Last time: The Digidestined started their plans against the evil Child of Darkness, Seiji Kamiya. Akira, Mina, and Hyouriki were part of a meeting of all Deities of the Digital World. These powerful beings agreed to help fight Seiji. Meanwhile, Seiji began to use the captured Digidestined to destroy the boundaries around Limbo, thereby connecting the two worlds together. Oikawa, Mummymon, and Piedmon turned against him, and, along with the Twins and Willis, they were able to stop the merger.
Akira and Hyouriki opened a portal to the Dark Ocean to enter the Limbo, when Dragomon attacked. Hyouriki opened a return portal, but Dragomon was able to keep it open, and send his armies through to invade Earth, while Akira ended up in the hands of the Child of Darkness.
The Night of Destiny: Part 7: Bold and Fearless
Imagine you've spent your entire life with one goal in mind, that you've given up a normal childhood to reach this goal, that your mother died so you could complete this goal, that the lives of millions defend upon you achieving this goal. Your name is Akira....
Akira struggled against the bonds that keep his arms and feet tightly wrapped against the brick wall. He glared down to where his cousin was standing, a giant smirk on his face. "Stop grinning, you freak!" Akira shouted,"Once I break you of here, I am going to rip your heart out!"
Seiji chuckled. "But I thought that you liked me? I'm your cousin, after all..."
"I don't care!" Akira snapped,"You're the Child of Darkness, it doesn't matter who you really are! I am going to kill you!"
"Oh, I get it," Seiji said, crossing his arms.
"Get what?"
Seiji smirked,"You are arrogant and insensitive, aren't you?"
"What?" Akira barked.
"You don't care about people, just your mission, right?"
Akira was speechless, trying to form words, but no sound came to his mouth.
"I'll let you think about it," Seiji said, walking over to a window on the opposite wall,"Also, I didn't want you to wonder about all the screaming and explosions that you will soon be hearing, so I left you a window, so you can see the end of your world! Ha ha ha ha!"
Akira's Agumon looked up from where he was strapped to the wall to watch Seiji leave, then up at his partner. "Akira?"
"I...I'm not like that, am I?"
Down in the streets of Tokyo, Hyouriki fell to her knees as she watched Dragomon's army drop from the giant portal in the sky. "This is all my fault!" she cried,"All my fault!"
Dragomon looked down at her and grinned. "That's right, this is all your fault. You opened the portal, allowing the demons from the Dark Ocean to invade the earth realm. Doesn't it make your heart fill with joy?"
"No!" Hyouriki shouted, jumping behind her Penmon, clenching her fists,"I opened the gate, but I didn't want to! I didn't want this to happen!"
"Yes you did," Dragomon grinned,"You have a dark heart, a dark soul. Stop trying to deny it, stop suppressing it! Let it out into the open."
"Stop saying that!" she screamed.
"But it's true," Dragomon laughed. He reached down with his large fist,"And you will come with me, whether you want to or not!"
Suddenly, Dan, Scott, and Shiro jumped in front of her, their Digimon at their highest levels. "Hyouriki," Dan said,"Get out of here. We'll cover you!"
"Dan," she said,"I...I..."
"Go!" Shiro shouted,"Hurry up, before I change my mind."
Ken's daughter nodded. She took a few steps back, before turning completely around and charged the other way, with Penguinmon following her.
Dragomon smirked as he stared down at the Digidestined. "Do you honestly think that you can defeat me, when your parents didn't stand a chance?"
Dan's Veedramon clenched his fists together. "We won't know until we try, huh?"
"Let's get him!" Shiro's Centarumon said.
"You're not worth my time," Dragomon said, crossing his arms.
"Perfect," Leyu said,"Then we'll be able to beat you easily."
"Was that a taunt?" Dragomon laughed,"I'm very scared."
"Leave my sister alone!" Shiro shouted.
"Enough talking!" Dan shouted,"We're not letting you get to Hyouriki, so fight us or surrender."
Dragomon started laughing again as he slowly moved into a dark circle,"My bride awaits." He vanished a second later.".
"He's gone," Dan said, turning to the others,"And he's going after Hyouriki!"
"What about those guys?" Scott asked, pointing to the dark Digimon raining from the black hole blanketing the city.
"We've got to stop them from destroying the city," Shiro pointed out.
"Hyouriki is the only one that can close that portal," Dan said,"We've got to find her."
"She's the one that got us into this mess!" Shiro shouted,"I'm not going to trust her to.."
