Disclaimer: See parts 1 and 2.

Summary: Abandoned by the others, after he made Greymon digivovle into SkullGreymon, Tai seeks a meaning to his new life. Not as a Digi destined, but as a Digimon.

Back in the digital world, The DD's will face their greatest battles yet, but can they overcome the guilt and fear inside of them to fight through and save both worlds.



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Twist of fate
Part XIV
World of Darkness
Part 2.
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Metalseadramon curled around the upper part of the arena pillars surrounding the arena with a dark chuckle as he watched the three human like hybrids walking towards the human children in a steady pace. "Well now, I hope you like our surprise, even if they are going to destroy all of you." Laughing out loudly at the words, the mega digimon focused his eyes on the digimons getting ready to fight for the children. "Finally! Now, kill them all off."

Fire flashed wildly in the air as Mira also known as Digi Destined 15 jumped off her pillar and hurled down toward Lillymon and Birddramon before the words of MetalSeadramon had finished, Her face a lit with joy as she started off with backhanding the fairy digimon away and kicking Birddramon into the ground. "Come on, I'll finish all of you."

Spinning around the air and stopping her backward movement, Lillymon growled as she formed her flower cannon, taking aim right for the smirking face of Mira who had started to stomp on Birddramon with a passion. "Why you, leave her alone. Flower Cannon!" Sending of the green bullet of Energy, Lillymon cheered as it impacted Mira right where it should and sent her flying into the wall surrounding the arena.

Taking the opening that had appeared, Birddramon pushed off from the ground and took to the air, her true domain as she soared out over the battlefield that the area had turned into, doing a sharp turn when she had built up enough speed to do so. "Lillymon, out of the way!" Diving down, she folded her wings in and formed her main attack as her eyes glowed with anger. "Meteor Wing!"

Pushing the rubble away form her, Mira screamed out in anger as she spun around to face the two digimon who's power she possessed, freezing as several fireballs hammered down onto her, forcing her to her knees and into the rubble once more, her muffled curses still ringing out as the fire died down.

Pushing off the rock lying on top of her, Mira slowly rose to her feet as she looked down at the ground, a single tear running down her cheek. "You, you hurt me." Mouth turning into a thin line as her hands clenched up, the Sora/Mimi look a like eyes flashed with burning hate as she fixed them on the Birddramon moving around in the air along with Lillymon. "Die you wretched mons!" Pushing her hands against one another, she grinned as they morphed together to form a cannon similar to Lillymon's. "Flower cannon!"

The pixy type digimon gave a cry of pain as she was blasted out of the sky by her own attack, smacking into the ground with a thud, the impact sending up a small dust cloud. "Ouch." Mumbling out the word, lillymon pulled herself up in time to see Mira rush towards her, then a vicious kick hit her in the stomach and sent her flying again.

Flying down to help her, Birddramon blinked when the hybrid girl reformed her cannon into two hands again. "Foolish, you should have kept your weapon." Birddramon cried out as she leveled out her descend for another attack on the hybrid.

"Really." Mira spoke as she spread her arms out to the side, grinning as they began glowing a bright yellow as energy formed and spread out to cover them in an imitation of wings. "Wing Blade!"

Birddramon barely got out of the way as the fire attack shot up into the air, forcing her to give up her attack, and leaving her wide open as the fire attack came back down, slamming into her back and driving her into the ground next to Lillymon.

The pixy digimon shook her head as she stood up, watching her foe for any sudden attacks. "Maybe, it won't be such an easy fight after all." She mumbled out as she began to reform her cannon.

"You think?" Birddramon replied as she saw the fire spread around the hybrid girl's arms again,

"Die!" Yakeru roared out the word as he kicked Garurumon into the air, turning around in time to deflect Angemon's staff and sucker punch him right in the face with all of his strength. "Really, two champions, I have the power of one Ultimate level digimon with in me, and you hope to stop me with two champions."

Moving into a better fighting stance, Angemon sneered as he twirled his staff around in the air, his face staying fixed on Yakeru's position the whole time. "Well, if you're so powerful, why don't you show us it?" Gritting his teeth, Angemon cursed as he could clearly feel the part of TK that Yakeru had been made from inside the hybrid boy, the feeling of it making it hard to focus when he looked at him.

On the ground, Garurumon rose up and fixed his eyes on the back of Yakeru as he power up an attack, smirking as the hybrid wasn't even looking at him. "Wolf Blaster!" Sending the attack out, he grinned on the inside as the smaller human from was sent flying into the center of the arena to skid across the ground. "Don't just stand there, Angemon, do something."

"What?" Angemon asked as he shook his head a bit before smiling. "Oh yes, sorry, I was, distracted for a bit." Flying up into the air, he pulled back his left arm and felt the power built up inside of it. "I'm sorry, if things were different, we might have been friends." Punching the air, Angemon released the power in his hand as he gave a sad smile. "Hand of Fate!"

