Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon or The Batman.

Author: Whoowee, this one was a doozy! "Operation Rescue: Final Phase" Longest chapter I've ever written. I swear this should've been the final battle right here, there's almost no way I can top all this action later on, that doesn't mean I won't try though. Also, another favorite character gets an upgrade in power.

Anyway, before you start reading this chapter there's something I have to tell you about it. I put in 5 musical cues, so you can put on some music (preferably battle type music, or insert songs, as they'll play when things get intense in each battle) while you read the chapter. They'll be labeled ("Cue Insert Music X") and ("Stop Insert Music X") with X being the number. Unfortunately, while re-reading the chapter myself, they seem kind of short. Meh, that's always how it goes isn't it? Perhaps just one long battle theme will do in place of five different ones.

It's just an experiment I wish to try out, nothing special, you don't have to do it you don't want to. There's going to be music for, in this order:
1. The Omnimon fight
2. Beelzemon vs MetalSeadramon
3. MegaGargomon vs Machinedramon
4. Justimon vs Puppetmon
5. Gallantmon Crimson Mode vs Piedmon

There's none for the Tai battle, that's optional, he's got a bigger battle ahead for him, you did know that right?

Anyway, enjoy the chapter.


15

"Shining Hope, Burning Courage"

"Transcendent Sword!" the dark Omnimon swings his powerful sword in the air. Unleashing an enormous blast all around him. Blowing away the three digimon around him.

Dianamon recovered quickly, but Omnimon was faster.

"Supreme Cannon!"

Dianamon blasts through the stairway wall. The digidestined stop their run as the white digimon tries to peel herself from the wall.

Barbara notices the digidestined looking at her, "HURRY! Run!"

Dianamon shifted to the side as Omnimon's sword pierces the wall.

"Is that-?" Matt quickly assessed the situation. "EVERYONE MOVE!"

The digidestined hastened their speed. Omnimon pulls out his sword and flies back. Dianamon sees a large glow on his MetalGarurumon arm…

"Supreme Cannon!"

The building rocks from the powerful blast. Dianamon flies out from the other end as Omnimon goes around in pursuit. The digidestined struggle to see as the smoke filled stairwell begins to clear.

Davis was the first to notice something wrong, "Kari!"

TK was holding on to Kari, who had fallen over to the outside of the building. TK and Kari were somehow blown upwards while the rest of the digidestined were sent down half a dozen floors. All the stairs in between them were destroyed.

"Don't worry Kari," TK tightens his grip. "I've got you."

Kari can't help but be worried. Loud cracks nearby worsened her fear, the wall was coming loose.

"TK! The wall!"

"I'm not letting you go," TK spoke those words without hesitation, it was all from his heart.

Gatomon tried to get up by bouncing off the walls, however the walls broke apart, taking Gatomon with them. Sora catches the falling cat.

"I can't get up there."

"You won't have to!" Biyomon flew up and grabbed Kari's other arm.

Tentomon and Hawkmon also took hold of Kari and helped her up and onto the stiars.

"TK! KARI!" Matt called from below. "Are you okay?"

"We're fine!" TK responded. "But we can't get down from here!"

"We'll keep going," Matt told them. "You two better find another way out."

"How?"

"Try getting to the roof!"
"Okay!" TK looks at Kari. "Let's go Kari."

"Right!"

TK and Kari ran up the stairs as the other digidestined and their digimon went down, Ken and Yolei had to drag Davis with them though.


"Full Moon Circle!" Dianamon throws her weapon towards the great knight. She lands on a nearby roof and watches her spear fly.

Omnimon merely smacks the weapon away as he steps onto the same roof.

"Spirit Strike!" Sakuyamon sends out four fox spirits that binds each of Omnimon's limbs. Sakuyamon appears between the great knight and the white knight. "Amethyst Wind!" The mystic wind blows hard on the dark powered warrior.

Omnimon pushes against the wind and struggles against the spiritual shackles.

"He's too strong Rika!"

"Artemis Arrow!" Dianamon unleashes a barrages of light the traps Omnimon in a block of ice.

"That's not going to hold him," Rika stated the obvious. "But how can we fight that thing?"

"Have Takato and the others finished with the Dark Masters yet?" Barbara asked.

Five loud explosions all around the city confirmed the answer. The two looked around to see several buildings collapse all around the city.

