Twist of Fate

by Demino

Abandoned by the others, after he made Greymon digivolve into SkullGreymon, Tai seeks a meaning to his new life. Not as a Digi destined, but as a Digimon. The Hybrid arc is almost over.

18. Part XVII

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 friendship and love 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 3.
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"Lord Piedmon?" LadyDevimon mumbled out as she bowed before the clown digimon, her eyes downcast with fear at his reaction to her failure, and her loss of honor.

Not answering her right away, Piedmon hummed a bit to himself as he traced a finger on the top of his wineglass, the sound coming from it filling the room. "LadyDevimon, would you care to explain how you could have lost to them?" Staring down at her as he stood up, Piedmon pulled out one on his swords and tossed it up and down in the air. "Or should I just send you out to finish it?"

Still not daring to look up at her master, LadyDevimon winched at the silent accusation in her master's voice. "I, please... I can finish them this time, I swear it." Looking up at her last word, she spread her arms out to the side in a gesture to prove to him how sincere she was.

Staring down at her with a twisted and cruel sneer on his face, Piedmon grabbed his sword and struck out with it, the sudden move making LadyDevimon flinched back as the sword stopped right in front of her face. "Don't promise me what you can't keep, LadyDevimon."

Staring down a the sword just a centimeter from her face made her sweat a bit, but she dared not move away from it, as it would be too much a show of fear. "But? I can defeat them, I'm the strongest Ultimate in your army, my lord."

Not answering, Piedmon slowly pulled his sword away from her face, turning around to walk back to his throne. "Very well, but don't fail me this time, finish the Digi Destined brats, or die trying."

"Yes my lord."

Opening his mouth to give her permission to leave, Piedmon froze as a dark feeling crept into the air very air, the feeling of power that strong had him grit his teeth as he turned to face the image of the crystal covered digimon hanging in the air before him. "Lord Moonmilleniummon, what do we owe for this pleasure."

Narrowing his eyes, the crystal covered digimon growled in the back of his throat as he turned two of them to regard LadyDevimon on the floor. "Piedmon, I heard of your servants little attack on the brats yesterday." Not waiting for an answer, the mega digimon continued. "While it was unplanned and not approved by me, it pleases me to know that you are taking steps to ending their continued existence."

Smiling a bit at the praise, Piedmon gave a quick bow at the more powerful mega digimon before him. "Thanks you, I was just about to send her out to fight them again and..."

"I know." Moonmilleniummon interrupted as he focused completely on Piedmon. "And I want you to, my hybrid warriors are lacking a member at the moment and I want her to take that place." Staring down at the digimon in question as he spoke, Moonmilleniummon noted the sour expression on her face at what he had said. "Now, if you don't have problems with it, I shall send them to the desert area where she fought them, and have the search start from there"

"Of course, LadyDevimon." Waving his hand at her, Piedmon ignored her angry face as she left the room. "If that was all, my Lord Moonmilleniummon, I think I will retire to my room."

Chuckling a bit, Moonmilleniummon began to fade from the room, his eyes closing as he gave his best bid at a bow to the leader of the dark masters. "Go ahead Piedmon, a well rested digimon, is a good working one."

Eyes flashing with anger at the last remark, Piedmon screamed in anger as he swung his arm around, the sword in his hand cutting through his throne's back. "That arrogant, crystal covered..." Feeling his anger fade, Piedmon sighed as he stared at the wall of his throne room, a migraine forming in the back of his head as he tried to figure out how he as going to regain the position as the most powerful digimon in the digital world.

Outside the castle of Piedmon, LadyDevimon sighed as she summoned up the power to travel though the shadows, her eyes glowing as she found herself standing in the shadow of a small crater formed in her battle yesterday. "Where are those hybrid freaks?"

"Right here witch." Mira, known as digi destined 14 as well, replied as she stepped up over a sand dune, her eyes glaring down at LadyDevimon as she turned her head to the side with a huff. "Now come on, the Gazimon's are ready to start the search."

Holding back an angry reply at the insult form the hybrid, LadyDevimon grinned as she floated up into the air. "There will be no need for them child." Holding out a hand, she grinned as she stared towards the eastern part of the desert. "The answer to finding the brats can be found in that direction."

Stepping up next to Mira, Joeshiro, also known as digi destined 13 crossed his arms as he snorted loudly. "And how can you know that anyway?" his voice laced with arrogance and contempt as spoke.

Once more holding back an attack, LadyDevimon simply stared down at them with a smirk on her face as she lifted up her arm and formed it into her needlepoint. "That is something you shouldn't concern yourself with, but, I can tell you this, all I needed was a little inside help."

Looking puzzled up at LadyDevimon, the two hybrids gazed at one another with a frown before following after her.

Continuing to walk through the desert for several minutes, LadyDevimon shot a look over her shoulder to smirk at the two hybrids following after her. "Getting tired already?"

At her comment, Mira growled as she wiped a few drops of sweat of her forehead. "No, but it's not all of us who are dressed for this sort of thing."

Eyes flashing with anger at the comment, LadyDevimon turned her head around and rose up a bit into the air, her eyes moving over the horizon. "Ah, There he is." Dropping down to the desert floor again, she smiled a bit. "Why don't you two wait here for a moment."

Looking up for his own thoughts at the command, Joeshiro stared after the devil woman as she floated off into the horizon before he or Mira could protest it. "Now what?"

Stepping forward, he felt Mira grab his shoulder as she pointed towards LadyDevimon. "Look, is that an Agumon with her?"

Narrowing his eyes, Joeshiro nodded as he pulled his arm free. "It is, but why is it here? And how did LadyDevimon get into contact with it."

"Who cares?" Mira replied as she began to walk forward, her eyes narrowed. "But I'm not letting her any more secrets from us."

Looking down at the Agumon standing before her, LadyDevimon smirked as she rubbed her chin. "You have done well, to think that those rebels didn't even notice you were spying on them."

The Agumon grinned as he looked up at the ultimate digimon towering up over him, his eyes glinting in the light with a yellow glow to them as he grinned. "I swore I would not fail Lord Piedmon in my mission, Great LadyDevimon." Bowing a bit, the digimon stood up and pointed his arm in a slight north northeastern direction. "Their base is that way, hidden behind a bubble of invisibility made by Piximon."

"I see." LadyDevimon mumbled out as she began to gaze in the direction that the Agumon pointed in. "Very well, takes us to this base so I can destroy the digi brats once and for all."

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Smiling at the group of kids sitting around the table as they finished breakfast, Gennai coughed a bit as he noticed that they had almost finished eating their breakfast. Drawing their full attention onto him as he stood up. "Now, as you are all a where off, things have grown quite dire while you all on Earth."

Several heads looked down at the table at Gennai's words as they tried to hide their guilty expressions. "And I understand the troubles you faced in the past." Pulling out his trusted pointing stick, Gennai smiled as he turned on the computer and looked at the map of Spiral Mountain and the remains of the digital world. "Now, as must of you must have guessed, the Digital World have been corrupted and overrun by darkness."

Pushing a button on his slide show control program, Gennai stared at the first image that popped up on the screen with a tired expression. "While you have defeated Enemies like Devimon, Etemon and Myotismon, we now face digimons who have reached the highest level, Mega." Pointing his stick at the first of the digimons on the Image, Gennai looked back at the kids. "I believe you have already met this guy, Metalseadramon, overlord of the oceans, second we have Puppetmon who controls the forests, Ruling the cities, Machinedramon is the second most feared Dark Master, and finally, we have Piedmon, a highly dangerous, evil digimon, who is also the most powerful of the Dark Masters, LadyDevimon, who you battled yesterday is his most trusted servant and leader of his nightmare forces."

Watching the kids face drop a bit at his speech, Gennai shook his head and pushed a button to bring up another set of images on the screen. "These three are the Hybrids, main servants of Moonmilleniummon." Pointing his stick at each of them, he nodded to himself. "From what Leomon told me, you have already met them. All of them contain the powers of your digimons at their ultimate level, except for Yakeru, Digi destined 15 who holds the power of an ultimate and a champion."

"And finally." Pushing a button, Gennai stared at the image on the screen before him. "We have our most dangerous enemy to date, Moonmilleniummon." Staring at the Digi destined as he turned to face them, Gennai slowly removed his pointing stick from the image "A monster, a demon among digimons. Ever since he returned to the digital world, millions of Digimons have been deleted, their data downloaded into the monster's fortress, waiting for the day when he obtains the strength to create his perfect world."

"And I helped bring him back." Matt's voice cut through the room with the level of self loathing clearly hear in it. Not looking up as he spoke, the blond haired boy stared at his clenched up hands lying on the table before him. "If I hadn't accepted his darkness, none of this would have happened in the first place."

"Matt?" Mimi asked in a fearful tone as she watched the blond haired boy clench his hands hard enough to draw blood when his nails cut into his skin. "Don't blame yourself. It wasn't your fault."

Gennai cough a bit as he walked over to look down at Matt sitting at the table before him. "I agree with her, and even if you hadn't excepted his darkness, Moonmilleniummon would have come back eventually." Looking a bit concentrated as he regarded the kids sitting around the table, Gennai shook his head. "It was never really figured out how that digimon came into being, but it is clear now, that it will not be easy to stop him."

Turning around and giving the kids around the table a big grin, Gennai walked up and pushed the button for his slide show program and turned to face the kids as a new image loaded up on the screen. "But don't worry, for even in these dark hours, I have something good to tell." Pointing at the image on the screen, Gennai smiled as he reached down with his free hand and pulled out something from his pocket. "The ninth crest has been recovered at last."

"What!?"

