Chapter 22: Memories Of Somebody

WarJawsmon stared at the newly digivolved Owarimon. Owarimon didn't change drastically when she digivolved. She still had a snakelike tail and a humanoid top half, but whereas the top half looked like the head and torso of a little girl around 6-8 years old, the top half now looked more like a teenage girl around 18 years old. Owarimon now had a couple of C cup breasts that were covered by a black tank top crop top. Her pupilless eyes now had pupils, but the irises were still red from the Red Stone (or Deity Stones). Her teeth were less jagged now and more like that of a human's. In her right hand, she wielded a single katana. Owarimon licked her lips. "Mmm….so that group of Koromon I absorbed before my master brought me here was just the tipping point I needed for my digivolution." She observed. WarJawsmon looked concerned. He knew that Owarimon was dangerous. If she reached Mega, it was game over. He felt better when she was a Rookie and didn't expect her to digivolve this soon. "So what are you called, now that you've digivolved?" WarJawsmon asked. "That's a good question. I don't know. Perhaps I'm still just Owarimon." She replied. This struck Taylor as odd as did WarJawsmon. Digimon somehow intuitively knew their species name the very moment they digivolved. Taylor had researched this, but none of her books written by PH.D Digimon Researchers have provided an answer for exactly how a newly digivolved Digimon knows their name. Every book on digivolution she's read has stated that it's the subject of ongoing research. How could Owarimon not know the name of her newly acquired form?

"It doesn't matter what she's called! Take her down, WarJawsmon!" Taylor shouted. WarJawsmon pointed his machine guns at Owarimon (Champion). "Great White Gatling!" He shouted as he fired the guns. Owarimon deflected some of the bullets with her katana but still got hit by some of them. She grunted in pain as the bullets hit her skin. "That really stings!" Owarimon said before swinging her sword. "Take this! Thanatos Strike!" When Owarimon swung her sword, a beam of black energy the shape of the katana was fired in WarJawsmon's direction. WarJawsmon got hit with the attack and flew backwards several yards, yelling in pain. "WarJawsmon!" Taylor cried out as she looked back at her Digimon that was sent flying. WarJawsmon landed in the ocean behind them. When he came back to the shore, he saw that Owarimon had her hand around Taylor's neck. "Now, time to finish what ChelseaGizumon started." Owarimon said before jumping into some knee high water and pushing Taylor's face down into the water. Taylor flailed about again. Owarimon was trying to drown her! "Great White Gatling!" WarJawsmon shouted, firing his machine guns in Owarimon's direction.

Owarimon hadn't seen WarJawsmon make it back to shore, so she couldn't do anything about the attack. Owarimon got hit by all of the bullets and took a significant amount of damage. She grunted and groaned in pain as she was hit. Taylor got back up and turned in Owarimon's direction. "It seems like when I'm panicking, I can't turn into my mermaid form. Makes sense given that transformation requires concentration. I think I'll grow tails and gills now while WarJawsmon holds her off." Taylor thought to herself. Taylor removed her shoes, socks, and shorts, and manifested her mermaid tail and gills, but she kept her aquamarine colored t-shirt on. It was soaking wet anyways.

Off to the side, TomokoGizumon still kept WarGrowlmon and Lilamon on the ropes. "Marvel Shot!" Lilamon shouted as she discharged iridescent energy spheres from the flowers on both of her arms. TomokoGizumon got hit with these attacks from behind and took some damage. She couldn't dodge or block with her shield because WarGrowlmon was relentlessly striking at her with the Pendulum Blades on his arms. TomokoGizumon fell to the ground, but before she could get up, WarGrowlmon placed a foot on her to pin her down. "Atomic Blaster!" WarGrowlmon shouted, firing two large beams of energy from the gun ports on his chest. TomokoGizumon got hit with the beams of energy and screamed in pain as she took damage. TomokoGizumon groaned in pain, she looked over in BobGizumon's direction, gritting her teeth. "Bob….Gizumon….why….aren't….you…helping me!?" She shouted through her pain. She was surprised to see that while she was fighting Takato's WarGrowlmon and Yoshino's Lilamon, the other three members of the Elemental Four had shown up. Drusilla, Martin, and Emmett, with their Digimon partners, Coalmon, Naturemon, and Dovemon, were all standing in front of BobGizumon facing him.

