"The Ultimate Clash"
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"Calm down Matt. Don't get so bent out of shape. The last thing we need right now is a hothead with attitude. We've got more important things to think about." Tai said.
"Everyone's upset." TK said as Joe ran over to Matt with his hands held up in a sign of peace.
"Look, all I know is this stupid bickering is giving me a gigantic headache." He said.
"Chill out." Matt said as his eyes stayed glued to Tai.
"Matt, have you forgotten that we have been chosen to be the Digidestinds?" Joe asked as Matt scoffed with a smirk.
"And would you mind telling me who exactly chose us for this dumb job anyway?" the blonde asked turning to the oldest of the group.
"Uh, I uh…" Joe stuttered.
"Come on, I want some answers and you can't seem to give them to me." Matt said making him look off to the side.
"You have a pint there, but I-"Joe was cut off.
"Don't waste your time, Joe. Matt's just being a big spoiled brat." Tai said.
"You're the brat. Why don't you go mind your own business?" Matt said.
"What's wrong with you is pretty easy to figure out. You're upset because you wanna be the boss." Tai said with confidence while Matt smirked cruelly at him.
"Yeah, like I wanna be boss of this sorry group. If one of you brainiacs wants to take charge, be my guest. I saw we should just take care of ourselves. After all, Daisuke seems to be taking better care of herself with you." Matt said.
Oh, now he did it.
I ducked down yet again to hide from the fight that was about to start.
"Take that back!" Tai said.
"Why else would she always run off on you?" Matt sneered.
Tai was shaking in anger as his teeth clenched.
"Stop fighting you two. We've got to stick together." Sora said as she walked closer to Tai to stop him from lashing out.
"Don't look at me. Matt's the one who started it. he's a got a bug up his a-"
"Tai!" Sora scolded him before he cursed in front of me, Kari and TK.
"Humph. I don't have to listen to this." Tai said as he turned and walked off.
"A bug up his what now?" Agumon asked as he followed.
"One moment." MetalGarurumon growled.
He then jumped off in front of the duo of Courage, cutting them both off.
"Don't push me too far." Tai said as he turned to Matt.
"Oh, I'm scared." Matt said sarcastically.
"You better be scared. I'm getting really mad." Tai said.
"Excuse me, but what are you going to do about it?" MetalGarurumon growled.
"Stay right there." He said.
"Get real, dude." Tai said as Agumon stood in front of him.
"Watch it, stand back!" the dino said.
MetalGarurumo then pouched as orange light filled the area.
"Agumon Warp digivolve to…WARGREYMON!"
WarGreymon then pushed MetalGarurumon back so Tai didn't get hurt.
"There is no need for us to fight." He said.
"I must." MetalGarurumon said as he charged in, pushing WarGreymon back and then the two took to the air making leaves and branches fall down on us.
Tears were falling from my eyes as I saw the wolf bite into the dino's arm while Matt watched on without a care as Tai stormed over to him with a look of pure rage.
"What's the matter? You chicken?" Matt teased.
"That's it!" Tai said as he punched him in the face.
"Matt, I'm gonna tell Mom that you were fighting." TK said in a tattle tale way.
"Sorry, TK, but I have to do this." Matt said as he punched Tai right back in the face.
"Both of you stop it right now!" Joe called while the two Megas fought above.
"It's ridiculous." Izzy said.
"You two are just making things worse." Sora said.
"He's gotta be taught a lesson and fast. Here, take this." Tai said.
He then punched Matt so hard that the blonde fell to the floor making my tears fall even faster that it was starting to make it hard to see.
I hate all of this.
Matt then turned off of his back and went onto his hands and knees as Tai came over and grabbed his shirt collar.
"I'm only doing this to honor the memory of all the brave digimon that have helped us. They trusted us and believed in our commitment." Tai explained with tears in his eyes as thin trails of tears fell down Matt's face as he grunted and ground his teeth together.
"We can't let them down." Tai said.
Matt then pushed him off and stood up to face him.
"What if it was a mistake?" Matt asked as punched Tai as some explosions went off above us from the Megas.
"This is awful." Palmon said.
"We have to stop them." Biyomon said.
"Unfortunately, they're Mega digimon and they're nothing any of us could do about it." Tentomon said.
"Best thing for them is to duke it out." Gatomon said.
"I just hate fighting and we can't let our friends destroy themselves." Gomamon frowned at her.
"It's a dog eat dog world isn't it?" Gatomon mused.
