Chapter 24: The Battle for Server
We were out of the Mines of Server. Somehow all in one piece. That place was a lot harder than I thought that it would have been. But at least Izzy got his tag. So that made it all worth it. In a way I guess.
"So all we have left is Sora. And perhaps T.K. if we see him again soon." Tai said and decided to ask us what was probably the most obvious question of all time.
"Do you just want to rest for the rest of the night or keep pushing forward?" He asked as Izzy came up with a idea that sort of hit in between.
"We keep pushing forward until we find a nice good place to rest. Then we just rest as long as we can. Or until Etemon decides to screw with us again. Which is just as likely to happen first." I almost forgot about Etemon. After all the stuff in the mines, that was possibly the best thing to come out of it all.
"Can we just rest?" Matt asked really tired. Capturing everybody's feelings in just four words. "I don't even care if the place is hard to sleep on. I just want to sleep."
"I don't think sleeping on the ground will be very good for us." Sora told Matt and that sounded like it convinced him. "Maybe Izzy is right."
"Okay, so if Sora agrees, who else would agree with his idea? That we walk until we find a good place to rest. Like you know a bed and all that natural stuff to." Tai said and I raised my hand along with Sora. Mimi was so tired she was really having no idea what we were talking about.
"Anything to get us some rest." That was Mimi's attitude about it. It felt like we might actually get into a argument about all this until Ken sort of saved us all from that.
"Guys, I think I found way to take care of everything." He said and pointed down a really large hill. We all looked down to see what he was talking about.
From what I could see, there was a hinting of a town down below. Town meant beds normally. Which meant nice rest. Which meant everybody was happy.
"Let's go there." I decided as everybody else was starting to convert over to Izzy's idea. Tai looked at Izzy excited for some reason.
"It seems as if you won this one Izzy." Tai said as we all got our stuff together to go down that hill to reach that town. Or what we hoped was a town.
Progress down the hill was slow at first but once we got around the half way point then everything started to speed up and we kept on having to turn left and right in order to go the right way. It was also done to prevent us from falling down and hitting ourselves really hard. Along the way were a bunch of thorns and branches of trees. Normal forest stuff.
By the time we reached the bottom of the hill, most of us had a hint of sweat on our faces. "That was a little harder than I expected it to be. But it wasn't so bad over all." Tai admitted, and looked around to see if anybody needed help. But we didn't, since we were all able to get down the hill at a fast enough pace.
Once all that was taken care of, we were about ten yards away from the town that we saw a hint of on the top of the hill. "It looks a lot smaller right in front of me." Ken admitted and then decided that it was still good enough. "Can't be too bad as long as we can still get a good nice rest and a nice meal at the morning."
"I have a feeling that somebody is near. A familiar presence that I haven't felt in a really long time." I said and everybody looked at me. Wondering what I could possibly be talking about.
"Why do you feel that way Joe?" Ken asked and I just couldn't really tell how I felt that. But I was saved when Matt came in a few seconds later and said almost the same thing.
"I think he may be right. I can feel something nearby. Something that I have seen and heard before. We need to look right away." Matt said as Tai glanced at him and I.
"Where do you think it will most likely be?" He asked and I pointed at the town Inn. For some reason, pretty much everything happens there in the stories. "Well, I guess we should try it out."
We once again followed him on the way over there. The town was nothing special. Just a few buildings. Such as a town hall that looked like it was around since the Civil War in America, two or three normal houses that all looked two story, and the town Inn.
"What a empty town." Mimi said looking around at all the different parts of the building. Such as the torn up windows on one of them. She also noticed that another one of them had a large hole on the bottom with black water coming out of it. "It looks pretty gross. Somewhere I wouldn't want to live."
"That we can agree on." Izzy said and came up next to Sora. "I wonder where we really are. Like if we are close to a base of Etemon or if those mines had us lose him." The way he said it sounded very unconfident. Like he was catching how everybody else felt.
We all walked into the Inn and only saw the owner in the main serving room. "Don't get that many customers. Much of the drinks are old and dry. Are you sure that you want anything?"
"We don't have any money on us. Can we just check the rooms for a moment? If nothing comes up, we will leave right away." Ken said and the owner of the Inn looked defeated. As if they were so excited to get a new pay check.
"Yeah sure. There is a human in one of the rooms. He has been here for a few days. He came in suddenly and said that he needed to be here for a few days. Having the idea that he can fix this whole town. If only he knew that this was was beyond repair." Then the owner gave Matt the bedroom keys. "Talk to him if you want."
"Thanks." Matt said and led the way up the stairs. Due to narrowness, we had to line up. I wad dead last. But mainly because I wanted to be that way. Matt seemed excited to go up the stairs because of the fact that the Inn owner said a human was here. We were all assuming that this human was T.K.
He tried all the rooms and saw that they were empty until he tried the last room on the left. When the door open we heard a human voice. "Found me at last. Knew I couldn't be gone forever."
We all came into the room and saw T.K. on a chair looking at some papers on a desk. "Just writing down everything that happened over the whole dark world. We're leaving right now. I need to show you some place. It's called Metal City." He said getting up. Before he headed out the room I stopped him for a moment.
