A Commissioned story for  WomblesFan

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Deep in the Digital Dessert there was a mesa. On top of it, there was a village, simply, known as “Beans.” It was a village of Gazimon and other Digimon they kept as their “Belly Buddies.” On the surface, it seemed just like a quirky village, but, in truth, the Gazimon held those Digimon as their prisoners to mine within the mesa. It was a fiendish plan, but one that was ultimately foiled when a certain Bearmon arrived and put an end to it all. Thanks to him, the Belly Buddies were freed and the Gazimon were gone, devoured like they had down to so many other Digimon, albeit with a much more permanent imprisonment. That should have been the end, but if it was, then why would I be writing a sequel about it? Yes. Exactly.

In the dead of night, a Data Stream appeared over the village and a single Gazimon walked out of it. “Ah, home sweet home,” he smiled and breathed in the familiar air feeling to receive satisfying nostalgia. When the data stream vanished, he placed his paws on his cheeks and shouted out as loud as he could. “I’m home!!! Hey, everymon! Gai the Gazimon is back home! Sorry, I couldn’t find us anymore Gazimon to recruit for the village, but no worries. I’ll just try again later. I was getting homesick anyway and I’m sure you all missed me like crazy!”

He expected a bunch of his fellow Gazimon to come running out to greet him after his long time away, but to his surprise, nobody came. Even more confusing, there was nobody around at all. “Uh, hello?” he called out and began looking around. “Anymon here? They sent me to the right place, didn’t they? It sure looks like Beans, but it shouldn’t be this empty.” Growing ever more nervous, Gai searched the village for signs of anyone, but his attempts only increased his panic as nothing but the makeshift buildings were there. Looking at a number of them, he could see they had been taken apart. “Just what in the world happened here?” he wondered. “Did the Belly Buddies revolt or something? No. I doubt that. Maybe they’re all in the mine.”

Hurrying into there, Gai only found more emptiness. Not a single soul was around and it only made his dread of what may have happened increase. Then he saw something that sent a cold chill down his spin. It was some footprints he noticed in the hard, stone ground, monstrously big ones that he could fit both his feet in and leave space for another Gazimon to fit his feet in too. “What in the world happened here?”

A sound suddenly caught Gai’s attention and he quickly recognized it as digging. Hurrying off to investigate it, he discovered a Goblimon was behind it digging for McGuffainium and even singing some offkey, self-made lyrics. By his side he had quite a lot accumulated of the previous plot divisive material and he seemed quite content when he looked at it.

“I’m so lucky!” he sang as he worked. “The mine is all mine! Heheh, I made a joke and that makes me even happier! Huzzah! Hooray! That big bear really did me a favor of getting rid of all those Gazimon so I could have all this for myself. It makes me so happy I think I’ll sing my joy aloud! I’m so lucky! The mine is all-”

“Yours?” interrupted Gai.

“Yeah!” he laughed heartily. “It’s all mine.” The Goblimon suddenly realized he wasn’t alone anymore and saw a very unhappy Gazimon glaring at him.

“That’s funny,” Gai stated. “Last time I checked this all belonged to the Gazimon.”

“One was left,” he gulped, but then remembered it was only one. “So what if one didn’t get eaten. I can handle one all by myself!” Grabbing his club, he charged at the Gazimon who swiftly dodged his wild swings and countered with a sharp jab to his gut. Then grabbing his club, he bopped it on the Goblimon’s head and gave him a lump. “Ow… okay. Take the McGuffainium. It’s all yours.”

“I don’t care about some stones,” snapped Gai picking the Goblimon up by his loincloth and giving him the an anger-fueled wedgie. “Tell me what happened here! Just who is this ‘big bear’ you were singing about?”

“W-Why do you wanna know?” he groaned as Gai tugged his loincloth harder making his eyes bug out.

“To make him pay for what he did,” Gai answered.


“And that’s how I saved Flag Day,” concluded Kent the Womble as he regaled one of his previous exploits to his Digimon friend, Bearmon. The two of them were chatting in a tavern in the digital city of Romsburg.

Kent was an overweight Womble with long white ears with some black at the ends of them. He had a chubby face with a somewhat bulbous black nose. He could have easily been mistaken for a tailless dog and he usually was. Save for a brown coat he had on, he wore nothing else on his furry body.

Bearmon was a pudgy bear cub Digimon. He had grayish black fur over most of his body save for his muzzle and belly that were white. He also had red marks on the sides of his face. His claws were somewhat long and sharp and he had a tiny stub of a tail over his behind. He had on a blue cap that he always wore backwards that had the word “Bears” on it. On his arms there was some blue straps that covered over his paws and another that he wore over his left shoulder and went around the right side of his waist. Beneath the band on his right paw there was a Digital Hazard mark that he made sure remained inconspicuous at all times.

