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Ren's shoes hit the pavement.
"RYOUMA!" Ren threw a punch- which Ryouma impossibly dodged- his feet didn't even touch the ground! "YOU BASTARDD!"
"Taiki! Taiki...!" Sally was crouched down on the ground, holding the bleeding Taiki up to her chest. "Taiki, come on, Speak to me...!"
Tagiru simply stared on in abstract horror as he watched Arresterdramon and Shurimon (One of Hawkmon's Armor evolutions) try to catch Astamon to about as much success as Ren was having.
One minute- everything had been fine- the next...
The Next...!
Astamon had shifted his aim off of Chrysalimon and had targeted-Targeted...
Tagiru gulped- He'd stared straight down the barrel before Taiki had blocked it off.
He was the target.
Why...why would Astamon...?
"Fool!" Ryouma shouted as he kept dodging Ren's punches- "You can't hit me!"
"WHY!?" Ren threw a punch, "WHY DO IT!?" Ren launched a kick, "WHY KILL TAIKI!?" He lunged towards Ryouma with a howl.
"Ch-" Ryouma scowled- and kicked out- hitting Ren in the gut and sending him flying backwards- where Airu and Yolei caught him less through intent and more through coincidentally standing at the right spot at the right time. "You think I meant to shoot him?"
Astamon spun around and kicked Arresterdramon and Shurimon into the ground- and then leveled his gun at them. "Now Nobody Move," he barked an order in...In Quartzmon's voice, "or I turn these two into Swiss cheese!"
All motion on the field stopped, and Ryouma took the time to adjust his suit back into place. "That fool jumped into the line of sight- I wanted Astamon to shoot and kill the biggest paradox of all TIME!" He pointed at Tagiru- "YOU! Akashi, Tagiru!" He narrowed his eyes, "Without your presence in the past, I would never have even had to go to all these lengths to make sure you DIE!"
"...W...What?" Chou stared at Ryouma in horror, "What does that even mean!?"
"YOUR Daughter...!" Ryouma snarled, "That girl- The Queen of the Digital World... If she was never born, then I'd never have been thrown out of that damned Code Crown and lost to space and time for TRILLIONS of years!"
"...No way..." Sally stared at Ryouma in horror, "G...Gravimon...?"
*Cue GURREN LAGANN title theme*
"XROS OUT! Quartzmon's Symphony!"
Their Drill spun on.
*Cue CASCADE*
[PART 1.] EARTH ?. AUGUST 14TH, 2012.
Evangelion Unit 05- on some random leg of it's various inter dimensional journey, smashed through a Quartzmon Tower that had thrown itself in their path.
Rei Ayanami let out a whoop and a holler as they plowed through the rocky structure with their spinning drill- shattering it to pieces and sending cubes flying every which way.
[00:20] Even up into Time-Space!
The Camera spun through a static storm- coming to focus on a certain 100 floor Castle and a certain floor.
AINCRAD. 74TH FLOOR BOSS ROOM. OCTOBER 18TH, 2024.
One Black Swordsman was facing against a boss monster- The Gleam Eyes- with his twin swords drawn.
With a roar- they dove at each other- trading blows and strikes and attacks until the Black Swordsman "Kirito" leveled a Sixteen hit strike against the goat headed creature and it shattered into blue polygons.
[00:36]
DIGI-QUARTZ. WAREHOUSE DISTRICT. AUGUST 18TH, 2024.
Ryouma stood before them all even as Taiki bled out on the ground- in his mind's eye, he remembered that day, and he remembered it well.
[00:45]
The Camera zoomed into his eye- and pulled back out of Gravimon's- and pulled out even further, out of the Code Crown Chamber- and then down towards...
EARTH 2. THE HARBOR. CASCADE SIDE A, 2011.
[00:53] DarkKnightmon- in his Baguramon disguise, summoned his Green Miles attack- increasing it, and growing it and collecting power.
[01:08] He threw the lightning up into the sky. Our camera view followed it up through space- where it hit the Code Crown Chamber, then Gravimon and the Code Crown itself, and then off in a branching arc into one of the Seven Lands of the Digital World- where it then was branched out an infinite number of times- shooting out into the Time-Space and spreading- traveling past planet and dimension and universe and timeline alike all in the matter of seconds.
