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Ginga GIRI GIRI! The Universe is in Danger!
By SSJ Heero
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- OPENING SONG: BUTTER-FLY -

Gokigen na chou ni natte kirameku kaze ni notte
Ima sugu kimi ni ai ni yukou
Yokei na koto nante wasureta hou ga mashi sa
Kore ijou shareteru jikan wa nai

Nani ga wow wow wow wow wow kono sora ni todoku no darou
Dakedo wow wow wow wow wow ashita no yotei mo wakaranai

Mugendai na yume no ato no nanimo nai yo no naka ja
Sou sa itoshii omoi mo makesou ni naru kedo
Stay shigachi na imeeji darake no tayorinai tsubasa demo
Kitto toberu sa on my love

---- Recap ----

[Chibi characters of the five appear in the foreground as scenes from the last episode play
in the background. Though, you can't see 'cause this is text. =P]

Amiko: Last time! On GINGA GIRI GIRI!

SSJ: Hey, that's my line.

Amiko: Oh quiet, just tell them what happened.

SSJ: (sigh) Well, we decided to take a vacation.

TM: Stuff happened, and rave clubs were destroyed.

Davis: My real name was thus revealed and SSJ and I fought Dullahan.

Cindy: As Amiko and I took on the Heartless... And not even shown...

SSJ: Sorry, but if I showed it, we'd have another long monstrosity.

TM: And all that happened while I was knocked out. Yes!

(Everyone smacks TM.)

TM: ...Okay! So anyway, on with the show!

---- Chapter 27: Survival of the Fittest ----

Kino Tsumuji did not have an easy day ahead of him. He looked ahead and saw the wreckage of
what seemed to be a giant electrical system. Wires ran around and into it, strewn all over
the floor. Dents and burns ran across the metal ground, and many, many holes littered the
area. Such was an abandoned warehouse where the Outlaws were rumored to have destroyed
several androids. Kino looked down on the watch on his left hand. It was currently February
18, 2001 at noon.

He looked back at the random mess in front of him. He saw decaying bits of pink flesh that
seemed to have been part of a gigantic brain, with puddles of liquid still gathered in
puddles within dents. He looked over his shoulder behind him, and addressed someone with
him, "So Harrison, how much will it cost to clean up this place?"

Behind him, Harrison Craig checked using his small PDA. He tapped the screen several times
with his small pen-like instrument, then stored it away. He answered, "A couple million.
It's messy and the only incentive that makes people want to clean it is money."

Kino frowned. "Well, we'll just have to get some loyalists to help me find the chip," he
sighed.

"You mean the Dimension-Shift™?"

Kino nodded. "Yes. It needs to be found and destroyed as soon as possible."

"Then why not bomb this place?"

Kino sighed, and gave a cold stare towards his assistant. "One wrong move, and a Gate could
be created. Messing with alternate universes is not something I'm interested in. Mishima
was blind to think it would help." He then looked down at a burnt shell of a short android
in front of him. Clearly written on the back of what appears to be a metal skull was "#2".
"So much it helped these pieces of shit."

Kino then kicked the shell into the large pile ahead of him. He glared at it for a bit,
then turned back to Craig. "Make sure you find it and destroy it," he commanded as he
stepped away.

Craig nodded. "Understood."

***

The Five weren't having the most comfortably boat trip, to say the very least. In fact,
their ship wasn't in the best of conditions. There was a loud shot and a crack of light,
then a line of lightning reached down near the boat. Then a splash and a crash as waves
rolled onto the deck. Needless to say, the boat was being tossed around like a pokeball.

And it didn't help TM any. The Five, minus TM, were in their room containing five beds. SSJ
lay on his bed, staring at the ceiling with his bandaged hand covering his eyes. Cindy and
Mokona held onto a light fixture on the wall in order to keep balance. Amiko was sitting on
her bed, staring at the ceiling. Davis was busy playing a Game Boy Advance in the corner.

Davis then looked up at SSJ, simply laying on the bed as the boat flipped, with the back of
his hand covering his eyes. He muttered, "How the Heck can you just sleep now?"

SSJ didn't respond, nor did he move one bit. Amiko looked down at SSJ and said nothing as
well. Several thoughts ran through her mind as she kept silent, 'Sleeping? I don't think
he'd be sleeping now.'

