A/N: I do not own digimon or the characters of digimon except for Fungimon and its digivolutions as well as Ryo, Takeru's cousin.
Chapter 6: Help from America.
"Ryo? This can't be possible. You...have been living in Japan with me, and you are with Mimi. Izzy is with Mimi. This is all a bad dream...argh." Takeru couldn't understand how his own cousin who had pretty good taste in girls...had dated Mimi.
"It's pretty simple really Tk. We are going to stop Taiedmon from finishing the new body of Piedmon. With that done, we can destroy him. Its' what Tai would want us to do." A voice said, a voice that belonged to Cody.
"Cody, this is a lot for Takeru to handle. I mean it's pretty big for me myself. I haven't seen him since he died and that's really hard to see one of your best friends alive and well.... and not dead. So please...save us the agony of what we have to do. We have to agree though that the plan is we are going to invade the building where the body is, destroy it, and get the hell out of there by dinner time." Ryo told the others.
"Maybe we should just stop Taiedmon first and then destroy the body because without Tai, Piedmon doesn't have a body and with no body he can't transfer his soul into his new one. Right?" Mimi asked Ken.
"To a certain extent but we don't know if Piedmon could transfer out of Tai into another body, its' a very fickle thing. But we all have to agree if we want to stop Tai and save the world." Ken announced.
"Alright. Let's take a vote. Out loud," Izzy told them. "All for destroying Taichi first and then the body say Aye, those not say Nae. I'll start...Nae."
"Aye." Ryo said.
"Aye." Mimi replied mimicking Ryo.
"Nae." Takeru said.
"Nae." Kari announced to them.
"Aye." Joe announced.
"Nae." Cody told them.
"Nae." Ken replied.
"The Nae party has it. We will destroy the body and then attack the brain of the operation." Izzy announced.
"Ready Gatomon?" Kari asked sweetly to her digimon companion.
"I'm ready to rumble Kari. Just tell me when and I will digivolve right then and there." She said purring.
"How about you guys?" Ryo asked Fungimon, Patamon, Gomamon, Wormmon, and Palmon."
They all cheered and said: "Let's defeat the baddies!"
Izzy sat with Tentomon reminiscing about the past. "You ready for this Tento?" Izzy asked him.
"I'm ready for anything your ready for but I have a question. What if none of us make it? What's gonna happen then?" he asked suddenly in a concerning voice.
"We won't stop until our task is accomplished Tentomon. We have to defeat them before it is too late and we have to hit them hard. They know their number is up and we have the ability to see when that is with Takeru and the others with us." Cody told him.
Armadillomon was currently asleep after eating whole two plates of food that included sushi and rice. Cody prodded him awake with a stick and he woke with a goofy grin on his face that changed as he was told to ready himself for battle.
"Let's do it Cody." He said in his southern accented voice. The groups walked the sewers, each partner digimon next to his or her human companion and were ready for the battles that would follow; it was just the bumps in the way that they had to get rid of.
They reached higher ground and were surrounded by metallic creatures, all champion or ultimate but thankfully no mega. Ken and Izzy declared they would stay and tangle with Yolei Inoue's creatures and let them get to the next point of the mission.
Yolei laughed manically as she watched the two rookies pitifully fight the metallic champion and ultimate creatures. It was impossible that the refugees would win a single battle, but couldn't believe it when she heard:
"Wormmon...digivolve...to...Stingmon!" and instead of a pathetic worm there was a grand champion of green armor and a pink colored blade that soared through the champions, each disintegrating as they fell apart.
"Tentomon...digivolve to.... Kabuterimon...." and the small red-shelled bug vanished into that of a large blue beetle who shouted an attack that caused many champions and one or two ultimates to stop moving
"Electro Shocker!" and balls of electrical energy flew through the battlefield of mechanical misfits. After standing there for about five minutes Kari announced that it was okay, and not to worry about Izzy or Ken.
They began to walk again but unfortunately had another battle to fight against. Sora and Davis stood next to each other, each with an evil grin that looked too evil. Their digimon were each at the ultimate level: Garudamon, and Aeroveedramon.
"Tk, go with Ryo and Cody and take care of Piedmon's new body. Mimi, Joe, and I can handle these two. Be careful." And she blew him a kiss, which he accepted.
"Hurry up girl. We want to be able to beat you before noon and that's only in ten minutes." Sora said in a trash talk voice.
"Oh yeah...show them Gatomon."
Gatomon nodded and in a blast of white light mixed with purple and pink she had vanished and could be heard crying "Gatomon digivolve to...Angewomon." Replaced with the cat was a magnificent angel with six shining wings and a bow that had a quiver of arrows of light.
"Palmon digivolve to...Togemon!" and replaced by the short, small plant was a talk thorny cactus creature who had red boxing gloves on and was itching to do some punching.
"Gommamon digivolve to...Ikkakumon..." The white furred mammal vanished to be replaced by a shaggy white furred creature that had a horn and large blue pools that let him see his targets of the holy dragon and bird opponents.
