Age of characters
Takato Matsuki: Age 16
Rika Nonaka: Age 16
Henry Wong: Age 16
Ai and Mako: Age 7
-Meanwhile, within the Tamers world-
It had been over three years since Takato and his friends were able to defeat the D-Reaper, and six months after the renegade program had been neutralized Takato and his friends had saved Shinjuku again, that time from an army of Parasimon, and currently in Shinjuku Park, we find Takato and his Digimon partner, the kind hearted and always friendly virus-type Digimon, Guilmon, both lying on the grass deep in their thoughts, Takato was thinking about a particular red-haired girl while Guilmon was thinking of her Digimon partner.
It was after Takato had released Rika from Parasimon's control and saved her from losing her life on Locomon that he had started to fall in love with her.
However, he was unsure of his feelings, because there was another girl that he had felt he loved just as much as Rika, Jeri Nonaka.
Takato had known Jeri longer than he did Rika and he always had a crush on her in school, and his crush had grown stronger when he saved her from the D-Reaper.
He loved Jeri because she was sweet, gentle and just as beautiful as Rika. However, when he thought which girl he loved more, the answer came clear to him it was Rika, because in his mind Rika was beautiful, courageous, smart, strong and even though she could be bitter and antisocial at times, he knew she was a good person, and the more he thought about the love he had for the Digimon Queen, the more he realized that his crush on Jeri was just that, a crush, nothing more and it was after Henry asked Jeri out on a date, in which they became boyfriend and girlfriend shortly after, that any feelings towards her other than friendship were gone.
Takato was happy that the pair had fallen in love, and in turn Henry and Jeri wished Takato the best of luck when he would tell Rika that he loved her. However, because of her distant nature, it was hard for Takato to tell if Rika felt the same way about him, not only that, but he was afraid if he told Rika how he truly felt about her she would reject him, and in turn could ruin the friendship that took so long to create between them.
Meanwhile Guilmon was deep in his own thoughts and feelings of love, love for a certain fox Digimon.
During the events leading up to the D-Reaper invading Shinjuku, Guilmon had begun to fall in love with Renamon and to him Renamon was a strong and beautiful female Digimon and he desired her as his mate. However he was just like Takato and didn't know if Renamon felt the same way about him, so Guilmon asked Takato how to get a girl to like him in which his Tamer told him that most girls like things such as chocolate and flowers, however, when he ran into Ai, Mako and Impmon, who had moved several streets away from Takato's house some time after the events of the Parasimon attack, the bandana wearing Digimon explained to Guilmon that as a Digimon he didn't need to do all the things Takato had told him to do because he was a Digimon and the way a real Digimon would win Renamon's heart was by showing how caring, protective and strong he could be when it came to her and to make Renamon officially his, he should mate with her the second the opportunity arose. However due to his naive nature, Guilmon had to ask Impmon what mating meant.
Not wanting to explain such a mature subject in front of Ai and Mako, afraid that he could traumatize his young Tamers, Impmon told Guilmon that would be something he would have to figure out on his own, which he managed to do.
While rummaging through Takato's school bag out of interest of what he could find and/or eat, Guilmon found a book, which intrigued his curiosity.
As Guilmon read the book, which was about sexual education, the dragon of the hazard learned about the difference between males and females, although he had already observed changes between Takato and Rika, such as differences in their height, voices and chests. He could see that Rika's chest was bigger than Takato's, but thanks to the information the book gave him, the gentle, yet brave soul that was Guilmon learnt that Rika was a female and Takato was a male, and the way they looked and sounded was normal because of their gender, and because the Digimon Queen was female, she had breasts, while he and his Tamer didn't.
Guilmon also learned that the 'lower regions' of both male and female, whether it was human or Digimon, were different. While males had a penis, which Guilmon already knew about, as he had seen all the times he had used the bathroom, and would come out of it's protective sheath sometimes when he would think about Renamon, but learned that his body was reacting that way was because he was aroused by the thoughts of the vixen Digimon, and through the book, the red dragon learned how to 'relieve' himself of his arousal, while females has a vagina, and using their 'lower regions', a male and a female could engage in a pleasurable act known as sex, making love, or in Guilmon's case, mating.
However, as much as Guilmon wanted to experience the pleasure of mating with Renamon the red dragon was much like his Tamer and was afraid if he did try and express his feelings towards the fox Digimon there was a chance that she wouldn't feel the same way about him as he did her.
As both Tamer and Digimon continued to stare up at the sky, thinking about the girl of their dreams, their thoughts of love were interrupted when they saw Calumon smiling down at them, before he asked in a friendly and curious tone, "Hey, Guilmon. Hey Takato. What are you doing?"
"Oh. Hey, Calumon. We were just thinking." Takato replied, as he got up, followed by Guilmon.
"About what?" Calumon questioned with the same amount of curiosity as before.
Takato let out a small sigh, before he told Calumon. "It's not important."
"Oh." Calumon replied, before he smiled and asked happily. "In that case, wanna play with me?"
"Sure thing." Guilmon replied some time after Calumon had asked his question, as a smile appeared on the virus Digimon's face. Takato nodded his head in response, as he smiled too, which made the enthusiastic Digimon jump for joy, before he happily skipped through the park, as Takato and Guilmon followed him.
As Takato and Guilmon followed their joyous friend, Calumon began singing, making up the lyrics as he continued to skip. "I get to play with my friends today, to that I say hip hip hooray! We'll play all day and all night cause there's no bad Digimon left to fight. To the left of me is Guilmon, and just like me he's tons of fun. Then there's Takato on my right. He's smart; he's tall and very bright. Both my friends they each have flare, and I'm still not wearing underwear!"
As the trio continued to travel through the park, Guilmon stopped when he picked up a scent that reeked of darkness, which caused his eyes to narrow into a slit shape, as he began to snarl, which caused Takato to ask his Digimon partner in a curious and worried tone. "What is it, boy?"
