Chapter 6: Copy That

Martin was sleeping in his bed. He opened his eyes to the sound of birds chirping outside. He yawned. He was going to sit up, but he looked over to see Naturemon under the covers with him snuggling up to him. She was sound asleep. Martin ran his fingers through her hair and smiled. "I can't believe I almost lost you. Yesterday reminded me that this isn't some video game we're playing. Being a Digidestined is serious. If we mess up, someone could die." Martin said softly. Naturemon made some noises in her sleep. "I can fight them, Kari! I can! No, what are you-." Naturemon said softly before waking up screaming. "Naturemon, what's wrong?" Martin asked. Naturemon looked back at Martin. "I…I was inside this giant tree, and several men with scary Digimon were attacking. I was going to fight them, but a brown haired woman named Kari told me I wasn't ready. I was behind some kind of glass….in water. And before I knew it, I felt myself split into 4 different pieces. It was extremely painful. Marty….I think that was some of my lost memory." Naturemon said. Martin hugged his Digimon. "Well, you seem to be in one piece now." He said. Naturemon nodded. "Mmhmm."

Later that day, Martin, Flora, Naturemon, Palmon, and Gatomon were at Florist Hanasho, where Flora worked. "So, you don't get weekends off?" Martin inquired. Flora walked behind the counter. "I get Sundays off, but not Saturdays. It's ok. I love what I do." Flora said. Naturemon looked like a kid in a toy store. She went around sniffing all the flowers. "Oh! These flowers look more beautiful every time I come here! The hydrangeas, gardenias, roses, tulips, they all smell so wonderful and look so beautiful!" Naturemon said as she was jumping around from flower to flower smelling each one of them. Naturemon looked over to Martin and smiled brightly. "Thank you for bringing me again, Marty Hearty!" Naturemon said.

Martin blushed and looked up to his mother. "C-c-c-could you arrange a bouquet of flowers for me?" Martin asked. "Sure." She then looked over to her son and grinned, kind of menacingly. "You gonna tell me who they're for?" She asked. Martin froze up. He didn't want to say anything. "Th-th-th-they're just for a friend of mine who likes flowers." Martin said. Flora looked over at Naturemon, thinking he might be referring to her. Giving a sigh of relief, Flora said "Sure." and she did her flower arranging.

Later, at the Beach Of Kawasaki, Martin was standing with a bouquet of flowers. Taylor was swimming underwater in her mermaid form with Sharkmon keeping up alongside her. "She said she'd spend all weekend in the ocean, but if she surfaces, I'll give these to her and confess how I feel." Martin thought to himself. When Taylor had made it to the surface, she pulled her goggles off of her eyes and over her forehead. Martin and Naturemon were standing nearby. Taylor didn't manifest human legs, she just kicked back and laid on the sand. "Think I'll sunbathe for a little before going back under." Taylor said.

Taylor hadn't noticed the cat boy and vegetation Digimon yet. They were standing some distance away. Martin was blushing. He gulped. "Now's my chance." He said as took a few steps over to her. Sharkmon noticed and said, "Hey, it's Martin and Naturemon! HEEEEEEY!" Sharkmon shouted. Taylor looked over and saw the two of them there. Martin walked over to Taylor. "H-h-h-h-h-hi Tt-t-t-t-t-Taylor." Martin said. "Hey, Marty! What's up?" Taylor responded. Taylor noticed the bouquet. "Who are those for?" She asked. Could Martin be doing what she thought he was doing? Martin was silent for a moment, sweating. He turned to Naturemon and handed the flowers to her. "Here! These are for you! I know you love flowers, so…I thought you could gaze at these when we're at home!" Martin said, flustered. In his mind, he was cursing himself for not having the courage to tell Taylor that he liked her. Naturemon looked thrilled. She grabbed the bouquet and said "Thank you, Marty Hearty! I'm so happy!"

Truth is, Taylor acted like she was oblivious, but Martin was so bad at hiding his feelings that she knew full well that he had a crush on her. She had figured it out ages ago. She just decided she would wait until he had the courage to ask her out. Taylor decided to act like her dad and do some interrogation. She scooched over to him closer, pulling herself with her arms and dragging her tail in the sand. She looked up at him. "So, Marty. What did you come to the beach for? Certainly you didn't come out all this way to give flowers to Naturemon, did you?" Taylor asked. Martin felt faint. "Well, I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-II-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I–I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I!" Martin began stuttering. Sharkmon started running around in circles. "He broke! The Demi-Felincius broke! Where can we fix him!?" Sharkmon panicked. Naturemon looked scared. "Something's wrong with my Marty Hearty?" She said. Taylor smirked. "Something's wrong all right. He's lovestruck and cowardly." Taylor thought.

They then heard a distraught woman calling out someone's name "Sonofaborphmaru! Sonofaborphmaru! Where are you, Sonofaborphmaru?" The woman appeared to be in her mid-twenties. She was blonde, had green skin, three eyes, and six arms. "It's a Rokusapien." Taylor observed. The blonde, green haired woman ran up to the two and their Digimon. She looked very concerned. "Have you seen my son? He's small, about two feet tall, and pink." She said. Taylor looked confused. "Pink? But…shouldn't he be green?" She asked. Sharkmon jumped onto Taylor's tail, put his front paws on her belly and looked at her appalled. "Oh my gosh, Taylor! You can't just ask women why their children aren't green!" Sharkmon protested. "Oh, yes. I guess I should specify that he isn't my blood. I adopted him. He's a little pink Digimon called Copymon." The distraught mother said. Taylor's eyes lit up and she smiled. Giggling before raising a finger. "Copymon, a relatively new Digimon that Digimon researchers don't know much about. He isn't known to digivolve from or into anything, nor do they know his field, or digivolution level. One thing we do know about Copymon is that he is able to morph into any Digimon he sees. He can not only mimic their appearance, but their abilities as well! If you have a Copymon as a Digimon partner, it's sort of like having every single Digimon in the Digital World as your partner." Taylor said, before giggling again. She put her hands up to her face while they were formed into fists and squealed. "I've never seen a Copymon in person before!" Sharkmon asked "And you're going to see one now?" Taylor looked Sharkmon in the eye. She giggled again. "Of course we are, Sharkmon!" Martin was smiling and blushing. "She's so adorable when she's geeking out over Digimon. That smile and those giggles are heart melting." He thought.

