The Blue Team had finally reached the city limits, Ranma had turned female during their walk through the swamps. Everyone was tired and hungry, Mimi who had been to tired even to complain finally started talking "I can't go on, I'm too tired."

"The stomach is complaining Mimi." Palmon said.

"I'm hungry too." Kari said.

"We haven't eaten anything all day." Vivi said.

Ranma-chan looked the most annoyed "We can all have to thank little ms hurry up over here for the situation."

"Come on you guys!" Beruche said "I'm as hungry and tired as all of you, but we only have a little more to go."

"Poneeeeee!!"

"Oh don't tell me he's complaining too? I'm sure he was well fed while being in the pokemon center."

"He's not complaining!" Salamon said "He just saying how mean you are."

"Why did I even listen to you?" Ranma-chan said "I'm the captain!"

"Fine! blame everything on me if you want."

"Guys..." Kari said "Let's give Beruche a break."

"Which bone should I break first?" Ranma-chan asked.

"Oh you can be funny when you want no?" Beruche said annoyed "Fine do what you want!"

"We're already in the city," Vivi said "surely we can look for a place to eat no?"

"I'm looking for a five star hotel." Beruche said "There should be plenty downtown."

"Don't tell me you plan to do the same thing you did on our first day in the island?" Ranma-chan said.

"Why not? I'm sure all of you would love to spend the night in a nice soft bed, but not before having a juicy turkey delivered right into our room."

"Beruche we already talked about it, that's dishonest."

"Don't give me that, they won't go out of business just because we stay there one night."

"It does sound awfully tempting." Mimi said.

"I just ask that we walk a few more blocks, is that too hard?"

"It is when you've walked all morning, been lost in a maze for hours, escape from a giant golem, and then walk a lot more without having anything to eat."

"We all knew there were going to be days like this from the beginning."

"Face it Beruche." Ranma said "We could have easily avoided all of this had we stayed at the Qu village and eaten before coming here."

Beruche sighed "I know things look bad, but hey, it could be worse."

Just then Mimi's and Kari's digivices started beeping.

Ranma-chan slapped her forehead "You were saying."

"Don't tell me the Yellow Team is following us!"

Both Kari and Mimi shook their heads to say no. "It's coming from the opposite direction!" Kari said.

"It must be the Red Team!" Mimi said.

"Damn!" Beruche said "Let me guess, the moment they appeared they started to move towards us."

Both Kari and Mimi nodded.

"We have to think something quick!"

Mimi just sat down on the sidewalk

"What are you doing?"

"Waiting for the Red Team! I'm tired! I'm hungry! Let's just give them the damn emerald and get it over with."

"I can't believe you're saying that!"

"I just don't care at this moment."

Ranma-chan looked at Beruche "This is all your fault!"

Beruche was red "Fine! Give them the emerald! I don't care either!" but her face showed the opposite, her eyes were becoming watery.

"Ranma..." Kari said "Lets at least give her some merit, she's hungry and tired like all of us yet she refuses to give up."

"That does show a lot of spirit." Luna said, obviously keeping her distance from Ranma-chan.

Vivi approached Beruche "Beruche... what do you think we could do?"

Beruche looked at Vivi, she was trying hard not to cry. "Let's... eat."

Everyone looked at Beruche confused.

"We can't do much else can we? It will still take them a good 20 minutes to reach us so let's at least get as ready as we can."

"So where are we going to eat?" asked Mimi.

Beruche pointed at a restaurant across the street.

"You aren't going to hypnotize then to get free food, are you?" Ranma-chan said.

"No... I'll use my credit card. If we don't win this I'll end up with a pretty big debt."

The Blue Team walked towards the restaurant.

Neptune and Mercury were doing all they could to reach Usagi, but the flymon were not letting them get any closer.

"What are we going to do?" asked Neptune.

"We have to find a way to avoid them!" yelled Mercury.

Suddenly a flymon was sent crashing against a building, it disintegrated on contact and no harm was done to the building. Suddenly another one was sent all the way the ground. Finally Neptune got a glimpse of something yellow that was moving along the flymon and attacking them.

"Vegeta?" Michiru asked herself.

But when the thing stopped moving they saw that it was not Vegeta, but a super saiyan child.

"Who is that?" asked Mercury

"I don't know, but we have to take advantage of his help."

Both Neptune and Mercury flew towards Usagi. The Flymon were now to busy fighting with Trunks.

Trunks kicked and punched flymon everywhere, he found it odd that they disintegrated when hit. They were destroyed pretty easily, he was even starting to show off, he was letting them crash into each other, he twirl another instead of your destroying it quickly, he even made faces at them.

