Chapter 7

An Eclipse and a Promise

As the three megas neared the monstrosity, it began to move. With slow, thunderous steps it moved into the center of the park. All across its arms and legs the metal and glass began to morph into missile launcher, rocket launchers, machine guns, and thousands of other weapons.

MegaGargomon landed in front of the creature, "Hey, D-Hades."

The tower paused a second before two sets of speakers appeared on each of each shoulder blades. A computerized, emotionless, monotone voice said, "D-Hades, is that what the humans have named me? Hmmm…researching data…Hades, the Greek lord of the underworld and the dead. It seems a fitting title for me. From now on I shall be know as that, the part of the D-Reaper that would not die. The D-Hades."

MegaGargomon growled, Terriermon's sarcasm bubbling to the top, "You can all yourself the Ice Queen of Hawaii for all I care. You are still going down."

"Calculating the probability of your statement…analyzing…calculation complete. Result, it is impossible to defeat me. I have the power of the digital and real world, the power of Juggernaut."

Sakuyamon jumped of MegaGargomon's shoulder, flying through the air towards D-Hades, "You don't have the power, Jason does. Without him, you are nothing."

D-Hades raised its arm up, several missiles taking flight as he said, "What does it matter, I control him, so that means I have the power. Conclusion, you shall meet the fate of this entire world. Deletion."

Sakuyamon moved back, dodging the missile fire as Gallantmon and MegaGargomon rushed forward. The missile silos on MegaGargomon's shoulders began to smoke as he yelled out, "Gargo Missiles." The two huge missiles began to soar across the sky, pounding into D-Hades arm before exploding. The arm was obliterated, but before anyone could cheer or even smile the pieces began to fly back together.

MegaGargomon stepped back a bit, a little bit of a nervous tone in his voice, "Well, that's not good."

Gallantmon lunged forward, "Let me try. Lightning Joust." That attack shot through the air, and struck D-Hades in the shoulder. The spot was blown to pieces, but like before the pieces quickly stopped in mid air, and flew back together like nothing had happened.

Gallantmon landed back on MegaGargomon's shoulder, "How are we supposed to beat this virus if he just puts himself back together every time he get blown apart."

Sakuyamon growled a bit, looking up as she said, "I know one way. Gallantmon, MegaGargolmon, on my single hit this virus with all you got."

Gallantmon nodded his head, and the pair watched as Sakuyamon leapt back into the air. Cherry blossoms began to fill the air, and circle around her as she cried out, "Amethyst Wind." The cherry blossoms began to form together, changing into energy crystals as the formed a barrier around the mega.

D-Hades began to launch a barrage of missiles at the barrier, but the barrier held up under the assault. The barrier would only crack under the strongest of digimon attacks. The missiles, even in large number, did not have the force to break it. Sakuyamon continued to float towards D-Hades until she was right up against his chest as MegaGargomon and Gallantmon returned the D-Hades barrage of attacks. Sakuyamon stopped just in front of Jason, who looked up at Sakuyamon with tired eyes. The barrier began to change, turning into a half sphere as Sakuyamon drew closer to Jason.

Soon, both Sakuyamon and Jason were contained inside the barrier. Jason looked absolutely exhausted, but he managed to smile as he said, "Sakuyamon, it is nice to see you."

Sakuyamon nodded her head, "It is nice to see you two. How are you doing?"

Jason cringed, "My whole body hurts, I can't concentrate, and I feel like I could fall asleep at any moment. The pain, however, is so terrible. This thing is trying to burn into my skin, connect my nervous system to the Juggernaut core so it can force more data through me."

Sakuyamon blinked a few times, floating around to Jason's side. She gasped at the sight she saw. Jason's black hair had been torn out, and now almost the entire back side of his head was covered in long metal tubes and wires that flowed into the Juggernaut core.

To Sakuyamon's surprise, Jason looked over at her, his eyes hopeful, "Have you come to end the pain, Sakuyamon?"

Sakuyamon nodded her head, "Yes, but before I do I must ask you a question."

"What is it Sakuyamon?"

Sakuyamon paused. Renamon wanted to ask Jason, but didn't know if she could bear known the answer and then end Jason's life. Rika's presence gave Renamon the necessary courage. Sakuyamon looked up at Jason, her eyes locking with his, "When you were kidnapped by Myotismon the first time, when you were at the brink of death and we shared an embrace, did you say that you loved me, well half of me."

