Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ First Terra ❯ "Bullets Over Tokyo," or "The Search For The Holy Hand Grenade" ( Chapter 9 )

First Terra

Ch. 9-Bullets over Tokyo, or The Search For the Holy Hand Grenade

Prologue-Aren't all of you angered by FOX's possible (And may have already done it) cancellation of Escaflowne? Go ahead, let's show FOX that we won't stand for this insolence. What's wrong with these people? Are they AFRAID of success. When they get a big line-up and the seem to be omnipotent TV gods, as they were near the end of the '99-'0 season, when they brought forth Anime Invasion, they suddenly self-destruct and turn crappy on us. Oh, geez, we don't want another '97-'98 or '98-'99 season for '0-'1 or '1-'2. Who knows? Maybe it's not FOX's call at all. Maybe Saban wants an airtime monopoly and muscled Escaflowne out of their time space. See, they already control almost all the time slots on Saturday morning, and they don't like competition, so they 'convince' FOX to dump it. If they do cancel it, at least let it live on in syndication, as they did Sailor Moon. That's right!! FOX, in September of 1993 had the chance to own the rights to Sailor Moon, and they even tried a North American debut of the show, showing the episode just after the defeat of Queen Berol when the Guardians of the Doom Tree arrived in Tokyo. After some decision and seeing the ratings (They were put in a bad slot too), they sold it off to syndication, where I lost track of it after '95.

Note: Sylph, the South Wind, is Female, yet the name is given to a male digimon. Zephyr, the West Wind, is Male. They should of called him Zephyrmon. Wonder why they did that?

Anyhoo, on with the story. Two years, two months, and 9 days have passed since August 20, 2000, the day Mimi beat NeoApocalymon and banished him to the cold void of space in a comet. For this chapter, each character's life will be recapped, up to the present date.

Izzy recounts, "Well, since we stopped NeoApocalymon and his forces 2 years ago, all of us have been reconized as International Heroes by the UN. We have had many trips to news shows, like the Today show, Good Morning America, local shows, and other spots like on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. The money and praise rolled in for most of us. Tai went on to start playing in league soccer after school and has had the quietest life of us all. Koromon also laps it up with him, and also takes home study courses in his spare time. Matt went on to begin setting up a band with the millions he got posing for posters and television appearances. He's considered a new age heartthrob by most of the girls on the Earth. Gabumon works with him as his manager/agent, an interesting choice. I'd never think Gabumon as the managerial type. Sora has taken an unexpected change of venues and seeks to enter into politics one day. With the new immigration & office-holding laws in America, she could move to America now and possibly be President of the United States in 10 years!! Biyomon has also become quite active in politics. She occasionally interns at the White House and for the Prime Minister of Japan. Joe has continued taking his courses as he is groomed to be a doctor. Hard to be a doctor when blood makes you vomit and pass out. Wonder why his father doesn't realize this? Gomamon sits by him studying as well, for he seeks to be the first digimon marine biologist. TK has started to learn about computers from me, while going steady with Kari. Patamon now is trying to sell our story to any TV network that will take it, but so far, no buyers. Kari has also taken up an interest in computers. She takes classes from me with TK after school. Gatomon also sits in on these classes. Araiya has become Matt's girlfriend and the envy of girls abroad. She works with the band, and she has released 4 motivational infomercials, which are still selling today. Andromon works with them as their technical director/bodyguard. Odd combination of jobs, but that's Andromon's choice. I myself and Tentomon have both become spokesmen for Microsoft. Bill Gates really took a shining to us, we being computer buffs and all. When he found out I used Microsoft software on my laptop, he hired me right away to promote Windows 2001 and Internet Explorer 6.3. Tentomon was hired along with me, because he worked with me, and also because he humiliated himself begging for a job. I'm now trying to get my A+ Certification so that I can hopefully get an additional job in computers when I turn 15, then work my way up, and then build my own corporate empire, like Bill did 22 years ago. Miyako now dates Joe and tries to help him cope with his queasiness and get him through school. She herself has helped her family tremendously. The money earned through public appearances she is using to put her father through college and expand her family's convience store. The 15th store is due to open in November. The rest she took and split in half. Part of it she nestled away in savings accounts. The other half she put into Mutual Funds and the NYSE. As of yet, she hasn't as much into NASDAQ, for fears of another market plunge. She's taking full advantage of re-living her last four years!! Hawkmon is still not used to the idea that he will one day meet himself in two years, and distances himself from the younger Miyako. Mimi and Lewis seem to be the biggest stories of all. Mimi became the target of medical research, and her appearances on TV have netted her hundreds of millions. She was awarded a special honor by the UN, for being the force that turned the tide and prevented major casualties, and putting her own life on the line many times. They are researching her DNA to find how such a hybrid could happen. She has made the most out of all of us, and gave most of her earnings to the homeless residents of New York, seeing as how we're the major reason we made them homeless. She has also become a sort of, idol in both worlds, a mark of good. Fame though, comes with a price. She hasn't had a week where the paparazzi haven't hounded her, and she now has an omninous stalker, whom police can't seem to track. In fact, I think Matt also has the same problem with the paparazzi. There is even rumored that there is a cult in the Digital World that worships and obsesses over her. Lewis, though, is now a figure of constant criticism and praise at once." A flashback pops up. The date: January 21, 2001. Lewis is in his bedroom. Suddenly the door opens. A man in a suit calls to him, "Uh, it's time to wake up, Mr. President." "Geez, it's... 8 A.M. Can't you secret service guys get a life or something?" Lewis yells at him. A commotion is heard next to him. The secret service agent pulls his gun. "Who's there!!" He fires his gun at the curtains. "Get up, now!!" Lilymon gets up. "What's the idea of shooting at me!!" The secret service agent lowers his gun. "Sorry, Madam Vice President. I'm used to the Vice President sleeping in the Vice President's bedroom, not here." Lilymon covers up in the sheets and throws a pilow at him. "You also got to remember that I'm the First Lady as well!! Now get out!!" She throws another pillow at him. "Well sorry President, Vice President." He leaves. Izzy starts again, "Yup, that's right. The general populace voted in Lewis as the 43rd President of the United States, with Lilymon as his running mate. And on Inaugeration Day, January 20th, Lewis and Lilymon got married on the steps of the White House. Ratings show that this was watched as much, if not more, than the Princess Di-Prince Charles wedding. A contract they established added Serenity to the United States as the 51th State of the Union, shortly thereafter by Puerto Rico, and then Guam. Two additional territories have been added to the US in the Digital World through peaceful negotiations, increasing the number of stars on the United States flag to 55. He rewrote the constitution perfectly, with a few 'necessary re-writes' as Lewis puts it, such as reducing the voting age to 16, the age to hold any federal office to 19 and being a US citizen for 8 years, and repealing the 8th Amendment (No cruel or unusual punishment) for criminals serving time for a felony, and had the governors of the 55 states vote it into effect. Since then, the crime rate mysteriously plummeted in the US. Coincedence? The new congress though, is his only big problem. Many of them are survivors of the attack 4 years ago, state senators, lobbyists, crime lords, and big business taking advantage of the open positions, but Lewis is working to remedy this with the Free Political Air Space Act, which will help any Joe Six-Pack to run for office by making one of the most expensive things for politicians, air time, absolutely free for political puroses. He's also trying to weasel in an idea to congress time delay a candidate's bills for running for office until after their first year in office, or if they lost, be able to pay it off in monthly payments. The public loves him, but congress and old school politicians hate him. The heads of the miltary are also rumored to hate his guts. If there's one thing Lewis can't do, it's make friends with powerful military figureheads. The last time he went to the Pentagon, the US almost went to Def Con 4 as one of the biggest brawls broke out between Lewis and the head of the Marine Corps. over what to do in the Digital World. Good thing Lilymon was there to break it up in time before it became a big scandal. They themselves now have a family, a pair of fraternal twins, one entirely Digimon, the other entirely human, both are 16 months old, both have green eyes, and both girls. Weird.

As for the others, Oswald went into an acting career. He currently is playing a recurring role on the Drew Carey Show. Mai is now accepting the good in her heart as she continues to be taught by Genai and the humans & digimon of Serenity. Colonel Spencer, now just Gerard, as he is referred to us and news brodcasts, is still on the lam and was last spotted a year ago in Shinjuku. His rank was stripped from him by Lewis in February of 2001 and was given a dishonorable discharge in proxy. No one has seen him since last year. Jake is now is a mental institution for most of his natural life.

All of Miyako said would happen involving a digimon on the internet called Diaboromon never happened. She told us a kid named Willis in New York would create the digiegg from which he spawned, but I guess since we leveled over a third of New York City combatting NeoApocalymon, he never got the chance to do it, saving us some trouble. Every other aspect of our future she has mentioned has been proven wrong, but many other world events, which did not involve us, she was right about. That's why she's a Wall Street tycoon now. She must have learned about the stock market in the previous timeline and is now monopolizing on her advantage. I wonder if the second set of digidestined will even show up now. After analyzing our digivices and examining their potenial, I found this to be true. One-As long as one of our new enhanced digivices is 'jacked in' to any form of communication device, its signal and clarity are greatly enhanced. Two-Any computer it is jacked into will be accelerated 100 fold as long as the digivice is connected. Three-When a crest or amulet is jacked to the digivice and then the digivice is jacked into something else, it enhances it even further. The digivice's ability to enhance technology on its own is quite a peculiar perk of these EDI's, as I call them.

Well, as we have come to find out, our old nemesis has finally showed himself after 2 years of hiding. Our adventure isn't over just yet."

Miyako, Hawkmon, Tai, Koromon, Joe, Gomamon, Araiya, and Andromon stand in a stand of spectators and journalists at the airport in Tokyo. They have been waiting for Lewis and Lilymon to arrive in Tokyo to speak at a technology summit, and get some R&R, and along with him are Sora & Biyomon, who went to America to learn more on political processes, Mimi, who was there to hide for a short time from reporters, Izzy & Tentomon, along with Bill Gates, who bummed a ride with Lewis to the technology summit. "Wow, it's been about a year since we saw him last." Miyako says, standing in a crowd of supporters. Tai and Koromon are standing with her, along with Joe & Gomamon. Tai starts, "Man, what's taking them?" Joe says, "Well maybe there was some sort of delay. The guys should be coming back with him." The plane appears in the horizon and is landing. "Here he comes!!" Miyako calls out, squeezing Hawkmon. Hawkmon is squirming. He meekly calls out, "Help me...." Andromon pries her arms open, letting Hawkmon free. "Oh, soryy, Hawkmon. I didn't realize you were there." "I though all this abuse would have ended the day I came to real world at my Rookie level, but no, the abuse Poromon went through persists to this day." Hawkmon mutters under his breath. The stairs are prepped and Air Force 1 lands and opens its doors. Secret service agents come out ahead of everyone and check the parameter. A band there starts playing 'Hail to the Chief.' Lewis comes out, wearing a three-piece suit & tie and those same old sandals, and puts on a grimace as he steps down the steps. He mutters to Lilymon, "Honey, remind me to get the Presidential theme changed when we get back. Man, I hate John Phillips Sousa. He had to write this song. It just keeps ringing in my head. I can't stand it." and she responds, "Neither can I. If they break into 'Hail Colombia' one more time I'm going to scream!!" Lilymon, then Sora and her mother and Biyomon, and then Bill Gates, then Mimi, and finally Izzy and his parents and Tentomon get out, with Izzy wearing a white shirt with the Windows logo on it, and the words 'Microsoft Windows '01' and on the back saying 'Where do you want to go today?' Suddenly, an explosion rocks from the plane, and two rifle shots could be heard going off. Everyone dives. Machine gun goes off, and fire starts sweeping everywhere. Secret service start scrambling everywhere. A smoke bomb goes off in the area, fogging the area. "What the begesus is going on!!" one agent yells. A batallion of Subatomimon and Devidramon swoop in and grab someone and fly back. On the terminal roof is Gerard, with a .308 calibur sniper rifle, and some Apocalyse cult followers with M-80's and Uzis. Gerard yells out, "This is for the Overlords, and America!!" The Subatomimon and cult followers fire out at once as Gerard loads a rocket launcher. Tai yells, "Let's do it!!"

"Koromon digivolve to Agumon!!"

"Agumon Warp Digivolve to Wargreymon!!"

"Biyomon Warp Digivolve to Aviamon!!"

"Hawkmon Armor Digivolve to Halsemon, The Wings of Love!!"

Halsemon jumps up first.

"Tempest Wing!!"

The smoke is blown clear by his attack. Wargreymon and Aviamon go after the Devidramon while the secret service wrestles with the Subatomimon.

"Terra Force!!"

"Flame Tornado!!"

They hit the Devidramon, causing them to take notice and charge. Wargreymon winds up.

"Novaforce!!"

