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Bloodline: Descendants of the Digidestined

Chapter 3: Mermaid's Teardrop

Prologue: Malachimon recounts, "After their first battle with Lance's forces, the Digidestined regrouped. Iori took most of them to go train at his dojo. Jill tried talking to Lily about her past but her anger clouded her judgment and she ran away. Sora, Ryo, Jou, and Masato went out to find the last two Digidestined kids. Lewis, with the help of the girls, decided to clean up Daisuke and Veemon from their 20 years of being schizophrenic hermits. One explosion and a flooded yard later, Lewis and the girls ran away from the angry Izzy. I had ordered Lance to speak to me about his using innocent digimons and humans as bait. I warned him never to do it again, and then Attorneymon wanted to speak to me. As that happened, Sora and the others found the bearer of love, the girl from the 100th Anniversary Celebration of the end of WW 2, Sakiko. Come to find out, Sakiko works in the Yakuza. Shortly after meeting her digimon Jukumon, a rival Yakuza faction drove up and started a gang war in the restaurant. During the fight, Sakiko's boss was killed, but Sakiko, trying to defend herself, killed the rival leader. In a fit of fear and sadness, she ran out. Sora and Masato chased her, but Jou and Ryo had to stay behind. At a cemetery is where they found her sobbing at a grave. With them was there father. While there, they made a shocking find. They found Lily there too. The enemy Yakuza tried them down and shot Sakiko's father, but Lance defeated the Yakuza. Then he went to Holly's grave, where Lily attacked him. He refused to fight back against her, but wasn't as kind to her friends. Jukumon became Gryphonmon and sent him into a gas truck, but that didn't stop him in his suit. Lotomon then digivolved to Sunflowermon to combat him, and Lewis, Hikari, Mimi, Lilymon, and Daisuke arrived to help. Lily thrashed at him until he laid there his armor destroyed and bleeding. If Lance hadn't of stopped her, she would have killed him. Sunflowermon, thinking he was trying to hurt her, shot a water blast at him. The exposed circuits electrocuted poor Lance, and something came flying off the base of his neck. I came to carry him back so he could be healed. Attorneymon then ordered a ruthless attack as soon as I left. The digidestined held them off, and I sent Virusmon as my courier to tell them to return. They did, but Attorneymon ordered Safiirumon to call forth his generals, and Attorneymon ordered them to terminate with extreme prejudice. Lewis slowly lost his knowledge as they fought a losing battle against Safiirumon's Elemental Valkyries. If it wasn't for me, they would all be dead. I have a distaste and anger to them for killing my father, but I never wanted them dead. Mimi was going to say something to me but I was told the council was ready to convene, so I left. Something seems off..."

One month has passed: During this time, the Dominion's forces took Odaiba. Everyone was forced out. All the Digidestined except Jun and Yuuji now reside in Lewis's estate outside the city. It's a 12-story pyramid. Izzy is still hard at work figuring out what the odd red device does. Lewis has got a few memories back, but his sense of self and his harmonious spirit still seem to be missing. During this time though, he adopted Sakiko and is now her new stepfather.

Lewis walks down the hall. "Damn, I've lived here 10 years, and despite being here one month after my memory loss, I still get lost in my own house. I still don't know why I had 12 bathrooms built but only 7 bedrooms.... That, and where that damn elevator leads to...." He pulls out a giant map. "Hmmmm....., I'm in F7C. I want to be in B2A. This way." He heads down the hall and down the staircase. Meanwhile downstairs, the doorbell rings followed by a man screaming. Lilymon opens the door. Standing there with smoke rolling off him was Oswald. "Hey, Lily, you know that your doorbell shocks the hell out of people?" Lilymon says, "Oh, we've been meaning to fix that. Strange... Usually it only gives out a mild shock." Oswald says, "Tell that to all these replacement bones. All those years of delivering packages finally got the best of my skeleton. I got more metal in my skeleton now than Andromon. Mind if I come in?" She moves out of the way. He convulses as he walks in. "Shouldn't you get medical attention?" Oswald just walks in and says, "Nah, I'll just walk it off." Daisuke walks in. "Hey, who's this?" Lilymon says, "This is Lewis's old friend Oswald Harvey Lee." Daisuke is shocked. "I thought you were dead. Didn't you shoot JR?" Lilymon sighs and says, "No, you're thinking about Lee Harvey Oswald, and he shot JFK." Oswald and Daisuke stare at each other. They keep staring..... "I'm just leave you two....." Lilymon runs out of the room. Araiya comes in from the staircase. "Holy crap, I'm right. This house is a moron magnet." She runs upstairs and comes back minutes later with two sleds. "Hey, have you two ever gone sledding without snow?" Daisuke says, "Can't say I have." Araiya says, "Well, Lewis's house is a pyramid, which means it has slick slanty sides for sledding speedily on sleighs." She tosses them the sleighs. Oswald says, "I bet you can't say what she just said five times fast." Daisuke starts, but slurs and screws up. Daisuke pays him a hundred yen. "I'll race you!!" Daisuke says. They run upstairs. "That was so easy it's scary. Let's see what's for breakfast here at Hotel Crapifornia." She goes to the dining room, which has eerie resemblance to the storeroom above the Warsaw Tavern. She goes over to the freezer (Like those giant freezers you see in grocery stores), opens the door, and gets the milk out. Lewis comes in from a staircase and puts away the map. "It'd be nice if I could come in here just one morning without getting lost first. Araiya thinks, "His recovery is so slow. He used to be able to know his way around anything once he's been there once, but now he gets lost as easily as I do. In fact, he's yet to give me an insult since this has happened. He's almost...., normal. I'd thought the world would go boom before he'd ever seem normal to me, and that'd be the greatest thing on Earth, but now that it has happened, I find it scary. As much as I hate to admit it, we need the old Lewis back. I NEED the old Lewis back." He fries up some eggs. He takes some over to Araiya. "Want some?" Araiya's face went blank. "That's it, I'm gonna jump-start that brain of yours!!" She grabs him and makes him put the eggs down. "I wonder where they're going." Taichi says, coming in and sitting at one of the booths surrounding his giant table. Hikari adds, "Couldn't tell you, but if Araiya is taking Lewis somewhere.... Keiko, Tetsuo, Bonnie, could you follow them, make sure she doesn't try anything fishy...." They agree and go. Taichi asks, "Why'd ya send the new kids?" Hikari says, "Because there are some of us who might try to help one of them beat up the other, that, and I haven't had my coffee yet." They hear something sliding down the house and look out the window to see Daisuke crash into the fence and Oswald skid to a stop on the sidewalk. Daisuke goes, "Best 2 out of 3!!" They run back in and go back up the stairs. Tailmon says, "I don't know which one's worse: Taichi and Daisuke in one room together, or Daisuke and Oswald in one room together."

A half-hour later, out in the middle the war zone, Araiya takes Lewis out of the car. Araiya shakes her head. "I can't believe I'm doing this!!" She points to the other end of the road. "From the news, I heard this is where the most fighting is taking place. I want you to walk through the battlefield ignoring all danger." Lewis says, "Is that possible? I mean, the odds of evading all those attacks close to nil." Araiya says, "It'll help jog that warped memory of yours." Lewis says, "How does getting shot into mincemeat help my memory?" Araiya says, "Oh, geez, you're beginning to sound like me. Heck, if this was a different situation, I'd be so happy I'd have a heart attack, but I'm here to jog your memory, not mould you into the model citizen." She thinks, "I'm going to regret this. I can't believe I'm thinking of doing this." Araiya turns and says, "Since you have your doubts.... I'll do it first..., to prove it can be done." She changes her shirt. She is now wearing a bright yellow shirt with a giant bulls-eye. "To up the danger, I'm going to wear this gag gift you gave me for my birthday." She closes her eyes, slows her breathing, and mutters, "Focus, Araiya, focus...." She lifts her head up and walks down the road. Digimon attacks and bullets whiz around her. Partway down the road, she sees a quarter and bends over to get it. A fireball flies above, and would of fried her if she didn't duck. Then she walks over and picks up a bottle of milk and starts to drink it. "Ew.... Expired!!" She hurls it and the bottle hits an evil digimon positioned behind a car. It knocks him out, and a piece of glass hits two others, blinding them. "Get her!!" They stand up, but then the Army takes advantage of this and hurls a grenade at them and blows them up, and the car blowing up goes flying into a building's propane tank, blowing up the building . The flying rubble smashes more abandoned vehicles, blowing them up, and lighting the whole block on fire. She reaches the end of the road and turns around. "S**T!! When did that happen!!" Lewis writes on a notepad, "Hum...., the odds of what Araiya just did are 1 in 5,625,235,785,861,030. She makes it look like an accident too." Keiko and the others watch and Bonnie says, "Now that can't be topped." Tetsuo goes, "I believe grandmother has lost her sanity. She would never normally do something like that without a carefully built plan." Araiya starts her return walk. Along the way she almost trips over a tear gas canister. "Stupid canister!!" She kicks it at a house. It rolls in the building and blows up. The explosion levels the structure. She gets back and says, "Now you try."

Back at Lewis's house, Taichi receives a message. "Hey, it's Eucaryotemon!!" Eucaryotemon says, "Nice to see you too, Taichi!! We can catch up later though. Right now we have a problem. Te Dominion is setting up a base here on the Moon, near Mt. Gigas. It's not done, but we predict when it is, it will be an unstoppable focal point for the Dominion. I mean, sure, they could send troops straight from HQ, which from time to time, blocks out the sun, but they figure they have to have bases everywhere in order to consolidate their power. We need you guys!!" Hikari says, "We gotta go!!" Taichi says, "What about Lewis, Araiya, and the others?" Hikari says, "We'll have to leave them behind. Besides, Lewis is still in no shape to be left on his own." Jou says, "I'll get the other two!!" Izzy says, "Join us when you're done!!" Miyako swipes the carton of orange juice from the freezer then points her D-3 into the middle of the room. "Digiport Open!!" All the old Digidestined hit a button and vanish in a blast of light. Iori, herself, Yolei, Ken, Lilymon, and the children entered the port Miyako made in the dining room. The room is so empty, then the sounds of Oswald and Daisuke sledding down the side of the house can be heard. Daisuke hits Ken's car and scratches up the paint job. "Let's just say some really big birds sat on it and pooped on it." He hurls some white paint around the scratches. They run in to the empty house. "Funny, it's quiet.... They must have left..... Let's cook ourselves some breakfast!!" Oswald says. They run into the kitchen. Veemon wakes up. "Hey, something smells good!!"