Jason chuckled a bit, nodding his head, "Yes Sakuyamon, I said that. I love Renamon, the digital half of you, with all my heart. You were a digimon, and you were the first person who looked past the wires in the back of my head to see the real me, to help me see what I had been missing. You showed me what it felt like to have someone that you could spend the rest of your life with."

Sakuyamon nodded her head, "Thank you Jason. Now, please, forgive me." Sakuyamon raised her staff up, and paused as she prepared to slice the many cables coming out of the back of Jason's neck.

At that moment she hesitated, but Jason looked up at her and said, "Please, Sakuyamon, I know this is the only way. I am no fool, but I can die with no regrets because you now know I love you."

Sakuyamon broke down, tears streaming down her face. Finally, she swung her staff down at cut the wires. Jason lurched, and then fainted. The D-Hades began to let out a wail as Sakuyamon pulled Jason free, and began to float back towards the ground. At that moment, MegaGargomon and Gallantmon lunged forward and began to attack the creature of data and metal.

Sakuyamon landed in the park, the barrier disappearing as she gently set Jason down on the ground. In that instant, Sakuyamon broke back into Rika and Renamon. Renamon fell to her knees, her head resting on Jason's chest. His heart had stopped beating, his lungs were still. He was dead. For the first time, Renamon didn't care if anyone saw her cry. Tears began to roll down her face. Rika hung back, giving Renamon her space, as she watched MegaGargomon and Gallantmon doing some real damage against the D-Hades.

After a few minutes, Tijgmon came running up. He however, knew exactly what had happened as soon as he saw Renamon crying. He rushed forward, tears in his own eyes as he began to push Jason's arm crying out, "Jason, wake up. Jason, please, wake up." Still, Jason just laid there, motionless.

Suddenly, the trio heard a great rumble as MegaGargomon was sent flying back. Rika and Renamon looked up at the fight, and saw that the D-Hades was still fighting, his cold computerized voice filling the air, "You can't stop me that easily. Even without that human, I can control the Juggernaut core. Now, bow to the master of destruction, bow to me."

Rika turned back to Renamon, walking over to her digimon partner. She set a comforting hand on Renamon's shoulder and said, "Renamon, Gallantmon and MegaGargomon need our help."

Renamon nodded her head, raising her head off of Jason's chest as he looked at his face. Even with Rika watching, Renamon gently bent closer to Jason's head, her voice filled with sorrow as she said, "I love you too Jason." With that, Renamon planted a single kiss on Jason's lips. She then stood up, her tear filled eyes quickly bursting with rage as she turned. Rika nodded her head, and the two biomerged again as they went to rejoin the fight against the D-Hades. Tijgmon, however, was just sitting beside Jason.

Even with the battle raging, Tijgmon could do nothing but think about Jason. Jason had once told him he was his first friend. In truth, Jason had been Tijgmon's first friend. He had been born alone, and picked on by everyone he met. Jason had saved his life, and then showed him kindness by not letting Yamachi send him back to the digital world.

Tijgmon owed Jason everything, and now his tamer was dead. Tijgmon looked up at the fight, seeing the D-Hades still had the upper hand. Pulling Jason out of that monstrosity should have ended the fight, instead the D-Hades had kept going. It didn't need Jason now, he had become nothing more then a little piece of hardware to make the D-Hades just a little bit more powerful. Now, the tamers attacks were doing some damage, but still it would take a lot of power to destroy the D-Hades.

Tijgmon slowly got up onto Jason's chest, lying down on his tamer with his ear to Jason's heart. He then closed his eyes, tears gently rolling down his cheek. Even years later, no one would be exactly sure what had happened. Still, it did not change the fact that in that moment Tijgmon heard something, a gentle thump followed quickly by another thump. It was a heartbeat.

In the air above Jason, a ball of light began to appear. It hung in the air for a second before the ball disappeared, and what it carried was revealed. It was a digivice. Tijgmon felt Jason moving, and the teenagers slowly opened his eyes and said, "Tijgmon."

Tijgmon's face lit up with joy as he pounced on Jason, rubbing his head up against Jason's cheek, "You're alive."

Jason nodded his head, looking at the digivice that had landed on his stomach. He slowly reached up, wrapping his fingers around the little piece of plastic, metal, and silicon. He raised it up, and looked at it. It was gray in color with black around the screen and white on the buttons.

