Episode 7 - Hunted

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Yamato sighed. "We set out on a mission to obtain the Digimental
of Yuuki. We succeeded, and were able to get two of our original
digimon friends to evolve to the adult stage. However, I'm not sure it was a victory.

"In the course of the battle, three Bakemon were killed by Sora
and Miyako. Sora is putting up a brave front about it, but Miyako
is a bit upset. Mimi acted more unsettled than Miyako about the
killing. Also, their leader, Phantomon, got away and warned his master, Vamdemon.

"That was a bad thing for two reasons. First, it meant that Vamdemon's
troops would be combing the woods for us. Second, Hikari's digimon,
Tailmon, is a prisoner of Vamdemon-- at least that's what Wizarmon
told us. Our chances of rescuing her have probably gotten worse because he knows we're here."

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The water flowed slowly down the stream, disturbed only by the presence
of four girls and three female digimon.

"I really think we shouldn't be doing this," Piyomon said flatly.

"Relax, there are no troops around," Sora replied.

Piyomon turned her head away. "For the moment, but they're combing the area looking for us."

"We needed to clean ourselves, particular Hikari," Mimi answered
while stretching out lazily in the water, exposing her perky breasts.
"How could you have soiled yourself like that, anyway?"

Hikari sank deeper in the water in a vain attempt to hide her embarrassed
blush. "Sometimes my nightmares are really bad and I... relieve
myself. I don't remember them so it's not much of a problem."

Sora shook her head. "I'd say that's a problem."

"I guess." Hikari shrugged weakly. "It just can't be helped though."

"Heeeello, Momma!" a gruff male voice called out.

Mimi submerged herself hearing the male voice. Hikari turned around
to see who it was, but remained almost completely submerged. Miyako
and Sora stood up and observed the digimon with vast amounts of suspicion.

"Who are you?" Piyomon demanded.

The bowling ball with a bearded, yet bald, man's face stretched
over it and short stubby, but muscular, arms and legs attached picked
his jaw off the ground. He tried to smile suavely, but gave them
a leering gaze. Two of them were very odd looking creatures, but
he believed them to be female. He certainly hoped so with those
enticing melons on their chest and even the strange hair between
their legs. Though he wondered why the one with purple hair had
a black bush, while the other one had the same red hair for her bush and hair.

"Why, pretty ladies, I'm Nanimon-- Vamdemon's chief drill instructor
for his castle guards." He bowed sleazily.

"Vamdemon?! Piyomon evolve!" A pillar of light surrounded the small
pink bird and a large fiery orange one emerged. "Birdramon!"

"Wait a second! You're Chosen?!" Nanimon called out in surprise. He turned tail and ran.

Birdramon blinked several times. "What a coward."

The girls turned their attention to a large commotion in some nearby
trees. All of the boys of their group burst into the clearing next to the river.

"Are you all right?" Daisuke called out and then his mouth hit the
ground. He would never call Miyako 'dog girl' again. She may look
like a pole in clothes, but naked her well formed, round breasts
accented her slender build that drew his eyes lower to see that she naturally has black hair.

Sora quickly dropped into the river.

Taichi turned around and found a tree rather interesting. Takeru
dropped to the ground and covered his bleeding nose. Koushiro just
stood there gaping at Miyako's glistening naked body who was still
standing in the shallow water.

Sora noticed Miyako's state and pulled her down into the river.
"What are you trying to do, give them a free show?"

"What? You'd charge them?" Miyako questioned.

Sora was tempted to drown the girl.

Yamato scratched his head, noting Birdramon devolving. "What happened here?"

"A digimon that works for Vamdemon by the name of Nanimon showed
up and Piyomon scared him off," Palmon answered.

Piyomon walked out of the river. "We should leave here before he returns with any friends."

"Should we stay here to guard you?" Hawkmon asked.

"ABSOLUTELY NOT!" the human girls shouted.

Gomamon swam between the girls. "I don't see why we can't."

Palmon flung him into the nearby trees with her vines.

"Taichi, why are you looking at that tree?" Agumon questioned.

"It's safer that way," Taichi replied.

"Damn, I was hoping to get a better look at Mimi. Miyako wasn't
bad though," Daisuke said to himself, but a bit too loudly.

Two smooth river stones bounced off his skull.

"And why is that pervert our leader?" Mimi wondered.

Taichi shook his head. "See what I mean?"

Agumon nodded while sweat-dropping. "Ah, yes. I guess."

