Chapter 3: Rampaging Armadillo Fire and Bear Claws

It was another day in Odaiba we come to the Motomiya residence where in Davis' room we find him and Veemon doing their homework or watching tv.

"36 carry the diameter around 3 and multiply by 2..." Davis muttered working on a problem.

"C'mon Spidey and Kid Arachnid whoop Doc Ock and Vulture's ass!" Veemon shouted.

Davis finished his homework and sighed leaning back on his chair." You're liking that Ultimate Spider-Man way too much." He said looking at his parnter.

"Hey! Spider-Man is kick ass dope son!" Veemon said looking back at Davis.

"Jun! I told you not to let Veemon listen to anymore of your rap music!" Davis shouted.

"I tried! He always finds my stash!" Jun's voice came from the living room.

"Hehe, sorry. Slip of the tongue." Veemon chuckled.

"Whatever." Davis said setting the chair down. Something caught his attention making him look to see it was a photo of him and his team. It was right after they defeated Armageddemon. Davis was in the middle having his arms around Kari's waist and Ken's shoulders smiling like a loon, Kari was on his right laughing her face her hands resting on Davis', Ken was on his left chuckling, Yolei was beside Ken arms wrapped around his own giggling, Tk was beside Kari grinning shaking his head, and Cody was beside Tk smiling. In front of them were the Digimon, Veemon was giving a peace sign at the camera with his left hand smiling, Gatomon was on his right resting her left arm on his shoulder grinning, Wormmon was his left waving his right arm, Hawkmon was beside Wormming nodding his head grinning, Patamon was beside Gatomon flying and laughing, and Armadillomon was beside Patamon chuckling. Davis looked at the picture of them with a soft smile. "Even if my made fun of me sometime, they always had my back."

"Because Davis and Veemon are our friends!" Cody and Armdillomon protested.

"And if they don't want to go to school we'll accept that!" Yolei and Hawkmon shouted.

"Especially if they shouldn't be have to forced to go!" Ken and Wormmon said.

"No prob." Tk and Patamon grinned.

"We'll always have your back." Kari and Gatomon swore smiling.

"Whenever you're sad or in trouble a friend can talk to you, and fight from time to time then laugh about it afterwords." Doji said.

Remembering how supportive they have been of him and what Doji said made Davis have a revelation.

"Man, I'm such a dumbass." Naruto chuckled softly before he turned to Veemon who was watching his show end. "Hey Veemon."

"What's up, Davis?" Veemon asked.

"I got a surprise you us tomorrow." Davis grinned.

"What is it?" Veemon wondered raising a brow.

"You'll just have to wait." Davis said.

"Davis! Veemon! Time for dinner!" Gina voice came from the kitchen.

"Okay." Davis and Veemon said getting up and heading towards the door.

...The next day...

Laya, Psychemon, Otto, Datamon, Jake, and Bearmon were walking towards Davis' apartment.

"Say your prayers, Davis Motomiya! Today will be the day I will have you come to school, no matter what!" Laya declared raising her fists up.

"You said it Laya." Psychemon nodded.

"Man, what a guy! Laya goes through the trouble of coming to pick him up everyday and still..." Jack growled.

"And that partner of his is just as stubborn." Bearmon seethed.

"Today will be different, he will come with us." Otto said pushing up his glasses.

"Affirmative." Datamon said.

Laya stood in front of the door and took a deep breath and went to knock on it,

Only for the door to burst open knocking Laya out the way as Davis came out with sky blue skates on his feet having his backpack on his back and Veemon on his right shoulder.

"We're off you guys!" Davis yelled smiling.

"See you when we get home!" Veemon waved laughing.

Jack, Gina, and Jun came out the door watching the duo leave.

"I don't know why, but I'm glad Davis suddenly wanted to go to school." Jack smiled.

"He seems to be in better spirit." Gina giggled.

"I think we have our Davis back." Jun chuckled.

The three Motomiya turned their heads when they saw Laya and her gang looking in shock.

"Hmmm?"

...At Odaiba Middle School...

"So you guys plan on doing anything after school?" Tk asked.

"I got some kendo lesson with my grandpa." Cody said.

"Yeah, he's getting better and better. Cody's like a samurai." Armadillomon said.

"Sounds like those lessons are paying off." Patamon said.

"I'm not looking forward to my next class." Yolei moaned slamming her head against the locker.

"How come?" Ken asked.

"There's a teacher that's out to get Yolei, always trying to make her look bad and stupid." Kari answered.

"Sounds like they have it out for Yolei." Wormmong said.

"It's for a petty reason." Gatomon said.

"The teacher's only doing it since Yolei solved a problem they couldn't do." Hawkmon said.

"Not my fault I'm smarter than them." Yolei huffed.

"I think they're just jealous of Yolei's superior intellegect."

"Thank you! Someone who get's it!" Yolei shouted throwing her hands up. She then looked confused. "Wait who said that?"

"Me." Everyone turned around to see Davis was standing there with Veemon still on his shoulder both smiling at them. "Hey guys."

"D-Davis... you're here." Kari stuttered.

"That's right, I'm back." Davis said.

"Not that we're not happy to see you, but why are you back?" Cody asked.

"Well yesterday I came with a realization I should've had months ago." Davis said.

