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It Came From the Other Side

Summary written by Stan....Thank you.

The boys have Gargomon stand on his hands, hoping he'll somehow de-digivolve. The gun bunny isn't nearly as nice, attitude wise, as Terriermon, but tries nonetheless. Later that night, as Gargomon keeps trying, Henry dreams of the time when he played the Digimon game, using Terriermon to defeat a Gorillamon. Henry wakes up to find a tired, apologetic Terriermon waiting for him, begging to go home again. At his own home, Takato wonders and doodles what Guilmon's Champion form should be. As for Rika, she is grumbling yet again about Renamon's failure to digivolve.

The next day, Kazu gives Takato the Training Grips card, one Kazu deems useless. Takato joins Henry and shows it to him. In the Twin Towers, another Digimon is detected. Takato and Henry are startled to find a digital field following them, more specifically Henry. It catches up with Henry in a construction site and reveals itself to be Gorillamon. Henry, joined by Takato, tells Gorillamon to "go back", but the mad monkey decides he isn't going anywhere till he fights Terriermon again.

Guilmon tries to hold Gorillamon off, while Henry forbids Terriermon to fight. Terriermon fights anyways. Henry freezes, and both he and Gorillamon remember Gorillamon's defeat on the game. As Gorillamon redoubles his attack, Henry recalls more memories. The time his dad came home with the newest Digimon game. The way Henry chose Terriermon. The way Henry learned Digimon have a reality of their own. Gorillamon continues to attack Guilmon and Terriermon, causing Henry to remember the way Gorillamon destroyed Digimon on his game, then absorbed their data.

On the game, Gorillamon was about to defeat Terriermon, and Henry panicked, using four Modify cards. This resulted in Terriermon digivolving into trigger happy Gargomon--and Henry's firm belief that he should never do so again.

Gorillamon has Guilmon and Terriermon down for the count; Takato tells Henry to let Terriermon digivolve, to save them. Henry still refuses, remembering more flashbacks. His dad telling him that the winning Digimon always absorbed the loser's data; that Digimon weren't real. Henry tried to accept this, but he knew better. As Terriermon collapsed in his game, Henry decided Digimon were real and wished desperately to save Terriermon. The Blue Card appeared to him, and he swiped it. His computer's swiping device had turned into a Digivice at that point, and Terriermon had come to him.

Henry had taken that moment to promise he'd never make Terriermon fight ever again. With a sudden flash of inspiration, Henry snaps out of his memories and uses the "Training Grips" card on Terriermon. Terriermon flings them at Gorillamon, and both he and Guilmon attack Gorillamon. Gorillamon busts out of the grips, but before he can do anything else, Terriermon clogs his gun, causing it to explode, and Gorillamon to shatter. Henry tells Terriermon not to absorb Gorillamon's data, and hopes this will let Gorillamon go back. Afterwards, the boys and their Digimon decide they make good teams.

Summary written by Stan....Thank you!

On his way to school, Takato sees the other students gathered around the playground, and is startled to see crazy chalk lines drawn all over the place. During lunch, kids debate whether it was aliens or ghosts, and lump it together with the dinosaur (Guilmon) incident. Jeri tells Takato she saw the creature.

With great embellishment, Jeri tells how she was in the infirmary, and stumbled on the creature rustling about in the cabinets. Meanwhile, the "creature", who is none other than Calumon, is watching a soccer game. He then daydreams about being the best soccer player ever. That night, he redraws the crazy chalk lines, reinventing the game of soccer totally, in hopes of bringing the players back. However, no one shows up. The next day, Takato and Guilmon go to the school to feed the rabbits--and stumble on the damage. While Takato feeds the rabbits, Guilmon sniffs out the sleeping Calumon, who wakes up and proceeds to play like crazy. Back in the park shed, Takato and Henry wonder at Calumon, and debate who his Tamer should be.

