The children were at some point lost in this thick forest, which was on the same time as Airdramon descent towards the island. To please Chihori, Gazimon stole an Airdramon egg, which caused a lot of trouble for the group. It was first when Renamon evolved into Kyubimon that they could beat Airdramon and get out of this thick forest. The Children continued their journey..

The children were walking through the thick forest, at the path they had been instructed by from Airdramon, when they heard some weird roaming around. They all stopped walking and looked around, trying to figure out the sound.

"What was that sound?" Taichi questioned. In the air a round, black, something was shown. The children were not fully sure what that was.

"It looked like a gear" Yamato then decided.

"Aren't you sure it wasn't a flying saucer?" Sora then questioned.

"Or it could have been a meteorite shaped as a gear" Mimi then concluded. At that Ryuhei sighed deeply. However he was agreeing with Yamato. It looked like a gear.

"Either way, something didn't feel right about it" Jyou then commented. Suddenly the branch Takeru was standing on broke, and he felt to the ground. He hurt his knee a little. Taichi, who was closest, quickly helped him up.

"Are you okay Takeru?" Taichi then asked.

"That hurt, but I will bear with it" He then said slowly "I am a boy".

"You don't have to bear with it" Sora then said "It's okay to say it still hurts".

"Okay" Takeru said slowly "It actually hurts a little".

At that Patamon looked very worried at his partner, while asking if he was hurt. The others laughed a little at that. It was a little late to say that now. Even Ryuhei and Chihori. Gazimon looked stunned at the scene. Then over at Chihori. Since the accident with Airdramon, Gazimon had tried to find the boundaries to be a good partner to Chihori. Something Ryuhei appreciated a great deal. Gazimon looked at Chihori.

"Are you okay Chihori?" he then questioned. She nodded with a big smile.

"Yes, I am fine" she then said and uttered "And I will continue to be fine, because big brother and Renamon will save me".

At that Ryuhei slightly blushes again, which made the others laugh a little there too. Gazimon sighed deeply. But I shall also protect you Chihori. Then his thoughts got suddenly interrupted. Chihori had given him a giant bear hug.

"And of course Gazimon" she then said "Gazimon will protect me. He is my friend".

"Chihori can't breathe" Gazimon said, but when she stopped he also added "But don't stop. I liked the hug". The others chuckled at that.

"C'mon, let's get going" Sora then said. The others nodded.

"Yeah, we won't get anywhere by complaining" Yamato then added.

"That is fine and all, but we don't actually know where we are going" Taichi said "Beside getting out of the forest".

"We can figure that out when we are out of the forest" Ryuhei said firmly "If we stay here, we might lose our sense of directions". The others nodded at that.

"Well that might be true" Sora added with a smile. That until she notice Piyomon rub up at her leg.

"I am perfectly happy anywhere as long as Sora is there" the pink bird then said.

"That can't be. Even if you're 100 percent happy, it'll be troublesome for me" Sora then uttered with a big sigh. "I can't be held responsible". Piyomon looked at her.

"100 percent?" the bird then questioned "Be held responsible".

"Um never mind that" Sora quickly said, but Piyomon wanted to know everything about her beloved Sora.

"I want to know more about what you are talking about" she then uttered. "Tell me".

"You don't need to know that" Sora then replied rather annoyed.

"Stop playing around you two, or you will get lost" Yamato yelled. Him and the others had continued walking for a little bit, while Sora and Piyomon was talking.

"I'm not playing around, because I want to" Sora sneered and quickly followed the group with a happy Piyomon behind.

"Piyomon is a very sociable digimon" Tentomon then began explaining.

"I see" Koushiro then said "Every one of them really have their own personality".

"Yeah we kinda figured that out, when Renamon and Ryuhei fought" Taichi commented. Renamon looked rather stunned by that.

"I wasn't that annoying was I master?" He then asked his master.

"Yes, yes you were" Ryuhei mused out, but quickly added "But you are less annoying now. You are getting better at least".

"I will be even better so I can please my master" Renamon then said determined.

