"Holy light, shine softly in the darkness, and show us tomorrow's path."- Holy Light, Araki Kae,
Yagami Hikari's Theme.
Chapter 12: Rising Phoenix
Everyone stared in awe at the large pink serpent-like mega Digimon that appeared where the small
champion Gatomon used to be.
"Magnadramon is Gatomon's mega stage. You don't want to mess with her dragon fire and fire
tornado," Tai explained.
"I don't get it," Matt said. "How did Gatomon warp-digivolve?" T.K. had a feeling he knew what,
or rather who, did this. But it was probably just wishful thinking. It was a one in a billion
chance that something like what he was thinking would happen.
Then again, it was also one in a billion chance that one would get transported to another
dimension where living creatures made up of data lived and help them change into bigger creatures
so they can save two worlds.
The energy beam had left a shaft of light. The pink orb began moving down the shaft of light.
It disappeared from 'the Void' where it's been hovering for the past day into the main frame. It
disappeared into the energy rift and came out on Earth.
Magnadramon flew forward and wrapped her body around Geddonmon. She began squeezing him.
Geddonmon flexed and Magnadramon loosened her grip.
"Dragon Fire!" Magnadramon blasted a green-colored fire blast at Geddonmon. Geddonmon was
thrown to the ground.
"Fire Tornado!" The attacked looked like a larger version of Biyomon's Spiral Twister.
Geddonmon was thrown back. Magnadramon kept shooting fire blasts and Geddonmon kept getting
thrust back. He fired off a shockwave attack that knocked Magnadramon back. She flew over
Geddonmon and fired an attack from behind. Geddonmon rolled to smother the flames but his wings
were too damaged for him to fly. In short, he was grounded.
Paildramon kicked him to the head while Omnimon head-butted Geddonmon.
"Omnimon, Paildramon, we need to combine our attacks," Magnadramon announced.
"Right," the other two replied. They surrounded Geddonmon.
"Oh no," Geddonmon moaned.
"Desperado Blasters!"
"Supreme Cannons!"
"Dragon Fire!" The powers converged on Geddonmon and struck him. Geddonmon screamed in agony as
piece by piece, his body turned into energy. The energy that was once Geddonmon flew into the
air and into the energy rift. Almost instantly, the energy rift sealed itself and the sky became
a clear blue.
In the Digital World, the Digimon cheered as the tempest they have been enduring stopped. But in
all the turmoil, very few Digimon realized something that for the first time, everyone, data,
virus, and vaccine, were united in one cause: survival. And even fewer were able to look at the
sky and say, "thanks, Digidestined."
When Benjamin saw that Geddonmon had been destroyed, he was so mad that he punched a hole through
a window. Oh well, at least he still had his macrovirus. He could still destroy the Noriyama
Nuclear Facility from the inside out.
The Digidestined burst into cheers as a rainbow stretched across the city. Omnimon became Agumon
and Gabumon. Paildramon dedigivolved to Veemon and Wormmon. Magnadramon dedigivolved to
Gatomon.
"Wow, that was definitely our darkest hour," Davis commented.
"But we did it, we triumphed," Izzy said.
"Look." Ken pointed to a large pink orb, which was floating right above them. The orb floated
downward and landed gently on the floor. The orb coalescence into a form.
It was Kari.
The Digidestined quickly gathered around her as Joe checked her pulse.
"Is she all right?" Willis asked.
"She's alive," Joe concluded. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Suddenly Kari moaned and opened her eyes. The first face she saw was T.K.
"T.K.? What's going on?" T.K. enveloped Kari fiercely.
"T.K., you act like you haven't seen me in ages," Kari said.
"Believe it or not, Kari, I was afraid of that."
"Huh?" One by one, Kari was reunited with her family and friends. They also took turns
explaining what happened.
"Kari, I want to apologize," T.K. said. "Perhaps if I made more of an attempt to save you..."
"Don't apologize for things that were beyond your control, Takeru," Kari said using his birth
name. "It's partially my fault. I purposely let go so that you would have time to get away."
"Now that it's all over, maybe we can get some peace," Sora said.
"I'm afraid not, guys," Yolei said. "There's still the macrovirus to deal with, plus we need to
find Benjamin and make sure he doesn't create any more Geddonmon."
"So what do we do?" Mimi asked.
"I have an idea," Tai said.
"Will I get a chance to get back at this Hacker?" Kari asked.
Tai smiled. "You bet, sis."
A few days later, Kari, T.K., Yolei, Cody, Ken, and Michael entered the mainframe of Benjamin's
computer.
"I never thought I'd be back here so soon," Kari commented.
