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Author's Note: Thank you to Ignez and bishonen4ever Ace for their wonderful reviews for Part 2. Part 3 is dedicated to you.
PART 3
Sora let out a loud groan as she tried to find her arms. Her whole body ached, there was a horrible rasping sound, and something sharp was jabbing her in the stomach. She managed to get up onto her hands and knees and looked down to see that the sharp object was in fact a bony knee wearing blue jeans.
"So-ra." A familiar voice croaked weakly from her left side.
Sora blinked and looked around, realizing that she was downtown Odaiba sprawled on the ground across Matt's legs. She quickly sat up and turned to face her friend.
"Matt are you ok? Are you hurt? I'm so sorry, I didn't know that I was sitting on you."
Matt smiled and carefully shook his head. "Just…lost…breath."
"Are you sure?" She prodded suspiciously as he continued trying to replace the air in his lungs.
"Landed…in…boxes." Matt stammered, then pointed at her. "You?"
"Just a bit bruised." Sora admitted as she rubbed her sore elbow and took in their surroundings. They were both sitting in a pile of old empty cardboard boxes next to the little grocery store. The soft boxes had probably saved them both from a more serious injury. The sound of breaking glass and screaming pedestrians alerted her to the fact that their digimon were still fighting. She looked up as Birdramon was blasted into a nearby building and watched in horror as the building started to crumble.
"Birdramon digivolve." She yelled as her crest of love started to glow red around her neck. Birdramon disappeared in a flash of light as the digivolving process began.
"Birdramon digivolve to… Garudamon."
Sora smiled in relief as the red phoenix was instantly replaced by the giant ultimate Garudamon. The large half human half bird digimon soared back into the sky with one flap of his massive wings.
"Who are…they?" Matt inquired as his breathing finally started to even out.
Sora brought out her digivice and scanned the nearest digimon. "That large metal bug that just got blasted by Garurumon is called MetalVoltmon. He is a champion android digimon and his attack is called 'Stun Zapper' which is an electric zap that can paralyze a digimon for several seconds if they are hit by it."
Sora turned her digivice towards the next digimon and waited for it to finish scanning the creature. "The aqua colored digimon with the horns and black leather arm and leg bands is called Ignoramusmon."
"Seriously?"
Sora nodded. "Yep. Ignoramusmon is a champion level dragon type digimon whose attacks are 'Karate Chaos' and 'Wing Slam.'"
"What about Idlemon?" Matt asked as he pointed to the one that had blown them into the building. He was now busy fighting with Garudamon.
"That one is an ultimate dragon type digimon. We've already experienced his 'Maroon Typhoon' attack and are lucky he didn't use his razor sharp 'Obsidian Impact' attack on us."
"Funny but I don't feel too lucky right now." Matt confessed as he rubbed the back of his neck while he adjusted the packsack. His whole body ached and he could feel the start of a headache coming. "I hope my bag isn't full of applesauce."
Sora's laugh quickly turned into a yelp as a large meaty arm wrapped around her waist and swept her off the ground as if she weighed nothing.
"Hey." She heard Matt complain as she looked over and noticed him in the same predicament.
"What are you kids doing out here?" The man demanded angrily as he quickly carried them towards the grocery store. "Don't you know that it's not safe to be out here? There are monsters everywhere."
"Please put us down sir." Sora asked politely as they neared the store.
"Crazy kids these days." He mumbled under his breath as he ignored Sora's request and continued for the store. "Always thinking they're invincible."
A chubby older lady with gray hair opened the door to the grocery store and motioned for them to hurry inside. She instantly closed the door after them as soon as they crossed over the threshold.
"Are the children alright?" She asked worriedly.
"They're fine." The man stated as he set them both back onto the wooden floor.
Matt dodged around the man and headed for the front window of the store since the chubby lady was standing in front of the door. The digimon were still battling fiercely, neither side willing to give up.
