Cue Theme - "Infinity (Red Zone Mix)"

A clear blue sky, a few white clouds floating lazily by. Pan down, past the sun, until the skyline of a city comes into view: San Francisco.

D I G I T A L M O N S T E R S

We weave through the skyscrapers, before cutting to the streets below, a crowded sidewalk. A shadow quickly moves over them. Cut again to the skyline, then zoom into the top of the TransAmerica Building (the large triangular building), where a figure stands with its arms crossed: Aero Veedramon.

Cut to a red background, a silver haired person turns left to face the camera, Ira Caraway, before fading away. Fal Michael fades in and does the same, only turning right, before fading away. David Milliard fades in, turns left to face the camera, then fades away.

Aero Veedramon, Seadramon, and Veemon Akira fade in and do the same as their respective partners

Cut to a shot of the camera flying over Tokyo bay towards Tokyo itself, the skyline in the distance. Cut again to a shot flying over Shinjuku, looking straight down as we pass over the Tokyo Metropolitan Building

Cut to a blue background; Kouyuu Fukushima, "Callie" Stone, and Kaoline Shokai fade in and do the same as the others, followed by their partners: Hitorimon, Psymon, and Dianamon

We now see two Earths floating next to each other in front of a star-filled background. Suddenly, two glowing red eyes open, looking somewhat faded, one over each Earth.

Now we are above the clouds, in the distance we see a giant blue-ish dragon, Azulongmon. We rapidly zoom in to the face of a person sitting on his head: Caspian Callaway. Cut to what appears to be a desert, another young man, Shadow, stands alone covering his face with one hand (like Heero in the Gundam Wing intro), we pull back just far enough as Antylamon lands in front of him. Cut again, Garfield Magus and Black Agumon are back to back, Garfield firing two handguns and his partner shooting a fireball. Now we are in a field of tall grass, Jajan appears and shoots an arrow at a target, then Celermon walks up behind him.

All of the partner Digimon each appear and fire their signature attacks at an unseen enemy (in order: Aero Veedramon, Seadramon, Veemon Akira, Hitorimon, Psymon, Dianamon, Azulongmon, Antylamon, Black Agumon, and Celermon). We then cut to black. The background lightens to reveal seven shadowed figures: Olympidianamon, Metal Seadramon, Ridatsumon Zero, Imperialdramon, Paladinmon, Black WarGreymon and Adeemon.

All of the Tamers (Ira, Fal, David, Kouyuu, Callie, Kaoline, Caspian, Shadow, Garfield, and Jajan) walk into view (like the end of Digimon Season 3's intro), followed by their respective partners.

DIGITAL MONSTERS FOREVER

--

"Friend Against Friend"

Wednesday, April 8, 2071

Fort Aleksandrea

The night sky is a shade of navy blue, dotted with many shiny specs among a clear sky over the desert. A single beacon of light exists as far as the eye can see, and it is aflame. Fort Aleksandrea, a Dragon Vanguard outpost in the middle of the desert, sits among mountains of sand as even more massive clouds of black smoke spew from the fires burning within it.

In the fort itself, a massive battle wages as the Dragon Vanguard Digimon fight a losing battle against the hordes of Scorpiomon and Pteramon, their enemy's allegiance completely unknown.

From my vantage point, several Pteramon swoop past, delivering their deadly payload into the mass of battling soldiers, causing several large and fiery explosions to rip through the crowds before me. I smile, savoring this destruction. My revenge is near.

--

Cue – "Heero's Dream"

I let out a growl as Panjyamon started to fight against the Garudamon in the sky. Not that he wasn't having any fun, stomping on Scorpiomon is both annoying and tiresome; however, I still wished I had a more challenging opponent. Then again, I was still under a handicap, since I'm only in this Champion form. I continued gaze upon the battle, until a Pteramon flew past my head. I immediately turned my attention toward this new challenger.

"SEA DRAGON BURST!"

I let out a blue wave of energy, straight toward this opponent. However, it didn't hit the main body; rather, it hit the edge of the left wing, as I intended. The Pteramon crashed into a sandbank only a few kilometers away from my position.

We're going to need answers... I thought to myself, these guys aren't Phoenix Armed Forces troops; neither were they Archelon Clanners or White Tigers. Rather, the Digimon that were attacking all had this strange mark on their shoulders. The mark was black, and looked like some beetle. Needless to say, I was greatly mystified.