"And what's that?" Tk asked.

"I realized that when I was mourning over the lost of my Uncle Dom you guys have always been there to try and cheer me up and pick me back on my feet. You guys are my friends and even though I brushed you guys off, you still stood by my side and didn't try to push me to come back. So what I'm trying to say is, thanks for putting up with me. And I'm happy to call you guys my friends." Davis said giving them a soft smile making the gang smile back at him.

"Oh! I can't take it anymore, c'mere!" Yolei rushed at Davis and gave him one big hug making Davis grunt but smile all the same, luckly Veemon jumped off before that. "I missed you!"

"Missed you too, Yolei." Davis chuckled.

Once Yolei put him down Cody walked towards him.

"I know losing a family member is hard, but the best thing you can do is try to live for them." Cody smiled.

"Thanks for that Cody." Davis grinned patting him on the head making Cody smile more.

"I've got to say, not having you around made me appreciate you all the more, bro." Ken said walking up to him.

"I know the feeling Ken." Davis laughed as the two hugged brotherly.

Davis walked toward Tk and they both just stood there they stuck their hands out and shook.

"Glad to have you back, Davis." Tk smiled.

"Glade to be back, Tk." Davis smiled.

They let go of each others hand and Davis walked towards Kari and stopped in front of her.

"Hi." Davis said.

"Hi." Kari said.

Not needing to say anything else Davis and Kari hugged each other holding on tightly.

"I missed you. I'm so sorry for not being there for you." Kari whispered.

"I missed you too. And I'm sorry for ignoring you and the others all this time." Davis whispered back.

"I guess you're going to be sticking around, huh Veemon?" Hawk grinned.

"You betcha. Let me tell ya, I was shocked when Davis told me he wanted to come back to school." Veemon chuckled.

"Well it's good that we're going to see you around a lot more." Patamon said.

"Sho'nuff buddy." Armdillomon nodded.

"Group's gonna feel the same now that you're back." Wormmon said.

"On that we all can agree on." Gatomon smiled wrapping her right arm around Veemon's shoulders.

"We better head on to class before we're late." Davis said as everyone nodded their heads, told their partners they see later and walked on off.

The group made it to class and sat down to their desks that were around each other.

"Feels kinda weird, now that I'm back." Davis said.

"Well yeah, you've been done for 2 months dude." Tk chuckled.

"Don't worry Davis, we'll help you feel familiar back here." Kari assured.

Laya suddenly came up to Davis with her eyes sparkling in happiness.

"I'm so proud of you Davis! You finally came to school!" Laya smiled.

"I didn't really do it for you." Davis deadpanned sweatdropping.

"Well I see everyone in class is present!" A female teached said before looking at Davis. "Davis, if there is something you don't understand, just ask someone, okay?"

"Okay." Davis nodded.

"I will leave it up to you, Laya." The teacher said looking at Laya.

"Leave it to me." Laya said.

"Why her?!" The gang thought in dispair.

...With the Digimon...

The Digimon were currently sitting in a tree chilling out while their partners were in class.

"So wait, you're saying that Digimon are now alllowed on school grounds?" Veemon asked sitting down on a branch wiith his back against the trunk.

"Yeppers." Armadillomon said lying on his back on a branch.

"Given the fact you wouldn't know cause you've only been here to get Davis' assignments it's not that surprising." Hawkmon said sitting on a branch crisscrossed.

"Yeah, the teachers have even set up a common area for the students to hang out with their partners. Along with new areas they set up as well." Wormmon said hanging upside down from a branch on his web.

"You'd be surprised with what's changed in just 2 months." Gatomon said lying down on a branch like a cat would about to take a nap.

"Wonder how Davis would react to it?" Veemon wondered.

...A few hours later; around lunch time...

Davis and the gang along with their Digimon were on the roof hanging out after they finished their lunch.

"I still can't believe of the new places around here." Davis said.

"Well the school did plan on having a few construction around here for awhile now." Yolei said.

"Yeah, from what I saw when me and my family moved over here they were adding new places. Heck I heard they're doing it in all the schools." Ken said.

"I think it was said something about making school more enjoyable." Cody said.

"I thought it was a place for you to learn about the world." Hawkmon said.

"It is, but that doesn't stop it from being boring." Tk said.

"Davis got a vacation from it for 2 months." Kari teased.

"Hey homeschooling wasn't all that cracked up to be. As soon as you got done with your work you get alot of free time to yourself. I mean sure it's good, but after awhile when you've run out of things to do it get's dull. The only good thing about it is that I was able to make myself smarter." Davis said.

"What about all your video games?" Patamon asked.

"Beat every last one of them. 15 times, actually." Davis said.

"Talk about killing time." Wormmon said.

"I hear that." Armadillomon said.

"Yeah, I pretty much play them now." Veemon said.

"Knowing you you'll turn into a game-nut like Davis." Gatomon grinned.

That got everyone laughing.

"What are you doing out here?" The gang got up and turned around to see Laya and her gang with her as Jake was carrying a stack of papers and books.

"Just hanging out with my friends." Davis answered.

"What's with the books and paper?" Cody asked.

