They returned the universe feeling they had retreated like frightened animals with their tails tucked between legs, they had failed mission lost member steams the process made things worse, they went to the monitor room and get prepared for the next mission hopefully they wouldn't fail this time because the next world likely be this one.

They all reentered the monitor room, with the last to enter being Suzie Yamaki, she holds her gaze towards the ground, and hadn't taken it away from their since their return from the fail mission.

"I know the mission failed, but we can't dwell on that now, we need to carry on, we need to stop D-Nemesis, few dimensions remain and any one of those could cause an end of everything chain reaction" Homeostasis said its voice clearly calculating their chance for success in the next mission, without caring for any of them. "Since there is no need for a recon team for the next mission there is going to be two tactical teams, team 1, the main team Ruki Makino, Mikuni Suzubuya, Sasuke, and Takuya Kanbara. Team 2, which would be a backup team is Kari Kamiya, Takajin Subaru, Takato Matsuki, and Yolei Inoue. Those are the new teams, you have only a couple hours to rest up before you head out again. Kari ran over to Yolei and they hugged her, it was a reunion that made Kari feel a lot better about the failure. They talked as they walked to the girl dorm. And Rika reunited with Takato, and they talked as they headed to the cafeteria, because he really thought he had to feed Guilmon before he started eating everything in sight.

"Suzie Yamaki, you have been benched, your failure to do what was best for the team, and that world has marked you as a liability, not team material now go to your room and think about your actions" Homeostasis said before the monitor went blank, and the lights in the room went off leaving Suzie in darkness.

Takajin entered his dormitory, was suddenly confronted by Mikuni, "I think we should deal with this ourselves, you are the only one I can trust, let's leave and deal with this," she said with an intense look on her face.

"I don't think we are capable of this on our own, didn't you see what D-Nemesis is able to do, do we want to be responsible for another dimensions destruction" Takajin said, pulling away from looking at Mikuni, he knew she was wrong, even with her bluster about being a champion, he believed she knew that too, this was her coping with failure, and that was all this was.

Before Mikuni could retort Takajin's remarks, an alarm sounded, both of them rushed out of the dorm to see what was going on, and they saw Suzie Yamaki running down the hallway with her laptop in hand, she was shutting all the emergency doors except the hallways she was taking, then even those began to close. Takajin, and Mikuni ran after her, ducking under closing doors, sliding under one that was nearly shut. They finally caught with her in what seemed to be a dead end, all but a weird looking pad, which Suzie stepped onto, and was absorbed in a bright light and vanished, the panel then sparked and spewed smoke.

"She put the whole place on lockdown; we need to get her back," Homeostasis said over the intercom "I'll give you step by step instruction on how to repair that teleport panel.

Kari came from around the corner; she had come from an air duct, with Rika, Takato, Yolei "we will come with you two, we need to get her back as soon as possible, more people can cover more territory," she said making her way towards Takajin.

"I need Yolei to stay here, she can see if she can unlock the system," said the voice of Homeostasis over the intercom.

-Streets of Edo City-

The Teleport panel had transported her a couple miles from where she lives, and she was going to head there, and bury her troubles in ice cream. She wished she could have gotten that idea to put her closer to it, but it was a sudden choice to go home, they didn't need her, she had messed up, and she ducked into an alley thinking she had seen someone she knew. Then crumpled into a sitting position and started to cry, she hugged legs and rocking forward and back she found her digivice in her pocket, age didn't remember taking it with her, she tossed inadvertently releasing her digimon partner.

"You need to go back!' Lopmon said, giving her partner a concerned expression.

"But I failed, and caused so much so much pain, I killed everyone that was important to me," Suzie said as fresh tears poured down her cheeks. "They don't need me, there is no point in me going back, Go Away you stupid digimon" she went to kick Lopmon, but Lopmon dodged it, never leaving where she stood.

"No matter how you treat me, I'll never leave your side, I love you Suzie, bestest of my friends," Lopmon said, dodging another volley of kicks from Suzie. "I know you don't want me to go away"

"Yes, I do, I hate digimon, if it wasn't for you this probably wouldn't have happened I hate you" Suzie yelled at Lopmon, with her just shrugging in response. And there was a silence for several minutes before Suzie spoke up again, "Oh Lopmon… What Have I Done?"

-Hypnos building-

"No! No! No… I don't think that goes there, according to homeostasis's description it goes over here" Yolei shouted impatiently, as they tried to fix the transport panel.