"You still want to go through with this?" Ken asked.
"Yes. I want to personally 'thank' Benjamin for all this grief he bestowed on us."
"Then go to it."
"Gatomon, warp-digivolve to... Magnadramon!"
"Patamon, warp-digivolve to... Seraphymon!"
"Betamon, warp-digivolve to... Metal Seadramon!"
"Hawkmon, digivolve to... Aquilamon!"
"Armadillomon, digivolve to... Ankylomon!"
"Wormmon, digivolve to... Stingmon!"
"Let's trash the place!" The sentence from Kari's mouth was almost like a war cry.
"I never thought I'd hear that coming from you," T.K. remarked.
"You guys never fail to amaze me," Michael said.
"Let's get to work," Ken said. The Digimon began destroying circuit clusters.
"Grand Horn!"
"Tail Hammer!"
"Spiking Strike!"
"River of Power!"
"Dragon Fire!"
"Seven Heavens!" The Seven Heavens attack was performed by Seraphymon forming seven spheres of
energy in front of him, sending them one-by-one to their target.
"Now, it's the others turn," Cody said. "Let's hope they can do it."
Benjamin paced up and down his room. They were out there; he just knew it. Whoever defeated
Diaboromon and Geddonmon were out there. They knew who he was. He tensed as the doorbell rang.
He wasn't going to answer it, maybe they would think nobody was home.
Outside, Davis pounded on the door. Veemon and Tai with him.
"Maybe he's not home," Davis commented.
Tai thought about that for a moment. "No, he's here."
"Veemon, can you break the door down?"
"Do you think I should do that?"
"If we're going to get Benjamin, we're going to have to do it," Tai said.
"All right. V-Head Butt!" Veemon pounded his head on the door. It fell over on its hinges.
The three rushed in followed by Matt and Izzy. The house looked kind of like Izzy's apartment,
except it was bigger. The Digidestined searched the bottom floor of the house and found nothing.
Footsteps suddenly caught their ears as a figure ran outside.
"There he is!" Veemon was already on it, tackling Benjamin to the ground. He turned and saw
Veemon and freaked.
"Gyah! Get away from me, you monster!"
"Digimon actually," Veemon corrected.
"I don't care who you are, let go of me."
"He's not letting you go until we have a word with you," Davis said.
"You!" Benjamin's eyes widened. "You were the ones inside my computer. I recognize your
voices!"
"What did you think you were doing, fooling around with stuff you don't understand?" Matt asked.
"You're meddling was about to destroy both Earth and the Digital World."
"Not only that, but you almost killed my little sister," Tai said harshly.
"What? I didn't... I mean it wouldn't. My plan was perfect, I needed my revenge. And you kids
are stupid in thinking you could stop me." Benjamin thrust Veemon off and ran down the street
but ran into Sora, Mimi, Joe and Willis. Sora and Joe grabbed him by his arms and held them
tightly.
"I wanted my revenge! I wanted my revenge!" Benjamin said, tears cascading from his face. "And
I'll get it. My macrovirus will destroy the computer network of the nuclear plant. It will be
forced to shut down and my strategy would be complete." Izzy and Davis shared skeptic looks.
Izzy opened up his laptop. The Digiport activated and the others exited. Benjamin's jaw
dropped upon seeing the action, even more upon seeing Demibetamon, Gatomon, Patamon, Poromon,
Upamon, and Minomon.
"Mission accomplished, Kari?" Tai asked.
"You bet, big brother. The mainframe has been destroyed," Kari replied giving him a thumbs up.
"Wait, I thought he said you were dead?" Benjamin asked.
Kari turned towards him and gave him a sly smile. "Reports of my death have been completely
exaggerated."
Benjamin smiled sinisterly. "What do you plan on doing, turning me in to the cops?"
"Exactly," Davis replied.
"Forget it, you have no proof I did it."
"On the contrary," Izzy said. "Before your mainframe was destroyed, a friend of mine downloaded
the contents of your hard drive. Everything that was on your computer is now on someone else's
computer." The person that Izzy was talking about was Gennai, he used his abilities to hack and
copy the files, which included a computer journal of what happened. Everything from Diaboromon
to Geddonmon was listed.
"It'll take more than that to prove that I had anything to do with it," Benjamin declared.
"Willis?" Cody called.
"Got it." Willis took out a tape recorder and played back their
conversation.
[I wanted my revenge! I wanted my revenge! And I'll get it. My macrovirus will destroy the
computer network of the nuclear plant. It will be forced to shut down and its workers laid off.
My strategy would be complete.]
