Here we are, now it's getting close for the final showdown.

Shoutouts to GreenD109, MadDogLucario96, Whiteling, DigimonAT0318, and Super Saiyan 3 Odd for the reviews... and contributing to almost 200 of them. Damn... I can't believe I got that number.

Anyways, I've actually got one last card to play with this chapter that some of you may have noticed already, who knows. Also editing to 80s Japanese music... just tapped into a new market of classic hits! Man, what I wouldn't give to have Digimon as an 80s anime.

Let's get this wrapped up... and see our true mastermind.

Chapter 53: Vindictive Mastermind! Bloody Terror!

Hikarigaoka District, Nerima Ward, Tokyo, Japan. December 31st, 2002. 0914 Hours.
P.O.V. – Ken Ichijouji

This year to remember will be coming to an end in almost fourteen hours now. At the start of it, things seemed normal: I was Ken Ichijouji, one of the Boy Geniuses of Tamachi, on some distant terms with my brother, and kind of a bit lonely. Within a few months, I'm suddenly a Chosen Child again, reunited with my partner Digimon, Wormmon, find out my brother's dark secret and have to fight him with my new friends before bringing him back from the brink. Now, everything is certainly better than what it was at the start of the year. But while my life was certainly good, it wasn't anything to celebrate for the New Year's as the job was not finish. There was still a bunch of children that needed rescuing from themselves as well as the mastermind behind all these events. After what happened yesterday, it's clear we're reaching a critical point in this fight against Oikawa… and I get a suspicion that we're due for a final showdown with him soon. Whether it will be today or not… well, I wasn't sure about that a few hours ago when I woke up. Now, I think I might be right.

All of us had been split up and watching once more the infected children that Oikawa had implanted copies of Osamu's Dark Seed into. Even some of our parents were keeping their eyes on them too. We also were keeping an eye on Noriko who seemed like she had returned to normal but also appeared quite weak and drained from it. As we kept our watch, we noticed the kids were all slowly starting to move towards one place: Hikarigaoka. That's why I was sure that we were going to have our showdown with Oikawa here today. One or two of them going to Hikarigaoka, we could dismiss as a coincidence; but all of them? He's got to be making his final move. BlackWarGreymon said he too was being controlled before he sacrificed his body and closed the Digital Gate here. I still didn't know what that meant and neither did the rest of us, but I guess we'll find out sooner or later. Secretly, I hope BlackWarGreymon was wrong or mistaken about all that. I want this all to end with Oikawa.

We were all starting to meet up at one of the bridges overlooking the road at the same time the children were, though we were keeping low as not to be noticed. Soon all of us excluding Taichi, Ross, Takeru, Sora and Mimi were now waiting in some bushes as all the children arrived.
"What are they doing?" Miyako asked as we kept observing the gathering kids.
"It looks like they're waiting for something." Hikari noticed.
"Something…or someone? Could it be Oikawa?"
"That's probably a safe assumption, why else would they all gather here?" Osamu asked.
"It's probably related to what happened yesterday." suggested Iori.
"Did they hint at anything back then?" Yamato questioned.

"But why Hikarigaoka?" Daisuke wondered while looking at me.
"The gate has opened many times in Hikarigaoka." I told him as I remembered what Koushiro said in the past; of which he nodded as I explained that. "It could be related to that."
"Still, according to Gabumon and the others, the gate was completely sealed thanks to BlackWarGreymon." reminded Yamato.
"Another one." Iori whispered as we saw another one of the children showing up.
"Oh, you're all here too." Patamon said as Takeru joined us.
"Where are Taichi-san, Ross-san, Mimi-san and Sora-san?" Takeru looked around.
"Taichi and Ross went with Sora and Mimi to watch the girl from yesterday." Armadimon told them.
"Do you honestly think we needed all four of them to watch her? I'm sure just one of them would've been fine." Koushiro believed.
"Hey, I'm sure it'll be fine, just some added measure." Jou assured.

