"So wait, Kokomon's name is actually Doomsdaymon?" Yolie asked.
"That's what we heard." Tony replied.
"He attacked you guys?" Lee asked.
"What about your friends TK and Kari?" Terriormon asked as he walked on the bridge by them.
"Oh, right, they're not here yet, and neither is Leon." Estelle said.
"WHAT?!" Davis flipped out. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN KARI'S NOT HERE YET?!"
This made Terriormon nervous and accidentally fall off the bridge and splash into the water.
"They should've been here by now." Cody said.
"I have a feeling that Doomsdaymon might have made that difficult for them." Akito said.
"That's it, pal!" Davis glared as Veemon helped Terriormon back up over the bridge. "Enough secrets!"
"You might as well tell us." Tony said to Willis since he seemed to know an awful lot about Doomsdaymon.
"Yeah, how do you know Doomsdaymon?" Lee added. "And why do you keep calling him Kokomon? And why is he only attacking you?"
"Yeah..." the others agreed as Tony basically said what they all wanted to say.
"Because I created him." Willis revealed.
"How did you create a Digimon?" Lee asked.
"You must be kidding!" Davis scoffed to Willis. "You can't just create a Digimon out of thin air!"
"I told you too much already," Willis said. "Kokomon tries to help me disappear, like I bet he did to your friends TK, Kari, and Leon." he then grabbed his bag and stormed off on his own.
"I doubt it, because if that were true, I could sense their energy signatures anywhere." Akito said.
"I need to be alone..." Willis stormed off.
"Great, I'll go with you!" Davis followed behind him.
Terriormon whimpered as he was sad to see Willis like this.
"I'm coming too." Lee and Estelle said in unison unintentionally.
Before they knew it, the sun had gone down and it was now getting dark.
"Willis, we've been walking for hours and you haven't talked," Lee said. "What's wrong?"
"Being a DigiDestine means you don't have to face things alone." Davis agreed.
Willis sighed as he looked very unhappy.
"Willis, what are you running away from?" Estelle asked.
"Okay..." Willis sighed and decided to come clean. "Eight years ago, a Digi Egg came out of my computer and it hatched into twin Digimon: Terriormon and Kokomon. I finally had someone to play with. My very own pets and they talked too! It was the best. They depended on me, sometimes they would even do my chores for me and I thought it would be cool to have more of them. So I got this stupid idea of creating a Digi Egg on the computer. That's when it all went bad. Before my Digi Egg could hatch, it was attacked by a virus and it mutated into Diaboromon," he then continued gravely. "When it was destroyed, I thought my bad dream was finally over, but the real nightmare was just beginning. The virus somehow tracked us down and got Kokomon away from me. I watched helplessly for four years until he slowly became this terrible monster. And now he's obsessed with chasing me..." he then looked out into the canyon.
"What did he mean 'go back to the beginning'?" Estelle asked.
"I think he wanted me to come back here where it started," Willis suggested. "But every time he tries to tell me why, the virus stops him. He can't finish it. I know this won't end until he's destroyed, but I can't do it. It's all my fault, not his."
"No, it sounds more like he wanted you to go back into the past to when the virus attacked him." Lee said.
Davis threw down his goggles and began to sniffle.
"What's the matter with you?" Willis asked him.
"That is the saddest story I ever h-h-h-heard!" Davis cried.
"Davis, get a grip." Lee said.
"I'm the one with the problem, not you." Willis said as Davis sobbed.
"Okay!" Davis suddenly stopped crying and took his goggles back.
"Seriously?" Estelle asked in deadpan.
"That was fast." Willis said in the same way.
"You know what? We're gonna help you!" Davis smiled.
"You will?" Willis smiled back. "How're you gonna do that?"
"Because we're a team and teammates help each other." Lee said.
"I've never been on a team, anything I should know?" Willis replied.
"Yeah, I'm the only one who can kiss Kari." Davis replied with a smirk.
"In that case, then I'm the only one who can kiss Estelle." Lee replied.
"Davis is a lost cause." Estelle sighed.
"Just a little one?" Willis smirked about kissing Kari and Estelle.
"Don't you joke around that, okay?!" Davis glared.