He slashes right through them, destroying roughly half of them. The others swoop into the crowd of Air Force One occupants and snag two of them. Gerard calls out, "We got what we came for. Let's vamoose!!" They run off before reinforcements could come. Tai and the others rush to the group. Lewis is laying there in a small pool of blood, along with 5 of the others. Lewis looks around while laying on the ground. "Is that my pool of blood or is it somebody else's?" He sits up. "Nope, not mine, but this suit's ruined." He feels around and speaks once more, "I think I spoke too soon. Stupid Devidramon gashed my forehead open." He continues to look around. "None of it's green, so we know that Mimi and Lilymon were not shot." The others find the two who were shot. Tai says, "It's Izzy. He's been shot, but only once. Who got the other bullet?" Suddenly, they found Tentomon and Bill Gates missing. "Why did Gerard show himself now? Where did he get his lackeys?" Sora asks. "And why did they take Bill Gates and Tentomon?" Araiya asks. "And why would they shoot Izzy?" Lewis asks. The Tokyo Police arrive and seal off the crime scene. "You know, I beginning to think I may just have to go to the hospital. I don't think it's normal to get all cold and light-headed from a scratch. Is it just me, or did it start bleeding again?" He wobbles into the arms of Lilymon. He pulls out his cell phone and opens it. "Ah, man, my head hurts. Honey, do you know the number for 911 is here?" She turns off his phone. "But I'm bleeding to death here!!" he says drunkenly, as his blood levels continue to drop. She answers him, "I turned it off because the ambulance is already here." "Wow, they're fast. I got to call them more often." He wobbles over half-consciously to the ambulance. "You guys don't mind if she comes along, do you?" "Uh, sorry sir. Only medical personnel and the patient ride in the back." the EMT says. "Well, screw you!! I'll drive myself, thank you very much." He starts to his limo when Lilymon cracks him upside the head with a baseball bat. The baseball bat breaks, and the EMT's push her away. "There's no way I'm letting you drive in this condition." Lewis falls to his knees. "I probably deserved that. Thanks, Lily." and he falls over on the ground. "Miss, the solution to stopping a deranged patient with head trauma is with sedatives, not to give him MORE head trauma!!" Lilymon laughs and says to them, "Boy, you don't know my husband. Sedatives don't do a thing to him unless you give him a extremely high dose, a level usually fatal to most people, and two, if you put someone with some form of head trauma to sleep, there is a possibility they can go into a coma. All I did was stun him." Lewis raises his arm up and says, "That is correct, sir!!" "Now, get him to the hospital befores he bleeds all over the runway!!" The EMT's load him up onto the stretcher. "Hey, this is twin size. I explicitly asked for a queen size bed!! I'm calling room service!!" he pulls out his cell phone again. "Funny, I can't see the buttons. All I can see is egg chow-mein." He swipes at the phone and continues to miss. The EMT in back says to him, "Uh, Mr. President, we need you to hold still while we put this IV in you." He rips his left shirt sleeve off. He sticks the IV in. "Stupid room service!! If that's how you treat your customers, then I'm just going to have to leave." He starts to get up, when the EMT holds him back. Lewis says to him drunkenly, "So, you intend to keep me here, eh?" He swings at the EMT and misses completely, and falls off the stretcher. He grabs his head, and he gets a partial grip on reality. "Oh, why did I think this was a hotel. I cut my forehead. You don't go to a hotel to bleed on them. No, you go to a hospital and bleed on them. Driver, to the hospital!!" the driver says, "Whatever." He gets up about a minute later and yells, "You idiot!! This isn't the way to the hospital. Oh, this is what I get for hiring morons. Let me drive!!" He tries to get to the front, but finds his way blocked. The EMT injects him with 20cc of Morphene. "What the, you closed the window. I'm going to have to kick your @$$ now!!" The morphene has no effect as he starts to stagger for the back door, when the EMT stops him and jabs 40cc more of morphene. He grabs the container of morphene to double-check. "This stuff is concentrated. I just pumped 600cc into you. You should be in the worldest deepest sleep, or dead. I beginning to think your wife was right." The EMT says, and he starts punching him. "Wow, they train you secret service guys well. Too bad you're all so anal. Hey, wait. Why you guys punching me for. Go beat up the driver." He keeps punching him. "Ow, quit pummeling me!! It really, really hurts!!" Lewis says, just standing there, getting hit left and right with jabs, haymakers, uppercuts, and the occasional kick to liven things up. They finally get to the hospital, and they walk him in because he kept on getting out of the stretcher. The bleeding had finally stopped. "Oh, you imbesols. This isn't the right hospital. It's an HMO!! You screwed up big time!! If I croak, you're both fired. If I live, I'm taking a 10% cut out of your paychecks." The EMT says, "Doesn't this guy ever shut up!!" "I heard that. Make that a 15% pay cut!!" A doctor rushes to him and checks him. "Man, he should of passed out by now. Where did all these bruises come from?" "Well, after I put 600cc of morphene in him and it didn't even faze him, the only way to keep him in the back was to beat him senseless. If I didn't, he would have tried to open the back and climb around and assault the driver." "Okay, we'll review this later. Right now, we got to get some blood back in him." "Oh, a blood bank. Do I get a cookie for pint I give?" Lewis exclaims. The doctor says, "Maybe, but you'll be the one getting the blood." They cart him into the back. Overnight, they replenish his blood and stitch the cut. Izzy was shot in the arm, and the operation to remove the bullet was successful. They are put in the same room.

A day later, everyone sees Lewis & Izzy in the room. The doc talks to them. "The bullet wound wasn't severe at all. It was a typical remove the bullet and clean the wound deal. President Lewis is the interesting story. We pumped 600cc of morphene into him. 80 is usually enough to kill a grown man, but it didn't even faze him. We found the reason why when we took a sample to find out his blood type." Joe says to him, "I thought all of that was kept on record." "It is, but with the amount of blood lossed, and the state of anemia he was in, we had no time to search for his records and do nothing else. While we searched the records and gave some O type blood, which would temporarily help, we checked it out. We got his blood type in time, but afterwards, I checked it again, because a great irregularity. His dopamine, seratonin, noradrenaline, adrnocorticotropic hormone or ACTH, and corticosteroid levels are 385,000 times than they should be. High dopamine is usually the most obvious sign of schizophrenia, yet he isn't schizophrenic. Dopamine, ACTH, corticosteroids are also the substances that determine your drug resistance. It also, in conjunction with seratonin and adrenaline, acts as a stimulant. With those levels, not even Butox, one of the world's most powerful poisons could faze him. It's also why he stayed conscious despite the sudden loss of blood. Plus, no human has ever demonstrated such levels of these neurochemicals. I have sen cases where a person has had upwards to 2.8 times their normal levels, but they were also severely delusional and in the resistance stage of GAS, or the Genaral Adaption Syndrome. The same was true for his white blood cells. He has an unusually strong immune system. I injected some of the world's deadliest diseases into the sample, and in minutes, his white blood cells crushed them. Next to Mimi, he seems to have the strongest foreign pathogen defense mechanisms on Earth. As long as it causes no problems, it should be of no concern. Well, I'll leave now so you may talk with them." He leaves the room. Tai looks bewildered. "None of that made any sense at all." Mimi laughs, "Wow, Tai. You need to take some more biology or something. That made perfect sense. His mental focus allows him to manipulate his bodily functions, also called biofeedback, which allows him to suppress mind-altering drugs, toxins, and kick virus butt what a mere thought. I think this skill has been building since the day he met us, and now he must of finally mastered it." "Thanks for the translation, Mimi." Tai says. "Show-off." he coughs afterwards. "Exactly what I would have said." Lewis speaks, startling the visitors. "How long have you been awake?" Izzy's mom says to Lewis. "Oh, I've been awake. I heard everything. Lily, next time, use the steel bat. They said I made a total fool of myself." Izzy wakes up, grabbing his left arm, "Oh, my arm...." his parents walk over to him. "Are you okay?" his mother asks. "I'm okay, mom." he says. "Anyone got a watch?" Lewis says. Tai hands Lewis his EDI. "Let's see here. It's 1:03 PM, October 30th, 2002. Wait a second, I got to get to the technology summit!!" He yanks the IV out of his arm (Not a smart thing to do), and goes for his stuff when a nurse spots him up. "Get back in that bed, right now." "Don't have any time. Gotta get to that convention!!" The nurse calls for orderlies. By the time they get there, he's already bolted out the window with his clothes under his arms. He lands outside on the ground. The nurse looks out in shock. "That was a 6 story fall, and he ran away!!" "Why didn't I tell him the convention was called off for security reasons first?" Lilymon asks herself. Lewis is running down the streets of Tokyo in a hospital gown to the Tokyo Sheridan where the convention was to be. Secret service and the kids go ahead of him in car. Lewis leaps over the mid-day traffic and continues to run toward the convention. He manages to get to the hotel first and runs inside. When he gets inside, he finds..... no one. The others charge in. "Let me guess. They called off the summit." "Well, I was going to tell you, but you rashly jumped out of a 6th floor hospital window."Lilymon says to him. "This just is not my week." Lewis says. "All I need now is an updraft, and this will count as the worst week in my political career." And then, under him, the hotel heater vent turns on, and he gets that updraft he was talking about. "It's official. I'm now the laughingstock of politics, a title that once belonged to Gerald Ford and Dan Quayle. Excuse me while I change." He goes to the nearest bathroom. Gomamon says, "It could be worse. There could of been a reporter catching all of this on film." Suddenly a cameraman and journalist run out from behind the stage in the convention hall and run out the hotel. Lewis yells coming out of the bathroom, "My political career is OVER once that gets on TV!! My enemies will taint my image with this for as long as I hold office." "Let's go back to the hospital." Lilymon says to him.

They get back, and they decide to go ahead and release him, seeing as how he was able to do all those heroics and all. Before leaving, Izz gives Mimi his new laptop. "Here. While I'm in here, it may come to a better use with you than me." They leave and start to talking. Lewis asks them, "Any new info on the abductions?" Tai shakes his head. "Oh, oh well." He shrugs his shoulders. Lilymon stops him, "Hey, the man I know and married doesn't care what others think of him. He just shrugs it off and ignores it." "I know, but the big wigs have a lot of power, and they could try to find a reason to deem me unfit to perform the duties of the President of the United States." "But it's not them you have to please. If the people still like you, then it won't matter what they think. And they like you for being yourself: Up-front, Brutally Honest, to the point, and not Snobbish." He steps forward. "You're right!! I don't care a flying flip what those half-dead ghouls and succubusses in Congress think. It doesn't matter at all what may come of these past events. I have a wonderful family, and I'm leader of the free world. I am Lewis Wick!! No one can change that!! Now which way to the unemployment office?!" Everyone just looks at him. "Just kidding." They meet with the others. Matt says, "This is what we know as of yet. He got scratched, Izzy got shot, one of those abducted was shot, the abducted are Tentomon and Bill Gates, and it all started with an exlosion and a sniper attack." Lewis responds, "Tell us something we don't know." Kari asks, "Well, what are we going to do about them taking Tentomon and Gates guy?" Tai says to her, "Well, we're going to try to find them, and hopefully soon." Lewis rants, "Hello, Earth to Kari!! He isn't 'that Gates guy!!' You're talking about Bill Gates, former CEO and the founder of Microsoft!! He is the richest man on Earth!! He got that money from making tons of softwa..r..e.... Oh, I think that they intended to get him." Sora asks why. Lewis returns, "Well, my guess is, is that since digimon at the most basic form is binary code, maybe they were hired to get him for someone in the Digital World. Maybe, they want to use him to enhance themselves to some omnipotent god-like form...." "Or downgrade his foes into nothingness." TK interrupts. "Whatever the reason, we must go there and get him away!!" They all pack up and prepare to leave, when three of Lewis's secret service agents arrive. "Uh, what are you guys doing?" he asks them. "Standard policy, sir. You and the Vice President must be guarded at all times." "Let me guess. Nothing that I would say would deter you guys from coming." The big, muscular agent says, "That is correct, Mr. President." "Well whos' gonna watch our children?" Lewis asks. Another agent not with the group says, "Don't worry. More agents were brought over when news of your confrontation reached us. They will care for the First Children during your absence." "Man, you guys really don't have lives of your own. Well, if I'm going to bring you three, I might as well know your names." The small woman says, "I am Agent Janet Carson. I am trained in multiple forms of hand-to-hand combat. I have black belts in Judo, Jujitsu, Tae Shido, Taekwando, and am a Kendo master." "Impressive.... Next." The average-build male agent speaks. "I am Agent Jack Wedge. I am a crack shot, sharpshooter, sniper, if you will. I am trained in the use of all handguns and most rifles, assault rifles, and shotguns." Lewis walks up to the big agent. "And you are?" "Agent Carl Vicks. I am an ex-marine who specialized in heavy weapons, explosives, and demolition. Though the agency does not allow me to carry it, my weapons of choice are flamethrowers and an a good ol' reliable rocket launcher. I always carry an emergency supply of grenades and C-4 with me at all times." Lewis grins, "I think I'm going to like you." Just then, a secret service car arrives. "Here is your, 'Special Request,' Mr. Vicks. Oh yes Madam Vice President. You said you forgot your stuff. Well, fellow agents with your children on Air Force 2 will be bringing it here with them." and he gets back into his car and returns to the hotel. Lewis asks him, "What's in the bag?" All Agent Vicks says is, "Secret...., stuff." "Whatever." Tai says, "Move out!!" Everyone gets in Lewis's limos and the limos head for Heighten View Terrace.

After every one piles out. They go the Digital Customs Office, Established June 2001 by the Tokyo Municipal Government, sitting next to Heighten View Terrace. The desk attendant says to them, "Next!!" They walk up. Tai calls out to her, "This is a emergency. We got to get by!! We have to save Bill Gates!!" The desk clerk just looks at them and says, "Yeah, and I'm Joan of Arc, and I have to save France. Now, you guys show me some pass stubs or get out." Tai says to her, "Lady, do you know who we are.We're the digidestined!!" "I don't care if you're the President of the United States, if you don't have a pass stub, you're going nowhere." Lewis pushes Tai aside. "Ahem. Mind repeating that?" "And you are?" "The President of the United States, Lewis Wick." "Sure, honey, who keep telling yourself that." Lewis turns red in the face. "Lady, today's not the day to bother me!!" "Get out of the way. You're holding up the line." Lewis loses it. He snaps his fingers. "Meet my little friends in black." he sarcastically says. The secret service get all up in her face and rough her up. "Now, would you mind cutting the customs crap and let us through?" She just nods. As he walks on with the others, he yells, "I gotta talk to someone at the next UN summit about getting these Digi World Customs Offices regulated and uniform. I never had this kind of trouble at the US digi ports!!" They take an express elevator up to the digi port. "I don't get it." Joe breaks the silence. Everyone looks at him. "If those goons had come through the port, somebody would have been informed, and also they would have noticed the sheer quantity of people and digimon paasing through and then going back through, and if they were a hostile assault force, do you think they'd even bother with customs?" TK scratches his head. "Izzy gave me a list of the only 7 unguarded ports in the real world. Two are in the Amazon Rain Forest of Brazil, One is out in the South Pacific, One is in Malaysia, Two are in Antarctica, and One is outside Oslo, Norway. There's no way he could have reached any of them undetected and in time. 5 of them are guarded on the other end anyway, so you know that someone could have alerted some government body at any time." The elevator opens and they go through the digi port.