Ryuhei sighed a little by that but nodded. Chihori smiled happily and took her brother's hand. Then she was holding the other arm out to Gazimon, and they continued walking together all four of them.

"Sora, Sora" Piyomon then said in a happy tone "Shall we hold hands together".

Sora sighed deeply, but nodded. She couldn't quite turn it down. However she wondered if she could get along with such a mushy digimon like Piyomon.

Soon however the Children were finally out of the forest. They were walking on this open field, who resembled the African Savannah. Or that was what Koushiro told them. However their new environment was very hot.

"African Savannah?!" Taichi questioned "Does that mean there'll be Lions and Giraffes here?". The others shrugged at that they didn't know.

"It'll be nice if we saw normal animals like that though" Yamato added.

"Yay, I wanna see a lion and a giraffe" Chihori then uttered.

"Don't you think the digimon is enough animals for once Chihori" Ryuhei said and smiled. The digimon also countered with that there were only digimon here anyway.

"Koushiro, were there telephone poles in the savannah you saw on tv?" Yamato then asked. Koushiro shook his head, and said he hadn't.

"There must be some people nearby" Jyou then uttered "There just has to be".

"Really?" Taichi questioned "But we could end up as phone booths at the beach or the trolley at the lake". He sounded rather concerned about it.

"No that can't be!" Jyou said stubbornly "There are absolutely, positively humans here". At that everyone stopped and looked at him. Tentomon whispered in Koushiro's ear, that there really only were digimon here. Mimi smiled happily.

"Where can we be?" she then said and was holding out her father's compass.

Everyone assembled around her and the compass. However Mimi had just been looking at the compass when suddenly the arrow was spinning around like crazy.

"What is going on?" Mimi sneered in annoying's. Koushiro took some of the sand up from the ground below them. He looked rather thoughtful.

"This looks like sand, but is actually powdered iron" he then concluded "That is what's attracting the magnet".

"We really have come to an unbelievable place" Sora then replied and looked around.

"It is also rather hot here" Koushiro replied "We should get some water as soon as we can". The others nodded in agreement. Mimi sneered angrily by that.

"WHAT IS THIS FOR A PLACE?!" She then screamed loudly.

In the meantime.

In the meantime the gear they had been seeing, who so happens to be a black gear, was flying through the air and crashed into a mountain somewhere. A strange looking digimon could feel it's presence, and went to discover what was going on there. The children didn't know, that it would have some dire consequences for them later.

Back to the Children and their digimon.

The children continued their journey through the savannah. However they had no idea where they were going, and it was rather hot out here.

"So hot, maybe we should have stayed in the forest" Jyou then said.

"We would get lost in the forest instead" Ryuhei pointed out.

"But at this rate we will overheat" Yamato countered. Gomamon groaned by the heat.

"Gomamon are you hot Gomamon?" Jyou questioned worriedly. The seal nodded.

"I want ice.. or at least some water" he then complained.

Some of the other digimon agreed to that. Like Gabumon who was wearing a pelt. Mimi looked worried at Palmon. Plants normally didn't like to be out in too much sun. She figured it was the same with Palmon. She slowly took of her hat.

"Want to wear my hat Palmon?" she questioned. Palmon nodded and Mimi placed her pink hat at her digimon partner's head.

"Mimi chan?" Sora said a little stunned by her actions. Then she shrugged.

"Sora, Sora" Piyomon then said in a happy tone "Let's keep walking".

"You're so energetic" Sora said and sighed. She was so tired.

"Sora, Sora" Piyomon then said again and it annoyed Sora to know end.

"Oh just cut it out already" she then sneered "Right now I am really thirsty, tired and I am sick of walking, so stop clinging to me! It's making me even more tired". At that the group stopped a little. They were all tired and thirsty. Piyomon looked rather sad.

"Sora is tired?" Piyomon said in a sad tone "I'm sorry. I keep quiet".

"Fine, fine" Sora said rather relieved "You can walk with me". That cheered Piyomon up rather quickly.

