Robert looked at the two Digimon. Then cracked he's neck muscles then responded to them.

"Well then, a chicken and a snake, what a welcome party."

Robert pulled out his digivice and then looked at Doru.

"Unfortunately I'm not the quiet type, well then time to Digivolve!"

A flow of code surrounds Doru turning him into his champion form atleast that's what should have happened, the words insufficient energy came up. Robert was suprised wait what that supposed to mean! Doru stomach growled, oh so that was what it meant.

(Have to put Robert and Doru out of commission somehow)

Nami thought she heard someone up head of them. It seem to be another human and their digimon partner. Not just one, but another one seem to appear as well." Hey Ankh! You where right, there are more people here..I mean, Hawkmon..I'm sorry." A blush came across Nami's face as she sprinted ahead. The name Ankh..She use to call a school friend before he moved away. A tad bit girly, but he didn't mind. Hawkmon didn't mind either and saw that one of the boys approached them..another new face" A fight? But...Hawkmon just drove off some larger digimon barely. " Don't worry Nami, I'll fight along with them. These are our allies..we need to fight with them." Hawkmon took the meat from kiba and jumped down from Nami's back.

Seeing the two flying digimon made her nervous but Hawkmon was right. They needed to fight with them." Alright, you can't count on us to help. I'm not sure what we can do, but...we'll come up with something..right?" She gripped her digivice tightly, seeing that it started to flow in her hands. Not only this, Hawkmon started to glow faintly as well." I feel...stronger now." The small digimon's size begin to increase, his appearance also changed to."Hawkmon digivice to...Aquilamon!" Aquilamon did shock Nami..She didn't know he could do that!

"Whoa! You got bigger! I guess that meat did the trick huh.?" Nami smiled. Aquilamon smiled and shook his head. "It gave me the strength I needed..now I'm ready to rock ~"

Gilt struggled with his battle-lust. There was conflict but just barely. He knew what he had to do. It was his duty to protect his partner. To protect, Phase! no matter what. He sunk into himself, holding together his true personality while combating the other.

Wanyamon bounced up and down on cushioned seat, taking glances outside. " Its another human," he said. Bouncing thrice more. "She's really pretty. Almost like Norn."

Gilt remained in his spot. "Stay down, Wanyamon. You are our charge, I must protect you too."

Wanyamon leased a cute "aaaaaah" before snuggling close to Phase's light-blue hair. "I hope, Phase wakes up soon. He'd be out there fighting harder than anyone else. And he'd let me go too." pouted the blue-furred Digimon.

Gilt sunk even further into his golden-clad arms. "Me too, Wanyamon. Me too."

As aquilamon came out to challenge the champions, the harpy smirked before charging forward and grabbing Aquilamon, dragging them up into the air. "Well well birdy, let's see if those bigger wings make you fly any better." She said as she let go and began attacking at them.

(You can decide how the battle goes.)

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The Airdramon and Wolfy stared eachothe down as the other two flew through the air fighting. "You're not gonna help your little friend? Or can none of you fly?" The Airdramon taunted.

"Humph, He'll be fine. It's you that's gonna need your friends help!!" Wolfy yelled as the two began to scuffle.

(Wolfy will fight until @Duthguy fights)

Hirschmon seeing this attack to prove himself decided to help Wolfy out against the Airdramon and began charging electricity between his horn. "Just because we can't fly doesn't mean we can't hit you. Lightning Bullet!" Unfortunately the warning he gave was enough for the winged snake to dodge the attack by flying higher. Danny saw what was happening and hoped Hirschmon could actually prove himself this time as otherwise the beetle might really get depressed.

Hirschmon meanwhile silently berated himself for letting his enemy, before realizing he could now use his strongest attack without danger of hitting Gabumon x with a stray missile. Deciding to act like he planned it that he fired as many beetle shaped missiles from his back. "Swarm Attack!" This time due to overconfidence Airdramon reacted too late and got hit by a good amount of the explosives.

