NB: I've gone back and added some more to every chapter so far, so it might be a good idea to re-read, we also have a new character based intro a'la "Digimon Episode Introduction" for every chapter bar the first. AAUK 0:-)

The Crest of The Heavens
By ArchangelUK

I do not own Digimon, neither do I own any Aces, Fours, Jacks or Kings. HA! Go Fish!

Matt: We engaged the Minotaurmon in battle whilst Jarret tried to deal with Nemisomon but we were all still very weak. ExVeemon and Angemon were taking on two bad guys each and everyone was taking a hammering. Jarret got thrown into Angewomon which knocked them more or less out of it. Nemisomon went to destroy both of them but Angemon saw got a burst of energy and digivolved to MagnaAngemon! He ran Nemisomon through with Excalibur and deleted him, saving all of us. We thought we'd won - but suddenly Jarret's D3 began beeping and he was struck from behind by some energy wave! Gee, do we ever seem to get a break?

Chapter 10: Truth Will Out

"On the day there is 13 a choice is made, a path is taken, and that path shall lead 13 to light and 1 to shadow."
- The Prophecy of The Thirteenth DigiDestined

The sound was blood curdling.

The purple energy stream seemed to suck at Jarret's body spinning him around and switching it's focus to Jarret's throat. The Digimon digivolved as best as they could to try and block the beam but all that did was steer it over their heads, or pull Jarret nearer the swirling mass of data.

"It's pulling him in!" Armadillomon cried and bit down onto the bottom of Jarret's trouserleg, in turn the others held onto limbs and each other. Palmon used her poison ivy to try and anchor the whole group to a nearby rock but to little effect and whilst this was all happening Jarret was still attached to the beam.

Everyone held on tightly to Jarret who was still screaming at the top of his lungs in agony. To no avail though it seemed, for the beam seemed to wrap around Jarret and wrenched him from their collective grasp. They could also now make out that beam was attached to the Crest of the Heavens which dangled around Jarret's neck. It lifted him, like some vile purple tendril into the air seemingly sucking the life out of him. The vampiresque beam seemed to be draining Jarret's energy, his clothing had now lost all colouring gold, yellow or otherwise and was now a rapidly lightening grey. Still he screamed.

Then, just as suddenly as it had struck him it stopped, dropping Jarret to be caught by Kabuterimon. They laid him down on the ground and after a minute he slowly began to open his eyes, Ken and Yolei however were focusing on something else. Izzy had noticed it too, the tendril had disappeared back into the data cloud and it had begun to condense smaller and smaller until it formed the shape of a small yellow digiegg. Jarret sat up despite the pain he was obviously in and stared at the egg, the rest followed his gaze.

"Nemisomon?" Jarret whispered,

"What? It can't be!"

"How -" Ken's question was cut off by a crack, and they all spun round. The egg which had only reformated a few seconds ago was already breaking open and a pair of yellow eyes could be seen. The others stepped back in shock.

"It is him!" TK gestured at the eyes, Kari held onto his arm tightly.

The beeping started again from Jarret's Digivice and the egg exploded outwards growing steadily and forming into a familiar looming shape. Nemisomon toppled forward slightly, staggering, but none the less kept his balance.

"This is impossible." Izzy said shaking his head in disbelief.

"Not quite impossible, Keeper of Knowledge unless I am able to acomplish it. What I did do was to achieve the unlikely."

Jarret finally got a hand on his digivice and to everyones amazement picked up a stone and smashed it down onto the chrome D3. The impact smashed it wide open, spilling glass shards, transistors, chips and circuitboards onto the valley floor.

"You are too late." Nemisomon whispered, Jarret looked up suddenly very tired.

"Jarret, what just happened." Kari knelt down by the fallen youth and looked into his eyes they were dull and sunken. She gasped, Mimi who she had knelt down next to put a hand to her mouth in shock - Jarret looked old. Very old. Much more than his 18 years, Jarret's browny/blond hair was shot through with silver.

"Something I didn't know was possible." He managed, trying unsuccessfully to get up.

"Obviously." Nemisomon smirked, pleased with his actions.

"I didn't realise you were so power hungry."

"Of course I am don't you recall what happened six years ago?"

"Six years ago?" Gatomon's thoughts went back to their conversation, Jarret had talked very reluctantly about when his parents and brother were killed. At the time he also mentioned something about an event 'six years ago' surely this must be the same one being talked about now.

"I don't need or want to remember about that day."

"I think they want to."

"Jarret." Mimi finally managed, "What's happened? What has he done to you?"

"He used my digivice to bridge the gap between his data and my crest and downloaded enough of my energy to restore himself. That's why I look..."

"...Old."

"Yes."

"But only a DigiDestined's digimon partner can share their energy and they only need a bit of it." Tai said confused. Mimi's mouth opened in a big 'oh' of shock, she on the other hand had figured some of it out.

"Jarret what does this all have to do with you?" Asked Cody.

"Yes Jarry - why haven't you explained it to them yet? Don't you think this would be a good time right now?" Nemisomon was weaker than he was letting on, his resurrection wasn't exactly complete yet as the new energy circulated his data pattern. He was in effect stalling for time, but very successfully.

