-chapter 39-

The night came and went. Phoebe made sure Zari was out of bed by the time I woke up so we could be alone together, even if Zari was just outside.

"Where's Zari?" I said when I woke up and realized she wasn't there.

"I kicked her out so we could be alone." Phoebe said. "That's what you wanted right?"

"I guess so." I replied.

"Oooh Cj" She sighed. " You know I had to let Zari join last night, it was the only way we could have any fun at all."

"That's not what you said last night." I replied. "You said you could have gone without, but yeah I guess you're right. I don't know baby I just woke up."

"Cj, she's a friend, a friend that we both find to be sexy. You are the father of my children. I promise I would never let her or anyone else come between us. " She said.

I thought about pointing out that she had infact broken promises before, but dammit she put her soul into those words. So I just pulled her close, and we kissed and we just held each other for a moment in silence and understanding while I repeatedly ran my hands through her long green hair. until Zari got bored of hanging around outside and decided to come in to see if we were done with our little moment yet.

"Are you guys ready to go?" She asked.

"Just drive." We both replied out of annoyance.

"Ok ok." She nervously replied as she took the wheel and started up the bus.

With Zari driving again, we continued to hold eachother while we made our way towards what would hopefully be the next town.

"I'm just afraid you're going to go too far one of these days Pheebles." I said.

"I'm just trying to make the best of it until we can get back to Charley and Nina." She replied. "You know I would never try to hurt you, just trust me. I'm doing better. Don't you remember I used to cry after these little flings?"

"I know baby girl. " I replied. "But maybe that should concern me more."

"Oh stop being so silly, it was fun, we all had fun." She said. "I'm not crying, everything worked out fine."

"You want to play some cards?" I asked, seeing that this was going to go nowhere.

"No, I just want you to hold me for awhile." She replied. "I'm not ready to get up yet."

"Me neither." I agreed.

"Are you mad?" She asked.

"No baby, I'm just, unsure." I replied.

"I don't see what you two are so worked up about." Zari spoke up. "Even though we were together last night, I swear you two never took your eyes off eachother. And it was that way the first time too."

"You're just saying that." Phoebe said.

"All I know is neither of you ever kissed me as deeply as you've kissed eachother." Zari continued.

"Zari?" Phoebe asked.

"Yes?" Zari replied.

"When we catch back up with Henry and Claire, this never happened." Phoebe continued.

"They already know about the first time." Zari said.

"Yeah, well, they don't need to know about the second." Phoebe replied." That's just between us or it will never happen again."

"I would like to say it wouldn't happen anyway, but Pheebles probably wouldn't even be able to enforce that even if you told them." I pointed out.

"Would too." She argued. "I can resist her, just not you."

"Ehh whatever, you're my baby girl first and foremost, and I love you." I said as I sat up for a moment.

"That's right and I love you too." She agreed as she threw her arms around me. "Now hold me until we find another town."

"Ehehe ok baby." I replied.

Anyway, we found another village sometime around noon, this time there was a small train station that was actuallly in the village, as opposed to being out in the middle of nowhere. Though such a small village probably wouldn't warrant a train station. The railway also seemed to branch off just shortly before the village, which gave us some concern as Henry and Claire may have gone the other way. This turned out to be the truth, as there was no sign of their camaro anywhere. Getting up was painful, I just wanted to stay there with my baby forever, but we had things to do. This village was set in the forrest, and consisted of several treehouses, which reminded Phoebe and I of the gardevoir city. It was painful to get up, as I really just wanted to lay in bed with my baby forever, but we had things to do, and we really needed to find some food. This village was also formerly under duskmon's control, and specialized in the harvest of wood from the nearby trees, where the last village specialized in those cabbage things. Strangely, the trees they were cutting the wood from, which were similiar to oak trees, had a tendency to grow back overnight. It was just another one of the oddities of the digital world, you could actually see them grow, albeit at a slow rate of 12 inches an hour. Despite the growth rate, the wood was hard and useful for constructing things with. It would stop growing once cut.

Unfortunately this meant there was even less food to go around than in the last village, as Duskmon made sure they had just barely enough cabbages to feed themselves. Once we realized this, it was clear why Henry and Claire moved on to somewhere else. Thankfully the resident digimon were willing to tell us what direction somewhere else was once we told them that duskmon was defeated. So from there we ended up following the second fork of the rail line, hungry, but otherwise comfortable. This eventually led to a large city, complete with a road system, but no traffic and the strange fact that none of the roads extended beyond the city limits. While the city lacked vehicles, it was far from abandoned, as many digimon chose to live here. Unlike the previous village, the city was large enough that it would take us awhile to find our friends, if it turned out that they were here.

Navigating wasn't very easy either. As cars were very rare in the digital world, the roads were cluttered, sometimes the resident digimon even set up small shops or other installations in the middle of them. In other areas digimon would suddenly dart across the street with little concern. There were a few other curiousities as well, such as, despite the lack of vehicular traffic, the city had working traffic lights, there were also parking garages, and other things that would suggest the presence of cars, yet there were none, it was a very odd thing to see. That said, there were lots of digimon here, and nearly every building was being used for something.

"Even if they're here, we'll never find them, this place is too big." Said Phoebe as we were playing cards while keeping a lookout for their car.

"Well where would they have gone though?" I said. "They were probably looking for a hotel or for somewhere to eat. That's where we should look for them. If they came here I doubt they would leave until we caught up, so we just need to keep looking."

"Cj, what are we going to do about our pokemon?" She asked.

"I don't know, how many potions do we have?" I asked.

"Not enough to heal them all." She replied.

"We'll figure it out once we find somewhere to stay for the night." I concluded. "Hey Zari, why don't you pull over for a bit? We need to ask the locals where the hotels are."

"Ok, just let me find a place." Said Zari as she looked around. "Wait, we're not quitting for today yet are we?"

"No, we're not." I replied. "I just have a feeling that might be where Henry and Claire went.

So Zari pulled over, and Phoebe and I got out and asked some random digimon on the street for directions, most of them either ignored us or didn't know, until we came across a Jijimon, an oddly powerful digimon to be out among the populace. Just like the other villages, most of the citizens were either rookie level or lower, so for a mega to be out here just seemed really strange.

"Yes, the hotel you want is eight blocks that way from here, it's a white brick building, has a big sign with two trees and says Hotel Buena Vista on it." The Jijimon said in a voice that perfectly matched that of an old man.

So we got back on the bus and followed his directions, surprisingly the hotel was right where he said it would be. Even more surprising was that we spotted Henry's Camaro in a parking garage nearby. We parked our bus in that garage and proceeded into the hotel. Where a Persiamon was running the front desk.

"Hello." She said as we walked through the door.

"Hey another Persiamon." Phoebe said.

"Yeah hi? You need a room? We're having a free room for a week special today." The clerk replied.

"What really? " I asked.

"Mhm." She replied.

"How can you afford this?" Zari asked.

"We just can." She simply explained. "Now would you like a room or not?"

"2 please." Phoebe asked.

"Right, I'll um, give you your keys." She replied.

"I thought we weren't going to stop for the day." Zari complained.

"We know Henry and Claire are here, we might as well stick around for a bit and figure out what they're up to."

"Oh you're looking for your fellow human friends?" asked the clerk. "They didn't check out but they left a while ago, they said something about training."

Awe, ok." I replied. "That makes sense." I said while my eyes wandered over to a ranamon that just emerged from the indoor pool. Was she a guest here too?

Anyway, the clerk handed us our keys, 1 for Zari, and one for Phoebe and I, and we went up to check out our rooms, and also to wait for Henry and Claire to come back.

"Arceus Cj did you see that girl in the pool? I saw you looking." Phoebe asked.

"I didn't think you were." I replied. "Anyway I'm pretty sure that's a ranamon. "

"And that persiamon behind the front desk. I know it's not really your thing but."

"Yeah, baby girl, they're both cute, but."

"They're not cute they're sexy." She insisted. "Admit it."

"Yeah, but there's only one cutie I want to be with right now, and I just happen to be in a hotel room with her."

"Awwwwe, Cj, let's get some room service, I've been starving since yesterday. And maybe that will bring Persiamon up here." She said.

"If you're going to try to do that at least wait until tomorrow." I said.

"Ok I can do that for you." She replied.

"Thank you, I guess." I said in return.

"And then we have to figure out what to do with our pokémon." I said. "I think we can heal Bubba, but Magnum needs more electricity, everyone else is out, how's your team?"

"I don't even want to remember it was awful." Phoebe replied.

"You got slaughtered?" I asked.

"Almost literally." She said. "I hope that helps explain last night."

"Actually yeah, it does, now that I think about it." I said, feeling a bit of relief.

"Let's get something to eat, then we'll take care of Bubba, and then, then we'll have some fun, just you and me." She said.

"Sounds like a plan." I replied.

"No, it's a date." She cheerfully insisted as she picked up the phone on the nightstand and dialed the number for room service. Persiamon answered from the lobby.

"Hello Persiamon what's on the menu for room service?" She asked.

"What is digifruit?"

"Yeah ok send up a couple. and two glasses of digifruit juice."

"Thankyou."

She hung up the phone.

"What is digifruit?" I asked.

"All she said was that it is food and it's the only thing they have." Phoebe replied.

"Ok." I said.

Of course it turned out to be those colorful cabbages. It seemed to be the only food in all of the digital world. And cabbage, by itself, may not seem that appetizing, but this stuff was far from normal. It just seemed that way until you tried to eat it. Then its flavor and texture, but oddly not its appearance would change to whatever you felt like eating. The only limits being that it couldn't be a liquid, and it obviously had to be edible, most people would never genuinely want to eat things like diamonds or money, so it would never become those things, and even if they had the mental disorder that would cause them to crave those things, it would still look like pieces of cabbage, so it'd still be worthless. Whatever it changed into would be the same temperature as the cabbage. Finally, it would only ever do this one time, once somebody took a bite out of it, the rest of the cabbage would taste like whatever they wanted to eat. This would allow you to share with others. So what I got was basically a very nicely seasoned, cooked, but room-temperature steak as if it had been sitting out for an hour or so, which really wasn't all that bad, and Phoebe's basically became a giant oran berry. The extreme difference in flavor allowed us to discover that the flavor was adaptive. The different colors were purely cosmetic and had nothing to do with the flavor. Depending on what you were craving at that point, one cabbage was plenty of food, and because it kept the properties of a cabbage until eaten, this made a lot of foods that would difficult to transport highly portable. Things like burritos, pizzas, fries, were now all in the convenient, durable, spherical shape of a cabbage.

You could also get around the temperature issue by heating or freezing the cabbages. It was the strangest, but seemingly also the most delicious food ever. Because each new one you took a bite out of would have a different flavor. If you wanted something to drink, you could put one in a blender, and the juice would have similar properties, but it's flavor would be that of other liquids instead, including alcoholic ones, if that was what the user happened to be in the mood for. We didn't think we would ever get sick of them at the time.

