Those on Birdramon were thrown off as she digivolved into Dark Garudamon. She now looked like a giant, black chimera with the lion's head in the middle, the goat's head to the left and the snake's head to the right. Sora was the only one left. She was sitting on the lion's head, dressed in a black jumpsuit.
"Help them!" Izzy yelled. Megakabuterimon rushed over and grabbed Kari and Gatomon. "Where's Tai?"
"There he is!" Mimi cried, pointing to his falling form. "Sora's going after him, but to help him or...? Can't risk it!" Matt said.
Metalgarurumon rushed over and Matt grabbed Tai before he fell to the ground. "Gotcha!" he said.
"Thanks!" Tai said, sitting up on Metalgarurumon's back.
"You can't escape us!" Sora yelled,"Show them!"
"I can fight with you on my back!" Metalgarurumon said.
"We'll help!" Patamon said. "Patamon digivolve to Angemon!"
"Gatomon digivolve to Angewomon!"
Dark Garudamon pulled back her massive wings and shouted,"Dark Fire!" as each of her three heads shot a barrage of flames.
Wargreymon was hit first. "I've got you!" Angewomon said, catching Koromon in her arms.
"Why are you attacking us?" Tai asked."For pitty's sake, why?"
"Ask not for pitty from the Crest of Hate, my love!" Sora sneered,"For there is none in it!"
Dark Garudamon flapped her wings at the Digidestined. "We've got a problem!" Metalgarurumon said,"I've been hit bad, and I don't think I can..."
Suddenly he was encased in white light as he de-digivolved back to Tsunomon. "Ahh!" Matt yelled, one hand grabbing hold of T.K and the other grabbing hold of Tsunomon. Suddenly he felt something grab the back of his shirt. Looking up he saw Angemon struggling to hold up his family.
Angewomon was doing the same for Tai and Agumon. "We've got to land!" she panted."I'm not strong enough to hold you up! I can barely hold up Kari!"
"Yes!" Angemon said,"We've got to!"
They swooped to the ground. Angemon gently dropped his passengers, but Angewomon was not so gentle. Tai landed on a pile of rocks. When he got off them, he was scratched up bad, bleeding. "Izzy!" Tai called,"Get down here now!" he screamed,"Hurry up before its too late!"
Dark Garudamon's goat head rammed Megakabuterimon from above, sending him crashing into the ground. "The only ones left are Angemon and Angewomon!" Motimon said.
Sora laughed as hard as she could. "She's enjoying this!" Tai said, horrified,"Her crest is connected to her digimon! When Dark Garudamon uses her power on us, Sora feels it! It's turning her on like the ultimate physical/emotional stimulant!"
"I don't want to hurt you!" Angewomon said to Dark Garudamon,"You're like a digi-sister to me! Please, we're your friends, let up help you!"
"Its too late for us!" she boomed. "And Dark Garudamon has no friends!"
She sent a lightning bolt that hit the two angel digimon, turning them all the way back to Tokomon and Nyaramon.
"I'm sorry!" Nyaramon said to Kari when she caught her.
"We didn't want this!" Sora said," and yet, it was something we had to do!"
"Yes," Dark Garudamon said,"By striking you down, we cut ourselves free of the last ties binding us to who we once were! We are quits now, Digidestined!"
Dark Garudamon turned, flew into the sky and disappeared in a burst of light.
"She, she crossed the barrier!" Izzy said in disbelief.
Over Japan, a mighty burst of light appeared in the evening sky as Dark Garudamon enter Earth. All over the island, the chimera surrounded by a layer of fire was seen. Pallet Town- Misty was awaken when Pikachu started to cry out. "What's wrong?" she asked, running into Ash's room.
"Pikachu's sensing a great electrical surge!" Brock said, standing over the electric pokemon laying on the floor. "From where?" Misty asked.
"There!" Ash said, pointing out the window to Dark Garudamon."We'd better go investigate!"
Nerima- "Ranma, what is it?" Akane asked, rushing over to her fiance, standing on the balcony, staring at the sky. She was sleeping with P-Chan when she heard him cry out.
"I was just watching the stars when I felt that..thing!" he said, pointing to Dark Garudamon.
"What is it?" she asked, grabbing hold of him.
"I don't know, but we have to stop it!"
The forest- Gohan suddenly heard his father cry out. Even though he knew his mother would kill him for being up this late at night, he ran outside to where he knew his father would be training. "What's wrong, dad?" he asked.