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The Chosen and their digimon had quickly left camp and continued
their trek. Progress was hampered by constantly having to avoid
Vamdemon minions. At the moment they watched from the trees as a
group of Bakemon passed underneath them.

"I say we take them on," Daisuke said firmly after the ghost digimon were out of earshot range.

"That would give away our position," Piyomon retorted. "Let's just wait for them to leave."

"But they might not leave any time soon," V-mon commented.

"We wait for now. If we start fighting now, we might not make it
back to the portal," Yamato said.

"How far is it to the portal, Koushiro? I don't think I can take
much more of this," Mimi whined.

Koushiro sweat-dropped. "I'm... not sure. I think it's around here
somewhere. Beside, I thought Miyako was keeping track of that."

"You think?!" Mimi hissed.

"What gave you that idea?" Miyako questioned angrily. "I thought
you were the one to memorize where it was."

Taichi slapped his forehead. "Does anyone have any idea where the portal is?"

The only sound came from the Bakemon surrounding the tree. "We found
them. What should we do now?" one of the ghost digimon asked.

"Damn! This has gone all to hell." Taichi pulled at his hair.

V-mon pointed down at the Bakemon. "Stress relief?"

"All those who view a Chosen must die!" Hikari forced a cheer.

Taichi glared. "You watch too much anime."

Hikari looked over. "What? Gundam W is a classic."

"She has the right idea." Piyomon nodded. "Especially in this situation."

"What are they arguing about?" one Bakemon asked.

"I'm not sure?" The Bakemon moved in for a closer look.

"What are those lights?" another Bakemon wondered.

"Fire Rocket!"
"Mega Flame!"
"Meteor Wing!"

The area around the tree ignited in unholy fire, disintegrating
the Bakemon. When the flames subsided, Fladramon, Greymon and Birdramon stood in their place.

"No hostile digimon sited," Birdramon remarked before devolving.

Greymon and Fladramon devolved.

"Do we have to kill them?" Mimi questioned.

"It's either kill them or have them come after us until we're dead," Taichi answered.

"But why do we have to do this?" Mimi insisted. "Can't someone else
fight in our place? Soldiers who know how to kill?"

Sora sighed. "Listen, Mimi, we're caught in a war that none of us
asked to be in. I don't want to have to help kill, but I haven't
been given that choice. If you ever want to go home again, we have
to win this. Because if we don't, we're all probably going to end up dead."

"I, for one, don't want to die a virgin." Daisuke jumped out of
the now burnt tree. "Now does anyone have some clue?"

Sora shrugged and slipped off the branch she was sitting on. "If
we hadn't been forced off the trail we used, I would've remember
where it was. I think it might have been that way, but I'm really not sure."

"Miyako, why don't you go top side and see if you can spot anything
with Holsmon?" Daisuke suggested.

"Absolutely not!" Piyomon yelled. "If we do that, we might as well
post a sign saying we're all here. As it is we better get going
now before the enemy investigates this area because of the noise we just made."

"Let's just go, we'll talk about what to do when we're somewhere safer," Taichi ordered.

"Is there a safe place in this entire world?" Mimi asked seriously.

"Not really," Gomamon answered.

"At least not while the Dark Masters rule the world," Piyomon said.

Miyako sweat-dropped. "You guys can really be assuring."

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"It's official, we're totally lost," Daisuke groaned while watching
the sun set. "We don't even have a good shelter."

"Or food," Agumon whined.

Taichi sighed. "Ideas on what we should do?"

Koushiro looked up at the sky. "Well, trying to find out where we
are using the stars is certainly out. We're not even on Earth. Do
any of you digimon know anything about constellations?"

"Constel-what?" V-mon questioned.

"Well that group of stars looks like a cooked roast meat," Tentomon
pointed in the sky. "But I don't know how that'll help us."

"No star that points North?" Koushiro asked.

"Maybe, don't know which one," Tentomon replied.

Koushiro sagged.

"Well, when lost you're suppose to find and follow a river until
you reach civilization," Mimi offered.

"Except any civilization around here is probably controlled by Vamdemon,
assuming there is any cities or towns around here," Piyomon said
flatly. "We're better off lost in the woods than having to fight an entire town."

"I say we take the chance," Daisuke said firmly. "We need to get
food and help. We might be able to find both at a town. If they're
hostile, we'll just fight them and take their stuff."

"You can't!" Mimi cried out.

"We can't evolve if we're hungry," Agumon noted.

"Relax," Yamato said calmly. "If we do find a town, we'll just send
in a few of you digimon in. You guys can get food and find out if
they're allied with Vamdemon or some other evil overlord."