Once we stuffed ourselves we turned our attention to our pokémon. Our parties were both hit hard yesterday. I was down to Bubba and Magnum, while Phoebe was down to Polli, Cloudella, and Cubey, all of which were badly injured except for Magnum, who was just too tired to move. Phoebe was able to heal hers, but by the time we got to Bubba we didn't have enough potion left to heal his wounds completely. There was enough to close them up, but not enough to heal the scars. So now his arm was covered in scars. From there we had Persiamon bring up some more cabbages, and I gave one to Bubba, who had been in need of a treat for quite a while. He took the smallest bite of it at first, then ate the rest of it in one bite, and then he immediately tried to seize the others, which Phoebe was trying to convince her own pokemon to eat, neither of which were a fan of cabbage. Most pokemon like berries, some like other pokemon, very few like cabbage, mostly bug types. Magnum couldn't eat, so he didn't have one. Unfortunately the cabbages could not turn into electricity, or batteries or something that could be edible for him as he had no mouth in order to bite them. There was a big old crt tv in the room, but, one of the other oddities of the digital world, it seemed to not actually be hooked up to anything. It would turn on, and there was a coaxial cable running from it into a hole in the wall behind it, that either went nowhere or as expected ended up running to a satelite dish on the roof, but there was no satelite signal, so there were no channels, it was strange, but compared to the cabbages, it wasn't the weirdest thing we had seen.

-meanwhile, somewhere far away-

The bubblemen managed to regroup somewhere on the edge of the forrest, where they were regularly encountering remnants of duskmon's forces, who assumed they were some type of digimon because of their strange suits. Some of the more scientific members of the group were frightened by the ogremon's appearence, but Volkheim had other ideas.

"Where are you going?" He asked one of the passing ogremon.

"We're seeking refuge in emperor Tactimon's castle." The big green digimon replied.

"Refuge? What on earth could you be seeking refuge from?" asked Volkheim.

"The humans that killed our leader." replied the ogremon. "There we can hopefully regroup and destroy them once and for all."

At once Volkheim knew exactly who he was talking about, the ones he had been seeking all this time.

"You want to destroy them? Well then, I believe we share a common enemy." said Volkheim. "Perhaps together we can capture them."

"Perhaps." replied the ogremon.

"Do you mind if we follow you?" asked Volkheim.

"I don't think Tactimon will mind a few extra soldiers." The ogremon replied.

And so the bubblemen followed the retreating ogremon to Tactimon's castle with their small cavalcade of trucks.

-later that day-

Once we had done what we could for our pokemon teams we returned them, and then we turned our attention towards eachother.

"You remember our second time love?" I asked.
"Hmm?" She hummed.

"I think it was the night you started painting you nails." I said as I glanced at her pretty little toes.

"It was in a little house out in the middle of nowhere, I was in the tub, and you decided to just come in and join me out of the blue." I continued.

"I was tired, I couldn't sleep without you." She replied.

"So you layed down on top of me, naked?" I asked.

"There wasn't enough room to lay beside you." She replied.

"And then what? I started massaging your nipples like this? Except once again you were naked." I said as I tried to do the same thing to her with her dress still on.

"You haven't done this in awhile." She said.

"Yeah well it's about time isn't it?" I replied. "I think we have a working shower."

"Not yet, just keep rubbing." She demanded.

"Must feel pretty good for you to want to stay here when there's a shower." I said.

"It's like if you had two penises and I licked the tip of both of them at the same time." She replied.

"What's it like when I suck them then?" I asked.

"I don't know just keep going." She replied.

"What about when I rub here?" I said as I took my left hand, carefully slid it under her underwear and gently rubbed her little pussy.

"It's like if you had ten penises and I sucked them until I drained all 20 of your massive human balls dry and bathed in a river of your semen." She said as she gasped for breath.

"Ooookayy." was all I could say to that.

"Oh Cj." She said as she crawled on top of me and and we began to vigorously make out. She was so ready she used what ever powers she hadn't lost yet due to being turned on and I felt my pants fly off and heard them clatter against the wall with a bang.

"Dam baby girl take it easy." I said.

"I'm just so glad your not mad at me for last night, and that you still want me so bad. I have to make it up to you." She replied.

"Well try not to put a hole in the wall with my pants." I replied.

Moments later I was practically dragged into the bathroom, then she turned on the shower and we took the few seconds it took for the water to heat up to completely undress eachother. Not even a moment after those now huge tits of hers dropped out of that tight little dress they had both met my lips. And not even 5 seconds after that we were both in the shower vigourously making love. Of course the shower was only the beginning, when we just about in the middle of things we moved to the bed, and somehow we dragged that out for hours. Hell, her hair was dry from the shower before we were done. And then we tied, and we just layed in bed for a moment. Having temporarily forgotten about everything, in that moment, it was only her and me. Paradise, if only for an afternoon.

"Oh Cj, that was so much better than last night." Phoebe said as she held me tight.

"Well yeah, cause it's only me and you, J can focus on you more." I replied.

"Now what do you wanna do baby girl?" I asked. "Once the bond wears off?"

"Do you think Henry and Claire are back yet?" She asked.

"I don't know baby." I replied. "Who cares? They ditched us."

"They did not, they just got bored waiting." Phoebe argued.

"Yeah, they ditched us." I replied. "And you're a cutey."

"No I'm not, I'm sexy." She argued.

"You're a sexy cutey." I replied.

"Nooo, I'm, ok fine you win." She resigned.

"Give up that easily?" I asked.

"Oh you, just stop." She commanded.

"I am not cute." She mumbled, I let it go.

We both heard a knock on the door.

"Are either of you awake? I was going to go down and explore the city some more." Zari said from behind the door. "It's kind of boring up here."

"Eh heh, you go do that, we're, um, trying to figure out what to do tomorrow." Phoebe awkwardly replied.

"Ok, see you later then." Zari said before leaving us alone.

"How did she not hear us earlier?" Phoebe asked.

"Luck, I guess." I replied. "Did you want her to hear us?" I asked.

"Um, no, not really." She replied.

"Maybe we should go downstairs and see what's up?" I said.

"Just hold me for awhile. Even when the bond wears off, just keep holding me." She said.

"You just want to be held all day don't you?" I asked.

"It's relaxing." She replied.

"Yeah, that's true." I agreed.

"Whatever happened to you taking pictures? That seemed like it was working for awhile." I asked.

"Isn't it obvious? My phone died." She replied.

"Well we'll have to find somewhere for you to charge it up, we really need to keep documenting things." I said. "And you seemed to enjoy it and it was keeping you occupied.

"I do, it's fun." She said." We really should."

When the bond wore off, we got dressed again and I convinced her to come downstairs with me, from there we headed outside the hotel and went to look around. While Persiamon was still manning the front desk, even though it seemed that the hotel wasn't that busy. We went for a walk together down the street, taking in the scenery, knowing that Henry and Claire couldn't be too far away.

"Where we going to go Cj?" Asked my beloved.

"I don't know, just keep an eye out for the others. We'll go three blocks this way and then we'll turn around, how's that sound?" I asked.

"Sounds ok to me." My beloved replied.

It was nice to go for a walk for once, through what seemed to be a peaceful city that was oddly quiet due to a lack of cars. While we were walking Phoebe's mind seemed to gravitate towards home. She wanted this to end, and she wanted to be reunited with our children. I just did my best to cheer her up and keep her focused. We couldn't find Henry and Claire after three blocks so we figured they must have gone the other way, but while we were there, we sat on the bench and just watched the various digimon residents go about their daily business.

"I wonder if they ever have children." Phoebe said to me as she huddled up against my shoulder.

"I don't think they do." I replied. "I think when they die they get reincarnated as a baby that hatches from an egg that generates out of thin air."

"Really?" Phoebe asked. "That's kind of silly."

"That's the way it worked in the cartoons, they don't really have parents, though I guess sometimes other digimon look after the ones that are freshly hatched? Anyway, you know the poke'mon games basically worked the same way, except without the reincarnation."

"Yeah, but they aren't true." She replied.

"Well they had to make it kid friendly." I said. "Because some guys in suits said cartoons are only for kids."

"Maybe your silly world did the same with digimon?" She asked.

"Maybe." I replied. "I don't know, why does it matter?"

"Well, I know persiamon has boobs, but does she have anything . . . "

"Jesus, Pheebles, we're in public you know?" I seized the oppourtunity to interupt her for once. "Let's talk about something a little less, uh, inappropriate?"

"Oh Cj nobody is close enough to hear us." She argued.

"Yeah well, some of these digimon may have super hearing." I said.

"None of them seem that super to me." She replied.

"Well, you'd be mistaken darling, see that veggiemon over there? I think they are champion level, and I'm pretty sure Persiamon is an ultimate, I think, I'm not entirely sure."

"Yeah, well, Cj, l think, I think we're screwed, most of our pokemon are out. We can't get in another fight like that, we won't survive." She said as she started to freak out again.

"Yeah well, hopefully that was just a one time thing. " I replied. "Hopefully we'll be able to find a way out of this place soon so we can keep trying to get back home."

"Then what are we doing here? We should be looking?" She asked.

"I don't know baby girl, I'm trying to get you to calm down but." I began.

"I don't want to be calm, I want to go home." She interupted.

"Well what do you want me to do?" I asked.

"You're right it's pointless." She replied. "Getting upset won't help."

"Right." I agreed. "Since our pokemon teams are crippled, I need you at your best."

"I need you or I can't be." She said as she tightly clung to me.

"Well I'm not gonna leave you baby girl." I said as I put my arm around her. "Might drive you crazy sometimes, but I'll never leave you."

"Yeah that's true." She said. "Except I drive you crazy."

"Yeah, that too." I agreed. "You're very good at that."

"Wait, is that digimon made out of legos?" She asked when she noticed a strange digimon that walked out of a nearby building.

"Um yeah, I think its a toyagumon, and yeah, being made of legos is its entire gimmick." I replied. Though they weren't actually legos, they didn't have lego printed on them or anything that would raise more questions than answers.

"But how is it able to move it's arms and legs?" She asked. "I mean they're not even connected to it's body."

"I don't know." I replied. "Because it's data ? I don't think things have to follow the laws of physics here. It's kind of like crazytown, but it's drawing all it's objects from just one world." Whereas Crazytown was a dumping ground for things from all over the multiverse.

"Like this city for instance, it's obvious the digimon didn't build it, otherwise the streets wouldn't abruptly end, a city with buildings of this size would have some sort of suburban or residential district around the outskirts. This probably never was a real city, instead it's probably copied from a video game that exists somewhere, or maybe some sort of GPS program." I tried to explain.

"Cj?" She asked. "What if my world has a digital world?"

"That could be interesting. Digimon based on pokémon, that's got to be about the most overpowered thing ever." I replied.

