"Die monster!" Matt screams. "You don't belong in these worlds!"

"It was not by my hand that I am once again given form," NightmareMyotismon replies. "I was defragmented by Digimons, that wished to give ME tribute."

"Tribute? You steal Mons RAM! And make them all slow!"

"Perhaps the same can be said of ALL programs!"

"Your words are as empty as your Rom. Monkind ill needs a function such as you."

"WHAT IS A MON? A miserable little pile of data! But enough talk! Have at you!"

Author: Well, enough of that. Time to finish this story once and for all.


28

The Greatest Nightmare

"You have no idea just how much power I have," NightmareMyotismon taunts. As he speaks, several copies of him form around him from the darkness.

"He's multiplying!" Izzy noted. "But making that many copies requires a lot of energy, he's weakening himself by doing it."

"Didn't I tell you that you have no idea just how much power I have? Now you will learn firsthand!" The NightmareMyotismon army charges in full force.

"Let's get him!" Gallantmon Crimson Mode leads the charge as everyone and their digimon follows.

"Gatomon!" Kari calls to her partner, allowing her to digivolve into Angewomon.

"Let's go Patamon!" TK and Patamon Biomerged into Seraphimon and quickly followed them.

Matt rushes back to grab Tai's digivice and taps his own with it. WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon digivolve together into Omnimon.

"Sora," Matt looks at her still caring for Tai.

"I know Matt," Sora gently puts Tai's head down on the ground. "I'll be right there."

Matt rushes ahead with Omnimon as Sora looks back at Tai's body momentarily.

"Please, take care of him." Sora climbs on top of Phoenixmon and joins the battle.

"Sora..." Alice whispers to herself. She stays at Tai's side praying for him to be alright. "Tai, please hear me out. Right now, everyone is fighting NightmareMyotismon."

"Supreme Cannon!"

"Crimson Flame!"

"The Digidestined, the Tamers, even everyone back in both worlds. They're all here, fighting."

"Crimson Light!"

"Corona Destroyer!"

"I know you're tired. I know you need your rest after what just happened," Alice rubs her hand on Tai's cheek.

"Giga Crusher!"

"Gargo Missle!"

"But we need you. We need you to fight alongside us, to lead us."

"Justice Kick!"

"Spirit Strike!"

"You were the one thing that kept everyone together, that brought them together. Now they're fighting for you, for everything they care about."

"Celestial Arrow!"

"Seven Heavens!"

Alice stays by Tai's side as she watches the others fight.

"Flower Cannon!"

"Horn Buster!"

"Vulcan's Hammer!"

"Tail Hammer!"

"Grand Horn!"

"Can you feel them Tai? Can you feel their determination, their will, their Courage?"

Alice notices a faint glow on Tai's Crest, he must've heard her, or at least felt the others fighting. She touches his Crest gently and is merged with him again.


"Hmm..." the real NightmareMyotismon watches the battle from inside his castle, sitting on his throne drinking wine. "It looks like I may have to deal with them myself. Not just these new Digidestined, but the old ones look like they've become stronger somehow. Hmph." He tosses his wine glass aside and stands up.

The doors before him suddenly blast open, a cloud of smoke covers the intruder.

"I've been waiting for you, bearer of Courage."

Tai walks through the smoke to reveal himself and a charged up Crest. "NightmareMyotismon."

"To think that you were able to survive my attack," the vampire talks about their last encounter. "You... 'heroes' have the annoying ability to return, even from your supposed demise. However, I must thank you for showing me the truth of the universes, because I'm going to conquer them all!"

"You think I'll just let you?"

"Of course you won't," he smugly told the boy. "I'm actually hoping YOU can provide a fight!" Nightmare flies to Tai.

Tai flies to intercept.

"Bloodly Lightning!"

"Courage Sabers!"

The energies of dark and fire clash. Nightmare proves to be the superior combatant, flying around and bewildering the boy.

"Alice, I'm going to need everything you have."

I'm willing to give it my all.

"Hahaha..." Nightmare flies around in circles, leaving copies of himself as he does so. Each 'copy' flies in towards Tai, forcing the boy to defend himself and Alice to cover his back with energy crests.

"You have greater control over your power than I thought," Nightmare complimented. "I may have to take this seriously, hahahaaa!"

Tai burns away his swords, he twists his body some and spins around. "Nova Force!" A strong, fiery blast blows out from him. The attack forces Nightmare to fly back some as his copies are incinerated in a bright orange sphere.

"Nova Wave!" Tai launches his spinning ball of flame towards the vampire.

