Chapter 7

"Wear this, it's cold." Wormmon said as the Emperor turned to him, viciously.

"Leave me alone!" The Emperor shouted as he kicked Wormmon away. Soon, he started to crack his whip at the Gizamon to make them move faster, but a white and purple seal with orange hair caught the whip.

"Hey, quit it! They're all tired and they need rest. Maybe someone should use this whip on you, you big bully!" Gomamon said as the Emperor got even more mad.

"Number one, don't talk to me without calling me 'master,' number two, don't talk to me all!" The Emperor said as he freed his whip from Gomamon. "Whichever one of you can defeat this creature will receive a special gift package, the rest of you will receive some lovely parting gifts." He continued as the Gizamon stopped working and turned their attention to Gomamon. "I know all about Gizamon, they're amphibious Digimon with webbed feet, their fine cut through the water like knives." He finished as he described Gizamon.

"They won't attack me." Gomamon said, but to his dismay, the Gizamon attacked and defended him.

"That was too easy." The Emperor said as he wasn't impressed as it was too easy to defeat one of the first generation digidestined's Digimon.

"Okay, they defeated him master, now tell them what they won." Wormmon said as the Emperor nodded.

"Yeah." He said as he snapped his fingers, soon multiple dark rings flew in the air and attached themselves to the Gizamon, now they sported the red eyes that all the new slaves have. "Here is your reward, you have all have the honor of being my slaves, now get back to work building the prison!" He said as the Gizamon obeyed him and continued to do his dirty work. "Move it Wormmon." He said as he was returning to his home base.

"What about Gomamon?" Wormmon said as the Emperor didn't look back and Wormmon followed.

"Let him freeze." The Emperor said as snow kept falling at an alarming pace. Soon, Gomamon regained consciousness.

*'I just gotta make it up this little hill.'* Gomamon thought as he soon realized one tiny detail as he was crawling. "Okay, so maybe it's not such a little hill." He said as he reached one of the many TV locations in the Digital World, but he was losing energy fast. "Joe…!" He said as he mustered what little energy he had left to try and contact Joe and he passed out afterwards, what he didn't know was that the white haired man was there and he had a super potion and sprayed Gomamon.

"And with that, you will be ready in no time my friend." He said as just then, the same black blur pasted over him and like that he was gone again.

**Location Change: With Joe**

Soon after Gomamon passed out, Joe's digivice started to react and make slight noise.

"Gomamon." Joe said as he turned his attention back to his classmates.

"So guys, are you guys ready for that anatomy test today?" Classmate #1 said as Classmate #2 nodded.

"Yeah, I spent the whole night looking in the mirror, how about you Joe?" Classmate #2 said as Joe started to stutter out an answer.

"Uh, I just remembered that I forgot to remember something, I gotta go." Joe said as he made his way to the second generation of digidestined. But, was stopped by a man with spiked black hair.

"Hey, where are you going, Joe?" The man said as Joe looked towards him.

"Oh, nice to see you, old friend." Joe said as they chatted a little bit.

**Location Change: With Cody**

After the bell rings for the end of the day, Cody was walking down the stairs to the front door and not the computer room, but before he could get all the way down the stairs, Davis saw him.

"Hey Cody!" Davis said as Cody turned to face Davis.

"Oh hey Davis, what's up?" Cody asked as Davis became a little confused.

"What's up? Are you crazy, where are you going" Davis asked back as Cody stayed calm.

"I'm going home, I have Kendo practice this afternoon." Cody said as Davis was in an irritated shock.

"What!? Practice later, the Digiworld's in danger." Davis said as Cody somehow stayed as cool as a cucumber.

"Sorry Davis, but my grandfather is the teacher and he would disappointed if I missed a lesson, see ya." Cody said as he continued to walk down the stairs.

"Yeah, but…" Davis tried to say something, but it was too late. Soon Lillie came up to Davis.

"Are you okay Davis?" Lillie asked as Davis turned his attention to her.

"Lillie, great. I was heading to the computer room, why don't you come with me?" Davis asked as Lillie smiled and nodded.

"Of course, I was just heading there myself. Let's go Davis." Lillie said as Davis was smiling even more.

"Really? Sweet, you and me all alone in the Digital World, this is like a dream come true." Davis said out loud with slight blush on his cheeks, with that Lillie let out a small laugh.

"Oh Davis, you have quite the overactive imagination, though that was cute." Lillie said with the same smile.

"Oh, sorry. I was just…" He was saying, but Lillie placed her index finger on his lips.

"It's okay Davis, I knew what you meant and if you want to take me out on a date, all you need to do is ask." Lillie said as she planted a kiss on his left cheek and walked towards the computer room. Davis, who was still in shock soon spun around quickly to catch up to Lillie, when he did, he placed his hand on Lillie's, she saw that and started to blush a little, but before they entered the computer room, they let go of each other's hands. When they entered, they saw the rest of the team in the room with T.K looking at the screen.

"What's going on?" Davis asked as T.K looked towards him.

"We just got a message from the Digital World, it's a distress call from one of the Digimon." T.K said as Kari walked toward them.

"Who sent the message?" Kari asked as T.K shrugged his shoulders.

"I'm not really sure." T.K said as Yolei turned to them now.

"I got it, it's coming from one of the black areas controlled by the Digimon Emperor and it's a lot further than we've ever been to." Yolei said as she pointed to the black square on the map.

"Well this should add to our frequent flier miles." Kari said as Ash walked towards her.

