Digimon Tamers: Unity

By: Linkmaste

Episode 25: A Terrible Fate

The behemoth known as Dexmon had opened its maw wide, preparing for the tasty meal of Gargomon. It had calculated its plan so carefully, and so thoughtfully that nothing could stop it. Finally, it had a physical form-with the help of that stupid human girl. She had been such a beautiful pawn, so eager, and so willing to succumb to his persuasion. Just a flimsy promise of being her 'partner' and she was begging to do his bidding. It was perfect. Feeling the cores inside itself, the sensation of touch, and physcially being here was on par with unadulterated ecstasy. It was a thrill deep and exhilarating it hadn't felt for centuries! The champion gun handed digimon fell into its mouth and Dexmon clamped shut, consuming the digimon and the core as well. The power was just starting to absorb and it could barely hear the horrified gasps and screams from those pathetic Tamers and their pets.

What a strange misfortune that not even a few seconds after basking in the glory, did a pain ripped through its thorax, took something out, and tore out to the other side. Panicked, Dexmon glanced sideways and could see a mechanical digimon that resembled a lioness had taken out Gargomon from its throat. If it could, it would have unleashed a howl of pain.

"I got him!" called out MachElecmon. She flew up to the ceiling to avoid a clumsy grab from Dexmon. She landed beside the group, letting Masahiko and Ellin pick up the injured Gargomon.

"I was nearly Dexmon chow," chuckled the digimon lightly. He looked drained and static from the whole ordeal. "Thank you."

"Rest for now, we got this." Ellin smiled and turned away. She gave a frown at Dexmon and pointed at it. "Hey ugly! Get ready to suffer because we're kicking your ass!"

The response was not expected as a dark wave of energy engulfed Dexmon and it came out completely healed. Hallow white eyes stared at them in a challenging manner. It was the final fight and the group pumped themselves up ready to go.

"Attack!" yelled the Tamers together.

Bunyipmon and MachElecmon took a valiant charge, launching their powerful attacks.

"Shu!" A hurricane of wind and electricity came from within the ultimate. She threw her head back, and as a howl ripped out of her throat, it whipped wildly, giving its own life as it tore into Dexmon-shredding data. Next, Bunyipmon pointed his spear at it while jumping into the air,

"Yellowknife!"

Dozens of translucent, sparkling gold spears appeared beside him and flew at breakneck speed, forming an onslaught comparable to an army towards the monster. They clawed into Dexmon's body, gashing and causing data to break and crumble.

The two teens fist pumped at the success! Maybe, they weren't as screwed as they thought...

But, as they finished their attacks, the data recomposed and was absorbed back into the monster. He launched a black ball of energy at Masahiko and Ellin. They dove out of the way just in time to opposite directions. It dissolved part of the steel and damaged the walls so badly, it looked warped and disfigured beyond belief.

"Gah!" cried Masahiko, almost letting his glasses fall off. "How did it do that?!"

"Dexmon is comprised of cores and a soul, not much physical matter," explained Bunyipmon. "We need to get those cores out of him-or better yet-"

"The soul. You need Tomone's soul." Lopmon said. She turned to Gargomon, "She's still in there-isn't she?"

"Yeah, she's in there alright. You guys have to get her out somehow." the bunny champion winced as he tried to stand. He took a knee, gathering some energy to get himself back up, "I sent Suzie out of here-I didn't know where you guys were or when you'd show up, but you should find her."

The brown and pink bunny digimon nodded and ran to a large pair of black doors. Noticing a crack that could fit her tiny body, she squeezed into it and left the room.

"Guess it's just us against it." Ellin pulled out a card. "Digi-Modify! Hyper Power activate!"

"Yellowknife!"

"Process 01." Dexmon launched a dark claw at Bunyipmon, but MachElecmon blocked it with a well placed wind barrier.

"Tefnut! Try again, buster! Shu!"

Lopmon sprinted down the burned corridor, trying her hardest to focus on Suzie's energy. It was there, she knew it. But with the terrifying Dexmon attacking her friends, Gargomon nearly eaten, and the chilling memory of last time she was here, she had trouble focusing. Running as fast as her rookie stumpy legs could let her, Lopmon at last saw messy pink hair around the corner, behind some black debris. The Tamer was on the ground, crying with arms curled up into a ball. She seemed terribly upset.

"Suzie!"

Her head picked up instantly, with her pink eyes zoning in on her voice.

