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Everybody was sitting around Takato's body. They were all completely silent, locked in thought. It was Lee who spoke first. He stood up, his blue hair flapping in the wind. "Well? What do we do now?" Nobody answered him.

Kazu looked up at him, anger evident in his eyes. Then he dropped his head and glared at the ground.

"We can't stay here you guys, it's dangerous. Beelzebumon might come back" Lee sighed.

Kazu looked up at him again. To everyone's surprise, it was Kazu who snapped "Oh for pity's sake, would you give them a moment"

Lee fell silent.

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Everyone was sitting on their knees around the body of Takato.

Takato's hand were on his chest, his fingers locked together. His eyes were closed, and his head was aimed towards the sky. He looked either extremely deeply asleep or dead. He wasn't asleep. He was dead. He would always be dead. He was never coming back. They would all have to accept that eventually. Takato was dead.

Kazu slowly reached up his hand, then grasped the band around his head. He slowly lifted it off, letting his hair fall down above his eyes. It covered everyone's view of his face as he slowly lay it across Takato's head. Takato would never feel Kazu do that.

Kenta reached down to his waist, unsnapping the small pouch of cards at his side. He reached over to Takato's body, then he lay it across Takato's midsection, making sure that his cards would stay there. Then he lowered his head and didn't look at Takato's body again.

Rika slowly reached into her pocket. Takato had given it to her. He hadn't trusted himself, saying that he might lose it or that he might let Guillmon use it for target practice. It was the note that his mother had given him. She slipped it into his pocket, then she reached into her own pocket and pulled out something else. It was the good luck charm his mom had made for him. She slowly latched it around Takato's neck, making sure that it would stay secure.

Lee took off his green shaded sunglasses. He set them down on Takato's neck, hanging them there. Takato had bought him those glasses. He had bought them at the same time that he had gotten those goggles of his. If he could, he would have thanked Takato a million times over before this had happened. Takato had said that just in case they got spotted, he didn't want anyone to recognize them and spread the news all over Japan.

Jeri was the last. There was something yellow attached to her hand. It was her digivice, now useless without Leomon. Leomon. He had died. He was like Takato. He wouldn't come back. People only survived in the movies. In real life, nothing happened that easily.

She slowly dropped her hands down towards him. She silently slipped the digivice in between his fingers. Then she dropped backwards. One tear feel down her cheek. It slowly dropped off of her chin. Then it landed on the ground, disappearing forever.

Kazu stood up, his fists clenched. He looked at the group, anger evident on him. The way his fists were clenched, the redness of his fists, the burning fury in his eyes. He was going to make sure that Beelzebumon paid with his life. He wanted to make sure that Beelzebumon felt all of the pain that everyone was feelings now. He wanted Beelzebumon to suffer.

"I say we hunt down Beelzebumon. I'm not gonna sleep until I see that guy on the ground begging for mercy" said Kazu, holding up a fist.

Kenta and Rika looked up. They had grim expressions on their faces. "I think I speak for all of us when I say that I want to see Beelzebumon have his guts ripped out in front of us. I say we kill him" said Rika fiercely.

Jeri and Lee stood up. "For Takato"

Everybody stepped forward. Kazu put his hand down, followed by Kenta's, Rika's, Lee's, and Jeri's. "For Takato!" they all chanted together.

Then they were off, running in the direction that Beelzebumon had gone in. It was possible, Kazu thought, that they didn't need to find Beelzebumon. He would probably find them.

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Beelzebumon looked down at the group of Kuwagomon, pitifully. It had been so easy to manipulate them. Simply kill one or two, and the whole lot of them suddenly became so afraid that they would follow his every order. He had been thinking about killing them all anyway and loading the data, but he already had enough power. He had beat Megidramon after all, and who would need more power then that?

He held up an arm, and immediately, all of the chatter and noise around him died away instantly.

"What are your orders, sir?" asked one of the Kuwagomon.

Beelzebumon looked down at him, smiling evilly. "I want you to go kill the group of pests that has been bothering me. And be quick about it!"

"Yes, Lord Beelzebumon!" they all chanted, then they were off, buzzing away like a group of bees.

Beelzebumon smiled grimly. It would be highly unlikely that any of them would survive an attack of that number of digimon, no matter what type or how strong they had been.

They were not gonna make it out of this one.

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Everyone was lying on several large blankets, matted together on the ground to provide warmth. The digital worlds temperature differed every day. Last night, it had been nearly 70 degrees. And tonight, it was under 12. They were huddled up in blankets for warmth. Renamon had a fur coat, and such, was lying on the ground. Gardromon had no feel. Lopmon and Terriermon were huddled next to each other for warmth.

The night sky around them stopped all viewing, save for a little moonlight that dimly made the ground glow where it shined. Not a trace of life shone around the area except for them. Stars dotted the night, many more then last nights. Everything in the digital world seemed to be messed up.

It was when Kazu woke up sometime passed 1:00, that something strange happened.

His eyes cracked open a bit. Of all the nights to have insomnia. He shivered in voluntarily. Then his eyes opened wind. Buzzing? Was it a bee? Wait a second. There was no such thing as bee's in the digital world. What could it be?