"I'm glad I don't live here," Rika pointed out.

"Hope they're insured against digimon attacks," Barbara joked.

A loud cracking noise causes them to turn around. Omnimon breaks free from the ice. Sakuyamon and Dianamon step back slowly as he advances, taking out his Garuru Cannon.

"Supreme Canno-ARGH!" Omnimon's shot flew in a random direction, blowing up the unlucky building.

MagnaAngemon slashed the knight's back again. This time it didn't have as much effect. Omnimon quickly turned around and raised his sword into the air. Dianamon's weapon comes flying back, it knocks Omnimon in the head. The great knight topples backwards as Dianamon catches her weapon. Both the female digimon jump out of the way as Omnimon falls down, all the way down to the street below.

The trio watch as the smoke spreads out across the air, they know it's not over yet. Omnimon jumps up quickly and slams his sword onto Dianamon.

"Dianamon!"

"Rika!"

"Supreme Cannon!"

MagnaAngemon tackles Sakuyamon out of the way, taking the full blast himself.

"AHHHH!"


TK and Kari make it to the roof, just in time to see an angel get hit by a powerful blast.

"MagnaAngemon!" TK cries out.

The blast sends the angel flying back. MagnaAngemon glowed brightly, then flashed into Patamon. TK manages to catch his weakened partner with Kari right behind him.

"TK…" Patamon weakly tried to talk.
"I'm here Patamon, I'm here."

TK and Kari watch as Sakuyamon and Dianamon try to battle Omnimon. The great knight was merely knocking away the two smaller combatants, who just keep coming back regardless of how much damage they've been taking.

"Transcendent Sword!" Omnimon knocks away the two smaller digimon once more. The two of them crash through two different buildings. The great knight catches something on the corner of his eye, TK and Kari.

He takes out his cannon and aims at them, charging its energy.

"Come on Kari we gotta leave!" TK grabs Kari's hand and drags her away.


The other digidestined make it out of the building.

"I can't… run… anymore…" Yolei panted hard.

"We have to keep going guys!" Sora told them all.

"What about Kari?" Davis asked her.

"And TK?" Cody added.

"Matt told them to get to the roof," Izzy started. "His friends should be able to find them easily."

"But they're dealing with the Dark Masters and Omnimon all at once," Ken pointed out. "When we saw them save TK, other then that one girl from before, there four others."

"Right," Izzy complimented. "That means they're taking on the Dark Masters one by one. If we include the other two that's fighting Omnimon, that should be all the ones we know of. Knowing Tai, he would've brought everything he could to save us. Now, the question is…"

"Where's Tai?" Sora asked softly.

"Supreme Cannon!" they all heard Omnimon call out his attack.

All the digidestined turn to see a great beam of light explode on the building they just escaped from.

"TK!" Matt yelled out into the skies. The top of the building begins to tip over, the weakened walls from the earlier attack gave way.

"TK!" Kari's voice echoed through the emptiness.

TK groaned as he opened his eyes slowly. He saw a worried Kari holding onto Patamon with both arms. "Kari?"

"Come on TK, we need to hurry!"

The entire roof began to tilt even more underneath them. TK tried to catch his footing, but something else caught his attention. A glow from Omnimon's cannon.

"Supreme Cannon!"

The building is hit once more with the massive blast. This time it was enough to slide the entire top portion to one side. TK quickly grabs Kari's hand and pulls her to the end that's rising upwards. The platform slides further and collides with a neighboring building. But gravity began to work and it began to tilt sharply. TK strained to hold on.

Omnimon aimed once more, charging his weapon. Dianamon kicks his aim off, and the blast hits a faraway structure.

"Atremis Arrow!" Dianamon freezes the cannon arm.

"Amethyst Mandala!" Sakuyamon immobilizes Omnimon's sword arm in a ring of energy.

Dianamon and Sakuyamon nodded to each other.

"Crescent Kick!"

"Spirit Kick!"

A double kick to the chin. Omnimon topples backwards. The two smaller fighters bounced of off the great knight's chest, high into the air.

"Double…"

"Celestial…"

"KIIIIIICK!"

A full power attack, with double the digimon doubling the power. They hit the great knight's chest square on. Their combined power erupts into the sky as all three of them dive to the ground. They all hit the ground, the shockwave spreads in all directions, breaking windows of nearby structures.

