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Ledgend of the Digi-Destoned
---By Blitzkrieg---

I live uptown
I live downtown
I live all around

I had money
I had none
I had money
I had none
But I've never been so broke that I couldn't leave town

I'm a changeling
See me change
I'm a changeling
See me change

I'm the air you breathe
The food you eat
The friends you greet
In the swarming street

See me change
See me change

I live uptown
I live downtown
I live all around

I had money, yeah
I had money
I had money, yeah
I had money
But I've never been so broke that I couldn't leave town

I'm the air you breath
The food you eat
The friends you greet
On the swarming street

See me change
See me change

I'm leaving town
On the midnight train
Gonna see me change change change
change change change
change change change

"The Changling"
By Jim Morrison
from the album L.A. Woman by The Doors

Chapter three:I Got Dem Ol' Digivolving Blues Again, Mama

Leomon stood deep in though in the center of Sunken Lake. It had been getting darker for some time. In most parts of File Island, it was almost a death sentence to be out during the night, but the Yokomon's dessert was barren enough that Leomon could relax a little. There was too much on his mind to concentrate on the dangers around him any way. His hopes, his dreams, they were right.
The children were indeed the Digidestined.
Leomon hadn't been able to prove it when they first arrived. He wasn't as familiar with the writings concerning the Digidestined as Centaurmon or Unimon so didn't know what they would look like, and Centaurmon and Unimon were, for all purposes, lost. So he'd waited; waited for undeniable proof. Now he had it. He'd seen the Digidestined in battle. He'd seen their digimon as well.
Leomon had met the seven "strangers", as the other islanders called them, on several occasions. He'd always had a feeling that they would be the ones to accompany the Digidestined.
There was obviously no doubting that now. He'd seen them digivolve.
That was his proof. If Leomon tried to prove that the children were the digidestined simply by there alien nature, he would most likely be regarded as a loon. He may have had the respect of most digimon on the island, but they wouldn't swallow that even coming from him.
"We've had plenty of visitors over the years they'd say, these kids are no different". But no fool could question this. They had made their digimon digivolve. Only the Digidestined could accomplish that.
Now the question was, what to do now? Despite his status on the island, Leomon could count on little help from most of the island. While the Digimon would relish in condemning Devimon and giving grandiose speeches against him, Leomon knew that few of them would put there live on the line by opposing Devimon. Even if the Digidestened would be on there side.
Anyway, Leomon thought, the last thing I need to do now is leave them to look for help. He would do what he could NOW.

***************

"What are you guys waiting for?" barked Tai from the top of the hill "It's getting darker all the time!"
"Apologies, master" said Matt with a mocking bow "but your humble servants require rest."
"And a decent meal." added Mimi mournfully.
"I concur." concurred Izzy "While I respect you digimon's eating habits, I'm afraid that leaves and berries alone don't keep humans very nourished."
"Nonsence!" shot back Tentomon, indignant "Every one knows that a steady diet of leaves is the best way to stay in top condition!"
"Yeah, just like every one knew that those green mushrooms would be better raw?" Asked Joe, still a little pale from the vomiting fit that the previously mentioned mushrooms brought on.
"Well, it's what I heard, anyway." shrugged Tentomon "Besides, how do we know that is wasn't just you? Only you and Sora had any, and I haven't heard her complaining."
"Trust me, it was the mushrooms." said Sora, who, until then, had decided to keep her queasiness to her self.
By this time, Tai had wandered back down the hill and was sitting with the others. "OK, I admit that today's grub pretty much sucked, but we'll do better with breakfast tomorrow."
"Yeah" poked Matt "I'm sure Tai misses his normal breakfast of speed, angel dust and a glass of acid and orange juice."
"Oh, Ha, ha. Come on, let's go." said Tai, getting up again. "Really, it's getting dark."
"He's right," said Agumon "we should get some place safer before we set up camp."
"Over here!" called Gabumon, who had wandered ahead without any one noticing "I think I see a clearing ahead!"
Eager to find somthing to do other than sit and bicker (all though the bickering was fun, in it's own way) the raged group made good time heading off behind Gabumon's lead. It took some time, but they found Gabumon's clearing. However, it wasn't a clearing; it was a lake.
A big lake.
They couldn't see the other side of the lake (not so much because of size, due to a combination of fog on the lake and a number of what appeared to be oil rigs sprouting up in the center), but that was the last thing on their minds. What was grabbing there attention was some kind of street car on a small island near the shore.
"Is that what I think it is?" asked Sora, squinting through the fog.
"If you're thinking it's a trolley, then yes it is." answered Tai, looking ahead with his telescope.
"Who would put a street car out in the middle of a lake? That's pretty stupid." said Joe.
"I agree," added Izzy "especially sense there doesn't seem to be any cables or rails connected to it."
"Maybe it's just to look at?" offered Mimi.
"Well, I know a way to find out." said Tai, making his way to the narrow stretch of land connecting the island to the shore.
"Whoa! Just where do you think you're going?" asked Matt, running up next to Tai "Forgive me, but doesn't that thing look just a little suspicious to you?"
"Matt's right!" shouted Joe "Who knows what could be hiding in that thing? What if it's a trap?"
"What? So you wanna just sit out here all night? Come on, it'll be nice to sleep under a roof tonight." insisted Tai.
"You're right" said Matt "but that doesn't mean that we all should just go waltzing into what could turn out to be a trap or somthing worse. Somebody needs to check it out first."
"OK then, Mr. Hero." snapped Tai angrily "You wanna be the big brave grown up and make sure the scary trolley is safe for us little kids? Well go right ahead!"
"Fine, I will!" growled Matt as he stormed of to the land bridge.
"Wait a minute!" shouted Joe again "You're just going in by your self?"
"No he's not." answered Izzy, running to catch up with Matt "I want to get a look at this street car myself."
"Wha- well wait for me!" shouted Tentomon as he scrambled to catch up with Izzy.
"Be careful, Matt!" yelled T.K. from the shore "You too, Izzy!"
Matt waved back as a response as he, Izzy, Gabumon, and Tentomon started across the walkway.
"Hmmm..." muttered Izzy to himself as he looked at the gravelly ground "This walkway doesn't look like a natural occurrence to me."
"I know." agreed Matt "It's too straight. Too flat. It feels man made. And, of course that Street car obviously is."
"Well, now. You don't know that." broke in Tentomon "It might be a natural occurrence."
"Not in our world, it couldn't." said Matt.
"But this is the Digiworld." pointed out Gabumon.
"You have a point there." consented Izzy.
"Shhhh!" interrupted Matt "We're getting close."
Quietly, Matt and Izzy peeked in through the windows while Gabumon and Tentomon creaked through the side door. After a few moments of looking, they motioned for Matt and Izzy to come in.
"It looks safe to me." whispered Gabumon.
"Then what are you whispering for?" asked Matt, at a low volume himself.
"Just playing it safe." Gabumon answered.
Meanwhile, Izzy was crawling along the front end shining his flashlight under the seats "Well, I don't see anything so far. In fact, this looks to be the cleanest piece of public transportation I've ever seen."
Seeing that Izzy had almost worked his way to the driver's seat, Matt asked "Well, in that case, can you give us some lights?"
"I believe so." answered Izzy, looking over the antiquated knobs on the dashboard. Spotting one labeled Lights, Izzy figured that it was his best bet and puled it; filling the street car with illumination.
"Thank you, Izzy." said Matt.
"Yes, much better. Goodnight." yawned Tentomon stretching himself out on one of the seats.
"I wonder when this was supposedly made." wondered Izzy to himself as he looked over the mostly wooden antique controls.
"I don't know." answered Matt, looking at the advertisements lining the ceiling. "Some of these ads are really old, but others look pretty new. There's one for some radio shows, one for the Playstation 2- Hey!" at that, he tapped Izzy on the shoulder and pointed ad a colorful, psychedelic ad promoting the Fillmore West concert hall "I bet Tai will get a kick out of that."
"A kick outa what?" asked Tai from the door.
"Hey, you were supposed to wait for us to come get you!" scolded Matt.
"Well, when the lights came on and you didn't blow up, we figured it must be safe. Hey, cool! This thing ran to the Fillmore!"
"OOOooo!" squealed Mimi as she plopped onto one of the seats "This feels way better than that old suitcase!"
"And best of all," added Palmon "now you won't have to use me as a pillow again!"
"Dibs on the big one!" shouted T.K. making a beeline towards the larger seat in the back.
"Hey!" whined Joe "Why should the littlest one get the biggest bed?"
"Well, then I guess it's official," laughed Sora from the doorway "this is where we're sending the night."
"Well, I'm sure not going to be the one to tell `em to get up and start walking again." said Tai, looking at his already dozing comrades.
"Well, there may not be anything bad in here, but we still ought to have some one standing watch outside." suggested Matt.
"Oh, I'm sure our big shot scout would love to keep the rest of us safe." mocked Tai.
"If you're too tired and scared to, then sure, I'd be happy too."
"WHAT? Whadda ya mean tired and scared? Come on Agumon!" Tai yelled as he stormed out.
"Hey, wait a minute! I am tired and scared!" protested Agumon.
"AUGUMON!!!!" came Tai's thunderous reply. "Coming! Coming!" shouted Agumon urgently as he ran out after Tai.
"Can't believe he fell for that." sighed Matt, shaking his head.
"Will someone please tell Tai to shut up? We're trying to sleep here!" complained Mimi.
"OK" said Matt to Izzy (softly) "In a few hours I'll take over for Tai. You feel up to taking over after me?"
"Glad to help." answered Izzy as he curled up to get some sleep before his watch.