It was getting louder now. And very close. Somewhere off to his left. He slowly sat up, making sure that everyone stayed asleep, then stood up, running a hand through his hair. Oh well, he could go back to bed later. He had to go check out that noise. Once he had gotten about ten feet away from the blanket, that was when he saw it.

Black. A swarm. Black dots came zooming forward from afar. It looked like a swarm of locusts coming at them.

"Everybody wake up! Tell me this is a natural occurrence!" shouted Kazu, practically falling over backwards to run towards Gardromon. Gardromon, who never fell asleep, simply activated a scanner in his eyes.

"Scan complete. Swarm of Kuwagomon. Headed in our general direction. Mission: seek and destroy" assessed Gardromon.

Renamon was up in an instant, and everyone else began to sit up, steadily shaking their heads in a drowsy motion and rubbing their eyelids or trying to wipe some crust out of their eyes.

"Kazu! I'm gonna kill you!" Rika roared, getting to her feet and standing groggily.

"Everyone wake up! Get ready! We're gonna get killed if we don't find shelter!!" shouted Kazu desperately, searching for a crevice or a cave of some sort. Wasn't there any form of escape?!

"Over here! I found one!" shouted Kenta, crawling into a large crevice.

Then the attack hit. Kuwagomon of every shape and size zipped through the area. They clattered their campsite apart and ripped their blankets to shreds. Claw marks dotted the ground, marking nearly the entire place.

"Grenade destroyer!" shouted Gardromon, bringing up his arms. Two small missiles popped out of two panels on his shoulders, then blasted off, setting a course for the middle of the swarm. It didn't really matter where he fired, because he was going to hit something pretty much no matter where he aimed. Kazu looked on with satisfaction as he saw a dozen Kuwagomon fall out of the sky, screaming, then deleting into a million bits of data.

"Diamond storm!" shouted Renamon. Dozens of white crystals flew through the air, slicing through the Kuwagomon like paper. They screamed as they instantly deleted, raining bits of discarded data that appeared as blackened smudges of charcoal.

"Everyone into the crevice!" shouted Jeri, jumping in as well, quickly followed by Rika and Renamon, Gardromon, Lee-who was carrying Susie- and Kazu.

Lopmon and Terriermon nodded at each other, then cried 'Twin Tornado!"

Immediately, they both began spinning out such a high rate of speed that a huge tornado broke out, swallowing up Kuwagomon and throwing them all directions, or simply shredding them apart when they entered. Bits of smudged data flew all over the place, and Kuwagomon dropped from the sky like flies. Then they both hurried off to the crevice just as a cache of claws came zooming to the spot they had been a moment ago.

"There's thousands of em!" Kazu shouted. "Gimme one of those!"

He grabbed onto Gardromon's arm, who was shooting grenades left and right, then with all of the strength he could muster, began to unscrew it. When he got it far enough off, he yanked at it and it came off in his hand. He attached it to his own arm, then reached into it somewhere and pulled a small knob on the side. Instantly a grenade came flying out, crashing into the sky and exploding, sending Kuwagomon left and right in little pieces.

The recoil sent him flying backwards, crashing into the wall, implanting him to the side and creating sort of an outline of his impact. Kazu stood there implanted in the wall for a moment, then he stepped out of the crater and aimed the thing back upwards. "Man! The recoil on this thing is bigger then an elephant gun!"

Then he aimed upwards, sending another projectile flying upwards, slamming into another twenty and blasting them out of the sky and with a huge ball of plasma flame.

The recoil nearly sent him into the wall again, but he was getting used to it.

Renamon, Terriermon, and Lopmon were sending blasts out of the crevice left and right. Kuwagomon dropped down like flies. The great thing about the crevice was that it offered a great defensive position. The Kuwagomon could only get at them from above, but they had a place to retreat, a great offensive position, and they only had to blast one way from getting attacked.

The battle lasted for quite awhile. Each side seemed evenly matched. The Kuwagomon had far greater numbers, and were depending on sheer numbers to take them down. But they would not last forever. But their prey was wearing down to.

They could not use their attacks forever. Kazu and Gardromon was running out of ammo, Renamon was exhausted form having to use diamond storm over and over, and the two rabbits could barely stand up from all of the fighting. They were fighting a losing battle.

Jeri looked up at them. The Kuwagomon were pouring in faster then ever, and their team was totally exhausted. Then could not last more then a few minutes. Didn't they have any goods cards to use?

"Look over here!" shouted Kenta. He was pointing into the inky blackness surrounding them. It lead further into the crevice into a hole that dropped downwards so that they couldn't see anything. "It's our only way outta here! I say we move it or lost it!"

"Everybody over here! We have to escape! The Kuwagomon won't go down there!" shouted Jeri to the group. Without hesitation, she leaped down the hole, followed by Kenta, Kazu, then Renamon who disappeared instantly. Gardromon rocketed down the hole, followed by Rika, then Terriermon and Lopmon, followed by Lee.

"Everyone be careful!" shouted Lee just before he disappeared into the darkness.

Then everyone's view went black.

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