So we're back here and doing a chapter on this story once more. I really thought I was close to finishing this story, but would you look at that. I'm still not done and me along with purpleolaf have been discussing how we would do these chapters.

Problem is that I now have to rely on Google Docs due to Microsoft Word doing garbage that just peeves me off so much. Anywho, let's not talk anymore and get into the chapter.

We begin in a dark forest. Roses were spread about, thorns had grown from their stems and covered most of the area. Wandering along a dirt path were a group of Tanemon who were following each other in a straight-line while being careful of the thorns nearby. Walking alongside the group were Mimi and Palmon, watching as they went by.

"Where are all these Tanemon going to?" Mimi says confused.

"I don't know. I've never seen them travel like this... Ya think they're going to get food?" Palmon then asks.

"Must be quite a big feast if this many are going to... well, whatever it is they're going to." They continued following the line.

As they followed the line, the area began to clear up and the roses along with the trees began to expand slowly. Until they came to an area where there was what looked like a giant turnip glowing dark red, and the Tanemon were dancing around it like some kind of ritual.

"What is going on?" Mimi says confused.

"Maybe they're feeding this food to some kind of giant Digimon or something?" Palmon states.

They looked at the glowing turnip as a woman shaped being walked forward. A short old woman with blue skin and white hair in a bun. This caught Mimi's eye as she watched what she assumed to be a Digimon walk forward and stop in front of the plant before turning to look at the two.

Title: The Battle of Young Generals

Twarmon gets blasted into a wall before landing on the ground. "And stay down." MetalGreymon tells him

"I think that's enough out of you. Give up while you can." UlForceVeedramon says while standing beside his partner.

"Oh, you two think you're so tough. Well sorry to say, but we've *Grunt* already won." The yellow Digimon says while getting up.

"I beg your pardon?" The dragon knight asks curious.

"So you don't get it? It's not between us. It's between Mikey and Ewan now. And Davis being an extra to the mix." Twarmon tells them. "Either way, unlike your precious generals, Ewan isn't afraid of hurting his opponent. He won't even hesitate to destroy them." He continues to tell them as MetalGreymon growled.

'Dang, hope Davis is okay up there.' UlForceVeedramon looks at the tower where Mikey and Davis are. 'We've managed to bring Ken to our side… hope you can bring Ewan back like him.'

Meanwhile, with SaberLeomon. "Hollowing Crusher!" He yelled out sending an air slash at Whispered who was sent back and lands face down on the ground. Afterwards, the lion-like Digimon panted as he was bruised from fighting him. "D-did we get him?…" He questions at first not noticing the sudden twitches.

He then heard grunting from behind him and turned to the Blue General. "Christopher! Are you okay?-GAH!" He asks as he turned around only to then be blasted and sent rolling across the ground.

"You honestly believed you could defeat me so easily?" Whispered says as he takes out a black net. "While I'm still here, I might as well take a trophy with me before I take my leave." He then throws the net at the SaberLeomon which wrapped around him and emitted purple electricity.

"No!" The Digimon cried out as he started thrashing about trying to resist. "No… I cannot… not yet…" He was saying before his legs gave out. "I can't…" He says as his eyes struggled before he blacked out.

After blacking out, the Digimon then defused back to BanchoLeomon and Gaogamon and they remained unconscious. "That's enough out of you." Whispered then grabs the net holding the two Digimon and drags it alongside him.

Christopher's head began to twitch before he looked up and saw him taking BanchoLeomon and Gaogamon back to Ewan's castle and had regret on his face. "I'm sorry, guys…"

Davis was not having a pleasant experience himself. He had just witnessed Ewan begin swinging the sword in his hands around at Mikey who was nearly avoiding each swing. He had gone through handling someone as stubborn as him before, but it never had gone this far.

"Ewan, stop it!" Mikey yelled out as he dodged another swing. "I don't wanna fight you!"

"Still a softy, but you've got no choice." Ewan then readies for another swing as his target looked behind and grabbed the sword near him to block the attack. "En garde!"

As for Davis, he was watching but looked worried for Mikey after what was going down. 'No, no, this is not right. This wasn't supposed to happen. How is he gonna fight him?' He was thinking while getting scared. 'How are we gonna convince him that the Digimon aren't data? Come on, think Davis!'

"Come on! You're way too slow!" Ewan yells as he kept swinging as Mikey was barely blocking each strike. "If that's all you've got, then you stand no chance!" He swung the sword once more as the Red General had his back against a statue. "How did you ever become a general in the first place?" He then asks him before swinging again as Mikey dodged with just a piece of his hair cut off.

"STOP IT!" Davis shouted out gaining both of their attention. "Ewan, that's enough. You have to stop doing this!" He yelled out to him.

"And what? Give up while I'm winning this game?" The blonde boy tells him.

"What is it going to take to convince you that this is all real?" The Miracle General asks him.

"Nothing, that is what." He then heard before he turned around and saw Whispered higher up the stairs.

"What the… what are you doing here?" The boy says as he takes a few steps back.

"Oh, don't you remember me? I must admit, it was very clever of you to switch around Digimon like that. Unfortunately, it left you all meant nothing." Whispered continues to explain.

"What are you talking about? What happened to Christopher." Mikey asks him.

"Hmm? I thought my company would have made it obvious what came of him. Though, I guess maybe showing you my prizes from his defeat would say something." Whispered then pulled out a net holding BanchoLeomon and Gaogamon unconscious. After Davis saw two of his Digimon defeated, his eyes widened in horror. "I see you finally get it then. Besides, your little friends' efforts to defend the White Castle have proven similarly unsuccessful." He then goes on to tell them.

slashed from one of AxeKnightmon's airwaves… explode… and he was no more.
he was the next to explode… just like the others…

Davis' eyes widened as he stood on the stairs looking traumatized with his breathing becoming slightly audible. That dream he had was coming back to him and he didn't know what to do as he remained frozen while slightly shaking, which caught Mikey's attention as he started to look worried for him. Meanwhile, Ewan looked almost bored.

"What is with you guys? Why are you getting so worked up and worried about what's happening? None of this is even real." He then outright says.

As for Nene, she was having some trouble herself. "Maybe this time you'll realize how meaningless your plan truly is." AxeKnightmon says as he jumps from X5's head and attempts to stab him with his spear.

"Crud, we need to get through this, guys. Mikey is depending-AGH!" He says before getting pushed further into the lava.

An explosion was heard around the castle as Beelzemon grunted from hearing so. "Sounds like it's getting pretty brutal. How are you so far, Mervamon?" He then asks his partner next to him.

"I'm doing fine, I guess. Though, have had better days." Mervamon answers him.

"We need to trust in Mikey and the rest of the team, no matter how bad things get or look." He tells her.

"You really believe this plan will work?"

"He's never lead us astray before. We can bet that his plan will come through, as long as we believe in him."

"Well, I'm quite surprised." Mervamon then says, getting his attention. "You look like one of those aloof and cool tough guys, but under that mask, you're just as soft as the rest of us, aren't you?" She then asks which caused him to blush a bit.

"I guess you could say so." Beelzemon says shrugging off the blush.

"Wow, I never thought I'd see some kind of romantic moment between those two of all Digimon." MetalKabuterimon says next to Porcupamon who just remained silent. "You know, maybe once we're done here, we should make… I dunno, some sort of love match later or something?" He then suggested before they heard another explosion.

"Flame Spires!" They then heard Laylamon shout out as flames rose above and then came down at them.

Nene sees an explosion from the castle as she's looking at the map. "I don't think we might be able to hold out any longer. Our defenses are weakening." She says to herself before she hears a splash.

"I'll answer that for you." She heard as she saw AxeKnightmon emerge from lava holding X5. "It's all over Nene. For you see, victory is ours." He says staring directly at her as she glared at him.

As for a certain bunch of Digimon, they heard an explosion as Lilymon looked out of the window of the tower they were in. "Oh my, it sure is nosy out there. I hope they are all okay." She says before stepping back.

"Whew, this guy is really giving me a workout with my powers. I don't think I've ever healed someone this injured before." Cutemon says as he was on the bed healing the dark armored Digimon they found.

"Well, he must be against the Bagra Army, but it was honestly strange that he was suddenly in the white castle like that." Angewomon says before they hear an explosion. "That being said, he could either be an enemy of us, or he could very well be on our side."

"I really hope that he is an ally as well. Especially with how much help we need more than anything, gathering more members is most likely for the best." Lilymon says as she walks over and sits next to Angewomon.