"Harpoon Torpedo." As small rockets fired from his horn and flew at the dragon digimon who smashed the grenades away with a move of his wrist.
"Celestial Arrow!" Angewomon cried. The arrow flew at Aeroveedramon, and sent him flying but he countered with his own attack.
"Vee-Wing Blade!" and fired a bolt of energy at Angewomon who also flew backwards unable to take the hit.
"High speed jabbing!" Togemon cried as she sent punch after punch into Garudamon's chest that was hardly phased and countered with her familiar "Wing blade" and wounded Togemon very badly.
Sora rushed at Mimi while her digimon was wounded so badly but something mad Mimi mad, maybe even pissed off, and as Sora gained distance and got closer Mimi sent her hand out and slammed the heel of her palm into Sora's nose hearing the cartilage cracking by the force of the impact and Sora's delightful shriek of pain.
"Togemon...try to digivolve again." Mimi cried as she went into round two with Sora who was holding her nose to try and stop the blood flow.
"Togemon...digivolve to...." And the large walking cactus vanished to be replaced by a flower-headed woman who was very fashionable in Takeru's time and he knew she still was..."Lillymon! Flower Cannon!" she cried after her fast digivolution and Garudamon and her companion flying...backwards.
"We can handle it you guys...go get rid of the body." Mimi told the three remaining un-fighting members and then joined Lillymon.
The three walked a while and Takeru took this time to talk to Ryo because of not bothering with him when he was there.
"So, tell me...what's been happening? I mean...how are you and your digimon doing?" Takeru said.
"I know Takeru. Its' hard but Fungimon and me are doing well. When you died, I cried and had promised I never would cry again but look where we are...looked what happened. Because of losing you we lost the chance to become best friends but I think when you go back to your own world, you'll do better." Ryo told him.
"You've matured Ryo, that's really great and I am glad to help you when I get back to my own world even though I won't be helping you." Takeru told him.
"We're almost there," Cody interrupted. "Do you see those two hills? The place where his body is is between the hills. We should hurry up and get going before another of Taiedmon's flunkies stops us." And the sextuplets went their way.
"How you doing Patamon?" Takeru asked as they reached their destination. They were almost to the first point where they would rest and relax from their long journey. Takeru prayed Kari and the others were all right. He wouldn't forgive himself if he lost the digidestined who were willing to fight back.
"I'm okay Tk. That's okay if I can call you that right...cause everyone is calling you Takeru and all." He said shyly.
"Of course you can call me Tk. Anyone can." Takeru said and heard a snicker and then a cold voice.
"Can I call you Tk? Can I little brother call you what I haven't wanted to call you in years since your apparent death?" The voice said. The six turned around to see Matt and his Metal Garurumon stand there in complete awe with an army of bakemon behind them.
"Are you going to fight us?" Takeru asked. "I don't want to fight you Matt, I thought I had made that clear to you in Kari's tower."
"Well you don't have to fight back but you'll be really ugly and I don't think Kari will want you anymore and then she'll come crawling on her hands and knees back to us...and I'll make sure I give her a long and passionate..." and bam Matt was on the ground faster than you could say "Halleluiah." His cheek was bleeding from the force behind the punch and Matt looked dumbfounded.
"Kill them! Metal Garurumon! Kill my brother!" he cried at the metallic beast.
"Metal Ice Snout!" the creature cried at the boy, his nostrils glowing with an iridescent blue light that was almost misty.
"Angel Rod!" a voice cried out and the holy angel that stood before Takeru thwarted the attack. Takeru sighed thankfully that he had such a strong digimon companion and could hardly believe when he saw Akylomon and Ivymon battling the Bakemon.
"Azaelamon! Go Mega!" Ryo cried before being tackled by a bakemon.
"Azaelamon...digivolve...to...Ivymon..." and replaced by the nymph looking creature was a tall muscular figure with a visor such of that as magna Angemon but a darker purple. He had a sword in his hand and a grim look on his face.
"Solar Explosion!" he yelled as he glew brightly and flew down towards the remaining Bakemon who all disintegrated as he exploded on impact but reformed right before he went off surviving for another attack.
Cody yelled at Takeru. "Get going. Patamon and yourself are the only ones who can do this. Its' been foretold. Now get to the site and destroy the find." Cody said and was doing this because he didn't want Matt to know what their whole plan was.
"Right. Good luck!" Takeru said as Patamon landed in his arms and they rushed off together for the building that held the new body of Piedmon.
Takeru watched in the distant, as he heard roars and shouts of glory. He almost heard Kari cry out..."Takeru, we won...and we're going to help Davis and Sora....Yolei too." And then it winked out.
They decided to stop for an hour or two because it was too much for them. As they walked Patamon cried out something. "Tk, look! It's a house." And indeed it was a house. They walked up to it and knocked on the door, there was no answer until a short hairy faced looking man came to it.
"Hello sir. I was wondering..."
