Fleur was certain Killian was somebody he could trust, he was kind of like a big brother figure, considering he's never had any siblings, he was delighted by the idea. An older person, who would look after him... Fleur wanted to do the same to repay his kindness. He listened to the many voices talk and bicker, show their anger, confusion and distrust. But Jehumon had to be telling the truth, Fleur had already pinched himself many times between waking up and drinking the soup, the only reaction being the red marks on his arm.
He placed the now empty stew beside him.

"Je vous beleive Jehumon ! Nous n'avons pas vraiment beaucoup de choix de toute façon ... Mais je tiens à répondre à vos amis dans le villiage digimon" After voicing his concern about the matter. He then realised, he was talking in French and they oribably didn't understand him.
"Uhm.. I beleive... Jehumon... Let's go... To Digimon Villiage!"
Fleur felt proud that he managed to translate his thoughts to english, even if that wasn't exactly what he said.

Ordinarily Danny would never believe the story he just heard, but the fact that it came from a talking robot caused him to at least consider it. He was still a bit woozy but if there were indeed things looking for them they needed to get moving. "EI'm not sure if I believe or understand Jehu's story, but eI know he coul have hurt us while we were sleep. So eI agree with Teal head." Danny pointed at Fleur. "After all tose Digimon might be able to send a army to our world or worlds, who knows if there is more than one human world, wit tat tower."

It was quite a speech for Danny he felt it had to be said,anyway now that it was done, he decided to get some of the stew like the others. As soon as he bent over he felt something in his pocket. He had a good idea what it was, and it indeed turned out to be one of those Digivices like the others had. However at the moment the stew was more interesting to him, so he quickly picked up a bowl and filled it.

The small blond girl in the back had stayed quiet for most of Jehumon and Killian's explanation, if only because she was still taking all of the information in. The last of the drugs still running through her system didn't quite help her cognitive functions either. But as she took a few more spoonfuls of stew, she started to recover more of her faculties. And this was just dandy. The last thing she remembered before waking up here was taking a nap after a day out shopping on her own. Again. And now she was dealing with digital monsters and worlds in the internet.

"C’est des conneries!" She hissed under her breath, shaking her head. Setting her bowl of stew down, she pulled out her red Digivice and stared at it for a moment. Looking back up, she turned to Jehu.

"Alright, then. So," She waved her Digivice around. "Do these things actually do anything besides mark us being partnered to one of you?" Alice looked around the group. "I'm Alice, by the way." Her gaze stopped at Fleur. "Je suis à l'aise en français."

Annabeth didn't say anything after having her question answered; mostly simply eating her stew in silence. She considered the possibilities - they were kidnapped, yes, but were their bodies converted into data? Or was data some sort of allegory here? Was there some sort of conversion process that she had suffered? If so, was it reversible? Hopefully, but the very idea that she was able to enter and that there is a purported "exit" that should be the case.

However, she had many more pressing questions needing to be answered.

"...I'm Annabeth." She introduced herself to the rest of the group as she set down the stew, picking up her digivice and examining it again.

As others spoke up and started introducing themselves, Catherine quickly realized she wasn't the center of attention for Killian and Jehu anymore; oh well, not like she cared. The boy seemed alright even if the little bucket of bolts with him needed to climb down out of his ass and slow down some on the exposition. Who did he think he was, some Japanese Priest?

In any case, this would at least give her the chance to think things over without being cross-examined; with everyone else taking over, the girl just sat back down and stared at her Digivice.
Either she was dreaming or there was still a ton of dope in her; all logic dictated she should be freaking out right about now. She HAD been freaking out a moment ago, more or less, she admitted to herself. Digital Monsters, towers, it all sounded like a load of crap. Or borderline Lovecraftian nightmare fuel. And yet here she was, turning some Tamagochi-looking thing over in her hands and fiddling around with a bowl of stew to see how much was left in it after dropping it.

She just hoped she got her own partner soon. And that he was more normal than Jehumon.

She didn't get too long to dwell on her thoughts, however; it quickly occurred to her as the black and blonde-haired girls in the group finally spoke up and introduced themselves that she was one of the few in the group that hadn't introduced herself; perhaps the last, even? She really hadn't been paying that much attention.

"Name's Catherine," She said aloud for the others to hear, "And the village sounds better than sitting around here like a bunch of cavemen. Though anything would, really."

"Then... it's decided then, we are to head to the Digimon Village. If everyone's had their fill, then I say it's time we head on out." It was at this time that Killian took notice of Alice and her question. "Alice has a very good question, Jehu, do the Digivices do anything besides... well, mark us as Tamers and allow us to be with Digimon?"

