Continuing on our quest, we had another run-in with kuwagamon.
But the day was saved
by a diminutive digimon named piximon, a wise trainer.
His training methods first appeared a bit odd,
but later we found out it was a form of self-discipline.
Matt and I went off to find out own crests,
and we found them in a most unexpected location.
Etemon must have had the area under surveillance
because he sent tyranomon to deal with us.
Agumon took care of that with no problem.
How prodigious!
♪ Di-di-di, digimon, digimon ♪
♪ di-di-di, digimon, digimon ♪
♪ di-di-di ♪
♪ digimon, digital monsters ♪
♪ digimon are the champions ♪
♪ digimon - digital monsters ♪
Digimon are the champions
♪ change into digital champions ♪
♪ to save the digital world ♪
♪ digimon - digital monsters ♪
♪ digimon are the champions ♪
♪ digimon - digital monsters ♪
♪ digimon are the champions ♪
♪ digivolve into champions ♪
♪ digivolve into ultimate... ♪
♪ ♪
♪ digimon - digital monsters ♪
♪ digimon are the champions ♪
♪ digimon - digital monsters ♪
♪ digimon are the champions ♪
♪ digimon - digital monsters ♪
♪ digimon ♪
What is it, Izzy? Some kind of power generator?
Even better... etemon has hard-wired the entire desert,
creating an extensive computer network.
My guess, this is one of his remote date access terminals.
Great, let's crash it!
It could be a booby trap.
If it is etemon's, I say we cross the wires
and mess it up good!
What are you going to do with that?
I wonder,
it's entirely possible
that our computers have compatible systems.
And if they do, I can tap into etemon's network.
Hey, you have mail!
That was quick, who even knows I've logged on?
Oh no, it's etemon!
Open it, it's probably just spam.
Help me! S-o-s!
Mayday! I am being held prisoner!
Help me and I'll guide you to the crests you seek!
Whoa!!
Is he for real? I mean, who could it be?
What do you mean, the system's down?
I don't want excuses!
I want those stupid kids located now!!
Yes, oh mighty etemon, most majestic royal one.
The problem is, we got a glitch
in the pyramid host computer.
Datamon...
Take me there in a hurry, you floppy-eared freaks!
Let's roll!
I don't like this, not one little bit, I don't like the look of it or the smell of it,
I don't like the...
don't have a brain cramp, Joe,
you're turning green around the edges.
Somebody asked for our help, we gotta at least check it out.
According to my laptop, we should be getting close.
Hey, look!
It's glowing!
Ooh!
T.K., come over here... look what I found!
Look! Another crest!
Watch it!
Awesome! My own crest!
Congratulations!
Don't think this means you get to stay up any later.
Sora's crest is the only one left to find.
If we rescue this guy, maybe he can lead us to it.
Well, what are we waiting for? To the rescue!!
Oh! What's that?!
Huh?
See these hieroglyphs? Look familiar?
This is definitely
the same writing we've come across before.
Wait a second... this is a new one.
Oh!
Prodigious! This is amazing!
Do you know what I'm thinking?
I have a feeling you're gonna tell us.
It's quite possible
that these hieroglyphs are not a form of writing at all...
But rather code, computer code.
Change a piece of the code, then you change the program.
Whoa!
Like that, for example.
Wait... Are you telling us
that this whole place is some kind of computer game,
and that none of it is really real?
It's real, all right.
Huh?
You know, I'm thinking everything we see
and everyone we meet in this place
are actually pieces of data or programming,
given physical form.
If you're right
and this whole thing is one big computer,
then how did we get here?
Did we squeeze in through the floppy drive?
No, we're just kilobytes of data too...
I mean the versions of us that are in here.
If I'm just data...
Why do I still feel like I'm flesh and blood?
And I still have to go to the little girl's room.
You don't really, you just think you do.
I hope you're right, 'cause...
where's the real us... our flesh and blood bodies?
I don't know...
I suppose we're back at the campgrounds still.
Yeah, we're alive back there,
we exist simultaneously with our other selves,
we're in a parallel digital universe,
like the digimon.
Does that mean I don't have to brush my teeth anymore?
We've got bigger things to worry about now.
Although do us all a favor and don't stop brushing.
Hey...
Wait a second, I've got an idea.
Let me see, if I can just crack this program...
He's in computer-dork mode, this could take a while.
Whoa!!
I've called up
a holographic map of the digiworld.
You can see the similarities to the planet earth.
In fact, there are a lot of parallels with our world.
That's terrific, Izzy.
Great time for a geography lesson.
Pay attention, you might learn something.
Yeah?
If I enter the e-mail address of the person who contacted us,
I can find his location in the digiworld here.
Now, look...
that e-mail address is from a web domain in our world...