Rushing through the air, the beam of white energy was suddenly hit by a second beam of light, the two beams fighting to overpower the other one before they simply melted together and blew up, a rush of dirt rising up as a small cloud of dust that filled the air.

"What?" Both Angemon and Garurumon mumbled out as the dust slowly fell down to reveal Yakeru's form slowly stepping out through the dust, his eyes narrowed as he turned his head to look up at Angemon. "Wolf Claw!" At the last word, his hand lit up with blue fire that shut up into the air and smacked into Angemon, sending the angel type digimon flying backwards through the air, before he turned to stare at Garurumon. "You, you and that fur covered mutt, will pay for this, now, die you stupid fur coat!" Punching the air with his other hand, a second beam of white light blasted out from the clenched fist as Yakeru roared out a sound similar to an animal howling.

Waiting patiently, Joeshiro breathed out slowly as he looked at Ikkakumon lumbering towards the pillar and MegaKabuterimon hovering in the air over him as the insect digimon waited for him to do something, anything. "Geez, can't you two losers at least try and do something, or do you want me to start this?"

On the ground, Izzy and Joe blinked as they rushed to get to safety, both of their eyes moving to stare at each other as they went over the words. "He looks like us, but he's got the mind of Gomamon." Joe commented as they reached the other kids at the far end of the Arena.

"I know." Izzy commented as he turned to see MegaKabuterimon open up with a Horn Buster attack, reducing the pillar that Joeshiro had been standing on to nothing but rubble flying throug the air. "But he's got a reason for it, with both of our digimon's power, he's stronger then a simple Ultimate." Looking at the other kids with him, Izzy eyes landed on Kari standing with Angewomon and Tai at her side. "And that means, we'll need some extra help to defeat them with."

Hearing the words, Kari turned and looked at the other kids around her. "Angewomon can help, but Tai, I'm concerned for you." She spoke as she turned to stare at her brother towering up over her. "You really shouldn't be doing this, what if you go on a rampage again?"

Tai looked down at his sister and gave a smile as he reached out a hand and ruffled her hair. "Kari, sometimes, you have to take risks to win." Looking at the battle, Tai flexed his muscles. "And this time, we must take that risk."

Angewomon nodded as she began to fly forward, taking aim at Yakeru who had begun to use Angemon as a punching bag after getting nailed with a staff hit in the back of his knees. "You help Joe and Izzy, I'll handle Yakeru" Rushing forward, she pulled back her and formed her bow and arrow, taking care to keep the grinning hybrid in the line of her sight.

"Well, well, looks like I do get to have some fun myself." Metalseadramon chuckled as he moved to protect the hybrids from Tai and Kari, his cold eyes staring right into theirs as he began to move towards them. "This time Digi Destined, you will be the losers."

Glaring up at the digimon, Tai began to power up one of his attacks as he rushed forward, taking care to avoid the rubble form the other battles taking place. "Never" Tai roared out as slammed both his hands into the ground. "Burn Blast!!"

Angewomon flew as far up as she could, re aiming her arrow at the mega digimon as she gave a grim smile. "Chinobimon is right Metalseadramon, there's no way you can stop us. Celestial Arrow."

Roaring up form the ground, the large fireball hammered into the stomach area of the snake like digimon with no result in the way of damage, with the celestial arrow impacting right on the nose of Metalseadramon, bouncing off in a show of sparks as it failed to even leave a mark on the metal covering the mega digimon's body.

Laughing as he watched the two digimons move back, the mega digimon moved to face Angewomon, the cannon on his nose warming up as a blue light swarmed into it with a loud hissing sound. "Enough of this nonsense, there's no way any of you can stand up to me, or the other Dark Masters. River of Power." Letting lose his attack, the laughter of the digimon could be heard clearly over Angewomon's scream as the angel digimon took a direct hit.

"Angewomon!" Kari's voice filled the air as the angel digimon fell to the ground in a shower of feathers, a golden light flowing over her as she got nearer and nearer to the young girl rushing towards her. "Gatomon!"

Metalseadramon laughter still rang out as he noticed the human girl grabbing the feline like digimon, her careless behavior bringing her out right into the middle of the area where he could get a better chance at finishing her off. "Digi destined brat, haven't someone told you to watch where you going." Hammering out with his tail, Metalseadramon knocked down several pillars and a part of the wall as he aimed to trap the girl in a death grip.

"Kari!"

Turning her head at the roar, Kari blinked as Tai suddenly was there, pushing her out of the way as a large shadow moved over the area to encircle him. "Tai!"

Metalseadramon blinked as he got a closer look at what he had gotten his hands on, the struggling feline warrior not looking like the little human girl he had expect to capture. "Wrong victim huh?" Looking closer at him, the snake like digimon laughed as he began to tighten his hold on him. "Doesn't matter, I'll kill you, the girl and laugh as the hybrids finish off your friends." Eyes gleaming with evil as he spoke, Metalseadramon went off on another laughing fit. "The only down side is that the other Dark Masters won't even get to toy with you."