"They do! Old legends state that they allow a Digimon to Digivolve far quicker than they would if they didn't have a Tamer. Digivolution allows us Digimon to get stronger and to fight harder, and it will allow us to protect those we care about a whole lot easier as well. Not only that, but there were old tales that they were capable of giving you information on Digimon by a simple button press if I remember correctly, which will be very useful if we come across any Digimon that we haven't met yet," spoke Jehu as he flew towards Killian, before turning towards the group. "My friends at the village will be delighted to meet you guys, so perhaps one of you may meet your partner among them? Maybe?"

"You're really an odd ball, aren't you, Jehu?" murmured Killian as he playfully thumped his Digimon, before the bipedal creature flew onto his head, standing on it like a brave little warrior. "But of course... Anyway, let's head out folks. Stay close, we don't know what's out there, or what may be coming for us. Jehu, point us towards the village."

With those simple words, and upon everyone learning each others' names, the group head off towards the Digimon village that Jehu spoke of.

---

Back at the tower...

"They... they what?!" roared Datamon as he slammed his fist against his lab table upon hearing what Sealsdramon had to say.

"Did I stutter? You heard me Datamon. Some little robot Digimon... a Jehumon I think, came in, knocked out the 49th platoon, and rescued the 3976th batch of Digidestined that we kidnapped and left into the forest," spoke Sealsdramon as he casually sharpened his knife while taking a drag on a cigar.

"How did a little weakling get into this marvelous tower and rescue them?! You and your damn stupid troops are nothing more than a bunch of insignificant-"

"Hey..." spoke Sealsdramon in a serious tone as he suddenly appeared behind Datamon with his knife a little closer to the Ultimate Digimon, "... I may be a Champion, and you may be an Ultimate, but you, unlike me, Datamon, aren't suited for combat. If it weren't for me and my men, you wouldn't be under the protection of our Masters, so shut your mouth about my troops. They work tirelessly to do their duty while you're here all comfy like a prepped up little doll doing your research on what the Masters want." Sealsdramon flicked his cigar with a simple motion of his jaw, before moving around Datamon, "Now, I'll hunt down the missing Digidestined with a platoon of Commandramon, along with a few Mekanorimon."

"Bah..." groaned Datamon as he felt a cold shiver spread over him. "Well... where will you look for them, the forest is huge? You can't just go burning it down after all."

"There is a village of Tanemon a fair way into the forest. Given how much of your anesthetics you've given them, they're probably heading there right now... We will make our way there shortly, and should catch them before they even get a chance to leave... Although, I'm sure they're expecting us... Nonetheless, we will bring them back," spoke Sealsdramon as he grinned... before chomping his cigar sharply and sheathing his knife and disappearing instantly into the shadows.

---

The Tanemon Village...

"...and then we should finally arrive at the village approximately... now!" shouted Jehu as he hopped off of Killian's head as he pointed towards the Tanemon Village. "It's a pretty nice place, to be honest. The Digimon who live here are called Tanemon, they're shy Digimon so they're probably hiding at the moment. Yo, Tanemon! You guys can come out! These guys are friendly and they're with me!" roared Jehu as loud as he could, hoping to attract attention.

After a few silent moments, dozens upon dozens of Tanemon came out of the huts, looking up at the group and at Jehu. It was true, they did seem pretty shy, although they were also very cute. Some Tanemon were bouncing up and down as they approached Arista, Fleur, and Alice, while others were rubbing their heads playfully against the legs of Annabeth, Catherine, Orion, and Danny.

"Well, once they meet good people, they quickly like to show their affection, at least, that's what these Tanemon do. It's kinda cute actually if you ask me. Oh, I almost forgot to mention, my friends are probably in some of the huts around here, you guys can go and meet them if you want, I'm sure they'll be pleased to meet Tamers," spoke Jehu as he patted a Tanemon on the head.

"Awww... They really are pretty cute... Hey, Jehu, is there perhaps, like, a watchtower or something?" asked Killian as a sudden thought entered his mind.

"A what now? Is it like a clock tower?" Jehu gave off a puzzled look.

"No. Um... Is there a spot where I can look at things safely at a distance from here at the village?" he asked while trying to be more simple.

"Yeah, over there is hill where you can see quite a ways actually. Why?"

"Nothing... Just want to take a quick look at our surroundings is all," spoke Killian as he began to turn towards the group. "Well, while I'm checking out the hill, you guys go look around town, check out Jehu's friends and maybe get along with the Tanemon here. I'll be back in a bit!" With that, Killian made his way towards the hill.

The Camp Site
The previous tension in the air had settled. People were introducing eachother and were deciding on what to do next. Majority of the group agreed on moving on to the digimon villiage, this included Fleur. Hecbegan to wonder what types of new creatures he would meet, or should we say, what, Digimon, he would meet.