***************

Outside, Tai and Augumon sat silently in the dark, cold fog that blanketed the lake. Agumon had started a fire, but there was just enough of a chilling breaze to hold it's heat in check.
"Listen, Agumon." started Tai "I'm sorry I blew my stack back there."
"It's alright." said Agumon "But you really ought to think through what you say before you say it. Otherwise, we wouldn't be sitting out here freazing our noses off."
"Hey, you can go back inside any time you want." laughed Tai "Nobody's making you stay here."
"Well, I'm sure not going to leave you out here in the middle of the night all by your self." answered Agumon.
At that, Tai grined to himself; not just in apreciation of Agumon's loyalty, but in amusment at how ludicrous he sounded when saying it. Really, Agumon sounded pretty ludicous when he said anything. His voice was pretty close to someone going through the worst of puberty, cracking with every word. That voice seemed to go quite well with Agumon's awkward apearence. The little yellow dinosar was about three feet tall with a head almost equal to the size of the rest of his body and arms and legs both seemed rather spindly when compaired to his somewhat girthy midsection. Needless to say, the whole thing came together in a less than impossing figure. Still, looks could be deceving, and Agumon was a prime example, as Tai had learned earlier that day...

***************

"I'm hungry!" Mimi whined for the tenth time that morning.
"Me too!" wined T.K., also for the tenth time.
"HEY! We're all hungry" barked Tai angrily "but there's not much we can do about that right now, so please, SHUT UP!"
"Easy, Tai." admonished Koromon, "Shouting at each other won't help things much."
"Yeah, I know..." agreed Tai dismisivly. How agreable Tai was in the morning was directly relaited to how good his breakfast was. And seeing how enjoiable his pile of leaves and berries was, Tai temper had been on a hair trigger all day.
"I'm not sure what they're complaining about, I found breakfast to be very fufilling." comented Yokomon.
"Well, none of us are exactly vegitarians." explained Sora.
"OOO! In that case, we should go by the Tanemon vilage, and get somthing from the meat fields!" Tanemon piped up.
"Really? You grow meat?" asked T.K.
"Is it pork chop season yet?" asked Mimi licking her lips in antisipation.
"Sorry to break in" Tsunimon broke in "but the Tanemon vilage is on the other side of the island. We can't just drop by for lunch."
"Bummer." sighed Mimi.
"Say, just where are we going, anyway?" asked Joe "It seems like we just woke up and started walking. Is there anyplace we're actualy trying to get to?"
"I dunno," confesed Mimi "I've just been following Tai and Matt."
"Tai? Matt?" asked Joe aprehesivly "Please tell me one of you has some Idea where we're going."
"Nope." answered Matt, calmly "Not a clue."
"They do, though." said Tai, pointing to Koromon and Tsunomon, before Joe had a chance to panic. "Ask them."
"Very well," said Izzy "where exactly are we going?"
"We're looking for Leomon, of corse." answered Tsunomon.
"Well, where is he?"
"I dunno" said Koromon "Why would we? We've never been that far into the island."
"WHAT?" screamed Joe "You mean NOBODY has a clue where we're going?"
"Don't be rediculous, Joe." said Bukamon "Leomon is supposed to drop by the Yokomon vilage a lot, so we'll see if anyone there can help us."
"What do you mean, he's supposed to?" asked Sora, conserned.
"Well, it's what Motimon told us." explained Tokomon from on top of T.K.'s head.
"And how exactly do you know this, Motimon?" Izzy inquired of his companion.
"Well, it's what I've heard, anyway." shruged Motimon.
"Here comes Joe's panic atack." muttered Matt under his breath (quite corectly).
"You HEARD?" Joe erupted. He would have esily elaborated had Tai not interupted.
"Hey, chill out Joe! It's the closest thing to a plan anyone's been able to come up with so far, so we should try it."
"But what if Motimon heard wrong?" Joe insisted "We could wind up waiting there forever and never geting anywhere!"
"Well, if we're just going to sit around, which is pretty much all we did till we started moving, we might as well do it some place safe insted of in the middle of a jungle." said Matt.
"But how do we know it's safe?" Joe continued "I'm sorry, but the idea of a village full of pink turnup things dosen't fill me with many thoughts of saftey."
"Are you suggesting that a Yokomon would attack it's own guest without provication?" asked Yokomon, insulted.
"Don't take it seriously, Yokomon," said Sora "Joe didn't mean it. He's just too scared stupid to think clearly right know."
"Hey!" shouted Bukamon "Are you calling my pall Joe stupid?"
"OH!" gasped Sora, sudenly realizing what she'd just said "I'm sorry! I didn't mean that the way it sounded!"
"Well, how did you mean it?" chalenged Bukamon.
"Hey, cut it out, you guys!" shouted Tai.
"Yeah!" agreed Joe "While we're all buisy fighing with each other, who knows what could come out from those trees and get us?"
No sooner were the words out of Joe's mouth than a chilling howl shot from among the foliage. "Boy, I hate it when I'm right." sighed Joe.
"Wha- what was that?" stuttered T.K.
"I don't know and, frankly, I never want to find out!" shrieked Mimi. "It sounded like it came from over there!" shouted Koromon, pointing to the group's right. In a flash, all the digimon had placed themselves between the trees and their human companions. Suddenly, a second howl, this one nearer than the first, raing from the trees.
"Uh, oh." cried Matt sudenly "I hope that's not what I think it is!"
"I'm afraid so," confirmed Tsunomon "Kuagumon!"
"A fiend of your's?" asked Tai
"You could say that." answered Matt, remembering the nearly succesful atempt on his and Tsunomon's life Kuagumon had made the day before.
Before hehad a chance to explain it to Tai, Kuagumon crashed through the baried of trees. Simply put, it was huge. Nearly two stories tall, this giant, red, beetle-like creature lommed horificly over the others. Another bone chilling shreak blasted out of it's huge fangs as it snaped it's two branching pinsirs together.
"OK!" said Bukamon nervously "Time to go!" The others quickly agreed and made off like a bullet. Kuagumon opened the wings on it's back and gave pursuit.
"Holy cow, that guy's fast!" gasped T.K., looking back at their pursuer.
"Where are we running now?" panted Joe.
"Who cares?" yelled Koromon "As long as we get there fast!"
"WHOA! PROBLEM!" shouted Matt from the front of the pack.
"I'll say!" yelled Tai, screaching to a stop "Any body feel like doing some swimming?"
Matt looked nervously down the huge cliff that they'd unintentionaly fled to.
"OH, NO!" gasped Sora "Where are we supposed to go?". Looking to ether side, they say that the trees around them were too thick to run through.
"Well, what ever we do we'd better do it fast!" cried Izzy "Kuagumon will be on top of us any second!"
"He is on top of us!" shouted Tsunomon as Kuagumon shot from the sky towards them.
"LOOK OUT!" shouted Tai as he braced for impact. But that impact never came. A sudded blast of light inveloped their digimon. Startled by the flash, Kuagumon fell back. When the kids looked to see what had hapeded to the digimon, they found that they were no longer there. At least not as they knew them. It wasn't untill afterwards that they expained it, but the digimon had digivolved.