"Now, why would you start the party without us?" Naturemon asked.

"That was very rude." Dovemon said.

"We're gonna kick some butt! I'm getting all fired up!" Coalmon exclaimed.

Drusilla, Emmett, and Martin all held out their digivices. "DIGIVOLUTION" scrolled across the screens of all three of them.

"Naturemon digivolve to….MotherNaturemon!

"Coalmon digivolve to….CoalGolemon!"

"Dovemon digivolve to….Harpymon!"

"DIGIVOLUTION" scrolled across the screens of all three of them again, and the crests of earth, fire, and air glowed from the back. The symbols of their crests appeared on the screens of their digivices underneath the word "DIGIVOLUTION".

"MotherNaturemon digivolve to….Vineyardmon!"

"CoalGolemon digivolve to…MagnetGolemon!"

"Harpymon digivolve to….HolyHarpymon!"

Drusilla, Emmett, and Martin all looked at their Digimon. "Wow! So these are their ultimate forms!" Martin observed. "Yep. Vineyardmon and HolyHarpymon look way cool." Drusilla said. "Thanks, and MagnetGolemon looks cool too." Martin said. This was the first time all the Ultimate level Digimon of The Elemental Four had come together.

HolyHarpymon flew towards BobGizumon. "Marian Arrows!" HolyHarpymon shouted as she flapped her wings, causing many feathers to fall off, turn into light arrows, and then fly at the opponent. BobGizumon got hit with all of the arrows and took some damage. He fell to one knee. Then large wings sprouted from his back that were blue and golden yellow colored. On the wings were patterns that looked like lightning bolts. BobGizumon flapped the wings while shouting "Thunder Storm!" The flapping of his wings generated a storm of lightning which struck all of his opponents. HolyHarpymon, Vineyardmon, and MagnetGolemon all got struck with several lightning bolts and took some damage.

"Don't give up, HolyHarpymon! You can do it!" Emmett cheered. "Show 'em who's boss!" Martin cheered. "Losing to a guy like this would not be cool, MagnetGolemon! It would be lame, so don't, like, die or anything!" Drusilla cheered.

"Marian Arrows!" HolyHarpymon shouted, flapping her wings and causing many arrows to fall off which then turned into light arrows and flew towards BobGizumon again.

"Grape Grenades!" Vineyardmon shouted, firing a plethora of grapes from the trees growing out of her lower back which would explode when they hit the enemy.

"Rocky Missiles!" MagnetGolemon shouted as she fired the fingers made of coal on her hands as projectiles.

All of the attacks hit, creating a smokescreen. Martin pumped his fist. "Bullzeye, baby!" He cheered. Drusilla shrugged her shoulder and frowned. "Hmm…I was expecting more of a fight out of a Gizumon hybrid, but…I guess not." Drusilla said. "Don't think you've won just yet!" came a voice. The smokescreen faded and it was revealed that BobGizumon had protected himself with his wings! He removed the wings so the children could see his face. Then he smirked and said, "These wings are from a Thunderbirdmon I absorbed. They're pretty sturdy. Plus, I can use them to fire lightning attacks." BobGizumon said.

All of the children and Digimon scowled in frustration. "Darn, I really thought we got him! This stinks! This super duper stinks! This is the stinkiest of stinky things!" Vineyardmon complained. "That's pretty stinky." HolyHarpymon commented.

Martin looked over and saw Taylor sitting on the beach in her aquamarine t-shirt and mermaid tail. Taylor was clutching her Digivice tightly as she looked at her Digimon and Owarimon exchange attacks in battle. "Don't give up, WarJawsmon! If you win, I'll give you a pile of hot dogs bigger than our house!" Taylor said. WarJawsmon grinned. "Now that's what I call motivation!" WarJawsmon said. He had basically spent the last few minutes fencing with Owarimon, parrying her sword strikes with his guns. Martin's eyes lit up. They began to water a little bit, and a huge smile came across his face. He started running over in Taylor's direction, having completely forgotten about battling BobGizumon. "TAYLOR! TAYLOR!" He shouted. Taylor looked over in his direction. She hadn't noticed the other three Elemental Digidestined had arrived, so she looked surprised to see him. "Martin?" When Martin got within a few inches of her, he fell to his knees and hugged Taylor tightly. "We found you! We finally found you! I thought I'd never see you again!" Martin said. Taylor smiled as she wrapped her arms around the cat eared boy. "What took you so long?" She said. She was smiling during the embrace.

