Some distance away from File City, there was a rural community called Alt Village. Away from the protection of File City, Alt Village instead relied on a treasure called the Firewall to keep bandits or raiders from invading it. It was also the home of a particularly vigilant Leomon that took it upon itself to also protect the village and the Firewall. At least, it would normally. Unfortunately, the Firewall was stolen the previous night. Apparently a person or Digimon managed to steal the Firewall and now the village was being threatened by a gang of Goburimon, led by an Ogremon.

"With your precious Firewall gone, the village is just ripe for the raiding!" proclaimed Ogremon, as a few of his Goburimon henchmen started marching toward the village. Of course, the Leomon was still protecting the village and he brandished his blade in preparation for a fight.

"Firewall or no Firewall..." said Leomon with a roar, "...I'll defend this village so long as I draw breath!" and he charged forth and began fighting the Goburimon. Despite being a higher level evolution, the Leomon wouldn't last against superior numbers forever. And to make things worse, there was still the Ogremon waiting in the wings. Leomon's chances were not looking so good.

"Outta the way, boys." Ogremon demanded, wanting to finish off Leomon himself, "Anyone who tries to play hero will answer to me!" he raised his club, prepared to strike a finishing blow. But before Ogremon could swing, something flew out of the shadows and struck the Club right out of his hand, "What the? Is this a... card?" he picked up the object, a pitch black card with a white three-clawed raven depicted in the center. On the opposite side was some human world Kanji that read 'Advanced Notice'. Ogremon scoffed, confused but unafraid, "Alright, who's the dead man trying to play hero?"

"Can't you read? That's your advanced notice." a voice echoed from an unknown hiding place. Then, almost as if choreographed, a pair of spotlights focused on a single spot. Standing there was a figure clad on a long black coat, red gloves, and a white mask covering his eyes. The notorious phantom thief: Raven, "Bonjour!" the thief said, greeting Ogremon with a bow and speaking a french greeting, "I'll be taking that treasure of yours."

"Thief or Hero, I don't care! Anyone who gets in my way gets crushed! Goburimon! Make him regret interfering with us!" Ogremon shouted. The Goburimon began to ignore Leomon and instead made their way toward Raven. Before they could close, they were repeatedly struck with shuriken made of feathers. Without warning, and with only minimal effort, a Falcomon swooped in from the shadows and actually took out the Goburimon gang with shuriken feathers and blades of wind.

"Thank you, Falcomon." said Raven, using an English phrase rather than a French one. While Falcomon fought with the Goburimon and kept Ogremon distracted, Raven deftly leapt over the group and landed right next to Ogremon and appeared to be throwing a punch. Ogremon naturally dodged a punch from a human easily enough and stepped back.

"You missed, human!" Ogremon scoffed.

"Au contraire, mon ami." spoke Raven in a playful tone. Ogremon would notice momentarily that the thief now held the Firewall in his red-gloved hand.

"Give that back, I stole it fair and square!" Ogremon went to attack but was stopped. Not by Falcomon, but by Leomon, who had recovered enough to knock Ogremon out once and for all. The Goburimon had to carry Ogremon as they ran off.

"I don't know who you are, but thank-" Leomon began to say but paused when he realized he was alone. The gang weren't the only ones who had vanished, the human thief and his Falcomon partner were also gone. However, Leomon [i]did[/i] find the village's Firewall on the ground next to where Ogremon had dropped the calling card earlier. Leomon silently picked up the treasure and went to return it to its rightful place.

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"So... why'd we leave the Firewall behind?" asked Falcomon. A bit of time had passed since he and Raven had scuffled with the Ogremon. The two were now walking down a road that would take them into File City.

"Ah, well... the Firewall was useless to us." Kaitou answered. He was no longer in his Raven set up, but instead wore normal clothes and a pair of black glasses in place of his previous mask, "And besides, we managed to have a little bit of fun messing with Ogremon. That's all that really matters." Kaitou claimed it was about finding fun, but deep down he was really just interested in helping out the village and the Leomon protecting it. It wasn't like him, but then again, that Leomon reminded him of an old friend he had lost touch with. So maybe that was the reason.