Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Bloodline: Descendents of the Digidestined ❯ "Return to Power, Our Queen!!" ( Chapter 14 )

Chapter 14: "Return to Power, Our Queen!!"

Prologue: Lewis recounts, "I'm back!!! Last time, a month had past since that incursion with Lily and the fateful meeting of Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon, Siva Lilymon's betrayal, and the discovery of Feral Rosemon. Attorneymon had made himself three new generals; Sequoiamon, Sakuramon, and Lilydramon; the Dark Paladins. Feral Rosemon and the gang were forced from her pad after a massive explosion leveled it. At the same time, Lily discovered a mysterious village of unknown digimon, whom she thought to be Dominion guinea pigs, and tried to destroy them, but was very easily stopped by the likes of two very unusual digimon, Ambient Feralmon and Chibi Seishinmon, the latter of the two using an unstoppable attack known as `Big Guard' to use Lily's own power against her, but it finally the childlike antics of Ni-Kokuwamon that finally defeated her. In her psychiatric visits, Sirenamon was placed into a trance, where she lived out all of her strange visions in order to help her overcome her fears. Meanwhile, as Daisuke began to flip out more and more and grate on Lilymon's nerves, Taichi made his return to the group, where everyone hoped he had a plan. Well, he didn't. Sorry to tell you and break all your precious hopes. I'm an evil, evil man!! Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha… Oh, moving on, he then, in his infinite wisdom, got his ass kicked by the Dark Paladins. That would be bad, but he had Araiya with him, so yay me!! Now, I'm getting ahead of myself with my pseudo Taichi-bashing. Got nothing against him, except that he is an idiot. Before that last comment, Safiirumon, Lance, and the Elemental Valkyries were relieved when Vulcan Lilymon, Tamiko, and Feral Rosemon made back, but did not trust the latter two. The Valkyries leave, sans the three last mentioned and Siva Lilymon, to go meet us. Then the crap hit the fan when Siva Lilymon took Vulcan Lilymon prisoner and left the other two members of what I will now dub `The Travelers Three' to die of smoke inhalation. That would have really sucked ass, for them at least, if it had not been for the for the help of a certain Stefan, whom we find out is from ten MILLION years in the future, and is trying to set things straight. I sense a plot device here… Anyway, they pursue the Dark Paladins, whom have gotten a large head start, and ran into Taichi and company, who at that moment were delirious from walking for so long, which Taichi explained to them the reason why they walked was to not draw attention to themselves. See…? Well, here's the part where they are crushed, and they discover who Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon really is, and he saves them, and here we are, back to where I was before. Now, as they were enjoying themselves, the others were working on getting the kids reunited, leading to random mischief and stuff, but the best part was when Iori kept getting electrocuted while trying to talk to Yuuji and Romi. Sakiko was at the same time trying to finally run her organization, when Ken and Yolei entered to talk to her, but ended up her employees!! She's learning… Well, anyway…" Araiya comes in and bashes Lewis over the head with a Sunday New York Times. Araiya says, "At this rate, you'll never get done. Sure, a lot of things happened, but you don't have to go and drag it out for forever and a day!!" Lewis interjects, "Get… off… spine… *crack!!*" Araiya continues, "No. Especially not after that snide remark you made earlier. Now, as we bickered, a radically different Lewis here finally came out of seclusion and revealed revelations he came to realize in his solitude, including digimon natural evolution, which he pointed out as he proceeded to smash all the armor eggs. Around this time, Laomon came up with the scary reality that Attorneymon is very well making his first Omega level Dark Tower digimon, and then we received a surprising visit from the other universe Yuuji and Masato had visited before with some much needed help. At the same time, Lily, whom was now being held against her will in the village for her own safety, came to know of what Attorneymon soon planned to do, but finally Thanatomon got wise and stopped Malachimon's dream messages. In utter panic, she tried to get the silly Ni-Kokuwamon to try and let her go, and he agreed, on the condition that she danced with him, but soon all her apprehension and anger was gone, and for once she actually felt like a child, but that was short-lived as the Vindicator 1 leveled the city, wiping almost everything away. Lily then experienced a rush of emotions she couldn't control, and then lost it, leveling hundreds of miles of the Digital World, and then firing at Attorneymon himself, whom fled as his mighty station was being leveled section by section. There. That's all…" <Blow dart hits Araiya in the neck and she falls to the floor on top of Lewis> Vulcan Lilymon shouts, "And again they forget about us!!"

In the Digital World, the shockwave generated by Lily begins to fizzle. Meanwhile, in the real world, in Yellowstone Park, a seismograph begins to shake violently. A park ranger yells, "This can't be right!! It's reading a factor 18 in the park!!" Outside, the ground begins to liquefy. A balding man in plaid says, "It's happening!!" The ranger yells, "What is?!" The man says, "Under this park, as there have been three times in the earth's past, there is a calderas, the most powerful volcano there is. The very heat of it is why this place is loaded with geothermic activity. It must be erupting!!" The ranger goes, "Wha…" The man says, "I'm a vulcanologist, I know these things." The ranger says, "What do we do?" The man says, "Well, as most other ranger stations probably know by now, all we can do is bend over, kiss our asses goodbye, and hope something on planet earth survives the ash!!" Air raid sirens go off all over North America. Suddenly, from space, the whole central western section of the United States went up in a bright white ball. The earth shattered around the ball, which kept growing. Fire soared into space itself, licked out only by the lack of air. Scientists in Antarctica and Europe shudder at the satellite images they watch. "This is far more horrific than what we ever could have expected!!" Cracks in the west shatter the land, turning mountains into plains, desert into islands. The massive of massive structures toppling as a wave of heat incinerates all organic life within 300 miles of Yellowstone, with major cities like Seattle, Neo Houston and Las Vegas just out of reach of the heat wave. The continuing quakes send the San Andreas Fault into a frenzy, the eastern side smashing into the west, and resulting in a sonic wave of destruction over the southwestern coast of California. In a blink, coastal California was no more. The land west of the fault suddenly broke away from North America, and coastal California and Baja Mexico drifted miles away. Much of the Rocky Mountains were leveled away, but helped to shield some of the force from the eruption. Farms in the Great Plains as far east as Topeka suddenly rose up from the ground, , were washed away as melted snow caps surged down the remnants of the Rocky Mountains, or sank away as lava consumed it or the ground gave way. In the end, the only major cities not to sustain any significant damage from the quakes were Seattle and Neo Houston, but this wasn't all. Fogs of ash rushed over North America, suffocating anything outside in just minutes. Ash began to spread into the atmosphere, and over the earth. The sky had actually turned red as now tens of thousands were dead from just the ash, millions so far. Lava sits in the crater, but some, as mentioned before, sat high above, raining back down on North America. Large globs of it began to rain down upon Saskatchewan, Idaho, Oregon, California, the Sierra Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Mexico, Kansas, and Nebraska. Some strike the ocean and cause hundred foot tall tsunamis to form, crashing into the remains of Baja Mexico, Mexico, and the new coastlines of Arizona and Nevada. Under all the ash, most of Oregon, California, southern Utah, southern and western Wyoming, western Idaho, and northern Arizona sat below water. The coastline of California, sections of southwestern Arizona, and Baja Mexico now sit west-southwest of where they once lie, broken up into an archipelago, like a mini reverse Japan. Amazingly, Nevada and sections of Utah and Colorado came away mostly unscathed save the ash. From the quake, a wave starts out at sea from the force that shattered California, racing southwest. Already, the earth's temperature has dropped 3 degrees Fahrenheit.

Scientists from bunkers through communications satellites argue over what could have caused the eruption to be far worse than they even imagined. One from Denmark states, "Let's figure this out later!! Right now, we have the bigger issue of volcanic ash to deal with. If we do not find a way to distribute pure air or remove the sulfurous clouds, a great deal of all life could be looking at extinction!!"

Another from Russia goes, "At long as nothing else happens, we should be okay…"

In the Digital Universe, that same invisible blast that hit the Vindicator 1 moves through space and strikes the seventh planet from the sun. It pierces clean through the crust and all the way to the core, and out the other side before resolving. Quickly, the planet roared for just a moment, then it was to pieces. On Earth, NASA researchers could only watch in horror as choppy feed from Hubble showed a massive chunk of Uranus exploding, so much so that part of the core became exposed. The chunks went flying in all directions. From bunkers all over the world, world leaders were in panic at what was happening. In Japan, however, Lewis didn't seem the least bit surprised. Lewis goes, "We must act now!!"

In the Digital World, Chibi Seishinmon, Ambient Feralmon, and Dukemon dig themselves free. Chibi Seishinmon woefully cries, "It's all gone… Almost a million years of our lives… gone!!" She slams her fist into the ground, shattering it, and revealing a very dirty Chaos Dukemon. "What happened? One moment I'm resting and the next I find myself eating dirt… No…" He sees the crater, part of which they are standing in. Ambient Feralmon notices Lily. "What… Who is that?"

Chibi Seishinmon says, "I don't know, but whoever she is, not only is she completely mad, but far too powerful to fight on our own!!" Lily giggles again as she raises her arms and beams of power go in all directions, regardless of any obstacles, towards various locations of the Dominion Headquarters. Some soared up, some went across the surface on a straight line to space, while others went underground, through the planet, and out the surface thousands of miles away at shallow angles. From space, it was a dramatic light show as the station was torn asunder.

On the real side, columns of fire spewed out from Yellowstone much like Lily's beams, many sealing up with magma as they form, but a few, like one from Yellowstone to Ethiopia, stayed open. One swept by the Canary Islands, and began another eruption. The entire left half of the island skids into the sea, starting a 500-foot mega-tsunami heading for the eastern coast of the US, but also, the fire blast blows another huge chunk of the island off into the sea, sending a 350-foot wave towards Liberia. The scientists are totally silent. An American geologist says, "It's a nightmare come true. With a few deft disasters, there will be no future." In the Digital World, the continent of Server starts to feel quakes. The earth itself starts to break, and with one of Lily's beams, the continent of Server breaks in two.

On the station, Attorneymon activates the intercom system over the station. "Due to circumstances out of our control, I am hereby calling for the immediate evacuation of this station. All hands shall report to the shuttles and escape pods and meet me at the coordinates that Black Tailmon will give you!!" He teleports off into a forest with his generals Fenrirmon, Genghismon, Megalomamemon, Black Tailmon, and carrying Malachimon.

Attorneymon goes, "By all creation, how can she be so powerful? I tapped her power, and knew it to work with her mind focused. She should lack any such focus, and therefore, her power… Where is it coming from!!"

Thanatomon says, "I wouldn't worry about it. If you can complete the rites, then the all-mighty Obliviomon will return, and he will deal with her."

Fenrirmon asks, "Whoa… Why are we reviving a guy who was thrashed by the Digidestined so long ago? If you think about it master, your power was about the same as his, but now, seeing as how you could face the all-powerful Avalonmon with such ease, then why should we bother? I doubt it'd work anyway."

Attorneymon punches him to the ground, then holds by his neck, slowly crunching down on it. "Hold your tongue, dog!! I have a great feeling this is the right thing to do, and with the Megami's Spade I can do it!! Never question my intentions again!!" Fenrirmon falls to the ground and scampers back in horror. Slowly, pods and shuttles begin to come down. Right away, his fellow rogue council people join him. Jormungamon states, "I got a bad feeling about the circumstances that brought this upon us. What are we to do?"

Neo Spheremon tells him, "Listen to Attorneymon. He knows what he is doing."

Attorneymon bellows, "Listen up!! In order to continue running, we must find a secluded area to operate from. Volunteers shall go with Genghismon to patrol the area. The rest of you stick with me!!" He turns to Black Tailmon. "Can you still activate the Dark Planets?"

She rolls out Arachnemon, fast asleep in a tube. "They are 99.8% complete… Sure can!!" She lifts the tube up, and hooks up a computer to the side of it. She types away on a laptop, and suddenly, a pair of robotic arms descends from the top of the tube, one grabbing her hair, and the other, with a laser, saws off three hairs and ejects them out in individual balls. "It'll take about two hours for them to form, and another five to arrive. All you got to do is insert."

Attorneymon looks disappointed, but then draws back his arm. "LIVE, DARK TOWER PLANETS, LIVE!!" He throws the hairs into space, where they collide into the three worlds, and they begin to glow a violet color. "Now, to do what I must!!"

As night continued on to morning, military traffic picked up all over the world, armed with gas masks and self-contained oxygen sources, they keep trying to find survivors of the ash. All over both worlds, more quakes begin to rock, followed by thousands of aftershocks. People consult with the president. "This mega-tsunami heading our way is taller than any structure there is on the eastern line. If we were to use some cruise missiles at proper points, we could reduce casualties by diffusing some of the wave's kinetic energy." At the same time as they spoke, missiles fired from US bases still in operation and struck the wave heading for the eastern coast. Much of the eastern coastline of the US and western Liberia, as far in as 12 miles in, was totally demolished by the tsunami formed earlier. One of the few surviving areas was New York, and also intact was eastern coast of Florida, saving many lives that could have been lost. Over the sky, some remaining rocks shot into the atmosphere finish raining down.

In Lewis' house, everyone kept him or herself wrapped up and kept up in the higher stories. Keiko sits at a blackened window and says, "So this is how it's all going to end? After all of our battles, we'll fall prey to suffocation or bitter cold."

Sakiko, her white and red outfit and fedora covered lightly with ash, throws off some off her shirt cuff into the air as she slams down her fist. "This sucks!! Just when we were going to take a crack at ending this mess, that calderas-thingy had to go and erupt!!"

Jun, in her pajamas, says, "And just when I got my friend back…"

Takeru says, "Stop talking like that!! There still may be a chance we can heal the damage from what has happened. We've repaired the planet before…"

Lewis comes back with a tired Mimi. "It's just too much. We can't heal it, but I did, uh, find, yes, find these nifty filtered scuba tanks!!"

Mimi exhaustedly replies, "Liar."

Ni-Kokuwamon stares at Araiya. "Yay!! We're doomed. Can we resort to cannibalism now?"

Hikari shouts, "How mean!!" Araiya goes to speak when she suddenly stops, her teeth clenched and eyes wide open. Lewis walks over to Ni-Kokuwamon, who has sunk his teeth into Araiya's left leg, and pulls him loose. "Listen, little one, if anyone is going to kill and eat Araiya, it'll be me!! Otherwise, there will be no cannibalism!!" Ni-Kokuwamon whines, "But I wanted the drumstick…"

Araiya exclaims, "How about I kill you both!!"

Lewis adds, "No killing either, unless it's the aforementioned act of survival/ultimate victory."

Izzy says, "Is it just me, or has their vengeful antics taken a turn for the sadistic since we saw them last?"

Yamato says, "How about no one killing anyone? That works."

Lewis says, "Sure. Take her side…" Bonnie sits aside from the others and thinks, "Stupid stubborn chauvinistic men wasting our time with their debates. Action now, talk later!! Wait… Why does that phrase about men have me worried…?"

In another corner, Sirenamon sits up against the wall, with Lotusmon and Yuuji near her. Yuuji goes, "He's still weird…"

Sirenamon asks to Lotusmon, "Lotusmon, you know lately I've been having these visions? The doc says I should talk to you since you are in many of them. Tell me, what was your past like?" Lotusmon begins to recounts her life story to her, with each event Sirenamon's face lighting up in surprise. "…and then I woke up last year… Is there a reason?" Lotusmon thinks, "Please… Let it be you…"

Sirenamon says, "How coincidental… I wanted to know, just in case we don't get another chance to talk…" She looks up. "Say, tell me about your mother some more. I think I like her…" Lotusmon says, "Well, as you would know, I'm actually only half Lunarian. My mother, the Queen of the Moon, was from the Digital World. She was also the first digimon from the Digital World to come to the moon. Amazingly enough, she was known as…"

Taichi interrupts everyone. "Listen!! We can't just sit here and wait for death, while others perish in the soot, and while Attorneymon begins what he is going to do today!! I have a good feeling he did this to keep us off his tracks…"

Lewis interrupts, "No, he did not. This is Lily's handiwork." Taichi says, "You can't be…"

Lewis says, "I am. I'm sure now. I can feel it. He has pushed her over the edge of sanity. Now, before we lose it ourselves, we must act… for the future!!" He activates a portal and goes to the Digital World.

Bonnie sits there, thinking. "Over my life, I've done many things, mostly bad, but has been much good as well. I've seen so much, yet I still wish there was things I could go back and change, things that tear me up inside. I want to end everyone's pain now, but I know alone I cannot end everyone's suffering, suffering like the suffering in Lily's heart, or the pain Romi feels when he sees his mother pitiful shape…" Bonnie suddenly opens her eyes. In her mind, she can see Romi trying to hold on, and then of his stubborn father. "What about Romi…?" Everyone suddenly thinks of him. Ken goes, "She's right!! He isn't here? Iori!! I thought you got all of the children back here!! Dammit!!" Bonnie says, "I'll find him!! Come Meramon!!" Before anyone can stop her, she grabs one of the scuba tanks, runs downstairs, and out the door. Hikari asks, "Why?" Takeru says, "I'll follow her. You go with the others." He grabs two tanks, and Patamon and him follow after her. One by one, everyone dashes into the portal.

Miles away from where they landed, Genghismon and his company patrol the forest. One soldier whispers, "Man, this is so creepy. First, the station is totaled, now we're looking around in this forest, trying to keep something away from master…" Another says, "What could it be?"

Genghismon rides up on his black Unimon and shouts, "I will not tolerate you men talking like that. Victory is a way of life for the Dominion!!" Childish giggling fills the air. The soldier yells, "This is just too scary!! I'm out of here!!" Genghismon shoots him in the back with an arrow, killing the deserter.

A higher-ranking soldier suddenly stops. "Sir…"

Genghismon rides up to the front. "Huh? Where did the little kid come from?"

The soldier states, "Man, this is getting freaky!!"

Genghismon looks at her. "Go home, kid." Some digimon troops come to the front. The girl, who is in fact Lily, stands there, and then giggles. Genghismon responds sternly, "Are you deaf? What do you want?" Lily looks up at him, smiles, the blood still running down the left side of her face, and says with a meek childish voice, "Wanna play?" From the beak of the cane, a scythe blade grows out, very long and rigidly curved. Genghismon is puzzled, but then she vanishes. Men suddenly start falling dead all around him, falling to the ground in many pieces. Genghismon watches in horror, for to his eyes, he watches the little girl run about hacking up his platoon with a sadistic glee. He radios back to the others, "I'm already dead." He puts down the radio, the button stuck down, about to transmit everything to be said. Soon, there was nothing left but Genghismon and his Unimon, which bucks him off, screaming, "Screw this, I want to…" He runs straight into the spiked plate on Lily's arm, Lily standing just a few inches to the left, the spikes rending his neck from the right side, slicing his neck and spinal column in half, coming out the other side. The black Unimon gallops a few steps more, when his head rolls off to the left, his body falling down, cracking apart in black light. Lily didn't seem to notice him at all as it happened. Lily, screaming out with glee, says, "Let's play tag." Genghismon draws his crossbow. "You… monster!!"

"Marauder Crossbow!!"

The arrow soars forward, but suddenly breaks on an invisible barrier before Lily, the power diffused on impact, metal splinters raining down on the ground.

"Marauder Crossbow!!"

This arrow goes like the first, but is then caught in Lily's right hand, just plucking it from the air. She looks at it with fascination, then throws it back at him at 10,000 times the speed of sound, soaring a little left, blowing his right side away, scorching much of what remained. The wind alone generated razes a vast many trees, and more go into the air from the ultra-powerful sonic booms that followed. About a couple of hundred miles away, the arrow hit the ground, the impact shaking the earth and forming a 900-foot wide crater. "You're it." Genghismon, feeling his life drain from him, knowing his wound terminal, tries to step forward with sword in hand. He hobbles forward, barely able to move at all, and then takes one more, trying to swing his sword when he falls over onto her foot. Genghismon weakly begs, "Why?" Lily looks down at him, saying, "The world is not happy. Everyone is burdened by pain and chaos. Everyone hates everyone, and war saddens the earth. I must make the world happy again. I am here to bring… peace." He asks, "Who are you?" She then raises her foot up and smashes her foot through his back, the pressure splitting him in half, the two pieces sail off in opposite directions, skipping across the ground as they crack open and are obliterated. Lily looks around and answers, "I… don't know." She does a handstand and continues, "Names are silly. They tend to just be another form of pain, and I am here end all suffering…" She falls down on her back. "…But if you must know me by a name, I guess you could call me `The Red Lily: Nemesis…' They're sleeping so peacefully…" As quickly as she had appeared, she was gone again.

On Attorneymon's end, paranoia filled the air. Black Tailmon mentions, "What an interesting name, referring to herself as the Greek goddess of vengeance and order…" A Dinohiyumon in the crowd of soldiers begins to wig out. "How can you be so calm, man!! Didn't you just hear what they said? It's over, man!!"

Megalomamemon maniacally giggles, "We're all going to die!! We're all going to die…" over and over again.

Neo Spheremon says, "You need not worry about such a petty thing. Once this ceremony is complete, our force will have no equal!!"

Out in the ash-filled Tokyo, Bonnie wanders about in the darkness. She starts coughing more and more. "I know I'm heading in the right direction… If I can only breathe now…"

Meramon says, "Stop it, Bonnie. Are you sure that he could even be alive? This ash is thick *cough*…" Bonnie slowly moves over to a street sign and wipes it off to reveal the name. "It's not right to talk like that, Meramon. We go left here." A small aftershock hits the area. She starts moving onward.

In Romi's home, he sits in the dark, his mother coughing. Tomokazu draws back and smacks her. "Stop coughing, woman!! You'll use up our air!!" Aya says, "Listen, we need…" Tomokazu yells, "Shut up!! We're not leaving our stuff for looters to take!!" Romi stands up. "What are you doing!!" Romi quivers in fear, then sits back down. Aya thinks, "Maybe everyone was right…"

About ten minutes later in the Digital World, Lily walks into a medium sized town, the sign at the entrance saying, "Welcome to Redwood Colony." She watches neighbors fighting over where a dog crapped, and people beginning to panic as they hear the recent news. "Why is everyone so afraid?" She then sees a drunken homeless man on the curb. "Don't be scared. It'll be all over soon…" she says to him. The man puts down his bag and falls to his knees before her. "Are you the angel of death? Have you come for me?!"

Lily only says, "Don't worry… Soon, we will all find… Final Peace." She stabs the tip of the scythe blade into the ground. As though it were water, the asphalt and cement rippled. Moments later, red paper-thin sheets of light rose up around the scythe tip and grew taller and wider in all directions, expanding across, above, and below the city, until there were 16 curved walls stretched out over a 50 mile radius, going 25 miles above and below the city, standing like the side of a cylinder. From the head of the cane, white sparks and red wave raced out in a spherical path, stretching out to the limits made by the barriers. A few inhabitants just then begin to notice the attack. In a flash, the whole city, and everything within 50 miles in any direction from Lily was gone. No explosion, no shockwaves, just vanished. Everything was gone, even the air and the clouds in the sky. Her clothes fluttered inside the vacuum formed from the attack as she hovers in the epicenter. Slowly, she floats onward, saying as she leaves, "Sleep now."

On Rhein Island, between France and Germany, the Valkyries crawl out of old ruins. Warlilymon asks, "Wh… What happened? Why is the sky red?"

Metal Lilymon looks up, her visor descending down over her eyes. "The atmosphere has been changed somehow. There are unimaginable levels sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, and ash in the stratosphere, things common to a major volcanic eruption."

Lance crawls out and comments, "That must have been that black wave of clouds that swept over the land just a few hours ago, but what eruption could have such power, and at such a bad time?"

Raijin Lilymon recounts, "I don't it would have mattered if it came or not. That base, if you could it that, was so poorly guarded that it almost seemed a waste of our power…"

~*Flashback*~

Safiirumon and company is in the nearby forest. He hovers up into the higher limbs and looks at the base. "This is peculiar… Where's his defense? Unless he's hiding it, he has gotten either so conceited that he thinks he doesn't need it, or he just plain forgot it."

Tomoemon says, "Maybe he is so confident in the power of his troops that maybe he believes he doesn't need the standard defensive batteries."

Safiirumon continues, "That could be so, but the base is awfully close to the digital portal. The remainder of the base could be on the other side."

Lance says, "I doubt that. He would have encompassed the gate if he did. More likely, he put the base there to prevent reconnaissance on it. Satellites and military digital cameras still have a hard time properly recording images in areas within 500 feet of a gate, and old celluloid cameras can't work because the light from the gate ruins the film." He flies up to Safiirumon and touches the side of his helmet, activating a zoom feature. "This is what he probably did, because I don't really all that much of an opposition. There are some big baddies, but nothing we can't handle."

Sigmamon adds, "I don't like this. I have this strange feeling that Laomon and the others were right."

Safiirumon says, "I know how this seems, but we must remove his treacherous minions first if we are to succeed in getting the prize."

Lance says, "I guess all that's left is to attack. I doubt a plan would be all that useful seeing as how this is our means of an ambush, and they're fighting with their backs to the gate."

Warlilymon exclaims, "Hit them hard, hit them fast!!"

Safiirumon contemplates the matter, then says, "Let's do it then." They storm the base from ground and air. Simple machine gun defenses on the roofs are hit first, and then they began to attack the buildings, as the Dominion troops garrisoned them and shot rounds and attacks from the windows and roof.

"Shadow Cannon!!"

Two buildings collapse from Tomoemon's attack. Tomoemon states, "If this is all we got to look forward to, we'll crush his army by lunchtime tomorrow!!"

"Nimbus Rain!!"

"Double Shogun Cannons!!"

The rapid fire of the two attacks makes quick work of the western side of the base. Warlilymon says, "You wish…"

Sigmamon says, "This is far too easy. Attorneymon is far more cunning than this."

"Autumn Fan!!"

Metal Lilymon's wings saw clean through one building, causing the roof to start sliding down and to the left.

"Raging Eye!!"

The cyclone throws the roof up and smashes it into the neighboring barracks. Lance looks down. "Well… What the?" He zooms in on the dismembered digimon. "This can't be!! They're all Dark Tower digimon!!"

Safiirumon shouts, "The others were right the whole time!! This has all been one big decoy!!!" Over the western horizon, the wave of ash rushed after them. Raijin Lilymon asks, "What the hell is that?"

Neko Lilymon exclaims, "I don't know, but I think we should take cover from it!!"

~*Flashback Ends*~

"…Now we're stuck here, not even sure if anything is still alive." Tomoemon says, "What now?"

Neko Lilymon looks at Safiirumon. "We can siphon most of the harmful stuff out of our systems, so we should be okay, and Lance has a self-contained oxygen system in his suit which will filter out the ash, but I don't think Safiirumon can make it unless we find some ash-free air for him to breathe."

Warlilymon says, "All we do now is hope to survive." Safiirumon sits up, covered in soot. He coughs and gags heavily, spitting up black phlegm as he does. Wheezing, he says, "We can still fight. Knowing those kids, they probably planned ahead and are on their way now to stop him. I guess I should have listened to him… *Hack, hack, cough* Man, this air is thick…"

Neko Lilymon says, "Don't speak. You need to save all the good air you can."

Safiirumon says, "Can we at least go to the Digital World? Maybe the air quality is better there. At the least it'll get us out of the friggin' cold!!"

Neko Lilymon says, "Okay. We'll go if it will get you to be quiet and save your strength." Everyone nods. She picks him up and leads the group through the high winds and dusty earth to the portal. On the other side, they look around in surprise. Raijin Lilymon says, "Well, things aren't so… bad?" They see a red sky and the station orbiting overhead in ruins, some parts still blowing up. Tomoemon jumps back when she turns eastward to see a massive hole less than a mile ahead. Sigmamon says, "This wasn't the work of the Digidestined, nor that of Attorneymon, but of something far worse."

Safiirumon wheezes, "This must be what they were trying to tell us… I want you to go find them…"

Neko Lilymon says, "I'll stay with him. The rest of you go. Somebody has to make sure he will be okay. Can't have you worrying during the big fight…" Everyone quietly leaves. Neko Lilymon says, "You have to make it… We need a leader."

In the white dimension, one of the larger forces says, "My fellow kami, calm down!! As things seem now, our plan may have backfired."

One in the back shouts, "That's an understatement!! The girl has gone psycho!! If this keeps up, there won't be a planet left to test out the Sixth Epoch!!"

Another shouts, "Hey, there are billions of other little planets in this universe we can tinker with!! Why do we necessarily need this one?"

Yet another shouts, "It the control element, you moron, or did you forget?"

The main kami states, "He's right. This is a world with which we can experiment on because it is located far from our other test worlds and worlds we are yet to control. With each epoch, we use this world to learn how to command the very forces of evolution itself, making life as we see fit. What we learn with these `test and experiment' worlds, we can use to make all living beings worship us, and to prevent another `Lunarian Incident,' so one day we will be masters of the universe!! Besides, do you know how long it will take to replace Deji-Chi and work from scratch?!"

One in the back yells, "Well, what about the plan then?"

The main kami states, "Well, for this, I think a little kami intervention may be in store to help Attorneymon. To see if we will still destroy him, if he can handle this and resurrect Obliviomon, then he shall earn the right to keep his life, but if he fails to handle the girl and those who resist, then we will leave him to die."

Yet another asks, "Then, why are we telling him to bring Obliviomon back? He's just as big a nut!!"

The main kami says, "Because he is the only digimon who will truly obey our beck and call within the confines of that whole galaxy, and endowed with powers and knowledge we gave his spirit, he is the only one that can restore to us the physical forms we lost so long ago."

Another says, "I still say we can start the Sixth Epoch elsewhere, but nobody listens to me…" The one next to him says, "Dude, I'm the One Next to Him. Nobody is in front of you."

Nobody says, "I listen to you…"

The Main Kami says, "It's settled. End of story." Chatter goes on around Another. "Him, The One Next to Him, Another, Nobody, That Other Kami, Kevin Bacon, and All of You, please shut up!! I'm not finished… Wait, yes I am. I'll call you back just in case. Meeting adjourned!!"

In the middle of the now infamous almost never-ending forest, Taichi and company walk aimlessly through the woods. One thing that seems different is that the outfits of Sakiko, Masato, or Jun did not change as they once did when they came to the Digital World. Sakiko says, "Is it just me, or do you think by now we would developed a means of opening a gate NEAR the enemy ahead of having to walk half our life away?"

Lotusmon, Koushiro, Ken, Yolei, and Laomon all say simultaneously, "I'm working on it!! Wait, you're working on it? You can't be working on it, because I'm working on it!!"

Sakiko lowers her head and sweatdrops. "I'm sorry I asked…" They walk out to a clearing. Laomon looks up and says, "It looks like someone beat us to it." In the red sky, everyone could the mammoth station exploding in areas. Ni-Kokuwamon stares and shouts, "Yay!! Fireworks!!"

Tai goes, "Now what?"

Lewis says, "He's still alive, but not there. I'm going up there to see if I can find something…"

Laomon says, "You'll need someone who can find their way around the place, so I'm going too, but we still need some extra help…"

Lewis looks at Izzy (03). "You look like you need some adventure."

Izzy (03) says, "Um… Uh… Eee… Uh… No." With that, Lewis, Laomon, Izzy, and his Tentomon vanish. Veemon says, "Alright!! Who's up for some more aimless wandering?" Tailmon walks up to him, moves her armored index finger in front of his face, and then jabs it between his eyes. "You're a moron, Veemon. You do realize this, don't you?"

Taichi goes, "Quiet, everyone!! I see someone up ahead, and a little to my left." He uses his old monocle to spot them. "Wait, it's four of them… four digimon… four digimon I have never seen before, and they look like they've been through hell."

Sirenamon stares at them, and looks real hard at two of them. "My instincts tell me they aren't Dominion. Let's go find out who or what roughed them up!!" She leaps ahead, coming towards them. Over there, the injured and hapless group of Chibi Seishinmon, Ambient Feralmon, Dukemon, and Chaos Dukemon stand and look as they hear them. Chaos Dukemon throws down his lance in anger. "Oh, what now?! I'm getting just a little tired of these damn strangers coming out of nowhere and attacking us. Kill me and get it over with, okay!!"

Sirenamon catches up to them and says, "What happened to you guys? You look like you just survived a blitzkrieg." Chibi Seishinmon stares deeply at her. Sirenamon seems a little puzzled at their glowing, then says, "Call it a hunch, but you're Lunarians, aren't you?"

Chibi Seishinmon blinks her eyes and thinks, "No, it can't be…"

Sirenamon says, "You want to come with me? Maybe we can get wounds patched up."

Chaos Dukemon turns around, bends over, and shouts, "What are you waiting for? Give me a jolly nice kick in the ass!! Give it to me right here, right now!! Everyone for the last three days has wanted to!! Come on, be on with…" Chibi Seishinmon's eyes open wide, and then she thwacks him over the head. "What the?"

Chibi Seishinmon knocks him to his knees and yells in his ears, "Do you know who this is?! Show her some respect!!" Dukemon drops to his knees as well. He starts to shove Ambient Feralmon down as well, grunting, "Down doggy, if you know what's good for you!!" The others come up from behind her. As soon as Dukemon and Chibi Seishinmon see Lotusmon, they backhand the resisting friends, stunning them, following by hurried bowing. "Please forgive them, mighty Sirenamon!! Ambient Feralmon has never seen you before, and Chaos Dukemon is just touched in the head."

Sirenamon, weirded out by this, says, "Uh, you can… stop now."

Lotusmon looks over at the scene and thinks, "Is it? Is it what I have so long believed?"

Yuuji asks, "What's going on, Sirenamon?"

Taichi says, "I'd love to know that too."

Chibi Seishinmon says, "Well…"

Over the course of an hour, she recalls the last three days and the things that Lily did as Masato, Karen, Ivy, and Yolei patch them up. Very soon, she neared the end. "…For those few hours, she acted as though she had put aside all her worries, but then that ship in the sky maliciously bombarded us without cause. I think it said `Vindicator 1' on the side. After that, almost everyone in the village was gone. I saw her sitting in the middle of the chaos, holding the dead Ni-Kokuwamon, rocking back and forth, her eyes jittery. She just couldn't take it, and then she said something. It was hard to hear, but it sounded like she said, `I… I can never know happiness. This world can never know happiness… Nothing else will change it. This is destiny… This is the world… I must make the world… happy.' When she said it, she looked so evil and mad, with her disturbed smile. After that, there was an explosion from within her. The blast I figure spread some 200 miles in every direction. When it ended, and we dug ourselves out of the debris, she was still there, but looked horribly different. She fired out a shot and almost completely destroyed that ship. She must have saw that ring in the sky after that shot, because then she became fixated on it. Without moving, she did all the damage you see to that ring in the sky, her shots sometimes going clean through the planet. Her laughter was… so creepy… After that, we decided to flee…"

Lilymon suddenly faints. Knightmon slowly tries to sneak off when Tailmon grabs him. He goes, "Uh, I think I got cookies baking in the oven, and I left them on."

Tailmon says, "You're going to stay here and help us, just like everyone else."

Knightmon stops resisting, "Oh, son of a freakin' bitch, I'll stay and fight your suck-ass Armageddon with you, you bunch of wussies, but I want some f****** hazard pay for this!!"

Araiya mumbles, "Still the same tin-can ass." She then says aloud, "Well, we're off to wage war on Attorneymon, thwart his mistaken belief that he can `revive' Obliviomon, and stop Lily. Wanna come?"

Chibi Seishinmon says, "I don't know. Our town leader Jijimon made it sound impossible…"

Sirenamon says, "No it isn't." The eyes of the four light up. "Okay!!"

Taichi says, "New plan…"

Up in the station, Lewis, Laomon, Izzy, and Tentomon float around in a sea of papers and debris in a section, the IT room that Tamiko visited earlier, that still has power and air. Tentomon (03) hits a wall, ricochets off, and says, "I can't stand zero gravity!! It's so hard to control where I go…!!" He hits another wall. Lewis hovers in front of a computer and answers, "Stop trying so hard. Just calm down and you'll get the hang of it." He scrolls through the network databases and files. He then sees a file dated 3/19/2046 labeled `Progress Report.' He tries to open it, but it is encrypted. "Stupid…" He hacks away at the keys, failing time and again. Izzy says, "Look here!! I just found a whole room full of people, all still alive, but unconscious." Lewis floats over to him. "There must be at least 8 Dominion soldiers and officers in there, and from the looks of things, someone came on board and had some fun up here before Lily nuked this placed to crap." Lewis forces the door open and floats in. He sees a man floating about in just his boxers. "Wonder what his story is?" He goes to him and begins to smack him hard over and over again. The man mumbles, "Okay, okay, I'm up… Security a… lert? What's going on here?!"

Lewis says, "Well, about 70% of this station is toast, and another 8% is worthy of the title `condemned,' and there's no escape pods. We just happened to pop by to see about getting us some info on your boss. Now, you can help us…"

The almost naked officer shouts, "No way, man!!"

Lewis says, "Okay. Suit yourself. I guess you want to stay here too, but with only a fraction of the station left and no means of escape, it's going to start getting very dark, and cold, and the air is going to give out, and if the solar radiation, freezing cold, or total asphyxiation doesn't you, you still got death by cannibalism, dehydration, dementia, explosions, orbital decay, asteroids, space junk, depressurization, and just plain pestilence when you realize that you seem to be lacking any working toilets. Did I miss anything?"