"Yeah, probably." Phoebe agreed. "Maybe that's what the ultra-beasts are."

"Maybe." I said.

"When do you want to go back to the hotel Cj?" Phoebe asked. "Henry and Blondie could come back at any moment."

"I don't know baby girl." I replied.

-Meanwhile, about 10 blocks away.-

Zari had gone the other direction and eventually found herself in some kind of marketplace, there was a wide variety of digimon everywhere selling all sorts of things from cabbages to fine jewelry, none of which we had any money to buy. Here she caught sight of a rather large digimon she couldn't identify, bullying one of the shop keepers and running away with some merchandise, as an officer of the space police she couldn't stand for this, and she decided to pursue the monster. which led her out of the crowded market street and into an alleyway. She knew the thief was way stronger than her so she decided to spy on him to see if he was up to something more than just theft.

"Yes master I have successfully retrieved the artifact." The thief said to a mysterious cloaked figure. "It was easy."

"Good, since the defeat of duskmon, we can't be too careful." The cloaked figure replied.

"Um master if you don't mind me asking, what does it do?" The thief asked as he handed over the strange, statue-like object.

"According to legend, this statue contains the essence of one of the ten legendary warriors that defeated deusmon in the past, whoever destroys it, will be able to absorb their data and digivolve. The where-abouts of most of the statues are unknown, it's a miracle I was even able to track this one down. " The figure explained.

"What if I were to destroy it?" The thief asked.

"Then I would destroy you and take your data, don't be a fool. Now let's get out of here before we start to look suspicious." The figure said, before they both retreated deeper into the alleyway and disappeared around a corner.

Zari felt that she had heard enough, so she non-chalantly walked away and headed back to the hotel to report what she had seen. She arrived just a few minutes before Phoebe and I and waited for us in the lobby.

"Have my friends come back yet?" Zari asked the Persiamon running the front desk.

"No, and your other friends left a few minutes after you did, so you're the only human here." The feline receptionist replied. "Don't worry I'm sure they'll be back by the evening."

"I guess I'll just wait here for them then." Zari replied.

-about five minutes later-

Phoebe and I arrived back at the hotel, where Zari was still waiting for us.

"Did you find Henry and Claire? " I asked.

"No I was hoping you would have found them." She replied.

"Nope, we didn't find them either." Phoebe chimed in.

"They'll come back in a little while." The receptionist said, rudely listening in.

"You say that like you know for sure." Phoebe replied.

"Um, Pheebles, isn't that obvious?" I asked.

"I know because they haven't checked out yet." The receptionist replied.

"No, there's something off about you." Phoebe insisted. "And about this hotel."

"We just don't get much business." The receptionist explained. " There's still a lot of empty buildings and apartments around."

"But why are you operating a hotel that doesn't even make any money? " Phoebe asked. "You're not even charging us for staying here."

"I just started operating a few weeks ago." The receptionist said, just Ranamon and I.

"Ranamon works here too?" Phoebe asked.

"She's supposed to maintain the pool, but I think she just swims around most of the time." The receptionist said. "Then again nobody really uses the pool except for her so it doesn't matter too much."

"Ok."

"Hey Zari did you try that cabbage yet?" Phoebe asked.

"It tastes like grilled seacow." Zari said.

"It tastes like whatever you want it to taste like." The persiamon receptionist chimed in again. "Would you like some more?"

"Sure." Zari replied.

"I'm fine, thanks." Phoebe said.

"Yeah." I agreed.

"Ok then." Persiamon replied as she left the front desk and headed into the cafe.

" I'm telling you guys something isn't right here." Phoebe said as soon as she was out of earshot.

"Oh babygirl you're probably just imagining things. Your powers don't work on digimon remember." I said.

"Yeah, well, I can still read their eyes Cj . " Phoebe replied.

"Yeah well, so can anyone else." I replied. "She seems fine to me."

"Yeah, well you're terrible at reading people." Phoebe pointed out.

"Zari you're a cop, back me up." I pleaded.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Phoebe asked.

"Most cops can read people pretty well." I replied.

"I wasn't looking." Zari said.

"Awe really ?" I asked.

"Just wait until she comes back. " Zari added.

"You just don't want to think she's up to something because she's pretty." Phoebe joked.

"Jealous much?" I asked. "Anyway, you know that's not true."

"Or is it?" She continued to be silly.

"Oh before I forget, I saw something weird happen while I was gone." Zari interjected.

"Oh really? What did you see?" Phoebe asked.

"Well, a digimon stole something from this store so I followed him into an alleyway, and then he handed the thing over to this other digimon wearing a hood." She said.

"Ok, I said, we aren't really here to deal with petty theft, but keep going." I said.

" But that's the thing, it's more than just theft, they mentioned how we defeated duskmon, and that the object had some sort of power that would allow them to digivolve, and that's all I heard, after that they went further into the alley and I couldn't follow them very easily without getting caught." Zari continued. "The one in the hood seemed to be in charge."

Meanwhile, Henry and Claire were training with their pokemon in a park a few blocks behind the hotel. They managed to attract the attention of a few curious, but harmless digimon who were now watching them in amusement. They knew potions were limited, so they tried not to push their pokemon too hard. Anyway, the same thief that Zari saw ended up strolling through the park about an hour later. He was drawn towards the crowd, and when he saw Henry and Claire's pokemon fighting, he thought they were something special. So he waited and waited, until both Henry and Claire felt like taking a break and returned their pokemon. Then he easilly overpowered both of them, and stole both of their pokemon.

So they hurried back to the hotel after they lost the theiving digimon, where we finally met up with them for the first time in almost a day.

"Oh hi guys we've been waiting for you." Phoebe said as they walked through the door.

"Oh good you're here." Claire said. "It's horrible Phoebe just horrible."

"Why what?" She asked.

" We were just about to quit training when some asshat digimon came in and stole our pokemon, there was nothing we could do, he was to strong." Henry said.

"You think it's the same thief you saw Zari?" I asked.

"I don't know, it could be. " Zari said.

"Well baby girl it's your time to shine." I said as I looked towards my beloved.

"But it's not dark out yet." Phoebe replied.

"Can't you check their memories to see if they saw the same guy?" I asked.

"Oh yeah, I guess I can." Phoebe replied.

"Come here Zari." Said Phoebe as she reached for Zari's head. "Think about what you saw, it makes it easier."

"Um, ok." Zari said as Phoebe layed her hand upon her head.

"Claire you come here too." Phoebe said as she beckoned her closer with her free hand.

Then there was a few seconds of silence as she closed her eyes and compared their memories.

"Yeah, it's the same guy." She said after opening her eyes. "Really ugly guy, he's like a lizardman or something."

"Yep that's the guy." Zari agreed.

"So what kind of digimon is it Cj?"

"A lizard guy?" I asked. "There's lots of digimon based on dinosaurs and lizards, I can't really say for certain, and it would also be reasonable to assume there's digimon here that I haven't even heard of."

"Here let me show you." My beloved said as she moved her hand from Claire to me. An image suddenly flashed before my eyes of a human-sized reptillian digimon in a trench coat. All I could tell was that it had bluish skin and brown eyes, the coat covered everything else.

"Yeah, I don't know what digimon that is, never seen it before." I said after I took a few moments to grasp what just happened. Having your vision suddenly, completely obscured by an image you had no control of was kind of jarring to say the least. Doesn't even matter what the image is. Could be a menagery of cute puppies and cupcakes, and you'd still need a moment.

"Also warn me next time." I added.

"Sorry." Phoebe replied.

"So now what?" Claire asked.

"We gotta figure out who Mr. lizard is working for." Phoebe replied. "Then we can try to take your pokémon back."

"Yep." I agreed. "It's pretty straight forward."

"Do you think they'll be ok?" Claire asked out of concern.

"I don't know, I have no idea what they intend on doing with them." I replied. "I think we should split up and ask around, somebody around here has to know something about these guys."

"I'll stay here and ask around the hotel." Phoebe volunteered.

"Ok baby girl, then that means everyone else needs to go back to the streets." I said before kissing her goodbye.

"I know a good place to start. " Zari announced, referring to the crowded market she explored earlier.

-meanwhile in the lair of the strange hooded guy-

"Boss you won't believe this, I managed to steal the human's pets!" The reptilian thief replied.

"Okay." The mysterious hooded digimon said. "I guess we could hold them hostage, if they come after us."

" Where to now boss?"

"To the fortress you idiot, we need to get there by nightfall, it's too easy to get lost in the forest."

"Ok boss."

And so the mysterious duo made their way out of the city while everyone but Phoebe was leaving the hotel to find information about them.

All we got were strange looks and references to Tactimon, another apparently evil ruler similiar to Duskmon. With no other place to go, we returned to the hotel, intending to head to Tactimon's castle. It was dark by then, so we decided to stay the night. Imagine my surprise when I caught Phoebe and Persiamon in bed naked with Persiamon eating out my wife. Their clothes strewn across the floor.

"What the hell Pheebles?" Was all I could say.

"It was her idea." Persiamon tried to defend herself. Though I already knew who was responsible the moment I walked in, hell I even suspected this was why she volunteered to stay behind in the first place. I wasn't really angry, just dissapointed.

"Shhh, just keep going sweety." Phoebe said as she pushed her head back down.

"I didn't want to argue with you about it so I just decided to start already." Phoebe said while she tried to maintain her composure. "I knew you . . . would find us, I wasn't trying to . . . hide anything."

"You really gotta stop this Pheebles, it's getting out of hand." I said. "Promise me you're not going to do this again."

"Only if you get your clothes off and share her with me." Phoebe replied. " Come here, I'll take care of you, she's busy right now."

"I can see that." I said, feeling like I had little choice but to comply.

So off went my pants while she kindly tended to me, before long I was rock hard.

"There you go, you're all ready, go on and take her she's ready." She insisted.

I was wary at first, but I felt nothing but ectasy as I grabbed her human-like breasts, and slid my cock into her tight, warm and dark pussy. And I felt even greater still as the soft, luxurious fur on her rump rubbed against my waist as I went balls deep. I regretted not agreeing to have sex with the other persiamon we had met before from Crazytown, but now here we both were, enjoying everything this amazing, sexy digimon had to offer. I couldn't control myself. I didn't want Phoebe to get jealous but I had turn this little kitty over for a minute and have her to myself, just for a minute. Before she could even breathe I had my cock back inside her and I was making out with her face to face, while Phoebe just layed beside us and watched. A few moments later she wrapped her legs and her tails around me, holding me tighter than I'd ever been held before, and I could barely make it five seconds after that before I came, right then and there. I didn't even have time to pull it out, but that wasn't a bad thing really. Digimon can't get pregnant, despite having the hardware.

"Hehe, I think he likes you." Phoebe said as I layed between them in ecstasy, somehow seeing me take such an initiative only turned her on more.

