Chapter 13 – Darkness Falls
That's what I get for telling the truth I guess.
I bolted across the football field, intent on escaping Rika. I risked a glance behind and gulped. She was definitely too close for comfort. I thought something else as well.
She's cute when she's angry.
This is no time to concentrate on that Matsuki… Crap.
While arguing with myself I appeared to have run into a dead end. As I considered the oddity of a virtual box canyon on school grounds, I heard a crunch on the gravel behind me. I tuned to see Rika closing in on me, from the way she was coming at me it appeared that she had learned a little on how to stalk people from Renamon. Then she lunged at me and landed a swift punch to my stomach…
…and stopped.
Huh?
"Uh, not that I'm complaining, but why'd you stop?"
She rolled her eyes.
"Now that I'm eighteen, I'm lightening up on the physical abuse, I could go to jail you know."
I knew it was an evasion, but let it slide we stood there for a second. Rika seemed to be seriously considering something, and I opened my mouth and prepared to speak, when she opened her mouth. I closed mine. She seemed more than a little nervous. Looking around one last time to make sure we were alone, she started.
"Um, Takato?"
"Yeah, Rika?"
"Would, um, you like to do something after school today?"
I blinked. Of all the things I had considered it possible she was going to say, this didn't even make the list. When I said nothing for a second she spoke again.
"Well if you don't want to fine! I'll just leave you alone then!"
She turned and stomped off. I was up and after her in an instant, grabbing a hold of her arm.
"Rika wait."
"What?"
When she turned she had the Ice-Queen look on her again. I smiled at her, just like I used to when she'd turn it on me.
"Rika, I'd love to."
"You don't have to feel sorry for me, Takato!"
"It's not that Rika, really. You just took me by surprise, that's all."
Her expression changed in an instant. The icy sheet dropped, revealing the girl I had always known was somewhere inside. A girl who was confused, and more than that, was easily wounded. I knew that with how vulnerable she was right now, this would make or break any relationship I had with her.
"Really?"
I put on my best smile.
"Really. What did you want to do?"
In another instant, the Rika I had fallen for was back. Calm and confident. The one who made my knees weak when she smiled that small smile she had. The one she was smiling now.
"Not sure yet. But we'll figure it out."
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I smiled.
I'd been doing that a lot lately. The last few days had been a blur. Takato and I had been hanging out after school almost constantly. We talked, we laughed, we saw movies, and ate out. And we were quickly learning to work together as Sakuyamon and ChaosGallantmon. There hadn't been attacks by anything other than wild ones for the last week or so, but Henry suggested, and Brainiac is usually right, that things would pick up sharply after graduation, which was yesterday.
The only downside is that mom teases me all the time now.
But that wasn't a huge problem, and I had one less now that Renamon was fully recovered. I let out a small chuckle. Guilmon had been tending to her almost non-stop. It was driving her crazy. She told Takato to get him away once, and Takato respond with 'he knows what he's doing'. Renamon had quite bluntly asked how, and Takato mumbled something about patching up Grani. Then, yesterday, just after the ceremony, the unbelievable had happened. Takato asked me out. A real date, not just hanging out the way we were. After blinking a second to figure out if I had heard right I accepted.
God, I'm acting like a lovesick schoolgirl.
Which, in a way, I suppose I was. After all, my schoolgirl days had only ended the day before. I got up and got ready to go. My usual clothes, Takato's goggles, my D-Ark, and my card deck. I smiled. Mom had tried to get me into some make-up or other clothes, but I refused. Further musing was interrupted by the doorbell. I ran over to the door, but opened it calmly. There was Takato. He looked nice enough, dressed in jeans and t-shirt the way I was, but I would have preferred that he hadn't gone back to being 'Tai'.
"You ready to go Rika?"
"Yeah."
He led me down to Henry's car, and we took off into the night.
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I smiled as we got up from the table.
This has been a really great night.
I could scarcely believe my ears when Rika had accepted to go with me on a real date, but here we were, getting up from a quiet dinner in a small restaurant. We chatted lightly about lots of things, Rika throwing half hearted punches at me every so often. I smiled, then turned grim.