He says, "Maybe the boss won't notice if we take a peek…" Lewis grabs his waistband, giving the officer a wedgie, and takes him in tow. "Good. You made the right choice. Now, if you would come with me…" They go back to the IT room. Lewis asks, "Just what rank are you? It'd suck if I got a lowly grunt, because I'd then have to throw them out the airlock for wasting my time."

The officer screams, "I'm a colonel, honest!! Okay, lieutenant colonel!!"

Lewis says, "Well then, I'd say we got ourselves a ticket to about half the files. Now, do a good job and I might give you a doggy treat!!" He types away, and about half of the files become unlocked. Tentomon (03) says, "If a lieutenant colonel can unlock that much, just think what a general would fetch us!!" Lewis then opens the `Progress Report' folder to find a list labeled `Top 10 Projects of Science Department.' "Let's see…"

10. Railgun Rifle: 100% Complete, In production

9. Perpetual Engine of Atlantis: 100% Complete

8. Pressure Bubble Upgrade: 100% Complete

7. Unknown Generator: 5% Complete

6. Unknown Artifacts: To Be Sorted…

5. Dark Paladins Enhanced Training: Complete, Stats Compiled Indicate Power of Test Subjects to be an Average of 100,000-fold average Terra power

4. Dark Tower Planet Three: 99.2% Complete, Complete By 3/20/2046

3. Dark Tower Planet Two: 98.8% Complete, Complete By 3/21/2046

2. Dark Tower Planet One: 99.8% Complete, Complete By 3/20/2046

1. Power Nexus, Made from Lunarian Tree: Prototype 80% Complete

Lewis says, "Must be one of those science reports… Wait a sec… Does that say have an almost functional nexus, made from Lunarian trees?" He looks over the page and finds nothing else. "Something like this would surely have more data…" Lewis smacks the colonel over the head, knocking him back out. "Whomever wrote this was smart enough not to keep their data in an open place."

Izzy says, "Hey Lewis, I got access to some private logs and security footage from yesterday and the day before. Check it out!!" They watched footage of them talking about the Lunarian tree, then some more of Tamiko and Feral Rosemon busting out Vulcan Lilymon. Izzy says, "I don't know half of them… and I don't understand the other half."

Lewis says, "Hmmm……" He sees a file much larger than most. "Let's look at this." Izzy opens it, revealing that it contains private logs written by Black Tailmon. Lewis goes, "This Black Tailmon must gab a lot, or she's hiding something."

Izzy says, "Only one way to find out." He opens one up from around the first of March. Lewis squeals, "Oooh, an mpeg file!!"

On it, Black Tailmon says, "It seems our three new subjects, the Dark Paladins as they have come to be known, have now completely adapted to their new forms, and from my evaluations, it would seem best to have Sakuramon as the leader of this group, seeing as she is the most intelligent of the three and possesses many attributes beyond her fellow subjects. She possesses the greatest land speed, dexterity, defensive power, and regenerative powers, as well being the linchpin of the Delta Matrix combination attack. Sequoiamon though, on the other hand, is the one I personally like. She may be an airhead of sorts, but these tests show, as hard as it is to believe, that her latent unfocused power laying dormant is in fact greater than that of Attorneymon himself!! I know not how, but if she were to be able to control this power, she would a powerful asset. Oh, poor Evamon, if you can only see me now, and see me faring far better than you in the science of increasing power." The file ends. Lewis says, "Let's look at the ones near today." Izzy opens one up from the 16th. "Well, I haven't been getting much sleep this month. Man, these deadlines are wearing me out. Whoever said being the boss is easy can kiss my tail!! Ever since I got this job from that weirdo Evamon, he's had countless tasks for me. I've got to manage all these teams, and each one is doing something different, and he wants them all done by the 20th!! I need a miracle, or at the very least, group supervisors to delegate my commands to. I can get the teams working on the planets done, but that nexus will take a miracle, not to mention I've got to give up some of my best people to work on the Atlantean technology and texts, and still produce standard technologies for the use of the armies!! What I want to do is work on those Lunarian cells. Ever since the advent of Sakuramon, I've wanted to know what the deal is with the crystalline and metallic cells. All I can tell is that they are far more complex than cell data from a normal digimon, and that alone seems to support Evamon's insane theories on Darwinian Digimon Evolution and Digimon Super Mode, but that's impossible!! Oh well, I guess I'll see if I can sleep. After the 20th, I'm taking a vacation…"

Izzy says, "Say what? Darwinian Digimon Evolution? Digimon Super Mode? What the hell is going on?"

Lewis says, "I think I figured out the evolution a while back. Like humans and other beings of our realm, digimon and its life forms also evolved over many millennia, becoming new and more complex types of digimon, but it would seem some force is trying to prevent this otherwise natural force. That's why I smashed all off our armor digivolution eggs. Seems they were part of the problem. This `Super Mode' has got me bewildered though."

Laomon comes in and responds, "So the old kook was right all along."

Tentomon (03) holds his chest. "Don't scare us like that!!"

Izzy says, "I seem to be getting further out of the loop with each word spoken."

Tentomon (03) says, "How do you think I feel?"

Izzy continues, "Care to explain, someone?" He stares straight at Laomon. "Would you stop staring? It's not nice, and I mean that in a creepy way." She goes to the computer and looks at the files. As she does this, she pulls out a spiky object from under her robes, made of glowing silver metal with transparent white crystalline leaves engulfing the end of each point, coiled around a mass of energy, and wrapped in one area by a tattered crimson sash. Izzy takes it and examines it. "This is amazing!! The core of this has nearly five hundred times the power of one of your nexuses, is completely stable, has a self-perpetuating electromagnetic field, and this metal seems to be carrying that power amplified twenty-five-fold, and not the least bit stressed!!"

Lewis says, "This must be the bark of the healthy Lunarian tree then. With what you are saying, an average digimon could become an Omega that has over 625 times the power of Avalonmon and be resistant to virtually any energy attack. We would possess no power to stop them!! The Omega Triad would be nothing for them. Maybe we should keep it."

Laomon interrupts, "Here it is!! This is Evamon's old thesis on the nature of digimon. It got him laughed out of the scientific community, but then we knew what happened next. Here's what it says."

"It would seem that we in the scientific community have passed on a very important field of research, digital anthropology. I have delved into our past, our present, and through my experiments, the near future cell coding that makes up life digital, and is the purpose of this thesis.

As we all know, digimon cells are in fact highly bound data and energy wrapped in proteins, data and energy that allow such things as digivolution and reformatting, but how did this come to be? As we have learned, the shadow realm known as the Digital World has existed before the internet, known to have been around since at least earth year 1838, and some believe that is far too late in history, as do I. In my research, my original goal was to find how these cells maintained their vast power, but as my research went on, I noticed that the cells of certain races had more complex data. I analyzed this digital DNA, hoping to find out how this happened, when it soon became apparent that had to pre-date 1838 AD Earth time. I did a check of cells for the particles much like human mitochondria in them, and the evidence, after being reviewed more than ten times, states that some races, one in particular the Tailmon group, dated back far into the past, some all the way back to 2,000,000,000 BCE. After doubting my findings, I decided to try an archeological dig, something no one has ever thought of. For many years I failed to find much of anything, but I finally hit pay dirt. Although nothing in the form of fossils showed up, I did come across old text written on an unknown glowing metal. After translating much of it, it appeared to be in fact some form of scientific report written in a dialect I've only seen in Lunarian ruins. It spoke of a race called `Felis Dominomon,' an ancient tailless feline type digimon with small primal brains that lived entirely on all fours. Not long after it came to be, it says they began to starve because their prey was much smarter, had advanced powers, and had advantages such as bipedal movement and flight. It stated that over time, they began to shrink down in size and possessed stubby tails. After this, dated millennia later, it talked about another feline race, this one could stand hunched over on two legs for periods of time, were smaller and faster, and possessed foot-long tails, which the writing called `Feral Fangmon,' which was `begotten' from eons of Felis Dominomon. They were better able to fight for food, but then a great evil rose up, devouring all it saw. In devastating combat, it said these digimon became so focused on stopping this evil and protecting their lives that from within, their power multiplied exponentially, creating a hyper state inside the body, exciting their proteins, and caused them to unleash `The Shining Super Mode.' A great chaos occurred, but afterwards the evil was gone, as was a chunk of the world, and then it states that the Feral Fangmon fell asleep, and when they awoke, they were what we now know as `Tailmon.' After this, an earthquake occurred, destroying the text.

Skeptic, I decided to go back and see if it was possible. After a year of tests, I was able to recreate the effects the texts claimed occurred in one cell. Its power was thousands of times greater than if it were to digivolve, and it could sustain this power for a long time. In this period, it was temporarily `evolved beyond its time.' Cell complexity tripled in the first few seconds alone!! Data existed in ways even I could not comprehend!! I wanted to see what would happen if it were digivolve in this state, but it was too much for it. I have not been as successful yet, but I think I can recreate it, and with a full-fledged digimon. Since it first worked with Tailmon data, I believe the next stage in their evolution could handle the stress. Until then, I lack any physical data…"

Lewis says, "Ooh, if it worked, that would be the ultimate trump card!!"

Tentomon (03) goes, "I still don't get it!!"

Izzy says, "Basically, `Super Mode' from what I can tell is when a digimon of this universe is pushed far enough, their focus, their energy, their hopes, their desire to live becomes so great they transcend digivolution, the act of immediate evolution using existing genes and powers, and become a more advanced version of that form, like Imperialdramon becoming Fighter Mode, but far more powerful."

Laomon says, "But for how long?"

Lewis says, "It's like the Omega Power attacks we used to use a long time ago. For a brief instant in those attacks, it always seemed the digimon became formless, and then unleashed an über version of their normal attack. Maybe, just maybe, that was Super Mode, but we couldn't handle it, or just weren't ready for it, so we couldn't maintain it… We got to tell the others about this!!"

Back on the surface, Tamiko and company looks to the sky. Tamiko says, carrying the unconscious Vulcan Lilymon, "What now? I guess we saved her just in time. Now it seems like the end."

Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon says, "I doubt that. We aren't dead."

Tamiko says, "I feel Attorneymon has done something irreparable, and we lack the power to fight him. I just want to find a safe place and protect Vulcan Lilymon." Stefan begins to walk away. Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon asks, "Where are you going?"

Stefan replies, "I'm going to do my duty and set things straight. Why do you think I'm here?"

Tamiko goes, "And what if you fail?"

Stefan says, "I can't. If I do, no one and no place will be safe from living hell."

Stefan continues off. Feral Rosemon faces Tamiko and simply looks at him. She puts her finger on Tamiko's nose, then on Vulcan Lilymon's head, then makes a slow series of gestures to him. ["If you care about her whatsoever, go and give her a future!!"] Tamiko answers, "I think I finally understand you, I hope..." He begins to follow Stefan, carrying Vulcan Lilymon in his arms. Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon suddenly stops and sees them heading with Stefan. "Hey!! Get back here!! Humans are freakin' fickle."

They continue to trek onward for about five minutes when they hear the sound of collective buzzing. Tamiko says, "What the hell is that sound?" Stefan looks up to see the Valkyries fly by. Stefan says, "Quickly!! We must follow them!!" They start to jog after them. Up in the sky, Sigmamon says, "What's that power we just flew by? His mind, his power, his spirit, is all the unity of polar opposites."

Metal Lilymon looks back. "I would say we don't have time to waste with something like that, but it seems his little party has Vulcan Lilymon!!" They fly down at Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon, swarming him. Tamiko says, "Stop it!! We don't have time for this!!" Metal Lilymon suddenly stops, and the others run into her. She responds, "You're that guy Vulcan Lilymon brought back with her. What are you doing with her?"

Tamiko says, "For your information, after we got ambushed by Siva Lilymon and her Dark Paladins, we spent the last 48-some hours trying to rescue her, and due to the Dominion's arrogance, dumb luck, and the help of Stefan, who is actually from the future, and Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon, we got her back!!"

Warlilymon questions, "And who is the digimon in the white armor and black capes?"

Tamiko says, "That would be Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon, Twin Mode. Think of him as Yuumei Omnimon, but on our side."

Stefan says, "Before you came down here, we were trying to find Attorneymon and destroy him once and for all. We had no clue about where he would have went after that mystery power leveled everything, so we followed you, figuring you could lead us to him."

Feral Rosemon signals, ["It's the truth!! If we don't destroy him, no place is safe, and I just can't stand for that. Why did my lab have to blow up…"]

Metal Lilymon inquires, "What the hell did she just do? Can anyone tell me?"

Tomoemon spitefully spews, "Hell no."

Tamiko says, "She's trying to communicate. She has all but lost her ability to speak, and this is how she talks. Vulcan Lilymon understands it like that."

Metal Lilymon responds, "Well, then tell her to stop because her accent is too weird."

Feral Rosemon slumps over and goes, ["I give up."]

Stefan says, "Now, enough of this!! Attorneymon isn't going to just drop dead from a stroke or something. An outside force shall assault his body, and we are that outside force!!" The Valkyries take back to the air as Tamiko and company follow.

Back in Tokyo, Bonnie finally comes upon the building where Romi lived. Bonnie turns to Meramon. "We're *hack, cough* here. I'm going to need an *cough* iron lung after this." She falls down to her knees wheezing, then stands again. Bonnie says, "The air must have gotten thicker."

Meramon demands, "Please get inside. You'll choke to death in this soot!!"

Bonnie goes, "Not yet… I got to help Romi." She goes into a coughing fit, then says, "Knowing his dad, he'll let him sit there and die in his greedy desire to fend off looters than seek safety." She looks up and shouts, "Hey, Romeo!! You're needed!!" Inside, Romi gets up, when Tomokazu says, "You're not going anywhere. You can use that digimon to guard our stuff, so sit down before I beat the crap out of you!!"

Aya shouts, "Dammit, Tomokazu!! Let him go!! He was charged with a duty, a duty to the two worlds!!"

Tomokazu backhands her hard and says, "This is none of your damn business!! I'm his father, I said no, I am superior, and that's all that matters!!"

Aya mutters, her lips swollen, "You will damn us all just for your worthless crap!!"

Tomokazu thinks, "I've had enough of this." He pulls out a switchblade and puts it to Aya's throat. "Listen boy!! If you are a man, you will go down there and get rid of that nuisance, or I'm going to cut your mother, you hear me?!"

Romi tears up, then shouts, "Urchinmon, come with me!!" He runs down a flight of stairs and outside. Romi shouts, "Go away!!"

Bonnie says, "I come all this way, and this is what I get? You are so coming with me!!"

Romi wails, "You don't get it!!" His crest glows wildly, and an explosion of blue light comes from his body.

"Urchinmon Warp Digivolve…"

Scenes from Gabumon's Warp Digivolution flash by. After the 3rd flash, a freeze frame of Metalgarurumon drifts off in the distance, going to black. Romi's digivice floats into the scene. An explosion just like the one that came from Romi lets loose from the digivice, striking Urchinmon. He begins to glow white. The view swivels to viewpoint behind the digivice. It zooms at Urchinmon, the view spinning around showing a light hitting him. A blast of light, and there was Krakenmon. Another blast, and behold Leviathamon. The beam begins to end and he rears back, all white. When the last of the beam hits him, yet another explosion comes from inside which leads to an all white background. As the shockwave passes, he changes again. His head takes on the look of a Chinese dragon. His arms and legs double in size, and a second set of arms grow below the first. In his upper right arm, he carries an ancient coin with Japanese writing on either side. On his head, three horns burst out the back of his skull. Slowly, from snout downward, his scales solidify, made of pure pearl. His left eye becomes red, and his right eye blue. Slightly above and between his eyes, an eye-shaped emerald rests on his forehead. In all, he appeared to be about thirty feet long, but coiled up tightly. The hair on the back of his head and all down his spine seems to be made of an unknown silver metal. The view around him changes to him over a glowing sea with heavy winds around him, and thick clouds that have a few breaks. Slowly they clear to reveal the Digital World and the sun in the black sky above him. The seas still cast major below, and one finally washes over him from behind.

"…Ogopogomon!!"

Bonnie wonders, "Since when could he Warp Digivolve, and why did he do it now?" She looks him up. "Ogopogomon, an Ancient Lunarian Bahamut digimon, is a master of the water, wind, fire, and lunar elements. His attacks are Mega-Tsunami, Compression Heat, Fortune Rain, Dense Wind, and an attack simply known as `White.'"

Romi yells, "Leave us… NOW!!" Ogopogomon flies forward and inhales.

"Compression Heat!!"

He spits out five tiny fireballs in front of Meramon and Bonnie. They make a quarter rotation, then began to move together. The cracked pavement began to rise up, and glass and other debris starts becoming drawn to the five flames. Soon, the air itself began to turn red as the gravity skyrocketed, and barometric pressure was over 3260 inches per square inch (About 110 times higher than normal). The soot itself in the air ignited, torching the whole area. Bonnie and Meramon are trying to run, but the pull is negating their effort. Bonnie says, "Let's knock some sense back into them!!"

"Meramon Warp Digivolve!! Boltmon!!"

Boltmon grabs Bonnie and puts her in front of him. Just then, the pressure reaches its limit and releases in the form of a massive wall of fire. The superheated debris jabs into Boltmon's back, including a sewer grate that brands him. He staggers around and takes to the sky, landing on Ogopogomon's back.

"Tomahawk Knuckle!!"

His fist hits the scaly hide, but it just fizzles against the pearl. Ogopogomon bucks him right off and moves back.

"Dense Wind!!"

The weight of the air begins to get heavy. Bonnie and Boltmon are forced to lie down from the weight. Covering them was a major mass of soot. With a wave of his upper left arm, a blast of solar wind from the stratosphere shot down in a lamppost-thin pillar. It comes down right on top of Boltmon, crushing him into the earth, generating 150 mile per hour winds in a major reaction to the compacted air, and left a 60-foot deep crater where it hit the earth. Tomokazu and Aya were blown back into the back wall. Wind and soot went flying through the city, out, and then up in a sort of reverse mushroom cloud, the soot thrown around Tokyo thrown into space. Takeru and Patamon, not far away, get blown back into car. It was sunny behind the ash, and the blue skies were a surprise. Tomokazu gets up, goes back to the now-shattered window and yells, "Watch it!! You almost destroyed my stuff, you dirty brat!! Hurry it up!!"

Bonnie, gasping for air, and finally getting some, rolls over and says, "What is your damn problem?"

Tomokazu shouts at her, "You are, you bitch!!"

Bonnie says, "Let's stop playing around then."

"Boltmon Warp Digivolve!! Vulcanmon!!

Vulcanmon immediately leaps up and crowns Ogopogomon over the head with his sledgehammer. Dazed, he falls to the ground. Ogopogomon quickly prepares for his offensive.

"Compression Heat!!"

As soon as they start to surround Vulcanmon, Vulcanmon counters.

"The Metal Craft!!"

Under the increased mass of the hammer, the attack is smashed to pieces, but then, as the fire blows away, Ogopogomon coils around him. The emerald and his two eyes pulse twice, then glow white.

"White!!"

From holy ground all around Tokyo, white orbs rose into the sky and made a cloud of holiness, which descended over the Kabukicho neighborhood. From the cloud a resplendent white luminosity enveloped Vulcanmon. Not a second after this, white explosions begin to go off all over Vulcanmon, bombarding him. He screams out as the holy energy eats him up. Ogopogomon then picks him up and throws him to the side. "Now, to determine your fate!!"

"Fortune Rain!!"

He takes the mammoth coin and flips it in the air. It hits the broken pavement, flips, and lands in the crater made earlier, the side up having `fu`un' (Doom) written on it. From the skies, flaming white fireballs pound on Vulcanmon's back, screaming with each hit. After it stops, he slowly gets back up. "How can you be so strong?"

Romi answers Vulcanmon, "Because we have to."

Vulcanmon retorts, "I think it's only because he had expert training from Raijinmon when he was young."

"Welding Sight!!"

He sets out and melts down the coin. "Now for you!!"

"Dragon Fire Chi Force!!"

The flaming cyclone sends Ogopogomon skipping across the pavement and into an evacuated building. Romi looks at Ogopogomon. "Come on!! Get up!! We must get rid of her or dad is going to slice my mom!! I must do it for my mom!!" Again, his crest glows. Bonnie can only mutter, "Oh s***."

"Ogopogomon Warp Digivolve!! Bahamutmon!!"

Bahamutmon shouts out loud, shaking the ground itself, "Go now, or I shall be forced to destroy you!!"

Bonnie calls out, "I came for a reason, and I'm not leaving until I… save you……"

"THE SHARD OF TRUTH!!"

"Vulcanmon Terravolve to Apollomon, The Real Sun God!!"

Apollomon rose up into the sky, carrying the digivice of Bonnie. He twirls it around, extends it to full length and points to the sun with it. Bahamutmon drew his head back, red light shining out from under his scales, and opens his mouth wide, the blinding white glow shining from his mouth.

"Solar Storm!!"

"Red Giant!!"

The furious flares and lightning of Apollomon and the ever-expanding macro-star of Bahamutmon meet one another high above the city. Apollomon fights back against the starlet, but seems to be losing this fight. Bahamutmon smirks, then virtually vanishes. To the discreet eye though, he runs ahead and then gets behind Apollomon. Apollomon is surprised, but behind him appears Bahamutmon flying in place. Unstable ionized atoms are compelled into his palms, one hand on either side of him. Apollomon looks back just in time to hear the two words he really didn't want to hear at the time, ripping the sky apart.

"Mega-Nuke!!"

He balls his hands into fists and smashes the two fists together. A small implosion pops up, followed by the main event, a green light brighter than the sun cleaves across the sky. Immediately, Apollomon is swallowed up and crushed against the red giant he was trying to block, which then was detonated on contact, with poor Apollomon in the middle. The sheer power of the Mega-Nuke was toppling buildings a mile below them. As it continued to expand, Bahamutmon continued his attack.

"Cataclysmic Fission Blast!!"

From between his wings, a massive radioactive EM blast went through the Mega-Nuke unscathed and struck Apollomon, exciting his molecules, causing his flesh to hemorrhage or blister in many places. As soon as that ended, Bahamutmon dove in and went into a frenzy of punches and kicks, moving ever further away from their original battlegrounds. From about a mile away, Takeru and Patamon see what is happening. Takeru says, "This has gone on for far too long!! Let's go!! Digivolve!!" Unlike most evolutions, for some reason electricity surges around him as he begins.

"Patamon, digivolve!! Angemon!!"

Most unlike normal, Angemon lacks a helmet, is a foot shorter than normal, his pecs covered in steel, and a set of ornate gold wings and massive ruby ball on the end of his staff. Angemon says, "Whatever Lewis did has had a major effect on me!! I look different, and I feel as strong as a powerful Mega!!"

Takeru says, "Let's hurry!!"

Bonnie screams with tears in her eyes, "Just stop it!!"

Romi says, "Then leave this place as my father ordered."

Bonnie says, "It was my hope that I could save you, the hope that ever since I saw that evil to save you, and your mother from him, and now, with this chance, it will still be my HOPE!!" From her heart her crest showed, behind it the character `taiyo.' In the sky, Apollomon hears her. He screams in turn to Bahamutmon, "Is this right?! We are just the pawns in the plan of a wicked man, and this cannot go on anymore, especially when the fate of the whole world is at stake, and if you are too blind to see this, then I must SHOW YOU!!" From his heart, the crest of Knowledge, overlaid atop the character `taiyo' appears. Just then, the screen on Bonnie's digivice shatters and explodes.

White light swallows them both. The light makes everything about her brighter, making her black garb and hair look silver, and her brown eyes a hue of orange. In the sky, the sight Bahamutmon is witnessing frightens him. From Apollomon's heart, the white light spreads, ripping off data from his body in blocks, revealing a navy blue flesh in the aftermath. As the light reaches his cape and shoulder plates, the interior section of the shoulder plates and the chest plate vanish, the remainder of the shoulder plates now a bright silver chrome, and the cape transforms into a scarf, the two ends fluttering behind him, covered in an ornate silver corset with a smooth round maroon amethyst gem in the front and back, which the shoulder plates latch onto with two loose chains. On the shoulder plates a gold section embosses itself down the middle of the remaining material. On the end of each gold section, at the tip of the plate, appeared a smooth round maroon amethyst gem. Down the rest of the gold section, three separate S-shaped decorative navy blue curls go from the shoulder to the gem. From the inside edges of the gold, more gold extends out, forming a dome over the missing areas. As it goes up his neck, the bullhorns and sun disk attached to the back of his chest plate disappear as well. The light spreads over his face and head, resulting in glowing orange irises, pointed ears, his yellow headband turning white, emblazoned with `taiyo' in the middle inside a circle, and absolutely white hair seemed looked somewhat like the SSJ3 style, except he has four bangs in front, three on the left and one on the right, it hangs over his ears and not just behind them, and his sideburns hang down to his knees and are tied up by maroon metal bands near the ends. As the light spreads to his arms, his wristbands and gauntlets break away. On his right arm, one of the huge forearm plates that Gabrielmon or Archangewomon are famous for having appears, this one having a silver outer edge and gold in the middle, with five vertical slots in the end of it. On his left arm, his forearm and palm are wrapped up in white cloth. On the back of his arm near his wrist, there is a small gold four-point broach attached to the cloth. In the center of the broach is another maroon gem. The light continues forward, unleashing bolts of energy, now done with his upper body. As it rips away his belt and pants, a new maroon sash and a white set of hakama pants (The same as Lily, but at the time I knew not the name) show themselves. Over his head, a brilliant white halo appeared. Finally, the light passes his feet, and his metal boots crackle away to reveal a set of asagutsu shoes. As the light leaves contact with Apollomon, the outer edges of his body, hair, and halo began to give off a burning blue neon glow. Just then, another light shines from his heart, and from it there sits a melon-sized round amethyst gem in a golden set. Holding the set was a broach like the one on his wrist, the four points pointing diagonally. On the ends of the lower left and upper right point set a ring, and attached to the rings are the two ends of a leather baldric which went over his left shoulder. On the back appeared a long stave, gold in color. On the end pointing above his left shoulder, two ornate hands cradle a sun with eight crooked rays.

Bonnie calls out, still in her glowing pastel-toned state, "Apollomon, let's end this now!!" Takeru is speechless as he arrives to where Bonnie is and sees the sight. "Duh… duh… duh… W… Wh… What just happened?"

Angemon whimpers, "I don't know. Maybe he digivolved or something?" He analyzes him. "What? It says this is Apollomon… Apollomon Super Mode? It says he is still the same Apollomon, but his offensive skills, defensive skills, dexterity, strength, toughness, armor, senses, raw power, everything has just been magnified by factors of 5000 or more!! His attacks are still in order, though he does have one new attack, The Flare Consequence." Apollomon immediately grabs his stave.

"Fusion Rings!!"

Most unlike the original move, he twirls the stave over his head, making a ribbon of plasma spiraling around him down to his feet. This `ribbon' expands outwards, including Bahamutmon inside of the area around Apollomon. After adding an area of about 200 feet around himself, he stops spinning his staff and snaps his fingers. The vicinity began to burn brightly as clouds, remaining ash, water vapor, the air, and even some of Bahamutmon's cells on the surface of his body begin to superheat. Air begins to suck in, an implosion in the making. In the milliseconds it took to heat them, they all start going nova. Every electron, atom, molecule, compound, and cell outside of Apollomon within those 200 feet had its own three-foot wide mini-nova. Bahamutmon was in pain he never knew he could feel before, but it wasn't over. As each explosion climaxed, their power was drawn into the implosion coming from Apollomon. Around Apollomon sat two vertical rings of energy. Inside of them, the plasmatic energy is drawn into his body, where he has his arms drawn to his sides and his hands opened, fingertips pointing forward. The two rings then spin around and criss-cross forming an X where they intersect in front of Apollomon and behind him. He closes his hands into fists, then puts out his chest, draws back his arms, brings his fists close to their respective shoulders, then puts his head down and throws his arms into the sky, releasing his fists, reaching for the rings. As this last part happens, the power he amassed comes back out in a burning mass contained only by the two rings, which began to expand outwards with the burning ball. Huge swathes of chain lightning ripped out of the flames in all directions and struck Bahamutmon and the area below, tearing the two asunder. The ball of plasma swallows the remaining mini-novas as it closes in on Bahamutmon. He tries to escape, but the ribbon holds him prisoner, electrocuting him as he closes. Bahamutmon exclaims, "What can I do?" He raises his arms up to shield himself, but it swallows him, making the pain of before seem like nothing. As the ball reaches the ribbon, the amount of lightning increases, and the air trembles, then the ball explodes, causing all the glass in a three-mile radius to shatter, the tallest structures in a one and a half mile radius to lose their upper three or so stories, and generated a 5.8 quake in the area directly below Apollomon. Takeru, Romi, and Angemon fall flat on their bums. From the fading light, chunks of unknown rock accompany Bahamutmon, who is missing many a scale, has some melted on him, and is bleeding a lot, as he falls. Before he can even drop 5 more feet, Apollomon shows up and wallops him with his stave, sending him zooming over the sky at Mach 3. After going horizontally for about 50 feet, Apollomon is right behind him, planting his shoe in his chest, sending him rocketing to the ground. A half a second later, Apollomon is directly below him, and jabs his fist into his back, then bats him through a condemned building with his stave. After Bahamutmon blasts through the girders and floor of the 27th story, Apollomon is sitting, waiting for him on the other side. Bahamutmon goes, "Let's see if you can take it too!!"

"Red Giant!!"

The star advances on Apollomon. Apollomon snickers, "Heh." He reaches out, grabs it, and throws it into space at ultra-sonic speeds. The star rockets past satellites and continues out into the void, towards the sun. It soars ever closer when it grazes Venus, skipping off the sulfurous world, blasting a continent-sized hole in the surface, and igniting the ground and atmosphere. The ball of plasma then struck Mercury, blowing through the crust into its mantle, and further still, the impact thrusting magma and crust into Mercury's orbit. The energy finally destabilizes a few miles from the core, blasting more surface rock into space, and superheating the planet. After a few seconds, many of newly made asteroids, along with the entire surface of Mercury, was burning white. Earthquakes and eruptions began in earnest on Mercury, and all that could be seen was white. On the Digital side of the equation, an explosion occurs on the first planet from the sun, causing a mass of land the size of Brazil to rise from the ground and soar up, becoming a moon of sorts, with many new asteroids orbiting it. Back on Earth, Bahamutmon is in utter shock, but doesn't have time to respond, because Apollomon springs forth and launches an assault of fists and feet, hitting him from just about every direction at once, pulverizing Bahamutmon for about 15 seconds, when he finally shows up from behind, grabs him by the tail, starts spinning around and around, getting up to over 250,000 revolutions per second, then throwing Bahamutmon to the wind, once again soaring out of control at supersonic speeds, this time about Mach 12. Bahamutmon begins to right himself as he sees he is back over Romi's neighborhood. Angemon exclaims, "Super Apollomon, Apollo Supermon, whatever he is, has drawn this out for far too long!! With his strength, he's going to kill Bahamutmon!!"

Takeru says to Bonnie, "This has to end!!"

Bonnie says, "You're right." She looks up Apollomon with her shining eyes and shouts, "Finish it!!" Apollomon hammer punches Bahamutmon in the chest, smashing some of his scales clean off him and putting a dent in his chest. He hits the building next to Romi's hard, leveling it. The shaking and collapsing of the ground shakes up Romi's building, and suddenly the whole left and front sides collapse away, Angemon jumping in and protecting Takeru and Bonnie, and a piece of the roof breaks off, falling on Bahamutmon. Apollomon says to Bahamutmon, "Shadows of deceit shall bind you no more!! Now, open your eyes and behold the light of truth!!" The same taiyo/knowledge hybrid crest shines from the gem over his heart, surrounded by the Crest of Love. From under the gold sections of his pauldrons (Fancy name for shoulder plate), steam blows out, and the gold section uncouples from the silver section, the silver pointing down at a 30° angle and the gold now pointing up at a 45° angle. On his right arm, the gold middle opens up and folds away inside the silver rim, revealing a network of wires and tubes hooked to four different turbines surrounding a maroon gem like the one on his left arm, held in place by a grey ring and four beams. From the end of the plate, through the five slots, extend five selenium rods that look like solar panels. After extending to five feet, clamps extend out and bond the five into one, at which time solar paneling covers the clamps.

"Doragon no Hikari!!"

He raises his right fist into the sky, the solar panel gleaming in the sun, then he draws his fists out to his sides. When he gets them out straight, he draws them in and slams them together. As he does this, orange flame builds up between the sections of his pauldrons, and his turbines glow white as they suck in air. He spreads his arms out before him, his hands and fingers extended forward. A ball of flames sparks to life between his hands, and then, from not just the fireball but from his pauldrons, gems, solar panel, back, shoes, hair, halo, just about everywhere on him came over a hundred blue-edged orange dragons in all directions. Romi can only watch as the serpentine dragons race down from Apollomon's body, crossing, crissing, roaring, and burrowing towards Bahamutmon. Takeru says, "Angemon!! Stop Apollomon now!!" Just as the dragons come next to Bahamutmon, surrounding him in every direction, they stop. Apollomon shouts, "Do you see it?" Bahamutmon meekly states, "Yes. I see it. I yield to your will." Angemon suddenly stops as the dragons vanish into thin air, and the changes that happened to Apollomon during the last attack revert to normal. Romi says, "No, I failed."

Tomokazu yells, "Boy, you ruined my things!! I'm sick of the incompetence and insubordination of you and this nuisance bitch!! I'll destroy you both now!!"

Aya elbows him in the gut and shouts, "I've always questioned this union, and I was afraid to think myself wrong." She breaks free of his grip. He rises back up and says, "I'll give you good reason to fear me!!"

Aya remarks, "I said I was afraid. Seeing this girl showed me… showed me that I need no longer be controlled by fear!!" She charges him with her shoulder, throwing him off-balance, making him drop his knife, and causing him to fall over the destroyed side of their domicile. He manages to grab hold of the edge and hang on. Romi cries out, "What are you doing? He'll kill you!!"

Bonnie says, "Do you trust her?"

Romi demands, "What does that have to do with anything?"

Bonnie answers, "Because if you trust her and have faith, you'll know this is right. Your father is an evil man, and today, she found the strength to fight back."

Romi starts to cry. "But he will overpower her… and kill her."

Bonnie holds Romi to her glowing body. "It's okay. Put your trust in me Romi, and as long as Apollomon and I are alive, we will make sure nothing will happen to your mother." Romi's shard begins to hum. Tomokazu climbs back up, and turns to see his boy in Bonnie's arms. "The traitor…" Aya is trying to open the door to leave, shoving debris out of the way. Romi says to Bonnie, "She has always been my friend. I don't want to lose her."

Romi thinks back to a day years earlier. Romi is in his room crying when Aya comes in. She asks, "What's wrong, little Romi?"

Romi says, "I accidentally broke one of papa's remotes while I was watching TV today, and I'm afraid to tell him…"

Aya says, "Why are you so scared?"

Romi answers, "Because he mean, more mean than normal, gets mad, and sometimes starts hitting things…" He starts sobbing. Aya says, "It's okay. Hand it here. I'll try to explain it to him. You know you can always confide in me." All of a sudden, the door slams shut. Tomokazu yells, "Where's my food?! Hungry!!" She goes out with the broken remote. Tomokazu screams, "You broke my f****** remote, bitch!!" Romi then hears the sounds of Aya being pulverized. The memory ends there. Bonnie looks into his tear-filled face and says, "Show your faith. You aren't alone anymore. We will be your guardian angels." Bahamutmon begins to shine blue.

Tomokazu starts to move in on the unaware Aya. Bonnie looks to Apollomon. He nods, and flies down to the building. Just as Tomokazu was about to attack, Apollomon steps in the way. Tomokazu shouts, "Out of my way, blue demon, or I will run you down too!!" Apollomon reaches out with his hands and grabs Tomokazu's forearms. Apollomon declares, "If I did, you would kill her. With these hands, you have hurt many people. With your greed and arrogance, you have hurt even more. You don't even deserve to be a human being, but to kill you would teach you NOTHING!!" The burning glow around Apollomon's hands increases, and the skin on Tomokazu's forearms begins to shrivel up as he falls to his knees. Tomokazu opens his mouth, wanting to scream so badly, the pain is too much. "These hands of pain shall now know what they did best before they are thrown to the wind!!" Tomokazu's arms begin to blister up, and veins begin to rupture and hemorrhage. Not soon after this, Tomokazu's forearms ignite in a blue ball of flames. They quickly burn away into a pile of calcium and ash that blows away in the wind. Tomokazu winces and gasps at what is left of his arms, small nubs burnt closed at the ends. He stands and snarls at Apollomon, screaming, "You dirty monster!! How dare you take what is mine?! I will kill you!!" He rushes at Apollomon and leaps up, trying to kick him when Apollomon grabs his right leg and does the same thing he did to his arms there. Tomokazu shouts, "I know people, people that will kill you all!! I shall show you what it is to cross me and my things!!"

Aya stands over him and says, "Even now, when you have lost almost everything, you do not understand how wrong you are."

Bonnie comes in over him and says, "Are those eyes so blinded by greed, grandeur, and bias that you see nothing but your desire?"

