It had resumed... It was foolish to hope that the trap at infinity would truly bring victory to the forces of good... On another part of File Island, Seiryu's child had been slain in battle by Fallen Devimon, and the gate that had separated the digital world from the dark ocean had finally collapsed... Now, Demon had returned from exile, and a large force of evil digimon were storming the gates at Factorial Fortress, among them a broken-winged Angemon...
On the other side of the gate, Takeru and Sora stood, prepared for the battle that would soon commence, even if Angemon could not be found... But it didn't matter, they were still more then strong enough and fighting on the defensive, where Angemon had disappeared to would have to be learned later... If only they knew that "later" meant during the ferocious combat, catching a glimpse of his white wings fighting on the other side...
But before long, the order sounded, and the battle had begun. Bloodshed, so much bloodshed on both sides... Hangyomon and Evilmon being slaughtered by massive cannons mounted on the city gates... Those Hangyomon who did manage to break through tore the Airdramon refugees in half, and the ground became littered with torn pieces of dragon flesh. And as the hideous carnage raged, the bearers of love and hope joined in the charge, weapons in hand, determined to stop the evils threatening the digital world...
"I will not let darkness engulf the digital world!" Takeru yelled, drawing the bow he had obtained in Grey Lord's mansion and firing at an oncoming Evilmon. He was shooting quickly, taking down quite a few, but... From the side, a ferocious attack, a thrown harpoon piercing his side, and he fell quickly to the ground... As the bearer of hope began to lose sight, he saw a beam of bright light coming from the other side, headed straight towards the one he cared most about, and on the other side of the beam, a kneeling angel, still torn between darkness and light...
When next he awoke, the battle might still have been going, for all he could tell, as all he could see was the bearer of love standing by his side... "Nooooo! Angemon!" He yelled fearfully, the same way he did as Devimon slew his digimon partner... But at least in that battle, Angemon may have been dead for all I knew, but at the very least, at least he wasn't fighting on the other side... Takeru thought, noticing a wound on Sora's shoulder, looking as though it had come from a staff. "Sora-chan... That wound." he said, glancing over. "I'm sorry."
Sora shook her head in response... "No, it's not your fault... Everyone has their weaknesses, there's nothing you could have done to stop it..."
"That's where you're wrong, Sora-chan. It is my fault... I know what weaknesses Demon pounced upon, and if not for me... If Angemon had never met me then there wouldn't be anything in his heart for that monster to prey upon! It wasn't loneliness he took advantage of, it was heartbreak, the heartbreak of unreturned love!" Takeru cried out, trying to explain but putting in far too much emotion to explain easily.
"I see..." Sora replied sadly, casting a sympathetic glance Takeru's way, ignoring the injury she suffered at Angemon's hands completely. "Angemon..." She added, thinking back...
She had charged into battle with the rest, wielding the flame-sword Garudamon gave her as well as ever, and the troops seemed to be breaking through... Hangyomon after Hangyomon was cut down, defeated easily as the forces of light charged... But then he came, from out of the swirling froglike masses, an angel, but one broken in body and spirit, one who had fallen to darkness, one she recognized all too well... "Heaven's Knuckle."
A wide ray of bright orangish light, the same light that had sealed Devimon and slain Phantomon... And the creator of that light had turned to darkness now... A look of sheer horror came across Sora's face, and the light pierced right through her shirt and skin, into her shoulder, as she collapsed to the ground in pain...
"The wound he gave me still hasn't healed..." Sora muttered, putting a hand to her injured shoulder, "But I'm sure you've been hurt even more..." She added sympathetically... "First his brother turns to darkness, now this? I know life can be cruel, but Takeru's had more then enough suffering already..." She thought, hoping that somehow, someway, this would end, and the bearer of hope would be able to regain his upbeat nature once more...
But just then, just as they were still trying to recover from Angemon's betrayal, a message came...
"Are you Takeru?" The Hagurumon asked.
"Yeah..." The bearer of hope responded, his mind seeming to be elsewhere.
"The walls of Factorial have fallen..." He said, his voice just gasps of horror.
"Kuso!" Takeru yelled, and then regaining his focus, opened the window and gave the following orders... "They may have breached the gates, but it takes more then that to conquer us! No, not until they've killed every last digimon will they triumph here! These digimon want to slay every last one of us, and there's no where left to run to, so let us fight, let us show those monsters the power of the digital world!"
And with that, the digimon of Factorial charged into one final battle... It seemed that there was no way they could win, yet still they charged, determined to stop evil from prevailing, even though it meant suicide...