Blinking his eyes at the combined shout from the Digi Destined, Gennai stared around the room at the eight confused expression sent his way. "Yes, while you and the others were back on Earth, member of the Resistance found it hidden in the northern parts of Server." Planting the small tag and crest on the table before the kids, the old man smiled a bit as he saw the light of a new hope in their eyes. "But, we haven't been able to locate the digivice to go with it."

"So, we're getting a new member?" Tai asked as he lifted up his head from trying to get the last bit off food off his plate, his eyes shinning at the thought of having another one to help fight against the Dark Masters.

Gennai looked a bit tense as he sat down on the floor. "Well, it's both a yes and no children. The digivice is uncounted for and we have no idea where to start looking for it." Gazing around the room, Gennai nodded at the more thoughtful expressions he saw. "But, we do know who the crest and digivice belongs to, we're just at a point where we don't know how to get them to him."

Looking down at the table, the digi destined sighed a bit as they took in the bad parts of the good news. "So, now what Gennai?"

Turning his head to face her, Gennai smiled at Sora as he reached out a hand and pattered her hand. "Well, for starters Sora, Matt. Piximon has a special training program for the two of you." Looking at them, he smiled as he turned to face the other DD's. "Joe, Mimi, TK and will be briefed by Leomon on the layout and facilities of this place."

Three loud groans filled the room at Gennai's words. The two digimon's standing in the doorway grinned a bit as they stepped into the room.

Piximon tapped both Matt and Sora on the shoulder with his small spear. "Well come on, I have a good program for the two of you, sure to cure you of your troubles, Yup, yup."

"Great." Matt mumbled out as he stood up. "Just how much help can a pink colored fluff ball help us."

Knocking her elbow into his side, Sora glared at him as he looked up at Piximon hovering above her with a bit more friendly stare then Matt. "Are you sure you can help us?"

"Yup, yup, I'm the best trainer in the digital world, so of course I can help you." Waving his spear in the air, Piximon grinned down at the kids below him. "Right this way, and I'll train you. Yup, Yup "

Staring after the retreating two kids and Piximon, Mimi and TK stared up at Leomon with a much more sad face. "While training doesn't sound fun to me, but I'd rather do that then walk around all day in this hot and dry place." Mimi pointed out as she began to follow after Joe and Izzy, Leomon walking up in front of them.

Remaining at the table, Kari and Tai stared at Gennai as he sat down at the table in front of them. "Now, I feel that the two of you have a few of questions for me."

Showing his usual tactic in blunt approaches, Tai stared harshly at Gennai as he pointed a claw at him. "Few, try a lot Gennai, how about the fact that you knew something like this could happen, huh, would you ever told us?" Not stopping his angry words at Gennai shocked expression, Tai continued on. "What about my mother being a digi destined, that Chimon is a real digimon trapped inside of me. Would you have told me about that?"

"You know about that?" Gennai asked in a weak shocked tone of voice.

"Yes!" Tai yelled as he glowed with anger, his eyes narrowing to slits as his felt his power rise up to match his fiery emotions. "Chimon is not dead, he's trapped inside of me, and because of some stupid chance, I'm stuck in his body, with him inside of me, fighting his old enemy."

Not saying a thing at first, Gennai simply stared at Tai from his side of the table, his hands pressed together in front of him as he gave a deep sigh. "How much did Chimon tell you?"

Still glowing with anger, Tai forced the urge to use his fire attacks on Gennai down. "As much as he could, he told me about the first war with Moonmilleniummon, the five digi destined, and how you and the other members of the order betrayed them and hid Chimon and Ishimon inside the bodies of their human partners."

Staring at Tai for a few moments, Gennai finally gave a deep sigh as he stood up, his whole body giving off an air of tiredness and regrets. "The war..." Mumbling out the words, the old humon turned around from the table and began to walk towards his lab. "Please, come this way, and I'll tell you everything."

Looking a bit hesitant at first, Tai turned his head to regard his sister, hoping that she could see if it was a good idea to do as Gennai had asked them.

"Please, we have to talk, under more private conditions." Gennai added in as he stopped outside the lab door.

"Okay." Answering for her brother, Kari stood up and followed after Gennai, giving a smile back at her brother as she stopped just outside of the lab door. "Come on Tai, maybe we can finally get some answers to all of this."

Nodding a bit, Tai stood up and followed after his sister into the laboratory.

Beyond the door, the feel of an old Japanese home faded away as the walls became lined with machinery, computers and pictures of various digimons. Up ahead of him, Kari was busy staring at the chart he had noticed the last time he was there. "Kari, what is it?"

"It's Gatomon." She replied as she pointed at a small picture of the cat like digimon with a single line running from it to a picture of Angewomon and a line to a small puppy like digimon as well.

But it was the small orange digimon near the top that made Tai stared in sadness at the chart. "Agumon, he still has a place on it?" Looking closer at the chart, Tai blinked as he noticed a new addition to the chart near the bottom of it, a picture he recognized easily. "Gennai, that's me."

Nodding to himself over in he corner, Gennai looked up at Tai's call and turned around to look at them, his face showing a lot of sadness when he walked over to look at the chart with them. "Yes, I updated it while you were on earth, hoping that I could find a way to make you and the other digimons stronger."

"Gennai?" Both humon and human turned digimon stared at Kari as she looked back at them with a doubtful stare. "Can you, can you help my brother?"

Staring down at Tai, Gennai gave a short smile as he turned and began to walk over towards a a small work bench inside the lab. "I'll try, but first, we have a lot to talk about." Turning to regard Taichi, Gennai held up a hand. "And before you start accusing me again, why don't I tell you what it felt like to me all those years ago."

Holding back his questions, Tai settled down for a hopefully good explanation to the demands both he and Archdramon had for the old humon to answer.

"It took years, decades to repair the damage the last battle had caused." Gennai stared as he closed his eyes. "Digimons and Humons alike were scared of the power those two digimons had shown in the final battle, they had been chosen because of their strength, but the final battle prove just how powerful they were." Opening his eyes a bit, Gennai sighed as he leaned back on his workbench. "The explosion of MoonMilleniummon's power mixed with that of his power station resulted in the digital world getting warped out of it's normal flow of time and reshaped, thousands of digimons were deleted in the following months as the digital world struggled to reconfigure itself to match the massive change brought on by the battle."

Staring even more puzzled at the old humon, Tai turned to his sister only to see a sad look in her eyes, the look of it making him cringe a bit. "But Gennai, why seal away Chimon and Ishimon?"

"Fear." Gennai replied as he looked up at Tai and Kari with a painful expression in his eyes. "Chimon and Ishimon had shown a level of power we hadn't counted on when we prepared them to become chosen digimon's, and with their power level at such a destructive scale, we were afraid they might one day become corrupted like MoonMilleniummon's war lords, out of control and willing to kill everyone in sight."

Sitting down on the ground, Tai shook his head as he tried to make it fit in with what Archdramon had told him. "You feared them enough to lock them away, what about the other digimons, the ones belonging to Kiyoko, Keisuke and Masami?"

Still looking a bit strained at the questions and accusations, Gennai didn't look at them, but instead stared at the floor. "They weren't feared as much, but we still kept an eye on them."

"Wonderful, so when did you plan on telling me?" Tai nearly yelled back as his claws began to flex in and out of his fingertips with each outburst from him.

"Please, stop fighting." Kari pleated as she stepped in between them, her eyes half closed as she looked from Tai to Gennai alternately. "Please."

"Fine." Tai mumbled out as his care for his sister won out and had him back down from the argument.

Across form him, Gennai nodded as well and sat down on a small chair in the room. "Anyway, the past is done and can't be changed, what needs to be done right now, is find a way to undo it." Seeing Tai and Kari's confused expression, he sighed and once more asked mentally why the data of one of the feared digimons of legends hadn't ended up in someone who were a bit smarter. "I plan on freeing Ishimon's data from MoonMilleniummon's grip, but it requires Matt's full cooperation in doing so."

"Oh, yeah." Tai answered as he rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment. "I'll go and get him." Feeling someone grab his shoulder, the feline like digimon looked over his shoulder and up at Gennai. "What... is there something wrong Gennai."

Smiling in a way that Tai thinking of a mad scientist, Gennai slowly stooped up an looked over at Kari as well. "Matt and Sora are training under Piximon right now, besides, I think we need to run a more important test right now."

Staring at Kari as well, Tai nodded as the conversation he had had with Archdramon came back to him again. "Gennai, Archdramon said that Kari might have some of his data as well."

"Yes." Gennai answered as he walked around the room, gathering everything they need into one place. "When I learned that you had a sister, I began to suspect it as well."

"Wha..." Kari asked as she backed off under their looks. "There's no way that I could have digimon data in me, wouldn't that mean I should have changed as well?"

Not answering, Gennai grinned as he stood up wearing a white lab coat and black goggles over his eyes, turning his head, he noted that Chimon had put on some as well. "It depends on how much data you have in you, now, if you will kindly come this way, I will be able to answer that question in a short while."

Still not looking full convinced at the way Gennai had put it, and with the sudden rush he looked away from her, Kari followed him a bit hesitantly towards a rather weird looking machine. "Will it hurt?"

Shrugging a bit, Gennai placed Kari on a chair and smiled down at her as he walked over and began to work on some of the control to it. "Well, it didn't hurt Tai over here when I first used it, but then again, I've done some work on it, so it might sting a little bit." Pressing a button at the last word, Gennai smiled, as Kari didn't scream in pain as his last test subject had. "Well, this will take a while, Taichi, why don't you run off and see if you can find the stuff on this list."

Grabbing a small notepad that Gennai handed him, Tai stared at the words on it, groaning hopelessly as he went over the first few things on it alone. "Give me a break here, I don't even know what half of this stuff is, let alone what it looks like."