"I smell something bad coming." Guilmon replied, as he got into a crouching position.
"Is it a scary Digimon?" Calumon asked in a nervous tone, as he hid behind Takato's left leg, afraid that a Digimon would Biomerge from the Digital World, and would attack them, but he felt some safety knowing Takato and Guilmon were by his side and would protect him.
"Not a Digimon, but something from another world." Guilmon replied. Takato got out his D-Power and readied his Digimon cards, for whatever this new danger was.
"I see your sense of smell is as sharp as ever, Guilmon." A male voice that dripped with evil complimented, before the owner of the voice shot past Takato, Guilmon and Calumon on a white motorcycle that looked like it was from the future, before the motorcyclist brought his vehicle to a halt with a 180 degree spin and faced the three of them a fair distance away, revealing his masked face to them, as the masked man then commented drolly. "It's a shame the same can't be said about that tiny brain of yours."
"Who are you?" Takato questioned, as he wanted to know just who exactly the masked man was and how he knew about Guilmon.
"That's none of your business, Takato Matsuki, leader of the Digimon Tamers." The masked man replied, which shocked Takato that this stranger somehow knew about him, but before Takato could ask any more questions, the masked man pulled out a blank card from the unusual looking device that was attached to his right arm and told Takato, Guilmon and the still cowering Calumon. "Now it's time to get what I came here for."
"You can forget it!" Guilmon growled out, as he got in front of Takato and Calumon, before he told the masked man in an aggressive and determined tone. "I won't let you take Calumon for whatever evil you need him for!"
Upon hearing Guilmon's statement, the masked man began to laugh in a sinister way, which confused Guilmon and sent a chill through Calumon's entire body, before he stated. "While I admit Calumon's ability to Digivolve those around him is impressive, it isn't him I seek, it's you!"
It was then the blank card shot out a blast of dark energy that headed straight for Guilmon, but with great haste, Takato withdrew a card from his Digimon deck before he exclaimed, as he slid the card through his D-Power. "Digi-Modify! WarGreymon's Brave Shield Activate!"
After Takato had finished swiping the card through his Digivice, the same shield that would adorn WarGreymon's back appeared before Guilmon, protecting him from the dark energy. However, what happened next both shocked and confused the Tamer and Digimon, as the Brave Shield began to shrink, until it had completely vanished and then the dark energy withdrew back into the blank card, only now the card had an image of the Brave Shield on it.
"How dare you interfere with my plan, Matsuki!" The masked man exclaimed in an ill-tempered tone, as he tossed the Brave Shield card away, seeing no use for it.
"How dare you try using that card trick on my best friend!" Takato replied angrily, before he ordered his best friend. "Guilmon, show him what ya got!"
Normally Takato would never order Guilmon to attack a human, however the leader of the Tamers believed that the masked man may look it, but in truth wasn't human and knew he had to be stopped before whatever sinister motives he had in store for Guilmon could be enacted.
"Pyro Sphere!" Guilmon exclaimed as he launched a concentrated blast of fire from his mouth at the masked man. However, before his attack could make contact, the masked man placed a card on the strange device on his arm, in which a large dragon Digimon encased in dark red armor, wielding gold colored cannons and a set of large orange wings on his back appeared out of nowhere before the masked man and protected him from Guilmon's fireball, as the fire blast hit the Digimon and did no damage whatsoever.
'Where did that Digimon come from?' Takato thought to himself in a shocked tone, before he tried to use his D-Power to analyze the unknown Digimon, but to his shock, his D-Power was unable to register any information about the masked man's Digimon.
"If you're trying to retrieve information about my Digimon on that D-Power of yours, you can forget it, because BurningGreymon doesn't come from your Digital World." The masked man stated, before he placed another card on the mysterious device and exclaimed. "Neither does this Digimon! Rise, GeoGreymon!"
Takato, Guilmon and Calumon could only watch as a second Digimon appeared on the right side of the first Digimon known as BurningGreymon. Takato noticed that the new Digimon, GeoGreymon, looked a lot like Greymon, except the Greymon look-a-like had a spike coming out of each shoulder and had red markings that covered his helmet.
"Now Guilmon we can do this the easy way or the hard way. And I promise if you surrender yourself I won't harm Takato or any of your friends." The masked man told Guilmon, before he added in a dark tone. "For now."
"Never! Pyro Sphere!" Guilmon exclaimed, as he fired another fireball from his mouth at the masked man, but just like last time the masked man remained unharmed, as GeoGreymon had blocked the spherical blast with his right claw, leaving a tiny singe mark where Guilmon's attack had hit.
"You are a determined Digimon, Guilmon, but it's going to take a lot more than your Pyro Sphere attacks to even damage my Digimon." The masked man stated, before he added in an arrogant tone. "And face facts, even if you do Digivolve, you're still outnumbered two to one."
"Not anymore he isn't!" A familiar female voice called out, before she exclaimed. "Digi-Modify! Megadramon's Claws Activate!"
It was then Renamon dropped from the sky, thanks to her ninja-like stealth and agility and landed beside Guilmon, who was happy to see her and noticed that her arms, just below her elbows, were encased in thick metal, while her paws had been replaced by giant claws, resembling Megadramon's claws.
"Dark Side Attack!" Renamon exclaimed, as the claws opened up, and each claw launched a missile at the two Digimon protecting the masked man, which caused both BurningGreymon and GeoGreymon to roar out in pain as the missiles exploded upon contact with their intended targets, which infuriated the masked man.
"Curse you, Nonaka! I should've known you and your Digimon would show up where you aren't wanted!" The masked man thought to himself bitterly, as he was getting sick of the good guys showing up to stop his plans.
"Takato!" Rika called out. Takato turned around to see the Digimon Queen running up to him, and as she did, she pulled two Blue Cards out of her Digimon deck and tossed one to Takato, which he managed to catch.
"What're you waiting for, Gogglehead? Use that to Digivolve Guilmon, so he can actually fight back." Rika told Takato in an impatient tone.
