The hallway went from warm to cold. It also got darker the farther down the duo went.

"Man, he probably lives in total darkness." Gumdramon said looking at the bare walls.

"Maybe, I was always stopped at the gate. This is my first experience walking here." Sanzomon was mesmerized by the walls too.

"So, can you tell me about your past with Shoutmon, and your death?" Gumdramon asked. He saw the digimon freeze up.

"I-I…" She was stuttering immediately.

"I am sorry to ask, but I am truly curious." Gumdramon looked at his companion.

"Listen, Gumdramon. I didn't die, I-I…" Sanzomon looked away, and blushed.

"I am embarrassed to say." Gumdramon looked puzzled.

"You can tell me, I promise I won't be an ass." Gumdramon held out his paw.

"You sure?" She asked, the dragon insisted. "Oh, alright." She shook the paw.

"Man, your paw is soft. No wonder why Shoutmon is with you." She made Gumdramon blush at her comment.

"Stop flattering me, and answer my question please." Gumdramon blushed deeply.

Sanzomon took a deep breath. "Ok, so I didn't die. I-I decided to become a spirit. So did Gokuwmon, but I think he lost his memories years ago. We did it for Shoutmon's sake. Being spirits, we can help out the king in any problem he is having, like right now. However, it's been so long that our own world began to fall. Just know that, once you save our world, me and Gokuwmon fulfilled our destinies." Sanzomon could see sorrow in Gumdramon's eyes.

"Wait… What do you mean?" He asked, beginning to tear up.

"We are going to put our spirits into yours, making you stronger. Our one goal was to help Shoutmon, and only once. So when we are done, we will become part of you." Gumdramon had a tear drop from his face. He wiped it off, and looked at the hall.

"Sanz-Sanzomon… If I had known earlier…" Gumdramon was phasing out.

"If we told you earlier, you wouldn't have done it." Sanzomon put her hand on the dragon. "Promise me this, you'll save our world. And you will also fight hard if another problem happens again." Gumdramon looked up at Sanzomon. He grabbed her hand, and shook it.

"I promise I will. Let's go, I have a king to love!" Gumdramon ran down the hall to the door.

"Hey, wait up my king!" Sanzomon yelled as she began running too.

-Monkeymon-

"Arrgh! That should be the last of them." Monkeymon dusted off his hands. "We should try to help Gumdramon and Sanzomon. I bet they are struggling to even enter the gate." Monkeymon chuckled.

"Maybe. The good thing is, the spirit realm is actually recovering." A random digimon spirit spoke.

"Yes, which is why I wanted to do these islands." Monkeymon had a different reason why he wanted to save the islands. It was to recover his memory.

"Hopefully I have fulfilled my tasks as a spirit, and I can get my memory back." Monkeymon darted to Xavier, ditching the others behind.

-Hallway Door-

Gumdramon stood at the door, Sanzomon next to him. "Well, this is it. Beyond this door is the most powerful being in the digimon world." The dragon was clearly nervous.

"Don't worry about losing. With your wind ability, he will for sure succumb to you." Sanzomon held out her hand. "When you're ready, put your paw on the door, it will open." Gumdramon took deep breaths, and closed his eyes.

"Remember, this is for Shoutmon. If it's not for me, it's definitely for Shoutmon." Gumdramon looked up. "3… 2… 1…" He put his paw on the door.

"Shutter, shutter, shutter!" The door slowly opened. A very bright light shone through.

"." The duo heard a bunch of garble.

"Huh? What was that?" Gumdramon asked.

"I think that's Wing's language. No one can understand it except him." Sanzomon held out her golden staff. "I don't care if he can't speak our language, this is for every spirits sake!" She charging up an attack.

"Don't release that. Let me try to speak to him." Gumdramon held his paw against the Angel digimon. He creeped up to the winged digimon, and the room was very quiet. Quiet enough, that heartbeats could be heard.

"Thud, thud. Thud, thud."

"Wings… it is I, Gumdramon. I have a-" Gumdramon was pushed back by a large gust of wind.

"Ah! Oof…" His body smacked the wall.

"Gumdramon!" Sanzomon yelled out.

"You better not help." He said, as he struggled to get up. "This fight… I knew wouldn't be very easy." Gumdramon looked up, and spit out a bunch of data.

"That was cool. Now it's my turn!" Gumdramon clasped his paws together. He rubbed them, and quickly summoned a tornado.

"Supercelled!" The tornado grew enormous in size. Everything began to fly around, and Wing's was being pushed back into the wall.

"Release!" Gumdramon let go of the Supercelled, and Sanzomon shot the light attack.

"Boosh!" The supercell pushed the divine being all the way to the back of the room. The light attack surrounded his wings.

"Well, apparently I spoke too soon." Gumdramon walked towards Wings.