"I need more anti-air Digimon to cover the base. The Pteramon are starting to carry high output bombs!" Fal yelled out, leading a few various reptilian Digimon. It was weird, how a mere human could command one of the mightiest armies in the Digital World. I had no doubt in my mind about Fal's natural leadership abilities; however, it was still all too strange. The way he and David were working together to win the battle, not in competition like most of the Dragon Vanguard commanders, especially Panjyamon. Even I was guilty of competition all those years ago...

"SEADRAMON!"

I immediately snapped out of my haze, as Fal said: "I need a ride to get up there," he pointed toward the sky, "Care to give me a lift?" I didn't answer; I just let him on my slender back and immediately took off into the wild blue yonder. At least I didn't have to swat Scorpiomon anymore, now it was Pteramon....

--

Impmon merely watched as the base's guards were wiping out his forces. He didn't expect them to be this challenging, and the base mainly contained 44 Champion level Digimon, not including the Ultimate level Panjyamon, who was fighting Garudamon at the moment. There had to be strong leaders at this base…great tacticians. For one thing, he never saw the rather competitive Dragon Vanguard defenders work together so well. Two, the strategies executed were unlike any he had seen DV tacticians execute. And he knew they weren't just from Seadramon, they had to be from someone, or something else...

You seem worried, Impmon, the voice said in his head. The shadow seemed to be eclipsed in the moon light, leaving a delicate outline. The crimson eyes still glowed.

"Are you kidding, sir? We're losing!" Impmon growled, "We're losing to a bunch of backwater Dragon Vanguard rookies. They may have Colonel Seadramon and Lt. General Panjyamon, but I don't get it!" Impmon slammed his fist onto the sand.

You wish to join them, don't you?

"Are you kidding?" Impmon replied, "I really want to pay back Akira and Serpentmon for what they did to me years ago." he sighed, "But, how can I serve you and fulfill my vengeance at the same time? Serpentmon has already digivolved into Seadramon, and Akira is in one of those giant robot Digimon, both are champion level. I'm a mere rookie..."

Oh, Impmon, you underestimate both yourself and my abilities once again. The shadow seemed to laugh.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Impmon asked.

The shadow's eyes glowed brighter, RISE IMPMON AND DIGIVOLVE!

Impmon started to glow, "Impmon, digivolve to..." the form turned into a demonic shape, "ICEDEVIMON!" the glow stopped, and revealed a demonic themed Digimon with ice blue armor.

Now you have the power to accomplish my wishes. Go Icedevimon, and exact your revenge!

Icedevimon gave no response; he merely opened his ice-cold wings and took flight, toward his old adversaries...

--

Callie had her back to Psydramon. She had managed to grab a rod and kept the attacking Digimon away from her partner.

"PSYCHIC FIST!!"

Psydramon released another attack at the Scorpiomon and watched as several of them fell down the stairs stunned. Callie managed to bash another one on the head.

"How many more are there Psydramon?" she called to her partner.

"I don't know...too many!" the Digimon replied as she released another attack.

"Where are Fal and David?" Callie asked, "I lost them when the fight started."

"I don't know."

An attack from the air caused the two to be flung from one another. Callie had a weird sensation as she felt herself falling from the platform. Psydramon spun on the attackers, Pteramon and then saw Callie.

"Callie!"

She instantly took off from the platform and caught the girl.

Callie looked up at Psydramon and gasped, "You can fly!?"

Psydramon shook her head. "Not really. This is an over exertion of mental ability." She landed and placed Callie on the ground. "It's hard to do for a long time."

Callie nodded. "What are we going to do?"

"I'm going to keep fighting for as long as I can. You get under cover."

"I can't do that! You need my help," Callie replied.

"Callie, please! I can fight better if I know you safe. Please go," said Psydramon. Callie looked like she was going to protest but then nodded.

"Okay," she finally replied, and ran toward the main building. Psydramon watched her and then ran back up the stairs to the top of the battlements.

--

Panjyamon leaps into the air and slashes down at his opponent, Garudamon, who parries the attack and pushes the Ultimate level lion away.

Damn! he thinks, as Garudamon spreads his wings and takes to the air.