A small blonde girl, by the namecof Alice, introduced herself. She looked at fleur and spoke French. His eyes sparkled, atlast somebody who can easily understand him! She ran over to greet her.
"Je suis tellement heureuse!" Fleur clapped his hands together and grinned. "Mon nom est Fleur Del Lequor !
C'est un plaisir de faire votre connaissance!"

Fleur than realised his rudeness, he had not introduced himself to the others!
"I, Am Fleur! Is nize to meat yu!" He waved his hand in a fun and friendly manner. He wasn't sure what it was, possibly the stew, but he felt a warmth from everyone being together.

Orion had followed through out the forest behind the others. He hadn't spoken much but was rather in awe of the things around him. Things here were created by digital code. He began to think was he made of digital code? Had he been converted into that code or was his body at home while his consciousness transferred into this world. He wanted answers and the only way he would get them was to keep going and maybe somewhere is the world of data there would be somewhere that he could access some information.

They had finally arrived at the village that Jehumon had spoken of. It was small with little huts scattered here and there but a bunch of the little bulb like digimon came running out around them. Orion had to admit they were cute but he was more curious of why the camp fire in the middle of the village was blinking. It was weird it seemed to be looking right at him or so he thought. He thought for a second as the little bulbs nuzzled his leg and greeted them all, that fire didn't have eyes and wait where those stitches!? Orion shook his head and took off his glasses cleaning them then putting them back on. Yup it was staring at him. "Excusse me everyone I must observe something." He said this and the small digimon scattered quickly and pounced on the others.

Orion walked over to the small camp fire and squatted next to it. "So umm are you a digimon too?" The camp fire didn't respond but it did blink. Orion cocked an eyebrow and remembered what Jehumon had said about the digivice. Orion pulled it out and pressed one of the three buttons that was on the device. It didn't do anything so he pressed another. This time the screen clicked on. "Ah ha!" He exclaimed as he had found the on button. He pressed the last button and the device began to talk. "Demi-Meramon- A small flame digimon. It can choose to burn anyone it touches if it wants or to be as cool as the person needs them to be." The Demi-Meramon eyes became wide as its face for a second and then leap from the wood it had been burning or sitting on and towards Orion. Orion fell back on to his hands and back in surprise as the flames came towards him.

Demi-Meramon let out a yelp of happiness and landed on his tamer. "So it looks like you are my tamer! What's your name? How old are you? Why do you where those things? Are you nice? Do you want a marshmallow!?" The little digimon was all over Orion in seconds it moved over every inch of his body and he felt cool not warm or hot but cool. The digivice must have been right then. Orion laughed a little something he rarely did and when he realized he was he stopped and stood up while holding the little digimon in his arms.

"Ok OK! Calm down." Orion had gotten the little thing to calm himself down finally but it looked like it had more to say. "So many questions. That is a good thing I guess but those questions will have to wait. The small flame nodded and replied, "Oh by the way call me Torch." Orion smiled "Alright then Torch it is. Seems to fit anyway." Orion turned back to every one. "Well it seems I have found my partner!" He held Torch up in the air a little but apparently he didn't like that so he became hot instantly in Orion's hands. Orion then let out a yelp and almost dropped Torch. The little guy apologized and jumped back into the wood he was burning. "I have to keep the place lit up for now but you are welcome to stay over here." Orion nodded and sat on a stone that was next to his little Torch. He wondered what the other's digimon were going to be like but was satisfied with his though he was a bit playful and hyper for his taste but he liked him non the less.

Arista, expecting every Digital Monster to be a cyborg being like Jehumon, found herself delighted with the adorable plant-like Digimon at the village. The Tanemon nestling in her arms was organic and oh-so-cute. It was also perfectly intelligent despite its simple, happy temperament. This world was just as real as hers. She craned her neck up to observe the stars. Not that she would know if this sky had different constellations than the one back home. But it was a moonless night that was good for stargazing.

"HEY GUYS," bellowed a voice, "I found my Tamer!" A child-sized bipedal bear leaped from a nearby bush and landed directly in front of Arista, the commotion spooking her poor Tanemon. It made a leap of its own and squealed away in fright. Arista pulled out her beeping Digivice, which told her that her partner was a RubyBearmon.

"It seems you are correct." Arista offered a smile and a hand. "Pleased to meet you."

RubyBearmon was a bit too excited and slapped his paw down on her hand with an excess of force. "Yeah! I wanna show you to my friend Demi-Meramon, it looks like he found his Tamer too. He’s great because he can warm you up at night when he’s cold"” He gestured toward Orion, who seemed to be having trouble with his flaming Digimon.