Everyone arrives together. Sora looks around and says, "So this is the surface of the Digital Moon..." Agumon says, "I didn't get to do this last time I was here..." He picks up a piece of dirt and eats it, just to spit it back out. Gabumon asks, "Why'd you do that?" Agumon says, "Because Tentomon said the Digital Moon was made out of cheese." Tentomon answers, "Hey, how was I supposed to know it wasn't. It's just a rumor I heard." Lotusmon says, "I feel.... so strong here...." Urchinmon and Scarletmon respond, "Us too!!" Izzy says, "It must be something about the moon that makes Lunar digimon so powerful...." Masato shakes and says, "What's that in the sky!!" Everyone looks up and sees Dominion HQ pass over, blocking out the sun, the only light from the glowing plants and water. Eucaryotemon arrives and says, "I guess you see it. The headquarters of the Dominion. The mid-section is so large that if they retrofit it, they could stash the whole moon inside it." Everyone gasps.

Meanwhile aboard the station, digimon and humans, 13 total, all dressed in council robes, meet in the throne room around a table. Wicked Lilymon announces each member in. "Now entering, Devimon, newest Councilman of the Dominion." Devimon takes his seat. "Entering is Chris Finkelton, long time supporter of our organization and head of our Resources Dept." He sits next to Devimon. "Now entering, Rina Toyoshima, Master Trainer to our Thieves' Guild." She sits next to Chris. "Entering now is Ramon, Head of Dominion Intelligence." He takes his seat. When he sits, he pushes a button and his mask collapses and folds away, revealing a human-like face. "Entering now is Metzger Ishida, the Dominion's Historian and personal guard to Lance Fallon." He sits next to Ramon. Now arriving is Evamon, Head of Dominion R&D." He sits next to Metzger. "Entering the council chambers, Dimentiamon, Head Historian for the Dominion." He hovers over and sits adjacent to Evamon. "Arriving now is Heramon, Secretary of the Interior." She sits next to Dimentiamon. The hall and floor rumbles. "Here comes Jormungamon, Head of Recruitment." He slithers by and almost knocks Wicked Lilymon down. He slithers over next to Heramon. "Entering the chamber is Safiirumon, Secretary of Defense and Head of Military Affairs." He takes a seat by Jormungamon. Now entering, Attorneymon, the Dominion's Attorney General, Supreme Judge, and Personal Advisor to Queen Malachimon." He looks at her menacingly, and backs away. He walks, briefcase in hand, to his spot next to Safiirumon. "Unable to make this meeting, Lance Fallon, Supreme General of All Armies, Personal Advisor to Queen Malachimon, and Heir to the Dominion Crown if Queen Malachimon was to meet an untimely demise, has ordered that his fourth in command, Virusmon, attend in his place." Virusmon enters and takes the seat reserved for Lance beside Attorneymon. "Finally, I present to you, the Queen of the Dominion and all it's subjects, Malachimon!!" She enters, and on her back are two black angel wings. She takes her royal seat positioned between Virusmon and Devimon. She says, "Any new business?" Evamon sits up and says, "I want to have more resources allocated to R&D. I mean, with the resources, we can make enough new digimon and cyborg troops to finish your mission, and then register that data. You have seen what Safiirumon's Elemental Valkyries did to the Digidestined last month. If just 8 digimon could do that, then think of other variants could do. We'll be unstoppable!!" Chris says, "You always want more resources." Malachimon says, "I also saw how dangerous they can be. I will grant more funds, on the grounds they can be controlled." Virusmon says, "Stage 1 of General Fallon's Recon Mission is complete. We now have data on the Digidestineds' wards and what threat they pose. Malachimon looks through the files and says, "But these are just children..." Devimon says, "Children can be just as dangerous as a powerful digimon." He rubs his gut. "I should know." "I'll have to review this data." Attorneymon says, "Devimon is right!! We must destroy them!!" Malachimon says, "You know my policy. Ever since I formed the Dominion, I have upheld the rule, 'No one dies, even the enemy.' We will not destroy them." Safiirumon says, "Queen Malachimon, the troops are losing morale because they do not understand why they fight the enemy and cannot destroy them, but they can." Malachimon says, "The enemy believes us to be evil, since we take their lands, but let them know that my intent is not to destroy the human world, but to unify it in peace. I know that no one would accept me since they place their faith in the Digidestined and what they believe, so I have to fight them in order to quell their strength, so that I can then explain my purpose in an environment of peace." Devimon whispers to Rina, "She makes no sense. She attacks them then hopes to speak to the pitiful humans as though a savior... Attorneymon is right. The sooner we axe her, the better." Rina answers, "It must be that evil impulse buried in her. She was made from evil, but I have no idea why she acts so benevolent. It's unbecoming of an evil digimon." "Devimon says, "Then why do we continue to let her exist?" Rina whispers back, "Because the evil digimon respect her for being the descendant of Obliviomon. We have to break that trust they have of her." Malachimon asks Evamon, "How is Lance recovering?" Evamon says, "Well, he still has ribs healing and he continues to drift in and out of consciousness deliriously speaking of a dream to a woman named Holly." Attorneymon grins and says, "Maybe when he wakes up we can ask him to see what he remembers. He was electrocuted pretty bad, and sometimes electrocution can cause some brain damage." Malachimon says, "Point taken, Attorneymon." Attorneymon says, "Also, I want to speak about the 'No Death' policy." Malachimon says, "What?" "Well, searching the archives and ancient temples of the Digital World, I found a legend speaking of a child born from a dead mother being from digimon and human blood, a descendant of and a future Digidestined, who will one day grow in power to such an extent that nothing else in the universe will ever rival her power. Then, she will summon a being called 'The Megami.' I believe the child Lily is that girl. She fits every criterion and has demonstrated amazing latent powers before. If allowed to continue living, she will destroy us all." Malachimon says, "Lily.... If you could understand...." Attorneymon, "What is your decision?" Malachimon says, "Keep an eye on her.... If what you say is true, I may just be forced to destroy her, but that's the one thing I don't want to do. If at all possible, I want to show her what we are all about, and maybe then we could avoid such senseless acts as execution." Attorneymon says, "If I may speak freely, you are being too lenient on the matter. You are letting your kindness and innocence blind you!!" Malachimon goes, "Enough!!" Jormungamon looks up and says, "I do believe that is the Digidestined there on the Digital Moon, looking at us." Devimon says, "I knew you had good eyes, but that's farfetched. There's no way you can see them this far away." Safiirumon says, "Well, Devimon, Jormungamon has never been wrong about what he has seen before." Malachimon says, "Jormungamon, Safiirumon, I want you two to take a force to guard the base under construction. Chris, take the Mach Nova out and prepare to herd them to the base where Jormungamon and Safiirumon will capture them. Attorneymon, come with me to the infirmary. Meeting adjourned."

Taichi leads on as Masato and Miyako stare at the ominous structure in space. "You think they see us?" Miyako says. Masato says, "I don't think it'd matter if they saw exactly where we are, because something that big is going to have giant cannons to go with it!!" Taichi says, "Stop worrying. To them we're just blips. I don't think they even know we're here." A ship flies overhead and shoots at them. A beeping sound come from Iori's D-Terminal. He takes it out. The screen comes on, and a figure dressed like Dark Helmet from Spaceballs says, "I am giving you a chance to surrender peacefully." His breathing gets louder. He then flips the front part of the helmet up to reveal Chris, gasping. "I need to put more air holes in this thing." He looks at them and says, "Well, do you give up?" Taichi yells, "Yeah right!!" Chris turns and says, "Fire a warning shot at them!!" A turret fires three shots down. Two are heading straight for Yolei.

"Hawkmon Warp Digivolve to Valkyrimon!!"

He blocks the first shot with his left wrist guard and deflects the second with his sword. "Hey, that wasn't so bad...." His sword and wristguard glow. Matt yells to Valkyrimon, "Quick, get rid of them!!" Valkyrimon removes the wristguard and throws his guard and his sword in the woods. They violently explode. On board the ship, Chris looks at a man in a uniform and asks, "I said warning shots. Who is firing anyway!!" There in the chair is a cross-eyed Sukamon. "Who let that dumbass be gunner!!" The man says, "I believe you did, sir." Chris turns to the gunner, "Well, then, carry on dumbass." He turns to leave and he looks around and sees the bridge staffed by some of the biggest dolts, imbeciles, and morons of the Digital World. "So this is what I got to work with. I knew it. I'm surrounded by dumbasses.... I'm going to get some coffee. Colonel North, call me when something important happens." He leaves the bridge. "Where have I heard that name before?" Outside, the Digidestined are running. "Is it just me, or do I see no point in running from something that could easily break the sound barrier?" Ken exclaims. Valkyrimon turns around.

"Aurvandil's Arrow!!"

The arrows freeze up some of the turrets and freeze the front. Taichi says, "We need a fast ride..... but Lewis can't do squat, Araiya vanished, and Daisuke and Veemon are mysteriously not here. Where are they anyway?" Daisuke is standing at an oven covered in CO2 from a fire extinguisher trying to cook some eggs when they spontaneously combust. "Must be cooking them too long." He sprays the eggs with the fire extinguisher and chucks them to Veemon. Veemon, eating, "I don't think eggs are supposed to be flammable." Daisuke says, "Shut up and eat your burning eggs." Veemon says, "These would taste great, if it weren't for all this extinguisher foam on them." Sounds of Oswald sledding down the roof can be heard and a crash, with him yelling, "Woohoo, I crossed the street!! Yeah!! Hey, Dai, you owe me!!" Meanwhile... Miyako screams, "We can't worry about him now!!" Sakiko yells, "Who'd be fast enough to get us away?" Izzy says, "The only one I can think of off-hand is Raijinkabuterimon, but I'm not sure if Tento has the strength to pull it off." Tentomon says, "Of course I do!! Just watch me!!" He strains, and all his straining produces is a fart. "Oh, I feel so much better." Romi yells, "Geez, that smells!!" Tentomon, "Now, watch me!!"