"Hey, that's my line." Ash said as Kari turned to her boyfriend, wrapped her arms around his neck and came in close.

"Sorry Ashy po." Kari said as Ash blushed, soon she pulled him in for a passionate kiss and he quickly returned it. Soon they parted and saw some the rest of them were snickering, while DemiVeemon was just straight up laughing, while Alain and Gladion were smiling. Though Davis was smiling and thinking.

'Hopefully soon writer, you'll put me and Lillie together, maybe in a few more chapters.' Davis thought to YutoXYZ as he soon returned his attention to Yolei.

"According to this map, the black areas that the Digimon Emperor has growing even more than before, I bet his ego is too." Yolei said as Davis was getting a little irritated.

"It won't be long before he controls the entire Digital World." Davis said as Kari grew ever more worried.

"Then every single Digimon is in danger." Kari said as Ash looked towards her, then back to the screen and clenched his fist.

"Alright, I've had enough of that emperor wannabe." Ash said as Davis turned to him.

"Ash is right, let's all head to the Digital World and dethrone him once and for all." Davis said as everyone nodded, but Upamon stopped them.

"But we have to wait for Cody to get here." Upamon said as Davis turned to him

"He's not coming." Davis said to Upamon.

"Why not?" Upamon asked as Davis closed his eyes.

"He said he has Kendo practice." Davis said as he filled everyone in on where Cody is.

"One question, what's Kendo?" Upamon asked as Davis rolled up a magazine and was about to hit Upamon, but Ash saw this, grabbed the magazine and hit Davis all over his body making DemiVeemon burst laughing again.

"That Upamon was Kendo." Ash said as Kari walked towards him.

"Where'd you learn Kendo?" Kari asked as Ash put the magazine down and turned to Kari.

"Before my dad died, he always brought me to Kendo lessons on Thursdays in case I ever got into a fight with a bully…" He stopped as he wrapped his arms around Kari's waist. "Or to protect my beautiful angel." He continued as Kari blushed and smiled as they moved in for another kiss.

**Location Change: Cody's Kendo Practice**

***(Playing Heroes by Brian The Sun)***

Cody got suited up to practice with his grandfather. After a few good swings, he started to think about Upamon and even started seeing him instead of his grandfather's face, that gave his grandfather an opportunity to strike a good hit in and he took that chance. Soon, they stopped their training to catch their breath when Cody's grandfather saw that something was wrong with his pupil.

"What seems to be the matter, Cody?" Cody's grandfather asked as Cody looked towards him.

"I'm sorry grandfather." Cody said as his grandfather stood up.

"You haven't lost interest in Martial Arts, have you? Or hanging out with your old grandpa?" He asked as Cody shook his head 'no.'

"Of course not." Cody said as his grandfather looked as his face very closely.

"I can read faces, your expectation tells me that something is troubling you, deep inside. Your father acted the same way when he was a boy. I have been to many lands and met many people and in all my travels, I have found only one thing I can count on…" He said as he grabbed a plastic packet. "Prune Juice!" He finished as he started slurping the prune juice, though Cody was confused. "Yup, take two big glasses, you'll be fine. Ha, ha, ha, hm…" He stopped as he drank his prune juice again. "You want some?" He asked his grandson.

"No thanks, I'm afraid that my problem is even too big for prune juice." Cody said as his grandfather put his juice down.

"Hmmm." He sounded off as he listened to Cody.

"There are others that are counting on me to do something and I'm afraid I might let them down, especially this girl I like." Cody said as he wanted to help the others, especially his crush Mairin.

"I once told your father and my star student before he left, people will rely on you only to the extent that you rely on yourself. Try your hardest and you won't let anyone down." He said as Cody almost teared up, but he didn't and stayed calm.

"Right. I have to go grandpa, thanks for the advice, see ya." Cody said as he stood up, put his Kendo gear away and left for the school.

"No problem is too big for prune juice." He said as he took another sip of his prune juice.

***(Stop playing Heroes by Brian The Sun)***

**Location Change: Computer Room**

Footsteps could be heard from the other side of the door, heading towards the computer room.

"Oh boy, I knew would show up." Upamon said as he was literally bouncing with joy.

"It's not Cody okay, everyone hide!" Davis said as everyone, except for Alain and Gladion were scrambling around to hide.

"You guys are like pinballs. Just hide the Digimon." Alain said as it was too late, the door opened to reveal that it was Joe.

"It's Joe." T.K and Kari said as they were happy to see that it was their old friend.

"Hi guys." Joe said as they stopped panicking and were happy to see that it was an ally, though Upamon wasn't happy. "Wow, even though Tai told me about it, it's strange to see the Digimon in the real world." He said as T.K walked up to Joe, then turned to the others.

"This is Joe, our old friend we told you about." T.K said as Kari walked towards Ash.

"Joe, I want you to meet Ash. He's not only our old friend before we fought Myotismon, but he's also my new boyfriend." Kari said as Joe was a little surprised, then his expression changed to happy.

"Would your last name be 'Ketchum' Ash?" Joe asked as the others were surprised.

"Joe, how'd you know that?" Alain asked as they heard a new voice.

"He didn't know, I did." The voice said as Ash was in shock about who said it. It was his old friend Brock.

"Brock, what are you doing here?" Ash asked as Brock walked towards him.

"Well, I thought I'd see my old friend before he moved here. But, I didn't think I'd run into you, or some new creatures called Digimon." Brock said, surprising everyone. "Before you ask, Joe told me everything on the way here." He said as Ash's Master Digivice started to glow brighter and brighter, until the glowing subsided and Brock felt something in his pocket, it was another Master Digivice, but his was gray and silver colored.

