The Winged Horse

Shadow- "Hey everybody... I'm afraid I have bad news..."

Renamon- "You're actually dead, and the thing talking to us is your ghost?"

Shadow- "Um... no... why...?"

Renamon- "What? It's not like I'm planning some hostile takeover, or something."

Shadow- "..."

Renamon- "..."

Shadow- "O... kay... well, what I was going to say was that I'm going on vacation for Thanksgiving, so I won't be able to update for a week or so."

Renamon- "Oh... yeah, that makes sense... Shadow does not own digimon."

Shadow- "Well, all I have to say before I leave is: enjoy the chapter, and REVIEW!"

n. digital world

The next day, after a night where nobody got much sleep, the digidestined returned to their meeting place in the digital world. After making sure that everyone was there, Tai nodded.

"Good, everyone's here. Now, let's get going!"

"Hold on a minute," said Henry, "Which dark world are we going to?"

Tai gave him a blank look for a moment, then started. "Oh, yeah..."

Henry sighed. "Look, if we don't know where we're going, half of us will end up in the wrong place..."

Tai blinked. "...I was thinking of destroying our dark world next."

"Why?" Henry asked.

"...well..." Tai said, drawing out the word as long as possible.

Takuya piped up. "I think we should destroy our dark world next. After all, we started with the weakest one, and yours is the strongest. Ours should be destroyed next."

"What makes you sure that yours is weaker?" Matt asked.

Kouji snorted. "If what you said earlier is true, you've had to deal with five or six different evil digimon. We've only had to deal with one."

"Yeah, well..." Tai started.

Kouji cut him off. "Look, just because you couldn't get a decent crest..."

"What's wrong with Courage?" Tai, Davis, Takato, and Takuya said angrily.

Rika answered for Kouji. "Courage is a lack of knowledge. If you're feeling confident about a situation, then you're obviously too stupid to know what's really going on."

"What the hell's your problem?!" Tai shouted. "Look, just because your boyfriend's dead..."

"He's not dead!" Rika shouted. Renamon and Agumon shifted, preparing for battle.

"Umm... guys?" Izzy said. "Aren't we supposed to be fighting the bad guys?"

Tai and Rika continued to glare at each other, but their digimon backed down.

Izzy nodded. "Look, I think I have an easy way to solve this whole thing; let's just go in the order we did when we were trying to save the digital worlds."

Tai grumbled, but everyone else agreed, and everyone took out their digivices. "Digiport open!"

unknown world

"Look, I really don't see where the problem is."

"Then get some glasses! What you're saying doesn't make sense!"

"Doesn't it? It explains why Tai and the others have never truly succeeded. It explains why good wins, but evil returns to try again. And it explains, how against all odds, things will always return to a balance in the end."

"W-well..."

"I'm not asking you to hurt anybody. I'm only asking-"

"I heard you the first time!"

"..."

"...sorry..."

"Then why has your answer not changed? You see reason in my statements, and yet..."

"...look, how about you try listening to me for once? If the world was really like that... I can't accept it... how everything is just useless..."

"And yet you still cannot-"

"You've said lots of things to support your claims, but nothing to disprove what we believe!"

"..."

"What?"

"I see. You are too stubborn to be of use... though they might have listened to you..."

"Why wouldn't they have?"

"They would not have listened to your black-haired friend."

"Who? Kouji? Is he-"

"Do not worry. You shall rejoin your friends soon enough..."

dark ocean, frontier

The digidestined stepped out of their portals. Kari shivered slightly, but no one noticed. Everyone started to take out their digivices, but there was no need. Directly in front of them stood a control spire.

"Well, that was easy." Tim said.

"Good, now can we hurry this up?" Jen asked. "This place really creeps me out."

The others nodded, and moved forward towards the black spire, when they heard wing-beats in the air. A shining white winged horse flew over them, and landed between them and the control spire. It nodded. "Good, I'm not too late..."

"Who are you?" Jen asked.

"I? I am a servant of Sacrosamon, defender of the heavens. I am here to stop you."

"Oh?" Rika said. "You and what army?"

The horse sighed. "He was afraid of this. You will not speak peaceably. You are single-minded, stubborn, and in this case, doing the wrong thing!"

"Hey!" Davis yelled. "Who's doing the wrong thing?!"

The horse shook its head, and its mane swished back and forth. "Oh well... still, I should be powerful enough to stop you..."

The winged horse cocked its head back, shouted "Pegasus Fire!", and shot a blast of energy directly into the middle of the group of digidestined.