"Lopmon?" she weakly called out. Her voice sounded hoarse. The brown bunny digimon jumped into Suzie, letting out a wail,

"Thank the Sovereigns you're alright! I was so worried about you-I thought Tomone-I thought," the digimon cried into Suzie's chest. It was a stirring emotion, the relief would usually bring happiness but for some reason, Lopmon was crying. She felt this way countless times but this time, she couldn't help the tears springing out of her eyes and soaking onto her partner's white shirt.

"I-I'm okay Lopmon." Suzie put a hand gently on her back, "I'm happy you and the others came for me. Where are they?"

Lopmon hiccuped, "They're fighting Dexmon. We got to go back and fight it-Bunyipmon and the others won't be able to do it on their own." She jumped off Suzie and with her ear, lead her back to the battle room. The teen ran as fast as she could, providing she kept her modesty with the thin white t-shirt dress she was wearing. Being yanked constantly, the Tamer felt nervous and pulled back.

"But-but-Tomone-"

"Forget Tomone," snapped Lopmon. "Look, our friends are in there fighting for their lives, we can worry about her later." her look softened a little. "You and I need to lead our team. We have a huge responsibility now and unlike last time, I know nothing is holding you-or us back," Her brown eyes bore into her Tamer with affirmation and confidence. Suzie, do you trust me?"

"Of course I do, I love you." the Tamer replied instantly. It wasn't even a question-just absolution.

Lopmon smiled,

"I love you too. Now, let's go-"

"-I don't have my D-Arc!" protested Suzie. She had forgot it at the spa.

With a surprise, the Tamer felt her chest become hot and light. It was almost like she gave her own energy outwards. When she looked at Lopmon, she had transformed into Antylamon with pink data pixels dissolving around her. The tall ultimate bunny crouched down, peering her eyes at her Tamer. She pointed a large finger at her partner's chest gently poking it.

"We don't need it. That power was inside you all along."

Suzie sniffed her tears away and changed into her usual expression, the cheerful one with a bit of attitude. She nodded to her partner to break down the door.

Antylamon shrugged her shoulders, cracking her neck side to side before transforming her hands into battle axes. With a tight and power spin attack, she bust open the doors.

"Bunny Blade!"

The doors took out Dexmon, where the being slammed violently into the wall and slumped down. The others looked at Antylamon and Suzie with bright faces. It seemed their fate has recollected in their faces.

"Suzie!" Ellin shouted. "Glad to see you're okay!"

"Please, you'd think I'd miss the party going on here?" Suzie, very diva-like, flipped her messy hair back. "As if. You guys mind if I take the lead here?"

"Be our guest!" MachElecmon shouted.

"Good," Suzie jumped down from the ultimate, "Antylamon, attack!" The digimon darted forward to the core eating digimon. Unleashing her battle axes again, she rammed them into the data and purple shields, shredding them like sheets of tin foil.

"Bunny Blade!"

"Yellowknife!" Bunyipmon took the next part and pinned Dexmon in with all the yellow spears the ultimate water native could summon. Then, MachElecmon unleashed a hurricane that tore pieces of the steel mill away and launched it into the mega. The impact of the attacks all combined together caused it to be immobilized, almost torn limb from limb. Then, inside its belly was bright flicking balls of pure light floating with digi-code surrounding them. Anytlamon narrowed her eyes.

"Those are the cores!"

"Get them!" shouted Suzie, throwing a hand out.

MachElecmon managed to destroy two or three cores before Dexmon zipped itself back up, transforming completely intact and refreshed. Three dark hands came out.

"Process 03," it growled and launched an attack. All three ultimate darted different directions and the hands followed each.

"Shit!" shouted Ellin.

"Outmaneuver them!" ordered Suzie.

The digimon did just that with Antylamon running up a wall and coming back down to slice the black arm connecting the claw, with a sickening crack. Another axe brought down and destroyed it. MachElecmon tore into the arm with her teeth, snarling and breaking it into pieces before killing it with her wind electricity attack. Bunyipmon simply moved to the side at the last minute and sliced the hand cleanly in half with his spear. Then, he impaled the hand that turned into dissolving data and crumbled into the ground.

"Now, listen to me," began Suzie. "We are going to have to give it our all to defeat Dexmon. Antylamon, Bunyipmon, MachElecmon! You three need to work in absolute sync-do you understand?"

"Roger!" all chorused out perfectly.

