To all readers-I'm reposting this again because I'm ready. I want everyone (especially one reader in particular) to that I don't like being rushed when I'm writing. I like to write at my own pace and have each chapter up to my standards. If you dont like the way I write any of my fanfiction, then you dont have to read it. Its strictly your choice whether or not you read any of my fanfiction at all.

I DONT OWN DIGIMON: DIGITAL MONSTERS! I ONLY OWN THE OC AND THE OC ALONE!

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The digidestined were now once again travelling through the desert and are quite tired of, considering that it was hotter than ever. "Man, this desert is so hot, even a lizard would need sunscreen." said Matt as they walked through the desert.

"Sora, can you carry me?" asked Biyomon.

"Nope." replied Sora.

"Not even with a crew cut would look good on you and its cooler." Tentomon said to Izzy, who wipes his forehead.

"Do I look fat to you?" asked Gabumon.

"No, you look hot, especially with the fur coat." Matt tells him. "That thing really needs a zipper."

"Or at least removable shirt sleeves." said Gabumon.

"I'm tired. How able to resting our feet?" asked Gomamon.

"There's no place to sit except on a cactus." said Joe.

"Great view from up here." said Tokomon, sitting on T.K.'s head.

"It's the best." said Nyaromon.

"Next time, I ride." said T.K.

"Or better yet, lets trade places with you two." said Keiko.

"You look terrible, Koromon." said Tai as he held his digimon in his hands. "If only I hadn't acted like such a bone-head, you never would have digivolved."

"Don't be so hard on yourself, although come to think of it, you really have made such a super icky mess of things." said Mimi.

"Was that supposed to make him feel better, Mimi?" asked Izzy.

"I don't know but I'm glad to give a pep talk every now and then." Mimi tells him. A few moments later, everyone decided to stop.

"I haven't sweated this much since cheerleader tryouts." said Mimi, taking off her hat and rubbing her forehead.

"Koromon doesn't look so good. I'm worried." said Tai.

"He's not the only one that I'm worried about." said Keiko, looking at Nyaromon.

"You know what we really need is a lot of shade, a big umbrella or a really big tree." said Palmon, then starts picturing herself as Togemon. "Or maybe I could turn into a huge cactus and smile down onto you as I provide cool refreshing comfort."

"It's official, the sun has just turned Palmon's brain into a French fry." said Matt as T.K. and Keiko started to giggle. "Earth to Palmon, come in."

"Palmon, look." said Mimi, snapping her digimon out of her daydream and points to a huge cactus in front of them.

"Wow! I did that? Gee, I'm pretty amazing." Palmon said about herself.

"You better believe it, Palmon! Come on everybody, let's head for some shade!" shouted Tai and they all started running towards the cactus. But when they arrived at the cactus, they noticed that there's no shade at all.

"What happened to the shade?" Tai asked when suddenly the cactus disappears.

"It was just as mirage. We've been tricked!" shouted Matt as they fell to the ground in disappointment.

"Well, well it's about time you got here. Just about ready to give up on me, huh?" asked Gennai as he appeared before them as a hologram.

"It's Gennai." said Matt.

"Gennai, we found the tags and a couple of the crests like you wanted, but when we got into trouble, our digimon couldn't digivolve." said Tai and holds out Koromon. "They ended up worse than they did before. Take a look at poor Agumon. He is just not himself and I'm supposed to be helping him."

"I think those thingies are more trouble than their worth." said Mimi, causing Joe to look at his crest.

"Calm down kids, let me explain. The tags and crests are extremely important. Please make sure no one else gets ahold of them. In the end, you should see that they work together to create total harmony." said Gennai.

"I don't get it." said Nyaromon.

"I don't either." said Keiko.

"In English." said Mimi.

"Is that some kind of hippie gossip talk?" asked Joe.

"Just trust me, after all I'm the floating glowing guy." Gennai said to them. "As for Koromon, he wouldn't be so helpless if you had known to take care of him in the proper way."

"But I did the best I could." Tai tells him.

"Patience is what you need to learn my friends and you will in time." said Gennai.

"But I want to have Agumon back now!" Tai shouted at Gennai but the signal starts to disappears.

"I'm starting to lose my connection, that is something you'll have to figure out by yourself. Good luck." said Gennai

"Wait a minute!" shouted Tai.

"I'm sorry, I'm on a tight schedule." said Gennai and the signal cuts out.

"Huh?"

"It never fails." said Tai. "Every time we need to know something, he hangs me out to dry."

"Are we being cared for properly?" Biyomon asked Gabumon.

"If we were, Agumon wouldn't have digivolved backwards." said Gabumon.

