Guardian Angel

'''The group are forced to retreat from an intense battle, and Kari ends up stranded in the Digital World. So the Digimon Emperor decides to send in one of his most powerful servants to deal with her.'''

Synopsis
As the Digi-Destined continue to demolish the Control Spires and free parts of the Digital World and the Digimon there from the Digimon Emperor's control, they soon find themselves outnumbered against an army of Guardromon defending their domed city and the spire located there. With the Digimon low on energy to maintain their Armor Digivolved forms, they retreat back to the Real World, but before Kari can retreat, a Guardromon destroys the television, leaving her stranded in the city, surrounded by hostile Guardromon, with her partner.

Davis and T.K. decide to head back in via the television in another area close to the city, while Yolei and Cody remain behind to avoid raising concerns from their families due to it being close to dinner time.

As Kari and Gatomon, as Nefertimon, attempt to find another television to retreat back home to the Real World, watching from his headquarters, the Digimon Emperor decides to send an "old friend" of the Digi-Destined to deal with Kari, to Wormmon's horror.

Meanwhile, while Matt has to deal with Davis' sister Jun, Tai joins Yolei and Cody to head back in to save his little sister. In the Digital World, with no Control Spires nearby, Patamon naturally digivolves to Angemon to take out the lone Guardromon guarding the entrance to the city, but once inside, reverts back due to the spire's influence. By the time Davis and T.K. find Kari, they are confronted by none other than Andromon, who Kari and T.K. recognize, but is under the influence of a Dark Ring.

After Andromon subdues the Armor Digimon, he hesitates as he analyzes the goggles on Davis and recognizes them as the same ones Tai wore. When Tai then arrives with Yolei and Cody, he tries to reach Andromon, who is able to access his memory banks and recognize Tai, before the Dark Ring begins to malfunction, causing Andromon to pick Kari up, recognizing her as well from his memory banks, before Kari's D-3 falls and causes Andromon to remember the commemorative photo he took of the Digi-Destined, Gennai, and their Digimon allies after they defeated Apocalymon three years ago.

This fully breaks the Dark Ring's hold on Andromon, who puts Kari down, breaks the Dark Ring around his neck, and uses his Gatling Attack to destroy the Control Spire, shutting down the Guardromon, who he then sets about rebooting to aid him with protecting the city from the Digimon Emperor.

After the Digi-Destined return home, Izzy reprimands them for opening a Digital Gate at night and the consequences if a teacher had discovered them, before then explaining what he found out regarding the new Digivices and dubs them "D-3"s to help tell them apart from the original Digivices.

While the Digi-Destined return home for dinner with their families, Ken sulks in his room, pondering over how to modify the Dark Rings to better control Ultimate-level Digimon after what happened with Andromon.

<!-- The DigiDestined return to the Digital World and destroy many of the Control Spires, liberating the local Digimon from the hands of the Digimon Emperor. Izzy and Matt are unable to help after a while due to other matters and decide that the new DigiDestined will be able to handle the Control Spires. Meanwhile, in a metallic city, many Guardromons, under the control of the Dark Rings, attempt to stop the DigiDestined from destroying their Control Spire. The DigiDestined's Digimon disable most of them by destroying the rings, causing them to be broken.

However, there are too many Guardromons and the Armor Digimon degenerate to their Rookie forms. The DigiDestined decide to retreat for now. As they Davis, Cody and Yolei run through back to the Real World, T.K and Kari are left. T.K runs into the computer just as a Guardromon appears and destroys the computer before Kari is able to get in, leaving her stuck in the Digital World. As the DigiDestined are back in the real world, they wonder where Kari is when Patamon tells the group he saw a Guardromon destroy it. Davis scolds T.K for not being more wary enough.

T.K decides to go back to get Kari out and opens a gate to an area near the metallic city. Davis follows soon after, and Yolei also goes when Cody stops her, saying that its almost dinner time and that if T.K and Davis didn't come back, their parents would be worried. They decide to inform the others about this before they rush back in. Meanwhile, back in the Digital World, Davis flips a coin to see who will save Kari. He flips the coin and sees that he will save her when T.K tells him both sides are heads, so they decide to go together to save her.

In the city, Nefertimon and Kari fly throughout the city in order to find another electrical device to get back to the human world, but are unable to find any. The Digimon Emperor looks from his base, and decides to send an Ultimate level Digimon at Kari, to Wormmon's surprise. Back in the real world, Cody informs Tai about Kari being stuck in the Digital World. Tai meets up with Matt, who goes to inform Davis' parents about him being late when he realizes he forgot to do something. The other DigiDestined have their own excuses, such as being late to cover up what they're actually doing.

Back outside the metallic city, Davis, T.K, Veemon and Patamon watch a gate and find a Guardromon guarding it. Since there isn't a Control Spire anywhere but just inside the dome, Patamon suggests T.K to digivolve him. T.K does so, and Patamon digivolves into Angemon, surprising Davis and Veemon. Angemon destroys the ring on Guardromon, disabling it and opens the gate. As they walk in, Angemon degenerates to Patamon due to the Control Spire's influence in the area. Davis grabs Veemon and wants him to become MagnaAngemon after hearing from Patamon that Gatomon can digivolve to Angewoman.

