In the Shadow of Chaos

by The Masked Ermine

The Digital World, recreated from fragments of other realities, is in peril. The chaos is building, can a fabled group known as the Digidestined save the world from the Shadow of Chaos?

86. The Light

I don't own digimon

The Light

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Mrs. Kuranaka sat in her bed holding her blankets up to her chin. There were screams and shouts in the halls as the voices of nurses shouted back and forth. They were preparing for an evacuation. The sirens were going off. She shook in fear; the voices from the other world were getting louder. Moaning calls for help, tearful cries of death and destruction all were coming from several directions.

"Go away…go away…go away…" breathed Mrs. Kuranaka as she closed her eyes and pulled the blanket over her head, "Please don't talk to me anymore…isn't there anyone else?"

"Kari…you know you're special…" whispered a soft voice.

The woman slowly opened her eyes and looked down in front of her. A white cat was standing in front of her. Green gloves covered its front paws and a golden ring was around her tail. It stood on its hind feet like a human.

"They said you weren't real…" cried the woman, tears fell from her eyes. "You aren't real!"

"I'm as real as you are…" replied the cat as it put a paw on her arm. "You know it's true…we need to find the others, the world is in danger…the world needs us again…"

"But the others…" Kari shook her head hard, "They don't believe…"

"They will, we've all come back, they'll remember…even Akeno…" the cat smiled up at the woman, "We'll show them what the truth really is…won't we?"

"But…the others we can't leave them here alone…" cried Kari quietly.

"Don't worry some of our friends are here to protect them…" the cat smiled, "Just because they say something isn't real doesn't mean it fake, and just because they think you're crazy doesn't mean that you are…it just means they don't see what you see…"

"So then some of the others…" Kari looked at the cat.

"Yep!" smiled the cat as it took her hand. "Come on…we need to blow this catnip stand…"

"How…I don't have anything that…" Kari looked down at the bed in front of her. A pink device, about the size of a large cell phone, was resting on her bed. Kari picked it up.

"You're D-Terminal is in your dresser, right?" asked the feline as it leapt down and scampered to the dresser. The cat leapt up and pulled the dresser door open and threw the small machine to Kari. "Look at the mail…"

Kari looked up in surprise, "But they disabled it…said I didn't need it…how'd you get…?"

"We have our ways…" smiled the feline.

Kari flipped the top of the D-terminal open and gasped. The cat leapt down and pulled the ring from her tail and tossed it out the window. It shimmered and exploded into golden data.

"Your tail ring…" whispered Kari quietly.

"This is more important!" Gatomon said sternly, "The D-Reaper is coming…we have to stop it…we have to find the others…"

"Ok, Gatomon," Kari poked a button on the D-terminal. A small object appeared in her hand. It looked like an egg; it had little, pink claws poking out of its white body with little golden ears poking out of its top. "Digi-armor…energize!"

"Gatomon armor digivolve to….Nefertimon, the angel of Light!" A large sphinx stood in Gatomon's place. The sphinx lifted its paw and punched through the window of the room. "Come on, Hikari, it's time we show that D-Reaper who it's messing with…"

The middle age woman tentatively got onto the back of the sphinx. "Are you sure this is safe?"

"Hikari, don't worry, I'll protect you, no matter what…" replied the sphinx as it crashed through the remains of the window and spread its wings.

"Oh no…is that the D-Reaper?" gasped Kari as she looked down. Crimson ooze flowed through the streets. Cars in the path of the liquid seemed to be dissolved.

"That is the D-Reaper, the Great Enemy…" confirmed the sphinx as she glided over.

"We need to get to Tamachi…that's where I live now, my home isn't far from Yolei and Ken's," called Kari loudly.

"Tamachi…let's see that's…" Nefertimon wavered slightly in the wind and then turned to the north.

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"Awe, come on, we're going to be late…" growled Taichi loudly at the unmoving traffic. The cabdriver was also grumbling.

"Can you tell us what is wrong up ahead?" asked Koushiro quietly.

"Maybe we should've taken the train…" murmured Joe quietly.

The cabdriver glared up at the mirror at Joe and the doctor gulped and pulled at his neck collar. The taxi driver then started to twiddle with the radio.

"This just in," snapped the radio suddenly. "Shinjuku is closed down as a red, well it's hard to classify, let's just say a red entity has started to take over Shinjuku…reports are coming in of major structural damage to the high rises in the area, roads into and out of Shinjuku have been closed as civil defense officials try to deal with this…thing."

The three men in the backseat of the cab looked at each other and then up at the cab driver. The driver only shrugged and looked back at the car ahead of him and grumbled.

"We've just gotten a report on this very strange event…it seems, a second red entity has appeared in Chiyoda, and another in Tamachi," reported the radio announcer slowly, "The red mass is being reported in all major cities of the Tokyo prefecture, including Odaiba…" The radio announcer paused as papers rustled over the microphone, "this just in…the red entity has appeared in twenty seven cities over the world, included in these are Hong Kong, New Delhi, Moscow, Paris, Sydney, New York, Mexico City…"

"Man, wonder what the heck is going on…" Joe looked over at Koushiro.

"What?" yelped the cinnamon haired man, "I'm a scientist not a prognosticator!"

"I hope the others are ok…" Taichi looked up at the plugged traffic ahead.

"Oh god…no…" the radio reporter gasped loudly as the papers seemingly were being thrown at him. "Folks, this just in, it has been confirmed, the red entity is indeed hostile…only minutes ago an American helicopter on a close, reconnaissance flight was attacked by what many reported as being, 'a helium filled grey bag with cannon-like arms...' the helicopter crashed into the red mass and was absorbed by the entity. All people within seven blocks of the effected area are asked to retreat to typhoon and air-raid shelters…the civil defense agency will be making door by door evacuation notices."

The three men looked at each other. That was when the car three cars ahead of them exploded. The three men and the cabdriver leapt in their seats as rubble crashed down around the car and crashed against the windshield. The cabdriver opened his car door and leapt out.

"No charge!" screamed the man as he ran.

"Hey!" shouted Taichi as he swung his door open. "Oh…my…"

Koushiro and Joe got out of the car and looked up at the place where Taichi was looking. Hovering sacks of air were gliding through the air, randomly firing down over the street. Cars were exploding and people were screaming loudly.

"We have to help them…" Joe looked around, "damn I left my medical kit with me…"

"Are you nuts!" Koushiro looked back at Joe, "Those things are strafing the area? If anything we should run like the cabdriver!"

"No, if there are injured…then Joe should go and help them, and we have to help me assist them," Taichi looked at Koushiro.

"We won't be much help without supplies," Joe glared up at the creatures as they strafed the street ahead of them.

"Supplies…I be the taxi has a first aid kit!" Koushiro shouted as he leapt back into the car.

"That's good…" Taichi stopped in mid-sentence. "Does anyone else see what I see?"

"If you're seeing a gigantic vortex in the sky that's spewing golden balls of light…then yes…" Joe replied dumbfoundedly as he watched the golden orbs rain down into the city. "And they said it was weird when it rained sardines in London…"

"I've got the…" Koushiro turned and looked up at the sky when he saw his companions gawking up. "medical…kit…this is not getting better is it?"

"Their filling the streets…." Whispered Taichi as the spheres flooded downwards and seemed to rush towards them like a tidal wave.

The three adults flinched and covered their faces as the spheres swept past them. The spheres surprisingly gave off a reassuring, warm, and pleasant feeling, like the smell of fresh sweet rolls. The three opened their eyes and looked in front of them only to see three of the golden spheres hovering in front of them.

"Is this getting unnerving for anyone?" gulped Joe quietly as his sphere circled his head.

The sphere then seemed to hiccup and a small golden blob flew at Joe. The slate haired man covered his face with his hands only to find the blob to fit gently in his palm. Joe blinked and looked at his hand; in it was a small white device. It was white with a screen in the middle. Joe looked at the device curiously, as he did this the other two sphere's hiccupped releasing devices into Taichi and Koushiro's hands. The two men looked at the devices and gasped as they started to squeal.

The three golden spheres flared brightly as a white light encapsulated them. They dropped to the ground revealing three creatures. One was a white seal with purple dots and a red mane of hair, one was an overgrown, red ladybug with spikes instead of dots and the other was an orange dinosaur creature.

"JOE!" yelped the seal as it jumped forward, tackling the slate haired man. "It's been forever!"

"Get it off me! GET IT OFF ME!" shouted Joe loudly as he struggled to restrain the creature.

"Just like Joe…brave enough to face strafing balloons but scared of a cute seal…" chuckled Koushiro.

"Koushiro-san…" the ladybug looked up at the cinnamon haired man. The beetle's wing covers opened and it buzzed forward. "It has been a very long time…"

"I…well…who are you?" Koushiro looked at the creature analytically, "You look like a ladybug but that's impossible an insect your size would be crushed under its own exoskeleton…"

"Yep, that's Koushiro alright," giggled the seal.

"So that leaves you to me…" Taichi looked down at the dinosaur.

"You really don't remember?" the dinosaur looked up hopefully.

"I think I'd remember a miniature Tyrannosaur…" replied Taichi sternly. "Are you things with the red entity, because if you are, then we don't want you around, and tell your balloon friends to shove off before we have to hurt them!"

"They really don't remember do they?" asked the seal quietly. The beetle and the dinosaur only shook their heads.

"We're in big trouble then…if they don't remember it will be hard to get the power to digivolve…" the beetle whispered as he turned to the advancing, gray balloons.

"I don't know what you guys are talking about…but we have people to get to," said Joe as he shoved the seal off his chest and ran forward. Koushiro and Taichi ran after him.

"Hey!" shouted the three creatures as they chased after the three men.

"IZZY!" yelped the ladybug as he whirred forward, "Don't get so close to them!"

"Joe! Be careful!" shouted the seal.

"You'll get hurt!" shouted the little tyrannosaur.

