Missing Link

by Skittles the Sugar Fairy

Takato has been missing for 20 years,and so have 4 others in the digidestined realm. A Tamers&Digidestined crossover that is like none other. Where did Takato go? And who is behind it? What are the chosen to do? Read and find out! Complete! SEQUEL - Shattered Realities

14. Partners

Authoress Note: So Takato is alive again, or rather is back because he was never dead to begin with. ^_^ Lol, that was definately one of the weirder chaps, it was also hard to write cause I wasn't sure how to go about it. But it turned out okay, and now its time for the fun part of when the Digidetined and the Tamers find out that he's alive! Lol, this is gonna be great! And just think, in a few chapters this whole thing is gonna be over......I hope.....cause I don't usually do big fics like this, in fact, this may actually be the last chapter of Missing Link. We'll just have to see how this turns out. Oh well, I'll start writing now! Hope you guys enjoy this super big chapter I made for ya's!

*~* Legend!*~*

{Behemoth talking}

[Grani talking]

"Speach"

*Thoughts*

/Digimon in biomerged form/

//Human in biomerged form//

Chapter 14 - Partners

Takato was alive.

Alive and.....not well just yet.......but he was getting there!

It's not like he was at risk of dying anymore, which was good because Impmon seriously doubted if he could stand loosing a friend...............Especially now that they were partners.

That was something that had confused him very thoroughly. Why were they partners exactly? Takato already had a partner, Guilmon. So why had they become partners? Was it because he had used his own D-Arc to smash Takato and Guilmon's into little pieces of data?

He would never know, but right now he had to make sure that his new partner was going to be okay. He had to be protected.

Impmon had missed this feeling, the feeling of having someone to protect, someone to care for you when your down. Not that HE would ever need Takato, nope he was to strong. Yup, but Takato being the Goggle-Head that he was, needed all the protection that he could get.

Impmon was sitting next to Takato where Davis had been. Davis had left to get some of the Digidestined or some of the Tamers, which Impmon knew was going to be a bad idea but they did have to be told so.........

That left Impmon here with Takato wondering just how Takato had survived and where Guilmon was. Guilmon was supposed to be alive but he wasn't with Takato and Impmon..........so where was he?

He knew that Guilmon would never be apart from Takato long so he waited for the red dino-dragon's return.

*~*~*Guilmon*~*~*

Guilmon watched everything take place.

Everything.

He watched as the Digidestined swarmed towards Megidramon and murdered him, calling it the right thing. But they were wrong. What Megidramon was doing was right. He was protecting a friend.

He watched as Megidramon glowed and became to seperate beings.

Himself and Takato.

He watched as the Digidestined and Tamers gathered around Takato's bloody and beaten body. He watched as his Tamer and best friend stopped breathing. He watched as his data broke apart and disapeared.

He watched the grief stricken Tamers and Digidestined carefully gathered Takato and their wounded before slowly going back to Azulongmon's Temple. And as they carefully moved Takato, placing him gently in a room before moving a barely alive Impmon into another room, not as gently as they could have.

He watched as Digidestined and Tamers filtered in and out of the room that they had placed Takato, and as one person stayed by Takato's side before being joined by a now awake Impmon.

Something interesting happened when a figure, Guilmon wasn't sure who it was as they were wearing a cloak to disguise themselves but he was positive that he had met them before somewhere. He just couldn't remember where, when or who.

A burst of light caught his attention and Guilmon looked over to find that his Tamer was alive, and that he and Takato now had a new D-Arc.

Oh yah, and Impmon was also Takato's partner.

That had come as a bit of a shock to Guilmon, but it didn't really bother him.

Now Impmon had friends that would never desert him. They had always been there for the small imp before but now the little demon couldn't run away from them.

And Takato was alive again.

This was good.

Very good.

But it left him wondering where he was and why he wasn't back where he belonged, with Takato and Impmon. The boy-Davis is he remembered correctly had gone to get someone to tell them the fantastic news that Takato wasn't dead. So Guilmon continued to watch over his partners and waited patiently for something, anything to happen.

Unfortunately nothing was happening and Guilmon was starting to get a bit worried. Shouldn't he be back with them by now?

He was really starting to get worried when the boy that had been with Impmon earlier came back-with several Tamers and Digidestined.

Guilmon gave a small toothy grin when he saw the looks on the faces of the Digidestined and old friends. It was funny! They turned white, and then red and then one of them fell over. It was REALLY funny cause apparently they thought that it was just a nasty prank made by Impmon and Impmon was innocent for once.

Guilmon chuckled as some of the Digidestined, who were they again? Oh yah, Yolie and T.K. got a little singed as Impmon became really REALLY angry.

Apparently Impmon didn't like the way they were treating him, or his new Tamer. So Impmon did what Impmon usually did. He threw some fireballs at them. Pretty decently sized ones to. Needless to say, the Tamers had a rather hard time trying to get near enough to Takato to see if Davis was telling the truth.

They finally managed it, and found to their immense joy that Takato was indeed alive.

However that didn't help him. He was still stuck where ever he was and couldn't return to his Tamer. He could watch what happened, but he could not get back.

He had tried several times but it seemed as if he wasn't even in the same dimension as Takato and Impmon any more. Almost as if he was just beyond what people could normally see. Beyond...................but beyond what?

The answer lay before him. He just had to figure it out.

*~*~*Back with Impmon, Takato, Davis and everyone else*~*~*

Impmon was beginning to worry.

Davis had returned with a couple of the Digidestined from this realm and all of the Tamers but Guilmon had yet to return.

And it troubled him deeply.

What if the red dino-dragon never returned?

What if he really was deleted?

Would he be gone for good?

NO!

He couldn't think like that. Guilmon would come back, same as before. The same bread-snarfing doufus that everyone knew and loved.

But he couldn't help but doubt........

His thoughts were interupted by Rika, who had apparently been talking to him for the last five minutes. Not that he cared. The Digimon Queen and he had never been on good terms, and it had only been worse when the goggle-headed Takato disappeared.

Right now she was angry at him. She had wasted five minutes of her life trying to get answers out of Impmon who hadn't even been paying attention to her. So naturally, she was angry.

"Listen up Impmon. I don't know what happened to Takato, or why he's still alive. But if you don't stay away from him, I'll finish what I've wanted to do for so long" Rika threated the small imp before turning to leave.

"There's a bit of a problem with your order toots. Takato and I are partners now, I can't exactly leave him alone. And if you so much as bump him the wrong way it'll be me takin you and your foxy friend out. Got that?" Impmon stated calmly before turning back to his partner, knowing exactly what Rika was going to say.

"Partners?! With you?!" Rika shouted and whirled on Impmon who was holding the small, and treasured device.

"Yup. Now get outta here. I don't want anybody disturbin Takato. Though them kids can come in if they want" Impmon said and waved Rika away, a small smirk on his face as he heard Rika stomp off growling.

Davis smiled and shook his head as he watched all of this happen. The Digidestined that he had brought with him hadleft to tell everyone else the good news. The Tamers had gone off by themselves to talk about something leaving Impmon, Takato and himself alone in the room. He knew it wouldn't be long until the rest of the chosen came thundering in to see if what they heard was true, so he sat down and patienly waited.

While he waited he thought about all that had happned. In less than an hour his own power had been activated along with one more of Takato's bringing the boy back to life-even though he was told that he hadn't been dead in the first place it was hard not to think of Takato being dead before the small miracle had happened. Impmon was Takato's partner........and Guilmon was still no where to be found.

His head was spinning as he thought of all of this.

Where was Guilmon? He remembered that the cloaked person had spoken of a limbo. A place where Takato's soul and Guilmon had been trapped. Was it possible that Guilmon had not been freed when Takato's soul returned to its body?

Davis gave a frustrated sigh and lookedup to find that he and Impmon were no longer the only ones in the room. The rest of the chosen had appeared some time ago and were all still staring at Takato in shock.

Takuya was the first to shake off his shock and closed his open jaw with a small click from clacking fangs. Tai, Matt and Ken all snapped out of their daze about the same time. They looked away from Takato a moment to look at Davis, who had gotten up and moved over to stand next to his friends.

"He's really alive again? It's not some whacked out dream?" Takuya asked, green eyes filled with worry that this was indeed a dream and that someone he considered a friend was still indeed dead.

"Nope he's alive. Its weird though.......Guilmon hasn't returned and Impmon and I are starting to worry" Davis said, blue ears dropping sadly.

"Awe, don't be sad Davish! I'm sure Guilmon's okay!" Veemon said reassuringly to his partner, even if he didn't know if it was true or not it was what Davis needed to hear.

"When did you guys get here?!" Davis shouted in surprise. Not that he didn't miss his partner. It was just that Veemon, Agumon, Gabumon and Wormmon had disappeared for a while and Davis had not been expecting to see them for a while.