It was a hair pulling battle. The digimon worked carefully and powerfully to not be trapped with Dexmon's 'Process' attacks. They seemed to be climbing higher in numbers, and becoming more deadly than the last. By Process 05, it seemed to cover the walls in black matter and have claws arbitrary shoot out to grasp a Tamer or digimon. Luckily, no one had been caught, even Gargomon who shot any that came near the Tamers or him.

The cores were slowly being drained out of Dexmon, with a few speared by Bunyipmon, or axed by Anytalmon. If not for MachElecmon's 'Tefnut' barrier, Dexmon would had already won.

It seemed to be working. Dexmon was losing power at a rapid rate and by the staggering and clumsy swings, the fate of the battle was going to be in the hands of Suzie and her team.

Suddenly, Dexmon let out a shriek that made everyone duck and cover their ears. It sounded painful and gut wrenching as the center of the room crumbled away and turned into an endless pit.

"Jesus, what's with this thing and endless pits!?" called out Masahiko.

"I don't know, but if any one of us fall into that-we aren't climbing back out!" MachElecmon answered.

"Okay, new plan: don't fall into the bloody pit." Ellin took several steps back, watching more earth crumble into the pit. As debris and scraps of metal fell, a green light seemed to ignite it. The Aussie made herself look up at Dexmon and the battle instead of the pit.

"Keep going!" Suzie ordered. "Get every single core out of there!"

Exhausted but still determined, Antylamon jumped onto Dexmon's back and slashed it open, making it shrill and agitate violently. Another core fell out and she destroyed it.

Everyone heard the cracks and groans within Dexmon as it started to reveal another form. Shrinking, it started to resemble more human and eventually became Tomone with her black hair, fair skin, but she wore purple armour covering her body and her eyes were pure black and full of fury.

"Why can't you let me win!" she shouted, but it echoed with Dexmon's voice. "Why can't you let me be special?"

"Don't give in!" shouted Suzie. "I know it looks like her but it's Dexmon-attack!"

Bunyipmon charged forward with spear in hand. With inhuman reflexes, they dropped kicked him and he smashed into the ground. They were a blur to watch. Then with a dark claw, the humanoid Dexmon pitched him into MachElecmon, where the two hit the wall. Hard. A sickening crack was heard.

"Guys!" Ellin cried. Masahiko jogged towards them, worry thriving in his mind.

It was just Antylamon and Dexmon now. The two stood face to face glaring hard at each other.

"You're not going to win this." her voice spoke cooly. Her face turned into a sneer. "We're too powerful, unlike you and Suzie, we bonded-we became a whole new being! Face it, even without those cores, we can still take you on."

"I'd like to see you try." the digimon responded, and swung her battle axe. They blocked it with their forearm, the amour taking the blunt of it. They countered it with a high jump kick and knocked Antylamon back. Then, a flurry of punches attacked the digimon, one after another making the digimon stagger back towards the pit.

"Antylamon, watch out!" Suzie yelled. She picked up her pace and ran right towards Dexmon. The tackle was ungraceful and the Tamer realized they were very, very sturdy-almost like running into a concrete wall.

"Oof!" she groaned, feeling a pair of hands claw onto her shoulders and hoist her up. Looking at them-she felt petrified of their solid ebony eyes. A cold sensation crept into her as the augmented monster's claws dug into her. She let out a wail of pain.

"Let her go!" cried Ellin as she sprinted towards her friend, but Dexmon kicked her back.

"No, she's mine." they snarled. Then, Anytlamon came to the rescue ensnaring Dexmon in a grab and making Suzie drop to the ground. The two wrestled on the ground, trying to pin one another permanently. Finally after the struggle, they came on top landing hard punches onto Antylamon's face. The sickening slaps of fist connecting with the ultimate made Suzie cry out in horror. Her partner looked rough, with her fur matted, and data frizzing in various places.

Bunyimon sprang back in, using his spear to slash Dexmon across the face. The splatter of blood and data covered Anytlamon's body as she rolled out quickly and stood back up.

"Thanks." she said.

"Anytime, love."

"No! No! No!" cried out Tomone's voice. She stomped the ground furiously like a whining child. The echos caused craters to appear and made everyone fall off balance. "I get to win-I get to keep Dexmon! I'm in c-c-control!"

"You sure about that?" Suzie asked, looking up at them. "Looks like Dexmon has the upper hand."

"This is all your fault!"

