In an isolated forest in the Digital World, wind dislodged more yellow-orange leaves from the autumn trees, and made the rags on the two statues standing in the forest sway.

One wore the remnants of a pink sarong, a hole strewn white jacket, and a pink bikini. In her marble hands she clutched a fashion magazine, dated June 2010.

Her vacant grey eyes had looked up from that magazine, before locking in place as the Kokatorimon's gaze struck. Mimi Tachikawa, Digidestined of Purity, had been transformed from flesh and blood to the statue she now had been for so long.

Beside her another statue stood, frozen in an angrier pose, clad in tattered green remains of her serafuku. Her stone fist had been held clenched as literally rock, but no one had played scissors, and rather than paper, her foe had used petrification.

On her grey wrist sat a digital watch, the curious nature of the digital world having kept it running beyond the battery lifetime considerably. It proclaimed the date to be the 10th of October. 2024. Sora Takenouchi had stood by the side of her friend now for over fourteen years.

Bioyomon and Palmon, their partners, were long gone. The two stone digimon had been the true prize of the Kokatorimon's attack, the plant and bird taken to her lair as decorations. But interestingly enough, they technically had not.

For the digital world is a strange place. Mimi and Sora had gone to a place where a glitch had led to holes in the timeline. Mimi's. magazine was from six years in their future. The spot they had been petrified in, was actually in 1999 by real world chronology.

This was extremely ill luck for the stone duo, for their fourteen years in stone had actually been a mere 87 real world hours, five years in their past. The digital world saw one day equal a real world minute at this time. A reformat that synced things to a 1:1 timescale neared, as their past selves and the other Digidestined fought against the Dark Masters.

They would be triumphant soon... in about three real world days, or another eleven digital years. And then five more back to 2004.

From there? Time would tell....