We all kept sitting quietly until we heard the sound of a cell phone ringing. Koushiro's eyes went wide in surprise as that clearly was his. He pulled it out and answered it.
"Yes?"
"Koushiro?" We heard the sound of a kind, female voice, so that quick suspicion of it perhaps being something sinister was shot down. "I'm in front of the Hikarigaoka train station." Koushiro quickly got up and looked over the railing. I took a glance down and saw that it was his mother at the phone booth just below us.
"Why did you come?"
"Well, you know… Ishida-san, Takaishi-san, McGlathery-san, Takenouchi-san and Kido-san's brother… all your friends have their families helping you out with this, right? But I'm not, so… I know it's not much, but I made some onigiri."
"O-onigiri, you say?" All the Digimon perked up upon hearing that.
"I brought them for everyone."

"Okay. I'll be there in a bit, so please wait there. Bye." He hung up then rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment. "Sorry, I have to go for a bit." He then took off running towards where his mother was.
"Onigiri, dagyaa!" Armadimon cheered while V-mon just jumped into the air with joy.
"Still, am I the only one who thinks things keep getting worse?" feared Hikari. Takeru shared her look. "That aura we saw coming out of Oikawa yesterday… What was it? Oikawa is obviously not a normal human. Can we really save those children?" When she puts it that way, it's not really sounding great for us. Takeru then smiled and put a hand on her shoulder.
"I don't know. But we have to believe we can and do our best, Hikari-chan." She then smiled back at him.
"You're right. Sorry I said that." I then glanced up towards a nearby building as I thought I saw something on the roof in my peripheral vision but found nothing there.
"What's wrong, Ken-chan?" Wormmon popped his head out of the bush.
"I just felt a presence… er, well, I get the feeling that we're not the only ones watching the kids right now."
"A presence? Do you think it might be Oikawa?" Osamu asked me.
"Maybe… I don't know. Could be my imagination for all I know."

"Thank you for waiting!" Koushiro thanked as he ran back up to us with his mother.
"Good job, everyone. I made some onigiri. Please have some." She handed the box to Hikari.
"Thank you."
"Thank you very much!" The rest of us said.
"You should go home now." Koushiro looked over to her.
"Can't I stay a little longer?" She sounded like she really wanted to be more involved. Osamu and I had small smiles; she just reminds us a lot of our own mother.
"We don't know what could happen…" He told her.
"Do I really have to…"
"Yes!" Koushiro gained a more stern look on his face. He was only wanting to make sure that she didn't end up getting caught up in the fighting. She looked very disappointed when he said that and Koushiro looked guilty the next moment.

"Please understand how Koushiro feels." Yamato spoke up to her. "He really worries about you."
"I understand, but…" She then looked over to the kids. "It's those children, right?"
"Yes." answered Jou.
"Aren't their parents worried about them?"
"They probably are." Yamato added. She soon had a realization cross her.
"I know! I'll contact their parents!" She told Koushiro. "I'll ask them to come and see what their children are doing with their own eyes."
"Ah! Good thinking!" Koushiro nodded.
"Right?" She then turned around. "I'll get going then. Goodbye, everyone. Don't overdo it, Koushiro!"
"Okay."

"But will bringing their parents help?" Miyako expressed some doubt.
"Even if they come, they can't remove the Dark Seeds." Iori sighed.
"I don't think it will…" Osamu admitted. "Look at me, I had a pretty nice home life before with practically everything good for me, and I still ended up falling… unless those kids are like Ken, they're gonna wind up like me and help with whatever Oikawa has planned for them."
"We can't think like that!" cried Takeru. "If their feelings connect, something could happen."
"Yeah. We've seen miracles like that many times." Tailmon agreed. The older Chosen Children nodded.
"Still…" Miyako was still greatly worried.
"Hey, I just realized something. Have you thought about why humans can't see the Dark Flower?" I asked the others. "I think it's not something physical, but mental. I have a reason for that. The Dark Seed inside me stopped growing when I realized that my family loved me when I thought otherwise." Osamu gave me a slight pat on the back when I said that. That also perked up the spirts of the others a bit.