The balloons turned slowly and pointed their cannon arms at the three oncoming humans. Spitfire bolts of energy strafed the ground, sending the humans diving for cover. The three other creatures split up.

"Joe!" yelped the seal as he scrambled towards the doctor. One of the gray balloons was hovering towards him. "Get out of there!"

"Those people are relying on me!" shouted the doctor, "it's my job; I can't just leave them!"

The balloon's cannons glowed brightly as they charged with energy.

"Taichi! You can't stay, they'll slaughter you!" shouted the dinosaur as he scurried around cars. "You have to run away!"

"I don't run away from anything!" shouted Taichi loudly, "I'm not leaving these guys back here and running away like a coward!"

"Izzy, you have to run, these things aren't something to be trifled with!" yelped the ladybug as he buzzed over cars and ducked back down to the street, frog hopping towards the cinnamon haired man.

"There has to be away to get rid of them, if I can get close maybe I can find some sort of flaw in their construction…" shouted Koushiro as he looked back at the buzzing insect. "And how do you know my nickname? No one's called me that in decades!"

"Izzy, I'm your friend, Tentomon!" shouted the ladybug as he dropped down in front of the cinnamon haired man, "You have to remember…"

"Targets, analyzed, threat consideration, minimal…" announced the balloons as they hovered over the humans. "Usefulness, minimal, analysis, targets are obstructions to our functionality…They shall be erased…"

"Erased…" whispered Taichi.

"They will kill you, get out of here!" shouted the little dinosaur. "Hurry!"

"No, not while there are people that need our help!" shouted the brown haired man loudly.

"Then you leave me no choice…" huffed the little dinosaur as he turned to balloon, "You have to go through me, D-Reaper! Pepper Breath!" the little tyrannosaur spat a fiery loogie at the balloon and snorted as the balloon continued forward. "Pepper Breath!" another ball of fire pelted the balloon.

The cannon arms of the balloon flared and blasts of energy exploded into the ground in front of the tyrannosaur. The little creature rolled backwards as it was smashed with the pelts.

"No…little guy…" Taichi ran over the dinosaur. "You stood in front of that thing and…"

"Of course…I had to be brave for you…" whispered the dinosaur quietly.

"Marching Fishes!" shouted the seal as swarms of fish exploded from fire hydrants and manholes and rammed the balloons.

"Super Shocker!" bolts of lightning slashed into the gray creatures as the ladybug feverishly weaved between the balloons. The balloons shrugged off the assaults of the little creatures and targeted their cannons sending the little beasts hurtling to the ground.

"You guys…" Joe looked at the seal. "You protected us?"

"Of course, you can rely on us, even if we can't rely on you…" whispered the seal.

"Tento…mon?" Koushiro looked at the insect, "Isn't there anything we can do?"

"The digivice…you have to learn how to use it…." whispered the bug. It put a clawed arm onto Koushiro's hand and lifted it up to show the man the little device. "It's the power you need…"

"How do we do it?" Koushiro looked at the bug.

"You…will find out…" The insect looked up, "I know you can…you're the smartest humans I've ever known…"

"Targets are within range…charging weapons…" hummed the balloons as they lifted their arms.

"Don't worry, Taichi…I'll protect you…" coughed the dinosaur as he struggled up.

"No!" Taichi held the dinosaur back, "You'll get killed! Stay back…"

"But I have to…" the little dinosaur grumbled as he struggled. "I have to…"

"No…don't do it little guy!" shouted Taichi loudly.

The little device that Taichi had stuck in his pocket started to warm up and shake in his hand. Taichi pulled it out and looked at it. The screen was burning with light. The little dinosaur started to glow brightly.

Taichi watched as the little dinosaur grew into a larger, tiger striped, brown and orange dinosaur with a skull helmet that had two, long horns on its side and a snout horn. Taichi fell backward and gaped at this new creature.

"Little guy?" Taichi looked up in shock.

"I'm Greymon…" growled the beast as he looked down, "I was Agumon, but your friendship and courage gave me the strength to digivolve…"

The dinosaur glared at the balloons. The gray creatures looked back at the larger dinosaur.

"Can you do that?" Joe looked down at the seal.

"I sure can, if you really want me to…" the seal looked up.

"There are a lot of people depending on us, we have to get these balloons out of here…can you do it without a lot of collateral damage?" Joe looked down at the seal.

"Well…we can try…" the seal looked back at Joe. "But I need the strength to do it…"

"Right…let's do it then…" Joe looked sternly forward, "They need us, and we need to do this…"

The seal glowed brightly as the device in Joe's hand shimmered. The seal grew into a large, furry walrus. Joe looked up and nodded curtly.

"Hi, I'm Ikkakumon, and I used to be little Gomamon your seal friend, but your wish to help those in need changed that…" announced the walrus.

"What about you?" Koushiro looked down at the insect, "Tentomon?"

"Yes, Izzy?" the insect looked up.

"Do you think you can do that growing thing?" asked Koushiro.

"Yes," Tentomon looked up. "But you need to give me strength…if only you could remember…"

"Remember? Remember what?" growled Koushiro.

"The other world, The Digital World, the world where we met, and became friends…" whispered Tentomon as he held Koushiro's hand.

"The other world is real!" Koushiro looked down at Tentomon, "So…Hikari isn't crazy, and that means those books…they are real?"

"Yes…" Tentomon looked up at the man.

"That means…I was one of the Chosen Children?" asked Koushiro.

"Yes…" whispered Tentomon.

"Then that means something horrible has happened in the other world for this world to be under attack…we have to do something, anything," Koushiro looked down, "I want to help…we need to find out about the others, if we're the only ones that have our digimon back…"

"You're getting it!" Tentomon cheered. "Keep going!"

"We need to get to Gennai…" Koushiro closed his eyes. "It's like a giant curtain is being pulled from my head…"

Koushiro's digivice glowed brightly. Tentomon stood up and glowed as he grew into a large, blue insect with a rhinoceros mask on its head.

"I'm…" the blue bug started.

"Kabuterimon!" shouted Koushiro loudly as he stood to his feet, "You used to be Tentomon and then my digivice gave you the strength to evolve into Kabuterimon, and you can use an attack named Electro Shocker!"

"Well, seeing as my introduction has already been given…" the bug buzzed its wings and looked at the balloons, "Let's dance…"

"Wait, get them out of here first, we can't run the risk of hurting any survivors!" shouted Joe as the large beasts turned to attack the balloons.

"Right," shouted Ikkakumon as he swiped forward at one of the balloons, "Come on you heap of latex, come get us!"

The walrus turned and started to retreat with Greymon and Kabuterimon. The balloons scanned the three new creatures.

"Threat assessment, moderate, targets must be eliminated before they pose a risk to us…" called the balloons as they gave chase.

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"We haven't much time, we'll split up," announced Lucemon as he looked at the others, "Tapirmon and Otamamon, go after Jason and Brendan; Snow Agumon, Labramon go find Kevin and Michelle, Renamon go after Janet; Penguinmon, find Amy; Ryuudamon and I shall go after Steven and Mark…everyone knows how to get to their homes from here right?"

The other digimon nodded quickly and they split up in different directions. Lucemon looked down at Ryuudamon. The lizard-like dragon smiled and Lucemon nodded his head and took off with the dragon in his arms.

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"Kevin, don't go out!" shouted the boy's mother as the brown haired child ran to the door and opened it.

"I have to, Mr. Takenouchi may need help!" returned the boy as he slipped his shoes on and pushed the door open. "Don't worry, Mom, I'll be right back."

"Kevin, wait for me!" shouted a tan haired girl rushed after him.

"Michelle!" yelped the girl's mother.

"Don't worry, Mom," shouted the girl as she slipped through door as it closed.

Kevin ran down the steps and down the small walkway to the sidewalk. Michelle was right behind him. They both looked over to their neighbor's house. The windows were flashing brightly with some sort of light. They ran to the path up to the house's front door and stopped. The deck attached to the front of the house was covered in a film. The street light only barely exposed the fluid. It was dripping down the stairs and onto the sidewalk. Small fumes were rising up from the steps. The smell was sharp, like rotten eggs but without the rotten smell.

"What are we going to do?" whispered Kevin as he slowly approached the deck.

"If he's in there…we have to try and save him," Michelle replied as she looked up at the flashing windows.

Kevin took a tentative step forward and put his foot on the stair. The structure shook under the pressure and the step simply vaporized. Kevin gasped as he stumbled back. Michelle caught the boy.

"Now what?" Kevin grimaced as he looked at his shoe. The sole was melting as the liquid ran from the bottom of the shoe.

"I don't know…" whispered Michelle as she looked up. "Wait…something is coming to the door.

A shadow reached the door and pushed it open. The door fell off its hinges and disintegrated in the fluid. The man at the door was short, almost five and half feet tall. He had a medium build. The children looked up hopefully. The man opened his eyes. They glowed with a red sharpness that cut through the night air. His fingers were long and ended in slender but sharp claws. A coy smile played over his lips as he walked forward. The clothes on his body shifted in the darkness slowly turning into an honorable theatre cloak. His shirt was black velvet and his pants were also black, though they looked like they were denim. A pair of black dress shoes glistened in the streetlights.

The man leapt down from the house's melting deck nimbly and walked with dignity towards the two children. Kevin and Michelle slowly took retreating steps backward. Mr. Takenouchi's house folded in on itself as it was consumed by crimson ooze.

"Where is Mr. Takenouchi?" Kevin asked as he stood up straight in front of the stranger.

"He's quite safe…" breathed the man quietly.

"That's not what I asked," returned Kevin loudly, "Where is he? And who are you?"

"He's where he should be, and I am where I shall be," replied the man as he took another suave step forward, "I am Damienmon, or…I was…"

Kevin tensed up and pulled Michelle behind his back. "What are you doing here? Give us Mr. Takenouchi! Now!"

