Digimon Tribute

Keep the digital spirit alive

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Northwest Shinjuku: 8:11 PM

It's been a few days since their last adventure, and the night was young on a Thursday night. The day was getting late over the city of Tokyo, but its never late for a large patch of fog, which is none other than a digital field, blankets an old abandoned building, almost devoided of a roof. Inside, a fierily light lits inside the cloud, moving around as if it were a body. The fire beast of black flames looks around, trying to conclude to where it was until it fit the need to crush and destroy for data.

"There it is!"

The fire beast caught that voice and followed it up on an upper floor where a small human figure dramatically stands with a dino shaped Digimon snarling at the beast.

"Alright let's see what this thing is!" the boy said, scanning the beast.

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DarkLizamon: Evil Dragon Digimon. This black dino Digimon is coated in the black flames of darkness, scouring in dark valleys at night.

Type: Virus

Stage: Champion

Attacks: Dread Fire, Snipe Fang

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"A dark virus type, huh? Well this one ain't gonna be pretty. Go get him, Guilmon!"

"Right!"

The red dragon, leaps on a railing and travels on it to direct himself over to the large foe. Pushing himself off the rusty rail, Guilmon dives for DarkLizamon, striking out his claws.

"ROCK BREAKER!" He spun like a drill, shooting through DarkLizamon's flaming body. The virus monster screamed in pain, but Guilmon was covered in flames as he rolled on the floor.

"You okay, Guilmon?" Takato shouted.

"Fine, just skating on sausages!"

"DREAD FIRE!"

Guilmon just then barely jumped away from a black fire blast that blasted a hole from a wall of bricks.

"Oh boy, that would've left a mark…" Takato nervously dug through his pockets. "Hang on boy!" And he pulled out a card and slashed it through his Digivive. "DIGI-MODIFY, SHELLMON ACTIVATE!"

Getting some air, Guilmon blasted a stream of water from his mouth, giving a split gash on DarkLizamon's body. With steam surging out of its body, DarkLizamon dropped to the floor.

"Whoa…" Takato was already down from a flight of stairs and meeting up with Guilmon. "That seemed a bit to easy."

"What do we do now, Takatomon?"

"I don't know. Right now I just don't have the heart to destroy him."

All of a sudden, the two heard the sound of helicopters whiling by. A bright light blinded Takato and Guilmon. The Tamer narrowed his eyes through the light, barely catching the copter lowering close to the floor to drop a group of people that seemed to be from the army or something.

"Strike Team, surround the target and contain it!" Takato heard one of them shout.

"What's going on, Takatomon?" Guilmon asked, still having his eyes closed from the light.

"I don't know, boy...looks like some kind of government guys. Let's get out of here before they spot us."

But then, following the sounds of junk being thrown of and falling down, the cries of DarkLizamon caught Takato's attention. He turned just in time to see DarkLizamon rising from the cloud debris, while the SWAT team people or whatever backed away. They shot darts at the creature...some kind of tranquilizers, slowing down the Digimon, but DarkLizamon weakly approached the frightened child, with Guilmon on guard to protect his Tamer.

"Please...don't leave! You have to make stronger!"

Takato was caught off guard by this. "Huh?"

"You have to make me stronger so I can Digivolve!"

"Uh...I already have a Digimon!"

Suddenly, tiny balls rolled by DarkLizamon, engulfing the beast with some kind of gas.

"No...I need to Digivolve! DON'T LEAVE ME!" with that, the beast passed out, making a loud thud on the floor.

How surprising. It reminded him of when Rika dealt with IceDevimon a few days ago. That monster wanted her to be his Tamer just for the glory of power, and this Digimon was preying for Takato to be its Tamer. Why are these Digimon so corrupt?

"Well...aren't you gonna thank me?"

The boy spins around to hiss left side, finding a tall figure walking out of the smoky cloud. He looked familiar; the man with the blonde hair, dark shades, and black suit looked familiar.

"After all I did save your life."

Now he remembers; it's the same guy he and Henry met a few days ago. "Who are you?"

"I should be asking you that. Who do you think you are attacking these vermin on your own? This isn't some sort of game you played on your Din-ten-do or whatever you kids call them. These are dangerous creatures that should be contained; and for your own safety I should obtain your little red friend there."

Right as the man raised his hand as if he was gonna snap his fingers, Takato quickly zipped in front of his Digimon; spreading his arms, protectively. He did his best trying to be strong against an adult who held lots of authority.

"Leave Guilmon alone! He's not like DarkLizamon!"

The man chuckled at this cute site. He felt like he was on that ET movie. "So young and so naive."

Suddenly, groans were heard by all. The army people cocked their guns at the fallen Digimon who stirred.

Takato was caught in surprise. "It's...still alive..." he gasped softly.

The man whirred at the Strike Team. "I want that thing secured and weakened! Where the hell is the containment unit?"

"They're thirty seconds on their way, Yamaki, sir!"

Yamaki growled under hiss breath, lighting a cigarette. "You see, boy? These monsters are highly dangerous. For your own good, we should confiscate your red pet; it is as dangerous as well..." But as he turned his head over to Takato...

The boy and the Digimon was gone.

"Hmm...Don't say I didn't warn you."

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Shinjuku College Dorms: 8:45 PM

"Is everyone present...? Prodigious! Then we can get on with the meeting."

Back in Izzy's room, all the older DigiDestined- minus Joe whose face was shown on Izzy's monitor- rounded up, talking with the younger crew from via video phone.

"Man, why exactly did you call us for so late at night? I was almost kicking ass on Sonic Heroes."

"Can it, Davis! This is more important than your stupid game!"

"It's not stupid, Nerd-tron!"

"Dork!"

"Chicken-legs!"

"Will you two settle that later?" TK asked, or more likely demanded.

Izzy sighed, recovering the headache he received from Davis and Yolei. "Alright, we've called this meeting to discuss about these Digimon invasions."

"They seem to be getting out of control, alright." Joe exclaimed. "So...what do we know about them?"

Cody's face appeared on screen. "They seem more power hungry than any Digimon we've encountered in the past, and a lot violent I might add."

"They feed off on data from other Digimon they destroyed to increase their strengths..." Ken continued. "...something that's very new to us."

"Every time they appear, they're surrounded by some fog, which the Tamers call them digital fields." Kari described. "Most of the Digimon we've encountered were some we dealt with back in the Digital World, like Devidramon and Deltamon..."

Davis then did his best to say something. "Uh..."

"…Which were stronger than normal." Yolei continued.

"Even Devimon came back from the grave and somehow gotten the Digimon's ability to absorb data." TK growled with a scowl.

Last was Davis, who looked like he was trying to think. "Uh...and me and Veemon whipped their booty."

Yolei narrowed her eyes at him. "That's not even important to discuss, baka!"

"Well everyone already took the good ones; I had to come up with something."

Izzy groaned. "Okay, okay. Let's not start that again. Alright, we've identified the Digimon new found identities and abilities..."

"Hey, genius...!" Tai interrupted. "Anything yet on that blonde guy?"

"Negative, Tai…I still have no leads to the man who gave you vague warnings. It's not easy tapping in the government files, plus that it's illegal. And I still had no clue about that white zone, you, Sora and the Tamers went in to find Guilmon."

Yolei gave a prissy snort. "That jerk just walked up to us, making some threat like he was in charge."

Ken nodded, crossing his arms. "By the sounds of this, it's obvious he knows about the Digimon, but if he is part of the government? How could they be on to about the Digimon?"

"I guess that battle with Armageddon was impossible to miss. Though many questions involving that would be how the government obtained data on the Digimon if for one of their agents to warn you not to interfere. Gennai and his followers would've erased anything about the Digimon from their files if they had to."

"But I remember a few years ago that Gennai and his allies erased all the government data about the Myotismon incident that happened with you guys." Cody pointed out. "Shouldn't they erase the files about that Armageddonmon chaos too?"

"They would, but it was out of their power. According to TK and Kari, from their trip to the Digital World, Gennai had not received data on any Digimon escaping from the Digital World; otherwise he would've contacted us…until later on."

Kari's face came on screen. "He told us he couldn't contact us, otherwise those government people would've traced his signal, thus finding the Digi-World. It's like they knew about us before Gennai caught wind of them. They couldn't erase their data because of their tight security."

Matt sighed, shaking his head. "So by the time they found out, it was too late. Great…"

TK continued. "We transported some Digimon to the Digi-World before we met the Tamers. But Gennai said those Digimon were not from the Digi-World."

"Huh…? Just what does that mean?" asked Sora.

Mimi blinked, rubbing her forehead. "This is really confusing, and I really hate brain teasers."

Izzy shook his head as he rolled his eyes from his girlfriend's comment. "Okay...all the information we've gathered indicate different significances about these Digimon, with data saying that they are foreign to the Digital World. Hmm...are you guys thinking what I'm thinking?"

Mimi shook her head. "No, but I have a feeling you're gonna tell us."

Izzy chuckled. "You guessed it...okay, as you mentioned, TK, these Digimon are said to not be from the digital plane. But it couldn't be possible. After all, Digimon are from the Digital-World, and nowhere else, unless someone is pulling a Willis, but I don't think the culprit would have the resources to create a number of Digimon that terrorized the city these past weeks. So, these Digimon are foreign in some way."

"You mean they came from another country like France or America?"

"Not really, Mimi, but…it's something like that."

Matt studied Izzy's face, not liking what he's thinking. "What are you saying…that these Digimon didn't come from the Digital World…but…do?"

"In a way; yes. Before we met the Tamers, we'd transported some Digimon back to the Digital World, but according to Gennai, some of the digital warriors like Piximon had to destroy it cause it was causing damage. In conclusion, the Digimon's data we brought was said to be foreign…and since Digimon have to come from the Digi-World, I believe there's another Digital World."

This brought shock to everyone in the room and on the other side of the internet line, like a instant cold burst hit them.

Davis rapidly scratched his head. "Whoa, WHOA! Back up, dude, and put it in rewind! You're saying that there's another Digi-World?"

"That's the theory, Davis. But another proof involves something I remembered being told by Gennai a while back after the Armageddonmon incident, and from what Yolei found out about Sora's father before then."

"Well don't keep us hanging, fill us in." Matt demanded, rebelliously leaning on a wall.

"Okay...there was tale of a Chinese mythology about four guardians guarding the land of Kyoto, a place where legends say that worlds collide there."

"Dude, that reminds me of all those fanfics I've read. Man, if I had a yen for every time I hear 'Worlds collide' for every title, I be one..."

"DAVIS!" the 02 gang shouted.

Izzy sighed, blowing off some steam. "Anywho...there are four: Dragon of the east: Seiryuu. Phoenix of the south: Suzaku. Turtle of the north: Genbu. And tiger of the west: Byakko."

"Is this gonna get anywhere, genius?" Tai impatiently asked, receiving an elbow to the chest by Sora.

Ignoring him, Izzy continued. "All this had a relation; the Digital Guardians...they are based on this mythology."

"Now that I think about it..." Ken said, getting attention. "We've only met Azulongmon."

"Right, Seiryuu of the east: Azulongmon."

"Then where did the other dudes went? Did they skipped work for the past years?"

"No, they were always doing their duty, Davis, even after when Azulongmon freed them from their prisons created by the Dark Masters. Why we never met the rest is what I'll get to. During when we let our families tour the Digital World when MaloMyotismon weakened the barriers, I had a talk with Gennai about the Digital Guardians. Yes, they guard parts of the Digital World, but Azulongmon is the rightful ruler of the Digital World."

"What are you saying, Izzy?" Sora asked.

"If Azulongmon is ruler, then that means, according to Gennai, that the Digital World is only the east sector; the others are actually different worlds."

The others blinked in surprise.

"So the other sectors are separated in different realms?" Ken asked.

"Correct, meaning that these Digimon come from one of these Digital Worlds."

"We know what we gotta do; find out which one is making all this havoc, go there and kick some butt!"

"Yeah, you tell em, Davis!" Veemon cheered in his infamous lisp.

"It's not that simple," Izzy warned. "Even if we knew which one we should go to, there's no way to get there, except perhaps the guardians' temples, which we have no access to or permission. Plus, because of our protection to the Digital World, they're barely around to help us."

"But we can't just sit here and do nothing," Matt said. "Any second now, stronger Digimon breaks in to our world and cause damage. We have to get to their Digital World and fix things our way!"

Izzy clutched his head. "I know that, but the question is: which ones, and how do we get there!"

Mimi shot a look on Matt. "What do you mean: 'Our way', Matt?" the blonde turned away.

"I'm pretty sure we'll find a way," everyone looked at Tai with a confused look. "Yeah, we'll just wing it like we always do, till something comes up."

"But what if nothing comes up, Tai?" Matt asked.

"You worry too much, man." the goggled leader walked between the gang and the computer. "Until then we'll just have to keep these Digimon under control, try to avoid this government guy as much as we can, and help out the Tamers any ways possible."

"Yeah, Tai! We got your point!" Davis cheered.

And nods from each of the group were made, except from Matt.

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Shinjuku Central Park: 9:27 PM…

It was late in the black night, quite around the green area of Shinjuku. In the den, deep in the remote part of the park, Takato sits on the rail of the doorway, reflecting back to what happened a few minutes ago. Not a trace of victory was read in the boy's face. Usually he would be cheering inside after every Digi-battle he wins, but after meeting that FBI guy or whatever, he's been thinking a lot.

"Takatomon, what's wrong?" Guilmon asked, eating his food on his dirt hole.

His eyes kept on the sight of the stars. "Nothing boy."

The red virus though felt the sorrow in his Tamer. "Takatomon...do you think I'll be strong as Agumon or Veemon?"

