DAY 7 PART 1

The tall man in the dark red business suit was waiting crossed armed inside of the warehouse. He was expecting a visitor who was very late.

"Hey, I'm here. Sorry to keep you waiting." a voice behind him said.

"What was the cause of your lateness?" the tall man asked without facing the voice's owner.

"I'll have you now that I've got other things to do today. Anyway, why did you call me?"

"It is already the last day of the Odaiba Games." the tall man said. "There is a slight possibility that our current Game Master will actually get destroyed."

"I actually wouldn't be surprised if that happened." the voice said.

"Anyway, I called you here to check on your progress. How are you doing exactly?"

"I"m doing pretty well." the voice answered. "I've been killing off all those Digimon like you said."

"How many exactly?"

"I dunno. But it's definitely enough to impress you and our boss, right?"

"Correct." the man said with a nod. "With your skills, I am already considering you to be the Game Master next week."

"Aw thanks." the voice said slyly. "Anyway, I gotta go. Something's just come up. Call me when you need me."

And with hat. the voice vanished. The tall man stood alone before vanishing as well.

Gabumon woke up feeling refreshed and full of energy. Looking to his right, he saw Palmon, still sleeping soundly, and remembered the events of the previous day. He was so happy that he had her but then a sad thought crossed his mind.

Just then, Palmon woke up. "Ahhh. Morning Gabumon." she said planting a kiss on his cheek.

"Hey Palmon." he said sadly.

"What's wrong?" she asked putting on a concerned face.

"Well, it's just...it's the last day." Gabumon said finally.

"I know. If we win today, we can get our memories back and go back to our lives." Palmon said with a winning smile.

"Yeah, I know but," Gabumon hesitated a bit. "what of it's our last day? What if we live completely different live and have to separate once we win?"

The smile vanished off of Palmon's face and was replaced by a frown. "Y..you're right. I...I can't bear leaving you Gabumon..."

"What do we do?" Gabumon asked. There was a long silence between the two.

"I know." Gabumon said after a while. "Let's make a promise."

"Huh?" Palmon asked.

Gabumon extended his hand. "Let's promise that no matter how different our lives are, we'll see each other again."

Palmon smiled and took his hand and hugged him. He returned it hopping that he would be able to keep that promise.

Beep! Beep! Their devices sounded. They parted and looked at their last mission for the week.

Defeat Game Master Billy Bubson at the top of the Fuji TV Station. You have 200 minutes. Fail and be erased.

Special Rules for the last day:

1) This is the last mission for the week. The team who finishes will win the games.

2) DL's can now directly attack players.

3) Players may attack other players if they want to.

Good luck; you will all need it.

-the DL's

"Argh!" The timer burned onto their hands.

"'Good luck; you will all need it?' That's pretty helpful advice." Palmon said sarcastically. And they were off.

"Y'know, I think it's a bad thing they told us where Billy is." Gabumon said after a while.

"What do you mean?" asked Palmon.

"Now, everyone knows where to go so we're all going to end up converging at one spot. That'll make it easier for them to wipe us all out at the same time."

"Or it's the right for us to fight other players." Palmon continued. "We should be prepared; we could be attacked any moment by players or DL's."

Gabumon nodded in agreement and they were now more careful during the rest of their journey. They kept their eyes and ears open for any kind of attack. But it wasn't really necessary; no one attacked them along their way to the TV station. They were there in a matter of minutes.

"So far so good." said Gabumon.

"Don't; you'll jinx it." Palmon warned.

"Oh c'mon; what could possibly-"

"YAAARRRRRGGGG!"

The scream came from a street nearby. Gabumon and Palmon ran over to check out what was going on.

"Hookmon? Shamanmon?" Gabumon said at the sight of them. They were panting as if they were trying to get away from something.

"What happened to you two?" Palmon asked.

"We ain't got time fer talk!" Hookmon yelled. "We gotta run!"

"What's wrong? Are Levi and Manfred attacking you?" Palmon said before taking a battle stance.

Shamanmon shook his head. "N-no. It's-"

But at that exact moment, his eyes widened in shock as a shadow came over them. The next thing he knew, Shamanmon felt a sharp pain and looking down, he saw a blade sticking out of his chest.

The blade withdrew and Shamanmon fell to the ground unmoving. Before Hookmon could react, the blade's owner swung his sword and slashed Hookmon in the neck and he fell down just as his partner did.

Gabumon and Palmon watched the whole thing helplessly. They turned to the one who owned the sword.

"Dinohyumon!"

Gabumon and Palmon suddenly remembered something and looked back. There several feet from them stood Strikedramon with a pin in his hand.

"Desolation Claw!"