Sighing a bit and mumbling about good help, Gennai turned away form the machine and took the notepad back. "Fine, I'll do it, you watch the machine, and if it looks something about to go wrong, press that button. Got it, the big fat red button"

"You don't have to be so insulting about it." Tai replied as he silently vowed to use his attacks on Gennai's room later as a payback for the insults. A nice crispy toasted room with nothing but ash left of his clothes and bed should make Gennai take on a more polite tone with him in the future.

Stopping and turning his head around a bit, Gennai stared at Tai with a serious expression on his face. "Forget it Taichi."

"Huh?" Tai blurted out with a shocked expression on his face as he shook himself out of the pleasant revenge thoughts.

Pulling out the first thing of the list, Gennai huffed a bit as he placed it near the center of the room. "I said forget it Taichi, you try to do anything to my stuff and I'll make sure you sleep in the same room as Leomon." Staring around the room, Gennai nodded as he spotted the next thing on the list. "Now, get that spare computer over there, and the connecting cable as well."

"Um, yeah." Walking over to get the thing, Tai stopped and stared back at Gennai, wondering how he could know what he had been planning to do later.

"Because I know how you think."

Looking even more freaked out at Gennai sudden words, Tai grabbed the computer and rushed to get it over to Gennai.

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Datamon grinned to himself as he watched the twin glass tubes, several thick wires running into them from the complex machines placed around the room. "The digital data is accepting the bonding with the human data, good." Moving over to the control panel, he stared up at the numbers on the screen. "And the data merge is at 100%, perfect."

Turning his head, he focused on the second set of numbers running over the screen, a fuzzy picture of a vaguely human shape on the screen before him. "And so are you, Digi destined 16." Pulling out a notepad, Datamon grinned as he began to cross off a few lines on it, tapping the pencil on the paper as he reached the fifth line. "It's a bit too soon, but I think you're ready for the Data transfer."

Turning back to the first lines of Data, the cyborg digimon nodded to himself as he turned around to glare at the right tube, his eyes growing wider with glee as the figure moved on the inside of it. "Well, well, that was faster then I had expected." Putting his notepad away, Datamon pushed a few quick buttons and stared as the tube began to shake a bit, the green liquid inside of it flowing down through a small hole. "Digi Destined 15, upgrade complete."

Pushing another set of buttons, he stared at a claws hand reached down and pulled the tube up from the floor, and then it was transported off towards another part of his lab. "You should wake up in a few minutes, but until then, I guess I can focus on you 16." The last was added as Datamon quickly punched in a new series of buttons. "Enjoy."

Humming a bit, the computer began to flash its screen as an image formed on the screen, a series of numbers and letters coming together under it. "Chosen digimon data download in progress. File 01, LadyDevimon, downloading now."

In the left tube, lights began to break through the liquid as a scream started to sound faintly in the room, prompting Datamon to turn his head away form the tube, hoping that he could distract himself from it.

"File 02, Megadramon, Downloading now."

Even more screaming filled the room as a human hand reached out and hammered on the glass of the tube, only stopping it as the fingers and hand began to glow white, reshaping itself with a sickening sound of bones breaking and reforming.

"File 03, Gigadramon, Downloading now."

The screaming wasn't loud as before, but still enough to make Datamon shudder from where he stood, then he turned his head form the screen and stared at the tube as a loud pitched screeching sound filled the room. A clawed hand were dragging itself across the inner parts of the tube as a pair of red eyes glared out at him from the liquid, nothing but deep hate shimmering in those eyes as they moved away from him.

"File 04..."

As the computer continued to drone on and continue with the data download, the figure inside the remaining tube lifted his pain filled eyes up as darkness began to seep into the liquid of the tube, moving down towards the humanoid shape rapidly. "No, please, don't..." The muffled voice ended as the darkness enveloped the body and began to seep into it, making the voice scream out in fear and terror,

In the lab, the computer began to hum a bit louder as several news lines of code rushed across the screen. "Unknown Data download in progress, danger of program failure 100%, failure to correct problem..." Light flashed through the room as the darkness had filled the tube completely, only the glow from a pair of red eyes showing from the inside of it. "... Resuming program, failure report deleted."

"This is my world, and I will take it away from you, and then, everyone will share my sorrow and despair."

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Stopping his little group, Piximon grinned as he waved his staff at a large cave opening up a head of them, his eyes twinkling as he watched the holder of friendship and love staring back at him with a very puzzled expression on their faces. "Well, this is where the special program starts."

"In there?" Matt asked in a very sarcastic tone of voice as he pointed straight ahead at the cave, his eyes narrowed a bit as he turned to face Sora. "I told you this was a waste of time, let's go back to the others and OW!" Glaring death at the small digimon, Matt rubbed a small bump as it formed on his head. "What did you do that for?"

Giving a loud snort, Piximon slowly landed on the ground and crossed his arms over his rather small and fuzzy chest, looking very much like an angry schoolteacher. "That sharp attitude of yours is something you must learn to control if you want to get your crest to work."

Sighing a bit at Matt's attitude, Sora turned her head to stare down at the ground. "What about our digimon partners, will they join us for this training?"

"Yup, yup." Piximon answered as he jumped up into the air, pointing his staff towards two small shapes running towards them from the house that served as the rebel digimons hideout.

Grabbing the pink bird like digimon, Sora smiled as she felt her partner wrap her wings around her. "Biyomon."

"Gabumon" Matt's spoke as he watched the fur covered lizard digimon stop at his feet.

Hovering in the air above them, Piximon grumbled a bit as he looked from one of them to the other. "Well, are you going to take the test or not?" Asking in a rather angry voice, the small digimon pointed his staff at the cave opening. "Time's a wasting you know."

"Yeah, yeah." Matt replied as he turned to face the opening of the cave, beating down the small part of him screaming out that he shouldn't do it, that he should turn around and forget about it all.

Next to him, Sora showed just how much she had actually feared that moment, but still tried to stand up too it and take the first step into the darkness of the cave. "Biyomon, you'll be there with me the whole time right?"

Nodding to her partner, Biyomon began to fly in the air just behind Sora, her small eyes looking into the cave ahead of them with a bit on concern. "I trust Piximon, but I can't help but wonder what kind of test this is going to be."

Stepping forward, Sora cast a glance at Matt who still had an annoyed scowl on his face as he began to walk into the cave opening as well. Turning back around and facing it, Sora took a deep breath and stepped forward. "Well, here goes nothing."

After taking a couple steps into the cave, Matt and Sora stopped, as the light inside of it became nothing more then a faint reminder of the light outside the cave opening.

Staring around in the dim light inside the cave, Matt grumped a bit as he took a few more steps ahead and bumped into a solid surface. The impact making him stumbled back a bit. "What the..." Reaching out a hand, Matt careful moved his fingers across the surface of it and grimaced as he figured out just what it was. "A skull"

At his words, twin yellow orbs formed in the eye socket on the skull before him, a low growling sound filling the cave as the human boy stumbled back in fear at the sound. "What the hell is that?"

"Matt!"

Turning his head around, Matt stared in horror as Sora started to run towards him, only to start sinking into the ground before him as a large hand skeleton hand her left leg and pulled it down into the floor. Her eyes wide in fear as Biyomon flew down to grab a hold of her, only to get dragged down into the floor with her as well. "Sora, Biyomon!" Scrambling forward, Matt clawed at the place where they had been. "Sora?"

Feeling Gabumon's hand on his shoulder, Matt turned his head to see Gabumon looked back at the skull with a very fear full expression. "What?" Looking back over his shoulder as he asked, Matt stopped clawing the ground and gave a blood-chilling scream at what he saw.

Towering up over them, a Skullgreymon looked around the cave with murder in his empty eye sockets, the bone fingers scraping against the wall as it took a step forward and focused on the champion digimon and Matt, a deep growl echoing around the cave as a eerie light filled it's eye sockets.

"Run!" Screaming out the command, Matt scrabbled off the floor and moved as fast as he could, barely making it clear off the bone hand smashing into the ground where he had been just a few second before. "What is a Skullgreymon doing here?"

Next to him Gabumon shook in fear as well as he grabbed Matt's hand, guiding him further into the cave and away from the large ghost digimon who were struggling to turn around in the small space and face them again. "Never mind that, just run!"

Turning around, Matt and Gabumon froze, as they were suddenly standing in the middle of a rather large forest instead of a cave. Looking more confused then before, Matt blinked as he noticed the ground and trees around them were covered in snow that fell down rapidly from the sky. "What, where are we?"

"At the beginning." Even as he as barely finished asking the question to no one in particular, an answer came from right behind him.

"Time to wake up Sora."

"Tai, Biyomon, Matt?" Sora mumbled out as she tried to move into a better position to lay in.

"Afraid not Sora."

Sitting up with a start as the voice spoke to her in a mocking way, the orange haired girl slammed down a hand to steady herself as a wave of dizziness' swept through her at the movement.

As it passed, she groaned and stared around the area she was in, and blinked her eyes as she found herself looking up at the tower desert arena belonging to Etemon once more. "What, what is this, what's going on?" Turning her head to the side, Sora blinked as she spotted her partner digimon struggling to get up as well. "Biyomon"

Rushing forward, she pulled her partner up and held her close as she tried to get the world to make sense again, and failing quite badly as the desert refused to turn back into the cave again no matter how hard she tried to convince herself that it was just a cave. "Biyomon, are you awake."

Settling for checking if her partner was okay, Sora smiled as she saw the eyes on her digimon slowly open to look up at her again. A wave of relief flowed through her as she hugged Biyomon close to her. "You're awake."

"Sora, what happened?" Biyomon voiced out as she was released from Sora's hug. Her feathers ruffling a bit as she turned to regard the area they were in. "This is desert outside Etemon's Arena."

Nodding to her partner digimon's unspoken question, Sora stood up and stared right ahead at the arena in front of them with a look of tension in her eyes. "I don't know what happened, but someone else is here."

