The group was now sitting around a fire after fighting the Guardramon and the new Armor digimon. Kari was changing the bandage on Andrew’s wound. "Well it certainly looks a lot better than it did.", Kari said finishing the new bandage. "Thanks Kari. I really appreciate you helping me like this.", Andrew said pulling his shirt and Jacket back on. "Drakemon, not to push you but what did you mean earlier when you said that digimon back there was an old flame and an old nightmare?", Gatomon asked. The other also wanted to hear it, Drakemon closed his eyes and said, "My memory still has gaps, but from what has come back to be so far her name is-was Kitmon. Though she was different back then. I know that me and Black Hawk met wherever it was that I met Kitmon. She also had a Partner, a girl, who was there. I...I think something happened to her partner and she went berserk and destroyed the place we were staying at. I...I think she killed me and I came back as a digiegg." The others stared at him in shock. Few digimon came back from being deleted, and for Drakemon’s case he had died in his rookie form where as the others had been at least champions. "Drakemon...she killed you?", Andrew was genuinely concerned. Drakemon stood, "I need some air. I will be back in a bit." He walked out of the fire ring and into the woods. He stopped a cliff edge and enjoyed the breeze. His thoughts wandered back to Kitmon, she had been such a playful and joyful soul in their youth, or at least he thought so. What could have made her destroy everything she knew including him? His memories had been shattered by being reformatted and now having fractured pieces of his past felt worse than not having a past at all. "I wonder where she is right now," he thought out loud.

ShadowKitmon was looking out her cell bars at the moon. Myotismon had her put down there and shackled her as punishment for her failure. She sighed and remembered Drakemon. The two of them had been more than friends; she had been willing to share her life with him. Her face clouded with anger as she remembered the day when all that changed. Her partner was killed before her eyes. In a fit of rage she digivolved to Kitsunemon, her champion form and razed the area for miles. When Drakemon tried to stop her, she deleted him. "And now you’ve come back.", she said with a tear in her eye, "And I have no choice but to kill you." Her shoulders slumped and she fell into depression. "Drakemon. Don’t make me kill you again, please..."

"There you are." Gatomon said as she walked up to Drakemon. Drakemon turned to her and said, "I would prefer to be alone." Gatomon strolled right up next to him and looked up at the stars. "The others are asleep, I came out here because you didn’t come back." Drakemon rolled his eyes, "Your concern is touching, but unnecessary.", he said in a flat tone. Gatomon almost sneered at him, "I wasn’t worried about you I wanted to talk to you." Drakemon turned to her, "About what?" Gatomon sighed, "About Kitmon, and what you should expect." Drakemon said nothing for a while. Then he spoke up, "And how would you know anything about her? I assume you’ve never met her?" Gatomon sat down on a nearby rock, "I know because I was once worked for Myotismon myself. Not that I’m happy about it but I know what it’s like." Drakemon sat next to her, "Tell me." Gatomon told Drakemon about everything that happened to her as a part of Myotismon’s army. Gatomon had never told anyone, not even Kari, the full extent of what happened to her and yet she was bearing her soul to this digimon she hardly even knew. Drakemon waited quietly for her to finish. When she did he took her hand, "I am sorry for what happened to you, and I am sorry for how I acted earlier. I should not have been so cold." Gatomon squeezed his hand, "It’s ok, you and Andrew have had a rough first couple of days that’s all. You’ll be fine. And as for me, I’ve had to deal with worse so don’t worry about it." The two of them sat in silence for a while. Gatomon perked up a bit, "At the very least you know there’s hope for her yet right?" Drakemon seemed very sad, "You had Kari to pull you from the side of dark...Kitmon has no one..." Gatomon’s eyes went to the floor, "Oh, right...," suddenly her eyes shot up, "Wait! She was armor digivolved! You can’t do that with out a trainer to hold the digieggs!" Drakemon looked her dead in her eyes, "Your sure?!" She nodded back. "Then...where is She..." Drakemon said sadly. Gatomon said, "I don’t know, but I’m sure we’ll find her."