"Tai?" Kari voice turned small as she saw the pained expression on her brother's face, her eyes moving to see the other children's digimon struggling to stand up to the hybrids, and barely managing to do so. "No, you leave him alone!" Kari's voice filled the air again as she stood up, one hand moving down to the two digivice in her belt. "I said. Leave him alone!!!"

The fights stopped as a loud screeching sound filled the air, then a pulsing yellow light shot out from Tai's digivice and into the struggling digimon, his eyes snapping open as he simply froze in the death grip of the evil mega digimon, the yellow light flowing out all over him, flaring up as soon as it had covered all of him. "Chinobimon, Digivovle too..."

"No!" The words made Tai stop his digivolving as he, Kari and Metalseadramon turned around to see a yellow red blur rush in through the hole in the arena's wall, landing on the ground with a thud. Showing it to be a very lion like digimon with two large tusk jutting down from its upper jaw part. "You will not hurt the kids anymore."

Giving a very dark laugh at the words, Metalseadramon tighten his hold on Tai as he moved closer to face the new digimon who had just jumped in to face his doom. "And I supposed you will stop me if I refuse to do so?" Speaking in a very mocking tone, Metalseadramon began to power up his main attack as he aimed right at the lion like digimon's face. "I think not you loser mon, River of Power!!"

Jumping out of the way as the attack was let lose, the lion digimon gave it's best imitation of a grin as it felt the shockwave pass close by, then the wall behidn hit explode as it faced the full power of Metalseadramon's attack, sending a large cloud of dust and rubble flying, making the fights stop as everyone turned to face it, just as it had been planned by them.

Landing on the ground and keeping his eyes on Metalseadramon, the lion digimon opened his mouth and yelled out as loud as he could "NOW!!"

"Pummel Whack!"

"Aerial Attack!"

"Solar Ray!"

Things slowed down for a few seconds as more digimons get involved in the fight, the three of them jumping out of various hiding places as they attacked one of the Hybrids each.

Mira turned her head just in time to noticed that it was an Ogremon attacking her before she received a blast of pure negative energy in the chest, sending her flying backwards through the air screaming.

Joeshiro head looked up as a flying form passed over him, a ball of white blue energy ripping into the ground before him as he jumped back, the shockwave knocking him down into the arena where he landed rather painfully on the ground.

Yakeru barely managed to duck the attack aimed at him as he glared at the Centarymon who had attacked him like that, pure hate washing through his as he lifted up his hand. "You, you're one of the Rebel digimon leaders, I shall enjoy killing you." Rushing forward, the hybrid human digimon cast a quick glance to the side, as the air seemed itself to shimmer briefly. "What?"

"Pixi Bomb!"

Then the air itself turned a bright white, blinding him and most of the others present in the arena, Metalseadramon's roar filled the air a second later as the mega digimon felt his trapped opponent escape from his hold.

Eyes returning to normal after a few seconds, Metalseadramon head moved from side to side as he struggled to locate the place where the children and their digimons had run off to. "Where are they? where are those Brats?"

On the ground, the hybrids looked up at him with mixed expression, but all of them feeling just as frustrated at the mega digimon. "Lord Moonmilleniummon won't like this." Mira mumbled out as she began to calm down.

"I'll say." Metalseadramon spat out as he turned to face them. "Since this mess, is all your fault!"

Mira's face turned an ugly shade of red as she snapped a finger out to point at the large digimon. "What do you mean its our fault, you're just as much to blame for this as me are."

Glaring at her for all he was worth, Metalseadramon growled as he briefly entertained the thought of wiping the hybrid out with a well-placed river of power attack. But, the thought of what Moonmilleniummon would do in response to that had him control his anger enough to ignore her.

Yakeru snorted as he turned his head away form the bickering hybrid and digimon, staring hard at a part of the wall that look a bit too distorted for it to be caused by desert heat. "Hand of Fate!"

Turning his head around at the sudden scream and firing of an attack, Metalseadramon stared as he saw a small shimmering in the air up ahead, shattering as a small digimon grinned as it flew towards the upper parts of the Arena. "Piximon, you little fool, River of Power!"

The powerful energy plowed through the part of the Arena where Piximon had been, sending up dust, dirt and stone bits as the ground itself blew up. "Well, now I'm feeling a lot better." Turning his head, Metalseadramon growled a bit as he rose up into the air. "Let's head back to base, and then you three can explain Moonmilleniummon the reason for not killing off the brats."

"It was your fault as well." Mira yelled out as she glared up the floating mega digimon.

"Shut up." Came the response from him as he flew off.

Grumbling a bit, Mira crossed her arms as she turned to the others. "It was also his fault, right!"

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Sitting on his throne, Piedmon smiled to himself as he tapped a finger on the armrest. "Such skilled creatures these humans, and with so loyal friends." Laughing a bit at the comment, he stood up and cracked his neck to get rid of a few kinks as he stepped down the steps leading up to his grand telescope. "LadyDevimon."