"If you'd like to rest and stop here while you get ready to face Piedmon?" he asked.
"How did you..." Takeru began to ask dumbfounded once again.
"I am Jijimon, oldest of all digimon. I know all and see all. You are a brave soul and you will do well in future battles but be weary. Piedmon knows of your flight and his men may take you to see him face to face. I tell you this because he is more dangerous than ever before because he is adding Taichi to his body infusing it with the suit that will make him Piedmon once again. Be careful."
"Yes sir." The two said to the elder and were giving food and drink and rested for about ten minutes but seemed like forever.
"You must go...Piedmon knows that you have visited me. Good luck and keep the faith in each other for it is more than any luck I could really give you." Jijimon cried out to them and they soon found there way to the front door of the complex that housed Piedmon's new and improved body, which they had to destroy at any cost.
They passed the guards with ease for they were a pair of gazimon who were dosing off. The reached the main hallway and from an imprint that glew from the enhanced wrist watch on Takeru's arm it led them down the hallway, past the two other gazimon guards and towards the body of the monster Tk had helped caused the destruction of because of his hope in Kari, hope in himself, hope from everyone. His crest glew strongly and he thought he heard footsteps.
They reached the hallway that would lead them to the body, but it was tricky. Each hallway had a set of two guards at the beginning of each hall, and at the end. Slipping again past the first pair of clumsy looking guards they managed by the moment to pass without being seen but then they didn't notice the security cameras.
"Stop refugees!" a voice throughout the hallway sounded. It was really freaky because it sounded exactly like Matt. They started running and collided with the Gazimon who whispered to the two.
"We know who you are...and we have a confession to make." The one on the left said.
"We're with the rebellion but we have to pretend to put up a fight." The other said.
"Electric Stun blast!" one shouted but sent the bolt way off course. Patamon retaliated with a Boom bubble that flew into the two of them but because it connected with both it had been weakened.
They ran past the two stunned guards who gave them both the up sign, and finally made it to the digital door that separated them from the body of the destroyer.
"What was the code to enter the tomb?" Patamon asked. Izzy hadn't told them the code. He was supposed to be with them. He should of come because he knew how to do everything, and Takeru almost gave up hope, but his crest began to glow more brightly and the door whooshed open letting them enter.
They entered the creepy room, which was covered in computers and wires. In the center of the room were two bodies: Tai's and the new Piedmon. Takeru recalled what Izzy had told him
"You have to disable the system by pressing in the code 3-4-2-1 on the server."
He keyed in the code and everything but the two body's cases went out, then he pressed the red button that opened both caskets. Patamon flew around the room checking to find if there was any trouble. He didn't see anything so he flew and landed on Takeru's head.
Takeru sighed. It was almost over and soon he'd be able to go home and start over. He'd hate leaving Kari again but he'd be returning to his Kari, his time...his future. He was about to plunge his own likeness of Angemon's staff into the Piedmon creature's chest but he heard a voice that was as eerie and creepy as ever.
"What are you doing arrogant child of Hope?" The voice he recognized as Tai but more mechanical and animated.
"I'm destroying this body. That's what I am doing Taiedmon. Taichi. I will destroy this body, destroy you and then this world will be rid of you." Takeru yelled plunging the staff into the Piedmon without thinking and he heard a clock ticking.
"You may destroy my body but my body will destroy you. It has a bomb you just activated that will destroy this building and you won't live to see another day. Wargreymon!" Taichi shouted and the one who had saved Takeru so many times appeared before Tai, kneeling before him.
"Kill the digimon and his companion and get my temporary body out of there. We will finish this later child of Hope...if you survive."
"Patamon...digivolve...to....ANGEMON!" And instead of the winged mammal was a strong warrior with six shiny wings and wore a mask that was of a strange substance. He held a staff in his hand and looked grimmer than Ivymon or Angewomon.
"Angemon.... digivolve...." Angemon began to say but nothing was happening. He wasn't going to his Mega level.
"You aren't and will never be a Mega like me." Wargreymon joked and sent his Terra force attack down on Angemon.
"Angemon! No! You can do it. You have to believe in yourself."
He remembered the first time that Angemon digivolved into Magna Angemon. He had saved their friends and he could go to Mega, he could defeat Wargreymon. He just had to believe. Suddenly Angemon began to glow a golden color as Tk's crest glew brighter than ever before.
"I feel the power Tk! I'm going to...Angemon.... warp digivolve to.... Seraphimon." And instead was a holy angel knight who wore dark navy blue armor and had eight shining wings that never lost its glory.
"Take this Wargreymon! Angel Staff!" and he threw the staff with enough force to destroy two city blocks that sent Wargreymon flying.
"Childs' play. Mega Claw!" Wargreymon retorted sending his clawed hand at the angel who didn't move at all.
Seraphimon grabbed the hand and threw the dinosaur into the ground. His wings began to glow more brightly then ever before. He flew down towards Wargreymon to finish him off.