"News travels fast in Azulongmon's temple so we had to come and see if it was true. Besides, we couldn't stay away from our dest friends forever!" Agumon said, smiling and reassuring his own parter.

"Don't worry. I'm sure Veemon is right and Guilmon will show up soon. The best idea right now is for all of us to get some sleep. You to Impmon" Ken said and gave a sharp look to the small rookie who hadn't moved from Takato's side the entire time that the chosen had been in the room.

"I'm fine!" Impmon argued, stiffling a yawn before glaring at the small chosen of Kindness. He hadn't been tired until the human turned digimon had mentioned sleep.

"Riiiiiiiihgt. I think Ken's right though. Sleep sounds really good right about now" Matt admitted, stiffling a yawn of his own.

"Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep" Tai droned out and leaned against Takuya, already half asleep.

"Tai!" Takuya groaned before stepping away letting Tai fall to the ground. This earned several chuckles from the digimon, but were all cut short by yawns.

"Ouch" Tai mumbled, but stayed on the floor. He was tired. VERY tired, and right now the cold hard floor was very, very comfortable.

"That is so not fair. I wish I could drop off like that. I've known Tai for years and I still don't know how he does that" Matt grumbled and stalked off out of the room, shortly followed by Takuya and Gabumon. Ken stayed with Davis, Tai, Impmon and Takato as did their partners. He knew that the other two would be back soon toting the blankets and pillows so they could stay with Impmon and Takato.

Davis walked over to the now snoring Tai and grabbed his arms to drag him over to the wall so he wasn't lying in the middle of the floor anymore. He moved back to where Ken, Wormmon and Veemon all sat and ran a hand through his dark hair before sitting down next to his three friends who all looked like they were ready to drop off at any moment.

Davis looked up when he heard something coming into the room. It was Takuya, Matt and Gabumon, all loaded down with blankets and pillows. Takuya threw some at Tai and Agumon, who caught them and arranged a pillow and blanket for Tai before making himself comfortable. While Agumon did that Matt and Gabumon passed out the other pillows and blankets before making themselves comfortable. Takuya took time arranging his blanket and pillow and curled up much like a dog would on his pillow and blanket while Davis, Veemon, and Ken just threw theirs down and plopped down. Wormmon curled up beside Ken on his pillow while Impmon took a blankte and pulled it over Takato so he wouldn't get cold.

Impmon sat back down and watched as one by one each of the chosen dropped off to sleep. He felt his own eyes start to close and tried to fight off what he needed, but it was useless sa he fell asleep. Giving his still healing body what it needed. Rest.

*~*~*Guilmon*~*~*

Guilmon was getting really mad now. Everyone had fallen asleep and he STILL hadn't figured out how to return to his partners. He gave a frustrated growl as he sat down.

He finally looked at his surroundings and found that they were very dull.

It was just a big place of nothingness. It was a red nothingness, but nothingness none the less.

Guilmon got up and began to move away from where he had been watching his Tamer and other partner. He didn't know how he moved seeing as there was no ground to hold him up. But he moved none the less.

As he started to move he noticed that as he began to move the nothingness started to get lighter. He stopped and started to move the other way, not liking the way everything in the nothing was changing. He stopped when he noticed that the nothingness was changing once again, but instead of getting lighter like it had before it had started to darken to an almost black. Guilmon ground to a halt and looked back the way he had been originally going before he had turned to start going the way that he was now facing.

"Now where do I go?" Guilmon asked the nothingness and sat down again to try and figure out what he was going to do. When he went on way everything got lighter and it bothered him, but when he went this way everything got darker and he liked that even less. So now he was faced with the tough descision of what to do. Continue on towards the darkness, go back to the light, or go back to where it was balanced and continue to watch over Takato and Impmon.

This was hard! How was he supposed to choose? He finally made up his mind and decided to head back towards the lighter side of the nothingness. It still didn't feel right to him but at least it wasn't as bad as the darker half. He passed the spot where he had stayed watching over his partners and took a quick glance at them to see if they were still alright. They were still sleeping quietly, though Davis and Veemon were now snoring loudly and had manged to get all twisted up together in their blankets so that they now resembled a couple of puppies.

Guilmon smiled when he saw that Impmon had ended up falling asleep next to Takato and was resting his head against his arms which he had placed on the bed next to Takato. He continued on, going towards the light no matter how much it frightened him. Something was there, waiting for him. He could feel it, but this may be the only way that he could get back to Impmon and Takato.

He arrived at what he thought to be the end of the nothingness but he couldn't be sure. It WAS nothing after all. He looked around trying to find the being that he knew was hidden somewhere near by. Shrouded in veils of nothingness, hiding in the world that Guilmon was so clearly visible in.

"Is somebody there?" Guilmon asked. He already knew someone was there, he just didn't know who.

The space in front of Guilmon shimmered and shifted revealing what was hiding. The being that towered in front of Guilmon was magnificent. Even he could tell that. Golden scales shimmered as the digimon-he knew the creature to be a digimon. How he knew he did not know. Just that it was a digimon. The golden dragon stepped orward once again and continued moving until he stood directly in front of Guilmon.

"Hello. How did you get here? As far as I know I am the only creature that can survive the vast nothingness of this realm. So how is it that you can survive here?" The great golden dragon asked, curiousity filling his voice.

"I don't know. I was with Takatomon and we were fighting and then I was here. Takatomon was hurt really bad and everyone thought he was dead, but he wasn't dead. Silly people. Anyways Impmon broke Takatomon's D-Arc and then Impmon became Takatomon's partner to. Then I started walking around cause everyone fell asleep" Guilmon said and blinked innocently at the massive dragon digimon before him.

"Ah, I know who you are now. Yes. It was rather strange that you did not return to your partners. Though it is logical as well considering how off balance the Realms have become" The digimon said wisely and sat down next to Guilmon. The gold dragon looked upwards and the nothing around them shifted so that the strange digimon was now looking at a galaxy. It was beautiful, and what made it so was the millions of stars that all danced and swirled together.

"Huh?" Guilmon blinked again and looked up at the tall digimon who had all four orange eyes on the sight before him.

"The four Quadrants that make up the dimension in which you and all your friends live. They have become so unbalanced that reality itself is starting to twist. If this continues everything will cease to exsist. Soon everything will be back to the way it was and hopefully this will not happen again. Did you know, that those Digidesined from the Northern Quadrant are really supposed to be from the Western Quadrant? That is how badly everything has been twisted. The Chosen six were called upon to bring back the balance but it was to late and to far gone. Soon the Chosen of Balance will come into his power and all will be as it should be." The golden dragon said and let his sight fall upon the small virus rookie that sat beside him.

"Okay. How come that story didn't come true? It said that stuff would happen and some of it happened but not all of it. How come?" Guilmon asked, curious as ever.

"Story? Ah, the prophecy. Yes, certain aspects from the prophecy of the chosen did not come true. This is because the balance is so ruptured. Soon the balacne will be returned.............but that will come in due time. For now you must return to your partners, Guilmon. I shall guide you to where you need to be. After that it is up to you and your partners. Your own powers shall be what returns you to the Eastern Quadrants Digital World." The golden digimon said and got up to lead Guilmon to where he needed to be.

The two of them did not walk long or particularly far. Guilmon wasn't even sure if they moved at all. The golden dragon finally stopped and tilted his head towards a swirling spot of colours. Blacks, golds, reds, oranges, blues, greens, maroons and greys all swirled together creating a kaliediscope(sp?) of colours.

"This is where I bid you fare well Guilmon. I hope that you suceed in reaching your partners. Be careful until the balance is restored" The golden dragon said and turned away as Guilmon felt himself being pulled towards the swirling colours.

"Okie-dokie Mr.Goldendragon!" Guilmon chirped before he disappeared completely from sight.

"Good bye and good luck. For you and the chosen are realities only hope......." The golden dragon spoke softly letting his voice echo around before he to disappeared from sight.

*~*~*With Impmon, Takato, Tai, Davis, Matt, Takuya, Ken, Wormmon, Veemon, Agumon and Gabumon*~*~*

Impmon slowly became aware of his surroundings. His arms had been folded on the bed next to Takato and he had rested his head there, falling asleep. He blinked, yawned and stretched before looking around the room.

The others were still sleeping as was Takato. Guilmon still hadn't returned..........

Impmon sighed and picked up the strange D-Arc that now connected him to Takato and Guilmon.

He could feel the connection between Takato and himself, but when he felt for Guilmon there was nothing on the other end. It made him feel slightly empty and he didn't like it. Not at all. He wanted to bring Guilmon back to Takato, who was still sleeping.

Maybe there was a way for him to pull the dino-dragon back?

It couldn't hurt to try. But how was he supposed to do something like that. It would probably help if Takato was awake. The boy would undoubtably be able to help somehow.