"Looks like Brock's one of us." Davis said as Ash walked beside him.

"Allow me to introduce him, this is my old friend Brock. He traveled with me through the Kanto, Johto, Hoenn and Sinnoh regions respectively. After Sinnoh, he left to practice medicine so he could become a Pokémon Doctor." Ash said as he gave them, (excluding Joe, Lillie and Gladion) a little history between him and Brock. "Brock, this is Davis, Yolei, Cody, Alain, Mairin, my old friend T.K and… whoa." He didn't finish as Brock zoomed past Ash and towards Kari, he soon grabbed her hand and was on one knee.

"Well hello, my name is Brock, the gratitude person. It is so grateful to meet you young lady. Grateful. I would be honored if you were to go on a date with me. So grateful. Of course if you don't, we can still be friends. Still so grateful. Of course perhaps… yeowww." He yelped in pain as he received a Poison Jab from his Croagunk. "Let's stick with the friend line." He tried to spit out as he fell to the ground and was pulled away by the foot by Croagunk. While the digidestined were a bit confused about what just happened, Ash on the other hand, was just laughing like a hyena. That action caused Kari to turn her attention to Ash with a confused look on her face.

"Ash, what are you laughing about? He just tried to hit on me!" Kari said as Ash stopped laughing and looked at her with a smile on his face.

"Well, you're not the first person he tried that on. On my journey through the regions, he tried to hit on pretty of woman he lays his eyes on. Though in Hoenn, when he tried, my old friend Max just said a funny pun then pulls him away by the ear and when he caught Croagunk in Sinnoh, he kept poison jabbing him each time. It just brings back some memories. Well, look on the bright side, at least he thought you were cute and I can see why he would say that. After all, you are the girl I fell in love with." Ash said as Kari not only understood why he was laughing, but was also blushing at what he said at the end.

"Awe, thanks Ash." Kari said as she kissed him on the cheek. Soon, Brock soon came back in to see that Kari kissed Ash.

"Oh Ash, I didn't know she was your girlfriend." Brock said as Ash put his left arm around Kari, she then started to blush a bit and smile.

"I was gonna say, but you just rushed in without thinking. Now let me finish, this is my best friend/girlfriend Kari Kamiya." He finished as Brock was a little surprised by the fact that his old friend known for being so blockheaded, had got a girlfriend before him, but he soon smiled.

"Well Kari, I hope you take good care of Ash, he can be a bit reckless." Brock said as Kari chuckled a bit.

"Don't worry I know and I will." Kari said as she knew Ash was reckless from their childhood. Soon DemiVeemon was underneath Joe's bag.

"Candy!" DemiVeemon said as he was jumping for the bag, but Joe lifted said bag a little higher.

"Hey, these are supplies for an emergency." Joe said as Kari walked up to him.

"Are you planning on going to the Digital World with us Joe? We could really use your help." Kari said as Joe nodded.

"Absolutely, I'm worried about Gomamon." Joe said as T.K realized something.

"So your digivice went off too. That explains a bit." T.K said as Gomamon was the one in danger. Soon, he and Ash showed Joe their digivices. "These are the digivices of the new digidestined and what Ash has is one of the Master Digivices of the Digi-Masters." He continued as Joe nodded.

"Yeah, Izzy gave me a heads up about them. He also told me about this jerk that calls himself the Digimon Emperor and the fact that Pokémon are able to armor digivolve he called it." Joe said as everyone else in the room nodded their heads and soon Yolei looked towards the computer screen.

"Alright, let's open the gate." Yolei said as Ash and Davis agreed, but before they could enter the Digital World, the door opened to reveal Cody had made it in time.

"What about me?" He asked as Upamon was bouncing up and down in happiness.

"Cody! You made it, you made it, you made it, you made it, you made it, you made it, you made it, you made it!..." Upamon said as he kept saying 'you made it' over and over again.

"You're gonna have to forgive him, he's a bit hyperactive." Cody said to Joe as Davis got everyone's attention.

"Hey everyone, the gate's open!" Davis said as they tuned to the screen.

"Alright come on, let's go! Digi-Port open!" Yolei said as she strikes the same pose from two chapters ago and they entered the Digital World.

**Location Change: Digital World**

After they arrived in the digital tundra, Davis was already feeling the cold.

"Great, I hate the cold." Davis said as he looked over to Lillie as he was worried about her.

"Lillie, are you okay?" Snowy asked as Lillie nodded. Soon, Kari looked towards her boyfriend to see him in the winter clothes he wore in Snowbelle City.

"What happened to your clothes?" Kari asked as Ash looked down to see the winter wardrobe.

"Don't know, maybe it's because of when we entered a tundra-like area in the Digital World, it changed my clothes." Ash said as Cody walks up to Brock and Joe.

"I'm sorry, but I don't think we were properly introduced when we took our trip. My name is…" Cody said, but Davis walked up to them.

"Hey, I'm freezing my goggles off and you're introducing yourself? Let's get going." Davis said, interrupting Cody as Joe reached into his bag and pulled out a hand warmer.

"Here, you can use one of these, they're hand warmers." Joe said as he handed one to Cody, then Yolei, T.K, Ash, Gladion, Lillie, Alain, Mairin, Brock, Davis and finally Kari.

"Thanks Joe." Kari said as she held on to her's.

"Oy boy, leave it to you, good old reliable Joe." T.K said as Ash put his in his bag.

