Okay. Here we are again. Let's do this thing! I have the next chapter up, and the ending of this mini arc. I will repeat once again that this little arc come from the movie, Battle of Adventurers, so Minami and co aren't my own oc's (I say that mostly cuz I have reading a fic and getting a faceful of someone's oc's) anyway, I will attempt to update more often here on out, but school is starting up, and I need to finish reading les mis, and I plan on learning computer coding, drawing, mountain biking, practicing viola, learning new languages, etc… so just keep bugging me until I do I guess ;P cuz I ain't about to give up on this thing!

Also, I updated the last chapter so the ending went slightly different. Basically rewatching the movie I saw I messed up a bit and had to delay their digivolving, so while that is still an ability that TK possesses it will now be revealed later.

MSPA Wiz – thank you

Digi-fancatt – you can go ahead and hug him :3

Zero Unit RGB – Yeah, I'm kind of a sucker for background characters

The God Named Emiya Shirou – heh, it will be a while before that really happens, definitely not before the tamers start doing their combining.

Digidestined Ninja of Sunshine – gah! Thank you. I remember watching tamers years ago, and the beginnings of this fic coming into my mind as I drew parallels with the characters. Yeah, the Digimon all will kind of be in their own situations without their digidestined. And it will be quite the surprise. I hope to get to that next chapter.

Puberty7756 – first of all, I want to thank you. If it wasn't for you I might have let myself forget about this fanfic, that I want so badly to finish. Thank you so much. Yeah… still trying to find out how exactly I want to draw the parallels between crest holders and the catalyst. Still undecided about how he got sent to the future, but I like that idea a lot… The reveal will probably be…rocky, and I agree, I really want to make Kazu and Kenta important like right now, but I need to wait a little long, grrrr

Fanakatsuki - *blush* thank you. Sorry this one took so long…. ;_; I'm a terrible author

McDreamy – please don't give up on me! I will always update eventually, you just have to poke me enough, for I am as lazy as a snorlax at heart. TK has been on their hit list for a while, but with his crest his importance will probably increase for the enemy.

Fantasy-Magician – thank you, I've been trying not to make it too focused on TK. The timeline is pretty much going by episode, starting with the end of the episode were Guilmon becomes wargrowlmon for the first time, and then just going up by episode. I took a second to break off of the episodes (can't remember which episode I ended on) to go to the movie Battle of Adventurers, which takes place sometime withing the space of about five episodes, and the next episode will continue going by episode from where I left off. Yes, I am more or less aware of the faults in this fanfic, that by adding too many unknown elements I have unintentionally given the plot and storyline little stability to follow, but I am attempting to keep pushing forward. I am interested in what you think I could do to fix this at this point? I'd like to make this as enjoyable for you as possible.

Guest – It's okay, my English is bad and I speak it! Plus I can't speak another language, so I think it's amazing that you can (and I have like a million typos, so that probably just makes it harder for you, sorry) Minami's father will not be Ken, although that would have been neat… but Minami pretty much disappears after this, and I want Ken to have a more permanent standing.

Ayelet – I know what you mean with the small amount of sleep. I fell into a slump of pretty bad depression this summer and it kind of made me stop doing everything…. Drawing, writing fics, writing my own original stories… but I think I've bounced back enough to jump back into things!

AlexFalk – haha, that would be a neat mini arc, but both of their parents are just really good friends and are actually still very loyal to their previous spouse (both divorces were complicated)

1sthi1357 – yeah, it has been some time

Opps – yes

SerinasHarmony – I'm sorry this took me so long ;_; you're so sweet

Knight25 – finally here

Whenet – I'm sorry, I took so long, I feel terrible

Vicky9815 – That makes me feel so good, I'm glad you're enjoying it

Kaboom – please forgive for taking so long *puppy eyes*

Scott Cathon – you might be my favorite reviewer. That was clever ;) i HOPE you find this chapter INteresting with the TAMERS (yeah, I'm not half as good at that as you were)

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"Mi…na…mi…" Said girl cautiously opened her eyes, expecting to see her own body battered and bruised. But no. Instead she was perfect fine, save a few scrapes, and instead there was no longer Seasarmon in front of her, but labramon, looking too exhausted to even consider moving, looking up at her with doleful eyes, his fur matted with dirt and scratches lining his body.

