Author's note: Sorry for the late update. School is hell! 28 students in a classroom being really loud, with masks on them, no space in between them, a teacher who I can't understand audibly and lessons which aren't needed. So yeah. Here is the new chapter.
Chapter 41 – Cry of the purple dragon
A marker-shattering scream echoed through the ears of those present. Meanwhile, Dynasmon, with a pain-distorted face, stood up again and growled furiously. He didn't like the situation at all. DexDorugoramon digivolved to Dexmon and probably it had already connected to the Earth's ecosystem. Akira suppressed a curse and looked at her mother, who bit her lower lip. Even Sera had no idea how they could defeat this thing. Izzy himself had already opened his laptop and examined Dexmon with it. Again and again he cursed quietly.
"Dexmon creates an ever-increasing distortion." the redhead finally explained.
"And that means?" the young woman asked him.
"That it's trying to bend the whole room so that it can probably bring King Drasil's subordinates here. I also recognize that a part of King Drasil is in Dexmon, which means that
"This allows King Drasil to control Dexmon." Wanyamon's ultimate-level interrupted him.
"Correct." Izzy nodded briefly before returning to his laptop.
He recognized the signs of a huge distortion in the air.
"Something is coming!" shouted the redhead.
"A distortion... And a pretty big one." Dynasmon raved, narrowing his eyes.
"That would mean that several digimon would travel through the distortion, wouldn't they?" was the question of Akira's mother.
"Yes." he confirmed, again gathering energy in his claws.
"So King Drasil sends reinforcements." Dynasmon replied.
"That's uncertain." Izzy said: "It could also be our friends."
"And how are they supposed to come here?" asked Akira, irritated.
"Have you forgotten that Omnimon, Magnamon and Alphamon are with them?" her partner reminded her: "They can create distortions."
Meanwhile, Dexmon screamed out loud and gathered energy in his mouth. Dynasmon, who already knew what the opponent was up to, rushed to it and grabbed it with one of his claws by its neck and fired a red laser at a short distance. Dexmon's energy beam shot vertically into the air through the force of the attack before knocking off Wanyamon's ultimate-level with his long arm.
A distortion appeared about Izzy and the unconscious Tentomon, and several people and Digimons fell from the sky to the two. Finally, Alphamon, Omnimon and Magnamon emerged from the distortion. The latter laughed a little embarrassed, as he remembered something.
"Haven't we ever had such a problem?" he asked jokingly.
"You mean when we wanted to transport fifty Knightmon into the desert with a distortion, but instead they ended up in a swamp." said the fused Digimon.
"I remember it well. The Knightmon got pretty angry." the black knight chuckled slightly.
"Poor Knightmon..." Tai said, but couldn't smile.
"You find it amusing." Matt sighed.
"Did the Knightmon actually sink into the swamp?" asked Davis slyly.
"I don't really know." replied the golden knight, looking at the other two Royal Knights.
"Don't ask me." Omnimon replied: "I wasn't there."
"Is that really important now?" was Dynasmon's question after he had stood up: "DexDorugoramon just digivolved to Dexmon."
Alphamon turned his gaze to the said Digimon and closed his eyes as he sighed. He desperately wanted to prevent it, but he couldn't. Now they had the huge problem called Dexmon.
"I would say we're attacking this thing!" suggested Gomamon: "Gomamon warp digivolve... Vikemon!"
"Good idea." Palmon agreed: "Palmon warp digivolve to... Rosemon!"
"Biyomon warp digivolve to... Phoenixmon!"
"Patamon warp digivolve to... Seraphimon!"
"Gatomon warp digivolve to... Magnadramon!"
"Armadillomon warp digivolve to... Spinomon!"
"Hawkmon warp digivolve to... Ornithmon!"
"Wormmon warp digivolve to... BanchoStingmon!"
All the freshly digivolved partners raced towards Dexmon and wanted to attack it. Only Hackmon, who has not digivolved, and the Royal Knights kept a distance, knowing that it would be no use if everyone attacked it at once.
"Arctic Blizzard!" Joe's partner froze the enemy, but didn't use his morning stars to blow up the ice.
"Starlight Explosion!" the phoenix crossed her wings and a little later created a yellow flash that raced on the enclosed Dexmon.
"Forbidden Temptation!" the Rose Woman ignited a swirl of petals.
Phoenixmons and Rosemon's attack caused the ice to crack, while BanchoStingmon raced to the enemy and attacked it with his arm weapons. A little later he jumped back again and gave a sign to the angel-digimon and the pink dragon.