"I watch a lot of survival shows on TV." Joe said, but while everyone else had an easy time with the packaging, Yolei, on the other hand was struggling, soon she dropped it onto the ground and the hand warmer started to melt the snow. Soon, she picked it up, but what she saw underneath definitely surprised everyone.

"Guys, over here." Yolei said as everyone went to her and saw an unconscious Gomamon.

"Huh? Woah, Gomamon!" Joe said as everyone dug him out. Joe was about to pull out his first aid supplies on Gomamon, but when he was fully dug out, everyone saw that he didn't have any injuries. "Gomamon, speak to me?" He said as Gomamon slowly woke up. "What day of the week is it?"

"It's Saturday?" Gomamon asked as Hoe lifted him in his arms.

"Actually it's Thursday, but you never did know the days, so you're back to normal self." Joe said in relief as Gomamon looked towards the TV.

"I heard from Tentomon that we could use that TV to contact you in case we were ever in trouble." Gomamon said as Ash nodded.

"Let me ask you this, how did you get under the snow?" Ash asked as Gomamon turned his attention to him.

"I picked a fight with the wrong guy, the Digimon Emperor." Gomamon said as everyone was confused on how he made it out of that fight without an injury. Davis soon saw the control spire of this area.

"He's built another control spire here too." Davis said as Ash looked towards him.

"Oh no, what do we do Davis?" Ash said sarcastically as Brock looked towards Kari.

"What's a control spire?" Brock asked as Kari's expression changed to focused.

"It's the Emperor's not-so secret weapon." Kari said as Lillie walked towards them.

"He hunts down Digimon and puts these dark rings around them, making them his slaves and the control spires supply the power to them." Lillie said as Ash turned his attention to them.

"He tried to take control of my Bayleaf, but I managed to help her break free and she evolved into Meganium." Ash said as Brock was a little surprised that Ash's Bayleaf had evolved into Meganium.

"Not only does it make Digimon his slaves, but no one can digivolve." Kari said as Davis' anger had reached critical level.

"Dude, I'm gonna tear it down." Davis said as Gladion stepped in.

"Easy Davis, we'll have to cross the ice if we want to even have a chance to make a dent in the spire." Gladion said as T.K remembered something that Matt said.

"Now I know what Matt means when he said I'm walking on thin ice." T.K said as Alain was thinking of a solution.

"Can't you and Ash use your flying type Pokémon?" Mairin said as Alain shook his head 'no.'

"Unfortunately, we wouldn't make it in one trip, even with the help of the armor Digimon." Alain said as Yolei walked up to Joe.

"Do you by any chance have like 12 pairs of skates?" Yolei said as Joe shook his head 'no.'

"Sorry, I'm all out." Joe said as Davis had an idea.

"Hey Joe, do you have any rope?" Davis asked as Joe nodded. Soon the team started to chop down some trees to make a sled to ride across the ice, but not surprisingly, Joe ran out of rope. Thankfully, Brock had some extra rope with him. Soon the sled was complete, but they didn't have enough room for Ash, though he already had a way around that.

"What a great sled." Yolei said as Davis walked up to her.

"Now all we need to do is go for a ride." Davis said as Ash had an idea.

"Hey Alain, Gladion, Brock. How about we use our Pokémon to help pull the sled." Ash suggested as Alain, Brock and Gladion nodded. They let Alain's Charizard, Brock's Steelix and Gladion's Silvally out and attached some rope around their bodies. But, they finally realized that Ash wasn't on the sled, due to the problems that there wasn't room for him.

"How's Ash going to get across?" Lillie asked as Ash soon grabbed one of his Poké-balls.

"Charizard, I choose you!" Ash shouted as he threw the ball to let out his Charizard, it was about the same as Alain's, but it had a ring on his tail with an orange and yellow stone in the middle of it. "I need you to pull me in the air while I'm on this snowboard." He said as Charizard nodded.

"You got it, Ash." Charizard said as he now had rope around his stomach and Ash was on the snowboard he made out of the leftover wood. When the others saw this, Brock laughed.

"That's Ash alright, the most reckless person I know." Brock said as Kari saw this and knew he was right.

"I'm not a dog, but I'll help." Hawkmon said as Patamon and Pikachu nodded.

"We'll help too." Patamon said as the got into position, Pikachu was beside Gatomon.

"Are you ready my brave little storm?" Gatomon asked as Pikachu's fur turned completely red with blush.

"Y-yeah, r-ready to go." Pikachu stuttered his words out as Davis turned to the front of the sled.

"Alright you guys, mush!" Davis shouted as the Pokémon/Digimon started pulling the sled to the spire.

"Follow them Charizard!" Ash said as Charizard flew at top speed, pulling Ash along with him, soon they caught up to the others.

**Location Change: With The Emperor**

Soon as the digidestined made their way to the Emperor, his dark digivice went off.

"So, they're here?" He asked as Wormmon nodded, now he need to get ready, before they destroy another spire.

**Location Change: With The Digidestined**

They we close to the spire and all thought it would be smooth sailing for the rest of the trip.

"What a way to travel." Yolei said as Mairin agreed with her. But, her relaxing was short lived.

"Uh-oh, we have visitors." Patamon said as they saw a sideways line of… snowmen?

"Oh look, snowmen, how cute." Yolei said as she was delighted to see the snowmen. Although, Joe, T.K and Kari weren't.

"No, they're Frigimon, but what's that around their legs?" T.K asked as Alain got a better look and saw the answer.

