Welp, this is it everyone, the finale of the arc.
So everyone knows right now, the story will now go on a short hiatus so I can put some work into a few other stories.
Don't worry, we'll be back within the month.
Hope you all enjoy this chapter at least!
Final Hope! Seraphimon!
"Okay guys, quick plan. We've probably got like 10 minutes before we're gonna fight the head honcho. What's the game plan?" Yang said seriously as they saw Piedmon approaching.
"Quick recap. Every Dark Master so far has had some kind of gimmick to them. No reason Piedmon won't be the same. I don't think we should attack en mass just yet," Gyro said quickly.
"Then maybe one of us should 'test the waters' to try and make him tip his hand," Mastemon suggested. "I volunteer."
"You sure? You JUST evolved. You might have the same problem as WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon did the last time they fought him," Nora asked worriedly.
"Well it's either that or revert to Nyaromon. I've still got a lot of energy, so I might as well put it to good use. Besides, we're all together and he's alone. I'm not afraid knowing you all got my back," Mastemon reassured.
"Alright, we're counting on you. But if things get hairy, don't be afraid to tag out," Jaune said after a few moments.
"Got it. Let's go, Nora," Mastemon said, as she picked Nora up and the two soon flew forward to face Piedmon.
The moment they got close, Nora had jumped off, and Mastemon immediately began attacking. There was no point for words anymore, as they'd gone this far. That and it's easier to avoid tipping your hand if you stay silent. The only problem…
"Heh, haven't you kids learned anything?" Piedmon chuckled as he easily evaded Mastemon's attacks as she was lashing out with a blade of blue energy from her right arm, and a blade of reddish pink energy from her left hand, but the fast clown was easily evading all of them, at least until she managed to land a kick on him, sending him flying back and into a nearby wall. However, Mastemon kept up her guard cause they were under no illusions that that was anywhere close to enough to stop him. True enough…
"Honestly, I'd have thought you'd learn by now that sending a newly evolved Ultimate is pointless against me," Piedmon chuckled as he stepped out of the dust, looking not the least bit harmed. "Now then…" he started pulling out his weapons. "Trump Sword!" he called out as he threw the swords at her.
"Holy Desire!" Mastemon countered, knocking two of the swords away with a blade of light from her right hand. "Dark Despair!" she followed up, countering with a sphere of darkness from her left hand, deflecting the remaining two swords, though the first two she deflected suddenly came back, forcing her to dodge, though one did nick her leg, causing her to grunt in pain.
"Mastemon!" Nora called in alarm.
"I'm alright," Mastemon reassured, before glaring at Piedmon. "But he certainly lives up to his position as leader of the Dark Masters."
"You're only realizing that now?" Piedmon laughed. "Toy Wonderness!" he called out, sending a gust of wind and boulders flying at them.
"Whoa!" Nora gasped, quickly pulling out Magnhild as she and Mastemon defended against the move, breaking up most of the large rocks, but still taking some hits. "Okay...that wasn't pleasant…"
"There's more where that came from!" Piedmon laughed as he sent more and more flying at them, causing them to gradually take more damage. After a few rounds…
"Okay...maybe this wasn't such a great idea…" Mastemon groaned. "Nora?"
"Waaay ahead of you," Nora groaned, already going for her scroll. "Uh...guys…" she started.
"Toy Wonderness!" Piedmon shot out once again.
"Chaos Degradation!" Mastemon countered, causing an explosion to happen, sending her and Nora flying back.
"Not to sound rushed but...SAVE US! SAVE OUR SORRY BUTTS!" Nora shouted into the scroll as the two were flying in the air.
They didn't even get to hit the ground when UlforceVeedramon caught them. "Easy there you two, take five," he said.
"I think I'll take twenty," Mastemon groaned as she reverted to Nyaromon. "I don't think I'm gonna be any good for a bit."
"We'll handle this part first," Vikemon said as he joined them as well.
"Heh, doesn't matter how many of you come. It won't make a difference!" Piedmon laughed. "Trump Sword!" he called out, throwing his weapons...only for them to be sent flying back...in the form of being frozen in a block of ice then thrown back.
"You were saying?" Vikemon smirked, right as Piedmon evaded...only to get kicked in the back by UlforceVeedramon who had gotten behind him.
"In case you didn't notice, you're the one with the number disadvantage now," he smirked.
"Don't get conceited!" Piedmon growled as he lashed out, slashing UlforceVeedramon with a sword he'd conjured up, pushing him back...but quickly had to evade when Mjolnir was shot towards him.
"Oh we're not conceited. We're just confident," the two of them smirked.
"Speaking of which, mind your head," Vikemon said mockingly, to which Piedmon was forced to do a rather impressive limbo maneuver as GrandisKuwagamon's Gran Killer sailed pass where his head used to be...which left him open when a whip lashed out and wrapped around his neck, pulling him up, right into a heavy wing slap from Phoenixmon, sending him crashing into the ground.
"You're experienced, we'll give you that. But do you REALLY think you can fight ALL of us at the same time?" Rosemon chuckled.
At the same time, their respective partners had met up with Nora, to which Nyaromon was now scarfing down a number of rations they'd been carrying. "Eat up Nyaromon, we'll get our rematch once you're feeling better," Nora smiled...right as an explosion hit, as HerculesKabuterimon, MetalGarurumon, and WarGreymon fired their attacks, forcing Piedmon to evade, though he was notably singed...before crying out in pain as HolyAngemon hit him with his excalibur. "...provided they leave anything for us," Nora amended, to which Nyaromon just shrugged...though how an armless creature could shrug was beyond her.