"Can you take a moment to talk to us?" I asked as he showed himself to his full extent. He looked worse than I could have ever imagined him to.
First off his face looked pretty burned As if he had gone through a fire. I also noticed that on his left hand, he had no thumb anymore. I also saw that his clothes were torn up, burnt, and all around nothing that anybody would use anymore. "What happened?"
T.K. looked like he wished I wouldn't test him. "I will tell you later. But we need to leave. If you want a chance to defeat Etemon and if Sora wants her tag. Yes I have been reading on what has been happening." Then he stopped a few steps later and remembered Bearmon and Dodomon.
"Yes I should say it now. Say goodbye to Patamon and say hello to Bearmon and Dodomon. Patamon had their egg destroyed when I was gone. Now Dodomon is my new partner and Bearmon wants to show me into the new life." That was all he said and he refused to talk for quite a while. But he was still obviously leading us somewhere. It wasn't until the next morning that he even started to speak of what he was wanting to show us.
"Fine you have waited enough. I guess I will tell you most of the stuff that happened when I was gone." T.K. said and led us in a couple hour long tale. Explaining every single detail of what he did in the dark world invasion to such a extent that it felt like we were really there. I was surprised when he explained how he was actually sort of a dick to that Yolei girl and how he went back to Earth just to say sorry and tell everything to his parents.
"That sounds like a lot of stuff. So you led a bunch of Scubamon out of the dark world one time. You also led a Shoutmon and a bunch of digimon into a battle against Dagomon." Matt said as if he were trying to decide if he was angry or impressed that he did all that.
"My main concern is how your friend Davis talked. A lot of the stuff he said clearly indicates that he was here in the digital world before. Perhaps much before any of us. It seems like your friend may not be the man who he seems to be." I said and T.K. told me to stop there.
"You can say what you want about me, but please leave him out of this. Maybe he was just going through a lot." T.K. said and started getting himself ready to go again. "They are waiting for us."
There he was again, leading us to where ever and whatever Metal City was. We were not questing him anymore. It was obvious that his departure from the group had clearly changed him. For better or for worse we had no idea. As it was still too early to really decide.
It was late the next day when we had finally arrived at what T.K. called Metal City. "This is the capital city of this land. The great council is here. Better treat them with respect." He said and continued leading us forward to the largest building in the city.
I couldn't help but take not at how bad the city looked. Honestly it looked as if somebody had kicked everything around in a mad rage. Almost nothing made any sense when I looked at it and all like a big fat horrible mess. "Is this how it normally looks?" I asked and T.K. replied quickly that this was because of the attack that made it like this. That dropped the subject.
When he had brought us to the largest building in the city, he opened the door and brought us to the council room. "These are the digidestined that you wanted to see." He said as the council started to look at us.
"Nice of you to bring them here. Now we wish that they start to tell us what they have gone through on their travels." The head of the council, who we would later learn their name was Gallantmon said.
Tai explained the story of what our adventures were for a while. Once he had done all the stuff up to the Mines of Server another member of the council stopped him from speaking. "You don't need to say anymore. We have heard enough." The digimon was named Grademon. "So Etemon is your current problem?"
"Yes they very much are." Sora said and the council was silent a moment longer. Wondering what they should say next.
"Sorry to deny your request, but we have more things to worry about than to worry about Etetmon. That is your problem." One of the council members said and that was when T.K. walked up a few steps. I could see the angered look on his face.
"I can't believe you still won't help out. You guys are so lazy and you guys refuse to do anything. When are you going to step up and start helping out the digimon of this world. When will you start helping us?" As T.K. said that, I could see Gallantmon look like he wanted to kill him. Then after a few seconds I could see him get less tense. I wondered if Gallantmon used to help out in the digital more back then.
"Maybe he is right. Maybe we should find a way to help them take care of Etemon. To the young girl over there." Gennai started speaking, having some sense unlike the others. He was talking about Sora.
"So you still need to find your own tag? How do you feel about it?" He asked concerned. Sora didn't want to talk but she knew it would have been rude to not to.
"I guess I wasn't really thinking too hard about it until you mentioned it. I don't mind it that bad. I am more worried about defeating Etemon than I am worried about getting my tag." She admitted as Bearmon came up next to T.K. to change the topic.
"I have a proposal to make." The council members all started to look more interested. I wonder how well respected Bearmon was in order for them to start caring when they started speaking but not when we started speaking.
"I wish to take this young man as my apprentice." Bearmon put their hand on T.K.'s shoulder. "He has proven himself worthy of being a member of this order."
"We have many things to discuss. First we must worry about Etemon and how to deal with them. I don't know how we can work the test for this young man into our time. We can do it tonight." Gallantmon said and looked at T.K.
"Do you want to take this test? Do you wish to learn with Bearmon in the ways of the order?" Gennai asked and T.K. nodded.
"I am ready to take the test. I wish to learn with Bearmon in the ways of your order. I promised a digimon once that I would do my best to save all the digimon in this land. I do not want to have my promise not be fulfilled. Or else I would be a liar." T.K. accepted and we were forced to leave the room.
