Welp, he were are at the end of this all. There's of course an Epilogue but right now, this is the ending... and not the one we got in the show. Actually loved this episode before those final two minutes. Oh, well, I just pull a Adam Savage: 'I reject your reality and substitute it with my own.'

Shoutouts to DracoFogg, MadDogLucario96, DigimonAT0318, GreenD109, Whiteling, and Super Saiyan 3 Odd for the reviews.

Now then, let's finish this.

Chapter 55: Our Digital World!

Summer Camp, 50 Kilometers Northwest of Tokyo, Japan. December 31st, 2002. 1231 Hours.
P.O.V. – Taichi Yagami

After Koushiro alerted us about what had happened with Oikawa and the others in Hikarigaoka; we regrouped as fast as we could so we could head to the Digital World. However, doing it on the laptops or computers apparently wasn't working as they appeared to be jammed, meaning we were stuck in the Real World and not able to give help to Daisuke and the others who must be in trouble right now. Koushiro then suggested we head back to the old campsite where we first went to the Digital World all those years ago to try and help. His mother had helped gather all the parents of the kids that Oikawa kidnapped and infected with the Dark Seeds along with our families and Takeo; we all headed to the camp. However, along the way, everything suddenly started to get dark as the sky turned black. Something was obviously happening in the Digital World.

Digital World. Date Unknown. Time Unknown.
P.O.V. – Daisuke Motomiya

We all continue to watch as BelialVamdemon continued his goal of combine the Digital World and the Real World into a world of darkness for him to rule. His corrupting power continued to shoot into the sky and slowly blanket the Earth in his dark energy; all the while, we were unable to do anything. Imperialdramon soon finally got back up and was prepared to resist once again. The rest of our Digimon got back up too but the odds were stacked against us again and this time we didn't have the strength of that strange world behind us.
"Everything will be shrouded in darkness." The vampire declared. "It's all turning into the color that suits me best."
"Like we'll let you!" I defiantly shouted back.
"Positron Laser!" Imperialdramon charged his cannon once more. However, as it flew towards BelialVamdemon, one of those shoulder mouths he called Sodom and Gomorrah opened up and unleashed a black wave of that collided with the laser and exploded in a blinding light that blew us all away.

"He got them." I heard one of Oikawa's boys sadly say from back in the opening to that strange realm.
"What will happen to us?" Another boy asked as I groaned out in some pain and tried to get back up.
"So we were just being used? It could have been anyone?" One of the girls sounded depressed upon that realization.
"Chosen Children, observe…" The vampire roared. "As your world falls into my hands!"
"We won't let you do what you want with our world!" Osamu cried as we all got back up on our feet.
"There's no way they can beat him." One of those kids moaned once again.
"I want to go home…" A girl was on the verge of crying.
"I don't want to." One of the other boys gave out a defeated tone as he sat down. "There's no place for me at home, after all."
"You're right." That first boy agreed with him. "Might as well stay here, then."
"Stop talking nonsense!" Ken shouted back at them to try and talk them out of their dark thoughts.

"Why is it nonsense?" One of the boys claimed; none of the kids were even looking at us now. "It's obvious if you look at the situation, isn't it?"
"Yeah. It's impossible, so why do you keep trying?" The younger boy next to him said. "It's useless. You'll be defeated anyway."
"It's not impossible!" I tried to argue and get it through their heads. It seems like they at least heard that. "Don't say it's impossible just like that! If we try hard enough, we'll be able to do something!"
"Do something?" A girl questioned, but her tone was similar to the others.
"If we all work together, there's nothing we can't do!"
"But what can we do?" One of the boys continued that defeatist talk.
"It makes no sense." The boy next to him sighed.
"Such futile efforts…" BelialVamdemon taunted before laughing once more.

P.O.V. – Taichi Yagami

"This place is covered in darkness too." Yamato looked around as we reached the old cabin we all stayed in that fateful day at camp.
"But to go to the Digital World…" I said. "I can't think of any other place."
"But will the gate really open here?" Jou expressed some doubt.
"It has to, Jou. We've got to get back to help the others." Ross told him.
"The gate at Tokyo was sealed by BlackWarGreymon." explained Koushiro. My mind flashed back to yesterday when he performed his noble sacrifice high above Tokyo… but now with everything that has happened the past few hours, it feels more like a detriment to us. "This is the closest possible place." He continued.
"Right, it's the first place that took us to the Digital World." Sora nodded.
"This is where it happened? Hard to believe." Takeo muttered.