Arista suppressed a giggle as she massaged her hand. RubyBearmon was indeed shivering a little. "You can have my scarf if you want." She handed it to him.

"A gift for me, from my Tamer? No way. But I don’t want you to be cold either. Let’s share this gift." Without warning, he tore the scarf with a powerful snap of his paws. Arista bristled inwardly. RubyBearmon flung the larger piece to her and wrapped the rest around his head as a bandana.

"Thank you," she said without missing a beat. "You’re very generous."

"Don't mention it!"

The two reached the campfire and took a seat by Orion. "Hi, Orion, Demi-Meramon." Arista paused longer than she meant to. She didn’t want to alarm them with what she was about to say next, and so kept her voice level. "If we’re all wanted by bad people, aren’t we a liability to this village? I know we need to rest up somewhere, but… I don’t want any of the Tanemon to get hurt if something happens. We shouldn’t say here long, you know?"

The bouncing digimon were cute and peculiar, very adorable, as they jumped up and down their leaves flopped with them. It made Fleur laugh. He crouched and patted one of the Tanemon.
"Ahaha, Cute! Are zu, my Digzimon?" After asking the green creature it shook its head replying in a child like manner.

"No no no sorry! Not me, your digimon is somewhere here, sorry sorry!" The Tanemon nuzzled on Fleurs hand. He wondered where his Digimon partner could be... Two of the others found theirs, where could his be hiding?
Suddenly, he could feel a hand, or more accurately, a claw, reach into his pocket. It scared it him. As he turned around to see a vampire-esque, creature. It was juggling his Digivice and several glowing balls.

"I seeee, so you're my tamer... Interesting! Kyhehehe! We're gunna have so much fun!" It threw the items up into the air. Unbeknownest to him, they came back down, conking him on the head and exploding, the explosion didn't cause any damage and Fleur caught his Digivice after it bounced off his partners head. It then suddenly began to analyse the digimon.
'Dracmon, Rookie Level. A digimon with a strange sense of humor, loves causing pranks and trouble for other digimon.

"Look, don't be fooled" Said Dracmon. "I may seem mean and nasty, but I'm a really fun guy! Watch!" Dracmon scooped up three Tanemon amd began to juggle them. "Kyeheheh! Look! How skilled I am!"
The Tanemon began to giggle, but then asked to be put down as Fleur began to laugh.
"Ahah! You are zo funnie! Cun... Haha, cun zou zpeak French?"

Dracmon nodded to his tamer, placing the Tanemon down he replied with a laugh. "Kyjejeh, we're digimon, creatures of data! Informations our game! So you can bet I can speak the land of FrenchFry! Well, I can understand it... Kyhehehe!" Fleur began to talk with Dracmon, wishing to know more about him, and the digital world.

While the Tanemon were certainly cute and friendly their way of showing affection made it bit hard to walk in such large groups.Still it could be worse and Danny decided to use this opportunity to figure out how to use his Digivice to information on Digimon. After playing around with the buttons of the small purple machine for a bit he finally found the right one and what he presumed to be a recording started. "Tanemon- A Bulb like Digimon. If they sense they bury themselves underground to disguise themselves as plants, this causes many accidents when herbivorous Digimon are around though." Immediately afterwards it stated beeping causing Danny to think he did something wrong.

The real reason for the beeping was actually resting on the branch of a tree right above what was his clearly his new Tamer.Loromon couldn't believe his luck he had always dreamed of meeting a human and now it turned it he was the partner of one. Excited he flew down and landed on the humans shoulder. " Not te be rude but why didn't you come sooner ? So that is your Digivice huh, and if so how it's capable of allowing me to Digivolve? As a human you must know it works,right? Is it true humans can't be reborn and that they don't come from eggs?"

Danny thought at first that the bird like Digimon was attacking him, but before he could yell for help the barrage of questions started. It wasn't until the questions about his Digivice that he realized this Digimon was his partner."No idea how to come here on my own. Yep it;s mine, no idea how it works though. No one is sure about the rebirth thing, but there are no eggs involved" With the Digimon's questions answered it was no turn to get some info. Rather asking he used his Digivice." Loromon- A parrot Digimon. It's a decent at flying, but it's wings tire pretty quickly so it's often resting on a tree branch."

Danny knew he had to introduce and hoped to get without getting another series of questions blasted in his ear. "Well it's nice to meet you Loromon, I'm Danny and what should I call you?" "My name is Lorre and..." Danny quickly interrupted him. "* A parrot named Lorre. Yeah that's original.*" Lorre looked at bit upset at him. "Well Danny is not that great a name either."

A few hours ago...

