WereGarurumon's Diner

"Where are we?" Matt says.

"Don't tell me we're lost again," Gabumon says. The two are peddling on, in their swan peddle boat. They finally see a shore, they decide to stop there and take a look around. They go up to a ridge and see other Digimon. Frigimon, Cockatrimon and Monzaemon. The two follow the Digimon, hoping that the Digimon aren't lost.

The group walks on and the Digimon turn and enter a restaurant.

"Now that's wierd a restaurant? In the middle of no where?" Matt says, suspiciously.

"The perfect location for hungry Digimon," Gabumon comments, smiling.

In the restaurant, Monzaemon, Cockatrimon and Frigimon are seated down in an almost abandoned restaurant, no is in it except the three Digimon. Then a vegetable-like Digimon with vine like arms bounces and ask what they will like.

"The usual, waiter," Frigimon says, ordering some sort of food.

"The Digimon is Vegimon, the menial manager of a run down cafe, he puts a new spin on slave-driver." The Digimon Status Window opens up and Joe's voice is explainging what/who Vegiemon is.

Outside, the doors suddenly burst open and Gomamon is thrown out of the door, he lands face-down in front of Matt and Gabumon. They all see each other.

"Is Joe ever gonna be happy to see you two!" Gomamon says happily. He takes them to the back door of the restaurant, they enter and see Joe washing dishes. Joe's eyes widen and he says hi to everyone.

Matt asks where Joe was all this time. He explains that when Joe left, Izzy and Mimi left too. Joe looks down, avoiding Matt's eyes. Joe seems uncomfortable and hestitant. Then he slowly starts to tell his story......a flashback appears.........

"I wasn't lost, I definitely knew where I wasn't. But I just didn't know exactly where I was." The scene cuts to Joe and Gomamon, they are in a desert with no real route to take. Demidevimon comes and says he saw other humans. Joe and Gomamon follow him, they have a feeling he was leading them the wrong way but who were they to question him. They were lost anyway. They walked out of the desert and stumbled into a restaurant. "Which was at the time good, cause we were starving," They ate to their stomachs' content. Then came the bill.

Joe walked up to the cashier, he hands Vegiemon a bill, "There you go."

Vegiemon suddenly becomes angry. He asks Joe if he's playing a game. Joe doesn't know what's wrong. A numemon comes up to pay his bill and drops it on the counter. Joe sees it and it's a dollar bill! All Joe has are Digi-Dollars. "So play money is all you have?! So....what I'm hearing is......your not paying!!!!" Vegimon screams at Joe.

The flash back ends and Matt concludes that Vegiemon got them to work here to pay off the bill. Vegiemon swings the door open and yells at Joe to hurry up. Vegiemon see Matt and Gabumon, he asks who they are. Joe explains that they're his friends. "Well, whoopy-do and good for you!" Vegiemon nods to the soup, Joe pours a bowl of it and hands it to Vegiemon. Vegiemon takes a sip, and spits it out. He hates it! He throws the bowl on the ground in the process and tells Joe that's another day for wasted ingredients.

"One more day? On top of how long?" Matt asks.

"Well it was supposed to be only 3 days...But...I...I kept on making mistakes and it kept getting longer. Now I'm up to over 6 weeks." Joe confesses.

"And he still owes me all the wasted food! Not to mention the broken dishes!" Vegiemon scolds.

"What's the comotion about? The customers are complaining." An egg-shelled Digimon with scaly green legs sticking out of the egg-shell is seen. The group doesn't know it, but Digitamamon is a fully evolved digimon and he is protected by his Digi egg shell. They didn't know it yet, but Digitamamon is an evil digimon, the status screen says.

Matt goes over to Digitamamon and tries to reason with the Digimon to let his friend free.But he won't let him. "Are you kidding me? This guy's not going anywhere...." Digitamamon says, and he points out that two is a better deal. Matt knows that Digitamamon wants him to be a slave also, Matt disagrees and decides to leave. Digitamamon heads out and upstairs, above the restaurant. Matt tells Joe that he promises to come back with TK and help him work off his debt. Joe can't believe his ears!

"That's what friends do joe, when things get tough they help each other out." Matt explains.

"I'll always remember this Matt," Joe says with watery eyes and sniffles.