"They're all the notes up to yesterday. It would be a problem if you got behind on your studies, right?" Laya grinned crossing her arms as Jake set the books down beside Davis.

"Look, I've been studying at home. So while I appreciate it, I don't really need this." Davis said placing his hands on his hips.

"What? Are you planning to put the Class President's kindness to waste?" Jake growled grabbing Davis' hoodie and lifted him up.

"Back off fatass!" Davis seethed trying to prive Jack's hands off.

"Let him go!" Veemon headbutted Jake in the gut knocking him down to the ground as Davis landed on his feet. "I'm getting sick and tired of you grabbing my partner."

"Why you...!" Bearmon said about to attack.

"Okay, everyone calm down." Laya said seeing everyone get off on the wrong foot. "I saw earlier you were a little lost. It's natural since you haven't been at school." Laya walked to Davis and grabbed his left hand. "So I will show you around. C'mon."

"H-Hey!" Davis said as Laya started to pull him away as Veemon and Psychemon were behind them.

"This girl." Kari muttered as everyone started to follow them.

Laya showed Davis around every new place he wasn't familiar with, some places got his attention others didn't.

"Next I'll show you our planetarium." Laya said.

"The school has a planetarium?" Davis asked.

"You'll see." Laya grinned.

They came into a hi-tech planetarium where Laya led Davis to the controls. Laya typed in some stuff and showed stars and planets wowing Davis.

"Cool." Veemon smiled.

"Impressive, isn't it?" Psychemon grinned.

"You want to try?" Laya asked.

"Sure." Davis nodded.

Away from them were the Digidestined and Laya's group.

"Seriously, why is Laya bothering with a guy like that?" Jake grumbled.

"It's obviously for getting more status." Otto said pushing his glasses up. "By helping Davis around the school, her status goes up."

"With the rate it goes, becoming the student council president isn't just a dream." Datamon stated.

"Figures it's all about her status." Yolei huffed.

"That Laya is becoming real sleazy." Tk said crossing his arms.

"She's never that kind to me like that... I'm envious..." Jake muttered. He noticed a soccer ball near his foot and kicked it away in anger. It soared through the air and was heading towards Davis and Laya.

"Incomming!" Laya shouted seeing the ball at the last minute.

Davis slammed his knee up making the ball bounce up in the air before he started dribling it in impressive ways before he made it land in his hands.

"Nice moves." Laya smiled impressed.

"Well I do have some mad soccer skills under my belt." Davis stated proudly.

"Ooh, is Jake jealous of Davis?" Otto teased.

"Shut up!" Jake exclaimed blushing turning his head away.

"Well I see you have things handled here, I'm going to go walk around." Veemon said leaving the planetarium.

...In the EM world...

Two shadowy figure were zooming through trying to follow a wave pattern they've been feeling. They both had energies overlapping their bodies. One was orange and the other was brown.

"I can feel we're getting closer." The shadowy figure with the orange energy said in a male voice.

"Wait, look." The shadowy figure with the brown energy said in a male voice with a growl pointing to the field where Veemon was walking. "It's coming from him."

"He has the same feeling as Omega-Xis. Let's get him!" The shadowy figure with the orange energy shot off towards Veemon.

"I can't wait to see how this turned out." The shadowy figure with the brown energy said in annoyance.

...With Veemon...

I can't get a read on that Laya girl. But she seems to have honest intentions for Davis dispite how she's going about it." Veemon said with his hands behind his head. He then sighed in content and looked up at the clouds. "Y'know it's nice to just kick back and relax for a day."

Suddenly his instincts kicked in making Veemon leaped forward and rolled on to the ground dodging a figure that tried to crash into him, when he got to his feet he looked behind him to see the figure in the air show theirselves. It was being made of fire in a shape of a buff body with arms and a tail wearing red armor on its shoulders and head with a yellow bull symbol on it, along with a grey snout and red eyes tha had flamming bulls horns coming out of the sides of it head.

"Wait a sec..." Veemon muttered getting flashes in his head of the figure in front of him. "You're Taurus!"

"Yes! And you have the same EM wave pattern as that traitor Omega-Xis! Meaning you're his Digimon counter part and that you two have fused!" Taurus said crossing his arms. "And if that's the case then you can hand over the Andromeda key!"

"Sorry don't have it." Veemon said standing up.

"Liar! If you won't hand it over, then I'll just have to defeat you and take it!" Taurus said before flying at Veemon who got ready.

...With Davis and the others...

"And... if I do this..." Davis said putting in codes and coordinates that showed different galaxies and planets wowing everyone.

"Amazing." Laya said.

"Hey Laya, where do you want me to put these books and stuff?" Jake asked.

"Just put them on Davis' desk." Laya said.

"Wha.. but... okay." Jake muttered walking away with Bearmon beside him.

"Y'know these are galaxies and planets not found yet by earth." Otto said.

"How'd you know where to find them, Davis?" Ken asked.

"Well my Uncle Dom would always show me everything about space. He told me it was a gateway to another world. Even though space isn't my cup of tea Dom always made it fun whenever he explained it to me. He always showed me what he found thanks to his research." Davis smiled fondly at the memory.

"You must miss him very much." Laya said placing her hand on Davis' shoulder.

"Yeah..." Davis muttered.