Dianamon and Sakuyamon jump out onto a tall building, panting hard.

"Do… you think…" Dianamon turned to Sakuyamon. "That did it?"

"No…" Sakuyamon looks at her partner. "He's a lot… stronger then that."

"Transcendent Sword!"

A great slash wave cuts through the building they're on. Both of them jump away as their opponent returns for another round.


The platform tilted again, TK held his grip, what was left of it.

"TK!" Kari cried.

The rooftop fell completely, both digidestined began to plummet. TK, Kari and Patamon were separated by to the shock of the fall. TK grabs Patamon and reaches for Kari. The other digidestined can only watch in horror as all three of them rapidly descend to the earth.

I've got to… TK desperately tries to reach for Kari. Save her!

TK manages to grab hold of Kari, but he could see the ground come up fast, and hear the roof behind him.

There's a way… There's got to be a way! No matter what, I'm not going to let anything happen to Kari!

TK can't see it, but Kari can. A glow on his heart shines, his digivice also started to shine brightly.

"TK?"

TK looked into Kari's eyes, "It's going to be fine Kari, I promise." He snuggled her closer to him. "I'll protect you." NO MATTER WHAT!

BIOMERGE DIGIVOLUTION


"Fearless Discs!" Tai unleashes a flurry of crests towards Diaboromon. The demon jumps around wildly, dodging all the discs as they cut apart the surrounding environment. Tai unconsciously creates a larger crest behind him. Flames erupted from every point of the crest as Tai tosses the disc. It looked like a giant flaming wheel, even Diaboromon was stunned enough to get hit by it.

"What in the world was that?"

You didn't feel it Tai?

"Feel what?"

Someone's courage… is burning through. Your power is getting stronger.

"Then let's not let their courage go to waste."

Tai creates twin swords and dives for the demon digimon.

"Crimson Cross!" Tai slashed Diaboromon in an X pattern.

The yellow X on Diaboromon's body glowed brightly. The demon growled loudly, the slash marks ignited and his body burned in fire. Diaboromon dissolved into little bits of data. Tai didn't even turn around as he stood up straight, the wind from the flames causing his hair to dance. Both fire and darkness disappeared completely.

"Now, we have to get back to-"

Look out!

Alice created a courage disc to the side. It blocked an energy blast headed for them.

"What was that?"

I don't know.

Tai tried to look through the smoke. He saw a Diaboromon clinging onto a building wall stare back at him.

Diaboromon? But didn't we just-?

"Yeah…" Tai quickly figured out what was happening and hardened himself. "We did."

What's going on?

"He multiplied."

Just as he thought those words, several more Diaboromon crawled out of their hiding places. Tai ignites his swords and flies towards the nearest demon.


The digidestined shield their eyes from the gust of wind. The roof just collapsed on the road, TK and Kari with it. The wind dies and Matt hurriedly rushed to the debris.

"TK! TK!" Matt cries out to the broken pieces of roof. "Answer me TK!"

"Kari!" Davis was right behind him, calling for Kari.

All the other digidestined quickly followed, frantically searching for their friends. A large pile of steel shifted. Matt, Davis and the others gathered around it and a large armored angel digimon emerged.

It had eight golden wings and shining blue and silver armor. In one of his arms was Kari.

"TK?" Kari looked at her knight in shining armor.

"Matt, Davis," the knight looks at the rest of the digidestined. "Take Kari and get somewhere safe." He gently lets Kari down and flies off to face off against Omnimon.

"Kari!" Davis quickly ran to her side, followed by the rest of the digidestined.

"Kari, are you okay?" Yolei asked the shocked girl. "Who was that?"

"That," Tentomon butted in. "Was Seraphimon. A Celestial Angel digimon that controls a great deal of holy power. It is said that this digimon can call forth the powers of heaven itself. His attacks include his Shining Excalibur sword of light and the great Seven Heavens."

"Seraphimon?" Cody asked. "That means Patamon warp digivolved all the way to Mega!"

"But where's TK?" Matt looked around as he spoke those words.

"That was TK," Kari told them.

"WHAT?"

"Are you kidding me?" Davis cried.

"No," Kari shook her head. "I could feel it. He's in there, I know it."


"Shining Excalibur!" Seraphimon slashes Omnimon's back, creating a huge cut in the great knight's cape and a great slash on the back.