"They got dark rings, get ready." Alain said as they got ever closer, the Digimon Emperor can now be seen as clear as day.

"Attack!" The Emperor shouted as the Frigimon threw their fists forwards, creating a light blue aura that was fired at the sled. "Freeze them Frigimon, with your Sub-Zero Ice Punch! It's amazing how such docile creatures can be turned into such abominable snowmen." He said as the ice punches drew ever closer. Thankfully, the sled dodged all of them, although Davis did get hit with the snow that splashed from the the impact of the ice punch and the ground.

"Davis, are you okay?" Lillie asked as Davis shivered a little bit.

"That's cold." Davis said as he still didn't like the cold.

"Forget the Frigimon, they're not very fast, we can outrun them." Joe said as Davis shook the snow off his face and turned to Joe.

"What!?" Davis said as he was confused.

"Our mission is to destroy the control spire, right? So it's better to keep going then waste our time fighting." Joe said as Davis tried to protest.

"But they're attacking us." Davis said as Lillie put her right hand on his left shoulder.

"It'll be alright Davis, you'll get your chance to fight. But, right now we need to get to the spire and destroy it." Lillie said as Davis quickly realized that she was right.

"You're right, go passed them!" Davis shouted as the sled made it passed and so did Ash on his snowboard. Then, the Frigimon turned to them.

"Aim for the hill!" The Emperor said as they followed his order and shot their ice punches to the hill.

"Alright, they missed us." Mairin said in relief, but Alain saw their real target.

"Uhh, it wasn't us they were aiming for." He stopped as he pointed to the hill that now had snow rolling from the spot that the punches hit towards them. "They were making an…" He stopped again as everyone joined in.

"AVALANCHE!" They shouted as they made a hard left, but now they saw they were heading towards a cliff.

"Charizard, when we go over the cliff, grab the sled from the bottom and carry us to the other side." Alain said as they went over the cliff. "Now!" He then shouted as Charizard went under the sled and flew them over the cliff. Ash's Charizard went under Ash's snowboard and flew across to the other side and went back to pulling Ash on his snowboard, but on the other side they saw another cliff that was overlooking water. As they stopped, Cody was flung into the water.

"Cody, no!" Mairin shouted as Gomamon jumped off the cliff.

"I'll save him." He said as he went into the water. He soon got Cody out of the water.

**Location Change: A Nearby Cave**

A fire was set so our heroes could warm up, but the one who needed it the most was Cody. Soon, Joe walked over to him with a cup of tea.

"Warm enough yet?" Armadillomon asked as he was worried about his partner.

"Here, drink this Herbal Tea, its 10% herbal, 90% tea." Joe said as Cody accepted the tea.

"Thanks a lot Joe." Cody said as he drank the tea, while everyone (excluding T.K and Kari) were impressed with Joe's skills in this situation.

"Boy, that Joe sure does come prepared." Yolei said as Kari walked towards her.

"That's nothing, you should see him during hay fever season." Kari said as Ash and Brock walked up to the shivering Cody.

"Here, I was saving this for an emergency, and this is one." Ash said as he gave Cody his hand warmer from before.

"Man, Ash sure is thoughtful and caring." Davis said as Kari looked towards him.

"It was the same when me and him first met." Kari said as she told everyone about how she and Ash met.

**Flashback: 7 Years**

It was April 12 and 12 degrees outside as we see a young brunette girl playing hopscotch, but soon she collapsed on the ground. Soon, a raven black hair colored boy picked her up and carried her to a nearby police officer.

"It started on April 12 2011, I was outside playing hopscotch, but I collapsed from my pneumonia, back a year before I met Ash, Tai tried to take me out to play soccer, but I collapsed the same way, a few months later, I had a checkup to see if my pneumonia was gone, it was, until that day. But anyway, after I collapsed Ash soon picked me up in his arms and carried me to a nearby police officer." Kari said as she started the story on a somber note.

"*Lady, help. This girl needs help.*" Young Ash said as she saw the girl and opened the back door.

"*Hurry, get in. I'll take you two to the hospital.*" The officer said as she drove them to the hospital. Soon, the doctor took her to the hospital room. Three hours later, the girl soon started to wake up to see Ash.

"*Uhh… where am I?*" She asked as Ash and the doctor soon turned her.

"*You're in the hospital, this young man saw you unconscious and took you to the hospital.*" The doctor said as she looked towards Ash with a smile on her face.

"*Thanks a lot. My name is Kari Kamiya.*" Young Kari said as Ash smiled.

"*Nice to meet you Kari, my name is Ash Ketchum.*" Young Ash said as he had one thing on his mind. "*Hey, you were playing hopscotch by yourself, where were your friends*?" He asked as Kari had a bit of a sad look on her face, but still retained her smile.

"*Unfortunately, I don't have any. I mostly spent the days inside my house. Mostly to avoid collapsing from my pneumonia.*" She said as Ash still had a smile on his face.

"*It's okay Kari. I'll be your friend.*" Young Ash said as Kari was not only surprised, but also very happy.

"*Really? You'd want someone like me to be your friend.*" Young Kari said as Ash moved a little closer to her.

"*Of course, let's be friends from now on Kari.*" Young Ash said as Kari was developing tears of joy in her eyes.

"*Sure, thanks Ash.*" Young Kari said with teary joy in her voice.

"And from that moment on, me and Ash were the closest of friends. We did a lot of things together, such us karaoke, watching Marvel movies, played video games and even Beyblade." Kari said as she finished telling their origin story about their friendship.