It interweave-ed and interlocked and crossed it's own path and the paths of its siblings many, many times.
And as the Multiverse was filled with those green beams- a Fenstrated Plane was shattered into pieces by a stray strand- before that strand and many, many more came to settle down on a certain doomed planet and it's little doomed moon.
[01:33]
DIGI-QUARTZ. WAREHOUSE DISTRICT. AUGUST 18TH, 2024.
"So I joined up with Quartzmon," Ryouma explained. "I had to make sure that his plans aligned with my own..."
"Up to as certain extent of course," Quartz-Astamon smirked, "after today, we'll be free to live our own lives in other places!"
"You...You did all of this just to undo your own timelines!?" Airu shouted- "That's insane!"
"No no, not just to undo it-!" Ryouma corrected- "To make them BETTER. To create our own universe where WE live as WE see fit!"
"That's...That's just crazy!" Yolei was gobsmacked. "You're absolutely crazy!"
"Pot calling kettle black?" Quartz-Astamon laughed, "You all seem pretty insane to me to cross over into a Doomed timeline just so you THINK you can preserve a few measly time loops."
"What?" Arrestermon growled from the ground, "What the hell does that mean?"
"What makes any of you think you ARE the Alpha Timeline Heroes?" Ryouma smirked, "For all any of you know- this timeline is simply a branch of the real timeline. I mean- look at Taiki there! He's already dying! What kind of Alpha Timeline would allow it's guardian to remain a cadaver? Not one I'd be a part of, that's for sure!"
"And as the master of branching," QuartzAstamon chuckled, "I must say that breaking a timeline in two is...rather easy." His voice went low. "I could break it right now and keep breaking it and you'd be none the wiser..."
"Oh, and would you look at the time," Ryouma smirked as he intentionally checked the wrong wrist for the time- "We absolutely must be going!"
"Bye Bye now!" Astamon snapped his fingers and then he, Ryouma, the Chrysalimon, AND the all but forgotten Stargate warped away in an instant. "Catch us if you can!"
[02:05]
"GO after him!" Sally ordered as she shifted her weight a bit to hold Taiki better, "All of you!"
"But Taiki...!" Yolei protested.
"He'll Regenerate!" Sally grit her teeth, "Taiki will regenerate and then he'll be FINE! Now just go after him!"
Tagiru stared at her for a moment- then narrowed his eyes in determination. "Alright. We'll go."
"Thank you." Sally said.
"Just be careful," Tagiru warned her.
"I will."
And so Tagiru lead the charge after Quartzmon and Gravimon- who obviously were heading towards Breakdramon's Rift from the way it had lit up in the sky not a moment ago, leaving Sally alone with the still bleeding and dying Taiki.
She looked to the sky, and spotted a green vein in the sky that definitely had not been there moments ago. "Right...forgot about that part..." She narrowed her eyes as she remembered that Taiki's last regeneration had been rather explosive.
From orbit, a flash of yellow light could be seen- and then a moment later, Sparrowmon, holding Taiki in her arms, came flying up at speeds she had never even tried before. She quickly rushed past the view of the camera- sending whatever object was there spinning before the view settled back down on Earth.
[Part 2] [02:39]
EARTH 2. MIDNIGHT, AUGUST 15TH, 2012.
The camera descended towards the city- showing the trail of destruction the Terminal had wrought as it crossed from the harbor towards the warehouse district- it was marching towards Breakdramon's Rift, and had been slowly doing so for the last few hours now.
Progress was slow. Attacks were launched. Attacks bounced off. The Quartzmon Terminal finally grew tired of this delay. It's tiny body crossed all four of it's arms as the entire structure flashed red briefly.
[03:03]
A massive laser fired from some random point on the black sphere's surface- tracing a path of destruction across the city-scape- Everyone scattered to get out of the way in time.
The Terminal picked up speed- marching forward faster now as if to make up for lost time.
[03:26]
It fired another laser when Imperialdramon tried to get a clear shot at it- more explosions.
Kotone surfed up above it- preparing to rain down spikes of water upon the creature on the top.