Omnimon swings around with his sword around, the angel flies back to avoid it. Seven globes of rainbow energy surround the angel.

"Seven Heavens!" Seraphimon's orbs turn into beams of rainbow light.

Omnimon flies out of the way, but the light bends easily and chases after the great knight. Omnimon flies off at full speed, the angel's attack follows him everywhere he goes. The great knight turns around and aims his cannon.

"Supreme Cannon!" Omnimon's cannon blast took out half of the beams, however the other half accelerated and impacted on Omnimon with such force that the mighty warrior lost control of his flight and toppled on the ground.

Sakuyamon and Dianamon just looked at their new ally.

"Do you know who this guy belongs to Rika?" Barbara asks her.

"No idea," Rika told her. "But it looks like he's an ally."

"That's kind of rude Rika," the angel turned towards them. "Then again, it is hard to recognize me in here."

"Is that you TK?" Sakuyamon moved in for a closer look. "How?"

"I don't know-" TK heard a loud rumbling noise a little distance away. Omnimon was getting back up. "We better take care of this first."

"On it!" Dianamon jumped closer to the great knight. "Artemis Arrow!" the lunar knight's attacks freeze the weakened Omnimon.

Omnimon was still strong enough to break free of the ice prison. He quickly aimed his cannon at the angel.

"Supreme Cannon!"

"Seven Heavens!"

Their attacks collided, and the explosion rocked the sky.

"You guys better stay back," TK told the two girls.

"Why would we want to do that?" Rika sounded a little annoyed.

"You've taken quite a beating," the boy answered. "It took everything you've got just to last this long. He's already weakened enough, just leave him to me."

"Fine," Rika reluctantly replied. "But don't come crying to us when you need help."

Seraphimon extends his sword and flies towards Omnimon.

"You ready Patamon?"

"You bet!"

"Let's GO!"

"Transcendent Sword!"

"Shining Excalibur!"

("Cue Insert Music 1")

The two blades spark the air. Omnimon and Seraphimon fly around, the sparks of their swords flashing like lightning.

"Supreme Cannon!" Omnimon unleashes a barrage of energy shots, one after another.

Seraphimon avoids the great knight's blasts, as several building in the area are destroyed.

"Seven Sevens!" The angel fires off his rainbow lights.

Omnimon skillfully flies around the city, he impales a nearby car and tosses it into the attack. Five of the lights explode on impact, two beams remain. Omnimon fires his supreme cannon on the ground just ahead of him. The blast was enough to take out the remaining lights.

The great knight looks up to see the angel come after him.

"Transcendent Sword!" Omnimon's sword cuts right through a nearby building.

"What?" Seraphimon stops to see the building fall before him.

Then a large slash splits it into two. Omnimon comes rushing through the cut. Seraphimon prepares for impact, only to be Supreme Cannon'd to the face and into a building.

Seraphimon collects himself in time to see Omnimon dash right in for a finishing strike.

"Shining Excalibur!" the angel just barely stops the sword right in front of his face. "Archangel's Song!" Seraphimon's wings glowed brightly, shining like a bright white sun.

Omnimon was forced to back away, shielding his eyes from the intense light.

"Seven Heavens!"

The bright light faded, Omnimon opens his eyes to find seven rainbow beams circling him, trapping him.

"Now," TK spoke from the inside of his digimon. "To drive out the darkness…"

"HOLY PURIFICATION!" Seraphimon raises his sword in the air. It glows a golden yellow light. "RAAAH!" The angel dives towards Omnimon. His Seven Heavens scatter to the winds, the sword pierces through Omnimon's chest.

Light erupted from the impalement, it begins to swallow both Omnimon and Seraphimon.

"Agumon! Gabumon!" TK desperately calls to his digimon friends. "Come back to us! Return to the light!"

A giant flash of light engulfs the two of them, Omnimon's darkness shatters in all directions. The great knight himself turned white and split into Agumon and Gabumon.

Sakuyamon and Dianamon, who followed the fight but stayed back, catches the two tired rookies.

("Stop Insert Music 1")

"They're okay," Sakuyamon told Seraphimon. "They're just drained of energy."

"That's a relief," TK left out a small breath. " We better get them back to-"

An orange flash catches his eye. In the far distance, a towering inferno burns.


"Double Impact!" Beelzemon drives by once more, shooting off his bullets to Metal Seadramon's face.