"They're not dogs." Gomamon said.
"The deal is this; just sit and watch them take care of business." Gatomon said simply as she walked over to stand beside Nekomon.
"Oh, yeah? I don't have to like it." Gomamon called after her.
"Gomamon, get a grip. The last thing we need is anymore fighting around here." Tentomon said.
Matt and Tai threw each other onto the ground as they rolled around, punching each other and flipping the other over as they tried to overpower the other.
"Oh, I've had it!" Mimi cried as she ran off.
"Mimi!" Sora called.
"I'm gonna sit here and stare at the flowers until everybody starts getting along." Mimi said as she sobbed into a corner under a tree.
"Oh, like that's going to help." Sora quipped as she walked over to the other girl.
Looking around, I noticed that Kari and Gatomon had run off somewhere and grabbed at my Crest, reaching out to see where she was.
A vision of her talking to these sparkles in the appeared as light shone down on her and went inside of her.
Izzy and Gatomon ran over to her as she held up her Crest that glowed brightly as it reached over to where we were standing.
"What's happening?" Tai asked making me open my eyes.
The light was here shining around us.
Everyone cried out as we all faded away, the Megas returning to their In-Training forms.
I wasn't sure what was going on, but just let the light take me as if felt comforting and then we were all in a world filled with white light.
"Where are we?" Tai asked.
"No idea." Matt said looking around.
"In this world, there is a balance of Dark and Light. The Light represents all that's good in the world and the Darkness is the evil. When the Darkness becomes larger than the light, it upsets the balance." A female voice said.
Our shadows expanded until it covered the area in black.
"Whoa, the balance seems to be really out of whack." Tai said.
"So, somebody find the switch and turn the lights back on." Joe said.
"There's something over there." Sora said.
Everyone turned to where a red mist was in the darkness.
"I know this sounds incredible, but could we be home again?" Tai asked.
The mist turned into Odaiba at night with the lights from the buildings on.
It then showed a beam of light shooting down from the sky with Greymon and Parrotmon in it, the fight from four years ago.
"I've seen that digimon before. Why of course, that's Parrotmon. He was the mysterious digimon that appeared in Heighton View Terrance approximately four years ago." Izzy said as he checked his analyzer.
"Now he's completely digivolved. He got through the dimensional divide." Kari said since the voice was using her as a host.
"Some time ago, a digi egg fell through a hole from our world to yours." She said.
"Kari, what are you talking about?" Tai asked.
"I think Kari's had too much catnip." Gatomon said.
"My theory is that someone else is using Kari's body to speak for them." Izzy said.
"My wish is that there be peace and happiness for everyone." The Light said through Kari.
"I don't understand. Are you some kind of super being or something?" Sora asked.
"No, nothing like that. I am similar to the digimon. I was produced by data bites taken from the internet. But there's a difference. Unlike the digimon, we're unable to take a shape or form of a physical body. In order for me to communicate to you, I had to temporally borrow Kari. I would have borrowed Daisuke, but the Golden Radiance is protecting her from me and evil." The Light explained.
"Couldn't you have taken Joe instead?" Tai asked.
"Hey!" Joe said.
"I had to take Kari. She's the only one I'm able to communicate with. To be honest, I wanted to contact you when you arrived at File Island, but it was completely impossible under the circumstances." The Light said.
We were then lifted up off of the ground as we levitated over the city to see what was going on.
"Wow, it's a blast from the past. That's us for years ago." Tai said.
A light was shining down on little Tai as he had baby me and Kari clinging to him as we watched the battle.
"Hey, that's me. How typical. I'm on the telephone." Joe said.
"I was so cute." Mimi gushed.
Lights were raining down on all of the others when they were younger, poking their heads out of windows and looking out at the street where the battle took place.
"Hard to believe we were that little." Sora mused.
"There's my brother and me." TK called out.
"And that's definitely me, but what's with the light?" Izzy asked.
"It's purpose is to process all of your vital information." The Light said.
"That's kinda freaky. Why's it doing that?" Matt asked.
"Just follow me. I'll explain it to you." the Light said.
We were sucked up into the beam of light where Greymon and Parrotmon crossing over into some other plane.
"Here we go again." Joe cried out.
We were now in some sort of room filled with big machines all over the place.
"Where are we now whoever you are?" Sora asked.
"Very bizarre place indeed." Izzy commented.
"Check this out." TK said as he ran over to this glass case that had nine digi eggs inside of it.