"No. It's not." the Tamer frowned. "Tomone, I was your friend and maybe if you told me how you felt before I could have helped you. But...look at what you've become. You killed people! Why? Just so you can be better at me? I'm not that great-but I at least won't stoop down to take lives. Just...just give up-this is pointless-"

"This is everything I worked for!" she snarled. Then, they held their head and stumbled around. "No! No this is my body-I get to do everything-not you."

"Who is she talking to?" Masahiko asked.

Ellin and Bunyipmon exchanged a look. They lined up in front of Tomone with her back to the pit. Masahiko and MachElecmon took note and did the same beside the other two. Suzie stood with them as well.

"Dexmon...this has gone too far. We will not let you continue this bloodshed and madness," Suzie announced. "Taking lives...taking cores...causing Tomone here to become so clouded in envy and hate-you deserve to be put down."

The attacks came quick. With each blow, they were pushed closer and closer to the edge of the pit.

"Who...who do you idiots think you are?" Dexmon's sole voice asked. He sounded bewildered and in disbelief.

"We're the ones who seek justice." Bunyipmon replied, kicking again.

"We're the ones who defend the innocent." MachElecmon added, adding another blast of wind.

"And we're the ones who fight for those we love." Anytlamon said, knocking back Dexmon to the edge. Masahiko took out his D-Arc along with Suzie's and tossed her it. She caught it, thanked him, and pointed it at the monster.

A glow of rose, amber, and cyan came from within each Tamer. Eyes sparking with a feral power, held deep within them that emitted as a white glow. They didn't notice the terrain around them changing into digital code and data. All at once, they shouted the same thing:

"We're Team Unity!"

From within each D-Arc, a colored blast of light and power hit the monster at the center, which produced a white hot flash. Dexmon's and Tomone's cries could be heard as they were separated and pushed the final inch back. Dexmon fell first, as a clouded black mass of purple, green, and black. His howl could be heard as he fell down, down into the pit. Then, Tomone fell next. Her body returning to normal and her eyes going back to brown. But, she caught the edge and dangled off it, looking petrified.

"Suzie!" cried Tomone, looking desperate. Gone was the malicious expressions, now it was just plain Tomone struggling to keep herself out of the pit.

It took a second but beyond everyone's judgement, the leader rushed forward to grab Tomone's hand. It was in time as she lost her grip and fell, but Suzie caught her. Using her core muscles, most of her upper body was into the pit and was holding onto Tomone by her right hand. She looked up at her.

"W-why?"

"Because you're my stupid best friend, that's why," she replied. "Hang on, I'll get you out."

"But-but I killed so many," tears flooded out of her eyes.

"We'll talk about that later-let's get you back up-"

Out of the corner of Suzie's eye she saw a black tentacle wrap around Tomone's ankle and tug her down. The Tamer felt herself fall down more but a pair of arms wrapped around her body.

"I got you!" Ellin cried.

"I got you too!" Masahiko yelled as well. He held on for dear life onto Ellin while MachElecmon chained on and Bunyipmon dug his spear into the ground and used it to anchor them all.

"Okay, pull!" coached Suzie and slowly everyone started to be lifted out of the pit. But it wasn't the only problem. Blackness engulfed Tomone's leg and started to make her way up. She gasped and looked up at Suzie.

"It's too late-"

"No, it's not."

"You have to let go-"

"I'm not letting go of my best friend!" shrieked Suzie, crying.

Antylamon could only watch as Tomone was becoming more and more consumed in toxic darkness, being eaten up by Dexmon's death pit. If she didn't do something quick, Suzie was going to be infected as well.

A memory flashed before the rabbit digimon's eyes.

"Would you do anything it takes to keep Suzie alive?" Gummymon asked her in the hospital, with a curious look in his black beady eyes.

Kokomon thought about it hard for a few seconds. Then she spoke,

"Yes. I would do everything in my power to make sure she stayed alive. I wouldn't be able to go on without her. If she died, I...wouldn't exist."

Antylamon snapped back. She was running out of options. The darkness was consuming Tomone's upper body and was touching her neck. She looked to Suzie.

"I know you don't want to-"

"I'm not fucking letting go." she snarled.

"Suzie," sniffed Tomone. "It's too late for me. Just let me go."

"NO!"

"Suzie! She said let go!" called out Ellin weakly, squeezing her body harder.