"THE SHARD OF TRUTH!!"

"Tentomon Terravolve to Raijinkabuterimon, Sentinel of the Heavens!!"

"Everyone hold on!!" Everybody gets up on him and gets down except for Valkyrimon, who still is standing. "Masato, I wouldn't hold on there." Raijinkabuterimon takes off. Masato starts sliding down his back and she asks, "Just how fast are we going?" Raijinkabuterimon says, "Oh, Mach 6ish, give or take." Masato goes, "No wonder I'm slipping off." Raijinkabuterimon says, "Told you not to hold on there. When I fly, that's where all the air goes along my aerodynamic slipstream. Hold on." She loses her grip, but he flips up, does a loop, and snatches her in his talon. Masato mutters, "I always wanted to ride on a smelly foot." Raijinkabuterimon says, "I can always drop you." Masato says, "Shutting up. Oh, I'm going to be sick." Chris runs back into the bridge with a cup with the Starbuck's logo on it. "Is it just me, or are Starbuck's everywhere I look?" He takes a sip of the coffee. "What is it, Col. North?" Col. North answers, "A little bit ago, one of their digimon Terravolved and they sped away on it. Not to worry, we still got them on radar." They walk over to the radar station. Sitting next to the station is a Starbuck's. "Hey, that wasn't here five minutes ago." The men at the radar posts sit there sipping Starbuck's coffee. "What's the status?" Col. North asks. The man takes a sip and says, "Starbuck's has taken over 25% of the ship, sir!!" Col. North blurts, "Good lord, man. They're like locusts!! Thanks." A subordinate gives him a cup of coffee and he takes a sip. Chris says, "No, stupid, the Digidestined!!" The man says, "Well, sir, they're moving at Mach 6.7 right for Jormungamon's trap." Chris says, "Dammit, I want the glory. Catch up to them!!" Col. North speaks over a PA, "Set speed at Mach 10!!" Chris goes, "No, no, no, Mach 10's too slow." Col. North goes, "Mach 10 too slow?" Chris yells, "Prepare for Nut-Busting Speed!!" Col. North sits down and straps down. He says, "Please fasten seat belts and return your trays to the upright position and prepare for Nut-Busting Speed." He looks at Chris. "Aren't you going to strap up?" Chris goes, "Wussies." Col. North goes, "Okay, I warned you." He hits the switch. The ship accelerates super fast. The speedometer on a console display can no longer accommodate all the numbers in the speed, then it blinks 'MAX SPEED.' Chris goes flying back and lands on a pillar in midair, straddling it between his legs. His eyes open so wide as he grimaces. "WHAT HAVE I DONE!! MY BRAINS ARE IN MY FEET AND I CAN'T FEEL ANYTHING BETWEEN MY LEGS ANYMORE EXCEPT AGONY!! TURN IT OFF!!" Chris screams in a high pitch. The Digidestined continue to flee and watch as the Mach Nova closes at breakneck speeds. Valkyrimon says, "They're catching up, and they aren't slowing up!!" Jormungamon and his forces spring up from the ground and scare Raijinkabuterimon, causing him to stop. On the ship, "STOP THIS THING!!" Col. North hits a red button on his console and the Mach Nova comes to a grinding halt. Chris, due to the laws of motion, goes flying forward, through the viewscreen, through the hull, and crashes into Raijinkabuterimon's head, then ricochets off, lands on Jormungamon, slides down him, and lands on his feet. Raijinkabuterimon flips over and plunges unconscious to the ground. The Digidestined all hit the ground, and Masato bounces off Raijinkabuterimon's stomach to the ground. He dedigivolves to Tentomon. From a loudspeaker, Col. North speaks down, "Commander, are you okay?" Chris gives a thumbs up while staggering, his helmet totaled. "Good thing you were wearing that helmet!!" Chris staggers and says, "How about we take a break... Tell Metzger, I feel his pain." He faints. Jormungamon's men move in and capture the stunned Digidestined and their digimon.

Araiya, now a stressed-out mess, her hair frizzed out, goes, "Stop telling me why it can't be done and DO IT!!" She points to a bulls-eye with a 1/16" center. "I WANT YOU TO SHOOT THE DEAD CENTER OF THAT THING, NOW!!!" Lewis says, "Your logic is flawed, Araiya. I believe you must calm down." Keiko stands there and says, "Why don't you just try?" Lewis says, "Oh, alright." He takes aim, and misses. Tetsuo says, "You have lost your focus." Bonnie says, "That, or Mr. Spock here never had any." Meramon says, "Let me guess, he's testing both you patience." Bonnie goes, "Remind me to give you a gold star when we get home." Jou sends Araiya a message. "I got Jun and Yuuji and we're heading to help the others on the Digital Moon!! Get here whenever you can!!" Araiya goes, "But...." Lewis says, "What?" Araiya screams, "SCREW IT!! I QUIT!! I CAN'T TAKE THIS CRAP ANYMORE!! OH, HOW I TRIED, BUT NO!!! YOU ARE SO HARDHEADED!!" Andromon goes, "Who is Araiya talking to?" Lewis goes, "Beats me?" Araiya turns and looks at Lewis maniacally. Lewis asks, "What's your problem?" Araiya opens her car trunk and brandishes a tire iron. Suddenly, she jumps him and gives him two good blows to his head, then sitting atop him, she bashes him in the skull again. In his daze, Lewis hears the words 'Screw It,' 'Tried,' 'Effort,' and 'Damn.' Suddenly, Lewis shoots up, throwing Araiya off him. "Give me that!!" He snatches it away and throws it away. Araiya goes, "Is that you, Lewis?" Lewis goes, "Duh?! Who'd ya think I am, the tooth fairy? What took you so long in jump starting my memory?!" Araiya grabs him and kisses him. Lewis is thrashing around for air. She releases him and says, "After trying for 4 hours, I finally got you back!!" Lewis stands up and says, "See, there's the problem. You TRIED. If you had taken the effortless direct approach and had beaten the crap out of me with the tire iron sooner, I'd have had my memory back sooner. Whose idea was it to have you restart my memory anyway?" Araiya goes, "Mine." Lewis yells, "No freakin' wonder it took so long!! Now if you excuse us, we have a moon and some digidestined to save." He jumps in Araiya's car with the others and cranks it up, and drives off. "He's right. We got a job to do.... Guys? Hey, where are my keys, and my car for that matter?" An eerie gust blows by. "LEWIS!!" He drives back. "I was wondering when you'd notice. Hop in." She jumps in the passenger side. Tetsuo says, "They are like a veritable Yin and Yang, always opposite, yet when worse comes to worse, the ultimate team." Araiya says, "Don't start with that hippie babble in my car!!" Lewis says, "Who says it's your car?" Araiya looks around and says, "Well, I don't remember my car being so spacious.... Wait a second!! Lewis!!" Lewis snaps his fingers and says, "Damn, almost stole the car out from under her." He cranks it into overdrive. "Hi ho, Silver, away!!" They speed back to Lewis's house.

Tentomon regains consciousness in a cell. "Oh, what happened?" Izzy says, "Well, after that weapon hit you over the head, you were knocked out, and we were stunned, and they threw us in the brig in the base they're building." Tentomon says, "Hah, no bars. What morons....." He hits a force field and gets zapped. "What the hell?" Izzy says, "I didn't think it was possible to make a stable field of energy like that. I thought it was just a figment of some sci-fi writer's mind." Ryo says, "Well, I guess someone made a real one." Romeo says, "Well, I've been quiet long enough. I say it's time for some real leadership. Urchinmon digivolve!!" He strains, but nothing. "Uh, when I say 'Urchinmon digivolve,' that's your cue to digivolve." Hikari says, "Let me point out something." She points up. Ken says, "I'll be damned... It's a piece of one of my old control spires. They must of found a fragment and reversed engineered it somehow. From the size of it I guess it only has enough power to prevent digivolving in this cell." Romeo says, "Well, they forgot to protect it. Urchinmon..." Urchinmon goes, "My pleasure."

"Ballast Cannon!!"

He puffs up, then blasts a pressurized sphere of air at high velocity at the Control Spire disc. It nears it, then reflects off a force field, off the walls, and blasts Tentomon in the head. "I'm going to catch up on a lot of sleep today...." He falls over out cold again.

Meanwhile, Jou and the others arrive on the Digital Moon. Out from the bushes Eucaryotemon comes out. Jou goes, "Whoa, who are you, and what are you?" Gomamon says, "Jou, don't you remember Taichi and Matt telling us about Eucaryotemon a long time ago? This is him." Eucaryotemon says, "Well, I'm guessing you three are Digidestined too." Jou says, "Why, yes we are." Eucaryotemon says, "Good. Jormungamon and Safiirumon captured your friends before they could rendezvous with me. I saw where they are being held. They were taken to the base. The outside defenses aren't on yet, since technically they're not finished yet, but sources say the lower levels are fully operational, and I bet you that's where they are." Yuuji says, "You know, you guys are fully capable. Why do you need me? In fact, you haven't explained what use I am to you." Jou says, "You are a Digidestined. That I already told you. The reason you are so important is because you are part of the team, and each member is important to the group, and each member relies on the other." Yuuji says, "Reliance is useless. I learned a long time ago to only rely on yourself." Jou says, "Well, I'm going to prove you wrong. The others are relying on us to save them. Now, let's save some Digidestined!!"

"Gomamon Warp Digivolve to Norse Zudomon!!"

"Norse Zudomon Warp Digivolve to Neptune Zudomon!!"

Everyone climbs on him as he removes his shell and starts running. The shell opens, and it catches a wind current, lifting them up.