“You’ve sure been all over the place,” commented Bearmon. “That Mysterious Force you have sure must be fun.” While he said this, he squeezed his right paw tightly.

“More of an inconvenience,” replied Kent reclining back with a sigh. “It doesn’t always send me to the most enjoyable places and usually there’s some kind of trouble going on. Also, I end giving belly rubs from the wrong side, if you get what I mean.”

“But then it gives you the chance to save the day and be a hero,” Bearmon pointed out. “And I suppose getting eaten isn’t too bad… not when you get out in the end, at least.”

“I guess that’s true, but I usually end up getting sent somewhere else before I even get to bask in the glory, though I think it has gotten a bit more lenient in that regard as of late. How about you? I haven’t heard much about what you’ve been up to. What happened when we got separated in the desert? How’d you get out?”

“Eh, it isn’t much of a story,” he replied avoiding the questioned. “I was in the desert and then I got out. No big deal.”

“NO BIG DEAL?!?” snapped the Gazimon, Gai, as he approached them from eavesdropping distance. “I’ve been looking for the Bearmon who ruined the town of Beans and gobbled up all my friends and after five minutes of searching I finally found you.”

“You were only searching for five minutes?” asked Kent rather impressed by that.

“I looked in the last place I’d think to look first and seems it paid off,” he stated. “I was even fortunate enough to hear your confession, but to say devouring my dear friends was, ‘no big deal,’ is completely unforgivable. Now, prepare to face the wrath of my revenge. Belly Buddy suction activate!” He shouted this into the air and opened his maw expecting to start sucking in Bearmon, but nothing was happening.

“Uh, if you keep your mouth open like that, you’re likely to swallow a fly,” commented Kent not sure what he was attempting to do.

“Shut up,” shouted Gai trying to open his mouth wider and trying to inhale too. “Why isn’t this working? Gah! I think I swallowed a fly!”

“That isn’t going to work,” Bearmon told him, giving his back a few hard pats and offered him some water to help. “I destroyed that power you Gazimon had while I was at your village. You can’t use that to capture any more Digimon now.”

“Sounds to me like you did have an interesting adventure in the desert, after all,” Kent pointed out to Bearmon.

“I can hardly call myself a hero,” admitted Bearmon. “It was my, uh, other self that did it and he did it by eating up all the Gazimon there.”

“Well, maybe you should try apologizing,” suggested Kent looking at Gai still drinking the water.

“I’ll give it a try,” Bearmon agreed as he approached Gai, waiting for him to finish drinking first.

“Ugh, thanks,” he groaned and took a few breathes.

“You’re welcome,” Bearmon smiled. “And I’m very, very sorry for what happened to your village. I didn’t mean to, but it was the way things happened. Do you think you can forgive me?”

“Uh, sure,” he nodded. “No problem.”

“Thanks,” smiled Bearmon as he began to take his leave along with Kent. “That got wrapped up a lot easier than I thought it’d be.”

“Fat chance!” snapped Gai as he grabbed Bearmon’s left paw and pulled him back with all his might. “I’m never gonna forgive you! I’m gonna get my revenge on you if it’s the last thing I do!”

“Please,” replied Bearmon a bit freaked out by how determined the Gazimon was being and not sure how he could get out of this conflict in a manner that didn’t involve violence. “I don’t want to fight you. Can’t you please just forgive and forget?”

“Never!” he argued tugging Bearmon more. “I’ll never let you go, you overgrown teddy bear!”

“P-Please don’t call me that,” trembled Bearmon, his Digital Hazard mark starting to glow red.

“Why not?” he growled. “You don’t like it? Well, maybe if I piss you off some then you’ll fight me. So, how about it, Teddy?”

“St-stop,” growled Bearmon his mark radiating a scary, bright red light. His muscles tensed as they were growing and adjusting to his Teddy form.

“Bearmon?” worried Kent seeing this unfold and not sure what to do.

“Teddy! Teddy! Teddy!” Gai kept on saying, poking the bear, and suddenly found him growing before his eyes. Raising his left paw, he lifted Gai up while he was holding onto him like he was light as a feather. “What in the world are you?!?”

Bearmon had transformed into his alter ego, Teddy, a barbaric beast driven by primal desire, hunger, and to punish those who dared tick him off. Opening his maw, the beast let out a saliva spewing roar at Gai, quickly scaring the Gazimon into letting go. However, the enraged Bearmon swung his right arm at Gai and slashed him across the chest with his claws. His Digital Hazard mark flared red as he did and he sent the Digimon spiraling through the air before crashing into a table and chairs. Kent averted his eyes certain that had to hurt a lot. All the other Digimon, in the tavern, quickly began to scream and panic at this and Teddy started to stomp over to them, to continue his rampage.
“Stop it!” pleaded Kent hugging Teddy from behind. Teddy paused in his tracks and began to shrink back to normal. His senses returned too. “Bearmon, don’t do this!”