"Thank goodness you're both all right." The lady replied as she came up to Sora and smiled in relief. "We thought you poor little dears were goners when you both stopped moving after hitting that wall."
"And I got it all on tape." A young man with black hair informed them from beside Matt as he continued taping the action. "I'm going to make a fortune. The news stations will probably be fighting each other for this footage."
Matt paled but didn't reply. What were the odds that they would play Sora and him getting hit by Idlemon on the television when they could show the more interesting digimon fight? Maybe the fight wouldn't even tape on the camcorder. Maybe the stations were getting so much of their own footage that they wouldn't need to buy from this man.
Sora returned the older lady's smile and scanned the store, noticing that it was close to half-full of terrified people trying to hide from the monsters.
'We are the cause of this.' Sora thought guiltily as she watched some of the crying children cling to their parents in fear. 'We are probably putting these people in danger just by being in this store.'
"Alright." Matt cheered as Garurumon let out a 'Howling Blaster' that knocked Ignoramusmon up into the sky where Garudamon hit him with his 'Wing Blade' attack, causing the champion digimon to burst into digi-dust. "One down, two to go."
Sora smiled at the good news, realizing that the sooner the evil digimon were destroyed the sooner the people would be safe. Some of the older, braver children joined Matt and the man with the camcorder at the window and watched the fight in awe.
Sora walked to the window to watch their digimon fight and stood behind Matt. 'Hold on guys. Only two more digimon to go.'
"I wonder how the others are doing." She whispered as she put her arm on Matt's shoulder.
Matt looked at Sora with a worried expression and shrugged. "Isomon isn't here so that means he is somewhere else in Odaiba. We just have to hope that they'll be alright and can defeat him on their own or at least hold him off until we get there to help."
Sora tried to smile confidently but knew she was failing miserably. "Maybe these digimon are on a reconnaissance mission only and just happened to meet up with us unexpectedly."
Matt squeezed her hand reassuringly then turned back to watch the fight, wishing that Sora was right but knowing deep down that she was wrong. "Let's hope so."
"There they are." Malcolm Ishida shouted as Charlie slammed his foot on the brakes and pulled the car off the road. Malcolm recognized a few of the creatures from the battle that took place at the news station a little over a year ago but could not find the two in particular that he was searching for.
"Look over there." Charlie nudged as he pointed towards a small grassy hill where some other news crews were already setting up and videotaping the action.
"Looks like we're not the only ones here."
"Should we join them?" Charlie asked as he adjusted his round glasses nervously.
Malcolm looked around and nodded. "We might as well. It looks like they have the best view of the park from up there."
"And it's a safe distance away from all that fighting." Charlie added as he threw the car into gear and slowly drove up the path. "Hey look, some of our crew is already here."
Malcolm jumped out from the passenger's side before Charlie could finish parking next to the familiar news vans and ran to the stone lookout wall.
"Where are the kids?" He demanded as he searched the area.
"There." Ben, one of the news stations crew answered, pointing down the slope in front of them.
Malcolm looked where Ben was pointing and instantly recognized a few of Matt's friends but there were no signs of Matt or TK. He pulled out his cell phone and pushed the button for the programmed number to his son's phone hoping that Matt had remembered to bring it with him. He watched as a gigantic orange dinosaur with a metal head and arm sent two 'Giga Blasters' towards a shiny black humanoid digimon while he waited for the phone to stop ringing. The two missiles missed the black digimon who easily dodged the attack and slammed into a tree, causing it to topple over with a loud crash.
"Hey. What's happening?"
Malcolm sighed in relief as he heard his son's voice over the line. "Matt. Where are you? Are you alright?"
"I'm fine. Sora and I are kind of stuck downtown at the moment. Where are you? What's all that noise in the background?"
"I'm at Odaiba Park." Malcolm explained, plugging his right ear so he could hear his son's voice over the loud explosions in the background. "Your friends are here but their digimon don't look like they are doing too well."