"Seven Testaments!" he cried and seven bolts of pure energy flew down at Wargreymon, his armor cracking under the force of the blast hurting him extremely. At that moment the power went on and
the body of Taichi awakened and sat up.
"So. You have a holy Mega digimon do you? I thought that wouldn't be possible but there you are. Let us battle Takaishi." He said grabbing his sword and lunging it at Takeru who parried it with the staff he held in his hands.
"Pretty good. You've gotten better but that won't help you now." Taichi yelled maliciously and lunged again leaving Takeru to parry again. They did this for at least twenty minutes, Taiedmon never giving Takeru the chance to thrust his staff in.
"I am tired of this game between us bearer of hope. Trump Sword!" and he thrusted once again but Takeru knew what had happened last time and he flew out of the way sending Taiedmon forward hitting nothing but air. He then slammed the staff in the monster's back sending him even further away from him.
"I have a gift from Apocloymon. Reverse Digivolve!" the maniacal emperor cried out and bolts of energy flew at Seraphimon as well as Wargreymon leaving them in their rookie stages: Patamon and Agumon.
"No bother with the Agumon. He has served me well long enough. Goodbye Agumon!"
"NO!" Takeru cried and rammed into Taiedmon sending him into the ground hopefully in pain.
"You wish to save the one who has fought your digimon partner? Why boy?"
"Because he's not evil. You are just using him like you are using my brother, Sora, Davis, and Yolei. You are using them because you can't do anything by yourself." Takeru yelled at him.
"Electric Shock." Taiedmon cried and from his hand an electric wave of energy hit Takeru sending him backwards. Pain filling Takeru's body he began to slowly rise from the ground.
"Stay down!" Taichi yelled firing another electric wave that went through Takeru again.
"No...I have to fight.... for Kari...." Takeru mumbled in complete agony not willing to let the monster win this battle.
Takeru began to rise slower this time, and stumbling he sent a fist out to Tai's face but Tai grabbed it and punched the boy of Hope onto the floor.
"Boom Bubble!"
"Pepper Breath."
Two attacks flew towards Taiedmon sending him backwards. He was stunned. How had the Agumon returned to his normal self? He had placed three hypnosis charms on him and they had seemed to vanish.
"Take care of Tk Agumon. I've got Taiedmon!" and the mammal flew at him ramming his forehead into Taiedmon's chest.
"You think that hurts?" Taiedmon said laughing.
"No but I know this will. Boom Bubble...pmph!" and a more concentrated bubble flew at the creature that was controlling Tai. Taiedmon went against the wall breathing irregularly.
"I cannot lose to two rookies! Vilemon!" and disgusting digimon appeared at Taiedmon's side helping him up. "Destroy them and bring me the human." He told them and vanished behind the wall.
"Nightmare Shocker." Two cried out and bolts of energy flew from the winged monkeys. Each blast directed at a different digimon sending the two rookies flying.
"Pepper Breath."
"Boom Bubble."
The two attacks flew as one and sent the digimon sprawling but didn't hurt them as much as the rookies wanted them to.
"I'll try and digivolve again," Patamon announced "Patamon...digivolve to.... Angemon." And the angel was restored due to the absence of the attack.
"Hand of Fate!" he cried and a flaming hot white bolt of energy flew at the champion monkey digimon, pushing them further back. No one noticed the two Gizamon who as the rookie and champion digimon battled were taking away the one thing they were fighting to protect: Takeru.
Suddenly the Vilemon stopped fighting and vanished as speedily as they had come.
"We gave them a good fight didn't we Tk?" Agumon asked the boy but noticed he was gone.
"Tk!" Angemon cried and looked around the room not able to believe that they had given Takeru to the enemy. Angemon would never forgive himself, if Takeru was hurt. He used his Angel Rod attack and a hole formed in the building. At least Piedmon's body was destroyed but they had lost Takeru.
Angemon holding Agumon flew out of the building and back to the base to tell everyone what had happened and how they had lost Takeru to the enemy.
"Where am I?" Takeru asked an empty room. He was tied up to a chair and tried to struggle his way out of it but nothing worked.
"So the one who destroyed my body is awake. I see. Hello Takeru." And Taiedmon's face appeared on a large screen that filled an entire wall. "Wait... is this thing on? I can see the red light blinking...I hate this body." Taiedmon mumbled. He had come so close to having a new body and bam, it was destroyed but he had the culprit and was going to make him pay for what he had done.
"I want the location of your base!" Taiedmon demanded.
The bruised Takeru chortled a laugh even though it did hurt. He looked up wearily at the screen and gave him a phony smile.
"Why the hell should I tell you? You don't have Kari, you don't have anything to black mail me with and...." He noticed his crest was gone.
"I have this." Taiedmon said.
"I don't need that." Takeru told the screen. It was true, he didn't really need the trinket but it helped him realize when the power inside him was working to help others.
"Fine. Then I can just destroy it...you don't need it so I don't care if I have to destroy it...three...two..."
"Wait!" Takeru cried.
