Author's note: The fight in this chapter was strongly inspired by a fight in Fate/Zero. This fight is my favorite anime fight and I really wanted to include it in this chapter in a slightly modified form. Therefore, all rights of this fight go to Ufotable. I don't want to make a profit from it.
Maybe one of you will recognize this fight.

Have fun reading.
Kinira

Chapter 37 – Alpha and Omega

Tai slept in his bed. Sometimes he snorted quietly. This was usually the case when he had fallen asleep in a good mood. But today, as well as the last few days, he fell asleep with a depressing feeling in his chest. He was very worried about his partner Agumon. But Matt was no different. The longer the two were separated from their partners and the longer they didn't hear from them, the more their anxiety grew.

The brown-haired man turned around in bed and exhaled. Suddenly, something tickled him on the nose. With a growl, Tai turned to the other side, but again he was tickled a little.

"Tai..." he heard a voice shouting.

"Hm... it's not even three o'clock in the morning..." he muttered, changing the sleeping side again.

"Tai.", again his ears heard a beeping voice.

"Agumon you know how late it is..." Tai's eyes suddenly burst open as he saw his friend in front of him: "Agumon!"

"I'm back, Tai!" he exclaimed with delight.

Immediately, the brown-haired man pulled the yellow dinosaur into a firm embrace. He was so happy that Agumon was back. Tears of joy swayed down his cheeks.

"Agumon... Where were you... Do you know how worried I was about you?" he asked.

"Sorry, Tai... But I and Gabumon had to do something."

"And what?"

The yellow dinosaur breathed deeply and closed its eyes.

"We decided to kill Alphamon." Agumon said.

"Agumon..."

"It was a difficult decision for us... especially because Alphamon used to be a good friend of ours... But I guess it's the best way. We can't save him anymore." a tear rolled down from his right eye.

"You don't want that, don't you?"

"Yes... But it has to be. Alphamon supports King Drasils, who in turn plans to destroy your world..."

"Will you have the strength to defeat him?" asked Tai.

"I don't really want it... But I have to. Tai. You know what Alphamon is capable of, don't you?"

The brown-haired man recalled that he was the one who kidnapped Davis and his friends so that they would not inform the others of King Drasil's plans. Alphamon was also the one who killed Hackmon.

"Yes..." Tai nodded and looked at him sadly: "It's just ironic... That you have to fight a good friend... But I guess that's why you have to fight him."

"Exactly, Tai. I and Gabumon don't want to fight Alphamon, but we have to because he was our friend."

The brown-haired man put his hand on his partner's head and smiled at him.

"Then everything is fine. Through Meicoomon, I know that sometimes death is the only solution." encouraged Tai Agumon.

"Yeah..." the yellow dinosaur paused briefly before saying, "Would you have said that too if I started working with Alphamon as Omnimon?"

"I... don't know..." he looked to the side: "Maybe yes... maybe no. To have to watch a good friend become bad... I don't want to experience what Meiko had experienced."

"I can understand... Sorry I asked that, Tai."

Both then remained silent until the brown-haired man said:

"Since you have regained your memories at the time of the Royal Knights, you have grown up, Agumon..."

"That's fine." he laughed, "but I still have some animal hunger."

Tai laughed cheerfully and smiled broadly. Agumon also began to laugh.

"You can really only think of eating, Agumon," the brown-haired man said of his partner.

"Hey! Not only!" the yellow dinosaur had to grin.

Tai looked at the clock. It was five o'clock in the morning. So falling asleep again was not an option, even though it was weekend. With a smile on his face, he went to his closet and changed clothes while Agumon dropped on the bed. Yes... he and Gabumon had to kill Alphamon as Omnimon.

Alphamon knelt in front of the podium of King Drasil. His eyes were closed and he was deeply immersed in his thoughts. He wondered why he had suddenly withdrawn in the fight against Magnamon... That didn't suit him. And rather, he was preoccupied by the thought of who had liberated Omnimon. The black knight knew that his white counterpart would never have been able to free himself... The other Royal Knights who worked for King Drasil could not be either. Craniamon was absolutely faithful to the god, Crusadermon had shown no interest in Alphamon's captives, Gankoomon showed interest, but he could well be controlled by the black knight. So what was about UlforceVeedramon?

The purple knight had told Alphamon that the blue knight had been defeated by three newly digivolved ultimate-levels. Perhaps it was his last living copy. He was able to influence on him...

