"How are you doing, Sora?" asked Izzy.
Sora rolled her head back and fourth.
"Not to g-good," answered Sora s she started to cough.
"This cold air can't be good," said Biyomon.
"I know but we don't have anytime to walk 50 miles," replied Izzy.
Sora moaned.
"I think we've already flown over 50 miles...way over."
Izzy squinted and looked forward.
"It looks like...snow," said Izzy.
"Biyomon!" called Kabuterimon, "I'm running out of energy...I can't take it any longer. You better digivolve while I can still fly."
"Wait," said Izzy, "I think we're only about 10 miles from the city. We'll need at least one digimon with full strength."
"Izzy!" said Sora, "it isn't that far for Birdramon to fly and Kabuterimon can't take much more..he said so!"
"Nevermind...I can see the city from here," said Kabuterimon, "its no use."
Sora shivered and sniffed.
"Just hold on," said Izzy as he let Sora lean back on him.
DarkAndromon walked through the snow. The tall buildings loomed around him and he felt rather small. It was all just a bad idea to look in the city. It was break from Piedmon anyway. Even if he was reprogrammed, he still didn't enjoy being ordered around. He walked down the street, heading towards the outskirts when he heard a familiar buzzing sound.
"Ah! A few digidestined must be on the way, and they have another Digimon with them this time!" said DarkAndromon evily, "Bring missiles to position..and fire!"
Izzy shifted around.
"Did you guys hear those two booms?"
"I may be weak, but if an evil Digimon attacks, there's a good chance we'll stay in the air!" said Kabuterimon.
Sora looked up as two missiles twisted and looped in the air.
"Here they come!" said Sora as the missiles flew over them.
"They missed us!" said Biyomon.
Izzy looked back to see the missiles spinning in the air and coming straight back towards them.
"Kabuterimon! Evasive action!" said Izzy.
"Don't worry! Like I said, even if we're hit...I'll stay in the air!"
The missiles slammed into Kabuterimon and he instantly turned back into Tentomon and dropped like a rock.
"Tentomon!" yelled Izzy, still holding onto Sora.
"Oops!" yelled Tentomon, drowned out by the sound of the whiring snow.
Biyomon flapped her wings and looked around in the air. The snow storm was picking up and she could hardly see a few feet in front of her. Suddenly a missile hit her in the stomach and she felt herself start to fall.
Izzy turned himself in the air so that when they hit, Sora would be on top. He could see a factory below them, just outside the city. It wasn't exactly the ideal landing area, with all the sharp antenas and all. He shut his eyes and waited for them to hit. Sora was still looking down and quickly saw their luck. They were heading straight for an exaust chimney that looked to be covered with ice.
"Izzy! We're going to make it!"
The dropped straight into the chimney, as they hit the bottom, it turned into a slide and they were blown out into the factory and onto a conveyor belt.
"We made it!" said Izzy.
"But we're moving straight towards another exhast tube or pipe or whatever," said Sora.
The slid into the Pipe and a fan immediately blew them foward.
"Oh no! This pipe has a cover on the outside!" said Izzy.
He stuck his feet out as they blew through the outside pipe cover and out of the factory. As soon as they hit the ground they continued running at the fast pace that they were blown out at. Izzy knew Sora couldn't keep running that fast. She suddenly tripped and pulled Izzy down with her.
He lifted his head up to see Tentomon slam into a large snowbank followed by Biyomon.
"Lightning Blade!"
Izzy looked back to see DarkAndromon throw another lightning blade at them. He quickly helped Sora up and tried to run as fast he could away from the attack.
"Izzy," wheezed Sora, "I can't go on anymore. I have to stop."
Izzy knew he wasn't exactly helping her.
"Ok Sora, but we be-"
Sora was quickly tossed backwards into the snow. It was the lightning blade.
DarkAndromon jetpacked over and landed in front of Izzy.
"Care to see a slow motion replay?" he asked as his stomach rolled back to reveal a tv screen.
"Usual sick Piedmon humor!" said Izzy angrily.
"Actually, he sometimes uses it to view what happened on my missions but I'll make an exception for you!"