"Sounds like a plan to me." Taichi nodded.

Koushiro grumbled. "Well, I can't think of anything better."

"Okay, then first thing we do tomorrow is find a river," Daisuke said.

"First thing we should do is find food!" Agumon called out.

"Right!" V-mon agreed.

"A place to hide and sleep would be better," Hikari noted. "Vamdemon
employs a lot of undead digimon, and I bet they're stronger at night than in the day."

"I wouldn't bet against that." Gomamon waved his fin. "Overdell
is a nasty place at night, and this place is probably a LOT worse."

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"Finally!" Gomamon cannonballed into the river. It took them all
morning and avoiding a few of Vamdemon's minions to find it, but they finally did.

"Must you do that?" Piyomon called out angrily.

"Just let him have fun," Daisuke said.

"We've got to be more careful," Piyomon remarked defensively.

"Shouldn't he have come up for air by now?" Sora asked.

Agumon scratched his head. "Yes, but he likes playing jokes."

A ball of white fur bobbed up in the river, moving slightly due to the current.

"Gomamon?" Hikari called out.

Hawkmon flapped over to Gomamon and pulled him out of the river, flying him back to shore.

"Is he all right?" Hikari asked. She wasn't sure what to do with the comatose digimon.

Hawkmon looked him over. "I don't know. He doesn't look hurt."

"Ew! Look at all the dead fish," Mimi pointed at the river.

Palmon took a couple fearful steps away from shore. "The river has been poisoned."

"What are we going to do?" Hikari asked.

"Does anyone know of anything to cure him?" Taichi asked.

The digimon shook their heads.

"We'll have to carry him and hope there is a town nearby." Daisuke
picked up Gomamon and began to walk.

Agumon sighed, glancing at the river. "So much for breakfast."

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"A diner?" Koushiro called out in surprise. He looked around. "But
there's no other structures around here."

"Beggars can't be choosers, and I'm STARVED." Miyako drooled in expectation.

Hikari pointed at a sign. "Look. They have a cure to the river poison."

"It looks like a trap," Taichi commented.

Daisuke looked down at Gomamon, who was shivering in his arms. Motomiya
flatten his eyes. "Well, if it's a trap, we'll make them pay."

"How?" V-mon wondered but followed Daisuke to the diner anyway.

Daisuke blinked at a large vegetable with two large vines for arms that met him at the door.

"How many is your party, and how many need the cure to the river's
poison?" The digimon grinned dementedly.

"Um, seventeen and we need one cure," Daisuke replied.

Daisuke thought it was odd to see dollar signs in the digimon's eyes.

The digimon waved his vine-arms. "Certainly, right this way. All of you."

"Do you know where that poison came from?" Daisuke asked.

The digimon shrugged. "Vamdemon has been searching for someone and
poisoned the river to make it harder for him to escape. Fortunately
we have the cure for it in generous supply and 'reasonably' priced."

The kids and their digimon were given an entire corner of the restaurant
to sit at. He then hopped off and returned with a vial. He quickly
grabbed Gomamon out of Daisuke's hands and poured the vial down
the aquatic digimon's throat. Gomamon was then thrown back at Daisuke.

"Hey!" Daisuke called out.

"You can't treat him like that!" Hikari scowled angrily.

"Whoa... rocky seas," Gomamon groaned.

"You're all right?" Hikari questioned.

"Yeah... just need sleep...." Gomamon began to snore.

"He'll be perfectly fine in a few hours." The digimon pulled out
a note pad and a pen. "I'm Vegimon, and I'll be your server today. What would you all like?"

Vegimon sweat-dropped as most of the digimon and Miyako called out
orders at the same time. "One at a time please."

Vegimon diligently took down all of their orders, which none of them included fish, and left.

While waiting for the food, Piyomon walked over to Gomamon. She
touched him lightly on the face. "I warned you about being careful," she said regretfully.

"Will he be okay now?" Hikari questioned again.

Gomamon rolled over and his fins moved like he was swimming.

Piyomon seemed to smile. "He'll be fine."

"You like watching after all of them, don't you?" Sora commented.

Piyomon shrugged. "Someone has too. Agumon and Gomamon tend to be
too reckless for their own good. You guys don't help matters in that respect."

"Just remember to look after yourself too," Sora said.

Hikari yawned.

Taichi glanced at her. "How much sleep did you get last night?"

Hikari looked down. "I didn't...."

Taichi scowled. "You need your sleep."