The Terminal looked up a moment too late- The spikes of water fell upon it.
[03:50]
It let loose laser blasts uncontrollably as it's tiny body choked on all the splashing water- nearly drowning above ground.
They had a chance to attack- if only the lasers weren't being so haphazard now.
[04:02]
The camera view quickly pulled back and away from one of the shards of the broken wall that was showing these events- shifting quickly to another shard that was following the path that Sparrowmon and Taiki were following out of Digi-Quartz.
[Part 3] [04:26]
They shot across space and time as a yellow shooting star- leaving behind a trail of golden energy as Taiki's regenerating powers began to warm up- hopefully saving his life before he died completely.
Across many worlds and even their own- they were seen from below as a shooting star- an occasional symbol of hope- a random sign of despair- but always a symbol of some kind- a warning or a congratulations.
All of these views were briefly seen from other shards of that broken wall drifting around this particular one shard.
Sparrowmon hugged Taiki closely- tears flowing from her eyes as she pushed herself further and further away from anywhere inhabited. Once Taiki fully started regenerating, there would be an explosion. Just like the last time- and she'd probably absorb some of the energy this time. Idlely, a thought laughed at the possibility of her having two hearts.
They'd be made for each other that way.
But what if she died here? Would she absorb the energy and regenerate too? Would she even be who she originally was anymore if that happened? And for that matter... Would Taiki even be the same?
She noticed absently that she was heading towards a storming planet- what would happen if she crashed there?
No time to adjust course now- Taiki was heating up...!
[05:20]
Our view detached from those two- and zoomed down on the blue thunder ball.
Through the clouds of hissing static...past the lightning blue zaps of electricity...
Towards a single island peeking up above a turbulent ocean- on top of which were two spires on either side of a blue column of funneling energy and two humans on either side of a locust like creature standing inside the funnel.
"What are you waiting for, Kids?" The Locust Warrior hissed at the boy wielding an electric blue crystalline sword. "BANISH ME!"
The boy and the girl raised their swords and slashed down- launching twin strikes of lightning down at the pillars opposite them- where the bursts of energy bounced across at an angle and struck at the Locust girl- who, it should be noted, was standing on top of a Gateway- in the classic Record Scratch Z shape.
It didn't matter- the ground beneath the Beast exploded upwards and outwards in a cascading wheel of static-born devastation and time ripping tendrils of blue lightning that quickly ignited any remains of energy from the Green-turned-Red Miles.
The storm of energy ran past every universe and time line and dimension and was born through itself- the paths that had been made once were now the conduits for it's own creation! The shattered wall and we changed views to watch as it came down towards Earth 2 and its Digital World once more.
DIGI-QUARTZ. WAREHOUSE DISTRICT. AUGUST 18TH, 2024.
[06:20]
The Sky thundered as lightning crackeled
They'd confronted Quartzmon's Tower- now in the form of an Infermon- Quartzmon himself in the shape of Astamon- and Gravimon in the shape of Ryouma Mogami.
Tagiru reached a hand towards his Xros Loader as he realized they weren't doing so well.
Arresterdramon lay in a pile of debris- hunched over Airu and CrystaPagumon- Ren and Yolei were not too far away- hiding behind a stunned MetalTyranomon.
And Chou...? She was slowly getting to her feet right next to him even as he picked himself up.
"It's useless!" Ryouma threw his hands to the side, "Why do you keep fighting like this!?"
"Because..." Tagiru coughed out as he tightened his grip around his Xros Loader- "We can't turn our backs on anyone!"
"Fools," Quartz-Astamon scowled. "That won't get you anywhere!"
"Well carve it on your heart!" Chou put her hand around Taigru's hand- holding the Xros Loader together- and smiled at him as she said, "Because that's just how we roll!"
Together, they raised the Red Xros Loader and let loose a shout.
"TIME BURST!"
[Part 4] [07:14]
Lightning descended from the heavens- and struck Tagiru's and Arresterdramon's bracelets in exactly that same moment with exactly the same strike.
But it wasn't hurting them at all- quite the opposite in fact!
Arresterdramon, Airu, and CrstaPagumon felt a rush of energy as their bodies were healed and then super charged.