"Sora, we will still have to talk to you. Ken, we wish to talk to you after our talk with Sora. Afterwards, unless there are any other appointments you guys wish to have, we will give T.K. his test." Another one of the council members said. Only Sora remained inside. As by request of the council members.
...
Sora stood in the center of the big council room so the whole council can see her very clearly. "What did you want to talk to me about?"
"When you saw that everybody besides you had their own tag, how did you very first feel?" One of the council members of the left half asked her. She had no idea if she should turn around or not to reply to their face.
"I was a little jealous I will admit. But I realize that the order was completely random. When I put that into mind, I sort of let it go. But I wish that I will find it soon." Sora was saying as the digimon next to Gallantmon didn't seem so happy to hear the part of jealously. That digimon was a much more mature and patient Impmon.
"Jealousy can lead one to the dark end of things. I can say that with experience that you need to let go of any and all chances that you have to be jealous. It can take even the best of people and turn it all around." Impmon said and Sora knew that they were asking for the moon. There was almost no way any person can let go of all traces you can have to be jealous.
"That's very hard you do understand." Sora said and Impmon nodded getting it.
"Yes it is going to be very hard. It may even take your entire life to do this. The hardest challenges are sometimes the ones that are given in our inner selves. Etemon will not be the hardest challenge you will face." Impmon finished talking and they had nothing else to say.
"You're mad at your mother. You wish she can understand what you want." Gallantmon said and another council member continued talking.
"Your mother may have the best of intentions that are buried very deep in what she believes. Are you going to talk to her about what you want and what she wants?" That council member said and Sora seemed very overwhelmed by all this.
"I feel like it will be important to talk to her. But things other people said have made me consider just what I want to say." Sora admitted and she left the council room with the members permission. Sora had a idea. She was going to write down what she was going to say to her mother. As a sort of letter or rough draft on it.
Then they called Ken in next. When he was inside, Wormmon was on his shoulder. "What do you wish to talk to me about?" Ken asked and the whole council looked like they had no idea where to even start.
"We want to offer our condolences from Sam's death. We are aware of that and we are also aware of how much that has been affecting you." Gennai said and Ken couldn't decide for himself if he was sick and tired of hearing that or now.
"I just try not to think about it. Although it is not that easy to do." Ken admitted and looked at the council. "Is that all you wanted to say to me?"
"No there are some more things we wanted to say to you. We were going to tell you that you should get used to being with the others now." Gallantmon was saying. "I had a friend I new back in the past who couldn't get used to the idea of being with me and the friends I hung out with. She wanted to be loner but over time she saw that there was no way out of it."
"I have a feeling that now T.K. is back here, they won't really want or need to hang around with me anymore. So soon enough, all purpose I would of had here will be gone. It feels like they let me be with them because of the fact that they were one person short." Ken gave his concern. It wasn't anything he wanted to tell the other people in the group. Because the people in the group would start saying that he was over thinking it when he really wasn't.
"Have you ever thought that your problems and thoughts could possibly turn you to the dark side?" Impmon asked and Ken gulped some worry down his throat.
"Why do you ask? I would never even consider doing that. I wouldn't turn to the dark side and start hurting all these people. If this has anything to do with my mourning over my brother, then that is a insane assumption." Ken said and the members of the council could actually hear the worry behind his voice.
"We just wanted to see what you would say to that. We wouldn't put our all liability to a man who would consider turning over to the dark side." When Gennai said that sort of made Ken mad.
"There are other people you can put your so called liability to. You don't have to focus on just me. To change the topic, why are there some missing council members?"
The council was taken back by Ken's comment for a moment. "The council member seats that are empty are because they died during the dark world invasion. Why do you ask?"
"I think you need a new council member in there." Ken said and that was when Daemon came int the room. As if they were perfectly timing it all out for him to say that. "What is this digimon?"
"My name is Daemon. I am a mega level and I want to fill in that council seat. How does the council treat that idea?" Daemon made the other council members think about what to say next. Since they all knew who Daemon was.
"Maybe you can fill in the seat for the time being. Until we fully decide on you or until there is another digimon to take the seat." Gennai decided and Daemon sat in the empty seat.
"Hey I think I met you somewhere before. I just can't put my finger on it." Ken said when he really examined Daemon. They had red robes. Not the color of robe that the digimon who fought them in the Mines of Server wore. But then maybe they changed the clothes while they were out of sight from purple to red. Or maybe Ken was overthinking it.
"Can I head out now?" Ken asked and the rest of the council looked at each other. none of them seemed too worried about the idea so they let him leave. He headed out because he was getting tired of being in that council room. He never wanted to be in there anymore. But he knew that this was impossible.
When Ken was gone from the room for a couple minutes, T.K. came in to take his test. When he was in the room, Impmon had a piece of paper and some ink pens. To take not of everything he said.
"How do you feel?" Gallantmon asked and T.K. could feel the sweat coming down his face.
"Worried." He replied and Gallantmon asked their second question.
"Why are you scared?"
"Etemon might destroy us and the digimon of this world."
"You fear over the creatures of this world you have never met?"
"Yes I do. Everything I seen when I was fighting against the Dark World invasion made me worried about the creatures."