"When are you going to realize that your attacks are useless against me?" the giant steel snake flew above the ground, chasing the biker.

"You can't even hit me!" Beelzemon taunted. "You're attacks are even more useless if you can't hit anything!"

"Why you!" MetalSeadramon stops and charges his nose. "River of Power!"

Beelzemon maximizes his speed as the powerful beam tears through the road. "Come on Behemoth, show me what you can do!"

Beelzemon's bike speeds up even more as the River of Power chases them. Beelzemon drives into a very tall skyscraper, the snake's attack explodes on contact with the structure as Beelzemon speeds up an escalator and breaks a window through to the other side. The demon biker skids his bike to a full stop and watches as the building he just came out of begin to collapse. Beelzemon turns his bike around back to wards the falling skyscraper. He revs up fast and hard, he launches himself forward at full speed.

"I am so going to love this!" Beelzemon had a giant smile on his face.

("Cue Insert Music 2")

"HAAA!" Beelzemon pulls his bike up into the air and onto the falling building's wall. He races up the building as it continues to fall. The building cracks up all over, the demon biker tries his best to stay on the wall. Beelzemon can see the top now, he smiles big as the building begins to break apart.

"HAAA… YAAA!" Beelzemon jumps off the last part of the falling debris.

MetalSeadramon sees a shadow pass his eye. He look up to find a motorbike flying to his face. Beelzemon jumps off.

"Double Impact!" the demon shoots his bike several time. The final time hitting the gas tank. The vehicle explodes on the metal snake's face.

"AAAARGH!" MetalSeadramon screamed in agony as his eyes burned. His body flails wildly, his tail whacks Beezlemon away.

MetalSeadramon recovers his eye sight quickly. "Alright where are you, you son of a-" The metal snake sees a tall building with one of its windows broken in. "There you are, you won't escape this time! River of Power!"

MetalSeadramon turns his head as his giant laser blasts through the building. The top part slides of and explodes into a cloud of black smoke.

"Hey!" as the smoke begins to clear, Beelzemon Blast Mode becomes visible. A glowing pentagram shines before him, his cannon arm is aiming right through the center. "Did you miss me?"

"RIVER OF POWER!"

"CORONA DESTROYER!"

The two great energies collide in the sky. They were in a deadlock, neither of their attacks can overpower the other.

"I can do this all day," MetalSeadramon taunted.

"Sorry," Beelzemon smiled. "I'm in a rush!" With his free arm, he takes out one of his guns and aims for the metal snakes head. "Hasta la vista, baby." He fires a single shot.

MetalSeadramon can see the bullet fly, it flies across the distance between them, right next to their giant beams. The bullet hits the snake in the eye, he rears back, screaming in pain. Beelzemon's attack quickly connected with the snake's head. MetalSeadramon resisted the power as much as he could, but it was too much. The blast pierces through and the metal snake screams once more before turning into digital data.

("Stop Insert Music 2")

Beelzemon drops his arm and cracks his neck, "That was a little harder then I thought."

A bright orange flash in the distance surprises him. In that direction, a volcano of fire roars.


"Power Pummel!" MegaGargomon punches Machinedramon in the head once again.

"If we can keep him at close range," Henry grunts. "He won't be able to use his Giga Cannon attack."

"That's what you think!" Machinedramon's cannon begin to glow brightly. "Giga Cannon!"

"Wha-"

The explosion knocks back both giant digimon. Machindramon recovers faster and tackles MegaGargomon into a wall.

"Giga Cannon!" Machinedramon's attack sends MegaGargomon through several structures and streets.

"Ow!" Terriermon complained. "What the heck just happened?"

"We're getting beaten," Henry stated. "That's what happened."
"I knew we should've taken on MetalSeadramon!"

"Stop complaining!" Henry yelled at his partner. "Just focus on beating him!"

"How? With the way we've been fighting, we'll be overpowered in no time!"

"If we can't overpower him, we'll just have to outsmart him."

("Cue Insert Music 3")

Machinedramon begins charging through the holes in the buildings, his claws shined. The green giant round house kicks a wall off. MegaGargomon blocks the claws with is arm and uppercuts the steel dragon in the chin. The green giant turns around, punches another wall and flies off. Machinedramon watches the building come down on top of him.

From the sky, MegaGargomon can hear Machinedramon blasting floor after floor after floor. Until the finally the roof comes down.