Takato's eyes, for some reason, shot wide after Guilmon's spoken words.

"I want to grow stronger and Digivolve again…-sigh-...Guilmon want to be like WarGreymon." memories of the powerful lizard warrior kicked in his head.

Grow strong...? Is that what Guilmon only wants? Is this what Rika feared for Renamon? No...it can't be...not Guilmon too...all these Digimon they met, minus the DigiDestineds' Digimon, were power hungry creatures, which some wanted Tamers to be strong like IceDevimon and DarkLizamon. Is Guilmon...going to be like them when he Digivolves again? Last time he was Growlmon, he scared Takato great. From a child, innocent Digimon to a powerhouse, blood thirsty looking beast. No...he can't become a monster...he won't...he won't let him...

"No...no more fighting..."

Guilmon poked out of the hole, not believing what he heard. "No fighting? But, no fighting means no data and no grow strong."

"Exactly!" Takato cried, choking in tears.

"But...I thought...you wanted me to Digivolve."

"I don't...you'll change!"

And so, Takato ran off, spreading his tears behind his trail, leaving Guilmon by his lonesome again, and to wonder what he did this time that upset his Tamer.

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Hypnos HQ: 9:31 PM…

Lone footsteps sounded in a dark, empty hallway. Sounds of a lighter flicking played, echoing through the hallow tunnels of the halls.

Those clueless Tamers, DigiDestined and their Digimon are completely oblivious to what I have in store in my lab. How surprised they will be when I unleash it?

Yamaki barged through some doors, entering a large room filled with engines all around. In the middle of this laboratory lied a green pool with a catwalk crossing it. Yamaki calmly crosses it, meeting with some scientists that were fooling around with some kind of computer water pump.

"Where am I? Please let me out! I beg you, I don't want to die!" The cried of a poor soul pleaded, which was DarkLizamon trapped in the pool.

One of the scientists stood up by Yamaki, looking down at a computer terminal. "Sir, we've already calculated the process of the data harness procedure…but I must caution you that the creature will not survive."

The blonde man snorted. "You tell me this like I care."

"But…with all due respects, sir, this is a living creature we're dealing with."

Yamaki looked over the water. "A worm is more of lifeform than this trash. It's nothing more than a packet of data; zeros and ones; just computer code. Their ability to exist in the real world is nothing more than a fluke, but the damages they caused all these years ago wasn't. However our monstrous friend here can be of some real use."

Yamaki paused as they can hear the beast cry: "Help me….please don't kill me, please!" This earned the scientist's pity.

"By analyzing its data, we can learn how the Digimon were created…and how to destroy it." Yamaki walked away a distance from the scientists, flicking his lighter. "Initiate the scanning procedure, and with full power."

"Don't do it! I beg you, don't kill me!"

It pained the white coat man…but orders are orders and his job was at stake. "…yes sir."

The engines were activated, with humming tunes, making the water boil red…and even hearing DarkLizamon scream with bloody murder.

Yamaki gazed at the sight…with the red light reflecting his shades…and a cold smile drawn his face. That is what happens when you crossed me years ago, beasts. With one lighter at a hand, a gold jewel was gripped in the other, as tight like his life line.

"PLEEEASE! STOP! IT HUUUUURTSSS!"

The scientists gazed at the screen on the pumps. "Sir, the particles are dissipating!"

"Don't stop now! I want all the data we need. We're only a few steps to achieve our goal for peace!"

Our goal…? "Yes sir." And the man increased the power, making the Digimon break down.

"GAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH…Hhh.h...-"

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Beeeeeeeeeep… Like one of those life detectors in hospitals, a long beep was heard from the computer.

The scientists hung his head, reporting with shame. "It's…gone…sir." He even felt disgusted when his boss smiled at the news

"Sir, we've downloaded all the data we needed, but the leftover ones are still intact. Shall I save it?"

"What's the point?" Yamaki shrugged. "We got all the data we need. Eliminate the leftovers."

"Yes sir…"

The pool turned bright green, proceeding to burn away the ashes of DarkLizamon. Yamaki watched it like watching TV with amusement.

"Just get used to it. We'll scan as many as we have to…" He gripped on the gold chain object tighter. "…till they're all gone!"

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West Shinjuku Elementary: 7:56 AM…

Friday has come…meaning the day before the weekends till no school for two days…course in real life, Japan only gets Sunday for no school…but hell with that; this is fanfiction and America! God Bless em! Soon we find the young goggle-less boy, Takato Matsuki, made it to class before the bell rang. As he was about to sit in his desk, he noticed Kazu, Kenta, and some kid hanging around by Kazu's desk.

"Uh hey guys."

For some reason, the boys looked at him like he could turn into a monster. "Um…hey yourself…"

Young Jeri though could feel the sad tension between the boys…and if there's one thing she hates is seeing anyone sad.

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A few minutes has passed while Ms. Asagi begun her lecture. Even though Takato has trouble listening, today wasn't a good day. He was still worried about his faithful Guilmon as he drawn some sketches on his notebook, trying to come up with an Ultimate level. Next to the picture of Growlmon, one was something that looks like Growlmon, but bigger and meaner…but that deserved to be scratched off.

I think I'm starting to understand how Henry and Rika felt about their Digimon…Guilmon just wants to fight to be strong…I don't want him to change. He was scary enough as Growlmon anywise…he might change who he is forever, probably into something like IceDevimon …that man was right; this isn't a game.

Starling his thoughts, a paper flew in on his book. He curiously opened it, and what was drawn on it gave Takato a smile: A picture of Guilmon dressed in cute clothes. His cheeks turned red when he saw Jeri looking at him and her girlfriends giggling, telling him that she drew the picture.

At least Jeri doesn't think he's a monster. Smiling, he dreamily watched Jeri motioning her hand like a dinosaur jaw. Although she would scream like a banshee if she ever saw Growlmon.

Sighing, Takato flipped a page to one that had a drawing of a Growlmon armed with robotic weaponry and labeled over the drawing: WarGrowlmon

I just hope Guilmon never changes.

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Odaiba: 3:56 PM...

School ended for all, meaning it was time to enjoy freedom after being held contained for five days in the educational prison. We find the young Daisuke Motamiya running down the technological town to a nearby subway, near a large field belonging to some business building, hoping to get to Shinjuku for some more Digimon-butt kicking.

"That was the longest Friday ever, DemiVeemon! Now we can kick butt on any Digimon that tries to bio-emerge!

"Yeah, finally!" DemiVeemon cheered from Davis bag. "Poromon kept knocking me down from the apples. I swear, she (A/N: I think Poromon is a she.) becomes more like Yolei everyday!"

With that Davis hung his head, hiding his eyes under shade of his hair as he slowed down.

"What's wrong, Davis?"

"N-Nothing…let's just keep moving!" Davis lifted his feet to run…

"Davis, wait!" As if his old dreams came true, Kari came running up to him.

Oh NOW she decides to follow me...'good timing' Kari. "Hey Kari, what's the haps?"

The girl stopped, catching her breath like she's been chasing Davis for some time now. "Davis…-pant-...why didn't you take the closer subway with us?"

Davis faked a smile. "Me and DemiVeemon thought we should cover ol Shinjuku in case the Digimon tries to play around in two places. Sides, we wanna take them out, our way!"

Right when he kept that smile on his face shining, Kari crossed her arms. "I'm tried of you trying keep everything from us."

"What are you talking about? I'm sorry I didn't tell you guys that I was gonna go for a head start, but I-" Davis asked while talking with the smile.

"First you keep acting distant from us, then you and Yolei's arguments are getting worse, then you announce that you don't have a crush on me anymore."

"And just what problem you have with that!" Davis snapped, startling Kari. "If you're saying that you really like me, then it's too late for that! You keep making me feel jealous when you found out I liked you, and the next moment, you and Takeru get all giddy with each other! Sides, you kissed him! Make up your damn mind, Hikari!"

She was stunned...Kari was stunned. She never expected Daisuke to...snap like that at her. He never does that to her. "Dai...Davis...I was just..."

The young teen was already in the mist of rubbing his hair as he just realized what he done. "I...I'm sorry, Kari...I don't know what came over me." He was still too much in shock that he just had to get away...the subway was the best way. "I gotta go, Kari...just meet up with the others, alright?"

What was his problem? Was he that angry with her because she doesn't love her back? Was it because she always played with his feelings? Was it...?

"You like...Yolei."

Davis stopped like someone shot him in the back. "Uh...uh...h-h-h-huh?"

"Miyako...you like her...don't you?"

When Davis slowly twisted his head back like it was rusty, his face was completely pale. "M-m-m-me and...Yolei...ha...yeah right..."

Frowning, Kari placed her fist on her hips. "It is true...I knew it...how else would you explain why you pretended you still had a crush on me?"

His face still looked cold as he shook his head. "I don't like her! Hell no! You got the wrong guy!"

"Davis, come on; you can tell me."

"Me and Yolei? Yuck!"

"Davis, when did it start?"

"No! I don't like her!"

"Daisuke! Please tell me!"

"NO! I'M NOT! I'M NOT GONNA HEAR THAT IT'S HOPELESS CAUSE SHE'S IN LOVE WITH KEN, CAUSE I KNOW YOU'RE GONNA SAY THAT!"

Kari bewildered back. "Davis...I wasn't gonna say that...I just wanted to..."

"NO!" Davis then staggered towards the subway entrance, holding his head like he had a headache. "Just...leave me alone!"

Kari reached in, hoping to stop Davis, but the back of her mind told her that he still needed to be alone. It was now obvious why Davis didn't wanna talk about it. He has bad luck falling for girls who don't reflect the same feelings.

Poor guy...

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BANG! Davis slammed his fist onto a Metrocard machine, hanging his body towards the floor. Why...why do I always have to fall for the girls who already have perfect boyfriends? In a rare moment, tears dripped on the floor.

DemiVeemon was speechless to know what to do. He never seen Davis cry; he always tried to hold his tears and be macho.

His problem with Kari was bad enough; he didn't want the same thing to happen with Yolei. He tried too hard to impress Kari, and all it gave him was a number of embarrassments. Once in a lifetime was enough. Sides, Ken is his best friend, and he doesn't want to ruin his happiness, as well as Yolei's.

Why does this always have to happen to me...? But as he looked down at the slot...

A free 30 Metrocard was ready.

Well at least something good came out of this.

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Shinjuku Central Park: 4:24 PM…

Takato combed the park after he already checked on Guilmon. It's been days since Kazu and Kenta acted so weird. They'd been very distant from the boy ever since he tried to show them Guilmon. They wouldn't believe him after all the efforts Takato pulled to make them believe. Perhaps they think he's crazy.

Finally, Takato found them glumly sitting around a swing set. "Hey guys!"

"Hey…" they muttered, gloomily.

"Where have you two been? I've been looking for you both."

"Oh we just hung around…thought we decide to try playing Duel Monsters, or Pokemon, or Magic the Gathering for a change." Answered Kazu, while his eyes staring off like they were set on the darkness.

"Well Duel Monsters and Pokemon are alright, kind of, but Magic the Gathering is still too complicated for me." Despite trying to lighten things up, Takato still wasn't getting through his friends.

Just then, Jeri skipped to the boys, holding up her evil sock puppet with a smile. "What are boys doing, still talking about Digimon?"

Kenta shook his head as his eyes faced the dirt. "Nah, Digimon is for kids."

(Max's note: And Pokemon isn't?)

(A/N: You'd be surprised.)

"Yeah, they're all just pretend." Kazu added.

Takato felt a little hurt at that. It's like he's the only one left in the Digimon fantasy now. "But…Guilmon's real."

Kazu rolled his eyes, scuffing. "Oh not this again! Look, Goggle-brain, you're not scaring anyone with that oversized stuffed dinosaur, alright?"

Although Jeri doesn't like to be talked out of something she now believes is real. "But Guilmon is real."

"Great…he got you too, Jeri?" Kenta asked. "Forget it; Digimon is lame."

"Put it this way; I'm retiring from being the King of Digimon and moving on to Duel Monsters. At least they're a lot realistic than Digimon."

Well fine…he understands that they're tired of Digimon…for some odd reason, but Takato doesn't have to stand for his friends to talk trash about what he loves. "You don't have to dump it. If don't want like it, then don't play."

She's sensing negative vibes again. Why can't they just be happy? Jeri can't even stand to be around something so sad…so depressing. Something that would lead her to thoughts she wished she could completely forget. So…

"Ruff! Boys are so silly!" her sock puppet on her hand said. "They always fight about something that there's nothing to fight about. It's all just pretend."

"Yeah, that's right." Jeri said, trying to crack a fake smile.

Kazu rolled his eyes, jumping off the swing. "Come on, Kazu, let's blow this Popsicle stand; leave chumley and his girlfriend with their kiddy games."

"Yeah!" With that, the two left the boy to rot with all the words they threw at him.

Takato stood so dark, not even knowing that he's scaring Jeri. "It's not a game."

"Takato, is something wrong? You look so sad."

"No, Jeri. Nothing's wrong."

Well that was a relief. To lighten things, Jeri whipped out her puppet. "Ruff! Hey are you gonna play with Guilmon today?"

"Jeri, I'm not freakin playing!"

Jeri was caught in horrible surprise. Takato even was too. Why did he do that to her? She didn't do anything.

"I...I gotta go." Takato ran off, avoiding any damages he caused...

...Leaving Jeri to settle in on her shock...

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"Yamaki, I'm very disappointed in you. We've spent millions on Hypnos to deal with the digital mayhem that ran amuck for more than a decade and what do you give me; a creature floating in a tank? If I'd wanted that, I'd would've hired a dog catcher."