Jason forced a smile, "I guess I am now officially a tamer. Now, where are the others?"

Tijgmon's joyous face disappeared as he looked at the battle raging above them. Jason followed Tijgmon's gaze, and said, "They are battling, and I think it's high time we gave them a hand. You ready Tijgmon."

Tijgmon nodded his head as Jason lifted the digivice up, and pressed a few buttons. On the screen a small icon for the Modify program popped up. Jason pressed the button, cycling through the digivolution and matrix digivolution programs until he found the one he wanted. He then hit another button on the digivice, holding it close to his heart as he said, "Renamon, I am coming."

Bio-merge Activate

Tijgmon Bio-merge to

In the battle above, the tamers were getting beaten badly. The D-Hades was bombarding them with missile fire, and there attacks were doing almost no damage at all. The D-Hades had just launched another barrage of missiles, one that would have surly knocked MegaGargomon and Gallantmon out of their bio-merge state when the missiles suddenly exploded in mid-flight.

The D-Hades froze, its computerized voice saying, "Error, Error. This does not compute." Then, the world began to turn dark. Above, in the sky, a solar eclipse began to occur. A shadow began to cover up the sun, but as it did a figure began to appear in those shadows. It was a digimon about the size of Gallantmon. He was a dressed in white robes that had black intermixed with it. It was like looking through vines or a thorny bush at a bright light. The black lines curled, spiked out, and appeared as if they were the shadow of a dead vine.

The digimon itself was a mega, his head resembling almost exactly a tigers head. The digimon's fur was white with black strips, and out the back of his head it had long, black hair that almost reached down to his waist. Strapped to his waist was a pair of swords, one of them black as night while the other was white as snow.

The D-Hades looked up at the strange digimon, "Identify yourself."

The digimon slowly opened its eyes hazel eyes, a mixture of green and brown. As he opened its eyes, the solar eclipse finished and the sun became nothing more then a ring of white light in the sky. The digimon glared down at the D-Hades and said, "I am Eclipsemon. I am a digimon of balance, bring both the powers of light and shadow together. Now, it is the hour of your destruction. May you find peace in Oblivion?"

With that Eclipsemon began to fall out of the sky, bring out both of his swords as he placed on in each hand. He then crossed the sword in the shape of an "X" and called out, "Lunor Strike." As Eclipsemon slashed his claws, an x shaped blast of dark energy flew through the air towards D-Hades. The attack struck, and created a huge explosion. The D-Hades faltered a bit, stepping back as Eclipsemon landed beside Sakyuamon on MegaGargomon's shoulder.

MegaGargomon turned his head to look at the strange digimon, "We appreciate the help, but who the heck are you?"

Eclipsemon smiled, turning to face his fellow megas, "What, would you prefer if I was riding around in a wheelchair."

Gallantmon looked past MegaGargomon's head, "Wheelchair."

Sakyuamon was the first to figure it out, a huge smile crossing her face, "Jason, Tijgmon."

Eclipsemon nodded his head, "You aren't getting rid of me that easily. So I was technically dead for a few minutes. Still doesn't mean you have to give up the fight."

MegaGargomon nodded his head, "Fighting to the death, and even then you refuse to give up. Seriously Jason, you are strange."

"I resent that. Besides, there is a certain fox digimon I wouldn't dare leave alone, without at least a proper goodbye. Now, who feels like showing this D-Hades that it's out of its league."

Gallantmon nodded his head, "You know I'm in."

MegaGargomon lifted his arm up, giving a thumbs up, "Ready, willing, and able to kick some viral but."

Eclipsemon turned to Sakuyamon, "What about you?"

Sakuyamon smiled, "You're asking me if I am ready to fight."

Eclipsemon chuckled to himself, "You're right, it is a bit of a rhetorical question. All the same, I'll take it that we're all ready to fight, and if that is true I don't see why I am still standing here." With that Eclipsemon turned, leaping off MegaGargomon's shoulder as he moved towards the D-Hades. Sakuyamon and Gallantmon quickly followed, several missile silos open on MegaGargomon as he gave the D-Hades a taste of his own medicine.

Gallantmon landed on the D-Hades' arm, running up to the metal joint before he launched a Shield of the Just attack, blowing the arm off at the elbow. Sakuyamon used a similar tactic, but launched Spirit Strike at the shoulder blade. Eclipsemon was the last to attack. He pressed the white and black sword together, the two blade turning into a huge energy beam that was mixture of black and white glowing energy. The beam grew larger until it was almost twice as long as the tiger mega before Eclipse launched his attack, calling out, "Solar Strike."