*Takatomon! Goblimon, Keramon, and DemiDevimon are near!*
*Thanks for the warning, Guilmon. Stay back until I tell you. Let them think that they haven't been noticed.*
Guilmon watched from the shadows as I had instructed. Rika, however noticed the change in my attitude.
"Takato, what's wrong?"
"Don't do anything too sudden, but Alicia, Dirk, and Delia are out there somewhere. Guilmon caught their scent."
"Great."
Then, a roar sounded behind us.
Armageddemon.
Biomerge
Digivolution_
Guilmon Biomerge to… ChaosGallantmon!
"Call the others."
Rika nodded and got out her cell phone. I leapt in to attack.
"ULTIMATE FLARE!"
Gorgon took the brunt of the blow and I continued forward.
"TRUMP SWORDS!"
I swung myself ninety degrees, and raised my shield again. Then Armageddemon was on me from the side like an attack dog. I beat him off with my lance, but Piedmon wasn't finished yet.
"CLOWN TRICK!"
The attack impacted from the side, but I felt little of it, and aimed.
"DEMON'S DISASTER!"
Then, unexpectedly, they both backed off.
Danger Will Robinson, Danger!
Then, Alicia stepped between them, a DemiDevimon that was three feet in diameter floated at her side.
"Last offer Takato, join us or die. Yes, I do know now. That stunt in class may have gotten you the grade and fooled everyone else, but we know you're still alive now. Again, last offer."
I grinned, knowing they couldn't see it behind the mask. I reached up and pulled down the blue Guilmon-like visor.
"Bite me."
"Fine. DemiDevimon…"
Digivolution_
DemiDevimon Warp Digivolve to… Ghoulmon!
Crap.
Like his rookie and champion forms, his mega form was huge. This Ghoulmon was easily twice my height. I had only seen three digimon larger in my life.
Indramon, Megidramon, and… could it be!?
"Demon!?"
The large mega laughed.
"Yes. I am the Demon you defeated four years ago, Matsuki, though I was very tired at the time, and am still not at full strength. Prepare to taste you own death."
"You first."
"DEATH ARROW!"
"TRUMP SWORDS!"
"BLACK RAIN!"
Oh boy. Here we go again.
I ducked and weaved, attempting to dodge the shots as they came, but let's be honest. Three mega level attacks coming in at three angles? I dodged as many as I could, but too many of them hit me. I was tired for the first time in a long while.
"Pitiful human. Die in disgrace. EXPLOSION EYE!"
The attack hit dead on. I only remember breaking back into Jyarimon and myself before blacking out.
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"Henry? Is Jeri with you? Good! Get down here to where I am fast! We've got all three of them here! Yes, I'm sure!"
I hung up. They'd find us. Following the explosions wouldn't be that hard.
"Renamon."
It took Renamon about a minute to arrive. Long enough for ChaosGallantmon to move out of sight, anyway.
"I'm here Rika."
"Good."
Biomerge
Digivolution_
Renamon Biomerge to… Sakuyamon!
Feeling the rush of power that comes with biomerging I took off down the street, just in time to see ChaosGallantmon come flying across an intersection, breaking apart as he did so.
What could do that to him?
I got my answer a second later when a humongous Ghoulmon stepped into the intersection.
Great. Why do my nights always go like this?
I jumped into the fray in order to distract the thing from killing Takato.
"SPIRIT STRIKE!"
He turned and laughed at the sight of me.
"Another biomerged fool has come to play! DEATH ARROW!"
I jumped out of the way of the attack, knowing there was more to come as Piedmon and Armageddemon joined the fight.
Dirk: DIGI-MODIFY! VenomMyotismon's Nightmare Claw Activate!
Delia: DIGI-MODIFY! Power Activate!
Alicia: DIGI-MODIFY! Black Gear Activate!
"NIGHTMARE CLAW!"
"ULTIMATE FLARE!"
"DEATH ARROW!"
I felt myself break back into Renamon and Myself. I lay on the ground groaning.
"DEATH ARROW!"
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I flew in just in time to see one of the largest digimon I'd ever seen launch an attack at a defeated Rika and Renamon.
"MEGA BARRAGE!"
My attack swooped in…
…and missed. Ghoulmon's attack went as planned, striking both Rika and Renamon.