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Back in a city apartment, we find a blue haired man with glasses walking up to his home in a hallway, after a hard day's work. But right as he slid the key to the knob, his senses acted up and led him to a dark man in a black suit and a hat covering half of his face.

"You are Mr. Wong, correct?"

The man known as Mr. Wong relaxed and faced the door. "Oh...sorry, but I'm not interested in buying anything."

"I'm no salesman, Mr. Wong. Think of me as a ghost from your past, when you and your reckless college friends thought you could do anything like create digital lifeforms on the net. They're out of control now. Someone has to pay the price."

-

"Containing them isn't enough; can't you finish off the problem for good? If the media finds out, Yamaki, think of the panic it'll strike." A woman on the screen said.

"With all due respects, ma'am, Hypnos is really the reason there haven't been any media freaks in the past. All I ask for all is full cooperation."

-

"Why don't you just tell me what you want, if want to earn my cooperation?" grimed Mr. Wong.

"I need you to help me find one of your playmates; the one who refuses to grow up and has been working on the project for more than a decade to this day."

-

"Enough of this shit. Let's just let the army deal with them so I can have my lunch."

"Uh...I'm a little sidetracked here from this subject. Someone explain to me about these...what, Pokemon?"

"That's the video game and it's 'Digimon' you twit-sigh-...I'll explain again..."

-

"I don't know anything about Digimon."

"Don't lie to me, Wong; it's most becoming."

"Who are you...HUH?"

"GAH!" Henry screamed when Mr. Wong snapped at him. "Uh...hi dad."

It was just his son...right where that man was...it was like that man wasn't there. "Uh...Henry?"

"Uh...who were you talking to?"

"Uh..."

-

"Hello, you're talking to us, twit! Put down that club and listen. Years ago, a group of scientists created artificial lifeforms on the net called Digimon. They were suppose to be walking, breathing animals on the net."

"The program was shutdown because of funding, but somehow they survived after being discovered in the Heighten View Terrance attacks in Odaiba that was thought to be a so-called terrorists bombing. Then the invasion led by that vampire, followed by the world that coated the earth's sky, then the Y2K bug, then the Rainbow Bridge event, followed by the Digimon that almost bio-emerged in Shibuya…In short, they somehow found the needs to exist in the real world."

"Okay...I don't get it..."

-

"...You didn't load the last of the Harpymons when you Digivolved...that's the first time you done something like that, Renamon. Why?"

Renamon, who sat next to Rika on her porch just looked up at the sunset. "I told you; I didn't need to."

"But...how will you Digivolve?"

"I think Digimon with human partners don't need to download data to grow strong. Their link with their partner somehow makes us Digivolve."

"And I guess...we fit that subject." Rika stared at her shoeless feet, rubbing them together. "It's kind of weird."

"What is?"

"...I don't remember what I was so angry about...hell, I don't feel like poking fun at Takato, Henry's and the other's silly Digimon anymore."

"You're right...that is weird."

"Well…maybe for a little while. But yeah, it's kind of weird."

-

"Yes it is weird, and for the last time, they're not Pokemon...and stop playing golf you twit!"

"So they're like a pack of circus animals. Not much for the army to blow their skulls off."

"Really? They seem so much like Pokemon, and who doesn't hate that adorable Pikachu?"

"Mention Pokemon again and I'll drop kick you to the next timezone!"

"These are not cuddly merchandise characters. They have unlimited powers of destruction and indefinite life spans. They had been a threat to humankind for more than a decade, and it's about time that this joke should stop. Now I have a way that will eliminate them. I will use the Digimon's own data against them and destroy them, and there's no need for hesitation; it's not like they're living breathing creatures. They're just faulty programs that should've never existed in the first place. Think of the lives we'll save and the deaths we'll spare."

-

"Who wants take out? Be lucky I had some money to spare." Mr. Wong happily asked, preparing some on the table for the kids.

"Now don't complain that this stuff is better than my cooking, or its going out of your allowances, kids." the wife said.

Take out was tempting and everything, but Henry had a question involving his Chinese father. "Hey dad...I wanna know about that Digimon project you used to work on."

The man seemed to sweat from that. "Let's...discuss that later."

-

"But this advanced project...what's it called?"

"Juggernaut."

"This project...I've read the stats on it...this might cause some disturbance on the net since there is a thin boundary between the two worlds. How would we know this won't damage even the Stock Market?"

"I wouldn't worry. Juggernaut might cause some disturbance, but hang ups on the net happens everyday. I doubt anyone will tell the difference."

"Well I'm not gonna get in trouble for this. If the media finds out about Hypnos and ask us if we had anything to do with it, we'll just deny it."

"Good idea. For once you've come up with something we can use. Got it Yamaki?"

"Yeah, I got it. We'll continue testing."

End transmission

"Bunch of fuckers."

-

"You have any idea what the heck this mechanism is?"

Meanwhile in a different computer room, Talley and Riley just sat around, waiting for instructions to begin the new project. The giant engine thingy with a bunch of pipes and wires connected like spider webs and seemed to be more like a fifthteen feet bomb that Talley was feeling a little queasy about happens to be the project.

"No clue, but whatever it is, it ain't pretty." Riley shrugged, checking her face with her pocket mirror.

"We certainly didn't get out of probation for this...or a matter of fact, we didn't get any authorization for this."

Riley brushed the eyelashes of her eyes. "Yamaki does what he wants. If I were you, I'd wouldn't ask so many questions. Just know that all his projects means bad news for someone."

-

-

West Shinjuku Downtown: 7:27 PM...

Meanwhile in the busy streets, we find Kari walking on a corner of a busy intersection, leading two of internet's favorite couple (Not mine.) Ken and Yolei, who were walking hand to hand.

After Kari took a stop near a traffic pole, she twisted over to the couple. "Yolei, are you sure you won't make any more shopping stops?"

"Sorry, but this jacket here is so cute!" the girl squealed, tugging her white, jean jacket. "Sides, it's cold." She snuggled onto her boyfriend's shoulder to keep warm.

The female Kamiya narrowed her face. "Alright, you two; break it up."

But Yolei fought back with a mischievous grin as she pressed onto Ken. "Why, you jealous? Give me a break Kari. You and TK kissed, so you should have someone for yourself to-"

"WE...!" Kari quickly yelped, blushing madly. "...almost did. ALMOST! That didn't mean we kissed."

"Come on, you two are already a couple. Just admit it!"

Kari shamelessly rubbed her hands. "Well...I don't know...I'm just a little confused...I mean...I'm not sure..."

Ken though felt he should keep quite since this seems more like girl talk and out of his power...wait...something felt very...interesting on the other side of the road. Ken scanned at the moving crowd...where he saw a young boy...a boy with tan skin...spiky brown hair...blue eyes...a orange sweater and brown pants...

But why did this child caught his interest? And why is his brain suddenly digging up some memory he never thought up? As the boy left through the crowd...memories of a large monster dying in the desert...Ken pushing a boy away from some seeds that shot from the monster...and Ken took the hit...right before his vision darkened...his final sight was...that boy across the road.

It can't be... "It can't be..." Ken whispered, getting Yolei's attention.

"What can't be...you just found out that TK and Kari got together?"

"WE DID NOT!"

The blue haired boy paid no attention as his sparked eyes shot towards the road... "IT CAN'T BE!" And he dashed away through the busy road, nearly making Yolei hit the floor, and almost getting hit by the cars as he raced ahead.

"KENNY! Where are you going!" Yolei cried. Adjusting her hat, she tells Kari that they have to follow him, when suddenly, Poromon rattles her bag like crazy before popping out. "Poromon, get back in the bag; someone will see you!"

"Something's...coming! It's BIG!" Poromon cried, shaking like a freaked chicken as he/she fluttered.

"What, a shoe sale?"

"Yolei, be serious!" Kari warned as she tried to keep Gatomon under control. "Look over at the towers!"

The violet haired girl did and she checked her glasses twice when she spotted some weird light coming from the top Tokyo Metropolitan Buildings, miles away that were emitting weird green energy. "Oh god...I hope it's not Daemon trying to break through the Dark Ocean. Oh wait, Tai kicked his ass. What could it be?"

"I don't know what it is, but it's driving our Digimon crazy. We better check it out."

Yolei's eyes soften with worry. "What about Ken?"

"I'm sure he'll be fine. I'll e-mail him along the way, but we gotta hurry!"

-

"YOU...! STOP!" Ken roughly dug though the large crowd of Shinjuku, trying to chase after the boy who moved pretty fast and smooth from the crowd. "STOP!"

He chased and chased, digging through the people that didn't appreciate his rudeness, but Ken had not time to be polite. He had a feeling that this boy might unlock some of his past.

Ken spotted the boy zooming in a blur to a corner of another street, where Ken now followed. He found himself in a street filled with old buildings and garages that were in the back of stores, but that did not matter; there's barely any people here, and Ken can easily resume the chase of the boy who dashed into an alley.

"HEY!" And so he chased after the boy in the dark, messy alley...

Where the boy was nowhere to be found in the dead end alley.

"He...vanished..." Ken searched deeper in the alley, looking behind every can and dumpster. "But he was here...who was he?"

"Maybe you were just imagining things, Ken." suggested Wormmon.

Ken sighed, emitting that maybe he's just stressed...but then his D-3 started beeping like crazy. "My D-3...a distress signal...a large one that is."

-

"Come on...leave me alone!" Calumon hurried through the legs of the humans, like racing through a jungle as a helpless prey. But he tumbled and rolled and landed straight on his chin. "Aw nuts..."

Looking up, he saw his doom; a purple sneering imp he knew as Impmon, and he was looking for blood as he kept a flame on his finger.

"Relax, cream-puff, I just want your data; kapeesh?"

However, something caught Impmon's interest from behind. As he looked at some weird energy coming from the towers, miles ahead, the same sight that the humans were looking at, Calumon made a break for it.

-

"Juggernaut has now been activated!"

(Play Night of Fate from Kingdom Hearts soundtrack)

A huge beam of green light shoots from the entire pool of the lab, launching through the giant sunroof of the building. From a far distance, the Tokyo Towers shot a geyser of light straight into the heavens.

Yamaki grinned excitably with evil and satisfaction, gripping tightly onto his lighter and golden locket thingy.

Those diabolical Digimon won't know what'll hit them. I dare you kiddies to try and stop the Juggernaut now.

-

"Must...go...must...go!"

Henry was scared beyond relief. Ever since he came back to his room, he found Terriermon scratching the window like he was disturbingly attracted by something.

"Terriermon, what's wrong?"

-

"Did you see that, TK?"

On a hill that got a view of the Metropolitan towers, Cody watched the buildings shoot some light with binoculars. As TK held the disturbed Patamon within his hands, he glared at the buildings, like he would do to any evil Digimon.

"I knew there were something fishy going on with those buildings. I had a feeling something like the darkness was emitting from there."

Cody looked at his friend with wide eyes. Again, TK scared him with his hatred for darkness. Cody still can't believe him that Takeru doesn't hate the darkness, cause it still bothers him more than anyone else.

-

High above the city of Shinjuku, Sora and Mimi rode on Birdramon, where they got a clear view of the large buildings throwing off large beams to the sky. Since that the net was off line, Sora and Mimi couldn't use their account to but their way to the subway, so they had to risk their Digimon to be seen by travel. Also behind them was Joe and Izzy on Kabuterimon who also had the same problem.

"What's going on, some kind of rock concert going on there?" Joe asked, gripping on the bug for safety.

"I knew there was something suspicious!" Izzy shouted through the wind current. "My computers detected a massive digital energy coming from RIGHT there before the net went off line!"

Suddenly, both Birdramon and Kabuterimon flapped their wing violently, almost throwing off their human passengers.

"Birdramon, what's wrong!" Sora shouted, gripping tightly onto the bird.

"The force...its huge...We have to go to there!"

"The light...go into the light!" screamed Kabuterimon, swinging his arms in a windmill motion.

"They're creeping me out! What's wrong with them?" Mimi screamed, holding, tightly onto Izzy.

"I KNEW IT!" everyone eyed Izzy who said that. "Look at the energy waves...!" Everyone did and it looked like the beam was cutting a hole in the sky. Now it the hole seemed to be sucking particles. "I was wondering about the energy signature. It looked like it was emitting Digimon data, but it was different! That energy is a digital vacuum! The Digimon energies were fake! I think someone wants the Digimon drawn to it!"

"It must be, cause it surely is giving these guys a headache!" Joe shouted, holding on dearly to the crazy Kabuterimon.

"We have to land! We can't fly close to that thing if it's affecting our Digimon!" Sora warned. "Birdramon, try to land now!"

"I'll...try." Fighting her state, Birdramon, along with Kabuterimon lowered down to the city.

"Passengers, please obey the seat belt signal...ehhhh...we will be making an early stop due to some nifty turbulence...ehhh..." Gomamon mocked like a airline pilot.

"Gomamon!"

"Hey just trying to lighten things up, Joe. Momentai!"

"Hanging around with Terriermon, I see...oye, Henry warned me about this."

-

Meanwhile, somewhere on the other side of the central park, close to the towers, Davis raced through the streets, following the sight of the energy vacuum above the towers.

"What the hell is that?"

"I don't know Davis...but its sure tempting!"

"Stay in that bag, DemiVeemon!" Davis warned as he ran. "I don't like the looks of that thing! It might be another boss-creep Digimon, so we better..."

"OOFF!"

Before he knew it, Davis' back slammed on the floor. "Ow...hey pal, watch where you're running!"

"Sorry...Davis?"

As he stood up, surprise hit him when he found the person he bumped into: Takato...along with Guilmon. "Takato...nice bumping into you, buddy…literally."

"Yeah...likewise...Davis did you see what's happening...?"

"Did I ever? It's right there, as clear as a large fast food sign!"