"STOP CALLING ME THAT!"

"Why not, does it remind you of our times together? When we were happy?"

"Happy?"

"When we were family?"

"Family??" The others save for Mimi chorused

"Oh no..." Gatomon muttered suddenly understanding.

"I shouldn't have let you take that power so soon."

"Okay, what the hell is going on?"

"Tell us now Jarret!"

"OKAY!" Jarret yelled, he breathed in a couple of times composing himself. "Okay..." He said again more calmly, never once did his eyes shift from those of Nemisomon.

Angemon held onto Gatomon and the tree for all he was worth, "We can't take much more of this!" Jarret sandwiched between the pair with Terrimon screamed against the deafening vortex, there was very little that could be done though. The attack of the MetalMinotaurmon was unexpected and powerful, no-one had seen such a digimon before.

"We can't just hang here!" Yelled Danny as ExVeemon clung to him, Raven and the dedigivolved Gabumon. Danny squinted against the wind but the young Motomiya's sister Cara was in the way.

"There's only one chance, it must be destroyed!" bellowed Jarret back, Angemon turned his head with some effort to look at Jarret.

"No. Terrimon isn't ready to digivolve yet, he couldn't take that amount of power."
"Yes I can." The little digimon squeaked,

"I don't think that you -" Angemon began,

"Good enough for me.." Jarret said,

"No Jarret don't!" Gatomon pleaded,

"..digivolve!"

"Terrimon Digivolve too...Ricomon!"

"What's so special about that?" Joe asked turning towards Jarret, who sighed.

"If you'll let me finish."

"Ricomon Digivolve too...Nemisomon!"

"Oh...."

"Nemisomon is your digimon partner?"

"Was."

"Then this mess is all your fault?" Jarret shot Tai a glance that would have lowered the temperature of absolute zero a few degrees.

"MetalMinotaurmon was destroyed by him, but the recoil of the power from the Crest almost killed me and hurt many of us there. Some more so than others." Jarret paused and for the first time in a very long while silently cast his mind back to that day.

"Patamon?"

"You hang in there Gatomon you hear? We've lost too many people already, too many of those we loved. I'm not going to lose you as well!"

"I'm afraid you must, my data is breaking down. I-I don't w-want to die Patamon."

"No. No no no, I won't let you!"

"Neither I nor you can do anything about it."

"Gatomon?"

"Remember me always sweet Patamon."

"No! Gatomon don't leave me."

"Always...."

"NOOOOO!"

Jarret cringed at the memory, Nemisomon smiled knowing full well what he was thinking of.

"After that Terrimon vanished, we thought the power had consumed him, but he obviously came back to this time to do whatever he did."

"He did? Is this the thing that made you come back 34 years into the past?"

"Possibly."

"Why don't you tell them why the DigiWorld died really?" Nemisomon called suddenly.

"What do you mean?"

"I think you do know, you've just never thought of it."

"Stop speaking in riddles to me Nemisomon, if you have a point make it."

"Oh? Guardian powers, the balance, guardian powers gone, the balance is gone. DigiWorld go bye bye..."

"I - Oh no..." Jarret's wrinkled face went the whiteness of ice.

"What? What is it."

"Oh, good God no."

"So just why did your digiworld die." Davis challenged,

"It died because I left."

"What?" They exclaimed, Jarret hung his head and Nemisomon laughed,

"He is right. Without him there the digiworld must have lasted at least a good thirty seconds. Isn't that right Jarry?"

"I said don't call me that!"

"And of course as the child of knowledge will tell you, when one world goes..."

"...They all go." Izzy grunted the confirmation.

"So the great Jarret is not only responsible for the deaths of millions of digimon he is also responsible for billions of humans and other lifeforms dying."

"You are the one responsible!" Jarret yelled back, standing up again. He looked younger than he had, the silver had almost totaly vanished from his hair as had most of the signs of age. His strength aparently was returning to him Nemisomon noticed.

"You left, they died - true or false?" He cried, eagar to get this encounter over with quickly.

"True! But they would have anyway!"

"How do you know?"

"Not that you'd know but because the digiworld was falling down around my ears and there was nothing I could do to stop it."

"It matters not...murderer."

"I am not a murderer!"

"Oh yes, you are."

"I AM NOT!"

"Oh yes? Think about it some more Jarret, think about it some more. Do all the events lead to me? Or was it your responsibility all along? You left me on my own when I was Terrimon to look after that damn cat of yours and ignored me. You deserted your own digimon partner!" Nemisomon's voice was choked by anger and bitterness.

There was silence, an errie emotional stand-off, Jarret looked around at the DigiDestined. Their faces a mixture of anger, astonishment and disbelief. They weren't backing him up, they weren't believing him, Nemisomon backed away from them. Jarret started to charge towards Nemisomon screaming at him, but Nemisomon simply sidestepped him, the youth falling against a boulder.

"Not now boy, the final fight is not now..." ...Think some more. He added mentally, Jarret stood there as Nemisomon disappeared, leaving only shattered beliefs behind him.

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