Disclaimer: I do not own Digmon or am associated with anyone who does.
I looked up Digimon who were not in Adventure or 02, since I want to keep this somewhat interesting (any digimon I use from seasons after that will have no connection to those season.) I honestly haven't watched past season five and I don't remember season five all that well. So if I use Digimon from season five or beyond and misinterpret them, forgive me. I'm honestly not into making up digimon, so if you see a name you don't recognize, look it up.

T.K. inhaled the familiar scent of the digital world. It wasn't particularly different than the real world, but it was, for T.K., discernable. He glanced around at the open field of tall grass, gripping his digivice tightly in his hand. Anxiety building inside his chest as he finally made eye contact with Ken who was trying to use his digivice to find the others.

"Do we know where to go?" T.K. asked quietly.

Ken nodded pointing toward the east, a forest lay just beyond their small open area filled with tall grass. "They're just over that way—" Just as Ken began to speak a large cloud of dust and debris burst into the air above the tree line.

"Is Patamon even…" he trailed off, just then remembering his partner probably wasn't around.

Ken hesitated, not thinking of this beforehand. "I don't know. Veemon was supposed to get him yesterday after we all went home. But let's hurry." Ken motioned for T.K. to follow as they ran toward the commotion.

As they made their way towards the tree line Wormmon and Patamon came running toward them. Wormmom leapt up into the air, digivolving into Stingmon in a burst of golden light. "We've got to hurry." He scooped Ken up in his arms.

Patamon greeted his partner eagerly. "T.K.!" he flew into T.K arms.

"Hey buddy." T.K. felt some of his anxiety lift. "Ready to digivolve?"

Patamon nodded. "We need to go to the village and make sure everyone is alright."

T.K. glanced up at Ken. "You go help the others."

Ken looked disappointed in T.K. but nodded, "Let's go Stingmon."

T.K. let Patamon fly from his arms, the surge of energy that pulsed through him was exciting, watching Patamon turn into a golden swarm of light and reappearing as Angemon. "Come on, T.K."

#

Kari covered her face with her arms, trying not to inhale the cloud of dust that swarmed around her and Yolie. Davis had shown up just in time, saving both of them from the digimon's attack.

The dust cleared with a wave of energy as X-Veemon and the digimon collided. She peered over at Gatomon and Hawkmon who were lying bruised and beaten against the edge of the clearing—who had managed, as mere champion and rookie, to lure the digimon from the village. "Gatomon, are you alright?" she hollered.

Gatomon nodded. "We're fine." However her tone suggested that, that was not completely true.

Yolie placed her hand on Kari's shoulder, shaking lightly. "That was a close one."

Kari nodded. Finally she gazed up at the digimon floating in the air above them. It was a black and red digimon that reminded Kari of pictures depicted the devil, but in a slightly comical way. Black and red bat like wings spread from his back, his weapon a red triton. Quick and nimble, he was easily stronger than X-Veemon from the looks of it.

Hawkmon cringed as he stood. "He's definitely not champion."

Gatomon wrinkled her nose, "If he is than I resign."

Yolie looked worriedly at the digimon. "Who is he?"

Hawkmon seemed unsure of himself, but spoke up anyway. "There's little information available about him, but he looks like Phelesmon."

Gatomon's eyes widened. "He's one of the fallen angel digimon. It can't be."

Kari watched worriedly as X-Veemon struggled to keep up with the faster digimon. "Where are Ken and Cody?"

Davis suddenly pushed through the thick forest behind Yolie and Kari. "Are you guys okay?"

Kari nodded, picking herself up off the ground. "Barely."

Davis helped Yolie to her feet and watched X-Veemon fight off the unfamiliar digimon. "You can do it buddy!"

Yolie let out a sigh of relief as she looked at her digivice. "Back up is on its way over now."

Davis nodded. "They were right behind me, Wormmon was heading towards the gate, they'll meet up on the way and then we can DNA digivolve."

Gatomon huffed as she made her way towards Kari. "If he is Phelesmon, we're in trouble."

X-Veemon was suddenly caught by one of the mysterious digimon's attacks, sending him flying into the ground. The impact shook the earth, sending everyone to their knees. X-Veemon managed to get back on his feet, missing the follow up attack, the digimon slammed its weapon into the ground where X-Veemon's indent had uprooted the soil. Standing the digimon lifted his hand and pointed the end of the triton toward X-Veemon.

"Just who are you?" X-Veemon growled, readying for the digimon to strike.

The digimon smirked, charging forward. X-Veemon lifted his arms to defend, standing no chance of dodging the rapid movement of his opponent. Just as the digimon was about to collide with X-Veemon, Stingmon came in from the side, zipping through the forest and slamming into the digimon's side, sending him crashing into a cluster of trees.

Stingmon landed next to X-Veemon, not taking his eyes off pile of trees as the digimon stirred beneath the debris. "You look like you could use a hand."