"Right." Takato replied before he and Rika both called out as they swiped the Blue Cards through their D-Powers. "Digi-Modify! Matrix Digivolution Activate!"
"Guilmon Matrix Digivolve to...WarGrowlmon!"
"Renamon Matrix Digivolve to...Taomon!"
After Guilmon and Renamon had reached their Ultimate levels, Rika asked Takato in her usual serious tone. "Takato, while Taomon takes care of the Greymon doppelganger you think WarGrowlmon can handle the other one?"
"We'll try our best." Takato told Rika in a determined tone, even though Takato was the leader of the Tamers, he didn't argue with Rika, because when it came to orders Rika was better at giving them and then the determined Tamer asked WarGrowlmon. "Right, boy?"
"Right." WarGrowlmon replied, as he braced himself for a fight against BurningGreymon.
"You'd better, because I don't want to have Taomon to save your sorry butts if you can't beat him." Rika told Takato and WarGrowlmon in her usual tone, as Taomon prepared to face off against the orange behemoth that was GeoGreymon.
"So you both want to fight? Fine then. But let's make this quick. I have places I need to be." The masked man told Takato, Rika, WarGrowlmon and Taomon before he thought to himself. 'And knowing Takato's friends, they're bound to show up sooner or later and further delay my plan.'
"BurningGreymon, GeoGreymon attack!" The masked man commanded. Both Digimon each let out an aggressive roar before BurningGreymon charged at WarGrowlmon and slammed his right fist into the left side of the android dinosaur's head, which was followed by a barrage of punches, but due to the Chrome Digizoid that adorned the lower half of his head, as well as his literal thick head BurningGreymon's punches hurt, but had very little effect.
It was then WarGrowlmon quickly brought up his arms to defend his head, which stopped BurningGreymon's assault, as the Pendulum Blades attached to WarGrowlmon's arms would slice his hands in half if he punched them, so BurningGreymon jumped back, activated the Rudri Tapana on each arm and exclaimed loudly. "Pyro Barrage!"
As BurningGreymon launched fireball after fireball from his cannons, WarGrowlmon quickly uncovered himself before he exclaimed as he countered the onslaught of fireballs by releasing blasts of nuclear energy from the gun ports on his chest. "Atomic Blaster!"
However, as the combination of fire and radiation clashed against one another, the energy radiating from each attack grew unstable and resulted in an explosion, which hit both WarGrowlmon and BurningGreymon, causing a fair amount of damage to each of them and knocking them to the ground.
Meanwhile, with Taomon and GeoGreymon's battle, it looked as though the mystical vixen had the upper hand against the dinosaur.
"Mega Flame!" GeoGreymon roared out, as he shot a wave of flames from his mouth. However, Taomon quickly countered with one of her incantations.
"Talisman Spell!" Taomon called out, as she summoned a sphere of magical energy that protected her from GeoGreymon's fire breath, but the same couldn't be same for Takato and Rika, as a portion of the conflagration ricocheted off Taomon's mystic shield and went straight of the Tamers, but acting quickly Takato tackled Rika to the ground as the inferno narrowly missed them, saving himself and her from the blaze.
"Rika, are you alright?" Takato asked in a concerned tone.
"I will be once you get off me, Gogglehead." Rika replied in her usual tone, but there was a part of her that questioned herself as a small blush appeared on her face, which Takato failed to notice as he got off Rika, before he took her hand and helped her up. 'That's twice Takato saved my life, but I don't understand why he does it and what was that strange feeling I had when Takato was on top of me before?'
But before Rika could think further about the strange feelings she was experiencing, Takato interrupted the Digimon Queen and told her. "Rika, I think it would be a good idea if we moved back."
Agreeing with Takato, Rika, Calumon and her leader moved a safe distance away from the battling Digimon, as most of the attacks they had witnessed were highly destructive and could easily kill them if they weren't careful and stayed too close.
Back to the fight between Rika's ever loyal Digimon partner and the masked man's Greymon doppelganger, GeoGreymon had ceased his fire wave as he could see the scorching blaze had no effect on Taomon's magical shielding.
"Horn Impulse!" GeoGreymon exclaimed in a tone full of fury, before the dinosaur Digimon charged at Taomon. However the fox sorceress quickly deactivated her protective shield as she knew even though the flamethrower attack had failed to break through, it had mostly likely weakened her shield and the sharp horn on top of the tyrannosaurus Rex's head most likely had the capability to break through the barrier, impale her and end her life.
Not planning on letting that happen, Taomon leapt into the air before she stretched out her sleeve-covered arms, aimed at the charging T-Rex and exclaimed. "Thousand Spells!"
Taomon then launched thousands of magical, red paper seals from her sleeves, which stuck to GeoGreymon and stopped the Greymon look-a-like in his tracks, as most of the seals stuck to his body, while a bunch covered his eyes, blinding the behemoth.
And when Taomon landed she activated every seal that was stuck to GeoGreymon's face and body. The result was an array of fiery explosions that in turn dealt serious damage to the dinosaur Digimon's body, though weakened GeoGreymon wasn't going to go down just yet, as the masked man had a trump card up his sleeve.
"It seems GeoGreymon is no match for Taomon." The masked man commented to Rika, before he pulled out an unusual looking device, which looked something like a white Digivice, and then told the Digimon Queen in a sinister tone. "But let's see how she handles herself against his Mega form."
It was then the screen began to glow with ominous black energy, and in turn GeoGreymon was shrouded by the darkness.
Taomon quickly withdrew the magical calligraphy brush that was stored within her sleeve, as she wanted to take down GeoGreymon before his Digivolution was complete and to stop the masked man from capturing Guilmon and using him for his evil agenda.