“Wh-what did I do?” Bearmon groaned in a daze.

“Y-you don’t remember?” asked Kent seeing all the other Digimon were still very alarmed despite Bearmon returning to normally. “Just come with me. I’ll explain later.” Taking his friend’s paw, the two of them fled the scene.

“Ugh,” groaned Gai still on the ground. The slashes on his chest destabilized his data and slowly it was trying to piece itself back together. His consciousness was starting to leave him, but his anger didn’t dissipate. “I-I’ll get you, you monster. I will… have… my revenge…”

“I’ll get you…” moaned Gai in his sleep. “My revenge… will be… sweet…” Tossing a bit, the Gazimon finally awoke in an unfamiliar bed somewhere. “What? Huh? Where am I?”

“Oh, good, you’re awake,” a Gotsumon doctor said seeing Gai get up.

“Ugh, what happened?” asked Gai sitting up in bed and saw he had bandages taped around his chest.

“Seems you were in some sort of skirmish at the downtown tavern and got some cuts across your chest,” the doctor explained. “Fortunately, you were brought here pretty quickly and the wound wasn’t very deep.”

“That’s good to hear,” replied Gai looking out the window and could see the sun was almost completely set. “It’s already getting dark? I must have been out for hours.”

“Whatever happened it seems to have left you in shock,” he explained. “From what I gathered from the ones who brought you here, it seems you had some sort of confrontation with a Bearmon causing him to lash out and then run away.”

“That’s right,” fumed Gai as everything was becoming clear once more and started to climb out of bed. “I have to find him and make him pay for what he did.”

“You are in no condition to be up and about,” warned the Gotsumon as he blocked Gai from getting out of bed.

“You said my injuries weren’t that bad and I feel perfectly fine,” Gai told him.

“Be that as it may, I’d like to keep you overnight for observation,” he replied. “Your data had already aligned itself by the time you arrived, but during some scans we detected some unusual data.”

“What kind of unusual data?” questioned Gai curiously.

“I’m not entirely sure,” he admitted. “I don’t know if it was something you picked up a while ago or if you picked it up when you got that injury, but I’d like to monitor you until I am certain it is nothing to be concerned about.”

“Things just keep getting better and better,” groaned Gai feeling very annoyed that his revenge was being put on hold. He only grew further irritated when he could feel a burning sensation beneath his bandages and started to scratch at them.

“Is something the matter?” wondered the doctor.

“My chest just started to burn, ugh, and itch,” answered the Gazimon as he used both sets of claws trying to get relief. “Can I take these bandages off?”

“Here, allow me,” offered the doctor carefully undoing the bandages in the reverse way he put them on. As he did, they both could see a red glow on his chest that made them both more curious. The doctor hurried to finish getting the bandages off his chest and fully reveal what they were looking at and to both their shock, it was the Digital Hazard mark. “It seems you’ve been infected by something quite dangerous and it appears to be active. I must perform a scan immediately and determine just what kind of virus you have been infected with.”

“The burning aching kind,” groaned Gai as the pain only seemed to get worse. His breath grew short and he gripped his chest sweating. “D-Doc, this hurts… b-b-but…”

“But what?” worried the doctor standing by his bedside. “What’s wrong?”

“But it also feels… goooooooooood,” answered Gai with a dark grin as his body began to grow in size considerably. New muscle and fat formed making him stronger, taller, and bulkier. His gut protrude outward and hung down to his thighs and his rear swelled fatter as well along with the rest of his frame. His bed, the should have been able to support a Digimon several times his size, creaked against his newly acquired weight till he stepped out of it. The Gotsumon fearfully backed away as he stared at the monster of a Gazimon looking down at him, his face more fierce-looking as the fangs on the top side of his mouth were longer by several inches and rested outside of his maw. The look he had in his eyes was one of hungry that was fixated straight at him.

“I-I’ve never seen the DH mark active before,” spoke Gotsumon carefully, attempted to communicate with the transformed Digimon. “T-Tell me, how do you feel? Do you still have your senses?”

“Hmm,” pondered Gai turning away from the doctor to check his hulked out body over and admire himself. He looked at his arm and made a fist, feeling powerful enough to do anything now. “I seem to have full control.”

“Well, that’s a relief,” the doctor breathed more easily. “But nothing good happens when that mark is active. For now, you should be restrained till we can gather more information and determine just what this mark is truly capable of.”

“No need for that,” Gai told him. “I already know. It is capable of letting me get my revenge on that Bearmon for what he did to my village and my friends!”