"I've wanted to kill you for so long now, Panjyamon," says Garudamon with a smirk.

"You traitorous bastard! Who are you fighting with now? The Phoenix? The White Tigers?" yells Panjyamon. Garudamon swoops down and kicks Panjyamon in the gut, sending him skidding across the ground and kicking up a small cloud of dust.

"We are Section 5," he replies.

--

"SEA DRAGON BURST!"

A wave of blue energy soars across the dark sky and engulfs an entire squad of five Pteramon, destroying them utterly.

"Above us!" yells Fal, as two more Pteramon dive upon them from above, firing their missiles straight down. Without a word, the serpentine Digimon swerves in midair and weaves his way through the hail of missiles, past the enemies and fires straight back down on them.

"This is insane!" yells Fal, "How many Digimon are we fighting here?!"

"I don't know, but my guess is WAY too many," replies Seadramon.

"How reassuring," says Fal, as another series of explosions demolishes a nearby building.

--

"CRAP!" yells Kana, diving out of the way as flaming rubble lands where she stood only a moment before, "Which way is it to the main building?!" As if just to make her life even more of a living hell at this moment, one of the Scorpiomon rises from some of the nearby rubble.

"Well, this is just GREAT!" she yells before making a run for it in the opposite direction, hoping that the Digimon would be too weak to give chase. Unfortunately, that isn't the case, as it goes after her with surprising speed. Just when it seems as if it will catch her, a Guardromon comes out of practically NOWHERE and rams the Scorpiomon into the ground, before leaping into the air and bombarding it with missiles.

"Thanks!" yells Kana, taking a moment to catch her breath.

"No problem!" the robot Digimon replies, before flying off.

--

My life is darkness, pain, and death. For quite a long time now, I have been nothing but a mindless drone in what anybody with common sense would describe as an "utterly pointless war". But aren't all wars pointless? Does this make me less of a Digimon because I've participated in the pointless bloodshed? Now...not only am I still fighting, but now I've dragged my friends into this. What next, my family? Are they even still alive? Serpentmon had the right idea; I should've left when I still had the chance. Why...? Why didn't I go with him...?

The cockpit of the Mekanorimon dimly illuminates Veemon Akira's face as he silently thinks of these things. The point of this war, the point of this fighting, and most of all, the point of his life. Was this really all there was for him? To fight? To...die? A bright flash nearby brings Akira back to reality. He brings the targeting reticule down and locks onto one of the Scorpiomon and pulls the trigger. The Mekanorimon's beam cannon fires, killing the champion-level Glitch instantly. It may have seemed cowardly, but Akira had decided before that sniping would be the safest bet, staying atop one of the buildings and firing down at the enemies below. He takes aim at another Scorpiomon, but hesitates to fire.

"I wonder...what sort of life this Digimon has led? Does he have any family? Friends? Who is this I am about to kill...to murder...?" Akira whispers quietly to himself. He'd never actually asked this question to himself before…he just did as he was ordered.

"I'm a pawn. Nothing more, nothing less..." he whispers, his eyes wandering from the battle below to one of the billowing clouds of smoke. A gust of wind shifts the smoke's direction, revealing a Persian-styled tower. Akira at first doesn't notice anything strange about it besides the oddly long spike atop it...until he realizes it isn't a spike. The slender, white Digimon's eyes glow crimson as it stretches is large tattered wings, a devilish smirk on his face.

Revenge...

"What the...!" mutters Akira, grabbing his head as the white demon leaps towards him...

--

"SEA DRAGON BURST!"

Seadramon fired another blue wave and hit a group of Pteramon, deleting them off the bat. It then swerved to slap another Pteramon and send it flying into the ground.

"What's that?" Fal asked, pointing to what looked like a white…demon…battling against Akira's 'Mobile Suit'.

"I don't know, but it looks like it's overwhelming Akira!" Seadramon replies. Without a second thought, Seadramon changed direction and shot for that white object. It then proceeded to tackle it, sending it back.

"You know how rude it is to crash a party?" Seadramon taunted. However, the beast quickly got up and dusted itself off, before staring at Seadramon.

"Oh, come now, High Commander or is it 'Colonel' now? You certainly wouldn't forget an old friend, would you?" the Icedevimon grinned.

"Impmon?" Seadramon questioned.

