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Hello!! *looks out at empty audience* Oh well....was that a waste of a sentence, or what? *mutters* Aww...no one's reading this...

I don't own Digimon (but I'd like to, merchandising opportunities galore!) so suing me ain't the best idea, cause I'll beat the pants off ya in court anyhow!
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The Digi-duds Part I: Almost Digidestined, but not Quite

A dark shadow falls over the moon as several flying Digimon and their riders blaze across the sky, coming in for a landing next to a small lake. Unfortunately, these weren't the most coordinated Digimon, and instead of landing next to the lake, one bashed into a tree, the other made a belly lading on the water's silvery surface, making ripples in the reflection of the moon.

Soon, the flying Digimon de-digivolved and the riders made their way to the shore where they met six other children, much like themselves.

"Have you located the Digidestined?" their leader asked.

"Yes," one answered. "You wouldn't believe how vaunerable they are. They're all asleep!"

"Of course, you nitwit!" said the brains. "It's nighttime!"

"So we attack at dawn?" another asked.

"That's right, little sister," the leader answered.

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Sora yawned. She was glad the sun was finally up. As she gazed around at her sleeping companions, she felt something amiss. She shrugged it off.

"Just my imagination," she told herself.

Sora carefully woke everyone, one by one.

Tai barely opened his eyes before asking, "What's fer breakfast?"

"I'm hungry! Let's get something to eat!" cheered T.K.

Mimi, Kari,T.K., and their Digimon looked for fruit while Tai, Sora, Agumon, and Biyomon retrieved some firewood. Joe fished in a pond while Gomamon sulked how everyone was eating his buddies. Izzy was puttering on his laptop and Tentomon was hanging around him. Again, Matt was elected chef and cooked the fish Joe brought him over a fire, courtesy of Agumon.

"What's wrong, Matt?" asked Gabumon. He had noticed how Matt had inadvertently been stirring around the embers of the fire with a stick, staring into space.

"Huh? Oh, nothing....." Matt trailed off as he got lost in his thoughts once more.

"Then how come your letting the fish burn, hotshot?" Tai asked, more worried about his breakfast burning than whatever was going on in Matt's head. Matt quickly attended to the fish, when suddenly the bushes behind Tai started shaking.

"Watch out!" Sora's eyes had immediately been drawn to the bush as a bad feeling from earlier still hung over her. She shoved Tai to the side with all her might and landed with a thud on her stomach, where Tai had been standing moments earlier. Sora's heart was pounding as a figure stepped out of the bushes. She closed her eyes tightly, expecting an insane evil Digimon no one had ever heard of.

"What's the matter Sora?" questioned T.K., as he stepped out of the bushes followed closely by Mimi, Palmon, Kari, Gatomon, and Patamon who was actually riding shotgun on top of his hat. They carried an abundance of fruits from the forest, that Palmon had O.K.'d individually.

Sora sighed heavily as she got up and helped up Tai who made a crash landing on the rough ground beside her.

Sorry about that, Tai," she apologized.

"Forget it Sora," he told her. "You were only trying to help." He gave her a wide smile and she blushed.

Meanwhile, Matt and Joe had been frantically trying to extinguish the charred sea-life that now barely resembled fish. Sadly, they weren't very popular at breakfast.

"Matt, how come you burned the fish?" T.K. asked. He considered his brother "the best chef in the Digiworld" (which was probably true) and the over-fried fish were a let down.

"Sorry, T.K.," he apologized.

"Yeah, Matt's been pretty preoccupied this morning," Tai added. "That's probably how we ended up with a Cajun breakfast."

Laughing echoed off the shores of the pond they were camped by. Izzy failed to notice, for he was still typing furiously, as he had been all morning. His slightly happy expression faded to a rather disturbed one as he began to read an e-mail from Gennai he had just discovered.

"Guys....." he began.

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"I thought we were gonna attack at dawn...." said one of the littler figures.

The figures gathered once more around the lake shore. This time it was early afternoon. Their obviously ruined plans proved them to be some of the most un-punctual {izzat a word?} figures in Digiworld.

"We were, but everyone was up so late last night tracking them, nobody got any sleep, so everyone slept late, therefore wrecking our plans to attack in the early morning." The figure explained to his younger brother.

"Ok, so what now?" another asked. "I'm worried. What if we get attacked on our way to attack them?"

"Oh, stop worrying," said his Digimon.

"Let's get moving," said the leader.

"They have no idea what's in store for them......" chuckled one with a purse.

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Ya know, sometimes I kill myself with my own cliffhangers...pretty sad, sure...*sigh* Oh well, if anyone wants to read more of this, I'll write more, BUT the chances of that don't look good right now....*smile* Thank you for reading!!