"Everyone, look at that!" Hawkmon called out from the tree as he pointed at the kids. We all turned and found Oikawa with them now as they were all practically swarming him.
"Oikawa!" Osamu exclaimed.
"So he finally showed up." Daisuke growled. We all got up and charged forward towards him, just running past a couple before Mummymon and Archnemon appeared right in front of us.
"Monsters!" The couple cried out in terror before running away.
"You won't get in our way." declared Archnemon.
"Out of the way!" V-mon yelled back.
"Don't you dare touch those children!" Osamu roared.

"I'm afraid I must. If I don't take the Dark Seeds, they will keep growing and they'll end up becoming Dark Trees without much of a human side." Our eyes widened upon hearing that. This was much worse than we though. We were thinking they'd just end up being Kaisers and Kaiserins but this…
"Is that true?" Yamato asked Osamu and myself.
"It didn't happen in either of our cases… but I'm sure it's horrible…" I said.
"Just a slight downside to the whole process. Your Seeds were the original ones, so they could adapt well." Oikawa then motioned to the kids. "But theirs are copies. They're imperfect and were forcefully planted, so the result will obviously be different."
"You knew that and still did it!?" Iori shouted at him.
"Even then, it's what they wanted." The kids all nodded. He showed no remorse and instead just sinisterly grinned, actually, I think he's clearly gotten more unhinged since yesterday.
"Dammit…" cursed Daisuke.

"Well then…" Oikawa pulled out a laptop and began typing. Clearly he was beginning the process to probably open the Digital Gate.
"What are you doing?" Miyako demanded.
"We're going to the Digital World." Mummymon explained which confirmed my thought, as well as draw Archnemon's ire.
"H-hey! You're talking too much, Mummymon!" He covered his mouth fast with and dropped his rifle.
"It doesn't matter." Oikawa said. "They can't stop our plans, after all."
"Go there? How?" inquired Iori.
"How stupid. Have you forgotten I was able to send Archnemon and Mummymon to the Digital World? I did it with this." He pointed to his laptop.
"If it's that gate, BlackWarGr-" Miyako quickly shushed Daisuke before he could say more.
"When he realizes he can't go and is confused, it'll be our chance to save the children." Takeru explained the plan to him. He quickly realized how he almost screwed it up and nodded.
"Right. Got it."

"What?" Oikawa mockingly questioned us. "I can answer any questions one last time before we leave."
"Then I'll ask you…" Osamu took a step forward. "Why did you choose me?"
"That question again?" Archnemon scoffed.
"I knew the first time I saw you two. That you both were Chosen Children. That's all… of course… I did try to influence somethings a bit sooner… when I tried to run either of you down in the street!" Our jaws dropped as the memories came back of that close call. The car was a Vista V40 that day… and Oikawa was driving one recently as well…
"You… it was you that day… you were the one who drove through the intersection!" I cried.
"Indeed… of course, I would've easily gotten one of you if that red-headed American wasn't acting crossing guard."
"Why?!"

"Simple. Both of you had a Dark Seed and I needed only one of you for my plans. It was just the choice of which one to use: an arrogant boy genius, drunk on his own fame, or a little boy, resentful and hating his family for ignoring him." He smiled.
"What exactly would that have accomplished!?" Daisuke roared at him.
"Easy. If dear old Osamu-kun had somehow managed to push Ken-kun out of the way and took the hit, I think young Ken would be very wrought with guilt for getting his brother killed; making him all the more susceptible to my influence. And the other way worked too, Osamu would've been guilty for losing his little brother when he had a chance to save him; and it would eliminate my greatest concern that he would keep you tethered and not falling for my words… but in the end, it didn't matter. Osamu fell and became the Kaiser and did the job of raising the Dark Towers, after you accomplished that, you were no longer needed."