"Oh man." Matt stated. Malcolm could hear the frustration in his sons voice and knew him well enough to know that he was probably running a hand nervously through his hair right now as he tried to come up with a plan. "Sora and I are a bit busy right now with our own little digimon battle but we'll come as soon as we can. I also promised to call TK if we ran into any trouble, maybe mom will bring him to the park."
Malcolm cringed at the thought of calling Nancy and asking her to put their youngest son in danger but knew that it had to be done. "I'll call your mom and TK, you just concentrate on the digimon."
"Thanks dad." Matt replied, his voice sounding less stressed over the line. "I'll see you as soon as I can."
"Be careful Matt."
"You too." Matt returned before he hung up.
Malcolm sighed and pressed the programmed number button for his ex-wife and youngest son's home, hoping that it wouldn't end up in a fight.
TK jumped to his feet as the telephone started to ring.
"Maybe its Matt." He said excitedly to Tokomon as he ran past to pick it up.
"I'll get it TK." His mom insisted as she picked up the phone and frowned. She turned her back to TK and closed the kitchen door behind her.
"I guess it wasn't for me." TK mumbled dejectedly as he sat back down beside Tokomon.
"Don't be sad TK. Look your favorite show is starting."
TK's frown disappeared as the music for 'The Adventures of Baby Corn' started playing.
"Hey!" TK cried out in annoyance as the little yellow corncob was replaced by a sudden important news update.
"TK its MetalGreymon and the others." Tokomon declared as he watched their digimon friends fighting on the television screen.
"But Matt said that he would call me if they met up with any of the evil digimon." TK whined as he listened to the newsman warn people to stay away from Downtown Odaiba and Odaiba Park. "He promised."
"I'm sure that he will call TK." Tokomon reassured the distraught little boy. "Maybe he can't find a phone."
"Maybe he forgot his phone at home." TK suggested worriedly, his eyes widening as worst case scenarios flew through his head. "Or maybe he's hurt and can't dial my number. Ohhh. What are we going to do Tokomon?"
"I don't know TK."
"TK." His mom shouted as she hurried into the room and quickly hung up the phone. "Get your coat on honey we have to go."
"Where?" TK asked hopefully as he turned off the television and jumped to his feet, heading to the closet with Tokomon close behind.
"That was your father." She explained as she opened the front door. "He said that Matt needs us at Odaiba Park."
"Yay." TK cheered happily as he pulled on his green coat and picked up Tokomon. "I knew that Matt wouldn't forget about us."
"Now I don't want you running off without me this time." She ordered as she ushered them out of the apartment door. "You stay beside me. Understand?"
"Yes mama." TK promised as he grabbed onto her outstretched hand and quickly walked to the elevator.
"Hang on Matt." TK whispered to himself as the elevator doors slid open when they approached. "Me and Tokomon are coming."
Matt hung up his cell phone and was about to place it back into his pocket when it suddenly started to sing again.
"You're a popular little fellow today." The old lady stated as she waddled back behind the stores front counter.
"Hey."
"Hi Matt. This is Joe."
"Joe how was your test?" Matt asked as he motioned Sora over with his free hand. "Are you finished writing it?"
"It was alright." Joe replied sounding a bit depressed, but then again Joe always sounded depressed after writing a test. "Bukamon and I just finished a quick lunch so I thought I'd give you a call and see where you wanted to meet."
"Slight change of plans Joe." Matt declared into the phone. His eyes scanned the store as he felt the store shudder under a powerful blast and cans of vegetables fell off the shelves. A few of the customers shouted in fear while trying to protect themselves from the attacking produce.
"Matt?" Joe's panicky voice questioned over the line. "Are you guys alright? Tell me where you are and we'll get there as fast as we can."
"Sora and I are fine." Matt informed his hyperventilating friend calmly. "Garurumon and Garudamon can handle these digimon on their own. We need you to get to Odaiba Park and help the others."
"Odaiba Park." Joe repeated nervously, not liking the idea of leaving his friends on their own. "Are you sure you'll be alright?"
