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At first glance, WarGreymon was way smaller than MetalGreymon, who was over two meters at best. Even MetalGarurumon wasn't any bigger than a large dog. However, their fighting strength was beyond extraordinary.
WarGreymon leapt, easily flying without wings. Beth and Kylie put their new Enchantix wings to use, flying up after him.
He surrounded himself in great ball of orange energy, ramming right in VenomMyotismon's chest. This caused the latter to be pushed back by quite a distance.
All the others had gotten back into the van to try to catch up.
"Go, WarGreymon!" Tai yelled.
"You're so strong!" Kari said.
"Now, it's our turn..." Beth flies up and her body glows brightly. "Slayer, Slayer! Oh Lighting of Balmor's Dark Mists! Balvolt! Thunderous Blast!"
Beth holds out her palms at the frozen Myotismon, and fires a massive blast of lightning, which strikes hard, shattering the ice and sending him flailing backwards.
"Prince of the Realm of Asgard, Mighty Thor fulfill the pact of ancient days...Raging Billows! Thunder Riot!" Beth chants, and raises her hands upwards, and multiple arcs of lightning shoot forth, striking at VenomMyotismon rapidly.
"NO! MY SON!" Lady Despair tries to fly up, but Vanessa grabs her by the hair. "AHH!"
Vanessa spins on her seagull foot, and hurls Sierra into a pile of rubble. "I'd say it's time we became better acquainted."
"SQUID SUCKING, SEA HAG!" Sierra bellows. "HELLSFIRE FROM THE PRIMORDIAL PIT, INFLAME AND SCORCH!"
Sierra holds out her scepter, and the skull opens its mouth to breathe fire, but Vanessa teleports away.
Multiple panels on MetalGarurumon's body opened up to reveal a massive arsenal of cryo-weapons and he fired several missiles at once. They impacted with VenomMyotismon and completely engulfed him in ice. However it didn't last long, as the creature began to shake off the effects. First it was the left arm that broke free before the rest of him followed much to everyone's shock.
"You'll pay for that!" roared VenomMyotismon. His eyes suddenly began to glow. "Venom Infuse!" Beams shot out so the two mega digimon and Enchantix fairies dodged. Now he was just attacking all around him in an attempt to hit one of them. One of the beams hit one of the fallen buildings right in front of the van's path. Mr. Ishida was able to avoid it only for the sudden swerve to cause the van to tip right over. The driver and passengers got out with Mr. Ishida carrying Mr. Izumi.
The resulting smoke and debris that was thrown up had them ending up getting separated from each other. And the rest of the chosen children and their digimon joined the battlefield.
Neither the waves from Kabuterimon's arms nor the Togemon's fists made a scratch on him. Not even the holy powers from Angemon's fist and Angewomon's arrows of light made a dent. The Digimon fought desperately. Pukamon evolved to Gomamon and then Ikkakumon, shooting missiles from his horn in succession. However, the attacks of an Adult level had no effect on him.
But it wasn't just the digimon and Fairies against VenomMyotismon, Lady Despair and the Dark Spectre Queen were going at it hard too. Out of nowhere, a blast of crimson energy nearly hit MetalGarurumon as Lady Despair was aiming her scepter up at the digimon.
"OH NO, YOU DON'T! I WON'T LET YOU-AHHH!" Lady Despair screamed as Vanessa grabbed her hair, and flung her into the hard ground.
"YOU JUST LET THEM SETTLE THIS!" Vanessa snapped, and floats down to where Sierra landed face first into the ground.
"It's about time you and I had our little confrontation," Vanessa stated. "For if the laws weren't set, I would've easily saved Sirene's life, so for now I'll fight you to avenge her!"
Lady Despair pushed herself upright hissing at the Sea Witch. "Dagon feast on your heart," Lady Despair hissed. "You will not stop me old hag!"
'Deadly screech!' Lady Despair points her scepter and fires the spell at the Sea Witch, who crossed her scaly arms, and disappeared, only to appear in different spot.
"Diamond Blades!' Vanessa waves her hands, and giant saw blades of diamond shoot out.
Lady Despair screams when she stands, barely deflecting two blades, but getting struck with two that exploded in sparks on her near invulnerable body.
'Serpents of the Underground, bind her well!'