"I know, it looks like the sky is on fire," Soon, Takato grabbed onto Guilmon who tried to make a run for it. "And Guilmon's acting crazy."

The red dino tried to escape his Tamer's grip. "Takatomon! It's coming! It's coming!"

Davis gazed at the out of control dino. "Man, same with DemiVeemon. I betcha it's another boss Digimon. Stay with me pal, things might get messy when dealing with a boss Digimon."

Takato nodded with a serious frown. "Right...let's go!

And go they did, racing to destiny through the park's forest.

-

-

Tokyo Metropolitan Center, City Hall: 8:17 PM…

Under the red sky, the dark man, Yamaki gazed at the energy hole that was creating a gusty storm around the area. Seeing his creation at work brought pleasure in his adrenaline. All those creatures that made his life a living hell will finally be destroyed for good.

"Good bye…" Yamaki stared into the sky, removing his shades to reveal his frightening eyes. "…Beast of Mayham…the world will finally be free from your years of pestilence, forever...and your crime shall finally be done with; avenging my-"

"Over there, dudes! Come on!"

Yamaki grinned, turning to find two goggle boys along with their pet vermin running up the bridge. Well, look who's come to marvel my brilliance.

Takato, Davis, Guilmon, and Veemon stopped, checking out the wormhole that hovered high above the Tokyo Metropolitan Center. The dark, greenish, blueish hole that made the sky shine in fire colors were sucking a lot of poor Digimon from out of nowhere, like Tuskmon, Raremon, Goblimon, and Tyrannomons. Hearing their ghostly cries made Takato's knees shake. It was like something out of a horror film, those cries.

"This is major creepy!" Davis said, freezing from the sight. "What kind of Digimon is causing this?"

"Davis...!" the goggled teen gasped when he saw his blue friend starting to fade away; becoming transparent.

"Veemon!"

Even Takato shuddered in cold fear the same thing happened to Guilmon. "Guilmon...not again...you're fading away!" Memories of that white zone came crawling back in the boy, forcing him to shed tears.

"Takatomon...I feel weird again." Guilmon whined.

Takato, in his pale expression stared at Guilmon's body. "Why...is this happening again?"

"We had no choice."

The gang snapped forward through the bridge path, finding the same blonde man that crossed their path before.

"What do you mean?" Davis asked, not liking this guy's attitude. "Are you saying that you're doing this?"

The blonde man gave a cold smile, colder than Rika can muster. "All I can say is that we're controlling an infestation and all these fucking vermin must be exterminated."

Davis clenched his teeth, his fist, even his toes. How dare this punk try to kill all Digimon like they were parasites? "Vermin? You're the vermin! Who do you think you are, pal; the Digimon police?"

The man chuckled in amusement. "You could say that I'm the rightful given authority to handle these dangerous beast. If you wake up your eyes, you'll know how much pain these viruses have given to human kind for many years." The man then begun to walk up to the boys, making them back away with their guard. "...and with that, they must be destroyed."

Takato couldn't take any more of this; hearing this man talk such trash about Digimon and all these poor creatures screaming in pain from this suck Raid trap.

"You...can't destroy all the Digimon! Not all of them are evil...and...um...Guilmon's my friend!"

The man stopped by Takato with a robotic look, gazing at Guilmon. "Really? This..." he held a clawed hand over the dino, making it flinching with a growl. "...this foul beast-chuckle-...you naive little boy. This thing and its kind aren't capable of friendship. They're nothing more than dangerous artificial lifeforms." and with that, the man walked away with no care.

"Hey, who you calling artificial…whatever that means!" Veemon shouted, but the man ignored.

Takato stood up, motioning in front of the gang. "That's not true! Digimon are...uh..." sometimes he should really learn to think what to say before saying it. But his pride for Digimon was insulted, and Takato was, once again, angry. "...well...WELL THEY'RE COOL, THAT'S ALL, AND THIS ONE HAPPENS TO BE MY BEST FRIEND! LOTS OF THEM ARE FRIENDLY! HEY ARE YOU LISTENING!"

The gang practically heard the man chuckle under evil manner.

This pissed off Davis. "You bastard! Get back here and turn that thing off!"

Finally he stopped, but he shot a cold look at them and smirked. "Well, if you're gonna..."

"Funny, we never remembered giving you permission to do this."

The man blinked finding another goggled boy, only older, standing in his path, with a orange lizard accompanying him. He heard the other boys cry out his name, answering him that this young man is named: Tai.

The man chuckled, finding this a joke. "And just do you mean by that?"

Tai grinned, crossing his arms. "You see, as far as we know, it's our job to deal with Digimon and any threat they made, without any insane ways like your doing with that vortex-thing."

Fortunately the man laughed. "Well then, you've been playing a violated identity, child. You see, the government gave us Hypnos the command to exterminate these pests, and the papers to that right were under my name, Yamaki. I'm afraid that this game you're playing is endangering many lives, my young friend and we're here as your clean up crew."

But Tai narrowed his eyes, not being phased. "You're the one whose endangering lives, pal! These Digimon don't deserve this kind of torture! They're living creatures like us! You have no right to do this and you have no idea what powers you're dealing with!"

Agumon nodded, crossing his arms.

"Mhmhm...Hahahahah...! You children are always so amusing. Either these stupid data-fouls corrupted your mind or..." Suddenly, his cell phone ranged, revealing to be Riley on the other end.

"Sir, an anomaly has infiltrated the Juggernaunt and is entering through the vortex!"

Yamaki felt as if his heart stops beating."WHAT! But...that's impossible!" He looked up at the sky, hoping that it wasn't true...

But it is.

The vortex appears to be suffering through a thunder storm, shining through the green clouds like veins.

"I...designed this program myself to be flawless! Nothing can penetrate it!"

The goggle boys couldn't help but smile with satisfaction at the man's defeat. It would appear that Digimon has proven once again that they are a force powerful enough to be part of nature.

Tai grinned, placing his arms across each other. "Not so stupid now, are they, bud?"

"Yeah!" Agumon agreed.

The blonde man looked as if he went bankrupt, nearly touching his knees to the floor while looking at the stats in his terminal. The skies became worse in lightening, breaking the man's pride that his precious program was defeated.

(Play My Father's Murderer from FF10 soundtrack.)

"You pathetic humans created us; but now we're free! Now the time to claim your place in the real world is ours. You have but one purpose: To serve the Digimon!"

The DigiDestined and Takato heard this echoing voice as if it came from the heavens...or more like hell. It was god like, and frightening. They stood up, keeping their defense up incase of an attack.

Yamaki would not take total defeat and he must stand up for humankind. "No! You're wrong! Who in the hell are you?"

"Hahhaha! I am only a representative of those who are to be your masters!"

"I can't let you do this! I'LL NEVER BE A SLAVE TO YOU DATA-SCUM!"

"But you must. It is because of you we are here. I should thank you."

Yamaki sweated, feeling his body motionless. He couldn't have caused this...it can't be...

"You have unsealed the door to the organic world for all of us!"

Tai drew his Digivice, raising it high before Agumon shined in orange color.

-

(Digivolution)

"AGUMON, DIGIVOLVE TOOO...GREYMON!"

-

The giant brown-skull dinosaur pounded back on the ground, standing behind a dramatically standing Tai who looked at the sky.

"There's no way you're gonna enslave the human race; not while we're still standing!"

"You have a 01 Digivice. You must be a solider of Azulongmon. We've heard of you, DigiDestined, but I advise a warning: Stay out of our way!"

With that, Davis drew out his D-3, making Veemon glow in a yellow aura.

-

(Digivolution)

"VEEMON DIGIVOLVE TOOO...EXVEEMON!"

-

Breaking out of the glowing Digiegg, the giant blue dragon hovered above his human partner you glared at the sky.

"Try and make us, pal! We've never been quitters, and we eat Digimon like you for breakfast!"

"A 02 Digivice-barer…? Mhuahahah! Very well. I've gave you fair warning, but you leave me no choice! I shall wait for your challenge above, DigiDestined!"

With that, a powerful blast of wind fluttered everything that was solid. Soon, from a top the towers, a thick layer of fog appeared visible, slowly poured from the roof and making way to the gang.

Tai grimed, adjusting his goggles. "Well, better suit up, Greymon!" Tai raised his Digivice again, focusing energy to Digivolve Greymon...

"STUPID!" until when Yamaki screamed to the world, punching the concrete rail of the bridge. "I never should've allowed children to interact with Digimon! What was I thinking?"

Takato and Davis snorted, ignoring Yamaki as they adjusted their goggles over their eyes for the digital field.

The man stood up and walked away towards Tai like he was drunk. But soon he stopped, glaring at the older goggle boy. There was something about this child that felt familiar...and that orange lizard of his...wait...it looked like the same Digimon he saw under the Heighten View Terrance files. Though before everyone thought it was a terrorist attack, but thanks to the findings a video tape they found in a man's apartment, named Oikawa who mysteriously disappeared before the Rainbow Bridge incident (A/N: Digimon movie 4), Hypnos discovered that it was indeed Digimon. It was a giant bird attacking a creature who looked just like this one, and using advanced editing technology, they seen a small eight year old child with large hair and goggles with a four year old female tending to the beast.

That tape shown Digimons' first walk on the human world, but it was still unknown how they got here or who those children were twelve years ago. Sometimes Yamaki believed that those children were responsible for Digimon existing in the real world...but...this young man...the large hair...the goggles...the orange dinosaur...can it be...? Is he the same child, the very one who caused this mess? Yamaki mentally compared Tai to a vision of that young child he saw on the tapes.

-

HE IS THE ONE!

-

With one swift motion, Yamaki grabbed on to Tai's collar and lifted his feet off the floor.

"It's your fault! YOUR FAULT THIS HAPPENED!" he roared.

Davis and Takato gasped at this shocking sight.

"Let go of him, psycho!" Davis screamed, but Yamaki continued so.

Suddenly, the earth violently moved under Greymon's foot. "Leave him alone!" he growled, showing his razor teeth to the man that he means business.

The man, with no fear, gazed at the eyes of the powerful monster. But thankfully, he let go of Tai. "You're not worth it." and he walked off.

At that moment, Rika and Henry with Terriermon finally appeared, around Tai area just in time to see the man release the college boy.

"Hey, who's the thug?" Rika asked, narrowing her eyes after the child abuse she seen.

"Trouble." Henry and Tai said.

Tai rubbed his neck, glaring at the walking man. "That...guy...belongs...In an asylum!"

Yamaki kept walking away in a drunken manner "You...ignorant...Digimon loving freaks!" he growled. "You and your disgusting pests; now look what you done!"

Terriermon stuck his tongue at the man. "That was rude, jerk-wad!"

-

(Play Trail of Blood from FF7 soundtrack.)

"Hey Kazu, are you jealous that Takato is a Digimon Tamer?"

Back in the park, Kazu and Kenta hung out, still trying to let the fact that Takato is a Tamer, even after when they saw him a few days ago with those Harpymons. They weren't their usual selves around Takato for days. They only played with him with little words then they take off.

Kazu forced a smirk, lying under the dino slide. "Me jealous of him? Ha!"

But then he and Kenta spotted a large fog with a strange hole floating high above the Tokyo Metropolitan.

"Whoa, what is that?"

-

Deep down in the western part of Shinjuku, a large crowd watches with question at the abnormal sight on the towers. But as she dug through the crowd, Jeri gasped at the sight. Whatever it was, it never was seen everyday, and after meeting Guilmon and knowing the existents of Digimon, she can only conclude that this has something to do with them, and...

"Takato!" she hurried through the crowd, hoping she can reach over to where she believes Takato is.

-

Back at the digital field, Takato, holding on to Guilmon who finally stopped from fading, and Davis and Veemon stared up at the large towers, where the threat was waiting for them.

Davis placed his confident face, removing his goggles off his eyes "So what are we waiting for, a decoration of independence? Come on, let's go get him!"

"Right!" Exveemon said, preparing to blast off.

Suddenly, the group flinched when they noticed a yellow blur dashing by and climbing on the buildings with great speed.

Takato spotted it and removed his goggles. "Renamon!"

"Don't go yet!" Henry shouted as he, Rika, and Tai caught up.

"Okay...what's up?" Davis asked as Rika checked the hologram screen on her D-Arc.

"Not you."

"I mean up there, kid!"

"So did I. Be quite."

Soon Renamon flipped up to the rooftop and stood on one knee as she then scanned the area for the mysterious foe. All she found was nothing but a stair shaft and pointy antenna things. No Digimon.

Where are you?"

-

"I don't get it." Rika carefully checked the visual screen from Renamon's point of view, but to her disappointment, there was nothing. "I'm not picking up anything."

"Huh?" Davis looked over her shoulder along the others. "Did the dude chicken out?"

"It doesn't make any sense." said Henry.

"It's a digital field!" Takato said, nervously. "There has to be a Digimon there."

"Wait...found him!"

The gang snapped close to her, seeing a visual of a winged tiger with Chinese armor.

"That's the guy...but I never seen a Digimon like that before." said Tai. "So what's the scoop about this one, Rika?"

Hey eyes blinked with impatient looks, shaking her head. "I'm not...receiving any data."

"Maybe it's broken." Davis suggested.

Exveemon looked over at the screen. "I never had seen that one before, Davis. What kind of Digimon is that?"

"Who cares?" Terriermon leaped off of Henry, dramatically staring at the core of the field. "What's it gonna do, bite me? We can take em!"

"Now you're talking!" Davis cheered, raising his thumb. "Let's go!"

"Wait, Renamon will handle this! I'll make her Digivolve if I have to!" Rika dashed off to the other side, skipping along the way to search through her cards. "Where is it...? Where's my Digivolve card! I know I have it here!"