Usagi was not thinking of anything but holding on to Pidgeot, she was startled when someone grabbed her arm, but when she turned around she saw it was Mercury. On the other side Neptune was flying right by them.

"We need to get back to the ground!"

"Ok!"

Mercury started to guide Usagi back down, Neptune however kept an eye on Trunks and the flymon. She did find him awfully similar to Vegeta, the kid even looked like he was having fun. There were only about half a dozen flymon left.

"Come on! I got plenty more for you!" yelled Trunks.

Usagi and Mercury finally reached the ground, Usagi fell to her knees and almost wanted to kiss the ground. Mercury tried to comfort her.

Trunks was down to just 4 flymon left "He he, you guys are no fun anymore!" but suddenly Trunks lost his super saiyan transformation and started to fall. "AAHH!!"

Neptune decided to help him but just as she about to dive, the remaining flymon got on her way.

Usagi and Mercury could see Trunks falling.

"We have to do something!!" Mercury yelled.

Usagi, not thinking about anything else but saving him yelled. "Moon Eternal! Make Up!" and she transformed into Eternal Sailor Moon. She looked at Trunks falling and started to concentrate real hard "Eternal Honeymoon Therapy Kiss!"

Suddenly Trunks was surrounded by a storm of feathers, he saw bright light coming from below and the speed of his fall started to decrease. Trunks landed on the ground on his own feet.

Sailor Moon and Mercury ran towards Trunks, Sailor Neptune had finally made it back to the ground, but the flymon were still flying around. "We have to hide!" yelled Neptune, the moment she got off pidgeot he took of again, and was quickly followed by the other two. The pidgeots flew away.

"Where are they going?" asked sailor moon.

"They're trained to go back to their trainer." responded Mercury.

The flymon however ignored the pidgeot, they were focused on Sailor Moon. The dived to attack.

"Mercury Aqua Rhapsody!" Mercury attacked the flymon from the one and was able to freeze one. It feel straight into the ground and shattered, the pieced disintegrated, the other three flew up to rethink they're attack.

"Let's get a move on!" Neptune yelled.

"Hey I can take on them from here on the ground!" yelled Trunks, but Neptune ignored him and ran away along with the other senshi.

Tai had finally reached the location of the other digivice, but he was confused when he realized it pointed into a little italian restaurant. "Agumon! You and I will go inside. Quina, please take care of the girls while we handle it."

"Quina want pasta!"

"Ugh... alright I'll bring out some pasta. Let's go Agumon.

The Blue Team were having dinner at the far end table, there were few other customers besides them. They all stared at Tai and Agumon when they walked in. Tai himself had expected to find the Yellow Team because they had met in New Alexandria before. After an awkward moment of silence Tai suddenly ran towards Kari.

"KARI!!!" he ran towards his sister who started to get up. When he reached her he gave her a big hug.

Kari was glad Tai was acting so lovely and hugged back, but it did however confuse her.

"Tai!" said Ranma-chan "what are you doing?"

But Tai just held Kari tight. "I'm so glad you're safe."

"Tai!" Kari said "I know the challenge is a bit rough at times, but..."

"You don't understand, terrible things are happening!"

"Tai?" Mimi said.

"You have to help me, I don't know what to do!"

Beruche looked at Tai suspiciously"This must be some trick!"

Tai looked at Beruche "This is no trick I swear!!" he put his hand in his pocket and took out the diamond, he then put it on the table "Here take it! I don't care about the emerald."

Agumon looked at Tai "Tai, you're so noble!"

Kari looked at her team. "Guys! I know my brother and he's genuinely desperate, we have to help him."

"I agree, this is not like Tai usually is" Mimi said.

"I'm convinced" Vivi said.

Beruche sighed "Ok Kari, for you, I'll trust him."

Ranma-chan took the diamond and finally said "So what's the problem Tai?"

Tai looked at Agumon "Tell them to come in!"

Agumon walked towards the exit.

"and could somebody order some pasta?"

Everyone just stared at Tai.

"You know how Quina is..."

The moment the rest of the red team walked in the members of the Blue time became wide-eyed.

"What happened to Haruka and Makoto?" asked Beruche.

"We met up with the Turks and they did this to them." responded Tai.

"Who are the Turks?" Mimi asked.

"And where is Trunks?" Ranma-chan asked.

"The Turks are just some henchmen hired the by the Red Ribbon, and Trunks who has also been turned into a child took off with our last working badge."

"Where did he go?" asked Beruche.

"Haven't you heard? Some flymon are flying over the city! he went to stop them."