"Right about…" Henry was waiting for something.

A large flash of light erupted from the debris, Machinedramon came out looking for his opponent.

"Mega Barrage!" the green giant unloads all of his missiles. They all rain down around the steel dragon.

Machinedramon tries to shield himself. A large dark cloud builds up all around the dragon. The barrage stops and the dragon can't see anything through the cloud.

"What?"

"Power Pummel!" MegaGargomon emerges from the cloud and socks Machinedramon in the head. Henry unleashes a full martial arts combo on the dragon, ending in a spin kick that knocks it down.

"Hey!" Terriermon yelled. "We're not done yet!"

MegaGargomon grabs Machinedramon's tail and begins to spin around, faster, faster, faster. The green giant releases the dragon into the air.

"GARGO MISSILES!"

MegaGargomon fires off his shoulder missiles. They connect with their target, a massive explosion in the sky seems like a giant firework.

("Stop Insert Music 3")

MegaGargomon watches as Machinedramon's data flies off towards the skies.

"That was easy." Terriermon jokes.

"Yeah right," Henry chuckles.

They feel a sudden heat wave, it gets stronger with each passing second. MegaGargomon flies above the buildings to see a tower of flame some distance away.


("Cue Insert Music 4")

"Justice Kick!"

"Puppet Pummel!"

The attacks connect at the same time, knocking back both fighters.

"Puppet Pulverizer!" Puppetmon slams his hammer on the road. A giant shockwave sends concrete and cars to the air after Justimon.

Justimon back flips away, but the wave is catching up fast. He sees a car in midair and jumps after it.

"Justice Kick!" he kicks the car down to the puppet.

"Puppet Hammer!" Puppetmon just smacks it away with his hammer, Justimon's foot connected with his face. The puppet bounced back a few times before recovering. "Flying Cross Cutter!"

Justimon cuts a nearby lamppost and tosses it towards the flying marionette cross. The two collide and bounced of each other, they flew in random directions. Justimon stomped the ground, a manhole cover flies in front of him, he catches it and throws it at the puppet. Puppetmon whacked it back at him. Justimon tilted his head as the circle flew by. Ryo looks at the open sewer underneath him.

"Hey Cyberdramon, I've got an idea."

Puppetmon walks closer, "You know what? I'm bored now. Let's finish this!"

"I agree! Thunderclap!" Justimon sends a large shockwave through the road.

Puppetmon loses his balance, the cracked road breaks underneath him. The puppet falls through and into the sewers.

"Eww," Puppetmon raises his hand from the dirty water. A car lands on top of him. The car explodes and Puppetmon jumps out of the sewers. "Okay! Show yourself! Hide and seek is over!"

"Who's hiding?"

Puppetmon turns around and sees Justimon above him, his arm turned into a blade.

"Voltage Blade!" Justimon cuts Puppetmon right down the middle.

"H-h-how?"

"I jumped into the sewers after I threw the car, it was easy to sneak up behind you. It's called strategy, you should try it sometime."

Puppetmon dissolved into millions of bits of dark data.

("Stop Insert Music 4")

"Phew, now what?" Ryo asks his partner.

A sudden heat wave engulfs the area. Justimon jumps up onto a tall building to see what was going on. In the distance was a giant inferno.


Gallantmon Crimson Mode flies through the hole he just sent Piedmon's body through. The place was pitch black, he couldn't see a thing.

"ARGH!" Gallantmon feels a sharp sting on his back.

"What's the matter? Can't see in the dark?" Piedmon taunts from the darkness, a menacing laugh echoes through the room. "Here, let me light up the room!"

A circle of fire ignites at the knight's feet. The knight topples back to get out of hit, but he's slashed again. Piedmon's laugh echoes.

"Takato," Guilmon whispered to his tamer.

"Don't worry boy," Takato reassured him. "We can do this."

"Crimson Light!" Gallantmon's weapon glowed in a bright flash.

("Cue Insert Music 5")

Piedmon covers his eyes from the light. Gallantmon find his opponent and flies into him, taking him through the wall and into midair. Piedmon stabs Gallantmon's shoulder and jumps back. The knight recovers his flight, Piedmon dives at him, landing a slash right on his chest. Just as Gallantmon turns around, another slash through his arm.

"Trump Sword!" Several swords fly through the air.

