[For all of my readers, who have been very patient, this is a breather before the next chapter. If you'd rather skip ahead, skip ahead. Thanks, and enjoy the ride.]


At last. After fifty days of waiting, the final chapter of the Hidden Pasts are can finally be put on FF.Net....

The world will be mine! Yes...yes!

"Will you quit trying to imitate Dr. Kochin?" groans Wormmon.

"Yes; I'm still trying to get sleep from insomnia I shouldn't have, and recuperate from Stingmon-inflicted wounds that I should be dead from," adds Ken.

Silence! You're giving away precious plot points.

"Why are you doing this anyway?" asks Neo. "It's not like you to insert yourself in a fanfic."

I'm not-this is a thank you note to the very patient people who have waited for an update to 2.5, okay?

"I'm displeased. And I'm nowhere to be found in this chapter. Even Miyako got airtime, and it was worthless, non-lemon Kenyako fluff." Neo seems annoyed.

"Hey-your name's been mentioned several times," counters Taichi.

Quit giving away the plot, kids...I toiled many weeks and lost many Monopoly games to battleships, top hats, and thimbles writing this behemoth.

"A whopper at fifty-one pages. That's even longer than Ken's interval with Mimi," notes Daisuke.

"You would have been finished sooner if you weren't trying to hunt down 'Duel of the Fates'," quips Yamato.

I have many reasons for John Williams' brilliant musical piece. So be quiet.

"And there's also a--*" Gomamon and Agumon can no longer speak. Because the author grabbed Hongo-san's eraser and erased their mouths.

Anybody else want to mess with she that controls your fates?

"Where are those control spirals of yours, Ken?" asks Neo.

"You can forget it-I don't want her nephews written in this story," says Ken. "The middle kid's even worse than I was as the Kaizer, and then there's the baby niece that talks at three months."

Everyone sweatdrops.

"I'm serious," continues Ken. "Nunu-chan is a wacky little baby. And the author would have to write in her step-niece, too."

"That does sound complicated," muses Koushirou.

It IS. The oldest one would want the most powerful digimon, and to get Hikari, and make a good chunk of you afrikaijin creole. Hikari's light-skinned, you know.

"This from the woman that made a black/Japanese kid out of me," groans Taichi.

I didn't say he was you, Yagami/Kamiya/whatever. Jyou-kun was the only one whose character design is exact.

"I'm not in that story either," seethes Neo.

Saiba-chan; this is the first story I've written with you in it. Considering I know little about the manga you're from, and that the more I learn, the more I know I messed up the manga end; you should be grateful that I made an effort to include the Alias Trio.

"Leo is a LEOMON...." groans Sigma.

"And where's Rei?" asks Hideto.

You know, Toei didn't have these problems rewriting the continuity of Sailor Moon. Or Dragon Ball. Or your video games. Heck, Akiyama Ryo's in two Digimon universes. Toei made money doing this.

I'm just a fanfic author. If it's anyone's fault, it's Toei for plopping such glaring plot holes in Adventure. Especially Ken's virtual nonexistence for a good chunk of his villain arc.

You think this is madness? You should see what I do with Transformers G1 plot holes. Or Voltron ones.

"It's always Voltron," whines Lotor.

Out, you. I haven't worked out the Buu and Cell sagas in your epic yet.

"What does DBZ have to do with me?" asks the Dark Prince.

Listen, Sincline-sama. You must understand that I wrote the story during the Endless Waltz of Raditz to Namek Sagas of DBZ back in the old days. And the Voltron story I wrote involved not only the Z-Senshi, but some DBGT plot elements. And I didn't even know about GT at that time.

"Do I get Allura/Farla?"

Yes.

"At last, justice is served."

Okay, stick this with a fork, it's done.

Go straight to the next chapter.