Back at Lewis's house, Lewis enters to find extinguisher foam everywhere. "What the hell happened here?" He goes to his living room to find Daisuke, Oswald, and Veemon pigging out while watching soccer. Oswald says, "Oh, hi Lewis!!" He walks up to Daisuke. "Follow the finger." He points his middle finger at Dai then after moving it in front of his face a couple of times he palm strikes him on the forehead. Daisuke is knocked to the floor dazed. "Dumbass." He looks around. "Dai, you are going to clean this up when we get back, Veemon too. Who's idea was it to introduce Oswald to Daisuke?" Daisuke says, "Well, he came here, I saw him, and it kinda just happened." Lewis says, "Okay, now explain the foam." Daisuke says, "Well, I cooked some breakfast, and everything I cooked seemed to catch on fire, even the cereal." Lewis says, "How the hell do you set fire to cereal and milk? That's something even I can't do!! You're going to have to show me that. Continue." Dai pressed on, "Well, after breakfast Oswald and Veemon found more fire extinguishers and we decided to have a extinguisher fight." Lewis says, "You two are worse than Lewis & Oswald from the old Drew Carey Show. All I need now is a bar called the Warsaw to open up next door and you guys would be at home." Lewis stops for a moment, pondering. Everyone thinks. "Araiya says, "We'll figure out the link later. Right now we have to help Jou on the Digital Moon." Lewis says, "I'll be right back. Can't go save the world in a bathrobe. I swear I look like 'Hawkeye' Pierce in this thing!!" He runs upstairs. He changes, then goes to the elevator. He pulls out a card key and swipes it. It opens and he goes in. It takes him up to a secluded room on the 10th floor. The doors opens and reveals a room stockpiled in guns and ammo, along with other weapons. He puts on multiple ammo belts and holsters many different sub-machine guns. He puts over his shoulder a SPAS-12 Combat Shotgun, an FN-FAL, and a Light Support Machine Gun. Sheathed on his belt is his trusty sword, his lead pipe, and a chainsaw. When he comes down the stairs, he tosses Araiya a Skorpion VZ-61 submachine gun and a Remington Double-Barrel Sawed-Off Shotgun. "Let's ride!!"

As Neptune Zudomon closes, Jou says, "You two stay close to me and Eucaryotemon. Jun, you go with Eucaryotemon, and Yuuji, you'll stay with me." Eucaryotemon says, "Son, if you are Digidestined, then where is your Digimon?" Yuuji says, "It's in this stupid egg." Eucaryotemon answers, "Son, it's not stupid. I sense that you feel betrayed by the world." Yuuji says, "After I lost my mom, nothing matters anymore." Eucaryotemon responds, "Well, fate is a fickled thing. It may have taken your mom, but fate is not set in stone. It only is if you let it be." They close in. "Here we go!!" Neptune Zudomon yells. He lands and the others get off his shell.

"Andromon digivolve to Neo Andromon!!"

Jun and Neo Andromon move towards the base. Eucaryotemon yells, "We'll get your comrades. The strong brutes are outside, and you can handle any reinforcents they dispatch!!" They go in. Jou says, "Hope they're right."

On the Mach Nova, Chris lays in a bed with an ice pack and asks Col. North, "Tell me why they call it 'Nut-Busting Speed' again?" Col. North says, "Well, when Evamon field-tested the engines, let's just say you made the same mistake you did, sir. Afterwards, everyone just started using as slang for that velocity." Chris says, "Hey, I'm your commander!! I don't make mistakes, you do!! Now, for your stupidity, I want you to hit yourself." Col. North salutes and says, "Yes, sir!!" And punches himself in the gut. An alarm goes off. "What's that mean?" He gets out of bed, puts on a new helmet, lowers the mask, and walks bow-legged to the bridge. "Report!!" The cross-eyed Sukamon says, "Duh, da base is under attack. And now we under attack, or are we over attack? What do we do?" Chris says, "Imbecile... I'm going to file for a motion to get new officers and have these ones shot and put out of their misery." One of the digimon on the bridge goes, "What da misery mean? Does it mean I get to make that bunny farm with George?" Chris says, "Okay, that's it!! The Starbuck's people are more competent than these goons!! If they can take over 25% of the ship..." The radar man says, "60% of the ship, sir." "Okay then, 60% of the ship without us noticing or stopping them, then maybe they can follow basic orders!!" He flips his mask up, then turns to the lady at the Starbuck's on the bridge, "Hey, you, you want a job?" The lady says, "I got a job." Chris says, "It has an excellent 401k and dental plan." The lady says, "What about medical?" "It's not an HMO." The lady says, "Okay, then." Chris says, "I want you to round up your Starbuck's cronies, tell them they're all hired, and toss my old crew, except Col. North, he's somewhat competent, and out the airlock, then report back and take battle stations." The lady runs out. "How the hell did they get aboard in the first place?"

The battle rages on at the base, as Neo Andromon and Eucaryotemon wind their way downstairs.

"Sidewinder Storm!!"

"Tendril Knuckle!!"

They topple some Mamemon and continue down the hall. They run on and a Uraniumon blocked the way. "By order of Lord Jormungamon, you are to surrender now or be destroyed!!" Eucaryotemon says, "How's about you meet my Mitosis Microwave!!" The beam hits him, but does nothing. "I'm a Nuclear digimon. Your cell-splitting powers are useless on me!!"

"Little Boy Torpedo!!"

The bomb hits Eucaryotemon and puts him down on the wall. Neo Andromon says, "Nuclear waste is bad for the environment. Let me clean it up!!"

"Fist Missiles!!"

His fist fly off his arms and pummel away, but they can't seem to subdue him enough. Suddenly, a spear pierces him from behind and Uraniumon disintegrates. Eucaryotemon gets up and exclaims, "Hey, Europamon, about time you got here!!" Europamon said, "Well, I mean I couldn't come in the front door." They race in the brig where they found them. Taichi yells, "Jun, where's Jou!!" Jun goes, "Outside, keeping the goon squad from restocking their forces." Izzy says, "See if you can disable the force field." She looks at all the consoles, and sees they are all in digi-code. "Anyone knows how to read digi-code?" Neo Andromon says, "Let me try to uplink to it." He locks a cable onto the console, but gets shocked. "The system is safeguarded and encrypted. We must shut down the power source." Tentomon exclaims, "Or I could overload the field.... No, we'd all get blown up. Can't have that happen. That wouldn't look good on my resume." Jun uses her digivice to signal Jou. "Jou, in order to get them out, you have to find and destroy the power generator." Neptune Zudomon says, "I think I see it. It's on the mountainside." Suddenly, a cannon blast hits him, and for the next 8 seconds Jou watches as Neptune Zudomon defies gravity and is flung through the air from the blast, and more blasts, and more. He finally hits the ground and rolls. To their surprise, the Mach Nova hovered in place, barrels smoking. Chris blurts out, "DAMN!! Do that again!! Heavy turrets, full spread!! I like these ruthless Starbuck's types." Neptune Zudomon takes his shell and uses it like a shield from the aerial bombardment. The last blast shatters the shell, and Neptune Zudomon pulls out his harpoon gun.

"Harpoon Cannon!!"

He shoots his two harpoons. Chris yells, "Fire countermeasures 1 & 2!!" He takes a sip of his coffee. Two small missiles lower from the belly of the ship and fly right out the harpoons. They intercept the harpoons, and the resulting explosion rocks the ship. The rocking causes Chris to drop his coffee in his lap. "Col., icepack, NOW!!" He makes a goofy look of agony as he slides out of his chair. "Begin Mag Maverick attacks...." Big missiles fire out, and the nose cones shatter, the inside of the cone releasing 5 medium sized missiles, and then an automated system on each main missile load up smaller missiles and fire continuous barrages of these small missiles. Neptune Zudomon starts hobbling away as explosions galore rip across the landscape. Jou says, "Yuuji, listen. I'm going to help see if I can buy some time for Neptune Zudomon. I wouldn't ask this of you if I didn't have faith in you to do it. I need you to see if you can find any way to damage that power generator. I would do it myself, but the instant I leave the safety of the forest, the Mach Nova will shoot at me on site. You though are less likely to be noticed, and since they don't know that you're a Digidestined, they will ignore you. Now, get ready. As soon as I jump out, run for the mountain." He leaps out. Yuuji sits there scared, going, "Should I do what he says? What if he's wrong?" Jou turns and yells, "RUN, YUUJI, RUN!!" One of the Starbuck's cashiers says, "Sir, a man has run out from the forest, taunting us and waving a strange device at us from our aft." Col. North, giving Chris an icepack, says, "Well, shoot him!! He's a Digidestined." Chris smacks him over the head and says, "I give the orders here. Now, do you what he said!!" From the rear of the ship, multiple 55mm Vulcan Cannons pop up from under the hull. Jou peeps, "Those are some big guns...." He starts running all around. Yuuji, running begins to frantically climb up the hillside. "Why did I agree to do this.... Wait, I didn't agree.... It's too late now.... Besides, he says people are counting on me.... I'm too young for this kind of stress." Jun sits in the brig just tapping her fingers. "What's the hold-up? Geez!! I thought he said he was on it." Well, as she says this, he is on something, on the targeting screens of the Mach Nova!! Jou screams, "I don't think I ever did this much running back in the day!! If this keeps up, I'll either be swiss cheese or on the Olympic Track & Field Team!!" Jou runs through the forest. "Sir, we lost visual." Chris goes, "Well, shoot at his last known location!!" They shoot up the forest. All of a sudden the ship quakes and sparks fly. Chris shouts, "What just happened!!" The man at tactical says, "All this time we spent shooting at the Digidestined we kinda forgot the digimon. We thought he was down for the count, but he seems able. A sword struck us. Hull integrity down to 78%!!" Chris yells putting the icepack on him, "Well, use another Mag Maverick!!" "We're out!!" "I'm going to shoot that quartermaster!! What do we have?" "We have two Gemini Anti-Digimon Missiles." "Well, use them!!" From the front two missiles fly from the same launcher. They line up side by side and generate an electric field. They slow and surround Neptune Zudomon, electrocuting him in the field, flying around him in a tightening holding pattern. Finally, they collide with him and explode. He goes flying from the blast as Pichimon. Jou runs out from the leveled trees to get him. "I thought you killed him. Shoot them now!!" Chris voice echoes as the scene fades to Yuuji up at the generator. "I'm so hot.... I always thought mountains were cool. I mean they always got snow on them.... Wait, this mountain doesn't have any snow.... Maybe it's a volcano!!" He looks around and says, "Now what... I may be smart for my age, but I am no electric-doohickey guy that fix the power." He starts hurling rocks at it, but nothing. "Wait, if I remember right, I think if I had some water I could short it out... I knew there was a reason why you don't have outlets near water. Now, where am I going to find water on a volcano?" Suddenly, a Tyrannomon spots him and starts coming up after him. Yuuji sees him and goes, "I have to think fast. Everyone needs me to shut down the generator, but how?" His Digiegg and digivice glow. The egg hatches and something that looks like a blue Pichimon is the result. "What just happened?" The digimon speaks. She says, "I hatched from my digiegg. I am Finmon." Yuuji says, "Well, got any idea on what that giant lizard thingy is?" Finmon says, "That's a Tyrannomon, one of the most abundant digimon there are." Yuuji says, "Well, he's big.... We're not.... And we got to shut down this generator!!" Finmon says, "I'll handle him, you take cover, then we'll fry that generator!!" Yuuji goes, "Well, I'm not going to argue with that plan!!"