At his command, a shadow in the corner of the room grew a bit darker as the leather clad woman slid out of it, her red eyes staring at her master's back as she landed on the black marble floor. "You called Lord Piedmon?"

Not even turning around at her words, Piedmon placed his wineglass on the table in front of the sofa. "Yes, I will be leaving my castle for a while, and I'm placing you in charge of it while I'm gone." Stepping over towards the door, Piedmon stopped and turned around to look at her. "Oh yes, make sure to tape the brats next fights with Moonmilleniummon's little creations, somehow, I think they make those long evenings seem so much more fun."

Laughing a bit as her master left, LadyDevimon smiled as she floated up to sit on the throne, running her left hand over the armrest in front of her. "So, I'm in charge now." Flexing her fingers, the devil woman tapped her chin as she started into the darkness of the main room. "Well, I could at least see how the brats are handling themselves."

Tuning to the telescope, she grinned as she turned it to watch the digital desert, moving the view over the large area the desert made up. "Now, where are the little humans anyway." Smirking as she spotted them, a wicked gin spread on her face as she summoned up a glass of wine for herself. "Well, well, looks like they're with the rebel digimons, this could be a great chance for me to prove just how better I am then the rest of the dark masters lord Piedmon works with." Still laughing, the devil woman floated back up into the shadows, melting into them.

Outside the throne room, Piedmon stopped as he grinned, fully aware of what his most trusted servant was planning behind his and everyone else's back, and fully supporting it. If she could do that, he might just allow her to reach her mega form and take a place as co-ruler of the digital world with him, and as an alley in the coming war.

Floating up into the air and down the hallway, Piedmon cast a look out the front door of his castle and out onto the top of Spiral Mountain itself as he pushed the doors open. "My domain, until it was taken from me." Looking up, he grimaced as he spotted the distortion in the air, and behind it the human's world. "Myotismon, such a worthy opponent, too bad he never got a chance to show just what he was truly able to do."

Floating even further up into the air, Piedmon grinned as he reached the distortion in the air, landing on it with a bit of difficulty as he couldn't really judge just what he was stepping on. Then he stepped through the distortion itself and into what he could only describe as a mad house.

Dark green corridors with metal pipes and machines on the walls raced off in several directions around him, with dozens of digimons running back and fourth to complete their orders. Tn building this nightmare, Moonmilleniummon had proven just how mad he really was, at least that was his opinion, Piedmon thought as he floated down the corridors into the center of the place.

As he rounded a corner, a smirk grew on Piedmon's face as he spotted one of his fellow dark masters coming down the corridor towards him, a dark scowl on his face as he struggled to get that stupid look hat to stay on his head and not fall of in the drafty place. "Ah Puppetmon, you're looking rather happy today."

Growling a bit, Puppetmon stopped as he looked up at the one digimon who outranked him in the ruling line of digimons they had settled for. "Real funny Piedmon, tell me, are you always so eager to do as he orders." Puppetmon's face lit up with a grin as he saw the death glare Piedmon gave him. "Now, if you will excuse me, it's time for me to hunt for the rebel digimons."

"Puppetmon." Piedmon looked down at the wooden digimon as he spoke his name, eyes staring through the dark masters as he rubbed his chin while thinking. "Tell me, do you really approve of this perfect world plan of his?"

Puppetmon didn't answered as he looked away form Piedmon, one hand clenched at his side as his mind went over the amount of destruction Moonmilleniummon had given his forest when he had begun to take over their domains bit by bit, leaving him with a small area and an order to keep the rest of the forests free of rebel digimons. "Maybe, if it means I can get back to my old life, then yes, hunting for digimons all the time gets boring."

Piedmon smiled a bit as he nodded, moving further down the corridor as Puppetmon left the corridor. "So, I'm not the only one with doubts about this, but even if Puppetmon doesn't like this, he won't rise up against our current leader." The mega digimon stopped as he reached the rather large doors at the end of the corridor. "Yes, it would be best if he wasn't around at all."

Opening the doors, Piedmon stared up the two headed digimon sealed up inside the crystal before him with narrowed eyes full of hate. "Lord Moonmilleniummon, I have returned and am ready to begin my job." Voice dripping with fake kindness as he spoke, the mega digimon never even bothered to look up at his master.

Forced out of his thoughts at the voice of Piedmon, Moonmilleniummon growled a bit as he lost track of what he had been thinking about. "Good, the workers need someone to look over them, if not, they will never get finished with the important parts in time."

Piedmon gritted his teeth, as the evil digimon didn't turn around to face him when handing out the order to him; instead, he was left feeling left out like a rookie digimon in the middle of a group of mega digimons. "It shall be as you wish, master." Turning around, Piedmon left the room as he curled up both hands, oh yeah, some of those digimons would wish they had never heard about him, let alone met him.

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SaberLeomon lead the group quickly through the desert with quick jumps, never running faster or slower then he had for the last 10 minutes the track through the desert had taken so far. Casting a quick look to side, he smiled as he noticed none of the Digi Destined had fallen behind on the quick run. "Children, are you all okay?"