However, he would have noticed. Or was this hiding place not as secret as King Drasil assumed, and one of the enemy Royal Knights had invaded to free Omnimon? But that thought seemed idiotic to him. King Drasil would have noticed this... In addition, how could the prisoner's liberator remove the virus? It didn't make sense.

Alphamon straightened up again and stared at King Drasil's pedestal. The god was unusually quiet as if it weren't there at all.

"King Drasil?" the black knight asked him cautiously.

"What is Alphamon?" was its question.

"I wonder how Omnimon was freed..."

"I've already explained it to you, Alphamon. I don't know."

"If you don't know, you're not as almighty as you always claim."

"Alphamon!" the god grumbled, dropping a red flash on the Royal Knight.

He bent under the lightning and let out a painful cry.

"I can't be wrong!" cried King Drasil angrily.

"Sorry." Alphamon apologized, humiliatingly bowing: /Why did I just say that?/

"Good... I have an order for you." the god began.

"Yes?" the black knight looked on the podium with curious eyes.

"Go into the human world and cause damage."

"May I ask you why."

"To lure out the DigiDestined... More specifically, the partners of the Royal Knights Omnimon, Jesmon, Dynasmon and Magnamon. Capture them as you did with Magnamon's partner and friends."

"And that went so well last time with this Akira... We ultimately lost Crusadermon," Alphamon remembered: "And the penultimate time with Davis... I still wonder how Tai and Daigo came to the lab in the first place..."

"That was the Homeostasis' intervention. But didn't I tell you to have no doubts? My plans are flawless!"

"Flawless?" he repeated dryly: "By flawless I understand something else..."

Without wasting another word, the black knight turned around and left his lord. Alphamon wondered, as he walked through the digital space, why he had said that in the first place. It didn't suit him. Immersed in thought, he tried to remember King Drasil's order.

But what was the order again? He had forgotten it. All the black knight knew was that he should go into the human world and do something. But what?

Suddenly Alphamon stopped and looked at his palms. How on everything in the digital world could he forget the exact order? Or had King Drasil even ordered him to do anything other than just go into the real world?

Alphamon closed his eyes and breathed deeply. Suddenly he began to laugh darkly. It wasn't a laugh that could be described as human. There was no laughter that should belong to a digimon. It was a laugh that was so dark and so eerie as if it belonged to one of the Demon Lords. After the black knight had stopped laughing, he had made a decision. He would destroy humanity with his own power. In front of the black knight, a distortion appeared, into which he also entered.

Soon after, Alphamon found himself in the real world. Exactly where he met Omnimon for the first time in a long time. And exactly where he was supposed to provoke Meicoomon, but it didn't work out. Meiko and Hackmon, who were strolling through the passage, saw the black knight and froze.

"A-Alphamon?!" the black-haired woman shouted as her eyes widened.

"What is he doing here?! Has King Drasil-?!," the four-footed dragon said, before gritting his teeth tightly.

The rookie level of the Royal Knight Jesmon's rookie wanted to digivolve to his highest level and attack. But Meiko suspected this and was able to grab her partner by the tail before she used her other hand to force him to the ground.

"Hackmon... What are you doing?" she asked him.

"Attack him." he said.

"You don't have a chance."

"Should I just stand idly by?!" he cried, angrily, freeing himself from the grip of the black-haired.

He ran to Alphamon and digivolve to his perfect-level, before trying to attack him with drawn blades.

"Hackmon!" Meiko screamed, stunned.

Alphamon effortlessly blocked the dragon man's attack with his palm and hurled him against a house wall with a green laser. Before SaviorHackmon could react, the black knight was already in front of him and punched his fist in his chest.

With wide eyes, Meiko's partner opened his mouth to a silent scream as he tipped forward through the blow. Alphamon was sure that he had defeated SaviorHackmon by this attack.

So he reacted with surprise when he rammed his tail blade into the left arm of the black knight. Then SaviorHackmon smiled as if he had accomplished something great. Alphamon grabbed the dragon man's neck with his other arm and collected energy. Meanwhile, Meiko ran to the two Digimon.

"SaviorHackmon!" she shouted as if this scream would stop the black knight from attacking him.