At that moment, one of Owarimon's sword beams came their way and narrowly missed them by a few inches. Martin reached down and picked Taylor up. "Let's get some more distance between them." Martin said. Taylor blushed a little, having been swept up in his arms unexpectedly. "Y-yeah." She said. Martin carried Taylor several feet away from the battle. "Why are you in your mermaid form, anyway?" Martin asked. "Well, if you must know, I almost drowned twice. I can't transform when I'm panicking, so…" Taylor said. "Got it." Martin said, before looking off in WarJawsmon's and Owarimon's direction.

"Great White Gatling! Great White Gatling! Great White Gatling!" WarJawsmon shouted, attacking repeatedly. Owarimon got hit with the attacks and took some damage. "Thanatos Strike! Thanatos Strike! Thanatos Strike!" Owarimon shouted as she attacked. WarJawsmon managed to evade every single one of the attacks by jumping from side to side. "Gun Whack!" WarJawsmon shouted, swinging one of his guns at Owarimon to hit her with it. Owarimon, however, deflected the attack with her sword. "Gun Whack! Gun Whack! Gun Whack!" WarJawsmon shouted, swinging his gatling guns at Owarimon over and over just to have them parried by her sword. "Just give it up! I may be at the Champion level, but I'm as strong as a Mega!" Owarimon said. "Well, you may not know this, but I've defeated at least two Megas in this form already." WarJawsmon responded.

Meanwhile, TomokoGizumon still hadn't gotten up. WarGrowlmon had her pinned this whole time. "I think she's finished." WarGrowlmon said. "Well, either that or she's taking a breather." Takato joked. WarGrowlmon looked back at his tamer. "In that case, we should help the others." He said. Takato nodded. "I agree." Takato then looked over to Yoshino who was standing beside him. "Yoshino, you and Lilamon go help Taylor and WarJawsmon. WarGrowlmon and I will help the other Elemental Digidestined." Takato said. Yoshino smiled and nodded. "Sounds like a plan to me." She said. She then turned to Lilamon. "Did you hear that, Lilamon?" Yoshino asked. Lilamon nodded. "I did. And I also overheard Owarimon say she's as strong as a Mega. If that's true…." Lilamon said. Yoshino smiled at her partner and clutched her digivice. "That won't be a problem."

Yoshino's entire body was once again covered in the pink square pixel aura thing (also known as a Digisoul). Yoshino span around once and placed her hand on top of her of Digivice. "DNA Charge! Overdrive!" A beam of energy fired out of her digivice in a spiral pattern before enveloping Lilamon.

"Lilamon mega digivolve to….Rosemon!"

Rosemon ran over to Owarimon and WarJawsmon. "Thorn Whip!" Rosemon shouted, wrapping her thorny vine-line whip around Owarimon's sword and ripping it out of her hand. "Hey!" Owarimon objected. Rosemon shook her index finger. "If you can't play nice, you can't have your toy." Rosemon taunted. While Owarimon was distracted by having her weapon yanked away from her, WarJawsmon took his opportunity to attack. "Gun Whack! Gun Whack! Gun Whack! Gun Whack!" He shouted as he struck her over and over. Owarimon got hit with the first three attacks, but on the fourth, she grabbed WarJawsmon's gun and stopped it from hitting her. She grinned. "Super Chest Beam!" Owarimon shouted, firing a blast of energy from the Red Stone in the middle of her tank top crop top. WarJawsmon got hit with the attack and flew back in pain. Owarimon grinned evilly, thinking she was getting the upper hand on her opponent. But she forgot about Rosemon standing right beside her. "Forbidden Temptation!" Rosemon's whole body glowed pink and sharp rose petals flew off of her body, blasting Owarimon (Champion) and doing a lot of damage! Owarimon fell back into the water. Her whole body ached from the damage she had sustained from both WarJawsmon's and Rosemon's attacks.