Immediately, underground wires and cables burst out of the ground, and wrap around Vanessa, who struggles in their grasp.
'Viridian Bisection!' Lady Despair shouts, and dark purple prongs of energy blades shoot out of her scepter's mouth.
To her shock, Keller, Vanessa's silver handmaiden jumps in the path and turns into a silver shield. The spell hits and falls to the ground harmlessly.
"What the!?" Lady Despair fumed.
Mira the gold handmaiden appears, and with a slice of her short dagger, slices Vanessa free.
"I'm afraid you're hard pressed here, Sierra. There's no allies other than your son," The Dark Spectre Queen points a talon at VenomMyotismon. "And he's preoccupied!"
'Typhoon Boom!' Vanessa points her finger in a dropping motion at Sierra, causing a massive twister of water and electricity to hit her hard.
Sierra stumbles, but her shadow lengthens, and two large hands shoot out to grab Vanessa by the throat, and bring her close enough for Lady Despair to hit her repeatedly with her scepter.
'Nega-Hit!' Lady Despair chants, and her scepter glows with blueish energy, hitting Vanessa hard.
The sea witch pulled away, her Sampo glowing bright red as it filled her up with the magic stolen by Lady Despair's 'Nega-hit'.
"And now, to end this. 'BLACK CHAOS ATTACK!" Lady Despair twirls her scepter in the air, and hits the ground with the skull top, and creates a massive ball of black magic, which shoots towards The Dark Spectre Queen.
But Mira had jumped in front of her mistress, and transformed into a gold frame, full length mirror. The ball of chaos magic was sucked into the mirror's surface, and suddenly it shot out of a portal, striking VenomMyotismon in the eye, blinding the giant.
"Raaaagh! Mother!" VenomMyotismon cried out in pain.
"NO! My Poor baby!" Lady Despair gasped in horror at her indirect attack on her son.
"Now, 'Black Widow Calamity Cobweb!' Vanessa chants, and from her finger tips a web of violet energy shoots out and catches Sierra in a spider-'s web.
"AH! NO!" Sierra screamed as she dropped her scepter.
"'Swords Of Revealing Light!' Vanessa raised her arms to the sky, and swords made of golden light shoot down to encircle Lady Despair. The Sorceress freezes, ceasing her struggling to get free of the web, and her eyes wide in shock.
"Yes, the most powerful of binding spells for Evil," Vanessa brags as her handmaidens come to her side in human form. "It'll keep you unable to move for three minutes, but that's more than enough time for your foul child to be done!"
Meanwhile, Angemon had flown at VenomMyotismon, only to be swatted to the side by the Beast, sending him hurtling into a flat rock.
"NO!" Dana cried out in dismay, and tries to fly over to Angemon.
"Dana, look out!" Kylie called out, too late.
"Crimson Mist!" Lady Despair shouts, and points her scepter to fire the acidic gas at the fairy.
"Dana!" Angemon becomes alert, and flies up, crashing into her, cradling her close as he gets them out of the path of the mist.
"Cherubic-Cyclone!" Kylie called out.
And a cyclone of white feathers blasts out, and strikes the mist, dispersing it, as Lady Despair fumes.
"SON, GET THAT NYMPH BRAT!" Lady Despair screams.
"NOT HER!" Vanessa hissed. "You may have gotten away with her mother's death, but as long as she's on this planet. YOU! WILL! NOT! TOUCH HER!"
Kylie barely dodges a swipe from the giant beast, who howls at the fairy in rage and mindless ruthlessness.
"Oh Briares, hundred handed guardian of the throne of Zeus! To thee I implore, lend hands to crush this evil!'" Kylie chants.
And immediately, a hundred stone hands burst out of the ground, some attacking Despair, and others grabbing at VenomMyotismon's wings to hold him in place.
Angewomon is hit and almost crushed by the rubble from Vanessa's fight with Despair, Kylie flies to the angelic digimon's side, and pulling her loose to heal her.
"Angewomon! Little Sister, please, be alright!" Kylie wept.
Her tears glowed bright white, and one fell on Angewomon, her body glows, before she breathes in relief.
"Uhhh...you, called me 'Lil Sister.'" Angewomon said with a smile.