"Yes?" Taiedmon asked.
"I'll tell you everything you want to know..."
Chapter 6: Help from America.
"Ryo? This can't be possible. You...have been living in Japan with me, and you are with Mimi. Izzy is with Mimi. This is all a bad dream...argh." Takeru couldn't understand how his own cousin who had pretty good taste in girls...had dated Mimi.
"It's pretty simple really Tk. We are going to stop Taiedmon from finishing the new body of Piedmon. With that done, we can destroy him. Its' what Tai would want us to do." A voice said, a voice that belonged to Cody.
"Cody, this is a lot for Takeru to handle. I mean it's pretty big for me myself. I haven't seen him since he died and that's really hard to see one of your best friends alive and well.... and not dead. So please...save us the agony of what we have to do. We have to agree though that the plan is we are going to invade the building where the body is, destroy it, and get the hell out of there by dinner time." Ryo told the others.
"Maybe we should just stop Taiedmon first and then destroy the body because without Tai, Piedmon doesn't have a body and with no body he can't transfer his soul into his new one. Right?" Mimi asked Ken.
"To a certain extent but we don't know if Piedmon could transfer out of Tai into another body, its' a very fickle thing. But we all have to agree if we want to stop Tai and save the world." Ken announced.
"Alright. Let's take a vote. Out loud," Izzy told them. "All for destroying Taichi first and then the body say Aye, those not say Nae. I'll start...Nae."
"Aye." Ryo said.
"Aye." Mimi replied mimicking Ryo.
"Nae." Takeru said.
"Nae." Kari announced to them.
"Aye." Joe announced.
"Nae." Cody told them.
"Nae." Ken replied.
"The Nae party has it. We will destroy the body and then attack the brain of the operation." Izzy announced.
"Ready Gatomon?" Kari asked sweetly to her digimon companion.
"I'm ready to rumble Kari. Just tell me when and I will digivolve right then and there." She said purring.
"How about you guys?" Ryo asked Fungimon, Patamon, Gomamon, Wormmon, and Palmon."
They all cheered and said: "Let's defeat the baddies!"
Izzy sat with Tentomon reminiscing about the past. "You ready for this Tento?" Izzy asked him.
"I'm ready for anything your ready for but I have a question. What if none of us make it? What's gonna happen then?" he asked suddenly in a concerning voice.
"We won't stop until our task is accomplished Tentomon. We have to defeat them before it is too late and we have to hit them hard. They know their number is up and we have the ability to see when that is with Takeru and the others with us." Cody told him.
Armadillomon was currently asleep after eating whole two plates of food that included sushi and rice. Cody prodded him awake with a stick and he woke with a goofy grin on his face that changed as he was told to ready himself for battle.
"Let's do it Cody." He said in his southern accented voice. The groups walked the sewers, each partner digimon next to his or her human companion and were ready for the battles that would follow; it was just the bumps in the way that they had to get rid of.
They reached higher ground and were surrounded by metallic creatures, all champion or ultimate but thankfully no mega. Ken and Izzy declared they would stay and tangle with Yolei Inoue's creatures and let them get to the next point of the mission.
Yolei laughed manically as she watched the two rookies pitifully fight the metallic champion and ultimate creatures. It was impossible that the refugees would win a single battle, but couldn't believe it when she heard:
"Wormmon...digivolve...to...Stingmon!" and instead of a pathetic worm there was a grand champion of green armor and a pink colored blade that soared through the champions, each disintegrating as they fell apart.
"Tentomon...digivolve to.... Kabuterimon...." and the small red-shelled bug vanished into that of a large blue beetle who shouted an attack that caused many champions and one or two ultimates to stop moving
"Electro Shocker!" and balls of electrical energy flew through the battlefield of mechanical misfits. After standing there for about five minutes Kari announced that it was okay, and not to worry about Izzy or Ken.
They began to walk again but unfortunately had another battle to fight against. Sora and Davis stood next to each other, each with an evil grin that looked too evil. Their digimon were each at the ultimate level: Garudamon, and Aeroveedramon.
"Tk, go with Ryo and Cody and take care of Piedmon's new body. Mimi, Joe, and I can handle these two. Be careful." And she blew him a kiss, which he accepted.
"Hurry up girl. We want to be able to beat you before noon and that's only in ten minutes." Sora said in a trash talk voice.
"Oh yeah...show them Gatomon."
Gatomon nodded and in a blast of white light mixed with purple and pink she had vanished and could be heard crying "Gatomon digivolve to...Angewomon." Replaced with the cat was a magnificent angel with six shining wings and a bow that had a quiver of arrows of light.
"Palmon digivolve to...Togemon!" and replaced by the short, small plant was a talk thorny cactus creature who had red boxing gloves on and was itching to do some punching.
"Gommamon digivolve to...Ikkakumon..." The white furred mammal vanished to be replaced by a shaggy white furred creature that had a horn and large blue pools that let him see his targets of the holy dragon and bird opponents.
