Merry Christmas, everyone! Sorry this one took so long, but I had to go to some relatives south of town and then watch some Christmas classics, Scrooged, Die Hard and Home Alone.
'I get it. You're here to show me my past, and I'm supposed to get all dully-eyed and mush. Well, forget it, pal, you got the wrong guy!'
'That's exactly what Attila the Hun said. But when he saw his mother... Niagara Falls!'

Shoutout to a lot of people, Lord-sassy012, Shiovaun, Vietnam123, and Whiteling, who left some reviews on Sweat and Tears before catching up with us, for faves and follows.

And for the reviews, thanks newcomer Whitling, DigimonAT0318, MadDogLucario96.
To Vietnam123, yes the Dark World is in this story.
And God of the Challenge, first, you got that quote from Boyle! Also, if reading 'This Story' for more than four hours, consult a doctor immediately.

Well, let's finish this festive day with a bang.

Chapter 13: Blue Lightning! Lighdramon!

Digital World. May 14th, 2002. 1627 Hours.
P.O.V. – Third Person

With MetalGreymon under his complete command, the Kaiser was already making quick gains with the sheer power he had at his disposal. Multiple sectors were falling quickly under his control and now the Chosen Children had nothing to counter him with. While Armor was a good work around to his Dark Digivice jamming any sort of evolution attempts; at the end of the day, Armor was only a stop-gap measure to fighting as an Adult-Level. It would not be enough to fight a fully evolved Perfect-Level.
"The Evil Spiral can even control the Perfect-Level." The Kaiser said to himself. "Nothing can get in my way now." MetalGreymon roared. "You want to fight more, huh? Good boy."

P.O.V. – Yamato Ishida

We kept moving along down the track trying as best as we could to follow MetalGreymon and the Kaiser when we saw some familiar objects closing in on us.
"Ross-chan! Koushiro-san!" Hikari called out and wave to the two of them were closing in on Waibanmon and ForceBeemon.
"There you guys are! We've been looking for you." Koushiro explained. He and ForceBeemon landed in the middle of the three carts where Ken, Takeru and Osamu were, while Ross and Waibanmon, who devolved back to Guilmon, landed in the front cart with me and Taichi.
"We caught a glimpse of what happened. Guessing the Kaiser figured out how to control a Perfect-Level Digimon, right?" Ross inquired.
"And poor Agumon was the victim?" Guilmon added. We nodded.
"Hey!" Iori alerted. "Mail from Takeo-san!"
"What does he say?" asked Koushiro.
"The Digimon Kaiser is moving south."
"Which means?" I questioned.
"That we're on the right track." ForceBeemon said.

"Alright, this time we'll get Agumon back for sure!" Taichi declared.
"Yeah, we can't let the Kaiser have his way!" I chimed. "Oh, right…" I quickly remembered something. "Koushiro, ForceBeemon… I have a favor to ask."
"What is it, Yamato-san?" Koushiro wondered.
"Can you find Gabumon for me? I feel we're going to need an extra paw."
"Sure, we can find him. Leave it to us. ForceBeemon! Let's go!" ForceBeemon wrapped around Koushiro's back and took off with him as they flew away.

"Hey, wait a second." Daisuke stood up. "You mean we're going to fight MetalGreymon?"
"Yeah." Taichi nodded.
"If we hesitate, we'll go down. We have to do what we have to do. We can't help him by not fighting him. It's either that or we just roll over and let the Kaiser dominate the rest of the Digital World, now do you want that?" I reminded Daisuke what was at stake.
"But I… I wonder if I'll be able to attack Taichi-san's Digimon…" Daisuke was very hesitant to what needed to be done.
"But we have no choice." Takeru told him.
"What?"
"I don't want to do it, but there's no choice. If we don't fight, we can't save Agumon. We have no choice!"
"Destroying Taichi-san's Agumon?" Daisuke got up into his face. "What's that about having no choice?"
"Not destroying, just removing that Evil Spiral!"
"But we couldn't, could we? We can't remove it unless we destroy the Digimon!"
"But that's what Taichi-san has decided! We all have to do our best!"
"Easy for you to say!" He charged into him and the two started to fight.

"Hey, guys! Stop it, you two!" Ken tried to get in between them to try and stop them.
"Don't stop them!" Taichi ordered.
"Why?" Miyako asked.
"Shouldn't we stop them?" Iori questioned.
"It's best to let them get it out of their system." Ross told them. "Chosen Children and infighting is nothing new."
"We used to fight a lot too…" Taichi added, referring to all the fights me and him got into. "If we hadn't, we wouldn't be friends now. So let them fight."
"Let them fight? What's that mean?" Miyako was confused.
"I don't know, but there must be a meaning to it." Iori believed.
"Exactly. You'll understand." I said.
"Anyway, now we have to chase after the Kaiser." Taichi got us back on track.