"That's what we are..." Kylie wipes at her eyes, then pulls the angel into her arms for a hug.
The two enjoy the hug, until Angewomon abruptly flies them upwards.
"LOOK OUT!" Angewomon cries out.
They nearly dodged a powerful blast from Lady Despair, who aims her scepter at them.
'Song of the Seraphim" Kylie chants, and belts out a shrieking cry that causes Sierra to stagger.
"Ahhh! Accursed Brat!" Lady Despair shrieks covering her ears.
"STAY RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE!"
Vanessa shouts, and shoots out a vine of sticky ink, which wraps around Despair's hand holding her scepter, and pulls her away from the duo, slamming a giant, purple, glowing fist into Sierra's gut.
WarGreymon joined his arm gauntlets together over his head so that his long nails aligned against each other. He twirled like a tornado, plunging into the furry lower area on VenomMyotismon's body. The inside was ripped viciously to shreds. But perhaps WarGreymon's size didn't bring enough damage to VenomMyotismon's 200 meter height because he still struggled stubbornly.
He was roaring and grunting fell down to one knee from being hit by all of them. , before an indigo face with ferocious blue eyes showed up right where Wargreymon had torn through. Mimi screamed out in disgust.
"Wh-What is that?!" Tai gaped.
The face screeched shooting out black energy from it's mouth that blew away most of the digimon and the fairies.
"I will devour all of you!" VenomMyotismon growled.
The eight children and guardians were around him, having unknowingly into two groups that surrounded him from all sides.
Abruptly, all eight digivices let loose rays of light that matched the color of their crests. The lights extended until they gathered at one point above VenomMyotismon's head, forming long binds. Tai and Matt's held his arms, Sora, Joe, Mimi and Izzy's held his legs while TK and Kari's wrapped around his neck.
VenomMyotismon squirmed, but he couldn't move forward since the crests held him in place. The hideous facial creature in his abdomen snarled out. "How dare you! All you Chosen children and your allies are miserable wretches!"
"That thing talked!" Tai yelped.
"That is his core!" Vanessa cried out. "It is the collection of Lady Despair's blood! KYLIE! NOW! You, Beth, and the other two, you must focus your powers to destroy it," The Dark Spectre Queen called out. "Or he'll be restored no matter what you do to his body."
"I get it! That monster must be VenomMyotismon's true form!" Tai understood. "WarGreymon!"
"Gotcha!"
MetalGarurumon shoved the round observation dome of the destroyed Fuji TV as if it were a soccer ball towards Wargreymon.
"Great pass!" Sora yelled.
"SHOOT!" All eight children hollered.
WarGreymon kicked the dome hard, sending it right into the monstrous abdomen face.
"Seelie call!" Beth shot out a blast of pink and lilac energy in the shape of a large butterfly.
"Winter's grip!" Kylie crossed both wrists together before opening them, releasing a strong freezing wind with sharp ice shards.
The monster roared at Kylie, but it was the face in the abdomen that spoke in disbelief. "Kylie, you blasted me!"
"I'm afraid I cannot let you do this!" Kylie was shaking her head.
VenomMyotismon could not move. That was what those attacks had been for, to keep him immobile.
WarGreymon began to create a ball of fire in both hands. It looked like a small Sun as he raised it high above his head. Its diameter went over ten meters. "Gaia Force!" He threw the ball of fire straight into the wide open mouth of VenomMyotismon's body.
"Cocytus Breath!" MetalGarurumon shot a blast of cold air from his mouth.
It instantly froze VenomMyotismon's entire body. It exploded on the inside. He then began to break off into chunks. The final piece was the head, and the eyes briefly lit up in recognition towards Sirene's child. The pieces scattered into particles before they hit the ground.
"We did it!"
"We beat VenomMyotismon!"
The children and their Digimon ran to each other, rejoicing. Kylie remained silent until Mimi noticed a new digimon. "Huh? Who are you?"
Curious, they all looked over to see a small creamy puppy-like digimon with sky blue eyes and a gold collar.
"I'm Salamon. Nice to meet you." she said.
"You must've become Child level form now because you used up all of your energy to help Agumon and reach Mega level." Kari guessed correctly, patting her digimon's head with a somber Kylie.
"Hey, look at that!" Sora pointed upwards. "The fog is finally disappearing!"