"Well the best thing you can do is live for him, and never forget the memories you have of him. That way he will always be a part of you." Laya said.

"Thanks, Laya." Davis smiled looking at her. "Y'know you can be pretty nice when you want to be."

"I know I come off as a annoying person, but that's only because I try to help people with their problems." Laya said looking forward. "Not that long ago I lost my aunt in an accident too."

"Really?" Davis said.

"Yeah, it was right after the whole thing with that MaloMyotismon creep that my family got a call about our aunt. She was a geologist studying the world for mankind to understand the earth better, then one day a cave collasped on her and her team. The workers came out fine, but my aunt, she died protecting one of her co-workers. When I found out I was devastated and shut myself off from everyone even my friends. Then one day I got Psychemon, I tried to push her away telling myself I didn't need anyone, but then Psychemon explained it to me just like I did for you that all along as you hold the memory of your loved ones, they never really die and they will always be in your heart." Laya said placing her hands on her chest.

"Wow. You and me aren't so different." Davis smiled.

"Even if we find ourselves in the dark, we have to remember we have our friends to help pull us out." Laya said looking at Davis.

"Yeah, you're right." Davis nodded.

"As long as you remember that you'll always have a friend in us." Psychemon smiled.

"I guess Laya isn't such a bad girl afterall." Cody said.

"Real shocker." Wormmon said.

"Yeah, Laya is like a big sister to me so we always try to look out for one another." Otto smiled.

...Back with Veemon...

Veemon and Taurus slammed into each other trying to overpower the other til Veemon incased his hands with EM energy turning them into claws before he swiped at Taurus' face with his right claw before turning around and backkicked him with his left leg. He jumped back before he leaped at Taurus and slammed his head into his gut knocking him down to the ground.

Growling in annoyance Taurus got and rushed at Veemon and slammed his right shoulder into Veemon's making him stumble back before he was punched in the gut that made him bend over, the fire bull FM life form then raised his fists up and slammed them into Veemon's head knocking him down to the ground. Taurus then started pummeling Veemon as he was down making the Digimon go deeper and deeper into the ground.

Veemon then leaped up and highkicked Taurus under his chin knocking him back as the Digimon backflipped and landed on his feet before jumping towards his opponents and punched him left and right then twirled arond to kick him with his right leg, but Taurus grabbed his leg before punching Veemon in the chest who blocked it with his arms and the two leaped back from each other.

"Had enough Digimon?" Taurus asked.

"Not on your life, pal." Veemon said.

Taurus then flew up in the air as Veemon incased his whole body in EM energy vanishing from the world to fight him in the EM world.

As they were battling it out the gang came out to walk the grounds after leaving the plantarium.

"Y'know with the way you added in new planets, galaxies, and solar systems you might have a future in astrology." Laya said.

"She might be right about that, Davis." Kari giggled.

"I don't know about that." Davis laughed.

"I wonder where Veemon went to." Gatomon wondered.

"I would'nt worry about him. I'll bet he'll turn up before we know it." Patamon said.

Otto suddenly saw something out the corner of his eye.

"What the?" Otto said getting everyone's attention. "What's that?" He pointed.

Everyone looked to where Otto was pointing and saw two invisble forces slamming into each other.

Feeling something was wrong Davis pulled his goggled over his eyes and saw Veemon and Taurus battling.

As they clashed again they slammed their hands together trying to one up the other. Taurus headbutted Veemon in the head making him go back, Taurus leaped in the air before charging at Veemon and talked him in the ground towards a bench. Veemon groaned getting up before Taurus was on him again tackling him again and then flipped him over his head making Veemon roll around on the ground. As Veemon got up again Taurus made a large fireball in his hands before he threw it at Veemon blasting him into a tree and slid down to the ground.

"D-Dammit..." Veemon groaned.

"I have more power than any other from Planet FM. You have no chance of winning!" Taurus said crossing his arms.

"Saids you! I won't lose to you!" Veemon growled getting up. "From what I have of Omega-Xis' memories, all you have is power, nothing else!"

"What was that?!" Taurus demanded.

"Here! I'll show you!" Veemon said incasing himself in green energy before he zoomed forward and was in front of Taurus surprising him. Veemon kicked Taurus up in the air and followed him punching and kicking him all over his body really fast-like, he then flew over him and slammed his feet into his back knocking him to the ground. Veemon flew towards the ground beside Taurus before he twirled around and backkicked him in the face with his left leg making him twirl around and slammed into the wall beside the gang. "How you like that? You can't keep up with my speed, and thanks to Omega-Xis it's doubled." Veemon smirked.

"That that little..." Taurus growled.

"Whoa, do you guys see that?" Armadillomon breathed.

"What?" Datamon asked.

"I can see some kind of flamming bull." Armadillomon said.

"You mean one of those invisble forces?" Hawkmon asked.

"Wait I think I can see too. Or at least it's still invisble and looks like a bull." Cody said trying to see it.

"That Digimon can see me? Then he must be my Digimon counterpart. And that human, he has the same wave patterns as me." Taurus thought before he chuckled. "This might work out in my favor."

"Why is that thing looking at Cody and Armadillomon?" Davis wondered getting a bad feeling.

"C'mere!" Taurus shouted rushing towards them.