P.O.V. – Koushiro Izumi

As ForceBeemon and I flew through the air in search of Gabumon, it was clear the Kaiser was making good on his advantage as we were encountering many Dark Towers along the way.
"The Kaiser got this far…" ForceBeemon muttered to himself. We heard some sounds and we took cover behind a rock formation… well, ForceBeemon hid behind a rock formation but we were still flying in the air. We looked to the ground and saw some Pagumon who were hopping away with Evil Rings around one of their ears.
"We need to find Gabumon quick…" I whispered to ForceBeemon.
"Agreed."

P.O.V. – Yamato Ishida

"Huh… This is…" Iori seemed to have discovered something.
"What is it?" I asked him.
"A Digimental's signal."
"Eh? A Digimental's?" Daisuke questioned.
"There's still one more?" Hikari was in disbelief as well as the rest of us. Ross pulled on the brake handle and stopped the cart and we pulled up right next to a cliff side that had a familiar symbol carved into it.
"That Crest…" I saw that it was the Crest of Friendship.
"Should we check it out?" Taichi wondered.
"Let's do it." Iori determined.

We walked up to it and Iori's Digivice beeped even faster.
"So it is coming from here!" Looks like he was right.
"That's…" Daisuke walked up to a small hole in front of us. "Found it." We walked over to it… and found that it looked very familiar.
"Talk about seeing double." I said. It was the exact same Digimental that I picked up last month when we fought that RedVegimon. "That's the Digimental of Friendship."
"Wait, friendship?" Daisuke must not have paid as much attention last time.
"It's like proof of all the fights Yamato and I had." Taichi said.
"We fought about stupid things." I added.
"Fighting is proof of friendship…? What's that about?" Daisuke sounded confused.

"I can't believe there's two of that Digimental." Iori said. "I wonder whose it is."
"Well, I don't think there are any more Chosen Children… but then again, remember when we first pulled out our Digimentals? They split in half then copied themselves." Miyako remembered.
"Is that what happened with you guys?" Ken questioned.
"Yeah… Daisuke-kun, Miyako-san, and Iori-kun pulled out theirs and got their Digimon partners when they pulled out the Digimental. However, they needed Taichi-san, Sora-san, and Koushiro-san to help them pulled it out. When they did, they split in half before they reformed as they were before." Takeru explained.
"Well, this is different then, because I already pulled this one out." I reminded.
"Yamato, even though you have done it before, why don't you try with this one." Taichi suggested.
"Alright…" I got down in the whole and started to pull. However, unlike last time, this one wouldn't budge. "Nothing… maybe it's because I already have one just like it."

"Iori, you try." Taichi suggested next.
"Y-yes." He climbed into the hole and tried himself but the same result happened with him. That thing was not moving.
"Taichi, you?" I motioned him. Taichi nodded and tried but he failed. "Everyone else try too." The others tried as well. Takeru gave up in exhaustion, Hikari was out of breath, Ross was stomping his foot like a rabbit trying to pull it, Ken failed as well, and Miyako accidently fell backwards and hit her head on the lip of the hole; thank goodness she had that helmet.
"The Digimental of Friendship, huh…?" muttered Daisuke.
"Daisuke, your turn." Ross patted him on the back.
"I don't think it's mine."
"Why?" I asked. Is he trying to get out of this?
"Because… this is the Digimental of Friendship, right…?" Why does he look so nervous? "And I have no idea what friendship is…" What? I looked over and saw the others were confused as well. Except for Ken, the look on his face said something like 'I know how you feel.' I think. I can't really tell.

"That's why it's alright." Taichi assured him.
"I don't get what you guys were saying about Agumon at all… I don't understand when you say we should fight…" He tried to explain. Both Taichi and I grabbed him.
"Stop making excuses, just do it! Didn't you hear what your seniors said?" I yelled as we threw him into the hole… though he almost landed on the lightning bolt part of the Digimental face first.
"Careful! I nearly impaled myself on this thing!"
"We're in a hurry, so just do it!" Taichi demanded.
"Okay, okay, okay, I get it…" He quickly motioned himself to prepare to lift it before he began to tug on it... but just like the rest of us… it wouldn't budge. "I knew it wouldn't work!"