Above the restaurant, Digitamamon meets up with Demidevimon. Demidevimon shows Digitamamon a lot of money and orders him not to let the new boy leave here. Digitamamon nods and his eyes crease greedily.

Outside, Matt and Gabumon are heading towards their boat, then Digitamamon shows up. He threatens Matt to tell him to stay. "So many accidents can happen in the kitchen," Digitamamon points out. Matt realizes if he leaves, Joe will be unprotected, he decides to stay. Though he winces at the thought of TK all alone.

Back in the kitchen, Matt is quietly cooking rice and Joe is washing the dishes. "Boy this water's hot, if I had some rubber gloves my fingers won't get all wrinkled....so hey, what you making over there???" Joe asks, looking over at Matt. Matt seems angry, his eyebrows are creased. "is there some reason your not talking to me? I know I can be irritating sometimes but I mean, what gives....Matt??" Joe questions furthur.

Inside Matt's mind, Matt is playing through what happened and what Digitamamon said to him about Joe. So many accidents can happen in the kitchen 'I can't leave him.'

"Did you hear me? Earth to Matt...hello??" Joe asks, looking over at Matt.

'Though he sure does talk a lot,' Matt thinks in his head.

"Weren't you going to get TK?" Joe asks.

"I decided not to go!" Matt bursts out.

"Wow. I'm sorry," Joe says looking to the ground, sadly.

Matt realizes what he did and apologizes, "Sorry, I didn't mean to yell at you." He makes a plan and tells Joe that he (himself) is good at cooking and that they'll work together to get out of his debt. Gomamon points out that he can make great PB & J. Gabumon adds that he is an expert at boiling water. 'Hang on TK. I gotta solve this first.'

"WHAT?!" Joe spills the soup.

"THIS IS GONNA COST YOU!" Joe makes the wrong calculations on a customer's bill.

"ONE MORE WEEK!" Joe burns the food in the microwave.

"THAT'S ANOTHER TWO DAYS!" "THAT'S TWO WEEKS!" "CAN'T YOU DO ANYTHING RIGHT?!" "AGAIN?!" "A WHOLE MONTH!"

"Boy oh boy, I don't believe I'm so accident proned....sorry Matt" Joe apologizes. In his mind Joe says to himself, 'I'm falling apart....' *PANG!* Joe dropped a plate. 'That did it, yep, that did it' Matt turns his way and gives him a dirty look.

"It's okay....don't worry about it," Matt says mechanically through his teeth. Pure hatred is seen in Matt's eyes. Half the food he cooks ends up on the floor the other half ends up on Joe's clothes. Matt is really regretting and doubting all of this.

Night falls, outside, Demidevimon hangs on a tree peeking in on the chaos Joe is dealing out himself. He eyes a brick table of potatoes, he gets an idea. Since each leg of the table is made up of bricks....then.......He swoops down and takes out a brick. "This will definitely make him a slave for life!" Then Demidevimon flys away. A gloved hand is seen putting the brick back in it's place. A concerned Sora and Biyomon look at each other behind the bushes. Matt orders Joe to get some potatoes from the back. Joe goes and gets them and heads back inside. Demidevimon sees this and can't believe his eyes! The whole thing didn't collapse! He decides to do more dirty tricks and flys away.

Matt is seen outside, playing his harmonica. Demidevimon flys next to him and feels sympathy for him. Matt asks him, how he knows. He explains that if someone is playing a sad tune, that must reflect his/her personality. He also explains that everyone know cause they can hear it outside the restaurant and on purpose blames it all on Joe. "He's doing this on purpose."

"Joe? Can't be or could it?" Matt says, thinking hard.

The next morning, Matt is seen pleading to go fetch his brother, but the Digimon manager won't let him. Dishes behind Joe, Demidevimon bumps into Joe on purpose and flys out. Joe trips and knocks down all the plates. Vegiemon sees this and penalizes him. Joe says he didn't do it, something bumped into him.

"Oh Joe, why are you doing this?" Matt says, his heart losing all hope.

"Something tripped me."

"Quit making up excuses!" Matt walks out of the kitchen, he lies on his back and stares up at the sky. He is deep in thought.

Tai and TK are seen on shore with Digimon. They walk along the path and go in the restaurant. Inside they see Gomamon washing the floor and Gabumon sweeping the floors. Tai asks what's going on, the Digimon are hestitant and explain. TK goes in to look for Matt.