Back at the fight, things were...going very well for the Chosen...not surprising as it was literally 8 Ultimates and one Perfect with Holy Powers against one Ultimate.
"Aren't you heroes supposed to fight fair?" Piedmon growled.
"What kind of idiot fights fair when the fate of the world is at stake?" WarGreymon deadpanned.
"You're surprisingly villainous you know that?" Piedmon deadpanned.
"Nah, this isn't villainous," Rosemon said, right before her leg came up from behind him...and hit him...let's just say Piedmon let out a VERY girlish scream at where she hit. "Now THIS is villainous," she smirked. "And there's a LOT more where THAT came from after the shit you've done to this world!"
"This...proves...nothing!" Piedmon squeaked as he got some range… while clutching his lower area in pain.
"Like we care," MetalGarurumon snorted. "Face it Piedmon, its over! You Dark Masters have lost!"
"Over? No...not by a long shot," Piedmon growled, before he pulled out a white cloth...which was promptly incinerated by Phoenixmon.
"What the?!" Piedmon gasped shaking off the flames.
"Did you REALLY think we were gonna give you time to pull whatever trick you had planned?" Phoenixmon deadpanned.
"No," Piedmon admitted, before smirking. "That's why I had the REAL trick, right here," he said, opening his left hand, revealing a familiar black stone.
"That's!" they all gasped, before a faded image of Myotismon appeared next to Piedmon.
"Surprised? Why do you think I had Witchmon infiltrate Myotismon's ranks? He was but an upstart, but he was a powerful upstart. He was bound to make something useful," Piedmon chuckled, as the powers of darkness began to radiate from him. "Now I'll put his final legacy, and his power, to good use!" Piedmon declared as dark tentacles wrapped around the image of Myotismon that actually began to struggle, before he was pulled into Piedmon's chest, the clown laughing as he was for all intents and purpose, 'eating' the other Digimon.
"Okay...that's just sick…" HerculesKabuterimon said.
"Oh, this is just the beginning," Piedmon smirked as he was radiating with energy, darkness covering him. "Piedmon, Slide Evolution!"
"Quick translation about that kind of evolution?" Yang asked Weiss who was already looking through the Analyzer.
"Same Level, but different form from the looks of it." Weiss said urgently, knowing it would likely be a lot more powerful than his last one.
"BoltBoutamon!" came Piedmon's voice as the darkness removed itself from his new body.
His build was roughly the same, if not a bit taller, but his outfit now had more of a corsair theme to it, wearing golden armor on his chest, with shoulder plates shaped like skulls with horns, he wore a golden face mask that exposed his eyes and a cruel smirk on his lips, a large hat with a red feather sticking out of it sitting atop his head. A Red cloth hanged around his neck, falling down the back and into a pair of strangely shaped wings, though the main oddity had to be the extra pair of arms that came out from just behind his main pair, these new ones being long and skeletal with clawed fingers, finally, sheathed at his hips were a pair of rapiers with skull shaped guards with a pair of pistols holstered just above them.
"Okay...that doesn't look good," Ren frowned, before turning to Wiess. "How much trouble are we about to deal with?"
Weiss went through the Analyzer and groaned. "A LOT if the Analyzer is correct. That's BoltBoutamon."
Digimon Analyzer: BoltBoutamon
BoltBoutamon. Virus Type. An Ultimate Level Demon Man Digimon. A Digimon known as the Malevolent Fist, born from the forceful combination of Piedmon absorbing data of Myotismon. He wields the Spiedini swords and Ala di Pollo guns in his quest to eradicate all sources of light from the Digital World. His special attacks are Palazzi Valzer, multiplying the amount of swords he carries with him and sending them flying off in all directions, and Quarzione, firing bullets that, when they make contact with an enemy, enter their body and start moving around to damage them from within.
"You'll never defeat my most powerful form!" BoltBoutamon laughed.
"Like we haven't heard THAT one before," Phoenixmon rolled her eyes.
"And like all the others, we're not gonna lose!" WarGreymon glared.
"Eager to meet your end? Very well, I'll at least prepare for you a fitting final stage," BoltBoutamon smirked, as he snapped his fingers, and suddenly a barrier encircled them, while also keeping out anyone else, leaving the partnerless Digimon who'd just arrived to be stuck outside.
"Hey, what's going on?!" Chuumon's voice spoke up as he had been once more hiding in Jaune's hoodie...before he was suddenly levitated...and thrown out of the barrier, fortunately Frigimon managing to catch him.
"I don't have the patience to deal with vermin," BoltBoutamon snorted, before the ground started to shake, and the area surrounded by the barrier started to rise up into the sky.
"Ok… that's bad." Ogremon said as he watched the Chosen be lifted up into a makeshift arena.
"It just got worse." SaberLeomon said with narrowed eyes after evolving quickly, watching ahead at the swarm heading towards them.
"I have no time to deal with you fools, but since you also came this way to die, I'll leave you to my personal army," BoltBoutamon laughed as he summoned the Nightmare Soldiers to tear the resistance apart.
"Well…" Centarumon started, slight nervousness creeping into his tone "I guess this IS the final battle now."
"And it's a final battle we're going to win." Frigimon added as she put her fists up.
Ogremon grunted as he took off his sling, twisting his arm a bit and winding it up "Damn right we will. The kids helped us to get here, so let's return the favor and clean house!"
By then the Arena was getting higher in the sky, but still enough for the Chosen to hear.
"Heh, you hear that? Everyone here isn't going to stop till your reign ends, so come at us bone head! We'll smash you into the ground!" Gyro said, earning shouts of agreement from his team.
"Cling on to that belief while you can!" BoltBoutamon growled, as the team charged forward.