"Well, I hope the next Digimon we do find for a member can heal so that I don't have to be the only one doing this." Cutemon says annoyed at how he's the only one they had to heal.

Then they heard a groan and looked towards the Digimon who was stirring with his eyes still closed. He was grunting and twitching as sweat began to cover him. He looked as though he was in pain with a hint of anger as the three of them looked at him worried.

"Poor thing's having a nightmare. I honestly feel bad for him." Lilymon says looking sad.

"We all have nightmares that get the better of us sometimes. Though in his case, it is worrying to say the least." Angewomon says as he continued grunting as his head turned slightly.

"I feel bad for him too, but the more I look at him, the more I can't get the thought of that Duskmon guy out of my head." Cutemon then says before looking over at the two. "Can you blame me? He looks just like him… sort of… kind of?… maybe not exactly, but close enough."

"That I can't disagree on. And seeing him have such a resemblance could mean that he could potentially be our enemy if he is related to Duskmon." Angewomon exclaims.

"So, you're saying we can't trust him?" Lilymon asked.

"I'm not exactly saying we shouldn't. All I'm saying is that we should be careful in case of such. If not, we might end up being ambushed or so." The angel Digimon tells them before they heard the black-armored Digimon make more painful grunts.

"Tch, isn't this an amusing sight to behold. The fearless General of the Miracle Hunters, staring right at his captured allies and can't even move." Whispered says tauntingly.

Meanwhile, BanchoLeomon and Gaogamon began to stir and struggle to open their eyes a bit. When their eyes were mostly open, they saw Davis standing in front of them not moving and looking devastated.

"D-davi…" BanchoLeomon tried to get out, but unfortunately he wasn't able to speak.

Gaogamon had opened his mouth to try and speak as well, but ended up in failure as he couldn't. "How does it feel to lose, General?" Whispered then says tauntingly again.

"Let them go…" He then looked confused at the sudden reply from the boy. "Please, let them go… don't hurt them… please." Davis began to plead.

"The so called general of the Miracle Hunters is pleading to his enemy to free his allies? Hmph… now this is truly a sight to behold." Whispered chuckled.

BanchoLeomon looked shocked. He never thought in his life that he would see his General look straight at his enemy and plead for anything with despair filling his body, yet he even he couldn't deny what had just occurred.

Then he remembered what happened earlier that day. When Davis was unconscious, he was sweating and breathing heavily. Then when he woke up, he stated that he was just having a nightmare being chased by eggplants… however, the lion Digimon was suspicious of a nightmare like that causing him to seem so terrified.

It all made sense. The eggplant nightmare was nothing more than a lie… a lie that he told to keep him, Mikey, Veemon and the rest of his team from knowing what truly happened while he was out. In his eyes, BanchoLeomon could not be more shocked than he already was.

"Well, now that that's out of the way. I'll leave this one for you to conquer, Ewan." Whispered then says before walking down the stairs. "Toy with him if you'd like, enjoy yourself. I have to go help the others." He says as he passes Davis dragging the net with his Digimon.

Then they heard a crash as Mikey turned to the doors flinging open while dust flew into the room. When it cleared up, he saw MetalGreymon on the ground being held down by Sethmon. Then UlForce grabbed Sethmon and forcing him off before pinning him down onto the ground. Davis then snapped out of his trance and looked to Whispered before running down the stairs.

"STOP!" He yelled catching the others' attention. "Let them go!" He then reaches Whispered and grabs onto the net.

The Dark Digimon shot a glance at the boy before pulling the net back and swatting him away as he was flung across the ground which caught UlForceVeedramon's attention. "DAVIS!" He then charges at Whispered.

"I believe you should think before you act." He then says before tossing the net at UlForce who stopped to try and catch it, only to be kicked by the Dark Digimon back out of the castle.

As a result, UlForce was sent across the ground as well while Whispered caught the net in the air. "Hey, we could've taken him." Twarmon says.

"Right, but since you are here…" Sethmon then says tossing MetalGreymon next to the dragon knight. "We'll give you the honor to finish these pathetic weaklings off."

"With pleasure." He says while putting down the net before raising his hand. "Whispering Arrow!" He then fired a blast at them.

When UlForce saw this coming… "Tense-great Shield!" He then summoned an energy shield to block the attack which ended in an explosion causing smoke to fill the area.

Meanwhile, Davis was just getting up when he heard the explosion and looked worried from hearing so. "Okay, that's that. To be honest, I was a little worried for a minute, but now we're the ones with the upperhand. The only thing left to do is defeat you!" Ewan then says as he charges at Mikey and attempted to slash at him again as he blocked the attack.

"Mikey!" Davis yelled over to him.

"Don't worry, just leave this to me and go help the others!" The Red General yelled over to him as he blocked another incoming strike.

The maroon-haired boy was hesitant at first to leave him behind, then again his Digimon were currently being held captive and another one was currently taking a beating for him. He trusted Mikey as much as he trusted Tai, so in the end, he swallowed some saliva before he ran to the door.

"That's not fair! You put Mikey against someone he doesn't even want to fight!" UlForceVeedramon yells while trying to hold Whispered back by his hands.

"I don't believe I agreed to anything fair in this battle." The Dark Digimon says as he pushed him back.

Meanwhile, Davis was currently making his way over to the net hoping not to get noticed as MetalGreymon had pushed Sethmon back while blocking an attack from Twarmon. "Hey, BanchoLeomon… Gaogamon…" He lightly yelled to them as the lion Digimon twitched while opening his eyes.

"..." BanchoLeomon barely managed to make any noise.

"Look I'm gonna try to get you guys out of there, so let me help you." The boy then says as he reaches the net, but once he attempted to grab it, he was nearly shocked as he stumbled back. "Of course it's not that simple." He then says before hearing a grunt as he turned to see UlForce being slammed against the castle wall by whispered.

He then looked towards Mikey who was still having a hard time with Ewan and he began sweating in thought. "We don't have time for this!" He then says as he takes out his Fusion Loader. "Ignitemon, Flamedramon, are you guys up?"

"We're always up and ready to battle, General." Flamedramon says through the loader.

"Just leave whatever you need to us." Ignitemon states as well.

"Alright, then let's get BanchoLeomon and Gaogamon free." Davis says while rising up his loader. "Ignitemon, Flamedramon, Digi-Fuse!" He yells as his Fusion Loader begins to glow.

Digi-Fusion

"Ignitemon!"
"Flamedramon!"

"DIGI-FUSE!"

"BlazeIgnitemon!"

"Alright, BlazeIgnitemon. First things first, we need to help UlForceVeedramon." Davis tells him.

Then UlForce pushed back Whispered before punching him in the right arm which caused him to roar out in pain as the dark Digimon held his arm. Then all of the sudden, Davis heard an electric sound before turning to the net to see that it was starting to turn transparent.

"What the heck? Did that do something?" The boy says confused before the dragon knight grabbed his opponent and slammed him into the ground right on his right arm causing him to yell out once again as the net was fading in and out. "Wait, does hurting Whispered's arm get rid of the net?"

"Looks like it's that way. Then I know just what to do." BlazeIgnitmon states before he goes to help his friend.

"What's the big deal? You pull a muscle in your arm or something?" UlForceVeedramon comments seeing Whispered getting hurt so easily.

"Not really. I'm jus-" The Dark Digimon was about to say.

"Flame Blades!" He heard before he turned to get hit by fiery tornadoes in his right arm.

"AAAAAAAAAAGGH!" He yelled out in pain.

The net around was fading in and out more before it disappeared and the two Digimon were left on the ground. "Alright, it worked!" Davis says feeling better.

"So that was it, huh? We just needed to hit your arm hard enough?" BlazeIgnitemon states.

To this, Whispered looked at the two Digimon he once had captive and sighed annoyed. "Guess I won't be keeping my trophies." He states while getting up. "But it's not as simple as you think. Whispering Arrow." He then says as he fires an attack at the two.

"Tense-great Shield!" UlForceVeedramon says as he gets in front of his comrade, blocking the attack.

But even after blocking the attack, he stumbled back while grunting a bit. "Are you okay?" BlazeIginitemon asked him.

"Yeah… just taking a beating from two ends is really more of a hassle than I thought." The dragon knight told him.

Davis looked worried and looked towards MetalGreymon who seemed to be holding his own against Sethmon. "I really need to take a break from adventuring after we're done here." He says before he goes to the two Digimon that were in the net. "BanchoLeomon, Gaogamon, are you okay?" He asks as he shook them a bit.