"ZERO FREEZE!" Icedevimon shot a huge ice beam toward Seadramon's general direction. However, it didn't hit Seadramon.

Oh shit! No! Seadramon thought as he watched the beam shoot into Fal. Fal toppled over and fell into the sand below, frozen in a block of ice.

"Heh, frozen food," Icedevimon laughed.

"You..." Seadramon growled, "BASTARD!!" he launched forward, ready to rip apart the fallen angel Digimon. IceDevimon simply jumps in the air and over the enraged serpent, which quickly turns and launches at him again in complete rage.

Heh, blind rage... thinks IceDevimon, thrusting his hands in front of him and catching Seadramon's head, letting it push him farther into the air.

"I'LL KILL YOU! KILL YOU!!!" howls Seadramon, "SEA DRAGON BURST!!" A wave of blue energy is unleashed from Seadramon's maw, but IceDevimon uses his hold on the Digimon's snout to flip himself over the serpent's head and out of danger, allowing the beam to impact with the fighting Digimon below. IceDevimon quickly turns to Seadramon's back, slashes with his claws, and kicks him back down towards the ground. His rage growing, Seadramon swerves in midair and fires his attack back up at the ice demon, who dodges and heads back towards the building where he'd been fighting Akira. But, Seadramon doesn't let up, continuing to fire at IceDevimon and impacting the building as he fires blindly.

"CRAP!!" yells Akira, putting his Mekanorimon into over drive and jetting off towards the side to avoid being killed.

"Oh SHIT!!" yells David, as the entire side of the building he is next to is hit with a wave of blue energy and explodes. David dives off of Tankmon, just as a ton of debris falls down right where he'd been, deleting the Digimon instantaneously. David takes only a second to get up and start running like mad, as the rest of the building explodes in cloud of fire and smoke. David finally stops to look back at the devastation, and notices Akira's Mekanorimon land only a few meters away.

Cue - "Paint It Black" - Rolling Stones

Suddenly, what David can only register as a white demon dives out of the sky and punches at the Mekanorimon, which attempts to block the attack. David finds himself diving back into the sand as the force of the punch pushes both Digimon sailing towards him.

"Is that...a DIGIMON?!!" yells David, as the Mekanorimon fires its beam cannon at the demon several times, but the beams harmlessly fly past its head as the demon punches again and again. Suddenly, from seemingly out of nowhere, another Mekanorimon flies over David and rams IceDevimon, sending both skidding into the sand. IceDevimon opens his tattered white wings and catches the air, sending him back into the air.

"ZERO FREEZE!" yells the icy devil, flapping his wings and sending a hail of spikes down on the Mekanorimon, which returns fire with the beam cannon as it's hit in several places.

"IceDevimon!" yells Akira, his Mekanorimon jumping into the air at him, only to get slashed across the torso/head and sent back to the ground. Suddenly, Seadramon comes up from behind and viciously bites down on IceDevimon's chest, shaking him like how a dog shakes a rag doll.

His eyes... thinks David, noticing the feral, possibly insane, look in the digimon's eyes. Suddenly a pair of missiles impacts with Seadramon, sending him reeling and dropping IceDevimon, who quickly flies backwards and away from him. David forces himself to get back up, then looks around himself to see if there is anything or anyone he could use to help, then finds exactly what he wants.

"Hey! You!" yells David, getting the attention of what looks like a giant dog/rabbit with gattlings for hands, "Give the Mekanorimon and Seadramon air cover!"

"But...I'm..." says the Digimon.

"SHOOT THE DAMN PTERAMON!!!" howls David, not in the mood for a debate. Without another word, the Digimon raises his gattlings and aims at the swarm of Pteramon flying over the area.

"GARGO LASER!" he yells, firing both gattlings, immediately blasting several Pteramon.

"Hey, you're pretty good," says David, "What's your name?"

"Uh...Gargomon," says the Digimon, suddenly turning towards David and firing past him, hitting a Scorpiomon that had crept up on him.

"GYAH!" yells David, jumping away, "Warn me next time!"

--

THUD!

"What the...?!" yells Kana, spinning around to see the object that had just barely crushed her. Her face pales with horror.

"Fal...?" she whispers, staring at the frozen hulk of ice, "FAL!"