The first to charge forward were GrandisKuwagamon with UlforceVeedramon, the two faster Digimon seemingly blurs as they charged forward, and managed to land a few hits on BoltBoutamon, but the armor was a LOT stronger than what Piedmon once had, thus the damage wasn't as significant as it would have been, and after a few hits, the two came in for another shot with their special attacks...but…
"I see you!" BoltBoutamon roared, as his extra arms lashed out, and grabbed both of them out of the air.
"Hang on guys!" WarGreymon said as he and MetalGarurumon went to help their friends...only for BoltBoutamon to promptly throw them at them, causing the four to end up in a heap.
"In retrospect, we probably should have expected that…" MetalGarurumon groaned as he was was currently under GrandisKuwagamon.
"He's fast. Well, let's try this!" Vikemon said as he exhaled a powerful blast of cold wind, soon encasing BoltBoutamon in thick layer of ice. "Now let's smash him!" Vikemon said...right as the ice shook and promptly exploded, forcing them back with a small hailstorm. "...or he can do that…" Vikemon sweatdropped.
"Out of the way boys, cause fire is about to land in this hole!" Phoenixmon shouted as Rosemon was riding on top of her.
"Forbidden Temptation!" Rosemon called out as she fired her best attack, pelting BoltBoutamon with a flurry of flower petals, but he managed to block them with his extra arms.
"And what's this supposed to do? I honestly feel like you're not even trying," he laughed.
"Cause she's not. Starlight Explosion!" Phoenixmon followed up, igniting her feathers near BoltBoutamon, and being in the middle of a storm of petals...well...her attack had some extra fuel to burn.
"Huh, you used Rosemon's attack to power up your own," HerculesKabuterimon noted. "Nice."
"Question is, is it going to work?" HolyAngemon frowned. True enough, BoltBoutamon stepped out, looking rather singed, but overall he seemed like he didn't take any heavy damage.
"...think we can stuff him into the Heaven's Gate?" GrandisKuwagamon suggested.
"We can try, but somehow I'm not sure he's going to make it easy," WarGreymon deadpanned, to which HolyAngemon formed the gate anyway.
"Cool, we got the gate, now then…" Rosemon glared at BoltBoutamon before lashing out with her whip, wrapping it around him, to which all of them grabbed hold.
"GET OVER HERE!" they all roared as they pulled.
"Pierce?" Gyro started.
"Yeah, bro?" Pierce asked.
"Am I the only one feeling so proud that they used THAT classic line?" he asked.
"Right there with you," Pierce chuckled at the gaming reference.
Too bad while the plan on paper worked pretty well, namely BoltBoutamon was thrown towards the gate, but the problem was….
"...okay, first order of business, either we break those arms, or we RIP them off," HerculesKabuterimon deadpanned, as once again, BoltBoutamon's extra arms had actually stopped another of their plans, namely he was keeping himself from going into the gate using them, before he took out his sword and cut the gate, causing it to shatter.
"I am THIS close to shoving Excalibur where the sun doesn't shine." HolyAngemon muttered.
"Uh… you gonna be ok?" MetalGarurumon asked him in worry.
"I will if I can finally get that attack to work again." the angel shot back.
"Dude, easy there. You're literally the only guy fighting here who's got an instant kill move. The universe NEVER makes those moves easy to pull off," WarGreymon reassured.
"Besides, the move should work once we do something about those arms," Rosemon added.
"So yeah, time for the arms to come off!" UlforceVeedramon said, igniting his blades.
"Sounds good to me!" WarGreymon nodded as they once again renewed their assault.
Meanwhile, down below, the resistance were also fighting for their lives. So far while they were grossly outnumbered, the fact they had an Ultimate on their side in the form of SaberLeomon. Speaking of which, he grunted after he finished deleting an Orochimon that had tried to take a bite out of him.
"There doesn't seem to be any end to them!" Centarumon grunted as he kept shooting, Chuumon on his back.
"Please don't say that! This is terrifying enough as is!" Deramon shot back as he fired Royal Nuts after Royal Nuts, Floramon by his side helping however she could, even if mainly watching his back.
"These guys ain't so tough! We can take them!" Duramon roared as he cut an enemy apart.
"You said it!" DoruGreymon grinned as he hit several with a Metal Meteor.
"Let's do this guys!" Hisyaryumon agreed.
"Yes, do not be deterred! We have fought this far together, and together we will gain victory!" Andromon said as he fired a Gatling Missile.
"You said it buddy!" Mamemon agreed as he deleted several of the attacking soldiers.
"Don't let up! The Chosen Children are fighting as we speak! We have to hold out at least until they defeat Piedmon!" SaberLeomon said, though inwardly he was glad he'd gotten that tablet from Nora and Ren all those years ago. Had it not been for the data in the tablet, he'd no doubt be stuck randomly transforming back…and THAT would have been really bad right now.
"Yeah, well that aside, I don't feel like losing to a bunch of kids in the ass kicking department!" Ogremon added as he caved a Devidramon's head in, before throwing his club. "Watch your back!" he shouted as he clubbed a Fangmon that was chasing after Meicoomon.
"Thanks!" Meicoomon shouted at the assist, before turning around and using her special move to delete her would be attacker.
Ogremon caught his club, right before a shadow loomed behind him...or it would have if the Wendigomon didn't suddenly have its head blown off by Waspmon. "Keep your own advice in mind!" he chuckled...right as a Troopmon who was about to shoot him came running while shouting in pain, with Dobermon firmly biting him on the rear, allowing for Waspmon to shoot him too.
"Enough with the banter! Focus on covering each other's backs!" Dobermon barked, earning nods of agreement from them.