"Strike of the Seven Stars!" Seraphimon created seven spheres of energy between his hands, arranged in a cross.
"Holy Fire!" Magnadramon shot a vortex of flames out of her mouth.
Dexmon swung its left arm out and deflected the attacks into a bridge.
Meanwhile, Spinomon had already collected blue flames in his mouth and, after the enemy let its guard down, he fired his attack. Ornithmon flew high into the air and sent a lightning bolt on Dexmon. Both attacks combined reached the enemy, but did not do much damage either.
"It's strong." Joe raved.
"Why are we attacking it?" asked Cody.
"Basically, only our partners do that." Sora said.
The enemy swirled around and hit the insect man with its arm. BanchoStingmon was thrown against Vikemon, who then could not withstand the force and overturned. Both Digimon then turned exhausted back to their rookie levels.
"Wormmon!" cried Ken and went to him.
Joe also ran to his partner and lifted him up.
"Damn you!" Ornithmon growled, rushing to Dexmon.
"Ornithmon, don't!" Phoenixmon warned him, hurrying after the primeval bird.
The enemy fired a green laser at Ornithmon, which hit him in the chest and pushed him to the phoenix. The two collided and also digivolved back to their rookie form. But unlike Gomamon and Wormmon, both were not unconscious. They held themselves in the air with last strength and eventually flew to their partners.
"Hawkmon..." Yolei said depressed: "Are you doing well?"
"Y-yes... I should have listened to Biyomon." he replied weakly.
"Don't blame yourself for that..." Biyomon quipped.
"Okay..." the hawk said weakly.
Magnadramon meandered past her enemy's arms, using her long and agile body. Dexmon tried to hit her with its arms. However, it did not do so well.
"Holy Fire!" the pink dragon spit again a flame swirl on it and almost at the same time dodged an arm again.
"That's how we could do it!" Davis said euphorically.
"The problem is that Magnadramon's attacks are rather weak." Kari explained: "And she can't hold her level for as long as she would defeat Dexmon."
Magnadramon flew away and landed next to her partner before digivolving to Gatomon.
"There's no point in attacking Dexmon. It's constantly regenerating." the cat digimon said.
Meanwhile, Seraphimon began analysing the enemy:
/It is constantly regenerating... So someone would have to use an extremely strong attack to put Dexmon out of action. Combining all our attacks-/
"Seraphimon!" T.K. warned him.
"Huh?" the angel-digimon looked up and realized that a claw was approaching him.
Seraphimon tried to dodge, but it was already too late. The claw knocked him to the ground. Exhausted, the Seraphimon turned back to Patamon. When Dexmon wanted to deal the death blow, Spinomon stood protectively over the little hamster and caught the blow. Immediately, Matt's brother ran to his partner and brought him to safety, while Spinomon intercepted the blows. Then the dinosaur fired blue flames on the enemy. However, it was quite unimpressed and grabbed Spinomon by the neck before it caused him to crash to the bottom.
"Grah!" the dinosaur's voice rang out.
His tail hit Dexmon, but it caught it with his right claw and twisted it painfully. The opponent let go of Spinomon's neck and wanted to pierce him with his hand.
"Forbidden Temptation!" Rosemon created a vortex of petals and prevented Dexmon from piercing the dinosaur.
Sluggishly, Spinomon rose and, like the others, re-digitized to his rookie level. Armadillomon then dragged himself to Cody before collapsing.
"Armadillomon!" his partner shouted, gently hugging him.
The rose woman flew behind the enemy and again began her attack consisting of a swirl of petals. The attack hit Dexmon on the back and made it bend forward.
"Plasma Shoot!" Magnamon seized the opportunity and fired several drones at the enemy.
"Garuru Cannon!" Omnimon could and no longer wanted to watch and fired an energy beam.
"If you're attacking Dexmon..." Dynasmon growled and wrapped himself in a bluish aura: "Breath of Wyvern!"
A wyvern raced to Dexmon and hit it along with the other two attacks before Rosemon tried to attack it with one of her thorn whips. The opponent grabbed the rose woman's body and then hurled it into a building. Mimi's eyes widened and she inevitably ran to her partner, who was now Palmon again.
"Are you seriously injured, Palmon?" she asked.
"I… I am fine..." she moaned.