--

"Enjoying yourself, IceDevimon?" Seadramon laughed, as he looked at the viciously wounded fallen angel in the sand. He would've flown into the air again, however, Seadramon shot in front of him with amazing speed.

"SEA DRAGON BURST!"

He fired the blue wave and point blank, creating a crater in the sand. A huge explosion followed. However, Seadramon merely floated there, through the explosion, with a mad look upon his eye. He smirked, at the site of IceDevimon at the bottom, bruised and battered.

"Time to die..." he taunted as he floated down and ensnared him. He struggled a bit, but his strength wasn't enough…the massive serpent was just too strong for him.

"THUNDERBOMB!"

Massive surges of electricity shot around Seadramon's hide and into Icedevimon. The frozen Digimon could only cry out in pain. After a few minutes, the shocking stopped, and Icedevimon caught his breath. Beaten to a pulp, he couldn't even struggle this time, paralyzed.

"You like that?" Seadramon laughed, "I know you do, have some more. THUNDERBOMB!" The surges returned, double effect this time. Icedevimon struggled and growled in pain, while Seadramon laughed insanely...

"SEADRAMON!" Akira yelled as he jumped into the crater and kicked him away from the now KO'ed IceDevimon, "What are you doing?!"

"Returning a favor I owed this guy a long time ago, Akira. Stay out of this! SEA DRAGON BURST!" he shot the blue wave again, at his friend. Luckily, Akira maneuvered his Mekanorimon to dodge, but he was thrown away by the shockwave. Even though the cyborg was a strong Digimon, Seadramon was one of the most powerful Champion-types in the Digital World, and therefore, Akira knew he wouldn't last long if this kept up. Damn, he's been thrown over the edge, the little dragon thought as he maneuvered away from another wave, Even if I wanted to, there's no way I can stop him physically. I'll have to reason with him...

"Seadramon..." mutters Akira, his hands gripped tightly around the control sticks. The large serpentine Digimon, his friend, was staring at him with deadly cold eyes and breathing heavily. Those eyes...

"Stay out of this," Seadramon says quietly, then looks towards IceDevimon and narrows his eyes, "He must die...IT IS TIME TO DIE!!"

"Seadramon! Stop it! You're acting like one of THEM!" yells Akira, angering Seadramon, who slaps the Mekanorimon with his tail and sends him crashing into the sand.

"Them? THEM?! He...heh...hehehehahahaHAHAHAHA!!!!" yells the champion, his eyes wide and pupils small.

"Seadramon...you're not well..." says Akira futilely.

"Hehehe...them? What about Fal? Did they give HIM a chance? DID THEY?! It's their fault...he's gone...it's all their fault..." he rambles, then suddenly dives as IceDevimon and grabs him in his jaws again, shaking him violently before throwing the limp body at the Mekanorimon's feet.

"Fal isn't gone yet! We can save him!" yells the Veemon, trying to snap his friend out of it.

"I will kill them...I will kill them all...he's gone and it's all their fault...its the war's fault, they war killed him!" he rambles, "The war killed him...we are the war. We killed him. We killed Fal. You...I....YOU!!!!"

Oh crap, thinks Akira, as Seadramon suddenly leaps towards his Mekanorimon with astounding speed. Within the blink of an eye the serpent has ensnared the robot Digimon and prepares to strike the domed cockpit.

"NO!" Akira yells, hitting the jump-jets and sending both flying up into the air, but that doesn't stop Seadramon from taking a bite out of the robot's right shoulder.

--

David could barely tell what was happening at first. Akira's Mekanorimon and Seadramon, who is still wrapped around the mobile suit-like Digimon, slam into the rubble of a wrecked building nearby, Seadramon still trying to rip the Mekanorimon's arm off as the Digimon tries to stand back up. The same Mekanorimon that had helped Akira against IceDevimon comes up from behind and tries to grab Seadramon's head, while Akira activates his jumpjets. Seadramon loosens his grip, sending the one Mekanorimon stumbling backwards with himself in a headlock, and Akira into the sky.

"SEA DRAGON BURST!" he yells, sending a wave of blue energy sailing into the sky, colliding with Akira's Mekanorimon.

"AKIRA!!" David yells, starting to run blindly towards the battling Digimon

"Wait! What are you doing?!" yells Gargomon, but the human ignores him.