**Return To The Present**

"And that was how me and my sweet Ash met." Kari said as everyone was surprised with her story.

"Brings back memories, right Kari?" Ash asked as Kari nodded.

"Here Cody, I always keep a spare blanket in case." Brock said as he wrapped Cody in the blanket.

"That Brock is still as kind as ever." Lillie said as she remembered when Brock was in Alola. Suddenly, the ground below Brock started to glow red and from the light, a new digi-egg appeared and looked like a hydra wearing armor with a red bird symbol on one of the heads.

"We should leave Cody here." T.K said as Davis was a little confused about his decision.

"What?!" Davis yelped as Brock and Mairin stepped forward.

"T.K is right, he's in no condition to be on the battlefield. I'll stay behind with Cody." Brock said as Mairin nodded.

"So will I, you guys will need some help incase." Mairin said as Joe nodded.

"I'll stay too." Joe said as the others were about to leave, until…

"I'm going too." Cody said as the others stopped to see that Cody moved a few feet forward, but kept close to the fire. "My grandfather told me if I rely on myself and try my hardest, I won't let any of you down." He continued as Mairin placed her hand on Cody's shoulder.

"You're not letting us down Cody. Besides, you'll need to conserve your strength. Please, for me." Mairin said with pleading eyes.

"She's right Cody, we have a long fight ahead of us and we're gonna need you." Armadillomon said as Cody loosened up a bit.

"I guess you're right. Thanks Mairin." Cody said as she started to blush a little. "I'll wait here, don't be long." He said as Davis smiled.

"Don't worry, we'll be back before you can say 'Digimon Emperor.'" Davis said as Pikachu smirked a little.

"Digimon Emperor." Pikachu said as Davis turned to Pikachu with a look and they saw Lillie, Kari and Gatomon snickering.

"Ha, ha very funny Pikachu, but seriously, we'll be back." Davis said as Gatomon walked towards Pikachu.

"Man that was funny Pikachu." Gatomon said as Pikachu started to turn red, because of how close together they were.

"Y-yeah thanks." He stuttered as they left the cave and pulled the sled, now with Ash on board to the spire. A few minutes later, Cody started to shiver a little.

"You okay Cody?" Brock asked as Cody nodded.

"A little tired." Cody said as Armadillomon agreed.

"Me too. I could use a nap, I vote we use this opportunity to get some shuteye." Armadillomon said as Cody disagreed.

"I couldn't sleep, I feel I should be out there helping the others." Cody said as Mairin had her hand on Cody's.

"I know how you feel, back when me and Alain traveled to the Hoenn region, I was helpless to even some aid to Alain and his Charizard against the legendary Pokémon that were altering the planet. But, us staying here must be for a good reason." Mairin said as Cody was slowly turning red, due to her reassuring words.

"Mairin's right. I also know what you're feeling, I used to feel the same way, but I thought it was nausea. Then, I slowly realized something, all of us are here for a reason. There's a big picture that we can't see yet, and I don't mean a widescreen TV." Joe said as Cody was now left with one question.

"But for what reason?" Cody asked as Brock looked towards him.

"You'll find that out soon Cody. All it takes is time." Brock said as the cave started to shake. "Everyone out!" He shouted as they ran out to see the Digimon Emperor and one of his slave Digimon that looked like an oversized snail.

"It appears that I've discovered your secret little hideout. I wanted you to meet my newest slave Shellmon. His Aqua Blaster attack shoots water so hard, it can demolish solid rock." The Emperor said as Joe looked towards the spire then to Gomamon.

"Gomamon, now I know the reason why we were supposed to stay behind, so the others can have enough time to destroy the spire. I need you to create a diversion, keep him busy with that great Gomamon Charm of yours." Joe whispered as Gomamon nodded.

"Gotcha." Gomamon said as he jumped out of Joe's arms and moved towards Shellmon. "Why did one Shellmon take the other Shellmon's lunch? Because he was shellfish!" He joked as Shellmon tried to smack Gomamon, but missed. "I guess you've already heard that one." He said as Mairin, Brock, Cody and even Joe were a little confused with what just went down.

'That's the great Gomamon Charm?' Mairin thought as she wasn't very amused.

**Location Change: The Control Spire**

The others had made it to the spire, but were greeted by the Frigimon.

"Time to get down to business! Veemon, let's do it!" Davis said as Veemon nodded.

"Snowy, you too." Lillie said as Snowy nodded and jumped out of her arms.

"Silvally, it's time to fight." Gladion said as Silvally nodded.

"We'll provide ground support, while you guys take the spire down from the air." Ash said as T.K nodded.

"Ash is right, we'll let them handle the Frigimon, so it's up to us to destroy the spire." T.K said as the others nodded.

"Digi Armor Energize!" Ash, Davis, Gladion and Lillie shouted the their partners glowed their respective colors.

"Veemon armor digivolve to… Flamedramon, the Fire of Courage!" Flamedramon shouted as pillars of fire appeared behind him.

"Silvally armor digivolve to… Silvarcher, the Archer of Faith!" Silvarcher shouted as he docked his arrow on his bow string.

"Vulpix armor digivolve to… Magepix, the Mage of Trust!" Magepix shouted as she readied her wand.

"Pikachu armor digivolve to… Achillichu, the Knight of Will!" Achillichu shouted as he slammed his sword against the ground. Soon, the Frigimon struck them with more Sub-Zero Ice Punches, but it was Achillichu's Voltage Shield that they struck.