“You aren’t thinking clearly,” he warned Gai. “That mark is clearly manipulating you. If you proceed down this path there is no telling what the consequences will be.”

“Shut up,” scoffed Gai shoving the doctor back like he was swatting a fly. He knocked the rocky Digimon against the wall hard enough to break a sizable hole in it. “Seems I’m even stronger than I thought. Excellent.”

“I can’t allow this,” groaned the doctor getting to his feet and running to the emergency button on the wall. “You must be stopped!”

“Don’t touch that!” roared Gai. As he opened his maw, he felt a powerful suction come out and grab the doctor, though it didn’t seem to affect anything else. Seeing this Gai grew even more content. “And it seems I’ve regained my suction power too. Loving this more and more.”

“Gotta warn everyone,” groaned the Gotsumon clinging for life to the cabinet by the emergency button. “That mark… it can destroy everything!” Desperately hanging on with one arm, he attempted to hit the button with his other.

“No you don’t!” shouted Gai as the suction increased and finally overcame his grip on the cabinet. He flew straight into Gai’s maw and, with ease, he gulped him down. “Heheh, that hit the spot.” Grinning, Gai patted his belly before a small welling of energy filled every bit of data in his body and he suddenly found himself growing bigger and stronger, though only slightly. “Very interesting.” Looking down, he ran his claws gently over his red, glowing mark. “Seems this wonderful gift I’ve obtained is full of surprises. It’ll allow me to obtain my revenge quite swiftly indeed. Now to find Bearmon.”

Taking a few steps, Gai didn’t make it out of the room before his mark stopped glowing and he reverted to his normal size. Displeased by this, Gai attempted to draw out the power of the Digital Hazard mark again, but despite trying to will it, it remained dormant.

“Seems my revenge will have to wait till I can figure out how to properly use this,” he figured. “That’s fine. It’ll give me the chance to truly show him something dreadful when the time finally comes.”


“Are you sure he’ll be here?” asked Kent as he and Bearmon entered into the hospital the next day.

“He got hurt back at the tavern,” explained Bearmon. “So there is a good chance he was taken here to recover. And even if he isn’t here anymore we can at least see if anyone here knows where he might have gone off too.”

“No, I haven’t seen the doctor since yesterday,” a Palmon said chatting with her fellow nurses. “It’s not like him to not come into work. And nobody at the reception desk saw him leave either. You don’t think-”

“I was thinking the same thing,” Biyomon replied. “That Gazimon that they brought in wasn’t anywhere in sight either and he was supposed to stay overnight. Word around the hospital ward is that he was brought in after being involved in scuffle at a tavern. He was probably some ruffian from out of town that was just looking for trouble.”

“Did you hear that?” Kent whispered to Kent.

“You don’t think that’s our Gazimon, do you?” wondered Kent.

“Sounds like it,” nodded Bearmon. “And whatever happened to him I can’t help but feel responsible. Let’s see if we can find his room. Maybe we can find a clue or something.”

“Time to put on my Wombleson hat and investigate like I did with Sherlock Buns,” replied Kent rubbing his chin.

“Heh, you’ll have to tell me about that sometime,” chuckled Bearmon as they walked through the hall in search of whatever room Gai was in. Peeking into each room one after another, most were empty making determining which room the Gazimon had been in more difficult, however, one room caught their eye when they saw a wall was damaged.

“You think this might be a clue?” questioned Kent approaching the hole. He waited for a reply from Bearmon, but he didn’t answer. “Bearmon?” Turning around, he saw his friend just standing there with a trance-like look on his face. His Digital Hazard mark started to glow bright red and burn, but he didn’t react to it while he was spacing out. “Bearmon? What’s the matter?”

Bearmon saw himself in bed, the same one in the room he was in. He could see a Gotsumon by his bedside talking to him, but despite conversing there was no audio. He then looked down at his chest to see it was wrapped in bandages, but even more shocking was that the chest he was looking at was not his own, it was a Gazimon’s. Things only grew more terrifying when the bandages were removed and there was a DH mark on his chest that burned bright and he started to grow bigger. He watched in horror as he shoved the Gotsumon against the wall and then when he rushed to hit a button on the wall, Bearmon watched as he sucked the poor Digimon into his maw and swallowed him whole. Bearmon was grinning now, but he was completely horrified by what he had just done.

Next, he felt himself revert to a normal Gazimon again and then proceed to the window, lifting it up to climb out. Growing interested in this, Bearmon watched seeing where he was heading off to, but before he could see more, it all started to fade and suddenly he found himself back to normal in the hospital room with Kent hugging him tight.

“Wh-what happened?” wondered Bearmon still freaked out from the vision he had.