"It almost feel so long ago… but we need to get there…" Mimi turned to look at Noriko who was with her parents and who's health was actually getting worse lately. Clearly the Dark Flower really messed something up with her. "We have to take her to Oikawa somehow…"
"Yeah." I agreed.
"Noriko… what will happen to her?" Her father asked us as her parents were so concerned with her health.
"She will be fine." Jou tried to assure them, though I'm pretty sure we weren't entirely sure.
"But…"
"They'll find a solution." Jou's brother, Shin, told them.
"Still…" Sora turned her head back around towards the sky. "How do we open the gate?"

P.O.V. – Daisuke Motomiya

BelialVamdemon just kept holding his arms up to the sky as he continued to spread darkness across Earth.
"It's darkening, it's darkening!" He repeated as he kept going. "The time has come for my wish to come true at last!"
"Positron Laser!" Imperialdramon opened fire once more. "Top Gun!" "Harmonious Spirit!" The two other Jogress Digimon also joined in while Strikedramon held back again; cursing that Guilmon wasn't here. Once again, those mouth shoulders opened up and created a dark shield that protected it's caster from any of our attacks. The attacks then were reflected and blew away our Digimon once more. BelialVamdemon chuckled once again as he claimed victory again.
"It's impossible after all." Those kids were going at it again. "No matter how hard they try, it's impossible."
"There's nothing we can do." One of the other boys added.
"We weren't chosen anyway. We're not Chosen Children." moaned one of the girls in the group. They just keep up that attitude and we will never win!

P.O.V. – Taichi Yagami

"Taichi, we can't go to the Digital World?" Agumon began to worry as we were just standing by the steps to the cabin in the cold snow.
"No, we'll go for sure." I insisted.
"How?" Guilmon questioned.
"We're still trying to think that part through so give us a moment, buddy…" Ross looked to his partner. I then decided that holding out our Digivices was what opened the gate for us back in Odaiba as we needed to return to the Digital World to fight the Dark Masters; so the same must work now! I held up my D-3 towards the sky.
"Gate, please! Open!" I was nearly begging. I just kept holding it up but got no response.

"It's no use… nothing's happening." Sora sighed.
"So our D-3s won't work out here either…" admitted Yamato.
"Surely there must be something! Come on, we're smart enough to think of something, right?" Mimi tried to encourage us and not give up just yet. Meanwhile, Koushiro's old MacBook was making some noises that sounded really weird comin from it.
"This is…!" He exclaimed as something had obviously happened on his screen.
"What is it?" Jou asked him as Koushiro's focus remained on his laptop.
"A reaction from gates all over the world…" Oh, don't tell me they're all opening again, another Digimon incursion is the last thing we need now. Although, from the tone of it, maybe it's actually not bad news that he's giving us.

P.O.V. – Daisuke Motomiya

We looked up into the sky where Earth was and soon saw a glowing light shining from it as it soon began to spread. First there was one light, then another, then yet another one, until multiple lights were piercing the darkness that BelialVamdemon was creating. We all then gasped as we could see on top of the canyon walls a large horde of Digimon.
"They're Digimon…" Iori muttered.
"There's so many of them!" Miyako said as we all looked around to see that we were practically surrounded by them.
"The light of your Digivices guided us here." Gabumon stepped forward, which indicated that all these Digimon were actually the partner Digimon for all the kids around the world.
"The Digimon partners of the Chosen Children around the world have gathered!" Gomamon informed which confirmed with that thought I had a moment ago.
"What do you want to do with our world?" Piyomon demanded an answer from the undead Ultimate, as if she didn't know.
"Yeah! We won't let you do as you please!" Tentomon chimed in, meaning that Piyomon's demanded was more rhetorical.