"You are locked down. Now, tell me, why are you destroying your own world?" Gumdramon asked.

"!" Wings yelled very loudly.

"Gumdramon, Sanzomon! Wait!" Monkeymon yelled, running into the battle. "I recovered my memories. I can understand Wings." The monkey digimon closed his eyes and thought.

"Well, hurry. He is speaking." Gumdramon said demandingly.

"Wings, it is ok. I helped save the islands, all of us did. We just need you to calm down." Monkeymon had a soft tone of voice.

"#... ..." Wings visibly put its wings down, as in a somber tone.

"What?! You were playing with the kings emotions?!" Monkeymon was shocked.

"You… were playing with… Shoutmon's emotions?" Gumdramon got pissed, and quickly too.

"Listen here you little-" He was cut off by Sanzomon grabbing his mouth and pulling him back.

"Shush. Gokuwmon has got this." She whispered to the angry digimon.

"#..." Monkeymon shook his head up and down in agreement.

"Gumdramon… calm down. He apologizes."

";:! @@%." The spirit looked shocked after hearing Wings.

"Holy hell. That's… amazing!" Monkeymon jumped in the air.

"What? What is amazing?" Sanzomon asked, still holding Gumdramon. He was calming down.

"I will be able to get my memory back. And to make up for doing something wrong… he will recover Gumdramon to his former state." Gumdramon looked surprised.

"Mmph!" He tried to speak. He licked Sanzomon's hand.

"Ew, gross. Dragon saliva." Sanzomon removed her hand, and Gumdramon spoke.

"That's amazing. I want to go home right now!" Monkeymon and Sanzomon looked at him.

"But… don't you want to stay for a bit?" Sanzomon asked with a sad tone.

"Guys, I would love to stay here and see the islands beauty. But down in the digimon world, a bigger war is going on. And who knows what's happening with Shoutmon. I have to go help my king!" Gumdramon stood up, and held a paw up in the air like a fist.

"For Ousama!" He yelled. Sanzomon and Monkeymon looked confused. "Come on guys, join me." He said.

Sanzomon stood up, and put her fist in the air. "For Ousama!" Monkeymon was still confused. Soon, he put his hand in the air.

"For Ousama!" They all yelled. A yellow glowing light spawned in the middle of them.

"Gumdramon… this is the recovery process… stand in the middle…" Sanzomon yelled as a loud noise was being made. Gumdramon listened. The dragon, now in the middle, was materializing.

"You'll be home before you know it!" Monkeymon yelled.

"I hope!" Gumdramon said as he was almost materialized.

"Good luck!" Sanzomon and Gokuwmon said in unison as Gumdramon disappeared.

-Desert Ruins-

Shoutmon's POV:

My mind. It's giving me thoughts I don't want. It keeps repeating the same scene with Gumdramon getting murdered.

"Gumdramon..!"

I hear his name over and over. Each time it gets deeper, and creepier. I feel completely drained, and unmotivated.

"shoutmon…" I heard a voice softly speak to me, but I ignored it.

"shoutmon!" It got louder. Now it was much harder to ignore.

"Shoutmon!"

"Gasp!"

"I-I'm alive? Oh my god, I am not going insane!" Shoutmon said, waking up and hugging whoever was in front of him.

"Shoutmon, it's ok. What do you mean by insane?" That voice was familiar to the king.

"Rena!?" Shoutmon asked. He opened his eyes, and saw it was Renamon.

"It is me!" She giggled. "I saw you out in the desert knocked out cold. I brought you to the forest. Look who is here by the way." Renamon looked over at Knightmon.

"Glad you're awake sire!" Knightmon smiled.

"Woah… you look… different." Shoutmon was dazed.

"After the castle was taken over, I felt the urge of becoming stronger. And sure enough, I was evolving." Knightmon grabbed his sword and shield.

"Well, since you're awake, we have a battle to finish. Knightmon wanted me to protect you as he fought Myotismon." Renamon released Shoutmon from his hug.

"Wait, where are we right now?" Shoutmon asked.

"Oh shit…" Rena looked at Knightmon. Shoutmon looked to his left. He saw the castle, his castle, in total ruins.

"N-no!" Shoutmon yelled. "I can't believe it! That damn bastard destroyed my castle!" Shoutmon gritted his teeth harshly. "I will make him pay with his data!" Shoutmon grabbed his greatblade.

"Woah, calm down-" Rena was cut off.

"Shut it! I lost Gummy, and now my castle. I want this fucker dead!" Shoutmon ran out into the desert, and saw dark clouds form. Purple lightning striked, lighting them up.

"We have to follow him. He is too determined to stop now." Rena said to Knightmon as she got up, and followed Shoutmon.

"Yes young ma'am." Knightmon followed Rena to the battle field.