The screen cracked to life and Izzy saw the lightning blade spin and quickly hit the Sora in the side, tearing her shirt and tossing like a doll backwards. When he saw the little bit of blood he tore across the snow towards Sora.
DarkAndromon lifted his hand and fired a few pin size bullets from his wrist. The pins ran up Izzy's leg but he kept going and collapsed next to Sora.
"Sora, no! Please talk to me!"
He looked down at her wound. Her shirt was torn to shreds on that side and covered with specks of blood. Her wound was just above her hip and about 7 inches long, he didn't know how deep. She was still taking small breaths. He watched her chest slowly rise up and down, with a few seconds in between each breath.
"Sora..." he whispered.
She ran her tounge over her lips which still were not chapped in the cold weather. She looked so innocent just lying there. It had been the first time Izzy had really cared about and loved someone beside his parents.
"Sora...I love you," he said.
She smiled.
"You already told me that," she whispered.
Izzy shook his head.
"Not like this...not like I do now."
Sora brushed her soaked hair from her face.
"I love you too....you know, this isn't as bad as it looks. I can probably even walk."
"Ok, visiting time is over. Time for you to die too," said Dark Andromon.
Izzy dug into the snow and suddenly felt a piece of metal. He pulled it out and it looked to be a very small piece of a building that had been blown off. He quickly turned around and hurled it straight into DarkAndromon's chest. Sparks flew and he stopped dead.
"System damage...programming corruption! Repair! Repair! Programing deletion in 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1....programming deleted."
Andromon quickly snapped back to life.
"Ah! Where am I?"
Izzy smiled.
"The old Andromon is back!"
"Memory files returning...restoring default programming."
Andromon's eyes lite up and he was back.
"Welcome back Andromon! Do you remember why you are here?" asked Tentomon as he pulled Biyomon out of the snow.
"Yes...I remember Piedmon...the reprogramming...hurting that girl! I was reprogrammed...it caused me to follow Piedmon's orders no matter what but I was still Andromon."
"Great! But now we have to save Sora! We can't lose her.....I can't lose her," said Izzy.
The gang walked over to Sora and Izzy kneeled down beside her.
"You said you could walk, Sora? I don't think its a good idea but I'll help you see if you can," said Izzy as he carefully helped her up.
He looked down at the red snow.
"She's still bleeding pretty badly, we have to get her too a hospital!"
Izzy realized that what he was saying made no sense really. There was no people to help preform a surgery! There was no Digimon to help preform a surgery! It was hopeless. Sora would die if they didn't do anything.
"Izzy...are you crying?" asked Sora.
Izzy turned away and wipped his tears on his sleeve.
"N-no..."
Sora smiled.
"You're the best guy I could ever want," she said.
Suddenly she coughed.
"Ah!" she yelled.
"Oh no! She's bleeding more now!" said Biyomon.
"This is not good," said Tentomon.
"Poor girl...I'm sorry for the pain I've caused you," said Andromon as Izzy set Sora back down.
"It wasn't your fault," said Izzy as he walked up to Andromon and pulled the piece of metal from Andromon's chest.
'"I forgot all about that," said Andromon.
"Do you know of any hospitals?" asked Biyomon.
"Yes...I saw one not far from here. I'll go get a stretcher," said Andromon as he walked over the the factory and ripped a stretcher sized piece of metal from the outside wall.
"Am I going to be ok?" asked Sora.
Izzy could see that her mood was changing and she was begginning to face reality.
"Don't lie," she said.
Izzy hesitated.
"I don't know. We probably can't preform a surgery...at least not one that would help you. But there is one bright side," said Izzy.
"Whats that?"asked Sora.
"We might be able to cure your cold," said Izzy with a smile.
Sora smiled back as Andromon slid the stretcher in the snow underneath Sora. He picked her up and Izzy grabbed the other end.
Joe woke up and walked towards the fire. He simply couldn't sleep and all he had on his mind was the fight. Izzy and Sora were usually good for a talk. He looked around. Where were they?
"Izzy! Sora! Where did they go?" he asked himself.