Owarimon struggled to get up, but she did manage it. She was groaning in pain from the damage she took. Suddenly, her eyes widened as a visual image entered her mind. She saw a woman standing in front of her looking down at her. She looked in Owarimon's direction lovingly. In her arms were a bouquet of roses. "I picked these roses from the local florist shop. I know you love roses, Haruka." The woman said as she handed her the roses. Owarimon reached out and accepted the roses. She was much, much shorter than the woman. "Who is this woman I'm seeing? What's happening to me?" Owarimon thought to herself. Owarimon suddenly felt a sharp pain course through the sides of her head. She grabbed her head and screamed in pain. "My head! It hurts! What…" Then she had another visual image enter her mind. She was riding a bicycle, but fell over and started crying. This same benevolent woman came to her aid. "Haruka! Haruka! Are you ok!?" the benevolent woman asked. The woman held up Owarimon's (?) head with a concerned look on her face. "Haruka, you're bleeding!" The woman said. "Mommy! My head hurts!" The vision ended, but not before another one entered Owarimon's head. This same woman was wrapping some bandages around Owarimon's (?) head. "You're being a really brave girl. I guess it was too early to take the training wheels off though." She said. "This woman….why do I keep seeing her? Are these….are these MY memories? They can't be. I don't know this woman. But….these visions are all in my point of view. I don't understand." Owarimon thought to herself. Owarimon took her hands off of her head and looked up at the sky. "Who is this woman!? Who is Haruka!?" She shouted.

WarJawsmon and Rosemon looked at each other with confused facial expressions. "I think she's lost it." Rosemon said. WarJawsmon bent over a little in Owarimon's direction. "And she's about to lose her life too. Marine Missile!" WarJawsmon shouted. He fired the missile that was on his back. The Missile slammed into Owarimon's tummy and sent her flying out to sea before exploding! Owarimon screamed in pain! As she was being burned by the flames of the explosion, yet another vision entered into her mind. It was a large bomb falling onto a city somewhere in Japan. Yet the same woman was in this vision. She grabbed Owarimon by the hand and ran with her. "Oh no! This is bad!" The bomb fell and exploded. The woman shielded her with her own body as debris from damaged buildings fell upon them both. A large piece of concrete hit the woman in the head and killed her. Back in reality, Owarimon started to shed tears. "Why do I keep seeing this woman? And why do I feel like my heart is breaking? I'm not even a real Digimon. I shouldn't even have a heart to break. I'm a creation of Red Stones and a mixture of thousands of real Digimons' data." Owarimon thought to herself as she fell into the Aqualian waters below.

Splash! Owarimon's body hit the ocean. WarJawsmon and Rosemon high fived each other. "We did it! Yeah!" WarJawsmon happily exclaimed. "Yeah!" Rosemon happily exclaimed.

ChelseaGizumon was dead, TomokoGizumon was down for the count, and so was Owarimon. Morty Shin, still standing on top of a Kommondomon scowled. They were losing the battle and he knew it. BobGizumon was the only enemy The Elemental Four, Takato, and Yoshino had to defeat.

Owarimon sank lower and lower into the ocean, but then a merman swam up and grabbed her. "Poor girl. Looks like she's had it. I need to take her back to All For One World HQ immediately for treatment" The merman thought. The merman grabbed Owarimon (Champion), swam down into a Kommondomon that was at the bottom of the sea floor, and took her inside. Then, they exited the universe through a portal.

Meanwhile, Vineyardmon, MagnetGolemon, and HolyHarpymon were dodging a plethora of relentless attacks from BobGizumon. Bob was shooting lightning bolts at them relentlessly. The three Ultimate level Digimon kept evading attacks, but were not given any chance to retaliate. "What should we do Emmett?" HolyHarpymon asked. "Just wait until he stops attacking! He can't keep this up forever! Then we'll have MagnetGolemon blast through his metal defense!" Emmett responded.

Martin was still holding Taylor in his arms. He wanted to be sure he could run to safety with her at a moment's notice, so he hadn't set her down. Martin looked over to Emmett and asked, "Why do you think MagnetGolemon can do it?" and before Emmett could respond, Taylor answered the question; "Because all metal melts. Even steel melts if it gets hot enough. The melting point of most kinds of steel is 2,500 degrees fahrenheit or 1,370 degrees celsius. Emmett's plan is a good one. But on average, magma is between 1,292 degrees fahrenheit to 2,372 degrees fahrenheit. Even at its hottest, we're 2,000 degrees short of being able to melt steel" Taylor explained. WarJawsmon, who had approached his partner and joined the other three, said "We don't know what kind of metal ThunderBirdmon's wings are made of, so we may not need MagnetGolemon's attacks to be that hot." Taylor smiled and nodded. "Oh! You're right! I had presupposed it was made of steel, but that presupposition had no epistemological justification underlying it." She said. Martin smiled down at the mermaid he was carrying. He didn't understand a word of what she just said, but he trusted she knew what she was talking about.