"Flymon!?" Mimi was surprised.

"I don't know how they got here, by now the effect of the badge has worn off, please help us find Trunks and heal the others."

"Well let's do it then!" Ranma-chan said.

Everyone was ready to leave, Tai looked for Quina. "Quina are you done?"

"Quina done."

Everyone looked in Quina's direction, there was a pile of empty bowls as big as him/her by his/her side. Beruche just looked at it and almost fainted, the waiter came back with her credit card.

"Here you go ma'am."

Beruche took it and almost considered burning it. Everyone left the restaurant in search of Trunks.

Sailor Moon, Mercury, Neptune and Trunks ran into an alley, it was to narrow for the flymon to fly inside.

"This is silly!" Trunks said "I can fight them!"

"Are you related to Vegeta?" Neptune just had to ask.

"You know my dad?"

"He's Vegeta's son!" Mercury said.

"That's odd... he did mention that he has a son, but he was supposed to be much older."

Trunks though about what Tai told him, he had to accept that he was indeed an adult.

"Mamoru..." Sailor Moon was thinking about Mamoru who was taken away by a flymon.

"Don't worry Usagi, we'll get him back." Mercury said.

Neptune looked around the corner "I think we can make a run for it!"

The four left the alley and ran through the street while the flymon where flying elsewhere.

"The streets sure are empty." Sailor Moon said.

"Well they must have all gone home because of those creatures." Mercury responded.

Just then they met up with another group of people, the rest of the Red Team and the Blue Team. Luna got excited when she saw Sailor Moon, she ran and leaped into her arms "Usagi!"

"Luna! You're here!!"

Kari and Mimi both got excited and their eyes became stars "Sailor Moon!!!"

Ranma-chan was confused, he saw Kari and Mimi run to her and asked for an autograph. "What's so special about her?"

Beruche elbowed Ranma-chan in the stomach "Pay a little more respect, I owe that woman a lot."

Michiru looked at two of the young girls that were in the group, they looked back at her and were wondering what she was looking at.

"Trunks!" Tai yelled "Boy I'm glad we found you! You didn't give me a chance to tell you the effect of the badge only lasts 10 minutes."

"Yeah... I figured that out the hard way."

"Excuse me," Michiru said "Who are they?"

Tai looked at Michiru "Um... that's Makoto and Haruka."

Michiru was so surprised that she stumbled back, she looked at Haruka and still she couldn't believe what she was seeing.

Tai explained "Haruka, Makoto and Trunks were transformed into children by the Turks."

"Just like Mamoru..." said Usagi, she had finished signing Kari's and Mimi's autographs.

Vivi suddenly yelled "Firaga!!!"

Suddenly there was a blast of fire in the air, and three remaining flymon were disintegrated, nobody else had noticed them charging.

"Thanks Vivi!" Palmon said.

"Sailor Moon..." Beruche said.

"Beruche, I'm glad you're doing ok, it's been a long time."

"Yeah, it's wonderful to see you again, to bad it's under this circumstances."

"Yeah..."

"Could you heal them?"

Everyone looked at Eternal Sailor Moon.

"Why hadn't I thought of that?" Mercury said.

"Ok, I guess I can try." She held up her staff and yelled "Eternal Honeymoon Therapy Kiss!!"

There was a bright light and suddenly Haruka, Makoto and Trunks went back to being normal.

"Haruka!" Michiru exclaimed.

"Michiru..." Haruka said.

They hugged each other tightly.

Makoto looked around, she was a bit dazed, but then she went to hug Sailor Moon. "Usagi!"

"Nice to see you too Makoto."

Trunks looked at Tai "I'm sorry about the way I acted."

Tai smiled "It's ok, you were some kid."

Luna felt things were getting a bit out of hand and decided to stay "I know there are a lot of things we should discuss but we really have to go someplace to do it in piece."

Mercury nodded "Right, let's go."

Suddenly Salamon yelled "Kari!!"

"What is it Salamon?"

"Look up!!"

Everyone looked up and to they saw Teromon flying right above them.

"Shit!!" Makoto yelled.

"Damn! Not now!" Tai yelled.

Teromon was looking at the large group of people, but his focus went completely to Sailor Moon. All the present Sailor Senshi reacted by surrounding Sailor Moon.

"Jupiter Crystal Power! Make Up!"

"Uranus Planet Power! Make Up!"

"Who is that?" asked Ranma-chan.

"One bad digimon" Tai said.

"He's going after Sailor Moon!" Mercury yelled.

"Do you think he'll digivolve again if he gets her?" Trunks asked.