He decided they had gone off to have some alone time away from the group. He sigh and sat down beside the fire.
Tentomon and Biyomon opened the doors to the hospital and immediately saw another robot Digimon in the corner.
"LadyAndromon?" said Andormon.
"Who?" asked Sora.
"The digimon you'll save your life....she's one of the few medical digimon in digiworld."
Lady Andromon walked up to Sora and looked at her wound.
"Hello all of you...it lookes like your friend here needs some surgery."
Izzy sigh at the digimon's great observation.
"I'm Izzy, thats Sora, this is Tentomon, thats Andromon, and this is Biyomon," said Izzy as he pointed around the room.
"Can you stand?" asked Lady Andromon.
"Yeah," said Sora weakly.
"Well, I can't operate on you with your clothes on," said LadyAndromon.
Sora blushed and stood up. She removed her pants to reveal her blood stained underwear and LadyAndromon helped her with her shirt so she wouldn't upset the wound any worse than it already was. She tossed a gown to Sora and led her into a room down the hall.
"Now I guess we just wait," said Izzy blushing like crazy.
"I guess," said Andromon.
Tentomon walked over to a bench and sat down followed by Biyomon.
"Will she expect payment for this?" asked Tentomon.
Andromon shook his head.
"It was a favor for me...we're good friends."
"I hope she'll be alright," said Izzy.
"Don't worry," said Biyomon, "she'll be alright."
"This digimon works wonders and works them mighty fast," said Andromon, "Sora will be ready to run a race in a few minutes!"
Izzy stared up at the clock and watched the minutes go by. 5..10...15 minutes.
Suddenly, the door opened and Sora walked out in a new purple shirt and red pants. Izzy jumped up from his seat and stretched his arms. Then he remembered her injury.
Sora nodded.
"Go ahead," she whispered.
Izzy wrapped his arms around her and kissed her on the forehead.
"I'm glad you're ok!" he said, "That was pretty quick surgery."
Sora lifted her shirt up near her waist and showed Izzy the mark. There was only redish skin.
"She used a laser to clean me up and close my cut. Its still a little hot, though," said Sora as she poped a pill in her mouth and took a drink from a little cup, "and my cold will be better quick too!"
Izzy stared into her eyes. They were exactly the same height.
"What is it?" she asked in a rather girly voice.
"Nothing...just thinking."
"About how beautiful I am?" asked Sora jokingly.
"Yup," answered Izzy.
Sora turned and kissed Izzy on the cheek.
"We have to get back to camp," said Tentomon.
"Biyomon! Digivolve to....Birdramon!"
Tentomon climbed onto the bird and helped Izzy and Sora up.
"Well...see you LadyAndromon."
"See ya!"
Andromon walked out of the hospital as Birdramon lifted off.
"Jet pack!"
He burst into the air and they took off back to camp.
"Izzy,Sora, Biyomon, and Tentomon are gone?" asked Mimi.
"Yes! They aren't here anywhere!" said Joe.
"We should go look for them," said Tai.
Matt got an angry look on his face just listening to Tai talk.
"We have to go after them," said T.K.
"Everyone digivolve!" said Kari.
Birdramon tore over the trees, going as fast as she could with Andromon flying beside her.
"Whats that up there?" asked Sora.
"It looked like the others!" yelled Tentomon.
Sure enough, Joe and Mimi were riding Ikkakumon and Togemon through the woods, while Tai, Kari, and Gatomon rode with flying MetalGreymon, and Matt rode on MetalGarurumon in the air.
"Hey guys!" called Biyomon as they came up to the others.
"Where were you?" asked Tai.
"Sora was sick and we had to get medicine for her," said Izzy.
"Great! Now we digivolved and came all this way for nothing! You never leave without telling us!" yelled Tai.
"Tai, you can't control us...all of us are equaly qualified to be leader," said Sora.
This coming from the girl Tai liked was alot. He was speechless.
"Way to go, Sora!" called Matt as MetalGarurumon swivled around.
"Tha-" started Sora but she was interupted by a sudden burst of light.