"Talisman of Light!" Taomon called out as she painted a mystical character of pure light energy in the air before her, which she fired at the silhouette of GeoGreymon, who had been undergoing some transformations from within the darkness, including what looked like a set of mechanical wings had emerged from the shadowed Digimon's back and what looked like a Gatling gun or a revolver had replaced his left arm. However, when the symbol of light energy struck the Digivolving dinosaur, the vixen sorceress was shocked to see her attack had no effect on the darkness that held GeoGreymon, and she could only watch as his transformation continued.
The horns on GeoGreymon's head shrunk as his body grew larger, as did his tail which gained a spiked ring at the end.
Thick spikes emerged from his kneecaps, while the cannon that adorned his arm shattered, leaving a massive arm which looked just like his right.
And lastly, the wings on his back expanded and transformed into an entirely different shape, making him a completely new Digimon, as shown when the darkness scattered off the Mega level Digimon. The masked man announced wickedly. "Behold, the Digimon that will be the instrument of your destruction. Behold ShineGreymon!"
Everyone, minus WarGrowlmon, who was still engaged in his battle with BurningGreymon, were shocked to see the transformation GeoGreymon had gone under, as he was no longer a dinosaur, but a dragon.
A dragon that had been encased in various colored armor from head to his sharp-clawed toes.
A gold colored helmet had replaced the brown helmet he wore as GeoGreymon, while gold colored gauntlets and leggings adorned his arms and legs.
White colored armor was now covering his legs and tail, which had a gold colored spiked ring at the end while the top portion of his body, including his chest and shoulders, had been encased in dark red armor, as a Columbia blue colored sphere was resting within his midriff.
And lastly to complete the transformation from dinosaur to armored dragon, the wings that had emerged from his back during his Digivolution had spread out, revealing they were dark red just like his chest armor, Columbia blue colored gems in a diamond shape had been adorned on the end of each wingtip.
"And now to show you what real power is!" The masked man announced, before he commanded his newly transformed Mega Digimon. "ShineGreymon, attack!"
"Glorious Burst!" ShineGreymon exclaimed as each wingtip fired a blast of energy, leading up to a total of twelve blasts, straight at Taomon, who in turn called out. "Talisman Spell!"
It was then the same shielding spell she had summoned before that had protected her from GeoGreymon's fire breath appeared around her at full strength. However, Taomon soon learned that her magic was no match for the destructive power that was ShineGreymon, as the blasts smashed through her shield, struck the foxy enchantress and due to the immense power of ShineGreymon's Glorious Burst attack, was severely injured and thrown back from the blast, until she slammed back first into a tree where she de-digivolved back into Renamon and fell unconscious as she landed on the grass.
"Renamon!" Rika called out in a mixture of concern and horror.
Back at the battle between WarGrowlmon and BurningGreymon, both had recovered from their unintentional explosion beforehand, but unfortunately for Takato's partner the opposing dragon was quicker than him, got to his feet and then surrounded his body in an aura of fire, before he roared out. "Wildfire Tsunami!"
It was then BurningGreymon launched all the fire off of his body, which WarGrowlmon was unable to escape and was engulfed by the scorching inferno. However, it would take more than a tornado of fire to bring him down.
"Radiation Blade!" WarGrowlmon exclaimed from within the blazing whirlwind before the android lunged out of the flames, using the thrusters that were attached to his shoulders and prepared to slash his enemy into pieces with his Pendulum Blades. However, BurningGreymon was quick to act and interlocked his claws with WarGrowlmon's, preventing Takato's Digimon partner from slicing him in half.
As the stalemate continued, it soon looked as though WarGrowlmon was going to defeat BurningGreymon as his arms moved slowly towards BurningGreymon's head.
However, just before WarGrowlmon could plunge his Pendulum Blades within BurningGreymon's head and end his existence, the Ultimate level Digimon was momentarily distracted when he heard Rika called out in a shocked tone. "Renamon!"
It was then WarGrowlmon turned his head and was just as shocked as Rika to see GeoGreymon had digivolved into ShineGreymon, who had just slammed his right fist into the ground before the Mega level dragon withdrew a sword as he pulled his hand out of the terrain and could see that he planned to use it to finish off the unconscious Renamon.
Determined to make sure the Digimon he loved wasn't taken out of his life, WarGrowlmon charged the gun ports on his chest with nuclear energy, before he exclaimed. "Atomic Blaster!"
WarGrowlmon then fired two radioactive energy blasts, which hit BurningGreymon dead on, causing the orange winged dragon to release his grip on WarGrowlmon's claws as he was knocked to the ground.
Now that his enemy had been temporarily taken down, WarGrowlmon activated his thrusters and shot towards ShineGreymon and the still unconscious Renamon as fast as he could, as he prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice for his love.
Back with ShineGreymon, the masked man's dragon Digimon gripped his sword in both hands and raised the sword behind his head as he prepared to finish off the unconscious Renamon.
As ShineGreymon shot his sword forward, Renamon came to, only for her vision to be filled with a sword coming straight for her and in her weakened state, the fox Digimon was unable to fight back or escape.
It looked like the end for Renamon, but everyone was shocked including the yellow-furred vixen, when WarGrowlmon got in between her and ShineGreymon, protecting Rika's Digimon partner at the cost of his own life as the blade pierced through his chest. Takato called out in a horrified tone. "WarGrowlmon!"
After ShineGreymon pulled his blade out of WarGrowlmon, Renamon's protector fell to his knees, as all his strength and energy left his body, before he closed his eyes, de-digivolved back into Guilmon and collapsed before Renamon, who could see that the kind virus Digimon was still alive, as he was still breathing and wasn't being digitized, meaning ShineGreymon's sword strike was severe but not fatal.
As ShineGreymon prepared to finish off the weakened Renamon and the unconscious Guilmon, the masked man interrupted and commanded both ShineGreymon and BurningGreymon, who had gotten up from WarGrowlmon's radioactive powered blasts. "Cease your attacks and come here."
Both dragon Digimon obeyed the masked man's orders and each stood beside him, with ShineGreymon on his left and BurningGreymon on his right.