Still, he did not respond. Davis then returned to his game of Zelda: A Link to the Past as
TM emerged from the bathroom, sick as ever. 'Sick again?' Amiko asked herself. 'He's been
sick a lot lately.'

But then, just as she thought that, TM let go of a trail of vomit on SSJ's boot. Still,
Amiko observed that SSJ didn't attack TM in any way as he normally would. She just saw him
sigh, pick himself off his bed, and proceed to the bathroom where he wiped off his boot.
'SSJ's awfully silent. He must be deep in thought... What could he be thinking about?'

She then saw him sigh and glance at the window before taking over another bed. It was
uncomfortably silent in the room as the waves curled around the boat. Amiko looked about
the room, hoping for someone to say something. Finally, she opened her mouth to speak, "TM?
You feeling alright?"

TM stuck his head up from the trash bin and glanced at Amiko. He replied, "I hate this
storm... The tossing and turning is not much of a help."

Amiko sighed and looked over to SSJ. "SSJ! What's on your mind?" she asked.

SSJ then pulled his hand off of his eyes, sat up gloomily, and looked at Amiko. Cheerful as
a stoic, he replied, "Just thinking about some things..."

"Like what?" Amiko asked, hoping to stir up conversation in the silent ride.

SSJ then turned to the window, with everyone looking at him. "We've been in this world a
long time," said SSJ. "I wonder how everyone at home is doing?"

Cindy then spoke up over the waves, "It got to you, too, huh?"

Amiko frowned and thought, 'Why is he thinking of this now? This doesn't seem like him at
all.'

"I wonder if there's a way to end this and get home," SSJ trailed off. He then turned
silent again, lost in his thoughts. Amiko could not get him to speak anymore, so she sighed
and wrapped her arms around her bent knees, pressing her head over them. Then they all
heard SSJ's voice, "Hey... What the Hell is that?"

Everyone looked outside the window, not seeing something very pleasant. For right beside
the boat was a gigantic swirling vortex, churning and tossing anything nearby into its
grasp. Quickly, the vessel and all of its passengers were tossed about as it capsized, and
split into pieces from a rather large, powerful wave. The Five were scattered across the
whirlpool, along with the other passengers, screaming and flailing madly. Amiko, for an
instant, perceived a strange figure at the bottom of the whirlpool. Before she could make
out the shape, however, she realized she was blue again, and teleported to fetch the other
four.

***

Lo and behold, a lone figure came down the path from Osseke to Meria. The bangs of his
black hair extended past the shadows covering his eyes. He was tightly wrapped in a black
cloak, despite the heat of the long day. In the openings of his cloak, shiny tekkou were
visible covering his hands, with clear bloodstains on them.

He continued on, unhindered by heat or fatigue, with a trail of thick blood following him.
And finally, he made it past the limits of Meria.

He stood inside the rather small town near the mountains. He looked about, finally
revealing his hands to the sunlight and pulling back the hood of his cloak. Clearly, it was
seen to be Jallopsimon, his dim brown eyes in a deep glare. He just muttered, "Hm. So this
is where Kerberos first faced off with them."

A slight grin then formed. He saw he was inside a rundown, abandoned ghost town. No one was
around, and the various wooden buildings were dirty and broken. Jallopsimon added, "And
this is where that nameless dictator ruled. What a rut of a town."

Suddenly, a voice called from around him, "Rut...?"

Then, with a small grunt, a figure emerged from the roof of the house just to his left.
Jallopsimon only glanced through the corner of his eyes, but he clearly saw the various
claws the figure had on his own tekkou. Jallopsimon only grinned with narrow eyes. "So,
it's the Nishiten, or the Western Sky," he said.

"So... You know us," returned the figure. "Even so... I will not grant you passage... Who
are you?"

Jallopsimon jerked his head to the Nishiten member. He proudly answered, "I am Jallopsimon.
Rantmon's old assistant."

"Hm... I don't care if you worked for Rantmon himself... You may not pass."

"Tch. I must say I am not in a very good mood after I killed a Behemoth. So get out. You
'legendary' band of thieves are nothing compared to me." Jallopsimon stretched his shoulder
and arm muscles at that point.

