"Wow! Devimon sure has them working hard." Matt observes. "Yeah, it sure
looks like they could use a break, and I wonder how they move around with
all those chains and everything. "Ssh." Gabumon whispers. "Someone's coming
in the room!"
As Ogremon enters the room, he carefully looks around for any surprises the
kids might have prepared for him. "You don't have to worry Ogremon. Chained
up as we are and without our Digimon we don't stand a chance against you."
Izzy says sounding defeated. "WHO TOLD YOU TO SPEAK?" Ogremon thunders as
he slaps Izzy. HARD. Izzy goes down onto his knees and wipes the blood from
a corner of his mouth. "I'm sorry...Sir." Izzy cowers. "That's more like it!
Now get back to work!" Ogremon wakes around the room inspecting their work.
"That's it Tai! Let's go and clobber this guy!" Matt whispers harshly. "I
know how you feel Matt...but we have to wait for the right moment." Tai
whispers. "Boy, and I thought Izzy was driving us hard..."Matt says quietly.
"Ssh." Gabumon says. "Watch."
"You there! Come here!" Ogremon yells as he points at T.K. Trembling, T.K.
stands in front of Ogremon. "Why aren't you working as fast as the others?"
demanded Ogremon. "I'm...I'm very little Mr. Ogremon. The others they're
bigger and stronger than I am." T.K. trembles. "Is that so?" Ogremon says as
he unrolls a whip. "P...p...please, I can work faster, I can...don't..."
T.K. cries out as the whip hits him and bleeding gashes appear on T.K.'s
back. Ogremon brings his arm back to deliver another blow but gets tackled
by the alternate Matt. "Leave him alone!" Matt yelled. "We're all working as
fast as we can! You hardly feed..." Ogremon easily tosses Matt aside. "T.K.
get up!" Ogremon orders. With tears in his eyes T.K. obeys. "Now, I want you
to use this on your brother ten times." Ogremon hands T.K. a little device.
"It will just give him a nasty, painful shock." T.K. hesitates looking at
the others. "NOW!" Ogremon thunders shoving T.K. forward. T.K. stumbles over
to Matt and whispers "I'm sorry Matt." T .K. touches the device to Matt's
side. Matt screams in agony as electricity courses through his body. T.K.
removes the device and says "One" then touches it to Matt again "Two..."
Later...
"Okay pests. Your work is over...for now! Enjoy your sleep!" Ogremon l aughs
as he hands out bowls filled with a putrid-looking liquid. "I made it
myself. It's good for you! So you'd better enjoy it!" Laughing again,
Ogremon leaves the room. Izzy eats a little spoonful. "Ugh! Even the camp
food was better than this! I sure w ish they'd let you cook Matt. *Sigh* But
I guess we have to eat something." Izzy reluctantly shovels spoonfuls into
his mouth. T.K. takes a bowl over to the groaning Matt. "Are...are you going
to be OK?" T.K. asks worried. Matt groans. "Yeah **cough* I just ache all
over." Matt takes the bowl and starts eating. Joe approaches T.K. "I'd
better look at these cuts." T.K. nods and Joe helps him take off his
sweater. Joe digs into his First-Aid kit. "This is going to sting T.K." T.K.
nods and bites his lip. As Joe applies the medication, T.K. bites his lip
harder and tears start rolling down his cheeks. "There all done. Keep your
sweater off for a bit until it dries." Joe packs up his kit and resumes
eating.
"Now's the perfect time Tai. You should go down there and find out what's
going on." Matt says. "Why just me?" Tai asks. "`Cause you're not down
there. Maybe you can find out some stuff first." Matt says. As Tai starts
heading down the slope, Matt grabs his arm. "One last thing, be careful, oh
and remind me to kill Ogremon when I see him again. For what he did to T.K."
Tai nods and concentrates on his footing as he heads down the slope.
Sora was the first to see Tai coming down the slope. "TAI!" she excalimed as
she rushed up and hugged him. "Uh, hi Sora. Long time no see." By this time
the others had surrounded him and they started asking questions all at once.
That is, until Sora broke in. "Tai, we thought you were dead! When Seadramon
dragged you under and you didn't resurface..." (NOTE: Yes I know that
Seadramon actually dragged Matt down, but hey! This is an ALTERNATE REALITY!
=) Izzy broke in. "Yeah, we searched for days after but we never found any
trace of you or Agumon. But since you are here I guess you did survive."
"Well actually..." Tai began. Matt comes up and grabs Tai's shirt. "If you
were alive why didn't you come and rescue us sooner?" Matt demanded angrily.
"We've been here slaving away and.."
"IF YOU WOULD JUST LISTEN MATT! Boy
it's weird talking to myself, anyway if you'd listen Tai would tell you that
we're from a different reality. So calm down." Matt1 (our Matt) finishes as
he walks down the slope and helps Gabumon and Agumon down. Matt2 stares
awestruck and lets go of Tai. "Prodigious! Then you must have found my
Digi-Vice and laptop!" Izzy said excitedly. "Yup! I got them right here."