On the side, Frigimon had just turned a Musyamon into a popsicle, while Kyukimon and Pandamon just finished taking out an Astamon who had been trying to shoot her. "And to think I thought I'd go back to WWW to help with the frontlines," she couldn't help but chuckle, while Gekomon and Otamamon were on her shoulders, doing what they could to give support fire.
"Yeah, if anything THIS is the frontlines," Kyukimon and Pandamon chuckled at the irony of her statement as they continued to cut through the incoming enemies.
"Don't die now!" Kyukimon said.
"I could say the same to you! I'd rather not have to tell Kotemon you bit it!" Pandamon smirked.
"I think it's safe to say all three of us have a very good reason to get out of this alive," Frigimon said as she pummeled another Wendigomon to the ground.
However, right as they said that, a large figure rushed at them...or would have if they weren't suddenly impaled on SaberLeomon's Kaiser Nail. "Everyone, stick together! They can't pick us off if we guard each other's backs!" he called, while tossing the dissolving MadLeomon he'd just impaled to the side. The others didn't hesitate to move to group up, while Andromon and Mamemon did their best to cover for anyone coming back, as their tougher defenses proved to be quite hard to penetrate.
Along the way, Centarumon was suddenly rushed by a group of Vilemon and Boogiemon, knocking Chuumon who had been on his back off.
"Hey! Leave him alone! Cheese Bomb!" Chuumon shouted, but the Boogiemon nearby simply impaled his attack like it was nothing.
"Hey guys, get a load of the pipsqueak who thinks he can fight!" the Boogiemon laughed. "Run along little rodent, before you get hurt," he taunted.
Chuumon growled "I may be small… but I'm not going to just stand by and do nothing!" he practically roared.
"Oh yeah? What are you gonna do? Nibble on my feet?" the Boogiemon laughed.
At this point Chuumon felt his anger reach a new peak as all the feelings he'd been forced to bottle up ever since losing Sukamon came back with a vengeance. And at that moment, something inside of him clicked. "Chuumon, Dark Evolution!" he roared as a grey light exploded off his body, which suddenly shot up in size to roughly the height of a human adult, wings appearing on him, and his tail gaining a spade tip, before the light faded off, revealing a red skinned demonic Digimon with a black outfit that had a rather high collar, the wings connected to his shoulders and looking to be part of his outfit, he sported two horns on his forehead, a mohawk of hair, and a short goatee. He then snapped his fingers, and a pitchfork appeared in his hand "Phelesmon!"
Digimon Analyzer: Phelesmon
Phelesmon. Virus Type. A Perfect Level Fallen Angel Digimon. A Digimon who in olden tales is said to snatch away the souls of anyone who calls upon it to grant their desires. When not engaged in battle, Phelesmon is usually known to the perfect picture of an aristocrat. His special attacks are Demon's Shout, releasing a scream at his enemies that drives them to insanity, and Black Statue, striking the enemy with it's pitchfork and turning them in a statue made of onyx.
The Boogiemon looked up at the new Digimon, and it was at that moment he knew...he'd fucked up big time. "Ahahaha...about that pipsqueak thing...funny joke, right?" he tried to salvage the situation...only to get punched in the face and be sent flying right out of the battle field and slamming into the bottom of the arena in the sky.
"Demon's Shout!" Phelesmon called out, bombarding the Digimon attacking Centarumon with his shout which left them screaming as they clutched their ears as the scream tore at their sanity...before they ran into nearby boulders in a frenzy.
"Okay...I'll admit I didn't expect to see that happen, though I'm glad you seem to have retained your sanity," Centarumon said.
"You go on and join the others. I got over 10 YEARS worth of repressed emotions I need to offload," Phelesmon said, glaring at the army still gathered before them.
"Don't overextend," Centarumon merely cautioned, before leaving Phelesmon be.
"Right," he nodded, before glaring. "Now then…." he started, before raising his pitchfork over his head and letting out an unintelligible war cry as he ran pitchfork first into the fray, and started carving out a bloody swath as he tore apart at the Nightmare Soldiers both physically AND mentally.
"...remind me never to piss off that guy ever again," was all Ogremon could say at seeing Phelesmon go medieval on the army.
"Only if you remind US to not do it too," Meicoomon sweat dropped.
Meanwhile….
"WHAT THE HELL ARE THESE ARMS MADE OF?!" was the angry shout as Vikemon was ramming Mjolnir into BoltBoutamon's extra arms, which were raised defensively, yet SOMEHOW they were holding up against not just HIS weapons, but also the Gran Killers AND the Dramon Killers, along with the blades of the V Bracelets.
"Why don't you just give up while you still can?!" BoltBoutamon taunted, before unsheathing his sword. "Palazzi Valzer!" he called out as his swords suddenly multiplied till there were….a LOT…
"That… looks a lot like what Emerald does in canon." Pierce said after a moment.
"Yeah, but this time it's real!" Yang said urgently.
"Brace for impact!" MetalGarurumon shouted as all the Digimon immediately huddled up in front of the hunters as the attack hit, shielding them with their bodies. When it was over, they were left groaning on the ground.
"Okay...that wasn't fun at all…" UlforceVeedramon groaned.
"It's probably gonna get a lot LESS fun if we don't do anything about it soon…" HerculesKabuterimon added, seeing as he noticed HolyAngemon, who in the rush, had been in a position to take a good number of hits, reverting to Patamon from the damage he took.
"How many times do I have to say it? You can't win!" BoltBoutamon laughed.
"And how many times do we have to say that we DON'T quit!" GrandisKuwagamon shot back.