Giving Sora a skeptic look for a few seconds, Biyomon nodded as she checked her wings and slowly began to fly a bit over the desert sands. "Sora, what should we do now?"

Shrugging her shoulder, the orange haired girl began to walk forward towards the arena, her head tilting back a bit as she stared up at the impressive stone structure more closely. "I think, that whoever it was that answered me is in there."

Shooting Sora a quick look, Biyomon landed on the ground and began to walk forward, stepping into the shadow cast by the stone wall. "But Sora, how do we get in?"

Smiling a bit at her partner's question, Sora pointed off into one direction as she turned. "There's a doorway in the wall somewhere, we just have to find it to get in." Starting to walk off, Sora stopped as her eyes landed on something lying on the ground right in front of her. "A flower?"

"What?" Biyomon asked as she looked over Sora's shoulder and down at the object in the orange haired girl's hands. "Hey, where did that come from Sora?"

Looking up form her inspection of the perfectly cut rose, Sora shook her head as she looked up into the air, eye widening as another flower fell down from there, followed by another one and another one after that. "Roses, Irises." Looking from the red flower to the white one, Sora shook her head. "It can't be."

At her side, Biyomon had begun to stare off into the distance with a more confused expression on her face then her partner had at the moment. "Sora, can you hear someone humming?"

Lifting her head at the question, Sora stared off into the distance with a shocked look on her face, the humming growing a bit stronger as the orange haired girl dropped the flowers in her hand. "Mum?"

Staring at her partner in complete puzzlement, Biyomon gave a cry as Sora simply stared running off in hurry, sand getting kicked up at as the girl's hurried off. "Wait, Wait!" Screaming out the plea, Biyomon took of from the ground and began to fly after Sora.

Sora in the meantime, had finally found the door leading into the center of the Arena. The open twin doors giving access to a narrow stone tunnel running in a straight line, a small pinprick of light at the other end of the tunnel, showing where it ended. and the arena lay.

Right behind her, Biyomon flew into the tunnel as well, stopping for a second as she noticed the ground was covered in roses and irises. "Sora, I don't like this, I think we should turn around."

Not listening to her, Sora rushed forward, the light at the end of the tunnel growing bigger with each passing second, finally letting her out into the area behidn it. "No."

"Sora?" Biyomon asked as she flew out of the tunnel as well. Stopping as she nearly crashed into the orange haired girl standing still right in front of her. "What wrong Sora?" Looking in the direction her partner was staring, Biyomon froze as she spotted another Sora standing in front of them with her back to them.

"I can't be." Sora mumbled out as she looked around the place, it wasn't the arena as it hadn't looked so much like her home the last time she was there. And it didn't have the smell or feeling to it either. "I'm home." Dropping down onto her knees on the floor, Sora froze as she noticed her copy was talking to someone with their back to them.

"But Mom, it's a very important match, and the other girls are counting on me."

"I won't let you play Sora, what if you got hurt again."

"But mom, I won't get hurt."

Shaking her head at the voices, Sora closed her eyes as she tried to fight back the emotions it brought back out again, the feeling of insecurity in her own feelings. "Why?"

"Sora, please sit down."

A loud huff came from her copy as she sat down on the ground right behind the woman. "Mom?"

"Sora, I don't want you to play soccer anymore. From now on, I want you to come home after school and help me with the flower shop."

"You can't mean that, I won't give up soccer, and I want nothing to do with those stupid flowers."

"I can't believe my daughter will speak about flowers like that."

"Mom?"

"There's no discussion Sora."

"No, I won't. Why can't you understand me!?"

"Sora?"

"I hate you mom!"

Sora stared as her copy stood up and ran right past her and Biyomon, tears falling form her eyes as she pulled open a door and slammed it behind her. "This... it can't be..."

Looking towards her partner and feeling just a hurt emotionally at her partner's distress, Biyomon slowly reached out a wing and touched her leg. "Sora, what's wrong?"

Shaking her head, the orange haired girl forced back a sob as she slowly turned and began to make her way towards the same door her copy had run through. "Nothing Biyomon, nothings wrong."

Pulling the door open and stepping through, Sora stopped as she found herself standing in the middle of the arena, her eyes wide as she spotted her copy standing together with Matt, Mimi, Joe, Izzy and TK on the seating parts, Tai were standing completely still on the ground a few meters in front of them as he was staring up at the looming presence of Skullgreymon pounding around Garurumon, Kabuterimon and Birddramon.

Stepping out of fear, Sora dimly noted that she didn't fall back in through the door again, but rather found herself stuck right in the middle of the arena, between the skeleton digimon and the three champions on their side. "Biyomon!"

Rushing forward, the bird digimon flew up and flapped her wings as she prepared to digivolve, only to stop as she noted something rather strange about the whole place. "Sora, they're not moving."

Opening her eyes, the orange haired girl stared up at the towering presence of Skullgreymon above her. I... Biyomon?" As she spoke, Sora turned her head to stare at her copy standing up on the seating spots and narrowed her eyes. "I remember this, this is where..."

Biyomon gave a small cry as Sora began to run forward, right towards her copy with a look or panic on her face. "Wait up, Sora wait up please."

Reaching the wall separating the battleground of the arena from the seating area, Sora narrowed her eyes as she began to climb up, Biyomon giving her some help as she used her legs to hang onto her shirt and pull her up. Making her way in over the top and placing her feet on the stone ground, Sora smiled up at her partner. "Thanks Biyomon."

Smiling at the praise she got, Biyomon landed on the ground and looked right ahead at the group in front of them. "Sora I don't like this, I really don't."

"Neither do I Biyomon." Sora replied as she stepped closer to the small group in fornt of her. Her eyes narrowing as she stared from Matt to herself. "Something happened here, but I can't quite remember it."

"Of course you can't."

Screaming loudly, Sora stumbled back form her copy as she began to speak directly to her and fell down onto her back on the ground, the cruel, evil look in the eyes of her copy sending a shiver down her back. "Wha?"

Pushing Matt aside, the copy stepped forward and glared directly into Sora's eyes. "You don't want to remember do you, how your fear and doubt allowed you to give in to the darkness."

Scrambling back a bit, Sora slowly sat up and glared right back at her copy as the insult got through to her. "Shut up, what do you know about it."

Smiling in a devilish way at the comeback form Sora, the copy smiled as she kneeled down to stare right into Sora's eyes with a dark grin on her face. "Poor little girl, can't even feel love for anyone, since she has never felt love herself."

Closing her eyes and trying to push the voice back, Sora felt her body shake with anger at her copy's mocking tone, the words cutting into her very soul. "Shut up!" Standing up, Sora glared at her copy with a light of anger. "Just, shut up."

"Aw." the word carried a deep sense of mocking to it as the copy stood up as well, her eyes glinting with the darkness and evil that had once possessed Sora. "It was your weakness that allowed this to happened." Spitting out the copy glared at Sora as it crossed its arms. "Can't you remember what he promised us, he would make sure we were always with those who cared and loved us."

"And he lied." Sora yelled back as her hands became fist. "He used us, made her do all those horrible things, and never once did he show us any kind of love or kindness, only destruction and suffering!" Yelling out the last few words, Sora turned her head away form her copy. "I... I hate him for it."

Giggling like she was crazy, the copy smirked, as she turned halfway away from Sora. "How do you want him to show you what love is, if you can't even recognize it yourself?"

Once again backing away from the cruel words of her copy, Sora blinked a tear away from her eyes when a small pink shape suddenly flew past her with an angry cry. "Biyomon!"

Glaring death at the copy of her partner, Biyomon let out an angry cry as she spotted the first tear in her partners eyes before diving forward to protect her partner form any kind of pain. "Leave her alone!"

Shooting Biyomon a brief glance, the copy smiled as simply lifted her hand, letting a blast of pure darkness shoot out to hit the bird like digimon, sending it crashing back into the ground before Sora. "Stupid thing, are you so willing to risk your life for someone as worthless as her." forming a sphere of darkness in her hands, the copy pointed it at Sora. "It would be much better for you if you didn't interfere."

"No." Biyomon mumbled out as she stood up from where she had landed on the ground. "I won't let you hurt Sora." Her eyes glinting with determination, Biyomon flew up a bit as she fired off her main attack at the copy of her partner. "Spiral Twister!"

Snorting in utter annoyance, the copy countered the spiral attack with a bit of the darkness from the sphere. "Then you're a fool, I would have let you become my partner when I had replaced her again, now, I see that you're just as weak and imperfect as her." At her last word, the dark shot out and impacted Biyomon in midair, dark lighting crackling out to engulf the pink bird like digimon, making her scream out loud in pain.

"Biyomon, no!" Rushing forward and grabbing her partner, Sora stared up at her copy that started to form another sphere with no sigh of any emotions at what she had just caused. "Please, stop it. Don't hurt her anymore." Sora spoke while she pulled her partner closer. "Please"

Looking up at Sora with a pain filled look on her face, Biyomon smiled as she lifted up a wing. "Sora, I'm okay." Then she looked past Sora and over at the copy that simply stared at them with the sphere of darkness held in one hand. "Sora, I have to stop her, she's going to hurt you."

Looking at her partner with a shocked expression, the orange haired girl held on a bit tighter to her partner. "I don't want you too Biyomon, it's too dangerous. You're already hurt."

"But Sora?" Biyomon asked in a weak voice as she watched a tear fall from her human partner eyes. "Why not? I have to fight her, make her stop trying to hurt you"

Holding onto her partner as she felt her copy step up behind her, Sora closed her eyes. "You can't Biyomon, she far to powerful, can't you understand that?" Closing her eyes, Sora shook as a faint whisper repeated the same words but in a different voice.