Benjamin was loosing his cool fast. He slowly backed away from the Digidestined. "No, I won't
get turned in. I won't! You can't stop me; nobody can stop me! I'm invincible!"
"Excuse me," a gruff voice called from behind Benjamin.
"What do you want?" Benjamin slowly turned around...
And wet his pants.
Standing before him were Greymon, Garurumon, Kabuterimon, Ikkakumon, Birdramon, Togemon, and
Endigomon. Benjamin's eyes rolled into his head and he fainted.
"Man, some people just have no backbone," Ken said.
Benjamin awoke to a foul-smelling substance being waved under his nose. He opened his eyes. A
paramedic and a policeman were standing over him. The paramedic had a packet of smelling salts
in his hand.
"Are you okay, kid?" The policeman asked.
"Yeah, I think so."
"Good." The officer nodded to someone behind Benjamin and the kid felt his hands being pulled
behind him and cuffed.
"Hey, wait, what about the monsters?"
"Monsters, what monsters?"
"But there were monsters! Huge ones! And kids popping out of computers!"
"Yeah, sure."
"No, really! There was!" Just then Benjamin spotted Davis walking down the street. "Ask him!
He was there! He saw the monsters!"
"Hey, kid," the officer called to Davis. Davis looked around confused then pointed to himself as
if asking, 'who, me?'
"Yeah, did you see anything unusual here?"
"Yes, he did, he saw monsters! Creatures! The blue thing!"
"Do you know what he's talking about?" The officer asked.
Davis pondered it for a moment, and then snapped his fingers. "Oh, yeah, I know what he's
talking about."
"See, see, I told you."
"In fact, I'll show you." Davis reached into his backpack and took out Demiveemon.
"What's that?" The officer asked.
"It's a Monster, it's a small blue thing. I just got it for my birthday."
"But it can talk, it can talk!" Benjamin protested. The officer looked at Demiveemon.
Davis gently squeezed Demiveemon's stomach and the blue creature spoke, "Hi, I'm a small blue
thing that can talk. Hi, I'm a small blue thing that can talk."
The officer looked from Demiveemon to Benjamin, and then said to Benjamin, "Kid, I think you're
still recovering. Come with me."
"No, no, it's true! The dinosaur, the large bug, the walrus with the horn!" Benjamin was
protesting that as the officer pushed him into the squad car. Once they were gone, Davis and
Demiveemon burst into laughter.
Yagami Hikari's Theme.
Chapter 12: Rising Phoenix
Everyone stared in awe at the large pink serpent-like mega Digimon that appeared where the small
champion Gatomon used to be.
"Magnadramon is Gatomon's mega stage. You don't want to mess with her dragon fire and fire
tornado," Tai explained.
"I don't get it," Matt said. "How did Gatomon warp-digivolve?" T.K. had a feeling he knew what,
or rather who, did this. But it was probably just wishful thinking. It was a one in a billion
chance that something like what he was thinking would happen.
Then again, it was also one in a billion chance that one would get transported to another
dimension where living creatures made up of data lived and help them change into bigger creatures
so they can save two worlds.
The energy beam had left a shaft of light. The pink orb began moving down the shaft of light.
It disappeared from 'the Void' where it's been hovering for the past day into the main frame. It
disappeared into the energy rift and came out on Earth.
Magnadramon flew forward and wrapped her body around Geddonmon. She began squeezing him.
Geddonmon flexed and Magnadramon loosened her grip.
"Dragon Fire!" Magnadramon blasted a green-colored fire blast at Geddonmon. Geddonmon was
thrown to the ground.
"Fire Tornado!" The attacked looked like a larger version of Biyomon's Spiral Twister.
Geddonmon was thrown back. Magnadramon kept shooting fire blasts and Geddonmon kept getting
thrust back. He fired off a shockwave attack that knocked Magnadramon back. She flew over
Geddonmon and fired an attack from behind. Geddonmon rolled to smother the flames but his wings
were too damaged for him to fly. In short, he was grounded.
Paildramon kicked him to the head while Omnimon head-butted Geddonmon.
"Omnimon, Paildramon, we need to combine our attacks," Magnadramon announced.
"Right," the other two replied. They surrounded Geddonmon.
"Oh no," Geddonmon moaned.
"Desperado Blasters!"
"Supreme Cannons!"
"Dragon Fire!" The powers converged on Geddonmon and struck him. Geddonmon screamed in agony as
piece by piece, his body turned into energy. The energy that was once Geddonmon flew into the
air and into the energy rift. Almost instantly, the energy rift sealed itself and the sky became
a clear blue.