"The digidestined are supposed to be the ones to destroy me, but I can destory you first!" came a voice.
"If I had a nickle for ever person who's said that I would ahve..what?..fifteen cents. It says we'll destroy you...you guys always take the first step to stop us...thats when we always destroy you! If you don't do anything about it, you'll probably live!" said Matt.
The voice laughed and suddenly the light shown even brighter and everyone passed out.
Joe slowly opened his eyes and looked around. His glasses were laying a few feet away from him and he picked them up.
He was laying on a hard, red floor in a wide hallway. Across the room he could see cages filled with his friends' Digimon. Next to him lay the other digidestined.
"Guys! Wake up!"
The others slwoly opened their eyes and stood up.
"Where are we?" asked Mimi.
"Beats me," said Tai.
The ceiling was decorated with beautiful art of angels and landscapes.
"Where are we? An art museum? A cathedral or church?" asked Sora.
"Well, lets start by letting our Digimon out. Whoever put them in those cages was dumb to leave us out to free them," said Matt.
Tai saw a button on the wall and pushed it. All the cages sprung open and the rookie digimon walked out.
"What is this place?" asked Agumon.
"We don't know," said Matt.
Izzy spotted a door.
"Look guys! A door!"
Everyone turned and headed through it. They emerged on a blacony in an incredibly large domed room. It must have been a mile across. The whole balcony went around the circular dome. Statues lined the inner walls. Mimi examined the room and started to fall backwards. Joe reached out and grabbed her.
"Are you ok Mimi?"
"The room is just so gigantic and threatening. I fell like I'm walking on air, like I could just fall down or pass out."
"Lots of people feel like that around large things...even next to skyscraper some people will feel like you do," said Joe.
"Yeah...and I almost fell...scared of it."
Suddenly, all the statues jumped from the wall. As the hit the balcony they created a large bang sound. The hundreds of black statues all around the blacony swarmed like flies towards the digidestined. The digimon immediately began to attack and hold off the statues.
"Don't be afraid!" yelled Tentomon, "they feed on fear...so does their leader."
Nobody questioned Tentomon's advice and quickly shut their eyes and tried to imagine happy things. They could all feel the breath of the creatures around them.
"Think happy thoughts, think happy thoughts, think ha-" started Mimi.
"No!" interupted Tentomon, "don't think happy thoughts..don't be afraid! Don't let these creatures scare you...think that you can beat them...believe it!"
Evryone was getting the hang of it and they opened their eyes. They were each shinning with light the color of their crests. It surrounded them and shot around the whole balcony, destroying all the statue creatures.
"We did it!" said Gomamon.
"Bravo! Bravo!" came a voice.
A dark ball formed straight out from the blacony, suspended in the air, hundreds of feet above the floor. It took the light from the crests and brought it towards itself. Suddenly, the black shape was gone and in its place was a large digimon of about 10 feet tall with black armor and and a large staff. It removed its mask to reveal a read, menacing and burned face complete with horns and sharp teeth.
"Oh! I want to go home!" said Mimi.
"I am Darkleordomon and I shall send you home!"
Mimi lifted off the blacony and was hurled across the room. As she flew past, Darkleordomon slashed at her with his staff and she hit the wall on the other side of the room.
"Mimi! No!" screamed Sora.
"He killed Mimi!" yelled Tai.
"Poison Ivy!" yelled Palmon.
The vines wrapped around Darkleordomon and Palmon pulled herself towards him. He twirled his staff and thrust it through the plant digimon. She hung on the end of the staff. Darkleordomon laughed and tossed her off the end of the staff and straight down into the floor below.
"Thats the last straw!" yelled Matt.
Darkleordomon lifted his hand up and fired a knife from his arm which through Matt against the wall.
"This is impossible! It cannot be happening!" yelled Joe, "he have to sto-urck!"
Joe grabbed the knife in his side and fell over.
Sora, Kari, and T.K. started to cry.
"Looks like this is it," said Sora.
Izzy grabbed her and held her as a knife hit T.K. Sora slwoly lifted from Izzy's arms and he wtached as Darleordomon hit her with his staff and tossed her to the ground. Another knife quickly hit Kari as she turned.