Suddenly, an energy beam was fired at Alphamon. He dodged with a jump backwards, causing the attack to hit the ground and end up in an explosion that also gripped SaviorHackmon. Meiko was swept off her feet by the force of the energy blast and hit the ground.

When she got up again, she recognized Tai and Matt in front of her. Omnimon also stood in front of the two young men. At first, the black-haired woman did not understand why the three were here at all. Her concern for her partner was too great. So she rushed to him and didn't even pay attention to Alphamon. When she reached Hackmon, she noticed that he was unconscious due to the force of the energy blast and the ensuing explosion. Meiko breathed a light, fearing that the four-footed dragon would not survive the explosion.

The black-haired woman bent down and picked up her partner while Alphamon and Omnimon stared at each other. There was a tense atmosphere.

"Tai, Matt..." the fused Digimon said, letting the Grey blade out of the protector: "Bring Meiko and Hackmon away from here."

"What?" Matt said in credulously.

"I'm not going to hold back in this fight... And Alphamon won't either... Therefore, the extent of the destruction will be gigantic."

"Okay." Tai nodded to the white knight before rushing to Meiko and Hackmon.

Matt looked at Omnimon a little more. Then he followed the brown-haired man, who had already reached the black-haired woman and her partner. They exchanged a few words before the blonde-haired man reached them. Then Tai spoke a short sentence to him before they rushed away.

"So you want to give everything. Well..." Alphamon stood ready to fight: "Then come!"

"This will be the last decisive fight, Alphamon..." in Omnimon's words, sadness swung along, but he was prepared.

He had postponed it for far too long. Now, and only now, he had the chance to kill the black knight.

The fused Digimon raced toward his opponent as he aimed. Then Alphamon fired a green laser at him. Omnimon stopped and dodged. Again and again the black knight fired lasers at his opponent, who tried to dodge them. Energy was gathering in the Garuru cannon as the fused Digimon approached Alphamon.

The white knight started to jump and fired his attack Garuru Cannon at the opponent almost without a distance. He dodged the attack and summoned his Ouryuken blade. Omnimon blocked the blade with his own.

Alphamon let his weapon disappear again and tried to hit the Digimon with his fist. However, the white knight slapped his arm down with his Garuru head as the Grey blade approached the black knight's head. Alphamon conjured up a white sword in his left hand and blocked the attack with it. The black knight slapped the Grey blade with his own up and at the same moment also rammed his knee into Omnimon's stomach. He slumped forward before Alphamon attacked him again with a punch to the stomach.

/Omega inForce!/, briefly flashed the eyes of the merged digimon.

The black knight pulled out with his white sword and wanted to hit his white counterpart with a diagonal swing in the neck. Omnimon bent down as if he had foreseen the attack, and rammed the snout of the Garuru head into Alphamon's stomach. He staggered a few steps back as the fused Digimon jumped a few feet to safety. Alphamon pointed his right palm at his opponent and fired several lasers at him. Omnimon repelled the attacks with his blade.

/He certainly used Omega inForce.../ thought the Black Knight: /A skill with which Omnimon can predict the future and change his attacks accordingly... An ability similar to Jesmon's OC Generics on and my ability Alpha inForce... But such an ability has a price. It requires an enormous amount of energy... In other words, I should attack Omnimon quickly and unpredictably to maintain Omega inForce. In as good as three to five minutes he should be completely exhausted. But... SaviorHackmon has implemented something in me... this prevents me from using my full fighting power./

/Alphamon probably wants to force me in constantly usage of Omega inForce with quick attacks/ Omnimon placed his blade in front of his torso: /But he is weaker than usual... Did SaviorHackmon manage to implement the virus of the Homeostasis? Even then... I should not underestimate Alphamon. He's still strong... But he also has a weakness. I just have to find out which ones and then use them. However, it will be difficult. I can only maintain Omega in Force for a maximum of four minutes before I return to Koromon and Tsunomon. Alphamon also knows how to hide his weakness. In other words, I should give everything and not hold back just because he was once my friend./

The fused Digimon let his arm sink again.

/What does he want to do?/ Alphamon narrowed his eyes: /Guaranteed something unpredictable. But the fact that I'm expecting it shouldn't be unpredictable. Well. I'm ready Omnimon!/

/Alphamon will probably expect me to do something unpredictable... In that case, I will pretend that the attack is predictable./

Omnimon raced towards his opponent and already held his blade ready.