Of course if Takato wanted sleep there wasn't much one could do to wake the slumbering gogglehead. So if he wanted to try something like pull Guilmon back to them he was on his own.

Greeeeeeeeeaaaaaaat.

Not like he wasn't used to doing things on his own anyways. That was how he lived and survived, by being independant.

Impmon held the odd D-Arc tightly and close to his heart. He had no idea how he was going to bring the stupid dino-dragon back, but he knew that he had to try. He thought about how he had first met the digimon and he remembered the all to few times that he had spent with the people he now considered friends.

A small smile graced his face as he remembered all the times, good and bad. He frowned when he felt the D-Arc begin to shake and vibrate in his hands. He held the item out at arms length and tried to figure out what the heck was going on. Three beams of light erupted from the device. One beam was gold, another red and the lst was black. Impmon dropped the D-Arc like it was burning hot and backed away while he watched in fascination as the lights swirled around each other before flashing brightly.

Impmon stepped back and held his hands over his eyes as he made an attempt to see again.

When he was finally able to see again the most astonishing sight greeted him.

There, standing on top off their D-Arc was Guilmon. Guilmon looked a little dazed but no worse for the wear. That was not the only thing that had happened while he had been temporarly blinded. Nope, Takato had woken up and was now staring at Impmon and Guilmon.

"Hey Impmon. How are you feeling?" Takato asked quietly and sat up from the bed that he had been placed on.

Impmon blinked and stood there for a moment, trying to process what had happened.

Guilmon was back, Takato was awake and both were fine.

Behind Impmon the rest of the Chosen and their partners had woken up and were trying to figure out what was going on.

"Goggles, your okay! You're the biggest idiot I've ever met! Don't ever do that again!" Impmon growled and jumped up onto the bed to glare right in Takato's face.

Takato just laughed and got up stretching cat like before picking up the new and improved D-Arc. Takato gave Guilmon a brief hug before he sat down next to the rest of the Chosen who had gathered around Takato while he had been busy getting up.

"I really gotta stop breaking these things. One of these days I'm not gonna get another one! Then what would happen to us, eh Guilmon, Impmon?" Takato asked with a knowing smile before he was bombarded by questions from the Chosen, their partners and his own.

"You won't believe what happened! After you and Guilmon did that Dark Biomerge thingy and got killed everybody got all depressed and and and" Takuya began to say before he got interupted by Davis who wanted to add his own part.

"And then they moved your body here and then Impmon came in and more weird stuff happened when this person in this cool cloak appeared and then Impmon broke your D-Arc with his and then more stuff happened and you were alive again and it was so cool and then that new D-Arc appeared and then Impmon found out that he was your partner to and then Guilmon didn't come back but the rest of us came in and then we fell asleep and then we woke up cause there was this big flash of light and then Guilmon was back and then you were awake and then" Davis rambled on before Takato finally had a chance to get a word in.

"Davis! Breath!" Takato shouted in the human turned digimons teal blue ears.

Davis took a deep breath and gave Takato a side-ways look before allowing the goggle-headed boy to continue.

"I know" Takato said with a smile as he attached the strange looking D-Arc to his belt.

"What do you mean you know? You've unconscious and dead the whole time! You can't know!" Impmon protested as he practicalled strangled Takato in an attrmpt to latch onto Takato.

"I know to!" Guilmon said happily and grinned when Veemon and Agumon looked at him strangely.

"I'm not sure how I know, I just sorta do" Takato admitted with a laugh and rubbed the back of his head with one hand in typical goggle-head style.

Davis, Matt, Ken, Tai and Impmon nearly fell over. How could you not know how you know something like that?!

"I met this nice gold dragon digimon. He told me lotsa stuff" Guilmon said and looked around the room. He was hungry.....maybe there was some bread near by?

"Like what?" Ken asked, his curiousity getting the better of him.

" I dunno, I can't remember" Guilmon giggled and poked at a dust bunny that he had found near his foot.

"................." Silence greeted everyones ears as Guilmon said that.

"O...kay....." Tai said and blinked as he thought he felt the ground move.

"Uh....was it just me or did the floor move?" Gabumon asked nervously as the floor shifted and rumbled under them.

"The floor moved" Takuya said and got up, masterfully keeping his balance as the floor rumbled again.

"Okay so I'm not crazy. This is good" Takato said as he and Takuya helped the others to their feet.

"How bout we find out what the heck is going on?" Tai said and headed for the door, shortly followed by the others. They managed to get through the shaking Temple and out onto the grounds where they found out what was causing the shaking.

The Floating Dark Crystal Fortress had decided to land on the Temples front lawn.

Well this was going to be an exciting day for sure. Yup, just one of those days.

"Sora.........whats going on........?" Tai asked nervously as the twelve of them stepped out onto the grass where at least half the Eastern Digidestined, all the Tamers and all the Northern Digidestined were standing, staring at the black mountain of crystal that had decided to park itself on the front lawn of Azulongmon's Temple.

"Takuya! Thank goodness you and the others are all right! Oh my god, Takato! You're alive! You're really alive!" Izumi cried as she hugged each of the chosen that she had come so close to in the time that they had been flung together.

Everyone stared at Takato as the Chosen joined the Digidestined and Tamers outside. They had heard he was alive but many had dismissed the wonderful and miraculas information as a cruel joke. Others had gone to Takato to see if the rumors were true, and finding out that they were they went into shock. Someone that they had come to know had died, and it had hit everyone hard. Then the sudden announcement that he was alive and well, it made many begin to doubt life itself.

As the six Chosen arrived in the middle of the group, many of the Eastern Digidestined skittered away from Takato. He disturbed them, it was if he came back from the dead to haunt them. It unnerved them so they tried to keep a fair bit of distance between Takato and themselves.

"When did this happen?" Matt asked, taking slight charge of the small group of chosen. They needed to know what was going on if they wanted to help.

"A few minutes ago the Temple began to shake, as you no doubt felt. We all rushed outside to find this waiting for us. We have yet to determine why exactly the Floating Dark Crystal Fortress is sitting here, but we know that it can not be good" Izzy informed them as the army of them waited for something to happen.

"Obviously because they want us destroyed" Davis said sarcastically and crossed his arms over his chest giving Izzy a look that said he wasn't impressed with their womderful news. He knew that just by looking at the settled Fortress.

"I say we blow it up before someone comes outside and SHOWS us why they decided to land on the front lawn of Azulongmon's Temple" Tai said heatedly and got ready to warp-digivolve Agumon.

"Wait Tai! We need to find out what they want and what we could be up against!" Sora shouted at Tai and slapped his hand away from his digivice, stopping him from being reckless.

"But we already know! We should bring the fight to them before they bring it to us!" Tai argued back, and was promptly backed up by Davis and the rest of the Chosen.

"Yah, this has gone on long enough! What are we waiting for? For this guy to delete half the Digital World?! Lets take him down now!" Davis said, backing Tai up and giving him the support he needed.

"No! No.....we just don't know what we're up against. Every time we fight this guy he just seems to get stronger and stronger! I don't think he's ever actually shown us his true power yet! I don't want anyone else to get hurt. Or worse.........." Kari said, standing beside Sora and looking at the six chosen and their partners who stood bravely, ready to face anything that the corrupt owner of the Dark Crystal Fortress.

"We know that we could be out numbered or out powered or even both. But we still have to try! We can't give up just cause it looks like we might not win!" Takuya said, voicing his own thoughts.

"Because we can never give up Hope, right T.K?" Takato asked with a small smile on his red face, the back markings on his face twisting as he smiled.

"Right, always hope" T.K said, remembering back to the days when there was only eight of them, wandering the Digital World trying to stop the Dark Masters and relying only on themselves, the power of their crests and their partner and best friends.

"Yah, no matter what they throw at us, we'll always over come the odds and whoop them bad!" Davis cheered, Kari cringing at his bad grammer.

"Right, that's good to know idiotic Digidestined, but you can not over power me. For I am power! I am Kage Larneth, and soon I shall have your precious Sovereigns at my feet! Then the world shall feel the pain that I have been cursed with!" Kage cackled insanely as he stood atop the highest point of the landed Fortress, his cloak billowing around him in the wind.

Behind him stood Daemon and his Daemon Corps along with several other digimon who were no doubt bribed into helping Kage.

"This is the guy that has been doing all of this?!" Yolie shouted in disbelief, not wanting to believe that a human was once again causing trouble in the Digital World.

A great rumble from Azulongmon's Temple stopped everyone from answering her question. There was silence as everyone wait for something to happen. The tension in the air was thick as something, or someone began to rise out of what remained of the Temple. It was Azulongmon, his four eyes glowing with power and hatred and.........pity?. Hatred and pity for the human that had once been his partner, but no longer. No, the kind and virtueos being that Kage had been was no longer.

*~*~*~*~*Flash Back!*~*~*~*~*

Four young humans, two boys and to girls stood together on a cliff as they watched their digimon partners fight the evil that wanted to consume their world. Each one of them was shouting encouraging words to their partners.