“You were changing,” cried Kent squeezing him tightly. “I had to hug you to get you under control. That’s how it works, right?”

“Y-yeah,” nodded Bearmon. “But why did I change? Nobody said my other name, did they?”

“No,” Kent shook his head. “You just stood there for a bit then you just started to change. I hugged you with all my might when I realized it and here we are now.”

“I saw that Gazimon,” he recalled. “He changed like I do and ate the doctor.”

“He can transform too?” worried Kent. “He has one of those marks like you do?”

“On his chest,” nodded Bearmon. “But it wasn’t there when we saw him. I think I might have given it to him when I scratched him. That must be why I had that vision. We’re connected by the same virus and it seems that when it affects him it can also affect me as well. That must be why I started to change. Then what happened here is all my fault.”

“You didn’t mean for it to happen,” Kent comforted Bearmon. “For now, we should just focus on finding him so we can figure out how we can help him. You said that you had a vision. Is there anything that we can use from that?”

“No,” Bearmon shook his head. “After he ate the doctor, he snuck out through the window. At that point you hugged me and brought me out of it.”

“Maybe if I let go you’ll see it again,” suggested Kent.

“It’s worth trying,” agreed Bearmon. “Just be ready in case I go out of control.” Nodding, Kent released Bearmon from his hug and took a few steps back. He watched and waited, but Bearmon didn’t space out this time and his DH mark remained dormant. “Nothing’s happening. Seems it passed, but maybe it’s for the best. I don’t like transforming as is and this is even more worrisome than the usual way I change.”

“If that isn’t working then what do we do?” asked Kent.

“We have no choice, but to wait until he shows up again,” answered Bearmon. “It’s very likely he will to get his revenge on me. I am just worried what he’ll be like when that happens.” With no other choice, Kent and Bearmon made their way out of the hospital.


A few days later, in an abandoned building in the heart of Romsburg, Gai waited patiently. He had on a leather jacket, zipped up to cover his chest and the Digital Hazard mark that was on it. He also had on a devilish grin that would have made anyone’s blood turn cold if they had seen it.

“The recruits should be here any minute now,” he said to himself and if on cue a half dozen Gazimon made their way into the room he was loitering in. The Gazimon all looked like the dregs of society, wearing torn and baggy clothes and had a number of scars on their body. One even had an eye patch and another had lost a chunk of his right ear in a fight.

“So, you said you had a proposal for us?” one of them asked as they gathered around him. “Well, we’re here, so get to talking.”

“I’m glad you’re all eager to get down to business,” Gai smiled despite the far less than friendly looks they were giving him. “Okay, I’m sure at least some of you have heard of the Gazimon city of Beans in the desert, correct?”

“Yeah, it’s quite a sweet operation going on over there,” the eyepatch Gazimon answered. “You recruiting?”

“Sad to say that place is finished,” Gai admitted. “A certain Digimon ruined it for us and I am looking for allies to help make him pay.”

“Then it’s a cleanup job you have for us,” the ragged-eared one figured. “Where we drag said Digimon to the recycling bin and then empty it out, right?”

“A fine way of putting it, indeed,” nodded Gai.

“Simple job, but those types of jobs don’t come cheap,” another Gazimon chimed in. “What’s the comp for it? I can imagine that this Digimon must be some piece of work to need all of us to do it.”

“What I am offering is not money, but an opportunity,” grinned Gai. “A chance for you all to join me in taking the Digital World by storm.”

There was silence followed by a room full of laughter. “Take the Digital World by storm!” cackled the eyepatch Gazimon. “This guy must be kidding or nuts. Just what kind of scam are you trying to get us with. You got us in a good mood. If you come clean with us now we’ll only beat you half to death.”

“I don’t blame you all for not believing,” admitted Gai. “Power such as this needs to be witnessed with one’s own eyes.” He rubbed his chest and took a breath like it was the best air he had ever inhaled. “Right on time. Gentlemen, how about I give you a demonstration of what I am offering you.”

Taking the zipper on his jacket, he pulled it down letting the red glow of his DH mark leak out. The Gazimon remained amused till they saw the active mark and quickly turned into frightened children. They shook with fear even more as Gai began to grow bigger and stronger before their eyes. He grew even larger than he had been after eating the Gotsumon doctor and he wasn’t showing any sign of stopping yet. Before long, he was big as a Greymon, needing to get into a crawling position to keep from hitting the ceiling in the building. Looking at the other Gazimon that were no puny to him at this size, he continued to speak. “I can tell by your silence that you know how real my offer is and, I think, all it requires is a little scratch to infect… uh, augment you with this power too. So, what do you say? Is this offer acceptable?”

“You’re nuts!” one of the Gazimon cried out. “No sane Digimon would willingly get themselves infected with something that dangerous.”