"What about your parents? You want them together again?"
"I do. But I feel like this can never happen again. They split up when I was so young. I was only nine when it happened."
"You're holding onto the past."
"What does that have to do with anything in this place?"
"Everything. You can't really reach your goal if you worry about stuff from the past. It will distract you and ruin your performance."
"I am not going to let my thoughts get in my way."
"You may say that, but soon enough you will prove yourself wrong." That finished the conversation that Gallantmon and T.K. were having with each other.
"Can I join Bearmon as his apprentice?" T.K. asked and the council members shared glances at each other for a moment.
"We need to think about it. Come back in a hour or so." Gallantmon said and T.K. left the building to meet with every one else.
After the whole group met up again, I looked at all of them. "What did you guys talk about?" I asked Ken, Sora and T.K. None of them wanted to talk about it. I let it go and we started walking around until Matt saw a post.
"A rehearsal happening tonight? Let's check it out." Matt said and we checked it out. "The Concador. The real story of how one man saved the digital world from a invasion from the dark world. A song number to start it off."
"They're already making a show out of it? It's only been a couple days." Sora said and T.K. looked ashamed when he saw that.
"I wonder how horribly wrong they are going to get this." He said in such a disgusted voice that I wondered if he would even like to see it. "I have to see it. Just to see how much they mess it up. When is it happening?"
I looked at the picture and saw the time. "According to this, only a couple hours left."
Ken was listening to what everybody else said and then he heard a voice coming in his direction. Curious, he started to walk in that direction.
"What do you need to tell me?" Ken asked and the voice stopped for a couple seconds. Then when Ken was far enough away from the rest of the group that he was out of sight, the person revealed themselves. It was a man who looked like he was from the past.
"Who are you?" Ken asked after the moment of shock was over. The man replied without really being concerned about what may happen.
"My name is Ryo. I need your help. Don't tell anybody else and just listen to what I have to say."
"What do you have to say?" Ryo pulled Ken aside when he asked that. Ken could see from the look on his face that he was being super serious.
"There is this digimon that has come around and it is messing around with time and dimensions. This could ruin the digital world. I have found my way to the future to find somebody to help me." Ken could not understand a single word that this Ryo guy was saying.
"What's the name?"
"Millenniummon. That is the name of the digimon that I need your help to defeat. What do you say?" Ryo gave Ken the name and Ken looked at us from the distance. Then he checked back at Ryo.
"Yes I will help you. When do we start?"
"Right away. Let's go. Follow me and I will show you. By the way, this is my partner Cyberdramon." Ryo gave a small introduction to his partner and started walking away and Ken followed without protest. Wormmon was there following Ken. Hoping Ken would come back when it was over.
...
We noticed pretty quick that Ken wasn't around us anymore. "Maybe he is just going around the city. Let's not worry too much about it." Sora said still believing that he wasn't going to be going to his death possibly.
"Where will the play be?" T.K. asked, now starting to call that little show later tonight a little play. "Probably in some random building in the town."
"I say we go after Etemon tomorrow." Matt suggested and that seemed like a pretty solid idea. We were walking back to the council building since it took nearly thirty minutes to find that advertisement and it would take just as long to get back there. And they told T.K. to come back in about a hour or so.
"Maybe Sora will get her tag from the council and then we could have our tags work. So Etemon will be a easy defeat." Mimi said in a pretty optimistic tone. That would have been like the best case out of it.
We were at the council building and we all looked at T.K. "How do you want us to take care of it?" Tai asked and T.K. held his hand up. As if he had already decided.
"I will do it by myself. You guys wait outside. Get to know Dodomon a little bit." T.K. walked into the large council building with Bearmon right behind him. Dodomon stayed behind just as he suggested.
"My name is Dodomon. I was originally a much higher level when I met T.K. Then I sort of died and another digimon named Dorulumon found my egg and he gave it to him as a gift. After the invasion was finished, my egg hatched and now until he releases me or I die I am his companion." Dodomon said and I was still curious how Patamon got destroyed. I even asked about it.
"A digimon named Valkyrimon threw the egg against the wall. He hasn't really thought much or talked much about it. I think he wasn't too attached to his partner. That or he doesn't want to look back at the past anymore." Dodomon sounded pretty smart for a newly hatched digimon. However, it did have a previous life if what they said was true.
"This is the weirdest thing I could have ever wanted to do in my summer vacation." Mimi admitted and I felt like she had said that to us before. But if she did, it had been long enough that she could get away with saying it again.
Meanwhile, in the council building, Bearmon and T.K. were in the center of the room.
"He is strongly dedicated to the idea of saving the digimon. We could use him." One of the council members, Daemon admitted. Bearmon seemed like this was going to go well now.
"Does that mean that you will accept him as my apprentice?" Bearmon asked excited and Gallantmon got their face ready to give the bad news.
"We can't do it." Gallantmon gave the verdict.
"No? Why not?" Bearmon seemed taken back.
"He seems too caught up in the past. He is too worried about these digimon. While some ambition to this is a good thing, too much can hurt him more than anything." Gallantmon was saying as if the verdict made perfect sense.