"Harpoon Torpedo." As small rockets fired from his horn and flew at the dragon digimon who smashed the grenades away with a move of his wrist.
"Celestial Arrow!" Angewomon cried. The arrow flew at Aeroveedramon, and sent him flying but he countered with his own attack.
"Vee-Wing Blade!" and fired a bolt of energy at Angewomon who also flew backwards unable to take the hit.
"High speed jabbing!" Togemon cried as she sent punch after punch into Garudamon's chest that was hardly phased and countered with her familiar "Wing blade" and wounded Togemon very badly.
Sora rushed at Mimi while her digimon was wounded so badly but something mad Mimi mad, maybe even pissed off, and as Sora gained distance and got closer Mimi sent her hand out and slammed the heel of her palm into Sora's nose hearing the cartilage cracking by the force of the impact and Sora's delightful shriek of pain.
"Togemon...try to digivolve again." Mimi cried as she went into round two with Sora who was holding her nose to try and stop the blood flow.
"Togemon...digivolve to...." And the large walking cactus vanished to be replaced by a flower-headed woman who was very fashionable in Takeru's time and he knew she still was..."Lillymon! Flower Cannon!" she cried after her fast digivolution and Garudamon and her companion flying...backwards.
"We can handle it you guys...go get rid of the body." Mimi told the three remaining un-fighting members and then joined Lillymon.
The three walked a while and Takeru took this time to talk to Ryo because of not bothering with him when he was there.
"So, tell me...what's been happening? I mean...how are you and your digimon doing?" Takeru said.
"I know Takeru. Its' hard but Fungimon and me are doing well. When you died, I cried and had promised I never would cry again but look where we are...looked what happened. Because of losing you we lost the chance to become best friends but I think when you go back to your own world, you'll do better." Ryo told him.
"You've matured Ryo, that's really great and I am glad to help you when I get back to my own world even though I won't be helping you." Takeru told him.
"We're almost there," Cody interrupted. "Do you see those two hills? The place where his body is is between the hills. We should hurry up and get going before another of Taiedmon's flunkies stops us." And the sextuplets went their way.
"How you doing Patamon?" Takeru asked as they reached their destination. They were almost to the first point where they would rest and relax from their long journey. Takeru prayed Kari and the others were all right. He wouldn't forgive himself if he lost the digidestined who were willing to fight back.
"I'm okay Tk. That's okay if I can call you that right...cause everyone is calling you Takeru and all." He said shyly.
"Of course you can call me Tk. Anyone can." Takeru said and heard a snicker and then a cold voice.
"Can I call you Tk? Can I little brother call you what I haven't wanted to call you in years since your apparent death?" The voice said. The six turned around to see Matt and his Metal Garurumon stand there in complete awe with an army of bakemon behind them.
"Are you going to fight us?" Takeru asked. "I don't want to fight you Matt, I thought I had made that clear to you in Kari's tower."
"Well you don't have to fight back but you'll be really ugly and I don't think Kari will want you anymore and then she'll come crawling on her hands and knees back to us...and I'll make sure I give her a long and passionate..." and bam Matt was on the ground faster than you could say "Halleluiah." His cheek was bleeding from the force behind the punch and Matt looked dumbfounded.
"Kill them! Metal Garurumon! Kill my brother!" he cried at the metallic beast.
"Metal Ice Snout!" the creature cried at the boy, his nostrils glowing with an iridescent blue light that was almost misty.
"Angel Rod!" a voice cried out and the holy angel that stood before Takeru thwarted the attack. Takeru sighed thankfully that he had such a strong digimon companion and could hardly believe when he saw Akylomon and Ivymon battling the Bakemon.
"Azaelamon! Go Mega!" Ryo cried before being tackled by a bakemon.
"Azaelamon...digivolve...to...Ivymon..." and replaced by the nymph looking creature was a tall muscular figure with a visor such of that as magna Angemon but a darker purple. He had a sword in his hand and a grim look on his face.
"Solar Explosion!" he yelled as he glew brightly and flew down towards the remaining Bakemon who all disintegrated as he exploded on impact but reformed right before he went off surviving for another attack.
Cody yelled at Takeru. "Get going. Patamon and yourself are the only ones who can do this. Its' been foretold. Now get to the site and destroy the find." Cody said and was doing this because he didn't want Matt to know what their whole plan was.
"Right. Good luck!" Takeru said as Patamon landed in his arms and they rushed off together for the building that held the new body of Piedmon.
Takeru watched in the distant, as he heard roars and shouts of glory. He almost heard Kari cry out..."Takeru, we won...and we're going to help Davis and Sora....Yolei too." And then it winked out.
They decided to stop for an hour or two because it was too much for them. As they walked Patamon cried out something. "Tk, look! It's a house." And indeed it was a house. They walked up to it and knocked on the door, there was no answer until a short hairy faced looking man came to it.
"Hello sir. I was wondering..."
"If you'd like to rest and stop here while you get ready to face Piedmon?" he asked.