"We'll be fine. They only have two more digimon to take care of. Then Sora and I will meet you there."
"OK." Joe agreed still not liking the new plan. "The bus for the park should be arriving anytime now so I better get to the bus stop before it leaves without me. I'll talk to you later."
"Bye Joe. Be careful."
"You too Matt."
Matt turned off his phone and placed it into his pocket. He turned towards Sora and whispered urgently in her ear. "We have to get to Odaiba Park now."
Sora nodded and motioned towards the empty doorway with her eyes. Matt gave a quick nod and followed her as she slowly walked towards the doorway trying not to look suspicious.
"Wait don't go out there."
"Run." Sora shouted as she sprinted through the doorway with Matt close on her heels. They continued running until they were a short distance from the store, searching the streets and air for the location of their fighting digimon.
"Howling Blaster." Garurumon growled as he shot a freezing blue blast of energy towards MetalVoltmon, knocking the champion digimon into the building across the street.
"Wing Blade." Garudamon yelled as he blasted MetalVoltmon again before he could recover.
"Only one more digimon to go." Sora cheered happily as MetalVoltmon suddenly burst into digi-dust.
"Garurumon!" Matt shouted as Garurumon was blown past them by Idlemon's 'Maroon Typhoon' attack.
"Get Garudamon." Matt advised as he ran into the middle of the street, watching as Garurumon finally came to a stop by slamming into a building a block away.
"Right." Sora agreed as she followed Matt into the street. She turned in the opposite direction of Garurumon and ran after Garudamon who was busy chasing after the fleeing Idlemon. "Garudamon."
Garudamon gave up the chase after hearing Sora call for him and made a wide turn back towards his digidestined child.
"Get back in here kids." The big man demanded angrily from the doorway, not daring to leave the safety of the grocery store. "Hurry up or those monsters will eat you."
Matt smiled and waved reassuringly towards the grocery store. "Thanks but we have to be going now."
Matt watched the empty street for any signs of danger as his champion friend regained his feet and loped back towards his digidestined child.
"Matt." Sora called from down the street as she pointed towards her large digimon who was circling the city overhead. "Garudamon's too big to land in the street."
"We'll pick you up." Matt called back as Garurumon quickly neared. He could hear the people screaming in the background as the large white wolf digimon sped down the middle of the street. Matt reached out and grabbed a handful of soft white fur, easily pulling himself up onto the digimons back as Garurumon ran past, never breaking stride.
Matt leaned forward and held out his right arm as they reached Sora. He braced his feet against Garurumon's sides and grabbed onto Sora's outstretched arm using Garurumon's momentum to help pull her up behind him.
"Hold on Sora." Matt warned as Sora wrapped her arms tightly around his waist. The stores rushed past them in a blur as Garurumon kicked off the ground with his powerful hind legs and landed without a sound on the roof of the building across the street.
"Get ready." He growled as he ran across the roof and leapt high into the air. Sora's grip tightened so much that Matt was suddenly afraid she would snap him in half as she watched the ground get farther and farther away with each second, but Garudamon caught them in his large palms before they could start their descent.
"Good timing guys." Matt congratulated as he slid off Garurumon's back and turned to help Sora down.
"Yeah." She agreed, relieved to be standing in her own digimons safe hands. "Nice use of teamwork."
"Where to?" Garudamon asked as he flew around the city.
"We need to get to Odaiba Park." Matt replied as Garurumon de-digivolved back into Gabumon.
"Over there." Sora clarified as she pointed in the direction they had to go, noticing a small black shape far ahead of them that must have been Idlemon heading to the same place. She watched as Matt removed his packsack and pulled out two apples that weren't smashed.
"Here Gabumon." He offered, handing the little yellow reptile with the blue and white fur coat one of the apples.
"Thank you Matt." Gabumon replied as he stuffed the whole apple into his mouth and chewed noisily.