"Since when is too much good intentions a bad thing? He can be one of the greatest heroes in the age." Bearmon sounded so confident in T.K. that even the council seemed to think about it for a second.
"We still stand by our choice." The council still deemed. With that, T.K. and Bearmon just left the room.
When T.K. returned from the building, we all started to look for the place that the play was going to take place at. It took a while, but soon enough we had finally found it. The fee was free so there was no need to worry about how we were going to get in.
In the play house, there were a bunch of female digimon and another one that worse a silver mask. Soon enough, they started a musical number that sounded really patriotic. This was the musical number. Considering that it was based off the dark world invasion, that this song and what they meant by 'The Concador' was really T.K.
"Who smart and brave enough to help save us all?
Who promises to give everything to save us all?
Who will go town to town to save us all?
Who will right battle to battle to save us all?
None other than the Concador.
Who will not ignore the threat of dark forces coming to destroy everything?
Who will redeem the fall of the digital world?
Who will rise to fix our mistakes?
None other than the Concador.
Ready to defend us all,
to save the entire digital world.
Who stopped the dark world from invading?
Who makes Etemon afraid to come out of his pyramid?
Who waked up the joy that slept in the digital world?
Who will finish what he had started?
None other than the Concador."
The song ended and we left the play house. Since that was all they had made by that point. The song was sort of pointless. And I could see that T.K. was no fan of it. He explained it was because they completely left out all the stuff with the other digimon.
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When we had finished watching the musical number, Ken and Ryo had walked out to the middle of a empty field. "Soon enough, they will show up." Ryo assured Ken and Wormmon digivolved to Stingmon to be ready for what was going to happen. Cyberdramon seemed like they were extremely scared.
Ryo got his cards ready. Ken was surprised to see them. But he didn't say anything about it. After s few seconds of waiting, there was a large digimon that came out of the ground.
It had a large launcher on its back that extended a few feet in the air. Smoke was all around them and the digimon was black all around. It also looked like a odd combination of several digimon. None of which Ken could really explain or point at for sure.
"This fight has to be won." Ryo said as his Cyberdramon and Ken's Stingmon charged towards the Millenniumon.
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Soon as their fight was starting, the council had told all of us to come back to their building again. Once there, we saw that many of them were walking around and talking to each other. As if they were on break.
I should correct myself. It wasn't the whole council who wanted to see us. It was really just Gennai who went out of his way to talk to us. "Where is Ken?" Gennai asked and I told him that we really had no idea where he was by now. Gennai seemed troubled by that, but he still went on.
"The fight with Etemon has to be done by tonight. Etemon is using one of their servants named Datamon to power up their programs and everything. Soon enough, by tomorrow at dawn I should say, Etemon will be much too powerful for you. I will transport you to his base. Get your things ready. Because from this point forward, we are in the final battle. I have a feeling Ken won't come. He had his own battle to fight." Gennai said, and that was true. We pretty much had to get ready for the fight.
Considering this might be the last time I could talk to her, I wanted to speak to Mimi. "I wanted to tell you something for a while." I said and Mimi looked at me. Wondering what was so important I had to go out of my way to tell it to her.
"I consider you beautiful and I wanted to tell you that. You are one of the most beautiful people I have ever met. That is all. Thanks for listening to me." I said and walked away. Before she could even tell me anything.
I could see Gennai talking to T.K. listened into what they were talking about. "I want you to have something if the council does indeed change their mind and let you become an apprentice. I think if they let you become one, you have earned it." Gennai said and T.K. looked excited for a second. Then he started to look sad again. Because he had a feeling that he wouldn't be ever see what that was.
I walked up to T.K. to see what that was about. "What does apprenticeship mean?" I asked and he looked at me getting back to reality.
"I'm not worried about what that carries on. I want to become one so I know what is happening in the digital world and so therefore I could help with it more. I feel like this world is where my main purpose is. And I want to fulfill this. This is needed for me." T.K. said so seriously for a moment I thought he had channeled in some of Ken to him. Now when I think about it, they have a lot in common. It was kind of scary. And yet they talk and act so much different.
Matt came up to me. "Now he's back. That's all I care about." Matt said obviously talking about T.K. "Although it seems like he's changed a lot since he had left. For better or for worse I can't decide yet." With that Matt left me.
Sora has gotten in a better mood now. "It is all ending here. Tonight will be the end. I don't even care if I get my tag or not anymore. I just want Etemon defeated." Tai agreed completely and went up to Gennai.
"No point in delaying. Let's go right now." Tai decided for us and Gennai looked at us. As if wondering if we all agreed. Nobody protested so Gennai had opened a small door to lead us to his base. Bearmon decided to come along. Saying that while they might not be able to take T.K. in as his apprentice, he still wants to hang out with T.K. For what may be the biggest problem of all.
Once Gennai had brought us to the enemy base, we saw that it was a upside down pyramid. "This is your battle. I can't give any advice. But I can tell you that Datamon and Etemon's power room is at the end of the pyramid." With that Gennai left us. This was getting really exciting.
When Gennai has faded away, we started going right towards the pyramid.