Dan suddenly leapt forward and slammed his fist into Shiro's cheek,"I am sick and tired of your f@#%ing selfish attitude. You've been nothing but a pain in everyone's ass for years! I don't care what you do anymore! Go and get killed for all I care. I'm going after the one that can stop this demon reign." He turned around and ran down the street.
The others were silent for a while, then Erika, Sam and Scott ran after him. Shiro crossed his arms and looked at his sister. Leyu hesitated for a second, then said,"Sorry," and ran after the others. Shiro was shocked and speechless, then followed his older sister.
Tai pounded his hands against the clear material. "Tai," his sister called out from her prison cell on the next brick wall over,"What are you doing?"
"I'm trying to get out of this!" he said,"But this material isn't glass, it's something stronger, much stronger..."
"Of course, it isn't glass, dear uncle Taichi," Seiji said, suddenly appearing on the globe in the center of the castle and the towers,"Glass would break far too easily."
Taichi growled,"Let me out of here now, Seiji, or you will be sorry!"
Seiji started laughing,"I doubt that very much! Diaboromon, Oikawa and his little rebellion failed, so let's pick it up where we left off!"
"As you wish, Lord Seiji," Diaboromon said over the loud speaker.
The captured Digidestined felt their chambers start to shake as they moved up the walls once again. "Seiji"! Kari pleaded,"Please, stop this, it's not to late to save yourself..."
Seiji started laughing, the black aura around his body glowing darker,"This is your fault, don't forget. You were warned, and I'm the result of your mistake. My dear Dad isn't even here to save you."
Kari started sobbing. "Shut up!" Tai screamed,"You ungrateful bastard!"
"That's me!" Seiji laughed as the glass chambers rode up their tracks to the top of the towers. He pressed the button on his communicator,"Diaboromon?"
"Yes, Lord Sieji?"
Sieiji grinned,"Let's break reality!"
"I need a status report, and I need it yesterday!" Davis shouted, as he ran into the war room.
Noriko's fingers were moving so fast across the keyboard that Davis had to blink a few times to make sure they were really her hands. He noticed that her VR helmet was lying on the console. "Why aren't you wearing your helmet?"
"It blew out from all the Digimon signal's in the city," Noriko said,"But, I still average 70 words per minute."
Davis nodded, then glanced over his shoulder as, Matt, Sora, Reiko, Matsuymo, M.C. Yolie, and Cody ran into the room. "Davis," Cody said,"What's going on? What's happening outside?"
"As near as I can tell, a portal from the Dark Ocean opened," Noriko said, staring at the screen in front of her.
"'Portal from the Dark Ocean?" Yolei asked, going pale,"Hyouriki!"
"Can't we just close it?" Matt asked.
"No," Noriko said,"I'm registering strange energy waves from it. Something is keeping it open."
"While Noriko is figuring out how to close it," Davis said,"We've got to try and stop the demons from destroying everything. Matsuymon, Reiko, and M.C., will stay here with Noriko, the rest of you, come with me. We're going demon slaying!"
Seiji stood on the top of his castle and laughed as a centrifuge of energy swirled around him, created as the energy of the Digital Gate Digidestined was pulled out of them.
"Fight it!" Tai shouted, from his chamber, "Don't let him do this!"
"It's..too strong!" Mimi shouted from hers.
"We've got to try!" Ken screamed,"Resist it!"
The other captured digidestined were struggling as best they could. "I...I can't fight it anymore!" Miura sighed, giving one last breath before she passed out. The others watched, hopeless, as her energy pulsed from her body into the spinning circle.
"As you can see," Seiji laughed, crossing his arms,"There is no way you can stop me!"
"He's right Tai," Kari said, losing consciousness,"I...I'm struggling.."
"Don't give up," Tai shouted, but it was too late, Kari was out, along with Mimi.
"You're losing," Seiji laughed,"Give up."
"We're not just going to lie in defeat!" Ken shouted.
"You're awake as well?" Seiji asked, surprised,"So, this must be where your daughter gets all her strength from."
Ken growled and started slamming his fists against the chamber wall.
"Struggle all you want," Seiji said, placing his palms together,"It is too late, I have all the energy I need. You have failed, and, now, I win!"
The circumference of the energy cyclone began to shrink, drawing the energy inward towards Seiji's open hands. The Child of Darkness started to laugh uncontrollably as he raised his hands, the blue energy swirling around them. "Now, watch as Earth is the first to fall!"
He shot his hands downward, firing the energy ball into the abyss below the floating castle. It exploded a second later, creating a spider's web of blue light that weaved its way across the blackness, like a stone shattering a plate of glass. "It begins!" Seiji laughed.