"Come on Azulongmon! Lets show this freak just what we can do!" A young boy, no more than thirteen with dark unruley blue hair that was held up by a pair of white goggles shouted encouragingly to his partner. The four of them had been in the Digital World for nearly a year now and they had defeated every evil that had come their way.

The first had been the Reaper, which they had not really defeated but they had sealed it away for all time so that it could never harm anyone ever again. Then came Megidramon. Megidramon was one of the Four Great Dragons of the Digital World and it had taken all of their power and spirit to defeat the dark dragons awesome power. And now they were facing the final threat to the Digital World, Kerpymon a corrupt form of Cherubimon.

Something had possesed Cherubimon, warping him into Kerpymon who was now fighting with their partners.

"Damien, do you really think we can do this?" A girl, the same age as the boy with dark blue hair asked the other boy who was standing beside her.

"Don't worry Krystal! Have some faith, nothing can stop the eight of us when we work together!" The boy standing beside the brunette, now known as Damien replied with a smile, stilling the girls fears.

"Yah, I bet after this we can all finally go home!" the other girl said and gave Kage a quick kiss on his cheek which caused him to blush.

"And then we can see our families again, and we can go out!" Kage said with a grin, telling her all of the things that they could do when they finally returned home to the Real World.

"Kage, look! They're winning! Go Baihumon, show em' we can't be beat!" Damien shouted and pointed to where their partners were still fighting bravely, encouraging his partner the whole while.

Kage tore his eyes away from the strawberry blonde at his side to see that what Damien said was indeed true. Kerpymon was not winning and under the constant assult of their partners attacks.

Kage's partner, Azulongmon had stunned Kerpymon with an his attack, Aurora Force and this enabled the rest of the digimon to attack all at once.

"Iron Claws!" Baihumon yelled and slashed viciously at the fallen angel digimon.

"Black Hail!" Ebonwumon shouted as he summoned black hail from the heavens to smash into Kerpymon.

"Desolation Blast!" Zhuqaiomon bellowed as he let loose a beam of pure energy that took out Kerpymon and at least half of the surrounding forest.

"Zhuqaiomon!" Azulongmon scolded his younger friend. He was supposed to try to finish Kerpymon off, not take out the entire forest!

"Ehehehe......Oops?" Zhuqaiomon chuckled nervously as he waited impatiently for the dust to clear to see if they had finally destroyed Kerpymon who had been terrorizing innocent digimon for months. Zhuqaimon finally couldn't wait any longer so he flapped his wings to blow away the unsettled dust. When all the dust was gone, there was nothing where they had last seen Kerpymon.

"Is he gone?" Krystal whispered hopefully as they waited for something to happen.

"No, there! Zhuqaimon look out!" The strawberry blonde haired girl who stood beside Kage shouted and pointed to where Kerpymon now floated.

"Lightning Spear!" Kerpymon shouted with twisted glee and aimed his attack at Zhuqaiomon. The attack hit dead on and forced Zhuqaiomon to the ground.

"Zhuqaimon!" Everyone shouted worried for the youngest digimon out of the four.

"You'll pay for that Kerpymon! Aurora Force!" Azulongmon shouted angrily, his four eyes narrowed as he let his most powerful attack fly. Kerpymon didn't have a chance as the attack surrounded him and held him in its grasp until Kerpymon's data began to fizzle and break apart.

"Azulongmon! You shall not defeat me! I will live on, or I will take everything you hold dear away from you! Lightning Spear!" Kerpymon shouted as he was deleted, the last of his energy poured into an attack that was heading straight for the four humans standing on the cliff, more specifically, Kage, Azulongmon's partner.

"Kage! No!" Azulongmon shouted and watched with horror as the attack headed straight for his beloved partner. He knew that there was no way he would be able to get to his partner and save him from the deadly attack. Azulongmon, Baihumon, Ebonwumon and Zhuqaimon who had recovered from the earlier attack flew and ran as fast as they could towards their partners.

There wasn't anytime for Kage to move as the attack flew straight and true towards him. He was going to die.

But the girl beside Kage pushed him roughly out of the way and took the attack herself, protecting one of her dearest friends.

"Lara! No....." Kage whimpered as he drew the dying girl into his arms.

"Hey, I couldn't let you get hurt. I love you" Lara whispered and shivered violently in the arms of the one she loved. The Lightning Spear that Kerpymon had fired was not that strong as he was dying as he shot it, but it was enough to take the life of Kage's beloved, Lara. The Lightning Spear Attack had hit her in the chest and it was getting increasingly harder for her to breath.

Their digimon partners had arrived and were circled around their partners, who were in turn circled around the fallen Lara. Zhuqaiomon was in near tears as he bent his head down near Lara's and rubbed his beak against her cheek affectionately.

"Lara, please you have to be okay.....you can't leave me alone!" Zhuqaimon said fearfully as Lara coughed and blood began to trickle out of her mouth.

"I'll make sure you won't be left alone Zhuqaimon......." Lara managed to whisper before she began to cough violently once more. Her eyes began to slwoly slide shut and she let out a soft sigh as she stopped breathing.

"No.....Lara! Please no! I love you to much!" Kage cried, tears falling from his face as he held her dead body tighter to his own. Krystal and Damien each had tears falling down their faces as the data that Lara was made of began to break up and float away.

"Nooooo!" Kage shouted as he cried harder while Lara's body broke up. Finally all that was left was her black digivice. It looked much like the ones that the eight Digidestined had, only bigger about the size of a cell phone.

Lara's black digivice flashed once before it to began to break up, but instead of floating away like Lara's data had done, these bits of data floated around Kage before it merged with Kage's own white digivice. When it stopped Kage's digivce had become half black and half white.

Kage, Azulongmon and Zhuqaiomon immediatly felt the connection between themselves as the digivice came to life.

There was nothing said as Kage stood up, his eyes shadowed. Krystal and Damien could see the tears running down their friends face before Kage turned away from the other two.

Kage broke into a run, and didn't stop until he was far far away from the others before he broke down completely. The others watched as Kage ran into a forest before they lost sight of him.

That was the last any of them ever saw of Kage.

Krystal and Damien managed to finally return to the Real World, much to the joy of their parents. The only problem was that if they were to return to the Real World, they would never be able to see their partners again. It had been a hard choice, but after much thought(mostly threats from their partners) they reluctantly returned to their world.

After that a large golden dragon digimon approached the four of the digimon with an offer. They all accepted and became the digimon Sovereigns that everyone knows them as.

Azulongmon watched carefully over the Eastern Quadrant where they had been born while Baihumom guarded the Western Quadrant.

Ebonwumon took over the Northern Quadrant and Zhuqaiomon ruled the Southern Quadrant where he let no human enter. He had developed a strong hatred for them. They had caused him to much emotional pain and he had decided that he would never allow other digimon to feel what he had felt when he had lost his partner Lara and when Kage had disappeared.

*~*~*~*~*End Flash Back*~*~*~*~*

"Hello Kage" Azulongmon replied, happy to see that his old partner was alive, but saddened by what he saw before him. He had known that Kage had changed but he had never imagined that he would change this much.

"Ah, Azulongmon how unfortunate that you're still alive. I had hoped that you would have perished but it seems luck was not smiled upon me. How is our dear Zhuqaiomon?" Kage asked, jumping down from his perch on the Dark Crystal Fortress.

"None of your business" Azulomon replied sharply and flew to hover above the Digidestined and the Tamers.

"I see your still sore about my leaving. Oh well. I'm sorry, I must destroy you now. You stand in my way and I will destroy those who stand in my way" Kage said and summoned Daemon forward.

"Destroy them" Kage whispered and returned to his spot on the Dark Crystal Fortress to watch the chaos that was about to take over.

Daemon gave a grin and summoned all of the digimon forces forward.

"Have fun" Daemon said giddily and let all of the digimon surge forward to attack.

"Execute, Beast Spirit Evolution!" Tommy, JP, Kouchi, and Zoe shouted, fractal code forming a small globe around their hands which they scanned with the tip of their D-Scanners.

"Korikakumon!" Tommy, or rather Korikakumon, stated, swinging large battle axes around in inticate circles that most digimon would not dare to do.

"MetalKabutarimon!" MetalKabutarimon shouted, and lowered his head, ready to blast away at the enemies.

"JagerLoewemon!" JagerLoewemon, formally Kouchi roared proudly.

"Zephyrmon!" Zephyrmon said, flapping her wings gently before taking to the air to aid the Eastern Digidestined.

"Execute! Double Spirit Evolution!" Kouji and shouted just before a beam of light engulfed him and left the warrior Beowolfmon in his place.

"Execute! Double Spirit Evolution!" Takuya shouted and let a column of fire engulf him, leaving Aldamon in his place.