At that BoltBoutamon laughed. "You really ARE idiots! Try and try as you might, you can't defeat me! No one can defeat me anymore! Not even Yggdrasil himself! So stop clinging to your false hope, and accept your demise!"
"Shut up!" was the response he got, followed by a small hail of bullets. The source revealed to be Blake. "Who the hell gave you the right to decide?! To do whatever you want!" she growled. "We're not done yet, not by a long shot, so it's FAR too early for you to be claiming victory!"
"And what can you possibly do?" BoltBoutamon laughed. "I've taken all of you on and I'm still here just fine!"
"No you haven't," she said dangerously. "Everyone who's dead because of you, we won't let their sacrifices be in vain. We'll make sure to finish this fight, so that the Digital World can finally find peace! So give up on making us give up!" at that moment, her crest started to shine brightly, as a pillar of yellow light released into the sky, breaking through the top of the dark barrier set up around the piece of land "Today… is the day this all ends." Blake said in a tone that left no room to continue, as her tag floated out of her clothes and shattered, the crest flying into her body as the light gathered into her hand, grabbing hold of her D-Core, which changed into a D-Crest with a yellow grip "Patamon, are you ready?"
"I am!" was all Patamon said as he flew upwards, Blake aiming her D-Crest at him.
(Play Brave Heart)
The Crest of Hope appeared on the glass covering, before the light erupted from the Digivice, shooting the Crest out, which flew forward and into Patamon, who turned the same color of the Crest, and did a backflip. "Patamon, Warp Evolution!" Patamon called out, releasing a burst of light, which revealed Angemon, who turned and repeated the process, revealing HolyAngemon who did the same one more time. From the final burst of light came a being covered in armor, wearing a helmet with wings attached to the side that covered his face completely. He then extended his arms out, the gauntlets gaining a second plate of armor over the first one that was blue in color with a golden engraving of a Fleur-de-Lys. The rest of his armor then gained color, revealing it to be silver in color with gold highlights, with the knee guards, ankle guards, front piece and helmet being blue in color, the front of the helmet sporting a golden four point star while the wings on its sides were silver, a long piece of cloth then appearing dangling from the front of his armor between his legs with Digicode written onto it. Large blue shoulder pads then appeared over his bare shoulders, followed by 10 golden angelic wings shooting out of his back, his silvery blonde hair falling out of his helmet and across his back a moment after. The Crest of Hope then engraved itself on his stomach armor, as Patamon's blue eyes shone from behind the helmet for a moment, before he cast his arm to the side, breaking up the area around him and turning it into an area that could be described as heaven, as he then let out a brilliant explosion of light from his body "Seraphimon!"
"Well… that's bright." Ren said after a moment, squinting his eyes to look up at Patamon's Ultimate form as it let off a large amount of light, almost like a sun shining bright.
"And I think it's just what we need." Pyrrha added.
"I'll say, look at him!" Jaune said as he pointed at BoltBoutamon, who recoiled away from the light, trying to cover himself from it while his body let off wisps of smoke.
"I guess that's the downside of absorbing a vampire." Ruby realised what his problem was after a moment.
"Then it gives me the perfect chance." Seraphimon spoke, crossing his arms in front of himself "Final Heal!" he said before spreading them across, as a soft glow of light covered all of the Chosen and their partners.
"I can feel my strength coming back to me." WarGreymon said as he got back to his feet, looking better than new. Not just him, as everyone soon looked better than ever, even Nyaromon who had evolved into Salamon again, Nora quickly pulling out her D-Crest, and soon Mastemon was among them too.
"Seraphimon… he's really powerful." Weiss said as she looked at the Analyzer.
Digimon Analyzer: Seraphimon
Seraphimon. Vaccine Type. An Ultimate Level Seraph Digimon. A powerful angelic Digimon, the highest ranked one at that, said to rule over all of them as one of the Three Celestials. It is told that should Seraphimon descend from the heavens to combat evil, he will purify all traces of darkness from the world. His special attacks are Seven Heavens, firing seven orbs of holy energy to destroy evil, and Divine Breaker, sending forth a ball of crackling lightning from his fist.
"I-it doesn't matter! One more of you won't make a diff-" BoltBoutamon tried to say...if Seraphimon didn't surge forward and land a haymaker charged with holy power to the side of his face, sending him flying till he collided with the edge of his own barrier.
"You were saying?" Seraphimon couldn't help but smirk.
"Tch…! Don't get overconfident!" BoltBoutamon roared. "Quartzione!"
"Divine Breaker!" Seraphimon countered, destroying the bullets as the ball of lightning plowed into BoltBoutamon, pushing him back.
"In that case...Palazzi Valzer!" BoltBoutamon followed up.
"Forbidden Temptation!" Rosemon countered, her attack hitting the many swords, causing them to disappear from the damage, while also cutting into BoltBoutamon who was now feeling the damage.
"I-Impossible! How am I losing to you all?!" he gasped.
"Shouldn't it be obvious?" Yang grinned.
"You've been drawing your extra power from Myotismon's malice, and his powers amplifying your original power," Weiss said. "But in doing so you absorbed his weakness too!"
As if to emphasise the point, Seraphimon called forth a powerful holy light, which Mastemon added to as well, shining it onto BoltBoutamon who recoiled when it made contact with him.
"T-this can't…!" BoltBoutamon growled, before his eyes widened, and at that moment, he realized how badly he'd messed up. In provoking the bearer of Hope, he'd triggered the very Crest they needed to turn the tables. The realization made him angered beyond anything, and in a frenzied roar, he discarded any semblance of defense and charged forward. If he could kill the Digimon of Hope, he could still win this!