The sound of machine gun fire echoed through the halls of the tower, followed by the screams of several Commandramon. Wild laughter rang out afterwards as a green, dog-eared Digimon charged through the doors, the gatling cannons on his arms screeching as they continued to fire.

"Here, humie humie humie~! Gargomon's here to find himself a Tamer!" He bellowed as he looked over the room he breached. But where he expected humans to be stored in their pods, he found only shriveled up corpses. Gargomon frowned. "Oh come on! That's the third useless room now. How the hell's a guy supposed to find a Tamer if they're all dead?" Before Gargomon could complain more, however, he howled in pain as something hot hit him in the back. Crashing down on the ground, he pulled himself back up and whirled around to see three Mekanorimon advancing on him, laser beams charging in the orbs on their chests.

Grinning, Gargomon raised his guns and fired, sending a storm of bullets at the trio of Champions approaching him. The Mekanorimon at the front of the group took the brunt of the damage and fell over, damaged, as his fellows fired more lasers at Gargomon, who tried to leap out of the way, but still caught one beam in the side. Gargomon crashed into the wall, scowling. He pulled himself up, bellowing a warcry, and charged straight towards the two remaining Mekanorimon, guns blazing as he rushed them. Despite taking two more laser blasts to the chest, Gargomon closed in on the mechanical Digimon and swung his arm cannons, trying to bash their heads in. As his arm crashed into one Mekanorimon's head, Gargomon ducked under an awkward claw swipe from the other and jammed his other arm cannon into its chest, cackling gleefully as he opened fire point-blank. The guard collapsed to the floor, bleeding data as Gargomon let loose a shudder of pain at his laser wounds, turning back around to find...the first Mekanorimon aiming a fully-charged laser blast at him.

"Oh, that's just fucking great-" Was all he could managed to get out before the Mekanorimon fired, the laser blasting Gargomon through the wall and out of the tower, sending him crashing towards the ground below.

___

The dog Digimon awoke, groaning as he pulled himself up off the ground. Why did he suddenly feel so unbalanced? Why were his arms so short? Where the fuck were his guns? And then it hit him. He had devolved to a Rookie again.

A few seconds later, an inarticulate cry of rage echoed through the area.

___

Alice smiled down at the Tanemon in her arms, petting it as she looked back up at the little village around her. The creature was cute, but given that none of them were joining up with any of the other humans, it was probably a safe bet to say that none of the Tanemon were going to be any of their partners. As she knelt down to put the Tanemon back down on the ground, Alice perked up as she heard her Digivice beeping. Pulling it out of her pocket, she raised an eyebrow as it displayed an arrow pointing to the left. And it seemed to be growing larger. Looking to her side, Alice saw a long-eared green thing flip through the air, landing down in front of her with a flourish.

"So. You're my Tamer, huh?" It asked in a surprisingly deep voice, rubbing its chin before staring derisively at a few of the other teenagers around. "Ah, what the hell. I could've gotten worse. Name's Terriermon, never bothered to give myself one of those stupid nicknames, so don't bother asking. Now, what's your name, girlie? Can't exactly go around calling you 'Power Battery'. Seems a bit rude."

Alice was slightly taken aback by Terriermon's attitude, but she sucked it up for the moment. This whole escapade was the most social interaction she'd gotten in a while, considering she didn't really know anyone at school well enough to talk to.

"Alice." She said, noting how her Digivice had begun glowing. "And you're one to talk about being rude." She snarked as she began to converse with her new partner, occasionally trading barbs back and forth.

10 minutes after the group left the camp

The warm, dry earth cracked and crunched beneath the creature’s feet as he looked about the abandoned campsite.

The fire still crackled, and the thin trail of smoke leading up from it had been what lead Strikedramon to the clearing. The Dragon Man had come here in search of a group of humans; and a specific, yet unknown one amongst them. He just knew one of the Tamers those bastards were collecting was his; and he just knew one of them had made it out of the tower somehow. He didn’t know how, but he just knew.

He’d already been planning to attack the tower, but this newest development had waylaid him; he’d always had a place in his heart for the stories of past Tamers, and something like that Tower would need more than him to infiltrate, anyway.
In any case, it seemed he didn’t have anything to worry about; if- no, BECAUSE he was right in his gut feelings, his Tamer and the others with them must have moved down the trail leading down from the clearing, likely towards the nearby village.

The way forward was clear; he’d go to the village and meet his Tamer.

“Hold it right there!”
Too bad he wasn’t the only one with that idea.

“Alright, stand down, no funny business.” The Commandramon yelled at him as he burst into the clearing along with his squad; a small horde of other Commandramon and four weird waddling machines that he could vaguely make out to be Mekanorimon.