Hikari sighed. "I couldn't risk having a nightmare. It would've
alerted any of Vamdemon's minions in the area to where we were."

"You're going to sleep the first chance you get, and I don't care
who it'll wake up if you have a nightmare," Taichi ordered.

"Sure...." Hikari looked away.

A moment later Vegimon and a digimon, which looked like a walking
egg with lizard legs that broke out of the shell, came out with
several trays of food. "Your meal is served," Vegimon called out.

"All right. Who's going to test to see if the food is...." Taichi
trailed off seeing Agumon, V-mon, Daisuke and Miyako had already
attacked their meals with religious frenzy.

"It doesn't appear to be poisonous," Hikari commented.

"Poisonous?!" the egg digimon yelled. "Why I never?! I would never
tarnish my restaurant's name by poisoning anyone." He stomped away angrily.

Vegimon chuckled as he increased the amount to be paid on the bill.

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"One hundred for the cure and one hundred ninety-three dollars and
forty-two cents for the food. That will come to two hundred ninety-three
dollars and forty-two cents " Vegimon held out a vine-arm.

"Ah, we don't dollars. We've got yen," Daisuke replied.

"Yen?!" Vegimon called out in outrage. "That's worthless. American
money is the only real currency."

"Let's see." Mimi rummaged around in her bag. "Um... I've got..."
She flipped through a few bills. "A hundred dollars." She blinked
as Vegimon pulled it out of her hand.

"You still owe one hundred ninety-three dollars and forty-two cents." Vegimon glared.

"I've got digi-bits." Piyomon pulled some odd shaped coins from
the ring that was around her left ankle.

"Digi-bits?" Vegimon laughed. "That doesn't have any value outside
of File Island." He then blinked. "How do you have money from File Island?"

Daisuke sweat-dropped. "That's not really important, is it?"

"You're right. The bill is important, now pay up!" Vegimon roared.

"What's the problem?" the egg digimon walked into the room.

"They won't pay the bill," Vegimon replied.

"Sure we will, we have enough yen." Yamato added under his breath, "At least I hope we do."

"Yen is worthless! Only American dollars or work in the kitchen," the egg digimon ordered.

Koushiro pulled out his laptop. "Do you have a bank account? Maybe
I can transfer the appropriate funds to cover... HEY!"

"This will cover your bill." Vegimon smirked evilly.

"Now all of you get out of here!" the egg digimon yelled before
knocking each of them out the door.

Gomamon bounced off Takeru's head. "Morning already?" the aquatic
digimon asked from where he landed.

"My... my computer...." Koushiro stared blankly at the door.

"So what now?" Daisuke asked.

"We get the computer back!" Miyako snapped.

"We did owe them for the bill," Mimi stated.

"That's not the point. That computer has the programs we need to
open the portals. Without it, we're stuck here!" Miyako shouted.

"Calm down." Yamato leaned against a tree. "We don't even know where
a portal is, so it's not very useful, is it?"

"Not useful?!" Miyako screamed. "We're going to let those lousy
digimon take Koushiro-sempai's computer because we can't use it
at the moment? That computer is worth a lot more than two hundred
bucks. To Koushiro it's priceless. He's put a lot of work into it.
To have someone STEAL it, because they won't take our money. They
don't have the right! And just what the hell are we going to do
when we do find a portal. We need that computer."

Miyako stomped towards the diner. "I'm going to get that computer.
Who's with me?" She stopped cold as the ground in front of her began
to glow. An egg rose from the ground with leaves and a symbol resembling
a tear drop on the egg, and it seemed to rest on what looked like
a shuriken. She instinctively took hold of it. She blinked. "What the?!"

"A digimental?!" several of those present called out.

"A digimental?" Koushiro looked over at Miyako. "Let me see that."
He hobbled over to her and his mouth hung open. "Junshin! That's the Digimental of Junshin!"

"Do you know where the portal would be then?" Taichi asked.

"Should be at the closest non-natural physical structure...." Koushiro
looked at the diner and sagged. "I think it's in there."

"Well, let's see if we can break a egg." Miyako looked over at her
partner. "Hawkmon. Digimental up!"

"Hawkmon armor evolve!" A light green sphere encased him, and exploded
causing no damage to anything. In Hawkmon's place now stood a two
meters tall, white robed ninja with shurikens for hands and feet.
"Bursting with purity, Shurimon!"

Daisuke grinned. "I liked my eggs poached. V-mon, digimental up!"