The concept of "Digivolving" is one quite alien to life in our world; indeed, even the digimon don't fully understand it. Put simply, digivolving is the sudden, spontaneous changing of an organism from one form to another. Any resemblance to Darwin's theory of evolution is a surface resemblance only. While Darwin's theory claims the gradual modification of spices over thousands of generations (and none of his supporters will venture to agree on how), digivolving is the sweeping "rebuilding" (for lack of a better term) of a single organism in a manner of seconds. The result is by no means uniform, any one digimon could, in theory, digivolve into any one of dozens of other digimon. In standard practice (which is important to point out, as, will eventually be seen, the digivolving of the Digidestined was by no means the standard) digivolving hinges on the strengths and experience of the digimon in question. If the digimon is stronger and more experienced, it will digivolve into a better new digimon than if it wasn't. The possible outcomes are also determined by what species the digimon is currently of, or, less specifically, what level it is at.

Species of digimon are commonly divided into levels, or stages: Infant, In-Training, Basic, Champion, Ultimate, and Mega. Usually, a digimon will digivolve from their current stage to the next highest, it is, however, possible for digimon to skip ahead levels in the process. Digimon can also digivolve backward to previous levels as well, if their energy cannot sustain their current form. For the digimon, digivolving is an accepted, albeit poorly understood, part of life. Most digimon are expected to digivolve several times within their life time, rarely going back and repeating forms. It is even rarer for a digimon to reach as high as Mega. All this information was, of coarse, totally unknown to the seven dumbfounded humans witnessing the process. All they could tell was in a flash the digimon that had traveled with them for the past day or so were changed into totally different creatures.

Koromon was now Agumon, a small yellow skinned dinosaur-like creature.

Tsunomon was now Gabumon, a yellowish creature that seemed to be wearing the fur of a white, wolf-like animal on it's back and had a long horn on it's forehead.

Yokomon had turned into Byomon, a pink bird with finger/claws on the ends of it's wings.

Motimon turned into Tentomon, a red, flying beetle.

Tanemon had become Palmon, a walking plant with petals for hair, large leaves for arms, and roots for digits.

Bukamon was now Gomamon, a white seal looking creature (still sporting Bukamon's orange mohawk).

Last, Tokomon had become Patamon, a brown, furry creature with bat-like wings for ears.

While Kuagumon was still reeling from the pyrotechnics of the digivolving, the digimon charged him. Gabumon and Agumon attacked first. Agumon spewed small ball of fire into Kuagumon's side while Gabumon spit a blue laser straight into Kuagumon's face. It staggered backwards, almost on top of Byomon, who retaliated with a "spiral twister": a purplish cork screw that seemed to emanate from her beak. The attack hit Kuagumon square on the back and knocked him straight into Tentomon's "super shocker" a storm of electricity that swept across Kuagumon's head.
The kids stood frozen as they watch the battle; frozen, that is, until Gomamon shouted to them "What are you waiting for? Get away from that cliff!" With a start, they realized that their companions had knocked Kuagumon out of the path he had previously been blocking. They made a mad dash for the safety of the trees as Kuagumon began to retaliate against it's attackers. Giving a furious roar, it swung its giant claws up to where Tentomon was hovering, but was stopped mid- air by Palmon's "Poison Ivy": her finger/roots shot at a fantastic rate out from her arms and wrapped around Kuagumon's arm. "Palmon to the rescue!" she shouted exuberantly.
Unfortunately, her exuberance proved to be premature as Kuagumon flung it's arm in front of it; in the process flinging Palmon through the air and straight into Tentomon.
"So much for 'Palmon to the rescue'." giggled T.K. to himself, thoroughly enjoying the proceedings.
"I wouldn't be giggling if I were you." groaned Tentomon from under a dazed Palmon "It looks like Kuagumon's figured out what's going on!"
Indeed, during the first few moments of the battle, Kuagumon had rather blindly stumbled into the attacks being thrown upon it, but now, despite it's huge bulk, it dodged effortlessly between them. "Kuagumon can be a little slow, but one's it catches on, it's deadly!". As if to reinforce Tentomon's warning, Kuagumon flashed out it's wings and shot into the sky, knocking Patamon and Byomon to the ground in the process. "Man, this flying thing is harder than it looks." whined Patamon, landing on her head.
"Uh, guys. I really have to insist that we leave." stuttered Joe "Preferably NOW!"
"No!" shouted Gabumon as he narrowly avoided Kuagumon's pincers "Now that he's riled up, he'd just follow us!"
"He's right!" growled Gomamon "We need to teach this punk a lesson!"
"I'm all for teaching it a lesson, but I don't think you can do it!" cried Izzy "It look's like that thing has you out gunned!"
Weather or not they heard him, or they just pretended not to was more than Izzy could tell. In any case, the digimon launched back at their terrifying opponent.
"What'll we do?" moaned Sora "That thing's much more powerful than they are!"
The seven stood in terrified silence as they watched their companions continue to take a beating. Suddenly, Izzy's face lit up.
"THE CLIFF!" he shouted with such volume that even the digimon (excluding Kuagumon, unfortunately) froze for a moment and looked over towards him.
"You don't have to overpower him!" shouted Izzy frantically "Just knock him of the cliff!"
"Yeah! That's a great idea!" shouted Tai exuberently, "Send that overgrown roach from hell for a swim!"
"Uh, problem, Tai." interrupted Matt "It has wings! It can just fly back up!"
"We can put a stop to that!" shouted Tentomon "Take out his wings!"
Fortunately for them, Kuagumon must have been too battle crazed to listen to the shouting, as it though nothing of spreading it's wings to take off just as Izzy had his revelation. Right on cue, Palmon lassoed one of it's leathery wings and dragged it to the ground. Kuagumon leaned back and almost fell on it's back trying to figure out what was happening as the other digimon charged. Agumon and Gomamon jumped on top of the leathery wing and sunk there teeth in to it.
"Yuck!" muttered Agumon, his voice muffled by the mouth full of wing "This is disgusting!"
As culinarily unpleasant as it may have been, Agumon, Gomamon, and Palmon held Kuagumon's wing down long enough for Gabumon, Tentomon, Byomon, and Patamon to blast a hole through it. Kuagumon doubled over in pain, knocking the three hangers on off it's wing the process. "Now's our chance!" cried Byomon; and with that, the seven digimon head butted Kuagumon, rolling it off the cliff.