Then, cursing my slow speed and I hovered in, I watched, almost in slow motion, as the unthinkable happened.
Renamon looked fuzzy for a moment, then started to delete.
"Come, my minions. More fools arrive! Feast and grow stronger!"
All three of them began loading data, healing their limited wounds, and strengthening themselves.
And Rika, well, she was on the ground, unconscious and bleeding heavily.
Jeri leapt down onto the scene, and instantly realized what was happening. She froze.
"TRUMP SWORDS!"
That got her out of it, and she leapt behind me as I touched down.
"GARGO MISSLE!"
"TWIN FANG!"
Both attacks hit Ghoulmon head on, but neither seemed to bother him very much. He looked almost amused as he launched his next attack.
"EXPLOSION EYE!"
The attack hit me, as I was covering for Jeri. I might have been a Vaccine, but that hurt!
This is not going well. We need a plan fast!
Then Ghoulmon laughed.
"Come, let us go. Leave these fools to their sorrow. When they realize we're unstoppable, it will make our victory all the sweeter."
Then they left. They just left. Then I saw where this was going.
They'll delete our partners and leave us wounded one by one, until the last one remains, then they'll simply kill us all…
Takato awoke minutes later.
"What happened, Henry?"
"Rika's been hurt, badly. We called an ambulance. It'll be here shortly. Renamon…"
"What?"
"She was deleted. They loaded her data."
"All of them?"
"Yes, why?"
"I see."
Jeri interrupted.
"You can get Renamon back, right Takato? Just like you got Leomon back, right?"
He didn't answer.
"RIGHT!?"
Takato turned, and there was a hard look on his face.
"No, Jeri I can't. Because they all loaded the data, it's fragmented. Even if I could put it together, the chances are one in hundreds of zillions that she wouldn't have all kinds of bugs and errors! NO! I CAN'T OKAY!"
Jeri just looked at him, a shocked look on her face. Then she began to cry. Takato walked over and picked up Rika's cell phone. Then the ambulance arrived, and he got in with her. I could see him dialing on the inside of the cab as it pulled away, probably Rika's mother.
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Takato didn't speak any more than a few words to anyone over the next week. Rika was said to be in a light coma, and Takato never left the waiting area. Jyarimon sat with him always. If you talked to Takato, only Rika's mom would get a response. If you talked to Jyarimon, it didn't matter who you were, he just growled.
Then, after Rika had been under a week, it happened. Ghoulmon and company were sighted downtown. Jeri and I got up and ran out to the sight. We were met two blocks away by Takato, his appearance disheveled by his lack of food, sleep, showers, of shaving. His hair was once more brown from lack of dye, and his eyes were red again; but it was hard to tell if the contacts were out, or they were just blood shot.
"Henry, Jeri, leave now. I will handle it."
I could see in his eyes he'd go alone if it meant killing us, but Jeri wasn't taking no for an answer.
"You can't take them alone Takato! ChaosGallantmon was easily defeated by those three!"
Surprisingly Takato relented. He snorted.
"Fine. Don't blame me if you get killed. Just know that Jyarimon and I are agreed on our course of action."
What the hell does he have planned?
He walked forward to where Ghoulmon, Armageddemon, and Piedmon were randomly destroying things, trying to get our attention. Alicia spoke.
"So, come for a second beating, have you?"
Above her Ghoulmon laughed.
"We will break your toy knight again, and then feast on your allies!"
Takato was calm as he spoke. Too calm.
"No. It ends here. You may have broken the knight, but you have yet to face the dragon. Jyarimon…"
Jyarimon growled.
Digivolution_
Jyarimon Flash Digivolve to…
Takato continued to speak as Jyarimon digivolved.
"Behold the ultimate dark dragon."
Jyarimon glowed white and began to grow.
"Behold that which corrupts and destroys all things."
Jyarimon's glow deepened to red as the form shot up faster.
"Behold darkness incarnate."
Jyarimon's glow was now a deep black that seemed to suck in the light around it.
"Behold the face of your doom."
Jyarimon's form solidified, and the digivolution completed. I heard Jeri gasp in surprise behind me.
"Behold…"
…MEGIDRAMON!