Matt is thinking hard on something and all of a sudden, TK's face blocks his view. Matt can't believe this. TK explains what happened to Matt. "I'm really sorry, I didn't keep my promise to get you TK, " Matt says apologetically. TK smiles and understands and forgives him.

Tai arrives and tells everyone that they're running away. Matt disagrees, he doesn't want to. Doesn't want to go anywhere with Joe. He explains that Joe only cares about himself. He explains about all the times Joe delibritly spilled and burned everything.

"Hey back off!" Tai says.

"And what about you hotshot?! The one who got us all seperated?!" Matt yells at Tai.

"Matt stop yelling. Aren't you happy we're together?...." TK pleads.

"BE QUIET TK!" Matt sees TK starting to cry, he says in a calmer tone, "Just be quiet and come with me." Digitamamon arrives and doesn't let them go. Demidevimon comes and Tai and TK recognize him at once. Matt finally realizes, he's been trusting the wrong person. That Demidevimon had lied to him! Demidevimon flys off, Tai, Agumon and Patamon chase after him. "Your a thief! We worked here long enough, to pay a trip to Hawaii!!!" Matt yells at Digitamamon. Digitamamon just laughs and grows bigger, he lungers at Matt. Matt dodges.

"Gabumon digivolve to.......Garurumon!" Garurumon blasts Digitamamon, but his blast doesn't penetrate into Digitamamon. He lunges at Garurumon and knocks Garurumon down. Vegiemon gets a hold of TK and dangles him upside down.

"Matt somebody get me down!" TK cries.

"That's going too far," Joe says. "Gomamon digivolve to.......IKKAKUMON!"

"STOP THAT!" Matt tells Vegiemon.

Ikkakumon starts to poke at Vegiemon, but for TK's sake, he stops. Joe is seen climbing on the restaurant and suddenly he jumps on top of Vegiemon. In the chaos, TK breaks free. But Joe gets tangled in Vegiemon's vines, Vegiemon wraps Joe up and slowly starts to crush him. Matt realizes that after all he said to him, he risked his life for TK.

"Matt, you were right. You always said we would all have to work together to get out of this mess. Now it looks like it's my turn," Joe says.

Ikkakumon aims his harpoon, "HARPOON TORPEDO!" Digitamamon blocks it, not even a scratch.

Matt sees all this and can't stand it. "oh man." Matt finally realizes what he said and accused Joe of. And realizing that it's all wrong. "NOOO!" Matt's crest starts to glow.

"NIGHTMARE SYNDROME!" Digitamamon shoots a black hole at Garurumon and Ikkakumon, it sucks them in and the hole shakes and spits the two dazed Digimon out. Both Digimon are defeated.

Matt stands there, thinking. He can't do anything without his friends. He has to trust his friends, Joe, Sora, Mimi, Izzy, TK and Tai. They all have to work together. "We've got to beat them. Together we are strong. GARURUMON!!!" Matt calls out.

Matt's crest glows and digivice rings. The screen grows dark, a 3D crest and Matt's digi-vice shines a bright light. It passes through a 3D crest....the crest of friendship! The light transforms Garurumon. "Garurumon digi-volve to WereGarurumon!" Garurumon stands on both legs, knee ripped jeans with skull head designs appear on Garurumon. WereGarurumon has a nasty scar striking his eye and a gold earring, he has spikes for his knuckles. WereGarurumon has attitude!

WereGarurumon is capable with powerful punches and powerful leaps. Digitamamon shoots out a "Nightmare Syndrome!" Were Garurumon blocks it with his bare hands and holds it. He takes a deep breath......"MEGA CLAW!" And bounces it back to Digitamamon, Digitamamon is blown away. Vegiemon sees he's defeated and let's Joe down and runs off. WereGarurumon de-digi-volves back to Tsunomon.

When everyone returns, Matt apologizes to Joe. Joe understands and forgives him. The group walks along a path, soon they come to a fork in the road. Matt's digivice is pointing to one direction, while Tai's is in another. They all decide to split up, they promise to meet each other at the bottom of the mountain ahead. They make they're dramatic exit, but Joe lingers behind to tie his shoe laces. Then Tai and Joe and Digimon head off to one direction. Matt and TK and digimon head off to another direction. They all have smiles on their faces.

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