Gallantmon dodges and deflects several of them, but they keep multiplying around him as Piedmon bounces from building to building.

"What's the matter? Can't keep up? Try this, Clown Trick!" Piedmon creates multiple ghosts of himself, they all bounce around Gallantmon as the swords fly around.

A couple ghosts fly in and slash Gallantmon. The knight tries to slash one of them, but it disappeared and a sword flies through, grazing the knight.

"We can't fight them like this," Takato mentioned to Guilmon as Gallantmon deflects more swords and cuts through more ghosts.

"Leave it to me Takato!"

Gallantmon floats still, the swords and ghosts flying around him. Takato can feel what Guilmon is doing, he's feeling for the real Piedmon. A quick sniff of the air was all he needed.

"There!"

Gallantmon charges through the flying swords, deflecting them away as he chases the real clown. Several of the ghosts try to confuse the knight, but the scent can't be fooled.

"Final Justice!" Gallantmon tosses his spear of light right through the clown. "Invincible Sword!" The knight finishes off the clown with a powerful cut. "Your show just got canceled."

Piedmon dissolves into millions of bits of data.

("Stop Insert Music 5")

"Man, are you okay boy?" Takato asked from inside Gallantmon.

"I'm fine Takato," Guilmon happily replied. "That was a lot harder then I thought."

"It was," Takato giggled. "Be we got through it, together."

"Yeah."

A bright flash of orange light catches their attention. A towering flame burns in the distance.


"Fearless Discs!" Tai throws several courage crests, cutting up many Diaboromons.

"Brave Force!" the boy unleashes a barrage of energy at his numerous foes.

Tai tosses a ball of energy in front of him, "Fire Bolt!" he kicks it with such a force that the ground it flew over gave way.

There's too many of them!

"Don't give up yet, Alice."

"Solar Nova!" the boy throws a large energy ball at the Diaboromon army, many of them were wiped out by the blast.

He's already defeated hundreds of Diaboromon but he's still not losing any energy. He's getting stronger instead. All the courage from everyone else, their fighting with everything they have against the Dark Masters, that power is flowing towards him, strengthening him.

Soon, all this power will…

A powerful aura ignites around Tai. He can feel all the power rushing through his body, several areas have already begun to smoke.

Tai! You have to release all this power quickly before it becomes too much!

"I know."

Tai turns towards the Diaboromon army, raising one hand in front of him, the crest of courage glowing on the back of his hand. "Come and get it! This hand of mine is burning with power! This force, our combined courage, is more then enough to defeat the likes of you!" Tai's hand glows brightly, the symbol of courage burns itself on the back of the hand. "BLAZING FURY!" Tai punches down sending a small fireball downwards, a giant crest of courage appears on the ground below. It stretches out, longer, bigger. All the Diaboromon charge Tai in hopes of stopping what ever he is doing.

"INFEEERNOOOO!"

A gigantic flame erupts from the crest on the ground. It engulfs everything that was above it, all the demon digimon included. Tai himself is covered in flame, but is unaffected because this was his own fire.

It's so… warm… Alice commented. It feels... so good.

"That's because this isn't just our power, it's everyone else's."

The great fire continues to burn, all the Diaboromon dissolve into the flames. Tai just floats, feeling not just his own power, but the power that was given to him from all his friends. As soon as the last Diaboromon has dissolved, the flames fade to the sky.

"The night is darkest just before the dawn," Tai speaks to himself. "But the dawn will come. I'll make sure of that."


Author: The digidestined have been saved! It won't be long now before they combine their might against Nightmare Myotismon. Expect a few short chapters after this, I need to take a breather and think about how I'm going to continue this story from here.

Also, I don't know if you've noticed but, outside of battle, I'm having a difficult time giving the digimon lines. I tend to focus more on the human characters when there's no fighting going on. Even then I still have problems giving some of the human characters lines, such as Joe, Cody, Yolei, etc... but then again I'm trying to focus on the drama between Tai, Alice, Sora and Matt, with a little TK and Kari of course, dunno if I can do anymore for the Tamers now that the digidestined are freed. GAH! There's too many characters to handle now! Guess there's no choice but to deal with it. I'll try to do better in the future.

Anyway, how was the musical experiment, if you've tried it. Should I do it again or not?
For now though, I'm not planning on doing it again.
If you did or didn't like it, you better review so that I know if you want me to do it again (or not).