On the other side, Matt's EDI starts pinging, son followed by the others. "What the!!!" Matt yells as he jacks his amulet in to boost the signal. "It's coming from that floating island. It's Tentomon. Wait, the signal's vanishing..... It's gone!!" Araiya says, "It's like they're jamming us!!" Matt says, "At least we got the general area of the signal. It's coming from that floating island up above the other two islands in the sky, the highest one. Lewis punches a tree. "Geez. This keeps on getting harder and harder!!" Lilymon grabs him and says to him, "You need to calm down. You can't think clearly with so much anger." He gets up, "I know, but this is so frustrating!!" He slams his sword into the tree, demolishing it. "I've never seen him with so much rage." Lilymon exclaims. Sora then starts smashing the side of a rock. "Why are we just sitting around!!" She yells. Biyomon grabs her and screams, "Shut up!! I'm sick of hearing your lip!!" Hawkmon curses out, "Why did they have to ruin a prfectly good day!! I'm going to hunt them down and tear them all a new one!!" Tai scratches his head. "Am I in the wrong place? I thought I was in the Digital World, not Anger Management 101!!" Lewis, Sora, Biyomon, and Hawkmon yell at him, "SHUT UP, DIPWAD!!" Matt says to Araiya, "What's going on? The instant we passed through the digi port, they became angry and hostile." Sora looks at Gabumon. "You say something, mutt?" Gabumon is confused, for he has said nothing. "You smell like month-old tomatoes. Besides, I never liked you. I'm going to have to lay the smackdown on you!!" she charges him and gets into a fistfight with Gabumon. Biyomon looks at Tai meanly. "You looking at me? HUH!! Answer me!!" she jumps on him and starts pecking away at his arms and face. Hawkmon looks at Miyako. "You like to lug me around and crush and maim me like a sack of bread or a carton of egges. Now it's your turn!!" He starts bashing her into the ground. "YOU LIKE IT, HUH? DO YOU?!!" he psychotically screams. Lilymon fires her Flower Cannon at a rockface and blows it open, getting the enraged peoples' attention. "All of you shut up and stop this. These are your friends, and we have more pressing matters to attend to, so GET OVER IT!!" she screams. Then she grasps her head in agony. "Oh, my head.... Why do I feel so, angry?" Matt butts in, "You know, now that you mention it, I feel this, rage, coming over me now." Lewis, his neck tightened and covered in sweat, screams, "What's going on!!" Sora, slightly calmer, exclaims, "I..... can hear.... voices, EVERYWHERE!!" Mimi, just as calmly as can be, said, "Hold on...." she remembered the doctor said that Lewis has unusally unnatural levels of dopamine and the other neurotransmitters in his system. Using Lewis's knowledge of physiology and what the doctor said about them, she came to a conclusion. "The doctor said Lewis had an unusally high levels of the neurochemicals dopamine, seratonin, ACTH, noradraneline, and adrenaline, and corticosteroids, even for him." Hawkmon jumps her. "GET TO THE FREAKIN' POINT ALREADY!!" She pushes him off. "He said that extremely high levels of dopamine were normal signs of schizophrenia, and I learned from Lewis that anger is tied into your seratonin and adrenaline levels." Lewis draws his sword at her. "Stop persecuting me!!" he bellows. She puts some air space between herself and Lewis. "I'm not persecuting you, Lewis. I was just saying that something happened that has affected most of you, something to change you from nice, friendly people and digimon to angry paranoid schizophrenics in a constant 'fight-or-flight' state, all in the course of maybe a day." Lilymon, gripping her, trying to keep control, says, "The only thing I know that could tie us together in terms of those affected is that sniper attack when we landed." Agent Vicks mentions, "Just after the shooting, wasn't there a smoke bomb that went off?" Tai says to him, "Yes. I remember getting moved out of the way by a different agent, and then a smoke bomb went off, and Matt, Gabumon, Agumon, Mimi, Lewis, Lilymon, Izzy, Tentomon, Bill Gates, Sora, Biyomon, Hawkmon, Miyako, some secret service agents, and Sora & Izzy's parents were caught in the smoke screen." Kari says, "It's something in the smoke they inhaled!!" Lilymon adds, "And that's why all that morphene didn't work on Lewis. The initial dose would have numbed him, and the preceeding dose could of killed him if it weren't for the ACTH and corticosteroids making him so resistant." Lewis, temporarily regaining his self control says to the agents, "From now on, take all your orders from Tai. Tie and bound our hands so we can't hurt anyone or anything until we can find out what to do about this." They nod, and they cuff him and tie his arms, and then do the same to Lilymon and the others that were affected, except for Mimi and Agumon, for they seemed to exhibit no symptoms. They continued onward, with the agents holding the deranged memebers by chains, and the others having to put up with their cursing and rambling. They get out of the desert and near the amusement park where they first encountered Demidevimon, but now it was bustling with activity. "If this is right, there is a Sat-Com facility under the park. Question is, how to get to it without the park owners throwing us out or finding out." Mimi says, pecking away at the keyboard. Then, everyone turns and watches as Sora and Lilymon try to shoulder charge one another and crash together, going into a frenzy of kicks and bites and headbutts. "Don't think you can get away with using all this flora to spy on me!!" Sora derangely blurts. "When I get done with you, I'll grind you down and use your skin for parchment!!" she yells back. Agent Vicks and Agent Carson separate them and put sleeper holds on them, knocking them out. Biyomon starts trying to go after Kari when Gatomon jumps her and starts beating her head into the ground. She gets off of her, and Biyomon is knocked out. Lewis looks at the agents with sweat dripping all over him and bloodshot eyes. "Oh, Vicks!! Let me go. I'm feeling a lot better now." Vicks looks at him. "Sir, you currently do not have that authourity. You relinquished that power to Mr. Kamiya." "Screw you!!" he screams, spitting at him, and then trying to bolt. Suddenly, he stops and starts screaming at a tree. "Demon tree. EVIL!! Begone from this place!!!" he keeps yelling at the tree, backing away in terror. Agent Vicks turns him around and knocks him out with a powerful right hook. When Kari sees that Lewis's nose is bleeding, she says, "I know... Why don't we go to Serenity and have the hospital there do a retest?" Tai says, "Well, let's go then. If we're not at full strenght, then we won't be able to fight those goons Gerard has with him." They head on till they reach the outer fence. "Now, how do we reach that relay pad?" Kari queries. Agumon walks up, "I think this is a job for Wargreymon." Tai asks, "Could you make a little more sense?" "Simple. We need someone to dig a passage to the Sat-Com pad, and if I Warp Digivolved and used Novaforce, I could burrow a tunnel straight to it." Mimi adds, "Now that I think of it, he's right." Tai holds out his EDI, "Well then, let's do it. Show that dirt who's boss!!"

"Agumon Warp Digivolve to Wargreymon!!"

"Novaforce!!"

He burrows deep into the ground and starts churning out a tunnel. About a minute later, he yells out, "Come on in!!" everyone jumps in. About a quarter mile ahead of them, Wargreymon was still burrowing ahead. When everyone reached Wargreymon, they found that he had reached an imprenitrable wall of metal, and the claws on his forearm plates were worn to nubs. "Whatare we going to do now?" Kari asks. "We need something to cut through that metal." Joe comments, "and we don't have any blowtorches." "I could try to blow it." Agent Vicks adds. Wargreymon shakes his head. "I think the metal is too thick for that. Besides, I'm not sure how sturdy this cavern is. One explosion could collapse it." Andromon exclaims, "If we only had a device that could cut through all metals." TK then remembers about something he learned about the Story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. He remembers reading an adaption of Sir Thomas Mallory's 'Le' Morte de Arthur.' "The Sword Excalibur, being the mightiest of all England, handed to Arthur by the Lady of the Lake, was rumored to be able to cut through any armor or sword with one slice. Nothing could stop the Sword of Power." TK jumps up. "Excalibur!!" he yells. Everyone stares at him. "If we had Excalibur, we could cut through that wall with no effort!!" Tai responds to him, "And where do you plan to find it, in an anvil in England?" "Wrong sword. Excalibur and the Sword in the Stone were two different swords." Patamon then adds, "In my higher levels, I use it." TK smiles, "Oh, yeah. Now I remember. You used it to single-handedly bring Gerard out for the count 2 years ago. Let's do it, Patamon!!"

"Patamon digivolve to Angemon!!"

"Angemon digivolve to Magnaangemon!!"

Magnaangemon walks up and rams Excalibur into the wall. It cuts through the wall like hot butter. He makes a hole in the metal wall, leading to the pad. They de-digivolve and head to the pad when park guards come down into the tunnel and spot them. "You there!! You're trespassing on our property!!" They radio for back-up. Agent Vicks says, "I'll remedy this. You get that thing-a-ma-jig to work." He pulls out a couple of grenades, pulls the pins, and chucks them into the tunnel. "Duck!!" he yells. The explosion collapses the tunnel completely, and Mimi gets the pad working. "All aboard for the next stop, Serenity!!" The pad lights up and beams them away in a pulse of light. They arrive at Serenity, and get to the hospital. They take samples of Lewis's, Sora's, Biyomon's, and Lilymon's blood. The others were too hostile to subdue safely, and were kept in individual padded rooms, and suction cups with microtransmitters are put on their heads. They are evaluated in how they act, and by brain scans. About thirty-six hours pass, and then a doctor comes in to tell them the news. "We finally found the cause of your problems. In their blood, there was a chemical agent that hid itself in the muscle tissue and organs of their bodies. It masked itself to avoid detection, but when we took a sample of blood from Lewis and put it into a healthy sample, it made a mistake and showed itself. We were able to eventually isolate it and analyze it. It consumes nutrients, water, tissue, glucose, and antibodies to produce unnatural an unhealthy levels of the neurochemicals in question. We tried everything to treat it, and when we used extreme light, mainly sunlight, along with cold, muscle relaxers, and dopamine blockers, it counteracted it and destroyed the foreign substance. But this stuff seems to have an artificial intellect, because when we tried it on Araiya, it entered her immune system and combatted the treatment by forcing her cause a violent rampage and then mutated." Tai asks, "Well, how are we going to cure them?" "I did find a glimmer of good news. I found that it also produces a compound which prevents the afflicted to sleep, all for a good reason. When the ictim is asleep, it has no power over the person's body. It's designed only to work on the brainwaves of a conscious being. The alpha, beta, psi, delta, and REM waves emmitted during sleep block it out, and also during this period, everything slows down and the immune system is most resistant, making it impossible for the chemical to react or protect itself, because it relies on the brain to give it info, and if it's in a sleep state, it doesn't send info." "Which means that if you treat it when they are asleep or unconscious, it doesn't stand a chance." Mimi says. The doctor answers, "That's correct. We have already done it to Lewis, Lilymon, Biyomon, and Sora, and they have already recovered and returned to normal. Also, their white blood cells have now started making antibodies to the chemical, making them resistant, if not immune, to a second dose." Patamon asks, "What about the others?" "Well, whenever we can get them asleep, we'll treat them then. Until then, all we can do is keep them detained." Tai says, "Well, we could wait on them, but unfortunately, we have no time. We still got to get Bill Gates and Tentomon back." Lewis walks in, "So, what are we waiting for? Let's get going." Lilymon, Sora, and Biyomon join them. "You guys feel up to it? I mean, we could go after him by ourselves...." Mimi tells them. Lewis holds his hand up. "No, you guys need all the help you can get. If you haven't noticed, we're still not exactly at full force here." Tai finally says, "Okay, you guys come with us. Let's go!!" Suddenly, someone comes in. Lewis starts laughing. "Why I'll be!! It's Oswald!!" Oswald looks at him. "Yeah, I came when I heard the news, and well, I kinda followed you guys." Lewis smiles, "Well, maybe you could be of some help to us after all!!"