Romi comes in and says to him, "Do you care for anything not material? Are you so blind that you cannot tell that value of all lives is the same? I do now, and for that, I AM ONE MILLION TIMES THE MAN YOU COULD EVER BE!!" Tomokazu gasps in horror at Romi's brazen proclamation. Aya tears up with joy as Romi's shard shines bright. Tomokazu shouts at Romi, "You urchin…"

Romi interjects, "Your threats and insults mean nothing, for they are as hollow… AS HOLLOW AS YOUR SOUL!!!" Tomokazu gets steamed. As he does, Bahamutmon floats down in front of him, and Romi jumps on his shoulder. Simultaneously they shout, "Even now, dear father, your heart and eyes are filled with malice and greed. With this action, I shall remove that blight and leave you so you can learn to see with sight unbiased and feel with trust!!" Bahamutmon slams his claw down over Tomokazu's head. From his hand, a weak beam shoots out, and smoke comes from Tomokazu's eye sockets. Shortly after, Bahamutmon removes his hand. Tomokazu exclaims, "The darkness… Why can I not see?!! You blinded me!!"

Romi says, "The blind see without bias, for everything is darkness in their eyes. I must leave you now and help my friends. Maybe, one day, when you have learned the lesson we have shown you today, we will give you back what we have taken." He leaves the building with his mother, and Bonnie & Apollomon follow suit, but not before Bonnie gives him a good kick to the ribs, uttering to him, "Jerk."

Downstairs, Takeru and Angemon stand in waiting. Takeru exclaims to Bonnie, "What were you thinking running off in such conditions?" Bonnie is speechless. "Uh… Um… Er… Eh…"

Takeru interposes, "If you had told me, I would have came with you, and at least brought you one of those air tanks Lewis swiped." Bonnie runs up and hugs him. He says, "I could tell you were going to do this, you wanted to do this, for some time, and that is why I came for you. You are so much like your grandmother."

Bonnie goes, "And you."

Takeru holds her for a moment, then says, "One thing is bothering me."

Bonnie asks, "What is that?" Takeru answers, "That glow, could you stop it now? It's making my eyes burn and water up."

Bonnie looks at herself and exclaims, "Oh yeah… I almost forgot about that." Slowly, the glow fades away from her, and her color returns to normal. At the same time, Apollomon reverts to his original Apollo form, then reverts to Candmon. He says, "Man, that Super Mode was awesome, but it can take it out of you."

Bonnie jokes, "Takes it out of you? Look what it did to my digivice!!" Angemon reverts to Patamon. Patamon goes, "I guess we could all use a pick-me-up right about now."

Bahamutmon says, "I can arrange that."

"Particle Accelerator!!"

Fluxes of molecules swirled around everyone, cleaning them up, clearing their lungs, and gave them the entire healthy energy boost they needed. Candmon immediately digivolved back to Meramon. Takeru says, "Well, now we need to join up with the others, so let's not waste anymore time." He starts opening the port. Aya holds Romi and says to him, "Romi, I am so proud of you, and I always will be. Now, go and save the world with your friends. I'll be waiting right here for you." They quickly dash on in.

Back in the Digital World, Taichi recounts his plans in narrative as the groups move through the forest. "With our extended numbers, and the fact that the station we had intended to destroy is already in ruin, I've decide to split us up in order to cover more ground. Yamato, Araiya, Jun, Lilymon, Chibi Seishinmon, you will be joined by Lewis and Bonnie when they arrive, and you will search for Lily. Now, Koushiro, Ken, Iori, Ivy, you will be joined by Romi, Izzy, and Laomon when they arrive. I want all of you to find some space suits, then find some way to destroy those Dark Tower Planets. James, Karen, Daisuke, Yolei, Ambient Feralmon, and the Dukemon brothers, you will handle the unwashed masses and make sure they can't cause a problem."

James exclaims, "Woo hoo!! We got the easy job!! We got the easy…"

Taichi continues, "Please shut up, I'm not done here. Keiko, Ryo, Tetsuo, Masato, Sakiko, Yuuji, and Hikari, you will be joined by Takeru when he returns, and you will handle Attorneymon's generals. The rest of us will see to saving Malachimon and defeating Attorneymon."

Araiya exclaims, "Sure, you take all the strong people, Taichi, and send me off to go get killed, and with Lewis to boot!! Typical…" The sound of her being hit over the head fills the background. "Hey… What was that for, Lilymon?"

Back at the ceremony site, Attorneymon is judging his environ. "The light is almost perfect. As soon as the sun is directly overhead, which should be in about 30 minutes, we can begin." He goes over to Malachimon and leans forward. "Malachimon, if you're still in there, let me just say it was nice knowing you." She leans in and bites him on the nose. With a nasal accent, Attorneymon utters, "Very funny, Malachimon. Thanatomon, make her let go. She's beginning to drool on my nose."

From Malachimon's mouth, Thanatomon utters open-mouthed, "She seems really determined to hold on to your nose, but I think I can get this under control." He moves her body around, trying to move her jaw, but with her arms shackled and her defiant will, her teeth refuse to budge. Attorneymon then reaches up and grab her jaws, managing to pry them open and loose. A lowly grunt hands him a wet wipe for his nose. Attorneymon utters, "You know, for someone sent by the almighty Obliviomon entrusted with the job of breaking the will of his engineered spawn, you sure have dropped the ball." Fenrirmon runs up to them. He stops and salutes, then reports, "Attorneymon, sir, we have news the Digidestined and the Valkyries are moving on us as we speak, and should by here between 28 to 33 minutes from now."

Attorneymon says, "Well, let them come. By that time we will be ready to perform the ceremony, and from what Black Tailmon has told me, our Dark Tower friends will also be ready to join us."

Fenrirmon questions, "Okay then, but when Obliviomon is resurrected, will you still be our boss?"

Attorneymon responds, "Well, no, obviously. This is friggin' Obliviomon we're talking about." Fenrirmon thinks about it, then looks at Malachimon and scratches his head asking, "Okay, but when Obliviomon does become our boss, do we call him `sir' or `ma'am?'" Attorneymon stares at Fenrirmon in a displeased fashion. He says to him, "Go away or I shall be forced to kill you." He quickly scampers off. Thanatomon is sitting down and pondering that very question. Attorneymon shakes his head. "Why is it that beings of great power and vision must always be surrounded by imbeciles?"

Far away, about the same time, Yamato's group is slowly coming out of the forest. In Jun's arms, Ni-Kokuwamon stares at Araiya, drooling and licking his golden mouth. Popping up from nowhere, Lewis, Bonnie, and Meramon show up. Bonnie no longer seems to have her outfit changed by jumping to the Digital World. Lewis says, "Heard the news, so I decided to show up."

Araiya wonders, "Why is it that beings of great power and vision must always be surrounded by imbeciles?"

Lewis knocks on her noggin and retorts, "Glad you agree."

Bonnie comments, "Lewis has just about caught us up on the current events, and explained to us things that Chibi Seishinmon told you guys. Man, isn't it creepy that around the time that Ni-Kokuwamon died, that Jun's Kokuwamon evolved into one? I'd know that if I knew someone that just died and I saw someone just like them the same day that it'd scare me…" Silence…

Araiya looks around at Meramon, Ni-Kokuwamon, and Lewis, and grumbles, "I'm surrounded by the trifecta from hell!!" They keep walking some more when come across a parking lot. Many cars sit in this lot, and the lot sits next to a giant cathedral. Araiya and Lewis stop in their tracks, their eyes bulging open in shock, holding each other, until they realize this and begin to slap one another. Yamato says, "The signal from Lily's digivice is coming from straight ahead."

Araiya asks, "Is it… in there?"

Yamato goes, "No, it's just past it."

Araiya says, "Okay, if we stay very quiet, maybe they won't notice us."

Bonnie exclaims, "And what about the people in there? These cars aren't here to just take up space. If we were forced to fight Lily, they would be right there in the middle."

Lewis answers her, "That's why they have legs. They aren't just for walking. They also do this thing called `running.' They let them `run' from danger."

Bonnie asks, "What's going on?"

Yamato says, "Araiya has had this thing about Christianity since she was young. Her parents scared the crap out of her with stories about the Inquisition and witch trials."

Araiya adds, "Yeah… They have devotion, the bad kind that is." She shivers at the sight of the cathedral. Bonnie says, "That still doesn't explain you, Lewis."

Lewis replies, "I just don't like them. Just like vampires hate sunlight and Sirenamon fears water, I can't stand the lot of them. Personally, I find it all to be a bunch of partisan double-talk, red tape, special interest groups, lobbyists, and it was just plain confusing… That reminds me of something… Oh well. I find it to be just a load of crap. That, and 38 years ago, I kind of scared the Pope and gave him a heart attack, which he then died of, and ever since then I've been banned from ever setting foot in the Vatican. Forgiving my ass."

Lilymon tacks on, "Well, maybe you should have made sure he was asleep before you just popped in and tried to take his pope hat and his possessions."

Lewis continues, "Well, it was his fault that he was a ka-jillion years old…"

Bonnie says, "Well, enough of this. You two should open your eyes to all sides of the matter, but right now we need to get these people away from here and find Lily." They approach the cathedral, with Lewis and Araiya in the back, fighting over who gets to hide behind Andromon. As they near, Araiya sees a sign. "Beware, for those who trespass upon this sacred place shall be dipped in burning oil!!" With an almost Herculean effort, she throws Lewis behind her and into a car, setting off its alarm, and then ducking behind Andromon, shaking with fear. A nun steps outside and sees them. "Welcome. Blessed are thou."

Araiya, from behind Andromon, points her finger and exclaims, "Evil!! Begone foul demon!!"

The nun responds, "Dear lady, you must be confused. I am a nun!! I help spread the message of our Lord."

Araiya retaliates, "Yeah, and torture those who deem heretics, which is anyone who isn't just like you!!"

The nun replies, "Why I never…" Lewis comes walking out of the cathedral with a giant sack over his shoulder, a bishop's hat on his head, and a mob of angry people about to jump him. He walks by the nun, removes her hood, inspects it, throws it away, landing on Chibi Seishinmon, and steps forward. He then stops, and out loud yells, "Blessed and almighty is our Lord, but he needs MONEY!! He needs your money!!" He looks at the bag. "Good!! The Lord thanketh you, now GO HOME!! Go on, piss off. I got the Pope hat so you got to listen to me." The angry mob growls. The nun yells, "He's the bastard that killed the Pope!!"

The bishop, a Seraphimon, thinks about it, then slyly says, "Fetch me the iron maiden!!"

The nun says, "We don't have one."

He responds, "Well, fetch me the boiling oil then!!" Araiya clamps on tightly to the closest person around her, which at that moment was Lewis. Bonnie looks at them with a scowl. Bonnie mutters, "Leave it to those two to complicate things." She looks at the volatile parishioners and shouts, "Okay, I admit Lewis here is a wise-ass, but he got you outside. All of you need to go home or hide somewhere safe. A very powerful entity is heading this way, and we need to clear the area."

A plump balding parishioner demands, "Who are you, and what right do you have to tell us to leave our place of worship, especially in a time like this!! These could be our last hours alive!!"

Yamato answers, "We are the Digidestined!!" He flashes his digivice in front of them. The people sit and scratch their heads. The parishioner points at Lewis and asks, "If you are who you say you are, then why did he take the collection plates, the money in them, the solid gold candelabrums, our jewelry, our wallets, the antique crucifix on the back wall, the pulpit, the bibles, and the bishop's hat & robes?"

Bonnie answers sternly, "Because he's Lewis."

Lewis, attempting to pry the stunned panic-stricken Araiya off of him, says, "Yes, I'm Lewis Wick, and I'm an evil bastard…" He strains on Araiya's right arm, exclaiming, "An evil bastard who can't make Araiya let go of me!!"

The parishioner states, "That's nice, but now answer the question."

Bonnie utters, quite peeved, "Listen, this entity must be stopped, and we can't have all of you in the middle of this, so go away. Even if we didn't have to evacuate you, Lewis would have probably robbed you blind anyway because that's what he does best."

Lewis interjects proudly, "I'm a kleptomaniac. Besides, someone has to make you keep your vow of poverty, and if you can't follow the rules, then you can't have nice things." As everyone argues next to him, Lewis takes out one of the candelabrums and tries to wedge Araiya off, but breaks it in the process. Frustrated by this, he tries to grab her and rip her off, but she doesn't give. The parishioners still stand arguing over the matter, wondering if they were for real. Finally, Lewis seems to have a face that suggested he had an idea. He drew his hand back, the appendage gleaming in the sunlight. He folded in his fingers and sent his palm zooming straight for Araiya's forehead, screaming out loud as it neared, "Uh, the power of Christ compels you!!" This suddenly grabs everyone's attention. Araiya released her grip, bounced off the pavement, tumbled over, and landed on her bum. "Now to store away my loot."

The nun says, "I don't get it. The whole gag about us actually having boiling oil usually scares off would-be burglars." She looks at Lewis. "Please give us our stuff back…"

Lewis responds as he is stuffing his face with their crackers and using their crucifix as a backscratcher, "What stuff?"

The bishop grumbles, "Why, even now he mocks our faith!! Get him!!"

Bonnie mutters, teetering on the edge, "Go away people. We're trying to save you…" They charge for Lewis. That was it. Now red in the face and all-out pissed, she mutters to Meramon, "Hurt them, hurt them now…"

Meramon unquestionably replies, "Okay." He walks forward to smite them when a small explosion catches everyone's attention. The crowd opens, and Yamato and Lilymon dash in to see the commotion. Their eyes open wide to behold what they could not comprehend. From a hole just above the mammoth stain-glass window on the back wall descended a figure in black with red hair, white skin with orange markings, almost black blood dripping down her face, and carrying a bird-headed cane in her right hand. She lowered herself down, bent back and arms outstretched to her sides. The same heckling parishioner demands, "Who or what is that?" Slowly, her feet touched the floor, where she stood before the area where the pulpit would be if Lewis had not ripped it out of the floor. She looks around the room, slightly confused at how vacant the chamber was, ignoring Yamato, Gabumon, and Lilymon altogether. The people all gather before the door as Yamato finishes scanning her. Yamato exclaims, "This can't be!!"

Lilymon demands, "What is it, Yamato? Spit it out!!"

He answers, "According to this, that thing there is Lily, and coursing through her body is more energy than 100,000 Obliviomon!!"

Gabumon adds, "But how? Nothing can generate that much energy and control it." Lily looks forward again and lets out her disturbing laugh. The cackle echoing all throughout the cathedral grabs the attention of everyone. She then sits down, lays back, and gazes through the hole she made to the burning ring. She speaks out, "Why is it so many people, afraid of suffering, consume themselves with the idea of heaven and hell? It's rather silly to cause yourself such mental torture, and it makes you afraid to do things without the okay of a higher power, afraid to lose the love and favor of that power. Fear causes pain, and pain makes the planet sad. They all need more fun in their lives."

Yamato inquires, "What is she talking about?"

Lewis comes forward and answers his question, "She's referring to some people's necessary zealot devotion to some sort of organized religion, and their concerns over what impact their actions shall have on their souls, and how some can worry over the smallest details."

Yamato responds, "So basically, she just told everyone to loosen up and not worry over their final judgment." Lewis nods. "Okay, but what does the planet have to do with it? What does any of that have to do with what is going on now?!" Lily then sits up and continues to sit with her legs crossed and folded up before her in a lotus-style position. She cocks her head to the left, sending little droplets of blood splattering across the pews. She looks at Yamato and happily states, "The planet is sad. It doesn't like suffering, so I'm going to take all that suffering away and make it happy!!" She looks back at the parishioners. Lilymon steps forward, walking ever so much to her, until she is just a foot away. "Lily… It's us. We're here for you…" Nothing. "Don't you recognize your grandmother?" Lily stares at her for a moment, and reaches out with her finger, moving it in front of her face. She bites on her bottom lip, then says, "You tell a funny joke. You're familiar, but you can't be a grandparent. Grandparents are old people, silly. You're too young. Say, you want to play with us?" Lilymon is baffled. Araiya starts to come to. Lilymon takes one more step, when Lewis senses something, dropping the bag, and his eyes just open wide. Lilymon asks, "What are you talking about, Lily?" Lily claps her hands together, rubs them, and perks up even more. She exclaims, "I know!! We can all play dodge ball!!" Lilymon is completely bewildered by her remark until she catches a glimpse of a flaming ball of energy in her right hand. Lewis vanishes, appears next to Lilymon, and reappears next to Yamato. The ball goes flying towards the door and instantly incinerates the plump balding parishioner and five others before exploding in the parking lot. As soon as it does, she wipes her right eye and swings her arm, sending six drops of water into the air, and each landing directly on the individuals' ashes, releasing a white sparkle on contact. As they did so, she clapped her hands twice and bows her head, then lift it back up quickly. She hovers up and flies forward, repeating those actions, hitting someone then throwing a teardrop on the ashes, as she does, eventually doing it while spinning around and around in the air. Carnival music seems appropriate right about here. The few survivors run around screaming, unsure of what to do. "This is so much fun!! Nobody ever has to get hurt ever again!!" Bonnie gasps in horror at what she has to witness. She calls out, "What has happened to you, Lily?"

Yamato gathers everyone and shouts, "This has to stop!!"

Chibi Seishinmon responds, "I'll take care of that!!"

"Big Guard!!"

The strange reflective faceted barrier appears once more, guarding the lot of them. Araiya exclaims, "Hey, this is the same barrier attack that Sakuramon used on us!! What is it?!" She reaches out to touch it, when Chibi Seishinmon smacks her hand. One of Lily's balls hits the barrier and bounces back, hitting her in the mouth and demolishing the back wall. Lily calls out, "Hey, that doesn't count because you're cheating!!" Chibi Seishinmon is quivering with surprise. She stutters, "H… How could she t… t… take a hit like that m… magnified ten times!!"

Yamato concludes, "Then we got to go and stop her. Let's do it!!"

"Gabumon Terravolve to Dao Garurumon, Entrusted Gatekeeper of Time!!"

"Andromon Terravolve to Thor Xaviomon, Asgard's Champion!!"

"Lilymon Celestial Digivolve!! Paladin Lilymon!!"

"Meramon Terravolve to Apollomon, The Real Sun God!!"

The all stood in place, ready to fight, except for Ni-Kokuwamon, who had fallen asleep in the confessional booth. Jun shouts, "Wake up!! How can you sleep now?!" The digimon begin to move forward when Yamato notices something. "Aren't you going to do anything, Lewis? Are you, or did you lose it all by smashing that egg?" Lewis sneers and looks at the digimon. Dao Garurumon leaps up first and makes his first move. "Let's see you stop me!!" He swerves to the left, then launches his offensive.

"Warp Speed!!"

He blurs out of sight, racing for Lily, but without even looking, she throws a ball and strikes him in his left side, ricocheting him off the pews, the floor studs, causing that area to collapse into the basement, off the Big Guard barrier, skipping across it, and into the ornate door frame, all while reverting to Tsunomon. Yamato turns to his friend when he hears a humming sound. Yamato begs to know what it is, and Chibi Seishinmon blurts, "Crap!! The barrier sensed the impacts your friend made and is reacting to them by reflecting back the damage a hundred-fold, and the skip for a thousand-fold!!" Yamato can only watch as the barrier strikes down Tsunomon, leaving him comatose in a modest pothole in the stairs outside, sitting in his own blood. Lily giggles and says, "This is dodge ball, silly!! You were supposed to try and dodge it!!"

Yamato screams, "How can you do this, you… you… YOU BITCH!!" This grabs Lily's attention. She looks at him and waves her finger at him, as though she was scolding him. "Naughty, naughty, naughty boy. You know it's not nice to call people names, or to use bad language. Now I got to wash your mouth out with soap. I thought grown-ups knew better." Just as she finished talking, she smacks away Thor Xaviomon, sending through the right wall, crushing hiding parishioners outside. Soon after, Lily zips away and comes right back in all the time it takes to blink, carrying a liquid soap dispenser and a toilet brush. Araiya freaks at the sight. "Holy crap, Yamato, she's actually going to do it, and with a nasty toilet brush too!!" She walks up to the barrier, all the while throwing more balls from her left hand at Paladin Lilymon and Apollomon. She stands before the barrier, gazing at it, and her reflection, then says, "I know!!" She puts down the soap & brush and places her left hand on the very front of the barrier and grabs it. The barrier facets stop rotating and the whole barrier begins to rumble. With her right hand, she continues to hurl the balls, balls that are taking Paladin Lilymon and Apollomon have just to avoid them. Lewis asks, "Just what are the limits of this technique?"

Chibi Seishinmon answers, "Well, to know that, you need to know how it works, and the history of this ability…" As she talks, Lily is swatting the others away with her cane in one hand, and grasping the barrier in the other. "A long time ago, billions of years, in fact, we did live here, but the ever-mounting megalomania of the Eight Million Kami began to take its toll. Eventually, many digimon rebelled against the Kami. With this rebellion, a leader emerged, the enlightened and almighty Tsukiyumimon. She was the first to realize their destructive path, and hid away for eons to grow in mind, body, and spirit. She was tens of billions of years beyond her time in an evolutionary sense, with quantum and super-light particles flowing through her, and abilities you can barely fathom. Furthermore, she was not just highly evolved, but also the very first Omega digimon ever. The Kami, ever jealous of anything that could be as powerful and complex as themselves, or even more so, seeked to crush her and her rebellion. Knowing that digimon then lacked the power to fight back against their whims that she had discovered, she led them on an exodus to find a safe haven, but that was when they were met by the Four Dukes, whom would later become the Seven Overlords of Chaos. She easily stopped their attacks and destroyed two of them, when the Kami got desperate and decided to help. One of them came to the battle and infused his power into the remaining two, causing X Apocalymon and his partner to reach an awesome level of power, and gave X Apocalymon his ability to copy a digimon's natural attacks. This was when Tsukiyumimon revealed the Five Natural Orders: Big Guard, Big Bang, Big Wave, Big Aeon, and Big Miracle. Big Bang is the ultimate force that cleaned this universe and made the heavens, the force of chaos and rebirth, the motto, "Before time, there was emptiness, and then with condensation and brilliant light, life began!!" Big Aeon is physics and the universe linear, the force of time and gravity, the motto, "With the birth, the laws of learned men came to be, time and space forever bound!!" Big Wave represents the elements in harmony, both natural and alchemical, the force of the planet, the motto, "Long ago on planets many, the thirteen faces of nature rose from the six corners to shape their domains to perfection, and to reclaim their losses, they shall rise again!!" Big Miracle is life and all the things in it, the force of life and chance, the motto, "Life and serendipity are the greatest miracles of all!!" Big Guard is this shield, the force of order and longevity, the motto, "Heeding the call, to ward off all harm, we are retainers of peace and justice!!" Using the Five Orders, she easily destroyed X Apocalymon's lackey and the Kami fueling their power, and forced X Apocalymon into hiding. She knew however that they would continue to hound them as long as they lived on this world, and that digimon were not ready yet for the challenge of stopping the Eight Million Kami, so she decided to take everyone away, away from the grasp of the Kami. With the Big Miracle, a mass of earth rose up, brought to life by this power and evolved to the level of existence that Tsukiyumimon existed at, turning the soil and plants into living metal and crystal stronger than anything that has ever existed, but still retained their original properties of growth and life, and became the moon in the sky now. Soon after, she enlightened her fellow digimon, becoming the original Lunarians, and then established the Five Temples, one for each of the Orders, and taught a select few the one select Order of their choice, remembering that it took her a very long time to learn all five Orders. Only one other has ever learned all five Orders, but that's for another time…" Lily starts to push on the barrier, and the sound of the barrier popping and buckling disturbs the group. "Okay, now that you know the history, this is how the Five Orders work. First off, these are attacks that must be learned, and in theory, most digimon can learn them, although outside of Tsukiyumimon and the Grand Queen of the Moon, there has never been anyone who has at least been a Lunarian, followed the ideas of the temples, and spent over forty years trying to master it. It took me 28 years to master the power of Big Guard. In each temple, there were four masters and twelve disciples. I was the senior disciple, and if a master were to perish or be banished, I would have become a master. As disciples of the Temple of the Shield, we were taught the ways to harness the power of the moon, the power of us, the power nature, and the power of all things to create a multi-layered faceted shield that can reflect the very power of our foe back at them. Not only did it do this, but with each hit, the shield would grow, and the person responsible would be stricken with their very move, but increased in power exponentially, in powers of ten."

Lewis interrupts, "So like the first blow would do 101 damage, or ten times the original power, then the second attack would be reflected at a power equal to 102, or 100 times the original attack power, and then 103, 104, 105, and so on."

Chibi Seishinmon continues, "Exactly!! The way it worked, most digimon cannot take a blow more than 1000 times their own power and continue fighting, so it stopped most foes quickly. It has its limits however. First off, it cannot determine who is a friend or foe, so if anyone hits it, even by accident, they take the wrath. Second, because it cannot determine who hit it, the exponent is based off the total number of hits, and reflect damage tends to get very dangerous to the planet and any bystanders not behind the barrier upon reaching 100,000 times power. The only ways to offset this is to drop the barrier and make a new one, leaving you vulnerable for 3 seconds. If you haven't noticed, there is no back to this barrier, which means an attacker that can slip behind you can still attack you, but you can however turn the barrier to face any direction you want and it will move with you as you walk, fly, or run. Also, it can only reflect an attack once, meaning that if they find a way to send it back, you're toast. Finally, as Lily seems to have figured out, this barrier cannot handle or reflect a continuous attack, like grasping it or hitting it with a continuous-fire beam attack, and except for continuous-fire beam attacks, you yourself cannot fight back on your side of the barrier."

Araiya inquires, "So you're saying those sounds are the sounds of her crushing the barrier in her hand." Chibi Seishinmon nods. "I thought so. Shouldn't we run now, because she's this close to us, and she has no scruples about killing us all." The barrier starts to crack in areas. Yamato says, "Well, if we are going to fall back, we need someone to stay here and hold her off."

Lewis goes, "Well, it's about time I did something."

Bonnie adds, "And you'll need me around… in case that something is jack s***… Say, where's Jun?" Over in the confessional booth, Jun is still trying to wake Ni-Kokuwamon. She smacks him over the head and hurts her hand, and then he mumbles something about purple monkey dishwashers.

Outside the booth, Chibi Seishinmon says, "Since the barrier moves with me, and I can't leave until it goes down, I'll go look for Jun."

Araiya is already outside in the parking lot dragging Yamato, Kokuwamon, Tsunomon, and Paladin Lilymon all behind her, exclaiming, "Okay, whatever, nice knowing you Lewis!!" The barrier finally cracks apart. Lily looks for Yamato, but does not spot him, but instead fixates on Bonnie. "So you've been saying naughty words too." Before Bonnie can even figure out what is going on, Lily jumps her and soaks her mouth in liquid soap and commences the scrubbing. Bonnie grabs on to Lily's arms and tries to push her off, but Lily doesn't even notice as she obsessively scrubs her mouth. She brushes wildly, muttering constantly, "Clean… clean… clean… must make clean, must make happy…" The soap begins to run down her throat, the taste nauseating, the fumes asphyxiating, the bristles cleaving, the thought of where that brush has been before haunting. Finally, Apollomon is able to knock Lily off-balance with a shoulder charge. Bonnie, with bubbles coming out of her mouth, signals him to fight back, then runs to the fountain filled with holy water and proceeds to dunk her whole head in. Apollomon stands forth, ready to fight, when his right pauldron cracks down the middle and falls right off, but he doesn't seem to care. Lily looks at him and says, "Nap time now!!" From the cane the sickle blade returned, which she drew over her head, and swung downward, aimed at Apollomon's head, when a very thin, very long yellow energy blade stopped the scythe from connecting. Following the beam to the metallic-plated middle and down the weapon, which looks like a wooden kendo o-dachi, to the cross guard, the wielder is revealed. Lewis stands there, holding the glowing edged sword, holding Lily's scythe at bay. Apollomon meekly backs off. Lewis says, "I see something bad has happened to you, but boy did you choose a bad way to express it." Lily is confused and continues to look at Lewis and the blade. It's everything Lewis can do to hold back the scythe, but Lily is just standing there with the scythe in one hand and scratching her head with the other. She lifts it up and innocently asks Lewis, "Why… why did you stop the release?"

Lewis answers, "Dear child, there is no reason for all this."

Lily says, not comprehending the words just said, "Exactly!! I must make the world happy. Shall I release you now?" She swings and Lewis leaps back, landing on the back of a pew. Across the shirt and jacket he wore, the fabric was cut open in a mostly horizontal gash. Lily continues, "It may seem scary, but you will never have to hurt again…" She swoops for him, but Lewis is able to block her scythe again. The back of the pew begins to buckle as he struggles to defend. Lewis thinks, "I don't get it. If she wanted to, she could bust that sword and hack me open right now, but she isn't. Why?" Lily hovers in place, maintaining an ever so curious gaze at Lewis. Suddenly it hits him. He remembers all about her previous messages about pain, and then remembers how she killed the people. He whispers under his breath, "She's trying to kill me in one blow. If she can't get the instant kill, then she won't hurt me, because she doesn't want me to feel pain…" Then he remembers her say, "The planet is sad. It doesn't like suffering, so I'm going to take all that suffering away and make it happy!!" His eyes open up in shock. He continues, "Lily wants to wipe out every living thing on either world… including herself. She will expunge everything just to take away our supposed suffering… and her own."

Lily has yet another confused look on her face and queries, "What does that mean? You want to make the world happy too?"

Lewis realizes, "Lily… My Lily… has lost her mind. She just… could not handle it anymore."

Lily asks him, "Who's this `Lily' you keep talking about? Do I know her? Would I like her? Lilies are pretty…"

Lewis shudders and ponders, "She doesn't even know who she is…" Suddenly, his sword slips and the pew breaks. The scythe goes into his right shoulder, leaving a deep puncture wound in it. He falls through another pew and dislocates the same shoulder. He shouts out as his shoulder writhes. Lily begins to panic, dropping her scythe, and then grabbing the spot where she is bleeding from, causing her great pain. She goes to Lewis and rambles, "No… Pain bad… Cannot hurt… Must take the pain away… Pain bad… Must fix… Must make all better…" She grabs the wound, cuddling and nursing it. Her palms begin to shine, and the wound seals up and the shoulder back into its socket. She stands up, and begins to, what appears to be, scolding herself. "You were a bad girl. Yes, you were a very bad girl. If you keep being so naughty, then I won't be able to forgive you." She stops, then, as though talking to herself, asks, "But what if someone doesn't want release?" She stands motionless for a few seconds, but then she begins to shake her head and ask "Why?" every so often. She then stops and says, sounding more mature, more like Lily, "Just do it!!" She shakes her head. "You want to be forgiven, don't you?" She slowly nods her head as she cries. Apollomon comments, "Who was she talking to?"

Lily turns to him and says, her meek childish tone back, "The voice of the planet says I have to release you, regardless of any pain, or else I won't be forgiven." Lily lunges forward at them, scythe at the ready. Lewis and Apollomon leap into the pews, clear of her first move, which sends pieces of pew and floorboard flying into the air. Lewis utters, "Voice of the planet…" He thinks about pondering, "That voice… So familiar…" He stands and demands, "This voice, was it the one that told you to just do it?" She nods as she charges again. Lewis sidesteps her and grabs her scythe and twists, throwing her into the floor. Lewis says to Apollomon, "Don't just sit there!! Do something!!" He then gets locked in frenetic sparring with Lily, and every so often, about every four moves, he'd take a hit, but could not land one of his own. Throughout the frenzy, Lewis did not seem to use his right arm much. Finally, after a few seconds, the back greave in his left pants leg ripped, and the pants leg dangled in the air as he finally landed a knee in her gut. Lily backs off for a moment and stands near the choir area. Lewis proceeds to rip off the torn pants leg. He laughs and says, "Guess I should a more flowing outfit, something I could move in. Guess this is what I get for taking Araiya's clothes, but I couldn't just come out here naked. Man, this shoulder still burns…" He falls to one knee and wipes the sweat from his forehead. "If I just something better to wear, I hadn't worn myself out trying to help Mimi, and I hadn't taken that stab from the scythe, I might have been able to make this a little more interesting for you. Okay!! Break's over!! Time for Round 2!! Apollomon, you too!!" They both leap forward.

In the back, Chibi Seishinmon starts poking around. "Jun!! Where are you?" She looks in the offices, the basement, and the belfry. Finally, she comes back to the main chamber where everyone else was, during their little time out. As Lewis spoke, she heard something else coming from one of the confessional booths. She floated on over to it and entered the other door. Suddenly, she hears Jun barking at Ni-Kokuwamon, "Wake the hell up, dammit!! This is no time for this!! How the hell can you sleep through freakin' Armageddon out there?!" This is followed by the sound of fist hitting metal, and Jun yelping, trying to keep quiet. She continues, stopping every so bit to blow, "Who's idea *blow* was it to *blow* change you into this?! *blow* My freakin' hand!! Is this *blow* going to be the norm *blow* from now on?!"

Chibi Seishinmon blinks, commenting, "Jun and Ambient Feralmon would get along so well."

Jun says, "Who's that? Bonnie? Araiya? …Lily?" Chibi Seishinmon drives her brush handle into the diving wall, cuts into the wood, and cuts a hole in the wall, the piece of wood falling on Jun's head. Chibi Seishinmon stands in the small hole and exclaims, "Are you stupid or something? I don't sound anything like them!!"

Jun grumbles, "I know, it's just trying to wake him up is getting on my nerves…"

Chibi Seishinmon responds, "Well, I knew a different Ni-Kokuwamon once. Maybe I can help."

Outside the booth, Lewis and Apollomon were on the attack, one on each side, trying to land a hit on Lily, but instead seem to taking a few, especially Apollomon. Their fist, feet, and knees start to hurt and bleed as they try to land anything on Lily, but Lily has yet to show any sign of injury, or even notice she has been hit. Slowly, they work their way outside, onto the steps. Suddenly, Lily slaps Lewis. It leaves a bleeding mark on his face, but then he slips back a step, stepping in the ash remains of one of the parishioners, and slips down the stairs. Lily quickly ascends up above him. Lewis grabs his back and gets up, saying to Apollomon, "It's out of my hands now. I'd help you out more, but I can't fly… Wait, I'll see what I can do. You keep her busy." Apollomon suddenly takes three hard hits to the face. He looks like crap, his face black and blue and swollen, and lets out a deep giggle. Lily smacks him the same way she did Lewis, and throws him into a car, blowing it up. Apollomon shouts out, "Enough!! Eat this!!"

"Doragon no Hikari!!"

His flaming dragon rises up and opens its jaws, closing in on Lily, but she doesn't even flinch, for as it nears, it just fizzles in front of her, the remnants splattering all over the field and parking lot nearby, starting some fires. Apollomon growls at her, and commands, "You asked for it!!"

"Fusion Rings!!"

The rings soar out at Lily. Apollomon starts to grin when Lily begins to pluck them out of the air. "Ooohh!! Little shiny rings!! Thank you!!" She looks at them with fascination as they just sit in her hand. Apollomon scowls deeply at her. He thinks, "How dare she toy with my power as it were her little play-things?!" He tries to send a surge of power to blow them up, but the surge mysterious fizzles out. Lily hovers there, twirling a few of the on her finger. She takes one and enlarges it. "Hey, hula hoops!!" She looks down on Apollomon, glimpsing his anger. "Well, if you wanted them back, you should have said something. It's nothing to get mad over. Anger causes a lot of pain."

Bonnie hears this from inside and exclaims, "Come on Apollomon!! Power up like you did before!!" She starts to struggle as hard as she can, blood rushing to her face, pushing for as much energy as she can, when some bubbles blow out her nose. "What am I doing wrong? Why can't he fight back like last time?" Outside, Lily draws back to toss the rings back, when from above and behind her, up in the belfry, Lewis stands. He steps back, bounces off the bell and dives for Lily. He falls rapidly, and it then seems apparent that he miscalculated ever so slightly, for he falls, and grabs Lily's left leg, causing her to tilt back and throw the ring into a tree, causing it to begin toppling over. Lewis then slips and starts to fall again, hitting the ground, from 100 feet up, on his back. Lewis lies there, the anime spirals in his eyes, and utters, "Not exactly what I planned, but it still worked." Suddenly, the shadow of tree descends on him. From another view, the tree is falling his way. He causally says to the tree, "I loathe you." The tree answers back by falling on him. Apollomon starts to get desperate, and begins picking up cars and trucks from the flaming parking lot and hurling them at Lily, whom seems to have no problem smashing them into scrap or kicking them back at him, where they explode upon impact with the asphalt. Apollomon then picks up a shiny new Ferrari and hurls it at her, which she smacks away, and lands atop the fallen tree, then slides off and rolls over to the right and onto its top. Under the tree, Lewis mumbles, "Not funny." From the lumber, Lewis' wooden o-dachi busts out, sawing through the tree, when a set of hands lifts the tree off him. Lewis looks up and says, "Now is not the time to falsely accuse me of your petty crimes!!" Holding the tree is the bishop Seraphimon. He says, "Forget that!! If you save my church, you can have the damn stuff. You can take whatever you want, but just keep her from demolishing it!!" He looks past Lewis. "Not my car!! Dammit!!"