"That..that thing in the sky!" he stuttered. "I've never felt power like that before! It may even rival that of Frieza himself! We must stop it, for I sense great evil from it!"
Even as Ash, Ranma, and Goku rushed to fight her, Dark Garudamon was already out of Japan air space and heading south.
"I need strength!" Dark Garudamon said."The trip between dimensions took too much out of me!"
Sora began to look around. "There!" she said,"That island should do nicely!"
The Digimon flew towards the small, uninhabited island, and plunged deep into its active volcano. A minute later the entire island exploded, sending an array of colors into the atmosphere.
A Japanese patrol ship saw the detonation. "What happened?" the captain asked.
"Something entered the volcano and somehow cause the island to explode!" an officer said, looking at a computer monitor, "And it seems what ever it is, it is able to feed on the fire!"
"What's this?" Sora asked, seeing the ship. "They want a show huh? Let's give them one!"
Dark Garudamon smiled as she flew towards the ship. The crew scrambled around, trying to move to ship, but it was no use. The shock wave from Dark Garudamon's flight caused the ship to break apart before she disappeared in a blink of light.
Back in the Digiworld, the Digidestined were seated around a campfire, while Joe was tending to Tai's wounds. "What happened to her?" he asked, while placing a cloth over one of Tai's many cuts.
Mimi held back tears as she said," Sora once told me that she always tried to be the perfect person, always pushing down those 'bad' thoughts she had. She told me her greatest fear was if those thoughts escaped!"
"That's it!" Izzy said,"As Sora, she's kept those negative emotions locked away, but when she was controlled by the Dark Masters, she wasn't Sora anymore and that 'dark' side of her soul came out!"
"How can we stop her?" Tokomon asked."Dark Garudamon beat us like we were armatures!"
" That's because her digivolution level is above a Mega's! But I might be able to write a virus that, when introduce to the crest, will disable it!" Izzy said, looking at his laptop.
"I'm worried about Tai," Kari said to Nyaramon,"Scince Sora left, he hasn't said anything!"
Suddenly, Tai stood up, pushing Joe over. "Hey!" he yelled.
"Its Sora!" Tai said,"I can sense her through our crest rapport! She's returning to the Digiworld!"
Sora and Dark Garudamon landed on File Island, on the mountain near the Yokomon village. Everything seemed the same the day she left, yet those memories seem like they belong to some one else. "Who's there?" a voice yelled.
"Would you believe the Greek Goddess of Love?" Sora asked, sarcastically.
"Can it be?" Meramon asked, walking over, "Sora! How are you?"
"I am..fine!" she said, hopping off of Dark Garudamon.
"And can this be the little Yokomon who left so long ago?" he asked, a little sacred.
Dark Garudamon sensed that he was sacred. "I don't know why I'm doing this" she thought to herself,"Sora, we have to leave!" Sora jumped back on her digimon and they flew off. "It was her!" Meramon said,"The Yokomon's Village has the legend that a Dark Garudamon would appear some day! I hope, I pray, the Digidestined can stop their fallen friends!"
"I've got it!" Izzy said, holding up a round, helmet, like device,"Slap this on Sora's head and her crest should stop functioning!"
"Good work," Tai said.
"I've never heard such pain in his voice!" Mimi said to Palmon,"He has to fight the person he loves, possible to the death, and its eating him up inside! Its hurting all of us! Since we came to the Digiworld, we've all faced this together, and that made us a family! Sora's part of that family!"
Mimi walked over to him. "Tai, I..."
"Mimi," Tai said," I...I know that you want to comfort me, but I can't give in to my feelings, not yet, if I give full reign, I'll shatter! For Sora's sake, as much as every one else's, I've got to stay in control!"
Suddenly, their digivices started to beep. "She's coming!"
"Where are they?" Sora asked,"This is just where we left them!"
Dark Garudamon landed and Sora jumped off. "They should still be here!" she said,"This doesn't make any sense!"
"Maybe their planning an ambush!" Dark Garudamon suggested.
Sora shook her head. "If they're anywhere near here my digivice would go off!"
Suddenly, Joe jumped out of the bushes and through Izzy's device over Sora's head. "I'm sorry it had to come to this!" he said.
Sora through him off as Dark Garudamon started to battle Wargreymon in the sky.
Sora started to scream. "Izzy!" Joe said,"Your device is hurting her!"
