Chapter 37: The Final Battle: Part 2

Inside of Oikawa's laboratory, Matt and the controlled Digidestined were staring up at the strange machinery, while Dark Sora's real body was attached to it by a series of wires. "It's almost ready," Matt said, "Once the energy from the Dark Spores is absorbed into my real body, I'll have enough strength to handle all of Apocalymon's power. And then…then I'll defeat Ryo and Milleniumon and become the supreme reality master!"

Outside…

Sora and Kari gently dropped the two cats they were holding onto the ground then they sat down on the two benches. They looked around at the dark park. "I don't see them anywhere," Kari said.

"They should be here soon," Tai said, "This was where we said we'd meet."

Gatomon jumped onto the back of the park bench. Her ears started to twitch. "Wait, I hear someone."

Sora looked up and smiled. "It's them."

Sara, Sam, Takatomon, Rikamon and Derwood walked over to them. "We've got something really important to tell you," Takatomon said.

"What?" Tai asked.

"It's the other Digidestineds," Derwood said, "They're being controlled by Dark Sora."

"And it gets worse," Rikamon said, "It looks like she's possessing Matt Ishida's body until she can make another one for herself."

"This just gets worse and worse," Sora sighed, "What are we going to do now?"

Gatomon suddenly arced up and her fur stood up on ends. "What's wrong?" Kari asked. She looked up and saw a large Golden Labrador walking towards them.

Tai jumped into Sora's arms. "Keep it away from me!"

"Wait a second," Sara said, "There's something familiar about this dog." She walked over and was surprised when the dog didn't try to run away. The dog used its paw to dig away part of the rocks and dirt that were making up the path. Sara looked down when it was finished and almost screamed.

"It wrote something in the ground!"

Sam ran over and started reading. "I am Alice?" She looked at the dog. "You're Alice?"

The dog nodded.

"What happened to you?"

She barked.

"Oh, I can take care of that," Sara said. She walked over and placed her hand over Alice's throat. She kept it there for a few seconds, then pulled it away. "There, you can talk now."

Alice opened her jaw a few times before her voice came out. "H..Hello? Hello! I..I can talk!"

"I made it so your vocal cords are like a humans," Sara said.

"What happened to you?" Tai asked.

"Queen Sora stole all of my power, then turned me into this dog! She's been stealing the Dark Spores in order to make a new body for herself. She took over Oikawa's operations, we've got to stop her!"

"What about Hypnos?" Takatomon asked, "You were Dark Ryo's second in command."

"That's over now," she said, "He threw me out when I lost my powers. I've got nothing left for him. Besides, he made me fight the only person I ever loved, the one you call the Digimon Emperor Tai Kamiya. He made me forget, and I want to pay him back!"

"All right," Tai said, "Since Queen Sora has the Digidestined under her control, let's fight her first. If our friends are free, then they can help us."

"Let's do it," Derwood said.

Meanwhile…

Yamaki walked through the halls of the Hypnos base. He approached Dark Ryo's throne room. "I've got news."

"What?" he asked.

"I know where the missing energy from the Dark Spores are," he said, "the Queen Sora Takenouchi has taken it. I know where she is."

Dark Ryo grinned. "Excellent. I will not tolerate this any more! Gather an army, and wait at the entrance to the Ultimate Reality."

"But..?" he asked.

"Milleniumon and I will be taking care of Queen Takenouchi. Hurry up."

"Y..yes sir."

Back at Oikawa's lab…

Sora held Tai closely to her chest as they walked up to the building. "This is where my double is?" Sora asked.

"That's right," Alice said.

"All right," Tai said, "We need to go in fast and quick, but we can't hurt our friends."

"How are we even going to free them, much less get the Queen Sora out of Matt's body?" Kari asked.

"Uh, I guess we'll have to think of that when we get there," he said. He jumped out of Sora's arms and landed on the ground. "All right, evolve me."

"Taimon digivolve to Biyomon!"

She flapped her wings. "All right, let's do this."

They ran through the door of the old apartment building, but as soon as they got to the main lobby, they were stopped by the Digidestined. Davis was leading them.

"Stop now," he said, "Queen Sora wants you dead, now!"

"Sora, Sara, Tai," Kari said, "Why don't you go and find Dark Sora, we'll take care of this."

"Are you sure?" Sara asked.

"Yeah," Female Tai said, "Just leave it to us."

"We'll cover you," Agumon said.

"They should be wearing Dark Rings," Tai said, "Aim for them."