It was then the masked man pulled out another blank card, which shot out a blast of dark energy which enveloped Guilmon, before the unconscious red dinosaur Digimon's body began to shrink, until he had completely vanished, quite quickly as he put up no resistance due to his state of unconsciousness.
"Guilmon!" Takato called out in shock, as all he could do was watch as the dark energy withdrew back into the blank card, only now the card had an image of Guilmon on it, shocking Rika, Renamon, Calumon and most of all, Takato, as he had failed to protect his Digimon partner and now the masked man had his best friend for whatever evil purpose he had in store for him.
The masked man broke the shock of the Tamers and the Digimon when he let out a wicked laugh, before he exclaimed triumphantly. "At last Guilmon, the third dragon and bearer of the Digital Hazard symbol now belongs to me!"
"Why...why do you want Guilmon so badly?" Renamon asked in a weak voice, while Rika helped her up as Takato and Calumon came to her aid and wanted to know what the masked man was planning to do with Guilmon as well.
"Even if I did tell you the purpose for Guilmon in my plan. None of you are going to be around to stop me." The masked man replied, before he ordered. "BurningGreymon, ShineGreymon, unleash all your fury and destroy them!"
"Wildfire Tsunami!"
"Glorious Burst!"
As the combination of bursts of light energy and the tornado of intense flames headed for Takato, Rika, Renamon and Calumon, a large dragon that seemed to be made of crimson colored energy appeared out of nowhere and absorbed the attacks, protecting the Tamers and the two Digimon.
"What the?! The Crimson Dragon!" The masked man said in a stunned tone, as the Crimson Dragon evaporated, revealing his old nemesis and his wife.
"Yusei, it seems our paths have crossed yet again. And I see you've brought friends." The masked man pointed out, as he could see Marcus, Yoshi, Rhythm, Imperialdramon and Lalamon, who were shocked to see that he has Agumon's Mega form under his control and the Legendary Warriors were with his old enemy too and were just as shocked, particularly Zoe, as they could see Yusei was right, and Takuya was now a mindless puppet of the evil being before them before the masked man pointed out as he displayed the card of Guilmon to Yusei. "But I'm afraid you're too late. I have what I came here for."
"What's going on, Paradox? How did you survive our duel and what do you want with these Digimon?" Yusei questioned.
The masked man, now identified as Paradox, replied in an amused tone. "As I told Takato and his friends before you arrived. There is no point in me telling you anything, as none of you will live long enough to stop me and nobody can stand up to the power of my Digimon."
"Think again!" A male voice that was only familiar to Takato, Rika, Renamon and Calumon called out, before he exclaimed. "Double Impact!"
It was shortly after two more voices exclaimed, which only the Tamers and their Digimon friends recognized. "Rapid Fire! Terra Force!"
Suddenly a barrage of explosives and a sphere of orange energy hit BurningGreymon and ShineGreymon, causing both dragons to roar out from the pain, before they collapsed to their knees, as all the damage they had taken beforehand, combined with the onslaught of explosive weaponry and the orange energy sphere they had just taken, had drained the pair of nearly all their energy.
It was then three figures dropped from the sky, revealing them to be the perpetrators of the assault. It was none other than Beelzemon and Rapidmon, followed by their Tamers, Ai and Mako, Henry and his girlfriend Jeri, who made their way over to Takato and the others. They had been joined by a WarGreymon, the source of the third attack.
Seeing that both BurningGreymon and ShineGreymon were outnumbered, not to mention outmatched in power, Paradox decided he had spent enough time fighting against the Tamers, took the cards containing the dragon Digimon off his Duel Disk, causing both Digimon to vanish, which left the Tamers speechless as to how two Digimon could vanish like that.
But before Takato or his friends could ask any questions, Paradox told Yusei and the others who opposed him in a serious and aggressive tone. "You so-called heroes may have stopped BurningGreymon and ShineGreymon, but this changes nothing! There are only two more dragons to complete my collection, and then nothing will stand in my way!"
"And fortunately the final two dragons share the same world, so that will save me some time. Which means I can right the wrongs of history, erase the mistakes of the past and rid your very existences from each of your timelines!" Paradox told his enemies, before he let out a maniacal laugh, before he revved up the engine of his Duel Runner and shot off with an unbelievable amount of speed and drove away, as he vanished in a flash of light, leaving behind a group of confused Tamers, their tamed Digimon and a solemn Takato.
Takato continued to stare down, as a feeling of woe filled his heart at the loss of Guilmon, it was then he felt a hand on his right shoulder and looked up to see the one Paradox called Yusei staring at him with an empathic expression on his face, before he asked. "I take it the Digimon Paradox took belongs to you. Takato, that's what Paradox called you, right?"
"Yeah." Takato replied, before he asked. "But why did he take Guilmon?"
"And more importantly." Beelzemon started to say, before he de-digivolved back to Impmon and questioned. "Who are you guys?"
"My name is Yusei." Yusei replied, as he introduced himself before he motioned to Akiza and told the Tamers and their Digimon. "And this is my wife, Akiza."
"I'm Marcus." Marcus informed them, before he introduced his friends. "And this is my girlfriend Yoshi, her Digimon partner Lalamon, Greg Logan and his Digimon partner, Veemon currently Imperialdramon and this is Rhythm."
"You can call me Zoe." Zoe said kindly, before she introduced her friends. "And these are my friends J.P, Tommy, Koji and his twin brother, Koichi."
Seeing as how Yusei, Marcus and Zoe introduced themselves, not to mention saved their lives with the Crimson Dragon, Takato felt it only fair that he introduced himself. "My name is Takato and the Digimon Paradox took with that blank card was my Digimon partner, Guilmon."
Hearing and seeing the sadness when Takato talked about losing Guilmon, Yoshi told the Tamer reassuringly. "It's alright, Takato. We know what you're experiencing, because Paradox came to our world and took a Digimon who meant a lot to us too, our friend Agumon."