The sky started to clear as if the fog barrier had never existed in the first place. They watched with bated breath only for their adrenaline levels to spike when they heard Lady Despair's voice taunting them.
"You think you've all come so far? But I have a lot of children," Lady Despair fumed. "And while you've been playing here, trying so hard to save your beloved eighth child. YOU'VE LOST YOUR PRECIOUS DIGITAL WORLD!"
Everyone looks up and gasped in shock and horror.
"No way!" T.K. gaped.
"Th-This can't be…!" Joe whined.
"No." Kylie whispered, feeling as though her stomach were full of lead.
Something unfamiliar floated in the expanse of the night sky. From one end of the horizon to the other, several strips could be seen that showed earth, cities, and ocean. They appeared upside-down across the night sky, shimmering like a mirage. Only they knew that it was no illusion. What they saw wasn't a place from Earth. It was, without a doubt, the Digital World.
"My Darling Boys, the Dark Masters have taken over the digital world, just as I commanded them to and if you return to that world, they will take my revenge and eliminate you."
Lady Despair gestured at Kylie with a vicious sheer. "Poor Kylie, you lost your mother, lost your love, and now you've failed to save the world she loved for millennium!" Lady Despair laughed as various Aurors dashed at her, but a black tornados engulfed her body.
Everyone jumps back as the wind nearly knocks them flat on their backs.
"DOOMED! THE DIGITAL WORLD IS DOOMED!"
The voice of lady Despair laughed maniacally, as the twister around her body shot up into the sky, transporting her to the digital world. The strips of different lands in the sky had appeared one after the other. It was also happening throughout the entire world at the same time. None of it could be registered by radar or satellite leaving experts at a loss.
In the meantime, all the victims at the Big Sight convention center had awakened from the sleep trance while the waterbuses were arriving to Odaiba, on it was Matt and T.K.'s mother along with Yui and Zaira's equally worried families. Once it docked, they rushed towards the epicenter of the battle, looking for their loved ones.
"Hey, there's my parents!" Yui noticed.
"Zaira!"
The semigoth turned to see her father, stepmother and young stepbrother hurrying to her. After hugging one another with relief her father than demanded she didn't call.
"The fog took out most the electronic equipment." Zaira explained.
"T.K! T.K.!"
Little T.K. spun around to see his mother. "Mama!"
"T.K.!" Ms. Takaishi ran to hug her youngest son. "Thank goodness you're safe! I was so worried! You must've been so frightened."
"No, I was with my brother." T.K. replied brightly.
Ms. Takaishi looked over to see her firstborn son. "Matt."
"Mom…" Matt kept his emotions in check, despite not seeing is mother for quite some time.
T.K. was so happy that his entire family of four had come together. "It's been a long time since the entire family got together, isn't it, Onii-chan?"
"Yeah, I guess so."
Matt felt even more bummed out. Mr. Ishida and Ms. Takaishi honestly couldn't celebrate as he did.
The strips increased in size as time went on, and it could easily be seen that they were slowly lowering altitude.
The US Armed Forces aircraft that approached it for investigation became inoperable and went out of control when they got close. Parts on the aircraft that came into contact with it were crystallized.
At this rate, if nothing was done, it would only be a matter of time before the entire world became crystallized.
No attacks that were fired into it had any effect, but a strange one-sided phenomenon occurred. Creatures that were seen from within the strips came down to Earth.
They were Digimon, of course, but no one knew that. Compared to this worldwide panic that the entire world was going through, the fog incident that happened in Odaiba was only a local occurrence, so it wasn't treated with that much importance.
As the group worried about this recent turn of events, a motorcycle scooter came driving towards them. It was Joe's brother, Shin.
"Everyone back at Big Sight are alright! They're already awake!" He informed much to everyone's relief.
"Oh, thank goodness!" Haruna said with relief.
"That's great!" Kari cheered.
Shin then pulled out a portable TV Sony Watchman FD-285 adjusting it so they could listen to the news.
"What you're seeing is no illusion!" said the emergency broadcaster. "No one knows what could have happened to cause this! But all of us are wondering if those spooky continents that no one has ever seen before, will permanently take the place of our blue skies all throughout the world!"