[07:30]
Tagiru and Chou felt it as well- and they let loose a combined roar that fed their own energy up into the arc and back down into the other three.
Ryouma and Quartzmon could only stare on in horror as twin symbols spun in the air before the suddenly evolving trio- the 69 and the Scratched Record.
"NO!" Quartzmon shouted in dismay as images of the past- present- and future all played before their eyes- seen through those two independently rotating symbols.
[07:45]
The symbols exploded away with a burst of blue light- and the trio of Digimon stood before them all- forever changed.
Arresterdramon had become a humanoid knight- easily recognizable as the infamous Tactimon to all those who knew him.
Airu seemed unchanged save for her clothing- it had gone from frilly and pink to sharp, dark blacks and deep, piercing purples.
CrystaPagumon was the most changed- he had become the hulking brute known as Blastmon.
"NO!" Ryouma took several steps back in shock and dismay. "THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE! YOU CAN'T BE HERE!"
"Take that, Ryouma!" Tactimon smirked under his helmet as he leaped at the former Death General, his sword of blue crystal lightning without a sheath and ready to cut some lose ends. "Your timeline just caught up with you!"
Ren just stared at the sight in awe as the three Bagura Generals leaped into action- Blastmon easily squashing the Infermon into cubes- and Airu/Lilithmon handidly kicking Quartz-Astamon into the Breakdramon Rift without breaking a sweat.
Tactimon and Ryouma- who was now desperately searching for a weapon and dodging any attacks until he could- played a game of cat and mouse.
Our view pulled away from that shattered fragment of the wall- and shifted through another back to...
[08:14]
EARTH 2. 1:00 A.M., AUGUST 15TH, 2012.
Quartz-Astamon stumbled out of the rift and landed on his back- staring up and watching in horror as his Terminal was slowly being beaten away from the rift- He had to do something!
It was then that a familiar form landed in front of him- leveling a drawn crystalline blue blade at him.
"Hello!" Tactimon said- and this time with white armor instead of the usual purple- "We meet again!"
"Oh MOMMMAAAAA!" Quartz-Astamon cried out as he got to his feet and tried scrambling away.
Meanwhile- Lilithmon and Blastmon had joined in the romp against the Quartzmon Terminal as well- lending their aid to an otherwise unwinnable battle.
"Where the hell did they come from!?" Shoutmon cried out with surprise- and relief- at seeing their older enemies fighting along side them.
"The SpaceTrailmon that brought us here?" Gureimon remarked from within their Xrossed form- "It's a future version of the one we know personally!"
"Niiiiice!" Shoutmon grinned.
"COMBO RAVE!" Typheus and Cetus shouted- finally managing to tear a hole into the massive black sphere that was the Terminal.
Inside was a lot of mechanical parts, an Active Gateway, and an empty holster that looked like it had just fired something through the Gate.
The camera pulled away from that shard- and settled on another.
[08:46]
DIGITAL WORLD. ? 200?.
The Watch Maker stood by the DHD of their stolen Gateway and smirked as the device they pulled from the wreckage of that final fight in Digi-Quartz was finally put to good use.
Chevron Seven Locked.
Tagiru and Chou gave each other a nod as they checked the time on their watches.
We switch shards again:
DIGI-QUARTZ. AUGUST 14TH, 2023.
The Trio of To-Be Generals triple teamed Ryouma who was quickly dodging attacks as fast as he could.
"DIAMOND HEAD MACHINE GUN!"
"ICHI-NO-TACHI!"
"DARKNESS LOVE!"
"EEEK!" Ryouma let out a very un-becoming squeal of terror.
"GO GET HIM!" Yolei cheered, "TEACH THAT LOUSY VAMPIRE WHO'S BOSS!"
Another shard, another Day:
EARTH 2. 1:06 A.M., AUGUST 15TH, 2012.
The Gate suddenly shut down and the devices inside the Terminal revved up- including a gauged monitor that had two rising red bars- both in steady sync with each other.
[09:02]
Another Shard:
DIGITAL WORLD. ? 200?.
The Eight Chevron Locked.