I've logged onto it a thousand times.
Is there a point to this somewhere?
Is the person who sent the message
in our world, or the digiworld?
That's just it... he's in both!
Look, the digiworld's on the left,
the world we know is on the right,
and if I overlay them like so...
The white lines match up perfectly!
What does it mean?
Mimi, tearfully: Reminds me of the balls of yarn my kitty used to play with!
That's the world's digital network.
Through those lines, every computer on earth
is connected to every other computer.
The digiworld is a physical embodiment
of the data passing through them.
We're seeing something nobody else has ever seen,
the digital shadow world that exists alongside our own.
Not just parallel, but physically linked,
so everything we do here will have effects on the other.
For real?
Intense.
Yeah, and here's the coolest part.
Wherever this person is in the digiworld,
I think I can take us there just by entering
his e-mail address and clicking on it...
like accessing a web page.
Hey, all this techno-talk's making my head spinny!
Computer guys can never just do something,
that would be too easy.
They've gotta spend all day telling you how they'll do it.
This is depressing...
even when I'm compute data I have allergies.
Look on the bright side,
if you weren't here, you never would have met me.
Sora, does this mean that we don't exist?
That we're really not friends?
Of course not.
This may be a make-believe world,
but that doesn't mean our friendship isn't real.
Truthfully, I don't get it... but it sounds right.
Wherever we are, we're here,
so let's figure out what we're gonna do next.
Come on, brainiac, what are you waiting for?
Okay, okay.
All I have to do is click on the guy's e-mail address,
and then bingo.
I hate bingo...
it's so confusing, with all those letters and...
hey look... A door!
Last one through's a rotten egg!
Our electronic pen pal is right out there.
Or it could be a trap.
No way... we're just bits of data, so I uploaded us as...
okay, I believe you.
Whoa, check this out!
Heads up! Etemon at 9 o'clock!
It's the dumpster for you, datamon,
you old pile of junk.
Uh, I think I left the water on back at the sphinx.
Okay, tai, you're relieved.
It's our turn to stand watch.
Finally! It's not much fun watching a bunch of rocks.
I thought being in a computer cartoon adventure
would be more fun than this.
About tomorrow...
What?
I'm worried... that etemon is bad news.
Is it really worth it just to find my crest?
Sure.
Don't worry, piece of cake.
I'm looking forward to
spinning the ugly monkey around by his tail!
Hey come on, snap out of it.
Huh?
If it was anybody else's crest we were going after,
you know you wouldn't hesitate for a second.
Oh...
Maybe you're right, it's just after what Izzy said...
you mean all that stuff about us being
nothing but kilobytes in the computer program of life?
It just makes us seem so small and insignificant,
like nothing we do really matters.
Of course it matters...
we can't take the chance that it doesn't.
Remember, there's one thing that's important to keep in mind.
This is more than a parallel universe,
it's a shadow world, physically linked to our own,
and anything that happens here
can have a direct effect on things in the other.
And the same thing goes for us, right?
We're shadow versions of our other selves?
Right, exact computer copies.
So whatever happens, we have to be just as careful
as if we were still our physical selves.
Hey! Sometime this year!
You guys talk more than my mom's book club.
Can we go?
I got into the program
and found the most direct route to the center of the pyramid.
Okay, let's get this straight: We're only going in there
to find this guy and get sora her crest, right?
Right.
That means no fights or dangerous stuff.
You whimper more than my puppy!
Matt, Mimi, t.K., stay here and stand guard.
Let's go in!
If you really don't need me...
I miss you guys already.
We'll be back in time to eat.
Or get eaten.
See you guys, come back as soon as you can!
Okay, keep together.
There's a hidden back door to the program.
It should be right up ahead.
That's funny, it should be right here.
Where's my fried banana sandwich?
You know I like to eat after my nap!
Huh?
Tai, what is it?!
It's etemon!
Huh!
Who's there?
What do we do now?
Quite, biyomon.
Grrr...
Boo!
Great, now I'm hearing things.
Yoo hoo!
Huh?
I'm gonna have to have this place exterminated.
Because something's starting to bug me!
We've got him talking to himself!
Really funny, tai... are you crazy?
What if you had gotten us caught?
But we weren't, were we?
Now what do we do?
I guess next we try to find a way through these walls.
The trick is finding the weak points.
Hey, I found one!
Ah!
Ow...
As I was saying, we need to find the weak points.
Let's use heads, not hands.
Check it out... you can see right through this wall.
Yeah, here it is.
It's another breach in the system's security.
Look! Gazimon!
Be still.
Ah!
Hey... what's the big idea?
Whaddya mean?
Don't gimme that!
Are you nuts?
Nuts to you!
You could have gotten us all captured, tai.
You're so immature!