He didn't seem to be harmed by it though, in fact all it did was piss him off and with a swing of his tail he sent an air bubble at the Rookie. "Tailwhip!" Having learned from the Drimogemon incident Hirschmon was ready to jump out of the way this time, before realizing that would leave his partner wide open.

Danny also figured out what would happen if Hirschmon dodged and could only hope Hirschmon would be able to tank the attack that time. The Digivice in his hand began to heat up and after it opened up on it's own he almost dropped it in surprise. the code coming from the D-terminal surrounded Hirschmon like a cocoon. Inside the semi transparent cocoon Hirschmon's form seemed to warp and grow bigger. "Hirschmon divivolve to.."

His wings disappeared and were replaced by an upgrade to his boosters while his metathorax greatly increased in size. His arms became much bulkier and he grew a second pair of shorter arms. His hoofs became actual feet and his antler became thin forward curving horns with two pairs of extra horns behind them while a dimly shining mark appeared briefly appeared in the withe tip of the right main horn. "Käfermon!" Thanks to Käfermon's bulk and exoskeleton it effortlessly took the hit Hirschmon might not have been able to handle.

Not wanting to give the Airdramon any chance to recover from it's shock Käfermon fired of his boosters to get as high up as he could. The Dragon was still to far away to hit with short ranged attacks but long ranged attacks would hit their target that much sooner. "Thunder Rocket!" while he launched a smaller amount of rockets then he did as Hirschmon their increased power and accuracy combined with the lightning beam coming from his mouth made the attack a lot more powerful than Swarm Attack. Once again they all hit their target but this time they clearly had more effect, despite still not being enough to completely destroy Airdramon.

Aquilamon smirked, keeping his self in the air. " Don't get ahead of your self.." He charged at harpymon with his sharp horn." Gilde horn! " the harpymon grunted in anger, grabbing Aquilamon by the horn with it's talons, hanging on to the large bird. Aquilamon attempted to shake the digimon off by flying at high speeds, swirling around in circles.

"You can do it Aquilamon! Show that bird lady who's boss!" Nami called from the ground. Her partner landed to get the dizzy harpymon off him and,prepared for his next attack." Blast ring!" Ring shapes beams where soon fired, but the Haprymon's wind seeker countered. Aquilamon was somewhat effected, but he shook it off

This time, Harpymon had used Silent Symphony, making Aquilamon vault with supersonic sound. To avoid this, Aquilamon flew up higher and charged at the harpymon at super sonic speed. " Gilde Horn! " the powerful attack manged to knock the harpymon right of the sky, winning the battle at last

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Kiba stepped out of the train to see the two fights conclude, 2 digieggs forming and laying on the ground. "Well, can't leave these here." He said as he pressed an app on the digivice, "Store." He said as the two eggs converted to data and were stored into the digivice.

"Oi, what did you just do?" Wolfy asked as he walked up to his tamer in a huff.

"Ah I just stored the eggs to give to Norn later. By the way why do you sound peaved? We won." Kiba asked.

"Well yeah but I didn';t get to digivolve yet!!! Even the newbie bird got to Digivolve already you damn tamer!! Hurry and make me digivolve!!!" Wolfy complained.

"Woah woah woah calnm down buddy. I don't even know how." Kiba defended as the rest of the tamers approached them, including the new girl "Oh hello. It's so cool to meet another human in this world. The names Kiba, and this is my partner Wolfy." He said with an outstreched hand towards Nami.

"Wow sucks for you guys, we know how to digivolve and we're screwed over from not understanding the rules. Kiba can you give Doru a bite to eat? I'll go protect Locomon and the others."

With that Robert started to hack to floor and raised some walls to stop any attacks from hitting them. Then Harpymon went down by Aquilamon, so that was half the objective done, they just had to wait until Danny and his Digimon was done. Turning to the new person he put up a hand in greeting.

"Sup the names Robert, the Barney like bastard is Doru."