We all ran over to them in awe at the sight of the eggs, one of them being blue with yellow hearts on it and I placed on hand on the glass as I smiled at it.
"They look like digi eggs." TK said.
"Wow!" everyone exclaimed.
"Look, Crests and digivices." Koromon said.
The Crest and digivices were hooked up to the eggs, the blue one with yellow hearts having my Crest attached it to.
"OK, this is getting weird." Matt said.
"Oh and floating in the sky is normal?" Joe asked.
He then yelled in fear making us turn to see these transparent people in robes walking by with their hoods up to hide their faces.
"OK, it's official. This is definitely giving me the creeps." Joe said.
"Gee, you think?" Nekomon quipped.
The people were then facing the machines, working on them.
"What's the matter fellas? Can't you say hello?" Gomamon asked.
"These men are just computer images. They are figments from the past who have been digitally transmitted to your present." The Light explained.
Izzy and Tentomon walked around and then gasped as they ran over to a circular stone table with markings on it.
"I don't believe it! This is from Myotismon's castle." Izzy said.
"Here's Myotismon's secret passage." Biyomon said.
There was the big metal doors and we all ran over to it.
"Let me guess, those are the elves that make the shoes at night." Joe quipped.
"They're monitoring the positive and negative forces to preserve harmony in the world. We took the information that we scanned from all of you and then we created your digivices and Crests." The Light explained.
"You did that?" Sora asked.
"That must mean that you're the ones that chose us. Is that true?" Tai asked as he walked over to the Light.
"Yes it is." She nodded.
"Then tell me this, what makes us so special?" Tai asked.
"You made it possible for Greymon to survive and digivolve and it couldn't have been accomplished without help from you, Kari and Daisuke." The Light explained.
"But he digivolved without me." Tai said confused.
"A digimon can't digivolve without you. It doesn't work that way. The very fact that you three were there made it possible in order to protect you." the Light said.
"But we were just goofy little kids. We didn't even have a digivice." Tai said.
"A digivice is just a tool that was designed to help in the digivolving process. It assists you by making you aware of your powers, but it showed special qualities in each of you that makes it work. It's the same thing with the Crests. Can you tell me what your personal Crests really represents?" the Light asked.
"Well, mine's Courage." Tai smiled.
"And this one means Love." Sora said.
"Sincerity." Mimi said.
"Mine's Knowledge." Izzy said.
"Mine is Reliability." Joe said.
"I know what this Crest means. It's Hope." TK said.
Everyone was smiling except for Matt.
"Well, mine is…" he trailed off.
"Wasn't it called Friendship?" Joe teased as he slapped his shoulder playfully.
Matt was looking down sadly and unsure of himself.
"And mine is Miracles and Kari's is Light." I said.
"All of that's true, but there's more to it than that. Every one of you has strengths and weaknesses. We took each of your strongest qualities that you possessed four years ago. Then we made a Crest for them." The Light said.
"Oh, I get it." Tentomon nodded.
"If that trait is lost, then your digimon might become corrupted." The Light explained.
"Ah! That happened! When I tried to make Agumon digivolve by throwing myself in front of his enemy, but then something weird happened. He digivolved into SkullGreymon. And now I realized that was pretty foolish." Tai said with a sad look.
"But the important thing is that you learned from it." the Light said.
"All this time we've been wracking our brains trying to figure out stuff about ourselves that we already knew. Huh. That's a fine howdy-do." Joe said as Matt walked by him.
He looked down at a blue egg with darker blue triangles on it that had his Crest attached to it as the Light and I walked over to him, me smiling at my egg that was beside Matt's.
"Who knew?" Tsunomon asked.
"Prodigious. I can see why you chose Tai, Kari and Daisuke, but the rest of us never made contact with the digi egg. So why us?" Izzy asked.
"When we examined all of your data, we came to the conclusion that you had something in common with Tai, Kari and Daisuke. But we're not quite sure what it means. All we know is that you've proven yourselves to be very capable." The Light said.
TK walked over to look at this white egg with yellow stripes on it.
"Who do these belong to huh?" he asked.
"Isn't it obvious?" the Light smiled.
"I have a feeling it's us." Patamon said.
"Ooh, this one is me!" V-Mon said as he pointed to the egg I was smiling at.
"Wow, how interesting. Getting to see how it all started." DemiMeramon said.
"Wow, which one's me?" Palmon asked.
"I think the answer's in the Crests." Tsunomon said.
"Look, this is me!" Biyomon said pointing to a red egg with darker red hearts on it.