Tai, Sara and Sora waited a few seconds before running for the stairs. Stingmon went to stop them, but Takatomon jumped in the way. He punched Stingmon back into Exveemon's arms.

"Davis and Ken have a mega Digimon, "Kari said.

"So we'll take care of them, "Derwood said.

"We'll have to fight Tk," Kari said.

"I'll take Yolei." Sam said.

Female Tai and Agumon mentioned to Joe and Izzy. "I guess we have them."

Exveemon and Stingmon DNA digivolved together and became Imperialdramon and Derwood, Takatomon and Rikamon Bio-merged together and became Gallantmon. They burst through the wall of the building and starting fighting.

Agumon warpdigivolved to his new mega form of Eaglemon and started fighting Ikkakumon and Kabuterimon. Gatomon digivolved to Angewomon and started to fight Shakkoumon. Sam made her nails grow into long cat claws and started fighting Aquillamon.

Upstairs, Tai, Sora and Sara ran into Oikawa's main laboratory. Matt and Gabumon were standing in front of the machinery. "Dark Sora!" Tai cried.

Matt turned around and smiled slyly. "Look who's here. Well, I guess you found me, huh?"

"Release the other Digidestineds right now!" Sara ordered.

"Not yet," he said, "It's only going to be a few more minutes before I'm ready for my new body. Until then, Gabumon, attack."

"Gabumon digivolve to Metalgarurumon!"

Tai jumped forward. "Biyomon digivolve to Birdramon! Birdramon digivolve to Garudamon!"

She used the back of her hand to block Metalgarurumon and the two of them smashed through the ceiling. Sara flew up after them.

"So, you're the Sora of this world," Matt said, "I could have taken your body if I really wanted to, but you're so weak."

Sora ran forward and punched him in the face. Matt's head swung back, but turned back. "I shouldn't hit you, as I'm a guy right now, but since I'm really a girl…" He backhanded her.

Back outside, Imperialdramon and Gallantmon continued to fight. Imperialdramon already changed to his fighter form and was using his cannon to block Gallantmon's lance. "I don't see a Dark Ring anywhere," Derwood said, from inside of Gallantmon's body.

"I see it!" Rikamon shouted, "On the shoulder!"

Derwood and Takatomon saw where Rikamon was mentioning. They worked together and swung the lance around, and Imperialdramon went to attack them. This left the shoulder wide open for his Shield of the Just. The beam of energy crashed into the Dark Ring. It cracked, then fell onto the ground.

Down below, Davis and Ken started screaming. Dark Rings that were hidden on their own shoulders shattered and the pieces fell out of their sleeves and bottom of the shirt. They stared at each other. "W..what happened?"

Eaglemon was busy fighting both Ikkakumon and Kabuterimon. Both of the Digimon attacked at the same time, but the Champions didn't do much to hurt the mega. When Eaglemon realized that the Dark Rings were probably on the shoulder, he was better able to find them. He saw the two rings on their arms and attacked. The two rings cracked and fell off, just like the two rings on Joe and Izzy's arms.

After Sam quickly disposed of the rings on Yolie and Aquillamon, Angewomon and Shakkoumon were left.

"You aren't going to stop us you know," Tk said, "My queen will win, and I'll stand by her side as her top lieutenant!"

"Tk, don't you know that she's controlling you!" Kari protested.

"You're lying!" he screamed, "Shakkoumon attack!"

"Angewomon!" Kari shouted.

The angel Digimon fired her Celestial Arrow while Shakkoumon attacked with his Kachina Bombs. The two attacks struggled to overcome each other, but Angewomon's arrow overcame and knocked the Dark Ring off of Shakkoumon's arm. Tk and Cody soon followed.

"That's all of them," Kari said, "Now it's just up to Tai."

Back in the sky, Tai the Garudamon, Sara and Metalgarurumon fought in a fierce dogfight. "I don't see a Dark Ring!" Tai gasped.

"Maybe because Dark Sora's in Matt's body, so Gabumon is kinda like her partner now."

"Great," she sighed. She looked back into the top of the apartment building and saw Sora and Matt.

Sora grabbed a fallen piece of metal and started swinging. Matt just laughed. "Can you really hurt me, your friend Matt?"

"You're not Matt," she said. She swung the piece of metal in Matt's arm. He yelled out in pain while a big red gash appeared.

"Oh my.." she said, dropping the piece of metal. She placed her hands over her mouth, "Matt, I'm sorry!"