The sword literally cut the D-Hades down the middle, cutting across from its right shoulder to its left hip. For a second nothing happened, and then the sound of scrapping metal filled the air as the building began to slide to one side. This time, the D-Hades could not repair itself. Eclipsemon had cut through the Juggernaut core, and without that key peace the D-Hades lost almost all of its power.

The monstrosity of metal and data began to crumble, turning into dust. The tamers began to celebrate, and then heard someone calling there names. They looked to see all the other tamers and digimon running up, waving there hands as they called out to the four megas. MegaGargomon dedigivolved, Henry and Terriermon landing on the ground just in time for Suzie to jump up and wrap her arms around the neck of her older brother. For once, Lopmon was happy it was not her at the receiving end of Suzie's powerful hug.

Takato and Guilmon were the next to land on the ground. Takato smiled, giving Kazu and Kenta high fives before Jeri butted in, smiling happily with an even happier Calumon sitting on her head. Guilmon was getting a long winded congratulation from Guardromon, all in proper English while MarineAngemon floated above them, smiling. Impmon had slugged Terriermon in the shoulder playfully, giving the rabbit digimon a hard time while congratulating him.

Rika and Renamon were the next to land, followed by Eclipsemon. Ryo walked up, Cyberdramon at his side as he said, "Well, It's nice to see I don't have to be there to protect you all the time, Rika."

Rika threw a glare over at Ryo, before she began to smile, "Yeah, well I always thought I was the one protecting you, both from evil digimon and your heads tendency to swell to twice its size."

Ryo faked a cringe of pain, "Ouch, Rika still has her claws."

Renamon looked back at Eclipsemon, the tamer and digimon that had remained Bio-merged as she asked, "Aren't you two going to separate."

Eclipsemon paused a second, a little bit of worry flashed in his eyes, "I am just afraid what will happen when Tijgmon and I do separate. If you do remember, I was on the brink of death before we Bio-Merged."

Kazu shook his head, "Oh, come on you two. If something bad happens, then you can just Rebio-Merge, can't you."

Eclipsemon sighed, "I guess I can. All right, you win." Eclipsemon began to glow, slowly shrinking before breaking apart into two burst of light. The first, and much smaller, form of light died out revealing a smiling Tijgmon. The other then slowly began to die out leaving Jason, standing with his eyes closed. The tamers and digimon all held there breaths, waiting to see what would happen to Jason.

All of the sudden, the black haired tamer fell over, as if collapsing. Renamon rushed forward, dropping to her knees as she set her ear against Jason's chest, listening for a heart beast. As she did, she heard another voice as he said, "Well, it's nice to know you are so worried about me Renamon."

Renamon looked up, and saw Jason had lifted his head up and was smiling at her. Renamon growled a bit, raising a hand as she gently hit Jason in the shoulder. The tamer sat up, rubbing his sore arm as he said, "I guess I deserve that, but it was well worth it."

The other tamers walked up, smiling as Henry said, "Well, it was just some harmless fun."

Jason cringed a bit, "Yeah, maybe for you. You're not the one who just got slugged in the arm."

Takato scratched his head, "Still, I thought your brain couldn't work without a computer." All the tamers blinked a few times, making the same realization as Takato. Jason, also, had not thought about that little fact. He reached behind his head, and his eyes widened as his hand felt around his long black hair. He quickly lifted his other hand up, and began to search his hair for what should have been there.

After a few minutes, Jason looked up at them, a look of amazement and joy on his face, "The wires, there gone." The tamers blinked, and watched as Jason turned around and threw his hair forward. There, where several long metal wires should have been coming out of his head, was just more black hair. The electronics, the metal, the wires, and everything else that had once attached Jason's brain to a computer were gone.

Henry shook his head, "That is impossible."

Tijgmon leapt up, landing on Jason's shoulder as he said, "Impossible or not, it happened."

Jason nodded his head, looking over at Tijgmon, "And its all thanks to you Tijgmon. You were my first friend, and I now know I couldn't ask for a better one." Tijgmon smiled, as did all the other tamers and digimon. The group was just starting to head out of the park when a rumble filled the area. The tamers looked back and saw that the D-Hades was reconstructing itself.