"You're demanding me?" the man quirked and eyebrow forward, "I don't believe you understand who you are dealing with…"

"I know perfectly well who I'm dealing with; you're a bad guy, so you may as well just give up because you can't win!" Kevin narrowed his eyes.

"Such brave words…" replied the man quietly, "Courage in ignorance…how so very apt."

"We want Mr. Takenouchi! Give him back, now!" shouted Kevin loudly.

"I grow weary of your insistence…" sighed the man quietly. He turned his back to the children, "D-Reaper, deal with them…"

The crimson liquid rose up and morphed into a group of gray balloons. They lifted four arms that glowed brightly.

"Puppy Howling!" bolts of pink energy snapped across the balloons' arms. They turned to find a beige puppy-kitten standing on the stairs of Kevin and Michelle's house. The doorway was occupied by a woman. There was something in her hand, and it was glowing softly.

"Sam! Come on, we can't save your kids if you are lying on the floor shouted a voice from the living room window. A flowery lizard propped itself on the window sill. "Come on, use the digivice!"

"But…but…you're real!" yelped the man as he appeared behind the flower.

"Didn't we cover that like two seconds ago?" yelped the flowery lizard. "Now get me to digivolve, those D-Reaper agents won't disappear by themselves!"

"Mom and Dad…" Kevin and Michelle looked up in shock at the two adults holding glowing digivices, "with digimon…."

"Well, someone has to pull your butts out of the fire!" shouted the flower lizard. "Your digimon are late!"

"Late?" the two children looked at each other.

"They're coming…but they must have gotten ported somewhere else…" replied the puppy-kitten.

"So in their absence they sent a kitty and a flower…how very touching," chuckled Damienmon quietly as he looked back at the balloons, "Eliminate them…"

The balloons turned to the two digimon. The puppy-kitten growled softly and hopped down the stairs to the walkway. Kevin and Michelle's mother lifted the glowing device.

"Salamon, digivolve to D'Arcmon!" The angel rose up spinning an azure staff in her hands.

"Sam, it's time!" yelped the flower lizard.

"R-right…" the man turned his head and pointed his digivice forward.

"Floramon, digivolve to Harpymon!" A winged woman glided forward and Michelle gasped.

The two digimon dove forward. Harpymon slashed forward with her claws and D'Arcmon swept through the balloons with her staff. The balloons sizzled as they reverted to crimson bubbles of liquid. Harpymon and D'Arcmon landed between Damienmon and Kevin and Michelle.

"You were the one that brought the Crimson Plague to our world!" growled Harpymon loudly. "You are so getting your butt kicked!"

"Try it, you impotent little packets of data!" growled Damienmon. He flicked his hand up and the crimson liquid behind him rose up again. It formed into a large, green beast. "Have fun with my friend…" The beast leapt forward.

"Silent Symphony!" screeched Harpymon as she fired a wave of aurora energy into the horned beast.

"Battlement D'Armor!" spheres of light crashed into the green beast as it raged forward.

"Kevin, Michelle, get out of there!" shouted their mother.

The two children scrambled backward as the green beast tackled the two digimon. The two digimon growled as they were slammed to the ground. Damienmon chuckled as the large beast stood up and started to stomp on Harpymon and D'Arcmon.

"D'Arcmon…" Michelle looked down as she watched the twin of her partner get crushed under the foot Damienmon's pet.

"Wind Seeker!" roared Harpymon's voice as a spiral of wind slammed into the green ogre's chest sending it to fall backward. Harpymon stood up and hoisted D'Arcmon onto her back and started to glide away.

"That's right, run away," chuckled Damienmon. He turned to the two children as they stood out in the street, "Now, to finish what I started…" He looked up at the green ogre, "Hornstriker, strike those two!"

The ogre growled and leapt forward crashing through the picket fence. It rushed towards the two children roaring loudly. The children leapt out of the way as the beast crashed into the pavement.

"This is not good…" shouted Kevin as the beast stood up and turned towards Michelle. Kevin narrowed his eyes, "Don't you hurt her!"

"Ah, brotherly love…" chuckled Damienmon, "crush her!"

Kevin ran up and grabbed a red rope that led from the back of the hornstriker to the red fluid that was swirling at Damienmon's feet. The beast stopped suddenly and turned. It growled and backhanded Kevin sending him flying across the street.

"Kevin!" shouted Michelle. She glared at the green beast in front of her, "You bully!"

The beast growled and charged forward.

"La Pucelle!"

"Silent Symphony!"

Twin strikes of energy crashed into the hornstriker. It staggered back and looked up. D'Arcmon and Harpymon hovered above the creature. The red armored Harpymon brandished her claws. D'Arcmon charged forward with her staff pointed at the hornstriker. Her staff crashed into the side of the green beast's head sending it staggering back. Harpymon swooped down and grabbed the red rope that ran from the hornstriker's back and sliced it. The green beast roared as it turned into a puddle of goo.

"Well, that was disappointing…" sighed Damienmon as he walked forward. "I suppose I'll have to deal with you myself…"

"We'll clean the streets with you," growled Harpymon loudly.

"Oh I don't think so," Damienmon lifted his hand up and his finger tips glowed with a black light.

"Silent Symphony!" roared Harpymon as she opened her mouth and fired a wave of aurora light at Damienmon.

"Battlement D'Armor!" Spheres of light exploded around Damienmon.

The man flicked his fingers forward and a wave of darkness washed across the two digimon. D'Arcmon and Harpymon crashed to the ground and glowed as they reverted to their Rookie forms, Salamon and Floramon.

"See, I told you wouldn't win…" He looked down at Michelle and Kevin. "You can't win, you are already defeated, face it, my dearies, you are quite crushed…"

"Little Blizzard!"

"Cure Liquor!"

Two attacks crashed into Damienmon's shoulder. The man frowned as two Rookies ran forward. The white dinosaur, Snow Agumon, rushed to Kevin and stood in front of the boy, who was lying on the ground, still dazed from the hornstriker's backhand. The beige canine, Labramon was growling in front of Michelle.

"You are a coward!" shouted Labramon, "to attack my partner while she is defenseless!"

"Yes, yes," yawned Damienmon as he walked forward, "and if the little puppy wants to try and defend her partner, she is fully capable of trying to do so, but we all know you will only end up like those two hapless fools." Damienmon pointed to Floramon and Salamon, "You are just as impotent against me…"

"Impotent this…" growled Kevin as he sat up, "Snow Agumon, boy I'm glad to see you…"

"I'm glad to see you, are you ready to kick this guy back into the Stone Age?" asked Snow Agumon.

"Let's do it!" Kevin jumped to his feet.

"Snow Agumon biomerge to Justimon!" Justimon looked at Damienmon, "You may be able to pick on Rookies and Champions, but let's see you tangle with me!"

"Labramon, let's help him!" Michelle grabbed her digivice and held it forward.

"Labramon digivolve to D'Arcmon!" The canine morphed into the angel. The angel glowed brightly as robes swept around the canine and her wings faded, "D'Arcmon digivolve to Wisemon!"

"Justice Kick!" Justimon leapt forward his foot extended.

"Pandora Dialog!" lightning bolts slammed into Damienmon as the Justimon's foot crashed into Damienmon's chest.

The man staggered back and his head snapped up. A grin was on his lips. "You better have more than that…"

"Justimon dropped down and pointed his cybernetic arm at Damienmon, "I do…" His arm morphed into a cannon. "Justice Burst!"

Lavender blasts rocketed into Damienmon's chest. Damienmon jerked back as each burst slammed into him. One burst knocked Damienmon back into the red fluid that emanated from Mr. Takenouchi's house. Damienmon started to laugh as a swirling spiral of red liquid lifted off the ground with Damienmon standing on the tip of the spiral. The liquid rushed up his legs and covered his body only to rush off of him, leaving him completely healed.

"I am one with the Chaos, nothing can destroy me…" Damienmon looked down at Justimon and Wisemon, "Least of all you…"

"He is part of the Chaos?" Justimon let his cybernetic arm return into its default mode. "Let's see how he likes this then…Thunder CLAP!" the robotic hand crashed down on the ground and a wave of energized concussion crashed into the Chaos causing it to explode and sizzle.

"Eternal Nirvana!" Wisemon hovered back and opened her book releasing an aurora colored spirit, which took the form of a raven that rushed forward and sliced back and forth across the spire of Chaos that Damienmon was standing on.

The Chaos hissed as the spirit cut through the red liquid. The spire wobbled and then collapsed back into the majority of the Chaos below. Damienmon floated to the ground. His red eyes glowed softly as he looked at the two digimon.

"So you want to play rough?" Damienmon smirked and held out one hand and twiddled his clawed hands a little. Chaos started to drip from his claws, "Let me introduce you to my Chaos Claws!"

Damienmon leapt forward slicing his claws forward. A concentrated whip of crimson liquid flew forward slashing against Justimon. The cybernetic digimon was tossed backward as the whip snapped against his chest. Damienmon lunged forward and pushed his claws through Justimon.

"Justimon!" shouted Wisemon as the biomerged digimon fell away from Damienmon.

Justimon's body pulsed and the digimon groaned as a golden light split Snow Agumon from Kevin. The two components of Justimon fell to the ground, a large burn was on their stomachs and they curled up gagging slightly as flecks of bile leapt from their mouths.

Damienmon looked to Wisemon, "You're next…"

"Fenrir Sword!" A twist of flames and ice crashed into Damienmon's back.

The dark being stumbled forward and Wisemon held her hand up releasing a bolt of lightning that smashed into Damienmon's momentum and sent him staggering back. A woman dropped down next to Kevin and Snow Agumon.

"Valkyrimon!" Michelle ran forward, "We're in trouble, this thing…" Michelle pointed to Damienmon, who was already standing again, "says he's part of this red stuff that's attacking the city!"

"Where is Mr. Takenouchi?" the woman looked down at Michelle.

"Don't know," replied Michelle; she pointed to Damienmon, "I think he has Mr. Takenouchi."