Struggling a bit harder, Biyomon nearly got lose, only to feel Sora hold her back again. Twisting her head she stared back over her wings at the orange haired girl. "Sora, I have to fight to protect you, why can't you understand that"

Snapping her eyes open at the words, Sora looked down at Biyomon as she tried to pull her back in. "Because I care about you..." Opening her eyes wider, Sora looked up at her copy with a new light shining in her reddish brown eyes. "I... I'm acting like her." Letting go of her partner, Sora grabbed her crest and stared down at it. "Did she say those things back then... because she loved me? Was she simply afraid I could end up more hurt then I already was."

Staring for the pink bird standing in front of Sora, the copy of her growled as she noticed the small light forming around the crest. "No."

Looking up with a start, Sora smiled as she stood up. "You're wrong, my mum doesn't hate me, she loves me too much to see me get hurt, and so she tried to make me give up soccer instead of getting more hurt."

"No!" Screaming even louder, the copy of her began to rush forward, only to stop as a bright red light erupted from Sora's crest. Ripping her body apart as she was thrown back through the air.

Staring down at her crest, Sora smiled at it's light filling the cave. "Just like I love Biyomon and the others!" Still holding it, she looked over at her copy. "I'm sorry for what I did, but Tai has forgiven me, and I will find a way to make up for what I have done, I don't have any fears of you or the darkness anymore."

"You..." The copy mumbled out the words before she faded away into a small ball of darkness hovering in the air before her a single second before it faded away.

Still holding her crest, Sora blinked as the arena simply shattered and turned back into the cave. Leaving her standing in the middle of the tunnel again. "I'm back."

Next to her, Biyomon looked up with a concerned look on her face, which turned to one of joy as she spotted the red glow coming from Sora's hand. "Sora, Your crest, it's glowing."

Nodding as she listened to Biyomon talk, Sora slowly let go of the crest and looked down at her partner digimon with a loving care as she pulled her into a hug. "I allowed the darkness to enter me, because it promised to show me the love I thought my mother never had for me." Smiling as she reached up to wipe a tear away form her eyes, Sora let go of her crest and stood up from the ground. "But I was wrong, mom love me, I just couldn't understand that she forbid to go to that soccer match because she loved too much to let me get even more hurt."

Smiling at the words, Biyomon smile dup at her partner as she flapped her wings and began to fly up into the air. "So now what Sora, what should we do now?"

As Biyomon asked her the question, Sora stared around the cave with a puzzled look on her face. "Biyomon, where's Matt?"

Staring at the person before him through the snowstorm, Matt grumbled as all he was able to see was an outline of body walking through the snow. "Hey, who are you, what do you mean this is the beginning?"

"Just that, a beginning, or more, the beginning of this nightmare."

Giving the evil eye to whoever was speaking to him, Matt returned his stare to the person walking through the snowstorm and began to make his way towards him. "Hey, you, up there!"

Next to him, Gabumon struggled to keep up with his partner, feeling a sense of dread as they neared the person walking through the snowstorm. "Matt, are you sure this is wise?"

Sparing a quick look down at his partner, Matt would have shrugged, if he hadn't been cursing the snowstorm as well. He had really hoped he wouldn't have to meet another one; the last time he had been in one had been a nightmare. Not to mention he had almost died in it.

Shaking his head to chase the memory of the coldness, the feeling of his body giving up fighting the cold, just as he couldn't afford to give up, Matt focused on the person before him as he finally got to the point where he could see who it was. "Hey!"

Looking up, the person stared at him with a emotionless face as it stopped walking, it's blond haired cluttered with snowflakes as the icy blue eyes focused on the child of friendship. "Hey yourself."

Staring right at him, Matt felt his body go a bit colder then it already felt like. "Now ay, it can't be, you're..."

"You, in a manner of speaking." The copy of Matt replied as it crossed it's arms over it's chest. "Or maybe, I'm something more then that."

Shaking his head in an attempt to clear it up and make the copy go away, Matt sighed as he found himself still face to face with his own likeness. "Okay, what are you, another of MoonMilleniummon's digi destined, number 16, 17?"

Giving a small laugh, the copy of Matt slowly turned and began to head off into the snowstorm. "No, I'm not one of his creations, but if you follow me, I'll tell you who and what I am."

Staring after the copy, Matt shook his head as he slowly began to walk after him, not because he cared about the copy or what he had to say, but right now, it was the only thing to do. "So, if you're not one of them, what are you?"

Stopping as they reached a familiar cave, the copy waved his hand for Matt to step into the cave. Watching Matt walk into the cave first and taking a seat on one of the few rocks inside of it, the copy smiled as it followed after him. "What I am, one could say I'm you, but at the same time I'm not."

"Okay, now I'm really confused." Matt replied with a thick layer of sarcasm as he leaned on the cave wall, cursing the coldness of it a great deal as it seeped right through his turtleneck shirt. "Mind feeling me in some more, I thought this was a test, not a chat session."

Giving the blond haired boy the look, the copy sighed as he looked up at the boy standing above him. "This is a test, you must learn why darkness could take over your body and what your crest stands for."

Looking down at it, Matt's face fell a bit when he saw the small symbol and what it stood for. "Friendship." Looking up from it and glaring at his copy, Matt grumbled as he removed his hand from it. "But I don't see what this has to do with anything."

"A lot." came the answer as he copy stood up and walked over to the cave opening, staring out into the snowstorm still raging outside. "You don't know what friendship means, since you have never really let anyone get close enough for you to find out."

Turning around and facing Matt, the copy smiled a bit as he looked at the blond haired boy. "Until you really understand that, your crest won't glow the right way."

Narrowing his eyes at the side of his partner, Gabumon stepped forward and looked up at the copy. "Who are you, you don't smell like Matt, you smell like a digimon."

Looking a bit shocked, Matt lowered his head to stare at his partner digimon. "What do you mean Gabumon?" Then he looked up at his copy and narrowed his own eyes. "Are you lying to me?"

Giving a small chuckled; the copy shook his head and looked at Matt with a serious and deep stare. "You already know who I am, it's in the back of your head." At his words, a deep emerald blue glow flowed around the copy's body as the voice turned deeper and more feral like, before the copy vanished from the cave.

Nearly dropping down to the ground, Matt stared at the place where his copy had been less then a second ago, a feeling of dread flowing through his body as he tried to remember where he had heard that voice before.

"Matt?" Gabumon approached his partner as he spoke, his eyes still locked on the place where the other Matt had been just a few seconds ago. "What did he mean by that?"

Shaking his head and staring out the cave opening, Matt dismissed Gabumon's question as he rubbed his arms to get some heat into them. "It's nothing Gabumon, just a trick." Stepping out of the cave, Matt shivered a bit in the blast of cold air and snow before sighing a bit. "Come on, we're not going to get anything done if we stay here."

Nodding at his partners words, Gabumon rushed to keep up with the blond haired boy's sudden pace, but even with all of that, he couldn't help but look back at the cave behind them. "Something doesn't feel right about this Matt, that guy, he had a faint smell of digimon on him."

Freezing in his tracks at his partner's words, Matt stared off into the snowstorm as a memory resurfaced again, the voice and light belonging to another form, a form who had spoken to him briefly. "Warmon."

At the name, Gabumon stopped and rubbed a paw on his head as he tried to recall any digimon who had that name. "Warmon, I don't think I've heard about that digimon before. Have you Matt?"

Still staring into the snowstorm, Matt eyes narrowed as his hands clenched at his side. "Why." Turning to face his digimon partner, Matt grumbled a bit as he looked out into the snowstorm. "Why are you doing this to me!!"

Stumbling back at his partners words, Gabumon froze as he spotted the copy of Matt walking out of the snow storm, his eyes locked on Matt with each step he took. "So, you figured it out." Stopping a few meters from, the copy crossed his arm s across his chest and began to glow with the blue light again as a grin formed on his face. "Hey, I don't like this anymore then you do, but..." Shrugging a bit, the copy began to grow a lot bigger, the blond hair flowing down his back and turning into a silver white color, the green shirt and dark jeans turning into a suit of metal armor with a mask covering the top part of the digimon's face. "...I can't escape it anymore then you can."

Falling back over into the snow, Matt gave a cry of surprise as he stared at the much larger dog man like digimon towering up over both him and Gabumon. "You, you should be gone, your data was stolen from me. You can't be here."

Smirking in a devilish way, Warmon reached down a hand and picked up Matt from the snow-covered ground. "Now, is that anyway to talk to someone?" Brushing off a bit of snow from Matt's shirt, the digimon grinned as he turned to face Gabumon who were gaping at them. "Hey there, hope I didn't scare you."

Pulling himself free from Warmon's hand on his shoulder, Matt growled as he glared at the much taller figure standing before him. "Okay, what is this all about, what are you doing here?"

Staring at Matt for a few seconds, the digimon finally gave a sigh and motioned for Matt to follow after him again, this time heading towards a small area ahead. "two things, first off, to tell you that you need to make a choice in the near future about the data that made up my body, if you want it back or not."

Snorting loudly at the words coming from Warmon, Matt turned to leave when he felt the digimon grab his should again in a much tighter grip then before. "Look, I don't have time for this okay."

"That attitude is part of the reason Moonmilleniummon could take over your body." Warmon snapped back at Matt as he shot a glare at the boy before him. "You refuse to let others help you, why?."

Pushing the hand off, Matt glared back over his shoulder at Warmon and narrowed his eyes. "None of your business." Stepping away, Matt froze as he spotted another copy of himself standing in the snow in front of them, but this one wasn't looking at them, instead it was kneeling in the snow with a wild glare on its face.