"I dunno, she and I really hit it off in New York." Willis shrugged as he walked off with a smirk.
"Willis, forget it." Estelle said.
Little did Willis know was that Terriormon was coming right behind them with a blanket as it got chilly.
"Willis?" Terriermon asked.
"Aww, he looks so cute~" Estelle cooed to the Digimon wrapped up in warm blanket.
"I know you're gonna face Kokomon-I mean Doomsdaymon tomorrow, and I want to be right there next to you." Terriermon said.
"Oh, it might be dangerous..." Estelle said to the poor Digimon.
'He's my brother." Terriormon replied before dropping the blanket to expand his long ears.
"We know, but it's just that he might digivolve again without us knowing it." Lee said.
"Friends are always there for each other..." Terriermon reminded.
"He's got you there." Estelle said.
"All right, that's what I'm talking about!" Davis cheered. "Teamwork!"
"Sure, pal." Willis smiled as he knelt down in front of Terriermon and put his blanket back in place.
"Alright, then in the morning, we'll face Doomsdaymon." Estelle said.
"That sounds good to me." Lee agreed as he put his arm around her.
The next day soon came. Lee and Estelle were nuzzled against each other in their sleep.
"Ahem." Davis cleared his voice as it was morning.
Lee and Estelle woke up and yawned as they sat up together.
Estelle then noticed she was wearing Lee's jacket. "Lee, why am I wearing your jacket?" she soon asked.
"Oh, you seemed cold last night, so I thought you could use a little more comfort." Lee replied while blushing slightly.
"Aw!" Estelle smiled. "Thank you, Lee."
Lee smiled bashfully. "No problem, Estelle."
Estelle then took off the jacket and was about to hand it back.
"No, go ahead, keep it," Lee insisted. "You might need it more than I do."
"Oh, thank you, Lee," Estelle smiled with a blush. "I wonder how TK, Kari, and Leon are doing?"
"I'm sure everything's okay." Lee smiled back.
There was then an ominous feel which only meant one thing for Willis.
"Oh-" Lee said.
"No." Estelle finished with a frown.
"Oh, yes." Willis nodded.
Lee and Estelle frowned as Kokomon/Doomsdaymon was on his way.
"So, where do we find Doomsdaymon?" Davis asked.
"I think I found him..." Lee said uneasily as the strong and demonic Digimon stared down Willis and confronted him.
"Go back..." Doomsdaymon said.
"I did, I'm here, what else do you want?" Willis replied.
"Destroy... DESTROY!" Doomsdaymon snarled.
"I have a feeling he's going to digivolve." Tony gulped.
"Ah, great, Tony, you just had to say it." Lee groaned to his younger brother.
"He has a lot of issues." Davis commented about the Digimon.
"You can say that again." Chip said.
A glowing sphere overtook the Digimon as he then began to Digivolve.
"Terriermon, be careful, he's stronger now!" Willis warned his Digimon.
Tony soon quickly went to his Digimon cards to see which Digimon that Doomsdaymon was now.
"Do we even wanna know?" Estelle asked nervously as Terriermon digivolved to take him on.
"Uh-oh, guys we have a problem; Doomsdaymon just digivolved into Antylamon who is an Ultimate Level Digimon." Tony gulped.
"Is that bad?" Lee asked.
"IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT!" Tony panicked.
"We better Spirit Evolve into our Beast Spirits then." Lee said.
Tony nodded in agreement while panicking.
"Will you stop panicking?!" Estelle glared at the younger boy. "It's not that bad, and trust me, I've been through worse before I even met you guys! I used to be a Loonatic!"
"Used to." Tony scoffed.
"Watch it." Lee warned his brother.
"Okay, okay." Tony sighed.
"Anyway... DIGIVOLVE!" Lee called out so they could become their new forms to take down the big and bad Digimon.
Lee, Estelle, Akito, Chip, and Tony soon spirit evolved into their beast spirits.
"Veemon, your turn, show him what you're made of!" Davis called out.
"Veemon armor digivolve to...Flamedramon: The Fire of Courage." Flamedramon announced.