Tagiru steeled himself as the final symbol- a Sun inside a moon with three stars above- slid into place.
[09:10]
Chevron Nine...!
EARTH 2. 1:06 A.M., AUGUST 15TH, 2012.
The Gate Inside the Terminal activated with a mighty KAWOOOSH! and a wave of what appeared to be water.
"WHAT!?" The Terminal shouted in surprise, "That's Not supposed to happen!"
[09:18]
The right side of the gauge stopped ascending- and quickly fell out of sync with the left side of the gauge.
The Terminal looked up as everything came pounding down towards it-
MEANWHILE: INSIDE THE CORE OF THE EARTH.
[09:25]
Dagomon roared- letting loose a shock wave that began pushing and obliterating everything around it in accordance to a plan he had never even known about.
We changed shards quickly- following along a narrow string of events.
Tactimon swinging his sword down- Akari swinging her Microphone stand- The Boy firing lightning from his sword in defense of a town- A girl with white dog ears and wearing the Witch of Space outfit summoning a fenstrated plane out of her sylladex- A boy wearing a nice hat and his Betamon partner staring up at the night sky as a golden shooting star raced through the heavens- A Spiral Gague breaking past the limits of the glass and expanding out into the world around it- Emmit Brown pounding against an orange dome of shielding- DarkKnightmon launching his Green Miles attack into the sky- Gravimon being kicked out of the Code Crown- Rei Ayanami reuniting with her fellow pilots from her home universe- Zenjirou and Lila watching the Earth from the view of a train window- Taiki's face being overcome with the regeneration's golden energy- And all the while, one shard of glass continuously showed a digital accelerator slowly climbing up to that infamous 88 Miles Per Hour.
[10:06]
The view settled on the Earth and It's moon in orbit around its sun- with trains leaving en-mass from it, heading to the Digital World.
Then it changed- the Terminal's core was overloading- the Gate shouldn't have activated! Nothing should have come through as it had! It shouldn't have been exposed at ALL!
All the attacks that had hit it were making it unstable- energy arced between all of its circuits and began fluctuating wildly.
The Uneven Gauge became even more uneven as the left side Flashed red dangerously.
[10:25]
The Camera pulled away from that shard to view the solar system from afar- even as the shard continued to play it's information.
A heart beat could be heard- and again- And the shard cut to a brief flash of red and blue before it cut to static.
There was an alternating flash of red and blue from the surface of the Earth-
A moment passed.
[Part 6] [10:45]
-And then The Earth exploded in a blast of emerald light as the Horror Terror Dagomon escaped his tiny prison.
The shock wave flew out, hit the moon, and destroyed it in an instant.
DIGITAL WORLD. DENIZEN'S PALACE.
Nene Amano stared up at the blue sky towards the green star that would only briefly appear in their sky and gasped, "No...!" She fell backwards into the chair she'd had placed nearby, and felt tears flow from her eyes. "It can't be gone...!" She couldn't tear her eyes away as much as she wanted to. "It just can't be...!"
DIGI-QUARTZ. ?ASD[][][][][]!{}{}?! SOSE?.
[11:10]
A wave of static suddenly burst through the Rift- overwhelming everyone there- and forcing them to cover their ears.
"AHHAHAHAHA!" Ryouma cried out in delight- "IT WORKED!"
The static of a Time Storm quickly overwhelmed those still within Digi-Quartz's confines- and warped them away to the first possible safe location that could be found.
Moments later- the entirety of Digi-Quartz began fading away as if it had never existed in the first place.
It simply just...faded. As if someone were going over the entire planet with an eraser.
[11:18]
When Tagiru opened his eyes, he and Chou were still down town, but they were now thirty years in the past from Digi-Quartz time- twenty-one years on the nose from the present day they called home. "No...way..."
[11:23]
Ren opened his eyes- finding that he, Yolei, Shurimon, and Metal Tyranomon had been dumped outside of a sunny little Village of Smiles in the Digital World.
[11:30]
Tactimon, Lilithmon, and Blastmon found themselves on board the deck of a familiar SpaceTrailmon- with the familiar faces of Hideaki and Rina there to greet them.