"Finmon digivolve to Marianamon!!"

"Marianamon digivolve to Nixemon!!"

There in place of Finmon was a blue-skinned mermaid-like figure with white stripes running down her sides from under her arms down to her waist, where it splits, part of each line meeting in front just under her belly button, and the other part on her lower back. Her fingers are webbed and she has short shoulder-length sea green hair. Her profile shows up, read by Jou. "Nixemon is a Rookie Merfolk type digimon of the deep seas. Her weapons of choice are her Deep Blue Sais. From afar she throws her burning and blinding Chlorine Bombs." The Tyrannomon makes it up to their level. "Lord Jormungamon demands the capture of all trespassers!!" Nixemon says, "Well, we're in a getting captured mood right now. Try again later." The Tyrannomon roars.

"Blaze Blast!!"

The fireball flies, but Nixemon bounds off her fin into the air into a back flip. At the apex on her jump, she throws pearl-like orbs.

"Chlorine Bombs!!"

The bombs explode at his feet, shrapnel embedding in his legs and chlorinated water and chlorine gas flying from the point of detonation. The water splashes all over, and even his eyes. The gas is burning his trachea and lungs. "My eyes, they burn!!" He falls to his knees. Yuuji, above the generator trying to pry rocks down onto the generator, yells, "Alright, Nixemon!!" He strains more and more at the rocks. The Tyranomon vomits and mutters, "I feel like I'm drowning." She leaps forward, flips, then spins and deals Tyrannomon a roundhouse with her fin, then upon landing, draws her sais.

"Deep Blue Sais!!"

She slashes him, but then he shoots up and backhands her into the mountainside. His eyes, now only able to see glazed foggy images, sees her blue body standing out from the rock face.

"Blaze Blast!!"

Nixemon is hit repeatedly in the abdomen and upper fin. Loose rocks tumble down on her and cover most of her. Yuuji screams, "No, Nixemon...." He bashes his hands on the rocks. While bashing, he threw his digivice on them. When he went to grab it, he hit a button, and the bottom half of the digivice extended. On the left side, and long, narrow blade protruded. He took the halberd-like digivice and slammed into the rock, and in a feat of anger and strength, pushed the pole forward and knocked the rocks. Tyrannomon says, "He thinks he's Hercules.... Oh, I should move now...." Tyrannomon leaps for safety as boulders rained down the mountainside, some hitting the generator, damaging it. A shimmer of light blazes from the digivice and from where Nixemon laid.

"Nixemon digivolve to Ningyomon!!"

Tyrannomon gets up and exclaims, "Oh, Jormungamon will be angry. I better capture the culprits to smooth things over, and hopefully the punishment won't be so bad..." Ningyomon busts out from the rock and pounces on him. She looks very similar to Nixemon, but she has a pale blue complexion, is wearing a golden halter top, titanium alloy medieval plate mail shoulder plates, both plates held together by two chains, one in front and one in the back. Plate-like sheets run down the outside edge of her arms to her elbows. On the outside edges of her forearms, bone spikes protruded from her, webbed together in a piece of thin leathery flesh. Around her neck is a coral gorget. Over her shoulder is a baldric for a katana style sword, with three black pearls on it. Her hair now hangs to bottom half of her back. Ningyomon reads her own profile, "I am Ningyomon, Champion Merfolk digimon extraordinaire. With Opal Murasame in hand, I can slice my foes and freeze my foes in solid ice. Using my Black Pearls, I throw one of my pearls, coating my opponent in ink, then unleashing a deadly storm once shattered." She sits on Tyrannomon. Tyrannomon stares her down.

"Blaze Blast!!"

"Opal Murasame!!"

She slices the fireball and freezes it. It lands in Tyrannomon's mouth. Ningyomon goes, "Aren't you too old for a pacifier?" He clamps his jaw down, shattering the ice. A piece smacks her and Ningyomon is stunned. Tyrannomon then grabs her by the end of her fishtail and starts spinning around with her. After a few seconds, Ningyomon exclaims, "I gotta do something quick, or I'm going to lose my lunch.... Wait, how can I lose it if I never had it to begin with?" She grabs one of the three black pearls she has.

"Black Pearl!!"

She hurls it, and it hits him in the back. Ink splatters all over his back, and then rains and winds begin to knock him off balance. He releases her and falls down. She goes flying and rolls head over fin almost over the edge. Suddenly, the volcano rumbles. Tyranomon says, "Oh no, Attorneymon told us that Evamon said the eruptions would happen next week!! We haven't built all the canals!! The base will be destroyed!! We'll all be destroyed!!" An explosion blows boulders off the top.

In the base, Jun yells, "I don't think quake was the good kind of quake...." Eucaryotemon said, "That's because we're at the basin of a volcano!!" Taichi asks, "Who in their right mind builds on the base of a volcano?" Miyako says, "Well, if you were to irrigate the mountain properly, it would be a tactical advantage. I mean, think about it, if you can irrigate the lava to go around you, then it can't hurt the base. Also, it protects from invasion from many sides, and this would be the least likely spot to find a military base, I mean, most people would rationalize that no one in their right mind would ever build something that would get destroyed so easily. Also, this place, when geo-thermic generators are placed in the right areas, can be powered with infinite geo-thermic energy." Lotusmon says, "Well, getting buried isn't high on my list. You guys can talk, I'm going to actually do something." She rams a plant Spike into the force field. In its weakened state, the spike pierces it, but is shocking Lotusmon. She rips through it and makes a hole just big enough for her and a couple of others. Lotusmon, Scarletmon, Tailmon, Wormmon, and Patamon get out before the hole closes.

"Patamon Warp Digivolve to Seraphimon!!"

"Tailmon digivolve to Angewomon!!"

"Wormmon digivolve to Stingmon!!"

"Scarletmon digivolve to Gryphonmon!!"

"Lotusmon digivolve to Lotomon!!"

"Lotomon digivolve to Sunflowermon!!"

Sunflowermon says, "Now, let's see if we can do something about this here force field...." They think and then Seraphimon says, "Well, anything we do would break the force field, but would blow them up in the process...." Another quake. Sunflowermon says, "Instead of trying to go through it, why don't we go around it!!" Masato says, "I think I see what you're getting at..." Masato pushes everyone back against the right wall. Sunflowermon and Stingmon go into the cell next to theirs and draw back, the sword blade on her left forearm plate glows, as does Stingmon's.

"Spiking Strike!!"

"Artema Edge!!"

They pierce the wall and slowly carve through it. "Now, to knock it down!!"

"Splash Turrets!!"

The wall comes falling down and everyone pours out. They charge down the halls and when they reach the final floor, the ground quakes, then as soon as it stops, another quake. "Those quakes sure are picking up!!" Then from the ground flies out Jormungamon. His profile pops up. "Jormungamon is a vicious Terra Wyrm digimon. He crushes his foes in his Endless Constriction maneuver, balls up and steamrolls them in his Rolly Poly attack, shoots boulders covered in acid in his Rotten Core attack, impales in his Spiking Slither, and spins & writhes, throwing lava from his skin is his deadliest move, Molten Molotov Mantle." Jormungamon says, "You are a great deal of trouble... I still can't see why Malachimon wants you alive. Now we can do this the easy way or the hard way." Stingmon says, "We opt for the hard way." Jormungamon just looks and says, "Your asses then." He charges forward.

"Urchinmon digivolve to Krakenmon!!"

"Ardillamon digivolve to Puxitomymon!!"

"Puxitomymon digivolve to Cupidmon!!"

"Humbug, you think a few Ultimates will phase me!!" Jormungamon screams, then charges them. Krakenmon tries to hold them, but he gets thrown aside, reverting to Urchinmon.

"St. Valentine's Arrow!!"

The arrows shatter and bounce off his scaly and spiked hide.

"Rotten Core!!"

He is stricken and thrown to the wall. Sunflowermon starts pelting him with blasts from her cannons. He smacks her with his tail. Stingmon strikes away at his head, and gets thrown for a nasty ride. Gryphonmon charges, but she is taken down by one of his boulders. Seraphimon is trying his best to hold off Jormungamon's advance against the Digidestined by shoving him back towards the hole he came from. Jormungamon is too strong though, and throws Seraphimon in to Angewomon. Jormungamon growls as everything goes to a freeze frame, flash white, and we return to Jou, who where we left off, was about to become Chris's new human pincushion. "Fire!!" Just before they can fire, the gunner says, "There's something down there with him." Chris says, "This better be important." He looks and sees Safiirumon there. Safiirumon says up to him, "Remember, Queen Malachimon wants them alive, not see through." Safiirumon clubs Pichimon unconscious after using a sleeperhold on Jou. Chris pulls out a device and hits a red button on the key chain. Chris says to it, "The twit Safiirumon got to them first. Suggest a new recourse." Aboard the station, Attorneymon answers a similar device. "Oh, hold on. I'll handle this personally." He turns it off and mutters, "Damn incompetent humans. Can't do a thing right unless you install upgrades into the lot of them." He turns to Malachimon and comments, "There is a situation. I'll take care of it. I will return shortly." Malachimon nods and he walks away. She turns to Evamon. "Will this treatment be able to jump start him?" Evamon says, "Well, this combination of stimulants and adrenaline I concocted should be enough to get him awake, at least, I hope. I never dealt with anyone who, according to scans, has been in REM Sleep for 11 years." Malachimon is shocked. "What do you mean?" Everything of the last 11 years is nothing but a dream to him. If he were to wake up entirely, he will still think it to be the year 2034....." Attorneymon walks down an empty hall. "Safiirumon, you bleeding heart, I should rip your heart out just for poetic justice. I have Digidestined to kill, especially the girl." He goes into the shadows.