He heard a grunt and the Gaogamon began to struggle opening his eyes while BanchoLeomon managed to get them open. "D-Davis… I…" The lion man tried to say.

"Look don't worry, just get into the Fusion Loader and you should be-" The boy was saying as he took out his Fusion Loader

But then BanchoLeomon put his hand onto the loader. "Wait, n-not yet…" He stopped what he was doing confused.

"We can still fight… we need to do this for… the team…" Gaogamon says in pain.

"What? Come on you guys, you're hurt. You can't ke-" Davis was saying before he got a small flash of the nightmare he had and flinched.

The two Digimon saw this happen and while Gaogamon seemed confused, BanchoLeomon knew what was on his mind. "Davis…" The lion man said trying to get his attention. "Davis!" He says once more catching the boy's attention. "That dream you had… were you…" He was about to say until he heard a loud groan.

They all turned and saw that Metal Greymon was beginning to get tired and was trying to get back up but Sethmon pushed him down. UlForce saw this and pushed Whispered off of him before rushing and tackling Sethmon off of his comrade. As this was going on, BanchoLeomon took out his sword and used it to host himself up.

"I guess now's not a good time to ask." He says as he in pain walks over to his comrade.

"Wait, what are?…" Davis was about to ask as he looked worried for the lion Digimon.

But he was also scared because BanchoLeomon was starting to catch on about the dream he told him being a lie. He never wanted anyone to know what he saw in that dream he had because he didn't want to freak any of them out but now, his secret was already starting to unfold towards one of his allies.

"Davis…" He then turned to Gaogamon who was also getting back up. "L-look… I don't know what BanchoLeomon was talking about… b-but… he's right, now isn't really the time to talk." He tells him with one of his eyes squinting.

"I get that, but I can't let you go out there and fight like-"

"It doesn't matter!" The hound yelled at him causing him to step back. "I don't care what kind of condition I'm in. We knew what we were getting ourselves into by doing this. And Davis… we're always ready to put our lives on the line for the great or good. So please, just let me do this." He continues to tell him.

After a moment of eye contact between the two, Davis made his decision. "Alright… guess I'm not gonna convince you no matter what. But I'm still helping you." He then walks over and hosts Gaogamon onto his back and helped him make his way over in BanchoLeomon's direction.

MetalGreymon was on the ground still tired as he was doing his best to stay conscious, not knowing how much longer he could hold up. He turned his head and saw BanchoLeomon along with Gaogamon and Davis heading towards his direction and turned his head a little more to get a clear view of them.

"W-what are you doing here?" The robot dinosaur asks them as he's trying to hold his head up. "Why aren't you with Mikey and Christopher?"

"Unfortunately, me and Gaogamon got separated from Christopher. Mikey should be able to get through to Ewan, so we can trust him on that for now. Guess you're not holding up so good yourself, huh?" BanchoLeomon explained to him.

"Ya think?" MetalGreymon says sarcastically before winching in pain. He looked to where Mikey was and saw that he was still dealing with Ewan. "Mikey's fighting at a disadvantage like this. It's never truly in his nature to be vicious." He then says as the three of them turned their attention to where he was looking.

Davis still looked worried about Mikey. "Yeah, he doesn't even wanna hurt him."

"That's the problem. How is he supposed to beat someone he doesn't even want to fight?" MetalGreymon asks before winching in pain a bit more.

Hearing that, Davis had a flashback of Ken during his days of being the Digimon Emperor and how TK had gone alone into his base. He didn't like TK back then, but when the memory came to mind, it reminded him exactly of the situation that was at hand.

pieces of his brown face and blacked out eyes Just before Davis could even open his mouth to say something, he got a flashback of what happened in his dream and flinched while going wide eyed. BanchoLeomon took notice that the boy hadn't spoken and when he looked at him, he realized where his mind was again.

"MetalGreymon…" Davis then says. "Please… don't fight anymore." He then says as the three Digimon were confused from what they heard. "Please, just listen to me."

"W-what? What's this about?" MetalGreymon asks confused.

"Just, please… listen to me, don't fight them anymore." The boy tells him once again.

"Davis, you're not making much sense here." Gaogamons tells him.

"Why don't you want me going into battle?" The robot dinosaur asks once more.

Davis hesitated at the question and didn't answer as he stopped moving once again. "Is this because of that dream of yours?" His head then shot up looking at BanchoLeomon. "There's no use lying to us Davis, just answer honestly." He then asks.

"N-no… i-it has nothing to do-" Davis tried to say.

"Stop… please, don't lie to us again." The lion says with his hand up.

"Davis what is he talking about?" Gaogamon says getting confused yet suspicious.

Davis was now worried once again. Not only was BanchoLeomon catching on, but now other Digimon were starting to figure out as well. He didn't know how much longer he could keep up his lie, but even so, he didn't want to tell them, especially after now. But what could he do?

"I-I can't… I'm sorry but… I-I can't tell you… I just can't." He tells them with his head down.

"Alright, enough of this nonsense! Just tell us already!" Gaogamon yelled getting angry causing Davis to stumbled back at the hound's sudden anger, letting him stand on his own. "Cut it out already and just tell us!"

BanchoLeomon put a hand on his friend's shoulder. "Calm down." He says gaining his attention. "Let him explain when he needs to." He then tells him as the blue Digimon turned his head away.

"GAH!" BlazeIgnitemon crashed beside them before defusing as they all turned to attention to another shriek of pain as they saw UlForceVeedramon down on the ground before Whispered placed his foot on his face.

"If you are all done with your little chit-chat, maybe you should pay more attention." Twarmon states with Sethmon beside him.

"Aw crud." Davis says as he takes out his Fusion Loader. "Alright, I think that's enough you guys. Get some rest." He says returning Ignitemon and Flamedramon to his loader as MetalGreymon began to get up. "Wait, don't do it!-"

"SHUT UP!" Metalgreymon yelled back as the boy flinched. "I don't know what's going on with you, but I'm done hearing it. Christopher trusted me to fight for Mikey, and I'm not backing down with a few scrapes like this." He then says as he turns his attention to the fight while the Miracle General looked worried.

MetalGreymon then charged forward. "Here we go again." Twarmon says as he flew at said Digimon.

Then Davis heard a grunt with the clang of metal come from next to him as he saw UlForceVeedramon weakly make his way over to him. "Davis, what's going on? What's with MetalGreymon and Gaogamon yelling at you?" He asked him worried.

"I-I'm fine. Nothing to be worried about-" Davis was saying at first.

"No he's not!" Gaogamon yelled once again getting their attention. "Why do you keep lying to us like this? You're clearly not fine." He says again as the boy backed up a bit.

UlForce hearing this, he wondered what caused his partner to act the way he was. As he began to wonder, his thoughts came back to how he woke up when they had entered the underworld. When he woke up he didn't seem scarred like he was in stupid nightmare like being chased by eggplants.

"C-calm down, I can't tell you because… I-I…" Davis tried to tell them but was hesitating which was starting to annoy Gaogamon.

"Grrhh, just tell us already!" The blue hound yelled at him angry causing him to stumble back even more.

"GAOGAMON!" His head snapped towards BanchoLeomon who was looking at him disapprovingly. "Let him talk." He tells him as Gaogamon seemed to calm down and looked down a bit. "Now, you don't need to explain everything. Just tell us as much as you can." He then says looking at Davis.

The boy began to think of what he could say, but as he was thinking, a shout was heard and MetalGreymon came crashing into them sending them flying back landing towards the entrance. Afterwards, Davis began to host himself up.

"From looking at me, I can tell you thought I was nothing more than a weak pampered little rich boy. Am I right, or am I right, Mikey?" He then heard Ewan talking which caught his attention. "Well, maybe I was a long time ago. But I've learned to be tough since then." He then stands up and walks over to the door listening.

"What? What's this all about?" Mikey asked confused.

"*Sigh* I've kept this a secret from everyone if you must know. They wouldn't have understood no matter what… cause they're weak. Weaklings that know nothing I know." The blonde boy then says walking forward a bit. "Nothing lasts… no matter how much you love something, sooner or later it'll get hurt or go away or even worse!" He yells as he swung his sword being blocked again forcing the general back a few steps. "Only here, in the Digital World, it's nothing like that. AxeKnightmon told me so." He explains more.

