Up in the sky, a blue jet flew over the wreckage of some kind of lab. The pilot looked down and seemed worried. He was here on accident and from what he heard about the place, a monster called Tabuu was trying to take over. His friends were here somewhere too. He hoped with all his heart that they were ok.

"Where are you sonic..?" The fox pilot muttered to himself.

Nameplate: Miles "Tails" Prower

Tails picked up his binoculars and quickly scanned the area. He couldn't see any sign of Sonic, Knuckles or even Eggman. When he was dragged through the portal, his Tornado was wrecked pretty badly. It had taken him quite a bit of time to repair it and if he'd done it quicker, maybe he'd have found them by now. He hoped it wasn't too late.

Tails suddenly hoped he would find ANYONE. Not just his friends, but just someone to show him that this world wasn't completely dead.

Luckily, the cloaking device was still in working order and his plane was invisible. Well… almost. There was a loud boom noise and in a flash of light, Tails realised that his plane was visible again. He just had to hope no one dangerous was watching him. That was when he heard the first words he'd heard in a while

"Bug blaster!" Tails quickly looked around, expecting to find the source of the voice, he looked over the edge of his plane and suddenly, he saw a glowing red orb hurdling towards him at a frightening pace. He quickly ducked back into his plane when the orb ploughed through one of the wings, smashing it up.

The Tornado began spinning out of control and going into a nosedive. Tails had been in the situation before though and he was smart enough to know how to handle it and not panic. He pulled hard on the control stick, managing to balance it out just in time for impact.

The Tornado smashed into the ground but aside from the wing that the orb decimated, it was otherwise unharmed. Tails was no worse for wear either. He grabbed his small laser gun thing and placed it on his hand. He would have to go on foot from here. Without materials, there was no way he was gonna fix the wing.

Tails looked at the expansive forest he had landed in and decided to go whichever way seemed the least claustrophobic, which just happened to be the direction he came from. He began to propel himself with his twin tails and left the plane, making a quick mental note of where he left it, just in case he needed to return or found a way to fix it.

There were some strange creatures in the forest. They attacked tails but whenever he fought back, they exploded into dust and then vanished. Not long after he would meet the exact same creature as if it had respawned. Almost like they were "Digital Monsters" so to speak.

After a few minutes of walking and flying, Tails found the ruins of the lab that he'd flown over not ten minutes ago. He suddenly realised that whoever shot him down was probably around he somewhere. He prepped his hand laser again and began to search the rubble for any salvageable materials he could use to fix the Tornado.

However, Tails hadn't noticed that another creature was right behind him. It floated over and let out a small giggle. Tails jumped and turned on the spot, aiming his laser right at the bug thing's face.

"Whoa, Whoa. Heh Heh. Relax friend. I was just gonna ask for your help" The creature said. "The name's Keramon"

Tails was cautious. Keramon unnerved him and he didn't exactly look sane either. He slowly lowered the laser, but kept it ready to fire. "…Your voice is familiar… did you shoot me down?"

Keramon began to laugh again, trying to hold back but failing miserably. "Hahaha! Yeah, that was me. Sorry 'bout that but I really need your help".

Tails was willing to let this thing explain itself.

"Y'see," it began ", I need to get through this forest, the deeper parts. And I'm sure you saw on your little walk that it's full of somewhat violent Digimon. I'm not the strongest guy and I could do with some getting through them. If you help me, I can use the machine I'm looking for to fix your plane for you!"

Tails wasn't sure, but Keramon didn't exactly seem bad. He was just a scared, albeit mental, guy looking for help. "Ok, sure. I'll help you get there" Tails replied. "Which way are we going?"

Keramon pointed north "straight ahead, South. Hehehe…"

Tails nodded and spun his tails around. The dashed off to the south and Keramon followed quickly. They hurried through, and worked together to take down the stronger Digimon. Both of them could fly too which sped up the journey quite I bit too. After about ten minutes, the duo finally reached a small clearing where there sat a large machine about twice the size of Tails. "Ah-ha! The Shadowtrasmetograph"

"So… What do we do with this?" Asked Tails?

Keramon began giggling again. Then his giggle began to change into more of a maniacal laugh.

"Bug blaster!" He shouted, firing a red orb into Tails. He was sent flying backwards and ploughed into a tree. "Now… I gain ultimate power! And you meet your end, you gullible little Foxboy!"

Tails sat up and rubbed his head. "Wh-what are you talking about?!"

Keramon began to mess with the machine and little, purple spores began to flood out of it. Keramon absorbed them as they did so and he could feel his power grow exponentially. Soon the spores had all been absorbed and Keramon had a dark aura surrounding him.

"Keramon Danger-digivolve to..!" He shouted and he was engulfed by a bright white light.

His body shape began to grow and change dramatically. His head changed from a small round ball into a large skull shape with horns. His body pushed back and six huge spider legs sprouted out. And finally, a long tail, about equal in length to his legs grew from the back of his body. He was enormous. The light faded to reveal that his new form looked like a gigantic purple and black spider-scorpion combination.