He heard her, clearly. It would seem Rika is in a slight predicament...what was a Tamer to do to help a comrade in action...?

"Rika!"

The girl startled, stopping at her tracks.

Takato drew out a card. "You can use this card!" He tossed with all his might.

She wasn't expecting this; Gogglehead helping her out...after how she treated him? Oh now's not the time. Shaking out these thoughts, in slow motion, Rika grabbed the card and slid it through her Digivice.

"DIGI-MODIFY, DIGIVOLUTION ACTIVATE!"

(Play No Fear-Invincibility from SA1 or 2 soundtracks.)

-

(Digivolution)

"RENAMON DIGIVOLVE TOOO...KYUUBIMON!"

-

(Play Boss theme from FF10 soundtrack.)

The blue flames swayed away from the fox, revealing her new body. Now the yellow four legged beast was ready for battle against the large four legged jungle beast.

"How's about a dance, big boy?" launching ahead, Kyuubimon was surrounded by fury of blue fire. Soon she flew by, passing the tiger that also dashed by in the air.

Tai kept a steady eye on the battle on Rika's visual scanner. He'd seen the power of these Tamers' Digimon. Their strength in their Rookie level was as powerful as a Champion level; he still couldn't believe Terriermon was able to deal such damage on Devimon when Angemon had a hard time fighting him. They were as powerful as Agumon is now after an adventure they had after Armageddonmon. There was something about these Tamers that were different from the DigiDestined.

But he's not sure if they're ready for this Digimon.

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"FOX TAIL INFERNO!"

Kyuubimon straightened her tails and launched her blue fireballs. She watched as the shots took direct hit...but the tiger didn't flinch nor received burns on its skin. With such speed, the tiger dived in and crushed the floor when Kyuubimon barely avoided the attack.

The vulpine Digimon ran a safe distance and u-turned around, firing more fireballs that blew in powerful explosions. The Champion stood still, waiting before the large smoke screen to see the results. The wait burned her heart, preying that her foe was at least damaged...

And after blowing away the smoke...the tiger is still unscathed!

I don't believe this!

"SAMURAI TIGER TAIL!"

Barely noticing, a large striped nunchuck hurtled upon her and almost slammed into Kyuubimon, but after smashing a deep crater on the floor, the force blew Kyuubimon right off the roof.

"Kyuubimon!" Rika cried.

Suddenly, a large dark blur soared over the roof, taking the tiger by surprise. Following it, a beautiful angel with a tight white dress, long golden hair, and metal plate over her face came, dropping Kyuubimon off.

"Did we miss anything?" a male voice shouted, belonging to a giant hawk with horns on its head that soared above.

"Looks like the battle just started, Aquilamon." said the angel.

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Aquilamon: Giant Bird Digimon. Nicknamed 'The Giant Eagle of the Desert'. Nothing can hide from its keen eyesight. It can fly at the speed of sound if it can at its fullest potential.

Type: Data

Stage: Champion

Attacks: Blast Rings, Grand Horn

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Angewomon: Holy Angel Digimon. It scours the heavens of the Digital World, destroying any evil that threatens it. The rival of the LadyDevimon.

Type: Vaccine

Stage: Ultimate

Attacks: Celestial Arrow, Heaven's Charm

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Henry finished scanning the two new Digimon. "Looks like these new Digimon are on our side, but where did they come from?"

"Dude, they're ours, and…!" Davis trailed off when he spotted two familiar running up from the bridge. But one of them his sparkling eyes noticed the most, and he failed to control his emotions "Y-Y-Yolei! You made it!"

The violet haired girl stopped, surprised by this. "Well…you seem happy to see me."

Dammit! Davis' face heated up as he tries to make an excuse. "Well…uh… I was just surprised, cause I remember that you run as slow as my grandmother and…"

"WHAT!" Yolei lounged for the boy, but would've smashed him to the concrete if it wasn't for being held back by Kari.

"Hello, Digimon leading an invasion, remember?" Henry asked, getting back to the screen on Rika's D-Arc.

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"CELESTIAL ARROW!"

A pink arrow of energy blasted straight at the tiger Digimon, catching it in a smoke cloud. As Angewomon formed her arm back from a bow, Aquilamon then dived for the beast.

"GRAND HORN!" Charging his horns forward, he crashed right into the feline beast. But the tiger somehow withstood this from even kneeling down and fought against the forced strength of the bird. But the nunchucks, which were revealed to be the tiger's tail, slammed the eagle's head right on the floor and then after that, the cat used his tail to bat Aquilamon's body far away by the angel.

"Can you stand, Aquilamon?" Angewomon asked.

The Champion hawk struggled up to his talons. "Yeah…I'm still wearing to go!"

"Then let's end this!" Kyuubimon cried before leaping up to the air and curling into a flaming ball. "DRAGON WHEEL!" The fox unleashed a powerful stream of flame, shaped like a dragon that now flew in on the attack.

Aquilamon soared above, emitting energy in his horns. "BLAST RINGS!" And fired a ring shaped rays.

The two energy attacks nailed the tiger, bursting in exploding blasts of pink energy and blue fire. While that stunned the beast, a strong gust of wind emitted from Angewomon as she positioned herself like a cross, glowing in a holy aura for her most powerful attack.

"HEAVEN'S…!"

"SAMURAI TIGER TAIL!"

BAM! Before they knew it, Kyuubimon, Aquilamon, and Angewomon were all blasted out of the roof but being batted by the beast's tail.

All the kids and Digimon hung their jaws in surprise when they saw the female Digimon fly off the roof; even Kari and Yolei went pale from their face.

"Dude, he took out all three of them at once!"

"ANGEWOMON/AQUILAMON!"

Rika froze, watching the Digimon she just discovered as a friend being hurtled down like a rag doll. Kyuubimon….no!

From mid-air, the three Digimon de-Digivolved back to their Rookie forms, and Champion for Gatomon. Renamon was the first to fall splat on floor, behind the trees by the buildings. Rika's face paled even further.

Renamon…!

"GUYS!" the gang startled, and twisted around to find TK and Cody running up to aid their friends. Around that time, Exveemon caught Hawkmon and Gatomon.

"We've checked the Digimon with some binoculars!" TK warned as he and Cody rushed past them. "We'll try our luck!"

"It's our turn to smash some patooey, fellers! Yee-ha!" Armadillomon cried, running with his human friend.

For some reason, Terriermon felt heroic and dashed off with the TK and Cody. "I'm going too! That tiger's toast!"

This is one battle Henry can't talk out of, so there's no choice. Henry breathed hard as he drew a card. "Just be careful, Terriermon."

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(Digivolution)

"TERRIERMON DIGIVOLVE TOOO…GARGOMON!"

"PATAMON DIGIVOLVE TOOOO….ANGEMON!"

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(Armor-Digivolution)

"ARMADILLOMON ARMOR-DIGIVOLVE TOOO…DIGMON, THE DRILL OF POWER!"

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As the fliers took off, climbing the scales of the building, Gargomon charged up juice in his barrel guns and faced them on the concrete.

"GARGO LASERS!" And like the shuttles in NASA, Gargomon rocketed away, leaving the others to shield themselves from the hot gust.

"GO GET HIM!" Henry cheered, with his arms protecting his face.

Angemon and Digmon blinked in surprise of Gargomon shooting by them, up to the roof before they did.

"Look ma: a shooting rabbit on magnums!" Digmon joked.

Angemon rolled his eyes under his metal mask as he and Digmon soared up to meet their challenge.

Meanwhile, the gang moved to a closer location, where they tended to the fox Digimon on the crater. Rika kneeled besides her, hoping she'd wake up and not delete instantly.

"Renamon…?"

Renamon stirred, opening her eyes from her weakened body. "So strong…Ultimate…possibly…Mega."

Kari and Yolei embraced their Digimon tighter after hearing that.

"Don't talk." Rika softly warned.

Henry went back to his D-Arc and tried to scan any data on the tiger from Gargomon's eyes. "Nothing…there's just no data on this thing at all! We're fighting completely blind here!"

Tai clenched his fist, looking at the sky. "If Gargomon and the others can't handle this guy…then Davis and I are next! But from the looks of this…I'd say this Digimon is as strong as Myotismon; maybe stronger."

However, Takato has been keeping his focus on Renamon. His hands shook with the same feeling his eyes has been giving off. If…Kyuubimon couldn't handle this guy…what chance do we Tamers have now? I think that we're out of the Digidestineds' league, now.

-

Just like a fierce predator of the jungle, the tiger Digimon calmly circled around the three opponents, shoot deadly glares at them. Angemon, Digmon, and Gargomon steadied their guard and their sight at tiger, preparing for the beast's strike.

"-gulp-…okay…I'm petrified here, y'all!" Digmon gulped.

"Don't let him intimidate you," Angemon warned. "Just remain calm, and maybe we can quietly catch him by surprise."

But after a venomous smile from the tiger….

"HERE, KITTY, KITTY!" Gargomon panic and fired his guns at the Digimon like a mad man. Every shot nailed the cat, but it looked as if the lasers bounced off.

"That's quietly?" Digmon asked.

Angemon groaned, as he guarded himself with his staff. "Spread out!"

As Angemon and Digmon flew in different directions, Gargomon continuously fires his guns at the tiger, which still had no effect on it.

"GOLD RUSH!" But then Digmon popped out of the shadows in the air and launched his drill missiles, but they only blasted a chunk of the roof when the tiger flew out of the way from the other building back to the building the trio was on.

The feline soared in high speed, racing to the offense on Gargomon, when Angemon came out of nowhere and intercepted the beast with his staff to protect himself. Already experiencing the tiger's sheer strength, Angemon shot away from the beast, and soared away while the giant feline began its pursuit.

"Hang on, y'all!" Digmon cried, hurtling for the feline. "GOLD RUSH!"

Right as the rockets shot away, the tiger Digimon swung its tail, sweeping the rockets away, and smashing the bug Digimon in the process. Digmon uncontrollably flew off the roof, shedding away his armor until he was Armadillomon.

"Armadillomon!" Cody cried as Exveemon took off after the falling Rookie.

Things were getting too drastic. It looked like they had to resort to the big guns. With that planned, TK raised his D-3 up in the air. "Time to Digivolve, Angemon!"

As Angemon started to glow, Gargomon kept the beast busy by firing away. "I don't think I can hold back Tony the Tiger! Hurry it up, angel boy! This is not grrrr-ate!"

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(Digivolution)

"ANGEMON DIGIVOLVE TOOO…MAGNA-ANG!"

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BAM! Like a light, the tiger Digimon swooped up and caught the Digivolving Digimon with a hard Tiger Tail. The force smashed Patamon right back down to earth like a bullet, with Exveemon flying in just in time to catch the little guy.

"Hey, no fair; attacking while Digivolving! That's cheating!" Davis whined as TK hung his head and shook his fist in defeat.

-

And then stood Gargomon, alone, abandoned from aerial defeat, with no help, and with only but his glory against an almighty, huge, steel crushing tiger Digimon who was now gazing his predator eyes at the dog Digimon.

Oh he is so doomed.

"GARGO LASERS!" With no strategy, Gargomon continued his fire. He will not go out without a fight, and he will continue his never ending struggle for victory for his Tamer's sake...

And his guns ran out of ammo.

Aw nuts...he gulped, clicking his guns. All was lost and now he saw his doom and end come hammering upon him as the form of a tail. This will hurt verrrrrrry...

POW! Before he knew it, Terriermon was batted out of the roof.

"Terriermon!" Henry cried, watching his Digimon fly out the roof.

Takato felt his body incased in ice. His heart beat hard when he witnessed the power of this Digimon. Could this be...? Could this be that he actually thought this whole thing was a game? What is he thinking? Guilmon could get seriously hurt from this.

"That's enough; my turn!" Guilmon raced ahead, leaving Takato behind. "I'm gonna need a lot of peanut butter after this one."

Well there was no stopping Guilmon once he starts...and it looks like he, and Davis and Tai are the last hope. They may not win this, this may change Guilmon for the worse, but there's no choice.

Here goes nothing...with shaky hands, Takato slashed a card.

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(Digivolution)

"GUILMON DIGIVOLVE TOOO...GROWLMON!"

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Closing his eyes in sweat, Takato slashed another card. Good luck, boy.

With the modified wings, Growlmon climbed the height of the building towards his destination, passing by Exveemon who delivered the fallen heroes to their respected partners.

"Sorry I'm so late!" suddenly, the DigiDestined gasped at seeing Ken showing up with Stingmon, who dropped him off from his flgith. "Would've gotten here sooner, but that traffic was very stubborn."

"KENNY!" Yolei was the first to respond by throwing herself onto her boyfriend. "I missed you soooooo much!"

While this gagging moment was sought out, TK noticed some weird look Davis made that was...saddening. "You alright, Davis?"

Davis quickly shook his head. "Uh...yeah, I'm fine, TG!" he grinned with his award winning smile.

-

Once again, the tiger Digimon circled around his foe. Growlmon readied preparing his stance; ready to act as soon as he can.

As Henry told Takato, the tiger always circles around like a shark before it strikes...so...

"NOW GROWLMON! DO IIIIIT!"

The virus leaped ahead, charging at the tiger while it had its face away. "DRAGON SLASH!" With a fierce slash, it surprisingly made the tiger grunt in pain. "PYRO BLASTER!" And a powerful beam to the face was enough to even hear the tiger scream.

Henry blinked at the results on the vid-screen. "It looked like it affected him! Do you realize what this means?"

"Uh..." Takato blankly blinked.

"He's a data type! We might have a chance!" Henry cried, excitedly.

"Wait...how's that possible when the other Digimon couldn't make a scratch?" Kari asked.