"What exactly are the Dark Towers!?" Osamu quickly took this revelation and moved forward in his questioning.
"They were originally in Dagomon's Ocean." Dagomon… that Cthulhu like Digimon that Ross and Taichi suspected was the ruler of that Dark World. They have several uses, but the best one is changing the Digital World's environment."
"What did you want to change its environment for?" asked Koushiro.
"To allow an adult like me to enter the Digital World!"
"An adult…?" Iori sounded confused.
"I could open the gate, but I couldn't go there. I guess the Digital World doesn't accept tainted adults." He then pointed to Archnemon and Mummymon. "I had no choice but to create these two with my genes and send them to the Digital World. But I wanted to go myself at any cost. Then I used you to build the Dark Towers, but you destroyed them all. Same with the ones I build here in the Real World."

He then paused at started to laugh as he kept on typing. I quickly glance back and saw Jou finishing typing up something on his D-Terminal, probably telling Taichi and the others to hurry here as fast as possible.
"Of course…" Oikawa continued. "I was preparing for that from the very start. Never hurts to have a backup plan. I planted the Dark Seeds that act as a barrier in the Digital World inside the children. And today, for the first time, I will go through the gate to the Digital World." He leaned forward. "I've waited so long for this day…" He then leaned back up and showed that he was crying tears.
"He's… crying?" Monodramon questioned.
"What's wrong, boss?" wondered Archnemon.
"My dream is finally coming true!" He shouted. "Hiroki-kun, I wish you were alive so you could come with me!" He stopped the tears and turned back around to the children. "Okay everyone, let's sing together! ~Let's go! Let's go! To the Digital World!~" The children soon chimed in with him, but they all sounded so monotone. Soon a bright aura was glowing from them as they kept on chanting.

"Is that the barrier?" Hikari asked.
"In any case, it won't be long now." Daisuke turned to look at us. "When he panics because the gate isn't opening, we'll jump on him!"
"Got it!" All the Digimon answered.
"Okay! This is the final step!" Oikawa declared and to our shock a bright doorway appeared and opened up.
"No way!" Miyako cried out.
"See, it's open! Let's go, everyone!" He and all the children charged forward for the gate with Archnemon and Mummymon right behind.
"We're going too!" "Please wait!"

P.O.V. – Third Person

"Why did it open!?" Yamato loudly questioned as they continued to look at the gate.
"I don't know!" shouted Koushiro.
"That's impossible!" Iori said.
"We're going after them!" Daisuke informed. The Chosen Children with Digimon nodded and followed right after Daisuke who ran for the gate.
"Idiots! Don't be reckless!" Yamato tried to stop them but they were already gone. "Takeru! Daisuke! Hikari-chan!" Yamato, Koushiro and Jou ran after them but the gate closed right in front of them.
"We have to tell Taichi-san and the rest…" Koushiro explained.

At the same time, the gate reopened somewhere else in a field of flowers as Oikawa and the children ran out.
"~Let's go! Let's go! To the Digital World!"
"Here we are! This is the Digital World!" Oikawa declared. The kids soon split up. "Is it fun? I'm so happy, too… But I finally made it… Nobody believed me when I was little. Too early, I guess… I was born too early." His thoughts were interrupted when Takashi Youshizawa fell to the ground and screamed out. He soon ran over to him. "What's wrong? Why don't you play?"
"It's not… this is the wrong place! It's not the Digital World!" Takashi told him.
"What are you saying? This is the Digital World!"
"No! This is…" The dark sky around them vanished… and revealed a twisted world that was hard to describe. Perhaps it was best to say it looked like something Salvador Dali could paint if he just went crazy with his Persistence of Memory painting.
"Wh-what is this!? I-isn't this the Digital World?" Oikawa questioned. He then turned when he heard a loud explosion behind him.