"And that's mine." Gomamon said getting up beside her to look at his egg that was white with purple spots.
"Yes, but I'm afraid I have bad news. The Dark Masters found wind of our plan and worked very hard to defeat us." The Light frowned.
Transparent robot digimon then barged into the room making everyone run and scream, TK tripping over his feet.
Patamon used his Boom Buddle, but it didn't work.
"You guys are so dumb. They aren't real." I said sweat dropping from where I was with V-Mon, Nekomon and DemiMeramon at my side.
"Yes, they are computer images." The Light said.
The robots attacked the men, killing them and destroying the machines.
"What? Just because those guys are computer images we have to sit back and do nothing?" Tai demanded.
"His name is Gardromon. He's a machine digimon and his armour is constricted of pure iron. Absolutely nothing can penetrate that can of beans." Izzy said to the bronze robot.
"Here comes some more of them!" Matt said making Mimi shriek.
"This is no space age vacuum cleaner. That's Mekanorimon. His Twin Beam will anyalate anything which makes housework a breeze." Tentomon said about the silver robot.
"Ahh, Piedmon is here!" Joe yelled as the clown appeared.
"Don't come any closer! Shoo! Go away!" Joe yelped.
"Relax, he's just an image." Gomamon said as Piedmon got closer to the case.
"Save your screaming for the real thing." Sora said.
Piedmont laughed as he held his hands out as a wave of air blasted out and shattered the glass.
"He's gonna steal the Crests!" Tai yelled.
"Oh no!" Mimi cried.
Piedmont took all nine Crests, but mine zapped him as soon as he touched it.
He frowned at it, then went to take it again as he held the other eight.
"Piedmon, hands off those Crests!" a man with brown hair and blue eyes holding a sword yelled as he ran over.
"Gennai." Piedmon said.
"That's Gennai?" TK asked as the young man swung his sword down on Piedmon, but the clown jumped out of the way with a laugh and then pushed a black orb that looked like a marble into his back.
Gennai groaned in pain as he turned and swung at Piedmon again, but the clown got out of the way as Mekanorimon came up behind Gennai.
He dodged the blast and then went over to another Mekanorimon, taking a Bakemon out of it and then took control of the silver robot and then grabbed the digi eggs and my Crest escaping with them as the Gardromon blasted at him.
"Follow him; don't let Gennai out of your sights." Piedmon ordered.
"Let's follow and see what happened in the past." The light said.
The Gardromon chased Gennai as we all flew off to follow the chase that was going on.
He was blasted at by the Gardromon by rockets and dropped a pink digi egg with darker pink loops on it.
"That's my digi egg!" Gatomon gasped.
"So that's why I was brought up all alone." She said with a sad look as she was close to crying, Nekomon and DemiMeramon giving her sympathetic looks since they knew her for years.
"Cheer up. We're together now." Biyomon chirped as she patted Gatomon's head, making her smile and chuckle.
Gennai and the Gardromon faded away when we came to an island in the middle of the ocean we all knew well.
"It's File Island!" Tai said.
It then turned into a frozen climate.
"After Gennai rescued the digi eggs and Crests, many years passed by until finally…" the light said.
Inside of a cave, we saw that the digi eggs all started to hatch; there was Botamon that came out of an orange egg with purple stripes.
"I was born!" Koromon said.
Then I saw a blue round thing with a tail on its head with violet eyes come out of my egg and smiled at how cute V-Mon was as a baby.
One by one, each digimon hatched and the scene changed to them hopping into a grassy area with the digivices in their mouths.
"Oh, wow. I remember that. It seemed I waited forever for Tai." Koromon said.
"For Matt."
"For Sora."
"For Joe."
"For Mimi.
"For TK"
"For Dai."
"For Izzy."
The digimon bounced the digivices on their heads as they transformed into their In-Training forms and sent them up into the sky.
"We didn't think they'd ever come and then suddenly. Out of the blue, they arrived with a bang." Koromon said.
We watched as our past selves fell out of the sky yelling while the digimon all smiled.
"The question is, what exactly are the Dark Masters planning? We are working day and night trying to find out. For now, all we can do is guess and try to outdo them so we can defeat them." The Light said.
"Well if that's true, what do we do now?" Tai asked.
"It's hard to say, but I believe you'll all find an answer on your own." The Light said.
We all came back into the forest we were in as Kari fainted, the sparkles leaving her body as they levitated around me for a few seconds, then left.