"Not to mention that masked creep took my boyfriend, Takuya, with that blank card trick he uses when Takuya was in his Beast Spirit form, BurningGreymon." Zoe added, which stunned the Tamers and the Digimon of Shinjuku, before Impmon questioned in bewilderment. "Hold on! You're telling us BurningGreymon was once human?"
"Actually Takuya still is human. He's just a Legendary Warrior, like the rest of us. And because he wields the Human and Beast Spirits of Fire, he has the ability to turn into Agunimon and BurningGreymon, just like how we can digivolve into our own Digimon forms, because we own different elemental human and beast spirits." Tommy explained, but his information was invalid as Takato, Rika, Henry, Jeri, Ai, Mako, Calumon, Impmon, Renamon and Terriermon, who had de-digivolved from Rapidmon and was now resting on Henry's head, had no idea what Tommy and Zoe were talking about.
Seeing the confusion on the Tamers and the new Digimon's faces, Yusei asked the Legendary Warriors, Marcus and his friends curiously. "Maybe we should provide some information about ourselves and explain the situation of Paradox?"
"That way we can all be on the same page. Good idea Yusei." Marcus replied.
Yusei then told Takato and his friends that he and Akiza came from another universe where there was a popular card game known as Duel Monsters, which involved countless Monster, Magic and Trap cards, let alone countless deck types and strategies to ensure your victory.
However, even though Duel Monsters was created for the sole purpose to make friends and have fun, there were those who used the power of Duel Monsters for their own nefarious purposes, such as the Dark Signers and Z-one, but thanks to the power of the Crimson Dragon and the bonds Yusei and his friends shared with one another, they were able to defeat all the evils of their world that wished to destroy it.
Yusei then went on and explained how Paradox came from a decaying and gloomy future, where he traveled back in time to steal the most powerful Duel Monster cards ever created, so he could kill the game's creator, Maximilion Pegasus, because he believed Duel Monsters was the reason his timeline had become a world of despair, and if Duel Monsters ceased to exist, then his future would be a better one.
But liking the way his timeline was and believing things could change for the better without the need to get rid of Duel Monsters, so the tragic wasteland that was Paradox's future would never come to fruition, Yusei used the power of the Crimson Dragon, which allowed him to travel to the past on his Duel Runner, where he met two of the greatest Duelists ever, Yugi Muto and Jaden Yuki and the three of them faced Paradox in an intense three on one Duel.
Paradox proved to be one of the toughest duelists any of them had faced, but through the faith they had in their Decks, each other and themselves, they defeated Paradox, leaving no trace of him after the Duel was over, and they believed that was the end of Paradox. However they were wrong when Yusei explained his nightmare, somehow Paradox was able to survive their ultimate attack and had control of five dragon Digimon, which included ShineGreymon, BurningGreymon and now Guilmon. Yusei assumed Paradox would Digivolve Guilmon into his Ultimate or Mega level if he isn't stopped.
It was after Yusei had finished explaining that Marcus told them how he, Yoshi, Imperialdramon, Rhythm and Lalamon came from another reality, where he and his Digimon partner and best friend Agumon, had spent five years in their Digital World with Greg and Veemon, where they were able to restore peace and order through their brute force and undying determination. Marcus then went on and told them how after he and Greg returned to the real world, he was given a job of Squad Captain of the police force by his own boss, and now Chief of the police force, Richard Sampson, with Agumon working by his side. However, earlier that day Marcus, Agumon and Rhythm encountered Paradox on his Duel Runner. They believed him to be nothing more than a misfit lawbreaker, but they were proven wrong when Paradox told them he wanted to be caught, as he used the blank card trick on Agumon before he took off and made his way into Yusei's dimension, where he summoned Agumon with his Duel Disk and was able to Digivolve him to his Champion level, GeoGreymon who caused chaos in New Domino City.
Marcus continued the story and explained that using the teleporter they had used to send Marcus, Agumon, Greg and Veemon to the Digital World Marcus, Yoshi, Rhythm and Lalamon were able to enter Yusei's dimension too, where they were arrested by the police force of New Domino City, better known as Sector Security because they believed Marcus and his friends were the ones who orchestrated the attack.
But after running into Yusei, all charges for the crimes that Marcus and his friends had supposedly committed were removed. Marcus thanked Yusei and the two of them teamed up with their friends and one another to find and stop Paradox.
Zoe continued the story by first starting off by telling Takato and his friends how three years earlier she was an ordinary girl, who one day received an unusual phone message to go to the Shibuya train station, where she boarded an elevator that took her to underground to an secret train station. She then boarded the train and was soon in the Digital World, where she met and befriended Takuya, J.P, Koichi, Koji and Tommy.
Zoe then explained that through their journey they each found their Human and Beast Spirits, which allowed them to each Digivolve into the Digimon of their element.
And though their adventure to save their Digital World was a tough one, it was through their strength as a team that they were able to defeat all the evils that had been set loose upon the Digital World and the mastermind behind all the chaos the Digital World had undergone, better known as the fallen angel, Lucemon.
Zoe went on with her tale by saying that as she was spending time with J.P, Koichi, Koji, Tommy and Takuya, who became her boyfriend some time after Lucemon's defeat, when Ophanimon, one of the Celestial Digimon who had sent them on their first adventure, told them that the Digital World was in trouble once again and not needing to be told twice, boarded the first Trailmon back to the Digital World.
It was there that they encountered and fought GeoGreymon, but whether they beat him or not didn't matter as it seemed that GeoGreymon's attack was just a trap, so Paradox could capture Takuya while he was in his Digimon form with his blank card trick, before he took off on his Duel Runner.
And it was sometime after Paradox left their Digital World, that the Crimson Dragon appeared leaving behind Yusei, Akiza, Marcus, Yoshi, Rhythm and Lalamon.