The woman looked happy to hear that she was going to receive some help. "Really? You'll help me? Thank you!" She extended a hand to each one of them and still had two left over to carry her purse. "My name is Momofarpokarf Kollymargomoph. But my friends just call me Momo."

"I'm Taylor Glovion."

"I'm Martin Soleman."

"I'm Sharkmon!"

"And I'm Naturemon."

Martin looked down at Taylor. "Let's go find Copymon." He said. Taylor blushed a little. "Ummm….." She said. "What's the matter? Grow legs and let's go!" Martin said. "I…well…I got permission from Mom to stay at a friend's house in the ocean. I didn't bring a loin cloth with me because I really did plan to spend the entire 48 hours under the water. So….If I morphed now, I'd be…you know…not covered from the waist down." Taylor explained. Martin looked surprised and he turned red. Taylor schooched back over to the ocean water. "I'll grab one at Suzie's house and be right back. Don't go anywhere." Taylor said before putting her goggles over her eyes and diving under. Sharkmon followed her. "Wait, Taylor! I'll come too!" Sharkmon said.

About 15 minutes later, Taylor regrouped with Martin and his Digimon, and Momo. She was now in her usual aquamarine T-shirt and blue shorts, goggles atop her noggin. Taylor raised her arm into the air and pointed. "Ok, listen up! Copymon won't be easy to find. He'll likely camouflage himself. We need to think of a strategy for how to search for him." Taylor said. Sharkmon poked at Taylor's leg. "Umm…Taylor?" Sharkmon said. "For one thing, he could be in the ocean as a water type Digimon or merperson. He could be flying the skies as a bird Digimon, or just a plain old bird, he could be an elderly old man sitting on a park bench." Taylor went on, ignoring her Digimon. Sharkmon poked Taylor's leg some more. "Taylor?" Taylor put her index finger and thumb on her face. "Truth is, it might not even be possible. Now, I know what you're thinking, Martin and Naturemon. I should contact my Dad because he's an actual detective. But right now he's busy focusing on the C.A.D. case not to mention a dozen others. Besides-no, wait, maybe this would be the perfect daddy/daughter bonding moment! No, he'd probably tell me to go home and leave it to him." Taylor rambled on. Sharkmon continued poking Taylor in the leg. "TAYLOR!" Sharkmon shouted. Taylor looked down at her Digimon, looking a little annoyed. "What!?" She barked. Sharkmon pointed behind the group. "There's another Taylor behind you!" Sharkmon said. Everyone turned to look, and sure enough, there was a girl identical to Taylor. Taylor looked really surprised. "Or….maybe it won't be so hard!" She said.

The copy Taylor turned and tried to run. Naturemon shouted "Wait!" before unleashing vines from her back to restrain the clone. The vines wrapped around the clone girl like ropes causing her to fall over. When she hit the ground, the appearance of Taylor started turning into pink goo, and reformed into a little pink humanoid that was pink and red from head to toe, and whose eyes looked like they were behind a visor. Momo gasped and then smiled. "My son!" She said. She reached out for him. Unfortunately, due to the nature of becoming smaller, Copymon was able to escape Naturemon's vines. Copymon turned around and glared at the green haired humanoid girl Digimon, obviously irked at her for restraining him. Copymon at once took on Naturemon's form. Copymon took its spear and ran up to Naturemon to attack. Naturemon grabbed her own spear to parry the attack. "Why are you attacking me, little one? We just didn't want you to run away! Your mother was worried about you!" Naturemon said. Naturemon knew all about how moms worry. She had seen how Flora acted. Flora practically worried about Martin every minute of every day. The Naturemon-Copymon jumped back and caused vines to extend from his back. He grabbed Naturemon, lifted her up into the air and slammed her down on the ground. "That's what you get for catching me! Leave me alone! Don't look for me!" The Naturemon looking Copymon said. "Copymon, why are you acting like this?" Momo asked. Copymon then turned around and ran off. Taylor took off after him. "We can't let him get away!" Taylor said while running. Sharkmon followed suit.

Naturemon got up and started running as well. "Something's obviously wrong. This Copymon wasn't lost. It had run away. But why?" Naturemon thought to herself. Taylor was hot on his tail. She reached into her pocket and got out a tiny little device. She had a flashback.

Flashback…

Taylor was standing in the basement where her father worked in his after hours. Evander put a handful of the little tiny devices into Taylor's hand. "Take these. They're tracking devices. If you come upon a member of Crusaders Against Digimon, I want you to put this on one of their suits. This will allow us to track them to their home base." Evander said. Evander then put his hand on Taylor's head and rubbed it, messing up her hair. "Just be careful not to let them see you doing it, ok, my little mermaid?"

Flashback over…

Taylor continued running, looking at the little small technological chip in her hand. "These were earmarked for C.A.D, but…I…" She said before tossing one at the Copymon, who still looked like Naturemon. The chip landed on Copymon's back. "Bullseye!" Taylor thought. Naturemon had caught up to them and called out to Copymon, "Copymon! Why are you running away? Your mother misses you!" Copymon didn't respond. Instead, he looked over at a nearby bird, transformed into it, and flew away. They all stopped running and watched as Copymon flew off. "No! He got away!" Martin said. Taylor turned to him, smiled, and put his hand on his shoulder. "I put a tracking device on him. We'll get him later." Taylor said. "Really? Wow! Taylor, you're so clever!" Martin said, blushing a little. Taylor smirked. "I know. And I look really cute while I'm being clever, riiiiiiight?" She said before letting out a giggle. Martin blushed even more. "I-I-I-I guess so." He said, getting flustered.