P.O.V. – Daisuke Motomiya

"Acid Mist!" Archnemon tried to attack XV-mon who dodged it.
"X Laser!" His attack struck her as she was sent to the ground.
"Neko Punch!" Tailmon clawed Mummymon in the face.
"Megaton Press!" After that, Ankylomon jumped on him and crushed him underneath his weight, effectively disabling the two of them. We used the chance to run over to Oikawa.
"We won't let you do whatever you want!" I shouted.
"Right! Let the children go!" Ken ordered.
"Why? Why did this happen?!" Oikawa looked even more pale than usual. His words confused us. "I thought I had finally made it…" All the kids gathered with each other and started to cry in fear.

"Hey, where are we?" Hikari asked as we looked around this strange place.
"Where…? It's obviously not the Digital World." Miyako observed.
"Since BlackWarGreymon sealed the gate to the Digital World, we must have ended up in a different world." Osamu theorized. Oikawa closed his eyes and clutched his fists to his face.
"But I wanted to go to the Digital World!" He screamed out. As soon as he did that, a giant mouth with purple lips and fangs swirled and appeared above in the air.
"Forget about the Digital World." It's voice sounded exactly like Oikawa's.
"What's… that?" I questioned.
"There's a much better world – this is it. I got here by accident, but this is the world I desire." The children all cried out in fear again. "Are you scared? Of course. Those who end up in this world will be frightened by the darkness that will consume their friends, and despair knowing there is no way to escape." The children cried once more.

"Who are you!?" Takeru demanded an answer. "Are you with Demon? Or Dagomon?"
"Neither."
"You sound like me… is it my imagination?" Oikawa was sweating heavily.
"It's not your imagination. I am you."
"What do you mean?"
"Three years ago, I was searching for someone I could live in after my body was destroyed. It should've been my end but I refused to fade back into the darkness. That's when I found you."
"Three years ago? When I was mourning over my friend Hiroki's death?"
"No. You were not mourning over your friend's death. You hated him, since you had promised to go to the Digital World together, but you questioned why he died first."
"No! Why would I hate Hiroki?"

The voice smirked and chuckled before it opened its mouth wide and revealed a large image. It was clearly Tokyo right by the Rainbow Bridge and the Digital World could be seen in the sky, meaning this was back on August 3rd of 1999. We could all see a slightly younger Oikawa, the one who looked similar in that older photo that Ken and Osamu's dad showed us.
"That's…" The young Oikawa looked to the sky. He then dug into his suit and pulled out a photo of Iori's father. "Can you see it, Hiroki? It's the Digital World!" Oikawa had tears in his eyes. "No one else knows, but I do. That's the Digital World!" He then fell on his knees. "But Hiroki… you're horrible! How could you die and leave me alone? You're horrible!"

Suddenly a white fog began to surround him while a bright rainbow lit up in the sky. We could tell that was Taichi and the others when they returned back to the Digital World that day. Oikawa got back up on his feet.
"Take me with you! Please! I beg you!" He gave up and cried more.
"Do you want to go to the Digital World?" We heard his voice echo but it clearly wasn't him.
"I do! I want to, if it's possible!" Oikawa looked around for the sign of where that voice came from.
"If you can leave your conscience behind, I'll take you there. What do you think?"
"I'll do anything! If I can go there, I'll do anything!"
"Alright." The fog shifted and went straight for his ear before entering him. The mouth then closed and ended the view of the past.

"Th-that was…" Oikawa muttered. "I… I thought it was my heart's voice… But it wasn't that?"
"I was the one who told you to do everything you did afterwards. After all, I do so love irony, my little marionette." The voice sounded like Oikawa but on the last sentence, it started to shift into another one. Tailmon's eyes widen and she gasped.
"I know… I know who you are." She pointed towards the mouth. "You are… Vamdemon!" We all gasped and the mouth suddenly broke out in a cruel laugh. That same laugh I remember hearing back at Big Sight three years ago.
"Vamdemon… really?" Angemon questioned.
"Are you sure?" Hikari asked. Tailmon nodded.