NightmareMyotismon brings out both of his hands to hold back the attack, "This... much... power..." He sees from the sides of his eyes that Crests are flying from around the sphere and headed for him.

"Nice try boy! Bloody Lightning!" Nightmare wraps the sphere in front of him with his whips, but it split itself into two smaller spheres and one flew above the vampire while the other flew below. "What!?" The two crests and spheres all converge on him at once, creating a bigger sphere. "RRHHUAGHH!" Nightmare negates Tai's power with his own, vaporizing the sphere. "Did you think-" Punched in the face.

Tai hovers as the vampire flies into his chair.

"Twilight Wing!" a massive surge of energy flies at Tai.

Tai hastily sets up a shield to block it but he's being pushed back from the sheer force of the attack.

"Not bad," a voice whispers to him from behind.

Tai feels his leg being grabbed and his whole body is swung around like a doll. Nightmare throws him into a stone pillar, but Alice was able to blast it before Tai flies through. The boy bounces off the wall with explosive force.

"Nightmare Wrath!" four big bats form around Myotismon. They fly in to intercept Tai.

"Alice!"

On it!

Crests form around Tai and they each fly towards the bats. Tai himself recreates his swords as NightmareMyotismon brings out his whips. The vampire and the boy exchange blows in mid air as lasers fly all around. They deadlock as the bats and crests collide and explode.

Now face to face, Tai can see the vampire's smile.

"How did you get this power?" Nightmare overpowers him and knocks him downwards.

Tai throws one of his blades as he falls. It flies by Myotismon's face, missing completely until it exploded. Though it was only minimal damage, Myotismon returned his attention to the digidestined. Flashes of light warn him of flying crests, the vampire dodges them all.

Tai gets up, throws his sword ahead and runs after it. The sword bounces off the ground once, Tai powers up his legs and reels up when he catches up with the sword. He kicks the hilt of the sword, sending it into the air.

Myotismon whips the crests around, vaporizing them. "Hugraackhh!" A sword stabbed him in the back. Taking the pain and unleashing his anger, he turns to the source. A great beam of power shines at him, the surprise attack sends him to the roof, cracking it.

"Digiiiiiidestiiiiiiiineeeeeed!!!" Myotismon unleashes his own dark power, fighting back Tai's. The roof behind him collapses as the insides of the hollow tower is revealed. "You think you can overpower ME!?" Myotismon's dark power is pushing back Tai's own beam. The struggle continues and Tai is losing it. "Hahaha! Foolish Digidestined! No matter what power you have, no matter where or how you got it, my darkness is the strongest there is!" The vampire's dark power is closing in on Tai now, the boy can barely keep it up.

"Alice! The sword!"

Alice uses Tai's powers and heats up the sword lodged in Myotismon's chest.

"HHHHRRRRRGGGGHH!!" Myotismon feels the heat. His attack is weakening.

Tai uses this opportunity to push back.

"Why you-" the pain from the sword prevents NightmareMyotismon from focusing his power, he's losing the struggle.

"Now Alice!"

IGNITE!

The sword bursts into flames, causing a bigger distraction for Nightmare.

"NOW! Meteor Blast!"

Explode!

Tai sends a massive energy boost into his attack, pushing back the vampire's dark powers. Nightmare tries to push it back, but the sword glows brighter and hotter, weakening him. The blade explodes, separating his top and lower halves as Tai's attack hits him full force.

NightmareMyotismon screams in agony as he vanishes into black bits. Tai falls on one knee and pushes himself up.

Is it over?

"No, he doesn't go down that easily."

The castle trembles violently.

"Told you so."

"That was just a taste of my power digidestined!" the vampire mocks from the darkness. "As you know, my darkness has covered the entire digital world. I can call it all back to me whenever I want to, now you will feel my full wrath firsthand!"


The shaking grows more violently as the castle starts to crumble. The skies outside begin to flash. Everyone fighting has stopped to witness this phenomena.

"Hey," Beelzemon Blast Mode started. "What's going on here?"

"Something's happening to the digital world!" Izzy cried out.

"But what?" Yolei yelled.

"Your demise is at hand Digidestined," one of the copy NightmareMyotismon cackled. All of the copies wisps into the one that spoke and that one vanishes into thin air.

"What? Get back here!" Davis screams.

"Um, guys!" Sakuyamon pointed to the horizon.

A massive amount of tiny dark orbs fills the air, the orbs fly right past the Digidestined and the Tamers towards the castle. The sky flashes back to its normal color and the land is slowly fading back to the way it should be. All of NightmareMyotismon's dark powers are disappearing from the digital world and are gathering in the castle. The Digidestined dismount their partners and starts running towards the castle island. Huge tremors slow them down and destroy the rock bridge. They just run to the edge to observe the chaos.