In the Digital World, the Digimon cheered as the tempest they have been enduring stopped. But in
all the turmoil, very few Digimon realized something that for the first time, everyone, data,
virus, and vaccine, were united in one cause: survival. And even fewer were able to look at the
sky and say, "thanks, Digidestined."
When Benjamin saw that Geddonmon had been destroyed, he was so mad that he punched a hole through
a window. Oh well, at least he still had his macrovirus. He could still destroy the Noriyama
Nuclear Facility from the inside out.
The Digidestined burst into cheers as a rainbow stretched across the city. Omnimon became Agumon
and Gabumon. Paildramon dedigivolved to Veemon and Wormmon. Magnadramon dedigivolved to
Gatomon.
"Wow, that was definitely our darkest hour," Davis commented.
"But we did it, we triumphed," Izzy said.
"Look." Ken pointed to a large pink orb, which was floating right above them. The orb floated
downward and landed gently on the floor. The orb coalescence into a form.
It was Kari.
The Digidestined quickly gathered around her as Joe checked her pulse.
"Is she all right?" Willis asked.
"She's alive," Joe concluded. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Suddenly Kari moaned and opened her eyes. The first face she saw was T.K.
"T.K.? What's going on?" T.K. enveloped Kari fiercely.
"T.K., you act like you haven't seen me in ages," Kari said.
"Believe it or not, Kari, I was afraid of that."
"Huh?" One by one, Kari was reunited with her family and friends. They also took turns
explaining what happened.
"Kari, I want to apologize," T.K. said. "Perhaps if I made more of an attempt to save you..."
"Don't apologize for things that were beyond your control, Takeru," Kari said using his birth
name. "It's partially my fault. I purposely let go so that you would have time to get away."
"Now that it's all over, maybe we can get some peace," Sora said.
"I'm afraid not, guys," Yolei said. "There's still the macrovirus to deal with, plus we need to
find Benjamin and make sure he doesn't create any more Geddonmon."
"So what do we do?" Mimi asked.
"I have an idea," Tai said.
"Will I get a chance to get back at this Hacker?" Kari asked.
Tai smiled. "You bet, sis."
A few days later, Kari, T.K., Yolei, Cody, Ken, and Michael entered the mainframe of Benjamin's
computer.
"I never thought I'd be back here so soon," Kari commented.
"You still want to go through with this?" Ken asked.
"Yes. I want to personally 'thank' Benjamin for all this grief he bestowed on us."
"Then go to it."
"Gatomon, warp-digivolve to... Magnadramon!"
"Patamon, warp-digivolve to... Seraphymon!"
"Betamon, warp-digivolve to... Metal Seadramon!"
"Hawkmon, digivolve to... Aquilamon!"
"Armadillomon, digivolve to... Ankylomon!"
"Wormmon, digivolve to... Stingmon!"
"Let's trash the place!" The sentence from Kari's mouth was almost like a war cry.
"I never thought I'd hear that coming from you," T.K. remarked.
"You guys never fail to amaze me," Michael said.
"Let's get to work," Ken said. The Digimon began destroying circuit clusters.
"Grand Horn!"
"Tail Hammer!"
"Spiking Strike!"
"River of Power!"
"Dragon Fire!"
"Seven Heavens!" The Seven Heavens attack was performed by Seraphymon forming seven spheres of
energy in front of him, sending them one-by-one to their target.
"Now, it's the others turn," Cody said. "Let's hope they can do it."
Benjamin paced up and down his room. They were out there; he just knew it. Whoever defeated
Diaboromon and Geddonmon were out there. They knew who he was. He tensed as the doorbell rang.
He wasn't going to answer it, maybe they would think nobody was home.
Outside, Davis pounded on the door. Veemon and Tai with him.
"Maybe he's not home," Davis commented.
Tai thought about that for a moment. "No, he's here."
"Veemon, can you break the door down?"
"Do you think I should do that?"
"If we're going to get Benjamin, we're going to have to do it," Tai said.
"All right. V-Head Butt!" Veemon pounded his head on the door. It fell over on its hinges.
The three rushed in followed by Matt and Izzy. The house looked kind of like Izzy's apartment,
except it was bigger. The Digidestined searched the bottom floor of the house and found nothing.
Footsteps suddenly caught their ears as a figure ran outside.
"There he is!" Veemon was already on it, tackling Benjamin to the ground. He turned and saw
Veemon and freaked.
"Gyah! Get away from me, you monster!"
"Digimon actually," Veemon corrected.
"I don't care who you are, let go of me."
"He's not letting you go until we have a word with you," Davis said.
"You!" Benjamin's eyes widened. "You were the ones inside my computer. I recognize your
voices!"
