A few notes before we get started. One, all of Ken's obsessive, screaming fangirls better avoid the end of the chapter. Second: I'm getting the Japanese VCD's from a friend of mine (Thank you, George!! Aishiteru!), so I shouldn't have to worry about confusing the dub. Third, I don't own Digimon, nee? So with that, let the games begin!!

Chapter 3:

Reunions (Pt.2)-

The Truth Revealed

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"I don't see any sight of anyone!" Yamato complained. "I wonder where everyone else is?"

"They're probably just fine." Garurumon said, "We've been in all sorts of problems before; this is nothing!"

"Yeah," Yamato looked a bit worried, "But still…"

He thought to himself: 'I wonder if that Harmony girl's okay. She did stay behind, and that fire was awfully close…'

"YAMATO!"

Harmony ran up, closely followed by Rainbowmon behind her.

"There are too many." She told him, "Your digimon can evolve to Perfect, right?"

Yamato looked at Garurumon, "Do you think you can?"

"Of course!"

"Do it, then!" Harmony cried as another Dramon swooped down, "Hurry!"

Rainbowmon jumped up into the air, sending a giant wave out at the Dramon.

"Garurumon, evolve! …!!!"

He turned to Yamato "It's not working!" he called.

"What?!" Yamato spun around, "You can't evolve!"

Harmony spun around "What?!"

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"YES!!!!!" Skydramon screeched, pounding the dashboard, "That's it, Dramon, burn those two to a-"

She stopped. For the first time, she looked at Ken hard. "Wait a second… that's…"

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"It's over!" the Dramon screamed, "Even if your digimon get there in time, the fire's radius is too big! And, as an added bonus, it burns up anything in its path! Completely!"

For once a bit scared, Power looked around. There was another side to the ditch, and it didn't look to far away…

"Maybe we can jump the cliff." She told Ken.

"Are you crazy?!" Ken cried, shocked.

"Do you have a better idea?"

Considering this fact, Ken shook his head. The two chosen children stood up, and ran off the edge.

Needless to say, it was a crazy idea. They started falling towards the empty whiteness, but, fortunately, Mizunomon and Stingmon were able to get to them before they hit the blankness. Crowding into a nook in the gorge, the flame passed harmlessly over them.

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Meanwhile, Harmony and the other chosen children were forced to retreat, and were meeting in the shelter of a steep cliff, out of the way of the Dramon's attacks.

"What's going on?!" Hikari cried, "What happened to the digital world?"

"The Dramons have been raging through the area recently." Harmony explained, "We don't know exactly who is causing this, because it's not in their nature to do this. We have a good idea who is doing this though."

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"Who?" Ken asked.

In the cliff edge, Power was explaining the same thing to Ken that Harmony was explaining to the other chosen children.

Power turned away, "You remember, about a year ago, what happened?"

"Yeah… I think so." Ken answered. "With Belailvamdemon?"

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"And Demon." Harmony added to Sora's answer. "That's where you went wrong."

"What do you mean?" Hikari asked. "Demon? He's gone, isn't he? We sealed him away!"

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Power shook her head, "No, you didn't. That's where you went wrong. You had the power to destroy him altogether, did you know that?"

Ken shook his head, "No."

"If you could break off from evil altogether, then sure as hell you could destroy him."

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"But you didn't." Harmony said, "And that will be a mistake which will cost you your lives."

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"You see, the digital world is disappearing. What do you think that blank whiteness was? The edge of the digital world."

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"Demon is beginning to break out of the Dark Ocean. The result of that is the crumbling away of the digital world. If he gets any stronger, the crumbling will become more frequent, until there is nothing left."

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"And whoever is throwing all these Dramon at us is probably one of Demon's little friends, trying to restore him to power."

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"Those friends of Demon: Ladydevimon, Marinedevimon, Skullsatamon, and the like, are not gone yet. They're still alive, and trying to bring Demon back."

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"But we sealed him somewhere he'll never get out of!" Ken cried.

"Wrong," Power shook her head, "It was like putting gasoline on a flame."

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"Demon fed off the dark energy in the ocean, and has grown stronger over the last year. Soon, he'll break out. And he won't be happy."

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"He's going to come after us." Power said, "Not just you anymore. He doesn't need the Dark Spore, oh no, he's much too strong for that."

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"Hate to say it, but he wants us all dead. It's part of a plan. Some plan to destroy everything."

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"So, thanks to you and all your little friends, Ken, we're all going to die."

Ken looked deeply shocked, and shook his head. "No way…"

"Way."

A roaring above got both of them's attention.

"Mizunomon." Power said, as cool as ever.

"Yes, let's take care of these things. For now, anyways."

Power got on Mizunomon, and Mizunomon leaped out of the crevice, and onto stable ground, facing the Dramon, leaving Ken at the bottom, speechless.

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Meanwhile, Harmony and the rest of the chosen children ran out of the nook in the cliff to face more Dramon.

"You can't evolve to your Perfect form." Rainbowmon warned the other digimon, "So fight with what you can."

The digimon evolved, and they and Rainbowmon went to fight the Dramons. In a little while, the dragon digimon were vanquished, as were the ones harassing Power and Ken.

"This area's all right… for now." Harmony said, and turned to face the chosen children, "Now, let's go find the others."

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Later, the chosen children, Power, and Harmony were meeting by the entrance to the real world.

"You two okay?" Harmony asked.

Power nodded, Evomon draped over her neck. "I guess everyone knows, huh? You told them, right?"

"Yes."

"Then it's all good." Power said decisively, and turned to Ken. "And… I'm sorry." Evomon jumped off Power's shoulders, bell ringing.

"For what?" Ken asked tensely.

Power just smiled, and did something she had never done before, and kissed him on the cheek.

It took a few seconds for the realization of what just happened to dawn on them. Ken just stood there, a bit numb with shock. Power merely kept smiling.

After regaining her color, Harmony turned, and walked away towards the burnt out trees, Ponimon following her.

"Huh?" Power turned around, "Hey! Harmony! Wait up!"

She, too, walked off in the same direction with a last wave at the chosen children. Evomon cast a last look at the chosen children, almost laughed at their shocked faces, and followed the others.

"What was that!?" Miyako spoke, breaking the tension. Everyone ended up laughing. Ken, too, but his was somehow… forced. So was Miyako's.

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Skydramon paced, frowning. 'They defeated some of the strongest pack of Dramon I can conjure up!' she thought angrily, 'I can't forgive them.'

She looked up, getting a thoughtful look on her face. 'Yeah, that's it,' she thought.

"Get me the strongest Dramon there is," she shouted to two Devidramon, who immediately flew away. "I can't wait till those children see who they're really messing with."

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The next day, Sunday, Megun returned from a play practice late, and passed Ken in the hall.

"It was a bit of a shock, huh?" she said, without turning around.

"What was?" Ken asked, turning.

"Well," Megun thought for awhile, and said, "I'm sorry."

"For what?" Ken asked again.

Megun turned around, smiling, "Nothing. Just sorry,"

She kept walking. Ken was puzzled.

Then, the realization dawned on him.

'No way!' he thought. 'She's not-?! No way!'

But after a bit of thinking, he relaxed, "R-right…" he said to himself, and kept walking, "It couldn't be…"