"You're not jealous are you baby?"

"Oh no Cj, he he, now that you're done, I get her to myself."

"Hehe, I guess you do don't you?" I replied as she crawled over me to get to her.

Just then a blinding light flashed above my head and a digivice appeared out of nowhere and fell, on my head.

"Ow what the."

"Oh sorry I didn't mean to kick you." Phoebe said.

"No not you baby it's a, oh crap."

"What?"

"It's a digivice."

"What? So does that mean?"

"You're my tamer now!" Persia exclaimed as she hugged me, dam she was stronger than she looked. What was more alarming was her razor sharp claws which were very, very close to slicing into my back.

"How do you know it's for Cj? Maybe it was meant for me." Phoebe asked. It seemed that the sudden appearance of the digivice had completely ruined the mood.

"I don't know." Persiamon replied. "It could even be meant for both of you."

"Well this was random." I exclaimed, not expecting to go on a Digimon adventure.

"You know what this means?" Persia said.

"We're not getting married if that's what you're asking that ship sailed a long time ago." I replied.

"No, what is marriage?" Persiamon asked. "It means that the digital world is in trouble."

"Hello, Hello?" A vaguely female voice emerged from the device as the screen lit up.

"Oh god, it talks." I exclaimed.

"Yes and I can see too, get some clothes on you freaks."

"You're the one that just appeared out of nowhere." I replied as Phoebe quickly grabbed the blanket and covered us up.

"I thought you were finished." The voice explained.

"Well you should've waited a little longer." I insisted.

"Anyway why did you appear? I thought you usually recruited kids." I asked.

"Yes, well, time was tight and you were already here, I am Ophanimon, and the digital world needs your help."

"With what?"

"A long time ago, an evil god was defeated by the ten legendary heros. Now after spending a lot of time in the darkzone, fragments of his code have slipped out and possessed digimon all over the land, these are known as the dark rulers, who plan to take over the digital world and summon deusmon, who will then destroy this place and countless others. You've already destroyed Duskmon yes? He was one of the dark rulers trying to bring him back. So I know you're capable and can be trusted."

"Persiamon has chosen you as her partner now, your wife and the others should locate the other chosen, and then you can begin your quest. "

"No, no, no, this was supposed to be a one time thing!" Phoebe exclaimed. "And how come he gets, oh wait, I get it now." Phoebe said as she realized something.

"What? " I asked.

"That little stunt you pulled, she has a crush on you now." Phoebe replied.

"I do not." Persia vainly defended as she released me from her grasp...

"You can't argue with her kitty she's psychic." I replied.

"Well don't get any ideas kitty, he's mine." Phoebe replied as she grabbed my crotch. " This, is mine, you have to ask before you can play with it. Understood?"

"Mhm."

"Ehehe Pheebles don't squeeze so hard please." I said, for obvious reasons.

"Just make sure you remember which one of us is the mother of your children." She sternly said as she let go. "The same goes for Zari too."

"I get it baby girl you don't need to be so protective." I replied. "Anyway you got us into this mess, this wasn't even my idea."

"You're right, I should have asked you first." She continued. "I really need to stop this."

"It wouldn't have mattered." Persia pointed out. "Orphanimon knew you were here and was already targetting you anyway."

"That is correct." Orphanimon confirmed. "Now I can't keep talking, this takes a lot of energy and I must get back to work." The screen on the digivice shhut off as our eyes focussed on our apparent new partner.

"Wait who are the other chosen?" I asked, but she already "hung up."

"So you were in on this?" Phoebe asked.

"Maybe." Persiamon said.

"You were, you little slut." Phoebe said in an accusatory manner.

"I thought you couldn't read their minds?" I asked my beloved.

"I can't, but that look she has." Phoebe replied.

"I didn't think it would lead to this." Persia defended. "I didn't even know we would be partners I just heard a voice that told me to befriend you, and well, things happened."

"How are we going to keep Henry and Claire from finding out?" I said.

"We can't they've probably been selected too." Persia said. "They'll find their own partners soon enough."

"Now we have to get you a digimon partner!" Persia said to Phoebe.

"Ok then." Phoebe replied. "I want Ranamon."

"Ohh she's going to be hard to get." Persia replied.

"Hard to get, this isn't dating, you know? " I replied.

"Yeah, but, it worked the first time." Persia replied, implying that Phoebe would have to have sex with Ranamon to get her digivice.

"Is she one of the chosen?" I asked.

"Yes, we were all supposed to meet here, but I think some got lost." Persia replied.

"Can you tell us anything else?" I asked.

"Do I get a name?" She asked.

"Does Kitty work?" I asked.

"Really?" Phoebe questioned my unoriginality.

"It could short for Kitty Kat? And you know what Charley is going to call her if we ever get home." I asked.

"Yeah, definitely." Phoebe agreed.

"I will happily accept that name, thank you for distinguishing me from the others." Kitty said.

"Mhm, sure." I replied.

Befriending her would work, but Phoebe being Phoebe, she preferred the more entertaining route, so, the next day, Phoebe snuck around the hotel in the early morning to make sure the others would sleep until noon, then we snuck off to the pool where Ranamon spent most of her time, and there we set our plan into motion. Kitty and I entered first, we didn't know if she was there or not because her skin blends in with the water, like camouflage, plus she can stay under water for extended periods of time. Phoebe watched us while hiding behind the wall at the entrance.

"Please don't make me go in the water master Cj, I don't like it, it gets in my fur and then it takes hours to dry out." She said as we approached the pool, at some point after I had received my digivice she started calling me Master Cj, and Phoebe, Mistress Phoebe. I started calling her Kitty.

"I told you to stop calling me master, and don't worry, you don't have to go in, it's not part of the plan."

"Now come here." I said as I pulled her close into a kiss.

"Am I doing this right?" She said after a few kisses were exchanged.

"Just remember what my baby girl taught you, you had all last night to practice."

So basically the plan was we were going to just start having sex right there to get Ranamon's attention. Then Phoebe would come in, do what she's best at and get her digimon.

"How do these come off?" I asked when I decided it was time to undress her.

"Here I'll get it." She said as she began to undress herself. "I didn't even know how they came off either, your wife figured it out for me."

"Really?"

"Mhm."

"Do humans and pokemon go naked all the time?"

"Humans? No. Pokemon? Most of them."

"Phoebe?"

"No, well, maybe more than others of her kind."

"What do you mean by that? Just hump her already so I can get to Ranamon." Phoebe's voice rang inside my head.

"Oh relax, it's not like we're in a hurry." I replied in my head as Kittie's little red top fell to the ground. Prompting me to pull her close so I could play with her breasts.

"Just remember to be careful with those claws ok?" I said before I gave her left nipple a gentle tug.

"Eheh, I'll try." She giggled as I played with her boobs.

"You remember what she taught you? " I asked as I removed my pants.

"Mhm." She replied as she got down on her knees and carefully slid my cock into her mouth and began to suck.

"Oh yeah . . . . . . that's a good kitty." I said as I felt like heaven.

"mhmmm." She seductively replied with my cock still in her mouth.

"I can see her now, she's watching you." Phoebe said telepathically. "You better save some for me."

"Oh baby girl you know I will." I replied as my digimon partner continued to suck me off.

"I'm going to go in now, don't look at her or you might scare her off." Phoebe said.

She teleported to the pool's edge a moment later, naked and her breasts swollen with arousal a sight that, along with persiamon sucking me off, almost made me cum right there. Damn she was sexy, and I couldn't wait till I was done here so I could take her again.

She quietly slipped into the pool and waded up behind ranamon, who was just standing there, watching us, thinking about sticking her hand down her pants or maybe even joining in. She wondered if it was even possible.

"You're pretty hard now master, are we ready for the next step?" Persia asked.

"I told you not to call me master, but yes I think we are." I replied as I got down on my knees and gently pushed her onto my back, to which she intinctively wrapped herself around me and we began to make out for a bit.

"Why aren't you inside me yet?" She asked after we finished kissing.

"Cause you won't let go of me and you still have pants on silly." I replied.

"Sorry." She replied after she let go.

"That's ok, just relax." I said as I made my way down to her wasteline and slowly began to pull her pants down below it, revealing her furry little pussy. I couldn't help but taste it.

"What are you doing?" She asked.

"Good kittys get rewards" I replied.

"Looks fun doesn't it? " Phoebe said as she came up behind Ranamon.

"Mhm." Was all Ranamon could say.

"You want to try? " Phoebe asked.

Ranamon turned around for a moment, saw Phoebe, and quickly realized that she was naked, and that she had boobs and a pussy just like Kitty.

"You don't have one of those, um, stick things." She replied, confused. "And I don't know if I have any of these things either." She replied.

"If she does and she's a digimon than why wouldn't you? " Phoebe asked in return. "And no, I don't have a penis, but I have a tongue, and that's all you need for what they're doing.

"You want me to, um, lick you?" Ranamon asked.

"No no no. We'll start with you first." Phoebe replied. "Get up on the side, I'll show you your lady parts."

"Um, ok." Ranamon said as she headed towards the side of the pool and pulled herself onto it.

I really wanted to go over there and join them, but that would have to wait until Phoebe pleased Ranamon enough to get her own digivice. I guess that was how it worked.

At least I had a naughty little kitty to play with in the meantime.

"Ok kitty listen up." I said as I slowed down a bit so we could both concentrate a little better.

"Did I do something wrong? "Persia asked.

"No." I replied. "But Pheebles is aroused right now, she can't hear us and I need a way to pay her back." I said.

"So, after she gets her digivice, we're going to switch partners." I began.

"But you're my tamer." She refused.

"I meant sex partners not digimon partners." I replied as Ranamon started to moan in the background.

"And then after that, you're going to play with her for a little bit, and when I'm with Ranamon I'll let her in on this too ok?" I said.

"Mhm." She mumbled.

"So after that, when you see Ranamon coming back over here, get ready to grab Phoebe's arms and hold her down." I finished.

"Ok." She agreed.

"What are you doing Cj? You didn't get off already did you?" Phoebe called over.

"No, we're just, talking about some things." I said.

"Like what? " Phoebe asked.

"Like how this is probably the last time we're ever going to do this so we should enjoy it." I said in about the most awkward manner possible.

"Oh, um ok then." She said while she continued to pleasure Ranamon with her hands.

"This is the last time?" Kitty softly asked.

"Phoebe and I are married kitty, there wasn't even supposed to be a second time." I said. "But then that digivice appeared and I guess we're going to be partners for a while."

"You just have to understand that Phoebe and I have been together for years. Ok? We have children at home, we're connected on a level that, you and I will just never have. That's part of the reason why we can do things like this. We're sharing you two, it's not about you and me, and it's about me and her. Which is also why this will probably be the last time ok? After this it's strictly professional, you understand?" I said.

"I guess." She agreed.

"Are you still talking?" Phoebe called out.