"Come on; we have to get you somewhere safe…" murmured Floramon as she tried to help Kevin up. Salamon was with Snow Agumon.

"At least until you can recover…" Salamon whispered.

"There is no where that is safe enough," chuckled Damienmon loudly, "Nothing can stop me; I already have agents in all major cities; it won't be long until I have Chaos all over this world! The Digital World is nothing but a forsaken wasteland, the Sovereigns are hiding in the mountains with what little troops they have left; soon I'll have two worlds under my claws and darkness will control all! I have you beat, admit it! NOTHING CAN STOP ME NOW!"

"Shut up!" growled Valkyrimon loudly, "We'll stop you here and now. When we get done with you, you'll have wished you'd never come here!"

"Pah, your haphazard group of misfits can barely protect yourselves, you are not a threat to me!" growled Damienmon.

"We'll see about that!" Valkyrimon roared forward, her sword drawn.

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"There!" shouted Kari loudly as she pointed down to her house. "No…Akeno…Kouichi…"

The house she was pointing to was covered in the red liquid of the D-Reaper. Gray balloons were surrounding them from all sides. Nefertimon growled softly as the balloons closed in.

"Cat's Eye Beam!" pink lasers shot from the snake-like head band on the sphinx's forehead and lanced three of the balloons.

The balloons instantly reacted by opening fire. Nefertimon tried to weave out of the attack but there were too many balloons. One bolt struck her wing another hit her chest. Nefertimon yowled as she fell backward. Kari screamed as the crimson liquid seemed to reach up for her.

"Rosetta Stone!" shards of rock exploded underneath Kari and caught her on its back. Kari looked up.

"Mom, are you ok?" A young man with black hair and eyes and a white button down shirt and white denim jeans was riding at the head of the sphinx.

"Gatomon…" whispered Kari quietly as she looked down into the liquid.

"Don't worry, Aunt Yolei is dealing with it," returned the man.

"Yolei?" Kari looked up to see a large, red, horned hawk glide past.

"Kari, are you ok?" shouted a woman with lavender hair wave from the back of the hawk, "It's a good thing these…things came to protect us huh?"

"Digimon, they are digimon, Gatomon are you ok?" Kari looked up feverishly.

"I'm fine Kari," shouted the cat.

"We gotta get out of here," shouted Yolei as she looked around, "More of these gray things are coming!"

"Blast Rings!" growled the hawk as a line of energy rings flashed forward and exploded into a row of balloons.

"Where is Kouichi?" Kari looked around.

"He's fine, Nefertimon and I took Dad to a place in the park…he'll be ok," Akeno called as they flew over Tamachi.

"Ken…I hope Ken is ok!" Yolei looked down, "If he's not ok, then…I'll never be able to live with myself!"

"Ken's fine…Wormmon won't let anything happen to him!" assured Gatomon as they flew.

"Uncle Daisuke and Uncle Tai…" Akeno looked down, "They may be in real trouble.

"Don't worry Akeno, Agumon and Veemon will take perfect care of them," nodded Nefertimon.

"There they are!" Gatomon called as she pointed forward. "There!"

"V Laser!" roared a blue dragon with leathery white wings.

"Spiking Strike!" a green wasp sliced forward with a lavender energy blade.

"What about Takeru, they were supposed to be with Takeru!" shouted Yolei loudly. The large hawk, which Gatomon and Yolei were riding on, reared back as a six foot tall angel blazed by.

"Angemon!" announced the hawk loudly as the angel turned and punched a clenched fist forward. A stream of golden luminescence sliced a line through an army of balloons that were flying forward.

"Sorry, Aquilamon," shouted the angel as he flew by.

"Daisuke!" Kari shouted down to a brown haired man.

"KARI!" the man shouted happily.

"Settle down, Daisuke, Kouichi is still alive you know!" called Yolei loudly.

"Shut up, Yolei," growled Daisuke.

"Don't tell me to shut up, goggle brain!" shouted Yolei.

"Guys, stop, please now is not the time!" a lavender haired man shouted as he covered Daisuke's mouth.

"Ken, are you guys ok?" shouted Kari to the lavender haired man.

"Yes, we're fine, Takeru is still trying to get over the fact his friend turned into an angel, but…we're fine!" called Ken loudly.

The blonde haired man Ken was referring to was watching the angel cut swaths through the ranks of balloons.

"He's an angel, a freaking angel!" shouted Takeru in hysterical pride.

Suddenly the street exploded as three huge beasts with only a ribcage body, and large arms with a little nub of a head stomped forward. A pair of spikes on the creatures' 'shoulders' shot forward into grey whips. The whips snatched Angemon and yanked him down onto the ground with a resounding 'whomp'. The two other beasts shot their spikes forward toward Aquilamon and Nefertimon. The two digimon were caught up in the whips and fell towards the ground as their passengers fell to the ground.

"Kari, Akeno!" the dragon dove down catching the two humans.

"I got you, Yolei!" The wasp warrior buzzed down catching the woman and Gatomon snatched the wasp's back.

"Good work ExVeemon!" hooted Daisuke loudly.

"Be careful Stingmon!" shouted Ken as the two digimon dropped down.

"Let them go," growled ExVeemon as put down Kari and Akeno. He glared at the gray arm creatures.

"Don't make us get rough," added Stingmon as he put Yolei and Gatomon down. The wasp stepped forward.

"We gotta get them free," Daisuke clenched his fist.

"Spiking Strike!" Stingmon shot forward stabbing with his energy blade. The arm beast only whipped Angemon into Stingmon and sent the insect rolling into a building.

ExVeemon charged but met the same fate and crashed to the ground on top of Stingmon. The arm beasts tossed the other digimon around like toys.

"Let them go!" shouted Daisuke.

"We have to help them," Ken clenched his fist as he watched the arm beasts throttled Aquilamon, Angemon and Nefertimon.

"Stop it!" screamed Yolei.

"They are so strong…" Takeru looked at the beasts.

"Ken, our partners are the only ones that can do it!" Daisuke looked to Ken.

"I know…we have to try something anything…" Ken's device started to glow. The lavender haired man looked to Daisuke. The brown haired man's device was also glowing.

The two men looked at their partners. The two creatures were glowing softly. Suddenly the two devices fired beams forward that hit a common point between the two digimon. The glowing creatures were drawn into the light.

"ExVeemon…"

"Stingmon…."

"DNA digivolve to…." The two voices combined as an armored dragon flew into the air. "Paildramon!" The dragon swiped forward with its spiked gauntlets and long cables shot forward eviscerating two of the arm creatures.

Aquilamon and Nefertimon glided free of the sizzling red liquid. Paildramon glided between the two freed digimon. His six, draconic wings holding his emerald armored body in position. The dragon reached back and pulled two cannons up from the sides of his hips.

"What are you going to do?" asked Aquilamon.

"Something I haven't done in a long time," replied Paildramon as the gun ports he held started to glow, "Desperado Blaster!"

The third armed beast was turned into liquid and Angemon was freed.

"Iori stay behind me!" shouted a voice. Bolts of light whizzed down the street as an armored anklyosaur slowly retreated. The energy bolts bounced off its hard shell.

"Iori…" Takeru looked up, "We're coming Iori!"

Angemon and Paildramon were quickly flying down the street. Aquilamon and Nefertimon weren't far behind. Gatomon was bounding after them.

"Hand of Fate!" shouted the angel as it punched forward releasing a blaze of light that sliced the attacking forces in half.

"Desperado Blaster!" shouted Paildramon as he fired blasts of hyper-heated plasma through another wave of balloons.

"Blast Rings!" growled Aquilamon.

"Ruby Claw!" red gems shot from the claws of Nefertimon and they exploded into the balloons.

The ground shook again and it exploded upwards as a green beast picked up the anklyosaur and tossed him into the oncoming digimon.

"Anklyomon!" called a man with gray-brown hair. He was wearing a suit and was running down the street.

The green beast grabbed Paildramon and slammed him to the ground. It then leapt into the air snatching Angemon and then crashed down to the ground pinning the angel on the cracked pavement. Gray balloons chased Nefertimon in the sky as Aquilamon attacked with his horns. The green monster shrugged off the horns. It looked up and growled at the humans and roared forward. Takeru was knocked aside and Daisuke and Ken were tossed into a gutter. It roared and looked back at Iori. The man was glaring up at the beast.

"You may be strong…" said Iori quietly but sternly, "but you don't have any real power…"

The beast roared and leapt forward. It grabbed Iori and tossed him like a rag doll.

"No! Iori!" shouted Kari loudly.

"Ken…Daisuke…" Yolei looked up in terror as the green beast turned to continue to pummel Paildramon and Angemon.

"It's going to kill them…" Yolei glared at the beast.

"It's working for the darkness…" Kari looked at it in fear, "It's not going to relent until there is no one left…we have to stop it!"

"How?" Yolei looked at Kari. "It's beating the hell out of everyone! Nothing can beat that thing; I don't think the military can stop that thing! Why the heck do we have to do anything this isn't our responsibility we shouldn't have to fi…"

A sharp pain cut across Yolei's cheek. Kari looked sternly at Yolei, "We can do this…we just have to work together…"

Yolei looked down at Kari and nodded slightly and then looked back at the beast. The two women's devices glowed brightly. Aquilamon and Gatomon started to glow brightly in time with the devices.

"Gatomon…."

"Aquilamon…"

"DNA digivolve to…." A white man with red, feathered, hawk legs and a strong, armored cover chest jetted out of the light. A visor covered his eyes, "Silphymon!"

The green monster roared and looked up at the cyborg. Silphymon dropped down and laid in several heavy handed fists into the green beast's chest sending it falling backward. Silphymon's claws slashed through the air swiftly and a crimson orb filled his hands. He pushed forward and the orb shot forward exploding into the green monster. The beast growled and then Paildramon rose into the air.

"You ready to do a double team on big, green and ugly?" growled Paildramon.