"What's going on in there?" Matt wonders out loud.

Sora realizes and looks back. "Tai!" She can't find his body anywhere.

Matt smacks his palm to his face, "That idiot, always rushing into things."


The castle trembles as Tai watches NightmareMyotismon reform himself. The castle itself has pieces of darkness that fly back into Myotismon.

"The real fight is just beginning," Tai muttered as his surroundings crumble.

"The fight is already over," NightmareMyotismon has completely reformed himself now. "Twilight Wing!"

Tai quickly sets up a shield. The dark blast proves too strong and Tai is sent through the bottom of the castle. Clearing the debris in his eyes, he sees himself inside the volcano top, with lava bubbling below. A loud crash above warns him of an attack.

"Soul Destroyer!" Myotismon unleashes a barrage of dark energy blasts.

Let me!

Alice creates a wall of crests that blocks the attacks. The crests gather energy and let out a barrage of blasts themselves.

"Tai!" Sora calls out.

"Alright guys!" Davis yells. "ATTACK!"

"HOLD IT!" Matt stops them. "Not yet."

"What?" Davis questions loudly.

"We can't afford to rush in recklessly," Matt explains. "The Champions and Ultimates should stay here. The Megas will go in on my signal."

"But Tai is fighting him alone!" Gallantmon protests.

"Let him," Matt answers. "He knows what he's doing."

"How can you say that?" Sakuyamon asks.

"Easy Rika," Justimon intercepts her. "Matt and Tai have been friends for a long time, they know each other better than we think. Besides," Justimon lets Sakuyamon observe Matt's focused look. "He wants to jump in too."

"Then why aren't we?" MegaGargomon asks.

"It's who we're fighting," Seraphimon speaks. "You guys haven't fought him, the real NightmareMyotismon. We can't afford to take any chances."

"Tai..." Sora whispers to herself.

(Just hang on for as long as you can Tai.) Matt thinks to himself.

NightmareMyotismon shatters through the crests and grabs Tai's neck. The vampire pushes the boy downwards, towards the lava.

"It ends here, boy!" Nightmare laughs.

"You're right!" Tai manifests one of his swords and thrusts it.

Nightmare grabs the blade before it pierces him. "I won't fall for that again."

"What about this?!" Tai's sword glows with heat. Tai's own body ignites with power, forcing Nightmare to release him. Tai stops his fall and materializes his other sword. He takes a swing at the vampire.

Myotismon easily grabs the blade and the follow up attack. But the heat and power of the swords prevent him from holding them for long. Tai swings again, this time the vampires dodges them easily. Myotismon takes out his whips and clashes with the swords. The energies collide as Tai is somehow able to push back NightmareMyotismon. A whip latches around one of the swords, Tai quickly cuts it off and tries to thrust. Myotismon swings his arm, knocking the sword away and quickly palms the boy's chest, blowing him back downward.

Tai recovers as fast as he can, but the vampire was much faster. Energy encircled Myotismon's hand.

"Bloody Lightning!" The vampire shoots out a straight shot of dark energy, faster than Tai can react to. It pierces the boy's body. Myotismon flew close enough to grab Tai's neck as the boy begins to realize what happened to him. "I'm going to make sure you never come back!"

Tai's whole body bursts into flame and disappears into thin air.

"What?" Myotismon quickly turns around and grabs a punch. "Impressive, but it'll take more then tricks to defeat me."

"Then try this!" Tai uses his free hand to blind Myotismon with a bright light.

The vampire is forced to block his eyes from flash. He feels a strong kick knock him downward. Myotismon recovers quick enough to see Tai unleash a great beam of energy. "Pathetic." With one hand, the vampire lets out a thin beam of concentrated power.

It pierces the much larger energy, forcing it to dissolve as it continues through. Tai senses this and manages to evade the beam. He watches as the dark blast hits the bottom of the castle, causing it to start crashing down.

Tai!

Tai turns back to Nightmare and moves away, the vampire's claws just barely passes over his eyes. He watches as the vampire disappears into the falling stone walls. Tai recreates his sabres and waits for the building to come to him.

The boy slices the first block that came to him, he flies towards all the falling debris cutting them up as they come near him. A big block of stone above him is sliced and Myotismon flies through, both his hands hold energy whips. The blades and the whips clash. Tai flies around, bouncing off rocks and cutting them up as he fights Myotismon. Alice creates crests to help shield Tai form the debris, as well as strike the vampire whenever she had the chance.