"I'm trying to explain to her why we'll never be as close as you and I are Pheebles." I said.

"Oh, ok." She nodded.

"Why not? " Ranamon asked.

A question which led to them having basically the same conversation.

Anyway, minutes passed and Phoebe finally got her digivice.

"So we're partners now too hmm?" Phoebe asked.

"So can we do this again?" Ranamon asked.

"We'll figure that out later, now I need to share you with my husband." Phoebe said.

"CJ!" She yelled as Persia was riding my cock.

"Stop kitty." I commanded.

"Awww." She sighed.

"Yeah baby girl?"

"I got my own digimon, want to see?" She teased.

"She looks real sexy from here, what's she like up close?" I asked as Persia climbed off of me. I gave her a kiss on the cheek before getting up and heading over.

"Have fun and remember the plan." I softly said.

"Oh you're going to love her Cj, she has the smoothest skin." Phoebe continued to tease as I made my way over to them. "and her nipples are so hard and just the most beautiful shade of blue, oh and her boobies are so firm."

"Not as big as yours though baby." I said as I wrapped my arms around her and drew her into a kiss.

"You know you and I are going to have to have some time alone after this." I said as I staired into her eyes.

"Yes we are." She said.

"Also kitty hates water so why don't you dry off a little?" I suggested.

"Ok." She said.

"Now, as for you." I said as I turned my attention to my wife's lovely new digimon partner.

"I need to make sure your worthy of being my wife's partner." I insisted.

"Here, how about I get you started whiile I dry off?" Phoebe said while Kitty observed from afar.

"Um ok." She said as Phoebe got down on her knees, pulling ranamon down with her. Like with probably most of the women we've shared she showed her how to suck my manhood. Then she left us alone to play with Kitty who was begining to feel left out.

Ranamon was so different from Kitty, her skin was so damned soft and slick, even more so than Phoebe's. But it's when we got in the water that she really shined. The girl seemed to be able to hold her breath forever, that's all I have to say about that.

Anyway, while we were playing around, I eventually led her to the far end of the pool, so I could let her in on my plan.

"Ok listen up for a bit."
"mhm? "She cutely said.

"I already told Kitty, but now I need to let you in on this as well." I began.

"Is that her name now? " She asked.

"I guess so. I know another persiamon so it's kind of weird to call them the same name. You know."

"I see." She said. "Do I get a name?"

"Ask my wife, she's your tamer."

"Anyway, we're about done here, so I need you, to go over there where they are, and hold Phoebe down."

"Why?"

"Because I need to repay her, and this is the best way I think."

"I don't think she'll like it." She replied.

"Hehehe, I've known her a lot longer than you have." I defended. "She's the one that set all this up anyway."

"You're not my tamer, she is." She refused.

"Or do you want me to decide you're not worthy?" I replied.

"No wait, fine I'll do it." She finally agreed as we walked towards the others.

"Ok now." I said once we got fairly close.

Both digimon quickly had Phoebe pinned to the ground.

"Sorry master." Ranamon said.

"Wait what? What are you doing?" Phoebe exclaimed in confusion.

"Pheebles, you've been very very naughty." I said. "And it's time for you to face the music."

"What music? " She asked as she played along.

"It's your turn baby girl." I replied. "Girls if we could be alone for a bit."

"Ok." Kitty agreed.

"Just go back inside, and get dressed before our friends come back, hurry." I said.

"Ok." They said as they gathered up their clothes.

"We can't do this anymore baby girl." I said.

I said as I held her close and we got our parts aligned.

"I know. "She replied.

"I mean first it was Zari, now we basically have our own harem." I said.

"I know." She replied.

"And you know baby girl, I can't control you, you need to control yourself." I said.

"I know, I'm sorry." She said.

"There's nothing to be sorry about yet, but we need to stop now before there is. Now come on, we gotta finish this." I said.

"I was hoping you'd say that." She replied as we started to move together as one, it was so hard not to tie, but we couldn't stay out there that long, someone would see us.

The others wouldn't be up until noon, so then we headed up to our room while our digimon partners retreated to their own, and Phoebe and I spent the next few hours alone together.

"I'll let it slide this time Pheebles, but no more of this, ok? We have to stop." I said as soon as we were back in bed. "That was way too close to cheating and you know it."

"I know, I'm sorry." She said.

"And now we got all this other stuff to deal with." I added.

" Yeah." She said while trying very hard not to cry. "Now it will be even longer until we can get back to Charley and Nina."

"Yeah well, I don't even know what to tell you baby." I replied.

"That's it, I need to fight this." She declared. "No more sex until we get Henry and Claire's pokemon back." She said with as much determination as she could muster.

"Um baby girl, I'm not sure if you can." I said with a lot of doubt.

"I know I can." She declared. "Because if I slip up I'll let you sleep with Kitty, Zari, or Rana for a week."

"Um, that doesn't really help anything Pheebles." I argued.

"Yes it will, it will hurt me." She insisted.

"Yeah, exactly." I said.

"But that's what I need to happen so I can stop." She continued.

"Baby girl, you don't need to stop, you just need some more control." I replied. "Before we get dragged into more things like this or somebody gets pregnant."

"Tell me you'll leave me if I do it again." she said.

"No, I'm not leaving you ever." I frantically said to keep her from upsetting herself. "Just get your act together, it will be fine. I'm here for you, you know that. There's no point in hurting you if you already feel guilty."

"Oh Cj." Was the only thing she could say as she started to cry.

"Heeeey, baby girl, don't cry. You remember that locket I got you?" I asked.

"Yeah, but I left it at home, I didn't want to risk losing it." She replied with a snifle.

"Oh, well, between that and our wedding rings, we're together forever baby." I said.

"We'll get through this allright?" I said.

"I don't deserve you." She said with yet another sniffle.

"Hehe, sometimes I feel like I don't deserve you, yet, here we are." I said.

By the time the others woke up I was somehow able to turn her mood around though now she was clinging to me, insisting that I hold her hand all the way down to the lobby. We found Kitty sitting with Henry, Claire, and Zari at a table, by the sound of things, it was clear she had already explained everything to them, at least about them having to find Digimon partners. Though she was kind enough to leave out the events of this morning.

"Good morning new tamer." She said as I entered the room with Phoebe still clinging to me.

"Morning." I replied.

"So how did you become partners?" Henry asked.

"They just asked, and Phoebe agreed which means I pretty much had to as well." I weakly replied while both girls kept quiet.

"Yeah, they're a couple and we're a couple, we get along well." Phoebe needlessly and very riskilly added.

"No we're not." Kitty said.

"I thought you said you were." Phoebe awkwardly replied, while I tried not to show how royally screwed I felt I was at that moment.

"No Pheebles that was those others, you're getting it confused." I said.

"I am?" She asked.

"What others?" Zari asked.

"You wouldn't know, we met them yesterday while we were looking for those two." I said as I pointed to Henry and Claire.

"If you say so." Phoebe replied. "Where's Ranamon?"

"In the pool again." Kitty said.

"Well, if all we have to do is ask, then that sounds easy, now we just need to find some strong digimon to partner up with." Clueless Claire said with a feeling of relief.

"Well they were supposed to meet up here but they never came." Kitty said. "They might have gotten lost."

"Well we can't just stick around and wait for them, we gotta get to, was it Tactimon's place?" I asked.

"We need to get there soon so we can get their pokémon back."

"Before they do whatever they're planning to do with them." Phoebe added.

"Right." I agreed.

"But what are we going to do once we get there? Most of our pokemon are down?" Phoebe asked.

"We got digimon now, hopefully we'll have a better chance." I replied.

"Without any training?" Phoebe asked.

"No, we have training." Kitty insisted. "Why do you think we were chosen for this?"

"You wanna prove it?" Phoebe asked.

"We can fight in the park if you want." Kitty replied.

"Take it easy, you should save your strength for Tactimon's goons." I insisted.

"I'm interested in seeing what they're capable of. " Henry spoke up.

"Mhmmm." Zari nodded.

"I guess I do too." Claire agreed.

"Allright then, Cj, I challenge you to a digimon battle." Phoebe said with a smile..

"Against you?" I asked. "I'm not fighting you."

"No against ranamon." Phoebe replied.

"I'll go get her." Kitty said as she excitedly sped out of the room.

"Just a friendly battle, no hard hits." Phoebe explained.

"Yeah I figured." I said in agreement.

"This way we can see what they're capable off." Phoebe continued.

"Maybe." I said.

"Hey, by the way, you two wouldn't happen to know why we slept in so late?" Zari asked. "By the position of the sun, it's almost noon. It's so weird, I usually wake up at sun up everyday."

"I don't know, maybe time is just weird here." I quickly made up an excuse.

"Or maybe it goes faster?" Phoebe asked.

"No it doesn't." Zari quickly refuted.

I tried to fabricate an explanation. "Well maybe the nexus is messing with your sense of time. I mean it's happened to all of us by now so."

"Yeah Zari, we've been waking up at different times every day, none of these worlds are in the same timezone." Henry agreed.

"Yeah, but we still only need 8 hours a night, we've all been sleeping for more than 12." Zari said, still feeling something was up.

"Ok we're ready to go. " Kitty announced as she walked through the entrance with Ranamon in tow, saving our skins before our first battle together even started.

"Allright then where is this park? " I asked.

"Is it the same one we were at yesterday? " Henry asked.

"Probably." Kitty replied. "We'll show you the way master Cj."

"I keep telling you to stop calling me that." I said. "Anyway, come on everyone let's go."

So we all left the hotel and headed to the park.

"Zari is on to us." Phoebe said to me telepathically as we made our way to the park.

"Yeah, I've noticed, maybe she'll let it go?" I thought. "We're fine baby girl, there's no way she'll figure out what we were up to."

"I really hope you're right, all this pressure is killing me." She replied.

"Oh relax baby girl, you're doing so well." I thought in an attempt to encourage her. She was struggling below the surface, she could hide it from the others, but not me. Digimon were a bit different from pokémon, they were code-based entities, and many of their abilities outright defied the laws of physics, not by magic or psychic manipulation but by code, which was something that had very few laws whatsoever. Kitty could unfailingly hypnotize any living thing digital or not just by dancing allowing her to get close enough to make use of her rather knife-like claws. Ranamon could create localyzed rainstorms causing a peculiar kind of water to rain down that sucked the energy out of any living thing. True, there is a pokemon move called raindance, which is performed in various ways by different pokemon, such as by cloud-seeding, or by shooting lots of water into the air, but once said move is performed the resulting rainclouds are completely out of the user's control, and usually dissipate after just a few minutes. In comparison, Ranamon had complete control of the clouds she generated at all times and could move them at will. After only a few minutes of demonstrating their abilities, we felt like we actually had a chance, despite our severely crippled pokemon teams. So after a demonstration in the park, which really turned out to be more of a demonstration than a battle, Henry, Claire, and Zari squeezed into Henry's camaro, while the rest of us squeezed into the bus. And then we started heading in the general direction of Tactimon's castle, as given by our new digimon partners. The general plan was to defeat him and retrieve Henry and Claire's pokemon. We couldn't talk them out of following us this time, so we all went to battle together. I was driving the bus for today.