As they arrive on a Sat-Com pad on the lowest flying isle, they march out one by one, with Oswald at the end, carrying their stuff. "Great, I've been conned again, but hey, I'm getting paid $7500 an hour to haul this stuff, so it isn't all bad. "Man, I'm glad I don't have to lug that heavy stuff around anymore. It was killing my back. Great idea, Lewis." Joe says. They explore slightly and find a small village in a jungle. "Hey, this is new. It's not on the Rand McNally map of the Digital World." Lewis says, holding a map. Sora asks, "When did Rand McNally make a map of the Digital World?" "Beats me. I just bought it. It has a complete map of Server, File Island, much of Network, the Isle of Palacin, Ether Archiepelago, and this Island, but this village isn't on the map." "Something doesn't add up either. Why would Water Nymph and Merfolk digimon be doing in the centermost area of a flying island?" Lilymon says. Agumon also adds, "And with electrical type digimon as well." Mimi pulls out Izzy's laptop and scans them. "Okay, we all know the Sirenamon and the leader, Undinemon, but the others are Tridentmon, one of the only two types of male merfolk digimon, and Kelpwomon, both of which are Champion level Data types. The electrical types are either Staticmon or Joulemon, which are both Ultimate level Virus digimon, and a...... Tentomon!!" "Question is, is it our Tentomon?" Lewis says. Kari looks on the holoscreen of her EDI. "Yup, it's him. That's what the map says. It also is showing a hidden room under the city, but that's it." Agumon sniffs about. "Odd, I smell other scents, as though someone else was here, but I can't really place them." Suddenly, the Joulemon surround them and throw weird looking gold rings on them. The squad leader grabs a radio. "Sir, we have caught the infadels. Shall we throw them in with the townspeople?" The voice on the other side transmits, "Yes, do that." Just as they close in, Tai yells, "Digivolve!!" but nothing happens. "Hah!! These are Digi-Inhibiters. They prevent digivolving, and the use of a digimon's attacks and artificial perks, like flight without wings, and so on." Lewis says, "You got a plan of action, fearless leader?" "Yeah, run!!" Tai screams. Everyone splits in different directions. They quickly and easily apprehend most of them. Agent Vicks throws out a gas grenade or two and confuses the Joulemon. When the smoke clears, the Joulemon have captured everyone except the secret service agents, Tai, Oswald, and Lilymon. "Where'd those others go?" one of them asks. The squad leader says, "It's only 5 puny hu-mahns and a Flower Nymph. It doesn't matter. They couldn't do anything to us anyway. That nymph has one of those Digi-Inhibiters on her, and those others didn't look like they were heavily armed. Besides, as long as we got their friends, we have a bargaining chip or 10." They drag them off to one of the buildings. Agent Wedge whispers to the others, "There is nothing we can do for them now. A tactical retreat is the best course of action until we can devise a plan." The 6 who got away skulk back into the jungle for the night.

In the so-called 'hidden chamber,' the Joulemon threw their catch. Inside, there were more digimon, mostly of the plant and wind elementals, and mostly nymph and dryad or some other deity sub-type. Suddenly, Kari trips over someone. They see three robed figured, all nymph digimon. One was another Lilymon, another was a different Undinemon, and the third was one they haven't seen before. Mimi pulls up her file. "She is Sylphadmon, an Ultimate Level Wind Nymph digimon. Her Gale of Exoneration will make think twice about the power of wind." Gomamon starts drooling. "So many beautiful ladies, one room. Excuse me, Joe, while I go play the field." He wanders around, getting slapped by all the Sirenamon and Lilymon in the cell with them as he talks to them. Kari asks the robed nymphs, "What are you doing down here?" Undinemon answers, "Well, 2 years ago, this island was part of the sea bottom, and we Water Nymph and Merfolk digimon had a prosperous city on it. Then, as the Overlords began their project of raising the continents of old from the sea, our city was caught along the fault line. Half of the population escaped, and the other half of us were trapped on the island as it ascended into the sky." Then the Lilymon adds, "On the area raised, there was an island, now a mountain and cliff here, and a group of us Flower Nymph digimon lived on it. Some of the most beautiful flowers grew on it, and then it too broke in half. Many of us were knocked out by flying and falling objects during the initial quake. When we awoke, we had no idea where this island was, and for safety purposes, I made the command decision for us to stay here and terraform the island and make a new home here. We took what seeds we had and planted them, and another ultimate level nymph digimon called Naiadmon helped them to grow at astronomical rates, covering the barren land." Sylphadmon adds in, "When the island rose into the sky, it disrupted the clouds and forced us out of hiding. We all woke up on this island, confused." Undinemon continues, "When we found ourselves in a thick jungle, we tried to make a living, but found that over time we needed to find a source of water. Luckily, a scout of ours found a small lake that had formed in the center of the island from the remaining sea water, and the recent rains. We swung on the vines in the trees, seeing how it was too far to try to hop to, and found that the Flower Nymphs had already established a village there." Sylphadmon adds, "We were lost and confused, and this was around the elevation we lived, so we felt no need to leave." Lilymon takes over, "We met the Water Nymphs at the outskirts bathing in the water. At first, we considered them hostile and strange, seing as how our island was so remote that we rarely encountered other digimon. We started to shoo them off, when we started fighting." Sylphadmon adds, "And when we heard the battle, we thought they were the interlopers who had taken us from our home, and we started fighting too." Undinemon picks up where Sylphadmon left off. "And we would have destroyed each other if it weren't for Naiadmon stopping all of us, at a price." Lilymon continues, "She ran out into he middle of the battle and was hurt badly. Just as she was hit though, she yelled, 'STOP THE MADNESS!!'" Undinemon continues on, "We all stopped as Naiadmon laid on the tail of the Sirenamon who gave her her fatal blow. She forgave her for doing it and said that we can't undo the past, for fight petty squabbles over it now. She said that since we were all here and now, that we should all learn to live together in one community. Then she died and her digi-remnents scattered away. Afterwards, we paid heed to her words and built this village here. We have lived in peace for 2 years now, until those digimon in service to the Overlords we learned of from the Wind Nymphs attacked and enslaved some of us with those Dark Spirals. The rest of us were banded with these Gold Digi-Inhibiters that keep us from using our special attacks, and then we're sold off to the highest bidder." Lewis stands up. "Slavery still going on today!! For this there is no justification. I'll settle this......" He grabs the Digi-Inhibiter and tries to remove it, but as soon as he touches it, he is fried by hundreds of volts of electricity. "Now I know what it's like to be a Texas death row inmate." Lewis says, smoldering. He falls to his knees with a weird dopey smile on his face. Everyone rushes over to him. "I feel like one of those Jello bricks with all those marshmellows and pamintoes in them." Sora and Joe grab him on the sides to hold him. Joe puts 3 fingers in front of him. "How many fingers am I holding up?" Lewis says, "I got electricuted, not poked in the eye. There's three fingers." Joe becomes agitated, "I was only checking...." "Don't give yourself an asthma attack. Now excuse me. I'm going to walk it off now, so please release my shoulders." Joe gets angry. He bends his index and ring fingers down, and gives Lewis the bird. "Now how many fingers am I holding up?" Sora says to him, "There was no need for that!!" Lewis gets up and starts walking around when Biyomon asks him, "You got any ideas yet, Lewis?" Lewis stops and says sarcastically, "Let me get back to you in, oh say, 20 minutes. Who am I kidding? Call 911!!" he falls over unconscious. They all check on him.

While all that fun stuff was going on, which consumed the whole night and went into the morning, the escapees are trying to find a way to break their incarcerated friends out of the hooscow. Oswald drags up the stuff. Agent Vicks checks the stuff. "Let's see what we got here." He rifles through the bags and searches for their stuff. Tai says, "Okay, what do we have?" Agent Vicks says, "Well, someone forgot to properly mark the extra bag of gear....." Back in Tokyo, secret service agents watching Lewis's children opens a black bag marked with the Presidential Seal only to find assault weapons and a small cache of clips. "Oh, I am so dead when Agent Vicks gets back." the small little agent sqeaks. "We have Madam Vice President's bag." Lilymon says, "I thought I forgot that. If that bag has my clothes and stuff, then where is the stuff for the children?" At the White House, a house cleaner finds the bag. She hands it to a secret service agent. He says over his radio, "We have a situation here." Lilymon says, "Well, he's fired. That's the last time I let one of your guys pack my stuff when we're in a hurry." She takes her bag. "Well, I need to change. Haven't had a change of clothes since two days ago." She goes into the bushes and starts changing. Agent Vicks pulls out a suitcase, as does Agent Wedge. "At least I made sure to bring this." he says, opening it up and pulling out something pipe-like. Agent Wedge stays silent as he assembles a Winchester .223 scoped bolt-action sniper rifle w/ silencer. Tai looks at them. Vicks says to all of them, "For this operation, Wedge will be known as Eagle Eye, I am Vindicator, and Carson is Trinity. Don't try to get captured. If you do remember to take your suicide pills....." "Uh, the President took our suicide pills away, remember. He said we're taking our jobs too seriously." Agent Carson butts in. "That's why you hide a back-up on you at all times." Agent Vicks says, pulling it out from his sock. Tai says, "Lewis is right. You guys have no lives." Agent Wedge looks up. "Not really, at least when we're on duty." Agent Vicks says, It's best if you stay back and hidden. Something tells me you have never used a gun before." Lilymon comes out wearing a dark red blazer with her gloves on under the sleeves, pink low-cut spaghetti-strap tank top, fine pressed dark red pants, and a pair of sandals. "I WAS going to wear this to the summit, but things change." Agent Wedge gives her a spare pistol. "You may need this, maam." Lilymon takes it. "Stop being so formal." "Sorry, force of habit." Agent Vicks stands up with a rocket launcher on his shoulder. "Let's move." Oswald carries the stuff as they proceed. "Hey, how am I supposed to protect myself?" Agent Carson says, "Throw luggage or something. You'll figure out something." Lilymon leans over and swipes Vicks' suicide pill. "No poisoning yourself today." She breaks the pill, spilling the toxins inside out, and throws it away.

They get to the outskirts when Wedge gets into the trees. He radioes the others. "Eagle Eye is ready, what is your status?" Vicks puts his finger to his ear. "Vindicator is in position." Carson follows crouching on one of the rooftops, "Trinity is inside." Vicks says, "Eagle Eye, proceed when ready." Wedge takes the rifle and looks into the sight. He sees they have Dark Spirals on their arms. "Guards are hostages, not aggressors. They have the Spiral." Vicks rubs his chin, "Hmmm. This changes everything."

Down in the cell, just as Lewis said, he gets back up after 20 minutes. "I got a great escape plan....., no wait, ah d**n, I forgot it. But I do know how to remove this ring here. It came to me in a dream." Gatomon looks at him peculiarly. "Sometimes I don't if Lewis is coming or going." He gets up. "You saw it fried me, right?" "Is their a point to this?" one of the Sirenamon calls out. "I figure if we stand side-by-side, standing so that the rings all touch, and then remove them, their own juice will take them out." Patamon goes, "Say what?" "I know it will be hard to arrange all of us, but with the resulting power released, they will all overload and explode." Joe points out something to Lewis. "Isn't that a little, oh let's say, FATAL for some of us!!" Lewis grabs his chin and starts mumbling. "Yeah, scrapnel and all, and other stuff. You go away now and let me think and stuff." Andromon says, "Now I can see why Araiya cannot stand you." "Guess what, you just volenteered for my little experiment." Lewis exclaims. He starts arranging everyone into a spiral, and putting the kids and their digimon in the center. He puts Andromon next to the steel door. "Stay there." Lewis says, piling what metal he can find at his feet. "Now, close your eyes and without looking, reach back with your left arm and grab what you feel." They do so and grabs the arm of the nymph behind them, just below their band. "Now, raise your arm!!" he yells suddenly to startle them. They all hit each other's Digi-Inhibiters and the extreme voltage passes through them and jumps to Andromon and the metal, blowing the door open. The Digi-Inhibiters explode and the scrapnel doesn't hit the kids. Sylphadmon says, "That was dirty, low, and underhanded." Lewis retaliates, "But it got the Inhibiters off, didn't it? Sometimes, to get something done, and all else has failed, you got to be devious." Andromon gets up, his ring off as well. "Oh, my aching servoes....."