“We might be rogues, but even we have our limits,” another replied as they began to back away.

“A shame,” replied Gai not sounding as disappointed or angry as they had expected, but amused as they had feared. “But allow me to show you just how I was able to obtain such a powerful body.” Opening his maw, he activated his suction and began drawing in the Gazimon. They didn’t even have a chance to run as they were all caught up in it and vanished into his maw and swallowed in a single gulp.

Right after, the devilish Gazimon began to grow, even crouched as he was, he reached the ceiling and broke through like it was made of styrofoam. He rose to his feet, breaking through several more stories in the process and weakening the old building to the point of collapse. Digimon that were nearby quickly gathered around the building after it was nothing more than rubble and thick clouds of dust hung in the air. The few that were brave enough to search through the wreckage for what made it come down could find nothing at all.

“Any idea why this building just collapsed?” one Digimon asked.

“Not a clue,” answered another. “It was old, but if it was in bad enough shape that it could collapse on its own it’d have been knocked down long ago.”

“I saw it when it first fell,” commented a third Digimon. “It looked like it collapsed from the inside out and I thought I saw something inside it as it fell.”

“You think a Digimon caused this?”

“Maybe, but after the building came down I didn’t see anyone in the wreckage.”

“Strange,” the Digimon pondered. “Digimon can’t just Digivolve and turn back on their own like that. You must have just been seeing things.”

“Probably just a freak accident,” Gai said as he approached. He was back to normal with his jacket hiding his DH mark again. “But at least it doesn’t appear anyone got hurt. So we should just be glad all that was lost was a decrepit, old, building.”

“You’re right,” agreed one of the Digimon. “That is a relief.”

“Of course, if this wasn’t a freak accident,” added Gai walking away. “Then we might have a real big problem on our hands.” He laughed creepily leaving the other Digimon unsure how to feel.

“That was freaking ominous,” one finally managed to say to break the silence.


The terror that Gai was bringing to the city had only just began. In the days to follow, more and more Digimon continued to vanish without a trace and huge footprints and massive claw marks were found shortly after the sounds of some monstrous creature reeking havoc. However, by the time anyone arrived to try and spot the cause, it was already gone like it had simply vanished into thin air. This left the city in a panic as nobody had any idea what could be behind it all. Nobody, save for Kent and Bearmon.

“Things are really getting out of hand,” Kent told Bearmon as he hugged him tight as they walked down the street. Looking around, they saw there were very few Digimon out and about compared to a week ago and those that were out were really on edge about letting anyone get close to them. “We can’t just not tell them nothing at this point.”

“That Gazimon is like this because of me,” Bearmon told him. “I have to be the one to stop him. And with how bad things are looking I fear stirring up an angry mob against him would be more like sending them to slaughter.”

“Is he really that bad?” asked Kent.

“I can feel him in all the areas and just like at the hospital he’s transformed,” Bearmon told Kent. “And it is. Let go of me for a second and you’ll see.”

“O-Okay,” Kent replied nervously and slowly loosened his hug on Bearmon. He hadn’t even let go completely before the little bear Digimon suddenly started to change into Teddy and began growing huge. “Meep! Big!” cried Kent jumping and grabbing onto Bearmon. He hugged him tight as he could stopping his growth and causing him to start shrinking back down to normal, though it took longer than it usually took to for the hug to take effect.

“That was even worse than I thought it’d be,” panted Bearmon. “If you weren’t holding onto me there’s no way it’d be safe for me to stay here.”

“Glad to help,” Kent replied hugging Bearmon’s behind. “But, I don’t know how much longer we can keep this up. That virus is really getting out of hand and pretty soon I don’t even know if bear hugs will be enough to counter it.”

“My mark is burning constantly,” stated Bearmon rubbing the back of his paw. “It’s never been this bad before. I’m really worried that something is about to happen, something incedibly terrible.”

“It’s not terrible,” Gai told them from behind them. “It’s wonderful. This power is incredible and you are a fool for not embracing it.”

“It’s him!” cried Kent seeing the Gazimon. Awkwardly, Bearmon turned around while Kent was hugging him to keep him in control.

“It’s you, that Gazimon… uh, what was your name again?” asked Bearmon. “I don’t believe I ever got it.”

“It’s Gai,” he answered. “Spelled ‘G’ ‘A’ ‘I’”

“Nice to finally get introduced to you,” Bearmon told him. “I’m… well, I just go by Bearmon.”

“And I’m Kent,” waved the Womble from behind Bearmon.

“Nice to be introduced to you both,” Gai told them. “Now, prepare to feel my wrath as I finally get my sweet vengeance!”

“I know the DH mark has given you power, but you can’t trust it. The virus is only manipulating you for its own means. Please, let me help you.”