BobGizumon stopped his attacks. Drusilla took a step forward and swung her arm out to the side. "MagnetGolemon! Blast him with as much heat as you can muster!" Drusilla commanded. MagnetGolemon extended her arms out in front of her. "Eruption!" She shouted as she blasted magma out of her hands at high pressure. BobGizumon covered his body with the ThunderBirdmon wings that had sprouted from his back. He thought the wings could withstand the attack, however, the force of the magma sprays pushed him back and the heat of the magma caused the armored bird wings to melt. BobGizumon knew his defense was melting. "What!? This is impossible!" He exclaimed. "Keep it up, MagnetGolemon! It's working!" Drusilla said. MagnetGolemon continued to blast magma from out of her hands until the armored wings shielding BobGizumon were nothing but steaming piles of metallic liquid on the ground. At that point, he was open to attack.

"ATTACK NOW!" All four children shouted in unison.

"Grape Grenades!" Vineyardmon attacked.

"Marian Arrows!" HolyHarpymon attacked.

"Rocky Missiles!" MagnetGolemon attacked.

"Great White Gatling!" WarJawsmon attacked.

BobGizumon got directly hit with all of the attacks and took major damage! A smokescreen was created from where the attacks landed. He flew up high into the air and his body faced downward for a moment before BobGizumon came down and landed on his stomach. BobGizumon shouted in pain. The four children cheered. "Awesome job, WarJawsmon!" Taylor cheered. WarJawsmon looked back at Taylor and grinned while giving a thumbs up. "You were just amazing, Vineyardmon!" Martin cheered. Vineyardmon looked back at Martin and gave a closed eyes smile and a brief giggle. "MagnetGolemon, that was so metal!" Drusilla said. MagnetGolemon looked back at her, probably smiling. Who knows? MagnetGolemon was literally incapable of showing facial expressions in this form. She did give a thumbs up though. Drusilla then realized she had inadvertently made a pun. "Umm…pun not intended." She added with an embarrassed smile. "HolyHarpymon! Good job!" Emmett said. HolyHarpymon looked back at him with a smile.

BobGizumon was trying to get up. His arms and legs were shaking. He was groaning in pain. It was clear that he was trying to get back up and fight some more, but his body was just too damaged to cooperate. BobGizumon collapsed to the ground unconscious.

Morty Shin, who was still standing on top of the Kommondomon on which he had entered this universe, watched his last henchman fall at the hands of the Digidestined. He scowled, grit his teeth, and let out a frustrated growl. He clenched his fists which were inside his coat pockets. "Darn you, Digidestined! Darn you! You've won the battle, but you haven't won the war! When Owarimon reaches her Mega form, she will burn you all to ashes!" Morty raged. Taylor scoffed. "There were three different battles going on, so I don't blame you if you didn't see it, but my Digimon just blew yours to kingdom come."

Just then, another Kommondomon burst onto the beach. The merman who had rescued Owarimon from drowning exited and turned to look up at Morty. "Owarimon has been secured, sir. She's in bad condition, but doctors say she'll be just fine if she rests for a little while." Morty grinned. "You hear that, girl? Owarimon is still alive. And when she digivolves, she won't be so easily beaten." Morty said. After he had said this, the Kommondomon on which Morty stood opened, and some Gizumon XT came out. They went over to TomokoGizumon and BobGizumon, picked them up, and then took them back inside of the Kommondomon. Then all of the Kommondomon that belong to All For One World left through interdimensional portals and into the Mother Universe.

