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The next day, I was sitting around with my two favorite digimon, outside for once. I was sitting, my back against the wall of the house and Raia sitting next to me, her head on my left shoulder, both of us watching the clouds pass. Renamon was up in the target tree, seeming content to be perched high, although I wasn't.

"Renamon, quit being anti-social," I called up to her. "C'mon, we talked about this." She smiled, no doubt recollecting that evening. She leapt, seeming weightless as the branch barely recoiled, and landed without a sound next to me, laying her head on my shoulder in a way similar to Raia.

She nuzzled her head against my neck and purred. "We can have that talk again anytime." She said, leaving me nearly dumbfounded. Renamon, flirting? Christ, what's the world coming to? I simply smiled though, watching the clouds roll. There was a particularly dark one on the horizon, though. Is that...? Crap.

"Well, time to go to work." I said, using the wall to press myself up. Both Raia and Renamon were already on the scent, but I reined them in for a moment. "Hold on now. Gotta get the digivice and my deck first, or do you two want to get caught out?" They calmed down long enough for me to retrieve what I needed, and then we were off, making a beeline for the highway.

Wait, the highway? Damn, must've missed the first go 'round. Oh well, second time's the ass kicking, right? I joked with myself, but I knew this was gonna be a bitch of a fight.

We arrived and I used my mental link to digivolve Raia and Renamon, finding Takato and Henry doing the same with cards.

"You gotta show us how to do that some time." Takato said half-jokingly as Growlmon got ready for the fight.

"Yeah, really." Henry said, watching Gargomon spin up his guns.

"Later, when a 50 foot horse isn't trying to tear shit up." Both Raia and Kyubimon looked back at me, eager to fight. "For now, just watch the horn."

"Where were you before anyways?" Henry asked, his eyes locked on the fight and a hand at his cards. "We could've used the help."

I laughed a bit, doing the same. "I was busy sending two Ultimates of my own packing, they seemed to think they could take me and the Renamon on. Dead wrong." I raised my new digivice for them to see. "Earned me this sucker."

They both quickly looked at it. "Dual?" Takato said.

"Perceptive. Yeah, scanned a white card and it joined them. Two card ports, making this kinda thing a lot easier. Watch." I struck a Hyper Speed through one port, then the other, beginning the first wave of modify-powered attacks. It, of course did no visible damage. "He ain't going down easy."

We went on and on, attacking in waves as we scanned modifiers to power up the attacks, and while we were whittling the horse deva down, it would take more than this to kill him. After 3 or 4 waves, all of the digimon were starting to become exhausted from constant use of their main abilities and I knew we'd need Kazu's game changer to save us. They came over, Kazu and Kenta, offering more cards, with Kazu eventually offering his fake blue card.

"Hope it works." I said as Takato went to scan it. I knew it would work, or thought I did. The card did nothing.

"Told ya it wouldn't do anything." I groaned. We had really needed that edge.

"Takato, you wanted to learn how to digivolve without cards?" He nodded. "Remember how I told you to form the mental link? You need to focus, damn hard, on your bind with Growlmon." He nodded again and tried, and his digivice's screen began to glow, but quickly darkened again.

"Why didn't it work?" He asked, confused.

"Well, for Matrix digivolving, Calumon usually has to help, through the blue cards, so we probably aren't strong enough yet. Although..." I said, reaching for a card, "This might do it. Not a blue card, but it'll get Calumon to jumpstart you, which will have to be enough." I handed him the card and he tried again. Just as the digivice began to glow, he scanned the card.

"Zero Unit, activate!" He called out. I looked back and Calumon perked up a bit, his own Zero Unit shining. Growlmon began to digivolve, but something didn't look quite right. His chest cannons were oddly shaped and his arm blades split off into two.

"Takato, hand me that card." I said, nervous. He did and my fingers slid, breaking apart two cards which had been stuck together. On top was the Zero Unit card, and beneath was... "Oh crap."

"WarGrowlmon X!" I heard from in front of me.

"X Antibody." Was all I said as we watched WarGrowlmon X go to town on Indramon. "I think we win." WarGrowlmon X launched a barrage of strikes with his fists and finished off with an Atomic Blaster, the blast larger and much more powerful than usual.

"Uh..." Came from the collective crowd behind us, including Henry. All of the digimon degraded to their base forms and came back to us. The odd one out was Guilmon, or should I say, Guilmon X.

"What the heck happened to him!?" Takato cried upon seeing the new form. "Guilmon, are you ok?"

Guilmon nodded, the same cheerful look in his eyes. "I told you Takato, I'll still be me no matter what I am."

I looked at his sleek new form and looked back to the card, placing it back in my deck. "The X Antibody essentially powers him up more, and changes his appearance. I'm not sure if this is temporary or not, but it's pretty much a change for the better, honestly."

Guilmon grinned. "He's right, I feel stronger!" Guilmon began punching at the air, testing out his new form.

"Well... as long as Guilmon's happy." Takato said. "Come on boy, let's getcha home."