"Come on! Don't freak me out!" shouted Matt.

"I'm better with computers." said Izzy, looking down at the ground.

"That's ridiculous. As far as I'm concerned, you're the best." Tentomon assures Izzy.

"You looked bummed." said Gomamon.

"How am I supposed to take care of you? Is there a handbook somewhere? I feel very inadequate." said Joe.

"Me too." said Gomamon. Just then, the Digidestined hears the sound of a foghorn in front of them and look to see a huge cruise ship coming their way.

"Is that a battleship?" asked Tai.

"How should I know?" asked Keiko. "I don't work on a ship."

"Could be." said Sora. "But it looks more like a fancy cruise ship."

"The passengers will want their money back when they see this place!" shouted Joe as the ship gets closer.

"Yeah." said Mimi.

"It could be just a mirage." said T.K.

"It looks pretty real to me!" yelled Matt and the whole group decided not to wait there and see if it was really mirage, hightailing it out of there. When the ship comes to a stop in front of them, a Numemon wearing a sailor's uniform appears at the side of the ship.

"Ahoy there." said the Numemon, looking at the digidestined.

"Numemon." said Mimi. Tai notices that Koromon is getting worse and worse by the minute.

"Hey fella, could all of us come aboard and freshen up?" Tai asked but the Numemon looked uncertain.

"If you don't mind, this needs a woman's touch." said Mimi and starts flirting with the Numemon. "Well, hey there big boy, your ship looks so, so inviting. How about letting us on board so we can check it out. Oh please?"

"I am never doing that." said Keiko, feeling uncomfortable by what Mimi was doing.

"You may not like it now, but you'll change your tune when you're older." said Sora.

"We'll see about that." Keiko tells her.

The Numemon quickly fell for her charm and lowers the gangplank for them to come aboard.

"Is it safe?" asked Joe. Once aboard, Mimi had to comment on one of the rooms.

"What? No linen cloths?" she asked. "I guess we can rough it."

Everyone then went in different directions. Sora, Mimi and Keiko headed to one of the rooms for a shower while Matt, T.K. and Izzy were in the dining room. "We can take a shower." said Mimi.

"I'm in heaven." said Sora as the three girls get undressed to shower.

"I can't wait!" exclaimed Keiko.

"We can spend hours totally pampering ourselves." said Mimi.

"We were getting pretty smelly." said Sora. "Oh wow! They even got little mini soap bars."

"Check out the incredible spread." said Matt, seeing the table full of food from one end to another.

"It appears to be highly edible." said Izzy.

"Might I propose we eat a bit and take the leftovers with us?" asked Tentomon.

"Let's eat it all now!" suggested Matt.

"Oh, I can't believe it." said T.K.

"Remember when the food was just an illusion." said Izzy, reminding them of Devimon's trick from before.

"Another alien plot." Matt said to Izzy.

"It doesn't smell like an alien plot." said Tentomon after sniffing the food when they suddenly heard a burp.

"Excuse me." said Gabumon. After a few seconds of staring and drooling, Izzy finally speaks up.

"After extensive deliberation, I have come to the conclusion that it would be rude to allow this meal to become cold. Let's go for it guys!" yelled Izzy as they started to stuff their faces with food.

Meanwhile, Joe and Tai were at the pool, floating on water toys. Gomamon was in the water as Koromon was sitting on the table, underneath an umbrella and looking quite happy to be in the shade with the boys' crests next to him. "I'm confused, Joe. What do you think Gennai meant when he said that we weren't taking care of our digimon?" asked Tai.

"I don't know." Joe replied. "We've done everything but give them an allowance."

Little did they know they were being watched. "Ah ha! I see two have taken the bait. Time for me to get started, they'll never forget this cruise." said a human, wearing a captain's uniform who then takes off his disguise, turning into a giant chicken like digimon.

"I'm Kokatorimon…my cockle-doodle-doo will blow your eardrums. Mess with me and you'll be pecked into surrender." Kokatorimon said about himself, as he heads inside to the control room of the ship. "Etemon will reward me greatly when he learns that I've trapped the digidestined on my ship." Meanwhile inside Etemon's trailer, the Gazimon were trying to fix the Dark Network.

"Step it up, fools! I'm getting very impatient here, know what I mean? If my network is offline then everyone crashes." Etemon said to the Gazimon. "Let me tell you why because I'm Etemon. You want to make something of it?"

"No way." said the three Gazimon before him. Stage lights had turned on and Etemon's music started to play. As he sings and dances to the music, the three Gazimon joins in until Etemon hits them in the head.

"Who gave you permission to dance?" he asked them as they cowered before him. "Now y'all get back to work before I get myself upset again."