"Growlmon is a virus type, and if he could hurt that Digimon, that means he's a data type, and data types are weak against virus types. As strong as this Digimon is, it seems he can't take virus attacks!"

Davis grinned at this news. "Alright, then let's keep Growlmon alive! Ken!"

The dark haired boy nodded, gently braking off of Yolei's grip . "Right…I'll have Stingmon help Growlmon. He's a virus type too."

"Yeah, but that tiger might blow both of them out of the water. We'll need a powerhouse to keep him busy, though."

"Alright, whatever you say." With that, Ken pointed, dramatically, at the rooftop. "Stingmon, IKE!" And his humanoid bug took off.

"Exveemon, IKE!" and so did the dragon.

(A/N: Ike: Japanese for go.)

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(DNA Digivolution)

"EXVEEMON...!"

"STINGMON!"

"DNA DIGIVOLVE TOOOO..."

The two soared high, flying around each other in a twister. Soon when they span around so fast, they burst into light before revealing themselves into one beast; a humanoid blue dragon with green armor almost like it was made from a Stingmon. It had two large machine guns on its belt and its face and it had a red pointy mask. Not only that, it has two pairs of wings, one made from its blue skin, and the other is white and insect-like, but dragon shaped.

"PAILDRAMON!"

-

"Take that Digimon out!" Ken shouted.

"Paildramon, show him what time it is!" Davis cheered.

Moments after the fusion, Paildramon made it to the roof, just in time to see Growlmon already beaten to his knees. The tiger sensed his new foe and snarled at the fusion Digimon.

"Alright, kitty...!" he said in both Exveemon and Stingmon's voice and continued an action phrase that would do Gatomon proud... "I'm gonna show you that big kitty litter in the sky! DESPERADO BLASTER!"

Grabbing his guns and aiming at the tiger, Paildramon fired away like a war solider. The feline Digimon swayed its head away, as if the shots were harming him, but it then braved through, tackling the bug-dragon Digimon to the side of the building.

"STING STRIKE!" A blade drew out from his wrist and Paildramon thrust it towards the cat's head, but the winged tiger caught the blade with its teeth. The bug dragon warrior tried to pull out his blade, but it found the tiger's jaw incredibly strong.

"PYRO BLASTER!"

The flying tiger growled in pain after it felt a blast on the back. With a furious snarl as its back emitted smoke, it shot a look at Growlmon and zipped in after him, but Paildramon matched its speed and tackled the beast to the floor.

"Let's Digivolve Paildramon, again, Ken! Imperialdramon can probably take out this creep!"

The blue haired boy shook his head. "Unless we can get that Digimon away from the buildings, it's way too risky! Imperialdramon's size and power might destroy the buildings, and there are probably people in there. You don't want the same thing to happen to...?"

"Damn it, Ken; don't remind me! That was shocking what happened back in America! Even Mimi had trouble sleeping when she moved there, at least that's what Kari told me!"

(Important A/N: Forgive me for mentioning...that day...)

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(A/N: This chapter is for those heroes. God bless em!)

Getting everyone's attention, Tai smacked his fist upon his palm. "Alright, we'd waited enough. Greymon, you ready?"

"YO!" the mighty dinosaur roared.

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(Digivolution)

"GREYMON DIGIVOLVE TOOO...!"

His body grew in size, along with some red hair on his head. His brown skull face materialized and was replaced with a metallic one. Bits of his chest was eaten away, but was healed back with a cybernetic one, and so did his right arm, being replaced with a robotic one with large claws. Not only that, but worn out purple wings grew out of his back, now completing his transformation as...

"METALGREYMON!"

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Soon as MetalGreymon flew in to the battle field, the gang, minus the Tamers, gave Tai a worried look.

"Tai, are you sure about this?" asked Cody, with worry in his eyes.

"Yeah, Agumon gained a power increase like Gabumon after the Armageddonmon incident, so you..." TK said before being interrupted by Tai.

"I know, but it seems that this Digimon is as strong as maybe the Dark Masters. Don't worry, either we have Growlmon lay open a weak spot on that tiger to strike, or get him far away from the towers so to lay out the big guns. We have him on the run, either way."

Davis smiled, pleased at Tai's brilliant plan. "Yeah, good one, Tai!" But his eyes caught on Takato, who was shaking like a leaf. "Takato, you okay?"

Takato shook, hanging his head on the D-Arc's vid-screen. "Y-Y-yeah...I am."

Deja vu...this reminds him of how Ken and the others felt when facing MaloMyotismon. They couldn't fight when they were scared. "Takato, you're shaking. Dude, you're in no condition to fight."

Takato violently shook his head. "No, you guys need me to help...a-a-and I'm not gonna let fear stop me!"

But as Takato forced himself to be brave, Rika looked at him, throwing concerns from her eyes. What's eating him? He's been like this for a while now.

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Entering the ring, MetalGreymon tackled the tiger with his horn, shoving the winged beast a good distance from Growlmon. As the red virus gathered his gatherings, he automatically scanned the two Digimon.

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Paildramon: Dragon Man Digimon. This loyal Digimon fights with all its strength to protect its master. This Digimon inherits strong points of power, speed, and defense.

Type: Data

Stage: Ultimate

Attacks: Desperado Blaster, Sting Strike, Cable Catcher

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MetalGreymon: Cybrog Digimon. A Greymon remade with mechanic technology. The perfect war weapon, capable of destroying city blocks.

Type: Vaccine

Stage: Ultimate

Attacks: Giga Blaster, Metal Claw

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"You okay, buddy?" Paildramon asked the red virus.

"Yeah...cept from my growling tummy."

"No problem, we'll protect you while you lay waste on that kitty!"

Smiling, Growlmon stood up, ready to fight. "Right! Go get him!" and he charged along with Paildramon. "PYRO BLASTER!"

A blast nailed the tiger's shoulders, making it grunt in growl from the pain. While it was staggered, Paildramon laid a Sting Strike, stabbing the tiger's neck. The fusion Digimon lifted the cat and tossed it high into the air.

"Hurry, MetalGreymon!"

While the tiger was airbrone, MetalGreymon opened his metal chest, revealing two giga missiles. "GIGA BLASTER!" He fired the missiles away up high, which crashed into the beast and engulfed it in a huge blast that spanned past the width of both buildings.

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"Whoa, did you see that?"

Far from the Tokyo Towers, a small crowd watched the fight from a concrete ridge in the park. Along with these citizens were Kazu and Kenta watching it with binoculars.

"I can't believe it, a Paildramon and a MetalGreymon duking it out against some tiger Digimon, and I have both of those cards!" Kazu stated with glee.

Kenta swiped the binocular and took a look. "Hey, I never seen that red Digimon before."

"Dude...I think that's chumely's Digimon."

After staring at each other with silence, the two boys raced away.

"That's our Takato! We gotta check the action!"

"Kazu, slow down!"

Just then, Jeri finally made it to where Kazu and Kenta were, but she noticed that they were gone; running up to the towers. "Kazu, Kenta, wait up!"

However, deep in the woods, an aura lurks in the darkness; a red aura shrouded in intense flames.

It's happening again...I gotta find out...why this keeps happening to me. A streak of fire then rocketed out of the trees, soaring into the night skies.

-

Back on the towers, MetalGreymon, Paildramon, and Growlmon waited from the intense moment as they gazed at the large smoke cloud created by MetalGreymon's attack to be ready for the tiger's next strike.

"How long has he been up there, and what's up?" Paildramon asked.

MetalGreymon shrugged. "You got me, but I just hope my attack done more help than we hoped. Vaccines aren't much against data types."

"I just hope this will be over soon. I'm hungry for peanut butter bread."

"Don't you put cherry jelly with it? It tastes sweet." MetalGreymon asked, until he gasped when he heard a gust.

As it seems, the tiger Digimon cut away the smoke with the force of its wings. A few burnt marks covered his fur and small openings were shown from Growlmon's attack that dug through its skin worse than MetalGreymon's attack did.

However this time, the tiger was surrounded by a number of purple flames.

"What's with the fire show? Is this his other attack?" Paildramon asked, preparing his guns.

The flames slowly progressed away from the winged tiger. The bug dragon narrowed his eyes when he saw the flames taking shape.

"Forget this! Someone has to disobey anime rule #4572! DESPERADO BLASTER!" he shot away his blasters, but the tiger Digimon launched away high, avoiding the shots.

(A/N: Anime rule Number 4572: Just wait like an idiot while the enemy readies an attack.)

But after that action, the flames morphed into human shaped crows protected in purple chest armor, wearing white pants and a purple mask, and armed with two golden blades.

"Digimon! They turned into Digimon!" cried Paildramon.

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Karatenmon: Demon Man Digimon. This crow tengu lives in forests and are mostly master of wizardry if trained well. Low classed ones are usually foot soldiers for a higher power.

Type: Virus

Stage: Ultimate

Attacks: Ballistic Feathers, Crow Swords

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Studying from the stats Takato's Digivice gave, Henry made a conclusion. "It summoned foot soldiers from where it came from. They must be the low class ones. They might give us trouble by their numbers, especially for Paildramon since he's a Data type."

"Aw nuts." Davis and Ken muttered.

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The crow Digimon spread out, flying everywhere around the three Digimon like flies. Some of them attacked by firing a barrage of feathers from their wings, which was their Ballistic Feathers, taking hit on MetalGreymon who defended himself with his metallic parts. Paildramon and Growlmon fought back with their blades against the Karatenmons'. But soon, both Growlmon, the shortest one of the trio, and Paildramon, the middle tallest one, were blown away from the force of the tiger's tail that pierced a crater on the floor.

"How shall we dispose of them, Master Mihiramon?" one of the tengus asked.

The tiger, finally called Mihiramon growled. "Fool...by any means necessary on the Ultimates. The red traitorous Digimon is mine!"

Obeying, the crows went on the pursuit, tackling both MetalGreymon and Paildramon. That left Growlmon on the open, all alone against Mihiramon, which Takato breathed hard, knowing that his Digimon is in trouble.

"I would wonder how those two friend Digimon Digivolved at the level they are now, but then again, they are from Azulongmon's realm; nothing that concerns my proud world. You on the other hand are different from the DigiDestineds', along with the Kyuubimon and Gargomon! You three are from my world. You should join alliance with us, and we can dispose the wretched humans and claim what is ours! Do I have your agreement?"

Now what would a Digimon, who loved his Tamer like he was his mother, who was given as much bread and peanut butter as he pleases, who fought along side his best friend would say to this?

"PYRO BLASTER!" Shooting a fireball, he nailed a shot on Mihiramon's face. "NEVER!"

-

Come on, it was obvious.

-

Negotiation didn't work... "TRAITOR!" so it's back to the mauling. Mihiramon rocketed with fury upon the red dino while Growlmon charged ahead, about to attack with his Dragon Slash.

"Growlmon, NO!" Takato cried, gripping his device as he watched the vid-screen.

But Mihiramon's jaws caught the virus's arm and were in the process of crushing it. Growlmon screamed loud, feeling the pain sink down through his body; it even was starting to delete him.

Like being squeezed by a blood pressure belt, Takato felt something in his right arm...as if he was feeling Growlmon's pain. He uneasily breathed as his face boiled up and sweated. He dropped his cards and D-Arc, right as it finally shown stats on Mihiramon, and Takato dropped to his knees.

"Takato, are you okay?" Kari asked with concern.

However the boy said no word but breathed hard, like he was suffering a sickness or something, and he kept his hand on his arm. Kari and Yolei knelt down and tried to see what was wrong with him.

"Where's Joe when you need him? I think Takato's coming down with a fever." Yolei warned.

Tai groaned, covering his face. "That's a doctor in training for ya; there's never one around when you need one."

"GRRRRAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"

But soon, the kids, minus Takato, and the Digimon who recovered shot up as they heard a scream from above. Up in the sky, they group saw a streak of fire soaring to the buildings.

"That's...not a comet, is it?" asked TK.

"No I think it's a Digimon." answered Cody.

"WILDFIRE TSUNAMI!" BLAM! They then watched an explosion coming from the roof it hit, like a volcano erupted.

"What was that?" asked Kari to her brother.

"Hang on." Tai closed his eyes and gripped his digivice. Gennai once taught the DigiDestined how to use their Digivice to see and hear what their Digimon see or hear; an ability similar to the D-Arcs vid-screen, but with a spiritual process.

MetalGreymon, while fighting the Karatenmon, saw a new Digimon that tackled Mihiramon with unbelievable power. He looked similar to WarGreymon fused with a Birdramon, and was coated in fire.

Mihiramon kept the new Digimon at bay with his back. "Who in the bloody hell are you? I've never seen such a Digimon before!"

The fire Digimon chuckled as he kept shoving the tiger. "You can call me Vritramon, pal!"

(A/N: The Japanese name for Burning Greymon. I thought I'd keep their Japanese names for their Beast forms…-snicker-...reminds me of Beast Wars.)

"Very well...Vritramon...I shall enjoy smiting thee!"

Quickly, Mihiramon swooped away and stood hovering at the air. Vritramon joined in, and aimed his arm guns at the tiger.

"PYRO BARRAGE!" he fired them like machine guns, blasting upon the tiger.

However, it did slow down Mihiramon, he still remained strong and rammed through the fire. "Prepare for deletion, creature! ARMOR TIGER TAIL!" The tip of his tail sharpened and shot upon Vritramon, which caught it before it touched his skull.

"Fool, I've now sensed your type. You are part of the new types called Variables, a type that camouflages the type of Digimon they near, meaning you are now Data as I. You are still no match for me!" Shoving him away, Mihiramon then rammed Vritramon through a stair shaft and smashed it apart. Soon when the dragon crawled out of the rubble, the Karatenmon pinned him down.