Strikedramon tensed, going still as his eyes traced over the group.
He thought for a few moments. And then he spoke.

“You might want to turn back whilst you can. Only one of all of us is going to be walking away.”

In response, the Commandramon just snorted and rolled his eyes.

“You honestly think you’re scaring us with that crap? Come on, do you have any idea how stupid you sound saying that?”

“Last chance.” Strikedramon said, still stock still as the Commandramon threw his words back in his face, “Like I said, only one of us is leaving this place alive.”

“And like I said, don’t be an idiot and just surrender before one of our Mekanorimon just puts you down. Look how many of us there are compared to you. Do you really think y-”

Commandramon didn’t quite get to finish his sentence.
Mostly because of the hole that suddenly tore straight through his helmet and back out through his head.

And as the squadron erupted into action and began to open fire on him, Strikedramon pulled his blazing-hot talon out from his dead foe’s head and ducked deep down as he leapt into the thick of the group.

Having retrieved her belongings from under her bed and following the group towards the Digimon Village, Annabeth found herself amazed at all the little tanemon moving around. Previously, she could definitely have dismissed her situation as some sort of elaborate prank, but there was no faking this.

Reaching down, she knelt down and pet one of the Tanemon, who snuggled against her hand. Annabeth stared at the digimon with a mixture of wonder and fascination, and the two remained like that for a few moments. However, before she knew it there was another digimon snuggling against her legs.

Turning, she saw what appeared to be some sort of puppy with flap years and a ring around its neck. The puppy stared happily right at Annabeth, and she in turn knelt down to get a little closer to it.

"You came! You really came!" The puppy cried out in joy. "My very own tamer!"

Annabeth was silent for a moment then took out her digivice.

"...Salamon?" Annabeth finally asked, looking at the name displayed by the digivice.

"That's me!" Salamon said happily. "What's your name?"

"I'm Annabeth." she said, still a bit fazed at all of the things happening. "So you're my 'partner digimon'?"

"Of course!" Salamon nodded. "Annabeth, would you pet me like you did for that Tanemon? That looked really comfortable!" Answering her digimon's request, Annabeth slowly pat her head on Salamon's head before petting the digimon, causing it to close its eyes and wag her tail happily. Seeing this, Annabeth also formed a small smile of her own. Maybe things weren't really all that bad after all.

While Danny was surprised that Lorre seemed to understand Dutch, he didn't get an opportunity to ask how or why. "So what are the other humans like?" Rather than admit that he had no idea he decided to simply introduce the Loromon to the others. "Why don't EI just shoow you." Careful not to accidentally hurt one of the affectionate Tanemon Danny set out looking for another Digidestined, with the bird Digimon flying next to him at shoulder height.

As the two walked around the tiny village Danny quickly realized Lorre was type that constantly asked questions and that he was very curious about the human world, and since he didn't want to seem rude he tried his best to explain it to his new partner. " ......some animalz do lay egg but most don't." Luckily for him they ran in to one of the other Digidestined and their new partner. Immediately Lorre excitedly flew over to them landing next to his Digimon friend and introducing himself to the unknown human." Hi, I'm Lorre the Loromon, Danny's partner."

Killian

After finally reaching the hillside, Killian took a small rest on top and began to lay down on his stomach, looking into the forest to see if there was anything out of place. Although, as soon as he did hit the ground, he fell harder than a brick. "Damn..." he muttered as he laid flat there. Nothing pushed him, thrown him, or anything like that. He just fell like a hard lump of flesh as his face hit the dirt. He spent a lot of his energy freaking out back in the tower, and escaping, along with getting everyone out of there. Not only that... but he did skip out on his meal to ensure everyone got fed more because they were unconscious longer than he was and they needed the fluids to get stronger. Sure, maybe it wasn't the best of plans, but he had to make sure they were well before he was.

Stomach pains assaulted him, but still, after a little while he was able to overcome them and sit up. He looked into the forest, and didn't see much until he could hear something. Taking out his pocket telescope, he zoomed in, and saw something moving within the forest. Tails... guns... machines, maybe? He zoomed in closer, and he could see a Commandramon platoon heading straight for him, and the Tanemon village. "Shit... ah crap, I gotta get back and warn the others that-" it was then that he saw the trees tumble over and about eight Mekanorimon following behind the platoon of Commandramon. Killian's heart dropped into his stomach as he saw that, shivers going all over his body at the realization of the destruction that they could cause to the village.

His body moved before he could even think; he had to warn the others now before it was too late. They were coming a lot sooner than they had expected. "Sorry human, you're coming back with us," spoke a voice from above as something quickly grabbed Killian and lifted him into the air. Sealsdramon grinned and snorted a bit at him, before continuing. "Seems we found ya... I take it the others are back at the village since you were just running in that direction?"