"And trust me, I've known that ever since me and my sister Nene came in here. He promised he'd come back and kept it, gave me my Fusion Loader, and I was ready." He tells him again.

"So, that means that Fusion Loader we thought was for Nene was meant for you?" Mikey asks him.

"Finally catching on." The blonde boy says with a slight smirk before it left. "But you should listen to AxeKnightmon, everything in this world can ether be blown up and destroyed it wouldn't make do anything to you cause nothing here… n-nothing here is real." He goes on to say. "I don't like hurting people and I hate seeing people get hurt because of me!" He yells with tears streaming down his face. "I won't go back to the real world, I'll stay here for as long as I can so long I'm living in a world without pain!" He then yells out with tears still forming.

Davis heard the entire thing. He knew what happened with Ewan and as always was reminded of how Ken thought the Digital World wasn't real ether. He doesn't know that things do die and all of it is real, but AxeKnightmon tricked him into thinking it wasn't. That means once he does find out then…

Ewan stood looking at Mikey for a good moment before his stare turned into a glare. "Well, aren't you going to say anything?" He asks as the Red General just stood still for another moment before he raised his sword. "Heh, you finally ready to fight."

Mikey paused for a second before saying… "Yeah…" He then says which grabbed Davis' attention. "You bet I'm ready!" He then charged at Ewan catching him off guard as the blonde boy barely blocked him swinging at him.

"Wait, what?!" Twarmon heard as he and Whispered turned to see them and were shocked.

"What?" UlForceVeedramon says also confused.

"Huh?" Even BanchoLeomon and Gaogamon heard and were confused as well.

Mikey was currently pushing as Ewan struggled to hold him back. 'What is he doing? Why is he?' Davis was thinking to himself before he was reminded of the times where he needed to fight Agumon to save him and Ken to stop him. 'H-hold on… what if…' He heard the clang of blades and saw the Red General now had the advantage as the blonde boy wasn't able to hold against him.

As for Nene, she was currently running out of the gates to the castle before hearing. "Disengage Fuse!" Which stopped her as she turned to see SkullKnightmon and Axemon defusing as SkullKnightmon landed on top of Shoutmon X5.

"Victory is now in our grasp, however I won't take chances. Axemon, go to the dark castle and support Ewan in case he should be at fault." He then commands.

"On it." Axemon then runs off towards the Dark Castle.

Then SkullKnightmon turned his attention to Nene as she started to back up until she bumped into something. "And just where do you think you're going?" She paused before turning to see Duskmon behind her.

She then heard a chuckle from SkullKnightmon. "You really are a disappointment Nene. You've proven to be a poor substitute to Ewan, I must say, but your development with the Dark Fusion Loader was more or less a success. It's you I should thank for it." He tells her. "I bet you never imagined that you were keeping heads up for my next game piece by protecting your brother like so-" He was saying.

"He's not a game piece!" Nene shouts out in anger. "I'm gonna get him back, and I'm gonna make you pay for using us like this!" She declares.

"Hmph, I really thought you would have figured that out by now. Such a task impossible as of now." Duskmon states as his eyes glowed and he sent a shiver down Nene's spine.

"Face it girl, you and your whole team will be deleted and not even your precious X5 can save you now!" SkullKnightmon taunts her before her eyes widened.

"D-did you just say X5?" She asks which confuses the two.

"Of course I did. What you need those ears of yours cleaned or something?" SkullKnightmon says pointing his spear at her.

Then she smirked. "You really need to learn to count bucket-head." She then says.

"What are you implying?" Duskmon asks annoyed.

"That's not X5, that's X4." Then SkullKnightmon looked confused before looking down a lifting his foot a bit to see that Sparrowmon's jets were suddenly gone.

"What?! That can't be! I just fighting X5 earlie-AGH!" He was saying before he got rammed and crammed into the ground by Sparrowmon.

"Don't you dare hurt NENE!" She then says before pulling the trigger on one of her blasts setting it off as she flew from him.

And in a short second she sped at Duskmon tackling him as he blocked while getting knocked back before she blasted him causing him to skit across the ground. "Alright!" Shoutmon X4 then gets up. "Let's try this again!" He then says raising his fist. "Ready, Nene?"

"Don't worry." She then pulls out her Fusion Loader. "I'm ready." Then she rose it up into the air. "Sparrowmon, and Shoutmon X4, Digi-Fuse!"

"DIGI-FUSE!"

"Shoutmon X5!"

"Tch, they actually outsmarted us." Duskmon states annoyed as he watched SkullKnightmon block an attack from X5. "I thought we shouldn't underestimate them, but…"

"No… how could this be!" SkullKnightmon says as he struggled to hold off the attack.

"Unlike you, we've got a bond that can't be broken. Even if you knock us down, we'll get back up even better." X5 says as he pushes harder. "Something that you wouldn't understand cause you don't trust anyone!" He then says before breaking the lock and kicking the dark knight a few feet away. "You don't even trust Ewan so you sent Axemon to babysit him, am I right?" He then states.

"I-I… y-you." SkullKnightmon says getting angry.

"Thought so. Meteor Impact!" Then X5 fired a blast that sent the dark knight flying and crashing into one of the pieces of the castle causing a bigger explosion.

As the explosion occurred, a few the Digimon in one of the towers felt it shook as Cutemon almost tripped. "Jeez, why don't they make it shake even more!" he says sarcastically annoyed.

"Crud, there goes that. Guess I'll ha-" Duskmon was about to approach but stopped. "What?" He then stood still and looked as though he was hearing something. "... Understood." He then begins to leave.

"Alright now that… huh? Hey where do you think you're goin'?!" X5 yells over as he sees Duskmon leaving.

"I some other business to attend to. None that you need to know of anyway." The dark Digimon says before disappearing into the shadows.

"Oh no you don't!" X5 then charged at the rock he went behind and attacked it, but to his surprise he was gone. "Dang it, how did he do that?" X5 says confused.

Beelzemon and Mervamon saw the explosion and looked towards the source with MetalKabuterimon and Porcupamon. "Looks like the counterattack is starting to begin. Didn't think we'd need to resort to that." MetalKabuterimon states.

"I told ya we could trust Mikey and the others. Now, I want you three to go to the Black Castle and find a weak spot in their defenses." Beelzemon says as he took a step away from them.

"And leave you here by yourself? How reckless are you exactly?" Mervamon asks as the black winged Digimon looked towards her.

"Don't worry about me, I've handled worse than this. 'Sides I got a score to settle with someone. And that someone destroyed my home and those close to me, making me live a life I didn't want to live." He tells her. "It was thanks to Mikey I got my life back again, and I promised myself revenge one day. So I have to do this by myself." He finishes.

Mervamon stared at him for a moment. "Alright then. But you better watch yourself." She then states. "MetalKabuterimon, Porcupamon, let's get going." She then says as she takes off.

"Right." MetalKabuterimon says as he starts to follow her.

Porcupamon was doing so as well, but stopped to take a quick glance at Beelzemon before he made his way to him. He then put his hand on the black-winged Digimon's arm before stepping back then going back to following Mervamon. Beelzemon didn't exactly know what Porcupamon was trying to tell him due to its lack of speech, however he guessed what he was trying to say.

"Sorry, can't really promise that." He says to himself before realizing Laylamon jumping into the air covering in flames. "I don't think so!" He yells as he flew straight at her catching her attention and her off guard. "Oblivion Cannon!" He then fires a blast from his cannon, but all it was burnt away just as it was blasted.

"Well, isn't that just sweet of you to give me the job I've been meaning to finish!" She says as she slams her wrecking ball against him sending him down barely landing on his feet. "You know, I really did want you to me to work together with one another, but it seems as though that will never happen. So I will take the liberty of making sure I'm the one who destroys you." She then says as she lowers towards him.

"So, you really are jealous then?" Blastmon says while sweating.

"I was hoping that you wouldn't be fooling around when I got here…" Another female voice says catching their attention. "Honestly, this scene before is quite laughable if I do say so myself." A woman wearing a long sleeveless red dress that covered her from her chin down with a red hat and sunglasses states while sitting on a nearby rock.

"What the? Who are you?" Beelzemon asks confused.

"Oh, it's you again." Laylamon says with disgust as the black-winged Digimon seemed more confused. Mervamon and MetalKabuterimon had arrived when they heard Beelzemon hit the ground but remained at a distance as they watched what was happening. "Listen, I am not in the mood for you lecture trash again." Laylamon continues to tell the woman.