Matt informs Jun that Davis is playing at T.K's house, so he will arrive late. However, Jun knows he's lying, but decides to tell her parents that as long as he goes on a date with her, causing Matt to go in shock. In the school, Yolei is waiting in the computer room when Cody arrives with Tai. In the metallic city, Davis and T.K armor digivolve Veemon and Patamon to Flamedramon and Pegasusmon, who disable the alerted Guardromon. Davis later spots Kari, when some Guardromon knock Nefertimon from the sky. As they approach the two, Pegasusmon and Flamedramon disable the Guardromon. Another Guardromon attempts to stop them, but Pegasusmon also disables it.

As they try to get a move on, another Digimon appears. Kari recognizes the Digimon as Andromon. However, she soon spots the Dark Ring on Andromon's neck. Davis has Flamedramon attack Andromon, but Andromon's attack is stronger than Flamedramon's and degenerates him in one hit. Pegasusmon also attacks Andromon, but the attack is not strong enough and Andromon also degenerates him in one hit. Kari attempts to convince Andromon, but T.K tries to stop her because they don't know if it is the same Andromon, and that her voice wouldn't reach him because of the ring. Davis tries to tell the two to run. Andromon looks at the goggles as he walks and finds that the goggles Davis is wearing are a match to the ones he saw on Tai. Veemon, Patamon and Gatomon attack the unmoving Andromon when a beam hits him.

The group is happy to see Halsemon and Digmon come back. Digmon attacks Andromon, but the attacks fail to penetrate his defenses. The others arrive and Kari tells Tai that it's the same Andromon they met before. Andromon looks at Tai and scans his files and finds another file of him and both are a match. The ring goes haywire and Andormon approaches Kari and picks her up, and looks through his files and recognizes her. Kari asks Andromon if he remembers the picture they took, with Kari's Digivice falling in the process. Andromon then remembers the commemorative picture they took after defeating Milleniummon and restoring the Digital World. He then snaps out of his hypnotized trance and returns to normal, happy to see Tai and Kari, and asks if this ring has been controlling him. He breaks then the ring and then destroys the Control Spire.

All of the Guardromon in the city are disabled after the destruction of the Control Spire. Kari asks Andromon if the Guardromon will be all right, and he tells her she doesn't have to worry. All Andromon has to do is revert the data the rings modified and fixes a Guardromon. Andromon vows to protect the city with the Guardromon from the Digimon Emperor. The DigiDestined then leave the Digital World and are surprised to find Izzy outside. The kids sneak out of school, and Izzy scolds them for opening a gate at night, telling them what would've happened if a teacher found it. Izzy then tells them that the new Digivices were examined by a friend in America. He then decides to call them D-3's due to the new functions all starting with "D".

Suddenly, the kids realize that they're going to be late for dinner and head back to their homes in a hurry. Back in Matt's apartment, his father asks him why he came home late. Matt decides to get revenge on Davis due to having a date now when his father tells him he's burning something by accident. In Ken's house, his mother leaves some food outside his room. Ken, upset about Andromon breaking free of the Dark Ring, ponders if there is another method to completely control Ultimate level Digimon. -->

Digivolutions
(Number indicates order of occurrence.)

Quotes
Davis: "There must be a hundred of 'em!" Yolei: "Wow, you counted that high without even taking off your shoes and socks."
 * —Yolei mocking Davis as the group face off against an army of Guardromon.

T.K.: "I think now's a good time to return to our world. We can come up with a new plan." Yolei: "T.K.'s right. We can talk to Izzy." Davis: "Are you guys out of your minds? Quit now? I've never been a quitter!" Flamedramon: "I agree. Davis, let's regroup."
 * —Flamedramon agrees all right, but with the group, not Davis.

"Ouch! Say, shouldn't we put pillows here if we're gonna keep going this?!"
 * —Yolei recognizes that returning from the Digital World doesn't get any easier.

Davis: "Wait a second. Where did Kari go?" Cody: "She's trapped! In the Digital World!"
 * —Not that much different from the original DigiDestined who were stranded in the Digital World.

Davis: "T.K., wasn't Kari right behind you when you went into the gate from the Digital World?" T.K.: "Mm hmm." Davis: "Then it's all your fault! Why didn't you let her go first?!" Cody: "Stop! It was no one's fault! It just happened!" Davis: "What do you know?! You're a little kid!" Cody: "Yeah, but I still know when someone's being a jerk!" Davis: "Uh, I guess that's me." T.K.: "Truth is, Davis is right." Davis and Cody: "Huh?" T.K.: "It really was my fault. I should've been watching out for her all along." Davis: "Well, I guess I could've, too." Cody: "So could I. That's what I mean. There's no one to blame."
 * —The DigiDestined play the blame game.