The combatants jump away from each other as a giant slab of rock flies between them. Tai stabs his sword into it and swings it around. Myotismon tries to block but the rock breaks on impact, sending him away into the dust.

Tai flies after him above the falling castle. The boy stops as he realized that the vampire disappeared. He senses something wrong behind him and turns around quickly. He barely blocks Myotismon's whip and tries to counter it. But the vampire was the superior fighter and also more powerful.

"Tell me Digidestined," Myotismon starts as he deflects Tai's sword several times, pushing the boy back. "What are you afraid to lose?" He knocks the boy into the rock pillar that held the castle up. The vampire straightens his whip, almost sword like and points it at the boy's throat. "I will enjoy taking it from you." Myotismon says it with a sadistic smile.

Tai's mind flashes back to all his friends, their adventures together, the Digidestined, the Tamers, of Kari, of Sora...

Tai's body ignites with power, blowing away Myotismon and destroying the pillar behind him. "As long as I can still fight."

Myotismon smirks and charges at the boy. The volcano below them starts to rumble furiously.

"I won't let you take anything!" Tai's eyes lets out a blinding flash.

Myotismon stops to shield his face. With the light gone, he looks around.

"RAAAAAAH!" Tai attacks from above. But the vampire was too fast and avoids it.

Myotismon takes out his whips again and begins to overpower Tai. Slash, parry, jab, poke, dodge, thrust, everything is working against Tai. Tai's powers heat up some more, but it's still no use. The vampire was simply the better fighter, no amount of power Tai can muster will be able to overcome it.

Myotismon manages to wrap his whip around Tai's neck. His free hand knocks away one of the boy's swords while a kick takes away the other. The vampire yanks on the energy to pull Tai closer. Tai tries to fight against it while trying to pull off the whip. Myotismon sends dark energy through the whip towards Tai.

"AAARRRRGGGGGHHH!" Dark energy bursts out from the whip and around Tai's body.

NightmareMyotismon pulls in Tai some as the boy tries to struggle against it. The vampire pulls back his free hand and stabs that boy's chest.

"It's all over Digidestined." Myotismon smirks at his victory, only to feel surprised at a sudden increase in heat. The Tai in front of him glows and grabs the arm that's inside him. "WHAT?"

This Tai smiles and turns into burning energy, hurting the vampire. Tai explodes into fire as Myotismon tries to wrap himself with his cape to lessen the damage. Through the smoke of the explosion the real Tai flies through, his fist is burning with power.

"RAAAAHH!!!"

The pain of the last attack still flows through Myotismon, he can do nothing as the boy punches his chest.

BURNING!

"COURAGE!"

"IGNITION!" Tai's fist erupts some more, a strong eruption at the point of impact. Tai and Alice attacked in perfect unison, letting out as much power as they can muster. Tai's power burns hotter and hotter as both he and the vampire are lifted up above the volcano. The Digidestined and Tamers can do nothing but watch and hope.

Myotismon can feel the intensity of the attack, but even though it has the power to hurt him, it cannot finish him. The vampire's dark powers explode, pushing Tai back enough for him to grab the burning fist. His own hand leaks out tremendous amounts of dark power. It was a battle of fire and darkness, and the darkness is much too powerful.

"Admirable, Digidestined!" Myotismon mocks. "But foolish. No matter how much power you can muster, it will never be enough to defeat me! I cannot be destroyed by something as pathetic as this! I am the Ultimate Darkness! With this, I am victorious! Not you, not your friends, no one can defeat me! You cannot destroy me!" Myotismon's dark power grows and begins to push Tai back down. The Darkness is beginning to swallow the fire!

"I'm not... giving UP!" Tai scream out loud, letting out as much power as he possibly can. His whole body begins to burn from his powers.

"You are only delaying the inevitable," Myotismon taunts once more. "Your power is impressive indeed, but no amount of courage can withstand the powers of my darkness! You are alone Digidestined! And alone you shall fall first! Don't worry, I'll be sure to send your friends to you soon!" Myotismon lets out more of his dark powers, pushing the already struggling Tai beyond his limits.

He's wrong Tai, Alice began. You're not alone, you were never alone. I'm here, we're all here with you...

Tai's Crest begins to shine brighter than ever and a giant Crest of Courage appears behind him.


"Wha-?" TK suddenly had a strange feeling.

"What is it TK?" Matt asks quickly.

"I'm feeling it too," Takato speaks from inside Gallantmon.

"We all can," Rika tells them.

"Yes," Omnimon nods at them.

