for the Tactician.

"Yes? What is it?" Tactimon turned to the Troopmon.

"News from Magma Zone, Sir!" The Troop reported. "General Volcamon reports that he has captured Xros Heart!"

"Captured?" Tactimon raised an eyebrow.

"Yes, Sir! He claims they surrendered to him!" The Troopmon quickly checked the paper in his hand, then continued. "He even says he has their Orange Xros Loader, and that Traitor Dorulumon in custody!"

Now THAT was interesting news. "I'll be leaving at once, tell AncientVolcamon to hold the executions until I arrive."

"Sir, Yes Sir!" The troop ran off to the radio terminal.

MAGMA ZONE_ _ _| THE ONLY CELL IN THE PRISON_ _ _|

Shoutmon groaned as the Meramon guard threw him into the cell, and locked the door. "Haha, Enjoy your last few hours on this World!"

Akari shook her head. "Geeze, and here I though Volcamon had a funny voice."

Shoutmon glared at the retracting bridge and the two Meramon that were leaving. "Yeah... Those two were absolutely pathetic."

Taiki shook his head, then looked around the cell, sighing at the sight of all the tortured prisoners. "Well, at least we're in the right place."

(Without any comment other than "I hate seeing people cry!" Cutemon immediately began healing the prisoners)

"Yeah? And why's that?" Zenjirou and a Prairiemon asked simultaneously.

Akari simply smiled as she pulled out her Xros Loader. "Because Bagura doesn't know we have Two Xros Loaders!"

There was a collective Gasp from the prisoners as they saw that ancient artifact.

"You're a general!" A Bearmon cried out.

"Yup! And we're here to break you guys out!" Shoutmon grinned.

"So that was their plan!" Starmon cried out.

"Genius!" The Red Pickmon cried out. "Genius!"

Ballistamon just nodded. "Clever, Clever."

"So then." Shoutmon grinned. "Shall we break down the gate, or smash the walls?"

Made of Data and born in the digital realm: Digimon. They laugh, fight, and cry just like us! They're our special friends! Let's gather up as many teammates as we can! Come along with us on this marvelous adventure through the world!

"DIGI-XROS!"

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

Breaking the gate was decided to be the worst option ever. Considering the fact that they reflected attacks back at the owner and shocked anyone who touched them. So, a cry of "Digi-Xros" Later, and Ballistamon Xros Two was attacking the far wall with everything he had.

"OPTIC LASER! BUDDY BLASTER! HORN BREAKER DX! ARM BUNKER!"

They were making swift progress, and, within a reasonable amount of time, they were sure they would be out in the open air again.

While All of those able to dig were working on escaping the cell, Cutemon hurried around to heal those that were injured. "Don't worry, Kyu! I'll have you healed in no-time!"

The Bearmon he was treating smiled. "You remind me of this other Cutemon who was here for a while."

"Other Cutemon?" Cutemon blinked, but otherwise focused on his healing technique.

"Yeah, a couple of 'em." Bearmon continued. "Said they'd had a son they hoped was out of harms way."

Cutemon looked up, but kept his hopes at a moderate level. "Did they say what village they were from, by any chance?"

Bearmon shook his head. "Sorry, I don't remember if they did..."

"Hmm, That's allright then." Cutemon shook his head, but focused on healing the Bearmon's leg.

"I bet my parrents would be worried about me." Bearmon continued after a moment. "But then again, they didn't really seem to care when I told them I was going to go fight Bagura." he sighed. "I guess they were right... I mean, look where I ended up. Corner of No and Where, on the edge of a lava pit, waiting for the Legendary Xros Heart to break us out."

"It's not that bad, Kyu." Cutemon smiled. "Maybe once we've pushed Bagura away, you'll be able to keep them from re-starting any more prison camps here?"

The Bearmon stared at him for a moment. "So, what about your parrents?"

Cutemon looked over at Dorulumon, who was also helping on drilling a tunnel out of the prison cell, then sighed "Bagura."

"Oh... Sorry..." Bearmon grimaced.

"What happened to those Cutemon you mentioned?"

Bearmon blinked. "Eh? Well, they got transferred a few days ago." he frowned. "Apparently Bagura thought they would be better off in some other zone."

"Huh." Cutemon shook his head. "It'd be a wild coincidence, but I wonder if that was them?"