Meanwhile, Izzy bit his lower lip. He had guessed that their partner could not defeat Dexmon. It constantly regenerated. In addition, it was under the influence of King Drasil, which made matters even more difficult, because the deity was able to control Dexmon at will.
"There's no point in attacking it." Alphamon said as he watched the enemy with his golden eyes.
"Why? We have to keep trying!" cried Tai.
"Dexmon is under King Drasil's influence. So King Drasil can control Dexmon." Izzy explained with narrow eyes: "In addition, it also begins to connect with the Earth's ecosystem."
"It takes about ten minutes to do that." Hackmon said suddenly.
"And how do you know that?!" asked Akira, irritated.
"The Homeostasis just told me." the four-footed dragon replied.
"And how exactly did the Homeostasis explain it to you?" was Sera's question.
"The Homeostasis keeps sending me messages." Hackmon looked at the opponent, sighing heavily: "It also recognizes that we need a massive attack to defeat it."
"And no one can carry out such an attack." Matt said thoughtfully.
"Why do we need a massive attack?" asked the brown-haired man.
"Dexmon is constantly regenerating." Omnimon said: "And it had collected the data from our attacks so that it could accelerate its regeneration even faster."
"That's why it attacked us and then it disappeared again." Magnamon raved, narrowing his eyes.
"So it knows exactly how we're going to attack it." Tai said.
"What if we attacked it with other levels?" suggested Davis.
"What exactly do you mean, Davis?" T.K.'s brother asked him.
"We're just going to attack it with perfect-level Digimon, or in Omnimon's case with WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon, and in Magnamon's case with Flamedramon or Raidramon." the red-brown-haired man explained.
"Your approach is good, Davis..." Ken began: "But there's a problem."
"And that would be?"
"Dexmon can regenerate. So if we use even weaker attacks, it will have even less impact." Izzy said.
"So it doesn't work." sighed Mimi.
"Yes." Joe agreed.
"How can we defeat it?" was T.K.'s question.
"What about this fusion?" replied Sora.
"What fusion?" asked Yolei.
"Ah! This fusion." Kari recalled: "But... our partners can no longer digivolve to their ultimate-level... They are far too exhausted."
"I still don't quite understand..." said Hawkmon's partner.
"To defeat Ordinemon, the partners have fused with Omnimon." Matt said.
With the name Ordinemon, Meiko shuddered and gritted her teeth. Today was, after all, the day. The day she died.
"And how's that going to work now, Matt?!" was Tai's question.
"It's not going to work." T.K.'s brother said.
"Hm... A massive attack..." Cody pondered.
"I could do defeat it with Dragon-" Dynasmon began.
"Don't you dare!" Omnimon, Alphamon, Magnamon and Hackmon immediately interrupted him.
Akira's partner looked at the four with a penalty. Why didn't they want him to use this attack? The interruption basically only let his anger rose higher at the current situation.
"This attack is far too powerful. We don't want to destroy the whole city!" shouted the four-footed dragon.
"You can't control the force of the attack." the fused Digimon continued.
"Not to mention what happened last time." the golden knight recalled: "You destroyed an entire forest."
"And the penultimate time. You've destroyed a whole mountain." Hackmon said.
"What exactly does the attack do?" asked Sera.
She was curious how exactly the attack might take place.
"Dynasmon collected energy, then releases it and collects it again in a fist, which he then hits on the ground." Dorumon's ultimate-level explained.
"The destructive power is so powerful that it could destroy the whole of Tokyo." Magnamon sighed.
"And with the city also us, our partners and many humans and animals." Akira said coolly.
"Do you have a better idea?!" countered Wanyamon's ultimate-level annoyed.
"Honestly... no." Alphamon admitted: "Even if I use OwRyuken... the damage would be too small."
"And our combined attacks don't help?" the golden knight looked around.
"No." Omnimon replied, "Dexmon's recovery speed would still be too fast."
Everyone thought about it briefly. A few of the DigiDestined noticed that Dexmon did nothing while discussing how to stop it. Tai slowly went to Meiko, noting that she had been silent all the time.
"Is there anything?" he asked her softly.
"Huh?" she said, astonished.
"Is everything okay?"
"Yes..."
"Meiko... I don't believe you." said the brown-haired man, putting his hand on her shoulder: "Something is wrong with you. You're not usually so silent."
Now Hackmon also started to turn around to his partner. He looked at her in question. He had already noticed that the black-haired woman was behaving strangely all the time. She was very silent as if she was immersed in her thoughts.
"He's right." said the four-footed dragon: "What's going on?"