"We need to find the other partner digimon." Kitty said. "They were supposed to be at the hotel, but they never made it."

"Do you know who or what they are?" I asked.

"No, we've never even met." Kitty replied.

"Well it's kind of hard to find people when we don't know what we're supposed to be looking for." I replied.

"Yeah, you're right." Kitty replied. "I'm sure we'll find them soon enough, Ophanimon will send them our way."

"How does she know what way we're going?" Phoebe asked.

"Ophanimon's always watching." Kitty replied.

"Well that's not disturbing at all." I said with sarcasm.

"I'm sure she looks away when um, some stuff happens. " Ranamon commented.

"Some stuff happens? You mean like this morning? " Phoebe asked.

"Mhm." Ranamon blushed.

"I don't know, maybe she likes it." Phoebe joked.

"Don't you dare talk about Ophanimon like that." Kitty defended. "She looks after the entire digital world you know? Since the others went missing. "

"Seraphimon and Cherubimon right?" I asked.

"How'd you know?" Kitty replied.

"Just a guess." I said. "When did they go missing?"

"All I know is it was about the last time humans were here, and that was before we were born." She replied.

"So it was years ago?" Phoebe asked.

"Many many years ago." Kitty replied.

"Allright so what do you know about this castle we're heading to?" I asked.

"It's huge." Kitty replied.

"Eh heh and?" I asked.

"Um, it's made of stone?" Kitty continued.

"What digimon are guarding it?" Phoebe asked. "And what can they do as far as attacking goes?"

"Um, scary ones?" Kitty replied.

"Guess we're going in blind again Pheebles." I said, realizing kitty didn't know anything useful.

"Yep" she agreed. "Unless Rana knows something."

"I can't tell you anything more than she can." Ranamon finally spoke up, she seemed to be the quietest of the three.

"Well, then we are going in blind like Cj said." Phoebe replied.

"What are these pokemon you're talking about?" Kitty asked out of curiousity.

"Well, wait a minute and I'll show you." She said as she dug through her purse for a certain pokeball, a few moments later she found the one she was looking for, and let Mr. Cinders out on the the table.

"This is Mr. Cinders, he's our newest pokemon." Phoebe said. "He's not our strongest, but he's a good example that I can let out on the bus."

"Awwwe he's so adorable. " Kitty said as both our digimon quickly fell in love with his cuteness.

"Cindaquilll, cinnda." Mr. Cinders squeeked.

"Don't be afraid little guy, they're friendly." Phoebe tried to reassure him.

I felt sorry for Mr. Cinders, as those girls swarmed him like he was some kind of puppy.

When we got closer to the castle, we left our vehicles on the outskirts to try to keep them out of harm's way. The castle turned out to be guarded both by remnants of Duskmon's forces as well as Tactimon's own army.

"Ok we have too many people, I can't teleport all of you around." Phoebe said.

"Do you still have your digivice?" Ranamon asked. "We can go inside it."

"You can?" Phoebe asked.

"I still got mine." I said as I fished it out of my pocket.

Kitty immediately reached for it.

"Let me see." She said.

She touched it, the device made a whirring sound while the screen flashed bright white then her entire body turned into data, before getting sucked into the device. It was kind of freaky.

"The hell?" Was all I could say. That data-stream thing was just, bizarre.

"I'm ok." She said from the speakers on the digivice.

A few moments later, Ranamon went into Phoebe's digivice as well.

"Ok this might work now." Phoebe said.

"How do we get them back out?" I asked.

"Just press the button." Kitty said.

"Oh, ok then." I replied. "Well, see you in a bit I guess, just get ready to fight."

"Right master." She replied.

"And stop calling me that." I said.

She just responded with a cute giggle, which told me she was doing it on purpose just to annoy me.

Anyway, abandoning our vehicles would later prove to be neccesary, as the castle was surrounded by what seemed to be an ancient battlefield containing the ruins of ancient defensive structures, numerous trenches, and what appeared to be craters from artillery shells. It was like a battleground from world war 2. In some places the ground was scared so bad it would have been impossible to navigate without a proper offoad vehicle, which we didn't have. Though we could take the bus up to the castle given some careful driving and a lot of time, it would be a sitting duck if Tactimon's forces were to defend. The castle itself was an extremely large structure on a hill, surrounded by this tattered ground, compared to everything else in sight, it was immaculate. The outer walls were taller than a 10 story building. Once again nothing really matched up, as the battlefield itself seemed to be from a much more modern era than the castle. In some places there were even tread marks imprinted in the ground that could only have been made by tanks, and there were also a few areas where stones were arranged in a manner that suggested an emplacement for some type of cannon, which was sadly missing. Because of the fairly random nature of the digital world, it was difficult to determine what area existed first, but it was clear that they didn't go together.

There was no sign of an enemy defence force yet, but the numerous trenches and fortifications gave us many places to hide, as long as we stayed low we could make tons of progress towards the castle without being spotted, in stark contrast to Duskmon's castle, which was more or less out in the open.

Eventually we spotted a few ogremon patrolling the outskirts. We didn't know it at the time, but these were leftover's from Duskmon's fortress. We were able to outwit the ogremon for awhile, but eventually Phoebe accidently teleported us immediately in front of one, and though we got out of there without getting hurt, the news of our arrival quickly spread and soon the entire castle was on alert. It wasn't really Phoebe's fault, there was no way she could have known an ogremon was inside one of the trenches. Somewhere within the castle an alarm sounded, and a large amount of what appeared to be kogamon rappelled down the walls. They spread out and started to search the trenches for us, they could move fast, so we didn't have too much more time.

The kogamon were fast and dangerous, but not very durable, a glass cannon, if you will. Despite their speed, Phoebe's teleportation allowed us to avoid them for a while, but eventually we decided to go for a pre-emptive strike, sending Kitty out to deal with them. They quickly spotted her and about half a dozen of them leaped out from the trenches they were hiding in. Then she started to dance, and they all landed on their butts, completely distracted. It was a strange thing to see, I mean sure, she was beautiful, but this was outright ridiculous, as if she was the only thing they could see. None of us were affected by this however, suggesting she did have some control over who she wants to entrance. They recovered from their botched landings and slowly approached her, a blank look in their eyes, just barely aware of what they were doing. They huddled around her, until she decided to lash out at them with her claws at close range, immediately breaking the trance, killing an unlucky one outright and sending the others flying in the process, two more expired shortly after crashing into the ground for the second time, and only three of the six were able to recover. The three survivors quickly retreated before Kitty could start dancing again.

"If only we met sooner." I said, wishing she was with us when we were fighting duskmon.

"Oh come on, those guys are half the size of the ones protecting duskmon's castle." Phoebe said with the slightest hint of jealousy.

"Well they're only champion level too." I said.

"Only?" Phoebe questioned.

"I don't know baby." I said.

"Kitty come back! We gotta keep moving." I called out to my digimon.

"Already? But it was just starting." She whined.

Phoebe teleported us closer to the castle, we made a few more hops before she needed to take a break. While she took a moment to rest, everyone else kept an eye out for more guards.

After repeating this process a few more times, we made it up to the castle wall.

"Ok now we should split up, Cj we should go in together while everyone else should stay out here." Phoebe said. "Ranamon come out, we need you now." She said as she released Ranamon from her digivice. I did the same with Kitty, we instructed them to protect our friends before Phoebe teleported us to the top of the castle walls and then to somewhere inside the courtyard of the castle. Inside there seemed to be a military complex with several stone barracks and a larger main building built in the same style as the walls. There was also some sort of obstacle course that seemed to be more modern than the rest of the complex, and was probably built by Tactimon's army after moving into the castle.

"You sure we can handle this?" I asked.

"We don't need to fight him, we just need to find our pokémon and get out." Phoebe replied before teleporting us out of sight of a mixed group of kogamon, vilemon, and musyamon that were bearing down on us.

"Yeah, but how are we going to find them? They might not even be out." I said as I re-oriented myself.

"Wouldn't they probably be in the main building somewhere?" Phoebe asked.

"Yeah, probably." I agreed before we teleported again to avoid some flying shurikens the kogamon threw at us.

So we found the entrance to the main building and we headed inside, and for a while we were practically free. None of the digimon that were supposed to be guarding this place were inside. There were some strange rooms in this castle, but what was stranger was that Tactimon was nowhere to be seen. The throne room was empty. In the upper floor was a bedroom with nothing of interest inside, and the lower floor was just an empty dungeon, and a vault room, which is where we found the bubble men, who weren't much of a threat on their own, but Phoebe was tired by the time we got there and they had managed to befriend some ogremon. I don't know what they were doing in the vault room, I don't even know why they were here, but they hadn't forgotten their pursuit of us, and as we were still empty handed with no sign of our friends' pokemon anywhere, we needed information. We had beaten some ogremon before, so both Phoebe and I were confident this wouldn't be too difficult.

The bubblemen were surprised to see us, but thrilled none the less as they thought they had stumbled upon another opportunity to capture us. So, out came our remaining pokemon, while the ogremon charged at us, and the bubblemen started to fire what seemed to be tranquilizer darts at Phoebe. Phoebe was able to avoid them pretty easilly however. I don't know where they got them as they had been using conventional firearms before, but they seemed to be dead set on capturing Phoebe, all while we were trying to battle the ogremon. I had Bubba out, and Phoebe had Cloudela, who was actually pretty tough despite it's size

Anyway, during the battle, Phoebe couldn't contribute much because she was busy trying to dodge the bubblemen's darts. The bubblemen were also running around the room, trying to collect the darts they fired so they could re-use them. Bubba was going head to head with one of the ogremon as they locked arms and tried to take eachother down while a second ogremon tried to smash Cloudela with it's club, a thing that wasn't actually possible as Cloudela was only vulnerable to energy-based attacks. While it occasionallly fired light beams at the ogremon, they were doing negligible damage so it would take a while for it to win.

So after standing in the middle of all this for a moment, I started shooting at the ogremon Bubba was fighting, in an attempt to make Bubba's job a bit easier. I was keeping my distance of course because the thing was built like the hulk and just one hit from it would probably be game over for me. It was a good thing they were probably too stupid to realize that. The bullets embedded into it's skin gave it some serious bruising and caused it to bleed just a little bit, but it was barely enough to even make it flinch. It was like trying to bring down something the size of a deer with a bb gun. It didn't even notice me it just kept its gaze focused on Bubba while I ran out of ammo.