"Who knows, with the way the world's spinnin' right now." Bearmon shrugged.

A WHILE LATER_ _ _| ROUGHLY AN HOUR AND A HALF BEFORE SUNRISE_ _ _| ANCIENT VOLCAMON'S CHAMBERS_ _ _|

The Volcano Grinned. "Tactimon-Sama will beeeee here for a Sunrise Execution! I Love it!"

DeathMeramon grimaced as he shook his head out. "IS that why you woke me up from my slumber?" He had been unconscious for the entire day, but considering how many walls he had been knocked through, that wasn't surprising. "To tell me this?"

"Whyyyy ofcourseeee!" AncientVolcamon grinned. "I thought you would be pleaseeeed to meet our Commanding Officer!"

"Hah... As if that Man would take the time to pay attention to us." DeathMeramon growled as BlueMeramon entered the room. "What is it?"

"I just checked on the prisoners, Sirs..." he seemed uneasy. "Are you sure we placed them in Detention Cell One One Four Eight and Not One One Four Two?"

"We only have one cell!" AncientVolcamon's eyes widened. "Could it be that they've...?"

A brisk jog to the cell later, and instead of the back far wall and a room full of prisoners was a massive tunnel leading to the surface and a distinct lack of prisoners.

"Escaped?" DeathMeramon finished with a gulp.

"ESCAPED? THEY'VE ESCAPED!"

Indeed, Xros Heart and the prisoner's had escaped, and, after making sure the prisoner's were safely in a subset of ruins where Bagura wouldn't look for them, Xros Heart was already racing across the surface of the Volcanic Zone BACK towards the Prison compound.

"Let's get Taiki's Xros Loader back and then we'll blast AncientVolcamon back to the stone age!" Ballistamon X2 grinned... or would have if he had a mouth.

"Really, Taiki! I'll admit that it was a great strategy to get to the prison cells, but you can't just hand over your Xros Loader like that!" Akari narrowed her eyes. "Don't do it again, okay?"

"Okay okay!" Taiki smiled at her. "I Get the idea!"

"In any-case!" Zenjirou smirked. "Once we kick Bagura out of this Zone, they won't be able to hurt the villagers any-" He stopped as they rounded the corner- dirrectly facing DeathMeramon and his Meramon army.

"Well well well, if it isn't the 'Break Back Into Jail' team." He smirked. "I'm afraid that this has just bumped up your sunrise execution to a Breaking Dawn Burrial!" With that, DeathMeramon threw his right hand forward, a signal for the Meramon around him. "ATTACK!"

Dorulumon nodded towards Akari, and she released Hangyomon out into the field of battle. "Allright, Kid, ready to put out some more wild Fires?"

"Ready as ever!" Hangyomon grinned.

*cue Kougeki Kaishi*

"No-one hurts my friends!" Cutemon punched his right fist into his left hand, sparking a green flare of energy into existance.

"FIRE BALL!" The Meramon began their attack.

"OPTIC LASER!" and Ballistamon X2 retaliated in full.

"DRILL BUSTER!" Dorulumon roared and proceeded to tear a Meramon to pieces.

"STRIKE FISHING!" Hangyomon's spear impaled a firey Meramon head.

"ROWDY ROCKER!" Akari swung her mic-stand, and crushed another's head in.

Lopmon leaped into action, landing a double team attack with Cutemon, her Blazing Ice plus his fists.

"Go Go! It's a battle! A Battle!" Dondokomon cheered, then dove for cover as a stray fire ball nearly hit him. "You take care of the rest!"

Within moments, the Meramon squad was deleted, leaving DeathMeramon alone. "Gah! You... You...!"

"Akari!" Ballistamon X2 ordered. "Star Ax!"

"Right!" she held up the Xros Loader. "STARMONZ! DIGI-XROS!"

"CA-CHING!" The Pickmon cried out as they formed the golden ax.

"Our turn!" Ballistamon X2 grinned- or would have if he... OH Never mind!

"HEAVY METAL CHAINS!" DeathMeramon threw the fiery chains at Xros Two, and Succeeded in ensnaring the weapon. "You're mine now! DEATH FLAMEE!" And he sent a giant blue sphere of fire down the chains.

Then, Xros Two did something unexpected- He FLUNG the Ax off to the left, and dove away towards the right, powering up his main attack... "BUDDY BLASTER!"