The members of the Blue Team were confused.

"What's going on?" Beruche said.

Ponyta was getting very nervous "Poneee.."

Teromon slowly flew down and said "If I must kill of you first then be it!"

"Tai!" Agumon yelled.

"I... I can't Agumon. Remember what he did last time, we can't afford to start fighting Skullgreymon now."

"Tai..."

Mimi ran towards Tai "Tai what's going on?"

"No time to explain, just don't let him reach Sailor Moon at all costs!"

Kari looked at his brother and then at Salamon, Salamon nodded.

"Salamon digivolves to... Gatomon!"

Mimi looked at Palmon "Do your best."

"Palmon digivolves to... Togemon!"

Beruche, Ranma-chan, Vivi and Quina all stood next to the senshi.

"Surely he couldn't fight all of us! could he?" Beruche said, but nobody responded.

Teromon suddenly flew down at tremendous speed, he hit Sailor Mercury and sent her crashing against a wall.

"World Shaking!!"

"Deep Submerge!!"

The combined attacks of Uranus and Neptune hit Teromon, but they didn't have an effect on him.

"Dark Whisper!!" Teromon said.

"Suddenly the ground beneath Uranus and Neptune became black and before the could avoid a beam shot up, they were to weak to continue fighting.

"Flare!!"

Suddenly Teromon was hit with an intense blast, sending him crashing against a wall. He quickly recovered and looked at Vivi, he then charged at him. Vivi just stood there scare, but Ranma-chan got him out of the way in the last second. Teromon flew just above them both, but was not done. "Dark Whisper."

Ranma-chan and Vivi both got hit by Teromon's attack, they were conscious but weak.

"Ranma!!!" Beruche tried to attack Teromon with and ice beam, but Teromon just smiled and the beam disappeared before it hit him. Suddenly Beruche's own hands started to freeze, followed by her forearms, elbows, shoulders and eventually her whole body.

Gatomon and Trunks leaped high into the air trying to strike Teromon, but he saw them coming and attacked "Dizzy beam!!" He shot a beam that zigzagged and was hard to avoid, they were both hit and were sent crashing to the ground.

"Gatomon!" Kari yelled.

"Tornado!!" Quina yelled.

A tornado formed itself around Teromon, but he wasn't bother by it, he stood still in the air as if nothing were happening. He moved the tornado towards Quina, s/he was sent flying by it.

"Sparkling Wide Pressure!!"

Teromon was hit by Jupiter's attack, but wasn't hurt in the least "Dark Whisper."

Jupiter was knocked out by Teromon's attack.

"Needle Spray!!"

Teromon showed off his movement by avoiding all the needles, even tough they wouldn't have hurt him even if he was hit. "Dizzy beam!!"

Togemon was hit and was sent crashing against another wall.

"Tai!!" Agumon yelled.

Tai couldn't take it, but he couldn't allow Agumon to digivolve.

"Stop doing this!!" cried Sailor Moon.

Teromon looked at her "I will, as soon as you join me." he shot a beam from his eyes. Sailor Moon just stood there and could not avoid it, but in the last second Sailor Neptune got in the way and was hit. She turned into wire frame and slowly disappeared line by line.

"MICHIRU!!!!" Sailor Uranus yelled.

"No!!" Mimi yelled.

Teromon did not look pleased, he was about to shoot another beam.

"Togemon!!!" Mimi yelled, she held a badge tight and it's glow started to get brighter.

"Togemon ultradigivolves to... Lillymon!"

Lillymon flew towards Teromon at all speed "I won't forgive you! Flower cannon!!"

Teromon was hit by Lillymon's attack, he was taken by surprise because it was more powerful than he thought it would be. He returned fire "Dizzy beam!"

Lillymon could not avoid the beam, she was hit and started falling, but she recovered in time and managed to stay in the air. Lillymon and Teromon looked at each other, then they both shot high into the sky chasing each other.

"Flower cannon!!"

"Dizzy beam!"

While the battle was going on high on the air, Tai, Agumon, Kari, Mimi, Sailor Moon and Luna went to check on the others.

"Ponyta?" Mimi yelled, ponyta came out of hiding. "Please help Beruche."

"Poneee!"

"Trunks!" Tai yelled "Are you ok?"

"Yeah... but man those his attack hurt."

Kari went to check on Vivi and Ranma-chan "Are you guys ok?"

Vivi was barely able to stand up, Ranma-chan looked angry "What the hell is that!? Damn I feel so useless!!"

"Ami?" Sailor Moon said "Makoto?"

Both senshi were completely out of it.