"Hahah! You are a fool to involve yourself in matters that are not your concern! Now you shall face your consequences..."

BAM! Mihiramon slammed his tail and forced Growlmon to crash back on the floor.

"Like this fool! Hahahaha!"

-

Now everyone eyed at Takato who grabbed his ribs and cried from the pain and coughed out a bit of blood. "I...can feel it..." As time traveled slow, Takato's body began to drop... "...it's over..." and slam on the ground.

"TAKATO!" Henry and Rika cried, shocked at what Takato's body did...

Lie dead on the floor, just like Growlmon, and waiting for their end.

(End music)

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(Play Dead people smile from FF10 soundtrack)

Everything...was gone...it looked almost dark in this purplish space...was he dead...and why is there so many clocks around...it's freakin annoying with all this ticking.

"Tamer..."

Takato, still gripping his arm, twisted around and found a familiar figure deep in the tunnel of hollow clocks. It was indeed Growlmon...but half of himself...was ripped apart and left with a shadowed area.

"Tamer...it's not over."

"Hey Growlmon, you're okay...!" Takato thankfully said...but he just thought of what Growlmon called him. "Wait...you don't recognize me...do you?"

"Of course I do...it just felt like the dramatic moment, doesn't it?"

"Yeah...but don't do that again."

"Sorry...anywise, you gotta let me fight again..."

"But I just let you."

"No, I mean 'you' gotta let me fight again; fight with me again."

"Huh?"

"You're fraid of making mistakes again. So we make mistakes again; no big deal. You just take those mistakes and turn them into cherry pie."

"Growlmon...I don't get it."

"I think I heard Veemon say that once...Takato...please help me...you're the only one who can."

Takato breathed hard, as if he was so tense. "I…can't…Guilmon, every time I help you, and Digivolve you, you become different, a bit."

"What do you mean?"

"Well…I just don't want to lose you. I don't want you to change into something that's beyond my control."

He wouldn't understand, but Takato thinks he does, after all the things he heard from Henry and Rika about their trouble with their Digimon. It was frightening when Gargomon went out of control, and that dispute Rika and Renamon had…she and Henry only tried to limit their abilities in order to protect them from themselves. What if Growlmon does act like Gargomon and he wouldn't be able to stop it? Or what if?

"Takato…I hope you understand that I need to fight and Digivolve. No matter how much I change, I hope you know that I'm still me. And the real me will always need his Tamer. You're the only one who can be that Tamer."

Wow…it was like yesterday when Guilmon was born, he acted like a little baby, but now he was seeing things that Takato couldn't. But did he meant by what he said…? He's the only one...but why is he still? He remembered...seeing Renamon...Terriermon...and all the others get pulverized by Mihiramon...it scared him...he never thought he would face someone so horrible...but he remembered what Sora said about Goggleheads a few days ago.

(Flashback)

"Rika will never change...she might have joined our side, but she's still rude. She even calls me a Gogglehead..." Takato laid on the grass. "I hate that name...makes me feel like she looks down upon me."

Sora smiled down on Takato, silently giggling, "Takato, that name is an honor to be called."

"What...?"

"Rika just doesn't know the true meaning; she thinks it's an insulting name...but it's not."

"O...kay...what does it mean, Sora?"

Sora gazed at the sky, breathing the air of the park. "It's a high class name for a DigiDestined...not because of they wear goggles...but the courage they hold. They are the most clear minded people of a DigiDestined team, which that make him or her special. A Gogglehead bares more responsibilities than anyone else upon him or her self, and everyone else, using that bravery. But it sometimes mean great pain with a love one, either Digimon or person...but that's the great task a Gogglehead must conquer...and once he or she do...then you become a true heart of the team. A DigiDestined crumbles without a Gogglehead. Tai...Davis...and sometimes TK bare that honor."

"What about TK?"

"I don't know...he's special compared to all of us, along with Kari...but there are some things TK lacks to be a full Gogglehead...but..." Sora playfully touched Takato's nose. "You are a Gogglehead because of the courage and friendship and hope you've shown us...and with those you keep, you'll never let anyone down...don't ever give that up just because everything looks bleak, got it?"

Takato nodded, nervously under Sora's look that almost matched Rika's. "Y-Yeah...you said 'her'...does that mean that there's a girl Gogglehead?"

"None that we know of."

(End Flashback)

How could he forget that? He was a Gogglehead, something that Sora pointed out as great honor and who holds a lot of courage, and he dishonored it. He played as a coward and it hurt Growlmon and everyone else. Sora was right, without a Gogglehead, a DigiDestined team crumbles, and as a Gogglehead and a DigiDestined Tamer, he must bring the team to victory.

"It's...ALL MY FAULT!" soon when Takato kicked himself in shame, the clocks zoomed by in great speed. "You wouldn't have gotten hurt because of me! I've been a coward, Growlmon, and I'm so sorry! But if you're willing to give me one more shot..." Takato cried out tears, reaching for Growlmon through the clock tunnels. "Then I have no choice but to take it! Growlmon!"

"Takato!" Growlmon reached out a hand.

"We will fight..."

Takato struggled through the force, reaching for his friend.

"...one more time..."

He was almost through. Just a few more.

"TOGETHER!"

He made it! He grabbed onto…Calumon's hand!

(Music scratches)

"GAAAAAHHHH!" Takato opened his eyes, realizing he's been holding onto Calumon. "Uh…hey, Calumon."

"….Did anyone ever tell you that you talk in your sleep?"

Just as he figured…it was all a dream. Soon, he found himself on the floor, with Henry and Rika looking down at him like he was in the hospital, and it seems that all the DigiDestined were there.

"Welcome back." Henry greeted with gratitude relief.

"You had us so worried there, Takato." Kari said, rubbing his hair.

"What a wuss, I can't believe you passed out like that." Rika said, but not with a cold tone…it was more like she was nervously laughing.

Takato blushed after that…though he should've gotten angry from the remark…but he knew that Rika didn't mean it…he guessed.

Suddenly, the group snapped up to an explosion coming from atop the buildings, where the great battle laid out. Tai, Davis, and Ken focused their Digivices to see what was going on.

MetalGreymon slashed his metallic claw, slicing the Karatenmon in half, but more kept attacking him like flies. Paildramon and Vritramon flew away from the birds, firing their blasters, but Mihiramon keeps swooping behind them, smashing their backs with his tail. Vritramon's Wildfire Tsunami attack always keeps missing the agile tiger, and he was returned with a tackle to the gut.

"Man!" Tai shouted, finished with the psychic vision. "Those Karatenmon are making things difficult! Even with that new Digimon, MetalGreymon and Paildramon are out numbered and open for Mihiramon to attack."

"So what do we do now, Goggle-leader?" asked Rika. "Those birds aren't making things easy for your plan-B, and plan-Growlmon went down the sinker."

Tai looked at Matt, and Sora. "We could go with MetalGarurumon and Garudamon, but their extra power might level the building…Dammit, if only we got Mihiramon away from the buildings!"

"Or if Growlmon was still willing to fight…" Cody added.

Tai sighed. "He and Takato did their best…we'll just have to try ours and…"

"No…!"

(Play Live and Learn, instrumental from SA2 soundtrack)

The gang blinked from that growl, which came from Takato who struggled to push his limped body up. "No…I haven't…finished yet…."

Kari knelt down, relaxing his shoulder. "Takato, you should rest…"

But the boy swatted away her hand. "We…haven't finished yet…Growlmon is still willing to fight…"

"Takato, we've checked the field; Growlmon is down for…" Ken too was interrupted.

"…and as long as he's breathing…I'll be right there by his side…"

Sora and Mimi would've jumped in to calm Takato down, but Tai held out a hand to stop them. He knew that Takato was never giving up; a power usually bested by a Gogglehead. Soon, the young boy reached in for a random card on the floor…which then turned into a blazing blue card that shined like the sun was drew out a force strong as the wind.

Takato blinked at the card, but later returned to his sudden strong face. "It's time to use the power that brought us here in the first place…!"

TK and the other shielded themselves from the light and wind. "What the hell is that?"

"Are you guys ready…? Cause we're gonna do this even if your not!"

Henry recognized what he was holding. "He's got the card!"

"If you're still wearing to go, then count me in!" Tai cheered.

"We're still standing! We can kick some kitty butt together!" said Davis.

Well, everyone seemed to have agreed, so what was Rika to do? "Okay…I'm with ya."

Takato grinned in triumph as he stood up. "That's more like it!" Like an epic warrior of a tale, Takato raised the card to the heavens, as all DigiDestined, Tamer, and Digimon stared at it like they seen the light.

"This battle has only just begun! GROWLMON, IKE!"

Unknown to anyone, Calumon felt the need to let loose some energy, and as the symbol on his head shined crimson energy, Calumon did. "CRYSTAL MATRIX, ACTIVATE! CULU!"

The light shined…the fight stopped…all heroes and evil stopped what they were doing when they saw a bright light shine from the middle of the field…the source…Growlmon.

Squeezing Vritramon with his tail, Mihiramon turned and saw the wounded dino standing, bathed in holy light. "WHAT…!"

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(Matrix Digivolution)

"GROWLMON MATRIX DIGIVOLVE TOOOO…!"

As if he taken lots of steroids, which are dangerous to use, Growlmon grew bulkier. A crimson beam scanned his body, suddenly giving him cybernetic armor as it passed through. He grew steel blades in his arms, as his claws turned robotic. His face was protected by a mask, covering his snout and chin, and the back side had bat wings. He also had thick chest armor with the hazard sign on the front, two cannons near his shoulders, and rocket thruster wings on his back.

"WARGROWLMON!"

-

(Now play the vocal version.)

A powerful burst of raw power blew all the Karatenmon and Mihiramon away from the roofs. MetalGreymon, Paildramon, and Vritramon didn't seem affected by it as they were still on the roof. From all digital eyes, even the flying ones that surrounded the out layer of the building, they saw a large, bulky dragon armed with high-tech weaponry and bathed in crimson energy.

Without any of their attention, Birdramon hovered a safe distance from the fight and studied it with her eagle eyes. With that, Sora was allowed to unleash a large hologram screen for the others to see what was going on.

"Our little boy has grown up." Said Henry, marveling WarGrowlmon.

"I'll give you that one." Replied Rika as Calumon passed out for some reason.

A success…Takato's Digimon proved that he still had what it takes. For this he can only say one thing, humbly, with the same words from the song that is playing…

"YEAH!"

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WarGrowlmon: Cyborg Digimon. The howling red demon dragon. A fully armed Growlmon that doesn't hesitate to go berserk. Its claws can cut through steal with ease.

Type: Virus

Stage: Ultimate

Attacks: Radiation Blades, Atomic Blaster, Double Edge

-

"Heheh…nice presentation…" growled the tiger. "But no one defeats Mihiramon! ATTACK!"

And the crow Digimon dives in on the prowl, continuing their rage on the four heroes.

"They're coming at us…" said Paildramon, whispering to Vritramon. "Any ideas?"

The bird dragon only gazed his pupils at him, before focusing on the enemies with… "YEAH! WILDFIRE TSUNAMI!" Bursting into flames, he unleashed it, and burned few of the Karatenmons to ashes.

"I like the way you think!"

And so, the three Digimon took off like solders of a war, charging at the crow Digimon while WarGrowlmon was left standing, savoring his crimson energy. MetalGreymon zoomed through, slashing the humanoid crows to bits with his Metal Claw, and he even crushed one under his jaws. Paildramon and Vritramon flew to their side, firing their blasters at the flying Digimon.

And WarGrowlmon just stood there.

"How were you able to Digivolve at this level?" Mihiramon asked, disgusted at the answer. "Don't tell me that human had something to do with it?"

"Yeah…so what?"

"…Then that process has disgusted me and all your kind in the Digital World, traitor." With that, the tiger swooped in for the kill.

"Tell it to someone who cares! This battle will end this and puts you right where you came! RADIATION BLADES!"

Before anyone knew it, Mihiramon and most of the Karatenmons were blown away from the roofs with a powerful gust of power from WarGrowlmon's blades.

This gave Tai's plan a chance, thought Takato. "WARGROWLMON, KEEP HIM AWAY FROM THE TOWERS! ALL THOSE PEOPLE ARE COUNTING ON YOU!"

"Right…!" activating his rockets, WarGrowlmon blasted away from the buildings, smashing upon Mihiramon before the tiger came back to the roofs.

Even with the Karatenmon trying to keep them bay, MetalGreymon, Paildramon, and Vritramon soared high, following WarGrowlmon and Mihiramon.

"We've got them on the ropes! Let's do it!" Paildramon cried.

"Piece of cake!" MetalGreymon gloated.

"…" Vritramon then fired his blasters.

Now the battle was up high above the city, near the Tokyo Towers, right in the night sky that was incased in the wormhole. A swarm of Karatenmons dived in on the heroes, spiraling like a tunnel where WarGrowlmon and Mihiramon were at the end. Paildramon charged forth, slashing the crows that came at him with his blades. Vritramon span like a twister, bathed in his Wildfire Tsunami attack, and destroyed the birds that stood in his way.

MetalGreymon though….

"Stand back, guys!" he growled, preparing his missile bombs.

"Uh oh…!" Paildramon dashed out of the way…but dragged Vritramon with him since he was just staring at what MetalGreymon was doing with confusion.

"GIGA BLASTER!"

BLAM! A gigantic explosion blasted high above the buildings, like a powerful firework.

Meanwhile, Mihiramon rapidly attacked with his tail, which WarGrowlmon tried to block all the shots with his blades.

"You deserve to be deleted for dishonoring our kind, traitor!"