[11:36]
From the ruins of the destroyed planet- a single Gateway remained- and past that lay a rift- and through that rift lay a realm of endless possibilities- and in that realm lay a planet- and on that planet was a crater that had just been added by a certain Shooting Star that had come from another universe.
Standing at the edge of that crater was a man, and a boy with familiar looking shades.
The boy stared into the crater, and his eyes widened at what was inside-
[Part 7] [12:02]
They were safe-
From the Gate had emerged Tagiru and Chou- years older now- and with them they brought a massive shield generator- and used it in tandem with the identical generator on the Space Trailmon floating above them- creating a larger- more stable shield that was ten times as effective as the prototype that had saved the Watch Maker's life in the past.
Akari stared up at her father and mother... and cried as she ran to them for a hug.
Shoutmon watched this with a bit of dismay as he surveyed the ruined world around them.
Everyone who had been left in town had been under the shield when the earth exploded- but what of those who had not made it to safety?
The death toll was not something he wished to see.
[12:15]
That shard pulled away to reveal another one to us.
Through it was the Golden Code Crown- Set in a frame to be dragged along the surface of a giant record.
Reflected in it's surface was Ryouma's face- older now- and though he went by a different name- it was indeed Ryouma Mogami that stood there in that chamber as the Oblivion Knights scratched the most important artifact in the world.
It was dragged across the surface slowly- and surely- and cracks appeared inside the golden crystal's core.
In those last moments- nobody saw his smirk widen and broaden... They were too focused on the destruction of their troubles.
The cracks soon became too much to bear- It was almost three-fourths done- the Code Crown Pulsed with energy as it began to fracture- leaking energy out into the environment.
The Oblivion Knights were affected immediately- their souls being ripped from their bodies and scattered across time and space...
Ryouma Laughed as his body was torn to shreds and scattered to the winds by the stray energy.
He did not care that his immortality had been lost- it had gone to a much better cause.
[12:53]
The Code Crown Exploded- and with it- the Digital World.
The Camera pulled away from that shard- showing all of the shards viewing that same climatic moment- and then pulled away again- viewing all of those broken pieces of glass through a perfectly whole fenstrated plane- which was cut off from view as a pair of large, red curtains drew to a close in front of them.
END OF ACT 3.
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BEGIN: ACT 4.
*Cue ETERNITY SERVED COLD*
The Red Curtains opened- revealing the Fenstrated Plane viewing the Gate Lab- specifically the three gate dents in the ground- and the symbols that resided in the center of each,
A "W" turned on it's side with two hollow circles to one side, and two tiny dots to the other.
A sort of winding spiral path that circled around on itself again.
A Moon with a Sun Inside and three stars to the top.
[0:12]
We focus on the "W" Glyph- revealing it to be the Gate that was on the Storm Planet from the last sequence.
The Gate's inner track spun around as the island- presently empty- waited in the storm for it's fate.
[0:20]
We focus now on the Spiral Gate- the one inside of the Terminal.
The Screen splits in two to follow a bifurcated timeline- with the top screens showing the status of the Gateway on the top monitors, and the events surrounding them on the bottom monitors.
Played in fast forwards- the two timelines seemed identical up to a point- at which point the footage slowed down.
[0:50]
On the right side- No Space Trailmon appeared to crash through the top of the Spheroid- on the left- the exact events seen in the previous half of the episode occurred. From there- things went completely differently. We focus on the Right side lower monitor for the moment:
The Towers were able to keep the Spheroid protected- at some points even managing to kill some of our heroes. Things were not going well at all- especially once the Spheroid morphed into it's Terminal form and began it's rampage unchecked. Lasers fired off in a controlled fashion and things went absurdly well for Quartzmon's plan.
Lives were lost- people died- the Top Right Monitor displayed the status "TIMELINE: DOOMED" for all but a brief moment.
[1:16]
The Terminal reached the rift and powered up it's energy core- inside- we could watch the Gateway dial itself- and with a KAWOOSH! it activated.
We then cut over to the other timeline (TIMELINE: BETA) where we watch the exact same motion- however- side by side we watch as only the Beta Terminal launches the Rocket within through the gate.