Lee spirit evolved into BurningGreymon. Estelle spirit evolved into Zephyrmon. Chip spirit evolved into MetalKabuterimon. Tony spirit evolved into Korikakumon. Finally, Akito spirit evolved into KendoGarurumon.
"Armordillomon, you too!" Cody called to his Digimon.
"Armordillomon digivolve to... Digmon: The Drill of Power!" Digmon announced.
"Hawkmon, go for it!" Yolie called to her Digimon.
"Hawkmon digivolve to... Halsemon: The Heart of Wing." Halsemon announced.
"There's no way he can win against all these Digimon." Willis hoped.
"Let's teach this bad Digimon a lesson." Korikakumon glared.
"I may be a lady, but he is dead meat!" Zephyrmon agreed.
"You said it, Sis." KendoGarurumon agreed.
The Digimon all then lashed out and used their signature moves against the big and bad Digimon.
Emi was on the edge of her seat as she watched them in battle, but mostly paid attention to KendoGarurumon for obvious reasons.
"Go, team, go!" Drell cheered.
"Oh, Akito, please be careful..." Emi hoped and prayed.
Pikachu nuzzled against Emi and comforted her the best that he could. He soon saw the Thunder Stone that she had. Emi held her and her brother's Pokemon close for comfort. Pikachu sniffed the Thunder Stone and looked up to Emi and Ash as he held Serena, and where he knew what he needed to do, even if it meant he wouldn't be a Pikachu anymore.
"You okay, Pikachu?" Emi asked.
"Emi... Do you want me to evolve?" Pikachu asked her.
"Oh, Pikachu, Ash and I wouldn't make you..." Emi soothed. "You can evolve only if you want to, we won't force you... But it would be nice if you became a Raichu."
Pikachu soon took a deep breath before he walked up to the Thunder Stone.
"Pikachu, what're you doing?" Ash looked to his main Pokemon that he shared with Emi.
"I'm going to evolve." Pikachu said as he began to reach for the Thunder Stone.
"Are you sure you wanna do that, Pikachu?" Serena asked.
"You don't need to, we won't love you any less." Emi added in.
"I know, but if I do evolve into a Raichu, that means I'll get more powerful moves that I can't do as a Pikachu." Pikachu said while the Digimon kept fighting Antylamon.
"Are you sure you wanna do this, Pikachu?" Serena asked.
"Yes... I'm ready this time." Pikachu confirmed.
"Alright then." Emi said as she gave the Thunder Stone to the electric mouse Pokemon.
Ash couldn't believe this was really happening.
Pikachu then took the stone. "Thanks for the good times, guys, it was really fun... Hopefully it'll be loads more fun in the future with me as Raichu."
"We're sure it will." Emi smiled.
Pikachu and the Thunder Stone soon started to glow.
"Goodbye, Pikachu..." Ash whispered as Pikachu was now finally evolving.
After glowing and growing for a while, Pikachu had finally evolved into Raichu. The others flinched and then looked down as Pikachu was no longer a Pikachu, he was a...
"RAICHU!" Raichu chanted before landing on his two feet in the middle of the floor.
"Wow! Now you can use Strength and Thunder Punch, ooh and best of all, Hyper Beam." Drell smiled as he held out a book with attack moves of each Pokemon.
"Drell, I don't think I've seen you this excited over Pokemon before." Serena said to the warlock.
"I've been doing my research." Drell said.
"Sure you're not just sucking up to me?" Emi asked before she then looked back to the screen.
"I'm sure." Drell said as they looked back at the screen.
The battle was very intense as the many Digimon were losing so far. The kids comforted their fallen Digimon as it looked like they couldn't win. At least right now anyway. BurningGreymon soon attacked Antylamon and sent the evil Digimon plummeting into the water.
"That's... Enough... Out of... You..." Zephyrmon panted as she was wore out from the battle. "Phew! That was intense even for me."
"Did we win?" MetalKabuterimon asked.
"I hope so..." Korikakumon said. "I'm exhausted!"
"I don't think it's over yet." Willis said.
"Aww..." the group groaned.
"Okay, I refuse to do this!" Tony said, coming back to normal. "I'll just play Digimon on the blacktop at school!" he then said as he took out his card collection. "Fighting real Digimon can wait another time!"