Deep in one of Myotismon’s dungeons, a figure sits quietly huddled in a cloak. The hood is over the figure’s head and is dirty and torn with over use. A pair of green eyes is barely visible. On the floor in front of it is a D3 that is gray all over and next to it is a d-terminal. "Kitmon...help me please...", said a weak female voice. "Please....", the figure said sobbing. But no one heard, or cared. So she sat and cried alone in the darkness.

It was the next morning, the digidestined were waking from sleeping when they heard a familiar voice approaching. "Hey guys! I finished my analysis of what happened!", it was Izzy, carrying his laptop and with Tentomon in tow behind him. The others all crowded around to hear Izzy. "Ok, first off I have a question, Andrew did you ever live in Japan?", Izzy inquired. Andrew thought for a moment and answered, "Yea...My parents adopted me here and moved to America not long afterward." Izzy nodded, "That proves it then, I think Andrew was meant to be one of the original digidestined. But since he moved so far away he wasn’t able to be involved in the fights we were. I think his digivice only just caught up with him. And here’s the other thing, take a look at this." Izzy brought up a set of waves on his computer screen; they looked like the kind you’d see on an oscilloscope. Izzy continued his explanation, "When ever we travel between the two worlds we get transmitted as a wave like these, though each one is different for each person they have similarities, this one," he said pointing to one of the three on the screen, "Is the wave I generated when I entered the digital world, this one,", he said pointing to the next one, "is Veemon when he and the others went looking for Andrew." Veemon spoke up, "So what’s the last one? It doesn’t look like the others." Izzy taped some keys, "That is the wave Andrew made when he arrived, it was so different that at first I thought maybe it was just an error, but it is correct. The next thing I checked was if it was because he traveled from New York but that didn’t fit so then I-" Davis tapped him on the shoulder, "Uh Izzy this is really neat and all but could you get to the point?" Izzy looked a little embarrassed, "Sorry I guess I was getting a little carried away, anyhow I couldn’t figure out what it was till I did this,", he tapped a few keys and Veemon and Izzy’s waves molded together. The combined wave was almost perfect match for Andrew’s. "So what does this mean Izzy?" T.K. Asked. Izzy turned off his computer and turned to them, "It means that Andrew has energies in him similar to a digimon. And we need to go see Gennai; he may know more about this. Quite frankly I have no idea how this could be possible." Kari took out her D-terminal and started typing, "I’m going to send an e-mail to others telling them to meet us. I think we’ll be better off if we have as many people with us as possible." Izzy nodded, "Good Idea, in the meantime lets head to Gennai’s home, I hope he’s there."

The party soon reached Gennai’s home, which was situated at the bottom of a lake. Gennai looked as he had ever since the defeat of the Dark Masters, he seemed to give the impression of a strong monk when you were in his presence. "So this is the new digidestined eh?", he said looking over Andrew. "My name is Andrew good to meet you Mr. Gennai.", he said putting his hand out in a handshake, which Gennai took. "Please, don’t so formal, Gennai will do just fine." He said. "Gennai I think you should see this", said Izzy walking up. He then described to Gennai about the discoveries. "Hm...", Gennai seemed to be in deep thought for a moment, "Andrew would you mind if I scanned you with some of my equipment?" Andrew shrugged, "I guess not, why?" Gennai smiled, "I have a hunch, also I would like to get a scan of Drakemon as well. "Ok" Drakemon had no problem with it ether. So Izzy, Drakemon, Andrew and Gennai walked into the next room. "Two new digimon in one day, and both are Armor digivolvers too..."T.K. Mused. Davis leaned against a wall and straightened his goggles, "Kari are you still angry at me?" Kari looked up at him and sighed, "I guess not, just next time please think about what you’re doing? Andrew was really hurt." Veemon turned to his partner, "Yea I mean what were you thinking Davish?" Davis looked at Veemon and was about to say something along the lines of what do you know, but instead, "I dunno, I guess, I guess, I was just really worried about you Kari..." Kari’s eyes went a little wide at this, "...Thanks but next time don’t go off like that." T.K. thought to himself, Davis looking before he leaps, right, gee is that brimstone I smell. He chuckled a little at that. "What’s so funny?", Davis snapped at him. T.K. Rolled his eyes, "Oh nothing..."