"Cody! Armadillomon! Watch out!" Davis shouted.

"Huh?!" Cody and Armadillomon said, but it was too late.

Taurus went into Armadillomon's body making his eyes glaze over in a blank-like state before he went into Cody's body and his eyes did the same, then Cody's D-3 turned into a yellow Transer that was on his left arm before they suddenly vanished before everyone's eyes.

"Cody!" Yolei shouted.

"Armadillomon!" Wormmon yelled.

"They disappeared!" Tk exclaimed.

"EM Wave Change! Cody Hida On-Air!" Cody said as armor started to appear on his body before a flash of light covered his whole form, when it vanished and showed him his body looked like Taurus Fire's except the armor was yellow, had black spiked braclets on his wrists and ankles, the extra armor on his arms were purple producing gold flames, his feet looked like Ankylomon's, the spike on his knees were black, the grey chest armor was there except the lines were colored purple, on his back was Ankylomon's shell with his tail coming out from under the shell, his head still had the snout but the armor looked like Ankylomon's except the horns looked like a bulls and his eyes were green with black pupils. "Armadillo Fire!"

"No way!" Davis breathed.

"What is it?" Kari asked.

"Gold Fire Breath!" Armadillo Fire fired gold flames from his snout towards Veemon.

"AAAAAUGGH!" Veemon shouted as the flames incased his whole body and threw him towards the woods section on the field.

"No!" Davis shouted.

"What going on?" Datamon asked.

Suddenly Armadillo Fire appeared in front of the group frightening them as they all huddled up together.

"Wh-What is that?" Laya stuttered in fear.

"That's Cody and Armadillomon!" Davis growled.

"What?!" Yolei shouted.

"They've been taken over by a monster!" Davis said.

"No way!" Psychemon said.

"You knew about EM Wave Change, Taurus?!" Veemon groaned trying to get up.

"As I am now I'm not Taurus, I am Armadillo Fire!" Armadillo Fire roared before he launched golden fire from him snout everywhere making everyone run to try and take cover.

"Give me back my friends!" Davis demanded charging at Armadillo Fire.

"Get lost!" Armadillo Fire yelled backhanding Davis making him soar towards the trees.

"Davis!" Kari shouted.

"We gotta keep moving!" Gatomon said.

"Davis! You ok?" Veemon asked appearing in the real world and was beside Davis who was leaning against a tree having slammed into it.

"Yeah, I'll be fine." Davis groaned getting up. "But first we have to save Cody and Armadillomon."

"I'm with you!" Veemon nodded getting ready.

"Then let's do this. EM Wave Change! Davis Motomiya On-Air!" Davis shouted as he and Veemon vanished into a light, when it died down Veeman was in his place. Seeing that Armadillo Fire was still firing golden flames Veeman leaped at him and kicked him in the back of his head making Armadillo Fire stop and looked behind him to see Veeman backflipped and landed a few feet away from him.

"So you EM Wave Changed, huh counterpart of Omega-Xis?" Armadillo Fire asked.

"The name is Veeman in this form!" Veemon said.

"Vee, so Cody and Armadillomon were taken over by this Taurus guy?" Veeman asked.

"Yeah, to power up Taurus completely fused with Cody and Armadillomon. It was the same with Swan Wing." Veemon said before turning to Veeman. "Saving them with be impossible until we defeat Armadillo Fire."

"Right!" Veeman nodded before looking at Armadillo Fire. "Get ready Armadillo Fire, cause I am going to defeat you!"

"Defeat me? Ha! Don't make me laugh!" Armadillo Fire said smugly snorting golden flames out of his snout. "I will defeat you and take back the Andromeda key!" Armadillo Fire skidded his right foot up like he was preparing to charge. "Armadillo Tackle!" Armadillo Fire charged in a shoulder tackle but Veeman jumped over him and landed behind him and turned around to see Armadillo Fire make a u-turn to charge at Veeman again. but he rolled out the way.

"You're too slow." Veeman smirked.

"Oh yeah! Try this on for size!" Armadillo Fire challenged as he curled up in a ball and rolled in place while jetted golden flames from arm armor. "Armadillo Gyro Roll!" He rocketed himself at Veemon who barely had time to dodge as the attack was faster that his other one. "Took you by surprise didn't I!" Armadillo Fire mocked before turned rolled and began rolling at Veeman again making him dodge his attacks again and again tearing up the field.

"Even if you EM Wave Changed, all you do is charge in, relying on your strength. You're attacks are a single pattern." Veemon said.

"Oh really?" Armadillo Fire chuckled before he uncurled himself and jumped up in the air and surrounded gold flames around his right fist. "Fire Punch!" Armadillo Fire charged at Veeman and punched him, but Veeman jumped back in the air.

"Now!" Veemon said.

"Right! Vee Buster!" Veeman fired purple energy shots from Veemon pelting Armadillo Fire's body making him groan in pain as dust started to cover his body. When Veeman landed Armadillo Fire jumped out of the dust with his left arms surrounded by golden flames. Veeman was about to move til he saw the Digidestined, Laya, Otto, and the Digimon taking cover behind a tree hearing all the commotion of the battle. "Damn, can't move or else they'll get hit." Veeman swore before he pulled out a card and threw it up. "Battle Card! Predation! Sword!" Veemon ate the card and became a sword before Veeman used the sword to block the punch from Armadillo Fire but it made him skid back to where the group was getting their attention.