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Meanwhile, while we were going to the pyramid, Ken and Ryo were still having their own fight with Millenniummon. "Make sure it doesn't use its main attack. Or else it can destroy the world." Ryo said and Cyberdramon used their red sword that came out of their right hand to stab Millenniummon in the left side. It did almost no damage and only annoyed the enemy.
Millenniummon swung their arms around and the arm went across several feet in distance. Ken and Ryo were shocked that the attack went that far in distance.
Stingmon had gotten the black shoulder blades on their shoulders ready and shot all the needles on the shoulder blades as bullets. Since it was like ten or twenty mini missiles, the attack did hurt Millenniummon a little.
After those shoulder blade needles were fired Stingmon got their purple blade ready and used that blade to attack Millennuimon again. Slicing across the chest of the digimon. Still almost doing nothing, it seemed like this battle was a no go forgone conclusion.
Millennuimon hit Cyberdramon for a moment. Ryo looked very scared of what happened and he ran to his digimon. "No, why did this happen?" He looked like he was going to cry. Since he felt that it was over and Cyberdramon was going to die soon.
Ken went to Ryo and Cyberdramon as Stingmon still fought Millenniumon. Suddenly after Ken was next to them for a few seconds, Cyberdramon started glowing
"Merge." Was the only word Cyberdramon said and Ryo started glowing as well. With that, Ken started seeing a digivolution that he would have ever predicted.
"Cyberdramon biomerge to..." Cyberdramon said and the two beings started to fuse. To make a new digimon. Talking about Ryo and Cyberdramon, that is. Soon the merging was done and there was a new digimon. "JUSTIMON!"
The new digimon created a new sword. This time the blade was even longer than before and had almost twice as much power. "Ken take this!" Justimon threw a blue card at Ken.
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With that happening, we had reached the front entrance of the pyramid. But Etemon was in there blocking the way. "Let us take care of it." Bearmon said and he was talking about him and T.K.
"Okay everybody, let's let them take care of it. We will go a different way." Tai said and we started following them.
Bearmon and T.K. took out their energy swords. Bearmon had a blue one, and T.K. still had the same green one. Etemon took his own out. It was a red one. Etemon started charging at them and the battle began with them deflecting each attack. Going in the normal entrance of the pyramid.
The rest of us found our way inside the pyramid in a different entrance. "Hopefully this will be a shortcut to where Datamon and the power room is at." Sora said as we went inside.
Once inside, we were greeted by a few Monchromon and Gazimon. Those were Etemon's servants obviously. "Come on let's digivolve." I said and Tai looked at Sora and Izzy.
"You two come on with me. Izzy, Sora and I will go to the power room. Matt, Joe and Mimi deal with these." With that order made, Tai left with those two.
Gomamon, Palmon, and Gabumon became Ikkakumon, Togemon and Garurumon respectively and we started fighting the Monochromon's and Gazimon's. The one in my bag decided to stay in for a moment until they realized that they wanted to help out. So they joined our fight.
After leaving us alone, Tai, Izzy and Sora started advancing towards the power room with no problem. In fact it seemed like all those distractions were being taken care of by us. "Everything's all happening at once." Tai said as they were running. Getting to the power room no problem at all.
Inside the power room, there was a tiny robot digimon. It turned around to see those three. "Ha not all of them at once. I have been seeing everything that you have been doing through my TV screen over here. Impressed on many moments of what you have done for you quest for the tags. Here have it Sora. It's yours."
Datamon threw Sora's tag at her. "I can't change it. You earned it. But don't think this is a victory. I will still fight you." Datamon shot their arms out and started to attempt tying the three of them together before they all had their partners digivolve. Making their own battle begin.
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At the place Ken and Ryo were fighting Millenniummon, Ken was looking at the blue card. "Swipe it across the screen of your digivice. You will unlock a whole new power." Justimon said and Ken listened. He swiped the card through the digvice and Stingmon started to glow.
"Stingmon Matrix Digivolve to... JEWELBEEMON!" Stingmon yelled and now had a spear as their main weapon. With the two digivolutions taken care of, the two of them had a much easier time with Millenniummon.
Justimon had sliced off a large chunk of the missile launcher on the top of the body on a single swipe. JewelBeemon slashed the arms and made the digimon wounded for a bit.
Millenniummon started creating black smoke around them and it was deadly. The group of fighters against it couldn't see anything and couldn't understand what they were seeing. As they were seeing all their worse nightmares rolled into one big terror.
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After JewelBeemon's debut, the fight against Etemon went on. T.K., Bearmon and Etemon were going across a bridge. Blocking the hits pretty easy and about half way across the bridge, Etemon kicked Bearmon down. Letting T.K. have a chance to fight them on their own for a bit. Going through the rest of the bridge distance before Bearmon caught back up again. T.K. did manage to hit Etemon's arm for a moment and make Etemon angry. While having a slight hard time getting back to the normal. At the end of the bridge, Bearmon, T.K. and Etemon happened to have all three of their blades meet at once. It caused for a moment of great tension.
When T.K., Bearmon and Etemon had had their moment, Matt, Mimi and my fight against the Monochromon's were almost over. It was nothing really worth talking about. Just the fact that we were able to knock them all out in about a minute or so. Gazimon had actually taken care of a couple of the digimon as well. So everybody helped out in a way.