***************

An extraordinarily large pop from the fire snapped Tai up with a start. Realizing, over a few seconds, just how close he'd come to falling asleep, Tai looked over to Agumon, who was out like a light.
"Hey, wake up, man." he groaned as he poked Agumon in the side.
"HUH?" started Agumon, jumping up. "Hey, you were supposed to keep me awake!"
"No, you were supposed to keep me awake!" shot back Tai.
"Well, one of us needs to stay awake." said Agumon, sitting back down "How long till we can go back inside?"
"Not long enough." sighed Tai, looking at his watch. Looking around him with a yawn, he added "This seemed like a good idea at the time..."

"OW! What happened?" Tentomon grunted groggily from the floor.
"Oh! Sorry Tentomon!" Izzy gasped apologetically from his seat "I was attempting to get into a more comfortable position an I kicked you off by accident!"
"Ugh..." Tentomon moaned as he crawled back into the driver's seat were he and Izzy had been all night "I thought you were supposed to be getting some sleep."
"I tried, but I couldn't." sighed Izzy "I've been thinking about today, and I just have to many questions to think about anything else."
"I though we all ready explained that." said Tentomon, befuddled "You made us digivolve with your digivices."
"That may be enough for you, but I would still like to know how." explained Izzy, cradling his "digivice" in his hands. Tentomon and the other digimon had insisted that it was these mysterious devices that had caused them to digivolve, but had yet to shed any light on how.
"OH!" began Tentomon, uncertain "Well, uh...you see..I mean...you know...uh...ha- ha!...ooohhh..."
"If you don't know, just say so."
"OK, I have no idea." confessed Tentomon.
"Well, that makes two of us." sighed Izzy, staring out the window "I've never heard of anything like it."
"What? Don't things digivolve in your world?"
"NO!" Izzy almost laughed "As far as all scientific knowledge goes, it should be impossible!"
Tentomon sank back into the chair with a sigh, extremely troubled at his inability to help Izzy out.
"There is one more thing I'd like to ask as well." added Izzy. Immediately, Tentomon shot up, thrilled at the chance to redeem himself "Shoot away!" he said eagerly.
"Why are you called "Digital Monsters"? What is the significance of the word 'Digital'?"
Although Tentomon's face wasn't as expressive as a human's, Izzy could still recognize the look of some one totally lost (which he got a lot).
"What?" asked Izzy, a little uncomfortable under Tentomon's uncomprehending stare.
"Well, I mean..." Tentomon stuttered, a little confused over what his problem was himself "Nobody's ever asked somthing like that before. It's just so common, I don't think anyone even thinks about it, really. Well, anyway, I guess I'd always figured it was just a name; that it didn't actually mean anything."
"Perhaps..." said Izzy thoughtfully "But the "Monster" part makes perfect sense literally- no offense, Tentomon!" he added hurriedly.
"None taken," Tentomon assured him "I can see what you mean."
"And when you take into account the names "Digivice" and even the "Digital World", it seems to become even more significant."
"Hmmm..." Tentomon thought to himself as he looked down to his claws "I certainly don't look very digital..."
"My point exactly." concurred Izzy quietly. The two were silent for a minute as their minds worked around the questions to now avail. after some time, Tentomon suddenly blurted "OH! Now I can't sleep!"

Matt sat quietly on his seat, eyes half closed, starring over at T.K. He was sprawled out over his bench with Patamon under his head as a pillow. His limp, bright blond hair contrasted sharply with Patamon's brown coat. Matt had all ways been amused with the difference between his hair and T.K.'s. It seemed that Matt had all ways been fighting a loosing battle to make his unruly main stay in place, but there was always someplace where it wasn't. On the other had T.K.'s hair seemed to like nothing more than to lie down and stay put, but he always managed to find a way to mess it up.
As Matt reflected on this, T.K. curled of in his sleep, crossing his bare arms tightly. Suddenly, Matt realized just how cool it had gotten in the trolley. While he had his jacket and long pants on, T.K. was still wearing a tee-shirt and shorts. "Hey, Gabumon." Matt muttered to the Digimon draped over his lap. When he didn't respond, Matt tried again, with a shove added.
"Mmmurmpfh... wha-?" groaned Gabumon groggily.
"Why don't you go lay over there with T.K."
"Why? What's the matter?" asked Gabumon, still a little out of it.
"All your fur's making me sweat. If you've got to cuddle on somebody, go do it on T.K., he likes the heat."
Gabumon looked over to T.K. for a moment and then looked back to Matt "Oh, I see." he said knowingly "You want me to keep him warm."
"That's not what I said." said Matt curtly, annoyed that Gabumon had seen through him so easily.
"No, but it's what you meant." pressed Gabumon.
"Hey, if that's what you want to think, go ahead." said Matt, trying to look like he didn't care.
"Sence it's what you already think, I will."
"Cut it out." snapped Matt. "Why are you trying to act like you don't car about T.K.?" asked Gabumon, confused.
"I said, cut it out." growled Matt.
Gabumon took the hint and shut up, and Matt laid back again. He couldn't relax, however, with Gabumon's concerned gaze locked on him. After a few moments, he'd had enough. Knocking Gabumon onto the floor, Matt got up and stormed out. Rubbing the sore on his back, Gabumon rushed off to catch up. From the front seat, Tentomon, who had been trying quite unsuccessfully not to eavesdrop, looked over to Izzy, who hadn't been able to avoid hearing everything either, and mussed "I wonder what his problem is." "I have no idea." said Izzy.