That's what I get for telling the truth I guess.
I bolted across the football field, intent on escaping Rika. I risked a glance behind and gulped. She was definitely too close for comfort. I thought something else as well.
She's cute when she's angry.
This is no time to concentrate on that Matsuki… Crap.
While arguing with myself I appeared to have run into a dead end. As I considered the oddity of a virtual box canyon on school grounds, I heard a crunch on the gravel behind me. I tuned to see Rika closing in on me, from the way she was coming at me it appeared that she had learned a little on how to stalk people from Renamon. Then she lunged at me and landed a swift punch to my stomach…
…and stopped.
Huh?
"Uh, not that I'm complaining, but why'd you stop?"
She rolled her eyes.
"Now that I'm eighteen, I'm lightening up on the physical abuse, I could go to jail you know."
I knew it was an evasion, but let it slide we stood there for a second. Rika seemed to be seriously considering something, and I opened my mouth and prepared to speak, when she opened her mouth. I closed mine. She seemed more than a little nervous. Looking around one last time to make sure we were alone, she started.
"Um, Takato?"
"Yeah, Rika?"
"Would, um, you like to do something after school today?"
I blinked. Of all the things I had considered it possible she was going to say, this didn't even make the list. When I said nothing for a second she spoke again.
"Well if you don't want to fine! I'll just leave you alone then!"
She turned and stomped off. I was up and after her in an instant, grabbing a hold of her arm.
"Rika wait."
"What?"
When she turned she had the Ice-Queen look on her again. I smiled at her, just like I used to when she'd turn it on me.
"Rika, I'd love to."
"You don't have to feel sorry for me, Takato!"
"It's not that Rika, really. You just took me by surprise, that's all."
Her expression changed in an instant. The icy sheet dropped, revealing the girl I had always known was somewhere inside. A girl who was confused, and more than that, was easily wounded. I knew that with how vulnerable she was right now, this would make or break any relationship I had with her.
"Really?"
I put on my best smile.
"Really. What did you want to do?"
In another instant, the Rika I had fallen for was back. Calm and confident. The one who made my knees weak when she smiled that small smile she had. The one she was smiling now.
"Not sure yet. But we'll figure it out."
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I smiled.
I'd been doing that a lot lately. The last few days had been a blur. Takato and I had been hanging out after school almost constantly. We talked, we laughed, we saw movies, and ate out. And we were quickly learning to work together as Sakuyamon and ChaosGallantmon. There hadn't been attacks by anything other than wild ones for the last week or so, but Henry suggested, and Brainiac is usually right, that things would pick up sharply after graduation, which was yesterday.
The only downside is that mom teases me all the time now.
But that wasn't a huge problem, and I had one less now that Renamon was fully recovered. I let out a small chuckle. Guilmon had been tending to her almost non-stop. It was driving her crazy. She told Takato to get him away once, and Takato respond with 'he knows what he's doing'. Renamon had quite bluntly asked how, and Takato mumbled something about patching up Grani. Then, yesterday, just after the ceremony, the unbelievable had happened. Takato asked me out. A real date, not just hanging out the way we were. After blinking a second to figure out if I had heard right I accepted.
God, I'm acting like a lovesick schoolgirl.
Which, in a way, I suppose I was. After all, my schoolgirl days had only ended the day before. I got up and got ready to go. My usual clothes, Takato's goggles, my D-Ark, and my card deck. I smiled. Mom had tried to get me into some make-up or other clothes, but I refused. Further musing was interrupted by the doorbell. I ran over to the door, but opened it calmly. There was Takato. He looked nice enough, dressed in jeans and t-shirt the way I was, but I would have preferred that he hadn't gone back to being 'Tai'.
"You ready to go Rika?"
"Yeah."
He led me down to Henry's car, and we took off into the night.
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I smiled as we got up from the table.
This has been a really great night.
I could scarcely believe my ears when Rika had accepted to go with me on a real date, but here we were, getting up from a quiet dinner in a small restaurant. We chatted lightly about lots of things, Rika throwing half hearted punches at me every so often. I smiled, then turned grim.