"What did you think you were doing, fooling around with stuff you don't understand?" Matt asked.
"You're meddling was about to destroy both Earth and the Digital World."
"Not only that, but you almost killed my little sister," Tai said harshly.
"What? I didn't... I mean it wouldn't. My plan was perfect, I needed my revenge. And you kids
are stupid in thinking you could stop me." Benjamin thrust Veemon off and ran down the street
but ran into Sora, Mimi, Joe and Willis. Sora and Joe grabbed him by his arms and held them
tightly.
"I wanted my revenge! I wanted my revenge!" Benjamin said, tears cascading from his face. "And
I'll get it. My macrovirus will destroy the computer network of the nuclear plant. It will be
forced to shut down and my strategy would be complete." Izzy and Davis shared skeptic looks.
Izzy opened up his laptop. The Digiport activated and the others exited. Benjamin's jaw
dropped upon seeing the action, even more upon seeing Demibetamon, Gatomon, Patamon, Poromon,
Upamon, and Minomon.
"Mission accomplished, Kari?" Tai asked.
"You bet, big brother. The mainframe has been destroyed," Kari replied giving him a thumbs up.
"Wait, I thought he said you were dead?" Benjamin asked.
Kari turned towards him and gave him a sly smile. "Reports of my death have been completely
exaggerated."
Benjamin smiled sinisterly. "What do you plan on doing, turning me in to the cops?"
"Exactly," Davis replied.
"Forget it, you have no proof I did it."
"On the contrary," Izzy said. "Before your mainframe was destroyed, a friend of mine downloaded
the contents of your hard drive. Everything that was on your computer is now on someone else's
computer." The person that Izzy was talking about was Gennai, he used his abilities to hack and
copy the files, which included a computer journal of what happened. Everything from Diaboromon
to Geddonmon was listed.
"It'll take more than that to prove that I had anything to do with it," Benjamin declared.
"Willis?" Cody called.
"Got it." Willis took out a tape recorder and played back their
conversation.
[I wanted my revenge! I wanted my revenge! And I'll get it. My macrovirus will destroy the
computer network of the nuclear plant. It will be forced to shut down and its workers laid off.
My strategy would be complete.]
Benjamin was loosing his cool fast. He slowly backed away from the Digidestined. "No, I won't
get turned in. I won't! You can't stop me; nobody can stop me! I'm invincible!"
"Excuse me," a gruff voice called from behind Benjamin.
"What do you want?" Benjamin slowly turned around...
And wet his pants.
Standing before him were Greymon, Garurumon, Kabuterimon, Ikkakumon, Birdramon, Togemon, and
Endigomon. Benjamin's eyes rolled into his head and he fainted.
"Man, some people just have no backbone," Ken said.
Benjamin awoke to a foul-smelling substance being waved under his nose. He opened his eyes. A
paramedic and a policeman were standing over him. The paramedic had a packet of smelling salts
in his hand.
"Are you okay, kid?" The policeman asked.
"Yeah, I think so."
"Good." The officer nodded to someone behind Benjamin and the kid felt his hands being pulled
behind him and cuffed.
"Hey, wait, what about the monsters?"
"Monsters, what monsters?"
"But there were monsters! Huge ones! And kids popping out of computers!"
"Yeah, sure."
"No, really! There was!" Just then Benjamin spotted Davis walking down the street. "Ask him!
He was there! He saw the monsters!"
"Hey, kid," the officer called to Davis. Davis looked around confused then pointed to himself as
if asking, 'who, me?'
"Yeah, did you see anything unusual here?"
"Yes, he did, he saw monsters! Creatures! The blue thing!"
"Do you know what he's talking about?" The officer asked.
Davis pondered it for a moment, and then snapped his fingers. "Oh, yeah, I know what he's
talking about."
"See, see, I told you."
"In fact, I'll show you." Davis reached into his backpack and took out Demiveemon.
"What's that?" The officer asked.
"It's a Monster, it's a small blue thing. I just got it for my birthday."
"But it can talk, it can talk!" Benjamin protested. The officer looked at Demiveemon.
Davis gently squeezed Demiveemon's stomach and the blue creature spoke, "Hi, I'm a small blue
thing that can talk. Hi, I'm a small blue thing that can talk."
The officer looked from Demiveemon to Benjamin, and then said to Benjamin, "Kid, I think you're
still recovering. Come with me."
"No, no, it's true! The dinosaur, the large bug, the walrus with the horn!" Benjamin was
protesting that as the officer pushed him into the squad car. Once they were gone, Davis and
Demiveemon burst into laughter.