Doru gave a flat look to Robert.

"That's flattering."

Robert gave a wry grin.

The Airdramon now acknowledged Käfermon as a threat and decided to get serious. With a yell of "God Tornado" he unleashed a tornado of flame from his mouth. The insect Digimon had barely enough time to use Earth Barrier and protect himself with a wall of earth.

Danny was impressed but also a bit worried, his partner was doing better than last time but his opponent had better maneuverability in the air and seemed more powerfully offensively.

Airdramon meanwhile made a big mistake when he decided to make the fight close range, figuring that the newly Digivolved Champion didn't have any mêlee attacks. "Let's see how well you do when you can't fire any missles.Big Jaw!"

Käfermon felt a sharp pain when the Dragon Digimon chomped down on one of his front arms. Still he wasn't going to waste that chance. His boosters roared to live and he slammed himself through the barrier he made earlier, using Airdramon as a cushion. After Airdramon let go of his arm he began clawing at the serpent furiously until finally his opponent degenerated into a Digi-egg.

"Aquilamon, you where so cool!" Nami saw that Aquilamon flew In front of her, changing back to Hawkmon soon. She managed to catch him before he fell over."Alright buddy, no more fighting for you alright?" Nami looked at Kiba and robert with a smile ." Nami is my name, nice to meet you guys. Kiba's partner was kinda the rowdy one, but she really didn't pay him no mind." Hawkmon and have been looking other people for a while. Thankfully we ran into you guys. "

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After their previous battle, everyone ate and rested a bit before heading out to where the digivice told them the border was. All 10 of them had left the area near Locomon, Kiba carrying Phase on his back as Gilt and Wolfy walked behind him to make sure he didn’t fall. As they walked towards the mountains, Kiba explained the situation to Nami. “So yeah, basically we're going to the border between the Volcanic and Mountain area to look for an enemy base, gain some combat experience, and because some tension between Gravimon and Dorbickmons armies.”

Wolfy nodded. “Not only that but there are rumors of a digimon that goes by the name of Beelzemon making trouble for the armies in the area. We’re hoping to recruit him to the cause.” Wolfy explained as Pabumon rested on his shoulder. “Honestly, I’m surprised that you got sent over all the way out here while the other humans all got sent to Nyttliv”

“Well, maybe we weren’t teleported to Nyttiv, but instead sent to our partners. It’d make sense right? The only reason we all got sent to Nyttiv was because all of you guys where there.” Kiba suggested.

Wolfy nodded at the deduction. “That WOULD make sense, but that means there could be a bunch of other humans running around not knowing whats going on.”

Kiba nodded “Guess that means more work for us.”

"If that was the case, wouldn't I have been sent to Doru? After all before this he was traveling and not at Nyttiv."

Robert brought up a good point that counters Kiba's guess. Doru gave a different explanation, while eating his meal, taking a break in between bites to talk about how she could have gotten here.

"Well, actually humans in the digital world has appeared before you all. If two Digimon of sufficient power clash, they can rip open holes in space time. Around Mega level will cause that effect. Though not all of them have partners."

(Before you ask that has happened, just look at V-Tamers.)

Gilt followed close to Kiba his eyes straight ahead while he carried Wanyamon in his arms. The blue furball was nearly the size of his torso, yet Gilt still held the essence of a doting parent. "It doesn't matter. These talks of how or why. We should focus on what we'll do if we bump into Beelzemon. He's a Mega, if he's not friendly... we're done for." he stated monotony.

Wanyamon managed to upkeep his childishness. It was a chipper bouncing, a moving of his upper half from side to side as he smiled and hummed a lithe tone.

Phase shuffled faintly, a small shoulder tug, a slight grunt. There was jostling, very uneven steps beneath him. It nearly woke him but the pain urged him back to sleep. His brows furrowed, his face scowled. It wouldn't be long now.