I nodded, "Yeah, we're gonna head that way too. Come on girls."

---

We arrived home and walked out back again, resuming our previous relaxation in the evening shade the house provided. Raia cuddled up nice and close and Renamon opted just to have her head on my shoulder.

"So..." Raia began, a curious tone creeping into her voice. "Does that X Antibody card work on us?"

"Nope." I said, a note of finality present to try to avoid explanation.

"Why not?" Came the inevitable response. "It worked on Guilmon!"

"Some digimon are born with the X Antibody," I began, gaining a bit of eager attention from Raia, while Renamon feigned nonchalance. "Others can contract it. Renamon can do neither."

"It's an antibody, but against what?" Renamon asked, obviously thinking a level deeper than most, as usual.

"A virus set to trigger when the Digital World reaches capacity." I replied. "98% will die, while the remaining two will be immune due to the antibody, and be taken to a new digital world. That's ages away though. For now, it really just upgrades power."

"Interesting." Renamon said. "So if we need not worry about that, what should we be preparing for?" It was at this point I realized I never told Renamon of my knowledge of future events.

"How would I know?" I said, hoping Raia wouldn't rat me out. She didn't have to though.

"Don't toy with me; I've seen how you have knowledge of the future. You must know..." I sighed, nodding.

"Yeah, I know. Do you even care how I know?"

"Of course." She replied plainly.

"This world is a work of fiction in the world I came from. Raia and I weren't a part of it, but you were. My presence here has altered some things, but the general timeline has remained intact."

"A work of fiction?" She said, skeptical as one would expect. "You truly expect me to believe that?"

"Believe it or don't, I wouldn't lie about something like that, it would be pointless." I shrugged, continuing. "As to the threat we face, there's a viral program hibernating beneath he digital world which we have to defeat, or it will destroy the digital world and possibly the human world. Although with the presence of those demon digimon before, I think we might have more on our plate."

"You mean you don't know?" Renamon said, the question in her voice harboring the slightest note of fear. My voice stayed steady, never betraying the fact that I really had no_clue as to what was going on with that. Honestly, the prospect of the unknown probably scared her more than me, simply because I figured that it was the universe attempting to balance out my and Raia's presence here. Still, the unknown variables made me wonder _just what we were going to be facing, and just what it had to do with Raia. She just appeared here too, right? Her past was something of a mystery though, as I'd never asked. _Maybe it's time I did..._I shook the thoughts, deciding I needed to comfort Renamon despite my doubts.

"Nope, wasn't part of the canon. It has something to do with Raia. We'll figure it out, I'm certain, but we need to focus on the viral program, which is called D-Reaper, by the way, because that could be cataclysmic." I sighed deeply, not wanting to talk about such tense things. "Let's just relax, alright? Nothing to be done about it yet, we still have another two Devas to deal with."

"And then?" Raia asked.

"Then we go to the digital world."

---

A small purple figure sat on the top of a house, listening to the conversation between a tamer and his partners, then darting away to a small portal summoned specifically for him. From there, he entered the large fortress of his current "master" although he loathed the term. The digimon he served only had his service due to a business agreement.

"I got some dirt for ya!" He called down the immense darkened hallway his contract called home. "Whatcha got for me?"

The lord of this fortress sat on his throne, somewhat amused by the courage, or perhaps blind foolishness, of this rookie. Regardless of his disrespect, he was an asset at the moment, as his information was well worth the reward he would pay. "Tell me first, then you'll get what you came for."

The rookie told him of the Tamer's knowledge, of the D-Reaper, the X Antibody, and his possible knowledge of the master himself. The master was surprised by this influx of useful information, and was overly pleased. "Very good. You're the best informant I've had so far, the others have sucked pretty hard, honestly. As a result, you'll get your power." A stream of data flowed from one of the master's hands into the rookie. The rookie was empowered, but simultaneously irritated.

"Hey! You was supposed to make me digivolve!"

"You will, runt, in time. Your new power activates with expressions of wrath. Soon you will be the killing machine you've always wished to be."

The little purple demon huffed and began to walk out. "No good, lyin'..." He mumbled as he trudged back through the hallway.

So, thought the lord as he leaned back in his throne. He knows of the D-Reaper? Ugh, I can't prevent him from fighting it, lest I die along with the rest of the digital world. Perhaps I could split his attention though?

"Master?" Came a female voice from a side hall.

"Yes?" he replied, hoping she would tell him what he wished for.

"They've hatched." She waved him into the side hall and showed him to a pen with 5 fresh digimon in it. "You need only to empower them." He grinned and did so, dark spirals of data flowing into each from his hands, causing them to progress to their first to their In-Training and then their Rookie forms.

"That's all they need for now. Let 'em grow a little bit more, then call me back in to finish 'em off." He walked back to his throne, excited at the prospect of 5 new minions to assist him, all of which would be stronger than his previous two. It's all coming to together. Soon my forces will easily overtake that damned tamer, then my prize will be mine once again. He sunk into his throne, fantasizing about the future based on memories of the past. She will be mine once more.