"Veeman!" Laya gushed hearted around her eyes making everyone sweatdrop.

"Quick! Get away from here!" Veeman ordered.

"Right!" Laya saluted.

"You got it, dude." Tk nodded as the ran off.

Armadillo Fire thrusted his arm up throwing Veeman in the air behind him.

"Battle Card! Predation! Cannon!" Veemon's head became the cannon before Veeman fired shots at Armadillo Fire knocking him to his knees from the attacks. Veeman landed before getting in a fighting position glaring at Armadillo Fire. "You can't win Armadillo Fire, give up."

"As if!" Armadillo Fire grunted getting up before looking behind Veeman to see the gang trying to take cover, this gave him an evil idea making Armadillo Fire charge at Veeman who got ready but was unprepared for when he ran pass him and grabbed Kari and Laya in his left hand making them shout.

"Laya!" Otto and Psychemon shouted.

"Kari!" Yolei and Ken shouted.

"He's taking them hostage!" Veeman growled.

"That's low even for you!" Veemon roared.

"Heh." Armadillo Fire chuckled before dashing off.

"Get back here!" Veeman demanded taking off right behind him.

"Gold Fire Breath!" Armadillo Fire launched his flame attack nailed Veeman making him skid across the ground.

"D-Damn..." Veeman grunted trying to get from the force of the attack.

"You alright?" Veemon asked.

"Been better." Veeman groaned. He looked to see Armadillo Fire was nowhere on the field. "Where'd he go?"

"Veeman, look!" Veemon said tilting his head to the school.

Veeman followed his gaze to see Armadillo Fire climbing up the school heading towards the roof. Not wanting to lose him Veeman jumped up on the building and onto a wave road beside the school. "That's enough, Armadillo Fire!"

"Veeman..." Armadillo Fire frowned standing on the roof.

"Veeman!" Laya gushed with hearts in her eyes.

"Our lives are at stake and you do this?" Kari said in disbelief.

"Don't worry! I'm going to save you both!" Veeman said. "But I can't get close to him without hurting Kari and Laya. What do I do?" He murmured.

"Gold Fire Breath!" Armadillo Fire fired his attack again making Veeman leap to the roof to dodge but Armadillo Fire was in front of him catching him by surprise. "Fire Punch!" He slammed his firey right arm into Veeman's gut slamming him into the fence of the roof making it dent as he fell down.

"Hey, don't you do that to my Veeman!" Laya demanded.

"Try not to piss off the thing that literally has us in his hands." Kari groaned.

"Why you..!" Veeman growled getting up.

"Gold Fire Breath!" Armadillo Fire launched his fire attack again nailing Veeman into the ground again.

"Veeman!" Laya shouted in concern before she glared at Armadillo Fire. "Hey! I told you to stop that! What do you think you're doing, attacking my Veeman like that?!" She demanded slamming his fists on his hand.

"Veeman, you got to attack him. If this keeps up we'll lose." Veemon said.

"I know that. But I can't attack him while he's got Kari and Laya." Veeman growled in frustration.

Kari seeing Veeman couldn't attack cause of them knew she had to do something.

"Cody! Armadillomon! Snap out of it!" Kari shouted.

Armadillo Fire's body freezed up as if something inside of him was making him stop.

"W-What the?" Armadillo Fire said trying to get his body to move.

"Cody and Armadillomon must be resisting his control." Veeman frowned.

"Veeman, do it now!" Veemon said.

"Battle Card! Predation!" Veemon ate the card and became a red gauntlet with wide blades on the sides with white accents, and a green energy sword sticking out, but the blade was wide at the tip. "Wide Sword!" Veeman charged at Armadillo Fire and slashed his left hand making him throw it up in the air letting Kari and Laya go. Seeing they were free Veeman leaped up and wrapped his arms around them before landing a few feet away from Armadillo Fire. "Get to safety." He said.

"Right/O-Okay." Kari said as Laya stuttered from being held and they both hid.

"Damn you!" Armadillo Fire growled.

"I'm freeing Cody and Armadillomon from you right now!" Veeman said.

"I'd like to see you try!" Armadillo Fire shouted curling in a ball and rolled in place. "Armadillo Gyro Roll!" He rolled right at Veeman intending on squashing him.

Veeman readied himself and steeled him feet to the ground as Armadillo Fire slammed into him, but he didn't move as Veemon wrapped his arms around the spinning foe. Veeman threw his arms up throwing Amradillo Fire in the air leaving him defensless.

"Battle Card! Predation! Gatling Gun!" Veemon became the gatling gun before Veeman fired his barrage of orange energies at Armadillo Fire leaving him in a dust cloud as he landed. The dust cloud disappeared showing a swirling orange tornado that flew away leaving behind the body of Cody and Armadillomon. "I did it." Veeman sighed in relief.

"I'll be back, Veeman!" Taurus promised flying away.

"Cody! Armadillomon!" Kari said going to her friends checking on them.

"Are they ok?" Laya asked.

"They're fine, Just knocked out." Kari said.