Gilt paid careful attention to Phase's movements. He paused for a moment until they balanced out again, until they ceased beneath Kiba's strides. "He can't end up like this again. We're vulnerable like this and its cumbersome seeing him all weak and exhausted." Gilt sighed deeply.

"Actually, I brought here a while back and I met up with Hawkmon. He told that there was others here in the digital world and by luck, we manged to find ya. So this is gravimon's place. The digimon we ran into kept mentioning his name." Nami smiled faintly." Don't worry, we won't slow you down. "

Hawkmon noddes and started to think about Beelzemon. He heard his name before, but where. He suddenly remembered now."Oh yes, Beelzemon is one of the great demon lords, but I don't actually think he's with the group anymore. Rumors have it that he left some years ago."

" Demon Lords huh? Oh great, they sound super friendly. Are we going to run into them to?" Nami asked

" Well..I don't know, maybe we will. The only active ones are lucemon and lilithmon...so I've heard." Hawkmon shrugged

With Airdramon defeated Danny decided it might be better to forcefully dedigivolve Käfermon rather than having him waste all his energy, but he also wanted to make sure his partner was okay with it. "Good job! Are you okay with me turning you back into Hirschmon or do you want to stay like that for a while?"

"Can you do it a little later? I want to brag to Minomon a little" Seeing no reason to refuse Danny looked through the options on his Digivice in order to contact Norn. Because he was also listening to what the others said he didn't do it as fast as he could have otherwise. He agreed with the new girl's comment that a group calling themselves "demon lords" didn't sound friendly, but that didn't mean they couldn't be useful.

After a few seconds he managed to contact Norn. "I'm sorry for bothering you but can you put Minomon on?"

Norn looked crest fallen as Danny asked her that. "Actually, to tell the truth, we haven't been able to find Minomon all day. It's very worrying. We had thought he was with the other baby digimopn playing but when we checked up on them an hour or so ago ---- couldn't find --- I'm really wor ---" As the call continued, the calls signal began to break before finally Dannys digivice said /LOST CONNECTION/ and ended the call.

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An hour or so later after the call with Norn, the group continued on their path with Kiba leading the way before seeing what looked to be am orange and black light ahead of them. "Everyone, somethings coming, hide." Kiba warned as everyone in the group began to hide around various trees and rocks nearby.

The light began to move closer and closer before it finally came into view. The two lights were coming from the bodies of two digimon, both digimon took the shape of humanoid lizards that were composed of fire, one made of orange flames and another made of dark flames "Hey boss, you sure this is a good idea? I mean, starting a fight with the beasts-" The orange one asked before being cut off

"Of course! Listen, Gravimon doesn't give two shits about his troops ok? And those beast type dicks have been acting all cocky as of late, That fucker Sagittarimon has been practicing military drills up and down the border the last month, thats basically ASKING for a fight. Besides. I'm sure Lord Dorbickmon'll understand." The drak one said.

Lord Dorbickmon? So these guys must be part of Dorbickmons army. Wolfy thought as he shifted a bit, makiong a small noise.

"Whose there!!!" The Dark one asked as he looked around. Everyone froze, the air going silent as the dark liozard turned his head left and right before stopping. "Probably just the wind. Anyways come on, We need to meet up with the rest so we can attack that damn eyesore of an outpost near the border." He said as the orange one nodded, the briefly passed some of the others hiding spots before turning right, and walking through thew forest.

"Hey Wolfy?" Kiba whispered

"Yeah?" He responded

"Those guys are about to attack a Gravimon outpost, that sounds like a pretty good opportunity to sneak in and let Robert connect to one of their terminals." Kiba turned to the others who were leaving their hiding spots. "So, who here is good at tailing people."

"And this is were one of my tricks comes into play."

Robert pressed a few buttons on his digivice and what appeared to be a bat winged eyeball materialized in his hand and showed it to the rest of the group.



"Cute isn't it, it's a computer virus, I call it Zeta-1 it should do the tailing for us and for the record, not it's not a Digimon, it programming is not complex enough for that it's just a simple program."