"Biomerge Activate!" Three voices shouted, barely being heard over the clamour of battle.

And moments later, where Ryo, Henry and Rika once stood, now Justimon, Sakuyamon and MegaGargomon stood before rushing into battle, though known so gleefully as Sakuyamon.

"Digimodify! Matrix Evolution Activate!" Takato shouted as he slashed the blue card through Guilmon's half of the digivice allowing him to digivolve.

"Guilmon digivolved to.................Growlmon! Growlmon digivolved to........................WarGrowlmon!"

"Agumon warp-digivolved to.........................WarGreymon!"

"Gabumon warp-digivolved to.........................MetalGarurumon!"

"Tentomon warp-digivolved to...........................HeraclesKabutarimon!"

"Hawkmon warp-digivolved to...........................Valkyrimon!"

"Armadillomon warp-digivolved to...........................Lampmon!"

"Gomamon warp-digivolved to...........................Vikemon!"

"Palmon warp-digivolved to...........................Rosemon!"

"Biyomon warp-digivolved to...........................Pheonixmon!"

"Patamon warp-digivolved to...........................Seraphimon!"

"Gatomon digivolved to.................Angewomon..............Angewomon digivolved to............Magnadramon!"

"Veemon digivolved to.................X-Veemon!"

"Wormmon digivolved to.................Stingmon!"

"X-Veemon...................Stingmon........................DNA digivolved to............Paildramon!" Paildramon announced before getting ready to digivolve once more.

"Paildramon digivolved to.......................Imperialdramon!" Imperialdramon shouted and was off into the fray, blasting merrily away before Ken or Davis could say anything.

The Digidestined barely had time to digivolve, but they managed to do so just in time to get hit with a barrage of attacks. The humans were okay as they had been protected by their partners.

In the middle of the Digidestined stood one VERY mad digimon. Beelzebumon was steamed. One of those attacks had nearly hit Takato, but luckily for the digimon on the opposing side he hadn't been hit. If he had, there would have been hell to pay...........not that there still wasn't but that was besides the point.

In a few seconds the surrounding area was a blur as digimon leapt at each other.

Beelzebumon had Daemon to himself as the others fought hard against the digimon that had aligned themselves with Kage and Daemon. War Greymon and Metal Garurmon fought with SkullSatamon while Rosemon and Vikemon pounded MarineDevimon into the ground.

The rest of the Eastern Digidestined along with the Northern Digidestined and Tamers dealt with the remaining digimon.

Takato had his hands full as he tried to keep and eye on both of his partners and slash cards that would help them. It was getting to be really REALLY hard to do.

Beelzebumon smiled a strange smile as he felt the power boost that he knew came from a card that Takato had slashed for him. Daemon was going to be in biiiiiiig trouble.

"Double Impact!" Beelzebumon shouted with glee as he went trigger happy and wasted all of his bullets into Daemon's cloak. Unfortunately Daemon and what remained of his Daemon's Corps had finally gotten that power boost that they had been promised. It was going to take alot more to defeat them, but the Digidestined would still be able to over power them easily as they were picking off the digimon one by one.

Valkyrimon's lightning arrows finished off another and soon there were only twenty digimon left from the massive troop that Kage had brought with him.

"Kage, your army is falling apart! You can not win this, the Digidestined are to strong. Please give up before something drastic happens" Azulongmon pleaded with his old partner in hopes of getting him to abandon his foolish ideas.

"I can never give up Azulongmon, as long as her data remains here I will stay and I WILL win" Kage roared and held his black and white digivice high, letting its power wash over the remaining twenty digimon and Daemon.

"We won't lose either, come on Matt, lets show them what we can do!" Tai said and held his own digivice in front of himself while Matt mirrored his moves. A beam of light burst out of each digivice and hit their partners. When the glow died down a lone figure stood with a magnificent sword in one hand a mighty blaster in the other.

"Omnimon!" The white armored knight announced proudly, striking a small pose before rushing forward to attack one of the larger digimon.

"Let's kick this up a notch to!" Davis shouted to his partner.

"Imperialdramon Mode changed to.........Fighter mode!" ImperialdramonFM said and went back to fighting.

Takato watched as everyone seemed to fight twice as hard now that victory looked within their grasp. He wished that he could fight with Guilmon as Gallantmon, but they had tried that before.........and it didn't work.

Takato winced as he felt WarGrowlmon get hit by a particularly nasty attack. He nearly fell over as he felt another attack land on WarGrowlmon.

"WarGrowlmon!" Takato shouted worriedly. He could feel every hit his partner took and some of them were getting pretty bad. He had to get his partner out of there! WarGrowlmon was the only Ultimate amoung all of the Megas. The remaining Daemon Corps didn't count as with the power boosts from Kage they were far more powerful than WarGrowlmon.

"Takatomon! I don't think we can win like this!" WarGrowlmon shouted back to his partner as he grappled with MarineDevimon. Unfortunately MarineDevimon was stronger even though Takato had slashed a strength boosting card for WarGrowlmon.

"You're right, come back here. We'll try and figure something out!" Takato shouted to his first partner before he turned his attention to Beelzebumon who was having a bit of trouble fighting Daemon as Daemon could fly. Soon that wouldn't be a problem.........

"Beezebumon mode changed to...................Blast mode!" BeezebumonBM shouted as black wings burst from his back and a large armorment attached itself to BeelzebumonBM's right arm.

"Come back here, you coward!" BeelzebumonBM shouted angrily as he followed Daemon skyward. Daemon chuckled darkly, his plan would soon be put into motion.

Daemon stopped at about a hundred feet above the battle and waited for a few seconds for BeelzebumonBM to catch up.

"So Beelzebumon. I see you have truly allied yourself with the forces of good. It is such a shame that a powerful warrior such as yourself is answering to the beck and call of a small child. Is there not something I could do to convince you to join with me? We could create utold chaos and mayhem..............." Daemon tempted BeezebumonBM, trying to appeal to his darker nature.

"Ch, Side with you? Ha, thats a laugh! How bout I show you where you can stick it?! Corona Blaster!" BeezebumonBM shouted and leveled his weapon at Daemon before firing several shots from the large energy cannon.

Daemon dodged most of them but one lucky shot managed to clip his wing making the evil psychopath falter. Beelzebumon used this to his advantage and fired a few more shots.

"Corona Blaster!" BeelzebumonBM yelled with maniacal glee. The blasts hit Daemon dead on and Daemon spiralled downwards and hit the ground with a thump. Dust flew all around Daemon, blocking BeelzebumonBM's view.

While BeelzebumonBM waited for Daemon to show his ugly face he took a quick survey of the battle around him.

The Eastern Digidestined were having a bit of a tough time as most of thr troops that they had brought with them could only go as far as Ultimate leaving them with only fourteen capable fighters. If the Northern Digidestined and the Tamers ahdn't been there helping, Kage's army would have crushed them long ago. Even with the extra help from everyone, they were still having a bit of trouble fighting on equel grounds as there was only one more Digidestined and Tamers than there were of the army. Though Omnimon was having no touble fight on an equel level, nore was ImperialdramonFM.

BeelzebumonBM glanced towards his Tamer and found that WarGrowlmon had retreated back to Takato and was currently protecting he six chosen from any way ward attacks that got to close to the six children.

BeelzebumonBM was thrown roughly from his thoughts when a skeletal hand wrapped itself around BeelzebumonBM's throat. The other was held up in a fist and was charging one of Daemon's attacks.

"Crap......" BeelzebumonBM muttered before Daemon slammed his flaming fist into BeelzebumonBM's face.

"Chaos Flare!" Daemon shouted aas he slammed his fist into BeelzebumonBM and let the flames of his Chaos Flare attack consume BeelzebumonBM's body. BeelzebumonBM tried to shake off the attack but he couldn't, deciding that if he couldn't stop the flames he would give Daemon an excuse to stop them. Still aflame BeelzebumonBM launched into a fist fight with Daemon, discarding his Corona cannon along the way.

Daemon couldn't believe that BeelzebumonBM was still fighting even though he was on fire. Daemon tried to dodge but Beelzebumon was relentless and managed to hit Daemon numerous times, spreading the fire onto Daemon's cloak.

"How are you able to with stand the heat of my Chaos Flare?!" Daemon demanded as he made an attempt to smother the flames. Luckily for him they didn't spread and he was able to put them out. BeelzebumonBM had managed to put most of the flames out when Daemon flew back to put his own flames out.

"That little thing? That was nothing! You go and swim in the lava pits of hell, and then tell me that your itty bitty attack is still hot stuff" BeelzebumonBM snorted and drew his shot gun and started firing wildly.

"Double Impact!" BeelzebumonBM practically sang as bullets flew out of his gun and into a very stunned Daemon. Daemon's wings crumpled under the assult of bullets, forcing him to take to the ground once again. BeelzebumonBM followed, ready to deliver Daemon to a world of pain.