Outside, Vicks asks Wedge, "Anything else you spot?" Wedge looks through the scope. I see more bogies, these are without Spirals." Vicks says, "Eagle Eye, you are go to strike those bogies. Trinity, infiltrate on my mark." Wedge gets a Staticmon is his sights and plinks him. Instant kill, a head shot. He does again to two of his comrades next to him before they can realize what's going on. Wedge snipes another 4 before he misses and only gives him a chest wound. He nears the alarm when Vicks fires a missile at a building across the village and blows it sky-high, wiping out another 10 Staticmon, Joulemon, and Uraniumon. Vicks dumps his rocket launcher and radioes Agent Carson to go. She runs through the chaos and is about to bust down the door when Lewis busts it down for her. "You missed us already? You sad, sad people." They are about to go when digimon converge from all over. "Going somewhere?" a Tridentmon asks. Then, the other citizens of the city rush out and battle their brethren. "Well, great philosopher, what now? Our digimon still have those inhibiters on them." Mimi says. "Now we run for cover." He runs into a building. The battle rages, neither side gaining ground. Then an unknown digimon comes from the shadows with Dark Spirals hovering around him. In his masive hands is a remote control. He yells, "All shall yield to the might of Taemon!!" everyone stops and looks at him. Mimi looks him up. "Taemon is a Mega level digimon skilled in hand-to-hand combat. His Fujita Roundhouse will make you black and blue in the blink of an eye." "Now all of you will service Lucimon!!" Mimi says, "Lucimon? I though he was destroyed with the rest of the Overlords." Agumon says, "No, I think I remember him running from Odinkabuterimon with his left hand missing." One of the Staticmon come up to tell them of what has happened. Another brings in the secret service agents and Tai. The one who brought them in says, "There were two more spotted, but we can't find them as of yet." Suddenly, a shot rang out and breaks the remote. The Dark Spirals disintegrate and those under their influence are free. The Digi-Inhibiters, though, are still working. Taemon looks over where the bullet came. He sees Lilymon blowing the barrel of the pistol she was given. Oswald sasys, "You're good!!" Lilymon responds to his compliment, "Thanks, but I was aiming for Taemon." Taemon ponders and calls out, "I have an idea. See, I'm not stupid. I rigged this place to blow by remote detentator before you ever got here. Now I could blow us all up, but with all the mess and debris, Lucimon won't be happy, besides, for some reason that's beyond me, he wants them alive. Now I've decided to come to an arrangent that either way, benefits us all, how much is up to you though. See, I'm challenging you to all-out hand-to-hand battle. No guns, no tricks, no special atacks. Just you, and me, bare knuckle. If I win, I take you as insurance of my escape, and anyone follows me, I blow the city. If you win, I'll show you how to remove those Digi-Inhibiters safely, but you have to let me go. Either way, the general populace wins. They get to go free." He snaps his fingers and the minions leave. "Can you trust this guy?" Oswald asks. Lilymon says, "Taemon are known to be evil, but they also honorable. No matter how evil they are, they always keep their word." She turns to Taemon. "Alright, you got your fight!!" She hands her gun to Oswald. "Here, don't hurt yourself." And she walks off. Oswald yells out, "I'm not as stupid as you think. Only a total moron gets shot by their own gun." And then he cleans his ear out with the barrel. She walks towards the center of town, where Taemon awaited. Lewis runs to her side. "You sure you can combat him? I mean, he is a Mega digimon, and he right now holds all the cards, seeing as how no one has ever seen you fight hand-to-hand before, and he doesn't have one of those inhibiters on him. And how do we know that he won't try to find a loophole and blow us up even if we win?" Lilymon says to him as she takes off her blazer, "Blind faith. It's all we have." Lewis looks up, "Well, whatever the outcome, I have faith in you." He backs off into the crowd. The one last Staticmon hits a gong. Taemon charges and deals her a haymaker right off the bat. He stands her up and roundhouses her, and she staggers back. A Staticmon goes up onto the rooftop and takes out a mirror. Lilymon connects to Taemon with a high kick, when the Staticmon shines the mirror into her eyes. During the period she is stunned, Taemon runs up and deals her a flying kick to her gut, then to make things worse, he uppercuts her in the jaw. Lilymn starts to sit up. Taemon smirks at her. "This is going to be easier than I thought. You ready to surrender yet, little flower child?" She is about to speak, when she spits something out. "You broke a tooth!!" she says, copping the tooth in her hands. She throws it to Lewis. "Here, hold this." Lewis passes it to Oswald. "Here. Happy Birthday from Lilymon." Oswald looks at it going, "Wow!! How did she remember?" Lilymon gets up and returns the favor to Taemon by throwing him to the ground with an uppercut of her own. He flips up and tries to sweep her legs out from under her, but she jumps up and hovers, and then starts delivering kick after kick in mid-air in the same fashion Neo kicked Morpheus in the Matrix, then deals him a bicycle kick when she lands on the ground. He gets back up and Lilymon starts throwing jabs, but he blocks them with his hands and forearms. She fakes a punch, then side kicks him. He recovers and drop kicks her in the side of her abs. She grabs him by the legs and flings him into a wall. She bends over from the pain in her stomach, and Taemon calls a time-out of sorts, as they are brought over to opposite sides of the Town Square. One of the Joulemon says, "Boss, I have an idea. Why don't we have a small shower? It's not against the rules if say, a 'stray bolt of lightning' hit her. Then you claim victory." Taemon grins. "I like...." Over in Lilymon's corner, townspeople are saying, 'We can take him!!' 'You're going to get yourself killed!!' 'Don't worry about us. Save yourself!!' and Lewis says to her, "I'll bet you they're planning a method of cheating as we speak. But I know how to even the odds and it still be legal." He whispers into her ear. "When I say, 'This ends now,' then you do it." Taemon yells, "Time In!!" and they start again. "Hmm, it's getting cloudy...." Lilymon says. "Weather's always bad around this time of year." Taemon says back. They get into a fury of punching and kicking, ended when Taemon grabs Lilymon's foot and spins her to the ground. The rain starts pouring. Lilymon shoulder charges him, then she bicycle kicks him. He lands on the ground and jumps to his feet, and then assails her with punches. She jumps up and pulls off a Trinity-style kick. Mimi & Oswald say simultaneously, "Man, where'd she learn this stuff?" Lewis just keeps on staring. "Beats me." She runs to the left to intercept him, and leaps up onto the wall and 'runs' across the side of it ending with double kick at Taemon. "You know, you're the first digimon I ever encountered that was able to put of this much of a fight. I'll remember your name. But today is mine." He grabs her in a scissors kick and flips her over him, and then releasing her, sending her flying in the air. Then that 'stray bolt' came crashing down, hitting Lilymon in her right shoulder with voltage that would be near fatal to a human. The voltage was enough to lift her off the ground. Her Digi-Inhibiter is fried and crumbles off. When it stops, there is smoke coming off of her, and she is bleeding from her shoulder. Taemon holds his fists up in victory. "Now, if you don't mind, I must be go...." "Oh no you don't!!" he hears from behind him. His face becomes a vision of terror. "But how!!" Lilymon staggers up, holding her arm. "You forgot that plants naturally absorb nitrates from electrons and ground electricity. That means I have a higher level of tolerance to electricity than others, but boy does it still hurt." Taemon remarks, "I hate science." And he charges. Lilymon, knowing her condition, yells out, "This ends now!!" Lewis pulls out his digivice. "Time to even things out." he turns to Andromon as his crest glows and his digivice emits light.

"Andromon Warp Digivolve to Xaviomon!!"

"Xaviomon Warp Digivolve to AlcyaidXaviomon!!"

She bounds up, off Taemon's shoulders, flies up, spins backward, and lands inside AlcyaidXaviomon's compartment. She pulls the blue switch, arming manual override. Taemon says, "Hey, that's cheating. Good guys don't cheat!!" Lilymon says over AlcyaidXaviomon's comm system to Taemon, "It's not cheating as long as i got manual override on." Lewis looks at him. "She's right. You never said anything about what BODY was fighting, just that she was the one fighting. Don't deny it. I recorded everything you said on tape." Taemon says, "Stupid loopholes. I'll still beat you black and blue!!" He jumps up to atack the chest, but she just smacks him. Taemon rolls on the ground. The rain stops. "No fair!! She's 20 foot tall and in a suit of Megadigizoid machinery!!" She makes AlcyaidXaviomon leap into the air and draw his right arm back and they fall, and just before she slams AlcyaidXaviomon's fist into him, he screams, "I yield!!" The nymphs shoo away his minions and they take him. Lilymon points AlcyaidXaviomon's left arm at him. "Now, how about telling us how to remove these inhibiters?" Taemon says, "Why should I? You cheated as far as I'm concerned." The barrels start turning. "You know, I could push the button, making these barrels fire. Or, I could turn it off if you tell me." He says, "Okay, I'll talk. See, to remove it you got to open the panel, but to open it, you must wear rubber gloves, so that you do not get shocked. Tell it to disengage the battery, then hit the blue button and punch in a three-digit code, then hit the green button. The clamp will release." Lilymon says, "Thanks, but we got it under control." She picks him up and hurls him away, then starts by snapping Lewis's band off using AlcyaidXaviomon's hand. Then she starts to groan, and you an see AlcyaidXaviomon covering his gut and rubbing his right shoulder because Lilymon inside was doing the same thing. He bends over. "Open Hatch." she mutters. AlcyaidXaviomon opens his hatch, and Lilymon falls out to the ground and coughs up blood. AlcyaidXaviomon de-digivolves back to Andromon. "She needs medical attention quickly!!" Andromon yells. Everyone runs over and Lewis picks her up in his arms and carries her inside what appears to be a medical building. He looks around and only finds a few herbs and gauze. He takes the unlabeled containers and sniffs and tastes the contents. "Hmmm.... Ginseng, Xander Root, Yew Bark, CANNIBIS!! What's weed doing here?" He tosses it to Agent Wedge, and he pockets it. Lewis looks at him. Wedge says to him, "It's for my glaucoma." Lewis comments sarcastically, "Sure it is. I deal with this later." He looks straight ahead (Also known as 'looking at the camera') "Kids, don't do drugs. See what retards result from them." Wedge says, "I heard that." He goes back to scrounging through the herbs. "There has to be something I know of here." He searches for another 30 seconds, and then grabs the gauze and says, "Screw it!! There's nothing I can use." He cleans the cut as best he can and wraps it. Then he goes out to Mimi. "I know how much you disprove of it, but you're going to be my little miracle worker." He opens the panel, paying no heed to the electricity running through him. He breaks the code in two tries. "Now, work your magic." Lewis says to her. Mimi mutters back, "I should start charging you for this. Your abusing my healing skills." She walks in to Lilymon.

"Nature's Blessing!!"

The healing dew and leaves put on Lilymon heal up her internal injuries and reduce her stiffness. Lewis walks in. "I heard you. Here's a $100." She takes it. "Hey!! This is American!!" "Well, sorry, but I don't have any Yen on me. We'll get it cleared up later." Lewis responds to her sny remark. Lilymon gets up. "Oh, I'm going to feel this for a while. Well, you always fought for me. Now I guess fate decided to reverse those roles for a change." He takes her hand. "I knew you could do it. Just one thing. Where did you learn those killer moves?" She replies, "From you and Oswald. I mean, you two have watched the Matrix like, 5 million times. Memorizing that, and from watching all of you in earlier battles, I learned to use those moves myself." Lewis looks in surprise. "Well, I'll be. You have my learning curve, too!!" They giggle at the idea. Sylphadmon comes in and says, "There is a way to the second island. It's in an old temple. See, the second island is inaccessable by flight. There is this weird anti-flight field around the island which prevents flying on or off the island. The only on or off it is to go through on of the two other islands." Tai says, "Well, please show us the way then." A voice sounding like Matt's calls out to them, "Hey, wait for us!!" Tai looks over and sees Matt, Gabumon, Izzy, Araiya, Miyako, and Hawkmon. "When did they treat you guys?" Tai says. "Oh, they did that last night." Araiya says, "They were able to isolate the neurochemical and cut it off from the brain, and then they crushed it." Izzy says, with his left arm in a sling, "Afterwards, they made a counteragent that acts like a treatment and a vaccine. They came back and cured me and the others affected. After a psych evaluation, they deemed me fit to leave the hospital. And then we caught up to you guys. Have you found Tentomon yet?" Sora comes back. "We've been had. There's a transmitter or something putting out false signals. Biyomon here pulled the plug on it though." she says. Izzy checks his EDI. "Hey, I'm getting a signal from the third island now. This isn't good. It shows 2 Terra digimon with them, and a slew more. Apparently that was what was blocking the EDI's originally. Matt told me all about the jamming signal on the way here. In fact, we would have been here sooner if our signal wasn't jammed." Tai calls out, "Well, what are we waiting for. Let's move out!!"

They are led by Sylphadmon to the temple. Sylphadmon warns them, "This is how most digimon commute from this island to the second island. The Overlords use some other means that we haven't discovered yet. I just want to warn you. I've been there. That place is WEIRD!! The technological level is primitive, medieval in fact. Try to avoid a group of knights in black. I can't remember what they are called, but they're scary." They go in. "All you have to do is stand on the ruby and the computer will do itself. Thanks for saving our village!!" They all say bye as they are flashed away in a ball of light to the second flying island.

Before we proceed, any of you seen "Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail" before? Well, if you have, you'll get a kick out of this island. If you've not, GO RENT IT!! You'll still get a kick out of it. I adapted part of this section from it.

As they appear on the second isle, they see a digimon hopping ridiculously with another digimon that looks like a witch doctor carrying supplies on his back and clanking hollowed coconuts together making hoof sounds. "Already this place is making no sense." Sora says. Izzy takes his laptop from Mimi. "The knight-looking digimon in white is Arthumon, a Mega level Paladin digimon. He wields a mighty sword forged by the same force that made Excalibur, but it doesn't have Excalibur's weapons and armor negating powers. Next to him is Fijimon, a Champion level wizard digimon. His Coconut Bombs will leave you wishing for a desert isle. They watch Arthumon come up to a castle. He calls out, "You there. Tell your lord that King Arthumon from Camelot wishes to speak to him. We have rode since winter from Laverta....." A Gekomon hangs over the side. He says, "You haven't been riding anywhere. You expect me to believe that you found coconuts in Laverta?" "What's your point?" Arthumon says to him. "Coconuts are a tropical item. This is a temperate zone." "Maybe they came up here." "You're trying to tell me that coconuts are migratory?" Gekomon says to him. Arthumon says, "Well, swallows could carry them." "No, your basic 5 ounce swallow can't carry a 1 pound coconut. He just can't do it." "Sure he can." "No, it's a matter of weight ratios. A swallow must flap its wings 43 times a minute to maintain its velocity. A Brittanian swallow just couldn't do it" Arthumon calls up. "I don't care." Gekomon ignores him. "Wait, a Serverian swallow could carry it, but they're not migratory." Another Gekomon yells to that Gekomon, "What if they tied the coconut to a string and two swallows carried it?" Arthumon slaps his face and says, "Nevermind. Hopefully I'll find knights worthy of joining me elsewhere." He stupidly hops off with his Fijimon servant clanking those coconuts. Miyako says dumbfounded, "Sylphadmon was right. This place IS weird." They continue on for half a day until they see Arthumon again at a bridge in the forest. A knight in black stands in the way. He had just defeated another knight digimon. They walk up. Arthumon asks them, speaking with a British accent, "Who the blazes are you?" Tai says, "We're the Digidestined." "Never heard of you. Right now I'm trying to find knights to join me at the Round Table in Camelot. I have no time to talk to children." He turns to the black knight. "You fight with the strenght of many men. I am looking for knights to join me in Camelot. Do you wish to join me?" No response. "I am saddened. I shall be... " The knight speaks, "None shall pass!!" Arthumon tels him, "I must cross this bridge." The black knight says, "To cross the bridge is to meet your demise." Arthumon starts geting angry. "What's this? I am the king. I order you to move." The knight agains keeps his ground. "I move for no one." Arthumon draws his sword. "Alright then. So be it." The kids move out of the way. Izzy analyzes him. "He's Roguemon, an Ultimate level Dark Knight digimon. He can dice all whom oppose him with his Black Blade attack." Arthumon and Roguemon clash swords. Arthumon kicks him back and they lock again. Then Arthumon takes a swipe and cuts Roguemon's right arm off. "Give up, you are wounded." Arthumon says to him. Roguemon looks at the wound and says, "I've had worse." "No, you haven't. Your arm is on the ground!!" Roguemon sees his arm become digidust. "Eh." He charges at him with his sword is his remaining arm.