"Hold it right there! Seven Heavens!" Seraphimon called out, before launching the seven orbs of holy light, which plowed right into BoltBoutamon's body, causing him to cry out in pain as he was pushed back. However, he didn't impact the wall this time, seeing as UlforceVeedramon had gotten behind him.
"Don't forget about us!" he grinned before he kicked BoltBoutamon in the back, sending him flying towards Phoenixmon. "Play ball!" he grinned.
"Oooooh!" everyone grinned at that, before Phoenixmon used her wing to knock the hapless Dark Master towards HerculesKabuterimon, who used his horn to knock the 'ball' away towards MetalGarurumon who rammed it towards Rosemon, who grabbed it with her whip, before flinging it at WarGreymon who hit it with a mighty kick, straight for GrandisKuwagamon, who joined his hands, and did a volleyball pass to Mastemon, who flipped upside down and kicked it towards Vikemon, who had equipped Mjolnir to his hands, and was rearing up like a baseball batter, before hitting the 'ball' in a way that sent him flying upward.
"Gather, O Holy Power!" Seraphimon called out as he flew upwards, the lights from the Digivices coming to him and gathering just over his joined hands, which he raised up, forming a MASSIVE sphere of holy light...and bringing it down on the ascending Dark Master, slamming down on him as he roared in pain at the holy energy wreaking havoc on his power, which sent him CRASHING down into the ground, and he didn't stop there. He hit the ground...and kept going till he'd broken right through the bottom of the arena and he was STILL going.
"I hope THAT hurt, clown boy!" Jaune shouted down the hole.
"Hey...if he's gone...what's holding this arena up?" Nora suddenly spoke up as the barrier faded.
"...oh…" everyone barely managed to say as the Digimon grabbed their partners, before the Arena fell from the sky.
Back down below, the resistance had managed to make a BIG dent in the Nightmare Soldiers...before Waspmon noticed something. "Hey guys...what's that?" he asked, right as the object crashed into the ground...followed by the arena falling out of the sky...and they were still kinda close to it too.
"Everyone run!" SaberLeomon shouted, and they all did just that, getting out of the way, leaving the Nightmare Soldiers, and BoltBoutamon who was still embedded in the little hole, to look up and see the arena coming down.
"...I HATE those kids…"BoltBoutamon managed to snarl before he and his army were promptly crushed.
A few moments later, a fist punched out of the ground, as the battered Dark Master pulled himself out of the 'wreck'.
"Knew you were still alive. Which is really good," came Gyro's voice. "Cause a LOT of people right now want a piece of you," he said, to which BoltBoutamon realized he was now surrounded by not just the 10 Ultimates, but also the entire resistance...and boy did they look ANGRY.
"Don't you dare look down on me! I can still-!" he didn't get to finish as the Chosen aimed their Digivices at him and bombarded him with their light, causing him to shout in pain, before the Abyss Stone was forcefully ejected from him and shattered, reverting him to Piedmon.
"All yours, everyone!" Ruby said, giving the Digimon a thumbs up.
"Knock him dead!" Pierce said with a small swing of his arm.
"WITH PLEASURE!" the Digimon all roared.
"Uh...parley?" Piedmon asked pathetically.
"...you wrecked our continent, killed our friends, made our lives a living hell," Phelesmon deadpanned. "WHAT DO YOU THINK IS OUR ANSWER TO THAT?! LET'S GET HIM GUYS!"
"Lullaby Bubble!"
"Allergy Shower!"
"Crush Symphony!"
"Hunting Cannon!"
"Absolute Zero Punch!"
"Turbo Stinger!"
"Fist of the Supreme King!"
"X Scratch!"
"Grau Larm!"
"Royal Nuts!"
"Demon's Shout!"
"Blade Twister!"
"Animal Nail!"
"Spiral Sword!"
"Smiley Bomb!"
"Metal Meteor!"
"Tenryu Suishoukyu!"
"Blindead!"
"Infinity Arrow!"
"Gaia Force!"
"Cocytus Breath!"
"Starlight Explosion!"
"Forbidden Temptation!"
"Arctic Blizzard!"
"Giga Blaster!"
"Shining V Force!"
"Grandis Scissors!"
"Chaos Degradation!"
"Seven Heavens!"
The attacks all hit one right after another, Piedmon trying to guard the barrage at first, but as they kept coming, they broke through, making him take the full brunt of the onslaught, and well...let's just say there probably wasn't ever and probably never will be a more THOROUGH deletion than what followed, judging by the bright light and the mushroom cloud that literally everyone who happened to be looking at Spiral Mountain's peak could see no matter where they were.
(Song End)
Back at the peak, everyone was on their backs from the sheer force of the explosion they'd made.
"I think we just redefined the meaning of 'overdoing' and 'overkill'," HerculesKabuterimon noted. "Great job everyone."
"Totally worth it!" everyone agreed.
"And just to confirm that yes, he's gone, the scans we put up are showing the last parts of the Mountain disappearing," Weiss confirmed. "We did it! We won!"
"We won…" Blake breathed, almost not believing it.
"WE WON! WE SAVED THE DIGITAL WORLD!" Nora cheered as she pulled Ren into a bone crushing hug.
The group soon devolved into cheers of excitement before…
"So...now what?" Pyrrha asked. "Is everything supposed to go back together by itself, or are we supposed to...do something else?"
"That's...a really good question," Gyro admitted. "Oh well, when in doubt, we all know what to do...or try to do anyway."
Everyone, even their Digimon who had all reverted to Baby form by now, chuckled before they all agreed. "Call Gennai."
"Only one problem...we don't know where his house is right now…" Ren mused.