Tai, despise his best attempts to the contrary, was dangerously close to nodding off again when Matt emerged from the trolley with Gabumon behind him.
"What? You don't think I can handle this by myself?" said Tai, ticked.
"Nah, I just couldn't sleep." said Matt as he hunched down next to the fire.
That was all that was said for the next few minutes. Eventually, however, Tai, getting increasingly bored and needing some activity to keep him awake, decided to try for some conversation.
"How's everybody doing in there?"
"Asleep." muttered Matt.
"Ohh." replied Tai OK, let's try that again he though to himself. "How's T.K. been holding up?"
"OK." mumbled Matt, becoming annoyed at Tai's probing. "Yeah," Tai laughed "I would have thought that a kid as young as T.K. would have been as scared as Joe, but he seems to be having a ball."
"T.K. doesn't scare easily." agreed Matt, "He can always find something to laugh about in anything."
"Must not be a family trait." Tai said with a snicker.
"Not at all." agreed Matt without emotion as he tossed a pebble into the fire to watch the sparks.
"Honestly, It's hard to believe that you two grew up in the same house." continued Tai, innocently. Gabumon shook his head at Tai's unintentional prod as Matt explained "That's because we didn't." as he sent another stone into the fire.
"Wait a minute, what?" stuttered Tai, not sure what he'd stumbled onto.
"Mom ditched me and Dad way back and took T.K. with her." Matt said coldly. Tai just sat dumbfounded as Matt fumbled around for another stone to send into the fire. He found one but, seeing how big it was, refrained and just held it. Then, for reasons that escaped him at the moment, he started talking again.
"See, Mom got into all that 'Women's Rights' junk and stuff like that. All of a sudden, she couldn't stand the thought of some..."Male Chauvinist Pig" I think were her words, running thing. Then Dad took his job in Tokyo and she blew up all over him about it." Matt tightened his grip around the stone ad he continued, icily "She didn't care that his job back home wasn't getting him anywhere, it was just all "Who do you think you are, anyway? What makes you think you know what's best for this family?" Of course, he didn't ask her why she thought she knew, not that it would have mattered. You can't reason with her any more anyway. Finally, one day, she just picked T.K. up from school, packed up all the good stuff from the apartment, and boom! They're gone. Didn't ask if he wanted to stay or not, just took him." Suddenly, there was a shattering crack! Agumon, who had dozed off once again, awoke with a start and looked around anxiously to see what had happened as Matt calmly allowed the tiny fragments of what was once the rock he was holding fall to the ground.
"Oh, man..." sighed Tai, shaking his head "I'm sorry, man."
"Gee, I've never heard that before." Matt snorted.
"No, really!" Tai insisted, "I've got a little sister about T.K.'s age. I can't imagine something like that happening between us."
For the first time sense he'd sat down, Matt looked at Tai. He realized something he had never fully grasped about Tai until that moment.
"You must really love her, huh?" he asked.
"Well...Yeah." answered Tai "Why not?"
Matt shook his head, feeling an unexpected amount of pity for naive kid.
"Here's some advice:" he said, getting up "Don't get too attached. Nothing lasts forever, so, take it from me, if you let something get too close, you're just asking to get hurt." With that, Matt walked off down the land bridge back to the shore, with Gabumon tagging along.
"You know what, Agumon?" Tai said, a little dazed "That guy is messed up."

***************

Leomon fell to the ground, stopping enough of the ice beam to prevent injury, but not enough to avoid loosing his footing. Seadramon started to continue down the river, but Leomon leaped at it again. "Fist Of The Beast King!" he shouted as he fired another blast at the giant serpent. This time he connected, but only partially. Now fully angered, Seadramon turned and lunged at it's attacker. Leomon artfully dodged the lunging bit, and leaped onto Sedramon's back. He quickly started a frantic search for the gear that was embedded somewhere in the beast's hide. Unfortunately, he hadn't had much time to look before Seadramon dove under water knocking Leomon off.
Although, calling upon all his disciplining, he kept panic from setting in, he was still fully aware of the danger he was in. There was absolutely no way Leomon could out perform Seadramon in the water. Eager to reinforce this, Seadramon wrapped it's tail around the struggling lion flung him straight into the air. If he had been allowed to fall, Leomon would have easily landed on his feet; however, Seadramon had no intention of allowing him to get that chance. It swung it's huge tail around and swatted Leomon down to the shore. Despite his best efforts, Leomon could not avoid landing square on his head. The last thing he saw before loosing consciousness was Seadramon heading down the rive again.
Straight for the Digidestined.

***************

Matt sat quietly by the edge of the shore, watching the eerie fog drift slowly across the surface of the lake. Beside him, as usual, sat Gabumon. The More Matt thought about it, the less he knew what to do with him. Given the dangers of the Digiworld that seemed to assert themselves at every opportunity, Matt wasn't keen on the idea of sending Gabumon away. Still, it was becoming a real nuisance to have him always following right behind.
"Did you really mean all that stuff you said earlier?" asked Gabumon.
"Absolutely." answered Matt.
Gabumon sighed and decided that conversation was a lost cause, so he just sat there with Matt. He sat. And sat. And sat some more. And after that, they managed to squeeze in some sitting. Just as Gabumon thought that all this vigorous sitting would be the end of him, Matt stirred. He reached down to the right pocket of his jacket and fish out an object. The thing in Matt's hand was made mettle and had some kind of gold substance covering it. Well, it covered some of it, a lot had been chipped off. There also seemed to be holes running through it on each side. Gabumon was about to ask what it was when Matt cupped his hands around it, raised it to his mouth, and began to blow into it. The result was the most incredible sound that Gabumon had ever heard. As Matt played, he just stood there, letting the high mournful sounds wash over him, soaking up as much as he could.

"Hey, what's that?" Agumon said, looking up.
"What's what?" asked Tai, anxious to find anything to keep him busy.
"Listen!" said Agumon. Tai did and sure enough, he could hear some kind of noise coming from where Matt and Gabumon had run off.
"Weird... What is that?" mumbled Agumon, to himself. Tai listened for a moment more to the faint sound, then his face lit up. "OH! It's a harmonica!"
"Who or what is that?"
"It's an instrument." Tai explained "Remember how I told you about guitars? It's kind of like that."
"Oh..." said Agumon "I still think it's weird."
"Yeah, I know." laughed Tai "I'm not to crazy for them ether. They don't go loud enough for me."

"That's incredible!" said Gabumon, eventually.
"Huh?" said Matt, startled.
"That music. It was incredible!"
"Oh...thanks." Matt stuttered, a little embarrassed.
"Where did you learn to do that?" asked Gabumon.
"I just taught myself, really." Matt explained "Dad bought it for me at a gas station when I was little and I've been messing around on it ever sense."
"It must have been expensive." mused Gabumon, reflecting on how beautiful it had sounded.
"Naw, it was just a cheap souvenir." Matt laughed "I didn't even want it, really; Dad just got it to calm me down after T.K. threw up on me." At that, Gabumon laughed, while Matt grinned.
Then, suddenly, he frowned.
"Is something wrong, Matt?" Gabumon asked, noticing the sudden frown. "No, nothing's wrong." Matt lied. To him, something was indeed wrong. Normally, if anyone else asked something like that, the answer would never exceed five words. Yet, tonight, Matt had been talking more than he had in the previous week. His conversation with Tai didn't strike him as unusual, he had no problem talking about his mother, it felt good to vent his anger like that. It was everything else; all the things he'd been telling Gabumon. He never just went on talking like that.
NEVER.
"Uh, Matt?" whispered Gabumon, snapping Matt out of his self-reflection. "What's with the whispers?" asked Matt, himself whispering, just in case it was something important.
"Do you see that?"
"See what?"
"There." said Gabumon, pointing to the lake "To the left of the island."
Matt squinted hard and, sure enough, he saw something. A spot in the water darker than all the rest. It didn't seem to be on the surface; it was almost like...
"Something's under the water!" Matt almost shouted.

Hey, Izzy!" said Tentomon urgently, poking Izzy in the side.
"I had nearly fallen asleep." complained Izzy, groggily "What is it?"
"Did you feel something?" asked Tentomon, nervously.
"No, feel what?"
"Sort of a shake." explained Tentomon "Kind of like- THERE! There it is again!"
That time, Izzy did feel it. a slight, silent rumbling from the floor.
"Could the trolley be trying to move?" wondered Izzy, himself getting nervous.
"I don't think so." said Tentomon, looking at the control panel "Nothing seems to be happening here."
"Maybe, it's just our imagination." wondered Izzy. Unfortunately, that theory was quickly put to death. From the door, Tai poked his head in and asked "Hey, did you guys feel something just now?"
"Well, so much for imagination." sighed Izzy, now quite concerned.