"Maybe we can do something!" yelled Tai.
Izzy nodded.
"Agumon! Warp digivolve to....WarGreymon!"
"Tentomon! Warp digivolve to....HerculesKabuterimon!"
"I can still do it!" said Gabumon, "Gabumon! Warp digivolve to...MetalGarurumon!"
"I want to fight too!" said Patamon.
"Me too!" said Gatomon, Gommamon, and Biyomon.
Suddenly, two knives hit Gommamon and Biyomon.
"Gatomon! Digivolve to...Angewomon!"
Darkleordomon lifted Kari off the balcony and tossed her to the ground.
"She was already injured! Don't hurt her anymore!" yelled Angewomon.
Darkleordomon tossed another knife at Kari on the ground.
"Angewomon! Digivolve to....MagnaDramon!"
Izzy and Tai gasped. In place of Angewomon, there was now a long, snake like pink dragon.
"You guys can do it!" yelled Tai.
WarGreymon immediately jumped into action.
"Tera Force!"
The ball of energy hit Darkleordomon and sent him flying through a far wall of the dome. He quickly recovered and put a new hole in the wall.
"Careful of his staff. Do not let it hit you!" yelled HerculesKabuterimon as he bucked Darkleordomon over to MagnaDramon who wipped him with her tail.
"Why?" she asked.
"Becuase it'll turn you into an Ancient!"
"Trump Sword!"
"What was that?" asked WarGreymon.
"Its your old friend Piedmon!" said the clown digimon as he jumped onto the balcony.
"Tera Force!" yelled WarGreymon.
The blast hit Piedmon in the face and sent him flying through the walls of the dome.
"We need more power!" said MagnaDramon.
Darkleordomon raised his arm and restraints shot from the walls and bound the Megas to the walls of the dome.
"What kind of digimon are you?" asked MetalGarurumon.
"The kind that destroys wimpy Megas like you!"
"What?" asked HerculesKabuterimon.
"Even four Megas cannot defeat one Ultra," answered Darkleordomon, "I am the only one..well...there is one more."
As the connversation between the digimon continued, Tai and Izzy had returned to the red hallway.
"This is bad," said Izzy.
"I know...lets see if anybody survived!" said Tai as he pointed towards a stair case.
Lots of chunks from the walls and cieling had come lose during the fight and Izzy and Tai had trouble climbing through it all.
"Who is the other Ultra?" asked MagnaDramon.
"Lightsormon...I dreaded the day when I'd see him again," said Darkleordomon.
"You havn't seen him lately have you?" asked WarGreymon.
"I'm currently looking at him."
The Megas gasped.
"What?"
Izzy and Tai jumped into the main huge dome room. They looked up to see the Megas pinned on the walls hundreds of feet up. Izzy immediately ran to Sora.
"Sora! Sora! Are you ok?"
Sora looked up.
"I'm ok," she said.
Izzy looked at her skin. He could almost see the floor underneath her.
"Ah! What happened to you?"
Darkleordomon looked down at him.
"Oh, nothing is wrong with her! She's just....Ancient."
"No!" screamed HeruclesKabuterimon, "Your staff and knives turn everything into Ancients!"
Izzy rested his head against Sora's.
"Izzy, don't worry about me right now. Worry about other things..like Darkleordomon."
"No! I love you! I wouldn't leave you...never. Everything will be alright!" said Izzy.
"I-I love you too," said Sora.
Izzy looked down to see that her chest was glowing, along with his. It covered them in warmth and soon took over their whole bodies. It flashed quickly and dissapeared.
"Sora!" yelled Tai.
"What!?" yelled Darkleordomon.
Izzy smiled. Sora was no longer transparent and she was back to being whole. She smiled and wrapped her arms around Izzy.
It was almsot painful for Tai to see them start to kiss. He really liked Sora but now Izzy had her. He looked down at his hand to see it start to turn transparent. No! He couldn't lose himself. He had to think about other things...how happy Izzy and Sora must be. He looked down at them again, hugging each other and smiling brightly. It cheered him up and he returned back to his solid self.