Sometime later, Momo had taken Taylor, Sharkmon, Martin, and Naturemon to K-Kafe in Nakano Broadway. They were eating burgers and fries and sipping sodas. Sharkmon devoured 20 burgers and a large fry in one entire bite! Taylor grimaced. "My wallet hurts soooo badly!" She thought as she watched Sharkmon practically inhale his food. Sharkmon looked content. "Yummy! Burgers might be my second most favorite food. Hot Dogs are still king in my book though!" Sharkmon said.

"Momo, why would Copymon want to run from us? Did you do anything that might have made him angry?" Martin asked.

Momo closed her three eyes and folded all three sets of hands, setting them on the table. She was silent for a moment before saying "Well…actually, before I met Copymon, I had a biological son. Sonofaborphmaru was his name. He died at the age of 5 months, which would be the equivalent of a 6 year old for a mermaid and Demi-Felincius like yourselves. He got very sick. I was inconsolable, and spent months in constant depression. Then one day, I was looking at photographs of my son. Copymon had somehow made its way into my house. He had wandered here by accident from the Digital World. He saw the picture and, on a whim, transformed into my son! When I found out he had nowhere to go, I offered to let him live with me. I just asked that he keep Sonofaborphmaru's form as often as he could. It was fine for a while. We were happy. He was a good boy and even let me call him by my son's name. But recently, he's been wanting to morph into other things. I…got upset with him. He yelled at me before running off. He said 'Don't call me Sonofaborphmaru anymore! I'm not him!" Momo explained.

Everyone looked upon Momofarpokarf with pity. "He probably wanted the freedom to copy things as he used to…and figured out that you were using him as a replacement son." Sharkmon observed. Naturemon was silently listening to the conversation, biting into her burger and eating her french fries. She had a serious expression on her face. Naturemon had a flashback.

Flashback…

Naturemon wandered into the kitchen of the Soleman residence, rubbing her eyes and yawning. "Thiiiirsty…." She said softly. When she got to the kitchen, she saw Flora at the kitchen looking sad. "Marty Hearty's Mommy? Why are you sad?" Naturemon asked. Flora had been crying. She wiped a tear from her eye. "I-I'm not sad. I just couldn't sleep." Flora responded. Naturemon poked the cat ears protruding from Flora's head. "No, you're definitely sad. Martin's ears do this thing when Taylor says she can't hang out with him." Naturemon observed. The "thing" their ears did was droop. Flora gave the Digimon a faint smile. "You're very observant. Very well, I'll tell you what's wrong. I heard that someone threatened Taylor to her mother's face last night. He said they had Gizumon surrounding the house. I just can't believe my son is a Digidestined now. He's going to be in so much danger fighting new threats to the human and Digital Worlds. I….I'm just consumed with anxiety. I worry about him in general, but this? This is on a whole new level. I know I seem very strict with him, but it's just because I want him to grow up to be a great man, like his father, Mario. Plus, I don't want to be like my Father, who, like most Felincius parents, just threw their children into the wild to fend for themselves. Maybe I'm overcompensating for his mistakes, but I just can't help it. I love him so much. He's my baby." Flora said.

Naturemon sat down beside her and gave her a big hug. The hug took Flora by surprise. "I love him too! He's my Marty Hearty!" Naturemon said in a cheerful tone. Naturemon looked up at Flora. "Try not to worry. I am his Digimon. I'll protect him with all of my might. I'll even sacrifice my DigiCore to keep him safe." Naturemon said. DigiCores were basically the souls of Digimon. If one were destroyed, it meant permanent deletion. The Gizumon's lasers were specifically designed to destroy DigiCores. Naturemon was basically saying she'd make the ultimate sacrifice if it came down to it to keep Martin safe. Flora smiled and hugged Naturemon back. "Thank you, Naturemon. You're a good girl. I can tell you care about my son. We're lucky to have you." Flora said.

Suddenly they heard a crash! They ran into the living room and found that Flora's Gatomon had knocked over a vase. Gatomon nervously chuckled. "Whoops! Sorry!" She said. "Gatomon, what are you doing?" Flora asked. "It's 3:00am. I always run around the house at top speed for no reason at 3:00am." Gatomon replied. Flora facepalmed. A cat is a cat. Gatomon's ears perked up and she took off running again.

Flashback over….

Naturemon hadn't taken a bite of her food in several minutes. "If that's what a mother's love does….Momo must be beside herself. I have to resolve this." Naturemon thought to herself. Naturemon put her half eaten burger down and looked over to Taylor. "Taylor, you said you put a tracking device on him? When are we going after him?" Naturemon asked. "Well, what we need to do is negotiate with him. Talk to him, get Momo and Copymon to come to an understanding. But we can't just walk up to him or he'll flee again." Taylor said. Sharkmon nervously made a move for Naturemon's plate, remembering that he got a vine whipping the last time he tried to take her food. He successfully took it without incurring the green haired girl's wrath. No, Naturemon was too worried about Copymon and Momo's relationship to focus on food. "So what's your plan?" Momofarpokarf asked. Taylor smiled, her mouth surrounded by bread crumbs from the burger, and said "We approach him incognito."

An hour later, Naturemon was standing in a clothing store. She was wearing a hoodie. The hoodie was zipped up and the hood was over her head. She also had a pair of jeans on and sneakers. She also had a pair of sunglasses over her eyes. "Think Copymon will recognize me in these clothes?" Naturemon said. "Wow, Naturemon! You look adorable!" Martin said. Naturemon blushed. "R-really? Thank you." Sharkmon pulled at Taylor's sock. "Can I get some human clothes, Taylor?" Sharkmon asked. Taylor looked down at Sharkmon and grimaced. "Didn't you drain my wallet dry just with lunch?" She said.