"You bet!" nodded Silphymon's dual voice.

"Desperado Blaster!" the scabbard like gun ports fired forward with hyper-heated plasma.

"Static Forces!" Silphymon drew in crimson energy and fired forward.

The twin attacks crashed into the green beast and sent it tumbling backwards and sizzling into crimson liquid.

"What now?" growled Silphymon as the air darkened.

"That's a new one…" grumbled Silphymon the white cyborg pointed forward.

The crimson liquid up the street morphed and filled the sky. Large bat wings filled the air. Its head was a large cannon. Its body was stream line like a snake's. It flew forward and fired the cannon. Paildramon and Silphymon were tossed to the sides by the wake of the blast.

"Hand of Fate!" shouted Angemon as the angel punched forward. The searing light streamed over the beast but there was no damage done.

The anklyosaur rushed forward and dove in front of the others as the beast fired again. Anklyomon slid backward. Paildramon and Silphymon were still lying in the street from the first blast. Angemon dove towards the cannon dragon and swiped at it with his staff the dragon slapped its wings together swatting Angemon like a bug. The angel tumbled to the ground.

"Angemon!" Takeru ran forward.

"No, Takeru!" Iori grabbed the man from behind, "You can't!"

"I have to!" the man struggled.

"The others are relying on us to protect them," growled Iori loudly, "We're their last line of defense!"

Takeru stopped struggling for awhile, "We can't fight it…it's too strong…"

"Maybe, maybe not; we can't give up," Iori whispered sternly. "We have to do something…"

Angemon rose into the air and hovered in front of the dragon. Anklyomon was poised as a shield between the dragon and the others.

"We have to get our digimon to merge…" Takeru looked at Iori. "We have to protect the others…"

"We can't let that dragon hurt the others," Iori whispered as he watched the undulating beast glide toward them. "If only we could figure out how to get our partners to combine…"

Their digivices glowed brightly as did their partners.

"Anklyomon…"

"Angemon…"

"DNA digivolve to…" a large statue morphed into view. It was sky blue with golden etching up and down its skirt and rounded arms. Its oval head was topped with a cross and its back produced a pair of small wings. "…Shakkoumon!"

The dragon fired a blast from its cannon. The blast crashed into Shakkoumon and the hovering statuette floated backward. A slot on the front of the statuette, "Kachina Bombs!" thousands of discs shot out of the slot and exploded into the dragon. The beast writhed in the air as the bombs ripped through it. Shakkoumon's eyes squinted and glowed bright red, "Justice Beam!" a pair of red laser sliced through the snake like a butcher knife through an eel. The dragon sizzled into red liquid.

"We need to find the others…" whispered Takeru as he looked up. "and fast…"

A wave of winged creatures started to glide towards them. They had huge disk like faces attached to gray bodies and wings.

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"What do you mean he's not here!" yelped Brendan loudly as he looked at Jason's father.

"He went to Janet's house…" shrugged the blonde haired man.

"We don't have much choice but go after him…hopefully Renamon is already there," replied Tapirmon.

"Are you going to be ok?" Brendan asked quietly to Jason's father.

"He'll be fine!" chirped a voice. A small, squat digimon with a red fin walked forward on four stout legs, "Ol' Betamon will protect him!"

"Ok…" Brendan looked at the Betamon with a quirked brow.

"Let's go, we gotta get Otamamon to Jason!" yelped Tapirmon.

"Right…See you later Mr. McFarland!" called Brendan as he ran down the stairs.

"It's going to take forever to get to Janet's!" whimpered Otamamon.

"Not if we fly!" shouted Brendan. "Tapirmon you ready?"

"Ready, willing, and able!" shouted Tapirmon as he glowed and merged with Brendan. "Tapirmon biomerge to Anubismon!"

The godly jackal digimon grabbed Otamamon and flapped his golden wings and took off.

"Well, you don't see that everyday…" mumbled Jason's father.

"Nope, Michael, you definitely don't," agreed Betamon quietly.

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"There they are!" shouted GaiOumon as he pointed down to a fight down below. Valkyrimon was being thrown around by a man with a red whip.

"Valkyrimon looks like she's in trouble…" Slash Angemon said bluntly. "Kevin and Snow Agumon look like they're already down for the count…"

"Then let's get the drop on this guy!" shouted GaiOumon. "Rinkazan!"

Red arcs of energy snapped the crimson whip. Slash Angemon dive bombed the man and sliced forward with his sword-like arms. The man back flipped from the blades and pushed his hands forward. A wave of darkness struck Slash Angemon in the chest. The metallic angel crashed to the ground as GaiOumon dropped down and sliced his jagged swords forward. The man stopped dead in his tracks as he looked down at his midsection. One of GaiOumon's swords sliced cleanly through his body.

"Ha!" laughed the man as he turned. The wound sealed itself and the man looked at GaiOumon, "Nice try, but I don't go down that easily…"

"Then eat this!" growled GaiOumon as he crossed his blades, "Gaia Reactor!" Blue energy erupted around the man. He roared and crashed to the ground yards away. The man slowly stood up.

"No way…" whispered GaiOumon as he watched the man walk forward.

"You singed my shirt…" whispered the man quietly, "Do you know how hard it is to patch burns, let alone burnt velvet?"

"Heaven Ripper!" a holy lightning bolt blasted a hole through the man.

The man growled and put his hand through the hole and measured it. "Dang it…and I just got this body made…"

"What are you?" growled GaiOumon.

"I am Damienmon, or was…" said the man quietly, "Let's just say I got a D-Reaper upgrade…" Crimson fluid dripped from the hole in the man's gut and the wound filled in and sealed. "I'm part of the D-Reaper now…no…actually I am the D-Reaper. I've taken on the reconnaissance agent's body…but really it doesn't matter I'm in the very fiber of the D-Reaper, you can't destroy me, but I can destroy you…"

"If you're just a fragment of the D-Reaper…" breathed Kevin quietly, "Where is Mr. Takenouchi?"

"Tucked away in a safe place…back in the Digital World," smirked the man. "It was the perfect plan, have the Harmonious Ones send me back here, all I had to do was fake the fact I wasn't Kuro for a few minutes…and that fool Zhuqiaomon was so blind with anger he never looked…"

"We're not letting you take this world…" growled Kevin quietly as he struggled to his feet.

"I don't think you remember the Chaos Claws," chimed Damienmon quietly as he wiggled his fingers.

"Shove it, I'll take your claws again if it means kicking your can up and down this street!" shouted Kevin.

"Children, they never learn," sighed Damienmon. He swiped around and crimson whips sliced forward toward Kevin.

"Kevin!" yelped Michelle and Wisemon.

Kevin closed his eyes and heard a small whimper. Kevin looked up and saw Snow Agumon lying in front of him.

"No…" Kevin dropped down to Snow Agumon.

"It's ok…I need to protect you," Snow Agumon whispered quietly as he laid back.

"Don't talk like that…" Kevin growled.

"Oh, did Kevin screw up and hurt his partner because he's a coward?" shouted Damienmon as he laughed. "Jeesh that sounds a little familiar…I wonder if the people of Alpine Tundra have any idea of what I'm talking about…?"

Kevin looked up at Damienmon and closed his eyes. He hugged Snow Agumon close to his body and sniffed as tears started to fall.

"You…" GaiOumon narrowed his eyes. "You're going to hurt…"

GaiOumon raged forward, his swords were drawn. GaiOumon slashed an arc of energy at Damienmon. The evil creature smirked and let the blade slice through him. He lifted his claws and pushed them forward. GaiOumon staggered back as crimson liquid flowed from his wounds and sizzled angrily on his flesh.

"Heaven's Ripper!" A lightning bolt blasted through Damienmon's head.

The creature's body dropped to its knees and then to the ground. Slash Angemon dropped behind the creature. The body turned into red liquid and then reformed. The man got to his feet and shook his head.

"Ouch…talk about a headache…" the man turned around and looked at the dumbfounded Slash Angemon, "What? You didn't really think that would work did you?"

Slash Angemon lifted his arms. "I don't care how many times I have to blast you, Damienmon, but you are going down…"

"Come and get me, big boy," Damienmon smirked quietly and lifted his claws.

"Holy Espada!" Slash Angemon lunged forward Damienmon leapt back and jumped over Slash Angemon as the angel cut with his swords. Slash Angemon's back arched and his wings splayed open as a surprised gasp escaped his lips.

Damienmon's claws ripped through the back of the angel, dropping it like a bag of potatoes. The demon smiled as he watched GaiOumon and Slash Angemon revert to a human and a digimon.

"Bastard…" whispered a voice from behind Damienmon. The demon turned and smiled sweetly at a woman. She had a hawk-like helmet on and a feathered cloak. She lifted a sword up.

"Ah, yes, you, I see you're still, here," Damienmon replied in boredom.

"I'll cut you stem to stern…" growled the woman loudly as she lunged forward.

Damienmon pulled on his cloak and stepped to one side and threw it over the woman.

"Torro, Torro!" shouted Damienmon as the woman swiped past.

"GET THIS THING OFF ME!" screamed the woman as she slashed through the cloak.

"Valkyrimon, don't lose your temper," whispered Damienmon with a smile, "It isn't befitting a woman of your stature…"

"Oh, don't tell me not to lose my temper you bag of Jell-O!" screamed Valkyrimon as she swept around, "FENRIR SWORD!" A blast of twisting ice and flame exploded forward that forced the others to shield their eyes. Damienmon screeched loudly as his body was vaporized. Valkyrimon breathed hard, "Damned bastard deserved it…"

"Valkyrimon behind you!" shouted Wisemon. The woman spun around to find Damienmon smirking happily behind her.

"No way, I blasted you till next year!" shouted Valkyrimon loudly.

"My, how time flies," replied Damienmon.

"I'm so sick of you!" growled Valkyrimon as she pointed her sword at Damienmon.