"Oh please, I think otherwise. It seems you have a personal vendetta with… what was your name hun, Reapmon? Oh, forgive me, Beelzemon." The woman then says with a giggle.

"What? Where'd you-?" Beelzemon was about to question how she knew his name.

"Oh, put a sock in it. I don't exactly remember asking you to meddle in my personal business." Lalymon then says getting annoyed.

"Well, I'd say you don't want me to be around just because I have more beauty than you." The woman says with a laugh as the evil witch Digimon was starting to get angry. "Am I wrong?" The woman keeps taunting her.

"I knew he'd get into trouble." Mervamon says as she was about to head in.

"Woah, woah!" MetalKabuterimon quickly grabbed her with his four arms. "Hold on, we need to stay out of this." He tells her.

"Let me go! He can't fight both of them on his own!" She started resisting.

"We'll settle this later. Right now, I've got some work to do!" Lalyamon then swings Blastmon's head at Beelzemon which brought him to block and cause an explosion.

"He told us not to worry about him, we have to trust him." MetalKabuterimon then starts moving away as Mervamon tried to escape his grasp.

'You better be okay when we're done here.' She thinks to herself.

Meanwhile, the blue haired woman sighed. "What a shame. I was hoping for a less boring scene." She says watching Beelzemon and Laylamon battle.

As for elsewhere… "FireStorm Slice!" X5 yells firing a blast from his arm that went past slicing through armies of Bagra Members and destroying them causing a blast.

But more came out of the dust and went after Nene who had her Fusion Loader ready. "Back off!" Mervamon then appeared slashing through the Digimon deleting them.

"Huh?"

"Hey, where do ya think you're going!" MetalKabuterimon then got his cannon ready. "Electron Cannon!" He then fires a positron laser from his head destroying more foes.

"Leave this to us, Nene. Go find Mikey and help him." Mervamon explains.

"Got it!" Nene then puts her Fusion Loader away and starts running.

"Well, that was something I never expected." Whispered says seeing what Mikey was doing.

"Whispered!" He then sees Axemon running towards him. "Are you in need of assistance?" He then asks.

"Not exactly, but I greatly appreciate it." Whispered then takes out his Darkness Loader. "Digi-Fusion!" He then yells as Axemon gets absorbed.

"NO!" UlForce yells as he dashing at them before he was then slashed by a giant dark axe that sent him into the ground.

"UlForceVe-AGH!" MetalGreymon was about to say before he got slashed and sent through the brick wall.

Davis then took notice and looked worried once again. "Oh no, no, no…" He says as he runs his hands through his hair. 'What am I supposed to do?' He thinks before looking back and Mikey and seeing how he was fighting Ewan. As he was watching he started thinking. 'Alright, that's enough. Enough of this stupid secret garbidge, Davis! You have to tell them at some point. For now, forget about it. You need to help them!' He thinks to himself as he clenches his fists before grabbing his Fusion Loader and looking at it. 'I am a General aren't I?'

"So, that's it, huh?" He then jumped when looked beside him to see BanchoLeomon. "Sorry for the scare. So, that kid doesn't think this is all real. Guess that would make sense." He then says.

"Wait, I thought you were…" Davis was about to say.

"Trust me, with the encounters I've had with Olegmon, I've learned how to take a beating. Though, this is still a new kind of injury even for me." He explains as Gaogamon starts to make his way over as well.

"Okay, look. I can explain all about what you were asking me later. Right now, we need to keep Whispered busy." Davis tells them before looking over at said Digimon who looked at them.

Whispered then sighed. "You know, I'm beginning to find your persistence very annoying. I would've put an end to you if I could use my right arm." He tells them while looking annoyed. "I should just capture you right now and force your general to watch you be deleted as Bagra feeds off your negativity!" He says as he begins approaching.

BanchoLeomon and Gaogamon were shocked but didn't show it. As for Davis, he got a glimpse of what happened in his dream once again… BanchoLeomon saw this happening again, and he figured out what it was. However, Davis didn't freeze up in fear… instead he clenched his fists and began to feel angry. At that moment, he had enough of being scared.

Whispered had captured his friends and attacked them causing great damage and yet he didn't do anything about it. Didn't he inherit Courage from his senior Tai. "You're nothing but a phony!" He yells while punching the wall next to him. BanchoLeomon, Gaogamon and UlForce flinched a bit from his sudden burst. "You're a phony! You act like you're this great and power lord who is invincible, but in truth you're not but a dark fake version of Apollomon that will never be him!" The boy then yelled out.

Hearing this Whispered barely twitched as he showed anger for a quick second before he hid it, however still felt offended inside. "You dare speak of me in such a way. In case it hasn't gotten through your head, I am the real Apollomon as the good side doesn't even have the guts to obey the Bagra Army. Nothing but weak, allowing me to take matters into my own hands." He tells the boy.

"As if! Appollomon has a strong heart and he cares for even those made his minions. He wasn't even made a Dark General because he wanted to." Davis begins to go on. "Face it, you not the real Apollomon and we're going to make Ewan see the truth…" He then started running.

"Wait, Davis!" UlForce tried to say.

"Save the Digital World…"

"Are you crazy!" Gaogamon yells almost freaked out.

"Davis, get back here!" BanchoLeomon yells as well.

"And make sure that you go down for good!" The moment Davis reached him, he kicked his leg… But, that turned out to be a mistake. "OW!" He jumped back on one foot while mumbling and holding the foot he kicked with. "That was a bad idea… that was a bad idea…" He says regretting what he did.

Meanwhile… "Yes.." Whispered says while sounding calm but also angry. "Indeed it was." He then says as he kicked Davis sending him into the air as he yelled out in pain.

"DAVIS!" BanchoLeomon was about to jump but UlForce flew past him and quickly grabbed the boy.

"What the?" Mikey says as he pushed off Ewan, hearing what happened and looked outside.

"Huh, not a smart move on his part." Twarmon states.

He then landed on the ground and looked at Davis who was holding his gut. "What were you thinking?" He asks while cringing a bit.

"Davis!" BanchoLeomon called as UlForce bent down. "What was that?! What is wrong with you?! You could've been killed!" He yells at him angry as the boy could barely keep his eyes open in pain.

When Mikey's attention went back to Ewan, he dodged his blade and then shattered it before he shoved him back then grabbed his collar before punching him as he stumbled and fell onto his back. "Ow!" The boy says while holding his cheek.

Davis looked at the lion man and tried to speak. "I-I'm so-" before he grunted at the pain in his abdomen.

"Shoot, he definitely needs healing after that stupid stunt he pulled." BanchoLeomon says looking annoyed at what his General just did.

"You felt that didn't you?" Mikey asks the blonde boy as he got up. "Come on, that's gotta be enough proof this isn't fake!" He tries to tell him only to then be punched back as he stumbled backwards.

Ewan then stopped and froze in place… he actually felt it. He felt the punch he just threw at Mikey… nonetheless, he also felt the punch from the Red General earlier. But, it didn't make any sense did it? He thought the pain was just temporary to make it seem real and put his hand on his face… he still felt the stinging pain of the punch from Mikey on it.

"See what I mean?" The Red General asked him. "Everything you do here good or bad has real consequences. At the very least, we humans exist as flesh and blood here." He starts explaining. "I know, I've gone back to the real world once, but all the pain and small cuts that I got from here never went away. You have to understand… You can't undo what happens here."

As he explained Ewan's eyes widened a bit as he stepped back. 'He's doing what Christpher said he should do… good.' Davis says as he was brought to the ground and stood up, albeit still slightly in pain.

"Hey, careful there." BanchoLeomon says as he held out his hand to support him.

"It's not like you to be this reckless, Davis." UlForce says with a bit of concern. "Maybe back in the day, but not that reckless."

"I-I know… I'm sorry, I just-" Davis tried to say.

"Enough of this nonsense!" Whispered yelled getting their attention. "If you're done stalling, I'm gonna destroy you like I should've done from the very beginning!" He then rose his axe up with Darkness engulfing it.

BanchoLeomon grabbed the hilt of his sword, UlForce readied his weapon and Gaogamon growled as he was ready to defend as well. Davis finally stopped winching in pain as he stood up straight and was ready to fight again.

"Darkness… SLICE!" Whispered yells as he swings his axe down cutting through the air and sending a dark air-slash at them.

"Tense-great Shield!" UlForce yells summoning another shield in front of the group attempting to block the attack.