Lewis at his outfit. "I look like s***. Araiya can have it back now." He looks at Apollomon, whom looked worse than he did, with blood pouring down him, his skin all sorts of shades and swollen from bruises and internal damage, and at the moment taking 24 kicks to the head, the last sending him through five more cars that blow up as he decimates them, and then gets back up, staggering about, barely alive, let alone conscious, as Lily grabbed her scythe. Flopping around like a noodle on feet, he staggers in and out of the flames and doesn't notice it. His cape is burning up, and he falls over on a large, sleek truck. Lewis ponders, "I can tell she has far more strength than that, but why does she not use it… unless she's trying to knock us out first… …or just afraid to use it… Good luck trying to beat through Apollomon's thick head!! I'll just have to play on that fear of pain." Lewis gets set when a voice from the doorway grabs the attention of Lewis, the bishop Seraphimon, and Lily. Bonnie screams, "How dare you!! How dare you think you have the right to wipe everyone out because you believe they are suffering. People do suffer, but we can overcome it, and we can joy in life!! Maybe you just don't want anyone to see your pain, but I can see it clearly, Lily!!" Lily is outright shocked, and Bonnie continues, "And how dare you cram a toilet brush in my mouth!! Do you know just how much holy water I had to drink to get that taste out of my mouth?!"

Lewis interjects, "A lot?"

Bonnie ignores him and continues, "Now, you must stop hiding your pain and return to normal!!" She then feels a warm sensation for a moment in her. "This feeling…" She ponders.

Lewis turns and asks her, "And how shall we do this? Apollomon is slumped over half-dead, and I've been knocked around quite a bit, not to mention this outfit is stiff in the joints, limiting my movement…" He thinks, "How does Araiya wear these things?"

Bonnie replies, "Simple. We just have to supercharge him somehow." She stands and thinks, "How did this work again? It just happened when I fought Romi, and I know I can do it again, but…" She then further recalls, "But then I felt something…"

~*Flashback*~

Bonnie says, "It was my hope that I could save you, the hope that ever since I saw that evil to save you, and your mother from him, and now, with this chance, it will still be my HOPE!!"

~*Flashback Ends*~

She continues thinking, "I felt my dreams, my hope, my heart, my will to live rise to the surface and express themselves through my SOUL!!"

Lewis calls out to her, "There may be a way. If you can unleash the power of your hopes and desire to… live?" As he speaks, an awesome light shines from her heart. Her body once again takes on its pastel tone, and leaves blow around her in a cyclone. Everyone, even Jun and Chibi Seishinmon, take notice of the event. Like the undead, Apollomon rises again, and from his shining heart the surface data shatters away, gradually revealing the blue wonder underneath. Lewis states, "I guess you knew that already…" He suddenly has an idea. Apollomon stands in the lot, his body showing nary a sign of any wound. Lily opens her mouth, but nothing comes out. Apollomon says, "If you're going to say some crap about pain and why I'm back, well, I guess you can say that this means I'm a masochist then." He draws out his stave. "Now, witness the power of the almighty Super Mode!!" He screams over and lands a right cross to Lily's face, then beans her with the stave across her left side, sending her falling down, smashing through the burning lot. He looked down and didn't even wait for any signs of life, and charged into the dust, catching Lily and kicking her through the trees and into the forest. Rapidly, he zooms in and knees her in the abdomen, his fists wailing away at her face, landing tens of thousands of hard punches on it, and at the same time, plants her in the ground under his knee. He then lifts up a couple of millimeters and grabs her hair in his left hand, and begins to spin around, bashing her through trees, kneeing her in the back at the same time. After a little bit of his, he kicks off the top half of a tree and swings her by her hair into the flat tree top, splitting the tree with her back, the power of the strike thrusting the tree deep into the earth at the same time. Splinters are all in her arms and blood is gushing from her mouth as Apollomon lets go of her hair, the child stuck in the tree, and then he kicks her in the butt into the air. With his staff, he prepares…

"Fusion Rings!!"

The enhanced super attack Bahamutmon is familiar with surrounds them and unleashes total hell on Lily. The final act of it shines out from space, and demolishes over an entire mile radius, and the trees nearby combust from the heat. From far away, Araiya and them, still being dragged by the running Araiya, bare witness to the explosion as well. Yamato exclaims, "What the hell could have caused such an explosion?" Kokuwamon looks at the area, his vision zooming in. He says, "There appears to be Lily, and she is falling from the sky, and sitting there above her is a digimon I have never seen before, but his facial features are somewhat familiar. Although the identity of this digimon eludes me, he seems to be winning." On the other end, Lewis seems to be fiddling around with his EDI when Ni-Kokuwamon comes around. Jun exclaims, "What took you? Why wouldn't you wake up?!"

Ni-Kokuwamon answers, "I dreamt I was a dirty monkey who had to wash dishes… What smells like poo?"

Back in the forest, Apollomon drew back for his next move when Lily gets up. "I'm surprised!! You can do my little trick too!!" Apollomon is absolutely bewildered.

"What? My Fusion Rings?" He asks.

Lily says, "No, the other thing. You know, the thing you did to make yourself like you are now."

"The Super Mode?" He queries. It then suddenly hits him when he sees the red halo over her head, and his white halo, and realizes her power.

Lily answers, "Yeah… That's what you called it, but you didn't do it right. You're supposed to digivolve at the same time as well."

Apollomon speaks, "Well, that explains a lot of things. WHAT?! DID YOU SAY `DIGIVOLVE AT THE SAME TIME?!!'" For an answer he got…

"Delta Crash, combined with… Kin'iro no Kamikaze!!"

In the sky, a golden triangle formed above Apollomon. In the center of it was a maelstrom of swirling energy. From each of the three points two golden lights strobe around the ground in random directions away from its sides, vaporizing or detonating anything they touched. After two seconds of this, the six lights fuse into three and all intersect at Apollomon's location, passing through him and forming another triangle on the ground, and inside it, yet another maelstrom was born. Apollomon struggles to move, but can't seem to budge from the intersection of light, pinned between the two tetrahedrons. From the maelstroms arose a second, solid tetrahedron each, hovering inside their respective polyhedron, large enough that its points could touch the light beam vertices going through Apollomon and the maelstrom-generating face of its domain. They begin to twist and spin around, and as they do, their sides light up, and then unleash triangular beams of destruction from each facet, racing across heaven and earth as they gyrate. The beams of the smaller polyhedron vaporizes all in its way, wasting all the trees and a 500 foot layer of earth they sat on in the area, and the larger polyhedron was worse, with whole mountains being erased with no effort, fissures sliced into the surrounding continent, splitting the land around them into mountain islands in a mantle sea, the beams flying into the sky smashing through more Dominion headquarters wreckage, occasionally nicking the moon, and what beams that struck into the earth at sharp angles went busting out of the planet in different places, sending a rush of flaming magma to the surrounding areas. Miles away, Araiya, Yamato, and Paladin Lilymon run, strafe, and dodge the beams heading their way. Araiya screams out as they do, "What the hell is going on?!" From the ends of the golden beams, powerful balls of light, filled with a type of golden leaf buckshot, began to make their way to one another. As they did, the tetrahedrons stopped gyrating, the top one pointing up and the bottom pointing down, two of their beams intersecting at Apollomon's exact location, burning away at him, as the other beams continue to fire in the directions they face, portions of the ground around Apollomon that remained turning white, combusting, melting, and even boiling away. Shockwaves lash out a 40-mile radius. Araiya and company suddenly gets taken for a ride. They start to lift off into the air and go soaring out of control as the deadly portion of the wave closed in on them. Quickly, they held hands as to keep themselves from being pulled apart from one another. Araiya wails, "Oh great!! I tried to tell Taichi…"

Paladin Lilymon turns and shouts, "Shut up!! Now grab my arms!! I think I push off of this and get us in the clear!!" Araiya has a look of disbelief.

Yamato interjects, "It's better than dying!!" He wraps his right arm around Paladin Lilymon's left arm. Reluctantly, Araiya takes her right arm. Kokuwamon states, "I do not know if this is safe. We could into debris along the way, not to mention the negative gravitational forces on your bodies will be detrimental to your bodies, possibly causing a blackout, hemorrhages, or broken bones. It would also be hard for you to hold me, Araiya, since I weigh more than most…"

Araiya interrupts, "It doesn't matter what happens to me during this. If it means we live to fight another day, then I'll just have to worry about the consequences later."

Paladin Lilymon comments, "I didn't know you can so free-thinking and emotional when you want to be."

Araiya digresses, "Chop, chop!! Living is more important now, but let's not mention this to Lewis, shall we?"

To this, she is answered, "Whatever. Hold on tight!!" The wave roared forward, now just a few feet from them. Yamato and Araiya held tight to Paladin Lilymon as she spun around to face the wave and drew her hands forward.

"Palatial Flower Cannon!!"

The beam shoots past the evacuating air and strikes the destructive force itself, and like matching magnetic poles, the beam thrusts the five away at incredible speeds. Pops and other funny sounds can be heard coming from Araiya's right arm as she struggles to hold Kokuwamon in her hand. Araiya grimaces as blood rushes away from her head and back. She calls out, "I won't ever let go Kokuwamon!!" This is followed by a loud snap, and Araiya screams out, an obvious bone fracture, but she still holds her grip.

Back at the source, the beams narrow in on Apollomon, sandwiched in the middle of all the beams. He is showing some signs of injury, but he continues to struggle on to no avail. Lily looks on, staring at him, as though she wants to take pity on him. She asks aloud, "Why? Why do you keep struggling? I see it, I feel it, your pain, but you keep trying to fight back." The six balls meet in the center, sending agonizing golden leaves and powerful energies at Apollomon from eight different directions, and liberates the power, sending it out over 110 miles in every direction, quickly swallowing the first wave. As the wave encroached on Paladin Lilymon and the others, it hit her beam, destabilizing it, and sending them flying backwards, reaching speeds of Mach 40, throwing all of them well clear of the destructive range, but causing Yamato and Araiya to pass out and lose their grip on Paladin Lilymon, causing them to hit the ground at supersonic speeds, thrashing them about at they skipped across the ground, abruptly stopping. They lay on the ground, parts of them bent in ways unnatural, and bone that stuck out of the skin, but in Araiya's right hand was Kokuwamon's hand, never letting go throughout all of it. Araiya weakly states, "I told you I wouldn't let go…" At which time she rolls her eyes and passes out. Paladin Lilymon quickly stopped and skidded on her feet, breaking the heels off, then grinding across the forest floor on her back, coming to a stop when she hits a tree root. Paladin Lilymon lies there, staring forward, and asks, "This power is so awesome, that we cannot fight it alone. Can you fight the demons of your mind… or are the demons trying to stop you Lily?"

Over at the church, around the time Araiya and them first encountered problems on their side, sounds of button mashing click in the chamber, and a wire frame shadow appears next to the sitting Lewis. Lewis says, "Good thing I realized I could make some new garb reality with the EDI by converting some of this digital rubble into fabric. Yes. This will do nicely…" Pieces of stone debris rose up and bonded to the frame, and then became data. "Now to change. I guess Araiya won't be getting her outfit back after all." His shadow shows him standing up, and then, from top to bottom, his outline changing, becoming larger and more flowing, something quite loose covering him. He walks back into view, wearing a white long-sleeved gi, silver hakama, and geta (Wooden sandals) on his feet. "Whatever forces designed Lily's outfit had a good idea." Jun tugs on his sleeve and pants leg. Lewis looks back and notices a small flaw in the design, by mistake he had copied the design of Lily's bow sash, but silver instead of red. "Guess I can fix that later." Jun continues to tug on him, pointing to the door. Lewis again comments, "So what that I'm wearing a big pretty bow around my waist? If it's doing its job, I can really care less what it looks like, and seeing that my pants are not falling down around my knees from all your tugging, I'd say it is."

Finally, Jun, unable to grasp his attention, shouts out, "I couldn't give a damn about your clothes!! I want to know what you think we should do about that!!" She points directly towards the wave approaching the cathedral. Lewis walks out, and looks around. From a me sleep…" He walks over to the edge of the new cliffside, looking down at the magma bed many miles below, then back up at the wave. He calmly walks back like nothing is going on behind him. He says out loud, "Screw the church!! Let's save ourselves. You can always rebuild anyway." The bishop goes to argue when he grabs everyone and pops away to safety. The bishop suddenly looks around to see they are far away from his parish, and goes to argue again when Lewis says, "Can't talk, sleep. Wake me in 26 minutes." With that he falls out on the ground and begins snoring as debris bounces and flies at them, most of which grinds to a halt before them, while the rest is stopped by Chibi Seishinmon.

Back at the battle, Apollomon is screaming out, but muted by the sounds of the energies reacting to one another. Leaves continue to try and drive through him, although they do not seem to be doing a good job. Finally, the attack ends, Apollomon floating in place, steam rolling off his body. He begins to rip out all of the leaves that managed to stick in him all over him. As he does, Lily thinks to herself, "He's alive…"

In the recesses of her mind, another voice, one more like Lily's real voice, says, "Stop holding back, you stupid child!!"

Her thoughts answer in the meek childish tone, "But I wasn't… I did give it everything… Please don't yell at me." Through her eyes, and into her mind we go, where she sees herself in a dark chamber under a light, in the same outfit as she is in now, but even younger and without the white skin and bleeding gash, like a normal little child. The only other she is able to see is a shadowy figure before her. The figure says to her, using Lily's voice, "I'll shout at you when I so desire. You must obey me if want to be forgiven, my dear Nemesis."

Lily says, "He seems like a nice person…"

The figure shouts, "Apollomon is not your friend!! Anyone who dares stand in the way of my… the planet's plans must be eliminated!!" She calms down a lot, "You however, are the only one that can do it, seeing as how you have a body, and I don't. Ni-Kokuwamon is gone, and it's your fault, but I can take you to him. Only once you do what is demanded, however, can you be forgiven for your crimes and taken to him, so I want you to continue as planned, and make the world happy again." Lily's figure goes away. The shadowy figure stands up and walks forward, thinking secretly, "Ambient Feralmon… Ni-Kokuwamon… Vindicator 1… They ruined everything. I figure out the perfect solution to the Dominion problem, and they ruined it…" Forward she steps, in the light, to reveal what looks like Lily as an adult, with a psychotic glaze in her eyes. "But no matter, and they will all be dealt with, for I, Lily Fallon, shall still be the victor!!"

Back in the land of the sober and conscious, Apollomon pulls the last leaf out of him and holds his back. He mentions, "Now I got to admit that it did hurt a bit more than I had expected with these new powers, but for all that it's worth, I seem to have come out of this a little wiser…" He looks at Lily, who seems to be spaced out in the air. "Lily? Hello? Anyone home?" He flies over to her and then begins to wave his hands in front of her face. He then scratches his head. "Oh, don't tell me she fell asleep in mid-air." He flies all around her, poking and prodding at her to see if she would respond, but nothing happened. He goes over to her right ear and screams, "HELLO IN THERE!!" but he gets no response. "Maybe she used so much energy that she must have zoned-out from the drain…" He then flies back, exclaiming, "…But I can take no chances with her!! I must finish her off to stop her from harming anyone else, and to show you the light of truth!!" Just then, all of his compartments open up, and then, his halo ignites into billowing flames, and the blue glow around goes away, replaced behind him with a brilliant white ring, and burning purple irradiating light from the outside edge of it in all directions, forming a warped, rippling, burning spectral trail behind him as he moves. "Maximum power!!" he shouts into the heavens. Massive light particles bombard the crystals on his body, the turbines turn rapidly, and the black grids of the solar panel illuminate. "Now here we go…"

"The Flare Consequence!!"

Like a meteor going the wrong way, Apollomon ascends into the stratosphere, and even further, rushing into the void of space, his solar panel above his head, his form wrapped in burning blue and white, with magnetic bolts running down him, and then he reaches the sun in just five seconds, the very fabric of space and time folding as he accelerated, although time did seem to pass all that differently around him. With the panel, he punched the sun itself, sending ripples and waves across the corona, which began to reverberate back at a rapid pace. The sun began to shine blue and indigo and white, but slowly return to normal as the ripples come back to Apollomon. Just around his fist, the sun begins to turn black. The waves surge up and surround Apollomon in a massive, unnatural solar flare, all of which happened in just a couple of seconds. He draws his fist and the solar panel from the burning mass of hydrogen, and flips about, his fist now pointing back at the Digital World, and he rockets back, space folding before him and distances shortening. The flare perpetually intensified around Apollomon, becoming wider than a football field in diameter as he re-entered the atmosphere. As he did, air molecules floating for miles around the area almost instantly ignited and self-destructed about a second after Apollomon passes them. From the reaction to air, the flare caused the sky to distort and ripple like air around hot pavement. Clouds, filled with rain, fell apart and exploded, flaming waves of hydrogen turning the sky white. As he closes, Apollomon draws his fist back to strike Lily, who still seems to be in her stupor. "To save you from yourself!!" Apollomon screams in the last few feet. He thrusts his forward, when, to his greatest surprise, Lily begins to pivot out of the way, failing to connect. Apollomon, in the split second, notices the look in her face, a look of wonder. On the flip side, Lily ponders, "Save me from myself? What does he mean? Is what I'm doing right… No, I must be forgiven… I must do as I'm to…" She is then swept up in the wave of exploding air as Apollomon hits the ground. She falls on the ground with her left side burning. Immediately, she gets to her feet and spins about, snuffing the flames, revealing her left sleeve in burnt tatters, much of her left pant leg destroyed, her elven shoes all but destroyed, a tear in the upper part of the left side of the sash, and most of the spikes on her right bracer plate partly or almost completely melted. Across the lower part of her left arm were a series of blisters on her skin. She had no time to evaluate the state of her attire or her skin, instead throwing her hands before her, shoving the newly formed super-explosion from Apollomon's attack back. It slid her back a little, but then she shoves back, inverting the whole explosion, creating a dome shaped explosion wave pointing into the earth, with unstable beams of energy bursting out of the planet and into space. The piece of land Lily stands on suddenly gives, and then Apollomon roars out of the pandemonium, his violet spectral the only thing visible, and smashes Lily with a left uppercut, then things all around them seem to slow down, the background taking on a blue tint, and the explosion moving only a hundredth of its normal speed, Apollomon now visible, showing some new scuffs, bruises, and cuts on his torso and right arm, along with his cuts from earlier. With all the modifications of earlier still going, he swings his right arm and slices Lily across her waist and abdomen, mostly on the left side, with his solar panel, cutting the fabric, and then her skin, open, followed up by a windmill kick to her head and a bicycle kick to her back. Lily spits out a little blood, then flips backwards and holds her side. Her hands shimmer, and then come off the wound, which seems to have stopped bleeding, and then lights in on Apollomon with a not-all-that-fast fist assault, but she keeps landing her powerful punches to Apollomon's chest, head, gut, and right arm as he seems to react at speeds like a normal human possesses, as though the fight was in a state of slow-motion so we can see it, but unlike slow motion, they seem to talk at normal speed, with Lily, as she wails away on Apollomon, stating, "Planet, this will be harder than I first thought." Below them, the explosion had barely moved. The rate of punching speeds up and her fists seem a bit blurry. Across Apollomon's chest are swollen areas, grayish bruises, and a crack in gold gem-set over his heart, but he still managed to block about two-thirds of the punches. At that moment, she lands her right knee into lower left section of his ribs (False ribs, left side) and smashes them, then plants her foot squarely in his chest, sending back toward the blast. Apollomon, gritting his teeth, notices a small rock hanging in the air. He maneuvers for it, and makes the connection, thinking, "Man, my arms are sore from blocking all that… Wait… Dammit, she broke my ribs!!" He leaps off the rock, which had only moved less than an inch while he was on it. "Hand to hand, she has me whipped. I have found out however from Lily that I can combine attacks in the Super Mode, but I'm still at a disadvantage. I just have to keep my distance and frustrate her somehow… I know what I'll do…"

"Taiyo Mana Bomb!!"

He calmly moves his straight left arm out with his palm, thumb folded, pointing back and to the left, his bent right arm pointing forward, palm with thumb extended forward, and his right leg bent, knee pointing left. He then lowers his right leg back to normal beside his left leg as he draws his arm inward in front of him, extending his left as he draws in his left arm, and bringing his right arm closer to his waist, resulting in his right forearm around waist level, his palm pointing forward and to the left, and his left elbow at chest level, his left palm sitting level with his face, pointing to the right. He then draws his hands closer, palms facing each other, claps, then holds them together before him and closes his eyes. Static bolts of lightning spark to life in front of him, and tiny particles are sucked into the mini-storm. The particles amass, with one giant flaming ball in the middle, and more forming. These smaller balls, ten in all, two close to the orb and eight further away, are grasped by the lightning and orbit the giant ball, sending back their own electrical charge as they each follow their orbits. Chain lightning bellows out the flaming mass, striking the explosion wave and debris in the air. Inside the giant ball, two tiny particles remain. He opens his eyes, and the attack races of, dipping down and to the right at first, but turns and heads straight for Lily. Lily sees it coming and moves clear, but then, from one of the columns of energy raging up from the ground, Apollomon bursts out and lands his fist in her back, and races for the edge of explosion, a wall of flaming light, and shoves Lily into it. Using her as his shield, Apollomon busts through the boundary, with writhing Lily gritting her teeth all the while. Lily then reacts by rocking her feet back, then forward, throwing her off his fist, then kicking off it to get some distance. Apollomon then grinned.

"Doragon no Hikari!!"

Thousands of slow-moving fire dragons went after Lily. She flies backwards, bobbing and weaving through the onslaught. Many dragons that miss hit the ground or sometimes another dragon and explode, but a couple of seconds into the explosions, they slow down and take a blue hue like everything else. Birds flying from the destruction of the big blast seem frozen in the sky. Lily continues to evade the dragon hordes, which seem to be gaining a little speed. The dragons start to gain ground, a few explosions nipping at Lily's feet. As some bust out of the ground at her, she ascends higher. Apollomon looks up as he flies, a smile of a plan going to plan. When she ascends to about 500 feet, Apollomon calls out, "Now, I'll combine it with Fusion Rings…" He takes his stave and swings it, forming a ribbon that slips through the dragons and grabs Lily's ankles, slowly wrapping her up. Nineteen dragons gather around and surround her in a spiral cocoon, their mouths facing her, but one hole remains, as one dragon is on his way. All the dragons open their jaws wide, grand atomic forces building before them. Apollomon then continues, "…and the Taiyo Mana Bomb from earlier!! It is a move I call… Gimu-teki na Suiso Ryu Rei Nijuko!! (Translation: Twenty Binding Hydrogen Dragon Spirits. Hope I got it right. -Ed.)" Just as the final dragon pulls up, the mana bomb slips through the hole. At this moment, the flow of time reverted to normal, and the blue tint went away, and the dragons contracted as they fired on Lily, detonating the air around her, the mana bomb made contact, and the dragons self-destructed, all at the same time. The air warped and rippled as the high levels were released, and unfettered lightning bolts struck the earth, and scratched across it. After a moment, Lily, tumbles out of control, continuing in the same direction she had been going, and Apollomon chasing after. As Lily went speeding away, Apollomon kept within 20 feet of her, and each it seemed she was about to regain control, he zapped her with another mana bomb, which didn't seem to hurt Lily, but kept her from getting her equilibrium back. This just keeps on going on and on…

Back where the bishop is lamenting over his lost place of worship, Lewis is sleeping away, and Bonnie is looking out in the direction Apollomon and Lily went. Bonnie mentions, "It's times like these I wish I had a telescope. I know that giant explosion on the horizon is around where they are, but I can't see much more besides a bunch of other explosions. Oh, I wish I knew what was going on…" Jun says, "Bonnie, if you can feel in your heart he's okay, then you shouldn't worry so much. Try and get your mind off of it for a little while. Let's talk about something…" Ni-Kokuwamon tugs on Jun's pant leg and asks, "How come he gets to sleep and I don't…" His attention suddenly shifts to the explosions and he becomes fascinated, continuing, "…Pretty… I want to blow things up too." He looks at a tree, and then laser beams shoot out from his eyes, and blows up the tree. He stands there and laughs like an idiot. Jun slaps her forehead. Bonnie comments, "Reminds me of Meramon when I first met him. He's a bit smarter now, but he still isn't the brightest apple in the bunch. That honor would have to go to Lotusmon."

Jun laments, "Why couldn't Ni-Kokuwamon be as smart as her? I want my old Andromon back…" Ni-Kokuwamon stands in front of her with a burning branch. The bishop looks at him, but only sees the bush and exclaims, "It's the burning bush!! God is speaking to me!!"

Ni-Kokuwamon exclaims, "Oh, stop worrying about it, babe. Think of it as a new beginning." The bishop's face lights up. Ni-Kokuwamon carries on, "Say, after this how about we go and kill all humans?"

Jun howls, "For the last time, no, we will not kill all humans!! It isn't right!!" Ni-Kokuwamon eats the burning branch. The bishop sees this and bellows, "Blasphemer!! You just ate the Lord!!" Jun looks at him as though he was a moron. He charges at Ni-Kokuwamon, draws back his foot, and kicks him, only to shatter his boot and break his big toe, and Ni-Kokuwamon never flinches. Ni-Kokuwamon says, "Okie-dokie, no killing humans… Got you…" He looks at Jun, who is looking at the bishop, and turns to look at the bishop, who is hopping around on one foot, and then asks him, "What's your problem?" He keeps hopping around, holding his foot, and then falls over. Ni-Kokuwamon gleefully comments, "Well f*** you too!!" Just then, the explosions started getting louder and brighter. Chibi Seishinmon flies over to Bonnie and mentions, "Bonnie, you said you wanted to see what's going on, and I think you're going to get your wish, because here she comes, and she's being chased by a blue digimon with a burning violet haze in its wake… Wait, that's Apollomon!! They both look like they've been fighting for over an hour, but it's actually only been about two minutes since they left."

Bonnie desperately asks her, "Who's winning?"

To this, Chibi Seishinmon replies, "Well, Apollomon is on the offensive, but seems to have taken quite a bit of punishment himself, worse than anything Lily seems to have suffered at his hand. Right now, he keeps hitting her with long range attacks, which seems to be just enough to keep her from righting herself, and he seems to be leading her back here."

Jun utters, "What? Why is he doing that? Doesn't he know we're here?"

In the sky, another dragon hits Lily, and she goes spinning out of control, to which she thinks, "Why does he keep doing this? I feel sick…" As they pass over a series of redwood trees, Lily tries to flip herself head first towards the ground, and manages this, dropping like a rock into the trees. Apollomon stops and thinks, "Oh well. I guess the trick was played out, but onward I must drive her." He descends through the coniferous foliage, hacking through it with his solar panel. Immediately before him, he saw Lily falling, and then grabbing a branch, swinging off it, drawing her scythe, and flying up at an angle right foot first. Her foot flew for Apollomon's head, but by mere millimeters, he bends his head back and just evades her heel, but in the very edge of his sight, he notices the scythe blade ready to swing at his chest. Without hesitation, he thrusts the panel forward, catching the scythe on the flat tip of it. "Stalemate." Apollomon comments.

Lily, clueless, replies to him, "No, I don't play chess… That is from chess, right?" She draws back with her right foot and tries to bash her heel into his face, but Apollomon puts his left hand in the way, and then grabs her heel. As he struggles to hold her right foot, the scythe begins hacking through the panel. Apollomon postulates, "Not good. If I don't act, that scythe will rip clean through me, but I can't move my right arm because of the scythe, and I got her foot in my other hand. Maybe I can shove her away and then backhand her with the panel… No, I already know she has me beat on physical strength, so a shoving match won't work. It's all I can to hold it now… Maybe I'm going about this all wrong. Think about it, Apollomon!!" The panel tears open as the scythe breaks through, and is almost to his fist. He thinks back to earlier, as he fought her, and noticed a theme. "That's it!! This is Lily, but not quite. Normally, Lily would have been a bit more clever than this. Also, I've never seen her so happy or naïve as long as I've known her. She plays this out like it were a game… It's like fighting the inner child Lily hid away, and if this childlike personality is calling the shots, maybe I should play her game…" He snags a part of her shoe near the end with his index and middle fingers, and then the heel with his teeth, then with a push from his hand and a tug back with his mouth, he pulls it off her heel, then with a few flicks of his fingers, he sends the shoe floating down to the forest floor. Lily utters an "Oh?!" in surprise. With that, he takes, with the same fingers, and begins to tickle her foot. She begins to giggle, and the scythe stops, cutting slightly into his middle finger. Not long after, she starts to all-out laugh, and he could use his whole hand to tickle her. As she laughs, she lets go of the scythe and crosses her arms. She calls out, "Come on *laugher* stop it… Tickling isn't fair *more laughter*!! How can I *heavy laugher* free you all if *laugher* if you keep tickling me *descends into uncontrollable laughter*?"

A few miles away, Chibi Seishinmon makes the remark, "Now he's… tickling her… All this, and I'm reduced to watching a tickle fight."

Bonnie replies with embarrassment, "Well, at least she isn't destroying anything else."

Jun tacks on, "Yeah… I think I like the tickling better than I do all the explosions." As she finished, Ni-Kokuwamon jumps on her and begins tickling her. Lewis lays sprawled out on the ground and snores.

Back in the forest, Apollomon keeps on tickling, but then flings Lily by the foot into a tree, causing the top half to fall to the ground, and then he floats to the ground. Lily calms down a bit when Apollomon calls out, "Bet you can't catch me!!" and runs away after finishing, heading straight for Bonnie and company. He dashes across the forest floor and out of the forest at many thousands of miles per hour. Lily peeled herself off the felled treetop and dashes after him, beginning to quickly catch up. Apollomon pulls Lily's scythe from his panel and holds it in his left hand, then looks back to see Lily in pursuit. He swings her scythe and sends it flying at her like a throwing axe, then speeds up some. Lily sees her scythe coming at her, and without forethought, caught it in the middle of its handle, then sped up even more. Apollomon keeps going and spots the group. "Yes, I knew they would be here!!" He thinks. Lily then catches up and a fierce melee occurs as they run for the group, with fists flying as they draw near, looking more like hand-to-hand combat from G Gundam, then sometimes pulling, or shoving, away from the ferocity. From a ewis, and lock into more fighting, this time blurring beyond recognition. Loads of energy bolt out around Lewis from the unintelligible blur, but not a one come close to touching him, which he continues to sleep through. Jun exclaims, "What the hell is going on?!" Chibi Seishinmon stares deeply at the fighting pair. She deduces, "It would seem that they are fighting at a speed faster than the human eye can register, but they are not moving from that spot, so what you see is that blur." On the flip side, Apollomon and Lily aren't too fast, punching and swinging their weapons respectively, but everything has turned blue again. Back with the others, they can only watch the blur, except for Chibi Seishinmon and Bonnie, who can seem to make out what is going on. From the chaos, the two hear Lily call out, "Atlas Bolt!!" and watched a beam shoot off into space. Just then, Apollomon fell down to the right of Lewis and skidded across the ground, bloodied up some, his compartments closing, and the burning ring behind him gone. Lily stops and gets on the ground, some blood running from her bottom lip and hair a mess, but not really injured in any significant way. Lily draws her scythe and exclaims, "I liked playing with you. Now, I wish your soul peace and happiness…" Apollomon looks to his right and smiles, and then reaches out in that direction. Holding something, Apollomon looked at her and shook his finger. Bonnie looks at what he holds and the same grin makes itself home on her face. Apollomon says to Lily as she begins to swing, "Now, before you set me free, I think there is someone you may want to talk to…" He pulls his arm back, and held in his right hand was Ni-Kokuwamon. He stops gnawing and pushing on Apollomon's hand to look at Lily and exclaims as he waved his left hand violently, "Hi!!!" The scythe blade stopped inches from Ni-Kokuwamon, and he shouts to his reflection, "I see you…" He sinks his teeth into the blade, ripping off a chunk of metal. "Mmmm…… Roughage…" The look on Lily's face went from happiness to absolute terror. She shakes in place, trembling, "Ni-Kokuwamon… No…… It can't… You're… dead. You can't be here. Please go on. I'm not worthy of your presence. It's my fault you died, and I must make the planet happy if I'm to be forgiven. She says I have to destroy everyone…" She breaks into tears. Ni-Kokuwamon, just staring blankly as he chewed on the metal, remembers something Jun said…

~*Flashback*~

Jun howls, "For the last time, no, we will not kill all humans!! It isn't right!!"

~*Flashback Ends*~

He swallows the metal and says, "Killing all humans isn't right, though…"

Jun wisecracks, "Well, to be technical, killing anything can be considered wrong…" Chibi Seishinmon silences her real quick. Lily falls to her knees and holds her hands out. She begs, "What do I do, Ni-Kokuwamon? If I don't do as I'm told and fail the world, everything will suffer, the emissary will never give me forgiveness, and I will never see you again!!" Suddenly, her voice changes, and she angrily screams, "It's a trick!! Destroy them!! Destroy them all!!" Bonnie looks at her, and in her mind, the pieces to this puzzle come together. At that moment, the other voice came, screaming at the top of her lungs with sorrow, "SHUT UP!!" The ground rumbled with her scream. Bonnie walked over to her, everyone gasping, and squatted down right next to her. Apollomon urged, "What are you doing, Bonnie? She's unstable!! She will destroy you in a heartbeat!!" She looks at him sternly, then back at Lily. Bonnie says to Lily, "Little girl, who are you?" Lily doesn't answer her, but she does hear her, and looks to Ni-Kokuwamon for what to do. Ni-Kokuwamon tells Lily, "The scary glowy girl has commanded it!!"

Lily looks over at Bonnie and says, "Well, the planet, the emissary to it, at least, says names are hurtful, but said to tell them I am the Red Lily, or Nemesis."

Bonnie goes, "How long has the world been talking to you?"

Lily answers her, "Well, it itself has not said anything to me. The emissary tells me the planet's will.

Bonnie questions, "And just how long has this `emissary' been talking to you?"

"Since the bad men from the sky came and destroyed Jijimon's village. It told me it was my fault, and I had to make the planet happy again if I wanted to see Ni-Kokuwamon again. I changed into this to do as I was told, for the world, for Ni-Kokuwamon…"

Bonnie says, "Bad men… You must mean the Dominion!! And the emissary, as you call her, that's Lily!!"

Lily utters, "She's Lily? No, I don't like her. She's scary and mean…"

Bonnie thinks, "By the kami, it makes absolute sense!!" She speaks to her, "Okay, Li… er… Nemesis, this will hard to accept, but it is the truth. Lily is not speaking for the planet. She is just after her own mad desire. What happened in Jijimon's village was not your fault. A bad man called Attorneymon did that. He sent them there to destroy the village and everyone in it." Unsure and afraid, Lily moaned and hyperventilated, but Bonnie calmly continues, "Calm down…"

Lily screams, "He must hurt… hurt bad…"

Bonnie says, "Listen… Yes, he must be defeated so no one else is hurt, but you can't just go and madly attack him. He's very smart and will use that to his advantage. Just calm down, and we can help…"

In Lily's head, Lily screams out, "How dare you talk with her?!"

Nemesis (So dubbed for this purpose) pouts, "You lied to me…"

Lily exclaims, "Well…" Lily thinks, "Guess that act won't work anymore…" She goes, "Listen to me, my dear Nemesis…" Lily (Nemesis) turns her back to her. Lily goes, "Okay…"

In the physical plain, Lily's arm shoots up and her hand points at Ni-Kokuwamon, amassing energy, while the other is shoving on it. Lily exclaims, "Listen to me, my Nemesis, or I shall use my own awesome power to smash this Ni-Kokuwamon to pieces!!" She lowers her head and utters, "Okay…"

Back in her head, Lily continues, "This is just a sample of my power, which I slowly regaining. Now, listen well. Bonnie here didn't tell you the whole story. Yes, the bad men came to the village, but they came to get you." Nemesis stares at her. "Yes, it's the truth. If you had never been there, none of this would have ever happened, and the real Ni-Kokuwamon would still be alive. The bad men came, but they came for you!!" Nemesis falls on her hands, and then her knees, but then looks up. "Now, I know I wasn't exactly honest with you at first, and you don't like me anymore, but right now I got the power. Now I want you to do this one little thing for me."

Nemesis goes, "Why?"

Lily responds aloud to everyone, "I want you to go and find Attorneymon, and I want you to destroy him, everyone there with him, and anyone who tries to stop you. Do this, and I promise you will never hear from me again. You don't, and I nuke this Ni-Kokuwamon."

Lily (Nemesis) says, "Okay, Lily…"

Lily (Lily) then looks at Bonnie and grins, commenting, "Gullible little waif. Do not worry, when this is done, my Nemesis, Attorneymon, all of you will get that permanent `vacation' from me!!" Lily then flies off.

Apollomon exclaims, "I was right. That… thing… isn't Lily, per say, but I just can't place what that could be. I have never seen Lily act so much like…"

Bonnie butts in, "…A child!! Think about it. Have you ever seen her act her age before?" Everyone shakes his or her heads. "Has anyone ever seen her ever actually look happy?" Again, everyone shakes their heads no. "No, she's always been a hostile, lonesome, dull child as long as we've known her. Like Atlas, she attempted to bear the weight of the world on her shoulders, but she failed."