The figure then prepared his fists for battle, as did Jallopsimon. The figure threatened,
"My name... Is... Gouki. What Master says is DIVINE LAW!"

Gouki then gracefully leapt off the rooftop, with his nimble arms preparing to cut through
Jallopsimon. "Tch! Your divine law is my shit!" Jallopsimon swore back.

Jallopsimon then threw one lightning fast punch at Gouki. Faster than the fighter could
see, Jallopsimon's fist tore straight through his gut and shattered his spine. With a
gigantic spurt of blood, Gouki flew back and into the wall of the building he leapt off of,
tremendously injured. All Gouki could do in such a state was merely mutter aloud, "Gah...
Beware... Fool. Nataku... Seiryuu... Genbu... Byakko... Master Suzaku... They can... Not
be... Defeated."

Jallopsimon spat on the injured figure, and thus continued through the town.

***

The waves crashed on the shore of a beach some time later. Which surprised SSJ, to say the
least. He awoke to the tide as it came and went, realizing the obvious: He was still alive.
He sat up, hair and clothes full of sand. He looked around him, and conveniently saw all of
his companions lying around. "Well, that's one less thing to worry about," he commented.

Immediately, SSJ got to his feet and surveyed the area. Palm trees lay around the area,
with the beach stretching on to his left and right without any hint of disturbance. A
forest lay ahead of him, into the inner regions of what he expected to be an island.

And then he saw the little tiny monster on his boot. He just looked down on it, seeing an
innocent white ball with some long, wavy ears... or were they antennae? He just groaned,
"Oh geez... A digimon..."

He then shooed it away, and proceeded to kick the rest awake. Twenty minutes and a couple
of bruises later, Amiko, TM, Cindy, and Davis were awake, looking into the forest. TM asked
the pressing question, "So, should we enter?"

Amiko, once again, was silent, her minds with thoughts, 'We don't have much of a choice.'

But then the sound of a rather large object crashing onto the shore startled the Five. They
spun around, merely seeing a large piece of equipment in the sand. They sighed with relief,
and approached the dented, metallic box. Davis and TM hauled it further inland as SSJ,
Cindy, and Amiko inspected it.

Upon inspection, SSJ kicked the box over, looking at the bottom. He saw various dials and
tuners, with several meters settled at 0. Along with it dangled a microphone. Amiko
recognized it immediately. 'A radio transmitter?!' she thought. Then she yelled aloud,
"This is a radio!"

Cindy was filled with relief. "Really?!" she exclaimed. "We can get help?"

"Nope," SSJ bluntly replied. "It's not connected to anything."

Cindy sighed and sunk to the sand. "Great," she muttered.

She then looked up past the forest ahead of them as everyone was busy checking the radio.
"I wonder if it can help?" she heard TM ask.

"Besides being used as a weapon?" Davis said back.

Amiko flipped all the knobs and dials of the thing, and she commented, "It looks like it
might work despite being drenched with salt water..."

"Technology is amazing in this world," said SSJ.

Suddenly, they heard Cindy yell, "Hey everyone!" The rest turned to Cindy, Mokona appearing
out of nowhere to sit on her shoulder. She pointed to a far away mountain peak. "That look
like a satellite dish to you?"

They all looked at the direction she pointed to. SSJ had to squint, but he was able to make
out the shape. Amiko thought, 'It looks sorta like... something...'

"Yeah... It looks like one," said SSJ.

The Five then nodded at each other. Davis then turned to SSJ, "SSJ! Think you can make a
plot hole like before?"

"Well, okay," SSJ said with a nod. Immediately, a black hole appeared under the box, and it
slowly descended inside. The hole then closed over it as the Five stepped into the forest.
SSJ then turned to Amiko, "Hey, why are we not in our cursed forms?"

Amiko smiled and explained, "Oh, you have me to thank for that."

***

Jallopsimon had thus completed his thorough search of the town some ten hours and one more
gang member after he arrived. It was now night in his part of the world in the ghost town
of Meria, and he was, to say the least, angry. His gloves were so stained with blood that
they were in need of cleaning. Unfortunately, water was hard to come by in the city.

