Chapter 12
Looking up when he heard footsteps, Tai turned to the others.
"They are here."
"About time," Matt muttered as they rose to their feet when all eight other Digidestined ran in and stopped before them.
"I told them what's going on," Kari explained as Tai shifted.
"Where do you need us?"Yolei asked and Matt glanced at the rest to only see determination and friendship in their eyes.
They would do anything to help Izzy this time.
"Stand by the pillar with your crest on it. Gennai shall do the rest," he answered.
Without further comment they all took their places and looked at Gennai nervously.
Tai, Matt and Joe made their way over as well and Gennai moved forward.
"As you all know we are here to bind the powers of the Child of Faith into the eleven people present here. All you have to do is say the name of your crest and make sure you are only doing this for Izzy. Then we can bind his powers into all of you, any questions?"
"Will we hurt Izzy by doing this?"
Gennai turned to T.K.
"I don't know, but even if we do, it is necessary to do so. If we do not bind his powers, Arukenimon and her lackeys will get hold of them and that will hurt him even more."
As they all nodded Gennai spoke words in Digicode.
"Now."
"Courage."
"Friendship."
"Love."
"Sincerity."
"Responsibility."
"Hope."
"Light."
"Courage."
"Friendship."
"Love."
"Knowledge."
"Sincerity."
"Responsibility."
As they said their crests, the symbol lit up on their chest and in the middle of the circle Gennai places the symbol of Izzy's crest as it too lit up brightly.
As Cody named his crest, several beams of lights lifted up out of the symbol and they all braced themselves as the beams travelled directly towards them.
"Now, hold out your crest and lock the power inside of it."
They did as they were told and locked the beams up, their chest stopping to slow the moment they did.
Dizziness fell over each of them and they let themselves slide to the ground. None of them spoke for a long moment as they looked at their crests.
Tai was the first one to regain his speech.
"Did it work?"
Gennai looked up to him tiredly but before he could answer, a big blast came from Spiral Mountain and the all felt the storm of Power as smoke, fire and wind rushed out in all directions.
Screams of pain echoed all around them as everything was swallowed in the blast.
"What's happening!"
Matt screamed as they all collapsed, white hot pain shooting through his veins as the storm of power ran over them as well.
Fragments of Izzy and an unknown Digimon flashed through him and he felt the pain and suffering Izzy had felt for so long in his mind.
Realising what was happening, he tried to fight to keep his consciousness, but failed and everything blacked out with one last thought in his mind.
Izzy had given his powers up.