"We know what we need to do," Imperialdramon informs everyone.

All of the digimon take on their battle stances, they all aim for the giant Crest behind Tai.

"Supreme Cannon!"

"Giga Blaster!"

"Star Light Explosion!"

"Seven Heavens!"

"Crimson Light!"

"Corona Destroyer!"

"Amethyst Wind!"

"Justice Burst!"

"Gargo Missles!"

"Celestial Arrow!"

"Flower Cannon!"

"Vulcan's Hammer!"

"Horn Buster!"

All their attacks hit the crest. Tai feels an immense amount of new power flowing through him! His fire turns from red to an assortment of colors, matching the powers of all his friends. This new combined force erupts in a bigger force then Myotismon's darkness. Tai begins to push back.

"RRRRRRRRGH!" Myotismon begins to struggle against the combined forces of Tai's courage and the digimon's power. "Don't think you've won!" Myotismon increases his power, now the two forces are of equal strength. The very air around them cackles with energy.

"KEEP IT UP!" Beelzemon puts in more and more of his attacks into the crest, as does every digimon there.

It's not enough.

Sora suddenly hears a girl's voice in her head. A familiar voice, yet she doesn't know who it is or where it came from.

It's not enough, Tai is barely holding on even with their power. He needs more, he needs... you...

As if signaling what to do, her digivice grows brightly. She takes it out and looks at it closely. "I... understand." Sora points her digivice at Tai's Crest. A beam of light shoots forth from it.

"This, this is..." Tai feels a new power flowing through him, different from the rest, yet stronger than the others.

I told you Tai, you were never alone. Alice starts softly. You have your friends, the digimon, Sora... me...

Tai feels a greater surge of power now, he senses all his friends giving him this new force. Then as if called by his spirit, several hundreds more beams of light fly to the Crest from the Tamer's world. Everyone with a digivice is holding it up into the air, beams of light fly from them into the Crest of Courage. Tai feels their power, and sends it out in one big blast.

Myotismon is now unleashing every last drop of his power, "This cannot be happening! I am the Ultimate Darkness! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" Myotismon becomes engulfed by the strong light and disintegrates into nothingness.

Tai unleashes one final big blast that fills the sky with light before exhausting the power. He breathes hard as he looks in front of him. He sees nothing remaining from the vampire. His whole body was smoldering with heat and smoke. Tai's stamina rapidly fades, Alice quickly makes a Crest platform for him to stand on and get down on one knee.

"We... finally... did it..." Tai sounded proud of himself as Alice directs the platform to the others.

They see that all the digimon have reverted back to their base forms and many of the digidestined and Tamers were already celebrating. But Matt, Mimi, TK, Kari and Sora were waiting for him. His and Sora`s eyes meet. Alice sets the platform down in front of them all and Tai uses whatever strength he has left to stand.

"Tai," Sora walks up to him quickly.

"It's... over..." Tai smiles as his body gives in to the fatigue. His eyes close on the last sight of Sora running up to him.

Sora catches his body and slowly drops to the ground, "You did it Tai. I knew you would." Sora holds his head onto her shoulder.

Matt looks around at the restored digital world, "The friendship of two worlds, it really is a beautiful thing."

"My," Mimi commented. "Aren't you a romantic?"

"Heh," Matt smirked. "You should see me when I flirt."

"I think I'd like to," Mimi smiles at him.

All the digimon dance around as the Tamers and the Digidestined celebrate in their own ways.

"Hey!" Davis yells. "How about we can ask Yamaki if we can have another party?!"

Veemon jumps, "That's a great idea Davis!"

"We just had one yesterday," Rika told him.

"Don't be a spoil sport Rika," Ryo replied. "This one should be an even bigger one, a victory party!"

"YAHAAA!" Terriermon hops around. "I like the sound of that!"

Sora lays Tai's body down slightly while still holding on to it. Kari sits opposite of her and TK just stands behind Kari.

A sudden shaking interrupts the party.

"What in the world?" Matt asks. "Izzy!"
"I'm on it!" Izzy quickly takes out his laptop. "Oh no!"

"What is it?"

"The digital world!" Izzy starts, there's terror in his voice. "It's collapsing!"


Author: Victory is never that easy when it comes to Myotismon. What is happening to the digital world now, and can they stop it in time before the entire planet collapses?

The fight over the volcano was originally longer, with all the Mega's jumping in to help. But it got complicated as I had planned on NightmareMyotismon to stab his hand into the Megas and absorb their power, forcing Tai to call them all away and starts to fight an even stronger enemy alone, meaning an even bigger DEM was needed.