But then again, six people in a city, at least, needed water from somewhere. Even during
the night, it was still hot. Jallopsimon looked around for life and finally just muttered,
"Well, who cares. The Nishiten seemed to have emptied the city for me."

But as Jallopsimon neared the other end of Meria, he distinctly heard the rattle of
footsteps ahead and behind him. He stood in a narrow street, with a stone wall on each
side, with two gang members ahead and two behind him. He sighed and muttered, "Finally come
now, Nishiten?"

The tallest one of the four, who stood directly ahead of him, stepped forward to speak,
wearing red all around and carrying a kodachi on each of his sides. Jallopsimon uttered,
"'Master' Suzaku, I presume?"

Suzaku nodded. Suzaku told him, "You must be a moron to kill both Gouki and Seiryuu and
think to have no reprieve."

"Tch. I kill who I please, and they were just in my way."

One of the thieves, dressed in black, behind him spat as he retorted, "That is no way to
speak to Master Suzaku!"

The one dressed in the darkest shade of blue beside Suzaku also yelled, "The penalty for
that is death!"

And finally, the last one behind him spoke, wearing white that clashed with the night,
"Suzaku! Grant us permission!"

With that, Suzaku nodded, glaring at Jallopsimon. He commanded, "Genbu, Nataku, Byakko...
We'll kill him easily."

Jallopsimon than glanced at each member from the corner of his eye. Who he presumed to be
Genbu wielded a katana, but Jallopsimon saw the chains and flail connected to the hilt.
Nataku spun two giant shurikens on each hand, ready to cut through Jallopsimon. Byakko
merely cracked a couple of knuckles, and finally, Suzaku drew his twin kodachi. Jallopsimon
yelled, "FINE! HAVE AT YOU ALL!"

"WE'LL KILL YOU!" they screamed in unison.

With that, Jallopsimon leapt straight into the sky, picking his first opponent. When
Genbu's chained flail sped towards him, he deflected it with his tekkou, grabbed the chain,
and flung Genbu into his own flail as he dropped to the ground. Genbu's shoulder tore away
from the impact, but that did not stop the others from continuing their assault.

Jallopsimon dodged both of Suzaku's kodachi, and then both of Nataku's flying shurikens.
Then Byakko threw one punch at him. Down he ducked and off to his left he rolled as he saw
the stone walls crumble to pieces.

Then a fury of punches was thrown at Jallopsimon. As quickly as he could, Jallopsimon
blocked with his tekkou. And then came the shurikens again. Jallopsimon backflipped off of
Byakko's chest in time to dodge them, landing some distance away. But when the spinning
blades came back at him, he stood in place.

He gave a tremendous strike at each of the walls beside him, and tossed whatever broken
stones there were at the shurikens. His plan succeeded, and they were deflected, much to
his approval.

He leapt up, grabbing each shuriken in the center, where a hole and grip were. He then
flung the things at Byakko, who was still reeling in pain from Jallopsimon to dodge. Suzaku
tried to warn him, "Byakko!"

But it was to no avail, Byakko saw with wide eyes as the two shuriken came and tore him
into seven bloody pieces. Blood flew all around from the torn body as the shurikens
streaked through and toward the last two bandits. Nataku could not help but watch his
weapons tear through his ally, and head straight for him. He dodged right for one of them,
then left for the other, glaring up at Jallopsimon.

"Nataku! Behind!" Suzaku suddenly screamed.

Nataku whirled around to see that his weapon had spun back and heading towards him. He
ducked and dodged, proud of his agility. He glanced around, seeing both of his shurikens
embedded in two different places on the walls. And then Jallopsimon, dashing over to
Nataku, gave the strongest punch he ever gave straight to the thief's skull. It cracked
like a nut, and blood and other vile liquids oozed from the dead man's nose and mouth as he
fell to the ground.

Suzaku was stuck in fear as he looked at Jallopsimon. Instilled with fear, he was frozen,
staring at Jallopsimon's bloody tekkou. He then mustered the courage to rush at
Jallopsimon, both kodachi swinging madly. An onslaught of slashes and jabs came from Suzaku
as Jallopsimon jumped back to dodge.