BelialVamdemon did nothing but just continued to press on with his dark plot before he simply just scoffed.
"Digimon partners around the world? What a joke. No matter how many of you gather, you're no match for me!" He unleashed that dark wave of his again as he tried to deal with the massed army of Digimon that came to oppose him. All of them held their ground as best as possible but were pushed back slightly, but not enough to send them away.
"Is this all you've got?" Palmon questioned. "We're not losing to you!"
"Tortamon!" We heard the sound of some child screaming out the name of their Digimon partner before a vast chorus could be heard. "Kentarumon!" "Yukidarumon!" "FlareLizamon!" "Shakomon!" "Hanumon!" "Meramon!" "Ganimon!" "Floramon!" "PetitMamon!" "Bearmon!" "Unimon!" "Snimon!" "Kuwagamon!" "Gotsumon!" Waves upon waves of light shot out from Earth right towards all the Digimon and caused all of them to glow in a bright white light.
"So bright... What is this light!?" BelialVamdemon finally dropped his arms as he tried to shield himself from the light that was clearly blinding him.
"The darkness… is disappearing." observed Takeru.
"With the Digimon's power of light…" Osamu added. BelialVamdemon groaned once again in pain from the light.

P.O.V. – Taichi Yagami

After a few moments of waiting, we watched as the sky lit up before rainbow aroura started to shine and that familiar green vortex that shot out our Digivices three and a half years ago appeared! The gate actually opened!
"Those lights…" I muttered in awe.
"It's like three years ago." Koushiro said.
"The gate is open!" Agumon exclaimed.
"Everyone is calling for us!" insisted Guilmon.
"Noriko-chan!" Jou waved her over to us. Noriko slowly walked over before Sora put an arm around her shoulder.
"Don't worry." She said, in a very motherly tone. That's Sora; so lucky I'm dating such an amazing girl.
"Let's go!" Agumon ordered. We all held up our D-3s to the vortex before that wave appeared again and sent us all back to the Digital World.

P.O.V. – Third Person

The light died down in front of all the families of the Chosen Children and the victims of BelialVamdemon's plot and many of the were bewildered by the sudden disappearance of the children in front of them.
"Noriko? Where's Noriko?" Noriko's father questioned as he ran forward bit.
"Don't worry. Let's leave it to them." Hiroaki walked over to him.
"But…"
"All we can do now is believe in them." Natsuko assured Noriko's family as well as the others.
"Believe in Daisuke and the rest…" Hinata nodded.
"They will come back. Just like they did three years ago." believed Yuuko.
"Three years ago?" Momoe asked.
"Yes, and they will this time as well." Masami added.
"They can do things we'd never be able to." reminded Haruhiko.
"Good luck, Sora." Toshiko held her husband's hand.
"Come on, guys… you can easily deal with whatever creep comes your way." Takeo tightened his fists as he voiced his support.
"Everyone. Whichever deity or God you answer to, you probably want to start praying right now… it works." Phil advised.

P.O.V. – Ross McGlathery

Once we returned to the Digital World, we practically fell out of the sky with apparently all the other Chosen Children around the world. The light that was shining around the canyon was brighter than any star. And at the center of it was a Digimon that I think we could honestly guess who it was. Looks like Vamdemon doesn't know when to fully die. We flew down towards the ground with our Digivices while all our Digimon called out our names. We soon landed next to Daisuke and his group while all the other Chosen Children landed next to their Digimon.
"We made it!" Mimi cheered as we touched down and our partners came down to join us. Ken and Osamu quickly filled us in about how Vamdemon was using Oikawa as a flesh puppet and that the Dark Flowers were just the batteries he need to get a recharge and resurrection into BelialVamdemon.

"All these kids…" Yamato observed.
"All the gates around the world opened at the same time." Koushiro explained.
"Every Chosen Child and their Digimon partners!" Jou cried.
"All our hopes and wishes helped answer the Digital World's call!" I assumed.
"The bond between children and Digimon have opened the gates!" added Taichi. All the light was clearly harming BelialVamdemon. He growled and turned his head right towards us. It actually made Sora give a small gasp.
"So it's true…" Noriko muttered. "The Chosen Children are special. You're not like us."
"What are you talking about?" Sora questioned her.