Naturemon went to where Copymon was, using Taylor's Digivice to track him. When Naturemon got close to Copymon's location, she put Taylor's digivice into the pocket in the jeans she's wearing. She walked over to Copymon. Naturemon felt kind of nervous, as Copymon had obviously seen her face before, but Naturemon was hoping that her disguise would be enough to throw him off. After all, a super hero she had seen on Martin's TV was able to throw people off just by putting on a pair of glasses. Haginaka South Children's Park is where they were. Copymon was sitting on a swing looking sad. Naturemon came and sat in a swing next to him. "Ah, what a nice day to just relax at the park, amirite?" Naturemon said in a cheerful tone. Copymon looked at her and nodded. "I guess so." He said. When Copymon spoke in his true form, he sounded like a 6 year old male child. "Hey, what's wrong, little guy?" Naturemon asked.

"My mommy doesn't love me." Copymon replied.

"What makes you say that?" Asked Naturemon.

"She only cares about her previous son; Sonofaborphmaru. She gets mad if I don't use my copying powers to look like him. She loves him, not me. So, I left. I want someone who loves me for me. And I also want to be able to transform into anything I want whenever I want." Copymon explained.

Taylor, Momofarpokarf, Sharkmon, and Martin were listening nearby in a car. Naturemon was wearing a microphone that transmitted their conversation to a device Taylor was holding in her right hand. Momofarpokarf put one of her hands over her mouth. "Oh, Copymon. What have I done?" She asked rhetorically.

"Previous son?" Naturemon asked, pretending not to know as to not give herself away.

"Her previous son got very sick and died before I ever came around. She was so sad. I transformed into him one day when I wandered into her house. It made her so happy, and it made me happy that she was happy because I like making people happy. She told me I could stay with her and I could be her son. I didn't know what a son or mom was until she explained it to me. It sounded so nice." Copymon explained.

"Well, I think your mom just misses her old son. But I have a feeling she DOES love you for you." Naturemon said.

"How do you know?" Copymon asked.

"My…." Naturemon said, thinking for a moment how best to describe his relationship to Martin without revealing that she's a Digidestined's Digimon, or even a Digimon at all. "My brother and I…have a mom. She worries about us all the time. She's so protective of my brother, and she is very strict in disciplining him if he gets out of line. I've seen her shed tears over him because….well….right now he's doing some very dangerous things. I recently promised her that I would protect Martin with my life, even sacrificing my Digi-" Naturemon said before catching herself, "Even sacrificing my very soul to keep him safe." Naturemon looked over to the car off in the distance that Taylor and the others were eavesdropping in. "If I had a guess. I would say your mom is shedding tears over you right now." She was right. In the car, Momofarpokarf had tears coming out of all three of her eyes. Martin smiled, thinking about his mother back home. Naturemon was right. Although Flora could be a real pain sometimes and yelled a lot, at the end of the day, she was a good mom and he loved her very much.

"Well, your mom might be that way. But mine is different. If I'm not Sonofaborphmaru, I'm nothing to her." Copymon said.

"That's not true!" They both turned to see Momofarpokarf standing at the entrance to Haginaka South Children's Park. "Copymon, I'm sorry! I didn't try to understand your feelings at all! I was stuck in the past. Please, forgive me. I do love you. You can be whoever you want to be. Just, please, come home!" Momofarpokarf said with tears running down her face. Naturemon turned to Copymon and looked down at him with a smile. "See? I told you."

Copymon looked hesitant. He hopped down from the swing and walked over to Momofarpokarf. "Do you mean it? You care about me even if I'm not Sonofaborphmaru?" He asked. Momofarpokarf picked him up and hugged him tightly. "Yes. From now on, I'll no longer call you Sonofaborphmaru. You're Copymon. You're my son." She said. Copymon was so filled with joy that he started crying. "Mama!" He said. Naturemon smiled. Her heart was warmed by the sight.

Just then, a group of Gizumon XT came down from the sky seemingly out of nowhere! Naturemon gasped. "Gizumon!" She exclaimed. Taylor, Martin, and Sharkmon gasped. "Not good!" Sharkmon said. Everyone got out of the car and ran into the park. The Gizumon XT surrounded Momofarpokarf and Copymon. "Mama, what are these things? I'm scared!" Copymon said. One of the Gizumon opened up a small gun on its head. Taylor and the others watched in horror. Was it about to shoot a DigiCore destroying laser through Copymon, probably killing Momofarpokarf in the process? No laser came out, but a big red stone shot out of it and hit Copymon in the back of the head. "Ow!" Copymon cried out. In a couple of seconds, a Red Mark appeared on Copymon! "Copymon, are you ok? Copymon!" Momofarpokarf asked. Copymon jumped down out of the green Rokusapien's arms. The Gizumon flew off somewhere.

Naturemon stood up from the swing quickly and lowered her hoodie and removed her sunglasses. "Copymon, no!" She shouted. Copymon just stood there staring at Naturemon. "That was a moving speech. But Digimon are pests, not children. A Digimon is even less of a son than a pet dog." Copymon said. Naturemon looked over to the green woman. "Momofarpokarf! Copymon is under mind control! Get away!" Naturemon cried out. Copymon suddenly started transforming, and when he was done, he had transformed into Naturemon. A vine came out of Naturemon-Copymon's back and tried to hit Naturemon. Naturemon jumped off to the side to avoid the attack. Taylor, Sharkmon, and Martin were then in the area. Naturemon unzipped her hoodie and took it off, tossing it aside. She also unzipped her pants and took them off. "My precious Marty Hearty bought these clothes for me. I won't risk damaging them in combat." Naturemon said. She considered them more than a disguise. They were a gift. And quite comfortable too.