"So Taurus failed. Not that surprising since he always relied of strength in his battles." Everyone turned to see Jake and Bearmon in the doorway of the roof.

"Jack? Bearmon?" Laya asked.

"No, something's wrong." Veemon frowned.

"How right you are." Behind Jake and Bearmon something cam out behind them. It was a being made of tan energy in the shape of a bear with brown armor on its paws with light brown claws, three armor slashes on it chest, and brown face armor with a light brown snout with green eyes. "The name's Ursa. A friend of Taurus'." It chuckled in the voice that was with Taurus earlier. (If you have a hard time picturing it, look up megaman starforce fm constellation. It'll show up a picture of other different fm lifeforms. You'll the find the one with Ursa)

"What did you do to Jake and Bearmon?" Veeman demanded.

"It's quite simple really." Ursa chuckled.

...Flashback...

"Typical. When things don't go his way Taurus always goes to fighting dirty." Ursa huffed seeing Armadillo Fire take two humans hostage. Suddenly he felt something making him look at the school. "This feeling." He muttered going into the school to find this feeling. When he came into a hallway he saw Jake and Bearmon walking around.

"Where do you think Laya and the others went?" Jake asked his parnter.

"You're guess is as good as mine." Bearmon shrugged his shoulders before he saw something. "Hmm?"

"What is it?" Jack said.

"I see some sort of energy bear in front of me." Bearmon said.

"What?" Jake said looking to see where Bearmon was looking at only to see an invisble bear. "I think I can see it, but it's invisble." He muttered.

"So this one must be my Digimon counterpart, and the human has he same wave patterns as me." Ursa said before chuckling. "This could work in my favor."

Ursa flew into Bearmon making his eyes glaze over in a blank-like state before he did the same to Jake making his eyes to the same, Jake's tan D-3 turned into a tan Transer that was on his left arm.

"Time to get in on the fight." Jake smirked.

"Absolutely." Bearmon grinned.

...Flashback Ends...

"You bastard! Release them!" Veeman shouted.

"After I take care of you and get the Andromeda key." Ursa chuckled before going back into Jake. "EM Wave Change! Jake Jones On-Air!" Jake said as a flash of light appeared over his body. When it vanished he looked like Ursaring except where the circle was on his chest there was three slash marks like his FM form, his eyes were green with black slitted pupils, and he had no tail. "Bear Claws!"

"Oh no! The same thing that happended to Cody and Armadillomon was done to Jake and Bearmon!" Laya yelled.

"This is bad." Kari frowned.

"You two! Take that kid and Digimon and find cover, now!" Veeman said.

"Right!" Kari and Laya nodded as they grabbed Cody and Armadillomon and went off to hide.

"Bear Slasher!" Bear Claws roared as he ran towards Veeman with his claws extending 1 foot long.

"Battle Card! Predation! Swords!" Veeman threw up two cards before Veemon chomped them and he and Veeman's right hand became the swords.

Veeman and Bear Claws clashed each one trying to overpower the other before they jumped back and clashed again. Bear Claws suddenly got the drop on Veeman by slashing him across the chest making him go up in the air, Bear Claws then jumped up in the air and slashed down at Veeman sending him to the ground.

Bear Claws dive down readying his claws again to strike, but Veeman got and twirled around like a spinning top deflecting his claws before he was all over his body knocking him to the ground. When Veeman stopped spinning he charged at Bear Claws who was getting up and slashed at him left and right.

"Annoying little fool!" Bear Claws growled swiping his claws at Veeman who jumped back. "Got you." He smirked before rearing his head back as his mouth glowed orange. "Bear Beam!" Bear Claws shot a large beam of orange energy from his mouth right at Veeman who couldn't dodge it engulfing him in a explosion.

Veeman was suddenly thrown from the explosion and rolled around on the ground til he was on the other side of the roof.

"S-Shit, that's some serious firepower." Veeman groaned trying to ignore the soreness from his body.

"From what I can get from Omega-Xis' memories, Ursa had strength and speed. He covered what Taurus couldn't do." Veemon said.

"Then I guess it's lucky we didn't fight them both." Veeman joked getting up.

"I will break you. Bear Waves!" Bear Claws slashed his arms around firing a barrage of white slashes.

"Let's go!" Veeman ran towards the barrage of slashes dodging left and right, jumping and rolling around getting closer to Bear Claws. "Take this!" He then uppercutted his under his chin with Veemon before he twirled around and kicked him in the chest making Bear Claws stumble backwards. "Vee Buster!" Thrusting Veemon out Veeman fired a barrage of purple energies pelting his body.

"You bastard!" Bear Claws ran right up to Veeman and swiped his left claw at him but he blocked his with his right arm, he then tried to attack him with his other claw but Veemon clamped on that one stopping him too. The two then raised their knees up and slammed them into each other creating boom after boom, Veeman and Bear Claws reared their heads back and slammed then into each other trying to knock the other one off.

"I will stop you!" Veeman promised.

"Ha! You will only fall trying!" Bear Claws laughed.

Away from them Kari and Laya were watching the intense battle.

"Oh man. This is nerve wreaking." Laya muttered.

"There has to be a way to help him." Kari frowned. She suddenly thought back to when Armadillo Fire froze up after hearing her voice. "Wait a sec... Laya!" Kari said turning to her.