"If you're sick you should see a doctor…" Damienmon walked towards Valkyrimon with a smile on his lips.

"How about I put you in the hospital?" Valkyrimon growled as she swiped her sword towards Damienmon.

"I should help her," growled Wisemon loudly.

"No…you have to protect us…" Michelle whispered, "Mom and Dad and the others, they are depending on us to protect them."

"Ok," Wisemon glared over at the face off between Valkyrimon and Damienmon.

"You see, I have the advantage of knowing that I'll clean your clock," Damienmon said as he circled Valkyrimon. "No matter what you do, you can't destroy me, I'll just come back, but you, you'll eventually get tired; you'll get weak, and then you'll just disappear…"

"We'll find away to get rid of you," Valkyrimon whispered as she held her sword out.

"The Harmonious Ones couldn't stop me, you are not even in their league," Damienmon breathed as he walked slowly around Valkyrimon.

"In their league or not, we'll find a way," Valkyrimon growled.

"Oh, blah," Damienmon sighed as he conjured a small pile of Chaos to sit on, "You're just stalling, I should do away with you now…"

"Guess you figured me out," returned Valkyrimon the woman narrowed here eyes, "Well, what are you going to do about it?"

"Nothing…it's more efficient to stomp on you all at once," replied Damienmon as he crossed his legs, "Plus I want to rest my feet…all that kicking butt will blister them."

Valkyrimon snorted loudly and glared at Damienmon.

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"Blue Blaster!" A lupine creature with a blue and white pelt on its back fired a stream of blue flame at a group of balloons.

"Spiral Twister!" yelped a child-sized, pink sparrow as green swirls of energy crashed into the balloons.

Yamato and Sora looked up in shock at the two creatures. Sora was shaking as she looked down at the white device in her hand. Yamato looked over at Sora.

"No…this is just a dream, it's not real…" Sora hissed under her breath. The sparrow turned and looked sadly at Sora.

"But, Sora…" started the bird.

"Don't talk to me!" shouted Sora loudly, "This is all just a figment of my imagination!"

"It's not, Sora," said the horned wolf-bear creature. "Matt, you know it's real, don't you?"

"I always thought it was…but to see it actually happening…" Yamato looked at the creature. "I really was just trying to hold on to my childhood…"

"Matt…" the creature looked sadly at the white haired man.

"Sora…please," The sparrow stepped forward.

"Get away from me!" shouted Sora loudly.

The sparrow halted and looked up at Sora. Yamato looked up at the sky. More of the balloons were gliding towards them.

"They are coming back…" said Yamato quietly. "Do you think you can handle them?"

"I don't think so," said the creature. "We need to find the others!"

"The others?" Yamato looked quizzically at the creature.

"Yes, Taichi, Koushiro, Joe, the others," replied the pelt wearing creature.

"I think they were going to Shinjuku," replied Yamato quietly.

"Just like you to talk to a figment of your imagination!" Sora sniped loudly.

"Sora, they are real!" Yamato returned angrily. "Damn it can't you see?"

"It's not real, I refuse to believe it, this is not real!" shouted Sora as she dropped to her knees and started to cry.

"Sora…" the sparrow ran forward and hugged the woman, "Don't cry Sora! Please don't cry…"

"We don't have time for this!" Yamato looked up as the balloons started to swarm the skies.

Sora only cried louder as the bird hugged her. "Oh Sora…please don't cry, we have to be strong, so that we can get to Hoshi and save her, I'm sure the D-Reaper will get to her hospital soon…I just wish we could've done something, to keep her from what happened. I know you wanted to be a good mother to her; I know you wanted to make sure things didn't happen between you two as had happened with your mother…"

Sora stopped crying and looked up, "B-Biyo?"

The bird smiled brightly. "Sora!"

"Matt, we need to get out of here," whispered the lupine creature.

"Isn't there a way to beat them?" asked Yamato to the little beast.

"Well…we need for you to get your digivices to work…" whispered the creature.

"Gabumon…" the sparrow looked over at the lupine creature, "Are you sure it will work?"

"It will work, Biyomon," whispered Sora, "We'll make it work, for Hoshi…"

"For Hoshi, and for the others, we don't know what kind of trouble they're in," nodded Yamato as he looked up at the balloons.

Biyomon started to glow brightly, as did Gabumon. Biyomon grew into a large fiery bird. Flame orange feathers glistened in the sun as the bird spread its wings. A large lupine tiger snarled as its twisting tails swiped back and forth.

"It…worked…" whispered Yamato as he looked up at the wolf tiger.

"It sure did, I digivolved from Gabumon to Garurumon," growled the wolf.

"And I turned into Birdramon," announced the phoenix.

The wolf snarled and turned to the balloons that were starting to open fire on them. "I'll show you fire power, Howling Blaster!" A stream of blue energy streaked through the sky and raged over the balloons.

Birdramon took to the air and wheeled around and flashed her wings open. "Meteor Wing!" fire balls rained down on the balloons causing them to explode as they were covered in flames.

"Come on, get on, Matt," growled Garurumon, "We have to get to Shinjuku!"

Birdramon landed next to the wolf-tiger and bowed down, "Sora, we're getting out of here before more Agents come!"

Sora looked suspiciously at the bird but slowly moved to its foot. The bird told her to hold on and took off. Yamato looked to the wolf and carefully mounted the beast and it galloped down the street.

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"R-Renamon?" Mrs. Hardcastle looked at the vixen standing at her front door in surprise.

"The D-Reaper has come, I need Janet's help," replied the fox quietly.

"Janet isn't here…she and Jason…" Mrs. Hardcastle looked up in shock as a robed creature dropped down on her lawn. It had huge brown wings and a head like a jackal.

"Renamon…where's Janet?" asked the creature abruptly.

"She is with Jason…" announced the fox quickly. Renamon looked up at Mrs. Hardcastle, "where did they go?"

"I believe they went to an ice cream shop, maybe a few streets down," Mrs. Hardcastle looked at the two creatures, "are they going to be ok?"

"I do not believe the D-Reaper has expanded in that direction yet," assured Renamon quietly, "but we must get to them before it does…"

"We have to hurry!" yelped a small tadpole that was on the shoulder of the winged creature.

"Yes," growled the beast, "Renamon…"

"I'm coming!" The fox disappeared in a flurry of movement. The winged creature flapped its wings and took off.

"Marci!" shouted the voice of Janet's grandfather. "I think you need to come in here…"

"What is it?" asked Marci as she slowly turned from the door. She stopped dead in her tracks, "R-Renamon I just sent you to…"

"I just arrived?" the fox replied quietly. The fox held up a small device, "I came because, this belongs to you…" The fox walked forward toward Mrs. Hardcastle. "You are my partner after all…"

The woman only stared at the device in shock. "I-I…am…your…but Janet…"

"Janet's Renamon is not the same as me, we don't even come from the same weave," smiled the fox. "You can remember if you want to…"

"I can remember…" Mrs. Hardcastle closed her eyes, "in my dreams…"

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Jason and Janet were hiding in the bushes. Winged creatures were hovering around the ice cream shop, and red liquid was filling the street. Janet was looking around as people were either running or standing out in the street and watching the things in the sky.

"Those idiots," hissed Jason quietly.

"We don't know if their dangerous or not," replied Janet quietly, "They may not be…"

"How much you want to bet that they aren't?" Jason looked at Janet and glared a little.

"Ok, you have a point…" Janet looked up at the sky, "They haven't attacked or anything yet."

"Give them time…they look like they are searching for something," whispered Jason as he watched the winged creatures glide around in the sky.

The flying things suddenly stopped their aimless sweeping of the skies and turned. Janet pointed up to the roof tops. Two figures were approaching. One was a small creature that was zipping over the roof tops almost imperceptible to the human eye, the other was a large, winged creature with robes that curled in the wind.

"Anubismon…" Jason whispered as the jackal god glided into the light.

"And Renamon!" Janet stood up suddenly as the kitsune digimon materialized in the street.

"Janet, get down!" hissed Jason as he pulled her back.

The winged specters started to fire energy beams down into the street. Renamon leapt to the ground as the beams sliced through the pavement.

"Pyramid Power!" golden beams of light sliced through the specters. The gray creatures retreated and regrouped.

"Watch out Anubismon!" shouted Janet loudly as the winged specters started to return fire.

"Hurry, we have to help them!" Otamamon scrambled towards Jason. The boy caught the tadpole as it leapt forward.

"Things must be going poorly in the Digital World," whispered Jason as he grabbed his digivice.

"It's really bad!" yelped Otamamon.

"Then let's fix it," Jason glowed with Otamamon.

"Otamamon biomerge to…!" The X on Jason's chest glowed brightly as he was drawn into Otamamon. A sharp armored digimon raged forward slicing through the specters. "WarGreymon X!"

"Janet!" shouted Renamon as the fox dove towards the bushes.

"Are you ok?" Janet hugged Renamon closely.

"I am fine," The fox nodded. Anubismon and WarGreymon X were diving through the sky. Renamon narrowed her eyes, "Are we going to let the boys have all the fun?"

"No way…" Janet looked up at the specters and grabbed her digivice.

"Renamon biomerge to Kuzuhamon!" The lavender fox priestess sliced her staff forward. "Womb World Mandala!"

Arcs of energy sliced through a horde of the gray specters. Kuzuhamon took to the air and swiped through another of the gray specters.

"We can't just fool around with these things!" growled Anubismon as he glided between WarGreymon X and Kuzuhamon.

"No, we need to get to the others," nodded WarGreymon X as he slashed his claws through another specter.

"The specters are retreating…" Kuzuhamon narrowed her eyes, "I don't like this…"

"They're leading us somewhere…" growled Anubismon.

"Should we follow?" WarGreymon X lifted his sharp edged gauntlets.

"If you wish to see your allies," announced one of the gray specters, "You will come with us…if you decline to follow; they shall be destroyed."