While that was going on, another battle was taking place between several kogamon, some vilemon, a few musyamon, and our own digimon, while Zari went off on her own and tried to make her way over the wall and inside the castle, using her teleportation watch thingy which was running low on battery and was about to go the way of our cell phones. The kogamon were starting to get smart, and began to use smoke bombs to cut the range of Kitty's hypnotic dance, then, from a safe distance they began to throw shurikens at her, while the vilemon fired some kind of strange energy projectile. As soon as that happened, Kitty quit dancing and tried to close the distance, while Ranamon was holding even more of them off on the other side of the trench. Their smoke bombs weren't as effective in blocking her attacks. They were both somewhat hurt by the shurikens, but it was nothing major.

Back inside the castle, Phoebe got tired, slipped up and one of the darts actually managed to hit her, she collapsed seconds later and the bubblemen quickly gathered around her and started to drag her away. I tried to fire at them, but I already spent all my ammo on the ogremon, who was still fighting against Bubba, completely unfazed by the multiple streams of wine-red blood trickling down it's entire body. So I charged at them instead, but there were too many and I was quickly overpowered, not to mention that it was pretty hard to hurt them inside those suits. I was punched in the stomach, in the face, before I knew it I was flat on the ground, in too much pain to move.

"We did it! We finally got what we came for!" Volkheim proclaimed as he followed his men out of the room as they dragged Phoebe along. "Ogremon, if you could do me a favor and kill this one, we only need one, and, well I think we got the better one."

"So this is how it ends." I thought as I was in too much pain to do anything but look at the massive spiked wooden club that was about to smash me into oblivion. While Cloudela kept firing ineffective light beams at the beast. I thought it was the end, only for the ogremon's arms to be encased in goo before he could finish me.

"You look like you could use some help." Zari said as she entered my field of vision.

"Yeaahhhh." I said after I gathered enough strength to speak.

She helped me up then shot the other ogremon which allowed Bubba to overpower it. A well aimed hydro-cannon sent it straight into the wall, then a skull bash finished it. The other one was defeated in a similiar manner.

"Allright, let's get Phoebe back." I said as some of my strength returned. We chased the bubblemen out of the castle, Zari cut them off before they could get to their jeeps which were parked around back. A few shots with the bubblegun was all it took to liberate my beloved from their clutches. Then we stole one of their jeeps and had Bubba trash the others while leaving the bubblemen stuck to the ground. I wanted to kill them, but Zari wouldn't let me, and Phoebe probably wouldn't either if she was concious enough to speak. Before we left I returned Bubba, and also took one of their tranq guns out of curiousity, just to see what it would do to a digimon, wondering if toxins would be more effective than regular bullets which barely seemed to do anything, we really needed to do something about our lack of offensive capability, I tested it out on a few Musyamon that tried to keep us from leaving the courtyard. Unfortunately the darts couldn't penetrate its armor so it was pretty useless against them. Secondly it was going to be impossible to find more darts after these ran out, but I kept it anyway. Anyway, we escaped the musyamon without any problems, thanks in part to Cloudela who was following us around and able to draw their attention, some of a musyamon's attacks have a fire element to them, but even then it was hard to hit and Cloudela had no problem landing several lightbeams on them.

It didn't take long to find the others as they were engulfed in a huge cloud of smoke. Knight Chessmon were raining darts down from the wall, there were also lots of defeated digimon and datastreams everywhere as well.

Somewhere in the smoke cloud Kitty and Ranamon were still fighting the horde of enemy digimon, while Henry and Claire hid safely in the trench. We ditched the jeep once the ground became too much of a hassle to navigate and then we headed to the smoke cloud. Dodging giant darts that would dematerialize the moment they hit the ground. With Phoebe unconcious and Zari trying to conserve her watch's battery as much as possible, it was going to be very difficult to get our friends out of here.

Kitty: "Master you're back." Kitty said as Zari and I ambled towards the trench carrying Phoebe with us.

Everything felt sore as I did so.

"Cloudela go help Kitty." I said to the helpful cloud pokemon.

"Cloooou" It affirmatively replied.

"Did you find my poor chikorita?" Claire asked as we made it to the trench.

"No, Tactimon isn't even here, I have no idea where the hell they are or if he is even the one that took them." I said.

"What's wrong with Phoebe?" Henry asked.

"She's just unconcious. I don't know when she'll wake up, but she will." I said.

"We need to get out of here." Ranamon said. "There's too many, I can't hold them off much longer."

"I have enough battery left to make it halfway back to the bus, but we're going to have to run from there." Zari said.

"Allright then, everyone get over here, we're going to make a run for it." I announced.

Our digimon joined us in the trench a few moments later, along with Cloudela.

Zari teleported us all about 700ft or so towards our vehicles, there was still a way to go, and we had to book it because the kogamon and musyamon were in hot pursuit. So we ran, and ran, and ran, Henry took a shuriken to the back, I got grazed by one on the shoulder, Cloudela started shooting them out of the air with it's lightbeam with insane accuracy, it didn't get all of them, but it got a fair amount, but we made it back to our vehicles in one piece, then we booked it and headed straight back to the city, I'm pretty sure everyone got hit at least once. The projectiles launched by the vilemon weren't as bad, they were slow and easy to dodge, but they did have some explosive force that could trip you and in that situation if you tripped you were screwed.

Zari drove, I was too delirious and Phoebe was still unconscious, both our digimon had multiple wounds, but they weren't in too much pain.

"You should have taken us with you." Kitty argued, while Ranamon just sat there quietly watching Phoebe for any sign of consciousness. I went through Phoebe's purse looking for potions and full heals, and also found Cloudela's pokeball, but I decided to let it stay out and get some natural rest. We were completely out of potions, but we did have a full heal I could use to wake Phoebe up..

"How did you even beat Duskmon fighting like that?" She asked.

"We can't win them all." I replied.

"We can't afford to lose." Kitty argued back.

"Well what were we supposed to do? Bring Henry and Claire in there? They're practically defenseless." I said. " We need more offensive power."

"Here Ranamon, give her this, it should wake her up." I said as I handed her the Full Heal I found.

"How do I use it?" She asked.

"It's a syringe, just stick it in her arm and press the button on the top." I said.

"You don't even understand how to be a tamer do you master?" Kitty asked.

"I figured it would be really similar to training pokémon." I replied.

"You just left us out there on our own." Kitty replied.

"Well, I thought you could handle it." I said.

"And then you went in and what? You were going to fight Tactimon without us?" Kitty asked.

"Even if he was there we weren't planning on fighting him. We were going to go in there, look for Henry and Claire's pokémon and get out." I said.

"But we need to fight him." Kitty replied.

"Why? " I asked.

"Because we need his data!" Kitty said.

"Why?" I asked.

"Because he's part of the dark alliance, if nobody absorbs his data he'll just get reborn and then a few years from now we'll have to go through all this again." She said.

"Then what about duskmon? You weren't even with us when we fought him."

"Well we'll have to go back and get it." Kitty said.

"Um, eheh, that's uh, a bit complicated." I said.

"Why? What happened to his data then? You can't absorb it you're human." Kitty asked.

"I think Palmon took it." I said.

"Palmon? What?" She asked.

"She was the only one in the entire village that would help us fight him." I said.

"Well then, we're going to have to hunt her down too." Kitty said.

"Why?" I asked.

"Duskmon's data will corrupt her." Kitty replied. "Don't worry though, it's only a matter of time before she comes to power and resurfaces."

"Why didn't you absorb any of the data of the several kogamon you killed?" I asked.

"Because, they're not really that evil." Kitty insisted. "Just Tactimon is, if their data isn't absorbed they'll eventually regain consciousness."

"She's waking up!" Ranamon suddenly announce as Phoebe started to regain consciousness.

"Oh, hey baby girl." I said as she opened her eyes.

"Ranamon? Why are you here and not Cj? " Phoebe asked.

"We're talking." Kitty said.

"If it means anything Zari and I carried you all the way back to the bus." I said.

"Cj what happened? Your face is all blown up like a balloon." Phoebe asked when she realized.

"Yeah and we're out of potions, so I'm stuck like this. Also Kitty is mad at me." I said.

"Why? Is she jealous of us? " Phoebe asked. "Is that why you're all beat up?"

"I would never." Kitty defended.

"No that was the bubblemen." I said.

"The bubblemen beat you up?" She asked.

"Those suits protect them pretty well. "I replied. "What was I supposed to do? I was out of bullets and they were dragging you away."

"Clooou." Cloudela said as it brushed up beside her.

"I had nothing to do with that. That's your fault for trying to go in there on your own. This never would have happened if you didn't split us up." Kitty insisted.

"Well somebody needed to draw their attention, and we can't just let Henry and Claire do that on their own, they'll get creamed." Phoebe said.

"Then we need to find their digimon partners fast." Kitty said. "I didn't sign up for this so I could babysit a couple of humans."

"I thought you were chosen." I replied.

"Well, I agreed to go along with it." Kitty replied.

"We kind of did too." I admitted.

"Ranamon you're hurt too." Phoebe said.

"It will heal." Ranamon insisted.

"Maybe not fast enough." Phoebe replied.

"I can help with that." Zari said. "Once we get back to the hotel."

"You have potions?" Phoebe asked.

"Yeah kind of." Zari replied.

"Oh Cj you got hurt again." Phoebe exclaimed.

"Well, you almost got kidnapped by wannabe astronaughts, everyone got hurt baby, the entire raid was a crapshoot." I replied.

"We can't split up like that again." Kitty said.

"If you say so." I replied.

"If we did that we'd still be out there trying to get into the castle. All that teleporting, you'd tire me out." Phoebe said.

"Like it's my fault I suck as a tamer, we weren't given any instructions, I wasn't even told we were going to be tamers until it was too late for me to refuse." I said.

"But master." Kitty objected.

"And for fucks sakes stop calling me master, you are not a slave and you do not want to be one." I said.

"Cj, don't be so mean." Phoebe said.

"I take it you feel the same way ranamon? You just don't want to say anything." Phoebe guessed.

"Well, kind of." Ranamon agreed. "We shouldn't have split up."

"I'm sorry Kitty, but I don't even see why you need me." I said.

"I will when things get tougher, you'll see. " She solemnly replied "Stupid balloon head."

"Hey! That's my husband. "Phoebe defended me.

"He's going to die if he keeps fighting like that." Kitty insisted before going back inside my digivice to sulk.

"Zari did you get hurt too? " Phoebe asked.

"A little bit, why?" She asked.

"Henry got a shuriken in the back." I said.

"A what?" She asked.

"Those spinny blade things ninjas have." I explained. " One got stuck in his back".

"Arceus, is he ok?" Phoebe asked.

"He made it to his car, He'll probably be fine, it's not that deep of a wound."I said. "Probably hurts like hell though. Claire's probably driving him back."

"It's gonna be a long night." Phoebe said.

"Yep." I replied.