"L-labramon." She whimpered, shocked to see the Digimon in such a state.

"Don't worry, Minami, I protected you." He gave a tired smile, and Minami could feel tears falling down her face. "I'm sorry that I could never replace …" He trailed off, as if not wanting to say Mai's name. Or unable to. Minami let out a sob.

"No, labramon, it's my fault. I've been so rude to you. When you were the v-pet, I acted like I didn't care about you, but really I was just hiding my feeling. I was so happy to have you. You were what helped me to keep going." Labramon's form shuddered, the data struggling to maintain it's form. "N-no. no. I can't lose you again. Mai!" Minami cried, cradling the Digimon's head in her arms.

"I'm so hapy you called me that name." Labramon said, and bits and pieces of data began to fly off of him, rainbow colored, and dissolved into the air. "the was the password to unlock the vaccine inside of me." He gave a small smile, even as his body began disappearing.

"No! No! Labramon, please no." But there was nothing Minami could do as the Digimon slowly came apart, until she found her arms empty, and her faces soaked with tears.

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Across the globe the vicious v-pets disappeared as the vaccine took hold of them. On a plane flying above the clouds in the sky, a woman wakes up and checks how much longer her flight will be before she gets to see her daughter.

Suzie sat in front of her computer, and watched as the devil looking v-pet burst into data.

"I told you those things were stupid, daddy." She declared, smiling up at her father, who returned with a softened smile.

"You were right sweetie."

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I watched as Labramon dissolved into the air, and help Poyomon closer to my chest. It reminded me so much of what Angemon had done to defeat Devimon, and chills went up my spine.

"I don't get it." I looked quizzically at Takato, as he spoke up, looking confused. "If we defeated Mephistomon shouldn't this fake world have disappeared too?"

"Wait a second, you're right Takato." Henry frowned. As if on cue, there was a loud rumbling, and from where Mephistomon had fallen a much larger Digimon rose up. Rika brought our her digivice and aimed it at the mountain of an opponent, and a small gasp escaped her lips.

"That's Mephistomon, but he digivolved into Gulfmon now." He truly was a monster from one's nightmares, his head horrible twisted into a snout with razor sharp teeth, and his stomach had split open into a wide mouth, prepared to destroy and devour.

"That's okay, we can take him!" Takato called out, clenching one of his fists. "Get him Growlmon!" The other two Digimon followed suit, calling out various attacks, which simply bounced off of Gulfmon.

"Nothing's working!" Henry called as a giant hand swiped at his partner. "We have to do something!"

"Not good, not good." I looked over at Calumon, who was rubbing his head. A heartbeat later the red symbol on Calumon's head began to glow.

"Uwah!" He cried, and I watched at the other's digivices began to glow.

"Growlmon Digivolve to… Wargrowlmon!"

"Kyuubimon Digivolve to… Taomon!"

"Gargomon Digivolve to… Rapidmon!" The light died down and the three Digimon appeared in their new forms, looking amazing. I thought about DNAmon, and that one day that had caused me to have nightmares for years, and I knew there would only be one way to resolve this.

"Guys, you need to listen to me!" I called out, hoping to gain the attention of the others.

"Poyo~" Poyomon called, attempting to be helpful nd get the others attention as well. I gave him a small pat on the head.

"You need to do a coordinated, combined attack!" The three Digimon hovering in the air looked at each other, as if thinking something in sync. One by one, they each became a solid color, and then their data itself seemed to reinvent it's form, making them into something that was pure energy. The balls of light and color launched themselves at Gulfmon, rotating around one another before blending together seamlessly into a bright white light, that hurtled straight through Gulfmon, before separating once again and reverting back to the Digimon and dedigivolving.