"Ah I am so happy" she said and rubbed up at Sora's leg "Sora I love you". At that everyone was smiling at the scene. Yamato looked around a little.

"But man, we keep walking and walking, and nothing comes into sight" He said and sighed deeply "Maybe it is best if we go back to the forest".

The others were thoughtful about this for a while. Then Taichi decided to use his mini telescope to see if he could find anything interesting. In this case water. He took a quick look around and actually spotted something.

"Ahr a village" he then said in a surprised happy tone. Jyou smiled happily too.

"See, see, see, a Village. I knew there were people here" he then replied.

"In any case, it is worth checking out" Koushiro then concluded.

The others agreed. They were all hungry and thirsty after all. Soon they began walking toward the direction of this village Taichi spotted.

At the same time on that mountain, the digimon was searching for the disturbing's who was happening around him. However he was unaware of the danger he was in. He looked puzzled around at first. Then he heard a sound. He saw a black gear flying towards him. The digimon didn't have the time to reach, before the gear slammed into him and entered his body. The digimon screamed up in pain.

Back with the children.

They were staring. They were really staring. The children had all been psyched to go to that village Taichi had spotted. Like Jyou, they all believed it was a human village. However when they arrived they all got really surprised. It was a digimon village. A digimon village for Pyocomon's. The baby for of Piyomon.

"It is a Pyocomon village" Taichi then uttered and sighed.

He walked around the village, while the curious Pyocomon were watching them with a happy smile. Piyomon was of course really thrilled about this.

"Pyocomon, you are all my friends" Piyomon then said in a happy tone.

She had apparently stated that they now all were friends. The children however was not so thrilled about it. This village was small since everything was Pyocomon size. They felt like giants in it. The Pyocomon gazed curiously at them.

"Hey, hey, what kind of digimon are you?" one of them asked Sora.

"Me?" Sora uttered confused. She was surely no digimon. Piyomon of course came to the rescue, and began explaining that Sora was a human. That made the Pyocomon more curious and excited. Like Piyomon they wanted to know stuff.

"Ahr I was expecting people to be here" Jyou then said and sighed.

"Everything is even in Pyocomon size" Taichi then said and looked at their small houses.

Mimi couldn't keep smiling. She told them this reminded him of a fairy tale she read ones. With giants and stuff. At that Ryuhei bit his lip a little. That made him remember his kind mother a little.

"I thought we would be able to stay here for the night, but it looks rather impossible" Yamato then said. Koushiro nodded. They couldn't even fit into their houses.

"Piyomon, how did you evolve?" one of the Pyocomon's then asked Piyomon.

"I was able to because I was with Sora y'know" Piyomon began explaining.

"Y'know? what does that mean?" Another Pyocomon asked "Are those words that all Piyomon uses?". Sora sighed and sat down on the ground, near one of the small houses, while listening to Piyomon's explanations.

"No, those are words Sora uses" Piyomon then said "I learn so many words being with her". Pyocomon was rather fascinated by that.

"But why were you able to evolve?" another one of them asked again. "Can you evolve just by being with a human?".

"It must be because I had to protect Sora!" Piyomon said firmly.

Sora looked a little stunned by that. Protecting me? How can she say that, being as lovey dovey as she is? But then Sora began recalling what happened in their other fights until now. Agumon had faced Shellmon, and when Taichi was in danger, Agumon evolved into Greymon. At the lake in the night, Gabumon had fought Seadramon, and evolved to save Yamato. She didn't know what had happened in the fight with Airdramon and Renamon, since it had evolved to Kyubimon when they got there, but what if their partner evolved when they were in danger? Then whenever I am in danger.. Sora smiled a little and shook her head. There were no way that was right.

"Sora, Sora" Piyomon then said and poked Sora's cheek a little to get her attention "All of the Pyocomon's have offered to give us a feast". Sora's eyes widened.

"Really?!" she uttered. At that everyone were rather happy. They were after all very hungry and thirsty. Koushiro was thoughtful however. He wondered what they were going to eat. A lot of tasty images appeared in his mind.