"How did you..." Takeru began to ask dumbfounded once again.
"I am Jijimon, oldest of all digimon. I know all and see all. You are a brave soul and you will do well in future battles but be weary. Piedmon knows of your flight and his men may take you to see him face to face. I tell you this because he is more dangerous than ever before because he is adding Taichi to his body infusing it with the suit that will make him Piedmon once again. Be careful."
"Yes sir." The two said to the elder and were giving food and drink and rested for about ten minutes but seemed like forever.
"You must go...Piedmon knows that you have visited me. Good luck and keep the faith in each other for it is more than any luck I could really give you." Jijimon cried out to them and they soon found there way to the front door of the complex that housed Piedmon's new and improved body, which they had to destroy at any cost.
They passed the guards with ease for they were a pair of gazimon who were dosing off. The reached the main hallway and from an imprint that glew from the enhanced wrist watch on Takeru's arm it led them down the hallway, past the two other gazimon guards and towards the body of the monster Tk had helped caused the destruction of because of his hope in Kari, hope in himself, hope from everyone. His crest glew strongly and he thought he heard footsteps.
They reached the hallway that would lead them to the body, but it was tricky. Each hallway had a set of two guards at the beginning of each hall, and at the end. Slipping again past the first pair of clumsy looking guards they managed by the moment to pass without being seen but then they didn't notice the security cameras.
"Stop refugees!" a voice throughout the hallway sounded. It was really freaky because it sounded exactly like Matt. They started running and collided with the Gazimon who whispered to the two.
"We know who you are...and we have a confession to make." The one on the left said.
"We're with the rebellion but we have to pretend to put up a fight." The other said.
"Electric Stun blast!" one shouted but sent the bolt way off course. Patamon retaliated with a Boom bubble that flew into the two of them but because it connected with both it had been weakened.
They ran past the two stunned guards who gave them both the up sign, and finally made it to the digital door that separated them from the body of the destroyer.
"What was the code to enter the tomb?" Patamon asked. Izzy hadn't told them the code. He was supposed to be with them. He should of come because he knew how to do everything, and Takeru almost gave up hope, but his crest began to glow more brightly and the door whooshed open letting them enter.
They entered the creepy room, which was covered in computers and wires. In the center of the room were two bodies: Tai's and the new Piedmon. Takeru recalled what Izzy had told him
"You have to disable the system by pressing in the code 3-4-2-1 on the server."
He keyed in the code and everything but the two body's cases went out, then he pressed the red button that opened both caskets. Patamon flew around the room checking to find if there was any trouble. He didn't see anything so he flew and landed on Takeru's head.
Takeru sighed. It was almost over and soon he'd be able to go home and start over. He'd hate leaving Kari again but he'd be returning to his Kari, his time...his future. He was about to plunge his own likeness of Angemon's staff into the Piedmon creature's chest but he heard a voice that was as eerie and creepy as ever.
"What are you doing arrogant child of Hope?" The voice he recognized as Tai but more mechanical and animated.
"I'm destroying this body. That's what I am doing Taiedmon. Taichi. I will destroy this body, destroy you and then this world will be rid of you." Takeru yelled plunging the staff into the Piedmon without thinking and he heard a clock ticking.
"You may destroy my body but my body will destroy you. It has a bomb you just activated that will destroy this building and you won't live to see another day. Wargreymon!" Taichi shouted and the one who had saved Takeru so many times appeared before Tai, kneeling before him.
"Kill the digimon and his companion and get my temporary body out of there. We will finish this later child of Hope...if you survive."
"Patamon...digivolve...to....ANGEMON!" And instead of the winged mammal was a strong warrior with six shiny wings and wore a mask that was of a strange substance. He held a staff in his hand and looked grimmer than Ivymon or Angewomon.
"Angemon.... digivolve...." Angemon began to say but nothing was happening. He wasn't going to his Mega level.
"You aren't and will never be a Mega like me." Wargreymon joked and sent his Terra force attack down on Angemon.
"Angemon! No! You can do it. You have to believe in yourself."
He remembered the first time that Angemon digivolved into Magna Angemon. He had saved their friends and he could go to Mega, he could defeat Wargreymon. He just had to believe. Suddenly Angemon began to glow a golden color as Tk's crest glew brighter than ever before.
"I feel the power Tk! I'm going to...Angemon.... warp digivolve to.... Seraphimon." And instead was a holy angel knight who wore dark navy blue armor and had eight shining wings that never lost its glory.
"Take this Wargreymon! Angel Staff!" and he threw the staff with enough force to destroy two city blocks that sent Wargreymon flying.
"Childs' play. Mega Claw!" Wargreymon retorted sending his clawed hand at the angel who didn't move at all.
Seraphimon grabbed the hand and threw the dinosaur into the ground. His wings began to glow more brightly then ever before. He flew down towards Wargreymon to finish him off.
"Seven Testaments!" he cried and seven bolts of pure energy flew down at Wargreymon, his armor cracking under the force of the blast hurting him extremely. At that moment the power went on and
the body of Taichi awakened and sat up.