"Then I guess we don't have a choice…" Anubismon growled and flew forward. WarGreymon X and Kuzuhamon snorted and glided after the jackal headed digimon.

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"Don't fidget, they'll be here soon enough," sighed Damienmon as he twiddled his foot while he crossed his legs.

"I should blast you now," growled Valkyrimon.

"It wouldn't do any good," sighed Damienmon quietly, "in fact; there is nothing anyone can do; your fevered fight will only result in you getting hurt…"

"Terra Force Zero!" roared a loud voice and a huge sphere of energy engulfed Damienmon.

"Reverse Rice Cord!" A feminine voice shouted as spirit foxes rushed passed through the smoke of the Terra Force Zero.

"Pyramid Power!" a spear of golden light sliced through the smoke, as Anubismon, Kuzuhamon and WarGreymon X touched down next to Valkyrimon.

Valkyrimon slid a crossbow from her back and pointed it into the smoke. The woman narrowed her eyes and her red lips tightened. "Lightning Arrow!"

There was a flash of light followed by crack of thunder. The smoke cleared quietly as a figure started to shift into shape with in the gray plumes. A young man walked forward.

"I would have thought you'd have learned when I said 'it wouldn't do any good', that it wouldn't do any good," sighed Damienmon as he walked forward. "You digi-destined, I suppose, should be given some points for effort, though you'll still lose."

"Who is this guy?" growled WarGreymon X.

"Damienmon…" snorted Valkyrimon as she held her crossbow up, "and the D-Reaper, they fused into one being…or something…"

"It's possible, we've seen from what Hikari showed us, that whatever Damienmon is has the ability of taking over others," Anubismon explained as he curled his claws.

"It's nothing but an overgrown parasite," Kuzuhamon stabbed her staff into the ground. "I think the D-Reaper needs a delousing…"

"Tsk, tsk, tsk," sighed Damienmon. "Even if they destroy this body, I'll just make a new one, don't you understand I am one with the D-Reaper!"

"I'm sick of hearing its voice…" WarGreymon X snarled softly.

"You haven't had to deal with him as long as I have," returned Valkyrimon as a lightning bolt snapped over the top of her crossbow.

"Then let's get rid of him," Anubismon clenched his fists.

"RAH!" WarGreymon X roared forward his claws extended from his gauntlets, "Dramon Destroyer!" The orange armored dragon sliced through Damienmon.

"Womb World Mandala!" a blaze of purifying energy coursed through the cut demon.

"Amemit!" A golden blast of reformation energy exploded across Damienmon's chest as Valkyrimon dove forward.

Valkyrimon pulled the arrow from her crossbow and stabbed it into Damienmon's chest. "Lightning Arrow!" Electrical energy erupted from Damienmon's form as it fizzled into crimson liquid.

"We did it!" cheered Anubismon.

"That wasn't so hard," WarGreymon X looked at the others.

"IT can't be over…" Kuzuhamon looked at Kevin, Steven and Mark.

"It's not," Valkyrimon looked back at the remains of Mr. Takenouchi's house. A human form rose up from the D-Reaper.

"I told you," said the red figure as it became more defined. "It's useless to destroy my body…" The full fledged figure of Damienmon stepped from the liquid and drew his cloak around his shoulders. "I'll just make more," Damienmon narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Now, to finish this…"

Damienmon thrust his hand forward and his claws extended forward stabbing through WarGreymon X's chest. The claws erupted out WarGreymon X's back. The claws cut forward stabbing Kuzuhamon through the stomach and continued forward driving through Valkyrimon and finally injecting themselves into Anubismon. The four digimon groaned loudly as a golden light.

"No…" Michelle looked up at Wisemon.

The four biomerged digimon glimmered and fell to the ground as a Rookie digimon and a human. The human's stomachs were burned and their clothing looked as if they had been burned by battery acid.

Damienmon walked forward. The children were sitting up and growling. Kevin, Steven and Mark moved to them along with their partners.

"We aren't quitting yet," growled Kevin. "You can't beat us, we refuse to quit, we aren't afraid of you!"

"Well, I have all of you beaten…" Damienmon stopped and looked up at Wisemon, "Just a second," Damienmon lifted his hand and clenched his fist and the water pipes under Kevin's family's lawn exploded with crimson liquid and enclosed around Wisemon like a hand. The wizard shouted loudly as the liquid washed away leaving behind Labramon. "Right, as I was saying, I have all of you beaten…"

"It doesn't matter, we won't stop!" shouted Mark loudly.

"We can't let our friends get hurt," growled Steven.

"Right…" whispered Damienmon slid his claws in a circle.

Dark energy bubbles surrounded the children. Michelle ran forward, but Damienmon flashed his eyes up and caught her as well in a dark bubble. Damienmon walked slowly up to the children. The digimon growled loudly. Damienmon snorted and lifted his hand. The street crumbled behind the digimon as large gray beasts that were nothing but a ribcage, a pair of arms and a nub of a head rose up from the ground. Spikes on the shoulders of the beasts shot forward snatching all the digimon together.

"What's this?" Brendan slammed his fists against the bubbles.

"Something to persuade you to surrender," replied Damienmon as he clenched his fist. The bubbles sparked to life and the children's eyes became clouded. Damienmon walked up to the bubble containing Steven, "Ah yes, the Child of Friendship, the one that resents the friends he has, and thinks friendship has made him weak…Isn't that true?" Steven nodded slowly and Damienmon put his fingers against the bubble's exterior and drew a sphere of black energy from the bubble and consumed it. Damienmon smiled and turned and walked over to Amy. The black haired girl looked up and her hazel eyes were a murky pond scum green. "Ah, the Child of Sincerity; a child who is selfish, and hasn't come clean with her feelings, her desires and wants are pure of heart, are they my dear?" Amy looked at Damienmon with her clouded eyes and slowly nodded. Damienmon reached forward and drew a stream of dark energy from the bubble and shivered as it coursed through him. He shook his head and turned slowly walking towards Brendan, "Ah, the little professor, but you are not so very smart, even now you are searching for a plan but that little miniscule mind of yours just isn't up to the task…is it? You are just a fool like the others…" Damienmon reached forward and drew darkness from Brendan's bubble as the auburn haired boy slumped forward and weakly dropped his fists against the sphere. Damienmon smiled and walked over to Jason. The young man was kneeling in his bubble and looking at his hands, "That's right, Child of Responsibility, you failed them…you failed them all…you failed your mother, and now you are failing your loved ones…but don't worry you were bound to fail eventually, after all you are a failure, and it's all your fault…"

Jason lifted his eyes, "I…should've been stronger…they were relying on me and I failed them…"

"That's right my boy…" smiled Damienmon as he reached forward and closed his eyes as darkness swarmed around his body. Damienmon turned quietly and walked to Janet. "Hello, dear, you're quite confused aren't you?" Damienmon released a soft smile, "All those hormones and feelings swimming around; you don't know what to do. You don't really love Jason do you, he's just incredibly attractive, your mother has been chastising you about it, but you're angry, you hate your mother don't you? You hate your family because they are trying to temper you interactions with Jason aren't they?"

Janet looked up and her brown eyes blinked quietly. "They don't really care for me…they just want me to stay home with them…"

"That's right, my dear," nodded Damienmon as he reached forward and drew darkness from her. He smiled quietly and turned away from her. He walked slowly toward Kevin. The brown haired, lavender eyed young man had a hand on the edge of the sphere rubbing his palm back and forth over its surface. "So we come to the Child of Courage…" Damienmon smirked slightly. "A coward if I ever have seen one. He doesn't even want to be the Child of Courage because it means he has to hide the fact that he's scared out of his mind and nearly peeing himself…He lashes out at Steven because he believes Steven is able to be afraid and speak his mind…You hide behind your partner more than any of the other digi-destined. You bolster enough courage to put up a good show but you're really just scared out of your wits, you sicken me…"

"I-I can't move…my muscles, I'm so scared…" Kevin trembled slightly as he looked up at Damienmon, "I'm petrified…I can't move…"

"As I said…" Damienmon reached forward and laid his hand on the opposite side of the barrier from Kevin's. Darkness flowed silently into Damienmon. The demon smiled and pulled away. He narrowed his eyes and lunged forward, "BOO!" Kevin leapt backward in his sphere and curled up in a tight ball shuddering. Damienmon smirked. "Coward…" he breathed as he turned. He walked slowly to a bespectacled young boy with soft tan hair. "The Child of Hope…" Damienmon looked down at the boy, who was curled up in the dark sphere, holding his knees, "Even you can see, that you have no chance at all, you have been the one holding this little team together; it was you who kept Lucemon from crushing you all. It was you who got Pidmon to mode change and defeat Phelesmon. It was you who got Pidmon to digivolve into Asuramon who repelled Karatenmon and held off countless numbers of evil bad guys, and finally, it was you who biomerged with Lucemon to create Slash Angemon and defeat Piedmon, but no one ever acknowledges you. Your hope goes unnoticed; you know deep down that nothing can save you, nothing can stop me," Damienmon swept his hand around, "that all of this is just a futile struggle. Why don't you just give up and go into the shadows peacefully…?"

"We tried so hard…we got so far…" whispered the boy as he looked up at Damienmon, "and we still didn't have enough strength to stop you…you were just too strong…"

Damienmon smiled and slid his fingers over the sphere that held the boy. Dark energy flickered across the surface and flowed into Damienmon. The demon smiled quietly and turned once again. He walked towards Michelle. The girl was standing in her sphere looking at the ground. Her tan hair had fallen over her eyes.

"Leave my daughter alone!" shouted the woman from the house.

"Get away from her!" shouted the man.

"Silence…" whispered Damienmon as a swarm of red liquid flew up and morphed into large plates of metal that covered the adults' lips.

"Jerry!" yelped Salamon but one of the large armed beasts snatched the puppy-kitten. A second beast grabbed Floramon.

"Fox Tail Inferno!" shouted a voice as a golden fox charged forward.