"Hyper Centuriosapien Teleport!!"

A flash of light, and he is gone.

Back on the moon, Safiirumon is about to take Jou away when a voice calls out, "Equalizer!!" Safiirumon says, "I believe your reinforcements have come. Maybe Chris could handle those blokes." He watches as Lewis shoots out of the forest and swings his sword at the Mach Nova. Chris laughs, "Hah, he thinks his oversized butter knife will hurt this ship.... Is it just me, or is the floor getting slanty?" Lewis not only damaged the ship, he sliced it in half. Lewis laughs and says, "Must be American made." The nose and rear halves hit the ground. The Starbuck's guys and gals run away, yelling, "You're on your own!!" Chris screams, "Ya damn coffee swilling wussies!!" He drinks from his travel mug. "You remember the cappuccino machine, Col. North?" Straining, "Yes.... sir...." Alcyaid Xaviomon clears the forest. "Then I believe we have overstayed our welcome. Let us take our leave." They run away. "Sir, could you help, this thing is giving me a hernia!!" The ground trembles. "Is it just me, or I believe there is a volcano nearby." Lewis retorts to the ground. Safiirumon goes, "Insuring the evacuation of the base takes priority over taking this Digidestined as prisoner." He throws Jou and Pichimon at Lewis and runs at the base. Tetsuo says, "I suggest pursuit." Lewis goes, "I concur." Araiya goes, "What the? You didn't ask me!!" Lewis turns to her and says, "We outnumber you 3 to 1." Araiya, "Are you sure I didn't beat you stupid?" "No, Tetsuo is one, I'm second, and look at my hand." He gives her the bird. "He's #3, and what he says goes, and he says we chase them." Daisuke says, "Good argument." X Veemon says, "Okay... Either you lost it again, or you had an 'intelligent' conversation with Oswald, and you're brain is fried from overthinking." Araiya yells from Alcyaid Xaviomon's shoulder, "I'm tired of you doing this to me!!" Lewis retorts, "Well, I'm tired of you calling me, and Tetsuo, your own grandson, bums and hippies. I don't care if you trash my lifestyle, I couldn't care less, but it's not right to argue over what Tetsuo and his mother do. It's their lives, they choose their paths." Araiya looks at him thinking, "Well, he has a point. They are my own flesh and blood. I must learn to... respect, what they do and have chosen to do. This is going to be so hard. Lewis has a better relation with Tetsuo than I do!! If I could only understand why, though."

Back up on the mountain, lava has started to flow down the mountainside. Ningyomon and Tyrannomon were still locked in their fight. Lava had already rushed down, leaving only a big landmass where the generator is and some islands in the magma river. Tyrannomon leaps over the lava and backhands Ningyomon as he lands. She drags her murasame in the lava, making an ice bridge. She propels herself onto it with the sword embedded in the ice. She quickly backflips back to solid ground before the ledge can melt. As she lands, she slices him again, leaving a frostbitten and frozen gash in Tyrannomon. Ningyomon looks at the gashes she gave him and says, "Hey, a red X Veemon!!" Tyrannomon looks down to see this, and Ningyomon stabs her sword in the ground and deals him a mean kick to the cranium. He goes flying and just barely makes it back to landmass with the generator. Ningyomon leans over on her sword, sweaty and exhausted. "I'm so hot and thirsty. Why of all places, why did I have to fight him on a rocky, steep, cragged filled volcano. It doesn't matter now. He's out cold. All that matters now is getting Yuuji out of here before I collapse." She starts to swoon. "This metal, so hot." She takes off her shoulder plates and lays them next to her. Suddenly, the Tyrannomon gets up. "No, he should be out cold!!" Ningyomon exclaims, growing more and more exhausted in the heat. He turns at Yuuji. "You are mine, brat!!" He leans over to grab him when Yuuji throws a rock at his snout. "Ow, that was a tender spot!! Come here!!" Yuuji is running all around him, too close to be grabbed by the oaf. He uses the bladed end of the digivice to poke him in the foot. He is jumping around on one foot in pain. Ningyomon says, "What is he doing?" She slowly gets up and manages to leap over to the next isle. The she saw what he was trying to do. She yells, "Get him closer to the generator!!" Yuuji slowly lured the brute towards the generator, when he swiped at Yuuji. Instead of hitting Yuuji, he hit the generator. It blew the top off, giving him a good shocking, then the steam came up and burned his face. "Yaagghhh!!!!" He screams from the steam hurting his eyes. Nigyomon, finally getting back to the main landmass, exclaims, "I knew I could count on you, Yuuji." His digivice glows. Just then, Tyrannomon charges her, and lava spews out from under the generator. Yuuji turns to her and yells, "Quick, do something or all three of us are toast!!" She starts to glow.

"Ningyomon digivolve to.... "

She sits on a rock in the ocean, and in the background is the planet Neptune. She holds her sword into the sky, the handle in her right hand, and part of the blade in the left. As Neptune ascends, the tide rises and thrash. When Neptune gets directly overhead, the symbol for Neptune glows, shooting down an obelisk of light, that of which encompasses her. A tidal wave rushes by and strikes the rock and the light, and there is a blinding flash. When the light fades, everything is on the other side of the wave, Neptune is beginning to set. There on the rock sits a merfolk like being with creamy skin on her top half, and purplish fish scales for her lower half. Her hair is now blonde, and even longer. On her was a cuirass similar in design to the one Xena wears, and it included plating for the lower two-thirds of her back. The cuirass is over what seems to be a chain mail tank top. She still has the plating over shoulders and upper arm, but now the shoulder plates are bigger and have the Crest of Reliability on then in gold. The spikes on her arms are gone, and on her right arm is a forearm plate strapped on by leather and a gauntlet on her hand. Four white silk ribbons go from her shoulder to her wrist, two on each arm. The wind blows.

"... Sirenamon!!"

Jou does the profile, "This is Sirenamon. We met Sirenamon before, but never got a chance to learn about her. She is the Ultimate form of Ningyomon, a Water Nymph digimon. She combats her nemeses with her Great Nor'easter attack, which summons a devastating blizzard to rain down on them, freezing them solid. Whenever she wields a pole arm, she can perform her Tide Cutter maneuver. A special ability only she has, when using Yuuji's digivice as a weapon, she can perform an attack called Neap Tide Cyclone. Of course, who can forget her most powerful attack, Siren's Song, which disables digimon and sics a nasty storm that blasts gigantic columns of water from the sky. If the digimon is easily suggestible, they sometimes even fall under the control of Sirenamon." Sirenamon mentions, "Hey, Yuuji, toss me your digivice!!" He throws it to her and she grabs it in her right hand. She activates the halberd mode again and says, "Let's play." She plants the pole, vaults up, and kicks Tyrannomon back at the generator. He gets electrocuted again and thrown off. She raises her left to the sky.

"Great Nor'easter!!"

The temperature drops drastically as snow and ice pelts Tyrannomon and the mountain. The Tyrannomon is weakened, but he persists in his endeavor. The ground starts to quake a lot. "Something tells me I shouldn't have froze the generator and the lava...."

We return to the others, who at last glance, were it seems to become an appetizer for Jormungamon. Out of nowhere...,

"Falcon Pounce!!"

"Patriot Arrow!!"

Gryphonmon and Cupidmon, both with acid burns on their chests and hands, shoot at him. The arrow hits his gums, and Gryphonmon smashes into his right eye. Jormungamon thrashes and screams. He screams, "My eye!! I can't see!! You will pay!!"

"Molten Molotov Mantle!!"

He starts his berserk spin.

"THE SHARD OF HONOR!!"
"THE SHARD OF MARTYRDOM!!"

"Agumon Terravolve to Paladingreymon, Guardian of Honor!!"

"Gabumon Warp Digivolve to Metalgarurumon!!"

"Metalgarurumon Warp Digivolve to Glaciergarurumon!!"

"Dryadsapia Terravolve to Gaiasapia, Avenger of Martyrs!!"

Everyone is herded behind Paladingreymon as lava rocks fly all around. Glaciergarurumon leaps onto him and digs into his exposed meat. He rears back and screams. His spikes stick straight out.

"Rolly Poly!!"

He rolls, stabbing Glaciergarurumon with his hide. He rolls back towards the back wall. He stops and moves around as though wounded. "Malachimon's orders be damned, you will atone for your acts against me with your lives!!" He gets up high, and.....

While all that happened, Sirenamon was thinking of what to do. "If I remember right, freezing a volcano is a bad thing. Makes the volcano very volatile...." The ground quakes worse than ever. The Tyrannomon gets up and says, "You done doomed us all!!" He rushes at her.

"Siren's Song!!"

The blast of rain subdues him, then he suddenly becomes docile. Yuuji says, "I never saw someone sleep on their feet." He raises his head, his eyes vacant. "I am at your service." Sirenamon is surprised. "Apparently what they say about Tyrannomon not being very clever wasn't an understatement." She looks at him, then the top blows. "Let's get out of here!!" She yells. She grabs Yuuji, then as an explosion occurs from behind, she leaps into the air and snags one of the spikes on Tyrannomon's head. "Move it, Tyrannomon." He starts running when he then starts sliding down the frozen rock face. Sirenamon and Yuuji sit on his head with the wind in their hair as they whiz down the mountain. Boulders roll after them, and some roll past. In the base, Mimi, Paladingreymon, and Cupidmon attack.

"Seed Grenades!!"

"Celestial Fury!!"

"St. Valentine's Arrow!!"

Jormungamon laughs. "You missed me." Suddenly, the roof falls down on him. From the mountain, the boulders smash in the roof. As they neared a ramp-like bump near the base, Sirenamon says, "Hold on, Yuuji!!" Tyrannomon goes flying over the bump. He goes flying, but Sirenamon and Yuuji go higher. As Jormungamon began to get up, a boulder hits him on the head, then Tyrannomon lands on him. Sirenamon and Yuuji go through another hole and Ken instinctively catches them. Sirenamon looks at Ken and says, "Oh, I didn't think you cared!!" Ken blushes at the surprise. "Well, who are you?" Yolei gets jealous at Sirenamon. "Hey, fish lady?! You take in too much salt water? Stay away from Ken!! He's my man!!" She looks at Yolei, covering Yuuji's ears, and says back, "What's your problem? He saved us, and I made a witty remark." Yolei retorts, "No, it sounded like you were flirting with my man!!" Sirenamon makes a rebuttal, "So what if it sounded like I was flirting. What's it to you!!" Taichi breaks it up. "Hello, does anyone remember about the volcano, and the giant worm over there that wants to kill us!! We can settle it later. Let's go!!" Izzy calls to Tentomon, "You think you can go at it again?" Tentomon says, "I should. I had enough sleep today." Tentomon strains, and lets a stinky one. Romi goes, "Geez, next to me again!! What did you eat?" Tentomon says, "Hey, when you get to be 5805 years old, let's see if you don't have an overabundance of gas, that, and I did one of those 3-bean salads from Miyako's store." He glows.