It worked for a second before it broke through the shield. "Spiral Blow!" Gaogamon blasts a spiraling tornado from his mouth in an attempt to counter the attack.

But it barely held it back. "Lion King Slash!" BanchoLeomon yells as he brings his sword down onto the attack.

The lion-man was grunting as he was trying to hold the attack back, and Davis saw. "Alright, come out Renamon!"

"Diamond Storm!" Renamon yells as she burst out of the Loader and fired her attack the air slash.

BanchoLeomon quickly jumped back as the attack hit. "Spiral Blow!" Gaogamon yelled once more as he fired another attack at the slash.

It then caused an explosion that blew them off their feet. BanchoLeomon caught Davis and UlForce caught both Renamon and Gaogamon as they landed. And Whispered hit one of the walls, falling to one of his knees.

Mikey and Ewan heard the explosion and felt the rumble from it and looked towards the entrance. "Don't you see, Davis getting hurt like that should be more than enough proof to show this is isn't a game." Mikey explains to him.

"Shoot, I can't let him keep talking!" Twarmon was about to go after Ewan and Mikey before he got grabbed from behind.

"I don't think so." X5 chucks Twarmon straight at the way destroying it before he rushes to MetalGreymon. "Hey, how are you holding up there?" He then asks.

"Gh, you're timing could've been better." The robotic dinosaur says grunting.

"Davis!" Nene yells as she gets down from X5.

"N-Nene?" Davis says as he looked to see her running over to them.

"Grh, you kidding me?" Whispered grunted as he hosted himself up.

"What happened?" Nene asks worried BanchoLeomon let him down.

"He acted like an idiot and tried to attack Whispered." Gaogamon explains angry.

"Wait, what?!" She says shocked.

"Y-yeah, I kinda…" Davis was trying to explain.

"Are you, OUT OF YOUR MIND!" Nene yells as she grabbed him by the collar of his jacket. "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?! Why did you just go after Whispered like that knowing that you could've been killed!" She yells shaking him for a second.

"GH-Calm down! Easy!" He yelled as he still felt the pain of Whispered attack.

She let go of his collar and calmed down a bit. "Still, that was beyond reckless, even for you!" She still was upset for what he did.

"I-I'm sorry, I wasn't thinki-" He was about to say before he felt her hug him.

"Please, don't do that again. The last thing I want is to lose any of my friends, so please, don't act so reckless like that." She says as a bit of tears stained the boy's jacket.

Davis didn't move for a moment and knew how worried Nene most likely was, especially after what he did. "I-I'm sorry…" He says as he hugged her back.

Gaogamon saw what was happening and covered his eyes with his paw, BanchoLeomon blushed a bit and looked in the other direction, UlForceVeedramon knew what was happening as well as he blushed a bit before turning away. Shoutmon X5 blushed a little himself as he looked away too.

"Jeez, mind saving the 'love dovey' act until after we're done here?" He mumbled to himself.

Nene then let go as Davis held his gut which still hurt. "Right now…" She says as she took his arm. "We need to save Ewan." She then says throwing his arm around her shoulder to host him up.

"T-thanks." He says as they walked over to the entrance to the castle.

"It's all true, Ewan. If the Digimon get hurt, they feel pain that's not in anyway make believe. A world where you can live avoiding reality doesn't exist in any world." Mikey explains more.

"LIAR!" Ewan yelled out in frustration.

"It's the truth, Ewan!" Nene yells as he turned his attention to her.

"Wha, Nene? And Davis?" He says as he looked shocked. "B-but-"

"We've been trying to explain that all along. But listen, from the Digital World I've known, it's the same. Digimon don't exist as data." Davis tells him.

"Like Davis and Mikey said, this world and everything in it is as real as ours. Digimon are no different from us." Nene explains.

"That's why I came back, so I can save this world. Digimon laugh, feel pain, sadness, fear, everything we do." Mikey explains more. "Because what you see around you isn't data. And Digimon are living like us."

Ewan looked in disbelief as he couldn't believe what he was hearing. "N-no… I-if I win… then you all really…?" He was at a loss for words not wanting to believe what he was hearing.

"If pain didn't really exist, I would've taken that kick from Whispered and would be able to stand on my own. But… well, Mikey pretty much said it all." Davis tells him which caused the blonde boy's eyes to widen.

"B-but… I-I…"

"Look, GH!" The maroon haired boy grunted when he tried to walk on his own and Nene held him up. "I knew someone back in my world who thought the same thing. He thought the Digital world was not real as well and attacked the Digimon." He says as he stood up while still clenching his stomach.

"Please, stop doing this and keep yourself from making the same mistake you're going to regret later." They heard someone say and turned around to see BanchoLeomon. "AxeKnightmon is doing nothing more than tricking you into his bidding. Surely, you have to see that. You're nothing more than a puppet he'll throw out after he's done with you. So, stop all this, before it's too late." He then says as he walks forward and winches a bit.

Ewan saw him winch and he stared for a moment before letting his head drop. "That's enough, Ewan. Let's stop all of this and go home." Nene says as she walks over to him, still holding Davis.

Then something snapped in Ewan. "Home?…" He mutters which caught the others' attention. "Home?" His fists then tightened up. "I don't WANNA GO BACK!" He then screamed out in anger. "I love this world and want to keep fighting in it!" He yelled out once again. "You're delusional… all of you… ARE DELUSIONAL!"

His sudden outburst caused the three Generals to step back a bit, and he pulled out his Darkness Loader. "NO!" BanchoLeomon yelled.

"TWARMON!" He then yelled as he burst made a dash for the doorway and pushed the lionman out of the way. "Absorb all the energy from the Digimon, and the underworld!" He then yelled outside.

"What?" Twarmon says not hearing him at first.

"Darkness Loader, FORCE DIGI-FUSION! PLUS ABSORPTION-FUSION!" The boy then screamed out.

"Uh, yes General!" The golden Digimon then says as he readies for Fusion.

Then he starts to glow purple as purple lights from all around came flying into him, colliding as one. Axemon grunted as he tried to leave only to be caught, Sethmon wasn't given time to escape as he too was absorbed. Shoutmon X5 with MetalGreymon stepped back a bit looking worried as purple lights from all around were still colliding.

Whispered looked surprised at first but then became interested. "So, this is the power of the true Darkness Loader." He says while becoming even more curious. "Well, I believe my work here is done for now." He then says before he leaves.

"Ewan, stop!" Nene yelled out as the boy ran into the purple glow as well.

"RuthlessTwarmon, Beast Mode!" Twarmon yelled as he took on his new form with Ewan sitting atop of him with controls.

"I'm not gonna lose this. Get them!" The boy yelled out.

"You got it, Missile Storm!" The Digimon then yelled out as he fired the spikes from his shoulders at X5 and MetalGreymon who were caught off guard at first.

"What the-OH come on!" UlForce says annoyed. "Can we just have something easy for once?!" He says annoyed.

"Afraid not." BanchoLeomon says as he walks to him and Gaogamon. "I don't think there's any convincing Ewan that's gonna be happening." He says before he grunted as he reached them.

"We've gotta stop him before he hurts someone, or even himself." Mikey says as he walks out with Davis and Nene. "Shoutmon!" He then calls out.

"Right!" Shoutmon's voice roared as a light began to emit from the smoke and it showed the red dragon back to his normal self.

"Alright, Digivolve!" Mikey then yelled out rising his Fusion Loader which emitted a gold light.

"Shoutmon! Digivolve, to…"

"OmniShoutmon!"

"Everyone attack in waves!" Dorulumon yells as him, OmniShoutmon and the rest of the Digimon charge in to attack.

"Seismic Speaker!" Ballistamon yelled out as he fired soundwaves.

"Drill Bit Blitz!" Dorulumon then started firing drills from his head.

"Meteor Shower!" Starmon yelled sending Pickmonz flying.

"Lightning Laser!" Sparrowmon yelled firing her laser.

"Oh brother." Twarmon says as he holds his arms up and blocked the attacks but struggled to stand while being hit.

"Dash Double Claw!" Gaogamon yells as he dashes in and slashes his claws at Twarmon's back throwing him off guard as he stumbled forward.

"Flash Bancho Punch!" BanchoLeomon yells as he fires an attack at the golden Digimon.

"For the love!" He yells as he swipes the attack sending it flying into the air like it's nothing.

"Gotcha!" OmniShoutmon says as he appeared behind the Digimon about to grab Ewan.