/What do you want to accomplish by that, Omnimon?/ the black knight wondered and wanted to stop the enemy blade with his white sword.

But just as the two weapons were about to touch each other, the fused Digimon ducked to the right and rammed the Garuru head into Alphamon's loin before firing an energy blast. The black knight was thrown against a house wall and slumped forward. A tremendous pain raced through him. However, he did not let it be noted.

/That's it, Alphamon.../ Omnimon walked to him and prepared to cut his former friend with his Grey blade in half: /I never wanted it to end like this.../

When he tried to slash out, Alphamon fired several green lasers at his white counterpart. The fused Digimon, who saw the attack coming through his Omega inForce ability, blocked the lasers with his right arm. Suddenly, the black knight rammed his white sword into that very arm. Omnimon let out a cry of pain and blindly attacked his opponent with his other weapon.

Alphamon used his right arm to deflect the attack upwards before ramming his white sword into the side of the fused Digimon. However, he used his injured arm as a shield, which caused the black knight's weapon to drill into it. Omnimon's eyes widened with pain, and yet he kicked his opponent in the stomach. Alphamon pulled his sword sideways from the arm of his white counterpart before jumping to safety. Several seconds passed. Both Royal Knights were immersed in thought, but kept an eye on their opponent.

/I can't use my right arm anymore... let alone the Garuru cannon./ observed Omnimon: /But that also means that I can hold Omega inForce longer because I can no longer use Garuru Cannon... But if I have to use Grey Sword or Omega Blast, then I only have a few seconds left after the attack. In this case, I should fight in such a way that I do not use any of my attacks. Alphamon, of course, tries to provoke me in such a way that I use an attack. Even if I manage to break one of his arms, he can still perform Digitalize of Soul with the other arm. So I have to break both arms... But if I hurt one arm so badly, Alphamon will do everything possible to ensure that his other arm is not injured. So I should break both arms at the same time... However, I can no longer use my left arm, which also eliminates this possibility./

/You'll probably want to break my arms at the same time, Omnimon./, Alphamon analysed: /However, you need one of your attacks. If you use them, Omnimon, you will only fight for a few seconds. That's why he's going to try to kill me in a direct fight. Then I have to see that I do not get into such a direct fight. I know that Omnimon is faster than me and he can predict my movements through Omega inForce. In this case, I will stick to my original plan to keep it at a distance with Digitized of Soul./

The black knight fired a green laser at his white counterpart. He jumped to the side and raced towards Alphamon. The enemy summoned his Ouryuken blade and let his white sword disappear. With a powerful blow to the ground, which caused an explosion, he tried to prevent Omnimon from approaching him.

But the white knight managed to do so and took aim at Alphamon's left side. He let his Ouryuken blade disappear again and slapped his arm up with his palm, while also gathering energy in the jewel to injure Omnimon's other arm so badly that he could no longer use it. The fused Digimon rammed his right knee into Alphamon's stomach and prevented him from performing his Digitalized of Soul attack.

When the white knight attacked his black counterpart with the Grey Blade, he ducked down and slapped his arm to the side. Omnimon slashed out again and again Alphamon knocked the blade away. This was repeated several times as both opponents narrowed their eyes.

/I can't attack him... I see his movements, but I can't prevent him from doing them./ the fused Digimon slashed out again.

/I wonder how long you will endure this, Omnimon.../, the black knight kicked Omnimon's right leg, so he lost the balance while summoning up his white sword again and aiming at the opponent's stomach.

The fused Digimon made a back flip. When he landed, he gathered strength in his legs to jump to safety. Alphamon immediately rushed after him and attacked him with his sword.

/I can no longer sustain Omega inForce.../ Omnimon's eyes flashed before he turned off his special ability: /I will only be able to fight normally now./

The two weapons struck each other. Immediately, the fused Digimon let down the pressure of his blade, so that it was pushed from the sword to the right side. Omnimon took advantage of the momentum, turned on his left leg and kicked his opponent in the stomach with his right foot.

Immediately Alphamon fired a green laser at him, which hit him directly into the opponent's chest. The white knight was thrown away from his black counterpart, freeing his weapon. In it, Omnimon collected energy while he was still in the air. With another back flip, the fused Digimon stabilized and almost at the same moment swung his Grey blade horizontally to the left, unleashing his attack.

"Grey Sword!" cried the white knight.