Walking closer, Matt stopped as he noticed the faint trails of darkness floating around the copy's body as it kneeled in the snow. "TK..." The name had Matt stop as he watched his copy's eyes open a bit wider. "I need to find him, protect him, he needs me to protect him." Around the copy, the darkness slowly began to seep into him. "Yes, I'll accept it, if I can keep TK safe, I have to protect him."

Fading away, the copy didn't even leave a trace that it had been there, but Matt still stared at the place were it had been just a second ago. "I... I let it in so easily, I wanted to protect TK; but I couldn't go on, he promise to give me the power to protect TK forever." Stepping back as he shook the dark thoughts out of his head, Matt stared at Warmon and Gabumon behidn him, both of them standing completely still as they watched him. "Gabumon, let's get out of here."

"Matt." Warmon started as he walked over to him. "Try and accept the other's as friends, they will and can help you if you need it." Looking a bit hesitant, the digimon sighed as he pressed his finger against Matt's forehead. "You're not so bad as you think, you just can't recognize the changes you have undergone." At his last word, Warmon faded away again, leaving Matt alone with his partner digimon.

Turning to look at Gabumon, Matt stared silently at the dog like lizard with the fur coat on. "Have I really, changed after all?" Asking in a silent voice, Matt lifted up his digivice and stared at it. "But, I can't remember why I pushed Tai out, why I didn't want him around."

"He will take him away form you."

Turning around, Matt found himself standing in a desert in the instead of a snow covered field, and sitting no lees then two meters from him, the copy Matt was sitting next to a small bon fire, his head downcast as the ice blue eyes stared over at TK sleeping with Tokomon in his hands. "TK, he's my brother, yet, he looks to Tai for guidance, not me."

His own eyes clouding over with the painful memory, Matt growled as he clenched his hands, clearly remembering the few times he had seen TK and Tai talking together, so carefree, and with none of that awkward silence that always seemed to pop up when it was just him and TK talking. "He's more of a brother to him then I am."

"Enough Matt." Gabumon snapped as he pulled Matt away from the vision. Glaring up a this human partner. "You can't blame yourself, you're TK's brother, not Tai, and he looks up to all the same, so stop blaming yourself." Looking over at the copy, Gabumon growled as the sight of the darkness swirling around it. "So you made a few mistake, big deal. From what I can see, the darkness used your love for your brother against you."

"Gabumon?" Matt mumbled out the name for his digimon as he watched the small digimon speak to him. "But... The others."

Looking at Matt with a serious expression, Gabumon sighed. "Have you talked with them, tried to find out what they think of what happened?" Seeing the expression on Matt's face, Gabumon shook his head again. "Talk with them Matt, find out if they really feel the way about you that you think they do."

Staring down at Gabumon, Matt slowly nodded as he though about the words from his digimon. "You're right." Looking over his shoulder, Matt slowly walked over and looked down at his copy. "Tai, Sora, Mimi, Joe, Izzy and TK, I haven't been much of a friend to them, but I'll try and change that." At each word coming form him, Matt's crest slowly began to glow brighter and brighter, the desert shaking a bit as it shattered and turned back into the cave from before.

Looking around them in surprise, Gabumon smiled as he saw the familiar sight of the cave. "You did it, we're back again."

"Matt!"

Turning his head, Matt gave a smile as he spotted the orange haired girl running towards him, Biyomon trailing a bit behind her. "Sora?"

Huffing a bit as she stopped, Sora smiled a bit as she stood up, her eyes landing on his crest which where glowing. "Your crest, it's..."

"I know." Matt answered in a soft voice as he looked at her. "How about yours, did it glow as well?"

Nodding a bit, Sora slowly turned to look back at the way she had come from. "Yes, but, it wasn't a hard lesson."

Smiling as he walked up to her, Matt grinned a bit. "So, should we head back to the others?"

Her eyes growing a bit wide, Sora spun around stared at the cave. "Yeah, but, I can't find the exit, there's nothing in that direction."

Staring at her in disbelief, Matt slowly turned to stare at the cave behind them. "But, the cave ends here, the exit has to be down the path you came from."

"Then we have a problem." Sora mumbled out as she crossed her arms.

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"And this is where we store the supplies needed for out resistance to be effective." Leomon droned on as he walked the small group of kids through the outer parts of the base. "Of course, none of this would have been able to be here, if not for Piximon's invisibility dome."

Nodding as he finished that part of the tour, Leomon turned to regard the kids behind him, watching the way the human girl and her digimon were busy looking at everything but the things he had pointed out on the whole tour. The oldest one and the smartest one of them however were paying more attention. "Now, if you will follow me this way, I'll show you our training ground for getting digimons into the right shape for fighting the Dark Masters."

"Yay." Mimi mumbled out under her breath as they began to walk towards Piximon's training ground, the sounds of digimon training reaching their ears as they stepped out through a door and stared right into a large open arena sporting a huge statue of Piximon in the corner of it. "Looks like someone got a bit of an ego here."

"Mimi." Palmon mumbled out as she pulled the pink loving girl back a bit, her eyes showing just how embarrassed she was over her human partners behavior. "What's wrong, you don't normally complain this much."

Staring a bit at her partner, Mimi sighed as she sat down on the ground, her eyes looking up into the sky with a bit of a confused expression on her face. "I guess I'm tired, tired of it all, we don't seem to be doing anything lately then run for lives or fighting."

Palmon nodded as she could feel a bit of the emotions form her partner running through her. "It can't be helped, as long as the darkness rule, we will have to fight it, we were destined to do so after all."

Narrowing her eyes at that comment, Mimi stood up and brushed the dirt form her dress. "Yeah, but nobody asked me if I wanted to be one of the destined ones." Tuning her head and staring at Izzy, Joe, TK, Gomamon, Patamon and Tentomon listing to Leomon's explanations, she sighed and slowly began to look towards the exit from the area. "Come on Palmon, I'd rather do something else then this right now."

Taking the fist step forward, Mimi gave a loud scream as the ground suddenly shook violently, sending her forward onto her stomach with a cry of pain. "What was that!"

"We're under attack." Leomon answered for her as he looked up into the sky above them, several bats flying around there before turning and heading into another direction. "LadyDevimon."

"What?" Mimi cried out as she stood up, her eyes wide as she turned to stare in the direction of Gennai's house. "How, I thought we would be safe here?"

At her words, a dark laugh filled the room as the Agumon that had been with LadyDevimon slowly stepped up over a small hill in front of them. Mira and Joeshiro stepping up behind him with an evil grin on their faces. "You would have been, if it wasn't for me." The Agumon added in as he began to walk forward some more.

"Enough talk." LadyDevimon's vice cut through the air from behind the small group as she slowly floated down in the open area of Piximon's arena. "It time for you all to die here and now."

Mira and Joeshiro nodded to each other as they began to circle out into the room, Mira going towards Mimi and TK, with Joeshiro heading for Joe and Izzy.

Pointing her hand at Mimi, Mira gave a dark laugh as she began to glow with power. "Hi mom, I just thought I'd drop by and kill you." Shooting a quick look over at TK, she smiled a bit. "Too bad Yakeru couldn't come, he would have loved to trash the little one."

"Okay Geeks." Joeshiro spat out the words as he cracked his knuckles loudly. "It's time for you to get a beating, and I'm going to love giving it to you."

"Die!" Screaming out the word as she attacked, LadyDevimon's arm turned into her needle like sword, which she aimed right at Leomon's back who hadn't evens started to turn around yet.

Halfway towards the still turning Leomon, a white and pink object slammed into the side of the devil like woman, knocking her backwards. "You won't hurt anymore innocent digimons LadyDevimon."

Staring up, LadyDevimon's face twisted with anger as she spotted Angewomon floating in the air before her. "We'll see about that Barbie."

"Kari." TK's cried out as he spotted the small girl standing on the other side of the area with a determined look on her face as her digivice and crest glowed. "Patamon, help her and Angewomon."

The small pig like digimon with wings for ears nodded as he jumped off the ground. "Patamon digivolve too... Angemon."

Staring at Joeshiro, Izzy slowly lifted up his digivice and crest. "Tentomon, it's time."

"You too Gomamon!" Joe added in as he held up his own digivice and crest.

"Tentomon Digivolve too... Kabuterimon. Kabuterimon digivolve too... MegaKabuterimon."

"Gomamon digivovle Too... Ikkakumon. Ikkakumon digivovle too... Zudomon."

Turning their attention away from the battle between LadyDevimon and Angewomon to notice the sudden looming presence of the Ultimate forms of Tentomon and Gomamon. "What the..." Joeshiro mumbled out, he reached back a hand to pull out an smaller version of Zudomon's hammer. "Even that trick won't save you this time."

Mira grinned at Joeshiro's words as her hands began to morph into her flower cannon. "Yeah, remember, we walked all over you the last time we did battle."

"Really." MegaKabuterimon asked as he grinned down at them while powering up an attack. "I think we have the upper hand this time around, Electro Shocker!" Sending out the large lighting stream from his horn, he grinned as the shocked expressions on Joeshiro and Mira's faces told him they hadn't expected that as they were sent flying back through the air.

Next to him, Zudomon nodded as he lifted up his hammer down onto the ground. "Vulcan's Hammer!" the following stream of energy form that sending Joeshiro flying even further into the distance where he impacted a rock wall with a loud smacking sound.

Smiling a bit at what Izzy and Joe's digimons had done, Mimi turned to face Palmon who nodded at her. "Please, be careful Palmon." Mimi smiled a bit sadly as her digivice and crest began to glow with a soft green light.

"Palmon Digivolve too... Togemon. Togemon Digivolve too... Lillymon." Flying up into the air, Lillymon gave a small giggle as her flower cannon formed. "Hey Mira, this is what the real thing looks like, Flower Cannon!"

Shaking her head as she stumbled up form where she had landed, Mira gave a cry of surprise as she was sent flying one more time to tumble over the earth as she landed. "Joeshiro!"