Matt1 pats his back. "We'll tell you all about us later. Right now, how
about you fill us in on what's been going on." Tai says.
"Well, Devimon's been having us keep the Black Gears running for months now.
When we were captured, he took away our Digi-Vices and our Digimon and we
haven't seen them since." Izzy explained. "Well I guess that's where Gabumon
and I'll start. Tai you and Agumon should start looking for a way to break
those chains. Oh...here Izzy." Matt hands Izzy his Digi-Vice. Matt1 and
Gabumon exit the room and begin their search.
"Don't worry guys. We should be able to beat Devimon a lot easier now that
we have our Tags and Crests." Tai explained as he and Agu worked to break
the chains. "Tags and Crests? What are those?" Izzy inquired. Tai his Tag
and Crest out from under his shirt. "This is the Crest of Courage. Matt has
the Crest of Friendship. They help our Digimon to digivolve even further.
Hmmm..." Tai says as he examines the chains. "Agu, I think we'll need your
Pepper Breath to melt the chains." Agumon comes over. "Sure thing Tai, but I
think this'll take awhile." Tai thinks. "Take your time Agu, if this place
is as much a maze as it is in our Digi-World, Matt could be searching for a
long time...
"Ugh! This is hopeless Gabby! This place is one giant maze!" Matt says as he
slumps against a wall. "Their Digimon and Digi-Vices could be almost
anywhere." Matt holds up his Digi-Vice. "And this thing hasn't so much as
beeped yet!" Gabumon pats Matt on the shoulder. "Be patient my friends,
we'll find them and then we can get out of this place and back to our
World." Matt sighs. "Well let's go."
A little later...
"Um Matt?" Gabumon asks. "What?" asks Matt angrily. "Someone's coming!" Now
Matt could hear the footsteps too. "There is nowhere to hide Gabby. We'll
just have to fight!" Matt says as Leomon rounds the corner. "What? How did
you two escape? No matter. I must take you back to my Master...Devimon."
Leomon unsheathes his sword and charges. "Gabum on digivolved to Garurumon!"
"Garurumon! Distract him while I get closer!" Matt yelled. Leomon slashes at
Matt and a burning pain in his left arm tells him that he didn't duck quite
fast enough. Fighting against the pain, Matt makes his way closer to Leomon
as he and Garurumon exchange shots. "Howling Blaster!" "Fist of the Beast
King!" "Sorry about this Leomon, but it's for your own good!" Matt shouts as
he touches his Digi-Vice to Leomon's leg. "Arrgh!" Leomon screams in anguish
as the Black Gears in his body are driven out.
"Leomon are you OK?" Matt asks. "I'm fine now that you have freed me from
Devimon's evil control." Leomon replied. "Right now we need your help...can
you show us where Devimon's keeping the Digimon and Digi-Vices?" Matt asks.
"Yes, follow me, but be very quiet. Devimon has listening devices
everywhere." Leomon said as he leads the way.
Later...
"Wow! These Digimon look half-dead." Matt said as he unlocks the cages.
"Yes, Devimon had us only feed them enough to keep them alive. He didn't
want them to get strong enough to break out." Leomon explained as he
retrieves the Digi-Vices and gets some food. "Mmm...Matt? How did you?"
Patamon asks weakly. "Ssh. Eat some of this and get your strength back.
We're going to need your help to defeat Devimon." Matt said as he carefully
feeds all the starving Digimon.
Later (again)...
"All better guys?" Matt asks. The Digimon nod. "But Matt we're still tired
and weak. I don't know how much good we'll be in a fight against Devimon."
Gomamon says. "Don't worry. Hopefully Tai and I can handle everything." Matt
reassures them. 'Tai? I thought he was..." Biyomon begins. "Yeah, I know.
It's a long story. Anyway, if you guys are ready we'd better rejoin the
others. I hope Tai got those chains off by now." Matt says as he starts
leading the way back.
"There! That's the last of them" Tai says as he throws away the last of the
chains. "Whew! I can't tell you how good it is to be rid of those." Mimi
says. "And not a moment too soon! Here comes Matt with our Digimon...and
Leomon?" Joe asks surprised. "Don't worry Joe, Matt must've used his
Digi-Vice and turned Leomon into a good Digimon again." Tai explained.
"Palmon!" Mimi explained as she rushed up and hugged her Digimon partner.
Soon all the others followed suit. Matt1 smiles as he returns everyone's
Digi-Vices.
"Well. What a happy reunion. Didn't you think I'd notice such an explosion
of happiness in my domain?" Devimon's voice thunders from above. "I think
I'll just wipe all of you kids out now! You have served me long enough!"