"V-mon armor evolve!" A sphere encased V-mon and shattered in a
fiery explosion that caused no damage. The lizard now stood over
two meters tall and had flaming red armor on his knees, arms and
head. "Burning with courage, Fladramon!"

"Let's go!" Miyako called out and ran into the diner.

Shurimon sprang after her, revealing his legs to be nothing more than coiled vines.

Mimi blinked. "Whoa. He should've been named Slinkymon."

"Huh?" Palmon questioned.

Daisuke and Fladramon chased after Miyako.

"Should we help?" Sora asked.

"If they need it," Taichi replied. "Our digimon are too big after
they evolve to fight in that place."

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"What are you doing back here?" Vegimon snarled.

"We're here to make a tossed salad." Miyako glared.

"Kusanagi!" Shurimon hurled a large shuriken toward the Vegimon.

The Vegimon screamed like a little girl, ducked under the attack and ran.

"Came back for more. Huh?" the egg digimon pulled in its legs and
the broken section in front of his eyes sealed. He then bounced
at his attackers, knocking them out of the diner.

"Just what is that guy?" Daisuke questioned, not minding how one
of his hands ended up on Miyako's breasts.

Inoue slapped his hand away as he didn't remove his hand from her chest, but squeezed it.

"Who cares? He's going to be hard boiled soon enough." Fladramon
stood up. "Fire knuckle." His burning and bladed fist didn't even scratch the egg shell.

The egg digimon was Digitamamon. A perfection level digimon who's
nearly impossible to hurt through his thick shell and his Nightmare
Syndrome attack can make you live through your worse dreams.

"You can't possibly hurt me with your puny attacks." Digitamamon
smashed into Fladramon's forehead.

"Argh." Fladramon staggered back. "I'm supposed to head-butt you."

"They need our help. Piyomon." Sora stepped forward.

"Piyomon evolve!" A pillar of light erupted where the pink bird
stood. Suddenly a gigantic pair of fiery reddish-orange wings stretched
forth, and the light subsided to reveal a couple stories tall bird
that had a flat beak with crocked teeth growing out it. "Birdramon!"

"Agumon evolve!" A pillar of light surrounded the tiny dinosaur,
and when it sub-sided a full sized and well fed looking Tyrannosaurus
Rex stood there with a horned mask over his head. "Greymon!" His
wounded leg shook as he stepped forward.

Gabumon looked questioningly at Yamato. "Should I?"

"Not with your injuries," Yamato replied, glancing at Gabumon's wounded shoulder.

"Aren't you going to help, Mimi-san?" Hikari asked.

Mimi shook her head. "This fight isn't right."

Palmon looked down.

"Well, I'm going to help." Hikari moved closer to the battle.

"But you can't do anything," Mimi called out.

The various digimon pelted Digitamamon with their many attacks. But they amounted to nothing.

Digitamamon laughed. "You're all pathetic." He crashed into Greymon's wounded leg.

Greymon howled in pain and collapsed.

"You must be the ones Vamdemon is searching for. He'll pay me well
if I destroy you." Digitamamon's legs broke free and the section
in front of his eyes fell away. "I'll just have to kill your fighting
spirit first. Nightmare Syndrome!" A ball of darkness shot out from
between the digimon's eyes, headed straight toward two chosen and a digimon.

"Koushiro! Look out!" Miyako yelled.

"Hikari!" Taichi screamed.

"No!" Tentomon covered his head as the ball absorbed him, Koushiro
and Hikari. The ball then dissipated leaving them exactly where they had been.

"Was that supposed to do anything?" Hikari questioned and then noticed
Tentomon and Koushiro on the ground, shaking uncontrollably.

"My leg..." Koushiro held his lame and began crying.

Digitamamon stared. "How can you not be affected?"

Hikari shrugged cluelessly.

"Now!" Fladramon called out.

"Kusanagi!" Shurimon threw a large shuriken at the opening in the
shell in front of Digitamamon's eyes.

Digitamamon staggered back. "You ass hole." He tried to pull the shuriken free.

"I've had enough of you." Fladramon shoved his arm into the opening
in Digitamamon's shell. "Fire Rocket!"

Digitamamon screamed in horrendous pain. "MY EYE! MY EYE!"

Fladramon sweat-dropped. "You should be dying."

Digitamamon fell away, with one of his eyes scorched black and smoking.

"Is he all right?" Mimi asked.

Fladramon devolved to V-mon. "He's only unconscious, and will be
blind in one eye." He scratched his head. "I don't see how he lived
through that, but he did. I don't wanna fight him again."