“You’ve helped me plenty already,” he answered as he unzipped his jacket and exposed his Digital Hazard mark. “Now I have everything I NEED!!!”

“This is very bad!” cried Kent holding onto Bearmon tight only to notice he was clinging onto his tail as he had transformed into Teddy despite his efforts to prevent that. “This is even worse.” Carefully letting go of the massive bear and dropping to the ground, Kent retreated a distance away and saw the two hulking Digimon standing over ten meters tall. “Oh, Teddy vs Bunny. A giant monster smackdown. This would be so much cooler if I was watching it on a big screen and not in foot-stomping range.”

Teddy looked as much a hulking brute as ever, his huge, heavy body shaking the ground with every step he took. At his vastly increased size it felt like explosions were going off as Kent and any unfortunately Digimon nearby were barely able to keep their balance. He approached Gai with a weird grin on his face as he sniffed him curiously.

“Seems you don’t have any sense of yourself in this form,” noticed Gai pinching Teddy’s nose and making him howl in pain. “A pity such awesome power has been wasted on you till now. I wonder, if I absorb you, will I gain even more power? Worth a try.”

“Let go!” bellowed Teddy shoving his opponent away and into a building sending it crashing down. It did nothing to slow Bunny down, however, as he opened his maw and tried sucking Teddy in. Even as large as he was, the force of the suction was even enough to drag Teddy towards his foe. The street beneath his feet got ruined as he was dragged across it, closer to the Gazimon. Acting quick, Teddy grabbed a nearby building and tore it from the ground. As he neared Gai, he shoved it in his maw to put a stop to his suction powers. While the mighty Gazimon was distracted with a full maw, Teddy lifted him up and tossed him a few blocks away, the force of his impact on the ground enough to let Digimon well beyond the city limits feel the shaking.

Biting down hard, Gai turned he building in his maw to rubble like it was a pretzel. “So, you’ve got some fight in you after all,” he admitted. “Fine, I’ll just beat you into submission first!” Gai’s DH mark flared red and his size began to increase even more. He rushed Teddy and rammed him with all his might sending him flying back.

“Aiiiiiieeeeeee!!!” cried Kent running as Teddy was coming down right over top him. Instead of running away in any other direction, he ran the same way Teddy was falling at before he continued in a tumble. Kent continued to scurry as fast as his legs could wobble despite the ground shaking wildly till he finally lost his balance and fell. To his incredible fortune, he managed to avoid getting smooshed beneath Teddy’s tush by a few measly feet. “That was too close.”

“Grah!” roared Teddy as his own Digital Hazard mark began to glow and his body increased in size too, allowing his rump to grow big enough to fwoomp on top of Kent.

“No fair!” complained Kent trying to get the two ton rear off of him.

Getting back up, Teddy stomped back over to Bunny who looked eager to continue to tussel and charged at him. The two crashed into one another and locked hands as they tried to overpower one another once again. They pushed and shoved back and forth and side to side, but neither would yield and every little movement only added further devastation to the city around them. Their DH marks continued to glow brightly adding more size to them and allowing them to peek over the top of the smaller skyscrapers before long.

“They just keep on getting bigger and bigger,” worried Kent as he got back up after being sat on. “The entire city will be destroyed at this rate, but nothing can stop those two now.” Looking as best he could, he could make out the DH marks glowing. “Their marks are going wild. Teddy was right, they are reacting to one another and it’s making things worse. But, maybe if they’re separated that would at least help Teddy go back to being Bearmon.”

“That’s fascinating,” commented a Gomamon that Kent was keeping from fleeing by holding him by the tail. “But why are you telling me all this exposition?”

“Cause I would seem very silly to be expositioning to myself,” he told him. “Now, if I could just figure out how I could separate them. To bad the mysterious force only transports me away randomly.” Kent began to fade away and soon was gone from sight. “NOT NOW!” he shouted and reappeared. “Now is really not a good time for me to end up somewhere else.”

“If you want to separate them,” suggested the Gomamon. “Why not use a Digital Stream?”

“What’s that?” asked Kent.

“It’s those big pillars of data the come down from the sky from time to time,” answered the Gomamon quickly so he could return to running for his life. “If you end up in one of them you’ll end up somewhere else in the Digital World. We’ve even got buildings capable of controlling them so we can use them for convenient travel.”

“That is very convenient,” agreed Kent. “Where is the building?”

“Right over there,” he pointed to a building between the two humongous Digimon that was somehow not destroyed yet.

“Of course it is,” sighed Kent seeing them stomping around dangerously close to smashing the building underfoot.

“Well, good luck,” the Gomamon said before slipping free and fleeing for his life.