"Naturemon! Catch!" Martin yelled as he threw her spear into the air. Naturemon jumped up high and caught it while it was twirling like a boss! Naturemon usually walked around with her spear strapped to her back. But she had to remove it off of her person entirely to disguise herself as human child. The spear would have poked through the hoodie, so she had given it to Martin to hold onto. Naturemon glanced a big smile at Martin. "Thanks, Marty Hearty!" She said. Naturemon-Copymon then struck at Naturemon with thorny vines coming out of his back a few more times. Naturemon dodged each and every one of them. "Copymon! Stop this right now!" Momofarpokarf pleaded.

"It's like she said, Momofarpokarf. Copymon is under the control of the Red Mark. We're going to have to fight him and destroy it." Sharkmon said.

"Don't worry, we won't hurt him seriously." Martin said.

"Sharkmon, let's go!" Taylor said with a determined expression on her face, and adjusting the goggles on her forehead.

Sharkmon's fin began to glow. Sharkmon curled up into a ball and rolled towards Copymon. "Rolling Shark!" He shouted. Naturemon-Copymon jumped out of the way. "Vine Vengeance!" He shouted, unleashing multiple vines from his lower back. Sharkmon stopped rolling when the thorny vines hit him. He got hit with the vines over and over and over. When the attack stopped, Sharkmon retaliated with another "Rolling Shark!" which the Copymon-that-looked-like-Naturemon dodged again. "Leaf Can Can!" Copymon shouted, kicking his legs over and over. When he did this, the leaves fell off and then became sharp like shuriken. The leaves flew at Sharkmon. Sharkmon didn't have time to dodge, but it didn't matter because the real Naturemon jumped in the way and deflected all of the razor leaves with her spear. Naturemon then ran up to the Copymon who bore her image and tried to strike the Red Mark on his head with her spear. However, Copymon just parried the spear strike with his own spear. Vines then came out of his back that wrapped themselves around Naturemon. Copymon then raised Naturemon high into the air and then slammed her to the ground. Then he raised her up high into the air again, and then slammed her into the ground again. Naturemon grunted in pain as she hit the dirt face first two times in a row. "I'll help you! Rolling Shark!" Sharkmon shouted before causing the fin on his head to glow, curling up into a ball, and rolling at the Naturemon looking Copymon again. He managed to cut the vines, releasing Naturemon from his grasp.

Sharkmon uncurled himself, and then lept up to bite Copymon, aiming for the red mark, which was on his forehead when he was in Naturemon's form. "Baby Bite!" Copymon tried to deflect with his spear. Sharkmon bit down on the spear and snapped it in half. He then landed on the ground an inch in front of him and jumped up. "Amphibious Assault!" Sharkmon shouted. This attack involved Sharkmon scratching the opponent multiple times with the claws at the end of his front feet. He hit the Red Mark several times, doing some damage to it. Copymon grabbed Sharkmon with vines and tossed him to the ground. Copymon then changed form again, he reverted back to the pink 2 foot tall humanoid that is his true form, and then took on Sharkmon's shape. "Rolling Shark!" Copymon shouted. Sharkmon countered with a Rolling Shark of his own. The two Sharkmons collided. Sparks were flying from their two fins striking each other. They then both uncurled at the same time. Sharkmon-Copymon jumped up and shouted "Baby Bite!" before coming down and biting Sharkmon on the back. "Ahh!!" Sharkmon shouted in pain.

Naturemon took this as her opportunity to strike. "The Red Mark was on Copymon's forehead when he looked like Naturemon. But it's now moved to his back now that he looks like Sharkmon. This Red Mark's location seems to differ from transformation to transformation." Taylor thought, watching the battle. Naturemon caused thorny vines to come out of her back. "Vine Vengeance!" Naturemon called out before striking Copymon. Copymon got hit in the Red Mark several times and cried out in pain.

"My son!" Momofarkoparf cried out. The Copymon shed Sharkmon's form and took its true pink little guy form. "Two on one really isn't fair." Copymon said. The Red Mark began flashing wildly on the back of Copymon's head. Before they knew it, Copymon had split into two, and then three, and then four! Before they knew it, there were up to ten Copymon in the area! Taylor's eyes widened and her jaw dropped. "That's…that's not possible! Copymon don't have that ability! They can't divide like cells!" Taylor said. "Well, if anyone would know, it's you, Taylor. But like Bokomon said yesterday, the Red Mark can amplify a Digimon's fighting power." Martin said.

The Copymon all transformed, some looking like Naturemon and others looking like Sharkmon. They ganged up on the two partner Digimon. Several Naturemon looking Copymon ganged up on Naturemon. "Spear Jab!" They all shouted. Naturemon tried to evade, but although she avoided being impaled, her belly and parts of her back got slashed, bringing a sudden flow of dark blue blood. "What's that coming out of Naturemon?" Momofarpokarf asked. "It's blood. Unlike humans and many other species, a Digimon's blood is a dark blue color." Taylor responded.

Naturemon parried many spear strikes with her own spear. She even managed to yank a few of the spears out of her clones' hands by grabbing them with her back vines. "Vine Vengeance! Vine Vengeance! Vine Vengeance! Vine Vengeance!" Naturemon shouted as she attacked. She caused up to six thorny vines to come out of her back to strike at her copies. "Vine Vengeance!" The copies shouted. They all deflected her vine strikes with their own vines. One of them kicked Naturemon in the stomach, sending her to her knees. Once Naturemon was on her knees, another Copymon jumped up and kicked her in the face, sending her to the ground. When Naturemon picked herself up, dark blue blood was dripping out of her mouth.

Sharkmon was having just as difficult of a time with his own clones. "Rolling Shark!" Sharkmon cried out. The Sharkmon clones copied his attack. They all collided like a bunch of Beyblades, sending off sparks. When Sharkmon had uncurled, suddenly, a bunch of Sharkmon jumped him and began biting him. Dark blue blood flowed out of the bite marks his clones were leaving.