Back in Gennai’s lab Izzy helped set up something that looked like one of those medical beds from the Sci-fi shows that has a scanned that could pan over the subject. "Is this completely necessary?", Drakemon said, with a slight edge of worry. Gennai assured them it was perfectly safe. Andrew when first, he laid onto the bed and the scanner piece moved over him shining a dim blue beam over him. "There all done...well this is interesting." Gennai said looking at a computer screen attached to the bed. "Andrew got up and asked, "What is something wrong?" Gennai shock his head, "No, but to be sure about this I definitely need a scan of Drakemon. If you would please?" Drakemon seemed very nervous, "Are you sure this is necessary?" Andrew looked at Drakemon quizzically, "What are you afraid of it or something? It’s just a scanner." Drakemon was still not sure about it but got on anyway. The scanned passed by him and he suddenly let out a gasp and grabbed his head as if he was in pain. Andrew and Izzy pulled him out as soon as the scan was done, "Are you ok?" The three of them asked Drakemon almost at once. "I...I think I remembered something more. It was a lab of some sort, and me and Kitmon were suspended in tanks of some sort of fluid...It’s still blurry but the feeling of being trapped brought it back." Drakemon said still rubbing his head a bit, "I’m ok now. Gennai what did you need the scans for anyway?" Gennai walked back to the computer screen and smiled, "To prove a hunch, the reason that Andrew has entry patterns similar to a digimon and human’s is because he appears to be infused with some energy from Drakemon. He is effectively part digimon." The foursome stood in silence. "I’m what?! How is that even possible? I didn’t even know the digital world existed before yesterday." Gennai shrugged, "Sorry, but I haven’t a clue, all I know is that those are the facts." Izzy spoke up, "Actually, if what Kari told me about the past several days is true then this explains a lot. Andrew has an immense amount of strength and combat skills, exactly like Drakemon. He also has the same fighting style to the point where each new exactly what the other as doing when fighting." Drake seemed puzzled, "Black Hawk is part digimon...more than that he has part of me in him." Gennai scratched his head, "Well I’ll get in contact with my counterparts in the other parts of the world, maybe we can figure out how this happened. You guys can stay here for the night if you want." Izzy thought about it for a minute, "Nah we really should be getting home to our families before they worry. "What about me?" Andrew piped up. "Right, well we don’t know where that gate was that you came through, so I guess you’ll just have to stay with one of us for the time being. Lets go ask the others." Izzy, Andrew, and Drakemon all walked back out into the main chamber. "The digidestined who is part digimon...hm. I wonder if this was part of how this whole mess got started..."Gennai went back to work contacting his friends around the world.

"Hey guys! You’re not going to believe this!" Izzy quickly explained to the threesome about how Drakemon’s energy is infused into Andrew and that he is technically part digimon because of it. "Wow, that’s really weird." Said Patamon from on top of T.K.’s hat. "Yea who’d a guessed, so Izzy now what?", said Davis. Andrew interjected, "Uh, well I kinda need a place to stay till we work this mess out..." Veemon shouted out, "Hey you could stay with me and Davish, right?" Davis rolled his eyes, "I’d like to but mom isn’t too keen on me having people over with out telling her...that and explaining it might be kinda hard." Kari smiled, "He can stay with me and Tai." T.K and Davis were both about to protest this when she stopped them dead, "Tai and I both have had Digimon so we can fill in anything else Andrew needs to know, also our parents know about Agumon and Gatomon so they will be fine with having Drakemon show up."