Smiling back at him, Mimi gave him a thumps up from where she was sitting on Garurumon, her cowboy hat on her back as the wind had knocked it off her head. "We're fine Leomon, thank you for saving us."

"It was the least I could do." Saberleomon responded as he began to slow down, his eyes moving around the area of the desert they were currently in, making sure none of their enemies were nearby. "Okay, it looks like it's safe to stop running for now."

Feeling some of the kids sliding down form his back, Saberleomon allowed himself to let go of the power he had, and glowed bright yellow as he changed back into the form he had had back on File Island so long ago. "Okay, now I'm sure you have a lot of questions, but they will have to wait for now." Looking at the rest of the strange group, Leomon nodded to himself as he stepped up to Kari and Tai. "So, Gennai was right when he told about this, guess thing are as dark as he thinks they are be."

Tai and Kari nodded as they faced the rather large lion man before them with a friendly smile on their faces. "Leomon, what happened here?" Kari asked as she reached down and hugged her brother for support.

Leomon nodded as he took his place before the kids on the sand. "It a long story children, but here goes." Closing his eyes, Leomon recounted the events that had taken place while the Digi Destined had returned to Earth, finally ending with the arrival of Moonmilleniummon. "He attacked without warning, wiping out digimons left and right, The dark masters tried to fight him, but instead of working together, they went up against him in a few one on one battles." Leomon's voice turned bitter as he held onto his sword. "And when he had nearly defeated them in battle, he gave them a choice, join him or die like the rest of the digital world would."

Matt grimaced at the recount, feeling a coldness sweeping through him as one thought replayed itself inside his head all the time, making a single tear form in his left eye. "It's my fault, if I weren't so weak, he wouldn't have possessed me and been able to do all of this."

Looking over at Matt as he spoke, Sora's clenched her fist before smacking the blond haired boy on the side of his head to snap him out of his dark thoughts. "Will you stop that, we're all responsible, if we had been able to work as a team and support each other better back then, this wouldn't have happened."

Looking form one of them to the other, TK shook his head as he could feel just how frustrated the group was, with themselves and the others. "Shut up all of you." Standing up, he glance form one of them to the other. "We can't fight right now, we have to find a safe place to hide out."

"Right." Tai added in as he broke out of his sister's hold. "TK's right, we can't do much more now, but we can try and undo this mess when we're rested."

Agreeing the kids' turned to stare at Leomon as Izzy gave a small cough to get the lion man like digimon's attention. "Um, Leomon, how is that Ogremon is helping us, isn't he one of the evil digimons?"

Ogremon snorted at the words as he turned to face the Digi destined. "I'm evil yes, but even I have a limit to what I accept." Ogremon's voice took a dark tone as he clenched his free hand into a fist. "The Dark Master's destroyed Pirmary Village, killing off digimons who couldn't even defend themselves." Eyes nearly flashing with his anger as he spoke, Ogremon slammed his club into the sand. "And Moonmilleniummon, he's even worse, he traps the data of defeating Digimons, preventing them from ever getting reborn."

Leomon nodded as he stood up, his massive hands clenched at his side as he took a deep breath. "But, now that you have returned, we might stand a chance against this darkness." Speaking sincerely, the lion man like digimon turned to regard his digimon companions and allies. "Ogremon, Centarumon, Unimon." Seeing them look up at him, he gave a small smile when he noticed the dark look on Ogremon's face, the only sign that even if they were allied in this, they still had that deep and long rivalry going. "Protect the back, Piximon will look out for us in the air, and I'll take the left side, I trust your digimons can handle the right side." Leomon added as he looked down at the children before him.

"A good plan, but it won't help."

Looking up at the words, Leomon gave a deep curse when he spotted the female leather clad figure descended from the sky with a wicked grin on her face showing her fangs. "LadyDevimon. She's Piedmon's bodyguard."

Smiling at the introduction made by the lion man like digimon, LadyDevimon laughed as she gave a small bow down at them, her crimson eyes moving over the group before her. "Why Leomon, so nice of you to introduce me, but maybe I've come at a bad time." Giving a dramatic silence in her speech, LadyDevimon grinned when she noticed the tense and scared look on most of the kids' faces. "My, my, looks like you could all use some rest, the eternal kind of rest."

Sora and Kari glared up at her as they clenched their hands, already feeling angry at her, Kari the most since she looked so much like Angewomon. "Even sounds like a witch." She mumbled out as Sora nodded her head.

In the air, LadyDevimon left eye twitched as she head the comment quite clearly. "Why you, I'll make you pay for that."

Leomon growled as he clenched up his hand, power lighting up the air around it. "Fist of the Beast King!"

Smacking away the lion shaped projectile before it hit her, LadyDevimon grinned at the angry look on Leomon's face. "Sorry about that, but I can't spend time fighting you today."

"Leomon!" Ogremon's voice cut through the air as the green skinned digimon stepped up next to him. "Get the kids to safety, I'll deal with her."