The options were running out, and it was coming down to the final seconds. Tomone gave a sad smile and struggled to make Suzie let go. With the darkness engulfing her face and eyes, she said her last words.

"Forgive me."

The darkness finished its work with Tomone's face and hand as it made a shiny sheen before turning solid-like stone. She started to disintegrate slowly and crumble into the pit. Quickly, the dark lethal substance jumped onto Suzie's fingers that were stretched out to her friend. In a terrified panic, Antylamon took out her axe. She gave a silent prayer and swung... cutting Suzie's fingers off completely. In seconds, everything was done but for her, it was an eternity of watching everything happen.

Everything seemed distant and hazy for Antylamon. Like watching it on a television screen. She distinctly remembered watching Suzie's dismembered fingers fall into the pit along with Tomone and Dexmon; they disappeared into the darkness. She looked to Suzie who looked pale and in a state of shock-like white makeup was put on her face. She clenched her bloody hand and let out a howl unlike the digimon had ever heard that drove feelings deep into her core. It sounded like a wounded animal begging to be put of its pain and misery. Ellin and Masahiko pulled as hard as they could to get her away from the pit and proceeded to wrap her hand in anything they could find-which came down to Masahiko's shirt he took off in a second. They started to shout and panic, pointing fingers around and telling Suzie to 'stay with them'.

The loud voices, the screaming, the feeling of unexplained and excruciating pain in her hand-it was too much. Antylamon felt herself lose consciousness as she slumped to her knees, and then her face made contact with the floor with a solid 'thud'. Bunyipmon was talking to her, shaking her body it was already numb with the loss of power and control. She went in and out, looking Suzie straight in the eye and seeing the agony was enough for her to roll her eyes back and go limp.

Ellin and Masahiko walked down the hospital quietly, keeping their eyes glued to the corridor ahead of them. The sounds of machines beeping and nurses muttering past them was almost normal for them to hear now. Going in and out of the hospital the past few days for them was set as a mandatory routine. In Ellin's hands was some flowers, and Masahiko held a bag of goodies-mango puddings to be exact.

The room they came to was in the children's ward as Suzie was inside. She was awake, with the T.V turned onto the news station and the window open to the side. On the foot of her bed was Kokomon, who was fast asleep in a brown little ball. Her pink eyes darted to the two as Ellin knocked.

"Arvo..." the Aussie smiled weakly.

Suzie turned her head slowly back to the window, letting the news station drift in and out of her ears.

"It's been day three since Dexmon was defeated and the identity of M was uncovered as Tomone Hachiko, a seventeen year old girl who went to Shinjuku High..."

"We brought some goodies," Masahiko said, taking a step into the room. Him and Ellin sat on the chairs on the one side of the bed and unpacked the puddings. "Mango...your favourite."

"...reports say that Suzie Wong was kidnapped and taken hostage at the old Japan Iron Mill. Luckily, she was successfully rescued by what Director Henry Wong-the older brother of Suzie- called 'Team Unity'. A selective team comprised of the strongest Tamers and digimon in the city-tasked to deal with the crisis that the city had been plagued with for months..."

"We also got you flowers, mate," Ellin showed Suzie the beautiful boquet of red roses. "I know they're a little...romantic but they didn't have pink or yellow so-"

"-they're fine. Thank you." the pink haired teen answered quietly. She raised her right hand to point to a vase on the other side of the room then realized that all she raised was a stump with bandages attached to it. "The vase is-oh..."

The duo got quiet. Since Suzie had woken up from surgery, she would either get very quiet or very angry at looking at her hand. Doctors explained that losing a limb or fingers in Suzie's case causes a variety of emotions to come out-anger being a common one.

"It's okay, I got it." Masahiko jumped up and went to the vase. He brought it to the sink and filled it with water for Ellin to insert the flowers in. Then, he placed them on the window still.

"...While Tomone Hachiko had died, no other casualties had sufficed-but one was admitted into hospital for substancial injuries. We have yet to hear of her progress but we wish her a speedy recovery..."

"It's a beautiful day out." Ellin sighed. Being a week before Christmas, the snow covered everything a few nights ago and it was a winter wonderland outside. It looked like something out of a Christmas card. The sun shone brightly, making the snow sparkle like diamonds, and the decorations for the holidays were classic and grand. Outside the hospital, a large sparkling evergreen tree was decorated with elaborate ornaments and designs. The feeling in the air was added with the smell of gingerbread, holly, and nutmeg. Christmas time had come.