Matt and Gabumon frantically ran up the land bridge to the island.
"Do you think it's Kuagumon again?" asked Matt.
"I don't think so," panted Gabumon, trying to keep up "Kuagumon may fly, but it doesn't swim."
"WHOA! LOOK!" shouted Matt screeching to a stop. While we now stood at the end of the bridge, there was still several feet of water between them and the island.
"The island's moving!" Gabumon cried as he stopped next to Matt.
"Well, come on!" shouted Matt "It's not going to fast, we can swim to it!"
"NO!" shouted Gabumon "That thing's out there! It's too dangerous!"

Hoping to get some answers, Agumon ran out to meet Tai he ran back outside with Izzy and Tentomon in tow.
"Do you guys know what's shaking us?" he asked frantically.
"Not yet," answered Izzy "but give us a minute."
"HEY! GUYS!" Matt shouted from a distance.
"Hey, Matt! Why don't you join the party over here?" shouted Tai.
"If you hold still for a moment, I will." Matt called back.
"What do you mean..." Izzy started "THAT'S IT! We're moving!"
"WHAT?" shouted Tai, Agumon, and Tentomon in unison.
"There's something in the lake!" Matt explained "We think it's pushing you out!"
"But..." Izzy stuttered, incredulously "How could something move an island this size without making more of a racket?"
"Hey! Do you have a better explanation?" shot Matt back.
Before Izzy could answer, Tai yelled "OK, smart guy; if you know so much, what do we do about it?"
"Do I look like I know?" shouted Matt.
"You don't look like anything." Agumon called to the rapidly shrinking figures in the distance "You're getting too far away."
"Try attacking the water!" Gabumon yelled "Maybe you'll hit whatever's moving you!"
"But how will we know where to fire?" called Tentomon, already looking frantically around the fog shrouded water.
"Just shoot!" shouted Matt hoarsely, all this yelling starting to get to him.
"I know, Tentomon!" Izzy said "Just use "Super Shocker" on the surface; the water will conduct the electricity."
"Ah ha!" shouted Tentomon eagerly "A sure fire hit!"
With that, he leaped into the air and unleashed a blast across the surface. In the momentary brightening of the water, the four could see a very large shape in the lake directly in front of them.
"Oh dear..." muttered Tentomon, as he watched the form rise out of the water, and keep on rising untill he almost had to look straight up to see it's head "Maybe that wasn't such a good idea..."

T.K. awoke with a start in a very unpleasant manner, somthing was covering his face and there seemed to be somthing heavy on his head.
"Hey! what's on my head?" he shouted, dissoriented.
"Uh...you are!" he heard Patamon answer. He then helped T.K. roll right side up again and pull his shirt of his head "Are you OK?" Patamon asked.
"Yeah," answered T.K. "but I thought I'd out grown this rolling out of bed thing."
"You do that a lot?"
"Well, I used to."
"It must be contageous, because everybody else did it too." said Patamon, pointing to there companions, sprawled all over the floor.
"OW!" shreeked Mimi as she dislodged her self from under one of the benches.
"Double OW!" added Palmon as Mimi poped out, and tumbled straight into her.
"What the heck happened?" asked Gomamon.
"I have no idea." said Sora, looking around to make sure evry one was all right.
"Well, being knocked on our butts can raerly mean anything good." groaned Joe.
"HEY! Where's Tai, Matt, and Izzy?" cried Sora from the front.
"Isn't one of them on guard duity?" asked Joe.
"Yeah, but it shouldn't take all three of them." pointed out Sora.
"It would if there was a big horable monster out there stomping around and shaking things!" Mimi whined
"Why did you have to say somthing like that?" whimpered Joe, scurrying under his seat "Couldn't you have suggested that they all were roasting marshmelows or somthing like that?"
"I'm afraid that Mimi may be right;" said Byomon, heading for the door "and if she is, they'll need our help!"
"Alright!" Shouted T.K "Let's get busy!"
"I'll go," said Mimi reluctantly "but I would rather think that Joe's right."
"Me too." concured Palmon.
"In that case," called Joe from under the seat "I'll think I'm right too!"
"Oh, no you won't!" shouted Gomamon as he draged Joe out to the door.
"NO! WAIT! HOLD ON!" screamed Joe "I'LL GUARD THE TROLLEY! I'LL TAKE UP THE REAR! COME ON! Boy, for a little seal, you really are freakishly strong."
"Thanks, but it doesn't take much to pull a string bean like you." Gomamon laughed.
"Are you two done goofing around?" asked Sora stearnly.
"Yeah, I suppose so." sighed Joe.
"Well, OK Sora! Lead the way!" said Mimi, edging Sora towards the door.
"ME?" Sora shrieked "Why should I go first?"
"Well duh, somebody has to go first." Palmon pointed out.
"I'll go!" T.K. volentiered.
"NO!" every one else screamed in unison.
"...or not." T.K. giggled.
After a few more moments of squabling, it was desided that they would all go out at once, somthing quite dificult, given the relitively narrow doorway. Still, they all managed to squeze out, though they wound up in an unsightly pile on the ground afterwards. They quickly righted themselves... and froze at the sight of what had no doubt given them the jolt.
"I still wish you were right, Joe." Mimi whispered.
"Me too." Joe concured.

Seadramon glaired downs at the teriffied figgures that had just emerged and laughed. Or, at least, made the closest aproxamation to a laugh it could muster.
"Guys! Over here!" they heard Tai shout from the other side of the trolley. The others quickly scrambled back to find Tai, Izzy, Agumon, and Tentomon crouched in it's shadow.
"What are you guys doing?" Sora asked franticaly.
"Hidding!" Tentomon whimpered "What does it look like we're doing?"
"That's a good plan." Joe said, joining them "I can hide, I'm good at hiding."
"What do you mean, hidding?" shouted T.K. "You're supposed to be fighting that guy."
"Hey, you wanna go up agaist that monster? Be my guest!" shouted Tai.
"OK!" said T.K. as he ran back around.
"WHA-? WAIT! I WAS JOKING!" Tai screaed as he ran after him
"Well wait for me!" shouted Sora, running after them. Byomon strarted to run after her, but stoped and yelled at the others "Well? What are you waiting for?"
Taking the hint, tey all got up and ran out to face seadramon.

Although the island had stoped moving, it had goten too far away for Matt and Gabumon to see what was going on clearly. Still, they had seen seadramon very well. And when a series of bright flashes began to erupt through the fog, they knew full well what it ment.
"Do you think they'll be alright?" Matt asked.
"I don't know." Gabumon admited, worried "Seadramon's much more powerful than Kuagumon was."
"And we don't have a cliff to knock this guy off." Matt comented.

"OW! OW! OH THE PAIN!" Tentomon cried in aggony as Izzy and Joe dragged him inside the trolley to try and chip the layer of ice off his body
"OOOoooohhhh...that was most unpleasant."
"How, did it shoot ice like that?" Izy asked as he tried to hold the frantic digimon still.
"AAAaahhh...that's one of Seadramon's attacks...OW! CARFUL JOE!"
"Sorry," Joe grunted as he continued to chip at the ice "but we need to get this ice off or you might get frostbite."
"F-F-FROSTBITE?" Tentomon whimpered, panicing.
"Don't worry!" Joe assured him "If we just get it all off, you'll have nothing to worry about!"
Tentomon callmed down some what at that and just laid back as Joe continued chipping.
Izzy creaped over to Joe and whispered into his ear "Is he really going to be alright?"
"How should I know?" Joe whispered back "I don't know how much cold a big bug can take. I was just trying to calm him down."