*Takatomon! Goblimon, Keramon, and DemiDevimon are near!*
*Thanks for the warning, Guilmon. Stay back until I tell you. Let them think that they haven't been noticed.*
Guilmon watched from the shadows as I had instructed. Rika, however noticed the change in my attitude.
"Takato, what's wrong?"
"Don't do anything too sudden, but Alicia, Dirk, and Delia are out there somewhere. Guilmon caught their scent."
"Great."
Then, a roar sounded behind us.
Armageddemon.
Biomerge
Digivolution_
Guilmon Biomerge to… ChaosGallantmon!
"Call the others."
Rika nodded and got out her cell phone. I leapt in to attack.
"ULTIMATE FLARE!"
Gorgon took the brunt of the blow and I continued forward.
"TRUMP SWORDS!"
I swung myself ninety degrees, and raised my shield again. Then Armageddemon was on me from the side like an attack dog. I beat him off with my lance, but Piedmon wasn't finished yet.
"CLOWN TRICK!"
The attack impacted from the side, but I felt little of it, and aimed.
"DEMON'S DISASTER!"
Then, unexpectedly, they both backed off.
Danger Will Robinson, Danger!
Then, Alicia stepped between them, a DemiDevimon that was three feet in diameter floated at her side.
"Last offer Takato, join us or die. Yes, I do know now. That stunt in class may have gotten you the grade and fooled everyone else, but we know you're still alive now. Again, last offer."
I grinned, knowing they couldn't see it behind the mask. I reached up and pulled down the blue Guilmon-like visor.
"Bite me."
"Fine. DemiDevimon…"
Digivolution_
DemiDevimon Warp Digivolve to… Ghoulmon!
Crap.
Like his rookie and champion forms, his mega form was huge. This Ghoulmon was easily twice my height. I had only seen three digimon larger in my life.
Indramon, Megidramon, and… could it be!?
"Demon!?"
The large mega laughed.
"Yes. I am the Demon you defeated four years ago, Matsuki, though I was very tired at the time, and am still not at full strength. Prepare to taste you own death."
"You first."
"DEATH ARROW!"
"TRUMP SWORDS!"
"BLACK RAIN!"
Oh boy. Here we go again.
I ducked and weaved, attempting to dodge the shots as they came, but let's be honest. Three mega level attacks coming in at three angles? I dodged as many as I could, but too many of them hit me. I was tired for the first time in a long while.
"Pitiful human. Die in disgrace. EXPLOSION EYE!"
The attack hit dead on. I only remember breaking back into Jyarimon and myself before blacking out.
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"Henry? Is Jeri with you? Good! Get down here to where I am fast! We've got all three of them here! Yes, I'm sure!"
I hung up. They'd find us. Following the explosions wouldn't be that hard.
"Renamon."
It took Renamon about a minute to arrive. Long enough for ChaosGallantmon to move out of sight, anyway.
"I'm here Rika."
"Good."
Biomerge
Digivolution_
Renamon Biomerge to… Sakuyamon!
Feeling the rush of power that comes with biomerging I took off down the street, just in time to see ChaosGallantmon come flying across an intersection, breaking apart as he did so.
What could do that to him?
I got my answer a second later when a humongous Ghoulmon stepped into the intersection.
Great. Why do my nights always go like this?
I jumped into the fray in order to distract the thing from killing Takato.
"SPIRIT STRIKE!"
He turned and laughed at the sight of me.
"Another biomerged fool has come to play! DEATH ARROW!"
I jumped out of the way of the attack, knowing there was more to come as Piedmon and Armageddemon joined the fight.
Dirk: DIGI-MODIFY! VenomMyotismon's Nightmare Claw Activate!
Delia: DIGI-MODIFY! Power Activate!
Alicia: DIGI-MODIFY! Black Gear Activate!
"NIGHTMARE CLAW!"
"ULTIMATE FLARE!"
"DEATH ARROW!"
I felt myself break back into Renamon and Myself. I lay on the ground groaning.
"DEATH ARROW!"
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I flew in just in time to see one of the largest digimon I'd ever seen launch an attack at a defeated Rika and Renamon.
"MEGA BARRAGE!"
My attack swooped in…
…and missed. Ghoulmon's attack went as planned, striking both Rika and Renamon.