"Sure..."

"We are at long last safe and sound from the threat of Dexmon and M," Kai spoke on the televison during a mass press conference. "The city is recovering of course from all we had lost, but myself and the mayor cannot express the gratitude we have for Team Unity and Hypnos for helping out with our department to solve this matter. We brought justice to the families that needed it-and our heroes are safe and sound after finding Mr. Jun Misasaki, Miss Ai Haruki and their digimon almost buried in the iron mill. Also, commeradation must be given to Miss. Ellin Ondoima, Mr. Masahiko Katou and their brave digimon for battling Dexmon. Our sincerest gratitude is for them to take-"

"Can you turn that off?" Suzie mumbled. Ellin obliged and looked at her softly.

"Look, I know it's only been a few days but I was thinking maybe we could all go for a walk. Takato and the others have been asking about you and..." the Aussie hesitated. "...they wanted to talk to you about Tomone-" she was cut off.

"Don't. Say. Her. Name." Suzie hissed. She turned over in her bed, facing completly to the window. "I'm tired. Can you just go?"

The snappiness in Suzie's voice made Ellin clentch her fists but Masahiko gave a stern look. That was enough. She sighed in defeat,

"Yeah sure. Text us if you need something."

Without a response, the two Tamers left and walked out of the room. They walked down the steps of the hospital foyer to meet with Takato, Rika, Jeri, and Lindy. The four of them whispered quietly until they saw the other two at the staircase.

"Anything?" Jeri asked. Masahiko shook his head.

"We can't even mention her name or she snaps. She almost lost it when she tried to point for the vase."

"Poor girl." mumbled Lindy, rubbing her swollen belly. "She's been through so much."

"We should have been there, God dammit!" swore Rika. She punched the wall. "Those idiots should have gotten to us sooner. We should have put off that stupid castle mission-"

"Everything happened so fast-I don't think it would have changed much. Kazu and Kenta came to get us as quick as they could," Takato reasoned. He looked at the younger Tamers, "Still, we're so sorry you had to face all that by yourselves. We made a promise never to let the younger generation face things like that by themselves. To give you all proper advice and guidance so that maybe you won't have to learn the hard lessons we did. Still, we're proud of you all."

"Well, we did it. We defeated Dexmon." Ellin sighed. "And we stopped Tomone from killing anyone else or taking any more digimon cores. So why...why don't we feel good?"

"Losing a life never feels good. Even if it's for the right reasons." smiled Jeri sadly. She hugged Ellin and Masahiko. "You two just need to support Suzie now. Leave the clean up to us, and we will put off Azulongmon's castle. Go home and rest. Masahiko, tell dad I'll be home later for dinner."

"Okay, see you later." the bespectled Tamer waved goodbye and took off with Ellin. The two left, and it was back to the four. Rika glared at the others.

"Not that the little pick me up speech wasn't good but we still need to find the Sovereigns-more than ever!" protested Rika. "All of this was their fault! They were supposed to have sealed Dexmon to begin with-and-and now it's like they all vanished without any good reason."

"I'm sure it's for a good reason," Takato argued. "Just...we would know if Dexmon absorbed their cores...right?"

"I'm sure we would have felt it." Lindy answered. "Let's just rest now. We have a lot of recover to do. Not just Suzie, but the city...and all of us. Let's enjoy and be thankful that Suzie's going to be okay-"

"I don't know what she went through will make her okay...let's just hope she'll know we're here to support her." Takato made a face. He looked at the hospital a little longer than Rika and Lindy who walked away. Jeri hugged him from behind, letting him know she was there. He kissed her cheek and took her hand, walking a ways behind the other two women with the nagging feeling that everything wasn't over...not just yet.

The city was safe. Shinjuku which was once again at peace and comfort that no long would Dexmon and Tomone hunt down any unsuspecting Tamer and digimon. What else could be out there to have ill intentions to harm all Tamers and digimon? Little did Takato and the others know that something was following their very moves, preparing for the next plan.

The television turned off in a dark chamber. One filled with stone and marble, that was polished to reflect a group of three digimon in the room. They sat among a large table fit to seat twelve individuals with a special chair for each. Each shadow sat furthermost away from each other. One was in the middle and two were on oppsite sides. The one in the middle spoke first.

"It seems like Dexmon served his purpose," he said in a booming voice. It sounded deep and smooth to listen to, almost alarmingly pleasant. "I believe that the humans and their...traitors are not as weak as we first thought."