Hyouriki was running so fast that the world was a blur. In fact, she didn't even want to see the world, the carnage, the destruction, being unleashed on the city by Dragomon's army, the army she let into Earth.
Her lungs started to hurt. She stopped in a dark alley, bending over to catch her breath. "'Riki?" her Digimon asked, catching up to her,"H-How are you feeling?"
She stuttered,"I..I.." She clutched her stomach then shoved her face into a garbage can. Penmon flinched slightly as she heard her partner throwing up.
"Exerted yourself too much, huh?" Penmon asked, started to rub her partner's back.
"N-no," Hyouriki said, slowly lifting her head up,"I..I feel like I've been through the ringer. This...all this destruction, is my fault, I can feel my....dark side, inside of me, I'm afraid of it taking over, and...the thought of becoming Dragomon's bride is..." She threw her head back into the garbage can, then slowly lifted her head back out. "I haven't felt like this since I got dysentery," she said, wiping her mouth with the back of her wrist.
Penmon was about to say something, when they heard a crashing noise from behind them. They turned around and saw a restaurant, its door wide open, and the front windows destroyed. "What's going on in there?" Penmon asked.
"I don't know,"Hyouriki said, "I guess we should check it out."
The two slowly walked through the door and peered inside. The Ichijoji daughter gasped as she saw a hoard of black Scubamons, Crabmons, and Gizamon tearing apart the restaurant and stuffing foods into the mouths. Hyouriki was unsure of what to do, she stepped back slightly, snapping a plastic fork. She and her Digimon froze as the scourging Digimon spun their heads around. Their faces lit up and smiled. "It's...It's the queen!" one of the Gizamon said.
"The queen!" one of the Gizamon said.
"The Digimon Empress!"
Hyouriki's face turned to shock. "Q-Queen?" she asked, horrified as the Digimon started moving towards her.
"Come on!" her Penmon shouted, grabbing her hand,"we've got to get out of here."
The black haired girl just nodded numbly as her partner spun her around and out the door, only to be confronted by a parade of dark Digimon assembling in front of them.
"The queen!" they shouted,"The queen is here! Save us! Rule us!"
"No!" she shouted,"I'm not your queen! I'm not!"
The Digimon ignored her and began to congregate around her. Hyouriki and her Digimon twisted and turned their heads around, trying to find an escape route. Penmon spied a small break to the right. She grabbed Hyouriki's hand and shot through the opening before the dark Digimon pushed together and closed it. Penmon knew Hyouriki was beginning to lose it, the portal she opened, Dragomon, all this was beginning to take its toll on her. Penmon knew she had to get her human partner back to the Digidestined HQ, Yolei would be able to help, or even Noriko's psychic power might be able to counsel the raven haired girl, but, none of this could happen if they were destroyed by the invading Digimon.
"Queen!"
"Were are you going?"
"Lead us, our Queen."
"Save us!"
Eventually, Penmon had no choice but to lead Hyouriki into an alley. "A good place for our last stand huh?" the large bird Digimon mumbled as they found that the other side of the passageway was being blocked by more chanting Digimon. Penmon glanced over and saw that Hyouriki was on the ground, clutching her head.
"Make them stop," she mumbled,"Make the voices stop!"
Penmon shot back up and saw that the Digimon were almost chanting her name now, but they were keeping their distance, almost as if...."
"That's it!" Penmon shouted,"'riki, listen, they're afraid of you. They respect you with fear because they think you're their Queen. If you pretend to be this 'Digimon Empress', then we might be able to just walk right back home."
"You don't understand," she sighed,"I am the Digimon Empress, they'll never stop hounding me, never leave me be, the Dark Ocean will follow me for the rest of my life.."
"And you're just going to let it?" Penmon shouted,"You've got to fight back! You've got to fight to be free!"
Hyrouki seemed to struggle with herself for a long time, then shot to her feet and let out a long scream. "I'm through running! Let's go, Penmon, but we can't go beyond Champion."
"Right," Penmon nodded, as Hyouriki's digivice came to life," Penmon digivolve to...Seadramon!"
The serpent Digimon used his head as a battering ram and slammed through the Digimon group, trying to clear a path through, but every time he did, the evil Digimon would just fill it in again, they did not want Hyouriki to leave.
After Seadramon's fifteenth turn, he became extremely frustrated and lost his temper. He fired an ice attack that froze a stream of the Digimon before shattering them into a billion pieces.