"We don't have Digimon partners or anything." One of those kidnapped girls, Keiko Kurata told us as they were all still back in that strange world the others ended up in.
"We don't have the power to fight and we can't remove the Dark Seeds." One of the boys, Hiroshi Shibata, looked defeated. Though, if what was told by Ken and Osamu is correct, they might not even have the seeds since they were already harvested. "Nothing will change."
"We'll continue living our pitiful lives forever." declared Takashi Youshizawa before this dark smoke like substance started to float away from them… and right towards BelialVamdemon. He laughed as he got back up.
"That's it! Feel more anguish!"
"The power of darkness…!" exclaimed Osamu.
"Their dark feelings are just energizing him!" Ken shouted.

"So what if you don't have Digimon partners?" Daisuke ran over to the kids. "What's the big deal about being a Chosen? There's nothing special at all about me!"
"That's not true. You have the Digimon…" Takashi sighed.
"If you want the Digimon to be able to stop BelialVamdemon and save the worlds, if you believe in that, they will." Takeru took a step forward next to Daisuke. "It's just like our feelings… Just like every child having the power to make their dreams come true."
"That's just childish." scoffed Keiko.
"You all have dreams for the future, don't you?" Daisuke tried to get through to them.
"Dreams for the future?" Noriko questioned.
"I've forgotten that stuff." Takashi said.
"No way! You must have one!" Daisuke cried.
"It's nothing to be ashamed of." Takeru added.

"Then, what's your dream?" Takashi asked Daisuke.
"Mine?" Daisuke soon had a big smile on his face. "Mine's a ramen shop."
"Eh!?" That clearly caught Miyako off guard. The rest of us too, but she had the biggest reaction as she flailed into a statue pose.
"I love ramen! I'll become the world's best ramen maker!"
"I had no idea…" admitted Ken.
"Well… actually, I wanted to be a kindergarten teacher." Noriko finally said with a smile on her face. It's working!
"Me too." Hikari walked up to her and placed a hand on her shoulder. Meanwhile, BelialVamdemon suddenly grunted out in pain as we just discovered these good feelings and dreams were crippling his power!
"He's weakening! Come on, keep going kids!" Yamato called out to them.
"What about you guys?" Daisuke turned his attention back to the others.
"A baseball player!" Takashi answered.
"I really want to be a pastry chef…" Keiko blushed.
"When I said I wanted to be a manga artist, everyone laughed, so I gave up…" admitted Hiroshi as BelialVamdemon continued to groan out in pain.

"We all had aspirations, and at some point we thought that wasn't allowed… but we were wrong, right?" Takashi asked.
"Let people say whatever they want!" Daisuke advised.
"You're right, we should be free to dream." Noriko nodded.
"Not just dreaming. If you work hard, your dreams will surely come true!" Miyako threw up a fist.
"Do we have the power to make our dreams come true?" wondered Takashi.
"Of course you do!" Daisuke shouted.
"Really?" Keiko blushed once again.
"Really!" All us Chosen Children near them said.
"Really, really?" The kids all questioned.
"Really, really!" Every single Chosen Child and their partner Digimon roared.
"I feel happy somehow…" Noriko kept smiling.
"Somehow, I feel like I can do it!" Hiroshi ran forward.
"Of course you can!" Takeru assured him. The other kids followed after Hiroshi.
"Yeah, I'll make my dreams come true!" declared Takashi.

At the same time, BelialVamdemon was grunting out in more pain but he wasn't done yet.
"No! No! No! I will not be defeated again! Not this time! I am still powerful than all you pathetic Chosen Children! THIS IS MY WORLD NOW!" He screamed.
"Could someone please shut his damn mouth up!?" I yelled.
"Right! Let's finish him off now! Everybody!" Taichi ordered.

"Agumon, warp-evolve! WARGREYMON!"
"Gabumon, warp-evolve! METALGARURUMON!"
"Guilmon, evolve! GROWMON!"
"Growmon!" "Strikedramon!" "Jogress Evolve! MECHARAPTORMON!"
"Piyomon, evolve! BIRDRAMON! Birdramon, super-evolve! GARUDAMON!"
"Tentomon, evolve! KABUTERIMON! Kabuterimon, super-evolve! ATLURKABUTERIMON!"
"Palmon, evolve! TOGEMON! Togemon, super-evolve! LILIMON!"
"Gomamon, evolve! IKKAKUMON! Ikkakumon, super-evolve! ZUDOMON!"
"WarGreymon!" "MetalGarurumon!" "Jogress Evolve! OMEGAMON!"

