Jetting through the air, heading back to the battlefield straight ahead, Metal Garurumon found that he had gained a complete control over his new power, just like when he first digivolved from Dobermon to Cerberumon, it didn't took him a single practice. Being merely Metal Garurumon's second flight, he could already balance himself fairly well while carrying Akio and Kin on his back.

'Any new cards, Akio?'

Reminded, the red head checked his card deck and found a few cards that had Metal Garurumon's picture printed.

'This seems to be nice.' Akio mumbled and slide the card along the track on the digivice.

'Garuru Burst.'

'What's it?' Metal Garurumon uttered as he felt something going on with him. First, it was his vision; it was like a translucent blue layer coated on his vision, with a lot of marking going on, the most obvious were the cross hairs locked on the three Diablomons. And then there was the sound of metal panels sliding, and his gatling gun's barrows started rotating.

'Guess you would like to get off me.' Said Metal Garurumon as he slowed down.

After he felt the weight of the two boys had gone, and ensured that they had really gone, he took off again.

Missiles were shot from all the launches as bullets were shot continuously from the three barrows of the gatling gun. The whole scene, which was filled with missiles and bullets, was missive, yet only the three Diablomons were hit. Everyone, included Metal Garurumon himself, was shocked by how accurate and destructive the attack was.

'We can hardly hurt one even when combined our forces.' Darkdramon gored, 'and you shot them to half death in just a minute.'

'Better equipments.' Metal Garurumon replied, 'Am I gonna take all the fun, or you guys would share some?'

Darkdramon smiled upon hearing Metal Garurumon's statement, then got his head back on his lance and waved it at the Diablomon that was closest to him. The well result of Metal Garurumon's attack didn't only weakened the three Diablomons, but also cheered up the team. With the aid of the encouraging atmosphere, the fight soon ended with the victory of the digi-destined and with the Diablomons' breaking down into bits of data.

But that was not the end of the event. With all the blasts in the battle, it was inevitable to set part of the woods on fire. It took not much effort, though, to put it out with the coroporation of the team.

'Feel like we're getting stronger and stronger.' Said Katsumi

'Looking good.' Reiko commented, also on Metal Garurumon

Moving both hands in front of the face, Metal Garurumon gasped a better understanding of his own outlook. 'I'm blue now. Wonder if that suits me.'

'Better than black,' said Akio, 'I quit like the shinny metallic blue. It's definitely better than to digivolve to Plutomon.'

'Yep, definitely better.' Metal Garurumon replied, 'so I do can choose my own mega form.'

'How was it like? Choosing a form?' asked Chessmon, 'I have never faced this. All the digivolvtion just seems so natural that I don't have to, or it's not up to me to choose.'

'Actually…' Metal Garurumon faced the ground, sunken in deep consideration and recalling the moment when he changed from Cerberumon to Metal Garurumon. 'I didn't think much of my mega form back then. I was just focusing on saving Akio, and before I knew, I can fly.'

'So it is not your choice after all.' Darkdramon added

'Never mind.' Metal Garurumon murmured

'We've got another problem.' WarGerymon pointed out, 'How are we gonna call you? Your name has got like six syllabuses.'

'Just give a nick name.' Katsumi suggested, 'like how Akio calls you 'dotty'.'

'How about just calling you 'Metal'?' Reiko asked Metal Garurumon, 'you know, the first word of your name.'

'Sounds dumb.' Akio commented

'Nah, it's quite good.' Said Metal Garurumon out of the blue, 'quite catchy too.'

'Catchy?' said Akio with wiry face

'I've made up my mind, Metal it is.' Said Metal Garurumon firmly

'Fine.' Akio sighed

The afternoon that had come to pass was boring as usual. Same as usual, the teens ate, chatted, and joked around. Though it seemed that the goal of reaching the Duke was already being forgotten, the team was still trying hard to figure a way out of the island.

There was one particular event in the afternoon that had gained the digi-destined hope again, however, when Akio received a message from Plaka. It was said that Whamon had fully recovered, though most of the digi-destined doubted that. They had seen Whamon's wound themselves, and by the judgment of WarGerymon, the most experienced in the team, it would take days for the whale digimon to recover, fully. It was only their second day on the island, when they actually counted, the illusion of being in the island for weeks was a strong one, since they were bored out of their minds.

Yet, the most encouraging part was the second half of the message, stating Whamon would go pick them up on the next day's night. In a sudden, the team had once more, the thought of accomplishing their goal.

'Can we make it in time?' asked Kin, 'we've got only five days left.'

'After calculating the ratio of our traveling time to the distance we've traveled,' Reiko informed, 'if Whamon really were going to pick us up tomorrow, we would make it just in time.'

'That is pleasing.' Said Akio, 'And there's nothing we can do?'

'Nothing.' WarGerymon answered.

Day 44

Morning, same beach, same food, same things to do, same boredom.

The team had got everything they needed on the beach, well, everything but entertainment, and so they decided to stay there. It wasn't everyone's decision, though. Being chosen as default leader, Akio made the choice of staying, as Whamon could come to them at any time, although it was said that the whale digimon would arrive at night, somewhere deep in the red head's heart feared that if the whale digimon came early and they were deep in the jungle exploring, they would miss their sole ride. The same concern occurred in Reiko's mind as well, and that was the reason for their disagreement of Katsumi and Kin's suggestion, being to explore deep down the cliff, just to kill time. They respected the leader's decision, any way.