Both the boys went to argue, but both realized they had nothing they could say, "Ah, fine, whatever", Davis half complained. Andrew’s eyes went a little wide, "Wait you mean Drakemon will come with me into the real world? Wow I’m glad we aren’t going back to New York, my apartment complex doesn’t allow pets. I can only imagine the kind of fit my mom would have if she saw Drakemon. Well lets get going guys!" The crew walked to the nearest terminal and left.

"Nice apartment", said Andrew through clenched teeth. He still wasn’t used to the whole ‘digiport’ thing so he landed badly and Drakemon had landed on top of him. "Sorry Black Hawk.", Drakemon shrunk suddenly and in a flash was about 2 feet tall with an even smaller version of his sword. "Cute, Let me guess, DemiDrakemon?" Gatomon said as she walked over. "Yup!" The smaller cuter version of Drakemon said, hopping off Andrew at the same time. Andrew stood up and suddenly got another flare of pain in his chest, "Argggg, almost forgot about that..." He sat roughly down in a chair in Kari’s room. There was a knock at the door. "Yes who is it?" Kari shouted toward it. "It’s me Tai! Who else would it be?!" Tai opened the door and walked in, "How ya doing sis? Huh?" He saw Andrew sitting in a chair across the room, panting from the burst of pain. "Uh, Kari who is that?", Tai asked. "Oh, that’s Andrew, and that’s his digimon, DemiDrakemon", She said pointing at him, "He’s one of the digidestined! He’s hurt though and he needs a place to stay." Tai sighed inwardly in relief, "Ok, I assume you got hit in the chest huh, Common lets go take a look at that." Tai helped Andrew into the living room and took a look under the bandage. The wound was still a bit infected and seemed to be refusing to heal. "Man how’d you get that?" Tai said going to the bathroom to get some clean bandages. "Myotismon slashed me." Andrew said matter-of-factly. Kari was in the kitchen warming up some leftover their parents had left for them. Tai was standing in the doorway of the bathroom twitching, "Myotismon hit you and your still alive?" Andrew still didn’t quite get what was so amazing about that, "Yea why?" Tai shock his head, "Kari you and Andrew better explain."

One lengthy and detailed explanation later... "Wow...that’s just amazing." Tai had finished bandaging up the wound and the five of them were enjoying a meal together. Demidrakemon had been a little confused about the food, "What do you call this?", he said cocking his head to the side. Kari seemed a little confused," You don’t know? Oh right, you’ve never been in the real world before. That’s pizza, actually pretty common here." Demidrakemon smiled, "I’ll have to look for the whatever grows this ‘pizza’ in the digiworld, this stuff is great!" He said wolfing down a piece. Gatomon broke out laughing, "Silly, pizza doesn’t grow on something. It’s something you cook, I’ve seen Kari’s parents make it before." Everyone got a good laugh; demidrakemon seemed a little embarrassed, "I’m sorry, I didn’t know..." Andrew patted him on the head, "Don’t worry about it pal, I think I know how ya feel though, when I showed up in the digiworld I was pretty confused too.", He smiled, "Though at least you have a bunch of good friends to help you along. Right guys?" Every one raised a glass in agreement, Andrew felt great despite the pain in his chest. It was the first time in a long time that he had found such good friends.

Shadowkitmon was sitting on the rooftop across from the apartment where Andrew was, her original intention had been to sneak in and take him...but now she just sat and watched as the comrades ate and laughed. She felt so alone. Sure she had a purpose, Myotismon had given her that, and sure she had a home as well. But she always had emptiness inside her, ever since her partner died so long ago...