Back at the cruise, Kokatorimon was looking at blank screen. "Something's wrong. Etemon's network appears to be down. Ah, who needs him?" Kokatorimon said to himself. "I'll have the pleasure of plastering their features all by myself. It's amazing how my brains surpass my good looks."

Kokatorimon heads over to the intercom system. "Now hear this, I have an important message for you." he said to the Numemon throughout the ship. "Listen up, this is the deal; I'll give you Numemon an extra serving of dry bread and even throw in some jelly if you capture those kids."

Back at the pool, a couple of nets were thrown over Tai and Joe. "They need me." said Koromon. The Numemon then throws a net at Gomamon. "Joe! Okay, you asked for it. Marching Fishes!" shouted Gomamon as fish comes out of the water and break the net. The Numemon then proceeds to capture Koromon as well as the crests.

"You better keep your hands off." Tai warns the Numemon and just like that, his digivice glows.

"Digivolve! Koromon digivolve to…Agumon!" shouted Agumon as he changed back into his rookie form.

"Alright! He's back!" said Tai, happily.

"Pepper Breath!" shouted Agumon, sending a fireball at the Numemon but Kokatorimon swats it away.

"That bad egg is Kokatorimon." said Gomamon.

"Petrifier!" shouted Kokatorimon, releasing a green beam from his eyes, causing Agumon and Gomamon to turn into stone.

"Poor Agumon!" shouted Tai.

"Gomamon!" screamed Joe.

"Look, they left me a present. You're sunk without these, but I wouldn't be too upset. Now you've got yourself a couple of Digimon garden ornaments" said Kokatorimon after he picks up both crests from the table.

Meanwhile with Matt, T.K. and Izzy. "Blue Blaster! Electro Shocker! Bubble Blast!" shouted Gabumon, Tentomon and Tokomon, attacking the Numemon.

"Now it's your turn." said Kokatorimon, entering the room and surprising the three Digimon. "Petrifier!" Now the three digimon were turned to stone.

"They've been turned to rocks." said Matt.

"Impossible." said Izzy as he couldn't believe his eyes.

"Poor Tokomon." said T.K., looking at his digimon. Kokatorimon then arrives at the room of where Sora, Mimi, Keiko and their digimon were using, only to find that no one but Numemon were inside.

"Huh? Where are the rest of the children?" Kokatorimon asked the Numemon.

"We don't know." One of the Numemon replied. Kokatorimon growled in anger, but then hears the shower running from inside the bathroom.

"I do anything for a good moisturizing shampoo." Kokatorimon heard Mimi say and bursts into the bathroom to see the girls and their digimon escaped through the window.

"You little chickadees think you're so smart." said Kokatorimon and looks out the window to see wet footprints on the deck floor. "They won't get away so easily."

The girls were running down the ship with nothing but towels around them. Just then, Kokatorimon appears in front of them. "Kokatorimon!" exclaimed Palmon, Biyomon and Nyaromon.

"Is that the Easter chicken?" asked Sora.

"If it is, then it's an ugly Easter chicken at that." said Keiko causing Sora and Mimi to giggle a bit.

"Hey!" shouted Kokatorimon.

"Well it's true." said Nyaromon.

"He's bad news." said Biyomon, but then they see that he has Tai's and Joe's crests in his wing.

"That omelet head has Joe's and Tai's tags." said Mimi in shock.

"Hey! Give that back!" shouted Keiko.

"I ran into several of your friends over by the pool. But don't get your heads in a spin, they're just drying off. " said Kokatorimon. Over by the pool, all the boys were in the net, burning by the sun. "Nothing like little sunbaked faces fried to a crisp with a curly corn spuds and lots of coleslaw."

"Where are the digimon?" asked Biyomon.

"Don't worry about those guys. Confidentially, I find them to be a little bit on the stiff side but that's just happens to be my personal opinion." said Kokatorimon.

"I don't like that opinion." said Nyaromon.

"Your opinion stinks." said Palmon.

"Now you're going to meet the same fate." said Kokatorimon.

"You've cackled once too often! Spiral Twister!" shouted Biyomon, firing her attack at Kokatorimon, who dodges it.

"Acid Bubbles!" shouted Nyaromon, firing acid like bubbles at Kokatorimon, dodging that as well.

"Poison Ivy!" shouted Palmon, trying to wrap him in her vines but he swats them away.

"Petrifier!" shouted Kokatorimon, trying to turn the three digimon that were left to stone but they ran away after dodging the attack. "Come back you chickens!"

"Who's he calling chicken?" Sora joked about the overgrown chicken's puns as they were chased to the front of the cruise ship.