"Ya think?" X-Veemon yelled.

Kari, Davis and Yolie all looked on with relief as Ken stepped out from behind Davis and the others. "DNA digivolve?" he yelled at Davis, who then lifted his digivice into the air to answer Ken.

The two digimon glowed brightly and in a flash became Paildramon, standing at the ready for the digimon as it burst from under the fallen trees, glaring angrily at its new opponent. He didn't speak, only readied for an attack.

Paildramon was on a more even level with this new digimon, however the battle waged on for several minutes, attacks being blasted at one another. Suddenly the digimon took to the air, Paildramon hot on its tail.

Ken looked to Kari and Yolie. "What happened?"

Gatomon answered him meekly. "We were in the village when that digimon came around and started attacking everyone in sight."

Hawkmon nodded. "There was no obvious prompt for the attack from what we witnessed."

Davis looked worriedly. "Did he hurt anyone?"

Gatomon shook her head. "It was all we could do to get him away from the village, we didn't have time to see if anyone was injured."

Davis turned to Ken anxiously. "Someone needs to…" he trailed off as Ken nodded at him.

"T.K. and Patamon headed toward the village. They'll make sure everyone is alright." Ken noticed Kari's expression change at the mention of T.K.

Kari's voice quieted. "He's here?"

"Yeah." He assumed Kari was oblivious to the fact that he knew about what went on between the two. "We were with T.K. when you called us."

Kari nodded slowly. "Oh."

Yolie sighed looking at her phone. "Cody still hasn't gotten back to me."

Davis shrugged. "We got this—" just as Davis spoke Paildramon was knocked back, sliding across the clearing into the already downed cluster of forest.

Ken and Davis yelled out their partner digimon's name as he struggled to his feet. Phelesmon hovering over their group looking down at them lazily. "Not here." His deep voice was cold, uninterested. Suddenly the digimon vanished before their eyes.

Paildramon de-digivolved in a shimmering gold burst, leaving the two digimon in their rookie forms.

Veemon ran over to Davis. "He's gone." Hawkmon and Gatomon nodded in agreement.

Ken picked Wormmon up in his arms. "We should go to the village."

Everyone nodded in agreement as they rushed through the forest toward the base of the nearby mountain where a small digimon village stood.

#

T.K. and Angemon had seen to it that everyone was uninjured, seeing that the only harm done was to the buildings, leaving the digimon shaken, but not hurt.

"Angemon, go ahead and de-digivolve." T.K. said as he led his partner to a quiet part of the village, away from the commotion surrounding the destroyed buildings.

Angemon was hesitant. "But T.K., shouldn't we go help the others?"

T.K. shook his head. "They'll be fine."

Angemon de-digivolved to Patamon, looking at T.K. sadly. "What's wrong?"

He shrugged. "Remember why I told you I wasn't going to come to the digital world anymore, when I was moving away?"

Patamon nodded. "You told us all that you weren't going to have a digital gate installed on your computer because you needed to focus on your life."

T.K. nodded. "But I still came. By myself."

Patamon nodded. "For a while." He looked sad.

T.K. gave his friend an apologetic smile. "I told you why I was going to stop coming to the digital world then too, didn't I?"

Patamon huffed. "That was ages ago."

T.K. laughed. "Ages? It sure doesn't feel like it to me." His eyes grew distant. "I'm not ready to be back."

Patamon landed on the ground next to T.K. and looked up at him with wide eyes. "Are you growing out of us?"

T.K. laughed at his digimon's innocent question. "Of course not. But there's no reason for us to really be here. Is there?"

Patamon gave T.K. a thoughtful look. "But what about that attack just now?"

T.K. knelt down to Patamon. "Were there never attacks during the years before we showed up? Or while the gate was closed before we were called back two years later?"

Patamon sighed. "Of course."

"We're not meant to police your world. I don't think so anyway." T.K. stood. "Besides, if we are the others have been doing fine, right?"

Patamon shrugged. "I feel left out though."

T.K. laughed. "Yeah. I feel that way sometimes too."

Patamon flew up into T.K.'s arms. "You've changed. You're still you… but you've grown up."

T.K. smiled lightly. "It happens."

"The others don't seem that different." Patamon acknowledged.

T.K. shrugged. "I'm sure they have. You just don't see change as easily when it's happening gradually around you."

Patamon was the one to shrug this time. "Well, whatever you want to do, T.K., is fine with me. I'm your partner after all."

Just as T.K. opened his mouth to respond he heard a small fuss come from the digimon—the others had returned—just as he figured they would. "Well, Ken will probably get mad at me if I disappear now."

"Hmmm?" Patamon frowned at T.K. "Disappear?"

"Never mind." T.K. sighed and started walking back toward the large group of various digimon who inhabited the decent sized village.

Sorry it took a while. I was having a hard time deciding what digimon to put in for this part. I should have the next chapter up much sooner.

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