Just when the repeating melody of the sea's wave almost drove everyone mad, what seemed to be impossible happened. There were strong waves on the sea surface, signaling that something big was approaching. Hopefully that would be Whamon. The water that had been waved up formed a wall that blocked the team's vision to assess to the approaching object. The anticipation, however, fell along with the water wall, as the shad of a long necked dinosaur like creature was revealed; undoubtedly that was UltimateBrakimon.

'Yet again?' Akio couldn't help spiting out the words, and once again he forgotten to care about Kin's feeling

UltimateBrakimon had no action yet, just rested along side the coast, while Jun jumped off from his back. The blonde girl stood there, looked down, hands griped the sides of her jeans; her tiny steps showed a tendency of stepping back.

'I'm leaving this to you.' Akio told Kin, 'Guys, back off.'

Silence fell next, with Kin walking slowly toward the blonde, while the girl just stayed at her spot fix. After a few step the blue haired boy started running, hiding no more his desire of seeing Jun, even though she might still be an enemy. Running fast, but to the boy, it still felt like the longest distance he had ever traveled.

'Is it right to leave him alone?' Reiko asked, 'She might be here to kill us, who knows what kind of twists are inside Plutomon's head?'

'Then why didn't you just run there and stop him?' Akio replied

The white haired girl simply sighed.

Upon reaching Jun, the first thing that came up in Kin's mind was- nothing. Every thing he did was as if an natural reaction. He pulled the blonde into a hug without thinking.

Jun, however, resisted, and struggled to get herself free from the blue haired boy.

'Let me go.' The blonde uttered

'No, not this time.' Kin uttered back. He had to take a whole lot of air to get ready for the next thing to be said. It was easy to show, but it unexpectedly took a lot of guts for the boy say it. 'I love you, Jun.'

'I don't worth it.' she whispered bitterly, with tears falling from her narrowed eyes, ran along her cheek and down to the boy's shirt, wetted it.

'That should be up for me to decide, and I say you definitely worth it.'

The little words did a great effort of convincing Jun as the blonde stopped resisting and rested her head on Kin's shoulder.

The action didn't last long though, as the couple moved their faces towards each other's direction, until their lips met, and then pressed gently.

'Can't believe we're taking a peek on them.' Commented Akio. Though being at far away from the blue haired boy and blonde girl, and from Akio's angle they seemed to be the size of the mini figures that came with some scaled models, he could still clearly see every movement of the couple.

'If you feel uncomfortable, you can just look away.' Reiko reminded him

'Just aren't they look cute?' Katsumi commented

'Our little Kin has finally became a man.' Darkdramon joked

The couple from far away had finally turned to the digi-destined, waved at them as a sign of calling them to go to them.

'Whamon isn't coming, am I right?' it was the first thing that Akio asked when he met with Jun.

'How did you…?' Jun asked back in surprise. She was not the only one that felt surprise towards Akio's conclusion.

'I see you've changed back to your old outfit,' said Akio, 'which is suppose to be stored in your home's closet. Meaning that you had been back to Plaka. And the rest of you being here to take Whamon's place was just my imagination.'

'Then your instinct is quite accurate.' Said UltimateBrakimon

'What happened, actually?' Kin asked

Jun's head down, concentrating deep in her memories.

'I was being brought to a mysterious place right after I stepped into Plutomon's portal,' she started, 'The place was like some kink of valley… Any way, I haven't seen him since then for days. He only left a message, said that I have to train get Triceramon's egg hatched and get him trained as soon as possible. There he set all that I need to train Triceramon. The progress was great…yet harsh…'

Looking at Jun, Kin could see all the wounds and scars that marked the harshness on the girl's body, though they were all healed and not visible now.

'But still Triceramon had digivolved from his in-training form to UlitmateBrakimon in just four days, and straight after that Plutomon contacted me again, and brought me to fight you. As you all know, I lost.'

'What next?' asked Katsumi, she really hesitated when she was about to ask the next question, 'what about… your parents?'

'That… was the strangest thing. I failed Plutomon's mission, yet he still brought them back to life. Today's morning he transported us back to Plaka; there they settled, and one more thing happened. Plutomon told me to help you, though I already intended to do so.'

'He wants to help us?' Darkdramon asked in exclamation

'I really don't know what he's up to.' Said Jun with a shrug

'But that's great, isn't it?' suggested Kin, 'I mean, Jun got her parents back, we can get out of this island and go get the Duke, and the full team's here again with all the digimons reached their final form.'

'Final form?' Jun mumbled, 'Oh! Cerberumon, you digivolved! What happened after I got dragged away?'

'Things went even crazier.' Said Metal, 'he sent three Diablomons for us, and nearly get Akio falls off the cliff…'

'And Kin too.' Akio added

The blonde's face darkened

'We're both fine now.' Kin comforted her

'I digivolved when I tried to save them.' Said Metal, 'And now my name's Metal.'

Jun giggled upon hearing the name, 'It's silly.'

'I think so!' Akio exclaimed. It's good to have some one share the same opinion with him though it wouldn't change any thing.

'So, should we go now?' asked Reiko, 'we don't have much time left.'

'Sure.' Akio replied

And so the digi-destined and their partnered digimons rode on Ultimatebrakimon, who was in his full size that had more than enough space on his back to carry all of them.

Now they took off to the final destinstion, the place that sat the Duke.