"Ah, I see the king is out of his hiding spot." Myotismon said as he saw the trio running at him. "I would say he is the worst hide and seek player." He laughed at his own joke.

"Myotismon! Say your final words!" Shoutmon held up his sword. He dashed in the air, and spun around.

"Sharp Bouncy Ball!" Shoutmon charged forward, and was engaged in close combat with Myotismon.

"You know coming onto a sword is dangerous." Myotismon smirked. He tried to push Shoutmon, but when force was applied, Shoutmon pushed forward.

"Huh? How am I losing leverage?" Myotismon looked around and noticed Knightmon casting a spell.

"Weaken Enemy!" Myotismon removed his sword, but forgot Shoutmon was still spinning.

11"Ragghh!" Shoutmon pushed on Myotismon, making data spit out of him. It pushed the tall beast to the ground.

"Teaches you to take my castle, and put it to rubble!" Shoutmon spit on Myotismon, which caused his cloak to burn.

"Shoutmon! Look!" Renamon yelled, pointing at the field. Running across it, was Mikey and Tagiru.

"Oh my god, if it isn't the humans themselves." Shoutmon was distracted.

"Hehehe…" Myotismon grabbed Shoutmon's arm and twisted it many times.

"Ahhhhh!" Shoutmon screamed, the sword dropping from his hand.

"Shoutmon!" Mikey yelled.

"Where's Gumdramon!?" Tagiru yelled, holding his fusion loader.

"A little help here!" Knightmon tried to cut off Myotismon's grip.

"Dark Blast!" A dark purple ball suddenly appeared, and was thrown at Knightmon, pushing him away.

"Quick Attack!" Renamon moved in and tried to remove Myotismon's grip.

"Freeze!" Myotismon held his hand out, and stopped Renamon in time.

"Look at your failure of friends. All too weak to save you from my grip." Myotismon whispered into the king's ear.

"Shut it! You're worthless!" Shoutmon felt his arm get twisted even more. It was now constantly bleeding data.

"Shoutmon! Digivolve!" Mikey held out his fusion loader.

"Shout-mon! Shout-mon!" Tagiru chanted.

Mikey followed suite.

"Shout-mon! Shout-mon!" A bustling crowd came out of hiding.

"Shout-mon! Shout-mon!" Everyone cheered.

"Sh...out-mon…" Knightmon weakly chanted.

"..." Nothing was heard from Renamon. Off in the distance, a glowing yellow light appeared. It had made everyone stop and look.

"Huh?" Shoutmon looked at the beam closer. Descending from it was a familiar looking purple dragon.

"Gasp! Gumdramon!" Shoutmon whispered. He started to tug on his arm, which hurt like hell.

"Ow… give. Ouch-me… back my-fuck! Arm!" Shoutmon was yelling loud. "You are-shit! A fucking-ow! Failure!" Shoutmon finally released from the grasp.

"Fiery Fastball!" He made a fireball and threw it at Myotismon.

"Ahh!" He yelled being pushed back, and he started to burn.

"Knightmon, try to make time flow back to Rena. I will grab my sword!" Shoutmon ran down the field, leaking data out of his arm.

"Shoutmon, you won't make it." Knightmon yelled out.

"Yes he will!" Cutemon was falling down from the sky. "Great Healing!" A giant ball of energy flew down on the trio.

"Z-z-zap!" The air buzzed, and the sand created dust. The crowd and the trainers gasped.

"Blade Tornado!" Knightmon held his sword up, and the storm above created blades that flew around him. He pointed it at Myotismon, who was getting up from Shoutmon's previous blow.

"Free-" Myotismon was kicked by Renamon.

"Take that loser. Can't beat quick attack now, can ya?" Renamon scoffed at Myotismon. The blades flew towards him, and lodged on every limb he had.

"Shoutmon, the sword!" Mikey threw the great sword at Shoutmon.

"Thanks Mikey! Time to show this asshole what it means to have friends!" Shoutmon jumped in the air as high as he could.

"Great Sword Attack!"

"Quick Attack!"

"Blade Tornado!"

Rena, Knightmon, and Shoutmon all threw their attacks out on Myotismon.

"Ka-zap! Boom!" A loud explosion happened, and a giant ball of dark matter burst. Sand was being pushed back into the crowd.

"Take cover!" Mikey yelled, using his shirt to cover his eyes. As the "sandstorm" cleared up, a horrible sight was seen.

"Oh no…" Tagiru whispered.

On the hill, the three warriors were frozen in time. All were close to landing their attacks.

"My, my. It was a good show to see. But most of you have forgotten, I have almost the whole code crown." Myotismon laughed evilly.

"You bastard!" Mikey yelled.

"Yes, I know. That's why I am evil, young trainer. It's all over now." Myotismon was about to grab Shoutmon's great sword.