"Fire Rocket!" Flamedramon shouted he was engulfed by his own flames and striked one of the Frigimon.

"Storm Breaker!" Achillichu yelled as he leaped into the air and swung his sword down at one of the Frigimon.

"Insect Arrow: Swarm Seekers!" Silvarcher shouted as he launched the arrow at one Frigimon, but before the arrow could hit it split into a swarm of arrows and they all struck three of the Frigimon.

"Freezing Blizzard!" Magepix shouted as a blizzard quickly frozen four more Frigimon.

**Location Change: Joe's Team**

Back with the others, they were still handling the Emperor. Shellmon tried to grab Gomamon multiple times.

"You have no sense of humor." Gomamon said as he kept dodging.

"Cody, let's give Gomamon a hand." Mairin said as Cody nodded, then looked to Armadillomon.

"Are you ready?" Cody asked as Armadillomon nodded.

"Digi Armor Energize!" Cody and Mairin shouted as Chespie and Armadillomon were glowing their respective crests colors.

"Armadillomon Armor Digivolve to… Digmon, the Drill of Power!" Digmon shouted as his drills started to spin.

"Chespin Armor Digivolve to… Ninjespin, the Ninja of Joy!" Ninjespin shouted as he landed on the ground.

"Armor huh, not bad!" Brock said as Ninjespin and Digmon went their respective ways to try and free Shellmon.

"I gotcha ya Gomamon." Ninjespin said as he appeared next to Gomamon and then disappeared, only to reappear next to Joe.

"Thanks Ninjespin." Gomamon said as Ninjespin nodded.

"Don't mention it." Ninjespin said as he went back into battle. Digmon, on the other hand was stuck under Shellmon's foot.

"Hey, leave them alone." Cody said as Shellmon turned to face him.

"Aqua Blaster!" Shellmon shouted he fired a hot water geyser from his head, but before it could hit Cody, Digmon stepped in the way of the attack to protect him.

"Don't worry Cody, I'll protect you." Digmon said as Ninjespin moved towards Shellmon.

"Pin Katana!" Ninjespin shouted as he brought out his blade and struck Shellmon.

**Location Change: The Control Spire**

Achillichu, Silvarcher, Magepix and Flamedramon took out four more Frigimon, then a giant mammoth Digimon appeared with a dark ring on its trunk.

"Guys, out of the way!" Gladion shouted as they jumped out of the way of the mammoth.

"Mammothmon is an ultimate level Digimon with a powerful charge. His Tusk Crushers and Freezing Breath attacks will send us back to the ice age." Flamedramon said as he described Mammothmon.

"This is gonna be tricky." Ash said as Mammothmon took aim at Nefertimon.

"Freezing Breath!" It shouted as the attack froze Nefertimon's left wing and she was forced to land. When they landed, Mammothmon was charging at them at full speed.

"Oh no you don't!" Achillichu said as he used his Voltage Shield to protect them, but he couldn't hold it for much longer.

'Kari's in trouble and there's nothing that I can do to save her.' Ash thought as he wanted to help her, then suddenly another voice appeared in his head.

'Ash, calm down we can do this. We can save them together.' Achillichu said in Ash's head, soon he realized that he was right.

"I won't let them get hurt!" Ash yelled as he was now basically roaring, soon a yellow aura appeared around Ash and his hair went upward and turned red. "Here we go, Achillichu!" Ash continued as the same aura came around Achillichu.

"What the…?" Kari said as she was flabbergasted and so was Nefertimon. Soon, Achillichu pushed Mammothmon back and it fell to the ground with an earth shaking thud.

"Storm Breaker!" Ash yelled as he jumped into the air and swung his arm downward, and Achillichu did the same thing with his sword, splitting the dark ring in half. After the dust settled, Ash's hair went back to the normal raven color and back into its normal position and Achillichu changed back into Pikachu, Nefertimon also turned back into Gatomon. Soon she and Kari ran over to Ash and Pikachu and they hugged their respective interests.

"Thanks my brave little storm." Gatomon said as she soon grabbed Pikachu by the cheeks and pressed her lips against Pikachu's, soon his fur went completely red, but he kissed her back.

"Ash, how did you do that?" Kari asked as Ash was unsure of what exactly he did.

"I don't know, all I remember was seeing and Nefertimon in trouble and Achillichu holding Mammothmon back, then I somehow heard Achillichu's voice in my head, then it just happened. But, I'm glad it happened, otherwise I would've lost you for good." Ash said as Kari blushed and the locked lips once again.

"Star Shower!" Pegasusmon shouted as he flapped his wings and stars were fired at the spire.

"Eagle Eye!" Halsemon shouted as he fired red lasers from his eyes towards the spire.

"General Inferno!" Cyberzard shouted as he fired as spiraling ball of flame from his chest towards the spire, when all three attacks hit the spire, it crumbled with a thud.

**Location Change: With Cody**

As they continued to fight Shellmon, they all see that the control spire was destroyed.

"Yes, the other destroyed the control spire. Now you can digivolve." Joe said as the Emperor was displeased.

"What!?" The Emperor shouted as Wormmon stayed calm.

"He said 'the others destroyed the control spire, now you can digivolve.'" Wormmon said as The Emperor turned viciously to Wormmon.

"It's an expression!" The Emperor yelled as Wormmon quivered.

"This guy makes me sick, I'm in. Digi Armor Energize!" Brock shouted as Steelix started to glow red.