Slowly, Kari woke up as she saw Tai holding her.
"Hey." Tai said.
"Are you gonna be all right?" Gatomon asked.
"Oh, hi there. What's wrong?" Kari asked sounding like herself making us smile.
"You've come back." Tai said.
"We missed you." Gatomon said.
"Did it hurt?" Sora asked.
"No what do ya mean?" Kari asked as she stood up and looked around.
"Don't you remember? Well, that's all right." Tai said with his hands on her shoulders.
"Remember what, Tai?" Kari asked.
"Never mind Kari, don't you worry about it." he said standing up.
"Well Matt, there's no doubt about how we became the Digidestinds, we saw it happen." Tai said.
"We sure did." Matt nodded.
"The entire world is depending on us and we all have to save it together. How about it Matt? Are we still a team?" Tai asked with a smile as he held his hand out to the blonde.
He looked down sadly as he was still trying to figure things out.
"What's wrong?" TK asked.
"Hey, let's put the past behind us." Tai said setting his hand down.
"I know but you wouldn't understand." Matt said as he turned and walked off.
"Hey, I say that you and I should let bygones be bygones." Tai called.
"That's not the problem, Tai. This thing is bigger than either of us. It's not about right or wrong. I have my path and you have yours. And I'm not even sure where this path will lead me, but I know I have to find it for myself. But I still believe in all of us. I mean, without any of you, where would I be? This is all just so confusing and I let it get to me. Aw, that's why we fought. It's important that you guys can count on me, but I'm going to do this because I have to! Tsunomon will be with me so I'll be all right. Don't worry. It'll be a lot better this way." Matt said.
"Matt, if you approach this logically, I'm sure you'll reconsider your decision. Your Crest, it's theme is to promote…" Izzy trailed off.
"Friendship, I know. But I haven't been too much of a friend in case you haven't noticed. Maybe it's because I don't know the true meaning of the word or maybe I've just forgotten." Matt said with a small smile.
"Here's a good idea, let's break up into two groups instead of one big one." Sora suggested.
"Sorry, but I really need to do this alone." Matt said.
"Oh. Well, I believe in you and I'm not gonna stand in your way." Sora smiled.
"You just better come back OK or else you'll be in big trouble." I teased.
"What am I supposed to do without you Matt?" TK asked.
"You're a big kid now. You can take care of yourself, TK." Matt assured.
"Yeah, but…" TK trailed off sadly.
"Don't worry; we'll be here for you. Besides, you know how big brothers are. They need their own space. Everything will be fine." Sora said making him smile and nod as she set her hands on his shoulders.
"Well, see ya. Good bye everyone." Matt said.
He then turned and walked off into the forest.
"We better move it troops, we've got the world to save. We might be down one Digidestind, but that's not a problem. We can do it, right?" Tai asked we started walking off.
Mimi and Palmon stopped behind us, the girl frowning.
"Hmm, Mimi?" Sora asked as we all turned to her.
"I'm sorry, Sora, I'm not going." She said making Sora run over to her.
"Huh, why not? Come on, what?" she asked.
"Well, I just don't want to see anybody else fight or hurt themselves. I hope you understand." Mimi said sadly.
Big cry baby.
Do you see Kari, TK or me wanting to leave and go home after everything that's happened, especially when the three of us were main targets of evil digimon?
No, we got over our fear and went on.
I was shot by a freaking arrow for pity sake and nearly died countless times and yet you can't watch us get hurt?
You sicken me you whiny, self-absorbed brat.
…OK, that was harsh, but she's getting on my nerves and has been the first day we got here!
"Then I'm staying too." Joe said.
"But why?" Izzy asked.
"It's not safe for Mimi to be here all alone. I'll make sure she's OK and hopefully later we can rejoin you guys, OK?" Joe asked.
"OK. Good luck Joe." Tai said.
"Thanks." Joe said as he went over to Mimi.
"Wait for me!" Gomamon called as he followed.
"Gee, now we're all gonna be split up again." Patamon whined.
"Just when we were finally all together." Biyomon said.
"I'll go with them to watch out for them. Wait for me!" DemiMeramon called as he flew off to Joe.
"You may think we're separated, but we're really not." Gatomon said making the digimon look at her.
"The roads might be different, but the place we end up in is the same." Gatomon smiled.
We all then turned and walked off, waving to our friends as we left them.
"I mean, think about it; if they truly are the Digidestinds, they're destined to be together once again. At least that's the way I hope it works out." Gatomon said.
To be continued…