One of the Gizamon looked to one of the Crabmon. "The Queen is attacking us."
"Yes," the Crabmon said,"Maybe she is not our queen?"
"She is," a Scubamon said.
"Then why would she attack us?"
"Humans have corrupted her. We must cleanse her."
"Now we're in trouble," Seadramon murmured as the Digimon leapt forward, clawing and pricking at both Seadramon and Hyouriki until both were no longer visible for they had become lost underneath a sea of black Digimon.
Suddenly, without warning, a portion of that sea was thrown apart as a much larger, darker version of Seadramon shot his head throwing the surface of the Digimon ocean. Hyouriki was breathing heavily on the digimon's head. "Nice job, Waruseadramon," she said, hiding the nervousness of her voice,"Now, get us out of here."
As her digimon swan through the sky, Hyouriki flipped over her Digivice. Four and a half rows of jewels were now shinning. "Two left," she sighed, then looked at her clothing, which changed every time a new jewel lit up. Her black tank top and red jacket were gone, replaced with a long sleeve blue and white shirt and blue cape. Her jeans remained though, which gave her a small amount of comfort, but she knew they would be next.
Eventually, Waruseadramon finally lost the crowd of fanatic digimon, and decided to rest in an alley with both exits clearly accessible. Waruseadramon shrunk back to Penmon, and Hyouriki's tank top and jacket returned. "...until the next time,"she thought. Suddenly, she heard a loud boom blast as the sky lit up in a bright flash of light.
"Great! A thunderstorm on top of everything else?" she shouted, shooting her neck up only to gasp as the sky began to fall.
Birdramon screeched to a halt as a stream of light appeared appeared in front of her. Sora's momentum didn't stop, however, and she twisted up her digimon's back, only by instinctively grabbing her beak did the redhead keep from crashing into the ground. "Sora!" Matt shouted, reaching down and helped her back onto Birdramon's back,"Are you okay?"
"Yeah," Sora grunted,"But, what is that thing?"
"I don't know," Gabumon said, glancing up at the sky. The stream of light was quickly flowing down from what appeared to be a crack in the sky. He glanced around and saw that there were other cracks in the sky, and more appearing with every passing second.
"Why are you guys stopping?" Davis asked, a second later as he and Exveemon arrived a second later with the rest of the Digidestined. The Digidestined Regent glanced up at the cracking sky. "Whoa!" he shouted,"What's going on here?"
"I'm not sure," Izzy said, noticing that the cracks of light were starting to appear with fierce intensity,"But, whatever it is, it's about to happen! Duck!"
The Digimon instantly maneuvered to keep their human partners from harm as the sky shot apart in a thunder blast of light. When they returned their view to the sky, they saw that it no longer existed. The once bright blue sky was gone, replaced by a sea of darkness, with a giant castle materializing over the center of the city.
"Izzy," Davis shouted,"What just happened?"
Izzy was shaking as he stared at the sky. "I...A...as near as I can t-tell, reality just crumbled."
"What?"
Noriko's transparent head appeared in front of them a second later. "What just happened?" she shouted,"All the energy scales just flew off the chart!"
I think the barrier between two worlds fell apart," Izzy explained,"Is there anything you can tell us?"
"Only that the source of all this energy is that floating castle up there," Noriko's head mentioned towards the floating fortress.
"How are you able to contact us?" Davis asked,"I thought there was too much interference?"
"I am using the VR helmet, which amplifies my power," Noriko explained,"It is at great risk I use it, but, you need to know, the Child of Darkness is at the castle."
"Seiji," T.K. sighed,"I...Davis, I've got to go there."
"We're all going there," Davis said,"Move out."
Agumon struggled against the bonds that were keeping his arms and legs tightly bound to the wall behind him. He ripped and pulled as hard as he could, but he was not any closer to escaping. "I'm not getting anywhere," he glanced up at where his human partner was tied tightly to the wall, "How about you?"
Akira kept his gaze down to the floor.
"Akira?" his Agumon asked again.
"How...how could I act like that towards everyone?" he mumbled,"I acted like I was God's gift to them all."
"But....you are," Agumon said,"You were born just for this night, you were born to fight the Child of Darkness."
"But, I acted so smug and cocky about it," he sighed,"To everyone, Hyouriki, Dan, Leyu.....Leyu, she never liked me....but....but neither did I."
"What?" Agumon asked, shocked.
"I don't think I ever truly cared for her, I just...wanted her," he sighed again,"Erika...Erika...it was you, you're the one that I....that I feel for, Erika....I will fight for you!"