Kitmon was sitting in her enclosure watching the scientists as they worked on her partner. It wasn’t uncommon, this was a research lab White Eagle, as her partner was being called, was the primary subject along with that boy, and Drakemon...The scientist led her up to a tube shaped object and helped her into it. She stood, something didn’t feel right here. The scientist retreated behind a protective wall and started working at a console. The tube was suddenly coated in electrical discharges. Her partner screamed in pain. "Alice! No!" , that was her normal name, the one her partner had only shared with her. Alice convulsed in the tube screaming louder, the scientist were starting to panic. Kitmon pounded her fists on the glass wall between them. "No! Please! Stop the machine! Stop it!", but her call were drowned out by the roar of the machinery and Alice’s screams. Kitmon pounded the glass in vain. Even when her hands we bloodied from the abuse she kept trying to get to her partner. In a final screech of noise and a cloud of smoke, Alice seemed to vaporize. Kitmon pounded her hands on the glass a few more times. Her blood now coating her paws and dripping down the glass. She sank down to her knees and looked at her hands. And she broke into tears, weeping for her friend. And then she heard something that made her blood run cold. "Oh well...I guess we need a new test subject then" said one of the scientists. Her sorrow turned to rage and hate, someone just died and was put through hell before it and now they were just going to casually get someone else. No remorse at all for what they had done... "You don’t deserve to live!", her energy increased dramatically and she digivolved into Kitsunemon, her champion form. She drew her sword, and cut cleanly through the glass. She went into a murderous rampage through the lab; killing everyone she found has she ripped the place to shreds. She now walked down a hall toward the room of the boy; She saw no reason to spare him, if anything she would be saving him from a fate like Alice’s. "Kitsunemon stop please!", shouted a familiar voice behind her. "Drakemon, these people are nothing but scum. Scum that I am meant to annihilate." Drakemon shouted out to her pulling his kendo sword, "Leave the boy alone!" Kitsunemon turned to him and roared out, "WHY? So they can kill him too!? NO! I’m going to give him a quick death so he doesn’t have to go through the hell Alice did!" Drakemon move gracefully into a fighting stance, "I won’t allow any harm to come to Black Hawk. You’ll have to kill me first." Kitsunemon’s cold almost lifeless eyes met his, "So be it." She brought her sword around and struck him full force; even though he tried to block it he went flying backward and hit the metal wall behind him. She ran forward and elbowed him in the stomach. A loud CRACK was heard and Drakemon dropped to the floor. His body lies at an odd angle, his back broken at the waist. Through coughs of blood Drakemon weakly addressed Kitsunemon, "Please...he’s only...a...child." Kitsunemon sneered at him, "better he die now than live in a world with people like these so called scientist." Down the hall a small voice was heard, "Drakey? What going o...", the child stopped in mid sentence as he saw the broken bloodied form of Drakemon lying on the floor. Drakemon, with the last of his strength used his wings to throw himself forward and locked his arms around Kitsunemon’s legs. "Black Hawk, RUN! Get to elevator, get out of here!", Drake yelled. "But..Drakemon...", Black Hawk saw the anger in Kitsunemon’s eyes and ran to the elevator out of the lab. As the doors closed Kitsunemon brutally kicked Drakemon in the ribs to free herself. "He’s....safe...", Drakemon smiled despite the pain. Kitsunemon scowled at him, "You’ve just prolonged the inevitable for him. As for you, I hope you enjoy deletion." She cut him cleanly in half with her sword and he disappeared in a burst of data and a scream of pain.

Hours later Kitsunemon still had yet to find the boy, though nothing else in the military lab lived. She walked past some doors marked with danger signs and found a large tubular structure labeled Generator 01. "...If I cannot find him, I will simply destroy us both!", Kitsunemon drove her sword deep into the generator and shredded it. A black portal appeared. "What in the name o-" She was cut off as it sucked her in...

"That was so long ago....", Shadowkitmon said to herself. She had always been of the opinion that humans cared for no one but themselves, something Myotismon had always sought cultivate in her. And yet, this Andrew, this child from her past had risked his life just to save a digimon. She put her hand on the healing wound that Dragomon had given her. She had been stupid, careless, and she had gotten what she deserved for her mistake. But she still couldn’t shake this confusion; humans are honorless, selfish, hateful creatures...aren’t they? The more and more she watched the friends together, the more and more she began to question her self. She stood, she had to do some serious thinking and staying around here would just cloud her judgment. She ran across the rooftops toward the park.