"What?" Laya asked.

"Somewhere in that savage is Jake and Bearmon. If you can reach then like how I reached Cody and Armadillomon Veeman might have a chance to free them." Kari told her.

"What makes you think I can do it?" Laya said in doubt.

"You're their friend. I'm positive they'll hear you." Kari assured.

Laya looked at the battle to see Veeman struggling so she decided to try.

"Jake! Bearmon! Come to your senses!" Laya yelled getting Bear Claws and Veeman attention.

"You can't expect your friends to break through my control." Bear Claws smirked.

"Yes, I can! Because my friends are stubborn like that." Laya said.

"Maybe I'll come after you to shut you up!" Bear Claws threatend.

"Jake and Bearmon! Don't let this jerk beat you! Do you hear me?!" Laya shouted.

Just like what happened to Aramdillo Fire, Bear Claws body frozed up. He tried to move it as hard as he could but it wouldn't budge.

"D-Damn!" Bear Claws growled.

"Now you're mine!" Veeman shouted throwing Bear Claws in the air. "Now to end this!" He said as Veemon's eyes glowed red and his mouth shinned purple energy as his head glowed.

"Finish him!" Veemon said.

"Vee Buster! Charge Shot!" Veeman positioned Veemon right at Bear Claws and fired a large beam ungulfing Bear Claws.

"NOOOO!" Bear Claws shouted before an explosion engulfed him.

From the explosion fell Jake and Bearmon but luckly Veeman caught then as a tan energy flew from the explosion dust into a distance.

"You haven't seen the last of me!" Ursa promised leaving the area.

...A few minutes later...

Cody, Armadillomon, Jake, and Bearmon groaned as they sat up and looked to see their friends around them.

"Cody." Yolei sighed in relief.

"Nice to see you're up Armadillomon." Wormmon said.

"You okay?" Tk asked.

"Yeah, I should be fine." Cody said rubbing his head. "But what happened?"

"You guys don't remember?" Patamon asked.

"Our heads a blank." Armadillomon said shaking his head.

"That's weird." Ken said.

"Well you two were taken over by monsters." Hawkmon said.

"The same for you and Bearmon." Otto said.

"Really?" Bearmon asked.

"Yeah, we came up here to you you guys turn into something." Psychemon said.

"Talk about intimadating." Datamon said.

"Well I can't remember it." Jake said.

"It's probably for the best." Laya said.

As they were talking Veeman was standing away from them looking at the groups.

"I'm glad they're safe." Veeman sighed.

"Yeah, but two battle in a row against tough foes, that had to be taxing." Veemon said looking at him.

"Tell me about it. I just want to lay down for a week. Man by body's sore." Veeman said rubbing his back.

"Um..." Veeman and Veemon looked to see Laya was standing in front of him blushing a bit with Psychemon beside her. "Thanks a lot for saving me, Veeman."

"No prob." Veeman smiled making Laya blush more.

"Wait a sec, where's Kari?" Tk asked.

"She left to go check on Davis since he got attacked." Ken said.

That made Veeman and Veemon sweat a bit.

"We found you!" Everyone looked to see Kordin with the Z Force Police.

"Crap!" Veeman cursed jumping up in the air and disappearing.

"Veeman, wait!" Laya whinned.

...With Kari and Gatomon...

"Come on where is he?" Kari muttered looking for Davis through the trees fearing for his safety.

"Kari! Over here!" Gatomon said getting her attention to see Gatomon point a few yards away where Davis was at sitting up against a tree with Veemon kneeling down beside him.

"Davis!" Kari shouted running towards him.

"Kari?" Davis groaned rubbing his head.

"I found him hurt against the tree when I heard all the comotion." Veemon said. "What happened anyway?"

"We'll explain it to you later." Gatomon assured.

"Are you hurt?" Kari asked kneeling down beside Davis.

"A little sore, but I'll live." Davis grinned.

"That's a relief." Kari sighed before giving him a stink eye. "But don't you ever do something like that again, Davis Motomiya!"

"Sorry, I was trying to free Cody and Armadillomon." Davis apologized. "By the way, are they alright?"

"Yeah. Luckily Veeman saved them, along with Jake and Bearmon." Kari said.

"Veeman?" Davis asked.

"Who's that?" Veemon asked.

"You guys don't know who Veeman is?" Gatomon asked.

"No." Davis said as he and Veemon shook their heads.

"Well let's just say he's a new hero in Odaiba." Kari said.

Davis and Veemon were smiling inside of their heads at the cover up.

...Later that day in the Motomiya Residence...

Davis was laying in his bed resting his still sore body ad Veemon was on his computer.

"If we're going to keep fighting these FM-ians we got to continue on our training." Davis huffed.

"I agree with you on that. We were lucky only fighting two opponents today. It could've easily been a third one." Veemon said.

"I hear ya." Davis sighed putting his hands behind his head. "But it's nice to be with the gang again."

"I'm proud of you Davis. You're moving on a continue to live your life. And I'm sure Jun, your parents, and your Uncle Dom would agree." Veemon smiled proudly at his parnter.

"Thanks pal." Davis smiled feeling like his uncle with smiling down at him right now.