When we got back to the hotel, it turned out that Zari knew of a small supply of this thick transparent yellow gel that was very similiar to a potion, but super concentrated and with the consistency of cheddar cheese. It was integrated into her police uniform, of all things.

"They line our armor with this stuff, it heals minor wounds almost instantly." Zari said as she pulled a glob of the stuff out of a hole she cut into her vest.

"So that's why you guys are nearly unkillable." I commented.

"Partly." She replied. "Here, it doesn't take much." She said as she gave me a handful.

We used it to tend to our wounds and our pokemon, and Ranamon as well, but Kitty completely refused to leave my digivice. Anyway, after everyone felt relatively normal, Phoebe and I took another shower together.

"Cj, you really shouldn't have been so rude to Kitty." Phoebe said while I was naked and vulnerable.

" Are we really going to talk about this now?" I asked.

" This is as good a time as any." She said.

"Baby girl, I don't really want to get that close to her, because of what we have." I said.

"If we fail our mission we'll never make it home, we might be trapped here forever." Phoebe replied. "We can't fail Cj."

"I don't know baby, all I know is we're in trouble." I said as I pulled her close.

"We can't keep fighting like this, we're down to what? 4 pokemon between us? Guns don't seem to work on most of these things. Claire and Henry are defenseless, and apparently it will only get more difficult from here." I said.

"It's going to be even more difficult if you and Kitty aren't on speaking terms." My beloved pointed out.

"Look, Cj, go apologize to her." She said as she put her hands around my balls and gave them a gentle squeeze. "And if it does happen to escalate, you have my permission. I'll just play with Ranamon in the shower and we'll be even."

"Or we could just play around right now and then I won't be able to." I said.

"No we can't." She replied.

"Why not?" I asked.

"Cause we don't have Henry and Claire's pokemon back yet." She replied.

"Oh yeah, but you can play around with ranamon." I said.

"Yeah, after we get them back. " She said.

"And then I'm just supposed to watch?"

"No, you're supposed to wait in bed grinning like an idiot because after we have our moment in there you're getting both of us." She said.

"And what if there's no shower by then." I asked.

"Then we'll make do with what we have, enough questions, get out, dry off, get dressed, go apologize, and go make love to her big furry butt you've been driving me crazy by staring at constantly." She said.

"Like I don't stare at you too." I said.

"Yeah, at my feet." She replied.

"You have cute feet, and eyes, and everything." I said. "You have great boobs when you're in the mood." I said as I gently squeezed her nipples. " You know she doesn't even have feet really? I let her use them on my thing she'd probably slice it off."

"Hands off! I told you we can't." She said.

"Awe, but I like to feel them grow." I said.

"Get out before I kick you out you naughty boy." She said in a combination of annoyance and arousal.

I got out as she said, dried off and got dressed while she continued to shower by herself.

Then I got my digivice which was laying on the nightstand, with the screen off, which it had been since Kitty entered it.

"Kitty come out, come on, we need to talk." I said.

There was no response for about ten seconds, then the screen came on.

"About what? Are you going to be my tamer or not?" She replied.

"If I have to to get back to my children then yes." I replied. "Now can you come out here, you're wounded, we should treat your wounds, Zari gave us this, um, stuff, it worked well on Ranamon, it should work on you too."

"You're not going to leave us to fight for ourselves again are you?" She asked.

"I thought you could handle it." I said.

"That's not what this is about. " She replied. "If you die it's game over. It could be centuries before another group of humans finds their way in here. If you die, I can die."

"We're not all humans you know that right? Phoebe's a pokemon, I don't know what the heck Zari is." I said.

"A red-skinned human?" She replied.

"That's not a normal skin color where I'm from." I said. " And her eyes are pitch black, if you haven't noticed, which is also strange. Anyway, my point is we're accustomed to being able to handle these things by ourselves. This is the first time we've become concerned with our capabilities and it's been real difficult to take this saving the digital world stuff seriously because we're on our own mission, you know that, we've told you while we were in bed." I said.

"But now you realize you have no choice but to." She replied.

"Yeah, basically." I said.

The screen flashed brightly as she exited from the digivice and wrapped her arms around me.

"Oh master, there might be hope for you yet." She said.

"Ok seriously you gotta stop calling me that, and you're bleeding all over me." I said with a bit of disgust.

"Oh sorry." She said as she let me go. Leaving little red splotches of blood all over my shirt.

"Let's take care of those wounds." I said as I retrieved a small blob of the yellow healing goop from a jar lid that was on the nightstand.

It was strange stuff, one drop could do about as much as an entire bottle of potion. So that lid full was plenty. I got Kitty all patched up, it turned me on, as some of her injuries were in, awkward places, but I did my best to restrain myself. One really weird thing was that her clothes were ripped as well, but as I healed her wounds they repaired themselves as well. When she wasn't even wearing them. Even the bloodstains dissapeared. After I got her all patched up she got dressed again and then we waited for Phoebe to get out of the shower. Eventually she realized I wasn't going to try anything and emerged from the bathroom a wearing nothing but a towel.

"You two friends again?" She asked.

"Mhm." Kitty said.

"Ok, that's good."Phoebe replied. "Now sweety if you don't mind I need to spend some time alone with my husband."

"Um, ok, I'll go run the front desk, maybe the other chosen digimon will come." Kitty said.
" Maybe you should shower first?" Phoebe asked.

"No way, I hate water, anyway, I'm all clean now see? No blood, it went back inside my body." Kitty said as she headed into the bathroom.

"Oookay." Phoebe replied as Kitty left the room.

"See that wasn't so bad was it?" Phoebe asked as she removed her towel and started to get dressed.

"Yeah I guess so." I replied.

"And you didn't hump her." Phoebe said.

"Yeah well." I started to reply only for her to interrupt me.

"It's ok, actually I'm glad, I didn't feel right when I said that." She replied.

"Awe baby girl." I replied.

"You're mine." She said as she threw her dress on and layed down next to me on the bed. "I revoke your permission."

"Eh heh, ok." I replied as I layed down next to her.

"You want to?" I asked.

"No, and you know why, I already told you." She immediately replied.

"Awe, but baby girl." I pleaded.

"She gave you a boner didn't she?" She asked.

"Well she had to take her clothes off to get to some of her wounds." I replied.

"And yet you were in the shower with me for twenty minutes and nothing." Phoebe said.

"You barely let me touch you, I could've felt every inch of her if I wanted." I said.

"But you didn't." Phoebe replied.

"For you." I replied.

"Oh ok." She said as she climbed on top of me.

"Don't worry Cj, I'll take care of you." She said before she lovingly kissed me and we started making out.

-anyway sometime later that day-

Tactimon arrived back at his castle, returning from a cave a few miles away where he and some of his troops were searching for an artifact just like the one that was stolen by the thief that stole Claire and Henry's pokemon. He returned to find that the portion of his army he left behind to guard the castle, as well as the remainder of Duskmon's army was recovering from the battle that took place earlier. Many were wounded, unconcious with exposed data streams, and just starting to gain consciousness. Immediately he suspected an attack, and rushed inside with just a handful of musyamon bodyguards to check on his treasures to make sure they weren't stolen. A few minutes after he realized nothing was taken one of his guards alerted him to the scene out back where the bubblemen were still stuck to the ground.

"What are you?" He asked. "You're not my troops, and you don't look like Duskmon's either."

Volkheim tried to speak, but his suit along with being encassed in goo prevented him from making anything other than a heavily muffled mumbling sound.

"We found them in the forrest." An ogremon we had defeated earlier said. "They want to capture the ones that did this."

"I take it they're the ones that killed Duskmon too?" Tactimon asked. "Undoubtly they were trying to come after me, Musyamon, tell the troops to engage in protocol beta. We need to find these fools and eliminate them once and for all."

"Yes sir!" The musyamon replied before running off to inform the bulk of Tactimon's army.

"What do we do with these guys?" Ogremon asked.

"Try to break them out of, whatever this stuff is, they may know something useful." Tactimon commanded.

"Also, I'm making you head of Duskmon's army. Do not let me down." Tactimon said.

"Um, yes sir, I uh." Ogremon nervously stammered.

"All you have to do is watch the castle while we're gone. They probably won't come back so it should be easy for you." Tactimon said.

"Right, um, yes sir." Ogremon said.

"Good." Tactimon replied as he walked away.

Back at the hotel, everyone eventually gravitated out of their rooms and towards the lobby.

"Ok so Tactimon wasn't even there, where is he?" I asked in vain as nobody knew the answer.

"What's he going to do when he gets back? " Henry asked. " If he wasn't after us before, he is now."

"He doesn't know where to find us though, we'll be fine for now." I said. "It's a big . . . ish city, and it's not the only one out here."

It really wasn't that big, the size of the buildings made it seem a lot bigger than it was. It was about the size of a small town in area, but not in height.

Anyway we talked about what to do for awhile. Henry and Claire really wanted their pokemon back, but there was very little we could do about it. It seemed that the other "chosen" digimon were never going to show up, and we all felt that our business with Tactimon wasn't over yet. Both our digimon insisted he should be destroyed, and we all knew that he would probably counter attack once he found out what happened at his castle. All that aside, we felt the best thing to do would be to head to the next town, as that would throw him off our trail, and maybe, maybe we could find another lead on our friend's pokémon. So off we went to the next town, once again relying on Kitty for directions.

In light of the failure that was the day's raid, it was going to be a long night.

"So what are we going to do tonight Pheebles?"

"Well we'll take the bed as usual and Zari can sleep on the floor, and absolutely nothing naughty will happen." She cutely insisted.

"I'm impressed you've been able to keep that up so far." I said with a small amount of pride.

"You know after we find their pokemon we're having the biggest orgy ever." She announced.

"Oh really?" I asked.

"Mhm, so you better be ready." She insisted.

- later that night-

I awoke to a strange sensation only to discover that Phoebe had mounted me and was trying to get my cock hard enough so she could ride it. I waited until she started to slow down before grabbing her and pulled her close against me.

"What are you doing you strange, strange girl?" I asked ask I grabbed her and pulled her close, it caught her completely off guard as she did everything she could not to scream. The funny thing is, this is one of the very few times I actually managed to do this.

"Um, this is a dream?" She said.

"Yeah, no." I replied." You're trying to cheat yourself aren't you?"

"I'm sorry I couldn't help it." She said.

"You are really strange you know that?" I said.

"Shh, don't wake up Zari." She warned. "Can we finish?"

"No, I want to see you keep your promise." I insisted.

"Cj." She whined. "It wasn't a promise, and you're already almost hard."

"Well still." I replied. "You know what I mean."

I shushed her before giving her a kiss and holding her tight.

"If I catch you doing that again I will wake Zari." I said. "Now control yourself and let's get some sleep."

At some point we both fell asleep, I don't think she ever tried anything else, but there was no way to be sure. I was also left wondering if this had ever happened before. I wasn't even sure if I even wanted to ask.