Disclaimer: I still do not own Digimon. Piedmon would have gotten a proper deletion if I did, not that whole being knocked backwards into a gate thing. Not only that, but come on! An ULTIMATE opened it! I don't see an ultimate beating Piedmon, as cool as MagnaAngemon is.

Chapter 8

"Davis!" shouted Tai, panicked. With a cry, the older boy was immediately on his feet, charging at the hideous creature. Unfazed, the Vilemon merely flew higher, laughing as he saw Tai almost run into a nearby pillar. He looked up angrily. "Come back here, you coward!" The creature merely laughed harder at the boy below him.

The digimon's eyes suddenly widened and he let out a shriek. Before he knew what was happening, Tai noticed his friend falling at a rapid pace towards the hard floor. Without thinking, the older boy rushed to where Davis would land.

'Maybe this isn't such a good idea,' he thought as the other boy fell on top of him, causing them both to hit the ground. "Owww! Davis, I think you should cut back on the junk food a bit," said Tai, rubbing his head and pushing the younger boy off of him.

"Hey! Watch it!" cried Davis, scowling at his friend.

"What did you do to him anyway?" asked Tai, watching as the Vilemon hopped around, gripping his hand.

The other boy grinned widely. "Simple! While you were running around like an idiot down here, he loosened his hold on me so I was able to move his hand just enough so that I could bite him!" he said proudly.

Tai just stared at him. "You bit him?"

Before Davis could reply, both boys turned as an angry hiss alerted them to the Vilemon's recovery. The creature flew at them, claws outstretched.

"Look out!" yelled Tai as he dove out of harm's way. Glancing at Davis to make sure he had made it also, he instantly turned his attention back to the small digimon. Furious, the Vilemon quickly turned and charged again.

"Dude! Quit it already, will ya!?" shouted Davis as he dodged the fifth such attack. Tai grabbed the younger boy's arm. "Hey, what was that for?" he whined.

"I have an idea," replied the other boy quietly, pulling his friend out of the way of another attack. "Follow me."

With a nod, the younger boy did as he was told. He followed as Tai ran a few feet away and stood right in front of the rooms many pillars.

"Hey! Good i-"

The older boy quickly clamped his hand over the other boy's mouth. As Davis tried to pry himself free and give Tai a piece of his mind, the older boy watched as the Vilemon dove at them one more time. The smaller boy attempted to move out of the way, but the other had a firm grip on him. At the last second, Tai suddenly pushed Davis to the floor and ducked out of the way as the creature flew by, hitting the pillar head on and falling to the floor, unconcious.

"Man, Tai, couldn't you have been a little easier on me?" complained Davis as he glared at the older boy.

"Hey, it worked, didn't it?" replied Tai with a smile. But that soon vanished as he stared into the dark hall.

"Now what?" moaned Davis, turning his head to see just what his friend was looking at. "Oh no."

Tai nodded and gulped as the hoard of Vilemon came out of the shadows, surrounding the two boys.

"I hate to say it, but I really don't think that trick will work on all of them," said Davis quietly as he rose to his feet and moved towards the other boy, the hideous creatures staring at them, laughing.

Ignoring the cold night breeze, Matt hurried down the street, quickly glancing around as he crossed the street. He'd just gotten the call from Izzy, and from the sound of his voice things were going to be more complicated then they had anticipated. They had once again decided to meet at the park, only this time they were all told specifically not to forget their digivices.

As he neared the specified area, the boy noticed that Kari and TK were already there. He looked around in confusion.

"Where is everyone?" he asked, "Shouldn't at least Izzy and Ken be here?" As he sat down on the bench next to his brother he saw him shrug.

"I would think so, but while I was talking to Izzy I heard Ken ask him something the digimon, so I'm guessing they're still tracking them all down," he answered.

"I'm glad that us younger kids have ours with us already," said Kari quietly, Tailmon sitting on her lap. The small digimon nodded.

"And all of us had a nice nap while the rest of you were out, so we're good and rested," Patamon added with a smile.

Within a few minutes, the rest of the Digidestined showed up, Izzy and Ken arriving last.

"Sorry we're so late," the younger apologized.

Izzy quickly opened his laptop, typed in a few things, and once again turned it around for the rest to see. It was the same screen as before with the black tears present.

"The first thing Ken and I looked into was just what kind of a world these tears led too," he began, "By looking at each tear as a gateway, we tried to get a visual, much like with the televisions in the Digital World. We were rather discouraged as our first attempts seemed to fail, until we realized that they were not failures at all. They were in fact what the world actually looks like." Izzy pulled up an image.

"Wait a minute," said Joe, "That picture is completely blank."

"That's what we thought, but that's not the case. It's not blank, it's black."

The rest of the Digidestined just stared at him, silent. Kari was the first to speak.

"Y-you mean that my brother is trapped in a world covered in total darkness?"

"Well, it's not total darkness," began Izzy, pulling up another image. "We did find this image from one of the gates."

The picture that the boy had pulled up was still dark, but it showed a narrow corridor dimly lit by a few scattered torches.

"So things actually live in that place?" asked Matt skeptically.

"Apparently, but we have yet to confirm that theory," replied Izzy as he turned his laptop back around and began typing.

"We have, however, figured out how to pick up their signals from here," continued Ken, realizing that the other boy was once again hard at work. "From that, we know that all three of them are in the same area and that the gate with the image of the hallway would transport us the closest to their location."

"Well, that's good news," said TK, hoping that Kari would cheer up.

"Izzy and I also realized that if we were to create our own vacuum from the DigiWorld side of the gate, the two would, for the most part, cancel each other out. Unfortunately we don't have anything that can create a vacuum that strong, so it would only be open for a short time," he added.

"How long?" Matt asked.

Izzy stopped typing and looked up. "You would have approximately thirty seconds, depending on how our gate holds up."

"You don't expect us to find them and get back out in that amount of time, I hope," Miyako muttered loudly.

"Of course not," replied Ken, "We will only activate our vacuum when you are ready to return."

"Just how are you creating this vacuum, anyway?" and Iori curiously.

"Iori, I don't think we'd understand it even if they told us," said TK with a smile.

"Well?" said Matt, suddenly standing, "What are we waiting for?"

The rest of the Digidestined nodded and awaited further instruction from Izzy. The boy looked up from his laptop and smiled. "Alright," he said at last, "Let's go."

to be continued...

A/N: Ok, I realize the Vilemon probably have attacks, but they didn't use any in the one episode they were in in the first season. I didn't feel like finding the Tamers episode (11?) with him in it either, so I just didn't give them any. Also, I know that last part was kind of boring and VERY vague. How do they create a vacuum? I have no clue. Something smart and technical. How in the world would that work? Again, I do not know. I so could not think of anything. This was the part that I KNEW from the beginning I would have trouble with. I am so not smart or creative enough to come up with anything good. >_< Oh well. We'll see how the next one goes...