Taylor and Martin looked worried for their Digimon. They looked at each other and gave each other a knowing nod. Taylor ran over to the jeans Naturemon had taken off, making sure to avoid being hit by any of the attacks. She reached into one of the pockets and took out her blue Digivice. Martin took out his green digivice. They then used the dial to select the Digivolution icon from the Digivice's main menu. Their Digivices had the words "DIGIVOLUTION" scroll across the screens.

"Sharkmon digivolve to….Jawsmon!"

"Naturemon digivolve to…..MotherNaturemon!"

MotherNaturemon put multiple arrows in her quiver. "Multi Nature Arrows!" MotherNaturemon shouted before firing the electricity covered arrows. They all struck the Naturemon copies. The Naturemon copies disintegrated into digital particles. Momo gasped in horror. "What are you doing!? One of them could be the real one!" She said. Taylor placed her hand on Momofarpokarf's shoulder. "Yes, but look. Only one of them has a Red Mark. My guess is that's the real one." Taylor said. She was right. Only one of the Copymon out of the whole horde had a Red Mark. The others did not. MotherNaturemon looked over to Jawsmon, "Your girl is smart. She figured out the same thing I did." MotherNaturemon said. Jawsmon grinned and raised his fist while looking at MotherNaturemon. "Naturally. Taylor's the smartest girl I know!" Jawsmon said.

"Jawsmon! Just focus on the real one! Don't worry about the clones!" Taylor called out. Jawsmon looked at his tamer and nodded. "You got it, Taylor!" Jawsmon said. Jawsmon and MotherNaturemon started running in the direction of the Red Marked Copymon, i.e the real one. The Copymon stopped using Sharkmon's form and assumed MotherNaturemon's form. The other Copymon, who had previously copied Sharkmon and Naturemon, now morphed into their Champion forms. "Nature's Arrow!" MotherNaturemon shouted as she fired an electricity covered arrow. The Red Mark was on Copymon's belly this time. The copied MotherNaturemon spun around rapidly and deflected it the tree branches protruding from his lower back. The real MotherNaturemon growled, looking frustrated. "That's my Tree Twirl attack! It's so frustrating having my own abilities used against me!" MotherNaturemon complained. She then looked over at Martin. "Marty Heartyyyyyyyy! Tell him to cut it out!" She said, looking at her partner with a pouty face. Martin had a comically large sweat drop come down the side of his head while his left eye brow twitched.

Jawsmon appeared from behind Copymon and punched him right in the gut multiple times. "Power Pummeling!" Jawsmon yelled. Taylor swung her fist with a big smile on her face. "Yes! When Copymon copied MotherNaturemon's Tree Twirl attack, Jawsmon used it as an opportunity to sneak up from behind!" Taylor commented. She put her palms up to each side of her mouth and cheered, "Way to go, Jawsmon! You're awesome!" before letting out one of her habitual giggles.

The Red Mark on the Copymon started fizzling. "Nature's Arrow!" He retaliated. "Titanic Bite!" Jawsmon caught the arrow in his jaws and bit it in half. He then used his powerful legs to lunge at Copymon and headbutt him in the gut. "Shark Body Ram!" Jawsmon shouted.

MotherNaturemon smiled and jumped up and down like a giddy little girl. "Yes! Yes! Yes! Great job, Jawsmon! Copymon, you're going to be ok!" She said. As she was celebrating, some Copymon clones who took the form of Jawsmon came up from behind her and ganged up on her. They started biting down on her arms and legs. "AAAHH!!!!!" MotherNaturemon cried out in pain. Large streams of dark blue blood streamed down her body. MotherNaturemon tried to struggle free, but the grip of her friend's lookalikes was too strong. "I….can't….break….free!" MotherNaturemon said through the pain.

Jawsmon started running to her aid. "MotherNaturemon! Hang on!" Before Jawsmon could do anything, he found multiple arrows lodged into his back, about 30 to be precise, all sizzling with electricity. Jawsmon screamed as he was both electrocuted from the electricity as well as the pain from being punctured. He fell to the ground. The MotherNaturemon clones got on top of him and started kicking him over and over. Jawsmon stood up, grabbed one by the leg and slammed it down to the ground, causing it to dissipate into digital particles. Jawsmon then grabbed another one and did the same thing. He then reached back and yanked several arrows out of his back. "There's too damn many of them!" Jawsmon shouted.

MotherNaturemon moaned in pain as the Jawsmon copies kept biting down. "At this rate…my limbs will be completely torn off!" She thought to herself. Taylor and Martin clutched their Digivices tightly. "Taylor, what can we do?" Martin asked. "We just have to have faith in our Digimon." Taylor replied.

Jawsmon destroyed more Copymon with his "Titanic Bite!" attack, attacking three Copymon each time. He then ran up to another one and punched it repeatedly with his large muscular arms. "Power Pummeling!" Jawsmon shouted. The Copymon was deleted. Jawsmon then turned around and used his powerful legs to lunge himself forward at 100 miles per hour. "Shark Body Ram!" He slammed into one of his clones that had MotherNaturemon's right arm in its mouth. The Jawsmon clone was deleted upon impact. With one arm free, MotherNaturemon took care of the other one by reaching into her quiver, taking out an arrow and jamming it into the Jawsmon-Copymon's head. It shrieked and took a few steps back. MotherNaturemon then used "Tree Twirl!" which was an attack in which she span around rapidly, doing a pirouette, and hit the opponent multiple times with the tree branches growing out of her back. The Jawsmon clone got hit multiple times and then dissipated.

"Multi Nature Arrows! Multi Nature Arrows! Multi Nature Arrows! Multi Nature Arrows!" MotherNaturemon attacked.

"Titanic Bite! Power Pummeling! Titanic Bite! Power Pummeling!" Jawsmon attacked.

