"well one things for certain if you don't get these kids to bed soon they'll never be able to stay awake for school"

"I get it mom, I'll wrap things up quickly" (turns back to the kids) "well now you know the story of the war that lasted on earth for many years between people and digimon"

"why don't we learn this in history?"

"simple, because after peace was restored and even though there is a series written by an actual digidestined who lived through that stuff it was decided that it was better for kids to learn about it in libraries and from parents who passed down the stories"

"but why?"

"because the governments of the world weren't sure the history books would do the war and the digidestined justice. Now then your grandmother is right, off to bed you have school in the morning"

and so the kids all go to there rooms and get ready for bed. While that happens there grandmother also goes to her room to sleep and while getting ready she goes into a pretty severe coughing fit. Her daughter comes in soon after with an inhaler and sighs while her mother takes the medicine

"it's happening sooner then they predicted isn't it?"

(sighs) "yes, it is, it's simply progressing at a far greater pace then predicted. They don't know if it's because of what I did to myself as the permanent digidestined or if it's something to do with the three year period of amnesia but I'll be gone by the end of the year more than likely"

"but mom that's too soon, we still need you to cope with John's death..I need you mom, I don't know if I can take care of this baby on my own"

the mother stares at her daughter in shock

"baby?, you're having another baby?"

(nods) "yes mom, we found out shortly before he died that I was pregnant again"

"how far along?"

"four months, I'll start showing by the fifth month"

"do the kids know yet?"

(shakes her head) "no, I haven't really been able to since all of us have been trying to get back into some sort of routine after the crash. We were actually planning on telling the kids on his birthday"

"I'm sure the two of them will love to hear that they're going to have another sibling"

"yeah, but mom, I was wondering something"

"what?"

"why didn't you let us tell the kids when we found out seven months ago that you were dying?"

"because of the fact that it would upset them...there's something else I never told you Sandra"

"what mom?"

(sighs) "remember a month before John's death when we had two visitors come to our house?"

"yeah you were bed ridden with the flu"

(coughs) "those two were actually Genai and Azulongmon"

"they came back after all these years?"

"yes...they could sense that I was dying and came to see if there was anything they could do that would either slow the disease down or cure it"

(sighs) "let me guess, they couldn't find one"

"not exactly Sandra, there is one way to keep me alive but...I don't know if I should take it"

"why not? I mean if it keeps you alive..."

"there's a price Sandra, one I'm not sure you're willing to pay, especially since we've also never told the kids my connection to the digidestined"

"what's the price?"

(sighs) "to survive this disease I'm going to have to go to the digital world and first become like Genai"

"you mean a really old person in a young person's body?"

"sort of, you see the original digidestined were never actually able to physically see him in all their time in the digital world"

"what but the stories you've told..."

"all we ever saw were projected images. Years later when all those portals showed up Genai took digivitamins and physically came to the digital world as several different people to help us out. When he did that he was physically with us"

"what's the second part mom?"

"I turn into a digimon which means I can be destroyed and then turned into a digi egg and go through all the evolutions"

"would you...would you remember us?...remember that you were once human?"

"initially yes" (takes in a deep breath of oxygen) "but they say over time or if I get destroyed first I'll forget who I used to be so that I'm not hindered in battle by flashbacks of the battles I fought in my human form"

"so there's no other way except that?"

"exactly, and the two of them talked to my doctors before even proposing it to me"

"why?"

"because due to the weakened state I'm in and continue to be in I may not even survive the procedure and they wanted to ask how long I had before I absolutely must make my decision one way or another"

"do they know about the progression?"

"probably, I have a doctors appointment tomorrow to see just how severe the disease is, the two of them should be there tomorrow because they've come to all of my appointments since that day except for the past month because of the fact that they knew I needed time with my family to mourn"

"mom you're so sick that you might not last to tomorrow"

(sighs) "I know Sandra, if push comes to shove though the doctors have been given permission to make the decision for me"

they go quiet and then Sandra sepaks up

"I know that I'll miss you terribly and I don't even know how I'll explain it to the kids but I think you should take them up on their offer"

"even though I'll never see you again and will eventually forget my own family?"

(nods) "yes, besides mom, you're the last of the first two generations, I'm sure the third generation will understand"

"very well then I'll accept the procedure tomorrow"

unfortunately they would never get the chance to wait the entire night. Sandra called emergency services close to midnight hearing her mother in distress and she was rushed to the hospital where her doctor quickly went to a computer to contact two very important people and they hooked her up to oxygen and medicines that would help her breathing. An hour later Genai and Azulongmon who was in human form showed up in the hospital and saw a very anxious Sandra