Chika blinked as she opened her eyes and looked up into the sky. She was still expecting to see the Digital World descending down to the Human World, ready to crash into it and destroy everything.

Black clouds were still swirling around in the sky, but the other world was gone. The young girl looked around her, and saw Piyomon lying down on the ground near her. He looked a little battered, covered in large scratches.

"Piyomon!" the girl shouted, rushing over to the digimon. The large bird digimon coughed as he opened his eyes.

"Chika?" he asked, using his wings to push himself off of the ground.

Chika grabbed him around the waist and began to pull him up. Once he was to his feet, she looked around where she was. She quickly realized that she wasn't at the mountain where Craniummon and the other Royal Knights were supporting the Digital World. "Where are we?"

Piyomon blinked, his eyes quickly darting around the surrounding area. A few seconds later, his eyes widened. "Chika! We're in the Digital World!"

Chika shook her head as she looked over the desolate landscape, fighting off the memories. Now was not the time for her to get distracted by the past.

"It's been a while since we came back here," Piyomon said, walking up to her side.

Chika turned to him, her cape fluttering in the air. "Yeah, it's been ten years, hasn't it?"

Piyomon nuzzled his head against her waist. "I promised I'd help you get back home."

Chika placed her hand on the bird digimon's head. "And we got there," she interrupted. "That was back before we knew just how close home was." She turned around and walked over to the edge of cliff they were standing on. She saw two humans were tried up by the edge, and they both seemed to be young girls, one a brunette and the other a blonde. "Besides, we have a job to do, don't we?"

Piyomon followed her and looked over at the camp that the group of bandits had set up. After a moment, he realized the same thing that she did. "Chika!"

"I know." Chika closed her eyes for a moment, before reaching to the holster on her waist and pulling out the orange-and-pink digivice holstered there.

"Lets go, Piyomon!"

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Broken Dreams
Written by Custom Magnum

Chapter 1: Decade of Change

Disclaimer: Digimon Savers and all related characters belong to Toei Animation and Bandai. This story is written without permission and for non-profit reasons.

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Noguchi Yuka wished she could go back in time ten minutes and tell herself that her rescue plan was stupid.

The young girl wiggled around, trying to luck her way out of the ropes. If only Ikuto-nii had gotten around to teaching her how to break out of knots like these bandits liked using!

She looked around the camp that the bandits had set up for the night, seeing her partner Tsukaimon and Relena tied up in ropes next to her. It looked like she had given up struggling and was just looking at her with a bored look. "You really think thats going to work?" the other girl asked.

Yuka glared at her. "Sorry for not loosing hope for getting out of here yet, Relena-idiot!"

Tsukaimon grunted through the gag that was placed in his mouth. The Ogremon that led the bandits happened to be smart, which really sucked for them. Her partner was also rolling on the ground trying to get one of the broken pieces of rotting wood littering the ground to cut open the ropes that held his legs together.

"If they wanted us dead, they would've killed us already," Relena replied, ignoring the insult. "They're probably going to try ransom us to Touma for a minuscule amount and we'll be free before we know it."

Yuka glared at Relena. "No, your father will pay the ransom for you and leave me and Tsukaimon to die! Then the bandits will do who knows what to us once they realize that we're useless to them to get money. Then they'll probably take the money and kill you anyway!"

Relena looked away from Yuka for a moment, her eyes narrowed as she looked around the camp. "You know, these guys aren't really that smart," she whispered.

One of the Goblimon turned around and glared at them. "Stop talking! Plans useless!" he yelled as he smacked the ground with his club.

Yuka gulped. "Alright, no plans for getting out of here; got it."

"Stop talking!" The Goblimon shouted again, before turning back around. "Make money; get lots of food!"

Yuka sighed in relief. Too bad their leader wasn't as much of an idiot as the one guarding the two of them seemed to be.

"So, what are you doing here anyway?" Relena asked, ignoring the Goblimon's demand now that he was once again not paying attention to them.

"I saw you captured by bandits and figured Tsukaimon and I could save you."

Relena blinked. "Really now?" she asked.

Yuka's blood boiled. "It would've worked if you hadn't acted so surprised to see the two of us and drew Ogremon's attention!"

Tsukaimon let out a muffled sound of agreement.