A brief flash of concern went across Leomon's face as he watched the ogre like digimon. "But, we have to fight her together, we're to weak for a one on one fight."

Watching them, LadyDevimon broke out into a dark laughter as she listened to their conversation. "Even together, you couldn't hope to beat me." Spreading her arms out to the side, she grinned at them. "Darkness Wave"

"Damn it." Ogremon cursed as the bats flew out from LadyDevimon and headed towards the kids. "There's no time for this Leomon, just get them to safety" Jumping into the path of the bats, Ogremon curled up his hand as flung it forward as a dark wave formed around it, shooting out to stop the first bats form reaching him. "Pummel Whack!" The next wave fell against his club as he swung it from side to side.

Leomon nodded as he turned to the group again. "Right." Then he ran over to grab Sora and Kari, holding them close to him as he began to run away. "Everyone, run as fast as you can."

At his command, the kids not held by Leomon and the digimons began to run across the sand dunes, as fast as they could. Not really wanting to be around to see what LadyDevimon would do to the ogre like digimon standing in her way.

"You won't escape." LadyDevimon roared out as she began to follow after them, only to have Ogremon jump up to attack her head on with his club. "Out of my way foolish digimon." Battering him aside, she grinned as she flew up and drove right down at where he had landed. "Goodbye, Evil Wing!"

Giving a loud scream, Ogremon felt the sudden sharp point that LadyDevimon's right arm had become, stab right through his heart and out the other side. Her attack finally stopping when he had LadyDevimon's face just a few centimeters above his own. "I'm sorry kids, I failed." Turning his head to the side as he spoke, Ogremon arm fell down to the side as he stared at Leomon still running away from them. "Goodbye, my rival."

Flying back up, LadyDevimon grinned as a cloud of digi data floated past her. "Now, for the rest of them." Flying across the sky, she smirked as she spotted the Digi destined and the rebel digimons running away from her just a bit further ahead in the desert. "Darkness Wave."

"No" Stopping as soon as he heard the attack name, Leomon dumped Sora and Kari on the ground before he covered them as good as he could, the bats hammering into his back and tearing his skin open as they tried to get through him and down to the kids he shielded. "Arrhhhh."

"Blue Blaster!"

"Spiral Twister!"

Leomon pushed off the ground as soon as Gabumon's and Biyomon's attack had removed the bat's from his back, his eyes turning from the relief over getting saved, to pure anger when he spotted the evil digimon laughing at them as she flew through the air with a sick grin on her face. "Fist of the Beast King!"

"Ha!" Just as before, LadyDevimon simply battered the attack away form her, her eyes glinting darkly as she began to float a bit closer to the ground. "Do you understand now, you can't escape from me." Lifting up her hands, she gave a dark smirk at them. "So, who shall be my first victim!"

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A single beam of light shone form the ceiling as the crystal figure came into view, the four yellow eyes glowing as they took in the layout of the room, the five pillars rising up from the darkness making out the floor, four of them serving as a place for a digimon or hybrid to stand.

But even if they were his most trusted servants there, the yellow eyes ignored the three human like figures and focused on the snake like creature who had taken up position on the fourth pillar, right in front of him.

Anger were the most present feeling in the room as Moonmilleniummon felt ready to begin his rant, his rage aimed at the lone Dark Master covering before him on the ground. "They failed because you allowed those blasted rebels to enter into my domain, do you have any idea what this means to my plans?" The voice boomed back form the walls as the crystal-incased digimon lowered towards the ground. "Well, answer me dammit."

Metalseadramon lifted his head up from where he had covered and stared into the four cold eyes glaring back at him, the evil in them making him shiver as he thought of the few places where he could have seen evil like that before. And reaching a number rather quickly as only one other digimon came to mind. "How could I have know they were there, I take care of the water areas of the digital world, they must have come through one of Puppetmon's zones."

"So, it's not you who failed in killing off all rebel digimons." Moonmilleniummon growled out as he moved away form Metalseadramon in a much faster pace then he had approached in, his four eyes moving around to face the other beings in the room. "Puppetmon will be warned about this, as for you MetalSeadramon, I want you to lead the hunt for the Digi Destined."

Bowing his head quickly, Metalseadramon let out a breath of air as the anger of his master had been removed from him, and turned towards one of the other Dark Master's. But for how long, Digimon's who had gained the anger of this evil digimon never lived long enough to suffer it again, and being one of the strongest digimons around, it didn't really mean that he was safe from a quick and painful deletion. "It shall be as you wish."

As Metalseadramon left the room in a hurry, Moonmilleniummon turned to face the three hybrids standing on the pillars his eyes taking on a much more calmer look then before. "Mira, Joeshiro, go join him. Yakeru, step forward." Waiting as two of the figures bowed before fading away, he watched the third one step forward. "Yakeru, explain me the real reason for the loss of this battle, one of the most important ones."