"Tony, I don't think you're going to have a choice at the moment." Lee said, coming back to normal before he showed Tony that something was rising from the water.
"Do I have to?" Tony groaned.
"Yes, Tony, you wanted Digimon, you got it." Lee replied.
Tony then looked into the water. "Uh, what's going on?"
Soon, a bigger Digimon came out and where Tony quickly looked through his Digimon cards to find out what it was. Time seemed to go backwards as the evil Digimon's wounds healed from the virus and everyone grew younger.
"Here we are, Cherubimon; he's a Mega Level Digimon, uh-oh, and he's a virus type." Tony said with a younger voice.
Leon, Kari, and TK appeared, along with Angemon and Angewomon.
"Do you guys still know me?" Lee asked Akito and Estelle hopefully.
"Yes, our memories haven't changed, but we could go back too far and disappear from existence!" Estelle replied as she was too small for Lee's jacket now.
"Why are we getting younger?" Leon asked as he was also getting younger.
"Willis, I was right; he didn't want you to go back to Colorado." Lee said in a younger voice.
"Everyone's getting younger." TK frowned as he looked with Kari and Leon.
Akito and Estelle were soon in their toddler ages and Akito's hair was mostly covered from his bandanna.
"Uh-oh." Akito frowned.
Estelle's purple clothes were then going back to pink and her headband was replaced with a bow. "Oh, man, we're getting even younger!" she then cried out.
"Lee, you were right; he was actually talking about going back in time to when the virus first attacked Kokomon." Willis said in a younger voice as he got younger.
There were then two armored figures coming to help out the kids out in their dilemma.
"Oh, good, help is on the way!" Leon looked hopeful.
Lee, Akito, Estelle, Tony, Leon, and Chip's devices all soon started to glow.
Drell used his magic through the screen to help the kids out. "You are not disappearing from existence!"
"Hurry, Drell, I don't wanna be an only child all the time!" Vincent cried out.
"Why are our devices glowing?" Estelle asked.
"Just say 'Execute' and then say 'Ancient Spirit Evolution', and you all will become one Digimon." Drell said.
"Drell, is that you?" Akito asked.
"No, it's your Aunt Darla," Drell deadpanned. "Of course it's me!"
"We better do it now." Tony said, sounding much younger now.
"On three," Leon said. "One... Two... Three!"
"EXECUTE!" the kids all said together before they all glowed and seemed to fuse together into one brand new Digimon. "Ancient Spirit Evolution!"
All of them soon fused into one Digimon. Drell watched close as he bit his nails nervously.
"Wow, you're really nervous..." Eloise noticed.
"Of course I am!" Drell replied nervously. "If anything happens, your parents will all KILL ME!"
"Whoa, look at the size of that Digimon." Vincent said.
"Phew!" Drell wiped his forehead in relief.
"Uh, what is that exactly?" Ash asked as he held Serena.
"I have no idea." Serena said.
"Susanoomon!" Susanoomon declared.
"Okay, he... She... It... Uh, they're a Susanoomon." Drell then told the others.
"Susanoomon, quick, throw me and Rappidmon into Cherubimon's mouth." Magnamon said.
Drell looked nervous as he bit his nails nervously, he then grabbed Skippy from nowhere and whammed him up and down on the floor over and over which made the room shake slightly.
Susanoomon soon grabbed Magnamon and Rappidmon with one hand and threw them into Cherubimon's mouth.
"YOU CANNOT WIN!" Antylamon snarled.
"How is Antylamon still there?" Emi asked.
"This is not good..." Drell groaned. "I might as well go see your parents..." he then walked off down the stairs.
The others watched him go as they continued to watch the Digimon battle.
"Um... Atticus... Mo... Cherry..." Drell said as he nervously tapped his knuckles together. "I regret to inform you that several of your children have been sacrificed... And, uh..." He soon saw that the adults were watching everything that was going on with a screen of their own.
"Oh, you're watching too..." he smiled nervously with a chuckle. "Um-"
"Shh, I'm trying to watch Baby Atticus kick some butt!" Cherry glared, referring to Akito since he was mostly like Atticus out of his three children.