And, for the second time within 24 hours, DeathMeramon was sent crashing through- not one- not two- not even TEN- but FIFTEEN walls...

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-"CRASH!

...Before finially comming to a stop.

"This just isn't my day..." The Meramon muttered before colapsing into unconsciousness once more.

With that done, Xros Two split back into Ballistamon, Shoutmon, and the Starmonz Brigade.

"Man, what a pushover!" Shoutmon grumbled.

"Agreed." Ballistamon nodded.

"Geeze! He just doesn't go down!" Starmon shook his head in disbelief. "Smashing through almost twenty five walls in one day and he's still alive!"

The Red Pickmon sneered. "These Magmainians must be really tough!"

As a testament to that, the ground shook as AncientVolcamon exploded through the wall right next to the... perfectly good hole that had been made by DeathMeramon's second dramatic exit. "Ahhha! Thereee you areeee~!"

Dorulumon shook his head. "Can we please get this day over with already?"

*cue DigiXros*

"Right." Akari held up her Xros Loader again. "SHOTUMON!"

"Oh Yeah!"

"BALLISTAMON!"

"N'Gah!"

"DORULUMON!"

"Roger!"

"STARMONZ!"

"HAAAI!"

"YEAH!"

"DIGIXROS!"

"DIGI-XROS!"

With that familiar guitar rift... "SHOUTMON XROS FOUR!" Entered the fray once more.

*cut to We Are Xros Heart*

"Ooooh! So you stole back the Xros Loader then!" AncientVolcamon sneered...

Hangyomon blinked. "Erm... What's he talking about...?"

Xros Four made a "Shh" Sound. "Oh, nothing. Just him lamenting about how he's about to be crushed!"

"What was that you little brat!' AncientVolcamon threw his fist forward, sending a shockwave of energy out of it at the Gattai. "SUPER NOVA!"

Xros Four easily blocked the attack- and cut through it- with his sword. "Heh, is that the best you've got?"

"BIG BANG FIRE!" With that, AncientVolcamon turned so that his Volcano was aimed at the fusion when it errupted a massive stream of magma at him.

"FOUR VICTORIZE!" Xros Four retaliated by holding out his sword, and launching that familiar V Shaped Laser through it.

FWHAM!

The two attacks met, and exploded on contact, sending both participants flying backwards.

AncientVolcamon wound up getting his foot caught within a small crater- and Xros Four ended up with his sword stuck within a boulder wedged into where a cliff face met the ground. "Gah! I'm stuck!" Both cried out in anguish.

"Akari!" Lopmon stared. "A Digimemory!"

"Right!" In order to buy time for Xros Four to free his sword, a Digi-Memory would have to be used... But which one...? "Ah!"

Just as Ancient Volcamon pulled his foot free, he found himself bombarded by fire attacks.

"SPIT FIRE BLAST!" A Savers Style Agumon roared.

"FIRE ROCKET!" Cried out a second Savers Style Agumon.

"PEPER BREATH!" The third, and Adventure styled Agumon roared.

"GYAH!" AncientVolcamon blanched as the Trio of Agumon worked their flame magic to distract him. "Stop it! That Tickles!"

Savers 1 grinned. "Yeah! And You look like a fried egg!"

Savers 2 Rolled his eyes and laughed at his fellow's comment. "You're just upset 'cause I ate all of 'em!"

"Be Quiet and Focus on your job, you two!" Adventure ordered. "This is no time to be fooling around!"

Both Savers let loose identical "Awww... But I...!" sounds at once.

"BIG BANGE FIRE!" AncientVolcamon growled as he tried to stomp one of the Agumon from existence.

"Yippie!" Savers 1 cried out as he rolled away. "Now we have a perfect reason to do THIS!" There was a flash, and- suddenly- the three Agumon Digi-Memories fused together into one digimon- A tall humanoid with golden armor, and rather sharp looking claws- WarGreymon.

"WH- WHAT?" The Volcano's eyes widened as the golden memory jumped into the air and summoned a rather imposing sphere or red energy. "GAIA FORCE!" With a mighty roar, the sphere was thrown at- impacted- and exploded against AncientVolcamon.

"And now, we open the floor to complete and unconditional awesomeness!" WarGreymon smirked as he faded from sight along with the smoke generated from the fire attack.