"Now then… ATTACK!" Taichi cried out.
"Shadow Wing!" Garudamon and the Digimon near her all attacked and took out BelialVamdemon's right arm.
"Horn Buster!" AtlurKabuterimon's force got the left arm.
"Flower Cannon!" Lilimon and the Digimon with her dealt with blowing apart BelialVamdemon's left leg, though he was still standing as if he still had all his limbs.
"Hammer Spark!" Zudomon's group took care of the right leg.
"Top Gun!" Silphymon blew off his deadly tail.
"Harmonious Spirit!" Shakkoumon removed the right shoulder.
"Howitzer Blast!" MechaRaptormon got the left shoulder.

"Garuru Cannon!" Omegamon fired and blew apart everything below the vampire's waist.
"No! Stop!" He tried to be as Omegamon unleashed his sword and charged ahead.
"Omega Sword!" He swung around and decapitated BelialVamdemon's head before what was left of him disintegrated into black, evil smoke.
"Impossible! How could I… How could I be defeated by some insignificant kids' light!?" His voice echoed as the smoke flew up and tried to escape.
"Imperialdramon, care to do the honors?" Omegamon asked.
"With pleasure. Everyone, lend me your power! Let's eradicate that darkness from this world once and for all!" He requested to all the Chosen Children. We all held up our D-3s towards him and the light shined towards him. His arm cannon vanished and a much larger one appeared that required him to hold it with both hands. He cocked it back, ready to fire. "GIGA DEATH!" The titanic blast shot upward and struck Vamdemon's spirit, causing him to give out a blood curdling scream as it was engulfed in the massive explosion. After it cleared, there was nothing left.

After almost a long year, we finally did it… Good luck trying to come back from that one, you bastard.

"We did it…" Daisuke gave out a sigh of relief.
"We defeated him!" Ken cheered.
"We did it!" "Alright!" "That's it!" "Good job!" Iori, Jou, Koushiro and Takeru joined in.
"Yeah!" "Yahoo!" "We did it!" "Hooray!" The girls all chimed in.
"Take that." "Thank goodness…" "Nice shot." "Way to go!" Taichi, myself, Osamu and Yamato all gave our praise too. The Digimon all devolved back to their basic forms before we had a guest show up in the form of Gennai.

He walked over to where Tailmon was and kneeled down near her.
"Gennai-san…" She looked up at him.
"I've come to return this." He was holding something in the palm of his hand. He handed what he was holding to her which revealed to be her Holy Ring.
"My Holy Ring?"
"The Holy Ring was used to control the power of darkness in the Digimon Kaiser's fortress. It was left behind, and I used it for the Jogress Evolution." Hikari helped slip it back on to Tailmon's tail as the other Chosen Children started to gather towards us. "And Jogress isn't needed anymore. Thank you, everyone."
"The other world we were in… what is that?" Takeru asked him.
"A world that materializes people's emotions. Rather, it's the power to materialize emotions itself. In fact, the Digital World is also founded on that power."

"So it's a world that integrates people's emotions and digital data." Miyako theorized.
"I see, so that ocean…" Osamu remembered back the Dark World. "It could be the materialization of the dark emotions in people's hearts."
"What about the Dark Seeds? Shouldn't they be removed?"
"I don't think we need to worry anymore. Vamdemon already harvested them so there shouldn't be any trace of them left in them. And even if they were, as long as they believe in the power to realize their dreams, the Seeds won't sprout." Ken assure her.
"Right."

"Someone help me!" We heard Iori's voice cry out. All our attention turned towards that strange realm where we could see Armadimon looking at Iori… who was actually trying to carry Oikawa. "Come on, Oikawa-san… we're almost there. We can still go to the Digital World together… Someone!" Iori… he was still trying to help him. Jou was very quick to move and ran over to the two of them. Judging from the look, Oikawa looked a bit more healthy, at least not as pale and gaunt as he was before when being used as a vessel for Vamdemon's dark spirit.
"Here, let me help, Iori-kun." Jou helped pick him up.
"Thanks… yes… let's go…" Oikawa muttered as the two of them soon picked him up and helped carry him a good fifty meters away from that place before they had to put him down for a moment.