"Don't even think about it!" Twarmon then swung his fist at him sending him flying away. "And that goes for you, too!" He then elbows UlForce as he has also appeared behind him before grabbing him and throwing him towards the rest. "None of you are touching Ewan! Ultimate FireStorm!" He then fires flames at them.

"Tense-great Shield!" UlForce quickly yelled summoning a shield to block the attack.

"Pretty cool, huh? You guys didn't even know I had this weapon to begin with, didn't you?" Ewan says before OmniShoutmon appeared in front of him.

"Woah!" Twarmon yelled as he quickly smacked the golden Digimon back and fired needles that pinned him to the wall. "Nice try!" He then says before firing red lava at him which caused him to burn and yell in agony.

Hearing his cries of pain made Ewan flinch for a second. "No!" He suddenly yelled.

"What?" Twarmon says as he stops the attack and showing is shown breathing in pain.

"Shoutmon, you okay?!" BanchoLeomon yelled worried.

"Digimon laugh, feel pain, sadness, fear, everything we do." Mikey's words echoed in the boy's mind.

"No… no, it's not true." He says holding his head. "Forget what I said, keep firing!" He commanded.

"Alright." Twarmon just said as he resumed firing.

But before it hit, something blasted the yellow Digimon catching him off guard, giving UlForce enough time to get Shoutmon free. "You okay?" He asks as he holds him up.

"I've been better." The golden Digimon responded before he looked to see where the blast came from.

"Don't go dying on me yet, you guys." ZekeGreymon says with smoke coming from his canon.

"What? But when did-?" Ewan questioned confused.

"I told you before, Ewan!" Christopher showed up next to ZekeGreymon which brought his friends to smile. "None of this is a game! Miracles beyond your imagination can occur!" He yelled out.

"Wha-You weren't eliminated?" The blonde boy says confused before he starts looking at the Digimon one by one that were there and realized. "Oh no…"

"Let's finish this, guys!" Christopher says as he pulls out his Fusion Loader.

"Right!" Nene agreed and pulled out her fusion Loader.

"Let's do this!" Mikey also says taking out his.

"Alright!" Davis then took out his Fusion Loader as well.

"Great Fusion!"

"OmniShoutmon!"

"Okay!"

"ZekeGreymon!"

"*ROARS*!"

"UlForceVeedramon!"

"Let's go!"

"Ballistamon!"

"Boo-yah, Baby!"

"Dorulumon!"

"*ROARS*!"

"Starmon, Pickmonz!"

"Yeah!"

"Sparrowmon!"

"Right!"

"BanchoLeomon!"

"Ready!"

"GREAT FUSION!"

"SHOUTMON X8!"

"That's X8?" Ewan says almost looking amazed before shaking his head. "Whatever, attack now!" He then says thrusting his hand forward.

"If you say so." Twarmon says as he starts blasting needles, fire and lava at the large fusion.

However as the attacks were traveling, it seemed as though it was in slow motion to X8, as he simply just dashed past all the attacks standing right in front of the yellow Digimon which caught Ewan off guard. "Not this time!" He says before throwing his fist forward punching Twarmon.

"GAH!" He screamed after getting punched into a nearby wall. "Agh… ow…"

"Huh?" Ewan heard what the Digimon said and looked confused. "Wait… did that… hurt?" He asked as the yellow Digimon then began to look worried.

"N-no, of course not. It's not real." He quickly resorted. 'I can't let him know.' He thinks as he quickly got out of the wall. "Mad Mantis Dance!" Then he started spinning around.

"Fusion Flame-Blade!" X8 then pulled his sword back as it was engulfed with fire before he swung it right at his opponent causing an explosion immediately on impact.

"GAHA!" Twarmon yelled out in pain as he was sent flying into the air once more. "O-okay… that actually hurt." He says with sparks coming out of him before he crashed into another one of the castle walls.

"Shoot, should've warned him." X8 says with a bit of a chuckle.

"Okay, change of plans." Twarmon says before he de-fused and Axemon crashed into the ground inside the tower with the other Digimon as they got crushed by rocks.

"Wait, what are you doing?" Ewan says confused.

"Don't worry, it's not real!" Twarmon kept telling him as they flew away.

"Oh, Ewan." Nene says still a bit worried.

"Still annoyed we couldn't get him to join us but, at least he's… safe…" Davis then says before the whole castle starts coming down.

"*Sigh*... guess the young General whom our commander took much pride in has failed. I was right to abandon them." Whispered says to himself in disappointment while seeing X8 de-fuse. "What to do now?" He then says before something catches his attention.

"So, how did go talking with Ewan?" Christopher asks Mikey.

"Well, it's sort of vague but… after what happened with Ewan, I think I finally found out something that I've been missing." He explains to the group.

"Well, that's a relief I guess." The blonde boy states with a smile.

"So we just need to get Ewan then we can finally be done here." Nene says sort of relieved as well.

"Wait, everything's not okay yet! We still don't know where Beelzemon is." Mervamon says as she arrived with MetalKabuterimon and Porcupamon.

"He covered for us and went to fight an enemy. We haven't seen him since." MetalKabuterimon states.

"I knew we shouldn't have left him who knows what happened to him?" Mervamon says annoyed at herself.

"Uh, guys?" Mikey says getting their attention. "Beelzemon is over there." He then points towards the rubble seeing Beelzemon sat atop one of the rocks as he raised his hand and waved to them.

"Ya know, I don't think he's going down anytime soon." Shoutmon says with his hands on his hips.

"Well, not bad for us at least." Veemon then says agreeing.

"Really? He wants to act cool?" Mervamon then says annoyed before she turned away scoffing. "Should've just left him."

Beelzemon smiled a bit with a chuckle. "Well, thank goodness that's over with, GH!" Davis says before grunting in pain as he tried to stand up and felt a hand on his shoulder.

"I think it's about time you explain what has been going on in that mind of yours." BanchoLeomon says as he held his hand on the boy's shoulder.

"Hey, you okay Davis?" Mikey asks worried.

"Let me just wrap you up to speed on what has happened recently." Gaogamon says walking in the middle of them all. "Cause if he's not gonna tell, I will." He then states as Davis just looked away.

Gaogamon had just finished explaining what had happened and the others looked worried. "Seriously?" Mikey says in disbelief.

"What? Doesn't sound true? Well, do you really expect me to lie right now?" Gaogamon states.

"I can back it up." Greymon says walking over. "He started saying something about how I shouldn't fight. I have no idea what was with him, he wouldn't stop telling me to stop fighting until the point where I was getting angry hearing him say so." He explains.

"Now that I think about it, when Davis saw you and BanchoLeomon captured, he just stood there. At first anyway." Mikey then states. "Hey, Davis, what was that about?" He asked.

Everyone then turned to the maroon haired boy, hoping that he would tell them. "I-I… u-um…" He hesitated.

"Come on, spit it out!" Christopher says getting a little annoyed.

"Davis, you can't keep hiding this secret like this." BanchoLeomon states.

"Please Davis, just tell us. We're your friends. So, please just tell us." Nene then pleaded.

He looked nervous as he didn't know whether to tell them or not. "Davis…" He then looked down to see Veemon walking over to him. "Come on, you can trust us." He then held his hand out.

Davis didn't know what to do and as he stood there, he didn't want to tell them but then again, he had to tell them at some point or ano-I saw him smile which caused me to flinch and step back.-His eyes widened when he got a flashback. -Saw Mikey on the ground, heavily bruised up.-The Digimon… they were being drained of their power.

"Davis, come on. We don't have all day here!" Christopher says getting annoyed.

"Christopher, calm down." Mikey then says trying to keep him from getting more angry.

as Knightmon grunted in agony, the spear was ripped out…

"Mikey, we don't have much time." The blonde boy exclaims.

"We know, but talking to him like this isn't helping." Nene tells him.

"NO I'M BEGGING YOU! PLEASE!"

"Davis!" He heard one last time before something snapped.

"STOOOOPP!" He then suddenly yells out as he stood on his on. "Stop asking me already! Just stop!" He then started to freak out as he started to look angry. "I don't wanna think about, I don't wanna hear about it, JUST STOP ASKING ALREADY!" He yelled out as everyone took a step back from. "I said to stop, so. Just. STOP!" He then screams out once again while stomping the ground.

Davis starts hyperventilating as he grits his teeth in anger, then soon afterwards, he looked down at his hands. His anger then started to fade as he saw his hands shaking while feeling sweat run down his face. He then looked up at the others to see that they were shocked at his sudden outburst with looks of disbelief on their faces. He then looked towards Veemon to see that he was no different.