WarJawsmon, Vineyardmon, MagnetGolemon, and HolyHarpymon de-digivolved to their Rookie forms. Sharkmon covered his stomach and frowned. "All that fighting has made me hungry again. I could sure go for some hot dogs." Sharkmon said. Naturemon ran over to Martin and gave him a big hug. "We won, Marty Hearty! We won! Did you see? Did you see it? Did you see my Grape Grandes totally blast that red haired Gizumon guy?" Naturemon said cheerfully, like a small child bragging about an accomplishment to a parent. Martin was still holding Taylor so it was technically a group hug. Martin smiled and chuckled. "I saw it, Naturemon." He said. Naturemon gave him several kisses on the cheek.

Taylor looked into Martin's eyes. "Martin?" Taylor said. "Yes, Taylor?" Martin replied. "You can put me down now." Taylor said. Martin's face turned red. "Oh! Uh, right!" Martin set Taylor down onto the beach gently. Taylor then caused her tail to transform back into legs. Taylor then stood up. She turned her head in multiple directions slowly, obviously searching for something. "What happened to the shorts I took off?" She asked. She then saw them lying on the sand halfway up the beach. "There they are!" She exclaimed. But just as she was about to run off and grab them, Martin put his hand on Taylor's shoulder. "Taylor, wait! There's….something I want to tell you." He said. Taylor turned around and looked at Martin's face. "Oh, what is it?" Taylor asked, feigning ignorance. Martin's eyes darted back and forth, he was blushing heavily, his heart was pounding in his chest. "I….I……l-...I…love….." Martin said. Taylor was waiting for the final word of this sentence. "You love….?" She prompted, her own heart was fluttering as well. "I….love…." Martin continued. Then he let out a big grin and said, "I just love how awesome the Ultimate form of your Digimon is! I mean, he's a buff bi-pedal shark with machine guns! How awesome is that!" Taylor's face fell in disappointment. "Yeah…I love that too." She said, her voice obviously showing irritation.

Naturemon frowned and sighed. "Oh, Marty Hearty. Why can't you just come out with it?" She thought aloud. Drusilla and everyone else face palmed at the same time. Martin then hugged Taylor again. It was a deep embrace. "I'm so glad we found you. I promise I'll never let anything happen to you again." He said. Taylor hugged him back, but then heard a faint rumbling sound. Martin was purring!

Sharkmon walked over to Taylor with her shorts in his mouth. He dropped them at Taylor's feet. "You know what I love? Not being hungry! Let's eat! This time, my hot dog will have relish and jelly on it!" Sharkmon said. Taylor looked down at Sharkmon and smiled and giggled. "You're a bottomless pit, you know that?" She said, taking the shorts and putting them on.

All For One Headquarters….

Owarimon was carried into a room and laid in her bed. Morty knelt down beside the bed and took out some HP Disks and gave them to Owarimon. "Eat these, they'll make you feel better." Morty said. Owarimon took the HP Disks out of Morty's hand and held them up to her chest. She absorbed them into her body. In a matter of moments, most of the damage that WarJawsmon and Rosemon had inflicted disappeared! "You were hurt pretty badly out there. These HP Disks will do the bulk of the healing work, but you still need to rest and regain your strength." Morty said. Owarimon nodded. "I understand." She said. Morty stood up and turned around, beginning to walk out of the room. "Master." Owarimon said. Not turning around to look at her, Morty responded, "Yes, my dear?" Owarimon was silent for a moment before speaking again. "I….had visions." She said. "Oh? Visions?" Morty said. "I…kept seeing this woman in visions. They seemed to be triggered by my enemies' attacks. Rosemon's Forbidden Temptation…and WarJawsmon's Marine Missile. She called me Haruka." Owarimon explained. Still not turning around to look at the teenage girl/snake hybrid, Morty responded, "Is that so?" Owarimon sat up from the bed and looked in his direction. "In one of the visions, this woman died and…I felt pain because of it. What does all this mean?" Morty was silent for a moment. "You cannot feel pain. You cannot feel anything at all. You are an artificial Digimon created from the Red Stones and the Digimon data those stones absorbed. Whatever you thought you felt was just your imagination. As for the memories, with as much Digimon data inside of you, you're bound to have some of their memories." Morty explained.

"But this memory…if it even was a memory…didn't belong to a Digimon. It…seemed to belong to a human." Owarimon rebutted. "That's just impossible!" Morty responded in an angry tone. This took Owarimon by surprise. "I'm sorry I angered you, master." She said. Morty then left the room, closing the door behind him.