[1:23]
In the Rift- after the planet had exploded- but before the Timeline had Bifurcated- the gate opened- and the rocket came hurtling out of it to fly through the rift at speeds well exceeding safe.
The Gate disconnected- and we cut back to the DOOMED Timeline, where Dagomon successfully explodes the planet and destroys the terminal and everyone on the planet- but leaves the active gateway there in front of the Breakdramon rift- where it began pulling upon the power of the Rift to increase it's power and redirect the energy to a different place.
[1:39]
We cut back to the Storm Gate before the divergence, where it activates for a second time- connected to the DOOMED Gateway.
Both Gates- now active- begin their destined purpose.
The DOOMED gate begins pulling in everything around it like a black hole- and it doesn't stop once the remains of Earth are sucked in. No. It begins pulling in the Sun- and the Digital World- and then it latches onto the strands of the time storm and begins pulling those into it's even horizon.
[2:02]
The Storm Gate begins spitting out all of that matter into the time rift- and out into the void beyond where the rocket lay in wait.
The casing exploded open- and Gravimon- in a sort of mutilated hybrid form between his Ryouma persona and Quartzmon's Terminal control self- began pulling all of the matter coming through the Storm Gate into himself and around himself.
He became a seed for which all matter and mass would collect.
Through the DOOMED gate- everything was pulled through- whole timelines, branches, and universes and dimensions- everything was snagged by the storms in this multiversally DOOMED timeline, and systematically funneled through the DOOMED gate.
[2:24]
Meanwhile- the BETA Terminal was overloaded by having it's gate re-activate after being shut down. It's power supply was not designed to handle an incoming connection, only to dial out.
Tagiru and Chou emerged from the gate- immediately barking orders to get everyone away from the Terminal so they could be shielded from the imminent explosion that was about to occur.
The Shield went up- and moments later, the Terminal exploded in a blast of blue and red energy- leaving a crater in the town that would have been a perfect circle had the domed shield not made it a crescent moon- ironically, with the domed shield mimicking both the sun and stars of that other gate glyph.
Moments later- before the radiation from the explosion had a chance to disperse- the entire planet around them exploded in a blinding green flash of light.
[3:00]
The DOOMED gate continued to funnel in mass and energy- nearly half of the Multiverse collected so far. And still half to go.
[3:12]
From space- Quartzmon (In his regular chimera form) happily observed all of the mass and energy being funneled into his little rift.
He smiled in bitter-sweet victory. His plan had worked out so wonderfully! It was a shame that he'd never be able to see it from this incarnation. But his doomed clones were destined to do so much work on this side of the universe that it wouldn't be fair for all of them to jump ship.
Matter kept being funneled out of the Rift Gate- and the singularity of information, time, space, and data was reaching critical mass- three-fourths of a doomed copy of the Multi-verse that would be made whole once he was finished.
Then the Rift Gate from the Doomed Timeline was shoved through (Miraculously intact) and...
[3:50]
It Begun.
The Kernel of a New Universe absorbed all that it could- and exploded.
Big.
Bang.
Three.
The Shockwave would have thrown Quartzmon off his feet if it hadn't been absorbed by the rift being a one way event horizon.
[4:02]
It was quite the sight- A tiny pinprick of white light flashing and gaining so much color and energy and vibrant energy as all bogus, doomed, branched, alternate, and inverted timelines were merged into a single solitary line.
A Single Universe, based off of what he knew best- the Digital World that he'd been born it. The Zone Structure that he'd lived by and had gone to the most trouble in setting those particular dominoes to fall in the first place.
The Doomed Gate's Universe Status fluctuated wildly as it's meter flickered and pulsed and shuddered-
And then it's status changed; "TIMELINE: ALPHA."
[4:30]
It would be named the Lagann Cluster.
It was an endless expanse of creative differential-
And Quartzmon (A version of him at least) would rule it all.
As the observer laughed- he failed to notice a shooting star blip into existence right outside the gate- and shot through it just the very moment it shut off.
[4:50]
It spiraled down, streaming through the newly born Universe as it aged in seconds and years and decades and minutes-
And then it crashed on a planet.
[5:02]
That planet of craters and desert- whose sun was an endless illusion in the sky- a planet of pits and of holes and of tunnels.