Quickly, Jallopsimon saw the chain of Genbu's sword, and kicked it up to his hands as he
jumped back. He then launched the flail at Suzaku, which passed over his left shoulder.
Jallopsimon quickly ran past leapt past Suzaku's right during his lapse in attack, with
Suzaku's neck hitting the chain. Jallopsimon grabbed the flail and tugged hard on the sword
and flail. Suzaku got a severe case of whiplash, yelling in pain from the cruel maneuver.
Jallopsimon finally finished by lifting him up by the chain and then throwing Suzaku over
his shoulder, slamming the thief lord into the ground, face first, upside down. Then for
good measure, he gave a punch hard enough to Suzaku's spine so it shattered.

In severe pain, Genbu lay on the ground, one shoulder and arm less. Byakko was in pieces,
and Nataku was in a horrible headache, to say the least. He then looked at Suzaku, lying
paralyzed at his feet. He was done, finally, and panted with fatigue, "If you idiots just
got out of my way, you wouldn't have been slaughtered."

Jallopsimon then noticed the two kodachi still intact by Suzaku's feet. He muttered, "Heh.
Looks like weapons I can use."

He then took Suzaku's kodachi and sheathed them with the scabbards Suzaku wore on his belt,
placing sheathe and sword on his own belt. He chuckled as he slowly walked past the four
bodies and towards the limits ahead of him.

He continued on, unhindered by heat or fatigue, with a trail of thick blood following him.
And finally, he made it past the limits of Meria.

***

The Five were deep in the forest by now, and the sun was slowly crawling across the sky.
SSJ sighed as he followed TM and Davis, feeling positively fatigued from hiking such a long
distance. The various brushes and branches they passed were sliced away as TM used his
katana as a gardening tool.

"Really, how big can this island be?" complained SSJ.

Cindy followed close behind SSJ, looking about the scenery. She said, "I guess the mountain
in the distance makes this island pretty big."

SSJ leered at Cindy, but suddenly jerked his view ahead, seeing movement in the brushes.
"Something's there!" he warned.

Immediately, everyone froze. Which wasn't very pleasant, to say the least, as a giant layer
of ice encased the Five. And to make it any more obvious, it was very cold.

Not wanting to have his body temperature drop any further, Davis 's hands burst into
flames, and a massive aura of fire cut through the ice about him. Quickly, he turned to the
others, and freed them from their icy encasement.

SSJ fell to the ground, panting for air, as Amiko and Cindy leaned on trees nearby. Amiko
demanded, "What... The Hell... Was THAT?!"

The ground then shook, as a monstrous voice rose above the trees, "I never thought you
would return, Tamer!"

Davis was filled with surprise as he stared up at a demon through the trees. With a shower
of ice, the branches and leaves shading the crew were frozen solid, and broke asunder with
one strike from the demon. They all saw it clearly, blue and familiar looking. Davis
yelled, "Ice Devimon...! We're at File Island?!"

The enemy, Ice Devimon grinned. He replied, "Of course!"

Davis then glanced at the rest. He warned, "Be careful! This one's extremely powerful!"

Ice Devimon then began, "Oh, Rantmon will have a field day when I bring in your frozen
corpses. I'll start with you three!"

Then, the screen blurred and faded to the right. Music from the battle with Ultimecia/Edea
played in the background as the battle began. SSJ sweatdropped and muttered, "I think he's
been playing FFVIII too much..."

Cindy, TM, and Davis appeared on screen to do battle with Ice Devimon, who descended in
front of them. "I'll enjoy making your icy graves!" threatened the digimon.

It was a shame, then, that SSJ made a plot hole open up behind Ice Devimon and swallow it
whole. Cindy, Davis, and TM looked back at SSJ. "Hey!" yelled Cindy.

"I wanted to kill him!" said TM.

SSJ just replied, "Oh, don't be so selfish. You would have had Amiko and I sitting here for
a good ten minutes or so."

"Bastard!" the two screamed in unison. TM then proceeded to beat SSJ with his sheathe as
Cindy smacked him repeatedly with the butt of her gun.

SSJ yelled as he tried to defend himself, "You don't need to do all this!"

"Shut up!" Cindy just yelled back. "I'm getting my experience points one way or another!"