"Everyone! Think happy thoughts!" yelled Tai, "You'll be alright! Just think happy thoughts!"
The room started to glow with light. The Megas broke free of their restraints and the light filled the area around them.
WarGreymon! MetalGarurumon! HeruclesKabuterimon! MagnaDramon! Ultra Morph Digivolve to...Lightsormon!"
Everyone gasped at the site. A large , white digimon hovered in the air. It had a furry head like MagnaDramon and a long, furry cape. It had chest armor like WarGreymon, and back jets like MetalGarurumon. Its arms were like HeruclesKabuterimon, with MetalGarurumon's armor on the hands like gloves. In its hand was a long staff with a diamond on the top.
"We are Lightsormon! The end of you Darkelordomon!"
By now, everyone was back to their normal selves, glowing with light. Darkleordomon twirled his staff and found that it crumbled in his hand. The light from the digidestined and the other digimon stretched upwards and grabbed Darkleordomon's armor and ripped it from his body. Where the digimon's heart should have been, a dark light flowed and pumped darkness all through his body.
Lightsormon twirled his staff and pulled it back. The diamond on top glowed with bright energy. Lightsormon bolted the staff forward with lighting speed and stright into the heart of Darkleordomon. At the speed the staff was going, everyone expected it to fly straight through Darkleordomon but it diidn't. The tip of it emerged from his back, burnt and smoking. The staff slowly worked its way through him, gowing in white and glowing, coming out burnt and charred. Everyone stared in amazement as the staff stopped, the still bright end sticking only inches from the dark leader's body.
Lightsormon twirled in the air and kicked the staff. It pushed itself through Darkleordomon's body and crumbled out the otherside. A bright light shown in Darkleordomon's heart now. He closed his eyes as the lgiht flodded over him and he was deleted.
Lightsormon quickly split and 4 baby digimon fell into their partner's arms.
"Good job digidestined!" came Gennai's voice.
Suddenly, all the Ancients emerged around the room, smiling brightly.
"You've saved us digidestined!" they all roared.
Ogremon and Leomon walked through the crowd.
"Forget about us?" asked Leomon.
"The digiworld will be refortmatted and all the digimon will turn back into digieggs," said Gennai, "but you digidestined will have to go right now. The reformation began the second Darkleordomon was delelted!"
"What about our digimon?" asked Mimi.
"There's no time!" said Gennai as a large portal opened up at the top of the dome. The digidestined gasped as they started lifting upwards towards the ceiling.
"Good bye! You've all been the greatest of friends!" called Kari.
"Don't worry...there's a good chance you'll see them again someday," said Gennai.
"What?" asked Izzy, but he got no answer.
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Epilogue
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Sora opened her eyes. Her and the rest of the digidestined were standing in the observation deck of the same tower that her and Mimi had been in when SkullMeramon attacked them. It was the middle of the night.
"I guess thats's it," said Tai.
"Its too bad we didn't get to say good bye," said T.K.
'Hey, whats that down there?" asked Matt.
The all looked down to see a crowd forming on the ground.
"They must have seen us being teleported here or something," said Kari.
"Come on guys! Lets go!" said Joe.
"I'm not ready to be seen in front of lots of people. I need new clothes. I saw this really cute white top with a star on it and a white skirt to go with it along with these big shoes. Do you think I should die my hair pink?" asked Mimi.
"Whatever?" said Sora as she spun around to face Izzy.
Mimi followed the others into the elevator.
"You guys coming?" asked Matt.
"In a minute!" said Sora, "Go ahead."
"What do you think our parents will say?" asked Sora.
"They'll be prowd!" said Izzy.
"No about us...I'm 6 monthes older than you," said Sora.
"We're currently the same age," said Izzy, "think about Joe and Mimi!"
"Yeah I know! Like a 16 year old and a 14 or 15 year old...wait? How old is Mimi?"
"Beats me...come on, lets get out of here!" said Izzy.
"What's that supposed to meen?" asked Sora.
"Hm..I don't know! Dinner?"