"Black Blade!!"

Arthumon sidesteps him and slices his other arm off. He goes and kneels down and starts to clean his sword when Roguemon starts kicking him. "Give up already. The battle is over, good sir knight. I have won. Your arms are digidust." Roguemon says, "Just a flesh wound." "A flesh wound!! You have no arms!!" Roguemon keeps kicking him. "Stop it already." Arthumon utters. He slices off his left leg. "Now, I shall be go...." Roguemon starts hopping and chest bumping him. "I'll rip you to shreds!!" Arthumon says, "Stop it, you're bleeding on me. Don't make me take your other leg." After another 10 seconds of getting charged by Roguemon, Arthumon decides he's had enough and slices Roguemon's other leg off. Roguemon says to him, "Okay, we'll call it a draw." Arthumon and Fijimon cross the bridge, followed by the Digidestined. Roguemon says, "Oh, so that's how you do things. COWARDS!! Come back here!! I'll gnaw your legs right off!!" They go off into the distance. "Hello!! Please come back. I'm scared." A wolf is heard howling. "Help me...." Roguemon says meekly. As the Digidestined proceed, Tai says something. "I propose that we try to avoid meeting up with that Atrthumon again. He's just too strange to be around." Mimi says, "I think we should go back and help that black knight." Lewis says, "What? Just so he'll try the same thing on us, and to protect ourselves, we'd have to disable him again. No, I've already had my share of weird and annoying for today." They come up on another castle, and Arthumon is there, but he has others with him now. "Wonder when the King of the Weirdos got those reinforcements?" Miyako says. They see them talking to another knight digimon, this one with a thick French accent. The French digimon says to Arthumon, "I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of eldeberries. Bother us again and I assail you with another taunt." Arthumon says to him, "Now I have been more than patient with you. Now let us in and see the Holy Grail!!" Tai says, "Holy Grail. When did his plans change?" The French digimon raspberries Arthumon. "Attack!!" and all the knights charge. Suddenly they are greeted with flying livestock and a bombardment of chickens. One of the Fijimon are squished by a cow. "Oh, the pain, and the ow, and oyve!!" he says, laying there with the cow on him. Arthumon and his fellow knights yell, "Run away!! Run away!!" and they flee into the forest. The cow finally gets up off of the Fijimon. Suddenly, the French start shooting at the kids. "Maybe we should heed Arthumon's advice." Joe utters in shock. They all start running. Throughout the day, they wander the land, and they camp for the night outside another forest. TK says sitting around the campfire, "I can't wait to get off this island. It's too odd." Gabumon mentions, "This is strange even for the Digital World." Lilymon says, "Good something said something. I though I was going luny again." Lewis seems fixated on something. "I swear I've seen something like this before. Just can't put my finger on it." Miyako taps him on the shoulder, "There's no way you've seen anything this bizzare before. This is one in a billion." Izzy takes out his EDI. "Well, we're heading the right way." Suddenly, a grotesque little troll-like digimon walks up. He speaks to him in a british accent as well. "You seek the fortress of the Overlords, where your friends are kept, do you not?" Tai says, "Yes. What concern is it of yours?" He says, "To reach the bridge to the third island, thee must join with those who seek the Holy Grail, and find and a great enchanter. He will lead thee to a cave. Beyond that cave thou must crosseth the 'Bridge of Death.' From there, your goal is not far." Suddenly, he is gone and it is daytime. "What the hey?" Tai says, bewildered. Everyone wakes up. Mimi says, "Morning already?" They pack up and journey through the forest till they meet Arthumon and one of his knight companions. "Oh, it's you again. I though the wolves done eat you." Patamon says, "I think somebody's cranky." A sound is heard in the woods. "Silence, you flying thingy." Arthumon says. Izzy scans the area on the analyzer. "Arthumon's companion here is Percivalmon, an Ultimate level Knight digimon. Not the brightest sort, though he seems to be the most intelligent of the knights we met." Dark shadows and blurs swarm about the forest. Arthumon and Percivalmon get a look of terror on their face. Suddenly, there are these knights in black with horned helmets on, and their leader is 10 feet tall. "Oh, no!!" Arthumon says. Sora says, "I think this what Sylphadmon was warning us of." The leader says, "NI!! (Pronounced the same as 'knee')" and the digimon shudder in terror. His cohorts start saying Ni as well. Izzy starts to scan, but it doesn't pick up an unknown digimon. "Are you digimon?" Izzy asks. The leader says, "We are not these 'digimon' you speak of. We are the knights who say.... NI!! We are the keepers of the sacred word, and we demand a sacrifice." Arthumon says in fear, "Please, Knights who say Ni, we must pass throught this forest so we may continue our search for the Holy Grail." Tai says to the others, "A troll digimon came along last night telling me we must join with those who seek the Holy Grail if we are to find Tentomon and Bill Gates." Izzy says to him, "You may be right. We have been heading in the right direction since we started following them, and as we have gone along, we met them at one instance or another." Izzy is interrupted by the leader of the Knights. "NI!! Silence, or I shall Ni again!!" He pauses to make sure they are quiet. "We demand a sacrifice." Percivalmon grabs Patamon and quivers in terror, "Will he do?" The knight says, "NI!! No, that is not what we, the Knights who say Ni, want. We demand..... a SHRUBBERY!!" A shrill, horrid note plays in the air, and the digimon are frightened. Biyomon even screams in terror. Lewis just stands there perplexed. "Refuse, and we shall say Ni to you until you wet yourselves and go insane." Arthumon says, "We shall bring you your shrubbery!!" Arthumon and everyone else head west. They happen upon a small village. Lewis says to Tai, "This is getting more and more rediculous, but in ways quite amusing." Oswald says to Gatomon, "What's your deal with this Ni word?" He pauses. "NI!!" Gatomon jumps up in terror. She punches him in the face. Oswald says, "Okay, shutting up." Arthumon says pointing at Lewis and Lilymon, "You two, ask and see if they have shrubberies here." Lewis says, "Wow, he's known us for a few hours and already presumes that he can order the Leader of the Free World around. Oh, might as well do what he says. I'd just waste time in petty squabbling over who should ask when I do it now." Lilymon says, "I'm just glad he's no Taemon." They walk up to a Floramon. Lilymon asks her, "Do you know where we can find, a shrubbery?" Floramon cowers and angrily says, "No!!" Lewis says, "If you don't help, we'll be forced to say, Ni!!" she jumps in terror. She still refuses. "NI!! NI!!" he says. Lilymon goes, "NU!!" Lewis stops and says, "No, honey, a litle higher, with an E sound." She goes, "NU!! NO!! NUH!!" Lewis answers, "Closer. Tighten your mouth." "NIH!! NI!!" Lewis tells her, "There we go!!" They both start saying 'Ni' simultaneously at her until a Deramon on horseback says to them, "Can't a little Floramon go through a week around here without someone saying Ni to her. What has the world come to. So turbulent. Not even a shrubber is safe from the hardships." Lewis says to him, "You a shrubber?" "Why yes I am!!" Lilymon says to him, "Good, we need a shrubber, badly. We can pay you." Two hours later, they return to the Knights who say Ni with the shrubbery. "Ah, good. Good arrangement. Like the laurels." Arthumon asks, "Now, may we pass?" The leader says, "You did well, but there is one problem." Agumon asks, "What's that?" The leader responds, "We are no longer the Knights who say 'Ni.' We are now the Knights who say 'Icky, icky, icky, boing-zoot!!' You must pass another test." Matt remarks sarcastically, "What now, bring you a copy of the home version of 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire?'" "No, but that is tempting." Arthumon asks, "Please, tell us, Knights who up until recently said 'Ni,' what do you want?" The leader says, "We want you to bring us.... ANOTHER SHRUBBERY!! One that is like this one, a little taller, and has a little through way between the two. And then, you shall find the mightiest tree in the forest and cut it down..... with a HERRING!!" he flips and swings a little fish in his hand. Arthumon says, "That's propostrous. It can't be done!!" The knights cover their ears. "You said the forbidden word!!" they scream in horror. "What? Can't?" The leader says, "No. That is not the word." Tai asks, "Well, if you won't tell what it is, then how will we know what it is?" Every time Tai said 'it,' they cringed in horror, screaming, "No!! Evil, dirty word!! Infidels!!" Sora gets what's going on and joins in. "So what is IT if can't is not IT?" Izzy says, "IT can't be hard to figure out. IT must be a common word, otherwise IT wouldn't be so easy to speak." One of Arthumon's fellow knights arrive. "Is it alright to find out what's going on?" Arthumon says, "First though, did you find IT?!" The Knights who say Ni run away in terror. Before he answers, Lewis says, "IT looks like IT'S safe to go. IT looks clear." Percivalmon says, "I think they're gone." Hawkmon says, "About time. IT was getting annoying."

At the Overlords fortress, looking through a telescope at the second island, Gerard reports to Lucimon, "Sir, the enemy has just teamed with the Knights of the Round Table and have defeated the Knights who say Ni." Lucimon turns to his side. "Atmamon, go down there and see to it they don't reach this island. Here, this will help you." He hands him an armband that is put on his front left leg. "It will allow you to fly over the island, negating the no-fly field we put over it." Atmamon flies off and calls out as he leaves, "I'll do it, but if I go luny down, you're paying my shrink!!" Lucimon turns around and pulls out a book. "All is going as NeoApocalymon said it would. Soon, the key to our future will be in our hands."

Back on the isle of Brittania, as it appears to be called, all of Arthumon's knights; Gallahamon, Lancelomon, Robimon, & Gawainmon; reunite, bringing a Vademon in holy robes, a priest of sorts, and journey for another 4 or 5 days, until they encounter a different Wizardmon standing on a cliffside, creating explosions for absolutely no reason what so ever. He sees them, creates an explosion in front of him and appears befroe Tai in a puff of smoke and fire. "Who art thou?" Tai says, "I'm Tai, leader of the digidestined." and then Arthumon says, "And I am King Arthumon of Camelot. We were told we would find an enchanter here." Wizardmon speaks as he blows stuff up. "Ah, thou hath found him." He turns and points his staff at a rock face in the distance and shoots a Thunder Ball at it, creating a mini mushroom cloud of fire. Arthumon asks, "What is thy name?" Wizardmon says, "Some call me..... Tim." Sora asks, "Why do you keep blowing the cliffside up?" "To relieve stress, why else? Thou art a strange, silly little girl." He turns to Arthumon. "You seek the Holy Grail!!" He rolls the L is grail, making him sound sort of Scottish. "How doth thou know this?" Tim says, "I know many things." Arthumon asks Tim, "And can you show us where the H...." Tim points his staff at him. He stutters. Time yells ferociously, accomponying his yell with another explosion, "Grail!!" He agians rolls the L. "I'll take you to the Grail!! Before we can reach the Grail, we must go through a cave guarded by a ferocious monster, so if any of you doubt thy courage, thou shalt leave now!!" Robimon starts to run, when Arthumon grabs him. "Get back here!!" Miyako says, 'You know, I'm beginning to miss being schizophrenic. At least it made more sense." Andromon comments, "This Tim has a serious case of pyromania. I hope he does not try to use any of us for his next fit."

Meanwhile, at the cave, a Devidramon paces around the cave mouth, when Atmamon arrives.

"Atma Weapon!!"

The Devidramon is toast and Atmamon lands there. "Now, time for my little ruse."

"Atma Morph!!"

He creates a little white rabbit on steroids and with sharpened Gigadigizoid teeth from the bones layin around the cave, and then hides just outside the cave. "Heh, heh, heh. Stupid knights will never suspect a little bunny."

They reach the outskirts of the cave when Gatomon runs up and screams, "Stop it!! If I hear one more coconut clank together, I'll scream!!" Arthumon says, "Alright then, we shall appease the lady. Dismount." The knight all act as though they are dismounting horses. "The quicker we get out of here and find Tentomon & Bill Gates, the quicker." She says. They go down the cliffside to an area of rocks in front of the caves. "Where's this monster, big shot?" Matt says to Tim. Arthumon adds, "Is it behind that rabbit?" Tim says, "Nay, it is the rabbit." Kari says to him, "You expect us to believe a cuddly little bunny will devour us all? You got to be kidding me." Tim says, "The beast can take on many forms." Arthumon says to the Fijimon, "Go slay that rodent." They all charge out and the rabbit jumps up and rips them to shreds. One of the Fijimon scream, "THE HORROR!!" just before he meets his demise. Arthumon pulls out his sword. "No one kills my servants and gets away with it. Charge!!" All of them except Robimon run at the rabbit. "I'll just stay here and guard the children and the priest. You guys go on." he says cowardly. The knights fight vigorously, but the rabbit just is too much for them. Gawainmon and Tim are slain by the rabbit, and Gallahamon is wounded. "Run away!! Run away!!" Tai says, "Now let's show this bunny who's boss!!"

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

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

"Gabumon Terravolve to DaoGarurumon, Entrusted Gatekeeper of Time!!"

"Biyomon Terravolve to Patriotaviamon, Patriot & Revolutionary!!"

"Gatomon Terraolve to Archangwomon, The Face of Innocence!!"