Matt wanted to hurt her, but didn't. Instead he looked at the machines that held Dark Sora's real body. His eyes opened wide when he saw the reading the meters were giving him. "It's done. It's done! My body is ready!"

He ran over and touched his real body on the chest. He concentrated as hard as he could and was transferred back into the true body. The top of the building exploded with light, and when it faded Sora was in Tai's arms, Matt and Gabumon were in Sara's arms, and the evil Dark Sora was floating in the sky.

She still looked like Sora, but with longer red hair and giant, black wings on her back. She was wearing a much more ragged dress, barely covering her body. Her entire body flowed with black lightning. "I've done it!" she laughed, "I am now a goddess! A Goddess of Darkness and Death! Reality will be mine!"

She swung her arms and a wave of dark energy attacked each one of the Digidestined. Only the members of Tai's group were still conscious.

"I should move on before Ryo senses me," she said, "But I think I'm going to enjoy killing you and getting back at you for stopping my revenge against the one you called 'Emperor Tai'!"

She was about to attack but stopped. "No! All ready!"

"What's she talking about?" Sora asked, very weak.

"It's bad," Sara said, "Real bad."

"What do you mean?" Takatomon asked.

"He's here," she said.

"Who?"

Sara was about to answer when a giant light exploded in the sky and a gigantic figure appeared on the adjacent building roof.

"Milleniumon," Sara said.

Dark Ryo was standing on top of Milleniumon's head and he grinned amusingly. "So, Queen Sora, I see that you have succeeded in gathering all of the Dark Spores."

"That's right. I've got more power then you now."

"That's what you think," he said, "I didn't need the Dark Spores for energy, just to open the entrance to the Ultimate Reality."

"Ultimate Reality?" she asked, "What is that?"

"It doesn't really matter now," he said, "Once I kill you and take all of your energy, you won't exist in any reality."

She grinned. "Come and get me."

Milleniumon growled and fired from the two giant cannons that were mounted to his back. Dark Sora created two black shields that blocked the attack. She flew into the air and started firing black balls of energy like machine guns into the god Digimon. He punched Dark Sora in the face, but she staggered back, uninjured.

"If you think that hurt me, think again!" she laughed. Her black wings started flapping quickly. This made a large whirlwind that sent Milleniumon into a tailspin before he landed on the ground.

"You really think your puny powers can stop me? I am a god!"

"And I'm a Goddess," she said, "And I don't think your puny powers can stop me!"

"Is she really that powerful?" Sora asked.

"I don't know," Sara said, "She could easily be as strong as Milleniumon, or even stronger. Apocalymon is dead, so there's no real way I can guess the power increase she got from him, but if I add the powers of emperor Tai and Alice together….It's pretty close."

"Either way, we lose," Tai said.

Up above, the war of the gods continued. Dark Sora was now punching Milleniumon in the side of his face. Dark Ryo was floating in the sky above them, frowning at his partner's imminent defeat. Dark Sora was about to send a big energy bolt into Milleniumon, but, surprisingly, Dark Ryo jumped between them. Dark Sora was so shocked that she did stop her attack.

"How dare you!"

"Yes, I dare," he grinned, "You think you really have us beat, don't you? Well, I've got news for you, we have a special ability. Milleniumon, this fight has gone on long enough! Bio-merge!"

Milleniumon and Dark Ryo suddenly merged together into a brand new shape: a dark being sealed inside of a crystal. "I am MoonMilleniumon," he said in a mixture of Dark Ryo and Milleniumon's voice, "and you are finished!"

The crystal flew forward and butted Dark Sora in the stomach. She cried out in pain and flew backwards. She tried to fight back, but MoonMilleniumon was too fast for her. He fired a series of small crystals from inside of him, that struck Dark Sora all across her body.

She now had a giant gash inside her stomach, which was growing fast. Her entire body was disappearing. She stared up at MoonMilleniumon.

"You think you've won, huh? You think this ends it? It will never end, never! I was born of Sora Takenouchi's anger, her depression, her hate! She is Love, I am Hate! You think your dark powers will stop me? Ha! I am the Darkness!" She stared at him, as her body vanished, all except for her eye. She stared up at him. "And when we meet again in the world of darkness, I will be the victor." Her eye completely vanished into the night sky.

The area where she once was suddenly started to glow and fired out a stream of black energy that was absorbed by MoonMilleniumon. "The Dark Spores are mine!" he laughed, "The Keys to the Ultimate Reality are now mine! I will rule every reality!"

To be concluded….