Back on earth, Takato looked liked he was doing some kind of dance, grunting, while the others curiously watched him.

"Dude, you trying to do the Macarena?" asked Davis.

Rika looked at him with concern, though she tried not to show it. "Um…you don't look so good."

"I…I feel every hit…" It hurts so badly, like he can feel life tangling him up inside. Despite the pain, despite that he faced down on the floor, Takato refused to fall. "But I'm not gonna let that stop me…enough playing around!"

WarGrowlmon rocketed away from the tiger, then flew in pursuit, maneuvering the incoming Karatenmons with a spinning swoop. He shoved through some more, and even sliced them in two, till he gained closer to the flying tiger that hovered in front of the moon.

"Oh, so you wanna play with the kitty, aye?" Mihiramon straightened his tail as two Karatenmons tackled WarGrowlmon. "ARMOR TIGER TAIL!"

But the cyborg swatted the crows away and rocketed toward the feline. "I'm gonna take the tiger by the tail and make it into a floss!"

"I like to see you try! HAVE AT THEE!" He hurtled his sharp tail as two more of the crows dived in.

Gomamon swayed his head around, dancing to the music from the boombox he got from nowhere. "Everyone, sign along and cheer them off!"

With that, Armadillomon, Patamon, Palmon, and Gatomon joined to sing. "Live and learn! Hanging on the edge till tomorrow...!"

-

Sideways, Palidramon flew by the swarm of Karatenmons as he fired his guns as a war hero would, or a Rambo-wannabe would try. But the numbers overwhelmed him. It was hard to try to concentrate on one group while the other would take the opportunity to close in on him.

Palidramon eyes widened when he saw a group of winged birds aim the ends on their wings at him, which signals their feather attack. "Uh oh…"

"WILDFIRE TSUNAMI!" From below, a blast of fire eaten through the groups like a volcano just erupted under the winged beasts.

The fused Digimon caught a figure emerging out of the geyser of flames, which was their new mysterious ally, Vritramon. Palidramon grinned, even if he doesn't have a mouth, and gave a thumbs up. "Thanks for the save, hot-head!"

Tightening his fist, Vritramon responded with a nod. Luckily, the winged dragon had enough peripheral sense to fly away from the swarm of bird Digimon that nearly shot from behind. The Variable Digimon tumbled his back towards the fused Digimon as he aimed his guns towards his predators.

"PYRO BARRAGE!" Those guns shot rounds of fireballs at the swarm, which forced the Karatenmons to spread out a circle around the two Digimon.

"MEGA CLAW!" The large beast, that is MetalGreymon, appeared in the middle, and started bashing the small bird with his destructive robotic arm. The dino swung his arm in a windmill motion before hurling his claw away, like a fishing hook, which the claw was attached to a chain. MetalGreymon lassoed the bird Digimon and gave them a brief merry-go-round ride.

The orange beast hurled the group of Karatenmons high towards the clouds. As they were rocketing away, MetalGreymon aimed his chest at them, which revealed more bombs. "GIGA BLASTER!"

The bombs launched like rockets, chasing after the birds. BLAM, they went, creating a huge blast that expanded nearly half a mile square wide.

"Nice shot!" said Palidramon,

…but MetalGreymon stayed silent. The cyborg never made any celebration for the Digimon he kills. But what was done, had to be done. For a brief moment, he wasn't minding the new swarm that was circling him or his comrades. He was wondering how the other dragon-cyborg was fairing against the leader.

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"RADIATION BLADES!" with one swipe, WarGrowlmon sliced the Karatenmon in half, and then he charged for the tail, yielding his energized blades….rocketing and rocketing while the tail torpedoed through with a speed that can pierce through five battle tanks…

CLANG!

And WarGrowlmon sliced the tail in two.

"GAAAHHH! MY BEAUTIFUL TAIL! YOU SHALL DIE!" As he angrily dived in, his wings bathed in light. "WING BLADES!" Mihiramon successfully slashed WarGrowlmon as he zoomed by…

Making Takato feel the pain. Blood stained his shirt and dripped on his arm. This made most of the gang gasp in fright. Takato cringed at the pain, gingerly holding on to the shoulder.

"Your shoulder…!" Yolei warned.

Joe tried to tend to the boy, so he can work his medical know-how, but Takato refused.

Tai grimed, but felt concern for his young successor. "You sure…you can go through with this?"

Takato looked up with snarling teeth. "Oh yeah! I'm sure!" He knew that he had to keep his courage strong, for his energy is WarGrowlmon's source. He had to be strong for him while he's still breathing. "Let's take him out! Let's do it…together!"

Tai nodded, as Joe at least bandaged up Takato's arm. "Alright…Davis…Ken?"

The two boys nodded and raised their D-3s. "DIGIVOLVE NOW!"

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(Mega Digivolution)

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There's a face searching far, so far and wide

There's a place where you dreamed you never find

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"PALIDRAMON MEGA DIGIVOLVE TOOOO….!"

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Hold on to what if…

Hold on to what if…

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"IMPERIALDRAMON!"

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When Mihiramon slowed down, he went pale when he saw a gigantic dragon behind his swarming army of Karatenmons. It was huge; giant…it had blades on its legs, large wings and a large cannon on its back. And even MetalGreymon and Vritramon rode on his front legs while WarGrowlmon came out of nowhere and perched on top of the charging cannon.

"This is…gonna hurt." Mihiramon gulped.

"POSITRON…LASER!" BLAM! He unleashed a giant wave beam that burned away every single Karatenmon and even engulfed Mihiramon, forcing him to scream in pain as he tried to protect himself with his wings. But after the beam died away…

Mihiramon was still in tact, but was flying out of control from the force.

"Man, he's still alive!" Davis growled with disappointment. "Imperialdramon, give that loser another one!"

"WAIT!"

All eyes went onto Takato who stood stiff; hanging his head…he slowly raised his eyes at the hologram towards WarGrowlmon, with sweat gushing from his forehead. He'd dream of being a Tamer since he was so young, but he'd never knew the pain it would carry. But he'll never fall before the challenges to this very moment. If you'd begged or if you'd borrow relief to quickly end his troubles, or let someone else do it for him…you may never find your way. That is what Takato learned the hard way.

"As your Tamer…I say…FINISH IT!"

Those words hit WarGrowlmon like a ton of bricks, and once it did, the dragon warmed up his rockets. "Well if you say so…Tamer!" And he zoomed away from Imperialdramon, charging his shoulder cannons with crimson glow.

"Impossible! I cannot be beaten! I am a supreme warrior of the Digital World! It is unheard of for my find to be beaten by a low class Digimon!"

Takato growled, mentally hearing this. "Well buddy…You live and learn…too bad you won't live to learn this! Do it, WarGrowlmon!"

The energies were at full power for the cybrog. "You've been a naughty kitty…ATOMIC…!"

Takato continued the link. "…BLASTER!"

With it, WarGrowlmon launched a double crimson beam, powerful enough to level two city blocks, and slammed the beam right into Mihiramon who helplessly took the pain.

"GAAAAHHH! FOOLS! DIGIMON COULD'VE HAD SUPREME POWER OVER BOTH WORLDS…BUT YOU HAD TO RUIN EVERYTHING! NOOOOO!"

And with that, the beam tore his body in two before Mihiramon melted into data.

"Whatever." WarGrowlmon spat after he cooled down his blasters. He relaxed, watching the digital field proceeding to disappear.

(End song)

"Hey...where's the other guy? Don't we need him for the victory roar?"

(Terra's note: Matching the dialogue with the song…that has gotta be THE stupidest thing you've ever done since Happy, happy, Joy, joy.)

(Brock's note: NURSE JOY! WHERE!)

(Terra's note: Ug…men.)

The fight was finally done with. The four Digimon now had the chance to relax…and a helicopter flew over the area, observing the sight, thanks to Yamaki.

"I can't believe it! Those kids were actually able to defeat it!" He removed his shades, taking a close view of the four Digimon, while also seeing the fire one fly away like a streak of flames. "And all this time I thought they were playing that stupid game." As the copter flew away, the wormhole, and the digital field vanished. "This is gonna take some additional research."

-

(Play SA2 ending theme)

Meanwhile, Kazu and Kenta moved in closer towards the DigiDestined and Tamers as Imperialdramon hovered closer to the ground like a jet with MetalGreymon and WarGrowlmon on tow. Their eyes never stopped staring at the real live Digimon, the same ones they thought were just fake.

"Awesome!" Kazu squealed.

Kenta pumped his fist with excitement. "Those are some sweet Digimon there!"

Tai groaned after seeing the arrival of Kazu and Kenta as the jets from Imperialdramon still sounded. "Aw jeez, not more kids!"

Davis blinked at the kids. "Hey, you're the guy I battled in the arcades."

Kazu looked up at Davis. "Yeah…wait, you're a DigiDestined?"

"You bet! The Imperialdramon there is mine and Ken's."

Kazu froze right there as he thought out the recaps. "You mean…I was almost beaten…by a DigiDestined….? AW MAN! THIS IS SWEET!" He instantly shook Davis' hand like crazy. "Man, I'm your biggest fan! IT WAS AN HONOR TO BE BEATEN BY YOU, ALMIGHTY ONE!"

"Almighty one?" Uh oh, Ken and Yolei sensed something…yup, Cocky Davis mode. "Well I was always the greatest card gamer who ever…"

Luckily he was saved by Yolei's punch to the head. "Don't even start, dork!"

"HEY!" Soon, Jeri finally caught up, catching her breath. "Hey…wow…are those things really Guilmon and Agumon?"

Kazu smirked, finding the chance to show off his knowledge to the DigiDestined. "Amature…they Digivolved twice. That's Agumon's Ultimate form: MetalGreymon, and Guilmon's Ultimate form:….Uh…."

"WarGrowlmon." Cody answered the two year younger girl.

The young female scanned around the area, looking worried. "Where is he? Did Takato leave?"

Kenta pointed ahead for Jeri. "No way! A real Tamer never leaves his Digimon!"

"Huh?" Jeri gaped at where Kenta pointed, seeing Takato running up to WarGrowlmon who jumped off of Imperialdramon, and hugged his leg.

"You really rocked out there, chumley. Pretty cool!"

She was glad that Takato was alright after running about a mile to get to him. It was nice how he even cared for a giant creepy creature that was Guilmon, but still had his good heart. And yet right now, Takato looks…different…and…

"Uh huh…and cute." Kazu and Kenta gagged at that while Jeri stared at Takato with blushing cheeks and slightly dreamy eyes.

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"Takatomon…" the little Tamer halted his embrace and look up at his Digimon. "You are worthy…Tamer…thank you for fighting by my side."

He was confused. What did he mean by that? "I…didn't do anything…did I…?" He looked at the DigiDestined who gave him 'Oh really?' looks. "…well…except…trust you…and myself...I guess." Takato then shed some tears, hugging his Digimon's leg.

"That's what being a DigiDestined is all about, Takato." Tai said, patting the boy's back. "You proved some good stuff there, pal."

"Yeah, dude!" said Davis, coming up to the boy. "Nice work with the Digivolving. And without crests, too! That was something, pal."

Takato humbly rubbed his head. "Aw gee guys, enough. I can't take it."

"Oh please, you Goggleheads are supposed to enjoy all this glory," Rika came up and smacked Takato on the head. "I still can't believe you actually had your Digimon up to the ULTIMATE level …you're really are…uh….j-j-just crazy…you know that, Gogglehead?"

Tai, Davis, Sora, Yolei, and Kari crossed their arms with authority on Rika. "You have something else to share, Rika?"

The girl sunk her head, turning red. "And…uh…you… did alright, Gogglehead." Rika turned away, looking quite embarrassed.

This was a first. Takato never would've thought he lived to hear Rika…complementing him. He then grinned a bit. "You're…never gonna stop calling me Gogglehead, are ya?"

Instantly, Rika returned back to her cold self. "Of course not, Gogglehead! Why the hell you thought I'll stop calling you a Gogglehead, Gogglehead; because you saved the day, Gogglehead? You are a Gogglehead, always have been a Gogglehead, and you always will be a Gogglehead! You got that, Gogglehead?"

"That's a lot of Goggleheads for one paragraph. That's gotta be a new record."

"Terriermon!"

Takato froze there in time, blinking at Rika. The girl would've expected him to show a slight sadness…but instead…

…He warmly smiled.

"Good…don't ever stop calling me that."

Blankly, Rika blinked while hanging her jaw. "Huh?"

The boy then faced it back at Tai, Davis, TK, and Sora…the red head giggled, knowing where he was talking about, as thus the boys.

While Rika stood there, just gawking, confusedly, Takato hugged WarGrowlmon's foot again. "You know, boy…even though you do change when you Digivolve, you'll always be you."

The giant dragon nodded.

"Hey…you know…I wish I can Digivolve too."

Gatomon snorted. "Yeah right…humans Digivolving into Digimon. That'll be the day."

"You'll never know, Gatomon. Maybe I could become a real cool Digimon." The young Tamer climbed on WarGrowlmon's foot, and stretched his arms high like he scored a touchdown. "TAKATO DIGIVOLVES TOOO…MEGA-TAKATOMON!"

Most of the crew, like Tai, Davis, and Sora, applauded as Takato started dancing around like he was Godzilla. Those like Henry and Rika just stared at Takato with slight worry and embarrassment.

"You're weird, you know that, Gogglehead?"

"-laughs-…I know."

-

Deep away from the towers, Vritramon perched on a building, resting a bit. Suddenly, from a beam of light of an intense light post, a figure came up to the beast, with its scarf flowing along the wind. With no fear, it looked at the dragon with intense stares.

"It is…almost time." He said.

Vritramon nodded, glaring back at the towers with his new companion.

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End of part 7...

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