"Hn, don't over estimate me BeezebumonBM. You might not live to regret it" Daemon threatened and raised his hands to attack BeelzebumonBM.

"Evil Inferno!" Daemon shouted and summoned more flames to try and vanquish BeelzebumonBM.

"Didn't I just say that ain't gonna work?!" BeelzebumonBM demanded as he vaulted forward, letting his fist repeatedly meet Daemon's face. And of course for a bit of change he threw in a few kicks every now and then.

"Damn you to the deepest pits of hell BeelzebmonBM!" Daemon shouted as he made an attempt to fight back against the physical attacks that BeelzebumonBM was relentlessly showering upon him. While Daemon had extremely powerful attacks, he was quite lacking in the physical department..........which was why BeelzebumonBM was kicking his sorry boney ass.

"Been there, done that, got the t-shirt!" BeelzebumonBM replied cockily as he continued to beat Daemon into a pulp. BeelzebumonBM was having so much fun taunting and beating Daemon that he didn't notice how his partneror the chosen were faring against Kage's army and Daemon's remaining Daemon Corps.

Most of the Digidestined who had partners were unable to fight, but those that could were fighting as hard as they could against Kage's army of digimon. The Tamers and Northern Digidestined were an immense help.

Aldamon and Beowolfmon fought against MarineDevimon and SkullSatamon, while the Tamers, Eastern Digidestined and the remaining Northern Digidestined tackled Kage's army, which at the moment, was winning. Thankfully not by much, and not for much longer.

While the Ultimates had retreated to stay out of a power battle to hot for them to handle, they still stayed ready to fight. Someone needed to protect their human partners, and if they weren't going to fight they needed to do something, and this was something they could do. They stood between their partners and all of the atacks that would sometimes fly their way and deflect them away from the humans and away from the battle. And while not all of the Ultimates were needed, almost all of them stood guard. All except one, one who was busy talking with his partner, trying to find a way for them to fight together as they had on so many ocassions.

"Maybe we could try Biomerging. The only bad thing that could happen is that we wouldn't become Gallantmon, right Takatomon?" WarGrowlmon asked his smaller partner.

"I guess, but it didn't work last time so why should it work this time? And stop calling me 'Takatomon', I'm not a.........nevermind" Takato said and blushed. He had managed to forget for a moment that he was in fact a digimon.

"I dunno. It feels different than before, but why should you becoming a digimon stop us from becoming Gallantmon?" WarGrowlmon, or rather Guilmon asked since he had dedigivolved.

"Because......well, you know I'm not really sure Guilmon, we tried it before and it didn't work. I kinda thought our bond was stronger than that.....but maybe we couldn't biomerge because we didn't have enough power or something........" Takato said, trailing off as he tried to think of reasons, other than the fact that he wasn't human any more, because that could simply not be the only reason that they couldn't biomerge. The first time they had biomerged, Takato had been made of data and they had still merged so it couldn't be the fact that he was a digimon......but maybe it was because his data itself had changed when he became a digimon. The other chosen managed to do everything as they had before, so why was he so different? Why was he always so different from everyone else? Why?

*It's because you ARE different, and it makes you special* A voice spoke up inside his head. It was gentle and caring, but caried and undertone of fierceness that a warrior held within their voice.

*Ch, it's cause you're a freak. Even among the other chosen, they, unlike you, are the chosen of only one entity, while you, are the chosen of three* A different voice said bitterly, though Takato could tell the voice wasn't evil.....so much as it didn't have a set of morals that completely followed along with the rest of the worlds.

*That may be true, but that is no excuse to badger the boy! It is enough that he holds our powers! You do not need to mock him as well!* Another voice growled. This voice was full of hatred, but it caried a little bit of warmth for Takato.

*.............Um, why are there voices in my head?!* Takato thought, and silently prayed that he hadn't finally gone insane.

*Oh dear! I suppose we should have introduced our selves and given you an explination?* The first voice replied, slightly embarassed that they had been so rude.

*That would be nice.......I think..........* Takato replied shakily. Yup, he had gone bonkers......

*I apologise for our rudeness! I am Life, one of the powers that reside in you. The second one, and not to mention BITTER power is Chaos and the thirs pyscho is Hazard. We are what makes you chosen dear boy. And partially the reason that you can not merge with your first partner* The first voice, Life, told Takato.

*Hey, its not our fault he's not strong enough to use us to our full ability!* Chaos shouted angrily at Life. Takato winced.....he was going to have a headache after this.

*SHUT UP CHAOS! THIS IS COMPLETELY YOURS AND HAZARD'S FAULT! IF I HADN'T MANAGED TO BRING THE BOY BACK UNTOLD DAMAGE WOULD HAVE FALLEN UPON THE QUADRANTS!!! THE ONLY REASON HE'S EVEN IN THIS MESS IS BECAUSE YOU TWO IDIOTS GOT BORED!* Life thundered at Chaos and Hazard. Takato could feel the head ache coming on all ready.......he really wished that the voices would just levae him alone, or give him the answers he needed.

*................* Was the reply that Takato and Life got from Chaos and Hazard, who thankfully had the decency to remain silent.

*Now that those morons are quiet, I can tell you what you need to know* Life said quietly and waited patiently for Takato's reply.

*And just what do I need to know?* Takato finally asked Life, unsure of what was going on but wanting all the ehlp he could get.

*When your spirit returned to your body you had to make another D-Arc with your wishes and dreams like you did the second one. The problem is that when your second D-Arc was destroyed, Mako and Ai's D-Arc was also destroyed. Some of the data, the data that had made Impmon their partner, merged with your D-Arc's data causing Impmon to become your partner. Now that Impmon is also your partner you must draw power from him to merge with your first partner* Life said, explaining as best it could what Takato needed to get in order to Biomerge.

*But that doesn't explain why I couldn't biomerge with Guilmon before.....* Takato thought, mostly to himself, though Life, Chaos and Hazard heard it none the less.

*Sure it does. The first time you merged with your partner Guilmon you had a new device. The original one had not held up to my power, which is your power. The first D-Arc could only stand the power of Life, while the second one could handle the combined power of Life and Hazard. When Chaos finally brought itself forward, it was to much power for your second D-Arc to handle. That's why when you forced the merging you ended up as Megidramon, slightly twisted from the original though. And now that you have the third and hopefully final D-Arc, you should be able to merge with your first partner. Of course since you have to partners now, you need the help of your second partner to merge with the first* Hazard growled his explanation to Takato.

Takato stiffled a chuckle when he heard a sort of mental blinking come from Life and Chaos.

*That has to be the most Hazard has EVER said at once* Chaos said with a slight chuckle in his own voice.

*True. But Hazard speaks the truth. You need power from the one called BeelzebumonBM, as a consent* Life stated calmly.

*Okay......and how to I get that? He's in the middle of a fight?* Takato asked the three in hopes of getting an answer.

*Well, I suppose one of us could try and contact him.........* Life suggested calmly even though it didn't really now HOW they would do something like that.

*Not me!* Chaos immediatly spoke up, shortly followed by Life and then by a very slow Hazard.

*Hazard....you get to go and talk to BeelzebumonBM, have fuuuuun!* Life said cheerfully and gave Hazard and mental push in the direction that Beelzebumon was hopefully in.

*And everyone says I have problems.....* Hazard grumbled to itself as it tentavly spread a mantal web, trying to find the one being that would solve this whole problem. The they could go back to where they belonged, deep in Takato's subconscious.

Hazard finally found what he was looking for and carefully slipped into BeelzebumonBM's mind.

*Hey, psycho beating up another demon* Hazard growled in BeelzebumonBM's mind, trying to get BeelzebumonBM's attention which was completely on Daemon and his destruction.

*Ugh, not you again! I'm busy! Torment me another time!* BeelzebumonBM shouted mentally at Hazard. BeelzebumonBM didn't want any distractions, but of course you can't always have what you want.

*What do you mean me again? I am Hazard, I wouldn't lower myself by staying in your mind. Cht, I am here because your partner needs you to let him biomerge* Hazard explained, a little less growl in his voice when he started to talk about Takato.

*...................what about Takato?* BeelzebumonBM asked carefully, still focusing most of his attention on Daemon, but giving the voice in his head a small portion of that attention.

*The boy and his first partner can not merge into the Holy Knight because they need your.........consent.........* Hazard said, trying to find the right word to explain what Takato and Guilmon needed from BelzebumonBM to biomerge.

*Hmf, why would they need my permission to biomerge?!* BeelzebumonBM demanded as he landed a punch to Daemon's midsection and then a swift kick to his side.

*Nice shot. It's not so much your permission, more like a boost of power. Your giving them the extra boost of power is sort of like a consent to let them merge* Hazard explained and growled at the demon lords idiocy.