"Wh-What in the world is going on?" Joe questioned.
"Is this a part of Myotismon's plot, too?" asked Matt.
"That can't be!" Tsunomon piped up. "We made sure to finish off that villain this time!"
"Yeah, no doubt about that!" added Koromon.
"Then what are they?" Tai asked.
"Despair mentioned something about her boys having taken over the Digiworld in our absence, you think this is what she meant?" Beth wondered.
Just then Izzy noticed something. 'That mountain… It's identical to Infinity Mountain! But that can't be…' he thought.
"Tai!" alerted Izzy. "Could you use your mini-telescope to look over there?"
Tai pulled out his telescope. "Where?"
"Look, that mountain over there."
"Which one? There are so many mountains, I don't know which one you're talking about!"
"That one over there!"
"… Which is it? Ahh!"
"What's the matter?"
"A plane! I just saw it!"
The passenger plane, Flight 117, heading from London to Narita, was in flight when the tip of its main wing touched the strip and crystallized. The plane began to nosedive, unable to be controlled. Chikara Hida was on that plane, having gone to London to bring home the remains of his son who had died there. As passengers screamed and items flew about, he prayed fervently that at least his daughter-in-law and grandson, who was still too young to attend elementary school yet, would be saved.
The plane suddenly up-righted itself. He thought his prayers had been answered and that a miracle had happened.
They landed safely and gently on Tokyo Bay, as if the plane had suddenly sprouted wings.
Chikara took the helm, guiding the other passengers towards evacuation onto the water surface, sliding down himself after everyone else had left. While he was occupied, his grandson Cody witnessed strange creatures flying away into the night sky. It was a birdman, about twenty meters big, and a red rhinoceros beetle that was just as big.
It would be a couple of years later before Cody found out that they were actually two Digimon named Garudamon and MegaKabuterimon, and that they had been the ones who had held up the crashing airplane so that it could land safely on water.
After Motimon and Pyokomon returned from their little rescue mission, the group confirmed that what they were seeing up in the sky was the Digiworld and that several digimon were appearing all over Earth in plain sight.
"We can't touch those Digimon." Pyokomon said in concern. "If we do, we'll solidify like that airplane wing!"
"My Mega Blaster had no effect either!" Motimon informed.
"What the hell is going on?!" Tai grunted.
"My money is on Lady Despair's and any remaining offspring of hers." Theo speculated darkly.
"Kylie, Salamon is that the place you were born?" Kari was pointing to the sky.
Salamon shook her head. "No, that's no longer the place we used to live in."
"It doesn't look remotely like the Digiworld I remember." Kylie agreed.
Izzy looked up at the scenery above them and spoke. "They're right. It's been three days since we've come here… Which means several years must have passed in the Digimon world."
"We came here without fixing the distortions in the Digimon world, everything's pretty much a disaster." Koromon said glancing upwards.
"And that must have ended up affecting our world, as well." Sora pondered as she and the other kids looked up.
Zaira looked up as well. "We're the only ones who can do something about it."
"Besides, we need to hurry." Yui looked around. "Things that happened to that airplane are happening around the world. Our electronics are out of whack and, with Digimon showing up, even more trouble might come up."
Everyone could see all of that already without having it be put into words. Right now, they were checking to see that everyone was feeling the same way.
"The hospitals are in trouble. There may be people in the middle of surgery right now." Zaira said grimly, looking more rigid than usual.
"I don't know about you, but I'm going back to the Digiworld somehow!" Beth declared.
"Then let's go see!" Tai stepped forward. "Let's go back to the Digimon world!"
The children looked back at him with serious faces.
"But how do we do that?" Mimi asked, looking worriedly at the others..
"When we first went to the Digimon world, our Digivices led us there." Joe mumbled.
"When it first happened the heart glowed…" Beth recalled.
"It must be these." T.K. held out his digivice. "When we first went to the Digital World, these digivices came flying at us and glowed."
"That's right. Our digivices guided us," Tai said, holding out his own as well. Now that he knew his parents were safe, he didn't hesitate. "Everyone, hold out your digivices."
They had found the eight child, Kari, and all eight of the Chosen Children were together here with the Ethereal guardians. The eight children brought their eight digivices together, raising them up to the sky. Beth followed suit holding out her open hand. Within seconds the heart of Etherea materialized, glowing a hot pink.