"I guess this would only seem like a crumb to Garudamon." Matt thought out loud as he weighed the apple in his palm, then took in Garudamon's size.
Sora shrugged her shoulders and regarded the apple as Matt tossed it into the air and caught it again with the same hand. "Every little bit helps I guess."
Matt nodded and threw the apple into Garudamon's open beak as they flew towards the next battle, hoping all of their friends were still all right.
"Prodigious!" Izzy exclaimed happily as he typed away at his computer.
"I hope that means you've found something that will help us." Tai begged as he turned towards the computer genius expectantly.
"I believe I may have found a way to beat the Hydramon." Izzy realized as he continued typing furiously.
"How?" Mimi ordered frantically as Lillymon blasted another severed head that was slowly crawling towards the children like a giant worm.
Izzy smiled and started to explain. "We have to sever their heads…"
"That's what we've been doing Izzy." Tai interrupted in annoyance as he threw his arms up into the air in disbelief. "Every time we remove a head two more grow back in its place. Where have you been?"
Izzy scowled as he looked at Tai. "What I was trying to explain before you so rudely cut me off is that as we remove a head we have to sear off the stump before another head can grow."
"Eww." Kari complained, making a face in disgust. "That sounds terrible."
"Anything. Anything, just get rid of these horrible heads." Mimi cried as Lillymon blasted another two with her flower cannon.
"MetalGreymon." Tai bellowed at his fighting digimon. "It's time to digivolve."
"OK Tai." MetalGreymon bellowed back. "MetalGreymon digivolve to…WarGreymon."
As WarGreymon appeared fully digivolved, Tai yelled out his plan to all of the fighting digimon. "Angewoman I want you to sever the heads with your arrows while WarGreymon sears the stumps before any new heads can grow. While you're both doing that MegaKabuterimon and Lillymon can destroy the severed heads as they fall."
"OK Tai." WarGreymon agreed as they ignored the other two digimon and focused their attacks to the Hydramon only.
"It's working." Mimi cheered as one of the stumps was successfully cauterized and no new heads appeared.
"Kind of." Kari remarked as she pointed towards the other two attacking digimon who were trying to help the Hydramon.
Angewoman ducked as Magmamon sent some of his 'Magma Knives' in her direction before she could shoot at another head.
"There are just too many fighting at once." Tai snapped in frustration as he scratched his head while trying to think of another plan.
"Look here comes another one." Izzy cried in disbelief as a flying maroon colored digimon with gold leg and arm armor came flying into view, landing a few feet from Isomon.
"Master."
"Idlemon." Isomon greeted as he watched his faithful servant land before him. "Where are the others?"
Idlemon cowered at his master's feet. "The digidestined were too strong. I have come to warn you that two of the children are on their way here."
Isomon growled in annoyance. Things were not going according to plan; if two more children were to arrive then the friendship of the six might still be enough to destroy him. "Any signs of the missing two children?"
"No Master. The two coming have a Garurumon and a Garudamon with them." Idlemon explained, stopping as his master suddenly turned towards him with a strange look in his eyes. Was that fear? The fear disappeared so quickly that Idlemon was not sure that he had even seen it in the first place.
Isomon turned back to watch the battle. "Thank you Idlemon. You may join the others if you wish."
"Thank you Master." Idlemon replied as he bowed, and then flew off to join the fight.
Isomon watched from the shadows as the children pointed excitedly into the sky. 'The others must be here.'
"It's Matt and Sora." The child with the large brown hair who belonged to the WarGreymon yelled out in excitement as the Garudamon dropped off the two children and a Gabumon.
Isomon watched through slit eyes as the girl ran to join her friends while the boy stayed with the Gabumon. What was a digidestined doing with a Gabumon? A brilliant blue light appeared from the child's chest as the Gabumon suddenly disappeared in the same light only to reappear as MetalGarurumon seconds later.
