Two dark figures looked down through the glass into the laboratory below, inside lay four figures on tables, and four other figures in large chambers filled with liquid, each chamber near the head of a table, surrounding the figures were various machines and monitors.

One of the dark figures above smiled down upon those below and spoke quietly to the other figure with him, "Are they prepared?" asked the figure, his voice as dark as he, "Yes sir, they are prepared, If all goes according to play those four will be all we need, but there has been some problems sir." replied other as he carefully backed away, knowing full well what the first would do to him if he stayed near.

"What problems?" queried the first, his agitation clear on his darkened voice, the second cringed but quickly responded, "The first of them, the boy, reacted strangely to the insertion of the spore, but quickly returned to normal, his partner also reacted the same way when we placed the collar on him, but like his Tamer returned to normal."

The first considered this information, he knew that the boy was necessary to his main plan, the one plan he knew would not fail, but he also knew that he could not take any chances, the boy had to be under his control if he were to succeed. "Put the boy and his partner in the quarantine near the lab where the young ones are being kept along with the catalyst, if he is not being controlled by the modified spore, then eliminate him and insert spores into the others. We have come to far to fail now."

The first then left the observation room, while the second activated the intercom, "Have subjects 1a and b moved to quarantine 5 immediately for isolated observation." He then turned back to the observation window and looked down on his work, the light in the lab below is raised, revealing the eight figures below to be the first Tamers and their partners.

(AN: Long description ahead, you should read it but you don't have to.)

In the lab Takato, Rika, Henry, and Ryo lay in a dreamless sleep, their normal clothing gone and replaced with strange costumes or armors, each appearing to be similar to what they would where in their biomerged forms.

Takato's was a white armor similar to Gallantmon's attached to the left arm was a circular shield or buckler just like Gallantmon's, on Takato's belt beside his D-ark and his cards now rested a scabbard, within lay a sword similar in shape to Gallantmon: Crimson Mode's, the helm was also the same as Gallantmon's but the faceplate on Takato's was open, revealing his face.

In the chamber behind lay Guilmon, the red dino-dragon slept in a fetal position floating in the chamber's fluid, a large air mask attached to his snout and various wires to his body, around his neck was a strange collar, the band looked like a dark crimson red 'dark ring' and in the front a strange device was attached.

Beside them lay Rika and Renamon, Rika looked like a smaller version of Sakuyamon, she was wearing body armor just like Sakuyamon's and on her lay a staff just like Sakuyamon's, while Renamon also rested in a fetal position her fur strangely unmoving in the liquid, she was attached to the chamber just as Guilmon was, and around her neck was a similar collar as Guilmon thought its color was a deep dark blue.

Near them lay Ryo, on him was a body armor like Justimon's, one of Ryo's arms was encased in a metallic gauntlet, on his head lay a helmet that resembled Justimon's head, thought it was opened revealing a strange screen attached to the inside along with numerous wires and Ryo's face.

Ryo's partner, Monodramon, was the same as Guilmon and Renamon, his collar a dull grey.

At the end of the room rested Henry and Terriermon, like the other digimon partners was inside another liquid filled chamber, his collar a dark forest green, his human partner, Henry, was wearing a long robe the same color as Terriermon's collar, as was the rest of his clothing.

On Henry's arms and legs rested large green gauntlets and greaves resembling the ones on MegaGargomon, he was also wearing a helmet like MegaGargomon's, within rested a visor with internal Lcd that could be lowered in front of his eyes.

(AN: Long description over, continue reading.)

Cloaked figures quickly entered the lab, with them was a portable generator, which they attached too the chamber in which Guilmon rested and some of the portable equipment attached to Takato, they then began to push the sleeping tamer and his partner out of the room as the Second Dark Figure watched from above, a cruel grin on his face.

At that same moment the First Dark Figure entered a large room, within were many other figures, most wearing dark cloaks or robes, the others sitting in complete darkness except for the light from the many screens within the room, on many of the monitors were pictures of places the tamers would of thought unreal, (AN: Except maybe Ryo, but I haven't decided on which way to go yet in that issue so we all will find out later) for those monitors showed locations within the digital world, the digimon adventures digital world, one screen even showed some Digimon having a picnic near primary village.

FDF (First Dark Figure) sat down in the middle of the room, in front of him sat the largest monitor in the room, on it was a map of the DD's (digidestined's) digital world which was divided into four triangles, in each were various dots, some green, some red, and some white.