"Meiko." she suddenly heard someone shout.
Meiko looked around. Had someone just called her? Or had she imagined it?
"Meiko." the voice sounded again.
"Did you call me, Kari?" asked the black-haired Gatomon's partner, as she initially believed the voice belonged to her.
"No." Kari replied: "I didn't call you."
"Meiko." that voice resounded.
Meiko's eyes widened as she became aware of who this voice belonged to.
"Meicoomon..." she breathed softly.
She looked around as her legs began to move.
"Meiko?" was Hackmon's question.
Eventually, the black-haired woman began to run.
"Meiko!" the four-footed dragon shouted, hurrying after her: "Wait!"
Tai also wanted to run after her, but Matt stopped her. The blonde-haired man shook his head and then pointed to Dexmon. He wanted to tell him to find a solution together. Meiko herself was just a burden, as Hackmon could not digivolve to his ultimate-level and she was immersed in thought and did nothing to solve the current problem.
Meiko ran and ran. Hackmon himself had quite a lot of trouble keeping up with her because she ran so fast. Again and again the black-haired woman stopped and looked around. This allowed her partner to catch some air. However, these breaks were far too short for him. After Meiko stopped for the fifth time, her partner asked her:
"What's going on, Meiko? Why are you running like this?"
She did not answer him, but began to run. Hackmon sighed and rushed after her. Why the black-haired woman stopped constantly only to run again was a mystery to him. However, he noticed that his partner was looking for someone. But who? Who was Meiko looking for?
After just over a minute, Meiko stopped again and looked around.
"M-Meiko..." the four-footed dragon moaned out of breath: "Please... I can't run... any longer…"
His partner still didn't seem to hear him. Although she stopped longer, she turned around and ran back. Hackmon rushed after her, but had to stop after only ten seconds... He couldn't do it more. He couldn't keep running.
"Meiko!" he shouted at her.
This finally seemed to be having an effect. She stopped and turned around again. The black-haired woman slowly walked to the four-footed dragon. However, she walked past him and stopped a metre away. Slowly, Hackmon's patience reached the end of the rope. He stood next to her and nudged her gently and then, when Meiko still didn't react, more vigorously, so that she lost her balance and hit the ground.
"Ow..." she moaned: "What is wrong with you, Hackmon?!"
"I could ask you that! You run and run and run without a real goal!" he complained: "What's going on with you? Why are you just running?"
"I... I thought I had heard Meicoomon..." she replied cautiously.
"It's completely impossible. Meicoomon has been dead for a year. She can't be reborn and-" he interrupted when something came to mind: "Did Meicoomon die right today from a year ago?"
"Y-yes..."
"Then it's possible." he said, jumping on a stone.
"What is possible?" Meiko asked him.
"Digimon who die in this world will return for exactly one day." Hackmon said.
"Then I didn't imagine that Meicoomon had called me?"
"Probably not," he replied simply.
"I want to meet her." she said.
"And where? We've been running for quite a while and we still haven't found her..."
"Hm..." Meiko began to think.
Where could Meicoomon be? There were so many places. Tai's old school... Where Meicoomon has digivolved to Meicrackmon... Where she and Palmon fought Ogremon... and many more places. And she was running out of time. It was already afternoon and Meicoomon wouldn't wander around for long.
"Where exactly did Meicoomon die?" Hackmon asked her.
"At the port of... Ueno." she swallowed down the lump and started running again.
"Wait for me, Meiko!" the four-footed dragon shouted.
Arriving at the harbour, Meiko saw a well-known orange figure on one of the jetties. Their eyes widened as they filled with tears. Hackmon himself recognized this figure, but remained at the beginning of the bridge while his eyes narrowed.
First the black-haired woman approached the figure with slow steps, then, as if she had turned a switch, she began to run.
"Meicoomon!" she shouted, standing in front of her former partner.
Meicoomon turned to her.
"Meiko!" she replied cheerfully, after which the person in question knelt down and hugged her.
But she hugged nothing but air. The cat digimon smiled anyway and stretched out her arms to her former partner as if she wanted to be lifted up and pressed on Meiko. The black-haired woman began to cry slightly with relief.
"I... I missed you so much, Meicoomon." Meiko sniffed.
"Me too, Meiko!" said Meicoomon: "I missed you so much. I could see you, I could hear you, but... I couldn't talk to you... I saw that you were suffering... But, I couldn't help you."
"Meicoomon..." she quipped: "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."