Could you yell a little quieter?
Relax, sora, get a grip.
Who elected you queen of the fun police?
Yeah, this is tons of fun,
and getting caught will be a blast.
Pass notes... it's quieter.
This looks nasty!
We don't have to pass through here, do we?
This fire wall is the system's last line of defense.
But there appears to be only one safe way through it.
And if we pick the wrong way,
they'll scoop us up with a spatula.
You're not scared, are you, Joe?
Maybe I am, a little.
Relax, it's not like we're human or anything.
We're just bunches of kilobytes, remember?
The weak point should be...
Here. Cool.
Are you coming in,
or are you just gonna stand there all day?
Hmph.
This is the host computer.
Yowza.
Do you think it comes with a cd-rom drive,
or is that optional?
And what do you suppose that thing is?
I've heard of him... his name's datamon,
a super-intelligent robotic digimon.
He disappeared without a trace some time ago.
Nobody ever knew what happened to him.
Maybe that's the thing that sent us the e-mail.
It kinda looks like he's a prisoner.
Of course it was... who else?
Hmm...
Today is your lucky day... and mine.
I get it, he's communicating with us
through the infrared port on my laptop.
Oh, a hardware fan.
Well, listen, we haven't much time.
Long, long ago, I fought etemon and lost...
one of my rare miscalculations.
Anyway, I was severely damaged and he imprisoned me here
and forced me to act as his webmaster,
administering his network.
Without etemon knowing, however,
I was able to slowly repair myself,
restoring my capabilities bit-by-bit over the years.
Eventually I gained control over etemon's network...
not total control,
but enough to bring some misery to that blubbering baboon.
At last, I'm ready to free myself,
but I need your help to break the cyber-lock.
What about my crest?
You said in your message that you could lead us to it.
Um, yes, whatever you want... just please help me out of here!
Can we trust this talking can opener?
Etemon is your enemy as well as mine.
That makes us allies.
Please, you're my only hope!
Okay, you're on... what do you need from us?
I am transmitting instructions for disengaging the cyber-lock.
Push that lever for me, would you?
Got it.
Right-three, left-five.
Quickly! Before entemon returns!
Push the button...
Okay, pull the lever back to its original position,
that should be the last step in the process.
Hold it!
I've been watching you on surveillance cameras
and you're an annoying little brat!
Punk! Troublemaker!
My name is tai.
Why don't you just call him ugly, too?
All this time I thought it was these snot-nosed kids
but it was you,
wasn't it, you digital dumpster?!
In a word, yes.
You rat!
Digimon... help out!
Agumon digivolve to...
Greymon!!!
Tentomon digivolve to...
Kabuterimon!!!
Biyomon digivolve to...
Birdramon!!!
Gomamon digivolve to...
Ikkakumon!!!
Out of the way!
Eee-yaaa!
I'm free!
Now let's see how you like it!
Huh?
Whee! Ha ha ha!
Biyomon!
Hey! We set you free!
And I do appreciate that, you chumps!
Dumb kids.
You'd think by now they'd learn to trust no one.
Trust me... this will hurt.
Dark network!
Biyomon! Over here!
Well, so much for no fighting.
Biyomon!
Unh!
Tough luck... looks like I won again.
It's not over yet, monkey-breath.
Just wait!
With their powers harnessed to my own,
I'll be more than a match for you!
Huh?
Come back here, you little...
sora!
Sora, in distance: Tai!!!
They've gone back out through the fire wall.
Okay...
the weak point was here, right?
Wait... let me get back on-line so I can find it.
We don't have time for that!
What could happen... this isn't the real me, right?
Don't test theories now, tai!
Pain still hurts, tai!
Hey! Joe!
What are you thinking?
That we're in a video game where nothing can happen to us
because these aren't our real selves here?
Yeah, something like that!
Think again.
Our digital selves are linked with our other selves back home.
You need to be a lot more careful.
No telling what may happen.
You mean if i...
if something happens here...
It happens there?
I can't move.
The weak point is one meter to your right.
No way... one false move and it's over!
Hey, tai...
For Pete's sake,
we came through it all right on the way in.
Yeah, but then I didn't know that...
We're wasting time, sora needs us.
What's wrong with you?
Tai?
Aah!
Sorry... We held them as long as we could.
Now to finish off you kids
and put an end to your annoying interference!
Wha...?
Would you care for some needle spray!!!
Come on, let's move!
Tai, what's wrong with you, come on!
No, not again!
I'm having an extremely bad day, baby!
I don't get it.
When the creep grabbed biyomon and sora,
why didn't you go through the fire wall after them?
I couldn't... I couldn't move!
It's not your fault.
We're all in this together, tai,
we'll find a way to get them back.
It's all my fault!
Sora, it's all my fault!!