Then, cursing my slow speed and I hovered in, I watched, almost in slow motion, as the unthinkable happened.
Renamon looked fuzzy for a moment, then started to delete.
"Come, my minions. More fools arrive! Feast and grow stronger!"
All three of them began loading data, healing their limited wounds, and strengthening themselves.
And Rika, well, she was on the ground, unconscious and bleeding heavily.
Jeri leapt down onto the scene, and instantly realized what was happening. She froze.
"TRUMP SWORDS!"
That got her out of it, and she leapt behind me as I touched down.
"GARGO MISSLE!"
"TWIN FANG!"
Both attacks hit Ghoulmon head on, but neither seemed to bother him very much. He looked almost amused as he launched his next attack.
"EXPLOSION EYE!"
The attack hit me, as I was covering for Jeri. I might have been a Vaccine, but that hurt!
This is not going well. We need a plan fast!
Then Ghoulmon laughed.
"Come, let us go. Leave these fools to their sorrow. When they realize we're unstoppable, it will make our victory all the sweeter."
Then they left. They just left. Then I saw where this was going.
They'll delete our partners and leave us wounded one by one, until the last one remains, then they'll simply kill us all…
Takato awoke minutes later.
"What happened, Henry?"
"Rika's been hurt, badly. We called an ambulance. It'll be here shortly. Renamon…"
"What?"
"She was deleted. They loaded her data."
"All of them?"
"Yes, why?"
"I see."
Jeri interrupted.
"You can get Renamon back, right Takato? Just like you got Leomon back, right?"
He didn't answer.
"RIGHT!?"
Takato turned, and there was a hard look on his face.
"No, Jeri I can't. Because they all loaded the data, it's fragmented. Even if I could put it together, the chances are one in hundreds of zillions that she wouldn't have all kinds of bugs and errors! NO! I CAN'T OKAY!"
Jeri just looked at him, a shocked look on her face. Then she began to cry. Takato walked over and picked up Rika's cell phone. Then the ambulance arrived, and he got in with her. I could see him dialing on the inside of the cab as it pulled away, probably Rika's mother.
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Takato didn't speak any more than a few words to anyone over the next week. Rika was said to be in a light coma, and Takato never left the waiting area. Jyarimon sat with him always. If you talked to Takato, only Rika's mom would get a response. If you talked to Jyarimon, it didn't matter who you were, he just growled.
Then, after Rika had been under a week, it happened. Ghoulmon and company were sighted downtown. Jeri and I got up and ran out to the sight. We were met two blocks away by Takato, his appearance disheveled by his lack of food, sleep, showers, of shaving. His hair was once more brown from lack of dye, and his eyes were red again; but it was hard to tell if the contacts were out, or they were just blood shot.
"Henry, Jeri, leave now. I will handle it."
I could see in his eyes he'd go alone if it meant killing us, but Jeri wasn't taking no for an answer.
"You can't take them alone Takato! ChaosGallantmon was easily defeated by those three!"
Surprisingly Takato relented. He snorted.
"Fine. Don't blame me if you get killed. Just know that Jyarimon and I are agreed on our course of action."
What the hell does he have planned?
He walked forward to where Ghoulmon, Armageddemon, and Piedmon were randomly destroying things, trying to get our attention. Alicia spoke.
"So, come for a second beating, have you?"
Above her Ghoulmon laughed.
"We will break your toy knight again, and then feast on your allies!"
Takato was calm as he spoke. Too calm.
"No. It ends here. You may have broken the knight, but you have yet to face the dragon. Jyarimon…"
Jyarimon growled.
Digivolution_
Jyarimon Flash Digivolve to…
Takato continued to speak as Jyarimon digivolved.
"Behold the ultimate dark dragon."
Jyarimon glowed white and began to grow.
"Behold that which corrupts and destroys all things."
Jyarimon's glow deepened to red as the form shot up faster.
"Behold darkness incarnate."
Jyarimon's glow was now a deep black that seemed to suck in the light around it.
"Behold the face of your doom."
Jyarimon's form solidified, and the digivolution completed. I heard Jeri gasp in surprise behind me.
"Behold…"
…MEGIDRAMON!