Relena sighed and closed her eyes for a bit. "Well, then, I'm sorry I didn't let the little wannabe ninja be stealthy enough."

Yuka clenched her teeth. This rich girl really got on her nerves.

However, before anything else could be said, there was an explosion and three Goblimon guards when flying into the air, exploding back into digieggs.

The Goblimon guarding them quickly ran away from the camp.

Yuka smiled and continued struggling to break out of the ropes. "Looks like the cavalry arrived."

"You mean they'd agreed to let you come and rescue me?" Relena asked.

Before Yuka could answer, an older female voice spoke from behind them. "Not exactly."

Yuka turned her head as Daimon Chika strode into view. "...Umm I can explain everything Chika-neesan!"

Chika just glared at her, before pulling a knife from a holster on her thigh. Moving quickly, she cut through the ropes binding the two other girls and Tsukaimon. "Get out of here, and after this is over I'm telling Ikuto and Touma about this."

Both Relena and Yuka gulped, and the younger wished that Chika would turn her over to her parents instead.

Tsukaimon stretched his wing-ears. "But we can still help!"

Chika looked down at the child digimon. "Right, your help is why I'm attacking a camp of bandits while they're still awake."

"But--"

"No," Chika ordered, keeping the knife out and turning away. "All of you get out of here, now!"

And with that, Chika darted off, heading deeper into the camp.

Yuka, Relena, and Tsukaimon looked at each other. "We really going to let her do all this alone?" Relena asked.

Yuka smiled. "Not a chance." She reached into the pocket of her purple gi pants as if looking for something. "Right Tsukaimon?"

Tsukaimon nodded.

Relena's eyes widened as she ran away in the opposite direction from Chika. "Just hold on a second!"

Yuka sighed and took her hand out of the pocket, turning in the direction that the young woman ran off to. This might take a while...

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Chika darted through the camp, the knives in each hand as familiar as a hawk's talons. As the Goblimon and a few of their blue skinned cousins SnowGoblimon attacked, her knives flashed, clawing at their throats.

Meanwhile, rings of energy shot down at the camp from above. Aquilamon was doing his job extremely well, providing the distraction that she needed...

"Well, what do we have here?" a deep voice asked from behind her.

... or maybe not.

Chika stopped moving and calmly turned around, seeing a tall, large green skinned digimon with a ridiculously large overbite standing behind her. His hand was clutching a large bone with spikes coming out of it. "So I take it you're the famous Ogremon I've heard so much about."

The Ogremon chuckled. "Guess so, but what's a young woman like you doing killing everything in my merry little band of thieves for?"

Chika sunk down into a fighting stance. "I think you should know this very well, but a job's a job."

Ogremon laughed at that. "Sorry, but your reputation precedes you, Daimon Chika." The adult digimon's eyes narrowed into a glare. "Really, what are you doing here?" he asked, readying his club. "Maybe if you give me a decent enough answer I'll even let you live and avoid a life of slavery. I bet many people, digimon or human, would pay good money to have you."

"Didn't think you'd believe that one," Chika said. "Quite frankly, I was just supposed to get Relena back, but I just have this thing about kidnappers..."

She charged forward and threw one of the kunai at the adult digimon's head.

Ogremon jumped out of the way, the blood stained kunai sailing past him and embedding itself in the nearby cliff's edge.

Chika grimaced and dodged when Ogremon threw his club at her--

-which was exactly what Ogremon wanted as he thrust his arm forward, purple air shooting off of it with a cry of "Houken!"

The blast of air slammed into Chika's stomach and sent her staggering backwards. "Well, it looks like the stories have some truth to them after all. A normal human would've most likely been killed by that." She heard Ogremon say as she looked up to see the club return to him like a boomerang.

Chika didn't say anything, but she grabbed another kunai out of the holster on her side. Hopefully her partner would soon realize just where she was and who she was fighting...

Ogremon fired off another of his air blasts and Chika rolled to the side to avoid it, flinging both of the kunai in her hands at the digimon. Before she saw if they had hit or not, she was already charging forward towards him, fist pulled back.

Ogremon knocked the two kunai away with his club, only to quickly find Chika's fist embedded in his gut, which sent him flying into the nearby cliff wall.