Yakeru gave a bow at the command as he stood up, his mind going back to the battle and trying to remember as much of it as he could. "We were crushing them, or we were until the rebel digimons interfered." Yakeru stopped as he felt the anger form Moonmilleniummon at the mentioning of the rebel digimons, "Metalseadramon had attacked the unknown digimons in their group and were also caught by surprise. "

"And so you lost." Moonmilleniummon ended for Yakeru as he rose up into the air, his four eyes staring at the darkness of the room. "You have the power of an champion angel digimon and an ultimate in you, and yet, they managed to fool you all." Seeing Yakeru flush with anger, Moonmilleniummon smirked as he moved backwards again, a new figure fading into view before them. "Datamon, take our warrior here to the laboratory, I want you to begin Project Omega at once."

Datamon smirked as he watched Yakeru fade away as he was teleported to the labs in the middle of Machidramon's city, the heart of one of the strongest sectors of the Dark Masters Empire. "It shall be as you wish." Looking up at the mega digimon as he began to move again, Datamon gave a small cough. "Lord Moonmilleniummon, shall I proceed with the creation of Digi destined 16?"

"Yes." Moonmilleniummon hissed out as he turned back to face his chief scientist and leader of the hybrid project. "I want him ready to fight in two weeks, you understand?" The level of tone used by the Mega digimon left no doubt that he wouldn't accept anything else but that.

Datamon gulped as he bowed as deep as he could. "Crystal clear, my lord."

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"Darkness wave!"

"Solar ray!"

"Fist of the beast king!"

"Aerial attack!"

Screaming loudly, the digi destined feel back as the four digimons began to battle for real, the dark powers of LadyDevimon against the combined attacks of Leomon, Centarumon and Unimon. The bats sent out by LadyDevimon falling down as the each of the other three attacks hit them.

Cursing the outcome a bit, LadyDevimon floated back up into the air and stared at the three digimons who had jumped in between her and the kids form the real world. "Why do you keep on standing in my way? The kids won't even fight together with you."

Looking back at them, Leomon cursed as he saw the drained look on the digi destined Digimon's faces, the exhaustion of the last battle they had been through clear on the humans faces as well. "Damn, this is not a good day." Then he looked over at the only thing remaining from Ogremon, the club lying on a sand dune several maters behind them, a sign of how much the rival digimon of his had been willing to give up for those kids. "So what, they have risked their lives for us in the past, it's time we pay them back." Jumping back and pulling out his sword, Leomon began to run across the sand towards LadyDevimon.

Centaumon nodded as he lifted up his cannon hand again. "I agree with Leomon, they free me from Devimon's control and defeated a foe I couldn't have stopped." Powering his attack again, the horseman like digimon nodded to Unimon who had run off to the left. "And I will pay them back for it, by protecting them form you! Solar Ray!"

"Aerial Attack!" Unimon roared up on his hind legs as he fired of the sphere of energy, aimed directly at LadyDevimon unguarded back head.

Sneering down at them, LadyDevimon reached out a hand stopped the Solar Ray attack and Turned around in time to block the attack form Unimon as well. "Then you're not doing a good job, or are you just warming up?" Spinning around, she grinned as she grabbed Leomon just as he was in the top of his jump towards her. "Tsk, Tsk, you can't sneak up on me Leomon."

Spinning around, she gave a dark laugh as she flung the Lion man like digimon down into the ground under her, dust rising up as a loud roar of pain followed. "Now, for the finishing blow." Shooting down, she held her right hand out in front of her as it formed into the shark needle like form again. "Evil Wing!"

"No!" Matt's voice cut through the air as he turned to look at Gabumon next to him. "Gabumon, do it!"

Gabumon nodded as he began to glow brightly. "Gabumon, digivovle too... Garurumon." Not wasting time with aiming or running forward, Garurumon simply opened his mouth and used the last bit of energy he had to attack LadyDevimon. "Wolf Blaster!"

Giving a loud cruse as she was pushed off her target by the attack, LadyDevimon turned her head to the side in time to spot the dedigivolving wolf digimon responsible for it, then she felt her needle arm strike digi flesh instead of the ground as she had expected. Turning her head down, she grinned when she spotted the shoulder she had priced instead of Leomon's heart.

"Leomon!" The cry rang out over the desert as Mimi stared at the badly hurt digimon, her crest lighting up on her chest with a brilliant green glow. "Get away from him!"

Next to her, Palmon began to glow as well as she started to run forward, using the energy Mimi were sending to her through her crest. "Palmon, Digivole too..."

"I think not." LadyDevimon spat out as she flew back up into the air as Palmon started to run forward. "Darkness Wave!"

Giving a loud scream, Palmon was hurled back into the sand, rolling over a few times before glowing bright yellow and turning into her in-training form. "Mimi."

Eyes tearing up at the sight, Mimi reached down a hand and picked up Tanemon. "Are you, hurt?"

"No." Tanemon replied as she gave a weak moan. "But, I won't be digivolving anytime soon."