***

Ten minutes and a bandaged SSJ later, the crew finally reached the base of the mountain.
The wind was strong there, making everyone's hair fly about wildly. The roar of the wind
filled everyone's ears as they proceeded onward, and looked up at a giant satellite tower.

"This looks really familiar," Amiko thought aloud.

TM nodded. "Yeah..."

After they all looked up the top, where a circular grating above was littered with various
objects and wires. Two figures moved about upon the grating. SSJ drove them on, "Come on.
Let's go."

The Five then entered and stepped onto the elevator. Cindy pushed the lever on a console,
and with a shake, the elevator began ascending. Then, when the elevator came to a sharp
stop moments later, the Five ran up onto the plate, and reeled in surprise. They screamed,
"You two?!"

The two they spotted up there were taken aback as well. They were two familiar henchmen of
a familiar villain. Their helmets that covered their eyes, and their red or blue clothing
and armor made them easily recognizable as Biggs and Wedge, apparently upgraded from their
old Final Fantasy VI costumes. The two glanced at them all in surprise, and leapt back in
mixed surprise and fear. Biggs screamed, "You five?!"

Wedge yelled, "How?!"

Biggs and Wedge then looked at each other, but then got into battle stance. "For Rantmon!"
yelled Wedge.

"It's because of you all that we were demoted to such work!" said Biggs.

The Five stood still, not bothering to draw their weapons or get ready at all. Their
attention, sadly, was caught by a much larger thing flying behind Biggs and Wedge. The two
took the hint and peered behind. The large claws and wings of the creature were clear in
the bright light, and its lower body was like a large wasp. "Damn it," swore SSJ.

"Elvoret..." Amiko trailed off.

TM then grabbed hold of the grated plate they stood upon. "Brace yourselves!" he warned.

The rest followed suit as a the beast bellowed a gigantic torrent of wind at them all.
Biggs and Wedge were immediately tossed away, and the Five struggled against the violent
blast. The winds finally settled, and the five looked up to see Elvoret fall to the ground
down below, with a large burn on it. SSJ looked down through the grate, towards Elvoret's
fading body, and then back to his friends. "You guys heard anything?" he asked.

Everyone shook their heads, and they got to their feet. Cindy looked up at the satellite,
already in place thanks to Biggs and Wedge. "You think we can use that?" she wondered.

The rest glanced up, and Davis nodded. "Yeah, I think we can," he answered.

SSJ opened a plot hole, and the radio console landed in front of them. He asked, "Know
anything about connecting this thing, Davis?"

"Working with Rantmon does wield some advantages," was all Davis said. An hour of
connecting, testing, failing, reconnecting, testing, failing, disconnecting, reconnecting,
testing, failing, kicking the radio, testing, failing, disconnecting, reconnecting, and
many, many curses later, Davis finally had the radio light up and static come through the
mic. "Yes! Finally!" he screamed.

Everyone hopefully gathered around the radio as Davis turned the dials, hoping for any
contact. "What took so long?!" demanded TM.

"Well, I had to reroute the fusion reactor and dismantle the electrical nodes to divert
them the energy channel-"

"YOU'RE MAKING THAT SHIT UP!" TM screamed back. Davis just sheepishly grinned.

SSJ cared little for that, and he just picked up the mic, putting it to his mouth and
waiting for anything. "Come on...!" he muttered as he played with the dials.

Soon, voices came through the radio. It seemed to be the voice of a ship captain, relaying
orders to his crew. SSJ pressed the button on the mic and spoke, "Hello? Anyone there?"

Voices of surprise were heard when SSJ let go. What sounded like the captain soon came
through, "I'll have to inquire who this may be, over."

"I am a survivor of the downed ferry from the Destiny Islands. There are five of us here."
He paused. Then he remembered what he had to say. "Over."

"What? More survivors?" the captain said in surprise. "May I ask your position? Over."

"We are at File Island." He then turned to Davis. He muttered away from the mic, "At least
I think so." Davis nodded, and SSJ returned to the mic, "Over."

"File Island? Do you require assistance? Over."

"Indeed we do, over."

There was a silence as the Five waited for anything. Soon, the captain came through again,
"A vessel will be arriving in seven days. Godspeed, children. Over and out."

SSJ sighed, and put down the mic. "A week..."

Amiko complained, "We have to live... For a week?!"