"I think we can all agree to that one." Daisuke ran to the diner.
"Now let's get the computer and find that portal."

"BLIND?!" Mimi shrieked.

"Let's just get out of here," Sora said, pulling Mimi along.

"You okay?" Miyako asked.

Koushiro nodded. "Yeah. Just relived... that moment... again."

"Maybe it's a good thing I can't remember my nightmares," Hikari commented.

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A flying bowling ball with bat wings flew into a someone's den.

"Pico Devimon, report," said the human-like figure at the desk.

"Lord Vamdemon, we have narrowed down where the Chosen are to somewhere
near Digitamamon's diner. I'd like to request some money to get his help."

Vamdemon smiled, showing vampire fangs. "You've done well. But you
are too late. Apparently there's a portal of some sort under Digitamamon's
diner, and they used that to return to File Island."

"But Lord Vamdemon?" Pico Devimon crashed to the floor. "You knew where the Chosen were?"

Vamdemon laughed. "Of course I did. They can't make a move in my
territory without my knowledge."

"Then why did you send my men out searching?" Pico Devimon questioned.
"We could've just killed them in one attack."

"They pose no threat. And it amused me to see them struggle their
way to 'safety.'" Vamdemon sighed. "Now they're Devimon's problem
again. I do hope they succeed against him. I look forward to fighting
them and claiming what is mine."

Pico Devimon sagged. "I'll call off my men."

"Do that." Vamdemon glanced over. "You can just 'happen' to send
a healer to Digitamamon and then find out if he wants revenge on
the Chosen. I'll gladly offer him a position in my Nightmare Soldiers."

Pico Devimon grinned. "Sure thing, boss."

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Omake! Omake! Omake! Omake! Omake! Omake! Omake! Omake! Omake!

Kamiya Tai followed this man known as Kamiya Kenshin. Tai didn't
know much at all about his ancestry, but this man was apparently
one of his ancestors. What he did know was that he had to defeat
the greatest member of his family line, with Agumon's help, to gain
his ancestor's powers so he can save his friends and, more importantly, Kari.

Kenshin sweat-dropped. "Why is everyone in town following me?"

"Well, it has been a couple years since you've had a public fight."
Yahiko shrugged. "They just want to see the Hitokiri Battousai fight again."

"Hitokiri Battousai?!" Tai shrieked. "He's THE Hitokiri Battousai?"

"What's the big deal about that?" Agumon questioned.

Yahiko blinked several times. "You're here to fight the 'strongest
Kamiya' and you don't know that?"

Tai shook his head.

"Why do you want to fight me?" Kenshin asked.

Tai scratched the back of his head. "My friends have been captured
by an evil entity and I have to defeat my greatest ancestor and
gain his powers to defeat him and save my sister and my friends."

"Why now, though?" Yahiko asked. "Why not when he was at his peak ability?"

"Because I was sent to a point in time after he fathered my ancestor,
in case he accidentally gets killed in the fight," Tai answered nervously.

"I see," Kenshin responded firmly. "You are doing this fight to help those you love."

Tai blushed. "Yeah."

"Tai, what's the deal about him being this Hitoki Batsou?" Agumon asked.

"The Hitokiri Battousai is one of the greatest fighters in Japanese
history. He alone was credited to killing untold number of enemies
and helped bring an end to an era," Tai answered.

"Ah, sort of like us." Agumon nodded to himself.

Yahiko sweat-dropped. "You've killed?"

"Only Digimon, creatures like him." Tai patted Agumon on the head.
"But I've long since lost count on how many we've killed."

"We're here." Kenshin waved his hand at a vast field with trees
about a hundred meters from a river and continued in both directions
from the river for several kilometers.

Tai nodded. "This will be good place to fight."

Chibi-Taichi sat in a nearby tree, munching on pop-corn. "This should be great."

"Afraid not," chibi-Sora sighed. "Archive-san went over. This is all we get."

"What?!" chibi-Taichi screamed.

Chibi-Sora smiled. "Stay tuned for Kamiya verses Kamiya. In the next part-"

"Watch Greymon kick Kenshin's ass!" Chibi-Taichi cheered.

"Nope! Kenshin will get to see a few friends." Chibi-Sora grinned
evilly. "The actual battle begins at the end of episode nine... maybe."

"Noooooooooo!" Chibi-Taichi cried out.

Chibi-Sora laughed. "Be seeing you!"

"That's my line!" Chibi-Taichi glared.

"Not anymore." Chibi-Sora winked.

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