Alphamon, who had not expected an attack, was caught by the energy wave and hurled against another wall of the building. Breathing heavily, Omnimon watched his black counterpart rise up. Both breathed heavily. The fused Digimon had no strength left to fight and could not maintain its fusion any longer.

/That's it, Omnimon. I see you that you can no longer fight. In the end I won!/ Alphamon thought: "This is your end, Omnimon! Look at it. You can't defeat me even if I can't use Alpha inForce."

Omnimon did not answer. He had given everything. He had been ready to kill the black knight. And yet. And yet it wasn't enough.

/No!/ Alphamon heard a voice in him: /I will not allow this!/

"What?!" the black knight's eyes widened as he sank to one knee: "How?! How can you live, copy?!"

/What?/ the fused Digimon wondered: /What's suddenly going on with Alphamon?/

/Because I'm no longer your copy!" argued Alphamon's copy.

"Be quiet! I'm the original!" screamed Alphamon.

/That may be. But I'm also Alphamon. And I will not allow you to kill Omnimon!/

"And what do you want to do, copy?!" the black knight asked him.

/That./

Alphamon also sank to his other knee.

"What are you doing?!" he asked his copy angrily, as an incredible pain soared through his body and he had to scream in pain.

"Alphamon!" cried Omnimon, and wanted to rush to him, but his legs protested, so he had to stop.

A light enveloped the shape of the black knight and eventually formed into a sphere.

/I will separate your body from you and take with me everything that once belonged to you!/ the copy explained: /This will make me the original./

The ball split and the two pieces were removed. A piece formed into Alphamon, who leaned on the ground with his hands. The other piece, however, created a gigantic dragon.

The dragon wore dark black ribbons, while purple plates were attached to its body. These were on the shoulders, elbows, thighs, chest and head. Most of the purple plates were decorated with a light yellow fire. The silver claws on the foot and hand were studded with several small, red hooks, while the tail tip formed a transparent sphere. At the knees, the dragon each had a forward-facing red-purple claw with a pointed end. Several bat-like wings were held by several thin wires. Between the bat wings there were also red-feathered wings. A silver metal part shaped into a blade sat on one wing and was directed forward. This digimon had no visible eyes.

The dragon cried out and gathered energy in its mouth. Then it fired it at Alphamon. The red ray of energy hit his chest and hurled it against a building. After the black knight had recovered from the attack, he straightened up, but slumped forward.

"Omni... mon..." he quipped, before hitting the ground and turning to Dorumon.

The dragon screamed out loud before a distortion appeared behind it, into which it jumped. Omnimon looked briefly at the spot where the dragon was a few seconds ago, then he took heavy steps to the unconscious Digimon and wanted to kill him.

"Stop, Omnimon!" a voice commanded.

The fused Digimon looked at the caller and recognized Hackmon, who was standing there with his partner Meiko, Tai and Matt.

"Hackmon?" the black-haired woman asked uncertainly.

"No... That's..." her friend began.

"The Homeostasis." the blonde-haired man interrupted him: "I thought only Kari can be taken over by it."

"Why should I listen to you, Homeostasis?" was Omnimon's question.

"Because he is the copy that has become the original." the god explained.

"I don't quite understand," Tai said.

"Alphamon has absorbed an independent copy of itself. However, he did not know that he was also absorbing the consciousness of the copy. This consciousness has now gained the upper hand over Alphamon's body and thrown out the corrupted part, that is, the part created by Piedmon's sphere. In other words, Alphamon is back and will support us" the Homeostasis said.

"That's..." Meiko's eyes widened with astonishment.

"Unbelievable." said the white knight, before shrouded himself in a bright light and turned back to Koromon and Tsunomon.

The god left Hackmon's body, so he hit the floor.

"Argh..." the four-footed dragon moaned: "I had forgotten how unpleasant this is..."

"Are you alright, Hackmon?" his partner asked him.

"I'm fine."

Matt went to Koromon and Tsunomon and picked them up. They had fallen asleep with exhaustion. Tai approached Dorumon and lifted him up.

"What are we doing with him now?" was the question of the brown-haired man.

"We bring him to Izzy. He can rest there." suggested T.K.'s brother.

"Good idea." Hackmon agreed, "I think we all need a break."

"Yes... But especially Koromon, Tsunomon and Dorumon," Meiko said, before they all made their way to Izzy.