"This was a great idea, crossing the desert without any water!"
 * —Davis is being sarcastic, unaware that T.K. had a similar experience during his first trip to the Digital World.

Davis: "Okay, if it's tails, I rescue Kari. If it's heads, you get to go...Tails! I'll tell her that you were worried about her and that you—" T.K.: "Huh, a coin that has tails on both sides. That's how I used to beat Matt." ... Davis: "Did you really use one of those coins on Matt?" T.K.: "Yeah, that's how I got all his baseball cards and his old guitar."
 * —Davis and T.K. bond over a trick coin.

"Human girls make human boys act sort of weird."
 * —Veemon is very observant.

Wormmon: "It's almost your dinner time. Shouldn't you be going home soon, Ken? Digimon Emperor: "Never call me anything but 'Master'!" Digimon Emperor: ''"Since she's all alone... she deserves someone special." Wormmon: "Oh no, you can't! Anyone but him!"''
 * —The Digimon Emperor makes his next move, but not before chewing Wormmon out for calling him by his real name.

"Kari's at a friend's house doing a science project on gravity and they need to see how long I can stand on my head. See ya!"
 * —Tai gives a flimsy excuse to his mother before he leaves to rescue his sister.

"Oh, I forgot! I left Mimi on hold when she called from New York. Her phone bill!"
 * —Matt, better late than never.

T.K.: "Angemon! I haven't seen you in a while." Davis: "An- An- Angemon?" Veemon: "Hi there... big guy."
 * —Angemon's debut in Digimon Adventure 02.

"You know, those control spires really ruin my day."
 * —Patamon cannot maintain his Champion level when a spire is near.

Davis: "So besides armor digivolving, Patamon can also digivolve to Angemon? What about Gatomon?" T.K.: "Well, she can digivolve to Angewomon." Davis: "You're kidding me! Angemon AND Angewomon?" Patamon: "That's right! We make a great team!" Davis: "One question, is there an Angebabymon, too?" Patamon: "Sometimes he says the weirdest things!" Davis: "Veemon! Tell me right now if you can digivolve into Ange-something, too. Angedinosaurmon? Angesoccerplayermon?" Veemon: "I just don't have it in me!" T.K.: "He's still got a lot to learn."
 * —Davis' jealously reaches a whole new level.

Jun: "I promise not to tell my parents you were lying if you promise to go out on a date with me, okay? See you Friday at eight!" Matt: "...How did THAT happen?"
 * —Poor Matt.

"Please hold for the Digimon Emperor. Line one for you, sir."
 * —Wormmon takes a call for his master.

Kari: "Hey Davis! T.K.! You guys are my heroes! Davis: "Actually, it was mostly my idea, but I decided to bring T.K. along for the ride!" T.K.: "Whatever!"
 * —Davis, humble as ever.

"Why can't these guys ever be small?"
 * —Davis asks a fair question when faced with Andromon for the first time.

"I'll have two cheeseburgers and a large order of fries..."
 * —Patamon gets his butt handed to him by Andromon.

Kari: Andromon, don't you remember how we fought together? T.K.: ''Kari, we have to get out of here! We don't even know if it's the same Andromon!'' Kari: I'm sure it's him! T.K.: ''Yeah, but even if it is, he's under the control of the Digimon Emperor! He can't even hear your voice!'' Kari: You don't know that! Davis: As much as I like you two arguing, he's headed right for us!
 * —Davis seems to like it when Kari and T.K. argue

"Faces... long ago... DigiDestined... I love jigsaw puzzles... Now I see the complete picture."
 * —Andromon loves jigsaw puzzles apparently.

Izzy: "Matt just called and told me what had happened with Kari. And I'm really upset that you guys have left me out of the loop. Cody called Tai for help, and Tai called Matt, but no one ever calls me until the adventure is all over with!" Tai: "Come on, Izzy, don't be like that. There was just no time to call you. You know you're a big part of the team." Izzy: "That's right! And as a team member, I expect to be treated with the same respect I give to all of you! I may not be as strong as you or Matt, but I've gotten us out of just as many jams with my particular skills." Tai: "I'm sorry I didn't call you." Izzy: "Now that's what I call respect. Okay, I forgive you." Tai: "Wow! That was easy."
 * —Tai knows there's no predicting Izzy when he gets like this.

"Prodigious little devices, aren't they?"
 * —Izzy ' s catchphrase makes a comeback as he talks about the D-3s.

"Our parents are waiting for us! The food's probably cold and soggy by now. Of course, for my mom, that's an improvement!"
 * —Tai can't leave his mother's cooking alone for a minute.

Matt: ''This is all Davis' fault. I can't believe I have to take his sister out on a date.'' Hiroaki: "Hey, Matt, something smells great. I'm getting hungry." Matt: "Uh, dinner's ready?"
 * —Matt's not the only one fuming; the food is, too.

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