"Water, water, water!" Takeru and Chihori then yelled and rushed over to a water fountain the Pyocomon's were having. "There is a fountain here".

"This fountain is connected to a water source in Miharashi mountain. It is really yummy" one of the Pyocomon said and joined them at the fountain.

"This is the famous delicious water from Miharashi mountain" Tentomon joined in.

"Miharashi mountain?" the kids then asked and Pyocomon showed them a mountain in the horizon.

Takeru and Chihori quickly turned back to the water. So did the others. They were all so thirsty after all. However before they could take a zip, the water suddenly disappeared, and got replaced with fire.

"No I was so thirsty" Chihori then said.

"I didn't get zip yet" Mimi then complained. The others looked stunned at the phenomenon in front of them. They were all wondering what was going on.

"D-don't worry" one of the Pyocomon then said "We have a pond over there".

The children rushed over to the pond, only to find out that it had dried away. Taichi and Ryuhei quickly rushed to a well they were having. They tossed down a bucket in hope of water. However the bucket hit something with a loud 'Bang'.

"Bang?" Taichi questioned confused.

"Pull it up anyway" Ryuhei then said, and Taichi quickly did as he asked. He did however only find a burned end of the bucket's rope. Everything else had burned up. Fire was soon shown in the well too.

"I saw something land at Miharashi mountain earlier" one of the Pyocomon then said.

"Could it be that thing we saw?" Yamato questioned.

"That black gear" Koushiro then said.

"But what does a black gear landing on Miharashi mountain have to do with anything" Sora then questioned.

"What is going on here?" Jyou then questioned worriedly.

"The water source for this area is located in Miharashi mountain" one of the Pyocomon explained "So if anything were to happen there, all of the water will be gone". Another added.

"But Meramon lives on Miharashi mountain. Meramon should protect the mountain".

At that Taichi grabbed his telescope and took a look at things on that mountain. Suddenly fire was shown at the top of the mountain, and Taichi could see a digimon who looked like a bright flame, slide down on the mountain side. At the same time he burned everything and anything down his path.

"Meramon is coming down the mountain" the Pyocomon uttered surprised in unison "Meramon is coming down. Why? He is not acting like his usual self".

Meramon.

Adult.

Flame digimon.

Type: Data.

Special attack: Burning fist.

Meramon, an ever – burning flame digimon. He burns up everything he touches in battle.

The children looked shocked at the whole scene in front of him. The forest they had been at was burning with fire now. Taichi and the others couldn't believe it.

"Hey, I joked about burning down the forest you know" Taichi then sneered.

"He is saying something" Sora then said, while watching Meramon approaching them from afar.

"I am burning!" Meramon then screamed over and over. He was soon close by.

"Everyone!" Taichi then yelled and shock everyone out of the shock they were having "Run!". The children quickly looked at each other. Then they nodded.

The children rushed forward, with their digimon partner and the Pyocomon behind them. Yamato had suggested they took safety in the giant ship, who was in the dried pond the Pyocomon's was having, so everyone was rushing over there. Takeru, Yamato, Jyou, Mimi Ryuhei, Chihori and Koushiro was already up at the top of the ship with their partners, while Sora and Taichi was guarding the entrance to the ship. They were guiding the Pyocomon's in there.

"Ahr I hate this!" Mimi then uttered.

"Is everyone okay?" Jyou questioned the others and the Pyocomon's "Things really have taken a turn for the worse eh".

At the ship entrance, Sora suddenly noticed that Piyomon had disappeared. She noticed her at the cliff to the Pyocomon village, where she was guiding the Pyocomon though the ship. Sora remembered how lovey-dovey Piyomon could be, and realized that Piyomon wanted to safe it's friends regardless her own safety.

"Run this way, everyone!" Piyomon then told the Pyocomon's.

"You too Piyomon, hurry and run" one of the Pyocomon then said.

"He'll get you Piyomon!" another one added. However like Sora suspected Piyomon didn't care. She was there for her friends.

"That idiot" Sora then mused out "She is helping out her friends instead of..".