Akira...I have to help him... David thinks, an image of Akira deleting in a scream of pain flashing through his mind, I can't let him die!

Akira's Mekanorimon floats there in the air for a moment, arcs of electricity crossing the robot digimon's body as smoke pours from various wounds. Suddenly, several streams of missiles impact across the digimon's back, fiery explosions sending it flying forward for a moment before dropping head-first from the sky, deleting from the legs up.

"NOO!!!!" screams David, realizing that he was about to loose him. Then, a very strange thing happened: his Digivice suddenly erupted in a bright light, a surge of power moving in a concentric circle away from him like the aftershock of a nuclear explosion. Before the Mekanorimon completely deletes, a bright explosion destroys the cockpit, leaving a sphere of light floating in the sky.

Cue - "Target Akai Shougeki"

Within the sphere of light, Akira's flesh seems to tear itself away from his body, revealing the grid-like form within.

"Veemon Akira...digivolve to..."

The grid-like form changes shape and the data rearranges itself into a larger form. A new skin forms over this body, the same color as the original, followed by red armor with sharp blades embedded in them.

"FLAMEDRAMON!"

Cracks appear in the sphere of light, and then it suddenly shatters, revealing what appears to be a humanoid dragon in red armor. Somehow, David doesn't need to be told what happened or who this Digimon is, he just knows.

"Flamedramon Akira..." he whispers, as Akira lands in the sand nearby, runs towards Seadramon, and rams him into the ground. Seadramon's eyes, already wide with apparent insanity, are now filled with surprise.

"You digivolved...!" he says, as the newly digivolved Flamedramon does a black flip off of him and lands a short distance away.

"Seadramon...let us help you..." implores Akira. For a moment, the old Seadramon is back, deep sadness in eyes. But, then the moment passes, and the rage returns.

"You...you aren't Akira. Akira couldn't digivolve. No, you're one of the Phoenix...you helped IceDevimon kill Fal...YOU KILLED FAL!!" screams Seadramon.

"STOP IT! Your rage is clouding your mind...it's making you go INSANE!" Akira yells back.

--

Nearby...

Desperately, Kana continues bashing the block of ice with a metal rod, trying her hardest to save Fal.

"Fal! Hold on!" she yells, "Wait...what am I doing?!" She throws away the metal rod and concentrates on Psydramon, trying to reestablish the psychic link she'd formed with her partner earlier.

Psydramon! she says in her mind.

What's wrong, Kana?

Its Fal...he's been frozen! Help me!

I'm on my way!

--

"SEA DRAGON BURST!" Seadramon roared the attack, firing an icy blue beam at the new Flamedramon. However, if there was one improvement that Flamedramon Akira had over Veemon Akira, it was agility, easily dodging any attack that Seadramon fired. Seadramon, however, saw the futility of using long-range attacks and lunge forward, trying to bite and rip apart Akira like he did to IceDevimon.

Seadramon, my friend. I'm sorry that I have to do this, but if it'll bring sense back into you... Akira launched in the air, jumping up with great strength, and then landing behind Seadramon. "FIRE ROCKET!" he slammed his claw into the ground and fired a flame projectile through the sand. The flame so hot, that the sand around it melted into glass. It hit Seadramon on the back, making him topple a little. However, all that made Seadramon was angrier.

"You truly are an imbecile, y'know that?" Seadramon laughed.

"What, how? That attacked should've stunned you!" Akira pointed out. Fear started to grow on him.

"I'm a water based Digimon for crying out loud! Fire attacks don't work on me that well!" he growled, "SEA DRAGON BURST!"

Akira dodged the oncoming beam and rushed onto Seadramon, landing on his back. Like a wild horse to a cowboy rider, Seadramon struggled, weaving his serpentine body and trying to knock off Akira. After some struggle, however, Akira found the spot he needed.

"CALM DOWN!" Akira yelled, slapping his claw on the special spot, a small spot on Seadramon's mask, specifically the cheek area. Seadramon stopped struggling, and landed on the sand, softly. His eyes were full of shock and surprise.

"No...no...one..." he mumbled.

"No one ever hit you there except me," Akira said for him.

"WHAT?" Seadramon's eyes retracted to the point they were little specks, but the insanity in his eyes were gone, "I…attacked…you......"