Chibi Seishinmon comments, "As for me, I have only known her for the three days, and over time, as we held her in our detention cell with her powers bound, she continued to demand her release so she continue her attack on Attorneymon, and we refused every time, and each time she preached about the safety of the world, but in those waning hours of that last day, before this all came to be, Ni-Kokuwamon went in there to give her supper, and then after a while, I remembered hearing the laughter of a child, not of Ni-Kokuwamon, but of a little girl, a little girl who just awoke to her birthday."

Jun mentions, "I guess what you are saying is that conventional fighting alone will not work. We must dig into her mind, her essence, and convince her this is wrong, but we have to know just what happened to her over those times we were not with her, and the only way I know how is to get the one who knew her best, and for the rest, I fear we may have to sign a pact with the devil…"

Apollomon wails, "You aren't serious, Jun?! Are you?"

Jun goes, "For those answers, Attorneymon is the only one that can answer them."

Back a ways we go now, back to the time of Lily's colossal combo attack on Apollomon, to see what some of the others were doing, and by others, I mean the three groups still on the planet. From a bird's eye, we see the action. With cathedral site far over to the west, Lily and Apollomon fighting just to the southeast, Attorneymon to the northeast, and Valkyries coming from the north, the attack party is heading north towards Attorneymon, all riding Imperialdramon. As the explosion takes place, Yolei is the first to notice it. She babbles incoherently as she gestures towards it. Taichi whips out his monocular and looks at it. He holds out his EDI to analyze them. "This makes no sense. The profiles state them as Lily and Apollomon, but they look nothing like them."

Takeru takes a look and says, "Amazing!! Bonnie must have gotten Apollomon to reach his Super Mode again!!"

Taichi exclaims, "Super Mode?! What the hell are you talking about?!"

Takeru simply states, "Just look at the power meter for Apollomon and compare it to his Super Mode, and all your questions will be answered." Taichi looks through the digimon file memory and finds the original Apollomon entry, then displays the info split-screen. Taichi almost drops the EDI when he sees the results. "This is insane!! It says he's almost 10,000 times stronger, faster, and more cunning than he was as normal Apollomon, and gradually going up!!" Everyone gasps at this. He continues, "I'm having the EDI look for the closer power levels to his besides Lily…" It runs its search, and Taichi drops his jaw at the results. "Guys, either this is broken, or its saying Apollomon is one and a half times stronger than Attorneymon!!"

Yolei goes, "That can't be right!! Apollomon was never a match for Attorneymon before!!" Outside, Imperialdramon banks to the right as the waves near, and then the attack ends. Taichi then notices a faint signal. "Guys, if I didn't know better, I'd swear Yamato and Araiya were up ahead."

Daisuke says, "Head to that signal, Imperialdramon!!" They quickly rush out to the source of the signal, and after a frantic thirty seconds reach the location, where they find Araiya, Yamato, and Paladin Lilymon sprawled out on the ground. Everyone ran out to them, and Mimi looks at Araiya. Araiya, half conscious, sees Masato and says to her, as though drunk or on muscle relaxants, "Oh, hi Masato… Yeah, we found Lily, and went running away, and then the magical pixie lifted off the ground and we flew away, and I told Kokuwamon I wouldn't let go, and I didn't, and then you came, and I said `Hi Masato,' and I told you we found Lily, and went running away…"

Masato says, "Stop Araiya, you're repeating yourself. You've got a concussion, and a bad one to boot."

Araiya exclaims, "No I don't. I know when I got a freakin' concussion."

Masato goes, "Yes, you do."

Araiya comments, "No I don't."

Masato goes, "Yes you do, now shut up."

Araiya, "No, I don't, and don't you take that tone with me, missy… What were we talking about?" Over by Yamato, everyone worries about the shape of Yamato and Tsunomon, but Mimi squats down by Paladin Lilymon. Paladin Lilymon looks around and grins. Mimi shrugs her when Paladin Lilymon exclaims, "Why the hell did you do that? I already got a headache…"

Mimi mentions, "Well, I just was wondering if you still awake."

Paladin Lilymon says, "Well I am, and I don't want to add `whiplash' to my list of problems. Say, you got any sort of ointment? My back is burning up." From behind, a long strip of the armor that should be on her back is stripped, and her tore up back is visible. Mimi asks of her, "Just what happened?" Just then, the two notice everyone, carrying the other four, running to Imperialdramon as fast as they can. Mimi asks, "Are we missing something?" She turns around and looks at the sky, and the sun mysterious seems a lot closer than normal, then bounces back to place. "That's new." This is where Apollomon came down with the flare, and the massive burst of wind from it throws the two into Imperialdramon, then skid down his side. Paladin Lilymon sits on the ground stunned with spirals in her eyes and mutters, "Whoever did that is so dead when I get my hands on them."

Back en route on Imperialdramon, Patamon, Tailmon, and Ardillamon try to watch the action going on through Taichi and Tai's monoculars as Paladin Lilymon recounts all that happened on her end. Ardillamon's eyes move from side to side so fast, it's hard to watch, then he gets woozy, and falls over dizzy, while Patamon and Tailmon keep their eyes locked on it. Paladin Lilymon wraps up, "Well, we did get the people outside, but they were too angry at Lewis to listen to us, and then that's when Lily busted in. She seems completely unlike herself in every way. She sounded, acted, and thought like a seven-year-old child. She laughed, giggled, and smiled, things I have never seen her do before. She even had red hair!! She spoke to us about pain and suffering, and she has come to end it all forever, and then if Lewis hadn't to come to my side, I would have joined the people and digimon that were obliterated by Lily." Everyone shudders and gasps at just the thought. Continuing, "Chibi Seishinmon was able to protect us behind the Big Guard barrier technique. As we prepared, I couldn't help but notice she would rub her eye and fling what seemed to be tears on the remains, and they gave off a white light, which she always followed up with two claps and bowing her head…"

Tetsuo interrupts, "That kind of sounds like she's trying to mimic a standard harae ceremony that Iori does, but she's forgetting the norita, and she's clapping where she should wave a haraigushi. Despite the flaws, I think she's trying to forgive those she destroyed, and purify their spirits so they will know no suffering in the afterlife, but to do what she said, she would have to kill every living thing, including herself, because suffering is just another part of life."

Paladin Lilymon goes on, "The others hid behind the barrier as we tried to attack her, but then Dao Garurumon was caught by Lily and hit so hard, and knocked across the barrier twice, that this is the pitiful condition he's in now, and I estimate she was only using a fraction of her power. After that, all we could do is wait in the barrier and figure out something to do. Chibi Seishinmon explained how the barrier worked and the first one to use, a `Tsukiyumimon.'" Sirenamon seems to open her eyes some. "After that, Lily broke the barrier and Araiya dragged us off and left the others as we planned to hold at bay. About the time that attack you must have seen began, I used my energy to push off the other attack and throw us clear, but the G-forces got the best of those two, and then we hit the ground, skipping and sliding across the earth to where you found us, which I estimate was over 100 miles."

Tailmon says, "Well, from what I can tell, Apollomon seems to have Lily at bay… for now. It's hard to tell from so far away, and besides, they've been fighting inside the explosion up until just now."

Sirenamon goes, "Well, you should rest now Paladin Lilymon, but say, while you're resting, could you tell me about what Chibi Seishinmon told you about this Tsukiyumimon?"

Taichi stands aside and thinks to himself, "Oh man… Seeing and hearing all this, I worried that maybe this setup is bad… If Apollomon is stronger than Attorneymon, and even he can't beat Lily, what chance would we have if he fails?"

They fly onward ever approaching their destination, but as they do, Attorneymon gets out the Megami's Spade. "Just six more minutes, Obliviomon…" Above his view, Another and Nobody hover sit, when That Other Kami comes rushing in. "Guys, have you heard about the Chosen Child digimon ascending to its Super Mode?!" The two there stutter and panic at the news.

Nobody says, "Man, the Ômikami sure is cutting it close with the clean-up!! Why didn't the Ômikami tell us this?" Out of nowhere, a small electrical zap goes off, hitting Nobody. From behind Nobody, The Main Kami shows up. He exclaims, "Because even I didn't see it coming. Despite our setback however, I know that even he could not handle Lily, but because of a small problem she is heading right here, along with the Elemental Valkyries, those new brats, and even some of the old ones that survived the little attack yesterday, so to insure things go to plan, I'm calling on kami to join with Attorneymon's generals like we did with X Apocalymon two billion years ago against Tsukiyumimon, but this time we don't have those accursed `Five Natural Orders' to fend off, and once he commits to the ceremony, we can amplify his generals' powers even further!!" All of a sudden a series of explosions go off to the north. Fenrirmon charges up to Attorneymon, announcing, "Valkyries to our north!! They somehow ambushed us in a strange fog, and it would seem Tamiko is with them, along with a couple of powerful strangers."

Attorneymon goes, "Well, take care of them!!" Fenrirmon nods and charges back.

Miles away, Lewis sits sleeping on the ground. Bonnie starts pacing back and forth, Jun is nervous, and Ni-Kokuwamon is pestering the bishop. Jun finally explodes and screams, "When the hell is he going to wake up!!" Everyone stops what he or she is doing to look at her. She tacks on, "Why is it we're stuck out here when everything we got to do is sitting hundreds of miles away?! Why is it that our only means of transport suddenly decided to go to sleep on us? Argh!!" She pulls on her hair and vents. As she does, she inadvertently rips some out. Her eyes tear up, and she holds the thinned-out area on the left side of her head, near the back. Chibi Seishinmon thinks, "Well, before that human rips herself bald, I'd best wake up Lewis." She flutters over and starts shaking him. Bonnie sees this and starts shaking her hands. "No, Chibi Seishinmon, don't!!" she blurts out. Chibi Seishinmon looks at Bonnie for a moment, when Lewis stirs, then shoots up, eyes wide open, and shouts, "Fick off!!" and then punches her down a hill before falling back over asleep. Bonnie snidely remarks, "Well, I tried to tell you, but no… Outside of his own will, it's almost impossible to wake this guy up, especially without getting your ass kicked, unless you're Lilymon, then you can get him to do anything." As she speaks, she takes hold of Apollomon's stave and starts poking him with it. At that point in time, he shoots back up. "Well, it's been twenty-six minutes. Let's… Hey, stop poking me with that!! Let's go… Where's Chibi Seishinmon?"

Back on the front lines, the Valkyries, Feral Rosemon, and Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon are cleaning up the grunts.

"Green Destiny!!"

Tomoemon clears away an entire row of shock troops with her sword.

"Raging Eye!!"

"Autumn Fan!!"

Raijin Lilymon blows a horde of men and digimon into the air, and Metal Lilymon's wings hurl into the storm and hacks them up. Warlilymon draws her arms out and begins spinning into the crowd.

"Nymph Spirit Cyclone!!"

Like a top swirling around amidst dominoes, Dominion forces just fall at her feet. Just then, Fenrirmon leaps out of the crowd and pounces on Warlilymon, knocking her down. He bounces off and turns around, and then opens his mouth.

"Blood of Odin!!"

What appears to be steaming blood gushes from his mouth. Warlilymon puts up her left arm in defense as the substance splatters on her armor, left thigh, clavicle area, and all over her left arm. Upon seeing this, she exclaims, "What the?" At that moment, the blotches begin to boil on her armor and skin, eating holes through both, then after a couple of seconds they ignite. Warlilymon is rolling in a fit to get the flames out and get the blood off as Fenrirmon cackles, "Foolish wretch, unless you're strong enough, which I doubt, you can't stop the flames, and the blood will eat away at you straight through until it reaches your blood and taints it, and then, before you die, you'll have hottest, longest hot flash you could ever have!!"

She rolls away, and says, "Not if I can help it!!"

Fenrirmon exclaims, "Hey, get back here!! Gleipner…" Before he could finish, his head twists to the right, slammed that way by the fist of Feral Rosemon, and then he goes flying through the soldiers, knocking them all down, and finally hitting a tree, and hits the ground. As he does, the tree makes a popping sound, and it falls down on him and the men he toppled. Warlilymon reaches a bush where gets up, unable to roll past it, and points her right hand at her neck. Her bracer switches to its cannon mode, and a narrow beam hits her, burning the spot on her neck, destroying the blood and sealing the wound. She does this to all the spots on her skin, but those remaining on her armor still burn. "Aw man, any minute they'll burn completely through, and then it'll eating my skin again. What am I going to do?!" Warlilymon ponders. A moment later, from behind the bush, her burning pieces of armor go flying up and fall down on the other side. Ducking behind the bush, Warlilymon exclaims, "That's one way of beating it you didn't think of Fenrirmon……" A cold breeze blows by. "Maybe I should start wearing something under my armor like Vulcan Lilymon does. I wish I did, because now I'm friggin' freezing, and I got nothing to wear!!" She pops her head up and looks at the flaming armor with lament. "Oh, why did I do that…" She holds her hands out, still wearing the right bracer, and tries reaching for the burning heap, while at the same time trying to keep behind the bush, to no avail. "Ack, this thing's got thorns!!" Back over at the battle, Sigmamon blasts wave after wave of vicious hordes away with telekinetic waves and sword slashes while hovering through the chaos. An organized group led by Megalomamemon rushes forward, kneels, and starts attacking Sigmamon. As they do, she leaps high into the sky.

"Temujin Seeds!!"

The seeds reduce over a third of the squad to balled-up quivering masses before they keel over. Sigmamon then bounds off a tree limb.

"Psychic Claw!!"

Megalomamemon leaps up as everyone around was mowed down by the telekinetic slash. While airborne, something catches Sigmamon's eye. She sees Feral Rosemon fighting off what seemed to be an entire army with little effort. As she watches, Sigmamon thinks, "By all things logical, how can she handle so many adversaries? She's even faster than I am, and I got the advantage of seeing my foe's immediate next move…" Megalomamemon grabs another tree, fires a missile through it, shoving him off it, and draws back his left arm. Sigmamon turns just in time to catch…

"Grinding Bayonettes!!"

He drives his fingers into a spot on her chest just below the neck, at the very top of her ribcage, and purées her flesh as he stands on her on the way to the ground. They hit the ground, and Sigmamon lets out a psychic scream as the lab-engineered monster's claws drive deeper into her body. He drools and cackles at Sigmamon, and popping sounds come from his fingers. "BOOM!!" He screeches. Sigmamon opens her eyes wide, then grabs him around his hips with her legs and begins to pull him off, when the missile in his arm fires. Sigmamon quickly slashes it, and it goes off between the two, throwing shards of casing into both of them and leaving the two as bleeding heaps on the forest floor. In the back, Stefan sits there, frustrated by all this. He finally snarls and says, "This is taking way too long!! Individual combat will get us nowhere!!"

Tamiko wisecracks, "Well then, why don't you conjure up a can of whoop ass to clear us a path, magic man from the future?"

Stefan answers, "Because, I'm saving my energies for Attorneymon and those Chosen Children. I have to eliminate both if I'm to possibly restore my timeline, and that will require a great deal of physical and mental power."

Lance overhears this and exclaims, "Have you lost your mind, Stefan?! They are on our side!!"

Stefan goes, "I know, but as long as they exist, then the master force behind all this can coax them to do their will, and their fighting will still destroy us all, and nothing will change. To stop a faceless puppeteer, you must wipe out every possible puppet."

Tamiko remarks, "Well, what happens when they find themselves a new puppet?" Stefan ignores this. He points into the fighting crowd, then stops. "There's Attorneymon. Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon, clear us a path!!" Feral Rosemon hears this and sees Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon get into position, and then scurries to the side. Lance screams out, "Fall back or get down now!!" Most of the Valkyries began to retreat, while others, like Warlilymon, took cover behind whatever they could find. Feral Rosemon joins Warlilymon. Warlilymon almost screams out in surprise. Feral Rosemon takes off the Dominion uniform she had been wearing and offers it. Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon shouts, "Fire in the hole!!" His cannon swivels and rears up on his shoulder.

"Yugoth Dark Reactor!!"

At the ends of the three smaller barrels, black electrical masses form. As they develop, they form bonds using bolts of energy. The main cannon then fires, and gives off a small shot, catapulting the delta-shaped energy formation like a grenade into the air. It flopped around on the ground amongst a horde of soldiers, whom noticed this weapon of mass destruction too late. From the three masses, macro-explosions go off, followed by a large black explosion, vaporizing all in the area. Debris goes flying in the air as Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon launches nine more of these mortars off in an area ahead of himself. Men and digimon alike were thrown to the wind by the onslaught. "Stefan, Feral Rosemon, Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon, move out!!" Tamiko yells in the chaos. As they move, Lance grabs Tamiko's arm and tells him, "It's not that I don't trust you, but I'm coming with you. We came to save Malachimon as well as stop Attorneymon, and I will let her get hit by some stray super attack as all of you make this foolhardy run, and nothing you do will change my mind." Tamiko stares for a moment, then nods. He waves his hand, and everyone moves. Feral Rosemon leaps out from behind the bush, the uniform off, and joins the charge.

On the other side of the conflict zone, Taichi and the crew make their landing amidst heavy fire. Daisuke exclaims, "Who's shooting at us? Is it the government?" Paladin Lilymon motions at Daisuke. Slowly he approaches. Paladin Lilymon faintly says, "Squat down, Daisuke." Slowly and anxiously, he does. He is then greeted with a slap upside the head. Imperialdramon answers, "I don't know. They're too far for me to see, but somehow they can see us!!"

Taichi goes, "Well, shoot back!! It'll probably disorient them long enough to land."

"Okay." Imperialdramon states.

"Positron Laser!!"

With his roar, he shot a swath of destruction ahead of him. He skids along the ground and grinds to a stop. Taichi leaps off Imperialdramon and announces, "Let's not power up too fast. We'll want to save power for our objectives. Keiko's group will up and over the enemy and engage the generals, as James' group will pave a path for my group. Let's do it!!" Keiko's group leaps out first.

"Tulisapia Warp Digivolve!! Hycinthasapia!!"

"Zenmon Warp Digivolve!! Nirvanamon!!"

"Scarletmon Warp Digivolve!! Phoenix Gryphonmon!!"

"Patamon, digivolve!! Angemon!!"

"Tailmon, digivolve!! Angewomon!!"

Everyone digivolved and left except for Angemon and Angewomon. Hikari gasped as she looked at Angewomon, who looked a bit different than normal. Her body suit covered more of her, including her shoulders, abdomen, and right leg. As with Angemon, her helmet was missing. From her waist down, her white suit faded to red, with the legs all in a bright red. The strangest thing was that she still had Tailmon's tail hanging there in the back, but slightly longer, and still with tail ring. Hikari gasps, "What happened to you?"

Angewomon responds, "I'm not sure, but it's probably a result of Lewis shattering the Egg of Light. I feel powerful, yet a little dizzy… Let's not worry about it now. We got an evil megalomaniac to stop!!"

Takeru adds, "Yeah, let's go!!" And so, they are taken into the arms of the angels and take to the skies.

"Hawkmon Warp Digvolve!! Valkyrimon!!"

Yolei exclaims to the digimon from the village and to James & Karen, "Hurry it up!! We don't got all day!!" And so, the digimon from another reality digivolve…

"Knightmon Warp Digivolve to Omega Knightmon!!"

"Mavermon Warp Digivolve to Suzukamon!!"

These travelers reach their Mega levels, one a knight in thicker armor, and the other in a white and red robe wearing a red sash, whom resembles Suzuka from Outlaw Star, and are profiled. "Omega Knightmon is a Mega digimon from another universe altogether. He is a bit more powerful than the great Megas of old, like Wargreymon or the Dark Masters, and this is reflected in his Omega Slash technique. Suzukamon is also Mega level from another universe, and is a Data type. Whereas Omega Knightmon is the loud, strong type, Suzukamon is the swift, silent, deadly type, and like Lewis, also seems to be a big fan of carrying around a big wooden sword. With it, she unleashes the might of `Dynamic Edge' and `Air Dynamic,' her two attacks." They rush out into the restarting maelstrom of missile and gunfire, attacks and high technology. Yolei goes, "Valkyrimon, show them whose house this is!!" He accelerates and draws his sword.

"Fenrir Swor…"

Just as he is to get ready to attack, he stop to notice that the lines of troops are changing, and filling with human ranks. Rina sits there boldly in front laughing at them. "What? You're going to strike down a fellow human being? Valkyrimon's Fenrir Sword technique will tear these men up, but if that's what you're going to do, do it, but it'll be on your hands." Valkyrimon charges down and stops. He asks, "What now? She's right. I can't strike them down."

Daisuke, still sitting on the back of Imperialdramon, pounds his fist into his back and curses, "How dare you use humans as your tool of guilt?!"

Imperialdramon says, "But we can't attack them. It'd be murder…"

Rina laughs at them. "You lack the guts to press on, and that's why we will never be beaten." She goes up to Yolei and kicks her in the stomach, throwing her to the ground and knocking the wind out of her. "I shall enjoy beating you all to death with my bare hands." Rina moves over and begins to kick her in the ribs over and over again. Every time Yolei goes to get up, Rina jabs her boot in her face. Daisuke leaps off of Imperialdramon to help, and Rina motions to two men. One throws a knife to Rina, while the other takes aim. The man aiming takes his shot and tags Daisuke in his left side, around his hip, causing him to fall turning to the left. As he does, Rina throws the knife and jabs it through his right forearm, which gets pinned to Imperialdramon, causing Daisuke to hang on the knife in his right arm ten feet above the ground (Which sounds painful). She then returns to assaulting Yolei. Yolei lays on the ground half-conscious, blood running from her lips and nose, and pieces of glass from her glasses stuck in her cheeks and nose. Ambient Feralmon snarls at Rina. Rina stops for a moment and says, "Oh, the frustrated digimon… Whatever shall you do?" Ambient Feralmon starts to cackle. Rina is surprised, asking, "What's so funny?"

Ambient tells her, "You think I give a damn about your soldiers? For all the things they may have done, I see letting morals get in the way as a great disservice to all living things."

Karen and Rina simultaneously remark, "You're not saying…"

"Force 4 Pack Attack!!"

He runs at Rina, who start trying to run away. Within a half second, he catches up to her as she leaps to her left. The burning barrier of energy smites Rina in her right side as he starts to leap, and the unlucky general rolls off the barrier and to the ground, burnt acutely down her right arm and the right-front area of her torso. Ambient Feralmon leaps mercilessly into the human contingent, scorching and hacking them to pieces left and right, the barrier of energy around him stopping all attempts to subdue him. After about half of the men fall to him, they start to run, and that's when he resolves his attack. As Dukemon sits upon Chaos Dukemon's shoulders, pulling the knife out from Daisuke's arm, Valkyrimon says, "Why did he do that? He killed all those humans as though he didn't care."

As Daisuke screams out while the knife comes out, Dukemon tells him, "He may a stubborn guy, but he does care, and that's why he did that."

Yolei finally rises to her feet, only to fall in Valkyrimon's arms, and exclaims, "How can you say he cares? Look at what he did!!"

To this, she is answered, "Because I do not see human or digimon. I only see good and evil. Your kind still has a long way to go if you still base matters of life and death on outward appearances. I don't you have even an ounce of the strength of character that Lily said you all had."

Yolei tries to retort, "But it's wrong to kill, and what their families…"

Ambient Feralmon growls, "Do you think I do not see that?" Yolei, Daisuke, and their digimon are taken aback by his ferocity. "Do you think I don't know what it would mean to their families? I do, but we fighting for all the worlds' families, and you must do the right thing, even if it means breaking up a few families to save millions more. If we stood down as you did, it would have been a massacre!! Lily had the strength, but for a child to bear all this responsibility on her own, with no help from you, then I don't blame her for going mad."

Yolei blurts, "You cold-blooded…"

"The way I see it, they made their choice a long time ago, and their master believes he can use them as living shields, because he knows you won't strike back. I'm only sending a message. Now how about we move on? We have a job to do." He finishes. With that, a fresh unit rushes in and goes on the offensive. Ambient Feralmon jumps into the fray and hacks up his foes with his teeth and claws, but then he is surrounded. Ambient Feralmon turns his head up to the sky, to the moon.

"Luna Hyperbeam!!"

He howls at the moon, and forming above him, a silver of energy glows and grows. Around the visible edge of the moon, a similar shimmering light lights up and blazes, flashing the sky bright with moonlight, and from the sky descend bolts of lunar light. The bolts rain down on the battlefield, smiting the new troops. Just then, a bolt strikes the orb, and destabilizes it, causing large static beam blasts to discharge from it, as lights busts out of the ground swirling around clockwise and expanding outwards. This assault reduces most of the men and digimon to cinders. One of the digimon, a badly injured Cannondramon, takes his aim. He staggers and tries to focus as all his barrels lower to point at Ambient Feralmon. He stutters, "I… I… I'm putting… you down, doggy."

"Dyna Cannon!!"

As the shots close and Ambient Feralmon reacts, by jumping towards the shots, the air crackles…

"Mega Death!!"

Cannondramon is struck in his side by this awesome attack, and falls over convulsing as data slowly leaves him. Ambient Feralmon continues at the shots, and when they meet, he smashes one into non-existence, and the other he draws his right claw and smashes it back down on Cannondramon, hitting his mortally wounded side with such force it blows him to pieces as he fades away. Daisuke and Imperialdramon both shout, "He's right!! If we lack the will to stand up and act, then we will never get rid of those evil garden gnomes, always staring at us… uh, I mean the Dominion!! Yes, we would have never got rid of them unless we had snowboarded down Mount Fuji butt-naked in winter, or else they'd call us wussies…" They both blush. They stay quiet and then look at one another. Imperialdramon finally says, "How about we leave the motivational speeches to someone else?"

Daisuke then mutters, "I thought we would never mention that again."

Imperialdramon exclaims, "Hey, you said it first!! I just was repeating what you said. Maybe you mentioned it because you had the guts to do something so hard…"

Daisuke answers, "No… You said it first, and I wasn't going to mention it!!"

Yolei interjects, "Nobody cares how you got the money to pay off those student loans, so shut up about it." A short pause… Moments later Daisuke scratches his head, then screams at Yolei. "Ack!! Get out of my head!!" Yolei turns to look at Daisuke when from the ground a lone soldier rises from amidst the ash and carcasses and throws an anti-personnel grenade towards her. Dukemon leaps in front her and draws his shield.

"Final Elysian!!"

The surge from his shield detonates the grenade feet from him, the shrapnel vaporizing in the beam, and then annihilates the soldier. Yolei gasps at what could have been. Dukemon says to her, "We must stop arguing… and fight!!" He charges with Chaos Dukemon, Omega Knightmon, and Suzukamon towards another wave of baddies. Omega Knightmon leaps out first and draws his sword.

"Omega Slash!!"

To his sword energy from all the forces of nature march, and with charged blade slashes away, crushing, burning, drowning, and electrocuting them all at the same time. The Dukemon brothers then run ahead. Dukemon shouts, "Let's mow us a path!!" Chaos Dukemon nods.

"Royal Saber!!"

"Demon's Destruction!!"

Side by side with lances drawn, they charge through the hordes, laying waste to all in their way. Suzukamon jumps into the fray after them and wields her sword around.

"Dynamic Edge!!"

Her sword glows as he hacks through digimon after digimon as she runs ahead. All four meet success as they rend the armies into dog meat. Imperialdramon steps up and makes himself known by sending a Positron Laser through the masses. They move ever forward until they reach the other side, where they see something, albeit Dukemon and Chaos Dukemon do so too late, running their lances into Sequoiamon, the lances shattering on impact. She fails to notice them at first, but then the Positron Laser runs right over her, and she turns around. Still staring at where their lances once sat, they look up at Sequoiamon, who is now staring at them with her arms crossed. Dukemon screams, "Oh crap, the tree's moving!!" A second, he quotes in confusion, "…The tree's moving?" Sequoiamon seems annoyed. Chaos Dukemon snidely remarks, "`Let's mow them down' you said!! `Let's help the humans' you said!! You just can't shut up, can you? Now we're going to die because you had to go and piss off the über-tree."

Sequoiamon says to them, "Listen, I've never seen you before, but anyone should know to watch where they aim. You don't shoot your superiors with big Positron Laser thingies, whatever they are, and then you don't do when their backs are turned. It's… It's RUDE!!"

Dukemon goes, "Miss, I…"

Chaos Dukemon smacks him upside the head and mutters quietly, "Ixnay!! She thinks we're just a couple of Dominion soldiers!!"

Dukemon mutters, "But that's not right…"

Chaos Dukemon smacks him upside the head again and responds, "As long as she thinks that, we won't be visiting Jijimon anytime soon."

Dukemon goes, "Oh…" Chaos Dukemon smacks him again. He looks at Sequoiamon and says, "Oh, don't worry. This won't happen again. I'll be sure he gets a right good thrashing."

Sequoiamon nods and says, "You do that." She looks around at the others there and says, "What are you looking at? Get back to work!!" They run ahead in search of new foes. In the distance, Taichi and company run up and says, "Daisuke, Yolei, let's move forward!! They've cleared a sizeable path for the attack!!" Forward Taichi and others rush. Imperialdramon follows them with Daisuke riding his head. They move forward, and run past Sequoiamon. Sequoiamon scratches her head and asks, "Why are all the men running away?" She looks back and sees Imperialdramon and a mountain of dead bodies, and finally, she puts two and two together. "Hey, they're the enemy!!" She slams her root down and calls out to all of them, "Hey, stop right there!! You lied to me!! I will destroy you all!!"

James says, "Taichi, you guys go on!! We'll handle her!!"

Taichi answers, "Alright!! You watch yourselves!!" They move on out, leaving the mop-up crew to face Sequoiamon…

Deeper in the fray, Keiko's group lands amidst heavy bombardment, within visual range of Attorneymon's location. Attorneymon exclaims, "How did they get so close to this place? Generals, smite them all!! Sakuramon, you take care of that Keiko brat." Keiko announces, "Alright everyone, time to power up!!"

"Hycinthasapia Warp Digivolve!! Luna Lilysapia!!"

"Nirvanamon Warp Digivolve!! Bushidomon!!"

"Phoenix Gryphonmon Warp Digivolve!! Manticoramon!!"

"Sirenamon Mega Digivolve!! Undinemon!!

"Undinemon Warp Digivolve!! Tidal Sirenamon!!"

"THE SHARD OF HONOR!!"

"Lotusmon Terravolve to Valkyrie Lotusmon!!"

Everyone seemed to be finished when Keiko looks over to see that Angemon and Angewomon have done nothing. Keiko goes, "Power up, or someone is going to kick your tails!!"

Takeru says, "Well, we're trying, but something's wrong!!"

Angemon adds, "I don't understand it either. I feel a hundred times stronger than normal, but I'm… dizzy, and I can't digivolve further. I figure however our enhanced power will make up for it…" He staggers a bit and grabs his head. Angewomon grabs her tail and says, "Nobody's going to kick our tails… No matter how much the ground moves…" She falls down on her side. Valkyrie Lotusmon ponders for a moment, then says, "I think they're dizzy because they aren't used to so much energy, so all this new power rushing through them al at once is probably making them a bit tipsy, and makes it hard to focus. I think they'll eventually get used to it. Until then, they shouldn't see too much action." Just then, Neo Spheremon's Half-Life attack just whizzes by her head. "Speaking of action…" She leaps out after him, only for him to move to the side, and Valkyrie Lotusmon belly flops the ground. Yuuji and Tidal Sirenamon rush to her side as Neo Spheremon launches into his Lepton Driver attack. Tidal Sirenamon drives her halberd into the curved section of the blades, and holds him back as Yuuji rolls the partly stunned Valkyrie Lotusmon clear. Neo Spheremon comments, "Amazing!! You are the first in nearly a million digital years to ever hold off my attack and hold your ground as well, and the most interesting thing is that the only other digimon to accomplish this feat was also one of your kind, but I dealt with her, as will I."

Tidal Sirenamon asks, "Unless you make me ill, say something like food poisoning, I believe don't you stand a chance." Neo Spheremon is partly surprised, but surprised ever so to lose concentration for a moment, and with her halberd, she breaks the blades, albeit breaking her halberd, and punches him away. Feet away, Jormungamon busts out of the ground and pounces on Manticoramon. "I vowed revenge when you took my eye, and now I shall have it!!"

"Rolly Poly!!"

He balls up and runs down Manticoramon, crushing her into the ground, and breaking, tearing, and impaling her right wing. He exclaims, "Fly now, you piece of filth!!" He leaps in the ground, then busts out under Manticoramon, sending her airborne.

"Rotten Core!!"

He blasts the acid rock from his mouth into her back, burning into her as her body does flips. At the apex of her ascent, she flips downward, and is pinned by the massive boulder as they fall to earth. Out of wit, Manticoramon tries to spin free, but then they hit the ground, the rock smashing the already damaged and virtually ripping it off her back, and then the acid finished the job, an act that clearly woke Manticoramon from her daze and filled the air with her screams. She gets up and staggers to her left, that side heavier since more armor remained on her back on that side, and since she still had her left wing. She tilts to the right and tries to stay erect. Jormungamon queries, "Are you intentionally making this easy on me? Now I feel as though I am wasting my time with you." Manticoramon raises her right, wailing in pain bit she raises it.

"Sahara Vulcan!!"

The shots reach him, but just fizzle out on his bone-spiked hide. "You know that you can't pierce this bone hide, so why are you trying?"

"Molten Molotov Mantle!!"

As he begins his attack, raising his plates, she leaps up and grabs the spike she had been shooting up, and then hangs from it, and from the wear and tear from the bullets, it snaps off. Quickly, she jabs it hard into one of his pores where steam was rising. "It was all a ploy…" he calmly comments. After it goes in, Manticoramon raises her tail.

"Livewire Tail Whip!!"

She thrashes on his exposed skin as he is about to blow his molten load. After five good hits, his lava balls rush out, blasting or driving everyone in the area way. The sealed pore began to swell badly as Manticoramon continued to assault Jormugamon's soft flesh, despite the blistering heat, run-off from other pores, and Sakiko screaming, "Get off, Manticoramon!!" Smoke began to siphon out the plugged orifice, and then it blew, sending a shower of lava everywhere, launching the bone sky high, destroying of chunk of area in his back, and throwing Manticoramon to the ground, blistered and bleeding in many places from exposure to such heat, and her armor was orange-hot. She staggered up, only to find Jormungamon survived the explosion as well. Manticoramon asks to him, "Are you so thick-headed that you just plain out refuse to die?"

"The same must be asked of you, Manticoramon." Her foe states. With that, they lunge at one another again, against Sakiko's pleas for her to stop.

Keiko hears these pleas, and makes her move to help, but from the smoke Jormungamon threw up, Sakuramon leaps out and pounces on Keiko. After making contact, Sakuramon falls straight down, as Keiko flies backwards, and lands on her feet, skidding across the ground. Sakuramon draws her axe, and Keiko takes out her energy blade. The two meet as Jormungamon wraps around Manticoramon in the background with his Endless Constriction attack, and Tidal Sirenamon & Valkyrie Lotusmon strive to hold off Neo Spheremon. Little by little, Sakuramon is trying to force her axe through Keiko's sword, but as the axe moves, Keiko doesn't. As she fights back, the pods are discharged from the cross guard. Sakuramon exclaims, "You're… strong!! You've been… able… to hold your ground, but the same… cannot be said about your sword!!"

Keiko remarks, "I wouldn't have it any other way." Sakuramon got out a "Wha…" before everything went dark, and she finished slicing past the energy blade. Keiko steps back, letting Sakuramon tip forward, and then…

"Looking Glass Beam!!"

Sakuramon stares down the pod in front of her face as it glows pink. Suddenly, there is an explosion, leaving a crater and toppling tree all around them, the other children running for cover, throwing Keiko into a tree, knocking it down. "That's new. What happened in that blast? My Looking Glass Beam never did that before…" She lifts herself off the tree to evaluate the damage, and in the smoke, in the distance, was Sakuramon sitting on her butt with her Nexus Flux Cannons armed and charged. As soon as they spot one another, they flip majestically to the ground and charge again, Sakuramon firing rapid shots from her cannons. Keiko calls out, "Shield Pods, come to me!!" With that, the pods fly to her and circle her head, spinning around and deflecting each shot, some back to Sakuramon. "Ah, I see now why Attorneymon entrusted me with the job of handling this one. Her power, unlike her cohorts, is amazing!!" Sakuramon thinks. As they meet again, Sakuramon takes her battle axe and prepares to swing, when Keiko goes airborne inches from her. "What is she doing?" She thinks as she looks up at Keiko. Keiko, now nearing the tops of the trees, brings her shields forward.

"Tsukiyuri Cannon!!"

The shot rings down hits the ground near the fleeing Sakuramon, who seems to be losing the battle against the beam's gravitational pull. This pull also rips Jormungamon off the ground, and forces him to let go of Manticoramon. As Tidal Sirenamon and Valkyrie Lotusmon push back Neo Spheremon, he too gets sucked in, and Valkyrie Lotusmon almost does as well, if not for Tidal Sirenamon grabbing her arm and holding her down. Just as she is about to be enveloped in the beam, Sakuramon remembers…

"Natural Weight!!"

She blasts out of there, free of the pull, just as the beam blew, throwing her off the ground, and then sending her rolling across the ground in pain. Below, except for Manticoramon and Jormungamon, the area within a 100-foot radius was toast. She looks for Sakuramon all over. "I think I got her…" Keiko comments, just before dodging Sakuramon's axe flying upwards. Sakuramon leaps up sides of the trees and stands atop one of them. In her mind, she realizes, "She almost got Jormungamon and Neo Spheremon in that last attack. Knowing their stubborn and arrogant minds, they'd probably try to attack her, and bungle this big time if she interfered with them again like she just did." She jests, "Surely, you know it isn't as simple as that. I have a suggestion however…"

Keiko responds, "Yeah? What is this almighty suggestion?"