"We weren't arguing with you, I was suggesting it could this over here?" Takajin said in frustration pointing at conduit that looked exactly like the one Yolei was pointing toward. Before he could decide which one Yolei took the part from him and put it back and took the one she thought it was, and shut the panel. The Transport panel hummed to life.

"I told you it was the right one!" Yale said, crossing her arms in triumph.

Yolei stayed behind like instructed while the rest of them got on the teleport panel, and the light absorbed, and they were gone, when they appeared they were in a futuristic city like a Steampunk Tokyo and their clothing had changed too.

"I took the liberty of changing your clothes during transport so you wouldn't stick out," Homeostasis said with its voice coming from their digivice. "Since you are in my dimension I can speak to you this way without too much trouble, I have uploaded a small amount money for emergencies on all your digivices"

They looked around as cars flew around in the air, and almost all the buildings were sky towers of polished metal and glass, and in front of them was people being conveyed down streets via moving sidewalks it was like something out of a sci-fi movie. "You have a map on your digivice, it will tell you where you are and where you have been, each of you pick a grid to search, and you will find her more quickly this way," Homeostasis said with each of them taking out their digivice. "It's a Saturday in this dimension so you don't have to worry about someone pulling you guys over, also you would look more normal with your digimon partners out, but keep them in their rookie forms unless you want to get attention"

Each of them call forth their digimon partner, but Takajin had to call him back, because Sunmon was setting fires wherever he went, they all went in different directions, except Kari and Takajin, he found everything overwhelming and needed someone with him to help him focus. In fact, no matter where any of them went there was no kid or teenager without a digimon partner, which didn't seem weird to Takajin since almost everyone in his dimension had one too, looking at this made Kari wish that her world was like this too, she felt somewhat jealous of Suzie and Takajin, and their worlds.

Takato was walking through the market place with his partner Guilmon, he had been lucky his injury hadn't been caused by D-Nemesis, it had been a sprained ankle, which was healed. He walked until he passed a row of CDs, and stopped in mid step, he looked at the cover of one CD in particular, and nearly lost it. It had someone on the cover that looked almost exactly like his friend Rika Nonaka but the name on it was Ruki Makino, and the girl was dressed in this extreme girly, frilly attire, he thought to himself should he buy this to show Henry or would he get himself murdered by Rika. If she found out he had this, he thought for a few seconds then bought. He stowed the thing in his pocket, and snickered. He looked over to see Guilmon eating bread, he ran over to the vender and paid for it. Before Guilmon could get him in trouble for doing that.

"Sorry, my digimon is a real eating machine!" Takato said with embarrassment.

The vendor only laughed "I think most of my sales are digimon related so no problem, and it looks like yours is a big fan of bread, so here's one on the house," he said handing Takato a loaf of bread.

Rika waited as Renamon searched the area; there was no point in her going since her digimon was way faster than her in that aspect.

Renamon reappeared "Foxes do not sound like that," she said with a little cringe.

"What?" Rika asked, confused at the statement of Renamon.

"It was a stupid song, which is not important now," Renamon said before continuing "someone spotted someone who looked like Suzi ducking into an alley over a couple hours ago.

"Let's go," Rika said as she followed Renamon by a kid stopped her.

"Cool digimon partner? Where did you get her? And how much was she? Oh god, she is so awesome looking! I am so totally jealous of the fox motif she has going for her! My name is Tara, what is yours" the girl who wouldn't stop her chattering on non-stop questions just about Renamon.

"Get a Life!" Rika said and simply walked away from the annoying girl, with Renamon in tow. They had better things to deal with, finding a wayward Suzie Yamaki, she still couldn't believe that in this universe a version of one of her friends was dead. She needed to find the lane that Suzi had headed down. She called from a very futuristic looking phone booth for a cab to take her to the street, hopefully she hasn't moved on yet from there, the others had found her first before she did.

-Elsewhere in Edo City-

Kari, Takajin, felt weird dressed like they were, but the people around them were more weirdly dressed than they were. These people had obsession the planet Saturn because it was all over the place rings that people wore and the bright colors made Kari think of those old movies like Logan's run, this adventure was exactly like one of those but way more terrifying, and people have died and not fictional characters. They looked through one store after another, got kicked out of one because their age, it was a store that sold skimpy Lingerie.

"It's weird in their world the capital of Japan is Tokyo, but this goes by the original name of Edo" Kari pointing at tourist billboard that said Welcome to Edo City.

"As far as I know there are no cities or villages that go by either name," Takajin said replying to Kari, as he admired the billboard.