Tai and Mimi dove back behind the trolley to avoid another blast of ice heading twards them.
"OK, it's official, this sucks." Mimi whimpered as she peaked around to look out to where Palmon and the others were fighting. "Look at them! That big creep is baerly even noticing them!"
"I know," said Tai angrilly "he's way to strong!"
"Well what do we do?" asked Mimi, on the verge of tears.
"HOW SHOULD I KNOW?" shouted Tai "I DON'T KNOW THESE THINGS!"
"Well, that's not gonna help anybody!" cried Mimi "We gotta do somthing!"
"I know..." agreed Tai as he watched Seadremon swat Agumon and Byomon to the ground with his tail "but what?"

"Boom Buble!" Patamon shouted as he spit a hazy shockwave at Seadramon's head. It slamed into it's skin with a loud "Pow!", but seemed to make no difference to the huge creature.
Instead, it simply glared at him.
"Uhhh...." Patamon stuttered, fearfully "Sorry about that..."
"What are you appologizing for Patatmon?" T.K. shouted, despite Sora's best attempts to shut him up "Cream that big lizzard!"
"Whadda ya think I've been trying to do?" Patamon called as he flew as fast as he could back to the trolley.
"This guy's just too big!" yelled Palmon as she tried to follow. Unfortunately, Seadramon got both of them with it's tail, and knocked them back out into the battlefield.
"Oh, no! PALMON!" Mimi shrieked as Seadramon continued to swat the digimon around.
"He's got them out numbered and there's only one of him!" Tai fummed to himself from his hiding place "There's got to be somthing we can do to help."
Then Seadramon fired another blast onto the ground, covering evrything around the impact zone with a thick layer of ice. Suddenly, to his terror, Tai realized that Agumon was trapped in it.
"Tai! HELP!!!" he shouted as he struggled to melt the ice holding his legs in place.
"Hold on! I'm comming!" Tai yelled as he ran out.
"ARE YOU CRAZY?!?" Mimi screamed as she grabed his arm "You can't go out there!"
"Well, what am I supposed to do?" Tai shot back as he pulled his arm lose "I can't just sit here!"
Mimi started to answer, but stopped to think about it. Before she actually had a chance to respond, Tai ran out again, calling back "Don't worry! I'll be alright!"
"...Good luck." Mimi half-whispered as she watched his head into he heat of the battle.

When Tai got there, Agumon had managed to get his leg out, but was still to numb to move. "Hang on buddy, I gotcha!"
"Thanks, Tai." Agumon whimpered as Tai ran back with him in his arms. As he ran for all he was worth to get into the trolley, another ice blast shot past them and came within inches of hitting them. Although noone noticed it, Tai's digivice suddenly glowed for a moment as the blast shot past.
"Are you alright?" Izzy asked franticaly as Tai and Agumon dove in through the door.
"Yeah, I think I'll be alright." Agumon said, rubbing his legs gingerly.
"Man, this is not working." Tai panted as he sat down to catch his breath "We need to get a plan going."
"Maybe if we flanked it in a two pronged attack?" Izzy offored.
"If we who in a what-now?" Tai asked, lost.
"Set up a crossfire." Izzy said in layman's terms.
"But how?" Joe asked "We can't get off the island exept for Gomamon, and he can't do much by himself."
"I'm working on that," Izzy said "be patient."
"There's Gabumon and Matt." Tentomon said weakly from his seat.
"I think they're too far away." Izzy said "How would they get out here?"
"I got it!" Tai shouted, rummiging though the emergency compartment and comming up with an inflateable emergency raft "Come on Agumon!"
"What are you talking about?" Joe shouted "He can barely walk!"
"He dosen't have to walk! He just has to ride!"
"I'm with you Tai!" Agumon said as he climed on to the package in his arms.
"Time to hit the high seas!" Tai shouted as he ran out the back door.
"Wait a minute!" Izzy yelled to them "What are you going to do once you get out there?"
But they were already gone.

Matt looked out through the fog to the battle continuing in the distance. It was impossable to tell for sertain, but Matt had a huntch that thing were not going well. The flashes from the island had been getting fewer and farhter between for some time. Matt hadn't said anything for a few minutes, but Gabumon could tell that he was getting more and more worried as time went on.
Suddenly, a flash shot out from behind Seadramon.
"What was that?" Matt shouted.
"Somthing atacked Seadramon from behind!" Gabumon shouted.
"Behind? How could somthing get behnid it?" Matt asked as another yellowish orange blast shot up from the water.
"Who would-" wait. Matt thought: That blast looked like fire. Fire? Agumon!
"TAI, ARE YOU INSANE?!?!?" Matt screamed from the shore.

Agumon tried as hard as he could to get his arms around his bulky life jacket and grip the side of the raft, with little avail.
"Why do only I have to wear one of these things?" he whined.
"Because there was only one life jacket on this seven person raft, for who knows why." explained Tai as he tried valiantly to paddle the raft "You can't swim with those numb legs."
Agumon fired another shot at Seadramon before asking "So what's the plan?"
"Well, this is pretty much it." Tai grunted, in the middle of a particularly hard paddle.
"WHAT????"
"Well, I hoped that once we got out in the water, inspiration would strike."
"Well, I hope it strikes fast!" Agumon said, watching Seadramon frantically trying to find them through the fog.
"I have worked out one thing." Tai pointed out "If we get knocked over, you get back to the island."
"Well, duh." said Agumon, shaking his head "That's what I would do anyway, and I hope you would too."
The words had barely left his mouth when Seadramon's tail shot up from directly under the raft; flipping it roughly ten feet in the air.

Although they were still some distance away, the raft was close enough to Matt and Gabumon for them to plainly see it flip over.
"WHOA!" Matt shouted as he watched the raft flip through the air.
"Are they all right?" Gabumon asked frantically.
"I-I can't tell yet." Matt confessed, trying as hard as he could to see through the fog.

"WOW! This water's COLD!" cried Agumon as he bobbed up and down in the lake.
"What are you waiting for Agumon?" shouted Tai as he swam off "Get back to the island!"
"What about you?" yelled Agumon as he watched Tai swim into the opposite direction.
"HEY!" Tai screamed at Seadramon "OVER HERE YOU OVER GROWN TADPOLE!!!!!!"
"What are you doing, Tai?" Agumon cried.
"Buying you some time!" Tai shouted back "You can't do any good bobbing around like...like...I dunno, I'm to busy to come up with something."
"TAI! LOOK OUT!!!" Agumon screamed as Seadramon's tail slammed down right next to him.

"Matt! Where are you going?" Gabumon shouted as Matt dove into the water.
"Well, I'm sure not going to just sit here while that big sea slug eats him." Matt shouted, swimming off.
Gabumon hesitated for a moment before crying "I hope you realize what my fur will smell like when I get out!" and dove in after him.