Sakuramon states, "Well, as you probably have figured, we are warriors who fight on a scale unparalleled to all those others below, and it seems our intense fighting powers may just get in the way of my lesser comrades completing their goals of eliminating your lesser allies, so I say that since you probably don't want anything bad to happen to your little insignificant friends, and I don't want to rob those weak fools of what little glory or dignity they may feel they get from this victory, that I propose we keep our fight to these treetops, and move it a `quiet' area of the forest."

Keiko looks down at her friends and their partner digimon as they resumed fighting, then looks at Sakuramon exclaiming, "Let's do it then, but your visions of victory will never come to pass!!" Sakuramon leaps away, landing on another high branch, then leaps off the side of another tree, bouncing off, standing on the very tip top of one of the trees, then draws her axe. Sakuramon exclaims, "Now this is more like it!!" Keiko flies westward, following Sakuramon as she bounds from treetop to treetop.

On the ground, Jormungamon slithers back on top of Manticoramon. "Your friend may have bought you more time to live, but that time is over!! Let us resume where we left off."

"Endless Constriction!!"

He binds her in his spiky coils yet again, crushing on her frail body. Sakiko screams, "Get out of there now, Manticoramon!! You're just too injured!!"

To this, she is answered, "Well, if I wasn't in this coil, I'd show him a thing or two!!"

Takeru exclaims, "We got to help her somehow!!"

Tetsuo exclaims, "Bushidomon, don't just stand there!! Help Manticoramon!!"

He says, "Well, when I do that, I bet you ten to one some other general will come out of nowhere and wail on me next."

Tetsuo yells, "Augghhh…… Just do it!!! We'll jump that hurdle when we get to it!!"

"You and your stinkin' hurdles…" Bushidomon mutters under his breath. He leaps up at Jormungamon. "Hey, you stupid worm, let her go!!" Jormungamon turns to look at Bushidomon, and when he does, he hears…

"Hawk Wind Lance!!"

Bushidomon swings his pike over his head, and doing so, the winds pick up, forming a whirlwind around him. Inside of it, Bushidomon flies sky high. As the winds pick up to over 400 miles per hour, the twister moves over Jormungamon, and the mammoth worm begins to lift off the ground. Jormungamon tries to stay steady and retain his prize, but centripetal force loosens his coils, and throws Manticoramon free. Angemon and Angewomon leap out to grab her. Jormungamon exclaims to Bushidomon, "This is not funny anymore, little samurai. For making me nauseous, I will smite thee!!" He loosens up and stretches his body, allowing his bulk to ascend through the eye of the storm, but as he does, the counter-clockwise winds suck him from the center to the fringes, where he is flung around like a limp noodle before centripetal throws him out as well. As he falls, he hears the cry of a hawk, followed by seeing Bushidomon appear along the edge of the maelstrom, being hurled about by centripetal force, and then he goes racing out of the tornado at Jormungamon, turned on his right side, his right arm in front of him, with his pike drawn downward in his right hand, held with haft going down his forearm. Bushidomon catches up with Jormungamon in no time. With the blade of the pike, he moves past Jormungamon, hitting the ground with his pike, and flipping off it to his feet. A streak of sky blue lie across Jormungamon's body in the wake. In mid-air, large parts of his lower body fell apart, and over a third of his body fell to the ground to decompile. At the same time, Bushidomon's pike disintegrates. "Well, well. Not bad, Bushidomon. You managed to impede my ability to constrict. You know that I will have pay you back such wounds, but I have promised my revenge against another already."

Bushidomon asks, "So, since you already vowed revenge to someone else, does that mean I'm free to go?"

Jormungamon says, "Well, of course not. When I have dealt with my first nemesis, I shall return for you." Over with Manticoramon, Sakiko runs over the badly wounded digimon, held up by Angemon and Angewomon. Sakiko shouts at Manticoramon, "How dare you scare me like that?"

Manticoramon states, "But Sakiko… What choice do I have?"

Sakiko says, "One. Just quit the battle and let someone who isn't so injured take your place." Both Angemon and Angewomon nod in agreement. Manticoramon stares back sternly at each of them, one at a time, finishing with Sakiko. "Sakiko, if I leave now, he will continue to follow me and demand justice once more, more the wiser from this battle, and this whole vicious cycle will begin anew."

Sakiko argues, crying, "So, it doesn't give you the right to forfeit yourself over such petty things. I thought we were above all this!!"

Manticoramon responds, "If I do fall here, and he is gone as well, it will be one less evil in this great cosmos, one less monster that makes us look over our shoulders at night. He is a monster of my making, as well. He once was loyal to Malachimon, but when I took his eye, something changed in him forever. Now I must remove him so he can do no more harm!!" Sakiko draws back and slaps Manticoramon over the face. Sakiko exclaims, "How dare you think you can leave me, that your life matters not?! Somebody else can do it."

Manticoramon defiantly shouts, "No!! You're wrong, Sakiko!! He will hunt me for all time, in some form or another. What is life if you live in fear and shame all through it? I have to do this. He's too stubborn to let it end any other way, and I guess I am too… I just can't fail again." Then, with all her strength, she brings her arms in and slams Angemon and Angewomon together, forcing them to release her. Then, from the direction where Neo Spheremon is fighting, stray bits of his `Perfect Sphere' strike the area, sending the angels flying. Manticoramon bolts as fast as she can for Jormungamon, and Sakiko chases after her, keeping pace with her. "Sakiko, one day, hopefully soon, you'll understand why I have to end this myself." She keeps running. Jormungamon asks himself aloud, "Why is she charging me head-on? That's certain doom for her. I wouldn't have it any other way, but it is quite curious. Oh well, I guess I can end this now, and get a meal to boot." He advances at Manticoramon. The two race for one another, with Sakiko trying to catch Manticoramon, when Jormungamon leaps up in the air and begins to come back down. With that, Manticoramon stops and stands. Sakiko screams, "Manticoramon, move!! That's an order!!!"

Manticoramon states, "I am not one of your little lackey goons. I know what I'm doing. You must trust me." As Jormungamon's mouth falls down over her, Sakiko wails, "I hate you!! I hate you, Scarletmon…" Her words distract Manticoramon as Jormungamon crashes down, but in Sakiko's heart, she does not mean it. Jormungamon lifts his front out of the ground and looks at Sakiko. "Alas, poor Sakiko, your so-called friend is gone, and she was scrum-diddly-umptious too." He shakes his front half a bit. "Maybe I didn't chew enough. I think she gave me acid reflux." Sakiko growls at him through her tears. He continues, "Why so glum? If you wish, you may join her in my bowels before you go away to the afterlife. I can arrange that for you, child." He advances, and Sakiko puts up her arms, but then he rears up. "My… heart… so much burning… the pain!!!" From in him, a strange muffled sound is heard, a sound which Jormungamon makes out. "The sound… Y… Force? What?" Then it hits him. "She lives!! NO!!!" Inside, Manticoramon has her tail jabbed into his heart with arms spread, torn up by acids, and being assaulted by penny-sized masses of white blood cells. Lightning surges from the red sky and strikes through the bone hide of the worm, through Manticoramon, and to his heart. From all the blood, Manticoramon feels the voltage as well as Jormungamon. Instead of letting up however, she cranks it up even more. Lightning bolts explode out the sides of the serpentine beast. Jormungamon thrashes about as electricity surges through him, and Manticoramon does the same as the same electricity rips through her, and as the white blood cells try to fight back by dissolving her. She lets screams out and releases one great force, rushing down through her, blasting off all the white blood cells from her ravaged body, and sending it into his heart. The heart is overloaded with voltage, and a massive surge of energy detonates both in Jormungamon's heart and the base of Manticoramon's tail. Outside, Jormungamon roars at Sakiko, and then before he can move, he explodes in a violent electrical storm, his pieces of him breaking down. Manticoramon is in the fray, and Sakiko sees her amongst the data that used to be Jormungamon, and Manticoramon looks back, but then another overload occurs, and Manticoramon's tail is ripped off, left in the collapsing heart, sending Manticoramon flying. Sakiko looks at Manticoramon again, but now her eyes are strangely blank, and then she data breaking off of her. "NO!!!" Sakiko screams over the fighting as Manticoramon falls, decomposing as well. The fragmented data of Manticoramon then lands on the ground and breaks up, finishing their collapse. Hikari, Takeru, Angemon, and Angewomon all come to the child, on her knees, trying to grasp at the data. Sakiko cries, "The last thing I said was `I hate you, Scarletmon.' I didn't mean it…"

Above the action, the mysterious beings of light watch the passing events. Kevin Bacon exclaims, "Alright!! One down!!" A small zap hits Kevin Bacon. Him appears and says, "Yeah, but they also lost one, dumbass." Out of nowhere, The One Next to Him appears and says, "We got four minutes until the ceremony, and the Ômikami said for some of us to supercharge those Dark Tower Planets."

Kevin Bacon says, "But, the ceremony will be in four minutes. Does it matter?"

Him shocks him again and demands, "Dammit Kevin Bacon, just because you didn't get a normal name like ours doesn't exempt you from using your brains or powers. Now get your mind out of the gutter and think about it. Yes, the ceremony will be in four minutes, but anyone that's anyone who could screw this all up is knocking on his doorstep, and those things won't be done for another thirty-four minutes according to what Black Tailmon said. If we supercharge them, not only will they have that much more smiting power, but they will be complete in no time, and be ready for those fools once that ceremony concludes!! Combine them with our power amplification, and they will be nothing to us."

Kevin Bacon asks, "Okay, but what about Lily, the lunar digimon, and that digimon that reached Super Mode… er, …Apollomon!!"

The One Next to Him states, "Well, by that time, we'll just outnumber them."

Him says, "Well, those things won't charge up without us, so let's get going."

Not far away, Tamiko and his rag-tag group bust through the last lines of defense to reach Attorneymon. Attorneymon shouts, "How did they make it so far?!" Lilydramon eyes Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon. "That's the thing that Yuumei Omnimon turned into two nights ago and almost destroyed us, although he looks different…"

Attorneymon quips, "Ah, I see now. It seems something went wrong in the Yuumei Omnimon's fusion process, and because of you, Tamiko, he's become this. It's always some of the best-laid plans of mice and men that have to fall to the wayside for the future. Yuumei Omnimon has outlived his usefulness." Heramon and Lilydramon step up, only for Attorneymon to pull them back. "Stand down, you two. I will handle this. Heramon, go check on how are generals are faring. Lilydramon, guard Malachimon's body. We don't want to misplace it just before the festivities." She goes to argue, but catches herself, salutes, and leaves. Stefan jumps up and says to Tamiko, "While you handle Attorneymon, I must do what I must to restore my future and end the madness." Tamiko says back, "You mean follow Heramon and destroy the Dominion and the Digidestined all at once." He nods and leaves. About this time, Vulcan Lilymon wakes up to hear Tamiko shout, "Let's do this then!!" Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon and Attorneymon charge at one another, Tenkurayami wielding his sword and Attorneymon with his briefcase.

"Tenkurayami Jin Tachi!!"

They swing, and to everyone's surprise, Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon's sword shatters, but not before busting the front of Attorneymon's briefcase. Black Tailmon remarks, "Amazing!! He broke the sword with his briefcase, but Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon was still strong enough to withstand his defense and damage the case. I must study this bout!!" Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon quickly turns towards Attorneymon.

"Shadow Flare!!"

The lawyer demon was smitten with the attack, burning his side, causing Attorneymon to bleed. "You are powerful, Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon, but power alone isn't enough." He turns and laughs. "This is a move I picked up from Lily." He outstretches his arms.

"Delta Crash!!"

In front of him, a glowing tetrahedron appears as it would for Lily, and it screams to Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon. Tenkurayami mutters, "Oh, I remember this, and I didn't like it one bit. He sidesteps it to the left and barely avoids it. Just as he going to mock Attorneymon, Attorneymon starts waving his finger. He quickly turns to see the Delta Crash coming back his way. With his attention taken, Attorneymon shouts out once more…

"Delta Crash!!"

Without chance to reply, Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon is sandwiched between the two. The winds from the blast nearly sweep away Tamiko and Black Tailmon. Attorneymon starts to run up at the smoke and prepares to attack when he hears…

"Ætherspace Flux!!"

Attorneymon quickly stopped and turned to see the cracked armor of Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon and the digimon in them, and in his hands are what appear to be a Shadow Flare and a Fafnir's Flare. He grins at Attorneymon.

"Delta Flare!!"

He lowers his arms to his thighs while keeping them outstretched. As he does, the two flares merge into one massive ball of maroon light, then it pulses and splits into three, bigger than the original one. He claps his hands together, and two of them scatter off to the sides, while the middle orb races head-on at Attorneymon. Attorneymon mutters, "What's with digimon and delta? Do they think that by adding delta to the name of the attack it will make it any more powerful?" He scoffs at the orb and puts his hand up to stop it, when it splits into four and circles him in a tetrahedron. He thrusts forward with his fist, but his knuckles are burnt on an invisible barrier. "I see." He states, just before the other two orbs go right through the barrier and explode. The powerful blast seems shielded in the chamber, which everyone tries to look at, trying to see what happened, when finally the barriers broke down and the last part of the explosion rampages free, but only causing minimal damage to the area. Everyone there from both camps watch intently as the smoke clears, but suddenly, from where Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon was standing, Attorneymon chortles and proclaims, "Why are you all looking at me for? I thought you wanted to know what just happened. Go on, look and see!!" As the smoke finally clears, Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon is visible, kneeling on the ground and holding sides and chest. "How… How did I get here? How could I… be blown up by my own technique?" Suddenly his nose starts bleeding. Attorneymon grins and paces. He explains, "Well, the short answer would be that you're too slow. Yes, I was in the explosion, but only for about a little more than a hundredth of a second, at which time I simply teleported. Now here's where it gets tricky. While you all stood there all dumbfounded, I actually popped up next to Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon and smacked him around, I'd say about 300 times, for about half a second before teleporting him into the explosion."

Black Tailmon remarks, "But Einstein's Theory of Relativity states that the closer a person or object would get to the speed of the light, that time would slow down for them. You should have been thrown ahead a second or so if what you said was true!!"

Attorneymon remarks, "Ah, Black Tailmon, you are smart, but you failed to remember the other side of the theory, where gravity plays a crucial role in general relativity. My energy alone allows me to generate a reverse gravity field, which any digimon on my level of power could feasibly do, and switch the conditions of acceleration, in fact slowing the whole world down as I move faster. Now that this lesson in relativity is over, I got to kill someone." He draws a sword from his briefcase and moves in on the fallen Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon, when halfway there he rises to his feet.

"Nova Rebirth!!"

He turns all black, then an eerie light shone from him, and with it came a white explosion. Lance throws Tamiko and Feral Rosemon down and covers them, while Black Tailmon scurries into a hollow dead tree stump. Thanatomon, held down on the strange altar, remarks to his guardian, "Hey, Lilydramon, it's getting a little toasty here. Could you untie me so that Malachimon isn't barbequed, because if you haven't noticed, I still don't have a bod of my own yet." She jumps behind the altar. "You're on your own!!" The explosion throws Attorneymon away, busting down several trees as he does, and leaves him sitting on the burnt stump, the front of his suit burning. As for Malachimon, her skin goes from a pale white to one of the darkest shades of olive ever seen, smoke pouring off her body. The altar itself sits on the edge of a deep crater. Hovering over it is Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon, all outstretched. The cracks and the missing pieces in his armor seal up, and his sword seems to have mended itself. Black Tailmon crawls out of the stump and sees the crater, to which she exclaims, "Enough with these huge damn craters!! If this keeps up… Urgh!! What's the point in taking over the world if you blow it up in the process!!"

Attorneymon pats out the flames from his chest and answers her, "Do not worry so much, Black Tailmon. It's Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon whom seems to be destroying what he should be protecting. Honestly, I think he's either very sloppy, very poorly trained, or just doesn't really care." This gets Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon riled up. His cannon flips up on his shoulder and he takes aim. "Fine then!! The only thing I shall destroy… is you!!" Black Tailmon holds a finger to her ear and then says, "I've got some place else to be. Guess I'll see you later." She scampers off.

"Yugoth Dark Reactor!!"

He blankets the area where Attorneymon stands with his energy grenades, covering all in black light. Everyone attempted to see the outcome, confused, but Tenkurayami stared into the darkness, and saw that he was gone. "You can't pull the same trick twice, lawyer!!" he announces to the world. Echoing from above, Attorneymon seemed to speak from every direction at once. He laughs out loud, then calls out, "Well, knight of the dark heaven, this has been fun, but time restraints will not allow to play anymore, and what a dull playmate you were, always thinking linearly with your big flashy attacks that honestly, just have no real bite to them. About the only surprise you even had that last move… Nova Rebirth. Converting energy into mass to reverse damage done to you, repair your armor, and restore your sword to you, and still attack me at the same time. I have never met a non-plant digimon that could regenerate itself without some form of omnipotent healing cells, and do so with a technique, not to mention still do everything else you did. You should consider it an honor that I shall add your powers to my own before I kill you." Quickly, as everyone begins to wonder where to look, Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon looks at where he bombarded Attorneymon, and notices blood splotches leaving the area, heading right. "Guess I did get you after all. Now, how about you come on out." Tenkurayami thinks as he turns to the right, and hears thumping sounds in the tree in front of him. Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon extends his left index finger at the tree, moves up it until he points at the base of the lowest branch, squints his right eye, and utters, "Bang." Just then, Attorneymon busts out of the tree, shirtless, bleeding messily all over himself, and missing his left hand. A half-cocked look of surprise comes across his face seeing that Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon is looking right at him. Red, green, and blue energies are sucked into the spinning side turbines as matching light builds up on the ends of the three small barrels of Tenkurayami's cannon, and dark energy builds in the main turret from the back turbine. As soon as Attorneymon hit the ground, he dashed at him. Tenkurayami keeps his index finger pointed at him. Suddenly, his index finger shined white at the tip.

"Wonder Spirit Missile!!"

The golden bracelet under his robe sleeve slides off and grows in size, and the sides rotate, the inscribed outer side now facing Attorneymon. Inside the ring, a white pool shines forth, his index finger just touching it in the dead center. The ring grows further, blocking just about all of him from Attorneymon's sight. About that time, Vulcan Lilymon completely wakes up and gets out of Tamiko's arms. "What's going on, Tamiko?"

He states, "I'm just realizing the dream of making the world a better place for the both of us." She sees the battered Attorneymon aimlessly charging what looks like certain doom. She shakes her head at the scene. "He just can't accept defeat, but still, you could be right. This could all end now." Attorneymon gets almost on top of Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon when Lance yells, "Hurry up!!" Attorneymon leaps into the air at the white light.

"Bureaucratic Red Tape!!"

The many strands of red tape unravel from his palm, yearning for Tenkurayami, when the outer barrels on the cannon begin spinning, the light blurring into a white ring. From it, a shower of red, green, and blue bolts raced for the white barrier, where they pass right through, gaining a white tip on the way out. These bolts go clean through Attorneymon and out the other side. From the main cannon, a dark metallic missile encased in a black beam as the bolts continue firing on Attorneymon. It goes through the white pool and the black beam in covered in a shell of light. The beam and missile strike Attorneymon dead-on as the tape grabs hold. Huge surges of energy run down the tape as Attorneymon screams out over the attack. The beam pushes onward, and in the light completely vaporizes Attorneymon. Slowly, the attack winded down, and everyone saw the sight. Attorneymon was gone. Tamiko, Vulcan Lilymon, and Feral Rosemon ran out to Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon, cheering all the while. Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon exclaims, "I… did it!!" Slowly, he peels off the tape. Tamiko goes, "I knew it!! We won!! It's all over!!"

Vulcan Lilymon goes, "And nothing else can tear us apart!!" Feral Rosemon, standing in the back, looks at the tape, and tries to notion to the others, but she gets is, "Come on, lighten up!!" Suddenly, Tenkurayami stops and grasps his head. Vulcan Lilymon goes over to him and asks, "What's wrong?"

He screams, wrapped in pain, "It's in my head!! No!! It's all fading…" He falls to his knees…

Back in Daisuke's party, everyone stands around Sequoiamon, but yet, it seems no fighting is going on. Instead, Yolei asks her, "Where'd you get that outfit? I want one just like it!!"

Sequoiamon says, "Oh this, I've had it for a while. You can find sweaters like this at places like Sak's Fifth Avenue, or the Gap…"

James leans over to Daisuke and asks, "You got any idea how long we can keep her distracted like this? Daisuke…?"

Daisuke, with an intent look on his face and a notepad in his hand, jots and repeats, "Sak's Fifth Avenue or Gap, got it." James quickly shies away from him with wide-open eyes and backs into Omega Knightmon and Dukemon. Dukemon asks, "Well, any news?"

James answers, "No, and I wouldn't ask Daisuke either. It almost seems the girls are going to filibuster Sequoiamon to death; that, or they're about to go on a shopping trip with her."

An anxious Omega Knightmon holding a blackjack utters, "Come on!! Just let me blackjack the wench!! One good whack over the head and she'll be in dreamland, and we could run far, far away…"

James retorts, "No, no blackjacking. Well, not now anyway. Besides, do you see how dense the girl is? You could drop the moon on her head and she'd probably never notice it."

"Well, then why I buy this?" Omega Knightmon holds his blackjack in the air, with special weights built into it, you know, to make that blow to the head all that more, er… `special.' James sighs and gives up. "I guess you won't be happy until you blackjack somebody. Why don't you go whack Daisuke? He sounds like he needs a good braining today. While you're at it… swipe all his possessions. I need a good laugh." Omega Knightmon walks off, and out of view, a thud is heard as Daisuke screams out, and Omega Knightmon shouts, "You're mine, asswipe!!" James holds up four fingers and talks to Dukemon, saying, "So, you're bored out of your mind too?" James lowers one of his fingers. Offside, Imperialdramon is heard saying, "What the hell are you doing?" James lowers another finger. Omega Knightmon says, "Screw you, ass dragon."

Dukemon answers, "I guess so…" As Dukemon speaks, James lowers yet another finger. "I mean, here we are, we lost about everything, and we're fighting for survival, and now there's nothing to do. I mean…" James lowers the last finger, and Omega Knightmon goes sailing behind the two in the background, exclaiming, "You asshole!!" Dukemon keeps talking over this, "…that in talking our way out of fighting, why are we even sitting here, when we can doing so much more."

James goes, "Yeah, instead of twiddling our thumbs and freezing our asses off. I haven't seen a single Dominion soldier since we ran into the idle-brained tree there." In the background, Imperialdramon runs off in the direction Omega Knightmon went. Ambient Feralmon comes to them and says, "Know what? I can't take this crap anymore. I'm going to find someone to smack around and rip them all a new one." He prepares to go when out of the blue Lewis and the others pop up. Apollomon, whom seems to be in his normal state, says, "Bonnie, should I charge up again?"

Lewis tells him, "That won't be necessary. I can handle this." He walks towards the gabbing women. Bonnie and the others stare at him as he goes. Apollomon slides over to James and Dukemon. "Say… How have you guys been?" Lewis walks right over to Sequoiamon and puts his arm over her shoulder and weasels his way into the conversation. Lewis says nonchalantly, "Hey baby, we all see you got a natural beauty about you. Say, you ever consider being a model?"

Sequoiamon thinks long and hard and answers, "Well, that was one of my two great dreams I had as a child. I either wanted to be a model, or a prima ballerina!!" She looks down at herself. "And I figure that last idea is right out. But wait, I could never be a model. Most models either got connections, or they're randomly plucked from obscurity, and most aren't as smart as me."

Lewis comments, "Yeah, you're one in a million, kid… Lucky you."

"You say something?" Sequoiamon questions.

"No," Lewis states, "but you have what it takes."

Sequoiamon retorts, "Yeah, but when it comes down to it, talent agents are looking for human models. They always pass up us digimon, thinking we're all ridiculous, believing that we don't deserve designer fashion, thinking we can just buy what they give us and make us shill out the big bucks for all those alterations they know we're going to have to pay for, and they probably got some back door deal with tailors, collecting commissions on everything redesigned, and laughing at us all from their offices, or from their huge Beverly Hills mansions while sitting in a hot tub with some Swiss skanks. Dirty Swiss, taking over everything. Cuckoo clocks and cough drops weren't good enough for you, well I'll show you!!" She shakes her fist… at nothing.

Lewis goes, "I think we kind of got off subject there. Now how about we go and pay one of those model agencies a visit? Tell them you're good enough, strong enough, and gosh darn it, pretty enough to do it. I'll even take you." Suddenly, they both vanish. On a street corner in the middle of New York the two appear. Lewis pulls out a satchel from under his gi and takes out a card and some paper currency. "Well, I got to go. Here's a card and $10. How about you go loot yourself something nice." Lewis pops away. Sequoiamon looks around and asks out loud, "Where do I go from here?" The streets are eerily quiet. She wanders over to a nearby bus station bench and sits down. She looks at the card and money, and gets annoyed, spouting, "Hey, this is a library card!! Oh well, I at least got $300." Back with Daisuke's group, Lewis opens the satchel once again. "Aw crap!!" He announces to the world. "Oh well, at least I don't feel so guilty anymore. Man, it was so easy to trick her like that that I actually began to feel bad about doing it. If ignorance is bliss, she must be the happiest being in existence."

Karen remarks, "She reminded me more of Homer Simpson, if he were a digimon, female, and a tree."

Yolei says, "Well, couldn't you have waited a few more minutes? She was going to tell me all her beauty secrets!! Sora won't tell me s***, and with Mimi it's like pulling teeth to get her to cough up her secrets."

Lewis answers, "No; diluted industrial solvent made into a cream, not to mention a face lift; specially made exfoliating cream mixed with a thermal bond adhesive epoxy after breakfast and before bed, plenty of iron and Vitamin D, and near immortality; and shut up."

Ambient Feralmon stretches and exclaims, "Finally, we can see more action!!"

Lewis states, "Did you find Paladin Lilymon and the others?"

Karen says, "Yeah, and they were in rough shape when we did find them. It would have been worse if she hadn't figured out a way to outrun the explosions from Lily and Apollomon fighting. They're on the back of Imperialdramon…" She sees a certain look on his face. "Araiya too."

Lewis, "Oh, why did you have to go and tell me that? Couldn't you have just left her in the forest to fend for herself or something, or at the very at least just lied to me and said she was dead or something, because today is just turning out to be one of those suck-ass days." He grumbles for a bit, then continues, "Bonnie, Apollomon, Jun, Ni-Kokuwamon, and myself will go find Attorneymon, because that's not only why we're here, but also it's also where Lily will go. The rest of you will go help Keiko and the kids."

Everyone goes, "Right!!" and goes off in whichever way they must.

Up in the reaches of digital space, the Dark Tower Planets hover, drifting between the Digital Moon and fourth planets from the Sun, passing between the two worlds. Just passing the moon, the Mach Nova flies ahead. Inside, Koushiro sits in the captain's chair, watching the screen ahead. Izzy states, "I still can't believe you have such a vehicle!! Such concepts that our government is working on now are still just prototypes in construction, and you have a fully functioning spaceship!!"

Laomon says, "This is actually Dominion technology. Lewis just stole it from them and repaired it while keeping it a secret."

A voice over the comm. system says, "Damn straight. It's my ship, and nobody else is getting their grubby little mittens on it."

Iori states, "Yeah, he's really possessive of things he stole, so he implanted that AI to remind us over and over that this is his. I just wish it'd shut up!!"

The AI says, "If I didn't keep reminding everyone, one of you or the King of England could just march in and take this ship." Slowly, they approach the Planets. Ken turns around in his seat and says, "Koushiro, we've come within view of the planets. We can't move any closer because of the intense gravity the planets generate."

Koushiro says, "Well, I guess we got to destroy them from here. Does this ship any weapons, because I don't risk our digimon if I don't have to."

Armajimon says, "We got a few missiles from the Dominion still in storage, but I don't know if it'd be enough. They're anti-digimon missiles."

Laomon says, "Well, if we had some Mag Mavericks we could blast them to pieces, but we don't, so we're screwed in the missile department. Digimon, suit up!!" At an airlock, Tentomon, Tentomon (03), Armajimon, and Urchinmon sit there, with Laomon, Bellosomon, Wormmon, and Ken waiting on the other side of the inner door. Ivy says to Koushiro, Izzy, Iori, and Romi, and to Ken and the digimon in the airlock via a headset mic she's wearing on her ear, "Ready?" They nod. "Good, because you have to be if you want them to reach maximum power before the cold grip of space grabs and squeezes the life right from their veins." Everyone on the bridge gives her a mean scowl. She sweatdrops, grins idiotically, and does a peace sign with her left hand, all the while nervously uttering, "Uh, open mouth, insert foot?" They all turn back to what they were doing. Tentomon says, "We're ready!!" His claw punches a red button next to the outer door, and it begins to slide open into the left wall. They put their feet up on the infinitesimal area of wall surrounding the outer hatch and hold each others' hands, pushing off one another, Tentomon against Urchinmon, Tentomon (03) against Armajimon. As it does, air rapidly evacuates the airlock. Tentomon leaps up and lets himself get sucked out. Ivy shouts, "Koushiro!!"

"THE SHARD OF TRUTH!!"

"Tentomon Terravolve to Raijinkabuterimon!!"

As soon as he finishes, he floats over to the other side of the ship. Urchinmon lets go, and Ivy calls out the name of the corresponding partner.

"Urchinmon Warp Digivolve!! Ogopogomon!!"

"Ogopogomon Warp Digivolve!! Bahamutmon!!"

Bahamutmon flies over to the left and joins Raijinkabuterimon. Next is Armajimon. Iori thinks, "If Lewis was wrong about smashing my D-Terminal, then Armajimon is a goner, but he said it was holding his power back… No, I will not think about it. It can be done!!" He holds out his D3 in his left hand, screams, and in front of the device, the kanji chishiki appears on the left, and the kanji shinraisei on the left, electricity surging across them. In the background just behind them, the Crest of Knowledge glows behind chishiki, and the Crest of Reliability glows behind shinraisei.

"Armajimon…"

Purple and grey light shines from the D3 screen, and the kanji erupt in light, and in the aftermath, the background is an area of golden sky between two layers of fast moving clouds, and Armajimon sits on the peak of a mountain. Streaming forward from behind Armajimon at high speeds were streaks of violet and grey light.

"…Terravolve to…"

The area around his feet begins to ripple, and the ripple continues forward on a 2-D plane perpendicular to his feet. Across the ripples, dull violet serrated rings, like those in a Rookie to Champion Tamers evolution, come out of Armajimon. Armajimon glows, and from him, the six natural forms after Tsubumon run out from him in different directions, but after a few steps, are drawn back into Armajimon, now a glowing mass of energy. When they collide, it releases an explosive ring from the mass, and a humanoid form rises from it. Mass from his waist comes off, leaving a stick thin Rapidmon-like waist, and becomes the golden chassis of Alcedesmon. A similar effect occurs with his armpits & arms and lower hips/groin & legs. Those thinned areas reveal themselves to be black wires, pistons, and tubes. His neck, and the area around it, sank into the chest plating, turning silver. His head became that of Alcedesmon, but from his forehead a giant curved horn sprouted out, stopping at a foot in length, with a bulbous oval tip. On his left shoulder a pauldron does appear, one like the pauldrons of Samus Aran, but is thicker, more rounded on the end, and three blades protrude from the end. In his right forearm, a giant smoothbore cannon with handle and trigger on the top of the gun, as well as a dark silver `sleeve' which is on his forearm. From the back and sides of his hips, a half-apron like American flag hangs down behind him, and tapers off around his ankles. He raises his cannon in the air and fires it as the golden sky grows dark, the shell it fires soaring up and detonating, dispersing the upper levels of clouds, and leaves fireworks in its wake.

"…Alcedesmon!!"

Koushiro analyzes the digimon. "This is Alcedesmon, the Terra level form of Armajimon. He has appeared once before, but we didn't have the time forty-one years ago to analyze this digimon, since we were in the midst of our battle with Beelzebumon when he first appeared. He is a Machine type digimon, classified as a data digimon. His listed attacks are Industrial Revolution, Bridge of World Future, Inner Machinations, and Unite Cannon." Quickly, he spins and floats over with the other digimon. Finally Tentomon (03) floats out. Ivy yells, "Izzy!! Go time!!"

"Tentomon Excel Digivolve to Elite Kabuterimon!!"

Romi analyzes him. "This digimon from the other universe, known as Elite Kabuterimon, is what is known as an Excel digimon. My WC-EDI states that the Excel level would probably be the equivalent to an area of power about equal to or slightly higher than Omega. His attacks are Neo Energy Ball, Thunder Triad, and Thunder Clash." (For a description of him, check out "Digimon Zero 3" by ExcelUltimamon) He lines up with the three beside the ship. Ivy pushes a button, closing the outer hatch and pressurizes the airlock. As soon as the air and air pressure return to the room, Ken, Wormmon, Laomon, and Bellosomon enter it. Ken holds out his EDI.

"THE SHARD OF REDEMPTION!!"

"Wormmon Terravolve to Fujita Okuwamon, The Winds of Change!!"

Ivy says, "I guess I should help Bellosomon get ready then."

"Bellosomon Warp Digivolve to Ivymon!!"

"Ivymon Warp Digivolve to Valkyrie Ivymon!!"

Ivy profiles this time. "Meet Valkyrie Ivymon, Ultra level digimon, or in terms of this plane of existence, about the equivalent of something right in between a Terra and a Demi-Omega. She is a Vaccine class Paladin/Flower Nymph type, just like Paladin Lilymon. Well, not just like her… Oh, you get the idea!! Her attacks make good use of her affinity to plant, light, and life elementals, with her Divine Seeds, Flora Sword, Nature's Panacea, Mana Vault, Storm of Petals, and Zion Blast." Inside the airlock, the four are putting on what appear to be spacesuits. Their backpacks however have two bars on them with button-covered handles on the ends as well as a place for a lifeline. As Laomon does so, she complains, "God, I can't stand bulky outfits like these. So damn restrictive. Anyone who knows me knows I like loose fitting garments. Now I'm going to have like no range of movement at all."

Fujita Okuwamon adds, "Well, at least you don't have to figure out how to put four arms into a suit meant for two."

Ivy says over the intercom, "…Yeah, that's nice. Now hurry up. We're ready when you are."

Laomon remarks, "Of course you're ready. You don't have to do anything but push a damn button." They get the suits on, and then grab their helmets. Quickly they put them on, and then push a button on the back of their gloves, magnetizing them to the floor, after which Ken says over the helmet's microphone, "We're ready." They walk out of the airlock, and begin up the side of the ship. Upon reaching the top, they deactivate the magnetism and leap off the ship to the others. Raijinkabuterimon turns and speaks, but because there is no air in space, we hear nothing, as well as everyone else. Ken says, "Guess we're going to have to find a means of communications that isn't sound based."

Laomon ripostes, "Well, that throws out about every possible means of communication, and I doubt anyone knows Morse code so I figure Morse lamps are right out."

Ken says, "Well, I guess we'll just have to wing it then. Laomon, Fujita Okuwamon, come with me and see if we can find some sort of weakness. Valkyrie Ivymon, see if you can work out some sort of sign language we can use to talk to the digimon."

Valkyrie Ivymon states, "Great, give me the impossible job." Ken, Laomon, and Fujita Okuwamon all push two buttons under their thumbs and accelerate forward via gas vents on their backpacks. From the ship, Koushiro says, "Find anything we can use to crack up these rocks, but keep your distance, because by my calculations they are putting out a gravitational force of almost one and a half times that of earth, not to mention standard spatial physics apply."

Ken says, "We understand, Koushiro. Now everyone, switch to infrared, because otherwise we won't see anything."

Laomon remarks, "We're not idiots. This is dark matter we're talking about." They pull down a window over their helmets, and begin to move in. Laomon watches the left planet, Fujita Okuwamon watches the right planet, and Ken evaluates the center planet. For about a couple of minutes they watch in silence, when Ken says, "It looks like almost ready. Their heat levels are rising…"

Fujita Okuwamon interrupts, "Wait Ken… I see something strange on this world."

Ken exclaims, "What is it Fujita?"

He continues, "Well, I'm not sure whether this is cause for alarm, but first off, I saw a patch of the planet here that still seems unformed, but then it started coming together there faster than I've ever seen anything form."

Laomon says, "The same thing's going on here as well."

Ken looks over at the world on the right and sees the hollow spot, but then he sees something moving around. "Fujita, I see what you're talking about, but when were you going to tell me about the mass of white sparkles in that area?"

Fujita Okuwamon tries to scratch his head as he asks, "What white sparkles? I don't see anything?"

Ken points right at them. "Right there, Fujita!! Whatever they are, they must be the reason why the Dark Tower Planet is forming so fast." Fujita Okuwamon looks with worried eyes at Ken. "Fujita, I'm not mad, or suffering from some sort of space-induced dementia!! There are masses of white specks of light surrounding these planets, and some are entering it."