The most insignificant of planets in the Lagann Cluster- and it landed there.
[5:35]
The Father picked up two young children from the crater- a boy and a girl.
Red hair and pink hair. Grey eyes and Blue Eyes.
Each wearing clothing much to big for them.
The Son inquired about the debris in the crater- and the Father replied that he would lock it up until the two became of age to learn of their origin.
[5:50]
The two children would grow- given names fitting their new world and having no memory of the lives they'd previously lived.
Taiki Kudo and Sally Sparrow were gone.
In their place were two new souls who would do much good for the universe.
Their new names?
Gimmy and Dari.
They would occasionally show flashes of a skill that they should not yet know- nor should have ever known. A glance over the shoulder at an expected remark that never came.
And yet meanwhile- In another Universe that was once their own- friends would grieve their disappearance.
They would wonder what had happened- where had those two landed? If were they even still alive?
And it was that motivation that- in the years to follow- would drive Xros Heart towards hunting down every last Quartzmon copy in existence.
[6:25]
Loops would be closed.
-Flashes of each team that had Xrossed over to help in the fight against Quartzmon appeared on the screens-
They would fight to survive- to avenge the losses inflicted upon them by such a violent storm of chaos and disharmony.
-Flashes of various ships with Xros Heart's logo on them went by as they sailed past our view-
All the while- Quartzmon would forever be on the run- distracting them, and keeping them as far away from the rift that lead into his perfect universe for as long as he possibly could.
-A Quartzmon copy cowered before the shadow of Shoutmon De-Xros-
For it would only be that when no more Quartzmon remained in that original reality would Xros Heart stumble upon the final Quartzmon- and their long lost friends.
-A flash of that hybrid symbol, the Scratched 69, appeared for a brief moment-
And along the way- as they cleansed their time lines of Quartzmon's influence- they would make friends.
-Flashes of Rei and Kirito appear on the upper monitors-
They would make enemies.
-Flashes of hideous monsters appeared on the lower monitors-
But above all- they would continue to fight on for the freedom of all worlds and timelines. Either in the foreground...
-Flashes of Xros Heart gallantly charging into battle in various scenes-
...Or the background...
-Images of all six Monitamon sneaking through various situations-
[6:53]
And so ends the tale of a team who fought to save two worlds and saved one. Now the story must change as the beginning is tied to the end.
-A Shell run appeared across all four monitors for a few moments-
The story of Cycles is over. Now- we begin the story of Fate, and of Destiny.
The only way to advance from rock bottom is upwards.
-An image of the ruined earth appeared on screen, and there, on the largest surviving chunk- stood King Shoutmon, staring up at the sun with a determined look on his face, with his hands clenched into fists.
"Quartzmon..." He said, "We'll make sure that you'll pay for this."
And with that- the camera pulled away from that island- past the sun- past the Digital World- and outwards and onwards. It pulled back and pulled back- past the Rift that had been born- and then out into the void to view the two twin Multiverses that were old and new- borrowed and blue- young and old- parent and child- and yet twin siblings all the same.
They orbited that Z Shaped Rift between them with an eternal march- each waiting for the day for their reunion.
[7:32]
And as our camera pulled away from the Fenstrated Plane- we observe it to be resting in a lavish office with a massive bay window overlooking a massive yellow nebula- inside which an impossible expanse of planets lay in wait.
A hand placed down a wine glass, and moved over to a picture frame- showing a man and his young daughter proudly.
The Emperor Baguramon sighed in remorse as he surveyed his Empire, and then put the picture frame back before reaching for the wine glass once more.
In the background- the familiar face of Ryouma Mogami- wearing the clothing of a simple butler- smirked at the so called ruler of this world.
[7:44]
And with that- the screen cut to black as the following words slowly etched themselves into view with the remainder of the song time left.
TO BE CONTINUED IN:
X0VA-1: DIGIMON XROS WARS VS. DIGIMON SAVERS
A.N.: To appease your fears. No. The Story is not over yet. If this were an Anime- yes, this would be the last episode of the tradition Anime Series format. From this point onward- it's all OVAs and TV Movies and Theatrical releases. :33