"I knew you would find out who I am. Then let me tell you something else. I created the Evil Ring by copying and inverting your Holy Ring's data. In short, you're as much to blame for the enslavement of all those Digimon!" Vamdemon taunted.
"I knew you were vengeful, but not this much… But we'll bury you in the darkness this time!" Tailmon stated.
"Impossible. I'm not the same as before." His mouth vanished as Oikawa grunted out in pain. He then had a blue light shoot out of his mouth before it landed in front of him and revealed to be a copy of himself. "Thanks for all your work until now." Vamdemon's voice came from the copied body. "Oh, by the way… I lied about the Dark Seeds acting as a barrier. It's actually the food I need that will fuel my resurrection."
"What?" Oikawa tried to reach out violently grab him but he only took one step before falling forward to the ground. The kids all panicked again as Vamdemon looked over to them and started to approach.
"Don't worry. I won't kill you, not before I get the Dark Seeds."

"We won't let you!" I yelled. We all charged forward.
"Come on!" Vamdemon pointed to Archnemon and Mummymon. "What are you waiting for?"
"Okay!" Both of them went towards us. "Spider Thread!" Mummymon fired his gun along with her attack and our Digimon got out of the way. At the same time, Vamdemon quickly got to work removing the Dark Flowers from the children.
"I said stop!" I shouted. I ran again but Archnemon jumped in front of me.
"You won't get in our way!" She stopped me.
"Damn!"
"I'm done." Vamdemon finished extracting the last Dark Flower as all the kids were now passed out. "Now, how about some exercise after lunch?" He leaned forward… and his whole back tore open and revealed a much larger monster under that skin.
"What the…?"
"He's transforming!" Iori observed.
"Into Vamdemon? Or into VenomVamdemon?" Takeru questioned.

"Neither! Call me BelialVamdemon!" I don't know how'd you even describe him. Red mask over his face with blonde hair and fangs. Large steel like body with a long sharp tail, giant dark purple wings on his back and these strange things on his shoulders. He stood up at this towering height and the first thing he did was… he wrapped one of his hands around Archnemon's neck.
"What are you doing!?" She exclaimed. "I'm your servant!"
"What do you think I'm going to do?"
"What…?"
"Think about it!" For the first time ever, Archnemon looked terrified. I knew how vicious Vamdemon was from the stories the others told, but this… He then smiled. "I see. That could be fun too." He took his other hand… and slowly started to rip off each one of her legs! We all had to avert our eyes at the blood curdling scream she gave out.

"Archnemon!" Mummymon cried out to her as he watched her being slowly mutilated. "How can you be so cruel!?"
"I only read Archnemon's mind and did what she was thinking." BelialVamdemon explained without a shred of remorse, instead it was all sick glee to him. "Isn't that so?" He turned his head back to her.
"I did think that, but it's not what I was hoping!" She cried as she was in serious pain.
"Really? Anyway, do you know what I want to do next?"
"I don't know… I don't want to think about it!"
"Don't lie. You just did." His tail perked up and then pointed right towards her like a stinger… then flew rapidly towards her abdomen and impaled it, causing her to scream out once more.

"Archnemon!" Mummymon screamed out for her once again. "Archnemon-" He ran towards BelialVamdemon but was swatted away.
"Now, what do you want me to do next? No, what don't you want me to do?"
"P-please… forgive me…" She coughed out a bunch of her blood as she was barely conscious now.
"Understood." Doubtful he was going to show her that. One of those shoulder things opened up to reveal a mouth that went forward… and bit off the entire part of her upper body. She didn't even make a noise this time before he causally tossed away what was left of her corpse and it disintegrated into data as it hit the ground.