Koushiro decides to butt in on this conversation by asking, "Wait!! Did you say `white sparkles?'" Ken answers him, and then Koushiro says, "There's only one thing I think you can be seeing. They are bodiless data code that watch over the Digital World, analyzing the forces of good and evil. Hikari saw and talked to a being that no one else could see when she was eight, and she claims she did it again four years later. That first time, no one knew of it until it took over Hikari and spoke through her. They said that they were the ones that came up with the idea of making us Chosen Children. Why would you see something like them Ken, and why would out here in digital space, and also why would you see them around these Dark Tower Planets?"

Ken states, "I don't why they'd be doing that, unless Fujita is right and I have succumbed to some sort of dementia, but dementia is so hard to believe!! We've only been out here for a couple of minutes!!"

Koushiro states, "Then you would have to be telling the truth. I don't believe the dementia idea either, but why can you see them, and no one else can?" He turns to Izzy. "Try having the system scan various frequencies and energy levels. We may not be able to see them with our naked eyes, but nothing is completely invisible." He fiddles with the instruments, and then, all of a sudden, many loud pings echo across the bridge. Izzy exclaims, "On a frequency of 9023 Terahertz I just got almost 600 faint signals out there in space, and two… on board this ship." Suddenly, the panel mysteriously blacks out. Koushiro states, "Something's not right. Valkyrie Ivymon, get the others to attack those spots on the planet." On board the ship, just over Koushiro's shoulder, hover those two, Him, and The One Next to Him. The One Next to Him exclaims, "This isn't good, Him. These troublemakers may be putting two and two together."

Him says, "Don't worry. There isn't a thing they can do to smash these things in time. They're already sentient."

The One Next to Him muses, "Well, the other thing I want to know is how Ken can see us? I thought only Hikari and the most powerful Lunarians had the advanced brain and gene structure needed to see us."

Him ripostes, "It could a side effect to his encounter with the Dark World…"

The One Next to Him states, "Shhh!! You aren't supposed to talk about failed projects when out and about!!"

Him replies, "Calm down The One Next to Him, you worry too much. Nobody on this ship can hear us, remember." Outside, Fujita Okuwamon and Laomon begin attacking those spots.

"Sonic Knuckle!!"

"Sevenfold Flower Cannon!!"

Their attacks race towards the weak spots, but above a thousand feet above the area, their shots expand and just fall apart. "Strange." Laomon observes. "I wonder…"

"Sevenfold Flower Cannon!!"

Seeing the exchange of fire, the other digimon brush off Valkyrie Ivymon and assist, albeit no one hears them attack, or the attack, or those attacks ever hitting anything.

"Industrial Revolution!!"

"Raijin Firestorm!!"

"Mega-Nuke!!"

"Thunder Triad!!"

"Inner Machinations!!"

"Synchatron Voltage!!"

"Red Giant!!"

"Neo Energy Ball!!"

Almost immediately, the eight attacks merge into one unstoppable piercing mass and close on a strong area on the central planet in conjunction with Laomon's attack. On board the ship, Ivy exclaims, "The planet's density… it's going up, and the outside surface seems to have hardened…"

Izzy says, "It's anticipating the attack."

Koushiro adds, "Anticipation denotes… intelligence." The attacks hit the tightened surface and detonate, and as they do, all the light from the explosion is instantly gobbled up, and the explosion seeps into the crust, and to Laomon's surprise, the planet almost doubles in size. She yells, "What the hell is this thing?" As soon as she finishes speaking, another volley passes her en route to the same planet. On the planet, the surface begins to change, and a deep pit forms in the surface. "The planet… it's feeding off our power!! Personally, I think those glowing thingies Ken sees may be behind it all. Not only is the weak spot gone, but this thing is now three times larger than Jupiter." Before she can say anymore, an even larger volley passes her, and the planet again embraces the energy, doubling its current size. "Dammit, Valkyrie Ivymon!! Tell them to stop!!" As the digimon prepare for another round, Valkyrie Ivymon tries to beat on them to get their attention, but they don't notice. She tries to smack them around, but they brush her off. Raijinkabuterimon thinks, "Geez, what's her problem? We're trying to destroy those planets." She then starts to get pissed. Sitting next to Alcedesmon and Elite Kabuterimon, she screams, "Stop shooting you morons!! That planet is feeding off your attempts!!" On board, her yelling causes a loud reverb, the tone hurting everyone's ears. Koushiro shouts, "Shut up Valkyrie Ivymon!! They can't hear you!! It doesn't matter how loud you scream, because there is no air out there for sound waves to vibrate through, and no vibration means no sound!!" Suddenly, she jets in front of them, but it's too late. Quickly, Valkyrie Ivymon focuses her power.

"Zion Blast!!"

Her attack hits the eight techniques, but they do not seem to stop. More she focuses, and they slow down as they begin to come a little too close for comfort for her. Finally, she lets out a rupturing scream as she sends all her energy into the beam, white light filling the suit, and breaks the rush of power, and envelops the others in it. Out the other end they emerge, all seemingly stunned, with the armor of Elite Kabuterimon & Alcedesmon, and the scales of Bahamutmon glowing a bright red, slowly cooling off. Valkyrie Ivymon sighs a sigh of relief, before noticing a peculiar hissing sound and the fact that it seems to be getting a lot colder in that suit. She looks first through her visor to see it cracked, then looks down to see tears in her suit across her arms and sides, letting her vital air escape into the void. "This just isn't my day." She tries to propel herself the ship, and as she does, she passes just by Alcedesmon. "I wonder if I can get back… *yawn* …to the ship before I run out of air and pass out?" Alcedesmon says, "Ship? Pass out?" He floats over to her. "You say something about the ship?" Valkyrie Ivymon groggily answers, "Yeah…, yeah, I did!!" She remembers Koushiro telling her about sound needed something to vibrate across to be received. Half awake, she puts torn arm between her helmet and his head and tells him, "Now listen her. You better stop firing on that planet. It just keeps eating all your energy, and keeps getting bigger and badder…" She passes out and reverts to Bellosomon. Alcedesmon waves his arms at the others and tries to signal them to follow him. He takes hold of her gas vent controls, and thrusts them as fast as he can for the outer hatch. Bellosomon slowly begins to yellow from the lack of air. Alcedesmon hits the manual hatch control button to open the airlock door, and they go inside. As the door closes, Alcedesmon exclaims, "Hurry up!!" The door closes and seals itself, and pressurization begins. As it occurs, he works to remove the spacesuit. The pressurization sequence finishes up, and he rushes out with Bellosomon in hand to the bridge. As he enters, Ivy jumps out her seat and runs down to the lower level of the bridge. Ivy demands, "What happened?"

Alcedesmon tells them as Izzy and Koushiro check her out, "Well, she attacked us, well, our attacks actually. When she did, the level of energy unleashed must have tore up her suit, because her air was leaking afterwards. I know that it was a lot because it hurt us when it broke our wave. On the way to the ship, I could faintly hear a tidbit of info here and there as she spoke. She stopped after that and was able to tell us to stop attacking however. That's when she passed out."

Izzy says, "No pulse… but she hasn't deleted yet. We've got this rare grace period, so let's that heart started again before she does fall apart on us!!" Izzy begins to do CPR as Koushiro tries to breathe in air into her lungs. Izzy says, "She's cold… Maybe hypothermia set in." Suddenly, her body destabilizes, and Izzy's hands pass through her body, when he suddenly stops on something. Koushiro and Izzy are both amazed to see that Izzy's hands had landed on what appeared to be the equivalent to the heart of Bellosomon, which still seemed solid. Izzy said, "Time's running out… I'm going to try to massage the heart directly!!" He starts squeezing the various chambers with deft movements of her fingers, trying to get it started up. Every little bit, her body became static. Iori exclaims, "It doesn't look like it's working!!"

Romi then comes up and says, "What if it didn't have the energy to beat? Alcedesmon did say she had to use a lot of her energy to grab their attention."

Izzy says, "Maybe, but there is no real way to safely transfer energy between living beings, especially ones in such a critical shape."

Romi comes back with, "And the very power of digivolution isn't? It's been done, but not how you would think."

Koushiro states, "Yes, Romi… But how? Digivolution is right out…"

Iori, Izzy, Koushiro, and Romi all exclaim, "Alcedesmon!!"

Izzy says, "Why didn't I see it sooner. Alcedesmon, you must hurry!! I want you to build up your energy into your right hand and jab that hand into her heart. This is very risky, but we're out of time and options!!" Alcedesmon nods and holds up his fist, and when he does, it starts to glow, the energy pouring into the appendage. He charges at the dying Bellosomon and slams his hand into her heart. Her phased out body rears up, the ship quakes from the impact, energy surging out her heart as her form fades in and out, and then after a couple of seconds there was the joyous sound of her gasping for air fills the bridge. As Alcedesmon pulls his out, her body slowly stabilizes. Still partly phased out, Bellosomon wakes up and tries to get up, when her hands go clean through the floor. She screams, "Oh no, I'm dead!!"

Ivy tries to come over and grab her, but falls through her and on her face. Koushiro laughs and tells her, "No, you aren't dead. Well, you were technically dead for two minutes, but then Romi and Izzy came up with the idea of having Alcedesmon blasting your heart with pure energy, and that's when your heart and lungs began to work again. Believe it or not, you are the first digimon to ever come back from the dead without being reconfigured in some way."

Bellosomon remarks, "Then why the hell am I going through people and things?"

Izzy says, "I'm not sure. I figure must a result of being technically dead without reconfiguration. You must still have had brain activity, and must be why you didn't disintegrate, but as a result of dying, you apparently `phased out' of physical reality, and now your body is trying to restore your solid bonds, so you might remain a `specter' for a couple of minutes." The happiness of Bellosomon's recovery is broken up by a transmission. Ken says, "I think these things are done. Also, all those sparkles have just entered the planets." Outside, the planets begin to move toward the Digital World. Laomon says, "The Dark Tower Planets are on their way to the Digital World!!"

Koushiro exclaims, "They intend to descend to the Digital World in that form?!"

Iori exclaims, "We have to warn the others!!" Ken and the others in space return to ship, and the other digimon fly alongside it as they pursue the planets. Laomon shouts, "Move closer!! Use their gravity to carry us in tow, because otherwise we'll never make it in time!!"

Back on the surface around the same time the space escapade transpired, Heramon and Stefan have made their way to Keiko's party, but coming from the other direction was Lewis and the others to back them up. Tidal Sirenamon and Valkyrie Lotusmon look like they have been through hell, all stunned and beat up, and then Neo Spheremon moves on top of them. "Oh, dear Princess of the Moon, is this all those old codgers that called themselves Royal Artema Guards taught you? I thought you'd be more a challenge, like your mother was. I guess it doesn't matter now. The stupid Dejian was easy to beat. Now with you gone, there will nothing to block my claim as ruler of the moon."

Tidal Sirenamon mutters to herself, "Dejian? I think I heard that before…"

Valkyrie Lotusmon shouts back, "You only won because she had the cook breakfast that morning and ended up giving the whole royal court food poisoning!!"

Tetsuo asks Masato, "What is she talking about?"

Neo Spheremon chortles, "So what if I convinced that cook to quit without warning? That was a million years ago. A victory is a victory. Now you die." Tidal Sirenamon throws her hands out and yells.

"Perfect Sphere!!"

His blast clears the whole area, and knocks Yuuji, Masato, and Tetsuo on their butts. Much ado after the afterglow, Lotusmon sits on the ground, but Sirenamon stands there with her hand out, the palm smoking, but both of them all patched up. Neo Spheremon begins to gloat when he sees Sirenamon standing up. "How did you survive that?" All of a sudden, he falls down to the ground, a massive crater in the bottom right area of his round body. Sirenamon jests, "Dumb luck…" Suddenly she grabs her head, a vision racking her mind…

~*Vision*~

A figure that appear to be Sirenamon wearing glowing white and gold armor covered in opals in areas, and wearing a sky blue crystal bandanna on her head stands on a glowing field of grass with hundreds of strange digimon charging her, when she extends her hands and exclaims, "To heed the call, the shield of the crown!! Grand Guard!!" A sphere of light surrounded in all directions by six Big Guard style serrated barriers appears around her and absorbs the mass assault. All of the sudden, electrical discharges go back and forth from the sphere to the barriers, and then five of the barriers facing the horde glow bright and discharge a blinding mammoth ray of destruction back at them, deleting many of them. Spheremon hovers in place and exclaims, "Damn you, you dirty Dejian!! Sirenamon, you are not invulnerable!! I shall continue until I have what is rightfully mine!!"

~*Vision Ends*~

"Grand Guard…" She utters. "That's what saved us. Grand Guard…"

Neo Spheremon begins to shake, "How do you know of the Grand Guard technique?!"

Sirenamon begins, "Well, I'm not sure… Hey, why am I talking to you?" Neo Spheremon charges her and knocks her down. He creates a set of blades on his bottom and tries to impale her, but she rolls free. "I hope you aren't whom I think you are, or that was a fluke, but I cannot take that chance."

Ambient Feralmon says, "I think he's figured out who she is really is… Wait, if she is who you say she is, why doesn't she use all that power you told us she possessed?"

Chibi Seishinmon says, "I don't know, Ambient Feralmon. Maybe she's forgotten…" Neo Spheremon continues to pummel on her, while not far away, Sakiko lays on Hikari's lap, calmed down a bit. Just then, Heramon leaps out at them. Angemon and Angewomon jump out and catch her, and throw her into a tree. Bushidomon leaps at her with his sword when Heramon lifts her left leg up and throws him over her, and into a fallen tree. Using her momentum, Heramon flips up to her feet at the same time. Angemon spots this and immediately attacks.

"Hand of Fate!!"

The pure shot sends Heramon airborne, burning into her, and cutting a path through the forest. Bushidomon has to lay flat just to avoid the beam. In the distance, Stefan watches and remarks, "This can't be right!! I know the history books from back to front. Angemon never such power, nor did he look like that!!" Heramon staggers out of the aftermath with smoke rolling off her. Slowly, she puts a finger up to her right ear and says, "Bring in all inactive troops to attack my location." She laughs for a moment and states, "By any chance you know a Feral Rosemon? I sense you two could have trained together, because that actually hurt. My master may have already destroyed her and her friends, so I'll just have to vent my rage on you two." Angemon begins to make his move. From behind, Bushidomon pounces on her. "Have you forgotten about me already?" He rides her piggy-back, punching on her head over and over until Angemon nears, when Heramon grabs him and throws him into Angemon's staff, smashing it to bits. Angewomon jumps up to the plate.

"Celestial Arrow!!"

She launches her shot for Heramon when she puts out her left forearm in front of her.

"Angel's Lament!!"

Her arm shone white as the arrow neared, and when it hit, it ricocheted off her arm and struck the rising Bushidomon.. All of a sudden, Angemon decks Heramon, knocking her back, and then lands another fist in her gut. He goes for another jab when Heramon catches it and flings him into Bushidomon. Stefan observes, "I see. Bushidomon is about equal to her power, but she's outnumbered, so she's indirectly attacking him through the angels, so that she can then axe the angels and face a tenderized Bushidomon!!" Heramon knees Angemon in the stomach, then grabs Bushidomon as Angemon launches another Hand of Fate. A charred Bushidomon announces, "This s*** isn't funny anymore!!" She grabs Bushidomon by his arm and flings him into Angewomon, then high kicks Angemon into a tree.

"June Fury!!"

Angemon is pinned to the tree as her cyclonic assault rips into Angemon, cracking his chest, and then reverting him to Patamon, but for some reason he's larger than normal. Angewomon goes to attack, when she staggers backwards. "So much energy… So dizzy!!" Hikari and Takeru, sitting with Sakiko, see their EDI's begin to light up. Stefan goes, "Time for me to make my move." He leaps out from the shadows between Angewomon and Heramon.

"Saji no Raimei… kakeru Yon!!"

The sky goes dark as lightning surges rains down from sky, striking random areas of ground, some hitting the two digimon. More lightning exploded out of his body, and even more ruptured out of the ground, much of it a hundred times larger than would ever be found naturally, repeatedly hitting Heramon, but most of it hitting Angewomon, and then a final surge throws Heramon miles away, and Tailmon to the ground. She also seems strange because she is not only missing patches of fur, but also taller. Stefan stands there about to fry them when Bushidomon stands up. "Like the prognosticator said, both sides have to go, no matter how good they are, but if a level four lightning technique couldn't destroy either Heramon or Angewomon, then…" Stefan looks at them, and then slams his fist back, knocking Bushidomon out. He gets ready again when Hikari and Takeru come running up, their EDI's almost ablaze with energy. Stefan says, "Good!! I won't have to go far. Your deaths are just a step to repair a doomed future… What the hell!!" Tailmon and Patamon jump back to their feet, Patamon radiating a blinding light from his fur, and Tailmon's fur falling out. Tailmon exclaims, "That hurt, and now, whoever you are, I want questions, and I want them before all my fur falls… out? What the hell is going…" She doesn't get to finish when she begins to glow as well, and then a brilliant light forces everyone to look away. Stefan quickly turns back to see the two digimon encased in strange eight sided crystal diamonds. Stefan anxiously shouts, "This was never in the history books!!" Takeru grabs him and holds him in a full nelson as he stood there in total shock. Hikari demands, "Who are you, and what did you do to them!!"

Stefan states, "I'm Stefan. You know, one of Lance's men, well actually, the truth I'm from your future, ten million years to be precise. Our time is totally ruined, ruled by forces we believe spawned from the Dominion, and another source. They try to prevent evolution itself… they try to control life itself!! I am one of those whom resist them, evolved to what humanity shall be ten million years from now by the resistance. I came back here originally to kill Malachimon, but when we found she was not the cause, our plans changed, but then I believe Attorneymon's coup erased my timeline. This left me alone, trying to find a way to restore my timeline and fix it. With me I carry a portable prognosticator, and when I asked what was needed to fix the problem, it stated that all those that could be influenced by the higher force must be eliminated. This marked all of the Dominion except Malachimon and the Valkyries, and all of you, with the exception to Bonnie, for death."

Hikari goes, "What are you talking about? What does this have to do with anything?"

He continues, "Believe me not if you wish, but I am from the future, and I know what I'm doing. If I follow the prognosticator, I can finally end all this, however, there are things that have happened that this computer has not factored, like the creation of the Dark Paladins, the madness of Lily, or the fact that Patamon and Tailmon have just surprised the hell out of me and encased themselves in Evolution Matrix Crystals."

Takeru asks, "Before you go into all this junk about `Evolution Matrix Crystals' tell me, you seem to know the where, when, why and what to this theory, but what I want to know is just how will this repair your history?"

Stefan asks, "Prognosticator: `How will the required actions impact the timeline?'"

A feminine computer voice from his arm quotes, "By removing all parties that can be presently manipulated, it will prevent Attorneymon's plans to open the Digital Spirit Gate, and deny the higher beings an opportunity to carry out their plans. After this, the Dark Tower Planets will come to Deji-Chi, and seeing no other, will serve you. Using them to eradicate any other hostile force, and then targeting the higher powers will neutralize our major enemies. Between now and then, new evils will arise, and billions will die, but without Digidestined to protect the worlds, humanity will be forced to adapt, and learn to fend for themselves through technology and evolutionary advances. A few deaths now shall ensure peace for the future."

Stefan goes with disgust, "And you're just now telling me?"

It goes on, "You never bothered to ask. That's the fault of you organic beings. You assume far too much. This is the most logical conclusion."

Takeru requests, "I think I'm going to regret asking, but how will humanity `fend for themselves?'"

The prognosticator, "Since you will die anyway, it will be not a breach of protocol to tell you this, but they simply take the problem out of the equation."

Takeru goes, "Take what out of the equation? How?"

It rambles on, "You humans and your `how!!' Basically, since statistically most evil forces from here on out originate either in this world or in some third world nation, the leading nations of the world jump ship and leave the planet, either transforming their nations into massive space colonies, like the Netherlands, Sweden, and the Nation of Shinsei; claiming an area of another planet, like China and Palestine; claiming a whole moon, as does Australia and India, or a combination of all four, like the Mexican States of America and Japan."

Takeru says, "So, we abandon Earth altogether?"

The computer says, "Eh… not quite. See, after those that are deemed fit to go leave, everyone agrees to just blow it up, getting rid of everyone's problems all at once. Bye bye Earth, bye bye Deji-Chi."

Stefan slowly angers, then roars, "You would have me do something that would make us the very enemies we seek to stop?! Do you not grasp the mentality of the very thing we seek to stop?! Changing history just to have something else try to control fate itself is not why I came here!! I just want to go home, and go back to a home I don't have to fight for anymore…"

The prognosticator argues, "But aren't we controlling fate by just being here?"

Stefan exclaims, "Shut up!!"

Hikari says, "Now that you know, will you continue?"

Stefan goes, "No. I don't want a future that is just a knock-off of the one I'm trying to fix. If I must, I'll gladly take my old time over that possibility."

The prognosticator says, "Well then, all you have to do is make sure Malachimon comes out of this battle unscathed and purged of her little houseguest… Well, wait, factoring in this new equation in front of us, not to mention the existence of a Super Mode digimon, Apollomon, and a few other anomalies I just detected, your future, I believe, won't be so bleak. Yeah, you'll still have to fight the asses when you go home, but things will be better than when we left. If things stand as they are, humans and digimon will receive fair warning of the higher beings and be prepared to fight them, but the battle will still drag out for many millennia. The future is fickle however, and the unexpected may occur. As far as I'm concerned, if I were a human, I'd throw the dice and put my faith in this past. Who knows? Maybe we all die before we ever have to worry about them, or maybe we never have to worry about them. It's up to them now… And if I were you, I'd kill Miyako as well."

Takeru asks, "Any particular reason, or is it that you won't be happy until you see one of us dead?"

The computer says, "Oh, no particular reason."

Stefan says, "Since you are longer marked for death, she can't tell you anything about the future that you can somehow directly change by using that knowledge, but if she said it, there has to be something behind it." Takeru finally releases Stefan from his grip. Hikari walks around the crystallized digimon with curiosity. She reaches out to Tailmon when a powerful surge strikes her hand, flows through it, and then throws her feet away on her butt. Stefan says, "Don't touch. A LOT of energy is coursing through them. You have to have a lot of power if you want to awaken what lies within, what lies ahead."

Hikari utters, her hair sticking up in places, "Okay."

Takeru inquires, "How about you tell us what these are now, and why our friends are in them? Could it be some side effect of Lewis destroying the Egg Armors?" Stefan's face lights up. "That's it!! No wonder they began evolution now!! Lewis smashed the limiting factor that has held back their evolution for so many millions of years, and the floodgates of time came crashing down to rectify the hold-up!!"

Hikari goes, "Evolution?"

Stefan says, "Yes!! Digimon Darwinian Evolution, one of the four great theoretical abilities that unbound digimon possess, abilities first discovered by the Lunarians countless millennia ago, and rediscovered by Evamon, and again by the resistance!!" They both give a funny look to him. "You have questions!! Well, technically, three of the four theories have been proven, and therefore laws, but `theories' is easier to say. Well, to begin, the abilities of digital life forms aren't simply to use powers and digivolve, oh no, see, there is much more to it, things you probably already know such as Warp Digivolution, Mega Digivolution, Matrix Digivolution, Terravolution, Jogress Shinka, Bio-merge Digivolution, Ichiban Shinka, and Omega Terravolution…" As he speaks, Takeru and Hikari mutter on in confusion, "Matrix Digivolution… Bio-merge Digivolution…?" Stefan continues on over this, "…but the higher forces seek to keep such powers at bay, so that they can try and control the digimon and shape them how they see fit, however, there are four great powers many digimon possess which worry the higher power. One is the Super Mode, a hyper state when all the digimon's inner power is unleashed, enhancing everything about them to level far beyond any power they had in a normal state. Depending on the existing skill and power of a digimon, the Super Mode can only be accessed as certain levels, or for some, not at all. If you want a demonstration of the Super Mode, just watch Apollomon. Second is Digimon Darwinian Evolution, what you are witnessing now. Just like how monkeys evolved to apes, and apes to man, many digimon types had lesser ancestors that they have improved upon over many millennia. To counteract the higher powers, we help many digimon ascend to their proper forms for our time. Third are the Five Natural Orders, an ability that is not innate, but has to be learned. No one in our time knows any of the five schools, but we do know that they existed long ago on the Digital Moon, originated by leader of the Lunar Exodus, Tsukiyumimon. They were a set of `super-techniques' of awesome power that any digimon could learn over time, but we only possess records of only one digimon from here to ever learn these abilities, otherwise it seems only Lunarians could master them. Each technique had its own school, with teachings that were a strange mix of enlightened spirituality and science, and that's about all I know about them. With those higher powers no longer in control, the possibilities are endless for digimon."

Takeru asks, "Okay, about how long does this Digimon Darwinian Evolution take?"

Stefan says, "Depending on the digimon, about 5 to 30 years, but it can be sped up. Most times we use Time Master Digimon to speed up time around them, but since there is no Time Master class of digimon in this time, we can try the other method, which is to feed the digimon energy, and supercharge the crystals to a quantum state."

Hikari responds, "Let's do it then!!"

Stefan states, "Not that simple. You two alone wouldn't provide enough energy." He walks over and slaps two discs to the sides of the crystals. "These will help speed things up as well, but it still won't be enough. I guess I could use my energy… I guess I won't need it to use it to smite you anymore." He looks around, and then spots Sakiko. "However, if she were to add her power to our existing pot, we would have just enough energy to do this." Hikari walks over to the disparate Sakiko and kneels next to her. She shrugs her shoulder, but Sakiko turns away. Hikari holds her shoulder, to be answered, "Go away!!"

Hikari says, "We need you Sakiko."

She goes, "I don't care. Everything I care about gets destroyed or killed. Maybe if I hate all your guts, maybe then nothing will happen to you…" Hikari reflects on her answer for a moment. Doubt fills her eyes, but then she shakes her head. "No, I refuse to accept that. Scarletmon would want you to do this."

Sakiko tells her, "Forget her!! All we do won't amount to anything in the long run. We might as well be dust in the wind."

Hikari remarks, "You don't mean it, do you?"

Sakiko looks up at her, lowers her head, and answers, "No… I guess you can see clean through me, but still, what good will any of this do?"

Hikari turns her head towards the evolution crystals. "It will keep the events of today from repeating themselves… It will set a grievous wrong right… It will save countless lives… It is justice."

Stefan walks up and adds, "It will give the future a chance… It will reveal the force at large and give us a defense… It will end the loop of oppression that has been in existence for billions of years… It is the future."

Takeru adds on, "It will keep so many others from suffering as you do… It is the job we assumed when we came here… It defines us… It is right."

Sakiko stands up and wipes the tears from her face, and pronounces to the world, "These will the last tears I will ever shed in mourning. There will be no more sadness!!" Suddenly, not only does Sakiko's EDI and shard light up, but from her heart shone the Crest of Love, and in the middle was the `tsuki' kanji, and then her digivice screen explodes. Takeru exclaims, "I've seen this before!! This is what happened when Apollomon achieved Super Mode!!" As with Bonnie, Sakiko began to shine. Her red vest, pants, and tie turned light tone of pink as the pinstripes on her pants & shirt and her shoes became silver. Her eyes became almost a jade color, and her hair turned a soft, creamy yellow, almost off-white. Stefan holds his arm in front of his eyes to shield himself from light Sakiko gives off. He utters in shock, "Unbelievable!! Two beings obtaining the awesome power of Super Mode in this day and age, and in the same hour too!!"

Sakiko says, a shining tear still in her left eye, "What are we waiting for?!" They proceed over to the crystals. Stefan instructs, "Now, listen up. Surround the two crystals and take each other's hands. Once you do that, focus all your power on the two gems. We'll know it's working when quantum particles begin to fluctuate around them and they begin to shine about as bright as Sakiko." As he had spoke, they followed these instructions, and began focusing. Tetsuo looks over and asks, "What's going on over there!!" He runs over in their direction. As he does, Bushidomon rises and proclaims, "I'm gonna kill-a him, that's what going on."

Tetsuo says, "Listen. I figure it was all just a big misunderstanding, otherwise Takeru wouldn't have let him go. Now I'm going to go over there and see what is happening, and you are not going to kill him."

Bushidomon stutters, "But… But… He hit me!! I want to, nay, I'm honor-bound to run his ass through now!!" Tetsuo calmly disarms Bushidomon of all his weapons and walks away. Bushidomon grumbles and turns away. "Fine!! Screw him!! He'll probably get his comeuppance soon enough."

He walks the other way, and goes up to Masato and Yuuji, who can do nothing but watch as Neo Spheremon thrashes Sirenamon around. Bushidomon asks, "Anything interesting going on here?"

Masato says, "Well, if you haven't noticed, our friends are being beaten up by Neo Spheremon, so how about you go help them!!"

Bushidomon says, "Listen, I don't even take orders from Tetsuo, so what makes you think I'm going to listen to you? Besides, I already did my good deed for today, so forget you!!" He then mutters, "Everyone just wants to grate on my nerves…"

Yuuji says, "I'll pay you…"

Bushidomon responds, "Kid, you don't got nearly enough money for me to put my ass out on the line in single combat against some prick that is probably twice as strong as me. I only helped Manticoramon because she was helpless, and I kind of felt sorry for her… well that, and I knew I could do something to Jormungamon. There's no way in hell that I could hurt the gelatinous ball bearing even if I wanted to. Besides, if you haven't noticed, it's two on one, neither one of them is helpless, and I think the floating marble has lost his touch, because he isn't doing much of anything to her. In fact, I think something has him distracted." As per say to his word, Sirenamon didn't really look all that hurt. He throws her through a large redwood tree, but almost as soon as she lands, she is back up. Sirenamon comments, "I've never felt a rush like this!!"

In sharp contrast, Neo Spheremon thinks, "She has to be!! There is no other digimon from this world could take such a beating and not even show the first sign of injury. Apparently, she is remembering something, so I must deal with her quick. I know…" He says to Sirenamon, "Finally, today shall be the day that all my opposition is wiped out, and I will have the moon, my right, when I destroy the two of you!!"

Sirenamon answers him, "The moon is not yours to claim!! It belongs to the Lunarians and all their children, and has been since the days of Tsukiyumimon!! Wait… What did I just say?"

All of a sudden, Neo Spheremon cries, "It's time to unleash my sleeping powers, the power of the moon itself!!"

Sirenamon then blurts again, "Ah, so that's why the moon is dying. You suck the life from the moon in order to fuel your own evil power. You want to make the moon as sickly as Deji-Chi itself!! Why, if I didn't know better, you are in league with the Eight Million Kami!!………… What the hell am I talking about?" She grasps her head in her left palm. Ambient Feralmon barks, "She dropped her guard!! I'm going in…" Chibi Seishinmon shakes her head, as does Dukemon. Masato, Yuuji, and Bushidomon are clueless, scratching their heads. Masato turns to Chibi Seishinmon and requests, "Mind telling us what's going on, or is it some big secret that you won't tell us?"

Chibi Seishinmon plainly says, "She's remembering…"

Masato wants to know, "Remembering what?"

Chibi Seishinmon replies, "Who she is, of course."

Bushidomon grumbles, "Enough with the twenty questions!! Give us straight answers!!"

They are told, "She is Sirenamon, the Royal Queen of the Digital Moon."

Yuuji remarks in awe, "She's a queen?"

Masato says, "How can that be?"

Chibi Seishinmon says, as in the background Sirenamon bounds around trying to dodge the beams of Neo Spheremon, "I should know. I've been around for a few million years, ever since our king mysteriously died about 1.8 million years ago, digital time, and she was elected by the High Council and the people as the most suitable ruler. Outside of those incursions with the disgruntled Spheremon, which we dubbed `The Darkside Wars,' Sirenamon reigned over the moon for over a million years, reestablishing bonds with Deji-Chi, or the Digital World as you call it, gave birth to our princess and also the first ever Lunarian-Dejian hybrid Lotusmon, and began to reveal the evil and corruption of the Eight Million Kami to the Dejians, when the Seven Overlords broke the gateways that connected Deji-Chi to the moon and wiped out just about every living thing on this world. Ever since then I was stranded here with the egg that became Ambient Feralmon. He knows nothing of his home, and over the years we have been able to do nothing but watch as the moon got sicker and sicker. This is what we know. If you want the full the story, you must ask the queen herself." As she finishes, Lotusmon leaps into the fray and grabs Neo Spheremon.

"Spiked Flail!!"

She begins whipping Neo Spheremon repeatedly with no effect. Lotusmon says, "It's so hard to whip him when he's so cold he numbs you on contact."

Neo Spheremon laughs and states, "Well, the mutt wants to play. I was planning to kill you after I dealt with Sirenamon, but there is nothing that says I can't do both." He expands slightly, and Lotusmon falls inside the giant metal mon. Neo Spheremon cackles, and then exclaims, "Why didn't I think of this earlier? Despite the lack of water, I believe I can finish what I didn't get to originally complete." Sirenamon is confused for a moment, a moment when Neo Spheremon fires a large energy bolt, a bolt that Sirenamon dodges by leaping to the left, and as she does, he lunges to his right, in her path, and engulfs her inside his body. The blasts blows Masato and the others off their feet and back three yards, smoking and cut up. Inside him, Sirenamon began to panic, flailing around and trying to scream. She frenetically moves around, moving up, when really she was moving closer to his core. Suddenly, as the silver metal becomes somewhat transparent, she hits her head on something. She looks and sees Lotusmon trying to break through on something. Lotusmon hears her screaming and panic as she tries to find a way out and goes to Sirenamon. She holds her and says, "Calm down. It's okay."

Sirenamon, hardly aware of Lotusmon, exclaims, "No, got to get out!! I hate water!! I have to save my people!!"

Lotusmon tears up and shouts, "Mother, calm down!!" This nabs part of Sirenamon's attention. Lotusmon asks, "Tell me, who are the people you have to save?"

Sirenamon says, "The Lunarians!!"

Lotusmon brings her face up to a barrier and wipes away the metal, revealing a strange shining lemon yellow and cobalt object in the center. Sirenamon blurts, "The Royal Regalia Scepter of the Moon!! That's how he used it. He put it in his core!!"

From in front of them, Neo Spheremon says, "Yes, and with it in my core, it not only allowed me to absorb the moon's energy far faster than I could dream, but it also has enhanced my own power three-fold, and now I shall use that power to crush you both inside of me!!" From the outside, everyone watches as he compacts down, growing ever so smaller. Yuuji stares on and calls out to Sirenamon, "He's trying to make you scared!! He wants control, but he's never been anything more than a lackey!! He's afraid of us, and our power to charge and stand against bullies like him!! He fears us because we are better than him." Neo Spheremon screams with madness, and fires a blast at Yuuji, when Bushidomon pulls him aside. Inside, Sirenamon and Lotusmon are grimacing in pain as the pressure increases. Lotusmon turns and faces the core. "There's one flaw in your plan, Neo Spheremon…"

"Plant Spikes!!"

She hurls a set four towards the core, and four towards the outside world. The high-pressure causes the spikes to blast clean through Neo Spheremon, leaving tubular holes to the outside, and also leaving holes through part of the core, and out the other side. Neo Spheremon roars out in pain. Lotusmon says to Sirenamon, "Grab my fingertips!!" She does so.

"Spiked Flail!!"

The fingernails on her left hand go into the core and wrap around the scepter while those on the right hand, which Sirenamon is holding on to, shoot out and pierce a tree, throwing Sirenamon out with them. As she hits the ground almost below Neo Spheremon, she calms down enough to get her bearings. Neo Spheremon goes, "Clever, but futile!! I will still kill you both!!"

"Half-Life!!"

Sirenamon stares head-on, unsure of what to do. Yuuji shouts, "Remember!! Know your past!! Rise up, take your crown, and together we shall avenge all those Lunarians destroyed by Neo Spheremon!! It is our duty!!"

From the chaos rushes Another and All of You, back to the Ômikami and The One in the Back, and reports, "Sir, I have a good feeling we're screwed."

The Ômikami asks, "And just how did you come to that conclusion?"

Another says, "Well, on our front, we have not one, but TWO Evolution Matrix Crystals that are almost ready to open…"

All of You continues, "The girl Sakiko has discovered the power of the Super Mode!!"

Another goes on, "That Sirenamon with them is without a doubt the Royal Queen of the Moon!!"

They both exclaim, "…And there may be signs that the boy Yuuji has realized the Super Mode as well!!" Slowly, the Ômikami floats around them and then stops where he was. He sits quiet for a second and then retorts, "You could have told me these things just a bit sooner, you know. Anyway, if this were a normal situation, I might be just like you, scared out of my mind and piss myself, if that was still possible. However, I am a leader, and I can keep my cool, and we know this isn't a normal situation. We still got this in the bag. If you have not forgotten, those Dark Tower Planets are only a minute from arrival, supercharged by those other fools' attempts to destroy them, and I wouldn't count Attorneymon out just yet. Besides, if nothing else, we still have the whacked out Lily take care of them all, which reminds me. Another and All of You, go summon the Four Holy Beasts to battle. While you're at it, take each one aside and play against their personalities and convince each one that one of them is a traitor, like say to Zhuqiaomon that Qinglongmon has gone soft on her for being confused and will protect her, or to Xuanwumon that Baihumon doesn't consider her a threat and will not bother fighting her, instead will fight other enemies more worthy of his time, and if he hears of the matter again, he will run them through, something like that. Now go!!" Another and All of You run off. He turns and says, "The One in the Back, go see about hampering that evolution. I don't want us compromised this early. If it can see us, then it will only be a matter of time before they have the power to kill us." The One in the Back flies off. The Ômikami goes on, "We will begin work on the Sixth Epoch soon, very soon, and this time, we'll get it right."