"I'm not telling you nothing..." spoke Killian with gritted teeth.

"You don't have too. I can check there myself with my troops. Although, I am curious as to why Datamon is so interested in you humans... Digidestined? Hmph... waste of time if you ask me. We Digimon are strong as we are considering how easy it was to catch you without your partner... Speaking of which, where is that little bugger-"

"Razor-Stryker!" roared Jehumon as he swiftly swung his blade towards Sealsdramon's arm, but not before he let go of Killian and easily dodged him. "Let go of my Boss, Sealsdramon!"

"How'd you get here so fast?" Killian asked as he forced himself up and rubbed the spot where Sealsdramon was holding him.

"I was following you, Boss, I wouldn't let you go off on your own! We're partners, after all!"

"Right... right... but do you think you can take this guy, though?"

"To be honest... I don't, he's a Champion, and so are most of the Digimon that are coming behind him... we need to warn the village," whispered Jehu. "I got an idea though... it's kind of... what would Catherine say at this time... 'Bullshit'? but Arista and Orion may say that it's worth a shot."

"Just do it, Jehu, right now!" roared Killian as he reached into the spice compartment of his emergency supplies, and took out some chilli powder, before, throwing it towards Sealsdramon's eyes. In that moment while Sealsdramon was distracted, Jehu rammed his arm into the dirt ground, right before using his Resonance Jammer. While it was also affecting Sealsdramon to some degree and would buy them time to get to the village, Jehu was also hoping that the sound waves could travel far enough through the dirt and get to a nearby Tanemon and warn the village for them while they bought some more time.

"Alright, I did all I can, Boss, now we just have to hold them at bay for as long as we...can...?" spoke Jehu as he looked back, only to see that the Commandramon were even closer, and the Mekanorimon were positioned around them as well. "Boss... we're in trouble."

"Yeah... I just hope your plan worked Jehu..." spoke Killian as he swallowed heavily.

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The Tanemon Village...

Luckily for Jehu and Killian, their silly little plan wasn't as futile as they had thought a Tanemon on the outskirts of the Village who was napping underground could sense the vibrations that Jehu set off, waking it from it's slumber. The signals were clear that something dangerous was coming from the hills. Frightened, the Tanemon quickly burrowed its way out of the dirt, and ran into the village.

"Everyone! Danger! Danger is coming from the hills! I don't know what it is, but I sensed something from the dirt! There's something very dangerous and bad that is on it's way here! We need to hide quickly everyone before it's too late!" cried the little shivering Tanemon as it ran into the village.

The other Tanemon soon began chanting the word 'danger' as well, before shivering and scurrying to their homes, nudging the Digidestined to hide as well before whatever was coming would hurt them as well. "Please hide, humans! Whatever is coming may want to hurt you, too! Please hide!" cried another Tanemon as it quickly pressed itself against Fleur. More and more Tanemon soon followed suite in pressuring the humans to hide from whatever was coming.

Torch jumped up into Orion's arms. "Hey what is the big deal Torch!?"

"Something is amiss sir!" Torch began to vibrate and the Digivice lite up. "Demi-Meramon digivolve too......Candlemon!!" Suddenly Orion had a huge candle on top of him as he fell backwards. "ALRIGHT everyone!! Get out into the woods and hide! NOW!!" Candlemon didn't mean to be scary but her had to get the point across to the little ones that they needed to hide. "Orion I am sorry but I won't be able to hide." Torch said as he was still standing on Orion's chest. "Oh sorry sir." Torch jumped down from his chest and looked at the others. "Well I am going to help Jehumon and Killian. Orion come on."

Orion gave him a cross look but knew he was right. "Alright alright... So lead the way you shining beackon in the night." And that was why that he couldn't hide. That flame never turned off he would guess so they were going to have to either fight or run really fast in the other direction and he wouldn't leave the others behind. If it was one thing that Torch and himself had incommon it was that they both had responsibility and skills that could be used to help others. "Alright so umm everyone go hide I guess and we will be back shortly with Killian and Jehumon." Candlemon and Orion then ran off into the woods towards were Killian had ran off. Torch lead the way and he seemed to know where he was going so hopefully they wouldn't just end up lost in thee woods somewhere.

Shortly they ran up on Killian and Jehumon and it seemed like another creature was there. He could also hear guns firing in off a short distance. "Hey!!" Orion shouted at the Killian. "This ass giving you a hard time!?" Orion glared at the creature and Torch got in front of Orion and... "Paraffin Paralyzer!!!" Melted wax shot from his mouth and head onto the creature who then whaled in pain and suddenly couldn't move.