*Oh...gimmie a minute to think about it, after I get away from this guy for a few seconds* BeelzebumonBM said and concentrated on the fight.

"Hey I gotta do something for a moment, can you wait? No? Good! Darkness Claw!" BeelzebumonBM shouted as he slashed ruthlessly at Darmon's chest before delivering a round house kick that sent Daemon flying a few good hundred feet.

*Okay, I'm free for a minute, what do I gotta do Oh Great Voice in my head?* BeelzebumonBM mocked the voice as he stood ready, waiting for Daemon to return and try to get revenge.

*You do realize I could easily have you killed right?* Hazard growled angrily and muttered dark threats about ways to kill BeelzebumonBM.

*Yah, yah whatever now how do I do whatever you said?!* BeelzebumonBM growled back just as angrily and watched carefully as Daemon picked himself up with a small groan and started to make his way back to BeelzebumonBM, flames rising up around him as he did so.

*Right, right....I guess you just sort push at little bit of power towards your partners* Hazard said, a little unsure of just HOW BeelzebumonBM was supposed to go about sending Takato and Guilmon his power and consent.

*What do you mean sort of?* BeelzebumonBM demanded, he didn't like the tone that the voice had spoken to him in. That and Daemon was just about back.

*Well this hasn't exactly been done before so no ones quite sure how to go about it......* Hazard chuckled at little nervously, and waited impatiently for BeelzebumonBM's reply.

*What?! You expect me to do somethin and you don't even know how I'm supposed to do it?!* BeelzebumonBM demanded as he dodged a swinging fist sent by Daemon before he retaliated with a spinning kick that sent the fuming demon lord sprawling.

*Pretty much* Hazard replied and waited for BeelzebumonBM to do as he was asked before he returned to Takato.

*Fine! Anything to get rid of you!* BeelzebumonBM growled in his mind and easily picked Daemon up and threw him into MarineDevimon who was fighting with Aldamon. Beelzebumon had no idea what he was supposed to do, so he just sort of felt along his connection with Guilmon and Takato and shoved some of his excess power towards his partners. He felt his Blast mode start to fade away.........oops, just a bit to much power.....

"Hm, what is this? I see your little trick isn't all that dependable if it leaves you in the middle of a fight" Daemon teased and started to attack ruthlessly against the now weaker Beelzebumon.

"You think I need to be in Blast mode to kick your ass?! Ha! Better watch out! Double Impact!" Beelzebumon shouted back and gave a brief mental sigh at the sudden welcome stillness in his mind before he drew both his shotguns and fired as fast as he could.

Hazard left Beelzebumon's mind and reached Takato's mind just as the wave of power that Beelzebumon sent through the connection arrived.

"Guilmon?" Takato asked, speaking for this first time in about fifteen minutes. Feeling the power that Beelzebumon threw at them down their connection, Takato was almost certain that they could biomerge. He felt like he could do anything at that moment.

"Yes Takatomon?" Guilmon said, turning his head slightly when he heard his Tamer speak. Takato hadn't spoken for a while and he had had a far away look in his eyes, almost as if he wasn't really there.

"I'm not..nevermind. I was thinking we could try biomerging one more time, you know....."Takato said and held his D-Arc out at arms length, getting ready to biomerge.

"Right, lets do it Takatomon!" Guilmon said and readied himself, even though he was uncertain whether or not biomerging would actually work.

Tai, Matt, Ken and Davis all took their eyes off of their partners to see what Takato was doing. He had been quiet for a while and now he was up to something, they could just tell by the look in his eyes.

"Biomerge Activate!" Takato shouted and let a small smile grace his lips. He could feel it. It was going to work........

"Guilmon biomerged to........" Guilmon said, feeling the biomerging begin.

Takato's D-Arc burst into light, it was different from the usual light show that appeared when he or one of the other Tamers biomerged. It was a swirl of colours and it felt different somehow. Takato ignored the feeling and continued. He brought the glowing orb of light to his chest and let it merge with him and he felt himself being lost to a sea of power as he and Guilmon merged to become...............

"Gallantmon!" Takato and Guilmon announced, lance and shield on each arm and his red and white cape billowing around him majestically as the light from the biomerge faded away.

"Whoa......" Came the collective gasp from Davis, Tai, Matt and Ken. They had not been expecting that.

Gallantmon grinned. It was great to be back, and now he had every intention of helping kick butt.

Kage looked up from the battle that was taking place beneath him to see the white armored knight call for his steed.

"Grani! Behemoth! Come to us! Aid us in this battle!" Gallantmon called out to the heavens and the hells, summoning the beings that would help decide the fate of the battle and the entire Digital World.

Kage watched on as two creatures came to help the failing Digidestined. One was a motorcycle and another looked like a white and red dragon.

{Wahooooooooooooooo! Time to blow people up!}Behemoth shouted joyfully and rammed into a digimon from Kage's Army. Behemoth began to help Gallantmon with destroying Kage's Army while Grani flew off to aid Beelzebumon.

[Yugoth Blaster!] Grani shouted and fired the destructive beam at Daemon who was getting ready to attack Beelzebumon. Daemon didn't get a chance to dodge as the attack slammed into Daemon, knocking him unconscious.

Beelzebumon grabbed Daemon by the back of his cloak and threw him in front of Kage. Kage gave a small smirk. He knew that his Army and Daemon and his Daemon Corps would eventuall lose but it did not matter.......nothing would stop him from attaining his goal.

"Lets finish this up, I got stuff to do" Beelzebumon said as Grani flew down low enough for Beelzebumon to jump on. Grani flew over to the viral knight who was helping Rosemon fight against a powerful Gryphonmon. Beelzebumon leapt down and slashed his claws through Gryphonmon causing the digimon to cry out and disperse into data.

"You shan't win this fiends!" Another digimon from Kage's Army, a PrinceMamemon shouted and readied to attack the Digidestined, who were now winning with the help of Beelzebumon, Gallantmon, Behemoth and Grani.

Since Gallantmon had joined the battle the Digidestined and Tamers had managed to destroy two other digimon from Kage's Army, not including the Gryphonmon that Beelzebumon slashed through. The Eastern Digidetined, Tamers and Northern Digidestined now outnumbered Kage's Army by four and six if you included Behemoth and Grani.

Things were starting to look brighter for the Digidestined as more and more digimon from Kage's Army began to fall as did Daemon's Corps..............until.

"Mwahahaha! Foolish Chosen! Your puny powers shall not over come all that I have strived for!" Kage cackled madly and raised his digivice into the air, letting the dark power from the digivice spill forth and cover the nine digimon that remained of his army.

Kage's Army howled as more power filled them, twisting their bodies and changing them from normal digimon to the twisted parodies that now stood before them.

"Well that was unexpected........." Seraphimon said and got ready to charge the twisted army, only to be stopped a black barrier that blasted Seraphimon back into Vikemon.

"What was that?!" T.K demanded as he watched the other digimon help Seraphimon and Vikemon back up.

"That my dear was the dark energy of my digivice! The only digimon that can pass through it are virus type digimon, which is what my army now consists of........" Kage said and let his army hide behind the shield of darkness and fire their attacks. The attacks went through the barrier easily and the Digidestined and Tamers were forced to dodge and try and retaliate only to find that not only could they not go through the barrier, but neither could their attacks. Except the two digimon that WERE viruses......

"We won't let you do this!" Gallantmon shouted bravely and stepped in front of all of the other Digidestined, Beelzebumon at his side.

"I think you are forgeting something dear knight! You are a warrior of light and good! You can not pass through my barrier of darkness!" Kage laughed, and watched as Gallantmon raised his head to speak.

"Because we are a holy knight you think that we are a vaccine type digimon? Is that what this whole world believes?! That virus digimon are evil while vaccine and data type digimon are good?! It matters not what type of digimon you are, it is what you do, your actions that speak for you! And we shall let my actions speak for us! Lightning Joust!" Gallantmon shouted and raced forward through the barrier and thrust his lance, crackling with electricity at the nearest agent of darkness from Kage's wicked army and speared it on the mighty lance.

Gallantmon grinned when he saw the stunned faces of Kage, and most of the Digidestined. He knew that there was no way that he could defeat all of the twisted digimon behind Kage's barrier alone, even with the help of Beelzebumon, Behemoth, and Grani the only ones who would be able to pass. He had to try anyways, even if it meant his end he would fight.

Grani, Behemoth and Beelzebumon charged forward to help. The Digidestined watched helplessly as the four of them were over powered and out numbered. They watched as they fought even though they were losing.

"Damn it! This isn't right! We should be helping them fight!" Aldamon growled angrily and paced back in forth in front of the barrier, every now and then trying to attack in hopes of getting through the barrier.

"Calm down! There's nothing we can do!" Beowolfmon shouted and grabbed Aldamon by the arm, pulling him away from his pacing.