He tried to think, and tried to figure out what to say but as he did so, his vision began to blur… his legs became weak… all he could hear were faint voices talking to him as he began to fall and his vision went black.

BanchoLeomon caught him as the rest of them not only looked shocked, but worried. Beelzemon saw what happened and was about to head over but he stopped after slightly moving, gripping his torso. He moved it to reveal the cut he had gotten from his fight earlier as grunted annoyed from it before looking back towards the others as they gathered around the fainted boy. All while letting a feather fall and turn to data.

Meanwhile, elsewhere: Twarmon landed in a crater while slightly wincing in pain, but keeping Ewan held close. "Oh, that was a close call… you alright, Ewan?" Twarmon asks before he sees his partner is looking at the ground. "Ewan?"

"... Twarmon… d-did you really feel pain in that battle?" Ewan asks still not looking at him.

"Huh? W-what are you talking about?" The yellow Digimon asks trying not to let him know.

"Please, tell me… have Digimon really been able to feel pain this entire time?" The boy asks once more.

Twarmon was about to say something but stopped as he was about to say it. He couldn't find the words or the courage to lie to Ewan any further and fell silent when the question was brought up. He didn't want him to find out, didn't want him to know about the horrible truth but after everything, what left was there to convince him otherwise? Not to mention, even he wasn't able to hide the pain any longer due to his injuries.

(Meanwhile)

After Mimi and Palmon saw the old lady turn to stare at them, they were a little worried at first. "Um… excuse me, but what's going on?" Mimi spoke out.

"Bearers of the Crest of Sincerity, welcome. I'm sure you have many questions, but unfortunately, our time is short and as such I must make this quick." The old lady tells them. "I am Babamon, and as you know a friend of yours has gone to another world. Unfortunately, the evil that exists there is far too powerful for him and the friends he's made to work with it alone and as such. He is in need of your assistance." The Digimon explains.

"W-what do you mean? Like he needs our help?" Palmon asks curious.

"So, he can't do this by himself?" Mimi then asks concerned.

"I'm afraid that is soon to be the case, dear. The evil is already taking advantage of him as we speak." Babamon tells her.

"What do you mean? What's happening to Davis?" Mimi asks worried as the old Digimon said.

"They managed to attack him through his mind while he was unconscious and now his mental state is starting to go haywire." She then says again as that made the two even more worried. "That is why he needs your help, but you are not strong… least not enough. If you truly wish to help your friend and bring him back home, you must awaken a power that exceeds your current strength." The old Digimon states again.

"What does she mean by that?" Palmon asks.

"Well, she might be saying… wait are you saying we should Digivolve?" Mimi then asks.

"To beyond your limits." Babamon continued. "The flower you see before you holds a tremendous amount of power. And it's your duty to protect this power." She then states as she gestures towards said flower.

Mimi and Palmon stared at it for a moment before they heard a loud roar of anger. The Tanemon were frightened from said roar and huddled around the flower close as the duo were scared as well. Babamon on the other hand hadn't even flinched.

"Well, it seems one of those no-good Digimon has finally found its way here." She sighed.

Then a shadow began to make itself visible as it was exiting the forest frightening Mimi, Palmon and the Tanemon even more. A Digimon resembling a sort of black armored knight with a large spear by its side. With the size of a 10 story building. It then turned its attention to the flower and began to make its way towards it.

"I expected that fiend to show up this early, however I was hoping to be wrong." Baba then stated.

"Wait, you aren't freaked out by that thing?" Mimi asked scared but confused.

"I would be, but during my years I've come to expect the unexpected. For now, focus on protecting the flower until it blooms. There's no time to lose." The old Digimon then tells them.

"But what about you?" Mimi then asks again worried.

"It doesn't matter what happens to me. Right now, you need to do as I said. So don't focus on me." Babamon states again.

Mimi looked at the flower and back at Babamon as said Digimon crossed her arms. "Uh, o-okay! Come on, Palmon!" She then says before she ran towards the flower.

"Huh? Uh, okay!" Palmon followed her.

"Let's give this Digimon a piece of our mind." Mimi says as she reached for her Digivice, but found she didn't have it with her. "Wha, where's my Digivice?!" She then freaked out confused.

"What?! You don't have it?!" Palmon says also getting freaked out.

"For heaven's sake…" Babamon then walked over and held her arms out as they started to release a glow.

Then something blocked the black-knight Digimon in its tracks as it tried to move again only to be blocked by some kind of barrier. "Wait, you could've just done that?" Mimi questioned her.

"It's only a last resort technique, but it seems I need to use it now. Also, what are you waiting for?!" The old Digimon then says sounding annoyed.

"But, what could I do?" the brown haired girl asked once more.

"My goodness, do I need to explain everything?! It is something that only you and your Digimon are capable of! Protect the flower with Sincerity until it has bloomed!" Babamon yelled out again.

Mimi looked at the flower then at Palmon before putting on a determined face. "Fine, we'll just have to fight without it then. Go Palmon!" She then pointed at the black knight Digimon.

"Right!" Palmon then ran forward as the evil Digimon put its hand up. "Poison Ivy!" She yelled out as she wrapped her fingers around its own and threw it off as she pulled it away.

The Knight Digimon then got angry as it swung its hand up, bringin Palmon with it and shook about trying to get her off. It started swinging her around in circles like a tornado causing her to get dizzy as Mimi looked worried.

Then it started slamming her into the ground several times destroying more of the place which got Mimi scared, but then angry. She was angry at how the Digimon was treating her friend but also what it was doing to the place.

"You won't get away with this you monster! You are making a big mistake!" Mimi suddenly yelled out.

The knight then stopped slamming Palmon around as he fingers fell off from it allowing her to fall, then he looked right at Mimi. From that, she got scared when she looked into its eyes as they reminded of her of the evil Digimon she and the Digidestined had dealt with in the past. But stood her ground and stopped herself from being scared.

"I'm not gonna give up…" She says as the flower was starting to glow. "Not now, not here, and most certainly not to you!" She yelled as it was glowing brighter.

She then noticed the flower glowing brightly and heard some laughter before looking at Babamon to see her glowing as well. "Well, it's about time." The old Digimon said with a smile.

Palmon then arrived at her side as her and Mimi looked at each other before giving each other a smile knowing what to do. They then turned towards the flower as it began to bloom into a beautiful rose. Then a green light burst out of the top of it as they watched it land straight onto Babamon who bathed in the light with a smile on her face before a bright glow covered the area.

As the light was dying down, they saw what stood in Babamon's place was a glowing figure. The ugliness from said creature had disappeared and was now replaced with a beautiful red Digimon with a vine for a whip, taller in size and long blonde hair flowing from behind.

"Woah, what's that Digimon?" Mimi says amazed.

"That's Rosemon, she's one of the Mega Level Digimon." Palmon tells her as she was also amazed.

"Thank you for your Sincerity. It's because of that the flower has bloomed. You just need to bloom yourselves if you wish to help your friend to save your friend. Bloom into a flower past Ultimate." Rosemon tells them before she turned to the black knight who looked angry.

"Wait, what do you mean?" Mimi asked but instead of getting an answer, Rosemon flew at the dark knight.

She then used her whip to grab ahold of the Digimon before the jew by her neck glowed. "Forbidden Temptation!" She then fired a blast of roses that hit the evil Digimon.

As said Digimon was being attacked, it began resisting with all its might but to no use as it couldn't escape. It then started to glow brightly as it was slowly disintegrating into data before a bright flash covered everyone's view.

Before Mimi knew it, she was back in her bed gasping as she sat up straight and looked around to see that she was back the guest room she shared with Sora. "Mimi?" She heard as she found Palmon lying next to her.

"Palmon?" She asked back. "Wait, was that all a dream?" She said at first.

"That thing that happened with the flower and strange Digimon?" Her Digimon partner asked curious.

"Oh, guess not then." Mimi then said as she was now in thought. 'What was that all about? What did she mean?'

Then they heard a beeping noise and they saw that it was Mimi's Digivice on her dresser. She reached for her Digivice and looked at the screen. "What is going on?"

To be continued…

FINALLY! It's finally over… all these months it took to get this done… I-I don't know what to say. These chapters are taking us longer and longer every day to do. Shout out to PurpleOlaf96/poseidon7 for helping me with this chapter and thank you for reading this story turned collab.

Thank you all for reading and stay tuned.