Torch smirked "Alright guys come on lets go. Jehumon send this guy rolling into his buddies and lets hit the trail!!" Torch was serious and it looked like he knew that what every had stopped the creature wasn't going to last long.

Orion waved them to hurry up as he looked a Killian with a mixture of fear and bravery. "Come on guys it is time to go!!" Orion stood ready to run as soon as Killian and Jehumon bolted.

Fleur was a little distraught as Killian ran back to the village warning them of upcoming danger. It was not just him, the Tanemon were chanting it too. They had scared looks on their faces and the growing above them were on point. Some of the Tanemon gathered around Fleur, he picked on up and cuddles it as it closed its eyes and buried its fave into his chest. "Nous serons bien , Killian nous protéger" Said Fleur as he lightly stroked the Tanemons back.

Dracmon commented on how Fleur was 'too soft' "Aww man! You're too nice ya'know, they're just Tanemon"
Fleur brushed it off, as Orion's digimon changed form and told them to hide in the woods. Orion and the newly 'digivolved' Candlemon decided to help Killian and Jehumon fight against the upcoming threat like reckless heroes.

Fleur decided it would be best if him and Dracmon helped round up the Tanemon and hide somewhere, hopefully close by, in-case they were needed.
"Rapide, nous allons cacher là-bas!" Fleur pointed to a small forest that didn't seem large and could easily conceal them while time passed. As quickly as he could, he dashed for over to some shrubbery and tired to conceal himself, along with the Tanemon. Considering his side, it was relatively easy, and the Tanemon began to bury themselves into the ground so that they looked like baby plants that had just sprouted leaves.

Before the other Digimon could answer panic erupted among the Tanemon, as they quickly buried themselves underground.Curious as what was going on Lorre flew up high in the air and spotted the Digimon army in the distance. Knowing he had to warn Danny he immediately headed down again. "There is a large group of Digimon headed this way, I think Jehu and his partner are slowing them down for now, but we gotta hide." As soon as he finished his report, the bird Digimon headed for a large tree.

Danny began looking for a good hiding spot but being larger than the Tanemon and incapable of climbing trees didn't find any. Loromon noticed his partners lack of success and decided to join him."Well if you can't hide neither will I." Danny was touched by Lorre's action and thought of wat to do next."*Since we can't hide,we'll have to fight.That said where are Killian and Jehu right now?*"

Understanding what Danny meant Lorre headed in the direction of the two that doing what they could. "Follow me" After a while Danny could see the attacking Digimon in the distance, and was surprised there were much of them then he expected. Lorre at te same time saw their friends surrounded and flew of in their direction as fast as he could leaving Danny behind a bit. Loree knew he would be no match for the machine Digimon in a fight, so instead focused on creating as much confusion as he could. He began flapping his wings much faster and using Fluffy Feather sent a lot of pure white feathers downwards, in an attempt to blind as much of them as possible.However doing this left him wide open and one of the Commandramon in the back managed to hit him with M16 Assassin, which sent the Bird Digimon spiraling down.

Arista had heard the Tanemon’s warning cry. She could register the frantic commotion in the air, with Tanemon scattering to hide and Digimon and Tamer alike leaping into action. But any thought she might have had was arrested. Her mind seemed to have frozen solid.

"Lorre said there are bad Digimon coming – let’s go!" RubyBearmon pulled Arista aside. She was still looking into the distance, where it was still too dark to see anything coming. Again, RubyBearmon tugged her arm, this time with enough force to knock her off balance. As she recovered her footing they broke into an all-out sprint.

They had not run very far but she thought her heart was going to burst. The two dove into a low and dense bush. Arista landed with her face inches from Fleur and Dracmon. Finding herself breathless, she greeted them a weak smile. Her Digimon reassured the shocked Tanemon.

Blood pounded in her ears. A while had passed, yet she dared not move. There was faint shuffling outside the bush. Then, very clearly: the click of a gun being loaded.

RubyBearmon gingerly pushed a branch down and they peered through the opening. A large squad of Commandramon had two or three Tanemon cornered. "No." Arista had grabbed RubyBearmon’s shoulder; her knuckles were turning white. Even though her voice barely crested a whisper, it was pained and desperate. "There’s like a million Tanemon in this bush. If they hear us, we’re all goners."

Derisive laughing rang across the meadow. RubyBearmon shot out of the bush. "Get away from them! Rolling Bear!" He sped away faster than Arista could see. His unflinching hesitation for suicide tactics had left her speechless. She stumbled after him but she stopped dead barely a yard beyond the bush. A dozen Mekanorimon had emerged from the shadows.