"THE SHARD OF TRUTH!!"

"Tentomon Terravolve to Raijinkabuterimon, Sentinel of the Heavens!!"

Everyone jumps on, with Paladingreymon, Glaciergarurumon, and Mimi riding his head. They flew out of the base. Jormungamon finally gets up. "Get off me, ya damn lizard!! Did it suddenly get warmer?" The Tyrannomon turns and says, "I believe the lava is burning the base." Jormungamon yells, "Well, I'm not getting slagged by some hot rock!!" He burrows underground and flees. Tyrannomon tries to follow, but finds the hole too narrow. A wave of lava approaches. He just waves bye-bye as the wave gets larger. He is smashed and turned to digi-dust. The Digidestined ride off into the distance.

Lewis and the others catch up to Safiirumon, and then see the base blow up and get covered, with Raijinkabuterimon flying towards them full steam. Lewis, "Well, now what am I going to blow up?" Attorneymon appears with a figure in Lance's armor. "Well, I'll be the doing the blowing up here." Raijinkabuterimon stops at his sight. Attorneymon goes, "Well, it seems that you got your memory back, no thanks to Malachimon!!" Lewis says, "The two people I loathe the most, all together." Attorneymon teleports over and holds Lilymon's face in his hand. "Hello there. Such a shame I must destroy you too." Lilymon is flailing away at his arm, but it doesn't faze him. He lets her go and teleports back over to Lewis. Lewis mentions, "I see you're enjoying what you stole from me." Attorneymon says, "Teleportation does have it's advantages, but I'm not satisfied with just having your attacks and knowledge, Lewis. No, I want it all, and what I want, I will get."

"Class Action Lawsuit!!"

He hits all the digimon except Glaciergarurumon, Sirenamon, and Lilymon with the attack. The digimon are being electrocuted severely as information is transferred. Those hit are hurt so bad they all revert to their In-Training forms except Paladingreymon and Mimi. Attorneymon says, "Well, now that I have what I wanted, time to let you get acquainted with the earthworms, especially you, Lily."

"Raijin Chain Lightning!!"

The thunderbolt raced down, a split second before they were all fried, when Safiirumon raised his arms forth.

"Nimbus Rain!!"

A great cloud formed, spraying down highly pressurized golden rain filled with light. The raindrops pelted and pummeled him in flashes of light. The thunderbolt shocked Attorneymon. Safiirumon yells, "Malachimon ordered no fatalities, not even the Digidestined!!" The figure says, "Shut up, pretty boy, or we'll have to it you have a little 'accident.'" Attorneymon goes, "Ah, hell, let's get him out of the way now." He whacks him with his suitcase, then calls forth...

"Nova Bombs!!"

He hurls them at Safiirumon after jumping back. The explosions throw him into a tree, knocking him out. Izzy thinks, "There's something very fishy about all this. I mean, first off, Attorneymon gave the order to the Elemental Valkyries to kill us after Safiirumon said not to, then Malachimon saves Lewis's mind, and just now Safiirumon just saved our lives, claiming that Malachimon ordered them not to kill anyone. Also, I don't think the man in the armor is Lance. His voice doesn't sound the same.... and he's taller too. This may tie back to that device Sora and Masato claimed went flying off Lance's neck during the last fight." Attorneymon says, "Well, I figure it's time to say our farewells." As he is about to attack, Lewis charges him and cuts off the left arm. He grabs his nub and smirks, "I see you like to play with big knives." His arm regenerates. "It helps to have the healing powers of 6 digimon all rolled into one." He opens his suitcase and brandishes a murasame. "I'll have fun killing your granddaughter, Lewis." Lily says, "Why does this guy seem fixated on me?" Lewis holds his as it glows and shrinks down to one-fifth of its size. "Let's go!!" In Attorneymon's hand is a Seed Grenade behind his back. Lilymon, "Oh, no you don't!!"

"Lilymon Celestial Crystal Digivolve to Paladin Lilymon!!"

She flies by and at him, swatting the seed away with her sword. Taichi yells, "Mimi and myself will stay to help Paladin Lilymon and Lewis, the rest of you get out of here!!" Miyako opens a digiport and everyone is quickly herded through it. Winds blow as everyone draws their swords. Lewis and Attorneymon leap into the sky, swords flailing, sparks flying. The duel continues to the music of Limp Bizkit's 'Now I Know Why You Hate Me (a.k.a. Take a Look Around).' Attorneymon takes a second sword from his suitcase and lays the suitcase down. Lewis and Paladin Lilymon move in on the offensive.

"Equalizer!!"

"Genesis Sword!!"

Attorneymon stands and blocks both of them with well-timed parries. He thrusts, and strikes, and parries masterfully, and as though it is the simplest, most menial task on the planet. After about 45 seconds of swordplay, Attorneymon strikes hard.

"Masamunes of Jupiter!!"

He strikes them down in deadly blast of thunder. Meanwhile, the fight between Mimi & Paladingreymon versus the man squares off to him using a missile barrage from the suit. The missiles miss, but they can't see him in the smoke it made. "Where'd he go!!" Mimi yells. Paladingreymon turns and sees him in the smoke charging him. Paladingreymon sidesteps him and smacks him with the flat side of his sword, making him fall to the ground. Mimi slices his armor in a mist of sparks. A big gash lies in the suit as he stands. He runs at Paladingreymon and throws the big lug over his shoulder. A sword blade protrudes from his right gauntlet and he grazes Mimi's hip. This stuns her for a moment, allowing the man to kick her in the back and point his sword at her. Then Paladingreymon slashes him with his claws, sending him flying. He stabs the sword into the ground and backflips back at him. He leaps up and impales Paladingreymon's left thigh. Paladingreymon screams in pain, then uppercuts the man, sending him airborne and knocking off the helmet. Paladin Lilymon is thrown away by an attack from Attorneymon. She lands on him. She turns her head and screams. Then she calms down. "This isn't Lance, that's Metzger." Metzger covers his ears. "Great, now I think you blew out my ear drums!! Damn you!!" He throws her up, and then holds the blade up, ready to impale her, when Lewis tricks Attorneymon over near Metzger. Attorneymon spins around, swords out slashing, when Lewis flips back, and Attorneymon hits Metzger. Lewis yells, "I got you!!" Paladin Lilymon thinks, "I'm spinning too much to fly. I need to get some form of equilibrium, quick, or I'll be impaled." She holds out her sword, lays flat, spreads her wings, and begin to stabilize. Unfortunately, this wasn't enough and she still fell, and then hit the ground, breaking her fall on Attorneymon. "Damn." Lewis mutters. Lewis notices he is two steps off mark and slides over in place, and helps her up. Paladin Lilymon, "Lawyers.... Always there to keep you from falling into trouble." Attorneymon gets up. "That's going to leave a knot!!" He swings his only to meet Paladin Lilymon's shield. He lunges again and jabs one of his sword right through the upper part of her left arm. The sword is so stuck that he does not bother to remove it, he just releases it. She is just gritting her teeth away. "Damn, you, sword!! I'm in a hell of a lot of pain!!" Lewis looks at her swearing at the wound. "Heh, strange. I never heard you curse like this before over a wound." Paladin Lilymon retorts, "Well, I didn't have a sword impaled through my arm then, Lewis!!" "Good point. Now, back to kicking Attorneymon's ass." As he said that, Attorneymon's sword closed in on him. He blocked the lash. They leapt up again, sword clashing and flashing, and then Attorneymon kicks Lewis to the ground. As he lands, he stabs downward, missing Lewis as he rolled. Lewis got up onto his knees in a squatting position and swiped at Attorneymon's legs, which he answered with a timely jump and strike, slashing Lewis left shoulder. Then they went at it at super high velocities, each one equaling the other. When they stopped, Attorneymon make a quick move and cut Lewis across his stomach. Lewis counters with an overhead strike, but is blocked. Lewis thinks, "It's a pain in the ass to fight something who knows your every move." Attorney then kicks Lewis in the gut, making the wound there worse, the force throwing him into a tree. Upon getting up, Lewis ponders, "I must outwit him." Attorneymon thinks, "He's going to attempt to outwit me." Lewis teleports and goes to hit Attorneymon in the back, but Attorneymon turns, his murasame blazing with power.

"Equalizer!!"

"Equalizer!!"

The combined force shattered Lewis's sword like glass. Then he sucker punched Attorneymon next to the very tree he hit Lewis into. Lewis pondered what to do, but then he remembered the chainsaw he brought. He takes it out, cranks it up, and says, "Come get some, knave!!" Lewis backtracks as Attorney rushes, and Lewis runs up a tree, flips off, and as he lands, saws off Attorneymon left arm. As soon as that arm hit the ground, a new one was growing in its place. Lewis asks, "Why can't limbs just stay dismembered like they did in the old days?" The sword and chainsaw clash, ripping up the sword. After the forth clash, the sword breaks. Attorneymon stares him down.

"Insanity Plea!!"

The attack of evil spirits missed. While in midair, Lewis looks to see Attorneymon standing in front of the very seed Paladin Lilymon had knocked out of his hand. Attorneymon says, "Let's see if I can kick a field goal." He kicks the seed up, and hits Lewis right in the center of his torso. "Looks like I need to practice my technique. At least the halftime fireworks show isn't half bad." He rolls back to the rest of the group, unconscious, heavy chest bleeding, broken ribs, and in his regular form. Attorneymon, with the lava closing in on the group, the Limp Bizkit playing again, he walks up smiling.

"Raijin Chain Lightning!!"

He electrocutes everyone there except Metzger. The shock was enough to wake Safiirumon up. Paladingreymon hobbles back up on two feet, and Mimi slowly gets up.