"Why are you saying that? It wasn't your fault, Meiko."
"I... If I had been stronger, you would not have died. If I had been able to appease you, then-"
"Dan-dan!" the cat digimon suddenly screamed, as if she were going wild, interrupting her former partner.
Meiko was startled, while Hackmon immediately prepared himself. Did Meicoomon want to attack his partner? He would definitely protect her. But then he remembered that the cat digimon was only a ghost in this world.
"Meicoomon?!" the eyes of the black-haired people widened with horror.
"Sorry, Meiko." Meicoomon said: "But you wouldn't have stopped. I know you."
"I... I know."
There was a silence between the two.
"Can I talk to Hackmon?" asked the cat digimon Meiko.
"Huh?" she looked at her, bewildered.
"I want to talk to Hackmon." she said.
"Okay..." she breathed a deep breath before shouting, "Hackmon! Can you come here, please!"
The four-footed dragon approached the two with slow steps, but kept a good distance from Meicoomon.
"Dan-dan, Hackmon." the cat digimon thanked him.
"Why?" Hackmon asked her.
"You're here for Meiko!" Meicoomon replied cheerfully: "I'm very grateful for that."
"I... I didn't deserve your thanks." he said: "I tried to kill you."
"You just wanted to help."
The four-footed dragon looked to the ground, wanted to protest, but could not.
"You have to defeat Dexmon... Otherwise King Drasil will win. Unlike me, it has no will..." the cat digimon explained: "Why I was able to act against his will. This made Omnimon and the others able to defeat me."
"But how?" Meiko said desperately: "How can we defeat it? It has easily defeated several ultimate-level Digimon!"
"I don't know, Meiko... I... can't do anything."
"I can't do anything as well!" she screamed, tears streaming from her eyes over her cheeks.
The black-haired woman sneezed loudly and wiped the liquid away.
"You have to find a way." Meicoomon distanced herself from her, even though her legs weren't moving.
"Meicoomon!" shouted Meiko, hurrying after her.
The cat digimon "broke through" the parapet and floated out to sea. The black-haired woman clutched the parapet with one hand, while the other reached out for her. Meiko's eyes were filled with tears.
"Never think I was unhappy, Meiko. I enjoyed my time with you." Meicoomon said as she waved to her former partner.
"Meicoomon, please, stay!" the black-haired woman asked her: "Please stay, Meicoomon! I love you!"
"Farewell Meiko... I'm glad I was your partner. I liked every second with you. Dan-dan! And you, Hackmon. Watch out for her!" the cat-digimon smiled broadly and waved continuously.
"I will." Hackmon said: "I'm going to watch out for Meiko. I promise."
"Dan-dan!" shouted Meikuumon before disappearing.
Meiko screamed loudly and clutched the parapet with both hands. Her current partner stood next to her and rubbed his muzzle on her hip to somehow help her. The black-haired woman looked at him briefly before hugging him.
"Meiko..." he quipped.
After a while, Meiko spoke:
"Dan-dan..."
"Sht. I am with you. I promised Meicoomon to take care of you." he said, freeing himself from the hug.
With a firm look in his eyes, he looked at his partner. Then he began to smile slightly.
"I don't think Meicoomon wants to see you sad." he said.
"Yes... You are right... I always try to be strong, but it's so hard..." she sniffed.
"Meiko... You are strong. Otherwise I couldn't digitize to my perfect-level. You are strong in your way. It's okay if you cry. I would also cry in your place."
"Hackmon..." she began to smile: "Dan-dan. I'm glad you're by my side. I'm glad I have you. You give me strength."
"I'm happy about that." he said, with gratitude waving in his voice.
The black-haired woman smiled at him and got up. She looked up at the sea and cried,
"Dan-dan, Meicoomon! I needed it! I will never forget you!"
Hackmon jumped on the parapet. Meiko briefly wondered how he could keep the balance on the thin metal, but this question quickly displaced her.
"And I will always be with you." the four-footed dragon assured her: "I promise."
The black-haired woman took her partner's head in her hands and put her forehead on his.
"And I'm very grateful for that." she replied, before a light came out of her skirt bag.
Hackmon's eyes widened briefly. Then he wrapped himself in a light as Meiko went back.
"Hackmon warp digivolve to..." he shouted, before the light gave way and revealed his ultimate-level: "Jesmon!"
Meiko's eyes widened when she saw her partner. Jesmon looked down at her and then to the place where Dexmon was. His expression hardened and he narrowed his eyes.