Suddenly, the air began ringing with a painful buzz that caused all of us to cover our ears.
"What's that noise!?" Daisuke shouted.
"My ears hurt!" Miyako complained. We turned and saw a Flymon heading straight for us. "Something's flying this way!"
"Be careful! That's a Flymon!" I warned. It used its Deadly Sting attack and we jumped out of the way to avoid being hit by all the stingers that were launched at us. Unfortunately, poor Patamon got clipped by one and he fell to the ground in pain.
"Patamon!" Takeru cried.
"Daisuke!" V-mon was itching to fight the controlled Digimon.
"Alright! Digimental Up!"
"V-mon, Armor-Evolve! Burning Courage, FLADRAMON!"

"Fire Rocket!" Fladramon tried to stop Flymon but the bug was too fast for him to reach.
"Hawkmon!" Miyako did some weird motions like she was a Super Sentai or something.
"Yes!"
"Digimental Up!"
"Hawkmon, Armor-Evolve! Wings of Love, HOLSMON!" He took off to join the fight. "Tempest Wing!" Again, Flymon was able to avoid the attack.
"That's it! Time to fight stinger with stinger! Wormmon!" Ken got fired up.
"Ready when you are, Ken-chan!"
"Digimental Up!"
"Wormmon, Armor-Evolve! Stinging Kindness, TETERMON!" Tetermon swarmed as fast as he was able and got a few strikes on Flymon but the other bug responded by stopping his wings and producing that sharp ringing noise causing us to grab our ears again.

When the ringing stopped, Takeru gasped in fear.
"Patamon? Patamon is gone!" He exclaimed.
"What?" I responded.
"Up there!" Ross pointed. We looked up to see that Flymon had swooped by us and abducted Patamon. It didn't take a genius to understand what was going on. Osamu was going to try to pick us off one by one not by destroying us but by turning our own Digimon partners against us!
"Patamon!" Takeru cried.
"No… not Patamon too!" feared Hikari.
"Patamon!" Takeru ran forward after the Flymon with our Digimon following suit.
"Guilmon, take to the skies!" Ross ordered.
"Roger!"
"Digimental Up!"
"Guilmon, Armor-Evolve! Honorable Fire, WAIBANMON!" Ross hopped on his partner and both he and Ken took to the air.

P.O.V. – Daisuke Motomiya

We pursued that Flymon as far as we could until practically out of nowhere, our path was blocked by the all intimidating MetalGreymon!
"BREAK OFF! BREAK OFF!" Ross shouted as both he and Ken flew out of the way before they crashed into MetalGreymon.
"MetalGreymon!" Taichi exclaimed.
"Everyone! Be careful!" Yamato warned. All of us took a good look at the Kaiser who was riding on MetalGreymon's shoulder.
"Clearly you need another lesson to prove that I have won as I was expecting you all to run home." The Kaiser taunted.
"I could say the same for you, Osamu." Ken spoke up. "For crying out loud, please, put an end to all this madness and just come home! You know how devastated Mom and Dad are because of all this!?" The Kaiser stared him down. He then slowly chuckled before he started laughing so hard you'd think he had heard the funniest joke ever.
"Oh, sweet and naïve, Ken. Don't you see? I am home!" He suddenly roared before he snapped his finger and the Flymon that abducted Patamon flew next to him.

"Patamon! Patamon!" Takeru called out for his partner as the rest of us caught up with him. The Kaiser pulled out another one of those Evil Spirals and chuckled once more.
"An Evil Spiral!" Hikari observed.
"What are you going to do with that!?" Taichi demanded… though I'm pretty sure we all knew the answer to that.
"I was able to make a second Evil Spiral… I'll test it out on this Digimon." The Kaiser turned to Patamon. "Honored? You will be part of this ingenious experiment…"
"What?! Don't play with me!" Takeru yelled in anger.
"You better watch your mouth."
"Damn…" Fladramon growled. "Fire…!"
"Stop, Fladramon!" I ordered him to stop before he did something drastic. "What if you hurt Patamon?" I reminded him.
"Sorry, Daisuke… but…"

"Patamon is too close to the Kaiser!" Holsmon sounded frustrated.
"We can't make a move…" I was worried beyond belief about the predicament.
"What are you waiting for!?" Takeru ran up to me.
"What?"
"We have to get Patamon back!"
"I already know that!"
"Then don't just stand there watching!"
"Who's just watching!?" I grabbed him again only for Miyako to be the one to break up our fight before it could begin.
"Stop it, you two! This isn't the time to fight, alright!?"