"So. You have a holy Mega digimon do you? I thought that wouldn't be possible but there you are. Let us battle Takaishi." He said grabbing his sword and lunging it at Takeru who parried it with the staff he held in his hands.
"Pretty good. You've gotten better but that won't help you now." Taichi yelled maliciously and lunged again leaving Takeru to parry again. They did this for at least twenty minutes, Taiedmon never giving Takeru the chance to thrust his staff in.
"I am tired of this game between us bearer of hope. Trump Sword!" and he thrusted once again but Takeru knew what had happened last time and he flew out of the way sending Taiedmon forward hitting nothing but air. He then slammed the staff in the monster's back sending him even further away from him.
"I have a gift from Apocloymon. Reverse Digivolve!" the maniacal emperor cried out and bolts of energy flew at Seraphimon as well as Wargreymon leaving them in their rookie stages: Patamon and Agumon.
"No bother with the Agumon. He has served me well long enough. Goodbye Agumon!"
"NO!" Takeru cried and rammed into Taiedmon sending him into the ground hopefully in pain.
"You wish to save the one who has fought your digimon partner? Why boy?"
"Because he's not evil. You are just using him like you are using my brother, Sora, Davis, and Yolei. You are using them because you can't do anything by yourself." Takeru yelled at him.
"Electric Shock." Taiedmon cried and from his hand an electric wave of energy hit Takeru sending him backwards. Pain filling Takeru's body he began to slowly rise from the ground.
"Stay down!" Taichi yelled firing another electric wave that went through Takeru again.
"No...I have to fight.... for Kari...." Takeru mumbled in complete agony not willing to let the monster win this battle.
Takeru began to rise slower this time, and stumbling he sent a fist out to Tai's face but Tai grabbed it and punched the boy of Hope onto the floor.
"Boom Bubble!"
"Pepper Breath."
Two attacks flew towards Taiedmon sending him backwards. He was stunned. How had the Agumon returned to his normal self? He had placed three hypnosis charms on him and they had seemed to vanish.
"Take care of Tk Agumon. I've got Taiedmon!" and the mammal flew at him ramming his forehead into Taiedmon's chest.
"You think that hurts?" Taiedmon said laughing.
"No but I know this will. Boom Bubble...pmph!" and a more concentrated bubble flew at the creature that was controlling Tai. Taiedmon went against the wall breathing irregularly.
"I cannot lose to two rookies! Vilemon!" and disgusting digimon appeared at Taiedmon's side helping him up. "Destroy them and bring me the human." He told them and vanished behind the wall.
"Nightmare Shocker." Two cried out and bolts of energy flew from the winged monkeys. Each blast directed at a different digimon sending the two rookies flying.
"Pepper Breath."
"Boom Bubble."
The two attacks flew as one and sent the digimon sprawling but didn't hurt them as much as the rookies wanted them to.
"I'll try and digivolve again," Patamon announced "Patamon...digivolve to.... Angemon." And the angel was restored due to the absence of the attack.
"Hand of Fate!" he cried and a flaming hot white bolt of energy flew at the champion monkey digimon, pushing them further back. No one noticed the two Gizamon who as the rookie and champion digimon battled were taking away the one thing they were fighting to protect: Takeru.
Suddenly the Vilemon stopped fighting and vanished as speedily as they had come.
"We gave them a good fight didn't we Tk?" Agumon asked the boy but noticed he was gone.
"Tk!" Angemon cried and looked around the room not able to believe that they had given Takeru to the enemy. Angemon would never forgive himself, if Takeru was hurt. He used his Angel Rod attack and a hole formed in the building. At least Piedmon's body was destroyed but they had lost Takeru.
Angemon holding Agumon flew out of the building and back to the base to tell everyone what had happened and how they had lost Takeru to the enemy.
"Where am I?" Takeru asked an empty room. He was tied up to a chair and tried to struggle his way out of it but nothing worked.
"So the one who destroyed my body is awake. I see. Hello Takeru." And Taiedmon's face appeared on a large screen that filled an entire wall. "Wait... is this thing on? I can see the red light blinking...I hate this body." Taiedmon mumbled. He had come so close to having a new body and bam, it was destroyed but he had the culprit and was going to make him pay for what he had done.
"I want the location of your base!" Taiedmon demanded.
The bruised Takeru chortled a laugh even though it did hurt. He looked up wearily at the screen and gave him a phony smile.
"Why the hell should I tell you? You don't have Kari, you don't have anything to black mail me with and...." He noticed his crest was gone.
"I have this." Taiedmon said.
"I don't need that." Takeru told the screen. It was true, he didn't really need the trinket but it helped him realize when the power inside him was working to help others.
"Fine. Then I can just destroy it...you don't need it so I don't care if I have to destroy it...three...two..."
"Wait!" Takeru cried.
"Yes?" Taiedmon asked.
"I'll tell you everything you want to know..."