"Jesmon?" his partner asked uncertainly.
The dragon man closed his eyes. Three energetic beings appeared next to his side. They spoke softly and incomprehensibly, so that the black-haired woman understood nothing. Jesmon wrapped himself in his cape and rushed off. Meiko was almost tossed over by the rising wind.
"Wait!" she shouted after him and started running.
The dragon man eventually reached where Dexmon was. It had just grabbed Magnamon by the neck and pushed him into a building. The golden knight briefly let out a scream before the enemy let go of his neck and wanted to pierce the claw into his unprotected belly.
"Magnamon!" cried Davis, and wanted to run to him.
Just in time Ken was able to grab him from behind and prevent him from doing his work.
"The last time you almost died." Wormmon's partner raved.
"Let me go, Ken! I have to help Magnamon!"
Omnimon, leaning against a half-destroyed wall of the house, raised his Garuru cannon and wanted to fire. But he had to close his eyes in pain, causing the beam to shoot right next to Dexmon. The fused Digimon let the cannon sink again and gasped in pain. He couldn't do anything. Basically, he could barely sustain the fusion. The enemy lifted the claw.
"Magnamon!" cried Davis, freeing himself from his friend's grip.
Suddenly a red lightning bolt appeared on the battlefield and stood protectively in front of Magnamon.
"Judgment of the Blade!" Jesmon performed several blows with his arm blades a few seconds later.
When he was done, he hurled Dexmon away with his tail blade. The three energetic beings who accompanied the dragon man attacked the enemy with their blades and pushed it further back. Meanwhile, Jesmon flew high into the air. The DigiDestined and their partner looked at Jesmon in disbelief.
"Un Pour Tous!" Por, Atho and René rushed to the dragon man and formed a triangle under him.
Then Jesmon thrust his arm blades into the triangle, igniting a powerful laser. Dexmon was covered by the beam and screamed in agony. The attack lasted a few seconds until it faded. There was no trace of the enemy.
"Jesmon… You…" Alphamon panted, before he digivolved to Dorumon exhausted.
"Unbelievable..." groaned Dynasmon and became Wanyamon again.
Magnamon paused for a moment before returning to his rookie level as well. Omnimon himself wrapped himself in a light that soon after revealed Agumon and Gabumon, both unconscious. Jesmon landed on the ground. The three energetic beings flew by his side before disappearing.
"Jesmon!" a voice shouted.
It was Meiko who looked at him out of breath. Her partner looked at her briefly before he wrapped himself in a light. This revealed a small, black fur ball a little later. The black-haired woman ran to her partner and lifted him up.
"I am hungry..." Botamon complained.
Meiko began to laugh.
"You could at least have said something." she laughed.
"Sorry... Do you have something to eat now?" the black fur ball asked.
"Unfortunately no. You have to be patient."
The other DigiDestined, their partners and Dorumon, joined the two.
"Has... Has Hackmon just reached his ultimate-level and has he defeated Dexmon?" asked Sora incredulously.
"Yes... Can I have something to eat now?!" was Botamon's impatient question.
"Why are you so hungry?" Davis asked him.
"He used OC Generics... this ability is very powerful." Dorumon explained.
"Exactly. And could I eat something now!" complained the black fur ball.
"Okay..." Meiko smiled at him and gently stroked over his fur.
"I think we could all use something to eat." said Sera, whose words were amplified by her stomach growling.
"Shouldn't we call Shin first to make sure you're fine?" asked Akira her mother.
"Ah right." she said, while her daughter called Shin.
Everyone was moving. Tai placed his hand on Meiko's shoulder.
"What exactly happened?" was his question as he held the unconscious Agumon in his arms.
"We met Meicoomon..." the black-haired woman explained: "She and Hackmon gave me strength, which allowed him to digivolve to Jesmon."
"Are you okay?"
"Yes... I'm glad we met Meicoomon." she said, smiling at him.
"I'm happy about that." Tai said with a brief kiss on her forehead.
"Where are you?" asked Matt.
"We're coming!" the brown-haired man shouted, hurrying after the others along with his girlfriend.
Meiko stopped for a short time and turned around briefly. Botamon looked up at her.
/Dan-dan, Meicoomon./ she thought to herself before a tear rolled down her cheek.
"I will be always with you, Meiko..." said the black fur ball.
"I know..." she replied, smiling at him.
Then she turned around again and rushed after her friends.