Hugging her digimon close, Mimi lifted her head up and stared at LadyDevimon as she hovered in the air above them, her red eyes glowing as she spread her arms out to the side. "And so it ends, Darkness..."

"Pixi Bomb!"

"...What?" LadyDevimon cried out as something slammed into her, giving off a bright light as she hurled backwards into the desert floor, a geyser of sand shooting up form where she impacted it. "Who was that?" Spitting out the question as she rose back up, her left eye twitched, as all she could see were sand in all directions.

Clenching her hands, her eyes narrowed as she bit down on her lip. "I swear digi destined, that it will be me who finishes you all off." Descending, a hole of pure darkness formed under, allowing her to enter the shadows that would take her back to the Dark Masters castle on top of Spiral Mountain.

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Gennai sighed as he stared down at the group of sleeping kids on the floor, his eyes taking on a more gentle and caring look then ever as he turned around, walking out the door and into the main room, spotting the group of Digimon sitting around the table waiting for him.

Leomon, arms still wrapped up in a thick bandage were looking down at the table with a dark glare, the undamaged hand gripping tightly around a simple wooden club. "Ogremon, a noble and fierce warrior to the end." Gently placing the club on the table before him, the Lion man looked up at Gennai. "How are the children, not hurt are they?"

Gennai, sitting down at the head of the table stared into each of the Digimon's faces as he clenched his hands. "Leomon, the Children are fine, but, mentally, they are tired." Seeing the questioning glance shared between some of the others around the table, he gave a small smile. "It is to be expected, they have been fighting and struggling for so long."

Piximon, hovering down from Andromon's shoulder sat calmly in the middle of the table as he grinned to himself, no news, no matter how dark, would ever be able to break his cheerful nature. "When the kids wake up, I'll train them a bit, they never received my guidance the first time, and something tells me, they are in need of it, Love and Friendship the most of them."

Gennai, nodding to the words slowly turned and stared at the group of Koromons and various Agumon's crowded around the fourth end of the table. "I'm sorry, but Snowagumon and the other digimons from the Eastern part of the resistance, have been defeated as well."

An Agumon, eyes closed at the news, sighed a bit as he looked back at the group behind him. "So, despite all of our work, we are still getting driven back, it is only a matter of time before we are completely destroyed." Claws digging into the soft wooden table, the Agumon's mouth was covered in fire as his anger rose. "Datamon, that bastard and his creations have been hunting down every kind of Agumon he could find to fuel his experiments and work as slaves in the cities."

A deep growl came from Leomon as he stared at the dinosaur like digimon at the end of the table. "You think they are the only ones suffering Agumon? Primary Village, all of File Island, is gone, all of it, the land, digimons and ocean. All of it deleted to fuel that madmon's quest for the perfect world."

Andromon, didn't say anything as he was far to busy staring over at Gennai on the other side of the table as the old humon were going over several data files. "Gennai, now that the Digi Destined have returned, it is time to strike back and free the Digital World correct."

Gennai, not looking up from his work, nodded in reply as he gave a smile, the whole northern wall of his house flickered as it turned on to show a map of Spiral mountain and the remains of the Digital World. "Well, it's not going to be that easy to retake this world, but I have found at last four target's we should focus on for now." Pulling out his good old pointing stick, he coughed as he walked up to it. "Tomorrow, you Piximon will try and help Love and Friendship overcome their doubt in themselves, the rest of us, will work on informing the children of the current state of this world."

Nodding at the words from Gennai, Leomon stood up as he yawned a bit himself. "Well, seeing the kids sleeping after the battle today, I think it is only fair that we do the same, so, see you all tomorrow" nodding to the group of digimons, Gennai replaced his pointing stick and walked off to find his bed as well. Seeing that hey would get no where anyway.

Around the table, Leomon didn't say a single world as the other digimons began to stand up, his eyes staring at the club before him as he curled up both of his hands. "You will pay for this LadyDevimon, I swear it."

TBC: World of Darkness. Part 3.

AN: Another chapter done of this fic, and so the plot moves along, slowly but steady. I hope you all like it so far, and will keep on reading it all the way to the end.

For some reason, I had a few problems writing this chapter, I knew what I wanted to write but I had a few problems getitng it out the right way, but I hope that the result I came up with lived up to your hopes.

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A chart of my Fan made Digimon's.

File: 003
Name: Chinobimon.
Type: Warrior.
Attribute: Vaccine.
Level: Ultimate.
Attacks: Flare Bombs, Burn Blast.
Description: A true warrior, Chinobimon is known for his willingness to protect those he cares for. Standing roughly the same height as Angemon, this cat man like digimon wears a Chinese styled fighting outfit that embraces his way of fighting.

File: 005
Name: Archchimon.
Type: Warrior.
Attribute: Vaccine.
Level: Mega.
Attacks: Claws of The Beast, Spirit Blast.
Description: Out of Control, this digimon has a lot of power to use, but has no direction or cllear goal when it comes down to it. Standing about as tall as Angemon, this digimon has sharp metal claws on his arms that can cut trough almost anything.