I liked your alternate world better than this one; it was like something out of a fantasy novel, it's better than this which looks like something out of sci-fi movie or TV series like Star Trek" Kari said taking Takajin by the hand. "I am going to say this again your sister's condition is not your fault, it could have been you that is in stasis now instead of her"

"Why couldn't it be me, why does my sister have to suffer like she is probably doing right now? I don't blame myself now I blame Suzie Yamaki, if she had done what she had been told, but no she took it on herself and see what happened!" Takajin said, which started off with him being calm, and then degenerated into him almost yelling at Kari. Suddenly Kari slapped him the face hard, leaving a palm print on his cheek.

"Look, Suzie made a mistake, and she is probably out there feeling horrible, we need to find and make sure she is ok," Kari said, pulling her hand away from the throbbing red mark she left on Takajin's face. "And how would you know if the tactical team attacked, they wouldn't have all been killed too, maybe that mission was doomed to fail from the word go"

Takajin composed himself and thought about it "You are right, it's not Suzie Fault. She has been Human just like you and me, and we all make mistakes," he touched the red hand print on his face, it hurt when he touched it. "We need to find and convince her to come back," he looked at Kari and she nodded in agreement.

Suzie had started running again, she was not going back to Hypnos, they could deal with things without her interference, and she kept going till she reached the school district, where she had attended before her family had died, and Mitsuo had taken from to be home taught after he had adopted her. Seeing the kids playing made her chest clenched like someone was reaching into it and squeezing her heart. "I'm never going back, The Past is in the past!" She turned and ran away from it like it had been her past, which she did not want to remember. Isolation was the only answer to her; she would disappear and would be. She knew where she was going now, and no one would ever find her there.

-Hypnos building-

On Homeostasis's monitor, it showed the destruction of another dimension; it displayed all its gruesome grandeur "It's too late to save that world" its computerized voice stated as the image flickered off the screen.

"She encrypted this system, I am having trouble getting through," Yolei said looking up from the laptop.

"I am having problems too, I am locked out of most of my systems" Homeostatic said "We need her back before it eventually arrives here"

"Yeah, totally, that girl needs a swift kick in the hindquarters" Yolei said making a fist with her right hand and then punching the wall. She went back to typing away, she wished Ken had been there or even Izzy, the more geniuses the better in her opinion and they were more qualified than her to do this. The clock was ticking, and it didn't look very good for the next world in the path of the D-Nemesis, they needed to get the system out of lockdown, Suzie Yamaki had done a great job of messing with the system so she could flee from her problems. She understood the pressure from having to save a world, but Suzie had the weight of saving many worlds on her shoulder, and just hit her tipping point. "Long range Communications back online" a voice announced from the intercom.

"Yes!" Yolei shouted in celebration "got one system off lockdown!" She picked up a device "Anyone read me what the status, on the wayward hacker?"

-Edo City-

"So far nothing" Kari said into her digivice "Mikuni, and the others haven't seen her either, this girl really knows how to vanish"

"Keep searching" Homeostasis's voice said from Kari's digivice. "We don't know how many worlds are left till it gets here"

"I am working as hard as I can to clear up the damage, Suzie has done, but we really need her back because this will take too long to fix everything that she locked down"

"I think I see her!" Rika's voice sounded from Kari digivice "I am following on foot"

"Where are you?" Takajin asked, speaking into his digimon "Don't let her see you!"

"East of Hibiki plaza, around the school, Renamon spotted her, and we got there right before she took off" Rika answered.

"Damn it, Mikuni!" The voice of Rika shouted, from the digivice.

"What is going on?" Takajin shouted into the digivice. He knew he hadn't seen Mikuni since they had teleported down; she had vanished with her digimon partner Vasantmon. All he could hear from the other end was a rapid succession of explosions "Damn it Mikuni, we are supposed to get her back not kill her!" Another explosion sound, but they could see it in the distance, he ran followed closely by Kari. They needed to get there before the authorities did. This was no good at all, and it would probably get worse.

Mikuni had found the runaway, and appeared before, having her partner turn off his mirage armor; she was in the arms of her bunny knight, and his shiny armor glinted in the sunlight, he gently set her down. "You are coming back even if I have to drag you by your hair," she said looking at Suzie with disappointment.

"I am never going back" Suzie shouted at Mikuni, before trying to run away from her. With her partner Lopmon trying to keep pace with her. They ducked into an alley, and an explosion rang out in front of them, and Vasantmon had blown a hole in the wall.