After our fight was done, we had gone down the same hallway that Tai, Izzy and Sora went down to find the power room. Which wasn't too hard because as was the prior run down with those three there was hardly any threats. So we reached Datamon all ready to go.
Datamon was throwing around all the digimon with no trouble. Throwing Togemon to the wall in a second. Follow up to that was Kabuterimon who was taken care of a couple seconds later. In fact, it seemed like the electric ball in some ways powered it up. Afterwards, it took a torpedo from Ikkakumon and made Datamon fly back for a second and Datamon got up almost right away and slammed Ikkakumon to the ground. They pushed Garurumon's face to the computer key board a few times making them tired and ununderstanding of this whole thing now. Lastly they threw Birdramon right to the power button. Making their plans work earlier without even trying.
"That was terrible!" Datamon yelled disappointed and Tai took a few steps forward.
"You still have to deal with me." Tai said and took his digivice out. "The appointed leader of the group." His digivice glowed instantly. Then his tag followed right after it.
"Greymon digivolve to... METALGREYMON!" Tai's digimon had now reached their ultimate form. Tai took one more step forward.
"FIGHT!" He yelled and MetalGreymon took five steps in front of Tai and got their attack ready.
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Everything was all getting better with us, when it seemed like it was going to get worse for Ken and Ryo. Mellenniummon was still using their nightmare power. Justimon used their large red sword to hit the back of the digimon. In pain, the nightmares were over and that gave JewelBeemon a chance to fight.
When Millenniumon was going to attack again, they opened their mouth. Instead, JewelBeemon stabbed their spear through Millenniummon's face. The top of the spear coming through the head. There was nothing happening for a moment but soon enough the digimon blew up. Ending their battle. Justimon went back to Ryo and Cyberdramon. JewelBeemon went back to Wormmon. It was time for their for their final good bye.
"That glowing gateway if my path to my time. Thanks very much for your help. I don't think we will ever meet again so keep that blue card as my treat for you." Ryo said and walked into the glowing door. Cyberdramon followed them and the door closed. Ken looked at Wormmon.
"What a interesting battle. Should I continue to go back to the group or should I go on my own?" Ken was saying right after the departure of Ryo.
"Go back." Wormmon begged, and Ken decided to think about it.
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After Ken's victory with Millenniummon, the battle against Etemon resumed. This time the three fighters were now in a circular room. Bearmon was fighting Etemon because Etemon had kicked T.K. down pretty hard. Instead, he was watching as Bearmon fought Etemon. Their fighter lasted a few seconds before the worst happened. Etemon took the last chance to defeat Bearmon when they had lifted their arms for a split second. Etemon stabbed Bearmon in the chest, wounding it fatally. Bearmon fell over to the ground. T.K. now really wanted to defeat Etemon.
Soon after the fall of Bearmon, MetalGreymon fired their missiles at Datamon. Blowing up the digimon and all the computer bits around it. Creating a portal to somewhere else. One that Tai was forced to go in. We tried to stop it but the thing all happened so fast. He was sucked right in and was taken to a new place. Soon as he was gone, the portal closed. But Gazimon took the last second chance to go in the portal to. Commanding to go to Earth.
So Datamon was now defeated. What was left was Etemon.
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Ken and Wormmon were walking to Metal City. "Am I worthy? T.K. is here now. Maybe I don't belong anymore." Ken said to Wormmon and Wormmon refused to listen.
"You have proven they need you. Go back and help them. What is wrong with having eight digidestined?" Wormmon said and then looked sad. "If not for yourself, then for me."
"Fine I will do it. For you like you said." Ken and Wormmon continued on their walk to Metal City.
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Right after Bearmon was defeated, T.K. forced himself to get up and turned on his energy sword on again. He charged right at Etemon and surprised the digimon for a moment. In a rage, he was deflecting the moves and swings at such a fast pace that Etemon was getting tired faster. He hit Etemon's leg really bad and made the digimon slower. The one on one fight lasted a few seconds later and Etemon made T.K. fall again.
While he was on the ground Etemon was going to stab him. T.K. looked around and saw Bearmon's blue energy sword hilt. He grabbed the hilt and stabbed Etemon in the heart right before Etemon did the opposite. A few seconds after T.K. stared at the now dead digimon, he turned the blade off. Making Etemon fall to the ground.
T.K. ran to Bearmon on the ground. "What can I do?"
"There is nothing. It's too late. But promise me one thing. Let Gennai train you. You must get into the order and he is your last chance. Respect my wishes. You are destined to be a great hero. I can see it in your eyes. Make me proud." Bearmon closed their eyes and died.
T.K. grabbed the hilt of the green blade and threw it across the room. Getting rid of it. From this point forward, he would use the blue one. In honor of Bearmon's memory.
We all walked into the room and saw the situation. Etemon killed Bearmon and T.K. killed Etemon. None of us were expecting this. He looked at us, and got a serious look like I had never seen before. "Let's go back to Metal City. We have a lot to take care of now."