Terriermon groaned, "Oh come on. Oh many times are we going to have to kick that thing's but before it will stay kicked."

Jason shook his head, "We have to destroy the root of the problem. The D-Hades is using the Juggernaut core and raw data to reconstruct itself every time. However, it can't do that if it can't access the data in the digital world. Simply, we got to pull that things plug."

Terriermon turned to glare at Jason, "But how are we supposed to do that when we don't know where the plug is."

Jason turned to face all the other tamers, "I know where the plug is. If you can distract the D-Hades long enough, I can get at it and stop this titan of destruction." The tamers nodded, all of them running towards the D-Hades while Tijgmon and Jason hung back. As Renamon and Rika ran by, Jason reached out and grabbed Renamon's arm as he said, "Can you two wait a second?"

Renamon and Rika turned, nodded their heads as they took a few steps back. Jason was looking away from them, up at the D-Hades, "Renamon, Rika, I want to thank you for so much. You helped me in more ways then you'll ever know. Still, I am afraid that…that Tijgmon and I must go away for a while."

Tijgmon at Jason from his place on the tamers shoulder, "What are you talking about Jason?"

Jason smiled, gently patting his partners head, "You will know soon enough." Jason then turned to face Rika and Renamon. Jason was forcing a smile, but it was apparent to Rika and Renamon that Jason did not like what he was about to do. Still, it had to be done. He sighed, looking at Rika and Renamon, "I have to go away, but I promise I won't really be gone. I have experienced death once, and I don't intend to experience it again. Still, I am sorry I have to leave you two, especially you Renamon."

Renamon took a few steps forward, her face stern, "Are you sure Jason?"

Jason nodded his head, "It is the only way to defeat the D-Hades. Since I was apart of its system, I know its weakness. I also, unfortunately, know what will happen when I destroy that weakness."

Renamon stopped a few steps in front of Jason, "Still, will I ever see you again?"

Jason smiled, a real smile, "I promise on everything I have, on the very breath in my lungs, that you will see me again. I also promise to contact you anyway I can, and tell you when I shall return to you, my love." Jason then moved a little closer to Renamon, setting his hand against the side of her face, "I promise that I will come back to you Renamon."

Renamon nodded her head, setting her hand on Jason's as she said, "And I promise that I won't forget about you, no matter how long you are gone. I will remember that someday, I will see you again, either in this life or the next."

Jason nodded his head, and before either knew what was happening they were leaning closer together. Tijgmon leapt down from Jason's shoulder, running over beside Rika, as he could tell what was about to happen. Still, Tijgmon and Rika just watch and smile as, in their final moment together, Jason and Renamon shared a single kiss that both had wanted, and played a part in.

When they separated Jason gave Renamon a last quick smile before his looked over at Tijgmon and said, "Come on, its time to end this." With that Tijgmon and Jason Bio-merged back into Eclipsemon, and began to run towards the D-Hades. A few moments later, Sakuyamon came bursting out of the treetops, heading towards the ensuing battle. No way she was going to just stand on the sidelines. It was neither Rika nor Renamon's style to let others do the fighting.

The other had been battling with the D-Hades, but were doing nothing against him. His power had returned, and he was healing all the damage they were managing to inflict. Eclipsemon then appeared on the scene, running up the D-Hades leg as he formed his Solar Strike attack. The huge sword cut deep into the D-Hades, but that was not Eclipsemon's intentions.

With the sword holding the wound open, Eclipsemon dove into the D-Hades' body. He began to use his claws, cutting through the mess of wiring until he reached the Juggernaut core. There, he cut through a few final walls of wires until he found what he was searching for. It was the teleportation machine, the one that had brought the digimon back to the real world. It was serving as the virus's link to the digital world. Without pause, Eclipsemon stretched his arm back, his claws glowing as he cried out, "Claws of the Sun and Moon." The attack cut deep into the teleportation device, causing its core to become unstable. Eclipsemon smiled, it was over.

Outside, a huge boom filled the air as fire began to pour out of the wound left by Eclipsemon's sword. The tamers and digimon looked in awe as the D-Hades began to break apart. Data was becoming nothing more then dust in the wind, and without the data the rest of the metal and other parts went crashing to the earth. The D-Hades collapsed, and became nothing more then a pile of scrap metal. The fight was over, but Eclipsemon was no where to be seen.