Sora never finished the sentence. She rushed forward to reach her digimon partner. In the background, she could hear Taichi and the others yell at her to come back, but Sora didn't care. She only could think of saving Piyomon. ¨

Finally all of the Pyocomon was safe and sound inside the ship. Piyomon sighed relieved. She was about to return to Sora and the others, when she noticed someone behind her. It was Meramon. The little pink bird quickly flew up in the air now.

"Piyomon!" Sora yelled in a worried frantically voice.

Then Meramon hit Piyomon with his fist and she tumbled down the steep hill. Sora rushed forward, yelling her partner's name, while trying every attempt to catch her. She succeed and Piyomon was lying safe in her arms. Piyomon looked stunned up at her partner.

"Sora, you came to save me?" she then questioned.

"Of course I did" Sora then said and hugged her digimon. Piyomon returned the hug. "You are an important friend to me". Piyomon's eyes lit up in happiness.

"Thank you Sora!" Piyomon then replied and smiled. Then the digimon felt danger approaching and got quickly out of Sora's arms.

"Sora, look out!" Piyomon then yelled and looked up at Meramon who was having a burning flame in his hand. "This time it is my turn to save you!".

Then the digimon flew up in the air, up to Meramon, and fired 'Magical fire' at him a couple of times. However that sadly didn't work. Instead of getting hurt, Meramon instead absorbed the damage and his flame power rose even higher.

"Piyomon can't win on her own" Taichi then uttered and sent Agumon over to help face Meramon.

Soon the other partner's joined in the battle too. Besides Gomamon, who had water to summon his fishes, Palmon, who was a plant and could burn up, and Renamon, who's attack 'Diamond storm' was made out of leaf's, and would only make Meramon's fire power grow. However before the others could do a thing to help, Piyomon got slammed with a 'Burning fist' from Meramon and fell to the ground. Sora looked shocked at the scene in front of her.

"Piyomon!" she yelled rather frantically. She felt like everything was over.

"Hey everyone!" Taichi then yelled to the rest of the digimon's "Cover up for Piyomon!".

The other digimon's nodded. Agumon started off the battle with his 'Baby flame' attack. Tentomon used 'Petit thunder', Gabumon 'Petit fire', Patamon 'Air shoot' and Gazimon 'Paralyze breath', but Meramon absorbed all the power. He was like a flame, who was burning and consuming everything, while getting larger and larger. He was rather giant now.

"I am burning up!" Meramon told them.

"Fire doesn't hurt Meramon" Taichi concluded "What do we do?!".

"He is sucking everyone's energy" Koushiro then added.

"He is getting bigger, by the second" Ryuhei then said

"Gazimon!" Chihori yelled in a scared tone and hugged her brother's leg.

"What can we do?" Mimi then also said in a scared tone.

"This is the end!" Jyou then proclaimed. He was just as scared.

"I am burning up!" Meramon then yelled and jumped down into the dried pond, where all the digimon and humans were.

The others didn't know what to do. They were slowly done for. Piyomon however, got slowly up from the attack Meramon had hit her with, and turned towards the others and Sora. Seeing Sora so devastated made the bird really worried.

"Sora" She then uttered "Sora is in danger. I can't lose from this!".

Then she let out a scream. What she didn't know was that Sora's device reacted to her wishes, and granted her the power she needed. Light appeared around Piyomon now.

"Piyomon Shinka, Birdramon!".

In Piyomon's place had a giant orange/brown feathered bird appeared, and it didn't hesitate to attack. Sora just managed to look up, when Birdramon tossed Meramon up to the cliff edge, and thereby saving everyone else.

"Piyomon, she evolved into Birdramon" she then said rather stunned. Birdramon let out a bird scream and flew towards Meramon.

"I am burning hot" Meramon then yelled and tossed 'Burning fist' at Birdramon, and hit one of her wings. However that didn't stop Birdramon though.

"Birdramon" Sora yelled worriedly. Birdramon charged at Meramon once again.