“Ok,” Kent said trying to psyche himself up for his suicidal mission. “The fate of the Digital World is in your paws as is your dear friend, Bearmon. It all comes down to you! Charge!!!”

Running as fast as his overweight Womble body could take him, it wasn’t all that fast as Teddy and Bunny continued to fight. Their steps back and forth covered way more distance than his top speed. He ran between Teddy’s legs praying with each wheezing breath he took that every time those block-sized soles rose up overhead that they didn’t come down on him like a meteor plummeting from space. Even not smashing him flat, the force of those stomps was so intense it sent Kent airborne and tumbling about in an achingly painful manner. But no matter how many times it happened and how banged up he got, he continued to trudge forward with his goal the only thing keeping him going.

“I won’t quit yet,” groaned Kent as he reached the front door of the Digital Stream Transportation Center amazed that both he and it were still in one piece. His body ached and couldn’t stop shaking, but he hardly noticed as he opened the door and made his way through the abandoned facility to the controls and came to his next roadblock. “How do I even work this stuff?” Looking at the numerous controls and the lack of labels he had no clue what did what and opted to just start pushing buttons at random.

Kent was growing more and more doubtful that his plan would actually work, but then in the sky above he could see a hole forming and a data stream came raining down. “It worked! I actually did it! I-” The data stream poured down from the sky, but it hit the ground several meters behind Gai. “Missed…” Looking down at the buttons, Kent hesitated to press anything else and ran up to the top of the building instead and got on the roof.

Looking up, Kent couldn’t see Teddy’s face with his massive gut blocking his view, but he called up to him anyway. “Bearmon! If there is any part of you still in that morbidly monstrous mass, please listen to me! I opened up one of those magic digital portal thingies. If you can just push that oversized Gazimon into it I think that should be able to turn you back to normal. It has to work or this entire city will be destroyed. Also… I… I love you… platonically, or course.”

Taking a step back, Teddy squatted down and looked down at the tiny little bug that was Kent. He breathed through his cavernous nostrils that were like gale force winds, nearly blowing Kent off the roof, but he hung on for all he was worth.

“You are the only one who can end this!” begged Kent with all the strength he could muster to yell, his ears flapping in the wind of Teddy’s exhales. Looking in the juggernaut of a bear’s eyes, he hoped to see some sign that he understood and then a dopey kind of grin appeared on his face and Teddy rose to his feet once more. He let out a monstrous roar and charged at Bunny once more. “He understood me,” panted Kent.

As Teddy came at Bunny once more, he shoved his arms outward and rammed them into his chest, the force sending him flying back towards the portal. Bunny dug into the ground attempting to slow himself and he stopped short of the portal. He looked back at Teddy who still had that grin on his face. He looked at the Digital Stream behind him and then at his Digital Hazard mark on his chest before grinning too. Falling backwards into the Data Stream, his body began to vanish into it.

“He did it!” cheered Kent bouncing for joy excitedly. “He did it! He really did it!”

Most of Bunny’s body was soon swallowed into the stream and being transported elsewhere, but before it was all gone, a red beam shot out of it and Teddy quickly intercepted it on the back of his paw where his DH mark was. When the beam vanished so did Bunny and the data stream he was in. The enormous Bearmon let out a roar, proclaiming his victory.


“Ugh, where am I?” groaned Gai awakening on a random tropical jungle. “Let’s see… eating Digimon… growing stronger… was fighting Bearmon… revenge, blah, blah, blah, revenge… then… I don’t know. Did I lose and pass out?” Scratching his head, he tried to recall the fight with Teddy, but he couldn’t. He then looked down at his chest and went from confused to shocked. “My Digital Hazard mark! It’s gone! My power! Where did it go?!?”


“Ugh, where am I?” groaned Bearmon waking up in the middle of the rubble.

“You’re okay!” hugged Kent seeing his dear friend wake up. “And you are back to your small, non-Teddy self!”

“Don’t say that name!” cried Bearmon afraid it might trigger him to change back.

“Sorry,” apologized Kent, his fur standing on end. “They both waited to see if it’d trigger him, but nothing happened.”

“Strange,” commented Bearmon. “Normally, even if I don’t transform, my DH mark would still tingle a little, but nothing at all.”

“It has been active for quite a while,” noted the Womble. “Maybe it needs time to recharge or something. Teddy. Teddy. Teddy! See, nothing’s happening.”

“It still bugs me to hear that name,” Bearmon reminded him. “And I’m still very confused. Nothing like this has ever happened before and it has me worried about what might come the next time he emerges.”

“Whatever happens,” promised Kent. “We’ll face it toget-” The Mysterious Force made him vanish. In complete disbelief that his Womble bud just vanished before his eyes, Bearmon burst into laughter in the middle of the wrecked city.