Chika grabbed her two kunai from the ground and threw one of them at Ogremon's head, but missed when the adult digimon dropped to the ground and then charged at her, swinging his club at her chest.

Chika fell to the ground to avoid the attack, sweeping her leg around in a circle...

... only for Ogremon to grab her leg and lift her up into the air.

Before he could even gloat, Chika smirked and stabbed Ogremon in the chest with two more kunai.

Ogremon lost his grip on her and clutched his chest in pain. "You!"

Chika landed on the ground and flipped back to her feet. "Aquilamon!"

Suddenly, a large blast of lighting slammed into Ogremon from the air. The adult digimon cried out in pain and staggered into the nearby cliff wall

Chika looked up into the air, seeing Aquilamon beginning to descend from the air.

Aquilamon flapped his wings, and a large gust of air slammed into Ogremon. The digimon let out another scream.

"Finish it, Aquilamon!" Chika ordered as she turned away.

She heard an explosion of rock and more screams of pain, and then nothing. Aquilamon landed on the ground near her.

Chika smiled. "Thanks for going along with that plan."

Aquilamon shook his head. "It was the best we could come up with." He bent down a bit. "Get on and let's go find the kids."

Chika climbed up on her partner's back. "Yeah. They're going to be in a lot of trouble once we make it back to the base."

Yuka, Relena, and Tsukaimon ran up to them just then.

"Aww it's over already," Tsukaimon said, before realizing that wasn't something he should've said.

Yuka and Relena glared at the small digimon.

Chika and Aquilamon glared at them.

After a moment, Chika sighed. "Just get on. I'll leave to punishment to your brother's."

Yuka and Relena both gulped rather loudly, but climbed up on Aquilamon's back anyway.

A second later, Aquilamon was off and out of the valley.

No one noticed the rock pile where Ogremon was buried twitch, nor the specks of data from destroyed digieggs that were spiraling towards it

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It didn't take long for Yuka and Tsukaimon to notice that Aquilamon was flying pretty slowly, probably because he wasn't used to having four passengers on his back.

She looked over towards Relena, who didn't seem happy about the prospect of Touma hearing about what happened today. Not that she could blame the older girl, Touma was more overprotective than Ikuto-nii; Relena wasn't likely to be let out of her room for months.

The only way that Relena would be able to have a shorter sentence would be to have Chika somehow convince Touma to go easy on her, and well, Chika probably wasn't in a good enough mood right now to do that.

"What were the two of you thinking?!" Chika yelled, snapping the youngest girl out of her musings.

Relena pouted. "It's not like I asked to be captured by bandits!"

Chika turned around and gave her a look, the tips of the hair on the back of her head looking like feathers in the wind. "First off, I wasn't yelling at you. Second, you shouldn't have been away from the base in the first place."

"Well, we saw Relena get captured by the bandits and thought we'd go save her!" Tsukaimon answered.

Yuka mentally sighed. Why couldn't she have a partner that actually thought about what he said?

Chika's eyes narrowed. "Of all the stupid things you two could've possibly done... this is all Ikuto's fault."

Aquilamon laughed.

Chika turned around. "It's not funny! Ikuto shows her a few ways to defend herself and she thinks she can be a hero!"

"I seem to remember another eleven-year-old rushing off to save the day..." Aquilamon said.

Chika froze, and Yuka thought that the woman was blushing, but she couldn't see her face to be sure.

"That was completely different! Everyone else was fighting Yggdrasil and it looked like Craniummon was going to hurt Banchou Leomon! We were the only ones who could make it in time!" Chika shouted.

Aquilamon chuckled again.

"And it wasn't like you were blameless either!"

Yuka made very sure not to laugh at Chika.

Relena apparently couldn't do that.

Chika glared at Relena, who gulped rather loudly.

Yuka noticed that Tsukaimon was looking at the oldest of their group with wide eyes. "Chika-neechan is scary!"

Yuka groaned.

Before anything could come from Tsukaimon's outburst, Aquilamon suddenly dived down.

Yuka clutched the flying adult digimon's feathers as hard as she could. "What was that for!?" she shouted, before seeing a black burst of energy fall down to the ground and explode. "...oh."

"Piyomon!" Chika shouted. "Where is it!?"

Aquilamon didn't say anything, as he moved fast again, narrowly avoiding another blast of energy. The bird digimon turned around and Yuka saw something that looked like a black humanoid goat with bat wings coming out of its back.