The hybrid in question growled as he pulled himself free from the rock wall and turned around to face Zudomon and MegaKabuterimon. "Handle it yourself Mira, or are you too weak?"

Looking rather shocked at what he had said to her, Mira eyes flashed with pure anger as she turned to face Lillymon who had hovered closer to her. "Hemp, guess it's just you and me now, flower brat."

Smiling a bit, Lillymon giggled as she pointed at something over Mira's shoulder. "Um, I really don't think so."

At the tone of voice Lillymon used towards her, Mira's head turned around quickly, her eyes growing bigger as she spotted one of Megakabuterimon's hands heading right towards her. "No!" Then she was air born again, flying in a large arc through the air. "I hate you two."

"What?" Turning his head as soon as MegaKabuterimon has turned from the fight, Joeshiro blinked and cursed as Zudomon raised his hammer up into the air. "Oh no you don't, eat this Electro..."

"Flower Cannon!"

"...Hammer?" Josher's voice took on a puzzled tone as the green energy bullet smacked into his face and sent him spinning around on the spot for a moment, stopping only in time to jump out of the way of Zudomon's hammer. "Hey!"

Staggering over to him, Mira gave him a slightly trouble look as she reformed her flower cannon and aimed it at the three digimons rushing towards them. "Get a grip on yourself, or are you simply to weak to face them?"

Shooting her the darkest look he could, Joeshiro grunted a bit as he lifted up his hammer. "Shut up, let's just take them out now." Spinning around, he smirked as the hammer glowed with energy as it smacked into Lillymon. "Vulcan's Hammer!" the powerful attack sending the flower pixy type digimon flying through the air to scrape across the ground. "That was that little stunt before."

"Lillymon!" Mimi cried out as she rushed over and pulled up her partner digimon from where she had landed. "Are you, Okay?"

Smiling a bit up at her partner, the fairy like digimon nodded as she stood up slowly. "Yeah, I'm okay. Thank you for worrying about me Mimi."

"Flower cannon!" Sending out her energy bullet, Mira grinned as it hit MegaKabuterimon right in the gut, making the insect digimon kneel over with a loud grunt. "Look out!" As soon as Mira yelled out her warning, both she and Joeshiro had jumped clear of the hammer smacking into the ground where they been just a second before.

Smirking as he prepared to land and use one of Megakabuterimon's attack, Joeshiro blinked as he spotted something flash a bit to his left. "What."

Angemon smirked as he watched just where the hybrid where headed in his jump. Taking a small break from helping Angewomon fight LadyDevimon, he smashed his staff into the Hybrid boy's side. "Angel Staff!" Sending him soaring right back towards Zudomon who were ready for him. "Now, back to the fight, Angewomon?"

Glaring at the Agumon as soon as the danger from LadyDevimon and the hybrids were gone, Leomon slowly stepped forward with a snarl. "Why, why did you betray us?"

"Because I could." Glowing a bit, the orange skin of the Agumon slowly turned into a dark blue color final ending with a solid back one. "And because I live to betray others." Turning around, the BlackAgumon began to run off. "Maybe we'll meet again Leomon, but I highly doubt it."

"Get back here!" Kicking up some dirt with each step, Leomon took off running after the BlackAgumon with a roar of anger.

"Ha!" Kicking down harshly, Angewomon smirked as she scored a direct hit on LadyDevimon's face, sending her flying down towards the ground with no control. "I'm okay Angemon, nothing to worry about."

Gaining control of her fall, LadyDevimon rolled over in the air and glared up at her opponents. "Then I'll give you something to worry about, darkness waves!"

Lifting up her hands and forming a small shield before her, Angewomon face twisted with a bit of shock as she tried to hold off the many bats from hitting her. "Okay, maybe I could use a little help here Angemon."

Smiling a bit at her words, Angemon rushed forward as his fist surged with energy around it. "Then I'll give you a hand of fate!" Sending his attack right into the surprised looking LadyDevimon who couldn't get out of its way in time, getting hit right between the eyes.

On the ground, TK shuddered at the rather bad joke coming from his digimon while he made his way over to where Kari was standing. "I have to teach him some better jokes." Shaking himself out of the thoughts, he smiled as he reached the other girl. "Hey, I thought you were with Tai and Gennai?"

Kari smiled a bit, as she looked away form the fight between the digimons. "Gennai noticed LadyDevimon and the hybrids entering through the barrier." Kari's smile faltered a bit as she turned back to look at Angewomon. "Tai wanted to come here as well, but couldn't." At TK's look, she smiled again. "Gennai was busy studying him, so it might take a while okay."

TK nodded as well as he returned his attention to the fight. "Let's just hope they're finished in time or we can win over them."

As soon the attack was over, Angewomon rushed forward as her hands glowed. "Now, Heavens Charm!" Sending out the cross on energy, Angewomon's mile faltered as LadyDevimon avoid the attack by flying even further down.

"I got her." Angemon yelled out as he tossed his staff downward, Sending LadyDevimon stumbling back a bit. "Or not."

Growling in the back of her of her throat, LadyDevimon glared up at the angel digimon before her. "You'll pay for that Barbie, and you too Blondie." Flying up as fast as she could, the devil woman like digimon cast a quick look over at 13 and 14, sneering as they were overpowered by the combined strength of Lillymon, MegaKabuterimon and Zudomon who once again attacking the hybrids like team.

Mira grunted as she smacked into the ground for the third time in a span of only five minutes, her clothes torn and smoking as she pushed herself up onto her elbows. "Why you little!" Glaring at Lillymon who were smirking at her, Mira spat out some blood and stood up as her hands began to form into her own flower cannon.

Next to her, Joeshiro grunted as he staggered up as well, his eyes narrowed in hate as he wipe some blood from his mouth with a badly hurt hand. "I'm going to enjoy deleting you losers for this." Reaching back both hands, he grinned as sparks began to fly around them.

Grinning as a new and dark idea popped into her head, LadyDevimon nimbly dodged Angewomon's attack and Angemon's as well while flying past them, Her eyes staring at the hybrids with a dark hunger growing in them as she got closer to the spot where they were fighting. "13! 14!" Watching as they stopped powering up their attacks to face her, she spread out her fingers on each hand. "Give me all your energy!" At the last word, her claws stabbed through their clothes and into their bodies. "Now!"

A shocked expression spread on Mira faces at the cry of the devil woman like digimon, then it turned into a pained one as she felt her energy getting torn from her, her digimon parts protesting as they weakened from it. "No, Please..." Slumping over, her hand clawed uselessly on LadyDevimon's arm.

Speared on LadyDevimon's left hand, Joeshiro glared up at her with all of his anger and hate as his power was ripped from him in such a cowardly way. And by someone he had believe to be a member of the team. "You... Damn traitor..." Then he slumped over as well.

Staring in muted shock at what LadyDevimon had done, Mimi slowly looked over at Mira who were looking closer and closer at dying with each passing second. "Lillymon!"

The fairy digimon nodded at the cry, somehow feeling just what it was that her partner wanted her to do. "Flower Cannon!"

The green bullet of energy flew through the air and smacked into LadyDevimon's stomach with a loud bang, sending the devil woman staggering for a bit as her claws slid out of the two hybrids bodies. "Why you."

Dropping to their knees, Joeshiro glared up at the evil ultimate digimon as he slowly stood up on his legs again. "Traitor, I swear, if you survive this battle, I will kill you myself." At his last word, the hybrid boys body slowly flickered for a few seconds before he faded away.

Next to him, Mira glared at LadyDevimon as well, before her eyes moved over to stare at Mimi and Lillymon. "This changes nothing, I will kill you both the next time we meet." At her last word, Mira body flickered and faded away as well.

Shrugging of the effects of Lillymon's attack, LadyDevimon grinned at the shocked expressions of the Digi destined faces at what one of their own had just done. "Now Digi Brats, let's see how long you can stand up to me now." At her last word, a purple glow formed around her body as the power she had stolen from Mira and Joeshiro was activated, making her grew to twice her normal strength.

Landing on the ground in front of Izzy and TK, MegaKabuterimon summed up the feelings of the rest of the Digi destined and their digimons at the rather twisted grin on the ultimate level virus digimon as she began to fly towards them. "Oh #¤%&!"

"Darkness wave." Screaming out the name of her attack, LadyDevimon laughed as the hundreds of bats she had summoned rushed out to knock both Angewomon and Angemon out of the sky in a single. Turning around, she smirked as she grabbed the head on Zudomon's hammer and held it it back with just one hand. "Face it, you don't stand a chance now brats."

Narrowing his eyes, Izzy turned to look at his partner as the large insect digimon began to move forward with a loud roar of anger. "MegaKabuterimon, be careful not hurt to Zudomon!"

Not giving any sigh of having heard his partners order, MegaKabuterimon lowered his head and hammered it forward as soon as he was in range of LadyDevimon. "Horn Buster!"

Still chuckling a bit, the devil woman digimon twisted out of the way as fast as she could, leaving Zudomon's hammer to impact with Megakabuterimon's charged horn, the electricity surging up though the metal covered hammer and into Zudomon who gave a loud scream before he stumbled back as MegaKabuterimon fell down as well from the pain going through his horn.

Laughing at the easiness of taking out those two digimons, LadyDevimon shook her head as she turned to face the other digi destined and their digimons. "Looks like they got a charge out of that!"

"Ugh." Mimi groaned out at the very bad pun and looked over at Lillymon who had finally gotten back onto her feet. "Go Lillymon, defeat her now."

Nodding at her partner command, Lillymon kicked off from her place in the air and rushed down through the air, her hands forming into her cannon as she took aim at LadyDevimon face. "Flower cannon!"