The bat like virus nodded the best it could before flying in the direction of the two Digimon. Robert pulled out his digivice pulling up a map and waited a little before a red dot appeared marking the location of the Digimon.

"With this we can be a safe distance from them as we follow them."

Doru was glad that Robert thought of it, he didn't want to get seen by members of Dorbrickmon's army, he didn't think they'd reconize him in this from, but he didn't want to take a chance. He turned his head towards Robert, who was currently doing the pose that basically said bow down mortals!

When Käfermon heard that Minomon was missing he looked even more depressed than after the Drimogemon fight. Not only was there a good chance that his little brother was still angry at him but now he was missing, and to make matters worse he knew for a fact there were Champions willing to absorb the core of In-training Digimon. If he didn't know how important it was to stop Tactimon and his army he would have abandoned the others then and there to look for Minomon. "I just hope he is okay."

After the connection with Norn was lost Danny couldn't help but wonder why they broke up like that. However there was nothing he could do about it at the moment, so he forcefully dedigivoled Käfermon. As soon as the beam from his Digivice hit his partner Danny could feel the Digimon's worry and guilt. For the next hour he did his best to encourage and cheer Hirschmon up.

Danny was glad that Kiba at least was paying attention to the group's surroundings as he was too busy to have noticed the two fiery lizards in time. The plan he came up as well as Robert's little trick were both pretty clever and he was more than willing to go along with it.

As the group followed Robert who had summoned the bat-like probe, they were eventually led to a Gravimon Base that was built in the middle of a tree clearing, the base almost looked like a three story midevil fort, with brick walls made of what looked like black stones, with no actual doors and instead having archways that led into the building. The group had circled around to the east side of the base, still hiding in the trees, as to avoid what seemed to be a group of Dragon type digimon who were hiding in the west side. "My guess is those Dragon Types are gonna ambush the base any second now." Wolfy said as he examined the base, noticing that there were a couple animal looking digimon scattered around the tops of the bases. "Although I didn't expect the base to be firewalled."

"Firewwalled?" Kiba asked confused.

"Yeah, you see those black bricks that comprise the walls of the base. Its a special kind of brick that prevents digital beings of a certain level from entering."

Kiba nodded before scanning it with his digivice. "It says here the level is Rookie-Champion. So I'm assuming only Rookies and Champions can enter?"

Wolfy nodded, confirming Kiba "Yeah, you can't enter those archways if you're an in-training." He said looking at pabumon. "And I don't think that probe thingy will work in there either." He said looking at Robert. "Though I don't know why they would need to fire wall the area"

Kiba frowned. "Pabu, your gonna have to stay here and hide for me ok buddy?" He said as he grabbed pabu and placed him behind one of the trees nearby, placing rocks and such around him in order to hide him. "Stay here ok buddy?"

"Pabu!!" It said in an 'affirmative' way.

Kiba smiled before looking at the others. "So our main goal here is information gathering, I think the best plan of actioon would be to wait for those Dragon guys to attack and we sneak in during the chaos. Then find a terminal or something." He said tro the others, wanting to hear their responses. "OH, we should also probably wake up Phase shouldn't we."

"I'll stay behind..." he groaned, letting himself gently down from Kiba's back. "Someone has to protect them. I-" A rake of pain assailed his shoulder and chest. He held it hard before sitting by the tree, where Gilt was quick to join him--Wanyamon in his arms. "I-I can at the least provide, Gilt with enough energy to Digivolve should something happen."

Gilt eyes were glistening though they maintained a certain level of coolness. "Finally, now I can apolo-"

Phase held his hand up and effectively silence the Digimon. "Later, Gilt. We'll discuss this later."

The blue-haired boy looked like he was recovering swell, though it was the bruises and throbs that ached him now. "Kiba, Kid," he fixed his eyes on someone...new? His tone shifted to one of plain curiosity."Who the hell is she?"