"I'm not letting you get away that easily, Daimon. No one beats me like that!" the thing shouted.

"Ogremon!?" Chika shouted in mild shock before groaning."...We forgot to make sure the body was gone, didn't we, Piyomon?"

"Guess so."

Yuka sighed before seeing black energy gather around the digimon that was formerly Ogremon's hands. "He's going to attack again!"

Aquilamon barely dodged another blast, this one accompanied by a shout of "Death Cloud!"

Yuka looked down at the ground, which was very far from where they were. If Aquilamon were hit by one of those blasts...

"Tsukaimon, listen to me," Yuka whispered. "When I give the signal; jump."

Tsukaimon looked over at her like she was crazy, before she held out a purple and white object with a smirk.

Tsukaimon smirked back.

Yuka concentrated, and a dark purple glow appeared around her free hand. She nodded.

Tsukaimon jumped off of Aquilamon's back, ear-wings spread.

"What are you doing!?" Relena shouted.

Yuka slammed her fist down onto the top of her digivice. "Digisoul Charge!" Light flashed from the device and enveloped Tsukaimon.

"Tsukaimon evolve!" Tsukaimon shouted as his form shifted into that of a black leather wearing dragon with four red eyes and four demonic looking wings coming out of his back. "Devidramon!"

Devidramon flew in the air next to Aquilamon. Without a word, Yuka jumped onto her partner's back. "Let's take him out, Devidramon!"

"Alright!" Devidramon said in a growl-like voice.

"Yuka!" Chika shouted, looking over at the young girl in shock. "You can't win this!"

"Just watch us!" Yuka shouted back.

Devidramon flew faster, his eyes glowing red.

Relena shook her head. "Idiots..."

"We don't have any choice, let's go before they get themselves killed," Chika said to Aquilamon.

Aquilamon just groaned and flew faster.

"Red Eye!" Devidramon shouted as he fired four red beams from his eyes at Ogremon's evolved form.

The beams hit the digimon in the chest, but they did absolutely nothing.

Ogremon chuckled and turned his attention to Aquilamon. "Death Cloud!" he shouted, firing another blast of evil energy from his hands.

"Grand Horn!" Aquilamon shouted; two bolts of lightning firing from his horns at dark digimon's attack.

Both of the attacks collided, but the lightning fizzled out as the dark blast of energy continued heading towards him, blasting the bird in the chest.

Aquilamon staggered backwards as he flapped to stay flying.

Chika managed to keep her grip on her partner's feathers, but Relena was knocked off and started plummeting to the ground, screaming.

"Relena!" Chika screamed, only to lose sight of the girl as Aquilamon was forced to dodge another blast of energy.

"You're powerful, even up against me!" Ogremon commented. "But even you shall fall against the strength of Mephismon!"

Chika turned her attention to the attacker. "You're going to pay for that!"

Meanwhile, Yuka saw Relena plummeting to the ground. "Devidramon!"

Devidramon didn't say anything, but dove down at a speed faster than Relena was falling and caught the teenager on her back.

"Are you alright?" Yuka asked.

Relena glared at her. "This wouldn't have happened if you hadn't been trying to be a hero."

Yuka pouted. Talk about spoiled; she didn't even give them a thank you for making sure she didn't get turned into pizza.

"Death Cloud!" Mephismon shouted, firing off another blast at Aquilamon, who dodged it and returned the attack with a burst of lightning.

The perfect digimon just grinned and fired off another blast through the bird digimon's attack, once again hitting it in the chest and this time sending him spiraling down to the ground.

Yuka saw this. "Chika-neesan!" She turned her attention towards Mephismon and glared. "Devidramon!"

"Are you an idiot!?" Relena shouted. "Run! You two can't beat that!"

Devidramon flew towards Mephismon, red energy gathering in his claws. The digimon howled and slashed once he got within a decent amount of distance. "Crimson Nail!"

Mephismon just blocked the attack with his forearm, looking rather bored. The perfect digimon smacked the dragon away.

Yuka clutched the leather covering Devidramon has hard as she could as the dragon fell to the ground. "DEVIDRAMON!" She looked behind her, and realized that Relena was no longer on her partner's back before there was a crash and then--