Spheres of Power

Shadow- "Another new chapter. Yay! I'm so happy..."

Renamon- "Sure... Shadow does not own digimon."

Shadow- "Nope! But regardless, please R&R!"

unknown world

The digidestined leaped out of the portal, digivices in hand, ready to digivolve and defeat Savadramon. There was only one problem: the dark dragon was nowhere to be seen. The digidestined looked around, confused, and saw that they were on a snow covered ledge, with a giant wall off to their left.

Henry sighed. "Wait a minute... we've been here..."

Izzy wrinkled his brow. "That's odd. Why would it bring us here?"

Tai shrugged. "I dunno, but I know who might."

Izzy nodded, and walked over to the wall where the panel had been last time. Henry shook his head, and muttered "More importantly, how did it find the digital world's mainframe, and how did it create a portal here?"

After a few moments, flickering lights apeared on the wall, forming lines that outlined the gigantic door. The digidestined looked at each other, then walked inside the digital world's mainframe. The doors ground shut behind them, leaving only footprints in the snow to mark their passing.

mainframe

The digidestined walked out of the hallway, and found themselves in the central chamber, containing the forest, mountains, oceans, and the sacred spire, which seemed to hang suspended from the ceiling, as the bottom half had collapsed inward, and lay in a pile of rubble in the bottom of the basin.

The digidestined stared in awe for a moment, before a slight growl off to their left startled them. They turned, and saw Huanglongmon there, staring at them. The dragon sighed.

"Greetings again, children. I'm not exactly sure how you got here, but it's just as well that you did. I would have called you here soon enough anyways."

Izzy blinked. "Why?"

As an answer, the dragon said. "Follow me," spread his wings, and flew off towards the center of the chasm, where the remains of the spire hung. The digidestined looked at each other, shrugged, and took out their digivices.

mainframe, remains of the sacred spire

Riding on the backs of their ultimate digimon, the digidestined followed Huanglongmon to the bottom part of the hanging spire. The dragon flew upwards through the middle of the spire, his wings clipping the stairs on the sides. The digidestined followed, and soon found themselves in the room where Takato, Izzy, Botta, and Trish had been brought back to life. Rika looked off to her left at the hole Huanglongmon had made to escape when the bottom half of the tower had collapsed. She briefly wondered about the safety of the structure, before the dragon started to speak again, drawing everyone's attention to him, and the three balls of energy next to him.

"These," said Huanglongmon as he gestured at the energy spheres, "are what I have been creating since I saw the damage the dark digimon had caused to the digital world. I have been diverting power from the main processors, and have slowly been collecting it in these spheres."

"What exactly do they do?" Trish asked skeptically.

"Right now, nothing." the dragon answered. "But once the power collection is complete, they will contain enough energy to collapse the fabric of space time upon itself."

Izzy raised his eybrows, Justin whistled appreciatively, and Henry nodded. When Huanglongmon saw that no one else understood him, he clarified. "Basically, it destroys whatever universe it is in."

The effect was immediate. There were gasps, more whistling, and Tai shouted out "All right! When are they ready?"

Huanglongmon shifted slightly. "I'm... not entirely sure... It should be within the next few days, but..."

Justin looked like he was thinking for a moment, then said "Didn't we use wishes to bring back Takato and the others?"

The dragon paused, then nodded slowly. "Yes... but the energy required to bring back a human is, if you don't mind me saying, inconsequential. The energy needed for these weapons is incomparatively larger."

"Well, if the weapons are almost done, then we might be able to finish the job." said Rika.

Huanglongmon hesitated for a moment. "But..."

Takuya sighed. "Look, what's the worst that could happen?"

Huanglongmon nodded. "The worst would be that there is not enough energy, in which case it would speed up the process of..." The dragon looked over at the spheres. "I suppose we can try it."

The digidstined waited for a minute while the dragon moved the spheres to the correct spot on the platform, then nodded. "Okay. It's ready. Start wishing."

The digidestined closed their eyes, and started wishing. Everything was quiet for a few moments. Then, the platform began to glow faintly, and the balls of energy began to condense. Though all three had been pure white, as the balls grew more compact, one turned scarlet, one turned emerald, and one turned amethyst. The three balls warped for a few moments under the constant light of the platform, until all three had become perfect spheres, and floated slowly to the floor.

Some of the digidestined cheered, Tai yelled out "Let's go kick some ass!" and Huanglongmon smiled, then frowned.

The light from the platform suddenly charged. The light began to flicker, the platform began to shake, knocking the three balls off, and a shadowy figure appeared on the platform. Though it looked different somehow, its outline was nearly identical to the digimon that had fought against them on the beach, and had first opened a portal to the mainframe...