The Kaiser laughed once more.
"You rats, what are you doing? Fighting each other? So that's all your friendship amounts to, huh…? You certainly know how to pick your so called friends, Ken-chan!"
"Please, Onii-san! I'm begging you! Stop this now!" Ken insisted.
"Keep saying that… I'm sure it will work eventually." responded Ross sarcastically. "Let's face it, Ken-kun… your brother lost his marbles a long time ago." The Kaiser gritted his teeth due to the fact he had just been insulted but he regained his smug grin.
"I'll never let you have your way with Patamon!" professed Takeru.
"Same with Agumon!" Taichi added.
"Heh… If you say so… if you can get them back, do so." He turned his attention back to Patamon.
"You're going…" Patamon gulped in fear. "…to put that on me?"
"Exactly… I'll show your foolish friends this wonderful experiment…" The Kaiser slowly moved the Spiral towards Patamon while he struggled to escape Flymon's grasp.
"Patamon!" Takeru charged forward but Taichi was right behind him.
"Takeru!" He tackled him to get them to avoid MetalGreymon's claw that launched out towards them.

However, while it seemed like Patamon would suffer the same fate as Agumon; a bright blast shot forward and destroyed the Evil Spiral in the Kaiser's hands. He grasped his hand in pain before Patamon vanished as a blue and white blur soared by and also destroyed the ring around Flymon. It turned out the shot was from ForceBeemon who hovered nearby.
"Sorry, that's two of your devices I owe you." The bug taunted. The white and blue blur was actually Garurumon who landed in front of us.
"Garurumon!" Yamato shouted.
"I heard everything from Koushiro." Garurumon explained. He opened his mouth to reveal that he Patamon safely secured in there. Patamon jumped out into Takeru's arms.
"Garurumon, thanks!" Patamon thanked.
"Are you alright, Patamon?" Takeru asked.
"Hurts a little, but I'm fine. Sorry I made you worry."
"Takeru put himself in danger to save Patamon…" I muttered.
"Daisuke, would you do the same for me?" Fladramon asked.
"Y-yeah, maybe…"
"Maybe!? Maybe!? What about 'definitely'!?" Probably should've just said yes.

"How dare you interfere with my plans… I see you're really trying to make me angry." The Kaiser growled. "This is it for your sickening friendship talk! MetalGreymon!"
"Damn it… we'll definitely bring you back!" Taichi called out to his former partner.
"We'll take MetalGreymon's Evil Spiral off!" Yamato assured him as Garurumon devolved back into Gabumon. "Let's go! Digimental Up!"
"Gabumon, Armor-Evolve! Thunderous Friendship, RAIMON!" Yamato climbed onto his back and they ran forward. MetalGreymon tried to stomp them but they backed up quick. "Don't you know who I am?" Raimon was trying to get through to MetalGreymon similar to how Hikari got through to Andromon. Though, I'm sure that's why the Evil Spiral was created; to keep that from happening once more.
"No use trying to get through to him, Raimon! We have to break that Evil Spiral if we want free him!" Yamato told him.
"But… we'd have to attack MetalGreymon…"
"We have to! Don't hold back. If we don't go full force, we'll go down! Right, Taichi?" Taichi nodded.
"Please!"

"We'll back you up!" Iori informed. "Digimental Up!"
"Armadimon, Armor-Evolve! Steel Knowledge, DIGMON!"
"Digimental Up!" Hikari shouted.
"Tailmon, Armor-Evolve! Light of Smiles, NEFERTIMON!"
"Gold Rush!" "Rosetta Stone!" The two of them launched their attacks that took MetalGreymon off balanced.
"Ken-kun! Koushiro-kun! Holsmon! Follow me in!" Ross shouted and the four of them flew towards MetalGreymon who launched one of his Giga Destroyers at them, which they all dodged. "Watch that cross-fire, boys!"
"Tempest Wing!" "Steel Swipe!" "Beam Drill!" "Precision Sting!" The four of them got even closer to striking MetalGreymon but the big dinosaur was surprisingly evasive for something his size.
"Man! He moves quick!" Koushiro growled.
"It's alright! Don't hold back you guys!" Taichi assured them. Raimon actually used the distraction to jump onto MetalGreymon's arm and bit down on the Evil Spiral but was quickly thrown off of him. "Electric Javelin!" MetalGreymon was more willing to let itself get hit rather than the Spiral so he took the hit to his chest rather than his arm.
"MetalGreymon, sorry! But we have no choice!" apologized Yamato.