"Just like I told ya-they're a rough bunch-almost killed me once upon a time. Though, those youngsters seem to have a bit of a ways to go before I'd consider them a threat-"

"Kyrios Vulcanusmon, you seem to forget one of those 'youngsters' is a disgusting Holy Angel." a crisp feminine voice interrupted the Norse sounding digimon. She sounded steely agonizing, almost like she was on a verge of a meltdown. Then, she smoothed out her voice, "I believe we should go in for the invasion-we already have the power of the Soverigens-"

"Enough, Eromeni Dianamon." the booming voice said. "You might control the moon and stars, but you cannot go around disregarding Vulcanusmon's voice. You should be ashamed of yourself."

The female digimon, Dianamon shifted uncomfortably then whispered an icily apology to Vulcanusmon. The older digimon accepted the apology loudly, and folded four of his eight arms.

"Kyrios Apollomon, what should we do then? We wait for your command."

Apollomon stepped out of his chair into the moonlight of the room. He was a titan digimon of a man and lion combined. He wore large plates of armour colours of only gold and red with vermilion accents. Attached to his back was a sun crest size of half of his body. And a sun kissed mane that stood out in luxurious waves, he appeared to be a leader just by appearance. His ocean blue eyes zoned in on a tapestry in front of him and pondered for a moment. Then, he spoke.

"We shall proceed with our plans. Gather the others and we will prepare to go to the human world. It is best to announce our existence and our purpose to claim both the digital world and human world for ours."

"With absolute pleasure, Kyrios." Dianamon vanished into the shadows with a swing of her double sided scythe. Vulcanusmon did the same with his hammer.

Stroking his fiery beard, Apollomon marched into another room with a collection of chambers. Within each of the four chambers was a collection of a dozen and more cores colored differently than each other. One was icily blue, one was eerie green, the other across was a fiery red, and the final one was a snow white. They were twice the size of Apollomon as he placed a hand gently on the blue chamber, it reacted by glowing brighter.

"You still got some bite huh, Azulongmon? Well, it won't matter. Just like we took your Dexmon out of his prison, we are going to bring your world up to Illiad's standards. And we will carry out Yggdrasill's plan." chuckled Apollomon. "Just wait and see...how we will change the worlds...into our own creation."

End Season One

Author's Note: Wow. When I finished typing this up, it came out to over four hundred pages, almost 150K words, and so, so, so much energy. I came up with Unity back in February of 2016 and it took me a YEAR to write. Wow...crazy huh? Of course, it was a lot of planning, character design, making their story arcs, making the main plot arc and of course-winding up for Season Two. Why season two? Because I wanted to introduce a new set of bad guys that might be familiar to you guys. The Olympus XII have always been either part of the digimon universe but I am making them the official bad guys for season 2. Dexmon and Tomone have had their spotlight and now they have come to their official ,they will not be forgotten. As well, I purposely left some stuff for second season.

First of all, thank you to all you readers for reading this far. It had been a TREAT and a privilege for me to keep you with my writing. I know it isn't traditional and making Suzie and Lopmon the main character may have some readers scratching their heads. Plus the subjects I tackle in this series from death, to sexuality, to morality, to racism in a genre that people tend to make more 'PG'. I hope I tackled, and continue to tackle these topics with sensitivity but also a different perspective.

Second, thank you to people who I asked questions, and asked to beta read or spit ball ideas. I ran into plenty of troubles in writing this series (such as asking others if making Ellin preggers was going to take away from the story-luckily I scrapped the idea and made her family dynamic part of the internal racism experiencing in Australia). Hey-more Australia drama second season!

Third, I will start season two in the summer time. I ran into so many IRL problems-I won't bore you with my problems, but it will take awhile to get the next season up. Plus, I need to finish editing Successors. That's kinda critical.

So, thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I love you readers and reviewers. I would NEVER get this done without you!

As a treat I am working on a mini project since we treated this series like a TV show. The introduction theme is The Phoenix by Fall Out Boy. The ending theme is Outskirts of Paradise by Bad Suns. If you want to see my mini project, please add me on Tumblr or Deviant Art. Linkmaste is the name and I do art, animation and help out other authors for covers. I will also answer questions on Tumblr relating to Unity so please ask away there or even here!

Please don't forget to leave a review, and a fav. It always motivates me even further to get things going!

~Link