Owarimon sat in the bed and looked down at her hands, then she gazed down at her long snakelike tail with Red Stones embedded in them in a neat row. "My pain was…imaginary? I can't have real feelings because I'm not even a real Digimon? Does that mean my anxiety over these visions is imaginary too?" Owarimon thought to herself. Owarimon then ran her hand over the Digital Hazard symbol over her exposed midriff. "Who…am I? What…am I?" Owarimon thought to herself.

World For Us All HQ….

The Elemental Four, Marcus, Rika, Takato, Yoshino, Zoe, and all of their Digimon returned to World For Us All Headquarters. They had exited the Kommondomon and were walking into the main lobby. Marcus Damon was a man in his 40s with long brown hair that went all the way down his back, a muscular physique, green eyes, a red tank top, and light purple jeans. Clipped to his waste was an orange Digivice Burst and on his head, he wore an orange bandana. An Agumon wearing red arm bands walked beside him. Marcus extended a hand to Taylor. "Hey there. My name's Marcus Damon and I've been the number 1 peacemaker in my version of the Digital World since 2006. And this is my partner, Agumon." Taylor shook his hand and said hello. Beside him was a woman with reddish orange hair, violet colored eyes, a red tank top, denim short shorts, and brown leather work boots. Walking beside her was a Renamon. "And I'm Rika Nonaka. This is my partner Digimon, Renamon. It's nice to finally meet you." She said.

"So, Marcus. Why weren't you at the battle on Universe 319's version of Aqualia?" Yoshino asked, almost in an interrogatory tone. Marcus rubbed the back of his head and gave a nervous grin. Marcus' Agumon made the same gestures at the same time. "Well…" he began. "You see…" Agumon continued. Rika scoffed. "They both overslept." She said. "Well, so did you!" Marcus said. "Only because Agumon destroyed the alarm clock trying to set it." Rika responded. Marcus growled. "If you weren't a woman, I'd.." He said showing a raised fist. "Ahem!" came a voice. They hadn't realized it, but they had made it to the front desk manned by Willis with his Terriermon and Lopmon to each side of him. "Having another lover's spat are we?" Willis teased. Marcus and Rika both turned to Willis with angry looks. "We are not lovers!" They shouted in unison. Willis grimaced and raised his hands up. "Easy! Gosh, you can't take a joke can you?" He said. "Hakunna Matata, Willis." Terriermon said. "Huh?" "Well, that other Terriermon says Momentai, so I thought I'd find a similar phrase." He was referring to the Terriermon partnered with Henry Wong. Henry was from the same universe as Takato and Rika, and was also a field agent of World For Us All.

Zoe giggled. "I think those too like each other more than they'd like to let on." She said.

"If that's true, he needs to say something. It's just totally rotten for a man to have feelings for a woman and never tell her." Taylor said, in a sort of loud voice. Loud enough for Martin to hear, which is what she wanted. Sharkmon, who was being carried by Taylor, looked up at him. "You mean like Mar-" Taylor muffled him with her hand. "Yep. Like Marcus." Marcus looked back at Taylor with an angry look. "Hey, I do not like Rika. I mean, I do, kind of, but not in that way." He said. Yoshino shrugged.

"Ok, ok. That's enough teasing of Marcus. You guys need to write your mission logs." Willis said. "If you take too long, I'll have to send a Bunny Blast up your butts." Terriermon joked. Marcus' Agumon gasped while putting his claws over his face. "Oh! That does not sound like fun. We'd better get on this, boss." He said. Lopmon sighed. "My brother is only joking, but you do need to hurry up." He said. "Well, MY brother doesn't remember the time I golden armored digivolved and totally kicked his butt. I'm not above sending a Bunny Blast up the tushie for motivation." Terriermon said before punching and kicking the air and making karate noises.

Marcus, Yoshino, Takato, Rika, and Zoe began walking off. "We're off to file our report!" Rika said. "So, where are we going to go? Where are we going to sleep? Most importantly? Where are we going to eat? Do you have hot dogs?" Sharkmon asked. Willis started typing away at the computer. "Just give me a second. I'm uploading a map to each of your D-Ecos that will show you where everything is. This base is huge, so you'll need to know where everything is." Willis explained. "And as for the hot dogs, we have lots of them! It's all you can eat!" Willis' Terriermon said. Sharkmon smiled brightly and made happy noises. "So! Awesome!" Sharkmon exclaimed.