"Not to worry, I'm right here," came a familiar voice as a Mekanorimon suddenly landed.
"We're not even going to complain about how convenient that is." Pierce chuckled as they went up to the Digimon as the top opened and Gennai got out slowly with his cane in hand.
"So, what's next?" Yang asked. "We've beaten the Dark Masters, Spiral Mountain is gone, so...what do we do now?"
"What YOU all need to do is…" Gennai said, gaining their attention. "Nothing."
At that they face faulted. "You did that on purpose," Blake accused.
"Guilty," Gennai chuckled. "But seriously, there's literally nothing more you all need to do at this point. Well...except one last thing. My boss wants to talk to you. Nothing bad obviously, but still important."
"Wait, did you just say they're about to get an audience with Yggdrasil himself?!" the resistance members all gaped.
"Wow...we're getting an audience with a god...I have no idea how to react to that…" Weiss blinked.
"Normally I'd say freaking out is a good option, but I think we're all too tired for that right now." Motimon said, to all around agreement.
"So… where would we meet Yggdrasil?" Koromon asked.
As if to answer their question, a beam of light suddenly came down from the heavens as they were all being slowly pulled upward.
"I'd say right here, right now," Gennai snorted.
"Does he have to do it rapture style?" Pierce deadpanned.
Gennai just shrugged.
Once they reached a certain height, the light flashed bright around them, before they disappeared from the area.
Once their sight returned to them, the group were treated to an area that appeared to be a large room, that seemed to be made out of an almost crystalline liquid, the floor rippling beneath their feet.
"Well… even for the Digital World, this is new." Jaune said after a moment.
"You're telling mE?!" Bukamon started, his voice turning to surprise as he and all the other Baby levels suddenly evolved back into Child.
"Ok, not that we're ungrateful, because having working limbs is nice, but what just happened?" Wormmon wondered.
"A small gift if you will," a new voice said. It was regal in tone, and one that just listening to you could tell demanded respect despite the notable lack of any arrogance in the tone. They also noticed that the voice seemed completely gender neutral, as in there was no way of knowing from the voice alone if the owner was male or female.
Turning to the source, the center of the room, they were met with the sight of a figure slowly rising up from the ground.
The first thing that was noticed was that the figured had a clear lack of legs, its body instead being made up entirely of crystal armor, with only the arms and face being normal, or as close to normal as they could, seeing as they were white as snow and lacked any distinctive features save for a nose, a mouth, and a pair of completely white eyes on the face, along with long white hair coming out the back of the crystal helmet. "Welcome, Chosen Children," the figure spoke. "I am Yggdrasil."
"Well… meeting with god… this isn't how I thought the day would end honestly." Gyro said after a moment.
"I can imagine it was not." Yggdrasil spoke, clear amusement in their tone.
"So, what's going to happen now? We've defeated the Dark Masters, shouldn't we be fighting the great evil Gennai said they spawned from?" Pyrrha asked.
Yggdrasil was silent for several moments before finally speaking "No. You are not yet ready to fight it."
"In what way?" Yang asked, a bit annoyed, but figuring the literal god would have a good reason.
"A few reasons. For starters, you've still not fully realized your full powers yet," Yggdrasil started. "Though you defeated the Dark Masters, it still takes much more time than you've all had to fully master the Ultimate level. Furthermore, when I sealed the great evil, I sort of...I suppose you could say I damaged its stability. It currently does not have a fully physical form, as such there is no telling what it may do in this state if you were to fight it now," Yggdrasil cautioned.
"So, it's like with a bomb, one wrong move, and everything goes south." Nora summed up with a frown.
"An apt description yes. Keeping it restrained is proving difficult, but I will endeavor to do so for as long as it takes until you are ready to properly destroy it." Yggdrasil said, showing how much faith they had in the Chosen.
"Alright...so...what happens now?" Blake asked.
"For now, you all may return to your world. You have done your part, now I will do my part and fix the damage the Dark Masters have wrought on this world," Yggdrasil said. "Once that is done, I think it's time to finally restore the time dilation of the worlds."
"Wait… that was you?" Ruby asked after everyone took a moment to process his words.
"Not the original effect, but I managed to make use of it to my advantage, though when your mother first fell into this world, I had to make sure to grind it to a halt as much as I could so you would have a chance to meet again." Yggdrasil explained as he turned his head towards Ruby. "It was only after the Dark Powers began spreading did I start...tweaking...the time difference so as to give you all more time when you inevitably came. And before you ask, the reason why young Keenan's arrival and time in the Digital World was so strange, is an unintended side-effect. He came when I was still adjusting the time, so he ended up 'in the past' so to speak."
"That explains a lot…" Weiss sighed. "So...are you going to send us back, or…?"
"There is a gate in File that I'd kept hidden for a while. The secret, is the tram you all spent a night in when you had to fight Seadramon," Yggdrasil said. "At the moment, time is still unsynchronized between the two worlds, so you do not need to leave just yet. The Tram is a gate that will open during an eclipse, which normally would only happen once in a LONG time, but for this situation…" Yggdrasil trailed off, before an orb of light appeared and a stream of data went into Weiss's Scroll. "This is a one time use program to trigger an eclipse. Use it to return to Remnant."
"That is… rather interesting how a program can just trigger an eclipse like that." Tentomon said after a moment as he looked at Weiss's scroll.
"So, what happens now?" Biyomon asked.
"Now? I will deposit you on File, the majority of the island was still intact, only its edges had been absorbed into Spiral Mountain." Yggdrasil stated, earning nods from them.
"What about all the other Digimon that died because of the Dark Masters?" Palmon asked with a frown.