"Damn it Beowolfmon! Don't you think that I know that?! But that doesn't mean we have to stop trying!" Aldamon growled at Beowolfmon and pulled his arm out of Beowolfmon's grasp and slammed a fist into the barrier. The barrier shook and Aldamon was thrown backwards into the ground. He had to do something, none of this was right! Everything was out of whack!

Aldamon got up and stood in front of the barrier and growled at what he saw.

Grani and Behemoth were slightly beaten and scratched, but their wounds were nothing compared to the ones Beelzebumon and Gallantmon sported.

The leather that covered Beelzebumon was torn and singed in many places, revealing pale blue bruised skin. His helmet had been knocked off and his light blonde hair fell in his face, covering his third eye. His claws were cracked and split in many places and he had run out of bullets for his shotguns long ago.

Gallantmon's white and pristine armor was now blackened in places and cracked. His shield looked as if it was going to crack in half from a large hole that had been punched through. His lance now lay behind him, shattered into miniscule pieces. Gallantmon panted as he tried to attack another one of the twisted digimon, but failed as he was hit with an attack that he had not seen coming. He felt his body fly through the barrier and land with a harsh crash in front of Aldamon and Beowolfmon.

Gallantmon rose slowly without a word.His shield had not survived the landing. His armor creaked and groaned as he took a step forward to continue fighting, but he was stopped by Aldamon and Beowolfmon who had grabbed both of his arms in an attempt to stop him.

"What are you doing?! Let go of us! We have to help Beelzebumon!" Gallantmon shouted as he struggled to get out of the stubborn grasps of the two hybrid digimon.

"Sorry, we can't let you go" Beowolfmon apologised and started to drag Gallantmon back to the others. Chunks of broken armor started to crumble away from Gallantmon's destroyed armor as he fought to get away from the two who were pulling him back.

"Its for your own good Gallantmon, you have no weapons and your armor is falling apart as we speak!" Aldamon said, trying to explain to Gallantmon as they pulled him farther away from the barrier and his partner. While they had been fighting against Kage's twisted army they had managed to defeat two of the army leaving Kage with only six left in his impressive army. That was still two more than the few of them that had gone through the barrier to fight.

"We won't leave Beelzebumon! He's our friend nd our partner! Now let go!" Gallantmon roared angrily and wrenched his arms out of the hold that Beowolfmon and Aldamon had on him. Aldamon watched as Gallantmon rushed back to aid Beelzebumon. He had no weapons, his armor was almost completely totaled and yet he still went to fight.

"Hiya!" Gallantmon cried as he delivered a powerful kick to a digimon that had been about to attack a vunrable Beelzebumon.

It wasn't long before Gallantmon, Beelzebumon, Grani and Behemoth were completely overwhelmed.

Beelzebumon lay on the ground, data fizzling while he struggled to get up. Gallantmon was standing, but only just. Grani was crashed into the ground, offline. Behemoth was on its side, dents and scratches all over.

"Give up yet? You'll never win, and I will have my revenge!" Kage asked as he looked down upon the fallen knight and his friends.

"We'll never give up. NEVER!" Gallantmon shouted and was suddenly engulfed in a strange light. A light that meant only one thing. He was changing.........

"Way to go Goggles...." Beelzebumon complimented as he watched Gallantmon change......

"Gallantmon mode changed to Crimson Mode!" Gallantmon shouted as new armor appeared over the new and six pure white wings burst from his back. A sword appeared in each hand, one was slim and deadly looking. The other had two blades and almost resembled a staff. This one radiated power, but did not look as deadly.

Gallantmon stood tall as the light aound him faded. He felt renewed and ready to kick bit butt again. The shock of seeing GallantmonCM was quickly shed as the army swarmed forward.

Aldamon watched nervously. He had started to feel uneasy when Gallantmon had rushed off through the barrier again.

Something was wrong. He could feel it. It was just WRONG.

Suddenly, everything felt wrong. The Digital World seemed unbalanced and everywhere he looked he could see evidense of the unbalance.

He wondered, as Gallantmon mode changed to the angel knight, if there was anything any of them could do to reset the balance.........

Aldamon watched as GallantmonCM fought bravely, even though he was starting to lose. There had to be something he could do! None of them could get past the barrier, but maybe there was something else they could do.......

Wait! Kage wasn't shielded by the barrier and he was the one who held the barrierin place..........Aldamon gave a feral grin and flapped his wings, taking off into the sky and flying straight for Kage.

Kage looked up when he heard the sounds of wings beating and found one of the Digidestined coming owards him. So, one of them had thought to attack him. To bad that wasn't going to be enough.

Aldamon drew back a fist and prepared to smash it into Kage's face, only to find that he had been stopped in midair by some strange and unseen force. Aldamon glared at Kage, who chuckled at the look.

"Silly digimon, did you not think I would have set a defense up around myself?" Kage asked and let Aldamon float there, its not like there was anything he could do....

Aldamon growled to himself.

*So....are you ready to release your true power?* A voice spoke softly in Aldamon's head.

*Uh.....why am I suddenly hearing voices in my head?!* Aldamon demanded mentally. He had a feeling if he replied with his mouth people would start to think he was crazy. Not that Aldamon wasn't thinking about that possibility himself.

*I am the power that you hold deep inside yourself. Normally I would have no voice but things have begun to twist into ways that they have should not. You can feel it, the twisting. Changing things from the way they were supposed to be. You want to set it back to the way things are supposed to be. Release me, the power you have hiding in yourself* The voice said, trying to convince Aldamon.

*But how can I trust you?* Aldamon asked.

*Because I AM you* The voice stated and waited for Aldamon to answer him.

*Oh....okay then.....uh..how do I release this power?* Aldamon asked, his curiousity now getting the better of him.

*Just dig deep. You'll find it, and you'll know when you find it* The voice said and left, going back to where ever it had come from.

*Dig deep huh? Well I better start digging* Aldamon thought to himself and began the soul searching that he needed to do to find the power. And find it he did. Deep, deep with in himself. It was a light, a pleasent grey. Aldamon brought his hand(mentally) down and pulled the power up from where it had lodged itself. He pulled it up and he felt it bubble in his chest before it burst forth, like water from a shattered damn.

Aldamon opened his eyes, not sure when they had closed. And looked up to see a stunned look on Kage's face.

Kage starred at the sight before him. The digimon in front of him now had a symbol on his forhead. It was glowing and it was not just any symbol. It was the symbol of balance. Kage didn't even get a chance to speak before he was sweapt away in the blinding grey light.

The light that poured from from Aldamon suddenly increased and coverd the entire Digital World. The light spread past the Digital World and into the Real World, even farther into the other Quadrants.

Everything stopped moving. And Aldamon suddenly found himself a grey void. There were eleven other beings there with him.

The chosen.....Gallantmon had been split apart into his seperate forms of Guilmon and Takato.

The chosen had all been returned to their normal human forms. As had Takuya and the digimon had all be returned to their rookie forms.

"Uhm, where are we?" Takato asked, as he looked around the void of grey.

"You are in the power of Balance" A voice said and the chosen and their partners looked around to find the person who had spoken to them.

They found the person to be a digimon. A golden dragon that Guilmon had spoken to earlier.

"Hi again!" Guilmon chirped happily and stayed floating beside Takato and Impmon.

"Yes, hello again. You are here because you are the chosen of all the Quadrants. Balance does not affect you as it does others. Once Balance has finished you will find that everything is as it should be. None of the Digidestined or Tamers will remember what has taken place before Balance returned to the worlds. I do not have long, but I have to say you have all done immensely well against Kage. I am sorry to say though that your troubles are not over. Kage will return and you will need to stop him. He was once a good person....but now he is corrupted with hatred and anger. Already Balance has nearly finished its job.......good bye Chosen, and good luck" The golden dragon said and was about to dissapear but Takato and Takuya stopped him.

"Who are you?" Takato and Takuya asked at the same moment.

"I am one of the first digimon ever created. I am Huanlongmon. And now farewell" Haunlongmon said and faded away.

There was another flash and the chosen were no longer in the power of Balance.

*~*~*Owari*~*~*

Skittles the Sugar Fairy-Thats it. I'm done. I'm really Really REALLY DONE!!! WAHOOOO! *does little dance* I bet you guys want more though eh? Well don't worry there IS a sequl. Well, time to do the disclaimer.....

Dragoon- Can I take a vacation after this?

Skittles- NOO! Your always gone! I'm chaining you to the computer*chains muse to the computer* Bwahahaha! Now you can never escape!!!

Dragoon- Nooooooooooo!

Skittles- Shut up and do the disclaimer.

Dragoon- O_O Yes mam! Skittles does not own digimon! And........SAVE ME FROM THE KILLER AUTHORESS!

Skittles-Quit your belly-aching.

Review time ppl!

And the mighty quote....

Last night as I lay in bed looking at the stars I thought: "Where the heck is the ceiling?"

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