"Plasma Torpedoes!!"

"Seed Grenades!!"

Attorneymon easily dodged the missiles, and as for the seeds, he caught them and threw them back. As the dust cleared, Attorneymon just walked at them. Metzger says, "Well, there's the lava, I'll go now." Attorneymon says, "You can't leave until I leave." Attorneymon approached. He sees two big boulders with a pass between them.

"Ambulance Chaser!!"

Taichi yells, "Get out of there!!" Attorneymon blurs beyond sight, and then from nowhere Mimi and Paladingreymon are clotheslined, then they grabbed by their arms and dragged at high velocities until he reached the rock, where he smashed them into it. The rock Paladingreymon hit crumbled, his cuirass severely dented. Paladingreymon, his mouth bleeding, stumbled up, barely able to stand. Metzger pummeled him with another missile barrage. Attorneymon says, "Finally, you did something right!!" Attorney teleports and digs his fingernails into Paladingreymon wrecked armor.

"Artic Claw!!"

He freezes up the armor, then jumps off as Metzger blasts him with lasers and missiles. The frozen torso section shatters off, leaving him only his armor on his arms, legs, head, and his chain mail. He draws his sword.

"Paladin Bl...."

"Nova Bombs!!"

Three bombs, straight to his chest. His chain mail ripped up, bloodied chest, he stood vigilant and swung his sword, batting Metzger away and shorting out the armored hulk. "Too little, too late, Paladingreymon." Attorneymon spoke. He opened his suitcase and pulled out a minigun.

"Vindicator!!"

Paladingreymon puts up his shield, but there are too many bullets to block. Many hit him, ripping into his already wounded theighs and exposed chest. Paladingreymon stands in agony, "I must keep going!!" He slowly advances on Attorneymon, as he takes more and more blows. Taichi yells, "Stop him, Paladingreymon!!" His shard glows brightly.

"Omega Orange: Light of Judgment!!"

He slams down his sword and Attorneymon goes flying. As soon as he hits the ground, burning, he just gets back up. Paladin Lilymon, leaning on a tree, trying to remove the sword from her arm, exclaims, "Impossible..... He's only a Giga digimon. How can he beat us so badly?" Attorneymon opens his suitcase.

"Bureaucratic Red Tape!!"

It wraps over Paladingreymon, sapping his waning strength. Mimi flies up and cuts him free. "Thanks for huddling together. This makes my job so much easier."

"Raging Mavericks!!"

Maverick missiles come from what seems nowhere and hit them both. Mimi reverts to Dryadsapia and hits the ground, going unconscious upon hitting the ground. Paladingreymon falls to his knees, holding his chest, his hand covered in blood, he falls over and de-digivolves to Botamon, out cold as well. Then, he reverts to a digiegg. Attorneymon cackles and raises his hands up.

"Raijin Chain Lightning!!"

He shocks everyone again, even Taichi. Just as he closed on Mimi and Botamon's digiegg, Safiirumon caned Attorneymon with his flute. In this short daze, he quickly moved everyone in one spot. Suddenly, the next thing they remember, they're back in front of Lewis's house. On the moon, Attorneymon, "Insubordinate prick!! We could have been rid of those damn Digidestined!! Instead, you send them home!!" Safiirumon yells, "You were disobeying a direct order!! Malachimon said No Fatalities!!" Attorneymon screams, "Screw Malachimon!! If she were truly an evil digimon, they'd be dead by now, but instead, she went as far as helping them!!" Safiirumon says, "She doesn't long for death or destruction, like you, vile thing. She is a being of purity, seeking order for both worlds!!" Attorneymon grins, "You don't get it. I made her, and when the time is right, I'll break her too. Now, to make sure you don't rat me out...."

"Bureaucratic Red Tape!!"

Safiirumon's screams fill the air on the Digital Moon. Metzger finally is able to get the suit's pneumatic systems back on-line and get up. "Did you fry his brain?" Attorneymon says, "No, I only erased his memory of today, but how long he won't remember I don't know." He kicks him repeatedly in the head. "Gotta have an excuse for memory loss, and what better one than a concussion." He picks him up, and they teleport back. "Why didn't you destroy him now?" Attorneymon answers Metzger, "Would be too suspicious. Don't want Malachimon finding out our little plan, now can we?" They go to the infirmary and lay Safiirumon on a bed. As they did, they watched Evamon inject a stimulant concoction into Lance. "All we can do now is wait."

Lewis wakes up on the curb. He slowly gets up, only to realize the broken ribs. "He kicked my ass!! How'd I get here?" He slowly gets up in agony. "Ya know, this hurts a lot more than they put on in the movies." He slowly gets over to the door, his hand bloody. "I appear to be losing a lot of blood, and.... hmm.... I'll be, there's internal bleeding too. Well that just sucks." He rings the doorbell, and with all the guns he has on him, he gets fried. "Who's cooking on a grill?" Oswald opens the door, smacking Lewis in the face. Oswald says, "That looks bad. You should get a doctor. Here's 100 Yen, go buy some booze." He closes the door. Lewis looks in the reflection of a window and says, "Yeah, I do look like a bum." He goes up to the door. "If no one will let me in the house...." He pulls out the Light Support Machine Gun. "I'll just have to invite myself in." He blasts the door to shreds as full-metal jackets fly. After blasting the door to pieces, he drops the gun in pain. "Ooohhh....., damn recoil." He grabs his ribs again. Everyone rushes to the door. Lewis stands and says, "Told ya we'd make it back. Now, does anyone know a good non-HMO doctor?" Scene cuts to them loading them up on stretchers. Lewis yells, "I call triage!!" The EMT says, "I don't think it works that way, sir." They take them off to the hospital.

The next day, Lewis wakes up strapped down to a hospital bed. "Hmmmm....., they are getting wise I see, but I am wiser still." He pulls off this neat yoga move, freeing his legs. He then, in a lot of pain, undid the straps with his toes. Lewis giggles, "Morons." Everyone comes in. Araiya says, "I thought I paid that orderly to strap you down." Lewis responds, "Well, he did a crappy job of it." Sakiko comes up to him and says, "We were so worried about you guys!!" Lewis answers, "Well, after that bomb hit me in the chest, I was out for the count, and I thought we were done for. Say, just how did we get back anyway?" Lilymon, whom was released that morning, her left arm in a sling, answers, "Well, from the blood I lost, I found it hard to stay awake, but I saw Safiirumon drag us all to one place. Afterwards he took Mimi's EDI, and activated the portable digiport feature, and quickly threw it back on us. Our huddled mass was sent back to the sidewalk in front of our house, where you woke up and shot up our door. Safiirumon saved our lives, Lewis." Matt says, "We have to come up with a new battle plan. Attorneymon has powers beyond belief, and I have reason to suspect Malachimon isn't the enemy here." Lily gets mad and says, "I know she is. That act she did is just to screw with our minds!!" Mimi wakes up. "No, Lily.... She has nothing to do with your mother's death. She knows nothing of it." Everyone is confused and surprised. "Lily, Malachimon never gave the order to do anything. In fact, she looks for the killer to this day." Lily asks, "How did you learn this? I'm not sure if your source is honest." Mimi says, "I went to the one completely honest source, her mind. Remember that fight a month where she came here herself and we collided? Well, while I was in contact with her, I could see her memories, her thoughts, and she has no memory of any such act. When she said she knew nothing about any order, Malachimon was telling the truth." Lily says, "Still.... I don't know.... I still can't believe her." Lewis says, "Come here, Sakiko." Sakiko goes over to Lewis. "You handled yourself well there yesterday.... I can now say, you are truly a member of the family in every aspect now." Sakiko asks, "How's that?" "Simple, now someone has a vendetta against you. Araiya has a vendetta against me, Metzger has a vendetta against Lilymon, Attorneymon has a vendetta against Lily, and now Jormungamon has a vendetta against you." Daisuke adds, "We can't forget the Yakuza!!" Lewis, "Yes, the Yakuza too Daisuke." Sakiko thinks, then says, "Ya know Lily, I just realized something." Lily asks, "Okay, what is it?" Sakiko says, "Well, Lewis and Lilymon were the ones who took me in and adopted me after the Yakuza killed my last living relative, my dad. I just realized something just now, that technically, I'm now your step-mother." Lewis goes, "Heh, never had time to notice that...." Lily mentions, "It'll be strange having a 13 year old step-mother." Oswald says, "Hey, you adopted the kid of a Yakuza family, Lewis, or should I say Don Wick?" Sakiko says, "I don't think it works that way, Oswald." Everyone laughs, then Lewis goes, "Ow, my ribs."

In the Dominion infirmary, Malachimon sat vigil by the comatose Lance. Virusmon and Metzger come in. Virusmon says, "Queen Digimon, a 'Neo Sphermon' is her to see you." Malachimon says, "I don't remember having a meeting with a Neo Spheremon..." Lance awakens. "Where am I? I had this most vivid nightmare, Holly.... Malachimon, what am I doing here?" Malachimon says, "Lance, what year is this?" "It's September of 2034." Malachimon thinks, "Everything from the last 11 years seems to be gone..... And that's also around the time that he started acting strange...." She says, "Sorry to tell you this Lance, but it's October of 2045. 11 years and 1 month have passed from that time." He looks over at Metzger and Virusmon and flashes of memories surge. He becomes agitated. Malachimon asks, "What's the last you remember?" Lance yells, "Attorneymon!! With a device!!" Malachimon sees the angel tattoo on his back. "It used to have a red gem design here, but now it's gone." "Attorneymon's device!!" Lance screams. He has more flashes, then he has a memory of him looking at his hands just as Holly laid there dying, then walking away. He gets hysterical. "No.... It wasn't a nightmare.... It was real..... I did it..... I watched myself do it....." Malachimon looks at him worried and asks, "What, Lance..." He falls to his knees. "SHE'S DEAD!!! I KILLED YOU HOLLY!! I KILLED YOU...." He collapses into a weeping figure in a fetal position on the floor....

"Now that Malachimon knows the truth, what will become of Lance? And what of the Digidestined? How do they ever hope to combat Attorneymon, and how long will Safiirumon fail to remember Attorneymon dark secrets? Find out in Bloodline: Chapter 4 - Cons & Hackers!!"