"Steelix armor digivolve to…" Steelix said as he changed into a silver colored Hydra with red colored armor on all four of its heads . "Steeldra, the Hydra of Vitality!" Steeldra shouted as he slammed his tail on the ground.

"Gomamon digivolve to… Ikkakumon!" Ikkakumon shouted as a rainbow light appeared behind him.

"Woah, that's Steelix? Awesome!" Mairin said as she was very impressed with Steeldra's look.

"I am Steeldra, as Steelix I use the Digi-egg of Vitality to armor digivolve. My Tetra Impact attack will send the enemy packing." Steeldra said as he described himself.

"Alright then, how about another slave." The Emperor said as he snapped his fingers, soon a giant shrimp emerged from the water. "Ebidramon here uses his Twin Scissors attack to crush the enemy like a snail." He said describing the giant shrimp. "Now, destroy them all!" He shouted as they moved in to attack.

"Twin Illusion!" Ninjespin shouted as he created a clone of himself and they each ran to Shellmon and Ebidramon. "Pin Katana!" He shouted as he pulled out his katana and striked the rings.

"Gold Rush!" Digmon shouted as he fired all of his drills and half went to Shellmon and the other half went to Ebidramon.

"Harpoon Torpedo!" Ikkakumon shouted as he fired his horn which really was a rocket and was targeted at Shellmon. The ranged attacks hit their mark on Shellmon, destroying his dark ring. But, none of them hit Ebidramon as he used his Twin Scissors attack to slice through each attack.

"Tetra Impact!" Steeldra shouted as he had a silver and purple aura around him as he rammed into Ebidramon and destroyed his dark ring, forcing the Emperor to retreat again.

**Location Change: At The TV**

They all regrouped back at the TV where they were about to return home.

"Alright Gomamon, you're in charge here now." Joe said as Gomamon was a little unimpressed by the area he was in charge of.

"Great, a frozen wasteland, just what I always wanted." Gomamon said sarcastically.

"At least you'll have plenty of time to practice your jokes." Joe said as Gomamon started laughing sarcastically.

"Very funny." Gomamon said sarcastically again.

"Well, I think it's time we returned home." Brock said as Cody walked towards him and Joe.

"Before we go, there's one thing I just have to finish before I was rudely interrupted by Davis." Cody said as they turned to him and Davis

"What would that be?" Joe asked as Davis turned to them with a confused look.

"Our introduction. Hello, my name is Cody." Cody said as he bowed his head to them.

"I don't get Cody, what's the big deal?" Davis asked as Cody looked to him.

"My grandfather always told me, next to prune juice, manners are the most important thing a man can have." Cody said as Lillie nodded and grabbed Davis' left hand.

"I would agree." Lillie said as Davis turned to face her and blushed.

"You know, Cody reminds me an awful lot like Joe, always honest and sticks to the rules." Kari said as T.K nodded.

"I think he reminds me of Izzy, just loaded with curiosity." T.K said as Joe turned to them.

"Part Izzy and part me? That's a scary combination." Joe said as Cody blushed and Mairin placed her hand on his shoulder, Cody then turned to Mairin.

"Honestly, I think they were correct, but you are definitely the one for me." Mairin said as she slowly moved towards Cody and kissed him on the cheek as Cody blushed even more.

**Location Change: The Emperor's Base**

The Emperor wasn't very happy about the fact that they destroyed another spire.

"I can't believe they destroyed another control spire, and that was a freshly conquered area too." The Emperor said as he was really angry.

"Alright, I'll just have to go to plan 'B.' Wormmon, what's plan 'B?'" The Emperor asked as Wormmon was struggling a bit.

"We all become friends?" Wormmon said as the Emperor turned viciously to him.

"That's not plan 'B,' you fool!" The Emperor yelled as Wormmon quivered again.

"Don't blame me, I can't spell!" Wormmon said frantically.

**Location Change: Computer Room**

The Digidestined and Digi-Masters returned to the real world, leaving Gomamon in charge of the the area they just freed.

"I bet he's at home crying, 'Mommy, those mean kids broke another spires!'" Davis said as he impersonated the Emperor and Lillie started to chuckle a little.

"Not bad Davis, but it's far from over." Lillie said as Cody turned to Joe.

"Joe, do you think you'll come back and help us again sometime?" Cody asked as Joe nodded.

"Sure, who knows, maybe I'll find a digi-egg of my own someday. But I'd have to watch my cholesterol." Joe said as Cody had an idea for not only Joe, but also Brock.

"Joe, Brock I was wondering if you would like to come over to my house sometime, you'd like my grandfather and I know he'd like both of you." Cody offered as they both nodded.

"I'd be honored Cody." Brock said as Joe was in full agreement.

"Me too, I love prune juice." Joe said as Mairin and Kari walked over to them.

"Is it okay if we came over too? We'd just love to meet your grandfather." Mairin asked on behalf of Kari.

"Sure, I think he would like to meet both of you as well. You too Ash." Cody said as Ash nodded.

"I'd be honored Cody." Ash said as Davis walked over to Lillie.

"Hey Lillie. I was wondering if you weren't busy, if you would like to go see the new Captain Marvel movie with me?" Davis asked as everyone was in shock, but none more so than Lillie. She soon then smiled with a hint of pink in her cheeks.

"Sure, I'd love too Davis." Lillie said as Davis started jumping for joy.

"Yes!" He shouted as he soon realized he was in public, then soon got his cool back. "I mean, cool. I'll pick you up at 8 PM tonight." Davis said as Lillie nodded.