Gulfmon let out a loud and bellowing cry and his own data began to destroy itself. His eyes were clenched tight in pain, but one managed to open, full of hate, and landed by me.

"This will not be the last time you see me. You will never be rid of me. I will find a way back, I will return…" His eyes shifted, to something behind me. "Come to watch the show, eh?" I whirled around, but I didn't see anything, there was only the slightest sound of a cape fluttering. Gulfmon let out one last, shaky breath, before completely falling apart.

The world around us broke apart as well, and then I blinked, and found myself floating underwater, surrounded by the others. We all swam quickly to the surface, taking deep breaths of air and sharing shaky, relieved smiles, as if we were all surprised that we were alive.

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"Rika?" the women entered the small house, two bags in her arms, placing them down when she saw the familiar red haired girl.

"Mom?" The girl looked up, then gave an indifferent shrug. "Hey."

"Did my daughter worry about me while I was gone?" Ms. Nonaka gave Rika a firm hug, even though it was not reciprocated back. "I'm so glad to see you're okay!" Rika gave a noncommittal grunt. "I'll have to take that as a yes. Oh, all the horrible things that I heard happened! Apparently the power went out, and no electronics were working! Even airplanes! Although I guess mine wasn't effected." Rike slowly allowed herself to ease into the hug.

"I'm glad you're safe." She said softly.

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"Henwy, you and Pwincess pwetty pants are back!" Henry found himself being crowded my his little sister, and gave a small smile.

"Yeah, crazy stuff going on, huh?" He looked up to see his father standing a few feet away, and found his smile widening. "Dad… you're okay." He had talked to his dad on the phone, but it was still good to see his dad out of the hospital and standing on his own two feet, although he did appear to be slightly leaning on a wall.

"You're telling us. I heard that several boats were crashing, I was worried that you might have been on one of them." Henry just shook his head.

"No, I got lucky I guess." His dad nodded, with a relieved smile.

"Welcome home, son."

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I stood outside, feeling the wind on my face. It was funny, I was supposedly on vacation, but this was really the first time I had been relaxed in a while. Poyomon was bouncing around, blowing bubbles and giggling, and it brought an easy smile to my face. For a vacation a lot had happened, and I had to frown slightly as it occurred to me, that after everyone was done being fussed over by their parents, they would inevitably come to me and ask what my connection to Mephistomon had been. I couldn't tell them everything, there was no way they'd believe me, but I would have to tell them a few details and facts…

"Poyo~" I smiled, and my hand reached up to pop a bubble.

"Yeah, you're right, I should just relax for a little bit." I fingered my tag and crest, and smiled.

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"Takato, you're back." Takato looked up from where he was sitting on the playground to see Kenta and Kazu grinning up at him.

"Hey guys, what have you been up to?" Kazu grinned.

"Well, we weren't exactly saving the world, but I did get to sleep over with this dork since the power was out and my mom didn't want me trying to get home in the dark." Kenta gave a small nod, a small smile on his face too.

"Yeah, my dad was actually really excited to have him over. Although I hardly got any sleep." Takato nodded. "Anyway, what did you do? I mean, you were probably the one that caused the blackout in the first place."

"Well… not technically." Takato scratched the back of his head.

"Come on~" Kazu whined. "I need details. My life is so boring these days! You gotta throw me a bone!"

"Well, okay. So, I got off the plane and then…"

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That's all folks. I finally finished this section of the story. Sorry the ending is kind of shaky, but I needed to find a way to finish it up without just plunging into the next part. Tell what ya think, and what I can do better and stuff. I did hear from more than once person that the element of mystery is overused and that I'm going too fast… I don't intend to go back and rewrite it at this time, but do you guys want me to try and go slower and tone down the mystery in the future?

Thanks for the read

~the-east-hunter