Mummymon was completely devastated but her sudden but horrifically painful death.
"Archnemon!" BelialVamdemon turned his head back towards him.
"I went easy on her because she was a woman." Easy!? That was easy!? "She hoped for no more suffering and to die without pain, so I granted her that."
"BelialVamdemon, you will pay!" Mummymon flew into a rage. He raised his only arm towards him. "Snake Bandage!" He wrapped up BelialVamdemon but he quickly broke free.
"I've read your mind as well. You don't expect to survive against me."
"I have no reason to live without Archnemon! I don't care if I die, but I'll take you with me!" Never thought I'd actually feel sympathetic for Mummymon, but I do now.
"Those who are prepared to die are the worst." He scoffed. "When you don't want to die, your fear doubles.
"Go whine in hell!" Mummymon opened fire once more. BelialVamdemon just knocked away the bolts of electricity.
"Playtime's over! Melting Blood!" Red mist shot out from his shoulders which engulfed Mummymon who screamed out as he was merely melted.

Everyone was suddenly paralyzed at the sight of just what he had done to both Archnemon and Mummymon.
"Hikari, Jogress Evolution!" Tailmon requested to her.
"N-no!"
"No…?"
"What if you die!?" Tailmon was surprised by Hikari's fear as well as myself.
"Ken-chan!" "Takeru!" "Osamu-chan!" "Miyako-san!" "Iori!" The Digimon called out for their partners.
"It's the first time… I've never been this afraid of a fight…" That was a shock to me. I honestly thought that Takeru was the most steadfast of all of us what with him being a Chosen Children the longest out of all of us. This was the first time I ever saw him truly horrified.
"I want to get out of here…" Miyako was shaking like a leaf as she grabbed her shoulders. "I don't want to stay here!"
"This must be a nightmare…" Iori grabbed his head. "If it is, wake me up!"
"This is all my fault… if I only just…" Osamu muttered to himself as he was clearly breaking down.

"What is wrong with you guys? If we think we can't win, we won't!" I tried to get the others back in the right mindset and above their fear. "We'll win for sure! We'll fight thinking that!"
"Right!" XV-mon agreed with me. The others just remained still. "Daisuke, I'll fight even by myself!"
"But just you…" I didn't feel too comfortable about the odds if that's the case.
"You just thought I'd lose, right?"
"Well, kinda…" I admitted.
"Believe in me! Believe in what you just said!" He shouted at me. He's right. If I don't have faith in him, then we're doomed! I clutched my fists.
"Okay! Got it! We've gone through a lot of tough battles, but we did our best and won!"
"Right!"
"Alright! Go, XV-mon!"
"Leave it to me!" He turned to face BelialVamdemon.

"Ken-chan! Are you sure?" Stingmon asked him. I then heard Ken run before he grabbed my arm.
"Stop him, Daisuke! Even if we fight, we should have a plan… Or we can Jogress, right?" I saw that Ken too was wracked with fear like the others.
"Your hand is shaking." Ken let go.
"Sorry… it's just… well… after what we just saw…"
"If you've lost your nerve, Jogress Evolution won't work. Well, we'll manage somehow!" Ken tried to say some but couldn't. "Hey. Don't say anything more, please. It'd just mess me up." Ken looked guilty there.
"I know how you feel, Ken-kun. I feel the same way." Takeru said. "But…" I turned around and ran towards XV-mon.
"We won't lose!" I declared. "We'll never lose!" XV-mon then roared as he charged ahead.

We can't lose and we can't give up, because we're dead if we don't fight…

So, this got really hectic in a hurry. I know it's in Japanese technically, but I'm still hearing Richard Epcar speaking as BelialVamdemon.

Yeah, so as much as I wish I could take credit for the idea of Oikawa being the one driving the car that killed Osamu in the OTL, I can't. That goes to Taiki Matsuki and his fanfic My Brother.

Also, sorry for the gruesome details about Archnemon's death... but I really wanted to drive home how sick of a bastard Fang Face is in my own way.

Anyways, see you all next time.

"Push the button, Frank."