The Past Remembered: Chapter 7

A/N: This is definantly going to be the second-to-last chapter. Please read and review.

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Disclaimer: Digimon will never be mine.

Ken: Am I dead?

Sam: Is Meghan dead?

Wormmon: What was all that in the last chapter?

heath 999: Soon you will know all, soon.

Ken: She's getting scarier every chapter.

heath 999: Please read and review.

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In front of the Digimon Emperor's base: That second

~Tai's POV~

The explosion is enormous, covering all the digimon.

So is the blinding light coming from the sphere in Meghan's hand.

Time seems to stop as Meghan falls limply to the ground.

"MEGHAN!" everyone screams.

Then from the smoke of the explosion, several figures come out of the smoke.

My jaw drops at the sight of them.

All of the digimon are at thier Ultimate or their Mega forms.

Three are the most powerful as I can see.

Imperialdramon Fighter Mode, Sherekhanmon

and the last one.

One I haven't seen since the Internet battle.

Omnimon.

"How did they do that?" Izzy breathes, staring at the digimon.

"Meghan must've used her digicore, good timing too." Gennai replies.

A groan stops everything else that's going to be said, as Ken suddenly sits up.

"Did anyone get the number of that truck that ran me over?" He asks, and then suddenly notices everyone staring at him, including me. "What?"

"You were barely alive a minute ago." Sora says, still staring.

"Meghan must've used her digicore to also heal Ken," Izzy guesses.

"Meghan has a digicore? How long have I been out? The last thing I remember is Daemon removing the dark spore from my neck." He says, wincing at the memory.

"It's a long story," I say.

"Enough of this foolishness. Death Blow!" Daemon yells, aiming right towards our digimon.

"Transcendent Sword!" Omnimon yells, and repels the attack back towards Deathdaemon.

He roars in pain as the attack hits him, and for once every since I saw him, I feel a spark of hope.

"Tiger's Bite!" Sherekhanmon attacks.

"Wing Blade!"

"Justice Beam!"

"Position Laser!"

"Static Force!"

"Electro Shocker!"

"Flower Cannon!"

"Vulcan's Hammer!"

"Supreme Cannon!"

"One more time should do it! Give it everything that you got!" I yell encouragingly.

"Wait! There's something that you should know, I'll die if you destroy Deathdaemon." Sam says, smirking.

"What?!" Everyone yells except Gennai.

"He's right, Deathdaemon is the only one who's keeping him alive, because he's the one who brought him back to life." Gennai explains.

"We can't kill someone! No matter what they did!" Cody says.

"We can't allow him to destroy the digital world and the real world either!" T.K. argues.

"We can't kill a human, it'll be horrible," Yolei says.

"Sometimes you have to do things that you don't want to do, even if it's horrible, to save both worlds." Kari says quietly.

"Kari's right, we have to do this, whether we like it or not!" Davis says.

"I'm not going to be a cold-blooded killer, no matter what!" Mimi wails.

"We have to do it, for the sake of everything!" Matt yells.

"I don't think that we should do it," Sora puts her opinion in.

"I agree with Matt," Izzy says, "Some things can't be controlled."

"Murder is something that I don't want on my conscience for the rest of my life, thank you very much." Joe retorts.

I take a deep breath, "I think it's the only way."

Everyone has had his or her vote now, all except one person.

Ken.

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Same Place: Same time

~Ken's POV~

I never felt so torn in my life.

Which is more important, Sam or the fate of both worlds?

Everything is telling me that this is the only way.

Except one.

My heart.

Looking at him it is hard to see the brother that taught me how to blow bubbles, and the one that said that I was kind and gentle.

Now he's what I used to be.

A monster.

I remember what he did to me when I became a digidestined. I remember what he did when I was his prisoner.

That conflicts with the memories of the past, him teaching me how to blow bubbles.

How devastated I was when he died.

How I kept wishing for him to come back.

Then seeing what he had become.

I look at everyone.

My decision made.

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You know the place and time

~Tai's POV~

I feel sorry for Ken.

I don't know if I could make this kind of decision if Kari was the one doing this.

"There's nothing else we can do, lets destroy Deathdaemon." He says sounding strangled.

Nobody says anything we just nod.

There's nothing that really can be said.

"Attack him!" I yell.

All the digimon attack at once, and with one mighty explosion, Deathdaemon's gone.

And of Sam, there is no trace.

A cough interrupts the silence as Meghan comes staggering out, clutching her bleeding side.

"Did we win? What did I miss?" She asks.

"We didn't win, it was a draw." I explain.

"The last thing I remember is Daemon removing the dark spore." She says.

A strangled noise comes from Ken as he falls down to the ground crying.

"I'm going home now." He says, slowly walking away with Wormmon at his side.

Davis starts after him, concern showing plainly on his face. I stop him.

"No, Davis, let him recover on his own." I say.

"What happened?" Meghan asks softly.

"I'll tell you when we get back, lets get out of here." I say.

As we slowly trudge home, there is silence among us.

I know that I am right about one thing.

Nobody did win today.

TBC.

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A/N: *bawling* THAT WAS SO SAD!!! Epilogue is going to be up soon, please read and review.