AncientVolcamon was completely confused by this- dazed as he was from the explosive sphere- but it soon all made clear and perfect sense- Xros Four was soaring towards him, with that giant boulder STILL impaled on the sword. "BIG BANG-!"

"DRAIN STOPPER!" Xros Four roared as the boulder smashed into- and plugged- the massive volcano. With the most impressive timing, he pushed his feet against the boulder, and backflipped away, managing to wrench the sword free, and lodge the boulder in completely.

AncientVolcamon's eyes widened in horror as his explosive Magma had nowhere to go- and so began to leak out through any available crack it could find. "NOOO!" he cried out as he started to inflate due to the pressure.

"FOUR VICTORIZE!" Xros Four once more let loose his finishing attack. The flaming V soared out, hit AncientVolcamon in the face, and sent him flying into a far off mountain where he proceeded to explode rather violently.

Shoutmon whistled as he watched Akari pocket the Agumon digi-memory. "So what was that one called again?"

Akari smirked at him. "Triple Flame Ultimate Fusion."

Dorulumon shook his head in amazement. "I'm flabberghasted that such an attack even exists."

Taiki nodded. "But be glad it does. If Akari hadn't used it, AncientVolcamon would have managed to attack Xros Four before he pulled the boulder free from the cliff face."

"Hmm... True..." Dorulumon sighed.

"Hey, would ya look at that!" Shoutmon grinned as he pointed towards the nearby cliff-face. "The sun's rising!" Quickly, everyone turned to look.

"Now if that isn't a sign of better things to come, I dunno what is!" Zenjirou smiled.

For a few moments, the rising of the sun seemed to be an amazing sign of wonder and peace...

...And then Tactimon's shadowed sillowet appeared infront of it.

Dorulumon gasped. "NO!"

Shoutmon's eyes widened. "Isn't that...!"

Akari growled. "One of the three commanders...!"

TO BE CONTINUED!

DIGIMON CORNER!

"Looking up data on our enemies...!" A Chibi-Monitamon recited to his chibi-audience. "Erm... Ah... CUTEMON!" A Picture of Cutemon appeared. "His techniques include... erm... I... Boku... Anata.. I... Er..." The picture cut to a frustrated Crayon-Monitamon snaping a pencil over his knee. "I Don't have any information!"

A Chibi-Lopmon scratched her head. "Didn't we do Cutemon already?"

NEXT TIME!

"Eh! Dorulumon used to work for Bagura?"

"Way to spoil the plot twist!"

"You should have known better than to go against me, Dorulumon."

"I Would do it again a thousant times over if I had to!"

"Well... That's a chance you won't ever get!"

"DIGI-XROS!"

"DORULU-CANON!"

"Next time, Digimon Xros Wars! Dorulumon! Run Like The Wind!"

"You can't miss it!"

A/N: Well, that was... Short. Believe it or not, I accidentally copied this AND the last chapter, making the word count at roughly 8,000. I was thinking "What the heek? I Wrote THAT much?" And then I slowly realized that I'd already gone over the first half of it... Yeah... That's... right...

Um, Okay, Anyways, These chapters - And there I go hitting the wrong key and bringing up the web browsing history- *AHHEM* I've noticed that the chapters have been getting shorter, and- starting with the next zone- I Will definitely try to make sure that the chapters are longer! I mean, the next Zone IS Lake Zone after all, the first One Hour Special in Xros Wars history! So! It SHOULD be much longer! If not the next one!

Hmm, moving on, I Have several plans for the Zone's that've shown up on the main series so far. I have a twist planned for the next chapter (not saying what, it's a surprise! :D ) And, as I mentioned, Lake Zone is coming up and will feature a slight twist to things, especially when it comes to future Zones. I have my own set of ideas planned out for Heaven Zone (Why else give it special mention a whole three zones early?) and for what I'm assuming happens in Jungle zone has it's own set of twists accompanying it {Now if I can just find a video of EP 19 somewhere...}.

SO, YEAH. This is definitely going to stray into AU territory, and at the same time stay true to the series. As for any sort of hints... Once I write the last episode for this (Magma) Zone, I'll put up a small sketch up on my DA page that'll hint at what's to come in Lake Zone. Should be fun, /methinks.

Okay, ending this here before I ramble on any more! (A good 15 minutes typing!)

_DTC