"Hey! Put me down!" shouted Tai as Seadramon wrapped it's tail around him "Hey, come on! Can't we work something out? I was just joking with the tadpole bit!!!"
While he wasn't looking, his digivice had begun to glow again, and was now starting to vibrate.
"HANG ON TAI!!!" Matt shouted as he got closer and closer to the giant sea serpent.
"Matt? What are you doing here?" Tai shouted.
"Oh, you're welcome." Matt grunted as he climbed onto Seadramon's back.
"OK, Thanks!" Tai yelled "Now what are you going to do?"
"I dunno, I'm making this thing up as I go!"
"Where have I heard that before?" Tai sighed, preparing himself to be eaten.
Matt started to claw his way up Seadramon's rough, scaly hide with the vague idea of hitting it in the eye, when he noticed something bizarre. Not far above him, sticking out of it's side, was what appeared to be a large black wheel. Climbing higher up, he saw it was indeed some kind of disk, with sharp teeth on the sides, imbedded in the skin of the monster. Not having any better idea, he grabbed onto it with both hands. Immediately, Seadramon let out a bone shilling shriek, and arched it's body violently, dropping Tai in the process. Both he and Matt slid down the creature's back and collided with each other in the middle.
"Fancy meeting you here." Tai as he rolled off of Matt "You come here often?"
"Nope," Matt played along "I was just in town for the weekend and thought I'd poke my head in."
The two hopped off the thrashing monster's back and were greeted by Gabumon. "Have fun you two?" he asked.
"Plenty;" Matt panted, as he started to swim off "you should have been there."
"I would have," Gabumon said, struggling to tread water "but I was busy learning how to swim."
"I hate to break this up," shouted Tai "but somebody's majorly ticked!"
Sure enough, Seadramon had swung around and was coming at them with a fiery rage in it's eyes.
"Quick! how fast can you swim!" Matt asked.
"Not that fast!" Tai shouted as Seadramon literally fell on top of them. While the force of Seadramon's wake would have pushed them well out of it's way if it had the chance, Seadramon didn't plan on allowing it to get that chance. It whipped it's tail through the water with blinding speed, collecting Matt and Tai in the process.
"Hey, I remember this place!" Tai grunted sarcastically "Not as nice as it was the last time I was here."
"Don't worry, I don't think he's planning on keeping us here long!" Matt shouted as Seadramon glared at them hungrily.
"MATT!" Gabumon shouted from below.
"Gabumon! DO SOMTHING!" Matt yelled.
"I can't!" Gabumon shouted back "I'm not strong enough!"
"Maybe the two of us are!" Agumon shouted from the other side of Seadramon.
"AGUMON?!?!?" Tai shouted "I thought I told you to get back to shore!"
"Sorry, but NO!" Agumon replied forcefully.
"Well, I'm glad you're here!" Matt shouted "DO SOMTHING!!!"
Instead of answering Agmon fired another fireball at Seadramon's head, accompanied by a blast from Gabumon. Although Seadramon lurched back, it was obviously not hurt.
"You got anything else?" Tai shouted.
"Sorry!" Gabumon answered, remorsefully.
Now even more angered, Seadramon tightened it's grip on it's two captives.
"Tai! Matt!" Agumon shouted "Look at your digivices!"
They looked down and, while the couldn't actually see the devices because of Seadramon's tail, they could see a bright light pouring out of each of them.
"Wha-What's going on?" Matt shouted.
"The digivices!" Gabumon cried "USE THEM!!!"
"HOW?" Matt and Tai asked in unison. Before anyone had a chance to answer, Seadramon opened it's massive jaws and thrust it's tail up towards it. Before it had a chance to snack, however, something incredible happened. In a blinding flash, erupted from the two digivices. Two huge, blue white shot out of them and sliced through Seadramon's tail. As it howled in pain and dropped the two would-be morsels, the beams struck and engulfed Agumon and Gabumon. In the blinding flashes that resulted, no one could see what exactly had happened; but there was no question about it afterwards:
They had once again digivolved.

In the place of Agumon was a towering, red and brown striped dinosaur they would latter discover was called Greymon. Instead of Gabumon, they found a equally huge white and gray wolf who, as it turned out, was called Garurumon. The two shell shocked kids looked in amazement at the new, giant digimon as Seadramon, it self even more shell shocked, tried to back away.
"Just where do you think you're going, buddy?" Greymon growled as he waded up next to it.
"You ready to rumble, Greymon?" Garurumon shouted.
"I've been ready!" Greymon yelled as he leapt onto Seadramon. The two only managed to hold the serpent down for a moment before in slithered out of their grip, but it was long enough for Garurumon to shout to Matt and Tai "What are you two waiting for? Get out of here!"
Not waiting to be told a second time, the two immediately swam off for the island.
"Try to go for that gear sticking out of it's side!" Matt shouted as he swam out "I think that's a soft spot!"
Seadramon, must have thought so too, because instead of rising all the way out again, it simply swung it's tail out of the water and swatted Greymon in the head. However, instead of falling over, Greymon simply grabbed on and gave a tug. Seadramon flew, backwards, out of the water as Garurumon took the opportune chance to fire a huge, blue laser out of it's mouth and take a small chunk out of it's side.

"Tai! Matt! Are you all right?" Sora shouted as she and Izzy helped fish them out of the water.
"WOW!" cried T.K. as he ran up to Matt "That was SO COOL! You just climbed right onto that big freak and grabbed onto him and-"
"Yeah, T.K., I was there," Matt panted as he tried to catch his breath "and don't need to be reminded about it right now."
"Are they going to be all right?" Izzy asked Tentomon, who had, against Joe's strong protest, limped out to see what was happening.
"Are you kidding?" he laughed "Seadramon doesn't stand a chance against Greymon and Garurumon!"
"So, uh, what can they do, exactly?" Tai asked.
"What can't they do?" Tentomon laughed again "Greymon can use the "Nova Blast" attack which is so hot it can melt solid iron! And Garurumon is just as powerful! Not only is he strong and fast as heck, but his fur is as hard as steel!"
"Just like Tentomon shell is as hard as diamond?" Joe asked incredulously, pointing at the small cracks left in on the back of Tentomon's "impenetrable" back.
"OK, I may have over estimated my own strengths a little, but I heard about this! REALY!" Tentomon insisted.

Seadramon wrestled with all it's might to get out of Greymon's iron grip, with no avail.
"Do you see the gear Matt was talking about?" he grunted. "Not yet." Garurumon said, annoyed "Could you hold him still? How am I supposed to find anything on this guy?"
"Hey!" Greymon shouted "You wanna be the one to hold the squirming sea dragon still? Be my guest!"
"Quit whining! I didn't-WAIT! There it is!" and with that, Garurumon let lose a massive blast which struck just aside from the protruding gear. Seadramon again lurched in pain, wresting itself out of Greymon's grasp in the process.
"You're not getting away that easy! Nova Blast!" Greymon shouted as he fired a gigantic fireball into Seadramon's head. The huge serpent reeled with the impact as Garurumon again lunged at it's side. He wrapped his paws around the squirming beast and, finding the damaged gear once again, sunk his teeth into it. Seadramon screeched in unbelievable agony as Garurumon tugged at the gear.
"HOLD HIM STILL WILL YOU?" Garurumon grunted with a mouth full of gear.
"I'm trying!" Greymon yelled as he sunk his teeth into Seadramon's neck. While it didn't exactly pacify the raging beast, it did hold him down while Garurumon tugged.
"Hurry up!" shouted Greymon "This guy's scales taste horrible!"
"Well this gear isn't exactly a banquet either!" Garurumon shot back "It just won't come out!" But almost before the words had escaped from his mouth, the gear shattered like glass and vanished. Giving a horrendous spasm accompanied with another agonizing scream, Seadramon leapt out of the other two digimon's grasp and vanished into the deep.

...To Be Continued