A/N: And this arc is at an end because there is no point in dragging it out. Arc 2 will start soon. Thanks for all your patience. Enjoy and let me know what you guys think. Questions will be answered as time goes on!

1-12

They are all silent, and for a moment, Plotmon really did hate them. Why don't they see it? Why don't they understand? She is Hikari's partner! She would know her better than the best, better than anyone, especially these humans. They just weren't looking.

"My Nee-san doesn't talk like that," Taichi protests and Plotmon pauses, scratching at the concrete with a paw.

"So what?" She shakes her head. "Why are you guys so freaked out? Hikari was dead! She's not dead now!"

"But Hikari-chan wasn't holding a scythe before!"

"That's the Hikari who evolved me into Bastemon!" Plotmon finally snaps, jumping up and down. It ruins the effect of the glare on her face but she doesn't care. "I know that is my Hikari and I'm going to go home and drag her back here!"

"How do you know?" She isn't sure which of the two blond kids says this, mostly because she can barely tell them apart sometimes and the rest of the time they actually act like separate beings. Not one of those times, unfortunately.

The question makes her snort and she just ignores it because the answer is incredibly obvious. If it isn't her Hikari, then Plotmon has no idea who her partner even is. And that just can't be.

All of them are silent and she starts wishing she had her flaming wings again so she can kill and kill and kill and get through to the other side.

"You really think we can save Nee-chan?" Plotmon looks at Taichi, at the too big goggles around his neck His Digivice flickers with light as he speaks, clenched in one fist too tight. "Can I bring Nee-chan home and tell her I'm sorry?"

Sorry for what? "We have to try," Plotmon says. "Or she will die for sure."

She feels the words tumble through the humans' minds, watches the Digimon sit and wait, rather impatiently. They know what they're supposed to be doing. Apparently, humans are simply slower than Digimon at grasping the obvious.

Then, they catch on and she sees their Digivices begin to glow. Envy burns for a moment when she sees the looks human and Digimon share, and then she shrugs it off. She will have her Hikari back.

"Koushiro?"

Koushiro (she knows him because Hikari knew him and regarded him with trust and focus) looks at the two adults who had followed them, parents, yes, that was the human word. "Mom? Dad?"

The woman hugs her son, like Hikari had hugged her and hugged Taichi and all of these people and she sees Koushiro's eyes water and her stiff legs relax because the realization has probably now made itself clear to everyone else.

Hikari has hugged all of them, but they have rarely ever hugged her. And that might save her from herself.

Vamdemon is dead, who else could they save her from?