"Patamon Terravolve to Gabrielmon, Defender of the Innocent!!"

"Lewis, Ninith Digidestined, Terra Optimize to Neo HyperCenturiosapien!!"

"Andromon Terravolve to ThorXaviomon, Asgard's Champion!!"

"Hawkmon Terra Optimize to Daedalusmon!!"

Gomamon says, "Joe, I don't think I'll have to digivolve. I think 9 Terras can handle one little rabbit. Actually, I think 9 Terras is overkill against one little rabbit." They charge out, but it's moving too fast, and it's gnawing through their armor like it was rice paper. Suddenly, it bounds up off Paladingreymon and fires a blue energy blast, throwing the Terras back to the kids. Lewis draws his sword. "Nice rabbit, good rabbit. Tonight we're going to have some rabbit stew!!" He swings the sword, but the rabbit gnaws the sword in half. "Okay, close range combat is out." he says, looking at his hilt. "Hmmm, maybe we need a new tactic." He snaps his fingers and Vicks, Carson, Wedge show up. "Make him into a pincushion." They start shooting at him, and the bullets just ping off him. Lewis signals them to stop. "You know that talk I have been meaning to give to you? Well, here it is. Spread 'em." He frisks him. "Ah, here's the weed I told you to get rid of, and a bong." He looks around. "Anyone got a light? I'm going to smoke that bunny out." ThorXaviomon spews fire out of one of his barrels. "Will this do?" "Yep!!" He puts the pot in and lights the bong. He turns and tosses the bong at the rabbit. The bong breaks, and marijuana is all over the rabbit. "Next time you need a personality, try to avoid the recreational drugs." Lewis says to Wedge. "But sir..." "Cram it. I think it's taking effect." The rabbit stumbles around and then starts to fly. "Okay, I wasn't expecting that. Man, those nymphs got some powerful weed." Oswald walks up. "Hey, I have an idea." Lewis says, "Well, go for it. It can't hurt." Oswald walks towards the rabbit. "Hey rabbit!!" he pauses. "Ni!!" he pauses "Ni!! Ni!! Ni!!" The bunny doesn't budge. "I don't get it." The bunny pounces after him. Archangewomon and Lewis react at the same time.

"Halo of Light!!"

"Nova Bombs!!"

The rabbit fires his beam. Oswald ducks and barely avoids becoming Kentucky Fried Homo Sapien. It hits Lewis before he can pull the pin and the two projectiles smack into one another, and a flash goes off. A ball of light rolls to Lewis. It stops glowing to reveal a golden ball with a cross for a pin. Arthumon says, "It's the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch!! We are saved!!" He kneels to it. Lewis says, "Okay, now how do I use this thing?" Arthumon says to Vademon, "Consult the Book of Armaments!!" Vademon pulls out a book from his satchel and opens it. He speaks in a British accent, "Armaments: Chapter 2, Verses 9 to 21." He quotes the book,

"And Saint Entalot raised the hand grenade up on high saying, 'O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, but with it thou may blow thy enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.' And the Lord did grin, and they did feast upon the lamb, and the sloth, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutauns, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats....."

Osawld interrupts, "Could you skip to the important part? We don't care what the townspeople feasted upon." Vademon skips ahead. "Going on."

"And the Lord spake saying, 'First shalt thou take out the holy pin. Then shalt thou count to 3, no more, no less. 3 shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be 3. 4 shalt thou not count, neither count thou 2, except in that thou then proceed to 3. 5 is right out. Once the number 3, being the third number be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch toward thy foe, whom being not in my sight, shall snuff it.' Amen."

Oswald says to Lewis, "Well, you heard him. Go to it!!" Lewis pulls the pin.

"1, 2, 5, uh, I mean 3, Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch!!"

He throws the Holy Hand Grenade at the rabbit. An angelic voice could be heard as it sails at the rabbit. It hits the rabbit, and a brilliant burst of light beams forth in all directions. After about 15 seconds of light, things return to normal. The rabbit is no more. "Effective. I like!!" Lewis says. Vademon adds from the quote,

"P.S. - Thou shalt avoid hitting thy foe's face with the Holy Hand Grenade. It can causeth thine foe traumatic injuries to their sight."

Lewis says to him, "So, in other words 'Caution: Aim AWAY from face?'" Vademon replies, "Exactly, my child. How do you know this?" Lewis answers, "Oh, we have the same warning painted on all our nuclear warheads." Sora says, "Isn't that a little unnecessary?" "Heck, no!! Do you how much eye trauma one of those things can cause? They can poke your eyes out!!" Arthumon interrupts them. "I hate to bother you, but we must continue our quest for the Holy Grail!!" Atmamon skulks deeper into the cave. "Drat!! Now I'll have to stop them myself. This won't be easy." The digidestined and the knights enter the cave. The digimon revert to their Base (The level they are at most of the time, either Rookie or Champion.) levels. Inside the cave, they reach a wall with Digi-Runes on it. "Brother Vademon, you are scholarly in these matters. What does this say?" Vademon walks up and reads it. "It says, 'These are the last words of Kale Morgin. Across the Bridge of Death lay the Holy Grail. Thou can seek it in Castle Auggghhhhhhh.............' and then it stops." Arthumon says, "Auggghhhhhhh.........., what kind of name is that? Who engraves their last breath, and how?" Percivalmon says, "Maybe he was dictating?" Arthumon says, "Nonsense. Hmmm......" They keep on trying to figure out what 'Auggghhhhhhh............' meant when Vademon turns around and hears "Atma Weapon!!" and is hit. He screams as he becomes digidust, "Auggghhhhhhh...........!!" Arthumon says, "That's it, that's the name!!" Izzy yells , "We can debate it later!!" Gabumon says, "We're still exhausted from trying to fight that rabbit." Tai says, "Well, then there's just one thing to do." Everyone yells, "RUN AWAY!! RUN AWAY!!" They start running all throughout the cave from Atmamon. Lilymon turns around while running.

"Flower Cannon!!"

The shot misses what she was aiming at, his head, and hits his armband. Atmamon says, "Oh, geez, I gotta get this fixed." He breaks pursuit and goes out the exit. The digidestined stop running and head out, coming out at a swinging bridge with fire spewing out all around it. The same troll-like digimon that talked to Tai stood there as bridgekeeper. Arthumon says, "I think Lancelomon should go first." Lancelomon approaches the bridge. The troll says, "Answer me these question 3, if it be the other side you wish to see." Lancelomon says, "Okay." "Question the First: What is your Name?" "Lancelomon." "What is your Quest?" "To find the Holy Grail." "What is your Favorite Color?" "Blue." "You may pass." And Lancelomon passes across the Bridge of Death. Suddenly Atmamon charges out of nowhere. He sees Lancelomon on the other side. The troll stops him. "Answer me these questions 3, if it be the other side you wish to see." "Oh, alright." Atmamon says. "Question the First: What is your Name?" "Atmamon." "What is your Quest?" "To destroy the Digidestined." "What is halitosis?" Atmamon ponders. "I don't know." He is flung by a mysterious force into the pit. He screams, and his digidust goes flying off. Kari responds, "So that's why they call it the Bridge of Death." Lewis adds, "Good deterrent!!" Robimon runs up to the bridge yelling, "I'm not afraid!!" Gallahamon calls out, "Thou art scared of your own bloody shadow, ya little sod!!!" The troll goes, "Answer me these question 3, if it be the other side you wish to see?" "Okay." Robimon says quivering. "Question the First: What is your Name?" "Robimon, Knight of the Round Table." "What is your Quest?" "To find the Holy Grail." "What is the capital of Assyria?" "What the? What's Assyria?" "A nation in the Real World?" "Real World? I'm so confused. I have no idea. Wheeeeeee..........!!!" He gets flung into the pit. Miyako says, "Wow, 60 digiports across the Digi-World and the Real World and they still don't know about the Real World!!" Percivalmon says to her, "If and when we survive our perilous quest, willst thou enlighten us Knights of the Round Table?" Miyako gets a look of surprise and anxiety over her face. "Yeah. Sure." She thinks to herself, "Me and my big mouth." Gallahamon walks up to the troll. "What is your Name?" "Gallahamon, A Knight of the Round Table." "What is your Quest?" "I seek the Holy Grail." "What is your Favorite Color?" "Blue, no, wait, wheeeeeeeeee........!!!!" Gallahamon goes sailing into the pit. Lewis heads up next. "Let's see him combat a 137 IQ!!" The troll asks, "What is your Name?" "Lewis Wick, President of the United States." "What is your Quest?" "To save Bill Gates and Tentomon from their kidnappers." "What is the air speed velocity of a swallow?" Lewis ponders for a moment. Lilymon says, "Oh no, he doesn't know!!" She covers her eyes. The troll says, "10 seconds!!" Lewis says, "You know, there's something I realy hope you could clear up before I can answer. Is it a Brittanian swallow or a Serverian swallow?" The troll shakes his head in confusion. "I don't know. Wheeeeeeeeeee...................!!!!!" The troll is thrown into the pit. "Come on, everyone!! The stupid little troll's gone!!" Percivalmon asks him, "How do you know so much about swallows?" Lewis slyly says, "Hey!! Ya got to know these things when you're the President of the United States." Everyone crosses the bridge and they proceed until they stop for the night. Percivalmon starts asking about the Real World, and Miyako tells him all about it. Meanwhile, Arthumon talks to Tai. "The Grail should near." Tai adds,"And tomorrow, we'll finally reach our imprisoned friends and free them." Arthumon says, poking the fire, "Thy friends must be important to you, as important as my quest for the Holy Grail." Tai answers, "You can't imagine. One of those friends, if forced, could drastically alter this world, and then those who have him can enter my world with little resistance, since what happens in this world has a direct impact on my world, and vice versa." He shakes his head. "Tis a shame. Where is this evil?" Tai says, "On a diferent flying island, captured by a evil digimon called Lucimon." "We know of him. He is a vile evil. You must be true friends to risk thine lives for them." He points to the west. "Legend has it that on the westernmost edge of this land is a bridge that leads to the vile serpent's lair. Those who found this bridge though hath never returned to tell their tales." Tai answers back, "It's a risk we'll just have to take." Percivalmon now starts telling Miyako on his scientific method of finding a witch. "Now why do we burn witches?" She scratches her head, and Percivalmon adds, "What else burns?" "Wood?" she guesses. "Correct!! Now what can do with wood around water?" She says, "Uh, build a bridge?" "Ah, but bridges can also be built of stone." Lancelomon says, "It floats. That's what it does." "Not the one I wanted an answer from, but just as good." Percivalmon says. "This means what?" he says to her. She scratches her head in absolute confusion. Agumon gets up and joins in, "Well, this is a longshot, but it seems like you're saying that that since wood floats, that wood burns, and witches burn in fire, that witches are made of wood?" "Exactly!!" Percivalmon says. He thens says to Miyako, "What else floats on water?" This one takes little effort. "A duck!!" "Why?" "Because it's light!!" "Now you got it!! If the suspected witch weights the same as a duck, then she floats, and therefore is made of wood, and...." Miyako finishes, "Therefore a witch. Now it makes sense." Miyako leans over to Agumon. "He's a total nut-job!!" she whispers.

The next morning, they got up and reached a castle. "There it is, at long last, Castle Auggghhhhhhh..............!!!!" Arthumon says. Suddenly, a chicken flies from over the wall and smacks Sora upside the head, knocking her down. The chicken sits on her head. She sarcastically comments, "Yay. Poultry." The same French digimon that accosted them earlier at the other castle is on top of the wall. He says, "You stupid fart-sniffing British peoples are bothering me again. Shoo!! Or I shall have you hurt you really, really bad, you takers of other people's cheese!!" Izzy yells up to him, "But we though you...." The Frenchie cuts him off. "That is the problem with you silly English types. You think, but all of you have the IQ of a loganberry. You stupid Brits can't even find a simple Grail!!" Arthumon says, "That is it!! I have been more than patient with you. Prepare to taste steel!!" Arthumon and Percivalmon charge up the steps to a side door. As they do this, the French guard yells, "I wave my private parts at you, you wipers of other people's bottoms!!" They get up to the top of the stairs when other French guards dump slop, digi-sludge, and raw sewage on them. They walk down the stairs, the laughingstock of the French Castle. Tai takes a look around to see if there is another way in, when he sees that bridge Arthumon spoke of, and the only to it is through the French fort. Tai goes to Arthumon and says, "You know, I agree. I've had it with them!!" Sora says, "What are you doing, Tai?" "Simple, the only way to save our friends is to break into the French castle. We've already tried negotiating, and the instant we even go near the gates or doors, they'll start hurling livestock at us, so I figure we muscle our way to the bridge." Matt says, "Usually, I wouldn't condone such an act, but they REALLY, REALLY need some sense knocked into them." "Shall we then?" Agumon says. Lewis draws his sword and starts charging the castle. Agumon yells to him, "I meant digivolve." Lewis looks at himself. "Oh, yeah. That." he starts walking back. He mumbles under his breath, "Boy, I feel stupid." Tai says, "Since past that bridge is Overlord HQ, they'll try to strike quick and hard to keep us back. So I suggest Terravolution." Matt concurs.

"THE SHARD OF MARTYRDOM!!"
"THE SHARD OF HONOR!!"
"THE SHARD OF TRUST!!"
"THE SHARD OF LIBERTY!!"
"THE SHARD OF INNOCENCE!!"
"THE SHARD OF ZEAL!!"

"Terra Armor Optimize!!"

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

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

"Gabumon Terravolve to DaoGarurumon, Entrusted Gatekeeper of Time!!"

"Biyomon Terravolve to Patriotaviamon, Patriot & Revolutionary!!"