More and more clones dropped. Now, there was only one Copymon left; the original. Jawsmon and MotherNaturemon were breathing heavily from all the fighting they had been doing. MotherNaturemon looked at Copymon, who still had her appearance. "Copymon…I know you're aware of what's going on. You must be so scared not being able to control yourself. But I will free you! Trust me!" MotherNaturemon said. The Copymon regained its original form. "You cannot help this pathetic creature." Copymon said. Copymon then gave an evil grin. "What are you up to?" Jawsmon asked. Copymon then copied himself into 10 more clones!

"Ah, come on! Are you kidding me!?" Jawsmon yelled in frustration.

They then heard from above "Yoo hoo!" They looked over and saw Drusilla and Emmett with their partner Digimon; Coalmon and Dovemon. Taylor looked relieved to see them. "Guys, you're here!" Taylor said. "It's because you typed it in the group chat." Emmett said, putting his hand on his hip. Indeed, she had called for backup when no one was looking via text. Drusilla and Emmett each took out their digivices.

"DIGIVOLUTION"

"Dovemon digivolve to….Harpymon!"

"Coalmon digivolve to….CoalGolemon!"

"Molten Blast!" CoalGolemon shouted while holding her hands out. Streams of magma sprayed out of the hulking coal monster's hands and took out several yet-to-be-transformed Copymon. "Wind Seeker!" Harpymon cried out, swinging her wings and sending a gust of wind at one Copymon, cutting it in half. They destroyed several more of the Copymon. Of the 10 additional ones created, only 3 remained left. Two of them transformed into CoalGolemon and one into Harpymon. The original transformed back into MotherNaturemon.

The two CoalGolemon engaged in a hulking fist fight. "Mega Coal Clobber! Mega Coal Clobber! Mega Coal Clobber!" The both shouted their attack names as they punched each other. Drusilla clutched her digivice as she watched her Digimon fight. "Go for it, CoalGolemon! Show them that nothing beats the original!" Drusilla shouted. Emmett looked over to his Harpymon that was engaged in fisticuffs with her own copy. When Harpymon saw an opening, she went for the Jugular. Literally. Upon slicing the throat of her copy, the copy disintegrated.

"Nature's Arrow!" MotherNaturemon shouted as she shot an arrow at one of the CoalGolemon clones, destroying it. CoalGolemon looked over to MotherNaturemon and gave her a thumbs up. "Thanks, MotherNaturemon." She said. MotherNaturemon gave a thumbs up in return. "You got it, girlfriend!" MotherNaturemon replied.

The other CoalGolemon came up from behind MotherNaturemon about to crush her with one of its giant fists. The real CoalGolemon raised her arms and shouted "Fire Frenzie!" before streams of fire shot out of her arms. The streams of fire hit the CoalGolemon, destroying it. MotherNaturemon smiled and clasped her hands together. "CoalGolemon! Nice!" She said.

All of the clones were destroyed. Once again, the only one left was the original. Copymon morphed back to his original two foot tall little boy shape. Copymon laughed. "Do you really think you can beat this Digimon I'm controlling?" Copymon asked rhetorically. He grinned evilly, and made 10 more clones of himself!

MotherNaturemon stomped her foot multiple times. "Ahh!!! It's not fair! It's not fair! It's not fair!" She raged. Despite digivolving, MotherNaturemon still retained the childlike personality of her prior form somewhat, although it wasn't as frequently shown. A small stream of sweat went down Taylor's face. She was getting nervous. "No matter how many of them we knock down, more just pop up! And the copies protect the original!" Taylor said.

They expected to have to fight more copies of themselves as before, but then all the Copymon did something no one expected; they all morphed into MarineOmnimons! Taylor gasped and dropped her digivice. "N-n-n-no! That's my…..Mom's…my Mom's…my Mom's… Digi…!" She said, so horrified she could barely speak. She then began to tremble. MarineOmnimon was the Digimon that defeated AncientMermaidmon and Ordinemon just a few months before Taylor was even conceived. Digimon Researchers since then determined that by being fused with Jessica, who had the power of Poseidon, MarineOmnimon had the power that rivaled that of a god! One of the MarineOmnimon clones swung the arm with a WarGreymon head and a trident came out. "With the power of the Red Mark, Copymon can not only copy Digimon that's right in front of it, but Digimon it can recall from memory." The original Copymon said.

"W-w-w-when did you see MarineOmnimon!?" Taylor asked. Momofarpokarf turned to her, also sweating. "I showed him a picture of it. I read Jessica Glovion's autobiography to him as a bedtime story. In the back of the book was a sketch of MarineOmnimon and a list of all its stats." Momofarpokarf explained. All of the Digidestined started feeling…despair. Especially Taylor. No one heard the story of how Jessica biomerged with Omnimon and became this godlike creature more than her. She practically begged her to tell this story whenever she had friends over. Taylor knew what MarineOmnimon could do.

MarineOmnimon looked like regular Omnimon in many respects. It had a WarGreymon head on one arm, and a MetalGarurumon head on the other, and it had a cape. But unlike regular Omnimon, MarineOmnimon had a mermaid tail, blue armor, and aquamarine colored stripes on its armor. The interior of its cape was aquamarine instead of red.

The MarineOmnimons all attack simultaneously, teleporting in front of the 4 Champion level Digimon in an instant. The one in front of MotherNaturemon shouted "Grey Trident!" and swung its trident upwards. MotherNaturemon got sliced with the prongs of the trident and cried out in pain.

Another MarineOmnimon rapidly slashed Jawsmon over and over and over with its Grey Trident! The swings of the trident were so fast that the naked eye couldn't even perceive it! Multiple slash wounds appeared on Jawsmon's body, drenching him in blue blood! Jawsmon screamed in agony before falling onto his back!

CoalGolemon prepared to attack one of the Copymon's that had taken MarineOmnimon's appearance, but before she could do anything, It hit her with a "Hydro Garuru Cannon!" and blasted her back. She did some damage to the buildings behind her.