Suddenly, the sky outside the small window shot a bright light into the small room. "What was that?" Akira asked, straining his neck to look outside. Through the window he was able to view the center of the castle's roof, the same place where Seiji was standing, laughing maniacally. "What happened?"
"The Child of Darkness has broken through the dimensional barrier from limbo to earth."
"Azulongmon," Akira said, glancing to his right as a transparent image of the massive Digital God appeared before him,"Seiji's broken through to Earth, but not the Digital World?"
"Not yet," Azulongmon said,"We may still be able to subdue him..."
"Wait," Akira said,"Our original plan was for you to fight in the limbo between earth and the Digital World. If you fight him here, you might cause severe damage to the city, not to mention the planet."
"What would you have us do then?" he asked, angrily.
"Wait and see if the Digidestined can stop him first," Akira pleaded,"I don't want my home to be destroyed."
"Very well,"Azulongmon sighed,"We will await your signal." His head vanished.
"I've got say," Dan's Veemon said, running alongside his partner,"this is turning out to be a very interesting day. I mean, we wake up in Paris, destroy a few priceless artifacts at a French museum, learn the guy we all trusted was really the Child of Darkness, then..."
"Veemon!" Dan shouted,"Now isn't the time!"
"Aren't we missing someone?" Scott asked, counting the members of the small group as they followed Hyouriki's trail as best they could.
"Yeah," his Palmon said,"We're two short."
"Erika and her Tentomon!" Dan shouted,"We lost them somewhere."
"Now we've got to find them too?!" Leyu grunted,"At this rate, Seiji's not going to have to do anything to stop us, we'll do it ourselves."
"Well," Chris said, glancing up at the castle floating in the sky,"Whatever that thing is, it looks like your parents are handling it."
"Which leaves us to find my sister," Sam said,"Shiro, have you found anything?"
The redhead glanced at his Digimon. "Well?"
Gabutmon sniffed the ground, then looked at the others,"She was here alright, but her scent's mixed in with with a couple hundred Digimon from the Dark Ocean."
"She was attacked?" Sam asked.
"Probably, but Waruseadramon's scent is here too, and its stronger in this direction. They escaped."
"Lead the way," Shiro mentioned with his hands.
"We've got another problem," Gabumon said,"Incomming!"
Everyone jumped out of the way seconds before a group of massive black Gesomon landed inches from the spot they were just in. "Howdy kids," one of them said in a goofy laugh,"Lord Dragomon wishes your presence."
"Yeah right!" Dan laughed,"Get them!"
The Digimon did not even have a chance to digivolve before the Gesomon wrapped both human and digimon tightly in their tentacles.
Seiji stood atop his castle, deeply breathing. "Ah, Earth, so beautiful, so serene, and soon," he grined,"So mine!"
"Seiji!" Kari shouted from her prision,"Don't do this! There's still time to repair all this..."
"Haven't you been listening to anything I've been saying?" Seiji shouted,"I don't want to repair anything! I am not going to change, this world will be mine!"
"Why?" Kari pleaded, tears falling down her face,"Why are you doing this?"
Seiji glared at her, "You!"
"W-what?"
"This is all your fault! You disregarded Azulongmon's warning, you and my father both. You tried to suppress my powers as I grew, you never let me be who I truly was. You never even let me spend time with my fauther!You were more interested in keeping his identity a secret so that the Digidestined wouldn't condemn you! Of course I knew who he really was, but I couldn't let on. So to reiterate, this is all your fault! All your fault!"
Kari fell to the floor of her small prison, a sea of tears gathering at her feet. "Kari," Rumi called from the prison next to hers.
Tai slammed his fists onto his prison,"Just wait until we get out of here!" he screamed,"You're going to be so sorry!"
"I already am," Seiji said,"I've been sorry since I was born. Enjoy this short breather, Uncle Tai, once you regain your energy, we will complete the process, and break through to the Digital World."
"This is as far as you go!"
Seiji smiled slightly as Davis and the rest of the Digidestined flew into sight. "Ah, Mr. Motomiya, the Digidestined Regent. How are you doing this day? Ah, and you've brought my father with you."
TK gasped. "Y-you mean...you know?"
"Of course I know!" he shouted,"And maybe if you had been there for me when I needed you, none of this would be happening now!"
TK tried to say something, but no sound was emerging from his mouth. "Don't listen to him!" Matt called,"He choose to do this."
Seiji crossed his arms. "Hmp!" he said, turning his head to the right.