"Patamon Terravolve to Gabrielmon, The Defender of the Innocent!!"

"Gatomon Terravolve to Archangewomon, The Face of Innocence!!"

"Lewis, Ninth Digidestined, Terra Optimize to Neo HyperCenturiosapien!!"

"Andromon Terravolve to ThorXaviomon, Asgard's Champion!!"

"Hawkmon Terra Optimize to Daedalusmon!!"

"Gomamon Warp Digivolve to NorseZudomon!!"

"NorseZudomon Warp Digivolve to NeptuneZudomon!!"

They start charging the castle. The French watch this and prep their catapults. Cows, chickens, and various other objects at them as they charged. The barrage of stuff got weirder and weirder as they neared. Ducks, horses, small digimon, outhouses, toilet paper, tool sheds, kitchen sinks, chickens, and small houses flew at them as they entered the last 1000 feet. "Where do they keep all this stuff?" Paladingreymon says running at the castle. "Better yet, where did they get the idea to use this stuff?" Mimi says, as Daedalusmon in front of her is whacked with an outhouse. "Oh, geez, that reeks!!" Patriotaviamon yells. Lancelomon says, "Daedalusmon, thou smell worse than King Arthumon!!" They hold their breath and bust down the castle wall. Gerard reports to Lucimon, "Sir, they have passed the French defenses. They shall be here shortly!!" Lucimon tosses him a pair of the pneumatic power gloves they swiped from the future. Then he gives him a suit of armor that was reversed engineered from the technology they once had acquired. Then, he gives him a minigun, a pike, a helmet, and a lightsaber. "These, interlinked with the suit, will make you nearly invincible. I want you to lead the defensive against the digidestined, but I want the ninth digidestined and his flower nymph wife alive. To completely succeed, they must survive where the others don't." Gerard kneels and takes his stuff and goes down to the courtyard. "Yes, you come to us. You don't it yet, but you, and your children, shall seal the Earth's fate. He throws the book to a table and it opens to a page showing pictures of Lewis and Lilymon, and a pedigree chart of five children, one of which has written next to it, "The Beginning of the End." and has an emblem of evil marked over her head. Back at the castle, the French have surrendered. "Don't hurt us. We take all that stuff we said about the Brittish being imbesilic wipers of other people behinds!!" Lancelomon comes out of the main hall with the Holy Grail. "We got it!!" Arthumon looks at the French and points his sword at them. "Boo." they start running. They scream, "RUN AWAY!! RUN AWAY!!" as they flee in terror. Paladingreymon says, "Well, now all that's over and done, we need to cross that...... aw, crap!! Will the fighting ever end?!" He sees Gerard's army on the other side, waiting for them. Araiya asks, "What's he waiting for?" DaoGarurumon charges onto the bridge and at them, "I don't know, but I'm waiting to find out!!" He gets halfway across when they open fire on him and send him sliding back on his back across the bridge. Mimi says, "I think he's trying to wait us out." Matt asks, "Mind clarifying some?" "Well, he must know about the anti-flying field over this island, so that's why he hasn't sent any flying digimon at us. Secondly, the bridge is single file. He knows we can't cross but one at a time, and that makes us easy targets. Three, if he wanted to destroy us all, he would of done it already from there. He wants something or someone intact. Finally, he knows that we won't leave this bridge, seeing that if we do, not only can we kiss saving our friends and the digiworld, but he can then slip across the bridge and ambush us when we're exhausted, which he will most likely do anyway after a few hours." Wedge says, "Well, if he won't shoot at us, then how about we draw first blood? Get them to get anxious and cocky by taking pot shots at them." Araiya responds, "I'm all for this action. I don't want to wait around for him to destroy us!! ThorXaviomon, start firing missiles over at them!!" He kneels down and leans forward, taking a knighting stance.

"Ragnarok Missile!!"

He unloads one of his heavy-duty missiles over towards them. They shoot it down when it gets within 2000 feet. Tai says, "How about we don't fire at them and instead fire at the earth under them?" Lewis looks at the edge of the flying island and says, "We will have to be careful. If we destroy too much of it, the bridge will become severed from the island." Mat says, "And how would we know if they didn't anticipate us doing that either?" Sora mentions, "Well, what can we do now?" She looks at Tai, who is distracted by the ominous clouds overhead. Lewis sees this. "What we need, is a distraction!!" He looks at the army. "One distraction coming up!!" Lilymon grabs him and says, "Don't tell me you're about to do you what I think you're going to...."

"HyperCenturiosapien Teleport!!"

They are both teleported behind Gerard's lines. Suddenly, explosions galore go off. "Quickly, let's help him!!" Arthumon yells. They charge across the bridge and reach the other side with very few shots fired at them. They get into the mess of things.

"Edge of Gaia!!" (New attack that uses the Sword of Life)

"Paladin Blade!!"

"Minuteman Cutlass!!"

"Blitzkrieg Claw!!"

"Excalibur's Revenge!!"

"Halo of Light!!"

"Asgard Sledge!!"

"Crash of Feathers!!"

The brunt of the force is wounded or taken out by the initial strike. Lewis dices his way through the forces to find Gerard waiting for him. "Ah, so you did exactly what I wanted you to do..." "What!!" "Simple. I used dummy forces to get you here, and the real forces should be arriving right, about, NOW!!" Ragnarokmon and Uraniumon galore storm from atop the hill. Gerard takes a swipe at Lewis while he shocked and throws him back nearly 80 feet. Lewis draws his sword and takes a swipe at him. Somehow, Gerard teleports behind him and hammer punches him, causing him great pain and shatering the cuirass. "HOW!!" Lewis asks, as Gerard lifts him up with little effort. "You remember the pneumatic power gauntlets, don't you? Well, we made a suit out of it. The combined power put out from all the equipment on me makes me your worst nightmare. Isn't it amazing what one trip to the future can do for someone in the past?" "Great!! I'm getting beaten up by a 50's-something ex-marine in a pile of science fiction techno junk. Now I know this is not my week!!" Lewis comments, trying to pry himself loose of Gerard's hand. Sora sees the suit and has flashbacks to when she was brainwashed. She is standing in her black leather and plate mail with NeoApocalymon and Ken, talking to the future NeoApocalymon and the other Overlords. The future NeoApocalymon says, "Ah, you seek to make this a reality sooner than it took me. I'm all for it. See, I'm you and you're me, so as long as one of has the power, I don't care what happens. Now let me show you some future stuff you can use." Her memory flashes to a vault. "This is stuff I've taken from that annoying rebellion faction. See these. These are pneumatic power gauntlets. They make the wearer as strong as a Mega digimon as long as the battery doesn't cut out, then that person is toast. See, our spies have learne those fols are working on suits like these, which in theory make the wearer as strong as me when all the parts are in use. Good luck to them." he smirks. "Now see here. This is a book that those rebels wrote and stowed in a library we raided. It's the history of the worlds, and information on those ancient twerps that I crushed in 2012, a sort of holy scripture they consider this thing, the only thing that links them to their 'proud' past. Here, take it. I have no use for it." Her flashback stops there. She yells, "Lewis, if you can short out the atomic batteries on the suit, he'll lose his strenght!!" Lewis pulls out a Nova Bomb and pulls the pin. "Here, catch." He drops it behind him, blowing up, and he uses Gerard as a shield, but the blast is too powerful, and he gets knocked out by flying rock when he hits the ground. Gerard stands up, barely. "My power reserves are failing. My power generator has only enough juice for one more port opening. I hope those morons get the other objective." he pushes a button, and something resembling a mini-digiport appears before him. He drags Lewis in with him. Sora yells, "No!!" and then she is thown down the hill by an explosion. Lilymon grabs her and gets her out of the way, when they encounter Golbezmon. "Going somewhere?" he says. Lilymon turns around just to be met with a blow to her head by Abyssmon. "Quickly, get her to Lucimon!!" he says to Golbezmon. Golbezmon puts Lilymon over his shoulder. "What of the girl?" he asks. "None of your concern. I will deal with her." Abyssmon says to Golbezmon. Golbezmon runs back to the fortress. The battle outside the Overlords' fortress roars on as Abyssmon raises his icy hand over her body. She is trying to wrestle his hand away, but her body is getting colder and colder, paler and paler. Suddenly, Izzy sees she's in trouble and yells out, "Sora needs our help!!" he runs down the hill and jumps Abyssmon, removing his hand from over her, and the two roll down the hill. Patriotaviamon flies down and saves Izzy from Abyssmon's cold grip of death. "Who was that?" Patriotaviamon exclaims. "I don't know!! All I know was that he was attacking Sora." They get Sora up and flee. The battling goes on for another 5 mintes, with the digidestined being forced back to the second island. All the digimon revert to their training levels. Sora says to the group, "While Abyssmon, that's the name of the digimon hurting me, was trying to stop my heart, I had these visions, and they were dark. It showed NeoApocalymon returning to Earth with a vengence, and all of this fits into some grand plan of his. In fact, one of the visions had something to do with a half human, half digimon child named Holly, and oh......" She gets dizzy and falls over. Joe gets out a rag and the others build a campfire. A pot is used to heat some water to put the rag in, and Joe & Mimi keep vigil over her. They put the rag on her forehead, and Mimi treats her with Nature's Blessing. Tai says, "Tomorrow, we strike at dawn. The lack of light will give us cover for a sneak attac...." Koromon is grimacing in pain. "I don't think that'd work, Tai. There's just too many, even for a Terra, to handle at once." Mimi says, "Stop it, Koromon!! You got to think positively. Our friends are trapped in that place, and I don't intend to quit. Their lives depend on us saving them, and you want to whine over a few bruises!!" She goes over to an area by herself to go to sleep. "Why is she so upset all of a sudden?" Koromon says. Mimi thinks to herself, "He's right. How are we going to fight an army so powerful and save our friends at the same time?" She begins to get sleepy. "Gotta... (yawn) stay awake to (yawn) figure out how to save them. Zzzzzzzzzzz." Tai says, "We need to get to sleep so we can get up early tomorow." Arthumon says, "I'll take first watch." Everyone winds down for the night.

Sora starts dreaming. In this dream, all is black, except for a small light in the distance and a light around her. Suddenly, a scene appears. She is in color, but everything else is black and white. There she stood in the ruin and rubble of what was once Houston, Texas. She sees herself and the others there standing before a great ball of.... something. It looked like a fireball, and it had skeletal arms all around it, and parts from the evil digimon and Overlords they defeated swirling around in it. Barely visible in the center is a black skeleton with little pins sticking out his skull, and fire in his rib case and skull. Suddenly, Sora finds herself standing in space, watching the Earth. A voice says, "I am the Alpha & the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last!! I am all, and yet none!! I am from which all darkness and malevance stems forth!! I am everything and nothing all at once!! I am ETERNAL!! I AM OBLIVION!!" as she hears this speech of pure evil, a wave of destruction swept the planet, explosions everywhere on the globe, the oceans turning to lava, and at the next to the last lin, billions of screams are heard, then snuffed, and Earth explodes and a shockwave flies out, hitting the sun, which in turn goes supernova, and all the planets in the solar system are annihilated, leaving only that fireball in that cold void, laughing. At the last part, a symbol she has never seen before flashes before her, followed by a greek letter. She wakes up in a cold sweat. "What was that?" she exclaimed.

Meanwhile, in the fortress, Lewis awoke bound and chained, next to Lilymon. Lucimon turns to them, "Well, good morning, how was your sleep? By the way, I'm using your genetic code to breed the force that will be your downfall, and you will be powerless to stop her." Lewis yells, "What!! I can stop anything that you throw at me!!" Lucimon grins, "The question isn't can you, but will you want to?" Then Lewis fades back into unconsciousness. Hours later, he wakes up again just long enough to see some sort of needle being injected into Lilymon abdomen, then Lucimon keying in a series of algorithms. "It is done. I now have no more use for that Gates person. His work is superb, but I can take it from here." and Lewis passes out again.

The next morning, the kids leave the Knights of the Round Table and were ready to slip through when Lewis comes bursting out on the back of Odinkabuterimon. He sees them and yells, "Hop on, it's safe!! I got Bill Gates, and we're good to go!!" ewis pulls out a weird device. "I found out how they slip between worlds without being detected. It's a portable digiport generator. I snatched it before busting out." They jump on Odinkabuterimon, and Odinkabuterimon says, "What took you so long?" Tai says, "We got.... held up by lots of stuff." Lewis goes from an expression of joy, to an expression of dismay. "I got that feeling again.... like we're being led around, and we're doing just what they want. This escape from the start just was too easy. Almost no guards attacked us back there." Sora adds, "I know. This is all too weird. My dream I had last night may have to do with all this. It had to do with a creature claiming to be 'Alpha & Omega,' and then the Earth was destroyed, followed by the moon, and then the sun, and finally the whole solar system went up in a fireball. After all of it was over, the fireball was still there, laughing. And then astrange symbol flashed before my eyes, and then a letter of sorts I know I have seen before appeared, and I woke up." Lewis says, "A letter...." as they fly back to the real world through a digiport.

In the fortress, Lucimon grinned. "This is going better than I ever dreamed!! In two years, all will be ready." Abyssmon comes forth. "I have the life energy requested, my liege." Lucimon nods. "Infuse it to that vial of that nymph's blood. I will use it yet." He turns and hits a button. 3 countdown clocks come on-line. He circles a date on a calendar. He leaves and on the calendar is the date circled, July 4th, 2003, and in the box, he wrote, "The Beginning of the End. The Child of Evil is Born."

What did Lucimon do to Lilymon? What is the meaning of Sora's dream? Are they being led by a mightier force? What is this symbol? Find out in Chapter 10: Mind Games!! (Mind Games is Set 8 months after this chapter, June 30, 2003.)