"Please! Take us all back to the Digimon world again!"
Hesitantly, Kylie held her hand above the digivices, "Help us get to my… home, please."
In some way the Digiworld is already feeling like a true home to her. The digivices began to glow, creating a circle of light, combining with the glow of the Heart. A rainbow stretched out vertically from the circle towards the strips in the night sky.
"If we go into this colorful tunnel will transport us to the Digimon world!" Joe believed.
"Yeah." Tai agreed. "I'm sure we'll get there safely!"
"The digivices will guide us." Sora added.
"And this time, you got three more recruits that got your back." Yui chimed in.
"T.K.…" T.K.'s mother, Natsuko, stepped towards him.
"Mama, I'm sorry that we have to go again, just when all four of us are back together."
"We have to go! I promise to bring T.K. back safely." Matt said, searching for the right words as he spoke to Natsuko in earnest.
Natsuko looked like she still wanted to say something, but it was Hiroaki Ishida who stopped her. "Let them go. We need to have faith in our own children. We made selfish decisions of our own."
Zaira looked at her family, who nodded at him silently. She solemnly nodded back at them, said, "I'm off."
"Be warned," Vanessa warns them. "In the digital world, even I cannot aid you there, unless there is water, and even that can only be to communicate. But Lady Despair will also rely on her children for support, as she's unable to utilize magic without her Dark Masters nearby, only shape-shift into various digimon forms."
"Wait...she'll be able to BECOME them, like really?" Beth asked worried.
"But above all else, if you keep your wits about you'll be able to tell her," Vanessa said. "For she cannot hide her eyes, they will always have the pink glow to them."
Vanessa cups Kylie's chin, and lifts it gently to place a kiss on her cheek.
"For protection," Vanessa turns and kisses each of them. "Even if I can't go with you, my magic kiss may, and ensure you will not come to harm..." She smiles sheepishly. "Well, permanent harm, anyway."
"I don't care for how she said that." Joe said nervous.
"I don't really like she hasn't given US a kiss for protection," Tentomon said in unease.
"You are going back to your birth home now, Kylie. It is your home, as it was your mothers, it's up to you to finally decide. Will you take the place that your mother was robbed of by her death, and tend to the world as your own?" Vanessa gestures to the city surrounding. "Or when all is said and done: Return to Earth, and leave the digital world to fend for itself, alone. As it has for five thousand years?"
"I promise to do everything within my power to do so." Kylie nods solemnly.
"We're counting on you, guys!" Shin said to the group. "We thought it was normal for morning to come after every nightfall, but we may never see the dawn again this time."
"Don't say such morbid things!" Mrs. Izumi rebuked him. "I believe in all sixteen of these children!"
"No, I mean, I do, too!" Shin said sheepishly.
"I'll be fine. We'll make darned sure that the sun does come up!" Joe said determinedly.
"Looking good, Joe!"
"It doesn't suit you at all!"
Sora and Mimi teased him, much to his embarrassment. Then he'd inadvertently backed up into the rainbow tunnel and began to float upwards. Quickly the others all followed suit, joining him in the path of light.
"Time to go!" Dana said in a sing-song tone.
Likewise! Beth jumped in.
The children and Digimon followed all eight guardians into the rainbow beam. They rose swiftly into the air, being carried up through the vertical rainbow. It was at that moment that they could see the people from Big Sight running towards them. Among them were Tai's parents, Sora's mother, Mimi's parents, and Joe's parents. As well as the guardians' families.
"Mom…"
"Mama! Papa!"
"Dad! Mom!"
"I promise… I promise we'll come back safe!"
"Don't worry! We'll definitely be back!" Kari called out as the sight of their families got smaller by the second.
"We're off!" Everyone shouted out.
The feelings that they had all been holding back came bubbling up, and tears sprang from their eyes. They didn't know if their voices could be heard, but they waved their hands with all of their might. Both sides grew smaller and smaller from the other's view as the heroic group continued to rise through the rainbow, but they never stopped waving.
Before long, they disappeared into the Digital World and the rainbow disappeared into the air after them. All of it could be seen clearly, even from the opposite shore of Odaiba, at Shinbashi.
To be continued…