"I'm, I'm, I'm burning up" Meramon then said and tossed countless 'Burning fists' at Birdramon. However the bird didn't stop flying straight towards him.

"Birdramon, keep it up!" Sora yelled encouraging to her partner. Birdramon flew up in the sky and suddenly her wings were glowing.

"Meteor Wing!" Birdramon then said and a large amount of fire were flying straight towards Meramon.

It had too much power in it, for Meramon to absorb it. Instead the digimon clenched his chest in pain and fell to the ground. Surprisingly a black gear popped out of Meramon's body and flew up in the air so everyone could see it. Then seconds later, it got destroyed. The children looked rather surprised by that.

"That was a.." Taichi began and Koushiro ended "A black gear".

"So that black gear was in Meramon's body" Yamato said rather confused. "Is that why he was acting strange?".

"Birdramon wins!" Takeru then uttered happily. After the battle Birdramon began changing, and returned back to being Piyomon again.

"Piyomon evolved into Birdramon to save me" Sora then said and a smile plastered to her face at the thought. Piyomon flew over to her.

"Sora, Sora, Sora!" she then said and tossed herself into Sora's arms.

"Piyomon" Sora then said and gave the bird a big hug. "Thank you Piyomon, really".

"I only did what was natural" her digimon responded "Because I love you Sora!". At that Sora couldn't stop smiling.

Soon the fire Meramon had caused stopped burning and everything in the Pyocomon village was back to normal. Even the water had returned. The sun was about to go down, and the children as well as the digimon assembled around Meramon, who was rather out of it. They were worried about him. Then groaning sounds could be heard, and Meramon woke up.

"Meramon have you come to your senses?" one of the Pyocomon then asked.

"Why you ask?" Meramon then said and groaned "What happened?".

"Thank goodness you are back to normal" the Pyocomon's then said. "Why were you running wild Meramon? What happened?". Meramon tried remembering.

"A gear fell from the sky and then.." the digimon then answered and rubbed his head.

"You don't know either?" The Pyocomon then replied, but then smiled "Meramon, please protect Miharashi mountain like you always have". Meramon nodded and began walking back to the mountain he came from.

"Don't become a bad digimon anymore" Taichi then yelled to him.

"Keep protecting the mountain" the Pyocomon then also yelled to him. All of the sudden, everyone's tummies were rumbling, and the children remembered that they were still rather hungry. Piyomon looked up at Sora now.

"Oh yeah the Pyocomon promised to give us a feast" she then said.

"Leave the menu to us" The Pyocomon's then added.

Soon they were all sitting on the ground while holding a wooden bowl with some kind of seeds in them. The children all looked stunned at that. It was not something they would call feast. However all the digimon was chowing down, like there were no tomorrow. Sora looked at her bowl with seeds. It didn't look appetizing the least.

"This is a feast?" Taichi questioned.

"Sora why are you not eating? It's good" Piyomon then questioned.

"Yeah eat up Mimi" Palmon then also said to her partner.

"But Humans can't normally eat things like this" Sora then replied slowly.

"But.." Takeru then said while his tummy was rumbling "I'll eat it anyway".

"Wait for me Takeru" Chihori then said and stuffed her face with the seeds too.

"No use on fighting on empty stomachs" Yamato then said with a smile while watching Chihori and Takeru eat.

He locked eyes with Ryuhei for a second. It was like they were having some kind of understanding. Then they nodded and began eating as well. Mimi and Sora looked stunned at them.

"Are you serious?" Sora then said.

"If you chew it enough, it is not so bad" Jyou then replied her.

"No! Now I really wanna go home!" Mimi then complained.

That made the others laugh. Sora looked over at Piyomon who was eating from her bowl. Piyomon saved me from harm. She was right. She really did evolve because I was in danger.

A,N: Well that was that chapter. Sorry for the wait. However hope you like it even though no important stuff happens with the Zukizuma siblings. In the next chapter however, the chosen children encounter this factory, and stuff, so hope that is interesting. I will update again 2 Sundays from now, so hope you can wait for it.