"ARMAGEDDEMON!" He finished

Nameplate: Armageddemon

Tails needed to fight back but the creature before him was almost quadruple his size and it wasn't a robot like most of the things he fought. This was a living creature! He was terrified!

Armageddemon stepped closer, crushing the Shadowtrasmetograph beneath his foot. Tails shook with fear as it closed in and closed his eyes when a familiar voice echoed through the forest.

"Hey! Ugly! Get away from him!" Tails opened his eyes and glanced in the direction of the sound. From the woods, a flash of red jumped way up high and pulled back its fist, before sending it smashing into Armageddemon's face with enough force to push him away from Tails slightly.

The blur stretched its arms out in front of him and slowly glided on the air down to Tails' side. He outstretched and hand for him and smirked.

"You okay, buddy?" He said

Nameplate: Knuckles

Armageddemon approached the duo and with Knuckles here, Tails hopped up with newfound confidence.

Knuckles raised his fists and Tails aimed his laser. It was time to bring down this beast. Armageddemon started the battle with a laser blast from his mouth. Tails dashed up and to the left and knuckles rolled to the right before ripping a rock from the ground and hurling it at Armageddemon. The rock smashed against him and he glared down at Knuckles before going to crush him with one of his many legs.

Knuckles dodged out of the way and Tails flew overhead, blasting down at the monster repeatedly before landing on his back and attacking him repeatedly with his twin tails.

Armageddemon whipped Tails away with one of his legs before firing another laser at Knuckles. He sidestepped the laser and leapt up, Pummelling Armageddemon' face repeatedly. Tails began firing laser bolts too.

Armageddemon fired one last laser, blasting knuckles high into the sky. Knuckles steadied himself, took out his shovel claws and equipped them. He then aimed himself and launched himself towards the monster in his drill dive attack.

Armageddemon wasn't paying attention and was more focused on Tails. He grabbed the fox in one of his legs again, and threw him away with quite a deal of force. It was just after that Knuckles smashed into the top of Armageddemon's head with enough force to finish the fight. Armageddemon glowed bright white once again and began to shrink, reverting to his previous form of Keramon.

Tails, who had been smashed away by Armageddemon, crashed through a nearby tree which then toppled down right onto Keramon's head. In a flash, he had become a trophy once again.

Tails slowly walked over to Knuckles' side.

"Did… did we win?" He asked. Knuckles smiled and let out a hearty laugh.

"Heck yeah we did! And not only that, we got a neat trophy out of the deal too!" Knuckles grabbed the tree and pushed it off of the Keramon statue. He looked down on it with some kind of pride. "I'll be having this!"

Knuckles reached down and picked up the trophy by the base. But as soon as he touched it, the trophy once again began to glow. In a few seconds, Keramon was once again breathing.

The bug Digimon looked up at the surprised but angry looking echidna and cowered a little, still giggling a little though.

"Ack! Stop! D-don't hurt me! Hehehe" He said

Tails suddenly had an idea. "I'll tell you what. We won't hurt you… If you tell us what's been happening here. And who is Tabuu"

Keramon nodded and explained the situation. He told Tails and Knuckles the tale of the Subspace emissary, what had happened at the celebration, and that he had been hired by an evil warlock to help lead the invading shadow hands and brawnbots. Tails and Knuckles weren't done with him yet though.

"Well, you're gonna lead us to them. Tails. Think you can get the tornado working again with the parts from that shadow machine thing?" Knuckles asked. Tails nodded in response and Keramon didn't know how to react.

"L-lead you?! That wasn't part of the deal!" He protested, but Knuckles cracked his knuckles.

"It is now, Nutjob. You're gonna lead us to your boss and if you try anything funny, you'll get another drill dive to the face. Got it?"

Keramon gulped and nodded. He had no choice. Keramon had to join the heroes!

Tails pointed his laser arm at Keramon as incentive not to run and Knuckles picked up the Shadowtrasmetograph and began trudging in the direction Tails told him the Tornado was in. Keramon was behind him and Tails behind him. They were going to find Sonic, help save this world, and make sure this Keramon guy didn't cause any more trouble!

OOC NOTES TIME:

I'm not dead! And neither is this story!

FYI, this was the first chapter I ever planned for this story. This was the only chapter that was set in stone to be in the final story. Many other scenes have been removed or added but this one has been here the whole time, waiting for it's time to shine!

Anyway, this chapter is the turning point. After this, all the chapters I've been looking forward to most can get written. Want to know what happened with Bowser JNR at mount battle? Or who will win, Darkrai or Bidofo? Well set those fears aside because everything is gonna be here soon!

All reviews are adored. You have no idea how good I feel when I get a review.

On another note, I'll be editing all the previous chapters soon, getting up to the standard that my chapters are now. I'll be getting rid of those pesky mid chapter OOC notes, and all the crappy spelling and grammar fails that plagued me back when I first started.