"Sub Zero Ice Punch!" a sweeping wall of ice rushed forward as a tall ice man charged down the street.

"Aquarius Fill!" called a sharp voice as a white robed wizard swept a crystalline staff down at Damienmon.

"Gargo Laser!" chirped a large, jeans wearing rabbit as it's Gattling gun arms fired rounds of energy at the demon.

"Aerial Attack!" snapped another digimon it was a large horned unicorn with wings.

"Equus Beam!" A golden, winged horse dove out of the sky firing an emerald beam. Adults were rushing towards the scene. A woman was riding on its back. She had tan hair and soft blue eyes.

"Pegasusmon, put me down!" shouted the woman.

"Of course, Mary," nodded the horse eloquently.

"Ice Blast!" a large blue Seadramon curled out the sky and a blonde haired, middle aged man jumped down.

"Let our kids go!" shouted the blonde loudly.

"Weak interlopers," murmured Damienmon quietly. He lifted his finger, "be gone!" A rapidly expanding barrier of darkness flew forward tossing the digimon and the humans back down the street. He turned back to Michelle, "Finally, the greatest of them, the Child of Light…you're supposed to hold the key to the digi-destined's power, you're supposed to symbolize all the crests as one unified force of compassion and caring, but you don't care at all, you are selfish! You don't even want to be the Light because it separates you from the others…after all the others don't lose control and glow with a holy luminescence like you do…why should you be different? You are afraid; you don't believe in your friends, you hate the Digital World; you can't be relied upon, you aren't smart, you are most insincere creature amongst these fools, and you also see the hopelessness of your position. Your parents can't save you, you can't save yourself and I am invincible!"

"You…" Michelle looked up, lifting her bowed head, "are wrong…"

"What?" shouted Damienmon loudly as the girl's eyes glared at him.

"I am not afraid of you, you're nothing but a parasite, and without your host, without Kuro's power you would be nothing!" Michelle gritted her teeth, "We can't destroy now, but we'll find away, Brendan can find away! We won't back away, we won't be afraid, Kevin's fear does not make him any less courageous, courage means that you do what you have to even if you're afraid! Janet will fight with us, her parents love her, she loves Jason, she loves us all and she will fight to protect us! Amy isn't insincere, she's just scared, her heart never wavered in trying to defeat you and protect Kevin and the others, even when she knew she couldn't destroy you she continued to fight you! Steven and Mark will join us! Steven will fight for his friends, for his brother! Mark's hope will power our victory even in the bleakest nights. Jason has failed no one, he's living and as long as he's alive he's fulfilling his promise!" Michelle glared up at Damienmon, the child's eyes were burning brightly, "You are nothing…you have no friends, no loved ones, you have nothing to protect but your own greed! Your power is a corruption of everything good in two worlds! You defile the darkness's name by carrying it, Damienmon!"

The child started to glow brightly. The sphere around her shattered and she stepped forward and glared at Damienmon. She turned and pushed her palm forward and the beasts holding the destined digimon disintegrated into ashes.

"Your little digimon are powerless, their strength drained," chuckled Damienmon quietly, "All this show and you have nothing to work with…"

"You only see weakness in us, but we are strong," Michelle replied loudly, "We hold the powers of the Founders in us! We can not be denied by a defiled miscreant! We will not cower in front of an infection!" Michelle's light grew brighter. The others' dark spheres shattered. The children's wounds faded as they healed. The seven children moved to Michelle and stood behind her. "We may not be able to destroy you with force but we know your weakness! We may not be able to vanquish you, but we know who can, and who shall!"

"Even if you reached him, it means leaving this world defenseless against the D-Reaper!" announced Damienmon with a laugh.

"WE won't be leaving this world without protection," replied Michelle. The child's light flashed brightly. Damienmon screeched as his body seared into ash and the D-Reaper recoiled in pain.

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Agumon crashed to the ground as Gabumon was sent hurtling next to him. Yamato and Taichi looked up in terror. The other Chosen, were gathering around a large beast. Its head was swarming with tentacles that had mouths at the tips. Its large hands ended with fingers that also had huge mouths. Most of the body had a mouth covering it.

"We're so beat…" whispered Taichi as he watched the beast toss Paildramon, Silphymon and Shakkoumon around like dolls. The other digimon were busy zipping around trying to dodge the attacks of poncho-like creatures with axe-like limbs.

Kari looked up suddenly, "It's coming…"

"What's coming?" shouted Koushiro loudly.

"That…" Takeru pointed to the eastern horizon.

"Oh no…what is it now?" whined Joe as the growing luminescence swarmed the, what should've been darkening, eastern skies.

"Something good…" whispered Agumon as the small Tyrannosaur looked up. Streaks of light sliced through the air and struck the digimon. Agumon shimmered with a golden light, as did Gabumon next to him. "Agumon…Warp Digivolve to…WARGREYMON!" a golden armored, dragon warrior stood in front of Taichi.

"Gabumon Warp Digivolve to….METAL GARURUMON!" the small furred digimon revealed itself to be a metallic wolf.

"Birdramon digivolve to Garudamon!" The orange fire bird was now a huge humanoid eagle, though more eagle than human, complete with large crimson wings.

"Kabuterimon digivolve to Mega Kabuterimon!" The blue stag beetle morphed and grew into a large red scarab.

"Ikkakumon digivolve to Zudomon!" The furry walrus glowed and morphed into a large, spiked shelled, orange shelled, tusked mammal that held a huge hammer in its hands.

"Paildramon Mega Digivolve to Imperialdramon!" A large black armored, blue skinned dragon roared forward. Two huge crimson wings flapped as it jetted towards the giant mouth monster.

Streams of light struck Shakkoumon and Silphymon and the two digimon shimmered brightly.

"It can't be, can it?" whispered Kari as Silphymon started to grow.

"Shakkoumon…is going to digivolve?" whispered Iori as he watched the large clay digimon glow.

"Silphymon Mega Digivolve to Phoenixmon!" A large, orange hawk with four large, golden wings and a trailing tail flew forward as it turned towards the tentacle headed beast.

"Shakkoumon Mega Digivolve to Grand Kuwagumon!" A large black stag beetle hummed forward. Its head had elaborate, jaws. Its large wings whirred like a huge jet helicopter.

"I say we get this D-Reaper out of here!" shouted Taichi loudly.

"Yeah, let's show it who's boss!" shouted Daisuke.

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In New Delhi, a similar scene was happening. A middle aged woman in long orange robes was standing behind a green cyborg holding a huge battle axe that it used to slice several arm beasts into oblivion.

In Australia a curly haired man was wind surfing underneath a heavily armored, metallic sea dragon as it cruised overhead. The sea dragon fired a blast from its blunt, cannon like snout that destroyed a squadron of armed balloons.

In Moscow, a golden, Hercules Beetle was carrying a blonde haired, brown eyed woman with white furred, ear flapped hat towards a huge, green ogre with a horn. The beetle growled as the large horns on its head charged with energy and exploded downward.

In Paris, a gryphon was soaring over the Eiffel Tower. It was carrying a white haired woman in a red dress and shawl. Her eyes were a crisp blue. The gryphon roared loudly and the shock waves shook the grey poncho-like D-Reaper agents into liquid.

In New York, A very familiar woman with, pinkish dyed hair was running behind the buzzing wings of a flowery fairy as the flower child marshaled a golden eagle, a large white plesiosaur, and a green metal battle robot, with a canine face through the streets as they attacked the D-Reaper.

In Mexico City, a saber-toothed tiger slashed its claws forward sending huge hornstrikers tumbling down a dusty street. A young woman ran after the tiger with a pair of pigtails in her hair.

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Michelle looked up at remaining crimson liquid, "Your agents are retreating…"

"Not for long!" shouted the voice of Damienmon from the liquid. "I'll crush you and then you're little trick will end!"

"No you won't!" shouted Labramon loudly. The canine ran in front of Michelle and looked up at the girl, "I won't let you fight this battle alone, Michelle!"

"You are right, Labramon," Michelle looked down at the canine and patted its head, "This is our fight together." She looked back at the others. "We must go back to the Digital World. Are you ready?"

The others children looked at each other. Their partners moved next to them and the children and their digimon looked to Michelle and in one unified movement they nodded. Their bodies glowed in rhythm with Michelle's luminescence and seamlessly biomerged into their Mega forms.

Michelle looked down at Labramon. The canine looked quizzically at the girl. "Michelle…"

"It is time," replied the girl as she held out the small star that was her digivice. The two glowed brightly as the light took in Labramon and drew them together as one.

"Labramon biomerge to…."

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AN: I'm back, I guess, with a huge chapter. A lot is happening and Damienmon is back and bad. It was always a bit disappointed that Damienmon got sequestered in Fall, but now we see him, and he's separated from Kuro! And the old digi-destined get a boost…

I know a bunch of you are probably wondering how Daisuke, Iori, Takeru, Yolei and Kari could get their digimon to the Ultimate level and it's rather simple, Paildramon, Silphymon and Shakkoumon's formation do not have to involve crest energy or crests at all, but rather just the fact that two humans with D-3s have their hearts beating at the same time and that Gatomon releases her Holy Ring. The rest of the evolutions were in response to the world wide wave of light that Michelle unleashed. I'll explain Mary next chapter or the chapter after that. (Because I don't know if I want it to go one more or two more chapters.)

Dark Qiviut: I edited the chapter. Though I think one word in 300,000 words is not enough to warrant a rating change, especially when that chapter was warned against. I just think of something like Inuyasha or Samurai Champloo where there is considerable swearing even with F-bombs being dropped and it is acceptable for people of 14 or higher, which is within the T level, but I understand and have conceded to your request.

Blue: Not exactly. Though Mr. Takenouchi will be part of the finale. Earth's last stand is grander than even Damienmon would have thought though the battle will, more than likely, focus around the Digital World and Damienmon.

Flare Flail: I hope it is interesting to the end.