"Warp-digivolving ability." Isomon realized, clearly impressed as the mega ran off to join the battle leaving his child alone and unprotected. Isomon smiled as he waited for the mega to get far enough away, then he tapped his staff gently on the ground and disappeared from view to teleport next to the blond child.
Matt froze as a strange digimon suddenly appeared beside him. Isomon took the invitation and wrapped his long thin metal tail around the small child, easily bringing him up to eye level.
"Who are you fair one?" He hissed.
Matt didn't answer, still frozen in surprise. He felt the large digimon's tail tighten slightly in insistence.
"My name is Matt Ishida and I am the chosen child of Friendship."
Isomon's tail slackened in surprise, causing Matt to slide from the slippery metal and plummet towards the ground. Isomon came back to his senses and caught the child in his hand before he could hit the ground.
"No it is not possible." Isomon whispered in awe as he studied the confused child sitting in his palm. "How can one so small and frail be the bringer of my destruction? But it is true. You are the MetalGarurumon's child, the child of Friendship."
Matt nodded as the strange digimon let out a hollow laugh. "And you are Isomon."
Isomon leaned in closer to Matt, like he was going to tell the child a secret. "I have made a grievous error. I have misinterpreted the prophecy." He paused deep in thought, never taking his eyes off the child in his hand. "How could I have not known? All this time I assumed that I had to separate all eight of the digidestined to conquer the Earth, to keep your friendship from destroying me. But in reality all I ever had to do was destroy one child."
Matt swallowed hard, not liking where this conversation was heading. He looked down over Isomon's hand, but the others were too far away and paralyzed with fear, just staring up at them with shock. He looked towards the digimon but they were all too busy at the moment with their own problems and didn't even realize that he was in danger.
"They can not help you." Isomon warned as he traced his nail feather lightly down the side of the child's face and waited. He smiled in pleasure as he was rewarded with a fine line of blood that appeared only seconds later. "No one can help you now."
"Even if you kill me my friends will still destroy you." Matt challenged angrily, curling and uncurling his fists in frustration.
Isomon laughed again as he regarded the brave little human. "You do not understand little friendship. My armor is invincible. The only thing that can ever harm me is the cold but once I destroy you your digimon will revert back to his in-training level. Then I can destroy each of your friends, their digimon, and then the entire Earth."
Matt swallowed hard as Isomon leaned right in front of him, giving Matt a close up view of his glowing yellow eye. The eye narrowed as Isomon scowled. "Now say goodbye little digidestined."
"Daddy!" TK yelled happily as he pulled his hand out of his mothers grasp and ran towards his dad, grabbing him around the thighs in a tight bear hug.
"TK." Malcolm Ishida said affectionately as he patted his youngest son on the head, careful not to dislodge the little white fisherman's hat.
"It's so good to see you daddy. I missed you."
Malcolm smiled. "I miss you to TK."
Nancy Takaishi walked up to her son and ex-husband, watching the news crews uncomfortably as they videotaped the monsters as they fought down below. She scowled in distaste as they boasted about what great footage they were getting. They weren't concerned that there were children down there in danger of being killed, that her child was down there. They were only interested in the competition for who would be the most watched channel this evening.
"I want to see Matt." TK demanded as he reached his hands up so his dad could pick him up. Malcolm bent down and scooped up his youngest son so he could see his brother over the stone barrier.
"Hey look, one of the monsters has a kid."
"Matt!" Nancy screamed helplessly as she noticed that it was her oldest son that was sitting in the giant monsters palm.
"Matt." TK panicked, lashing out as he tried to escape his father's tight grip. "Let go daddy I have to go help Matt."
"Calm down TK. You can't help Matt from here." Malcolm gently informed the distraught child as fear gripped his own heart. "We'd never make it down there in time."
"But I have to help Matt."
"TK?" A small voice piped from the ground.
TK stopped wriggling and looked down at the little digimon with hope in his sad blue eyes. "Tokomon. Tokomon you have to digivolve into Angemon. You are the only one that can save Matt. Please Tokomon."