The white dots moved around and changed position while the red and green were stationary, FDF smiled then barked out his order, "Status report on all operations", a few of the other figures in the room turned to FDF, each giving their report in turn, "Dark collars and relays ready for deployment", "50% of the north american digiports now sealed according to plan, separation of the digital and human world will be completed in 7 hours", "Construction of bases and equipment 87% completed, as of yet none have been discovered", "power siphon from the catalyst at 20%, it has a stronger will than expected", "enough data has been removed from the impmon to begin reconstruction of the partner of the tamer Jeri Katou, and we accomplished the removal and reconstruction of a program from subject 1b", FDF smiles wickedly. FDF gets up and begins to leave the room before turning to one of the other figures, "The others are doing very well, but for your sake I would hope that you are able to drawn more power from that puff-ball otherwise you will more problems on your hands then his 'strong will' ", the figure just bows quickly then responds "yes sir" before FDF leaves the room, laughing manically as his plans progress.

DD's Digital World (approx. 7 hours later):

The sun had just set in the digital world, most of the digimon lay sleeping peacefully, none realizing the danger they were in nor the fact that by the end of that night those they counted on to protect them would not be able to protect them or help them, then it began.

Strange devices suddenly appeared out of nowhere all over the digital world, all colored one of four colors, a dark crimson red, a deep dark blue, a dull grey, or a dark forest green, from each device flew objects similar to the 'Digimon Emperor's' dark rings each the same color as the device that launched it.

The sound of the launching 'rings' alerted some of the more aware digimon, some tried to fight off the rings while others ran in fear, believing that the emperor had returned, few who stayed and fought stayed free, and nearly all that ran were captured as well, any digimon that didn't immediately attack or run at the sound of the devices were captured by the strange devices the collars rapping themselves around the digimon's neck, except for a few who escaped or could not be captured, the digimon of the digital world were no longer free, each captured digimon remained motionless as they waited for their first commands.

By morning most of the free digimon were in hiding, some made plans to retaliate while others just sought to protect themselves, but some digimon, along with Gennai, went to see Azulongmon.

"It appears that a new and unknown darkness has attacked the digital world." Said Azulongmon to the three figures below, Leomon, Orgemon, and Gennai, the two enemies now friends had sought out Gennai once the first attack ended, and together they went to see Azulongmon, hoping to find answers to what was occurring and why.

"So you don't know what is doing this?" asked Gennai, his face showed his concern, from the descriptions he had been given he feared that Ken had reverted into the digimon emperor, but upon hearing Azulongmon's words his fears grew.

"No, this new threat was completely unknown to me, no prophecy or writing predicted this, nor did I sense it until it attacked, thought seems to be using the same strategy as the digidestined of kindness did when he was under the influence of the dark spore, but that is all that is familiar to me."

Then Orgemon spoke up, "What about the digidestined, won't they stop this threat like they did before?"

Azulongmon shook his great head, "No, it's seems that this new threat planned ahead, it seems to of sealed all of the digiports between the real world and the digital world trapping the digidestined there and preventing them from helping us here."

Gennai stepped forward, "I could attempt to re-open some of the digiports with the help of my friends but by that time it maybe too late, whoever or whatever is doing this may of completed there plan by the time they get here to help, I'll contact the young boy Izzy and have him notify the rest of the digidestined, then begin to work on the digiports."

The others nodded then Leomon stepped forward, "Ogremon and I will stay here with Azulongmon, if we are needed Azulongmon will send us." At Leomon's statement Azulongmon nodded yes, then Gennai left, to contact Izzy and the digidestined.

DD's Real World (Izzy's House):

Izzy walked into the kitchen of his family's home, along side him flew Tentomon, the two of them had just gotten up and were preparing to have breakfast when his laptop signaled that he had received an E-mail, as he poured a bowl of cereal and a glass of milk for himself and Tentomon, he logged into his E-mail account to see what he had received.

Tentomon quickly came up beside him and asked "What do you have there Izzy?", "It's an E-mail from Gennai, we haven't heard from him for a while so I better see what he wants."

Then with a few keystrokes he brought up Gennai's message, but once he read the first few lines it took him his entire will power not to spray his laptop with milk or choke, he quickly swallowed when Tentomon asked, "What's the matter Izzy?", concern showing in his voice.

"It's the E-mail from Gennai, he says that someone or something using the same strategy as the digimon emperor has attacked the digital world and has sealed all of the digiports" replied Izzy, disbelieve on his voice. Izzy then quickly finished his milk and ran to the phone to call the others.

Odiaba School (Computer Lab (Sunday)):