He slashed the air, sending several bursts of energy to fire from his hand. Gabumon immediately countered with Metal Wolf Claw and the two attacks exploded when they came in contact. When the smoke cleared, Strikedramon and his partner were standing before Gabumon and Palmon.

"H-How could you do that?" Palmon yelled at Dinohyumon.

"Hmm?" he said. "What do you mean?"

"Shamanmon had a family! And Hookmon had a partner!" Palmon said angrily. "Now they're never going to go back to them!"

"So? It doesn't matter to us." Strikedramon said seriously. "We will win these games no matter the cost. Even if we must destroy you!"

Pulling out his huge sword Akinakes, Dinohyumon leapt into the air; Gabumon and Palmon dodged apart to avoid the attack. Palmon shot him with Flower Canon but he used the broad side of his sword to block it.

"Strike Fang!"

Strikedramon's body burst into flames and he rocketed towards Gabumon. The latter side stepped and avoided it but the flaming dragon did a 180 degree turn and came back at him. Gabumon dodged it again but he was starting to get tired; it didn't help that Strikedramon was keeping up his attacks.

Meanwhile, Palmon was dodging swings from Dinohyumon's large sword. Occasionally, she tried hitting him with her vines but they ended up dodged or swatted back. Palmon tried a Needle Spray but it too was blocked.

"Darn! I can't hit him!" Gabumon yelled as he dodged another lunge from his opponent.

"Wanna switch?" Palmon asked.

Gabumon nodded and Palmon tried to coil her vines to stop the flaming Strikedramon. She ended up burning herself which made her attempt pretty useless.

Gabumon on the other hand, wasn't having much luck either. He tried to attack Dinohyumon but he always ended up having to evade one of his sword slashes.

Things weren't looking good for them. In a matter of minutes, Palmon and Gabumon stood next to each other panting in exhaustion. Their opponents weren't even tired.

"I...I can't keep up with them..." Gabumon panted.

Across them, Dinohyumon was glaring at them. "We have fought for too long. It's time we end this!"

He leapt high into the air again and raised his sword. But before he could bring it down, what looked like a large tornado slammed into his chest knocking him into the wall of a nearby building. Strikedramon looked at his partner in shock before a second tornado knocked him off his feet.

The fallen Digimon recovered and gasped at their attackers: two rabbit Digimon.

"Honestly, do we always have to pull your buts from the fire?" Terriermon asked.

"Actually, we're doing pretty fine." Gabumon replied. "Wanna team up at least to beat these guys?"

Terriermon and Lopmon nodded. The latter held up a pin and said: "Hey guys, watch this!"

"Bǎo Fǔ!"

"Tiny Twister!"

Lopmon's long ears sprouted axe heads on both sides of it. She jumped, spun and formed a bladed tornado that went straight for Dinohyumon. He swung his sword to block the attack but Lopmon's attack was too strong and Dinohyumon ended up knocked back a few feet.

"Good one Lopmon!" Palmon cheered.

"Yeah, but this one's just a good!" Terriermon yelled before jumping into the air.

"Tri-Beam!"

A beam of light formed from his outstretched ears and it connected to his feet forming a large green triangle. He fired the triangle at Dinohyumon and knocked him out cold. Strikedramon growled angrily at the sight of his fallen partner and brought out his Cyberdramon pin again.

"He's gonna attack! Give him everything you've got!" Gabumon yelled. He pulled out his MetalGarurumon pin, Palmon her Lilymon pin, Terriermon his MegaGargomon pin and Lopmon her Cherubimon pin.

"Desolation Claw!"

"Metal Wolf Claw!"

"Flower Canon!"

"Gargo Missile!

"Lightning Spear!"

Strikedramon's attack was easily overpowered by the combined attacks of his opponents. His attack was nullified and four different attacks hit him right on. There was a huge explosion and the mighty Strikedramon fell unconscious just as his partner did. His opponents cheered for their victory.

"Hey, should we erase them?" Gabumon asked.

"Nah, that's not my thing." Terriermon replied. Then, there was silence as the truth dawned on them.

"You guys really want to win huh?" Palmon asked.

"Yeah." Lopmon replied. "You guys too?"

Gabumon and Palmon nodded and Terriermon said: "Then there's just one thing we gotta do..."

Gabumon and Palmon remained silent. Frightened, they thought Terriermon and Lopmon might turn on them but then, Terriermon turned around and said:

"We'll just have to beat Billy before you guys! See ya!"

With that, he ran off towards the TV station. Lopmon remained and said: "Well...uh...bye guys."

"You better catch up to him." Gabumon said. "He might run into trouble and get erased and you're not there."

"Oh don't worry about that." Lopmon said as she ran after her partner. "I'll never let that happen." she whispered seriously.

"Well, this is it." Palmon said."

"Let's show Billy that it was a mistake to kill us." said Gabumon and they too ran to the station.