"She's fighting it! That's why!" Izzy said from behind the bushes. "It just lucky that my program masked us from her digivice or we'd be dead right now!"
Sora continued to hold her head. "My mind's on fire!" she said,"But that doesn't mean I can't fight!"
She jumped up and kicked Joe in the face. "Stop!" Mimi said,"Please!"
Sora smiled. "Your closer to me than a sister, but I won't hesitate to strike you down!"
"Please!" Mimi said,"In the name of the love we share, let us help you!"
Sora punched her down,"In the name of the love we share, I'll weep over your grave!"
"That's enough!" Matt said, grabbing hold of her. "I won't let you go until you stop!"
"Small threat!" she said, but Izzy device was draining her.
Up in the sky Wargreymon and Dark Garudamon continued to battle. "Stop! Don't make me do this!"
Dark Garudamon laughed and shot her attack at him. "That's enough!" he said, dodging her attack.
He lunged forward to strike, but Izzy's device gained enough power and shut down Sora's crest. Dark Garudamon became Yokomon in Wargreymon's arms.
"D-do it!" she said," Do it now, while I'm still in control! You're a Mega, I'm an In-training, it'll be no problem. Hurry, before..."
She was filled with light as she became Dark Garudamon again, throwing Wargreymon off. He screamed with pain as he became Koromon and landed in Kari's arms.
"What a pity, Izzy!" Sora said, pulling his device off,"I've overloaded your virus! It was an admiral ploy, but a ploy that failed!"
"Stop this!" Tai said, walking up to her.
"Well, I was wondering when you'd appear! Have you come to fight?"
"I came to talk."
"I won't listen!"
"Then kill me! Go on, fulfill your destiny! Kill me, if you can!"
Sora hesitated.
Sora hesitated.
"You can't!" Tai said,"Because you love us!"
"We know nothing of love!" she said, mentioning to Dark Garudamon.
"Yes you do! You ARE love! Your very power comes from the purest, the noblest emotion a human can have! And now you want to deny that?"
"Yes!" she said,"No!" I...hunger, Tai, for a joy, a rapture beyond comprehension! It consumes me!"
"It doesn't have to!" Tai said. He knew Sora was coming back to him."Fight it!"
"I..I.." suddenly, she punched him in the face. "Why fight it?" she asked.
Tai fell back in pain. "No!" Sora yelled, at the sight of the one she loves in pain."I..I finally understand! I can't fight it, because it is a part of me! I was wrong to try to repress it! It was just a matter of time before it was unleashed! I can't contain it any longer! As long as I exist, Dark Garudamon can kill! You must kill me!"
"It doesn't have to be that way!" Tai said,"You have an intellect, a will, you can do it! You can fight it!"
"I am fighting it!" she said, "I'm hanging on by my fingernails! Your way I'd have to stay in complete control every second of every day for the rest of my immortal life! Maybe I could do it, but if I lose control if someone DIES because of me, I..I.."
She hopped on Dark Garudamon and together they flew up into the sky. "Its better this way!" Dark Garudamon said,"I love you Koromon!"
"And I love you Tai!" Sora said,"Part of us will always be with you!"
"No!" Koromon yelled.
"Don't!" Tai screamed, but their minds were already made up. They flew straight down, and slammed into the ground, with a mighty explosion, a few miles from the Digidestined.
"Sora!" Tai said, falling to the ground, crying,"Sora."
Off in the distance, an Andromon said,"I don't understand this! Sora was a force of good, she was one of the Digidestined, yet she killed herself, why?"
"Because she was human!" Pixemon said, flying into view.
"Explain!" the Andromon said.
"Dark Garudamon was a dgivolution level as far above a Mega's as a Mega is above a digi-egg! Powered by the Crest of Hate, she could have destroyed the Digiworld! But the Crest of Hate was powered by Sora's 'dark' side, her need for passion! Once Tai briefly brought her back, she understood what had happened to her. Faced with the choice of having her Digimon keeping her god-like power, and knowing that power would corrupt her or dying, they chose the latter."
"That is what makes humanity unique!" Pixemon said, hiding his tears from the other Digimon," this extraordinary trait for self-sacrafice, this ability to triumph if the cause be just! The Digidestined don't realize it, and the may never except it, but they won the greatest victory of their lives! Sora and her Digimon could have lived to be gods, but it was more important that they died as humans!"
THE END