Daichi: The universe is conspiring against these kids.

Vee-Vee: She doesn't own anything

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Over the course of several days, the DigiDestined had finally found each other. Relieved, Frisk SAVED. This turned out to be a good idea. Several times. She also told them about why they were there, leaving out the fact that others had come before them. Sophia wanted to say something, but she convinced her that that was not the point.

Geared up, with the worst of it seemingly behind them, they traveled to Infinity Mountain.

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Devimon hadn't always been that big, had he? In hindsight, maybe having their SOULs available for use would have been a good idea. Devimon seemed to have absorbed both Ogremon and the strange Leomon, although that would be easier to deal with. Devimon's hand came down and ripped the ground right out from under Sophia, where she fell like a rock.

LOAD.

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She had Sophia right by her side this time. In fact, they were all clustered together, maybe not the best idea. The forced landslide fell on all of them.

LOAD.

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They didn't even get out of Primary Village when a random meteor struck.

"Really?" Frisk groaned.

LOAD.

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Try fifty-three. Sans was now willing to help, occasionally. That was what led to this. Flowey still was unwilling to help, Frisk figured he found her suffering entertaining.

Sans was good at dodging and could teleport. He was probably the most dangerous monster she knew. But even he could fail.

"No!" It wasn't her who cried out or Charnette, or any of the humans, actually.

It was Toy.

LOAD.

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That last timeline... had been different. This would be Frisk's fifty-fourth attempt at defeating Devimon. Maybe she was going about this the wrong way. So, to be entirely certain, she decided to meet with Sans and Flowey in private.

She didn't know why Toy was there. So she asked.

"I... um..." Toy shrunk behind Sans. At that moment, Frisk recalled something. Centarumon had told her and Sophia. There had been DigiDestined before this group. For some unknown reason, this group had to have their memories wiped. One of the Digimon had time powers.

And a member of the first group had recently returned. She had shrugged that piece of information off, when she first heard it, but...

"Toy..." She had to know. It made too much sense. "Do you know your Digivolution path, by any chance?"

He nodded, as much as it was possible for a being that was all head to nod. "Botamon, Koromon, ToyAgumon, Clockmon... I know there's something beyond that, but I can't quite remember..."

"That... makes so much sense." Of course he couldn't Digivolve! It was easier for her to Digivolve Terriermon if she kept herself together. If she broke down completely, she doubted her partner could Digivolve at all. And she had a Digivice to help her.

No wonder Toy couldn't Digivolve, if his partner didn't have his Digivice and was horribly depressed.

"What does?" He seemed to actually be clueless. Sure, she could possibly be wrong, but...

"You have time powers." It wasn't a question.

"As a Clockmon, and I could even share some of the basics, but I can't even become Koromon anymore. I don't know why..." It made way too much sense. She supposed the only thing keeping her from realizing it sooner was the fact that it was easy to overlook the little puffball.

"What do you mean, you could share them?"

"Well, I could mess with time, and when I did, I could have people remember that I did so, and what happened before."

"Could you change time relative to a specific area?"

"I think so... I might have done it before, but I just can't remember!" That was it. She was right. She wasn't sure what to say about that, though. What a friend did during a time nobody could clearly remember was not a topic that generally came up in normal conversation.

"Thanks... This will be the time we defeat Devimon. I'm sure of it." It occurred to her that Flowey and Sans hadn't actually added much to the conversation.

"If... if the only casualties are Digimon, it'll be fine. We just come back as Digi-Eggs." She nodded. That would make things easier.

"About what we were going to talk about... never mind. I have an idea."

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Gargomon and Gaogamon attacked Devimon from one side. Shurimon, Leomon, and Meramon attacked from the other. Dorugamon was in charge of aerial assault while Sans occasionally threw a bit of magic around.

Her plan was to figure out how to trigger Renamon's Digivolution. Charnette was right beside her, but thrusting her into danger was on her list of worst plans possible. Flowey, from his spot on her head, made sarcastic remarks.

"Honestly, how do you expect us to believe you have a plan if you won't tell us?" What was Charnette's main trait again? The answer came to her immediately. Patience. But how could she exploit that? If anything, it would be a hindrance to Digivolution.

She needn't have worried. Devimon turned to them and lashed out. Renamon moved quickly to get them out of the way, but she wouldn't be fast enough.

"Renamon Digivolve to Kyubimon!"

With now eight Champion Digimon, they could go onto the offensive.

"Everyone, split up and attack from different angles," Frisk ordered. They did so, and Kyubimon started moving to the top of the mountain. Next to her, Charnette's eyes lost focus for a moment, before crying out in the direction of the mountaintop.

"No! You can't!" She was going to ask what the younger girl meant. The others were doing decent damage, and mostly managing to avoid getting struck. Ogremon and the other Leomon, while she'd like to help them, just didn't seem to be possible.

It was when Kyubimon leaped off of the mountain, already forming a Dragon Wheel, that she realized what was happening.

Digimon could be reborn if they died. Charnette didn't know that.

The fox Digimon tore right through the middle of Devimon's body and hit the ground hard. Too hard.

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Charnette simply stared at the Digi-Egg containing her partner. She didn't respond to anything anybody tried. It was like what just happened had simply... broken her.

Still, Devimon was gone. And that was an improvement. Frisk had promised to do whatever it took to keep people happy... but this had been the best run yet, the only one that allowed them to defeat Devimon.

She just hoped, if the truth came out about her powers, that Charnette could find it in her heart to forgive her.

SAVE.

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Daichi: You know how those that climb Mt. Ebott don't do it for happy reasons? This is the result.