Tokomon nodded. "I'll try TK." He felt the digivolving process begin as bright light suddenly surrounded him. "Tokomon digivolve to Patamon, digivolve to Angemon."
When the bright light faded, a tall longhaired Angel with six feathery wings, a metal helmet, and a long golden rod in his hand now replaced the once white little piglet creature.
"Angemon." TK cried as his champion digimon flew up into the air. "You have to protect Matt."
Angemon gave a quick nod in acceptance and flew away. TK's eyes followed Angemon as he flew towards Matt and the large digimon, his eyes widening in fear as he watched the scary digimon throw his big brother high into the air like a ball. TK cringed as a terrifying cracking sound was heard when the giant three-pronged tail slammed into his brother like the digimon was playing baseball.
"Noooo!" Nancy screamed in horror as she watched her oldest son sail high into the air, away from the other children, away from the fighting, and away from Angemon. Nancy covered her mouth with her hand as tears streamed uncontrollably down her cheeks. If Matt had somehow managed to survive the vicious hit, he wouldn't be alive long once he reached the trees and ground.
"We don't know for sure." Malcolm reminded her soothingly as he wrapped a comforting arm around her shaking shoulders needing the physical contact as much as she did. He watched the tree line where he saw Matt disappear only seconds before wishing that the trees weren't in the way but glad at the same time that the trees were covering the horrific sight.
"Matt will be OK won't he." TK asked unsurely as he looked at his parents expectantly.
"I hope so TK." Malcolm replied as he hugged his youngest son tightly, not wanting to lie to his son but also not wanting to get his hopes up either. All they could do now was wait and see what would happen next. "I hope so."
'Matt's not dead. He can't be dead. He's too strong to be dead. Matt is way to cool to be dead. But aren't the cool ones always the ones that die young? No, stop that. Matt is not dead.' Tai's thoughts argued around in his head as he watched the spot where he had seen Matt last. Maybe if he stared at it long enough then his best friend would miraculously reappear unharmed and cool as usual.
Tai's hopes diminished, leaving a hollow, empty feeling inside as an anguished howl from MetalGarurumon filled the clearing and confirmed his worst fear. "You killed my best friend."
"How could you?" Sora sobbed angrily from beside him.
Isomon turned to face the rest of the unprotected children and smiled gruesomely. "Don't worry. You will all be joining the fair one in death shortly."
"Of course." Izzy realized sadly. "How could I have missed something so obvious?"
"What's obvious Izzy?" Kari asked, sniffing as she wiped some stray tears from her cheek.
Izzy turned towards the others and quoted from the prophecy. "Let friendship's shield restore virtue, for fairness shall precede the coming storm, and gold will shatter under the assault."
"What about it?"
"It was Matt. The prophecy was talking about Matt. It wasn't all of our friendship; it was talking about Matt's crest of Friendship. And fairness has many different meanings like decent, beautiful, light or favorable. The meaning of 'fairness' in our prophecy had nothing to do with the weather or honesty or any of those things it was referring to Matt's blond hair and fair skin."
"But TK also has blond hair and fair skin." Mimi pointed out. "Why couldn't it be referring to him then?"
Izzy tapped his computer absently, waiting for one of the others to catch on. Where was Joe when you needed him? "TK has an Angel digimon."
"So?" Tai questioned, regretting it when Izzy suddenly looked like he wanted to choke someone, namely Tai.
"For fairness shall precede the coming storm." Izzy prompted. "Storms usually mean violent or cold weather."
"And Garurumon's attacks are icy and freezing." Sora contributed, finally understanding what Izzy was trying to point out.
"Exactly." Izzy agreed, happy that at least one of his friends had been able to catch on. "Isomon's weakness is the cold. It is the only thing that can break his armor."
"Very good little digidestined's. Too bad you figured it out to late. The only one that could have stopped me is already dead and now you will all be joining him so say goodbye."
To be continued…