"Mikey..? Can you hear me..?" Inside the young trainers mind, he heard Shoutmon speak.

"Yeah, what's up buddy?" Mikey asked, smiling.

"Quit talking. You all must be quiet so I-" Myotismon cut off when he heard the stone from Shoutmon start to crack.

"Digivolve!" Mikey yelled holding his fusion loader up.

The stone fully cracked. Shoutmon was placed in a dimension to digivolve. His arms and legs changed color and grew in size. His head grew bigger, along with turning gold.

"Shoutmon, digivolve to… Omni-Shoutmon!"

The king came back, and was the exact height of Myotismon.

"Say goodbye Myotismon! Maybe next time get some friends!" Omni-Shoutmon threw down his sword.

"N-noo!"

"Flash! Bang!" The world grew quiet. The pitch black clouds slowly cleared up into a bright blue sky. Omni-Shoutmon was sitting there, with a sword lodged in Myotismon's chest.

"You… did… it…" The dark beast struggled to speak.

"You're damn right. Now screw off!" Omni-Shoutmon kicked the beast off his sword. He flew thousands of feet into the air, and broke up in a million pieces of data.

"Yay!" The crowd all began to cheer. Mikey and Tagiru were clapping their hands. Omni-Shoutmon devolved into Ousama.

"We did it Shoutmon!" Rena said.

"Sire, we have returned to former glory." Knightmon could see the smile in Shoutmon's face.

"I couldn't have done it without you guys. You helped me get determined to continue to fight." Shoutmon held his arms wide open for a hug. Rena immediately hugged the king, and Knightmon hesitated. He eventually joined.

"Thank you!" Shoutmon said as he rubbed his cheek on Rena. His hand also felt lighter.

"Sire, look!" Knightmon pointed in the air from the group hug. The sword materialized into a code crown piece. The dark purple crown changed to a golden yellow color. The sword piece went into the missing chunk.

"Long live the king! Long live the king!" The crowd was loud as ever.

"Guys, there is one more thing to do." Shoutmon released from the hug.

"What's that Shoutmon?" Rena asked.

"Watch Gumdramon recover." Shoutmon started walking with the code crown in his hand.

Rena shrugged. She followed Shoutmon, and so did Knightmon. They all walked through the crowd, to the hill not too far away from the battle field.

"Where are you going Shoutmon?" Tagiru asked. No response. Everyone was confused seeing the warriors just walk aimlessly. Some just followed them, some returned home to their pillaged villages.

-A few minutes later-

The trio were at the hill were Gumdramon was. His head, and torso were already recovered.

"Gumdramon… I-I… I missed you!" Shoutmon yelled as he broke down and cried. Renamon rubbed the king's back, while Knightmon tried to not cry himself.

"Woosh!" The process was finished quickly. Gumdramon was floating in the air, slowly descending down on the hill. Shoutmon watched as his fiancé was almost touching the grass.

"Yawn…" Gumdramon yawned and opened his eyes. He saw Shoutmon and a huge crowd in front of him.

"Shoutmon!" He yelled. He ran into the arms of his king, and pulled him into a hug. "Aw man, I have missed your warmth for so long!"

"Me too!" Shoutmon squeezed as tight as he could. He savored every second of this moment, finally happy to be with his loved one again.

"Aww…" The crowd said.

"I love you Gummy." Shoutmon held his lover's paws.

"I love you too Shoutie. Let's go to the castle!" Gumdramon smiled, and snuck in a kiss filled with love. The two were beyond joyful to be reunited.

-A few weeks later-

The king and his significant other were sitting at the castle ruins. "You know, I am going to miss coming here again." Gumdramon said as he was held from behind by Shoutmon.

"I will too. I decided to just have the castle built near our villages instead of finding one. Also, I will make a secure place for the code crown. Can't lose it again." Shoutmon smiled as he pocketed the crown.

"How does it feel to have more scars Shoutmon?" Gumdramon asked, holding the mini-dragons arms.

"Weird. We had just fought a war almost a year ago, and now about three weeks ago. But hey, now you have a scar." Shoutmon rubbed Gumdramon's belly. A diagonal scab ran across it.

"Why do you hide yours? Showing them reveals how strong you are." Gumdramon looked at his king.

"I-I… I am just unsure about not wearing my belts. I personally wear them for the style." Shoutmon blushed, and snuck a kiss on Gumdramon.

"Well, if it's alright with you, I wanna see you go a whole day without them."

"I am fine with that. I'll do it when the castle is finished." Shoutmon smiled as the sun was in the middle of the sky. The castle they lay on is in total ruins, but it will have memories that will last forever.

"I love you Shoutie." Gumdramon said.

"I love you too Gummy." And with that, they engaged in a kiss.

-The End-