Zoe finished by saying that both Yusei and Marcus each told her and her friends about themselves, their world and how they had teamed up to stop Paradox. The Legendary Warriors decided to join the heroes from beyond their dimension so they could assist in stopping Paradox's diabolical plan and to release his evil hold over Agumon and Takuya.
After Zoe had finished the story, the Tamers and their Digimon were speechless as to the information they had each heard about the worlds outside their own, even Rika, the girl who normally didn't show any kind of emotion or feeling was surprised at the information she had heard.
It was then Renamon, who had recovered from her battle with ShineGreymon, broke the silence when the vixen Digimon questioned. "Alright. I can understand that you come from different worlds, and that you all wish to stop Paradox before he can complete his plan. But what I don't understand is out of all of us why did Paradox choose Guilmon and only Guilmon?"
"Before I answer that." Yusei replied to Renamon, before he turned to Takato and asked him. "Takato, could you tell us a little about Guilmon and your world?"
Takato was a little confused as to why Yusei wanted to know about his world and Guilmon, but seeing as how he, Marcus and Zoe had told them about themselves and whatnot, he felt it only fair and replied. "Uh...yeah, sure."
Takato began by explaining that a few years ago he was unaware that Digimon or the Digital World existed and only knew about Digimon through the Digimon Adventure series on television, as well as the Digimon card game, which he wasn't the best at, but still enjoyed playing it with his friends and it was through the love of Digimon that inspired him to draw his own Digimon, Guilmon, which gave him life in the Digital World, before the newly created Digimon Bio-Merged into the Real World, where he met Takato who was naturally afraid to see a real life monster made of data, but then realized that Guilmon was no threat to him and actually is his Digimon partner while Takato is his Tamer.
Takato continued his story and told them how he and Guilmon eventually met and befriended Henry and his Digimon partner, Terriermon.
And though they started off as enemies, as she felt that Digimon were only created to fight and were programmed for nothing else, but soon learned that Digimon had thoughts, feelings and were just as real as her, Rika and her Digimon partner, Renamon befriended them as well.
Takato went on and said that as the three of them used their Digimon partners to take down Digimon that had Bio-Merged into the real world and were causing trouble, there was a Digimon who was now their friend, but before he was a minor enemy, Impmon, who abandoned his Tamers, Ai and Mako because they kept fighting over him and treated him like a toy, and because of the way he was treated, tried to convince Guilmon, Renamon and Terriermon to abandon their Tamers just as he did, but was unsuccessful and during a moment of self-pity and anger, due to his inability to Digivolve on his own, was confronted by Catsuramon, who promised him the power he did not have in exchange for destroying the Tamers.
At first reluctant, the promise of power was too great for him and so Impmon finally agreed as the ground beneath him cracked open, causing him to fall into a pool of lava.
When Impmon emerged from the scorching liquid, he was no longer in the Real World. He had returned to the Digital World, and was no longer the weak Rookie he was before. Now he was a Mega level Digimon.
Takato went on and said he, Guilmon and his friends fought a group of evil Digimon known as the Devas, who served one of the four Digimon Sovereigns, Zhuqiamon, who captured Calumon and took him back to the Digital World so they could use his power of Digivolution, which was the purpose of his creation.
Takato, Guilmon, Henry, Terriermon, Rika, Renamon and Takato's friends Kazu, Kenta and Jeri, who received her own Digimon partner Leomon then decide to leave for the Digital World to rescue Calumon. In the process they manage to destroy all the evil Devas but soon reunited with Impmon who was now the Mega level shotgun-wielding biker, better known as Beelzemon who held up his end of the deal and tried to eliminate the Tamers and their Digimon. He managed to delete Leomon, which filled Takato with rage and hatred, corrupting Guilmon and causing him to dark digivolve from WarGrowlmon into Megidramon, an act he regretted ever since and wished to never see that twisted abombination that was once Guilmon.
At first, Megidramon seemed to have the upper hand against Beelzemon and attempted to devour him, as Beelzemon tried to hold him off, acidic drool dripped from Megidramon's mouth, burning through Beelzemon's jacket.
However, Beelzemon eventually won the battle by striking Megidramon's chest, which was his weak point, knocking Megidramon unconscious.
Takato wished that he and Guilmon could start over, but as soon as Takato realized that he couldn't give up Megidramon turned back into Guilmon.
Takato then wished that he and Guilmon could fight Beelzemon together as it should be; this resulted in him biomerging with Guilmon to become his true Mega form, Gallantmon, who managed to defeat the wicked fiend but spared his life, due to Jeri's plea.
Jeri's kindness reached Beelzemon and caused him to leave the battle zone without fulfilling his contract, and with the battle over Gallantmon reverted back to Takato and Guilmon.
After the Tamers defeated, but did not kill the Digimon Sovereign behind the Devas and Calumon's capture, Zhuqiamon, they all learn that the true enemy was a program called the D-Reaper.
A program designed to reduce artificial intelligence to it's original state if it exceeded it's original parameters. However, the D-Reaper mutated, utilizing the data of the Digimon it deleted and evolved past them, making itself stronger than they were, meaning all of the Digital World would be deleted if the D-Reaper wasn't stopped. After Calumon gave his power of Digivolution to all the Digimon where the D-Reaper had arisen, the newly evolved Mega level Digimon, as well as the Digimon Sovereigns took on the renegade program, while the Tamers, their Digimon and Impmon, who had de-digivolved from Beezlemon after having most of the energy drained from a swarm of Chrysalimon, that he had attacked before his battle against the Tamers, as he wanted to test his newfound power, returned to the Real World.
The Tamers and their Digimon were reunited with their loved ones and continued on with their lives. Meanwhile Impmon after not only being spared, but saved by the people he had once hated and tried to destroy, decided to try and make right all the wrongs he'd committed towards others, especially Jeri and the other Tamers.
With new goals in mind, Impmon returned to and reconciled with Ai and Mako, who to his surprise and joy, not only welcomed him back with open arms but told him that they will do anything to convince him to stay with them, even stop fighting, which filled him with joy and in turn, he accepted Ai and Mako as his Tamers.