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We were now in Metal City once again after almost a whole day of walking. We told T.K. what happened and T.K. told us what happened. We were all surprised by the stories that we gave each other.
The digimon council members were excited to see us again when we were in Metal City. They heard the news right away. What did confuse me though was when Daemon walked to T.K. "I will be checking your travels out with great interest. You have proven to be a very interesting young man." Daemon went back their council seat. Gennai said that a celebration was happening soon because of Etemon's defeat. T.K. didn't seem so excited because of Bearmon's death. Although there was a promise that there will be a funeral for Bearmon soon enough.
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It was that very night when Gennai talked with Gallantmon about T.K.'s future and if he should join the order as an apprentice or not.
Gennai and Gallantmon were discussing alone in a room of their great council building. Gennai had one knee on the floor, so he would look more proper to Gallantmon.
"Bearmon died to become his master, let me teach him. Or else Bearmon's death will be in vain." Gennai gave his point to Gallantmon, as Gallantmon was walking around on their cane.
"I still feel that he wouldn't be ready. What if he is too young or old to understand what you might teach him? I am sorry, but none of the order approve of it." Gallantmon told Gennai, but Gennai shook his head.
"I will train him either way. You weren't any younger than he was when he started. You were also the only human in all of the order before you took me in, and I was even younger than him by a few years." Gennai presented another argument. "What is he is the one that will save us? He defeated Dragomon for a period of time in the dark world. He defeated Etemon, if this enough to convince you?"
"Perhaps that will be good enough. I hate to do it, but I will let this happen. This young boy named T.K., your apprentice may be. But he is the only one in that group I will allow. Anybody else can and will not join. Do you understand?" Gallantmon accepted the fact and Gennai agreed to Gallantmon's terms. The Takato part of Gallatmon tired from almost fifty years of service to the digital world. He needed to retire soon, live a normal life, die a normal human being. Perhaps Daemon would bring that possibility as the new head of the order.
Gennai left the room to give his new apprentice the news of the acceptance. He was going to need it. At the funeral for Bearmon, and he would give T.K. a change in his looks that would show his new apprenticeship.
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A couple hours later, there was Bearmon's funeral. As the council had promised. And this was when T.K.'s life would change forever. Everybody in the group besides Ken and Tai were there. Tai because of the portal and Ken for some reason.
Gennai was next to T.K., giving him support. T.K. asked his biggest question.
"What will happen to me now?" T.K. questioned, and Gennai looked over at him.
"Gallantmon finally gave me permission to teach you. You will be a member of the order and a guardian. Bearmon may be right. You might be our next great hero." Gennai replied and T.K. felt so much more happy. "As for that gift, come to my room later."
Impmon glanced over at Gallantmon.
"No doubting that this is all part of something bigger. This here just proves it." Impmon told him, and Gallantmon didn't reply for a moment.
"But what was Etemon in all this? The great master, an apprentice, or a misled digimon turned evil by the master of someone else from there?" Impmon didn't reply at all, since he brought a very valid point up.
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Later, T.K. went to Gennai's room. "This is your gift." Gennai opened a closest and revealed a outfit. "My great grandfathers clothes. Use these to represent your apprenticeship with me. I really want you to use these clothes. It would make me very happy."
Gennai left the room for him to change. He put on the clothes. White clothes, orange gloves and shoes. Along with using the orange paint to make two orange stripes on his face (one for each cheek) and painted the upper part of his face white. He also dyed his hair black along with it all. Lastly he looked at Bearmon's energy sword hilt. Turning it on, the blue blade shined brightest in that room. He put it on his left side of his chest. T.K. was now ready to meet Gennai to show him the changes. He left the room knowing it was all different from here on in.
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The next morning, there was a party celebrating the fall of Etemon. Gennai made an announcement about T.K. being his apprentice and we were all very surprised when we saw how he looked now. To be honest though, I kind of liked the way he looked now.
In that moment, Dodomon digivolved to Wanyamon. Now a little more grown up for T.K.
The council room opened and in came Ken. He walked up to us all and we started at him confused. "I fought the most powerful digimon of all time, met a time traveler, got a blue card, got my ultimate level digimon, and I feel tired. But Wormmon told me I should come back and stop thinking about leaving. Since you guys will miss me."
Matt walked up to Ken. "There is no group of digidestined without you Ken. You made this team complete. Never leave us again or even think about it." He shook Ken's hand. I patted his back, T.K. did the shaking of hands to. Mimi hugged Ken for a bit, and Sora told him that he was one of the most important people she ever met. Izzy said that he was pretty impressive and that he has grown used to hanging with him instead of Sam.
Gennai stepped out of his seat and started clapping for Ken. I followed him and the other digidestined started clapping. Soon the other council members started clapping and cheering for Ken being there. Even Daemon cheered and joined in on the party. All the other digimon who were there also joined in with the happy moment.
Ken looked like he was going to cry. He knew it was for him and that made him even more happy. "Thank you guys so much. This means so much to me." Ken really realized for the first time that not only did we accept him, we considered him second family. This whole clapping fest and cheering proved it for him.
For the first time since he went to the digital world, he felt truly grateful. He felt like he had real friends, a real family. A real cause.