Haruka was pounding on the ground and yelling, she looked at the sky and gritted her teeth.

"Man!" Tai said "we can't do anything!"

Suddenly a voice yelled "Hey you!!"

Tai looked around but couldn't see anybody, he then noticed a white cat running towards him. "Who are you?"

"No time to explain, your friend won't be able to defeat him." He jumped and did a back-flip in the air, a badge appeared right where he had done the back-flip. Tai caught it.

"But why?"

"Because you need it! Now use it!!"

Tai nodded "Agumon!"

"Right! Agumon digivolves to... Greymon!"

Tai held the badge tight and it's glow started to get brighter.

"Greymon ultradigivolves to... Metalgreymon!"

Metalgreymon didn't lose a second and took off high into the air.

Lillymon was fighting with all her might, but the battle had taken a lot from her. She didn't know how much time she had left. "Flower Cannon!"

Teromon was barely able to dodge Lillymon's attack, but he never saw Metalgreymon coming.

"Giga blast!"

Teromon was hit by Metalgreymon's attack and was hurt.

Lillymon took the opportunity and took another blow "Flower cannon!"

Teromon was hit again, the attacks of two ultimate digimon were beginning to hurt and he couldn't fight much longer. He decided to try at another time and tried to escape.

"I won't let you!" yelled Metalgreymon. "Metalclaw!" he shot his right arm and wrapped it around Teromon.

"Flower Cannon!!"

"Giga blast!!"

Both attacks hit Teromon, but he was able to withstand them. He suddenly yelled "Ramuh!!"

Suddenly a portal opened and out came an old man, lightning hit his staff and then he used the electricity against Metalgreymon and Lillymon. Teromon took the opportunity to free himself and escaped.

Metalgreymon and Lillymon went all the way back to the ground, they still had enough energy to land softly before loosing the digievolution. Metalgreymon went back to being Agumon and Lillymon went all the way back to Tanemon.

Before anybody could recover they were suddenly covered in a green fog, they all started to fall asleep. Once they were all asleep the fog disappeared.

The fog had been created by a machine, and by its side was the creator, Bulma. She talked with the boss through a communicator.

"They did it, they were able to stand against Teromon."

"Have you put them to sleep?"

"Yes..."

"Damn, what a mess."

"What should I do?"

"Get rid of them, I want you to send the Blue Team the southernmost tip of the island, and send the Red Team to the westernmost tip."

"You won't get them out of the way, they'll get involved anyway."

"I know! I'm just buying ourselves some time."

"What about Sailor Moon and Sailor Mercury?"

"Bring them back here along with those cats, send the ponyta with the Blue Team too."

"Ok"

"Time is running out, we must act fast!"

"I know!"

"So get to it!"

"I'm on it."

Bulma turned off the communicator."Geesh! what a grouch!"

In less than half an hour Bulma had the members of each team placed in different trucks, before they departed she got close to Ranma-chan and gave him a badge. "The Red Team already got a badge for this, but you deserve one too." she also placed a note on her hand. She then walked up to the other truck. She looked at her son and said "Come on! You're so close! don't give up!" Just then both trucks closed their doors and departed to their different destinations.

Bulma took a good look at Usagi and Ami, who were in a third truck. She sighed and got on the third truck. "I wish you luck too Goku."

The third truck departed back to the mysterious building in the center of New Alexandria.

Brock and Minako watched both trucks leaving the scene of the fight with Teromon. Minako looked very worried.

"Are you ok Minako?"

"No..."

"This is a lot more serious than what we first imagined."

"I know, I can't believe I didn't do anything."

"Are you talking about the fight with Teromon?"

"I'm a sailor senshi too! my duty above everything else is to protect Sailor Moon."

"There's not much you could have done."

"Still, I should have done something."

"Listen, I think we can help the most by continuing to do our jobs. As hosts we have some elbow room to figure some things out."

"I guess you're right."

Brock looked at the camera "We're not sure what is going on, but in the interest of keeping the people calm we will continue to keep you informed about the progress of the teams."

Minako nodded "That's right, we'll do our best! and I still have to do that interview with the Blue Team."

"Are you worried?"

"A little, I hope they don't ask more questions than I ask them."

"I know how you feel, I went through the same thing with the Red Team."

"What do you think Bulma was talking about?"

"Well all the teams are close to obtaining all the badges, and the Blue Team is being sent very close to where that special place is."

"I know, things are heating up. Who knows what will happen at this point."

"Well, in any case this has been Brock."

"And Minako reporting for the Ultimate Challenge."

Both Minako and Brock waved good-bye.

(to be continued..)

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