Another MarineOmnimon struck Harpymon with a "Hydro Garuru Cannon!" This attack, by the way, involves a cannon coming out of the mouth of the MetalGarurumon head on its arm and blasting water out at extremely high pressure. Harpymon screamed in pain as it was sent backwards and rammed back first into the monkey bars, actually denting them in the process!

The MarineOmnimon that Martin's Digimon was fighting then pinned her to the ground with its trident. MotherNaturemon's neck was in between two of the trident's prongs. With its other arm, the one with the MetalGarurumon head, it brought out a cannon. It powered up the cannon. Another MarineOmnimon created a large ball of water with its trident.

Taylor, Martin, Drusilla, and Emmett all looked in horror at their Digimon being overwhelmed by this legendary Digimon. Taylor dropped to her knees with a look of horror having washed over her face. "This….this can't be happening!" She said softly.

MotherNaturemon looked into the Garuru Cannon powering up in preparation to attack her at close range. She closed her eyes. "I'm sorry, Flora. I guess I won't be around to protect your son after all." She thought to herself.

Suddenly, Taylor let out some sort of primal scream, and a golden aura surrounded her and her digivice! That golden light transferred itself to Jawsmon, MotherNaturemon, CoalGolemon, and Harpymon. Martin and Drusilla looked at the screaming, glowing mermaid. "What is happening!?" He said. He looked down at his hand and noticed he was glowing too.

MotherNaturemon unleashed a blast of energy that pushed her assailant off of her. The four Champion partner Digimon all got to a place where they were standing beside each other. Golden light enveloped all of them, and then shot out of their bodies upwards! About 20 feet above their bodies, the form of a beautiful womanly figure appeared. She looked like a tall ghost! She had wings made of fire, small feathered wings protruding from her head, long white hair, and flowers growing out of her neck. This woman had no covering on her torso except two pink and red flowers covering her breasts. The womanly figure also had a dark green skirt with two coat tails. On her right leg was a holy ring. She wielded a shining silver sword. Also, a shark tail protruded out of her back from under the skirt. The Digidestined and Momofarpokarf looked in awe. "What is that?" Drusilla asked. "Are they digivolving again?" Martin speculated. "No. This is different." Taylor said.

The transparent beautiful winged woman looked down at the 10 MarineOmnimon. She flew towards them at a speed so fast, it might as well have been teleportation. She swung her sword and deleted all of them in a matter of seconds! "Not good!" Said the original Copymon. The Copymon raised his Grey Trident and started forming a giant ball of water. "That's…." Taylor began to speak, recognizing the attack that the fake MarineOmnimon was about to use. The ball of water got as big as the moon. "POSEIDON'S JUDGMENT!" The fake MarineOmnimon shouted before the moon sized ball broke into trillions of ice shards which then proceeded to rain down upon the beautiful see-through woman and the Champion level Digimon, whose golden auras she was attached to. The woman looked up, with a facial expression as if unimpressed. She flapped her fiery wings and sent massive streams of fire out of them. The ice shards melted and then rained down upon the city in the form of rain.

She then teleported in front of the original Copymon. She leaned in and kissed him on the forehead, like a gentle mother kissing her child good night. The place where the transparent winged woman kissed the fake MarineOmnimon was right where the Red Mark was! The Red Mark disappeared and MarineOmnimon fell down to the ground. The transparent woman then vanished like a phantom in the night!

When the transparent womanly figure disappeared, so did the golden auras surrounding the partner Digimon and Taylor. "Rain" continued to fall as Taylor looked in disbelief at what had just happened. Did they all just witness what they thought they witnessed? It seemed so fantastical! What in the world just occurred!?

Copymon returned to its original form. Momofarpokarf ran over and picked him up. "Copymon! Copymon! Are you ok?" She said. Copymon regained consciousness. "Where's that….nice lady? She was so pretty." Copymon asked. Taylor took a sigh. "So I didn't hallucinate all that, then." She said.

Later, everyone was standing in front of Momofarpokarf's house. Momofarpokarf bowed. "I want to thank you all so much for helping Copymon." She said. Taylor scratched her nose with her left index finger and smiled. "No problem!" Taylor said. Martin was standing to Taylor's right. He grimaced while looking at her from the side. "Actually, it was quite a big problem until…whatever that was happened." Martin said. The Digimon were now in their Rookie forms. Naturemon was bandaged up quite a bit. Martin had patched up her wounds. Naturemon bent down and kissed Copymon's forehead. "You be a good boy now, ok? Don't make your mother worry anymore. Always be sure to get good grades, clean your room when she tells you, and always eat your vegetables." Naturemon said. Copymon just stared into Naturemon's eyes. He nodded and said "Ok. I will."

When Naturemon kissed Copymon on the forehead, he felt the same kind and gentle sensation as when that winged transparent woman kissed him. "Are you her?" Copymon asked. Naturemon looked confused. "Her?" She responded. "The pretty lady that kissed the boo boo that bad man put on me." Copymon clarified. Naturemon tilted her head and put a finger on her lip. "Pretty lady?" Sharkmon put one of his front paws on Naturemon's legs. "He's complimenting you, Naturemon. Just accept it." Sharkmon said. Naturemon closed her eyes and let out a big smile in Copymon's direction. "You think I'm pretty? Thank you!" She said. But that wasn't what Copymon meant.

Dovemon flew up in front of Emmet's face. "Oh, how did we win, by the way? Did some of the older Digidestined come to our rescue or something?" Dovemon asked. None of the four remembered the beautiful transparent woman who annihilated a horde of MarineOmnimon like they were nothing.

Great, thought Taylor. More mystery. The other Digimon had absolutely no injuries on them at all. MotherNaturemon had completely healed them with her Motherly Love when she came to, prior to dedigivolving. But she had to be bandaged up because as previously stated, she is unable to heal herself with that move.