"He better not be calling us that! Otherwise, Tai will be beating him up after this." said Keiko.

"What do we do now? We're trapped." said Sora, once they were cornered.

They turned around to see Kokatorimon blocking them from running way. "Time to walk the plank." said Kokatorimon, sounding like a pirate.

"I thought this was a cruise ship, not a pirate ship." said Keiko as Sora pulls out her digivice.

"Biyomon, do your stuff." said Sora and she nodded.

"Biyomon digivolve to….Birdramon!" screeched Birdramon.

"Hey, that's not fair!" exclaimed Kokatorimon.

"Meteor Wing!" screeched Birdramon, launching fireballs from her wings at Kokatorimon, who then jumps out of the way.

"What's the matter, you big cluck, can't you fly?" asked Sora, causing Keiko to giggle.

"Palmon, it's your turn." said Mimi.

"Right! Palmon digivolve to…Togemon!" shouted Togemon.

"Meteor Wing!" shouted Birdramon, firing another round of fireballs at Kokatorimon again, causing him to release Joe's and Tai's tags and crests.

"Needle Spray!" shouted Togemon, firing hundreds of her cactus needles at Kokatorimon, before punching him in the face. Kokatorimon quickly recovers but is too slow to avoid Togemon's uppercut, sending him right into the cruise ship's foghorn which somehow erupts with fire.

"Fired chicken." commented Mimi, while she and Sora grabbed Joe's and Tai's crests as both of their digimon de-digivolved.

"We're out of here!" shouted the Numemon, throwing off their uniforms and leaving the ship.

"I don't think I want to take a cruise anytime soon." said Keiko. "Or even next summer vacation."

"I don't blame you." said Nyaromon.

"I agree. I say we do the same as they are and abandon ship." said Tai, watching the Numemon leave.

"I guess it's a little late for a mutiny." joked Izzy.

"Don't worry, the captain's already been fricasseed." said Sora and they all get off the ship. Meanwhile, Kokatorimon climbs out of the foghorn.

"Oww, my head. You may have ruffled my tail feathers, but I can still…." said Kokatorimon as he tries to crow, but miserably fails. "…okay so maybe I've lost a little bit of my doodle but I'm not finished yet."

Meanwhile, the digidestined were now walking through the desert again. "Well, the weather hasn't gotten any cooler." said Joe.

"I wish that it did." said Keiko.

"Yeah." said Nyaromon in agreement.

"Do you hear something?" Mimi asked everyone as they turned around to see the cruise ship heading straight for them. They started running again, trying to avoid being run over by a crazy boat driving chicken.

"That's one mad digimon with his feathers out of joint!" yelled Matt. They kept running until the giant cactus appears in front of them again. "Great…just great." said Keiko.

"Oh…look." said Mimi.

"The giant cactus is back." said Palmon.

"No! Not another mirage!" shouted Mimi.

"What were you expecting, an outlet mall?" asked Tai.

"Hurry! Get over to the other side." said Matt as they all hide behind it. The ship then rams into the cactus, but gets sent flying into the distance along with Etemon's Dark Network cable.

"I can fly! I can fly! I can't fly!" screamed Kokatorimon, getting caught in the explosion of his ship.

"I just want to point out that the only bird that I want to hang out with is Biyomon." said Keiko, watching him trying to fly before crashing somewhere. "She's a way better flier than he is." Afterwards, the digidestined were all staring at the giant cactus in front of them.

"Wow! It's bigger than a skyscraper!" said Mimi, looking at the cactus.

"You're right." said Palmon. "What's a skyscraper, Mimi?"

"Wow, look up there you guys." said Tai.

Just then, a plant blooms on the top of the cactus and out pops a huge stone, showing a raindrop like symbol with two circles on the front. "What's that?" asked Mimi.

"Maybe it's a crest." said Tai, just as Mimi's tag begins to glow a bright green.

The stone starts glowing green as well and begins to shrink as it moves towards Mimi's tag. "He was right! It's like Gennai said." said Sora. "The tags and crests somehow work together, Mimi."

"It's the crest of sincerity." said Mimi, studying the crest in her hand. "I don't think I deserve it, but if it will help me take care of Palmon, I'll keep it."

"Aww, thanks Mimi." said Palmon.

"But I think I'll have to teach you some manners." Mimi tells her digimon. "Did you know that you slurp when you eat soup? Don't worry a single leaf on your head, Mimi will…"

"Well, that's three down and five to go." said Matt.

"Right, all that's left is Matt, Izzy, Sora, T.K. and Keiko." said Joe.

"Well, let's get going. Those crests won't find themselves." said Tai and they all started walking again.