"Worry not, their data is not lost forever, and I will make the Primary Villages my top priority, they will all return in time." They stated, earning relieved looks from the Chosen.
"Wait, so, when we leave, what's going to happen exactly?" Ren asked curiously.
"All Digimon without partners that are on Remnant will be brought back to the Digital World while I work on fixing the data. However, know that it is impossible for me to stop tears from opening between the two worlds, so you will likely find Digimon still leaking into your world for a long time to come. As such, your partners will return with you, to help keep your own world safe, just as you kept this one out of evil's hands." Yggdrasil explained, the group making sure to keep a mental note of it. "Now then, I believe I've kept you long enough. I will send you all to the Primary Village of File Island, along with the Resistance group you've all gathered together. I think you've all earned a little rest," Yggdrasil chuckled at the end, before everything was covered in a bright light.
When the light subsided, a familiar soft ground met their feet, as the colorful blocks and gentle sounds of Primary village could be seen.
"Well, this is nice to see after all the fighting." Blake said with a small smile after a moment.
"Tell me about it." Patamon added with a light chuckle.
"The fighting's finally over, for now at least." Veemon said with a relieved sigh.
"Yeahp, we can finally rest." Pierce added as he took a deep breath and let it out with a smile.
Everyone nodded in agreement… before they all fell backwards onto the soft ground.
"Oh dear Oum I'm so freaking tired." Jaune groaned.
"I can't even move my claws." Gomamon groaned right along with him.
"I hate adrenaline crashes." Gyro muttered.
"Tell me about it." Agumon added.
"I Think we can all agree to...just lie down here for a while…" Pyrrha said, getting several sounds of agreement in response.
The next few days went by in a blur. The group had decided to take the next few days to just...rest...after the adventure they'd just been through. However, as fun as it was, they knew they couldn't stay forever. As such, it wasn't long before they were now gathered near the tram they'd spent the night in all that time ago.
"Well, looks like this is it," Pierce chuckled. "One heck of a crazy adventure we had."
"And it's far from over too!" Veemon added, earning a chuckle from his partner.
"I know what you mean," Yang laughed.
"But if we could go back, we'd do it all again," Biyomon added, to which everyone nodded in agreement.
"Hey...has anyone seen Gyro?" Agumon asked.
"Oh, he said he was gonna get something. He should be here soon," Jaune said.
"Not like we're pressed for time anyway," Gomamon commented.
"Doesn't mean I'm going to make everyone wait longer than they should." Gyro said as he flew down towards the group, landing behind them and putting his blades away.
"So, what were you getting?" Ruby asked curiously as Gyro reached into his pouch.
"These." Gyro said, pulling out wrapped up ice cream bars from his pouch "The icing on the cake."
"Oh nice, what flavor?" Yang asked as Gyro handed one out to everyone present.
"You'll see." was all Gyro said as they all opened them, noting the pale blue color, though Pierce was the only one who blinked in recognition before smiling.
The first one to take a bite was Nora, who hummed as she tasted it "Salty… and sweet."
"That's a thing?" Jaune asked, blinking in confusion.
"It is, this is Sea-Salt ice cream. I don't know if you have it on Remnant, but we do have it on Earth, though it was made popular because of a work of fiction, a game franchise called Kingdom Hearts." Pierce answered with a smile as he bit into it, humming in content "Damn, now I know why Roxas and Axel liked it so much."
"Tastes like victory." Gyro said in agreement after swallowing a bite.
"It sure does. Feels like a real job well done," Ruby nodded as they all ate. Eventually, they finished up their ice cream and were now ready to board the tram. However…
"Hey!" came a shout, just as Weiss activated the app to trigger a one time solar eclipse. Turning to the shout, they saw all their friends on File together.
(Play Butter-Fly: Digimon Adventures Opening)
"You guys?" Ren blinked.
"Why are you so surprised? It's only natural to want to see a friend off," Leomon said with a grin.
"Thanks for everything you did for us!" BlueMeramon said.
"We won't ever forget it!" Waspmon added.
The group in the tram blinked, then chuckled. "Don't say that like this is goodbye forever! We'll be back eventually! If you guys ever need a hand, holler and we'll come running!" Nora said as they all waved, the tram starting to move as the gate was opening.
"The same goes for your kids! If you ever get in over your heads, we'll run over and help!" Ogremon hollered proudly.
"And remember! You'll always be welcome into the Digital World!" Phelesmon added with a grin.
By now the tram was moving faster, as their friends chased after it to a degree, waving all the way, the chosen and their partners waving back, as slowly but surely, the tram began to lift off the ground. Once they couldn't follow anymore, the group smiled as they watched the tram leave.
Inside the tram, the chosen and their Digimon were soon seated, some of them wiping tears out of their eyes, though others tried to hide it. "Don't worry guys," Gyro said, wiping off a tear. "This isn't the end. Not now, not ever," he grinned, before pulling out a photo. A photo of them and all the friends they'd made.
Everyone nodded, grinning with him, as the tram finally faded into the eclipse.
Yep, BoltBoutamon, that was the idea we came up with to make Piedmon a more possible threat.
Thank Next Order for introducing him to the franchise.
And yes, Chuumon CAN end up evolving into a Phelesmon, and him becoming a Perfect had been the plan since the start of the arc.
The reason for him not going mad despite being a dark evolution is because he focused all his hate on the Dark Masters and their soldiers.
Also, yeah, no Apocalymon, not yet anyway, this group will fight him at later date, because as Yggdrasil said, right now would be far too dangerous.
As for when the next big Digimon related events will happen, well... you'll see, after all, it's like I always say.
The Adventure Evolves.