Kazu is rejected for his power hungry training--he sucks away all defense energy, leaving the Digimon super strong but helpless. (Takato imagines Guilmon and Calumon facing off in a boxing ring.) Suzie is also rejected, on grounds that she'd give Calumon the "Ms. Pretty Pants" treatment--a treatment Henry says he'd never wish on anyone. (Takato imagines a dolled up Calumon.) Jeri is also brought up, but is quickly dismissed. Even though both are considered a little crazy, Jeri and Calumon just don't seem like a good team. (Takato imagines the puppet wielding child freaking out at the sight of Calumon.)

Back in the shed, Calumon convinces Guilmon (against his better judgment) to leave the shed and play on the field again. They end up drawing something very similar to the mark on Calumon's head. Henry and Takato return to the shed to discover the two Digimon missing; meanwhile, Vilemon breaks out into the real world, right in the middle of the drawing on the soccer field. The nasty, tiny demon wallops Guilmon and Calumon, until Takato uses Modify to give Guilmon wings, and Henry uses Modify to speed Terriermon up. Rika and Renamon appear, and Rika uses the Clone Modify to aid Renamon. She succeeds in defeating Vilemon, and absorbs his data. After the fight, Rika is startled to see Calumon hugging her foot, and nudges him away. Calumon decides that, although Guilmon and Rika are fun, Takato and Henry are boring, so he flies off. The next day finds the entire school debating once more over the lines and the new holes.

Summary written by Stan....Thank you!

It's Parents' Day at Rika's private school. Everything seems ok, until Rika's mother walks out in the middle of it to do an emergency photo shoot. Later on, Rika's mother tries to be interested in Rika's interests, but fails. As Rika recalls all this, another Digimon crosses over. Rika is immediately chasing it.

The Digimon turns out to be Allomon. Takato and Henry also appear on the scene, watching as Renamon gets pounded. Even with a Modify card, Renamon is struggling, but she refuses Guilmon and Terriermon's help. Rika uses another Modify card to help Renamon finish Allomon off, then tells the boys to butt out of her fights. In the shadows, Impmon grins, remarking how stupid it is for Digimon to work with humans.

That night, Rika and Renamon discuss Renamon's continued failure to digivolve, but the conversation is cut short by Rika's mom. Much later in the evening, a sleepless Rika recalls flashbacks. Her triumphant victory in the Digimon Card Tournament. How all the Digimon appeared to her, and her crying out she only wanted one strong Rookie to train. Renamon approaching her, then all the Digimon disappearing, followed by the appearance of the Blue Card. Rika had swiped it, turning her card swiper into a Digivice. Then Renamon came to her, telling her Renamon had chosen Rika because the Digimon felt the human was the strongest Tamer around--that was what Renamon wanted. Meanwhile, Renamon was leaping atop rooftops, pondering her inability to digivolve.

She meets Impmon, an rather, well, impish Digimon. He tries to convince her to dump Rika and come be free like him, but without any luck. Angry, he starts to attack her, but just then, another Digimon crosses over, and Renamon races to intercept it.

Rika is also aware of the Digimon, and runs to the scene; she is startled to find a webbed forest. Renamon tells her to run away, as she tries to attack the newly crossed over Digimon, Dokugumon. Dokugumon blocks Renamon's Diamond Storm, and traps both her and Rika. Renamon breaks Rika out of the webbing, telling her to leave again; Rika refuses, and uses a Modify card. The Card isn't much use, and Renamon takes a major beating, defending Rika even to the verge of death. Calumon wanders up to the pair, as Rika learns that it is no longer about just fighting, but about caring for your partner. She watches, terrified, as Renamon's life seems to ebb away.

Then Rika's Digivice shines, and Renamon digivolves to Kyubimon, making quick work of Dokugumon and absorbing her energy. Rika still misunderstands and thinks that Renamon grew because of all her battles. Kyubimon corrects her by saying she could only digivolve when Rika cared enough about Renamon. A disgusted Impmon classifies Renamon as a lost cause and flies elsewhere to cause trouble.