Oikawa's breathing was quite labored which honestly meant that he probably didn't have much time. Being possessed by such a dark Digimon for so long can't be good for the health of the host.
"I… wasn't able to believe I had the power to dream…" He said as he looked up into the sky. "Everyone stumbles at one time or another… But… I wasn't able to overcome it." Iori sat next to him. Jou was checking him out medically and while he was still in the very basics of medicine, he didn't need a doctorate to know that Oikawa was going to die very soon. Gennai then soon walked over to them.
"After BelialVamdemon left his body, he has very little strength remaining. I think… he doesn't have much time."
"No…" Iori looked devastated. I think he felt so devastated about it was because he was to lose yet another connection to his father, in this case, his father's closest friend.
"The Digital World… this is the Digital World…?" He then coughed for a second. "Hiroki… I made it finally… for the both of us… I'm so sorry…" He started to tear up. "It's seen better days." He admitted. Looking around, yeah, it has.

"It used a lot of energy in order to defeat BelialVamdemon." Gennai informed. "It will recover… but it will take time."
"Well, with BelialVamdemon gone now and Demon trapped in the Dark World, it should at least have little threats to it that will stop its recovery." Koushiro believed.
"Iori… Iori…" Oikawa called for him.
"Yes, Oikawa-san...?"
"I can't move… but thank you for… for bringing me to the Digital World." Iori was starting to tear up and on the verge of crying. "You truly are like your father… I know you'll grow up into a fine young man he would be proud of." The dam burst and Iori just broke down and cried. "If I also had the power to make my dreams come true, maybe I would have been able to go on adventures like you all. But in the end… I made it least for both Hiroki and I… Iori… tell… tell your mother and grandfather… that Yukio Oikawa sends his regrets… and that he's sorry…"
"I will! I will!" Iori sobbed.
"Thank you… Iori…" He closed his eyes and leaned his head back as he drew his final breath.

"I… I want to bury him here… he would've wanted that…" Iori tried to wipe away the tears as he got up. We all nodded and helped him with that. All the other Chosen Children were talking amongst each other and getting to meet each other as they celebrated our victory, but for us from Japan, we were busy doing a funeral for Oikawa. We dug the hole and gently placed him in the ground before we filled it and Iori made a little memorial for him. None of us knew the true Oikawa, the one that was friends with Iori's father, but the words that Iori said probably rang true. "Oikawa-san, you were a good man that sadly lost his way, but I know in the end that you made peace with yourself… and I know my father made peace with you too. Look out for each other wherever you are now." Iori said as we all stayed silent. Our heads were bowed as we paid our respects.

After a few moments, Iori finished and we all left to join the other children and join in the celebration. In all honesty, the party felt very much like the one at the ending of Return of the Jedi. It was a good fun few hours as we caught up with some other Chosen we met and those we didn't during our Christmas adventure last week. It was great to see Michael and Wallace again as well as Anna, Laura and Yuri from Eastern Europe. It was true fun we shared with all the children as we recounted adventures and past memories. Our celebration would go on until just an hour or two before the new year would ring in.

And we could finally truly rest as we had finally won…

So yeah, things went a bit different here.

Most of my things go with the fact that .tri exists. If I had written this about... 2008-ish when I original tried to start (Better that I waited a decade, I know that would've been trash.) then most of the episode would've gone as normal.

Example, Noriko and the other kidnapped children were never mentioned in .tri so as cruel as it is, I decided not to give them Digimon, nor the rest of the world as apparently was the original ending. There was actually an audio drama where apparently Jun had a partner.

The other was Oikawa's wish and restoring the Digital World... which would've been fine but the events of .tri made it feel more like it wasn't worth anything so I thought pulling a General Armistead death fit more. Seriously, watch that scene from Gettysburg and tell me you don't cry. Especially since his actor Richard Jordan was dying of brain cancer and knew it too.

Anyways, that's all about I can say for now... true closing statements will come with the Epilogue, see you all tomorrow.

"Push the button, Frank."