Drusilla's furrowed her eyebrows. "D-Ecos?" That was a term she had never heard before. "Oh! That's what your Digivices are called. Izzy can explain it to you once you all finish moving in." Willis said.

A couple of hours later, everyone finished unpacking their bags in their rooms. Willis was right in saying the base was huge. The Elemental Four had entire apartments in this huge pentagon-esque base. They weren't like hotel rooms with just a bed and bath. There were bedrooms, bathrooms, living rooms, and even laundry rooms in each apartment.

After everyone finished unpacking, they left their rooms. It was time to go see Koushiro "Izzy" Izumi. He had new intel from Ryo that he wanted to share with the four.

Taylor and Sharkmon walked out of their room and encountered Martin and Naturemon as they were exiting their rooms at the same time. Martin smiled. "You done packing?" Martin said. Taylor scowled. "Yeah. Now let's go see what Izzy has to tell us." She responded in an angry tone. Martin looked surprised. "Are you…mad at me?" Martin asked. "No, why would I be mad?" Taylor responded sarcastically. "It's just that…you sound…kind of angry." Martin said with nervous inflections in his voice. "Well, maybe you need to get your ears checked. All four of them." Taylor said in an angry tone. Martin frowned. It was obvious she was upset about something, but what could it possibly be? "Did I do something wrong? If so, please tell me so I can make it right. I'd never do anything to hurt you because I lo-because you're my friend." Martin said. Taylor caught the Freudian Slip he almost made, and this just made her angrier. Her scowl intensified and she grit her teeth. "I shouldn't have to tell you what's making me angry! You should know!" She replied.

"How am I supposed to know? I'm not a mind reader!" Martin asked, starting to sound a little annoyed.

"Marty Hearty, you don't have to be a mind reader to see the obvious." Naturemon said, placing a hand on his shoulder. Martin looked back at her. "Well, it's not obvious to me!" Then Martin looked back at Taylor. "Just tell me how I hurt you so I can make it right!" He said. Sharkmon raised a claw. "Maybe she's mad because we didn't get any hot dogs yet!" He suggested. Then he lowered his claw and frowned. "No…wait, that's why I'm angry."

Taylor turned and started walking away. "Come along, Sharkmon. Izzy's waiting." She said. Sharkmon turned and started following her. Martin reached out his hand in Sharkmon's direction. "Sharkmon, please tell me why Taylor's angry with me." He said. Sharkmon turned to him and shrugged. "I'm sorry, but I'm as in the dark as you. If I knew, I would tell you." He said. Naturemon sighed. "Really? Man, boys can be so clueless." Naturemon said. Martin looked back at his Digimon with an angry expression on his face. Naturemon waited until she was sure Taylor and Sharkmon were out of hearing range. Then she sighed again and looked Martin in the eyes. "Taylor's angry because….she knows you're hiding something from her and won't tell her what it is."

Naturemon then hopped onto Martin's back. "Now enough with all this negativity! It's piggy back ride time! Weeee!" She said cheerfully. She then put her index finger up to her lip and looked thoughtful. "Or, in your case I guess it would be a kitty back ride." She added. Martin sweat dropped. "I'm not carrying you all the way to the computer lab." He said. Naturemon then grabbed Martin by his cat ears. "Yes, you are! Giddy up! Yah!" She said. Martin grimaced in pain and hissed, sounding exactly like a cat when a cat hisses. "Hey! Hey! No pulling on the ears!" Martin then started taking steps forward. "Fine! Fine! I'll give you a piggy back ride." He said. "Kitty back ride!" Naturemon corrected. "Yes, a kitty back ride." Martin said.

Taylor walked down the halls with Sharkmon in tow. She was looking down at her shoes sadly while she walked. "If he can't tell me how he feels, he must not want me badly enough. And if that's the case, I'll have nothing to do with him." She thought to herself. Taylor knew she could easily resolve this by spilling what she knew. Perhaps she could tell Martin how she feels. However, Taylor has always believed that a man who was too afraid to confess his love to a woman didn't deserve to have her. Although his crush on her was obvious to everyone, she wouldn't settle for anything less than a direct confession. "Scaredy cat." She said under her breath, intending to merely insult him, but not realizing the pun she had made until the words left her lips.