Over on the towers containing the prison cells that were surrounding the castle, Tai was shouting as loud as he could to get Davis's attention, but it was not working. "It's no use," he said, sighing, "They can't hear us all the way over here. "
"Seiji could hear us because he's a psychic," Ken added.
"I just hope they can win," Heather sighed,"The whole world is depending on them."
Back at the main platform, the Digidestined were arranging themselves around Seiji, planning the best strategy of attack. Black Gatomon jumped off of her partner's shoulder and stood firmly in front of Seiji. "Black Gatomon digivolve to Ladydevimon!"
The Child of Darkness laughed as his Digimon flexed her muscles for the fight,"Let's get this over with."
"Attack!" Davis shouted.
The Digidestined instantly sprang into action. Seadramon poured his ice attack on Ladydevimon, covering her in a sheet of ice. Aquillamon shot her from the right, while Birdramon attacked from the left, Weregarurumon blasted from behind, while Exveemon shot his V-laser from the front. Ladydevimon exploded in a dazzling array of light and sound. When the smoke cleared, the defenders of the Earth gasped as they saw Ladydevimon completely unharmed, only the ice prison was gone. The devil ultimate crossed her arms and laughed,"Is that the best you've got?"
She should not have been gloating, however, or she would have noticed that two Digimon were missing from the initial attack. Shakkoumon and Megakabuterimon were now flying towards Ladydevimon from behind. Both swung their massive fists into her head. Seiji had to duck in order to avoid being hit by his flying Digimon, who crashed into one of the brick walls surrounding the small platform. "What happened?" he shouted.
"They snuck up on me," Ladydevimon growled, climbing out of the brick pile,"But they won't do it again!"
She flung herself into the incoming Digidestined Digimon, swinging her claws into Megakabuterimon's stomach. "Sorry about that Big Boy," she laughed as Izzy's Digimon fell to the ground.
"Let me at her!" Michael shouted as he rode his Digimon forward. His intention was to slam Seadramon's horn into Lady Devimon's side, but, the Child of Darkness's Digimon was not about to be caught off guard again. She turned her head at the precise moment Seadramon was going to thrust forward. She shot into the air, and Seadramon found his horn embedded deep into the floor. Ladydevimon shot into Seadramon's head, knocking him out.
"That was easy," she laughed,"Who's next?"
She got her answer when the married couple of Matt and Sora Ishida jumped in to attack. Garudamon blasted her Wing Blaze into Ladydevimon's back. While Ladydevimon was reeling in pain, Weregarurumon flung forward, slashing his claw across the evil Digimon's face. "How's that?" he laughed.
"Not bad," Ladydevimon grinned,"Why don't you try it?" She brought her claw back and slammed him in the side of the head, crashing him into Garudamon. Ladydevimon laughed when she saw the two Digimon lying on the floor,"Together forever, huh? Ha hahah!"
"Vulcan's Hammer!"
"Justice Beam!"
Ladydevimon jumped into the air to avoid the two attacks, then dive bombed into Zudomon stomach, pushed herself back out, twisted her body and slammed her elbow into Shakkoumon. Knowing that that was not going to be enough, she then formed her claw into a spear and ripped through Shakkoumon's iron skin, splitting him back into Patamon and Armadillomon.
"You're the only one left!" Davis shouted," Get him, Exveemon!"
"I'm the only one left to stop him," Exveemon thought, flying towards her,"I've got to make this count."
Ladydevimon waited until Exveemon was only a few feet in front of her, then she simply swung her leg up and planted it into Exveemon's stomach. All of his momentum suddenly was screeched to a halt, making his injury so severe, that he regressed to Veemon.
"That was it?" the Child of Darkness laughed,"That was it? That's all the strength you can amass? Ha hahahaha!"
"Just wait!" Davis shouted, grabbing Veemon off the ground,"Akira will stop you!"
"My cousin is all tied up at the moment, and even if he does get here and somehow defeat me, your battle is with human nature itself. 'And Cain took upon his brother Able and killed him.' This is always been the way."
Back inside of his small cell, Akira hung his head low,"The Digidestined failed, we don't have any other choice. Azulongmon, it's you turn."
Imagine you've spent your entire life with one goal in mind, that you've given up a normal childhood to reach this goal, that your mother died so you could complete this goal, that the lives of millions defend upon you achieving this goal. Now image knowing that you are seconds away from failing. Your name is Akira, and as the Digital Deities prepare to engage in a battle that may destroy the planet you are trying to protect, you pray with all your heart, that Seiji is wrong.