"It's okay, I understand what you were feeling," Akira patted Seadramon's ice white/blue mask, "However, there IS a way that we can save Fal. You have to trust me."

"Trust…" Seadramon mumbled again. Akira jumped off of him and let the large Digimon rise off the ground. However, he didn't take flight again; he merely knelt in the sand, like a snake would. He slithered at the frozen crystal that was at one point, a human being.

"Fal..."

--

By now, IceDevimon had de-digivolved back to Impmon and had strangely fully healed. He stood there, having a moment to crack his neck and joints.

"Man, those Dragon Vanguard geeks sure put up a fight..." He looked around, at the defeated bodies of those glitch Digimon and a few fallen Pteramon. He didn't see Garudamon anywhere, which meant he was either deleted or he retreated.

Impmon!

The same shadow, the one with red eyes, flew down next to Impmon. Its eyes glowed with a menace this time.

"Forgive me, sir!" cowered Impmon, "I…wasn't strong enough, yet." He bowed down like the figure before him was a god of some kind. In a way, he was a god, considering what he could do to him. However, the response toward Impmon wasn't what one would expect in this form of situation. Laughter. The big, deep dark shadow was laughing.

"Sir?" Impmon looked up.

You underestimate yourself, Impmon. You really think I would send an army of limited power to destroy my enemy?

"So, it was a test..." Impmon got up and dusted himself off, "You were trying to see what the Digital Khan and 'surfer boy' were capable of."

Yes, your intelligence is great, Impmon, however, you still have much to learn...

"Sir?"

I have added up there abilities. Two humans, yet one effective team. One is a tactician; the other is the field commander. Together, they make a powerful force to be reckoned with. But, they are still weak compared to me...

The shadow out stretched a hand out of the darkness, grayish in color, Come, Impmon, you have done more than your part for today.

"YES SIR!" Impmon grabbed the hand and the two seemingly teleported away from the desert...

--

Cue End Theme – "I'll be there – Megumi Hayashibara"

In a dim, trash-filled alleyway, we see Ira Caraway, his hands in his coat pockets as wind blows his silver hair into his face. Panning up slowly, we see Aero Veedramon looking down at him from atop the building to his right. Cut to a street in Sacramento, overlooking San Francisco Bay. David Milliard is on the sidewalk, leaning against a building and staring towards the ground, as rain falls from a dim and cloudy sky. As we pan to the right, dissolve into a similar view of Veemon Akira, who is doing the same except he is in a devastated village, the way he is leaning giving the impression that they're standing back to back. The sky is black, but glowing red as is rains lightly

Cut to a beach on the Southern California coast at sunset. Fal Micheal watches as the sun slowly sinks below horizon, bathing him in an orange-red light. Quickly zoom into his eye, then back out to see Serpentmon doing the same. Cut to Kana Stone sitting on a windowsill, staring out across Tokyo as the Sun sets in the distance. Dissolve to a similar scene in the Digital World with Psymon, only she is sitting on the opposite side of her window, staring out across a devastated city with columns of smoke lazily drifting across the red-orange sky.

On an empty road on Okinawa, we see Kouyuu Fukushima leaning against his car staring towards us as a heavy rain falls from the dark sky. Cut to the Digital World, Kaoline Shokai, Dianamon, and Wizardmon stare up at the Digital star filled sky. Pan and zoom to a tree to the right, Jajan looks out from behind it at her, Celermon behind him.

Cut to a gray background, the shadows of Azulongmon appears. Then, Shadow and Caspian Callaway fade into view, Lopmon Mist on Shadow's shoulder. Cut again to a dark room, where Garfield Magnus loads a handgun as Black Agumon looks on

On the plains of North America, Alan Maxwell and Oppimon stare at the dark clouds brooding in the distance ominously. In the Digital World, Titaniumon Utora stands in the shadows of some city.

A park in Tokyo, Shiro Arkov walks silently in a heavy rain, several shadows passing by him. A short distance away, Tim Areo and Dashamon watch.

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Episode 11 Cast (In Order of Arrangement)

Fal Michaels . . . . . . . . . . . . Anubis

Seadramon

Impmon

Garudamon

Panjyamon

Kana Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . Renee Aarons

Psydramon

David Milliard . . . . . . . . . . Pkmatrix

Veemon Akira

Dragon Vanguard Soldiers