"Daisuke, please!" Taichi was practically begging me to help fight.
"Daisuke, won't we fight? Daisuke!" Fladramon was also insistent on trying to help.
"But that's… Taichi-san's Agumon…" I can't bring myself to attack him, not like this…
"If you're like that… I…" Fladramon devolved back into V-mon.
"I… I…" Ugh! Why does it all have to be so confusing!? I don't want to destroy him! Everyone is saying we only need to take out the Evil Spiral but what if that's not the case? What if we have to kill him in order to stop him? I came back to reality as that metal arm nearly impaled me forcing both V-mon and I to dive to the ground to avoid it.
"Daisuke, what are you doing?" V-mon asked. "Are we just going to run away from MetalGreymon!?"
"No… at this rate, we'll all get killed!"
"That's not going to happen!" Taichi shouted. "Believe in Raimon and Agumon!"
"Believe…?"
"Agumon, get ready! We'll get that Evil Spiral for sure!" Yamato called out.
"Yamato, Raimon! I'm counting on you!" Taichi said as Raimon jumped on the Evil Spiral once more.

"Takeru and Taichi-san have far stronger bonds with the Digimon than I thought… It must have been really tough for them to say that we have no choice but to attack Agumon…" I thought to myself as Raimon was thrown off the arm once more. Patamon had to swoop in and lift V-mon out of the way before he got stomped on.
"Patamon…" He groaned.
"V-mon, don't give up!"
"Patamon!" I called for him, mostly to try to thank him for the save.
"Daisuke-kun!" Takeru walked up to me. "Don't worry about us. Go for MetalGreymon!"
"Takeru… Even though I couldn't understand how Takeru felt… Even though I couldn't save Patamon… Dammit… I'm so pathetic!" I screamed.

I don't really understand what just happened but for some reason my D-3 began to glow.
"What the…?" I questioned as I looked at it.
"Daisuke-san's D-3 is reacting!" Iori observed.
"The Digimental…" Hikari exclaimed. The Digimental that we had trouble pulling out floated all the way over here and stopped right in front of me.
"The Digimental from before… Daisuke! It was your Digimental!" V-mon cheered.
"My… Digimental…" I grabbed it.
"Daisuke-san already had the Digimental of Courage. If Daisuke-san now has two Digimentals… what could it mean?" Iori said.
"Daisuke!" V-mon was ready for the word.
"Alright! Let's do it! Digimental Up!"
"V-mon, Armor-Evolve! Storm of Friendship, LIGHDRAMON!"

Lighdramon was a sight to behold. He was a large blue and black quadruped reptile with the armor coving most of his body and the lightning bolt from the Digimental was his horn.
"So a single Digimon can Armor-Evolve in two different ways!" Iori was surprised as well as the rest of the group.
"Get him, MetalGreymon!" Looks like the Kaiser did not like this new development. Another launch of the metal claw but Lighdramon jumped over it.
"Blue Thunder!" The three protrudes on Lighdramon's back lit up and formed a large ball of electricity above him that launched out and struck the Evil Spiral as fast as lightning.
"That's a hit!" I cried. However, that Spiral is tougher than it looks.
"It didn't work… it didn't come off!" Yamato growled. The Kaiser only chuckled.
"It's pointless."
"Isn't there a way to take it off? Is he going to stay like this forever!?" worried Taichi.
"No! We'll definitely take it off!" declared Yamato. "Trust me!"
"Agumon, remember! About Taichi, about me!" Raimon shouted.

"Daisuke!" Yamato got my attention. "Believe in Agumon! Believe in yourself!"
"Yamato-san…"
"Daisuke-kun! Fight together with Lighdramon!" Takeru told me.
"Together?"
"Daisuke, get on my back!"
"Right, if I'm with Lighdramon, I should be able to do it. No, we're the only ones who can!"
"Daisuke, let's go!" Yamato said.
"Yeah!" We rode up next to him and Raimon. "Lighdramon, let's give it all we've got!"
"Leave it to me!" He said.
"Daisuke-kun, Yamato-san! We'll give you cover!" Ken announced as Tetermon, ForceBeemon and Waibanmon flew close to MetalGreymon.
"Hey! Herr Kaiser! Over here!" Ross taunted which drew MetalGreymon's attention away.
"He's distracted! Go you two!" Koushiro ordered us to begin our charge.