Screaming out in anger as the flower energy impacted her again, LadyDevimon eyes flashed bright head as she brought both hands out in front of her. "Enough of this, I see it's time to get serious!"

Growing tense at her words, Lillymon, Angemon and Angewomon moved to a better position from which to defend their digi destined partners from any attack LadyDevimon might think off sending towards them.

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At the same time inside Piximon's cave, Matt and Sora smiled as the red and blue light spread out to force back the darkness of the cave they were in, their digimons smiling as they light seeped into their bodies. "Okay, we can't go out in any direction, so we'll have to make our own exit." Matt stated as he lifted up his digivice. "Now, let's do this!"

Nodding, Gabumon stood up from where he had landed. "Right" Then a bight white light formed around the small body of the rookie level digimon. "Gabumon Digivovle too... Garurumon."

Almost a as soon as the light had died down around the now champion level digimon, Matt felt his digivice start to shake as a blue color spread out over it, his crest of friendship lowering its light as the power from it was drawn into the screen of the digivice. "Garurumon!"

Not even waiting a second after the command, Garurumon's body exploded with an even brighter light. "Garurumon Digivolve too... Weregarurumon" Staring at his partner, the wolf man smiled a second before he turned to stared up the ceiling of the cave.

Next to Matt, Sora had turned to look at Biyomon, wiping a small tear form her eye as he saw the pink bird wasn't dead after all. "Are you feeling up to it as well Biyomon."

"Of course." Biyomon answered as she flew up into the air, her body glowing as it drew in the power need to reach her champion level. "Biyomon, Digivolve too, Birddramon!" Hovering in the air, she looked down at Sora as the orange haired girl's crest lit up again, it power fueling her second digivolution. "Birddramon Digivolve too... Garudamon."

"Ummm!" Sora started as she looked up at her ultimate level digimon. "Maybe we should have waited until we had gotten out of the cave to do this."

Looking down at the three of them, Garudamon didn't dare to nod as the top of her head was firmly panted a bit into the ceiling of the cave. "I think you're right, but it doesn't matter, this way, we can out of here even faster." The huge bird woman stated as she pulled back her fist and sent a few tons of dirt falling down. "Everyone get ready, cause we're leaving now, Eagle claw!" Her fist surging with energy, Garudamon punched right up into the top of the cave with as much power as she dared too, a small shockwave rushing out over the cave roof before it began to fall down around her as a loud explosion rang out.

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Deflecting a hand of fate and a flower cannon attack, LadyDevimon eyes flashed bright red as she began to fly forward, her hand forming into her black needle again. "Now you die Flower girl."

"Lillymon, No!" Starting to from her arrow and bow, Angewomon took aim and silently cursed as it became clear that she couldn't hit the devil woman in time to save Lillymon. "Angemon, stop her!"

Rushing forward even before Angewomon had yelled at him, Angemon stopped as the group exploded right in front of him, sending a loud roar of fire up into the air along with several tons of rock. "Now what!"

Turning her head, LadyDevimon stared at the sudden explosion with wide eyes, her target forgotten as things took another unexpected turn for her. "What is this?" Turning her head back around, she blinked as Lillymon's foot smacked right down onto her head. "Hey!"

Spinning around in time to see Lillymon fly off, LadyDevimon growled in her throat, then gave a loud cry of surprise as Angewomon's arrow shot into the ground at her feet, the only thing saving her the fact that she had turned to stare after Lillymon.

Jumping up into the air, the devil woman cursed as she powered up an attack, stopping as she suddenly felt something large grab onto her legs with a crushing force. "Ahhh!" Turning her head, She stared in pure shock at the large bird woman smirked down at her. "What, who are you." Not answering, the bird woman grinned as she lifted up her other hand and opened it, allowing Sora, Matt and Weregarurumon to stare at her.

"She's my partner." Sora answered as she held out her digivice towards LadyDevimon, her eyes looking right into LadyDevimon red eyes as she opened her other hand to show her glowing crest. "Garudamon, finish her off."

Smirking, Garudamon flung her hand up in the air, still holding onto LadyDevimon who gave a loud scream at the sudden motion, stopping when it had reached the highest point before throwing the devil woman down with all of her force.

Jumping off form the opened hand, Weregarurumon grinned as he spun his leg through the air in a wide ach as he passed by LadyDevimon. "Garuru kick!" The force of it sending her side ways through the air for a bit before she smacked into the ground.

Struggling to get up, LadyDevimon looked back over her shoulder at the group of digimons closing in on her, their faces showing no signs of mercy towards her. "Wait, you wouldn't, would you?"

"It's over LadyDevimon." Angewomon answered as she formed her bow and arrow. "Time to pay for all of you evil deeds."

Struggling to stand up, LadyDevimon eyes flashed with anger as she looked up at the angel type digimon above her. "I will not except defeat by your hands."

"Vulcan's hammer!"

Screaming loudly, LadyDevimon stumbled forward as the energy from a re-awoken Zudomon's attack hammered directly into her back, her arms moving out to side the help her maintain balance. "Damn you, you overgrown..."

"Get her now!!" it was unclear who had yelled out the command, but the result was rather beautiful to behold as Angewomon, Angemon and Lillymon responded at once, firing off their respective long range attacks at once, each attack hitting LadyDevimon right on, her face twisting into a mask of pain as she screamed out loud, finally bursting into a cloud of digital data.

Slowly stepping forward from where she and TK had been, Kari stared at the place where LadyDevimon had been just seconds before. "It's over, we won."

"No." Leomon replied as he stepped up over the hill, an angry look on his face as he stepped up to them. "You have beaten LadyDevimon, but BlackAgumon managed to escape me, and you can be sure he'll tell the Dark Masters where we are."

Staring at the lion man as she told them the bad news, the Digi Destined turned to regard one another with a more fearful expression on their faces. "You can be sure of one thing children." Leomon continued as he crossed his arms and stared out into the horizon with a just as concerned look. "A greater battle awaits us soon."

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"Been a ling time since I was last here. "Talking softly, Moonmilleniummon lowered his crystal body down into the deepest, darkest parents of his fortress, the parts that no one but him ever set foot inside off. The techno like structure of the rest of the fortress looking far superior to the plain rock and iron walls down here, walls he had constructed a long time ago. "A very long time indeed."

Mumbling out the words, Moonmilleniummon reflected on just how lucky a chance it had been to find the only part of his original fortress to have survived the first war. And to have it be just that part of the fortress that mattered the most to him.

Landing on the floor of a rather large dome shaped room, Moonmilleniummon stared right ahead, his four yellow eyes unblinking as they took in the sight of the crystal hovering in the air before him, a column of light illuminating the one hidden inside of it. "It has been such a long time since our last talk." Not getting an answer, the mega digimon hovered over to the crystal and closed his eyes. "If only you would see things the way I do, the destiny we were both born for, this wouldn't have been necessary."

"Lord Moonmilleniummon?" Datamon's voice rang out through the room all of a sudden.

"What is it?" Not turning away form the crystal at the sudden call from one of his most trusted servants, the mega digimon answered the voice as he began to think of ways to punish the one who had dared to interrupt him.

A deep fear entered Datamon's voice as he answered. "It's about LadyDevimon, she betrayed us, and nearly killed the hybrids."

Masking his anger at the news, Moonmilleniummon slowly turned around to regard the other end of the room as he thought about the news. "Kill her, she must learn that I don't accept traitors in my army."

Datamon's voice took on a slightly hesitant tone at the order. "That, I can't do, she has already been defeated by the digi destined and..."

"If she's already dead, why do you interrupt me?" MoonMilleniummon's eyes flashed bright red as he returned his gaze to the crystal before him. "I have far better things to do then listen to the report of a traitors death."

Datamon could be heard moving a bit as if he was thinking of ending the conversation there. "My lord, there's more."

MoonMilleniummon's voice took on a dark edge as he closed his eyes. "What?"

"It's about the Digi Destined and the rebel digimons." Sounding a bit more confidant as he hadn't been threaten with death yet, Datamon continued. "We've found them, a BlackAgumon who worked for Piedmon as a spy has informed us of the location of their main base."

MoonMilleniummon's two faces smiled at the news a deep chuckle escape from him. "Wake up Machinedramon, tell him I want the Machine Army ready to level the rebel base with in the next 12 hours."

Datamon's voice took on a slight fear filled tone level as he continued. "But, it's rather far away from the city and."

"Do it!!" Moonmilleniummon roared out as he broke off the contact with Datamon by destroying the small radio unit hanging in the air above him. "Fools, can't they understand that a god type digimon can't be bordered with stuff like that."

Eyes opening again, but with a bit more hardness in them then when he had first entered the room, the mega digimon turned around and began to move back the way he had come. "We could have been invincible, but you had to go and side with those weakling digimons instead, but, it doesn't matter, I'll show you yet, just how much more perfect I am, how perfect you are, and something as perfect as us, needs a perfect world to protect and rule over."

Stopping in the doorway, the crystal incased mega digimon hovered silently for a few minutes as he stared into the darkness beyond the light reflected off the crystal. "Sleep well, my partner. I can only hope, that you will like the world I'm creating for us."

In the dome shaped far below MoonMilleniummon's throne room, the light shone through the surface of the crystal to hit the brown haired boy and blue dragon like digimon trapped in an endless sleep within it.

TBC: World of Darkness part 4.
Things heat up as the Dark Master's most destructive member begins an all out attack on the Rebel digimons base.

AN: The longest chapter yet for this story, but it was needed to get the various smaller event in the story over with. Things should progress smoothly from now on, as the real battle with the Dark Master's has begun.

Now, tell me what you think of this chapter, as I'm more then eager to find out if you like the story so far. And I would still like to see how others thinnk Chimon looks like, so if you can draw and have the desire to, send a pic of him to me and I'll put it up on my