This chapter made me cry TWICE. I blame you, TK!
TK: Why me?!
Cause you're the in-series reason we got the first two season! ;-;
"Cody!" Yolei gasped, "What're you doing?!"
The boy was dragging Oikawa's semi-lifeless body to the Digital World.
"Almost there!" Cody exclaimed, before Oikawa nearly fell again, "Don't give up! Get up! You have to try! We're almost to the Digital World!"
The other Next gen ran over to Cody and Oikawa.
"Thank you… Cody. If only I had your optimism I wouldn't have ended up with such a sad fate… But I was unable to maintain hope through the bad times and I drowned in my despair… If only I had friends like you… or allowed myself to have them…"
A flash of light; a strange digimon appeared.
"Yukio!" the digimon yelled out.
"What's this…?" Oikawa asked.
"Who is this Digimon?" Cody asked.
"I'm Datirimon! I'm Yukio's partner Digimon!" Datirimon replied.
"Oikawa's… partner Digimon?" Ken asked in shock.
"Hey! Check it out! This little guy's here for you, Oikawa!" Davis exclaimed.
"He's mine…?"
"Its been a long time! I've been waiting practically forever!"
"He's mine! I don't believe it!" Oikawa was grinning…
"Wait a minute… don't you remember me?" Datirimon asked.
"Of course… I remember you… Its just been so long since I've seen you… Since my happier days with Hiroki…"
"Well, better late than never! Come into the Digital World!" Datirimon exclaimed joyously.
"This is your chance! All you have to do is stand up and walk into the Digital World! C'mon!" Cody encouraged.
"He may not have the strength, Cody… His body was badly damaged by having MaloMyotismon inside of him… I'm afraid he doesn't have much time left." Gennai, in his younger form, stated.
"What? No…" Cody said, looking devastated.
"Is that… the Digital World?" Oikawa spoke up, "It seems so rough… somehow… Unfinished."
"A lot of energy was used up to defeat Malomyotismon." Gennai explained, "And because of that, the Digital World itself was weakened… I'm afraid its going to take a lot of hard work before it is back to the way it was before all of this happened."
"The power of the other world… ugh…"
"The other world…?"
"We can use it to make dreams come true…" Oikawa sighed.
"So what do you plan to do?" Kari questioned.
"My body is too weak to go on but I won't need it." Oikawa stated, before he began to glow, Cody gasping.
"Wait! There must be another way!" TK exclaimed.
"Hold on to your optimism and your dreams, and especially your friends, Cody… Perhaps if I had been more like you, I could've had adventures too…" the man was fading...
"You still can! You finally made it to the Digital World and found your partner digimon, didn't you?! Mr. Oikawa!" Cody exclaimed, not wanting his father's old friend to leave.
Oikawa smiled as he faded away into butterflies that flew into the Digital World.
"Are you going so soon? But we just met again!" Datirimon exclaimed in sadness.
"Don't worry… I'll always be here inside the Digital World… I shall protect it! Goodbye Digidestined, and thank you!"
Oikawa transformed himself into energy… and used his life force to revitalize the Digital World… He restored all of the beauty that was nearly completely destroyed by Malomyotismon. He'll be protecting the Digital World… Forever…
Of course, that doesn't mean he won't need the Chosen Children's help to protect it. And when he does, we'll be there.