Unfortunately their reunion as Tamers and tamed Digimon had to be cut short, as the D-Reaper had managed to escape from the Digital World and made it's way to the Real World, where it's programming believed that humans had evolved beyond their capacity and in turn, decided to eliminate all humans.
So Impmon decided to help fight with the others, but before he left Ai and Mako gave him a small toy gun, which he used to digivolve into Beelzemon Blast Mode.
With his upgrade, Beelzemon joined the fight with the Tamers and their Digimon and through their strength, bonds as friends and Guilmon exceeding the power of Gallantmon by transforming into his Crimson Mode, they managed to defeat the D-Reaper, all the agents it created to scout and destroy Shinjuku, and reverted the D-Reaper back to it's original harmless state and sent it back to the Digital World, where it remained docile ever since.
After Takato finished telling Yusei and the others about their adventures, Akiza told Yusei. "It looks like your theory was right, Yusei."
It was before the Tamers could ask what Akiza was referring to that Koji explained. "When Yusei came to our Digital World and we told him about our adventures, he believed that Paradox is targeting Digimon that are not only capable of Digivolving to a powerful dragon form and the lead Digimon of their team, but are also the strongest Digimon of each group."
"And after hearing about your fights against the D-Reaper and the Digimon that tried to destroy you, there's no doubt in my mind that Guilmon is the strongest out of all your Digimon, as he's able to excel his Mega level." Yusei added, in which all the Tamers and Digimon agreed, even though Impmon could change mode too, he knew Guilmon was still stronger than he was, and as much as she hated to admit it, Rika knew Renamon was not as strong as Guilmon.
"Alright, Yusei. What's our next move?" Marcus asked curiously.
"I'm unsure." Yusei replied, before he commented. "It seems whenever the Crimson dragon is able to find any sign of Paradox, he's already managed to capture the Digimon he wants for his collection."
"If only we could beat Paradox to the last world before him and warn the Digimon about his blank Card trick." Tommy said.
"But we have no idea where that is." JP replied, before he stated. "The only knowledge we have is that the last two Digimon are both heroes of their world, can Digivolve into powerful dragon forms and one can Digivolve to WarGreymon."
It was after hearing that information that Takato put the pieces together and said. "I think I know where Paradox will turn up next and he's going to target."
Hearing this gained Yusei's curiosity and caused him to ask. "Who?"
"I bet he's going to go after the Digidestined of Odaiba and use his blank card trick on Agumon and Veemon." Takato replied, but after he said that, Rika told her leader in her usual tone. "I hate to burst your bubble, Gogglehead, but you know that's only a television show and the characters don't actually exist right?"
"I know what Takato is suggesting is improbable, however under the circumstances both Agumon and Veemon perfectly fit the description as they both are the Digimon partners of the leading Digidestined and can Digivolve into powerful dragons." Henry replied.
"Not to mention Tai's Agumon's Mega form is WarGreymon." Terriermon added.
"Alright. Now that we know where Paradox is going to turn up and that we need to save another Agumon and a Veemon, I think we should make our move." Marcus said, before he told Yusei. "Yusei rev up that Duel Runner of yours and let's go."
It was as Yusei got back on his Duel Runner, followed by Akiza that Takato suddenly announced. "I'm coming too, Yusei."
"Sorry Takato, but it's too dangerous for you to come without a Digimon or a way to fight against Paradox." Yusei said to Takato.
"He's got a way. I'm coming with you, Takato. As will Terriermon." Henry replied.
"Takato, I know much Guilmon means to you, as you and him share a special bond, just like I have my own bond with Terriermon. And I know if it were Terriermon who Paradox took instead of Guilmon, you would do anything you could to help me get him back." Henry told his best friend as Takato replied to his friend for his selfless gesture. "Thank you, Henry."
"No problem, Takato." Henry replied, before he told Jeri. "Jeri, I want you to stay here with Calumon, because I don't want you to be put in any kind of danger."
"I understand." Jeri replied, before she said. "Just promise me you'll come back safely."
"I promise." Henry replied, before he and Jeri shared a quick and loving kiss.
"You can count me in too, Takato." Impmon said, before he told his friends. "From the very first time I met Guilmon all he ever did was try to befriend me, and even when I took advantage of his naive and generous nature he still wanted me as a friend. And after all he's done for me, including sparing my life, I wouldn't be that great of a friend if I just abandoned him. So I'll help in rescuing Guilmon from Paradox and his evil."
"Don't forget about me." WarGreymon extended his clawed gauntlets. "If we have to face Megidramon, my Dramon Destroyers will take care of business."
"We know it will be dangerous, but Impmon is our Digimon and more importantly, our friend. So wherever Impmon goes..." Mako started to say in a determined tone as Ai finished the sentence with the same amount of determination her brother had. "...We go too."
After Yusei agreed to Takato, Henry, Terriermon, Ai, Mako and Impmon in joining him and the others in their goal to save Agumon and Veemon before Paradox could get his evil grip upon them, everyone turned to Rika and Takato asked the Digimon Queen. "Rika, are you coming too?"
"Sure, whatever." Rika replied simply, as she crossed her arms and shrugged her shoulders, before she told her friends in a serious tone. "But only because you'd be helpless without us, right Renamon?"
"Of course, Rika." Renamon replied in an ever-loyal tone, but she also knew she had to join in rescuing Guilmon; as the red dinosaur had risked his life to save her's and felt she had to save him from Paradox and no doubt, the evil that would be controlling him.
Seeing that the Tamers were ready and had joined Marcus, his friends and the Legendary Warriors in the fight to save their friends from Paradox's twisted influence, Yusei revved up the engine of his Duel Runner, but before he began to drive, the hero of New Domino City thought to himself. 'This is our last chance to stop Paradox from completing his plan. And if we fall I fear my nightmare will become a reality.'