"I'm counting on you!" Taichi told us.
"Electric Javelin!" MetalGreymon dodge the attack but it had left him wide open for our attack.
"Lightning Blade!" The bolt on Lighdramon's head lit up and launched forward towards the Evil Spiral and engulfed it in electricity. We all held our collective breath to see if a direct hit like that would work. The Evil Spiral suddenly shattered!
"We did it!" "It came off!" "Good job, everyone!" "Way to go!" "Great work, Daisuke-kun!"
"What!?" The Kaiser shouted as MetalGreymon began to devolve back into Agumon. However, he was not one to stick around as that personal Devidramon of his swooped in and picked him up before we could get our hands on him.
"I'm getting really sick of that Devidramon." I muttered under my breath.

Agumon, meanwhile, was standing with a confused look on his face before Taichi practically tackled him in a hug.
"Th-that hurts!" He cried.
"Agumon, it's great to have you back…" Taichi looked like he was about to cry.
"I came back to you, Taichi!"
"Yeah! Believe me; I won't let this happen again, okay!? I was really worried about you!"
"Taichi!" Now Agumon looked like he was about to cry.
"Daisuke-kun, that was amazing! You brought Agumon back!" praised Hikari.
"I knew you could do it!" Miyako added.
"We did it…?" I could still not really believe it. It feels like some sort of dream.
"Looks like it…" Lighdramon told me.
"Daisuke-kun?" Iori tried to get my attention.
"I wonder what's wrong with him…" Takeru said.
"It looks like he's not sure of what he accomplished." Ken walked over. "Either that, or he's so pumped full of adrenaline he can't think straight."
"Daisuke, good job! You did great!" Yamato nearly tackled me off of Lighdramon's back and started to rustle up my hair.
"Eh? Yeah…"

P.O.V. – Third Person

The Kaiser was absolutely livid with the recent developments. Sure, he had conquered a wide swath of the Digital World in the past few days, more than he ever would have had he remained in the Real World. But without his prized controlled Perfect, the Chosen Children would push back hard, and he was sure they weren't going to allow him to capture another one of their partners which crippled the perfect strategy he had come up with.
"Strange… according to my calculations, the Evil Spiral shouldn't be destroyed by such an attack."
"Hey, Os… I mean, Digimon Kaiser-sama… they're all really good friends. Maybe that allowed them to become stronger…" Monodramon believed.
"Are you saying this was caused by their friendship!?" The Kaiser stared daggers at him. The dragon Digimon was frozen in fear. "Ridiculous… What a ridiculous idea…"

P.O.V. – Ross McGlathery

"Well, at least this crisis was solved." Takeo answered after we told him what had happened.
"Indeed, we got Agumon back somehow, but we have to be careful." Koushiro said. "I think we need to get that secret project of ours up sooner now, don't you think, Ross-san?"
"Agreed. And another thing… it's clear that the Kaiser wants to capture and use our Digimon against us so in order to prevent this from happening once more, we're going to have to change our entire strategy."
"What do you mean?" Ken asked.
"It means that from now on, our Digimon are going to have to stay in the Real World so we can make sure they're not captured." Koushiro informed. "We'll spend the rest of the week telling our Digimon to stay low before we collect them."
"Shoot… having Guilmon coming to live with me? Nice early birthday present this Saturday. I'll take him to see Attack of the Clones… but before that we're going to binge the rest of saga." I smiled.

Daisuke in the meantime was still looking at his D-Terminal and the two Digimentals he now had.
"Daisuke, it's all thanks to you. Thank you." Taichi gave his praise.
"Eh? Uh, me?"
"That's right, you!" Yamato quickly gave him a noogie. "I'm glad you got the Crest of Friendship!"
"I don't really get it… was I that cool?" He asked the New Breed.
"Well, at the time, I didn't feel just your strength, but Taichi, Yamato and everyone's too. I'm sure that was it!" Chibimon informed.
"What are you talking about? It was because of me and just me, right?" Daisuke shook him.
"As I thought, the kid's still got a long way to go…" Yamato chuckled.
"Eeh? Why?"
"You keep saying 'me, me' like a little kid."
"He's right!" Hikari told him.
"No way…"Daisuke nearly fell over causing all of us to laugh.

Still, even though we manage to take victory from the jaws of defeat today, this war has just hit the fever pitch…

What's this special project they're talking about? Well, you'll find out next chapter which will be an original one with Taichi. I kinda wanted all of the Old Breed to get some highlight episode like Yamato did with this one or Sora has with the Wild West in the chapter after this next one.

Take care for now, folks.

"Push the button, Frank."