"Damn it!" Cindy swore.

TM shook his head. "We shouldn't have taken that boat."

Davis then remembered what he said the day before. He felt it a waste as he muttered, "Our
trek will be delayed."

SSJ sighed, "I guess for now... It’s survival of the fittest." Everyone sighed. SSJ turned
to Amiko, "So, where can we get to that hot springs you mentioned?"

***

The Five soon stepped out of the elevator and out of the satellite tower. There was a
rumbling above the Five, who looked up to see a giant shadow above them, gripping onto the
grated plate.

Well, SSJ didn't see much, as a wrench hit him directly to the forehead, and he collapsed
onto the floor.

The rest glanced at him, then dashed away as the shadow let go and fell towards them. And
rather unluckily, it fell right on top of SSJ. Smoke and dust were thrown into the sky,
clouding the shadow. "That had to hurt," commented SSJ.

Davis added, "Frankly, I don't see how he survives all of this."

The cloud cleared soon after, and a menacing red gleam shown through. The figure of a
robotic spider was clear through the smoke, and fortunately, SSJ's unconscious body was
imprinted into the soft ground. The four facefaulted, then got to their feet in preparation
for the robot. Amiko said with the blood draining from her face, "The X-ATM..."

"I think we know the proper thing to do," said TM thoughtfully as he rubbed his chin.

"Run away?" asked Davis.

Cindy turned around and yelled, "Sounds good to me!"

The four then abandoned SSJ, dashing away from the mechanized spider. They dashed through
the forests of File Island, with the crashes of X-ATM's four metal legs following behind.
The robot proceeded to tear through the forest after them, knocking down trees, crumbling
rocks, and destroying whatever got in its path.

It chased on, the four screaming at it to go away. Their yells were of little avail, as the
robot gained on them. There was little they could do to fend it. They would have to fight
soon...

And finally, a gigantic blast engulfed the robotic insect. With a tremendous explosion, it
tore to pieces, leaving a small crater in its wake. The four were launched from the power
of the blast, and landed a distance away, looking back, and seeing the very familiar shape
of a digimon, Wargreymon.

---- To Be Continued ----

- ENDING SONG: I WISH -

Hoshi ni negai wo kaze ni puraido noseta toki
Kyou ga kesenai asu ga mieru yo kitto ne...

I wish
Doushite koko ni iru no
Oshiete kudasai ima sugu
Mieru mono ga subete ja nai no ne

Samusa ni furueru kara ude toosu jaketto
Itsu no ma ni ka sukitoote itte
Kibou ni natteku

Mirai no ame ga hoho wo nuraseba omoidasu
Atsuku nare ano hi ano toki

Hoshi ni negai wo kaze ni puraido noseta toki
Kyou ga kesenai asu ga mieru yo kitto ne...

I wish
Suitchi on shitara
Koi suru koto mo dekiru to
Kinou made wa shinjiteta mirakuru

Haato wo utsusu hitomi furimukeba aru kara
Ikiteru koto suteki da yo to
Ima naraba omoeru

Mirai no ame ga machi wo nuraseba omoidasu
Kirameite ano hi ano toki

Hoshi ni negai wo kaze ni puraido noseta toki
Hora ne chiisana negai kanau yo kitto ne...

Mirai no ame ga hoho wo nuraseba omoidasu
Atsuku nare ano hi ano toki

Hoshi ni negai wo kaze ni puraido noseta toki
Kyou ga kesenai asu ga mieru yo kitto ne...

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[Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh! Preview music plays in background. The five appear as chibi style, and
random scenes from the next episode play, though you can't see because this is text. =P]

SSJ: WHAT'S THIS?! YOU ALL ABANDONED ME?!

Amiko: Well, it was kind of hard to get you from under the robot thing!

TM: And besides, you were just fine.

SSJ: "JUST FINE"?! A ROBOT LANDED ON ME!

Davis: Well, you seem to be fine enough to yell about it.

SSJ: Bah!

(SSJ then leaves the screen, and the rest continue on.)

Cindy: ANYWAY, next, we have to fight for survival within File Island. Seven days just
seems too long a wait...

All: NEXT! On GINGA GIRI GIRI! "The Emperor's Game"!

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