"You are going back, don't make me have to hurt, but I will," Mikuni said, stepping out of the smoking hole her digimon partner had created. Only to watch as Suzie, took off again, only for the same thing to happen once again, and this kept happening.

Suzie Yamaki pulled out her digivice, and digivolved Lopmon into Prairiemon, who looked hesitantly with a pleading expression on her face, and mouthed why we can't just go back, this is pointless. Only for Suzie to shake her head no. "Be useful for once, you stupid digimon!" She shouted loudly at her digimon partner.

Prairiemon charged at Vasantmon, for him just to disappear, and reappear behind her, and to deliver a backhand smash with his saber, Prairiemon was launched flying into an adjacent building, inside a rock concert was going on, the people inside didn't react to this like it was a normal occurrence, the only person there that looked upset was the girl on stage, even though she continued on with her singing.

Suzie Yamaki entered the show hoping maybe to hide amongst the crowd, but Mikuni and Vasantmon followed her in. Tripping her face first onto the floor with a barely audible thud.

"Do you think you are the only one that is suffering, even if I am a champion of justice I am still human and I too lost my family," Mikuni said bluntly, running up to Suzie and kicking her right in the gut knocking the wind out of her. While Prairiemon and Vasantmon fought in the middle of a crowd that seemed like they knew how to avoid getting in the middle of a digimon fight.

As the glaring pop idol, finished the song they had been singing, she turned to her band and nodded, and they started singing what sounded like a very action oriented rock ballad. Like they were giving the fight a soundtrack. "Things are starting to accelerate, into something never stopping always troubled but

Now I think I'm getting dizzy, too much spinning. Page by page the plot is thickening, quickening" she sang. As the digimon in her concert hall clashed. Two different lines of digivolution of the same digimon in this case Lopmon duking it out in the middle of a crowded concert hall.

Prairiemon didn't have its heart into this battle, and was taking a beating from the obviously stronger Vasantmon, because the knight rabbit was trained for combat and Prairiemon, and every time Suzie tried to get away Mikuni floored her.

"What do you want from me?" Suzie shouted at Mikuni, while Kari, Takajin, and Takato arrived,

"What do you do when your actions cost people their lives, because you ran away from your responsibility causing more damage doing so. Why do you think we are all here instead of trying to save another dimension? You were a stupid little brat" Mikuni said, looking at now crying Suzie on the ground "Grow up selfish little snot"

Suzie shouted "Go Away, I don't care, about digimon problems!" As she got up to try to leave again, but came face to face with a Kari, who was raising her hand in a wide arcing slap.

"You are not worth slapping" Kari said as she lowered her hand instead "You put Hypnos into lockdown, and while we were searching for you; many people have died because we couldn't go to save other dimensions" she gave Suzie a harsh look of disappointment "I know it's probably too soon to say this, in the light of your friend dying. But it has to be said. Ryo was wrong about you Suzie, you are not dependable. You are a horrible person, who forces your Digimon partner to fight the wrong enemy instead of admitting fault, you make me sick, I can't even look at you"

Suzie Yamaki went to get up and then dropped to her knees, she hadn't known she done that much damage when she had escaped, and she was just trying to get away "I am sorry! I am so sorry!" She said, trying to not break down, she looked like a deer that was caught in a car's headlights. What Kari had said was worse than any slap she could have given.

Kari helped up Suzie "We need you to come back, and undo your damage," Kari said, placing her hand on Suzie's shoulder, and gave a comforting smile. Suzie nodded in response, as they got ready to teleport back to Hypnos. They were enveloped in light, and the people at the concert stared in complete awe. Except the pop idol who stopped singing and stormed off stage.

-Hypnos Building-

Suzie was brought to the monitor, and placed in front of Homeostasis "I am disappointed in you another dimension just now was destroyed, what do, you have to say about your actions?" It said.

Suzie Yamaki felt everyone's eyes on her, she was about to apologize once again, when something dawned on her, she didn't have to make an apology to a computer, she had apologized to everyone else "We are risking everything, and you sit around doing nothing, why should I apologize to an A.I. that is safely at home?" She said in polite, honest tone. Before she turned away from the monitor screen "I'll fix what I did and I have already apologized to everyone else" as she was leaving a door opened, and a person stepped with a laptop

"I am Koushiro Izumi, I am from this dimension not Kari's or any other I am no A.I. I just pretended to be one because I don't want other people to interfere with my work" Koushiro said looking at the shocked expressions he got from everyone in the room. "But I am also sorry to tell you guys that the D-Nemesis is going to be here next!"