Back over with Stefan and evolution crystals, the crystals begin to hover in air as Tetsuo blindly tries to watch on. As he tries to see the amazing events, he looks past them and sees wave after wave of soldier marching ever closer. Leading the way was Black Tailmon. Tetsuo announced, "Everyone, I don't think we should stay here any longer." He is ignored. Quickly, he rushes around them and brandishes the sword of Bushidomon. Black Tailmon, standing in front of a tree, lets out a laugh and observes, "Oh look, this boy thinks he can fight an army of some of our most power digimon and machines all by himself. How cute!!" Still laughing, she hasn't noticed that Tetsuo is now right on top of her with the sword square on her head, up and down, and his left foot sitting lightly on her tail. She stops laughing to see this, and to it she says, "Guess this will teach me not to gloat so much… Guess this will also teach me to invest in a sniper from now on."

Tetsuo says, "Now what were you saying about not stopping an army single-handedly?"

Black Tailmon goes, "It never occurred to me that you go for me. I guess you know some battlefield tactics after all."

Tetsuo says, "Take out the commanding officer and an army will become confused and disorganized. We're smarter than you give us credit for."

Black Tailmon responds, "I can still swipe you, but then you would fall on me, and that sword will cleave me in half. Since we both know this is a stalemate situation, do you mind if I ask what is going on behind you?"

Tetsuo goes, "Well, you just motioned for your troops to flank us with your left arm, and any minute we're going to be surrounded."

Black Tailmon answers, "Well, I mean besides that of course!! I want to know what's with the bright light and all the hand holding over there."

Tetsuo says, "Well, even I don't know, and why would you even think that I would tell you if I did know?"

Black Tailmon remarks, "Damn."

Tetsuo, "There you go with that concept of us being ignorant."

Black Tailmon, "Good point. However, I have a counter plan." She then shouts out, "Company halt!! Train those guns on the light!!" She speaks to Tetsuo again, "Yes, you're smart too, but in combat, it's the one with the larger assets that always wins." She flicks her tail under Tetsuo's foot.

Tetsuo says, "Man I hate puns."

Black Tailmon, "Even us geniuses are entitled to say something stupid once in a while, of course I guess now is a bad time, with you holding that sword at my head, your foot on my tail, and those guns all pointed at us. Suddenly, behind them, the crystals begin to crack.

Across from them, about the same time we left them, as Yuuji finishes his line, Lotusmon, still stuck in Neo Spheremon, cries out, "Mother!!" All of a sudden, as she stares down the attack, all the visions flash before her eyes, and then come together, and present themselves. As she sees this, she says, "Mother…… It's all come together. These visions are not visions at all, but memories of long ago… my memories… my life!! It all makes sense now!!! This is me, and Lotusmon is my little girl… And this place I saw was the Digital Moon, way back when, when I was…" She rises and proclaims, "Sirenamon, Royal Queen of the Moon!!" Neo Spheremon yells out in terror."Neo Spheremon, you shall pay for all your crimes against all Lunarians!!"

Chibi Seishinmon eerily remarks, "She's back…"

All of a sudden, Yuuji `joins the Super Mode club,' for lack of a better phrase, when from his heart shone with the Crest of Reliability, and over which was the Royal Moon Regalia Crest. His hair and shoes quickly turned silver as his blue school uniform turned to a sky/light blue. Unlike the other digivices however, his screen did not explode. Sirenamon calls out to Lotusmon, "Don't worry!! Mama is coming to save you!!" She leaps into the attack left hand first, and as she does, the same symbol shines from the middle of her chest, while white light poured from her left hand, and surges down her arm, throwing off as it moves, and as it moves down her arm a sky blue crystal trimmed white set of plates like those Apollomon Super Mode wears on his right arm appears. The light continues up her arm, forming what seems to be an extremely loose chrome sleeve starting at her elbow, and it keeps going, reaching her shoulder and pauldron, where the pauldron changed, matching the color motif of the of the other plate, formed a thin pole under her arm to hold it in place, with opal gems on either end, and the reliability engraving is replaced with the Royal Moon Regalia. As it works across her torso, the chrome sleeve revealed itself to be part of some sort of kimono, and the S-pins that used to hold the pauldrons in place vanish. Outside of the color change, her armor does not change much, outside of where the crest shines a golden gem set appears with a round opal gem in the middle. From the sides of the set, four curved golden beams extend out flat against the armor, the lower two longer than the top two. At the same time, four straight golden beams do the same, one from the top, and three from the bottom between the bottom curved pair. On her head all that really happened was that as the light reached the top and back, her eyes went from blue to silver, and a sky blue crystalline bandanna begins to form, tied behind her hair at the base of her neck and skull, and sits atop her head, with the Royal Moon Regalia in the middle of it in gold. After this, a white halo appeared over her head. As it progresses to her right shoulder, it repeats the events of the left shoulder. Along the right arm, the chrome fabric moves down to her elbow, where it stops. From there down on the outside of her arm was a series of multiple crystal plates, seven in all, the back of each one pointed up 20° from her arm. Each one caressed the outside and the top and bottom of her arm, with a white metal cable going from the left and right sides of each plate across the inside of her arm. At the end of the seventh on the wrist, more appeared down the back and sides of her hand, and when they reached her fingers, they went down the back and sides of each finger, then, at the last knuckle, the final plates on each digit surround the whole section of finger on all sides, and extend to sharp pointed tips. From each one, like on the arms, there are cables around the palm/fingers to hold the plates on and in place. On the first plates on the index and pinky fingers, on their outside edges, below where the plates stopped, were two large rings extending from the edges of the plates, with the holes in the middle perfectly aligned to the other ring on the other side of the hand. Back on the fourth plate on her arm, an opal gem in another gold gem set appears, and from them four beams emerge, two on each side, mostly straight, with a slight arc to them, and at the end, which is about four inches from the gem set, they bend almost 90°, the top two bending up, and vice versa, and become almost thrice as wide at the bend, and only a couple of inches long after the bend. As the light passes the bottom edge of the armor, the robe continues on, ending about a fifth of the way down the tail half. The light moves on, and starting about two-thirds of the way down her tail, her purple scale begin to change color, slowly changing to a silver color as the light nears her fins. As the light passes the fins and fades away, for the first, the glowing light of the armor, bandanna, and robe are noticed, each illuminating in their respective color.

As Sirenamon cuts through Neo Spheremon's attack with ease, Neo Spheremon screams, "NO!!!" Sirenamon bursts into his body, rushing through his body, grabs Lotusmon, and explodes out the other side. A shivering Lotusmon says, "You are my mother. I knew it…"

Still in mid-air, Sirenamon says, "Yes, dear. Yes, I am, and I will never lose you again." She feels the shivering and the chattering of her teeth. "You must be cold, and you feel weak… Something's sucking away at your energy!!" She looks back to see Lotusmon's fingertip whips still lodged in Neo Spheremon, and then she remembered where they are. "The Royal Regalia Scepter!! Lotusmon, you have to let go of it!! As long as you hold on to it, Neo Spheremon can use it as a conduit to draw in your vital energies!!" The hole Sirenamon made is beginning to seal up. Sirenamon finally lands on a tree branch 15 feet away and turns around. Lotusmon says, "Well, if we just give it a good tug, we can rip that thing right out and you can have your scepter back."

Neo Spheremon screams, "There you damn Dejians go and try to take what is rightfully mine!!"

Sirenamon says to Lotusmon, "Don't worry about it. We'll find another way." Lotusmon looks at her with lament. "It isn't worth losing you for." Lotusmon lets go of the scepter and draws back her fingertips. Sirenamon then looks at Neo Spheremon and exclaims, "We didn't take anything from you, because you never had it. You are simply a jealous lackey, who simply got tired of sucking up. Tell me now, if you did have the moon as your prize, what would you do with it?" Neo Spheremon begins to glare across his body. He stutters and questions. He stumbles, "Uh… Um… Eh… Wha… I… Uh…"

Sirenamon interjects, "Exactly!! You only covet it because it isn't yours, and you believe it should be yours. The elections, the wars, the years of resistance, they all should have told you that no one will ever accept your rule!!"

Neo Spheremon shouts, "That election was a sham!! Since I was Chancellor of the Royal Court, I should have been coroneted as the next in line, but the High Council had to incite that ancient law!! I will never kneel to a dirty Dejian, nor will I not stop until I have my moon, and do away with all this `Megami' nonsense that started so long ago!!"

Sirenamon retorts, "So you are in league with the Eight Million Kami!!"

He answers, "Since the day I took office."

Sirenamon states, "Even now, you serve another. You will never be your own person." With that, Neo Spheremon goes on a tirade of destruction. Immediately, he unleashes a Perfect Sphere that lays waste to all things within 30 feet of him. Sirenamon leaps from the tree, and with Lotusmon in her left arm, she takes her hand, fingers together and straight, like in a karate chop, and slashes from her left shoulder down and to the right, then from her right shoulder down and to the left, and finally she slashes her from in front of her face straight down, forming three ice blue lines. The lines begin to flip around in front of her like a coin. After it turns perpendicular to her, the lines vanish into one big line, but then that line glows bright, and it continues to rotate, and as it does, the three lines appear to have become a large six point snowflake with a circular middle void of all things except a large `yuki,' with a tiny `kita' just above it. Neo Spheremon sees her and charges.

"Lepton Driver!!"

Sirenamon puts her palm on `yuki.'

"Great Nor'easter!!"

From out of nowhere, the temperature dropped rapidly, and snow rained down from a clear sky. From far away and all around her, trees almost instantly became frozen in ice and snow. Diagonal spikes and monoliths of ice rise out of the ground as the deep freeze comes their way. As Daisuke and the others finally catch up to Chibi Seishinmon and those who went ahead, the cold wave passes by them, but they are unaffected. Over by the crystals, the cold wave passes by the army, Black Tailmon & Tetsuo, and the others without penalty. In fact, as it passes, nothing happens whatsoever around Stefan, Sakiko, Hikari, Takeru, and the cracked crystals. As the wave closes on Sirenamon, Neo Spheremon is swept up in it and he is frozen solid, his mass slowing in air. The wave of cold reaches Sirenamon and stops around her. All of the sudden, it explodes back out, redoubling its previous effects, and at the same time giant icicles fly from all over Sirenamon's body in many directions, but then all turn and train themselves on the frozen Neo Spheremon, now falling towards the ground. As he hits the ground, the icicles rip into him, shattering him into many little fragments. Masato, shivering to beat the band and virtually blue, asks, "Did we just win?"

Sirenamon says to Masato, "No. This is just the beginning. I didn't get his core good, so I really didn't all that much to him but slow him down. That's what annoys me so much about him. You have to hit his core to do any real damage, and with the Royal Regalia Scepter of the Moon in his core, he can decompile and reassemble himself at will." As soon as she finishes, the frozen pieces of Neo Spheremon break down into data and begin to fly towards his core, a semi-transparent silver mass with the scepter inside it. As it does, he calls out, "You have lost your touch. Now I shall show you the real power of the moon!!" He rises up from the newly fallen snow and moves forward. Sirenamon has only enough time to drop Lotusmon and catch him in her hands. Everything takes on a blue tone (As it did when Apollomon fought Nemesis), and Sirenamon hits Neo Spheremon with her palms in an almost rapid-fire pace, getting in 18 direct hits in what seemed like four seconds. On his body there are the individual handprints on him. She raises her left hand, and from nowhere, sparks of data drew forth and formed a naginata, but at the bladed end there was a bar going perpendicular to the pole, and at the two ends of the pole pointing out parallel to the pole were two blades. She leaps back a good one hundred twenty feet and draws the naginata over her head.

"Tide Cutter!!"

She swings the naginata down hard, and smashes it into the ground. As it completes its swipe, two huge, pulsating, irradiated waves of ice water bust across the ground, tearing the ground to pieces as these blades grow in size. Neo Spheremon encases his body in his ablated armor and rushes the blades. As the blades become almost twice as big as him, they gash in and try to break through the armor. Slowly it grinds into the protection. Suddenly, it busts through and cuts into him, and they make it to his core, nicking it along the way, when Neo Spheremon releases a massive thrust of energy and sends the blades flying out, and then, from inside him, a white light shines out and hits the blades. They crack open, white light pouring from the cracks, and explode. He disengages his armor and opens up his front.

"Photonic Cannon!!"

Sirenamon quickly leaps to the right and turns, facing away from the others at a 45° angle. He fires his cannon at virtually point blank range. Sirenamon puts up her right arm in front of her. The beams on plate on her arm extend outward, reaching six times their length, and then they bend, the top beams on either side bend up, and bottom beams bend down, the fat end of each beam facing its counterpart at the top and bottom. Just a foot away, the shot closes, when out from between the beams comes a shield of light. The shot hits the shield, the outer portions passing right by Sirenamon, while the interior stops on the shield, and then reflects off of it in an expanding conic blast, engulfing all of Neo Spheremon in his own attack. Outside of the conflict, Lotusmon had just touched the ground when a giant cone-shaped swath of destruction just left of the crystals and everyone around them suddenly made itself known, all done and over before anyone could blink, and extending out as far as anyone could see. From space, the destruction could be seen going on for another eighty miles, where at that point the wasteland left was 12 miles wide, and 12 miles deep. In the aftermath, the core of Neo Spheremon hovered in front of Sirenamon. As soon as the cannon fire stopped, Sirenamon announces her attack.

"Great Nor'easter, combined with Tide Cutter!!"

Solid blades of ice fly from the end of her naginata and skip across the scorched earth in six different directions, finally rooting into and plowing up the ground. The blade heading straight ahead cuts into his core, and a third of his core off as he attempts to evade to the right. As they move along, the blades split, and as they do, leave a snowflake design in the ground. After moving out about 80 feet from her, the blades fly into the air and converge above Sirenamon. They all smash together and become one giant snowflake, which begins to spin and fly towards Neo Spheremon like a shuriken. Neo Spheremon moves past a tree and the snowflake freezes it on contact, slices clean through it like it wasn't there, and then a second later, the tree shatters to pieces, albeit to them the freezing hasn't even happened yet. As the snowflake closes, Neo Spheremon laughs, and from the ground his metallic residue rises up and comes between the two. The flake stabs into the goo, but then gets stuck. The metal freezes solid, and then the flake shines bright, and ka-boom!! It blows up, but as soon as it does, it slows to a crawl. Sirenamon says, "I see you learned something new," as she leaps to lunge at him. Neo Spheremon comments as he evades attack after attack, "Tis but an extension of my normal abilities, but while you try to attack me and remark at things you should have known, what are you going to do about that explosion? That has be enough power to level I'd say 64 cubic miles. Now, it doesn't look like it now, but your little daughter, and your friends are dead."

She says, "Not unless I move the explosion." Neo Spheremon lets a sound of surprise as Sirenamon flips backwards and jumps up to the blast, and with her right hand, plucks the explosion out of the air and holds it in her hand. She looks around and draws back her arm to throw it when Neo Spheremon comes from behind with a Half-Life attack to her back, sending the explosion into the sky. Sirenamon goes flying head over fin, a small hole in the back of her armor, which seems to be repairing itself, and then uses her fin to kick off a tree with all her might, cracking it. Sirenamon says, "If that's how it is…" From the opal in the middle of her chest, the Royal Regalia shines, and she outstretches her arms. Neo Spheremon screams in pain for no apparent reason. Below them, the forest shines as well, and Sirenamon seems to split into three spirit versions of herself. The left spirit advances forward with weapon drawn. As it does, all three proclaim, "With the birth, the laws of learned men came to be, time and space forever bound!!"

"Big Aeon!!"

As soon they finished, the left spirit struck Neo Spheremon, going clean through him. As soon as she emerges on the other side, the center spirit busts through. As soon as she gets through, the first one lands on the ground, and the last one makes her attack. Afterwards, they all fuse back into one. After a second cry of pain from him, he winces, "I hate that Order!! Striking your opponent in the past, present, and future all at once isn't fair…" He is interrupted as more pain fills his body, and parts of his outer metal layer begin to fall apart and fall to the ground, but at the same time Sirenamon was right back on top of him, and saying, "Maybe you'll like this!! Maximum Power!!" The gem on her chest illuminates wondrously with the Royal Regalia/Reliability hybrid crest, and the halo explodes from white to silver. The naginata in her left hand turns to ice, and the very air around her radiant armor becomes excited, accelerating into a quantum state. The plate on her arm containing the opal gem and light shield slides backwards, the cable holding it on her arm split open in the middle, and then it slides down her hand, moving atop the first row of plates on her fingers, where the cable slides through the rings on the plates on her index and pinky fingers and fuses back into one. From behind her, like with Apollomon, a burning white ring appears, and from the outside edges came a grey misty fog floating down to the ground and floating behind her. Neo Spheremon demands, "All this power I have, and yet I still can't beat you!!" She draws her fist back as she leaps forward.

"Clean Sweep!!"

Blinding light irradiated from the opal gem on the plate, which was now on her fist. From between the top beam and bottom beam on each side, rays of white begin to flicker, and over the gem, between the two rays, was a giant boss of white light. The rays manifested themselves, becoming diamond-shaped light blades, and extending out almost twelve feet each. Then the beams begin to move around the set, causing the blades to spin counterclockwise, faster and faster, until they blur into one white disc. She lets loose with her fist as soon as she gets within half a foot of Neo Spheremon. The blades tear clean through him as she jabs her fist in him, then pulls back and swings her arm around, letting the whirring blades lay waste to him, then moves to the side and punches him again, chunks of his metal outside flying everywhere. The core of Neo Spheremon falls on the ground after the second punch. She declares, "And now to finish it!!" She begins to swing when Neo Spheremon faintly cackles. "Not this time." From his core the Royal Regalia Scepter fires, and the blue tone vanishes. The shot comes towards Sirenamon, whom leans back, and narrowly avoids oblivion. As it passes she begins to lose her balance, and frankly, looks stupid trying to keep it. Neo Spheremon then breaks up, his data fleeing the area. Sirenamon, losing the battle with equilibrium, falls backwards in the snow. Sirenamon remarks, "The little coward always finds a way to escape just before I can finish him. Say, is everyone okay?" Masato and Bushidomon seem to all turned blue and have a little icicle dangling from their nose. Masato, with teeth exposed and eyes wide open, just moans in place. Yuuji mentions, "I guess from on you should give some sort of warning that you're going to freeze everything." From off the back of Imperialdramon, Yolei and Omega Knightmon come down wearing big smiles and thick coats. Omega Knightmon says, "I never knew your Imperialdramon had climate control… Eh…" Masato, her stiff movements like a zombie, doesn't seem too pleased. "Climate control?" She mutters through her teeth.

Eight seconds later…

Masato, now wearing Yolei's coat, says, "Now that's better, isn't it, Lotusmon?"

Lotusmon, wearing the coat of Omega Knightmon, exclaims, "Why, yes it is!!" Back behind them sits Yolei and Omega Knightmon, shivering in the cold. Bushidomon sits there and moans. Imperialdramon says, "What amazed me was that during those twelve seconds you fought, I saw a bright light, like an explosion ready to destroy us, when it moved way up… there…" He points up, but in that direction the entire sky was black. James queries, "What the hell is going on?"

Karen says, "Koushiro and the others must have not succeeded in destroying the Dark Tower Planets, and now they're here!!"

Yolei states, "We have to prepare ourselves!!"

"Imperialdramon Terravolve to Paladin Imperialdramon, The Noble Light in the Sky!!"

"Valkyrimon Terravolve to Noble Valkyrimon, Valhalla's Sentinel!!"

"Omega Knightmon Warp Digivolve to Teutonmon!!"

"Teutonmon Excel Digivolve to Noble Teutonmon, The Souls of the Noble!!"

"Suzukamon, Tera Digivolution!! Twilightmon!!"

"Twilightmon Excel Digivolve to Kanonmon!!"

The two outlanders stood alongside the others. Noble Teutonmon clad in white and gold armor with a cape behind it, stood next to Paladin Imperialdramon, and Kanonmon, dressed in a red sleeveless gi and skirt, with matching gloves & leather boots and cloak over her shoulders and head, which is covered in long green hair. Wrapped around her torso up along her left shoulder is a long black rope with a grappling hook on the end. In her right hand is what looks like the blade of an assassin, and in her right boot there sits a dagger. All of them get in a defensive stance.

As the others prepared for the Dark Tower Planets, Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon still stumbled about, grasping his head. Vulcan Lilymon comes up to his shoulder. Through his pain, Tenkurayami manages to mutter, "Lost… Get back!!"

Vulcan Lilymon asks, "Huh?" She puts her hand on his shoulder, and then something happens that scares everyone. Everyone watches as Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon turns into Attorneymon!! He turns and throws Vulcan Lilymon to the ground. After turning however, it was apparent that looked different. Starting from his head, his demon horns were gone, and he had Tenkurayami's hair instead of his own, except that it is all smooth instead of just one side. His skin was still the same tone of deep dark red as it always has, but it seemed he had become quite handsome now. His brown suit was now a deep violet with silver pinstripes. The strange thing was that it now looked less like a normal suit than before, with a huge puffy right shoulder and slouching loose right sleeve. Under his suit, visible from his neck, upper chest, and right arm, was a black turtleneck shirt. Coming from under the folded section on the neck and sitting in front was a golden pentagram amulet on a chain, hanging down on the chain to about the middle of his torso. On the cuff of the right sleeve of the black shirt sit eight gold cufflinks. On his left shoulder sits the pauldron of Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon. Coming out from the inside of it, going up on his left clavicle, upper left area of his back, and upper chest was a silver jacket-like object with a strap in the front on the edges that wrapped around his chest to the section of the material on his back (Kind of like the grey straps on the left side of Final Fantasy 7's Yuffie attached to the plate on her shoulder that help hold up her plate/sleeve). On the top of this, a collar rises up from it and goes up to ear level, where just an inch or so from the edge it is studded with white studs. From under the plate, heading down his arm, which seems to look like the armor that Tenkurayami wore on his right arm, a black sheet hangs down to his shins. Where it reaches his hips, the fabric splits up into many rectangular strands with spaces in between them equal to their width, which is about 2 inches, allowing about five such strands. Near the end of the strands were white bosses like those on the collar. His arm itself looked just like the armor that covered the right arm of Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon, the metal infused to his skin, but instead of a sword on his wrist, he has the golden ring mounted on the side of his wrist. Also, on his bicep sit three small vents pointing down his arm. Finally, his pants and shoes were normal (Besides the change in color, of course), but sitting next to his feet is platinum white briefcase. He remarks, "You should have taken his warning, which were in fact his final words. I really didn't know if my idea would work, but here I am." He punts her in the gut, throwing her into Tamiko. He continues, "Ah yes, I can feel the energy of Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon flowing through me, although I do believe that I find that this metal in my arm will make it difficult to get dressed every day." Just after this, Taichi and the others arrive. Before Taichi can speak, he turns to the altar and says, "If your plan was to keep me from performing my ceremony, then you have failed. I still have fifty seconds. I only need thirty of those seconds to resurrect the eternal Obliviomon and throw open the gateway to the Deleted Zone!!"

Taichi says, "By the kami, Hikari was right!! He does believe he can bring him back!!"

Attorneymon opens a book, draws the Megami's Spade, and announces, "Not just believe, but I know how to do it!!" He raises the spade over his head.

"THE SHARD OF HONOR!!"
"THE SHARD OF LIBERTY!!"

"Agumon Terravolve to Paladingreymon, Guardian of Honor!!"

"Biyomon Terravolve to Patriot Aviamon, Patriot & Revolutionary!!"

"Agumon Warp Digivolve to Wargreymon!!"

"Wargreymon Warp Digivolve to Atomicgreymon!!"

"Atomicgreymon Excel Digivolve to Excelgreymon!!"

"V-Dracomon, Tera Digivolution!! Crimson Blademon!!"

After they finish, Taichi, Sora, and Mimi all nod, holding up their Nexuses. All at once, they call out, "Omega Terravolution!!"

"Gaiasapia Omega Terravolve!! Tenjin Gaiasapia*, Savior of Life!!"

"Paladingreymon Omega Terravolve!! Avalonmon, Avatar of the Light!!"

"Patriot Aviamon Omega Terravolve!! Sovereignmon, Live Free or Die!!"

"Crimson Blademon, Omega Matrix Shinka!! Crimson Avalonmon!!"

"Crimson Avalonmon, Enhance Excel!! Crimson Fenrilmon!!"

The digimon leap ahead. Crimson Fenrilmon, wrapped in a red cloak-like trench coat, takes his black gauntlet covered hand and grabs his crimson flail. His body seems covered in thin, light black plating (Which would kinda make it look like he was a G Gundam mobile trace suit). On his head, which was topped in blonde hair, he had a red ribbon tied around his forehead, just above his red eyes. Under the coat he also wore black shoulder plates. Takashi profiles him, "Ah yes, Crimson Fenrilmon. He is by far one of the most powerful digimon from my realm, an Enhanced Excel digimon, an awesome level of power almost 50 times greater than your Omega. His plethora of attacks includes Fire-Storm, Crimson Slash, Feral Flare, Inferno Hurricane Kick, Blazing Annihilator, Rising Phoenix, and his most powerful Crimson Chaos!!" The first three attack.

"Candela Feathers!!"

"Pendragon Blaze!!"

"Celestial Cyclone!!"

All of the attacks rush for Attorneymon, whom doesn't seem to care. As he thumbs the book, he points his left arm out at Avalonmon first. From the three vents black orbs engender, and then move down his arm and in front of his hand.

"Yugoth Dark Reactor!!"

Using the attack of Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon, he easily breaks the white flames with the mortar energy shot, which lands at the feet of Avalonmon. Attorneymon begins to read the lines of his book as the paladin stares aimlessly at the black energy bomb. Avalonmon seems confused and looks down at it. "Huh? All that and it bounces to my feet…" That's when it blows up, sending him flipping head over heels above the trees. He repeats this on Mimi and Sovereignmon, sending them flying. Vulcan Lilymon says, "It seems he needs Malachimon to do his hocus-pocus act. If I can get her…"

Tamiko says, "You're hurt though."

Vulcan Lilymon goes, "But I'm still the best choice for the job. Attorneymon is busy finding what his little magic trick and fending off the Chosen. He also thinks that I'm out of commission, but if I'm still awake, then we know that's a lie."

Tamiko acknowledges this and mentions, "Then I'll come with you." Feral Rosemon puts her hand on Vulcan Lilymon's shoulder and nods. Vulcan Lilymon goes, "Alright then!! Let's nab Malachimon!!"

Over by the altar, Attorneymon stares at a page in what looks like a journal or a diary. It reads, "I've finally made sense of my most recent dreams!! I went through the items and data we found in the ruins of Atlantis and discovered that they actually possessed the means of building complex multi-dimensional gateways to various places. This is where the sixty-five gateways of the Digital World originated. They also discovered that obliterated data existed on another plane, almost what could call an afterlife, but like all points, a multi-dimensional gate to can connect it. However, it is feasible to assume that anything that goes in will die, but if the gate was made with a powerful enough energy source (Like the Megami's Spade) in the Digital World, it is very likely that the deleted data of those who cross over will be restored, either by creating a new body, or stealing another, and with this knowledge I could very well raise the dead!! Below, I have written the procedure to open such a gate:

Wait for a solstice or equinox. These are the times that various dimensions and universes are most in line.

High noon is the best time, although you can perform at anytime, but for what I want to do, I must have the maximum possible connection.

Bring along a multi-spatial positioning system and a standard Altantean reactor.

Raise the energy source (Megami's Spade) over head and focus power, calling out, `Open the wards of (Name of destination here).' This will activate the reactor's `Gateway Mode.'

Think of the location you want as you continue to focus. The reactor will begin trying to access that location.

Use a multi-spatial positioning system to determine your location. This will lock your end of the gate, stabilizing it once step 7 is complete.

Interlink your energy source to a power reactor, and do the same with the positioning system.

Name the location you wish to make a gate to once more.

If enough personal energy has been focused to your source, then your gate will open, otherwise hold the source and infuse more personal energy until it does so.

If I can follow this, my plan will be a total success, and the greatest evil force this world has ever will be truly reborn!!" He begins following the steps as Excelgreymon rushes at him.

"Gaia Force!!"

Massive energy quells up his hands, growing as large as his head. He hurls that energy at Attorneymon. Without even turning to look at it, he raises his briefcase in his right hand, the ball deflecting off it and returning to Excelgreymon. Without forethought, he slashes the ball with his sword, exploding it in front of him. The shockwaves quake the ground severely and sends 250 MPH+ winds gusting, and all Attorneymon does is put his right hand on the page, keeping it from flipping to another page. "Open the wards of the Land of Deleted and Obliterated Data!!" The ring-like slot behind the tip end of the hollow sword begins to shine. Excelgreymon charges right through the explosion mostly unscathed, his sword ready.

"Omni Slash!!"

He begins his first swing at the lawyer demon when Attorneymon steps forward, twists slightly, still facing the same direction, but has his legs turned toward Excelgreymon. He raises his right leg up and trips Excelgreymon. While he in the air, Attorneymon draws back and kicks backwards, sending the foreigner flying. As Vulcan Lilymon and her comrades run forward, she stops just as Excelgreymon went racing ahead inches in front of her, and Tamiko & Feral Rosemon catch her before she falls on her face. Attorneymon connects the sword and the positioning system to the reactor. Mimi gets up and begins to move for Attorneymon, when Lilydramon backhands her, knocking her to the ground. Blood actually spills from the handprint she left. Mimi sits up in a daze, and begins to get up, when she sees Vulcan Lilymon by Malachimon, undoing her bonds on her left arm. Using it, Thanatomon tries swatting at them. Thanatomon exclaims, "Hey, stop that!! In ten seconds, when I got a new body, you all are going to die!!"

Tamiko says, "We have to remove that red ring as well!!" Tamiko tries to grab it, but from the ring dark energies rose up to electrocute him, knocking him down. Behind them, Attorneymon says, "The Land of Deleted and Obliterated Data… Open to me now!!" Before him, a white light sparked to life, then fizzled, and then shone once more, growing into a tear in the air. Vulcan Lilymon shouts, "Everyone, together!!" They all grab the ring at once. The energy starts shocking them, but through it, they keep pulling. Tamiko and Vulcan Lilymon each put one of their feet up on her stomach and push on it, increasing their leverage. Writhed in agony, Vulcan Lilymon shouts, "Just a little more!!"

Thanatomon exclaims, "No!! How can you withstand the evil energies protecting this ring!! I can't be denied!! Not yet!!" He tries to ball up her fist, but is having a hard time trying to do it. All of a sudden, from her mouth, Malachimon announces, "Yes!! It is due time that I… evict you!!" She uses her right hand to grab the ring and fling it off her. The other strap holding her in place snaps, and she goes flying backwards, as the others fall on one another. Attorneymon looks up and growls, "You interlopers!!" Quickly, the three rise to their feet and back up, passing over the altar as they did. Malachimon asks, "Okay, what now?"

Vulcan Lilymon says, "Well, my queen, I never really thought we'd get caught, so I hadn't planned that far ahead."

Malachimon answers, "You're a nice girl, but you got the brains of a rock." Attorneymon moves forward and points at Vulcan Lilymon. He steps forward, moving onto the altar platform, while the four keep stepping back. Attorneymon speaks as they back into a tree, "Return Malachimon to me and you shant suffer."

Vulcan Lilymon remarks, "Okay, but what's so big and important about Malachimon anyway? I mean, you're going to kill us either way, so why not explain it?"

Attorneymon states, "Quite simple really. I plan to resurrect the great Obliviomon himself!!" Everyone gasps. Taichi says, "Hikari was right after all!!" They stand in shock. Attorneymon continues, "By opening a gateway to the Land of Deleted and Obliterated Data, I can bring him back to the mortal coil, however obliterated data is harder to restore because at least deleted and unnatural data leave some remnants, while obliterated data doesn't, so what you could possibly call the `spirit' of such a digimon needs a body, and the chances of it getting its own body are slim to none, so it must take a body, but not any body. It must take one compatible to the body they had in life, and this is where Malachimon comes in. Because she is, for better or for worse, a direct descendant to Obliviomon, she is therefore the most compatible body, and by suppressing her consciousness, it makes his assimilation all that easier. Also, to let you know, although he will possess the body of Malachimon, he will still have all the power and techniques he possessed when he was alive!!"

Vulcan Lilymon exclaims, "So all she is in all this is your sacrificial lamb?"

Attorneymon states, "Yes, and I want her back…, now!!"

Vulcan Lilymon yells, "No dice!!" and moves in front of Malachimon.

"Bureaucratic Red Tape!!"

Quantum fissures open in front of his right hand, and scores of strands raced out and forward, heading for Vulcan Lilymon. She stands there, frozen with fear, when Tamiko grabs her right arm, slings her to his side, but winds up where she just was, and the tape punctures through his chest and left shoulder, but as it does, three gunshots go off. Vulcan Lilymon screams out as Tamiko stands in place, dropping the stolen Dominion officer's gun from his left hand, the tape impaling him. He tries to reach forward and pull it, but he can barely hold it. Even Attorneymon seems surprised at the turn of events, not only by act, but also by the three open wounds, which are bleeding down the left side of his face, in his gut, and down the right side of his chest. Vulcan Lilymon over to him and reaches for the tape when he says, "No… He'll just steal your energy if you touch it."

Vulcan Lilymon cries out with tears in her eyes, "Why? Why Tamiko? I… love you."

Tamiko, still standing, says, "So do I, Vulcan Lilymon. I love you too. I just guess… I had to be your hero one more time." Attorneymon retracts the tape, letting Tamiko fall to the ground, where Vulcan Lilymon catches him. She asks, "Are you…?"

He raises his blood-soaked left hand and places it over her heart. He says, "Yes. I'm still here." Then he falls dead. Vulcan Lilymon's cries of anguish echo through the forest, at the same exact moment the gateway fully opens. Translucent phantom-like digimon race out in droves from the portal into the Digital World. Attorneymon holds his chest and announces, "End game!! My gate is open, my failures are destroyed, and my Dark Tower Planets have now arrived, and now, there is no force left to stop us!!" Feral Rosemon watches on as Vulcan Lilymon cries and beats on the chest of what was just Tamiko and stares back at Attorneymon, and clenches her fist, staring deeply into Attorneymon with a soul full of rage. Attorneymon snidely utters, "How dare you look at me in such a fashion?! I am Attorneymon, the new lord and master of all that you see before you!!" The four leaf blades above Feral's shoulders shine white. The blade on her blowgun also does the same. The blowgun blade detaches and transforms into a leaf blade, and at the same time, the others detach from the chain around her neck, and all five surround her in a star pattern. Everyone one stops what he or she is doing to gaze at the spectacle, giving Mimi time to actually stand. Taichi analyzes her. "This is the beginning of the ultimate technique of Feral Rosemon, the Blades of the Five Kingdoms. With all the power flowing in her at the moment, she is currently more powerful than Attorneymon!!" A white halo forms between the five blades. With surprising ease, Feral Rosemon screams out, "No more!!"

Attorneymon slowly says with anxiety, "Feral Rosemon… The combination of Lilymon and… Saint Tailmon? Evamon's memories fail me!! What is a Saint Tailmon?" From there, Feral Rosemon shouts,

"Blades of… the Five Kingdoms!!"

Japanese text depicting the same phrase surrounds her. From the center of each blade, the colors change, each blade taking on a color all their own. Red, brown, green, blue, and gold are those colors. On each one is a kanji. They are `hi,' `chi,' `ki,' `mizu,' and `tetsu,' (Same order as the colors in the last sentence) all shining in the center of their blade. Her arms, legs, and tail are outstretched in almost the same angles as the blades. These blades pulse, and then shackles of light appear on Attorneymon, each with their own color, with red around his ankles, blue around his waist, gold on his left wrist, brown on his right wrist, and green around his neck. A white ball begins to form in the center of the halo. Slowly, she brings her left hand down and towards this light. As she does, the blades turn forward, their front sides now all facing inward, towards the ball of light. She puts her left index finger to the light. The inside sides of the blades glow brighter, shining down on the ball, and as a result, the ball grows in size rapidly. Feral Rosemon then raises her hand up over her head and swinging it down at her side. As soon as she breaks contact with the orb, it expands into a luminous beam that throws the blades back to their original position, but turned with edges facing forward. The beam swallows Attorneymon up, burning away at him, and then continues on out in a slightly arced path into space. Feral Rosemon then brings her right hand down, palm first, where her left hand was earlier. Her right foot kicks off the ground, sending her forward. The blades shimmer, and extend out to her hand in the form of rays of light. She bolts down the path of the beam, tearing right through the beam. All Attorneymon can see is white light, and then before him is the glowing palm of Feral Rosemon, and the blades in her hand. Before she makes contact, all he can see is white light and Feral Rosemon. With little effort, she goes right through him. On the other side, she draws her left foot back and kicks him, splitting him into five pieces. Right after that, she pivots on her right foot, then kicks off the ground with her tail, leaping out of the beam. Up in the air, she is completely balled up, and then she unfurls herself, and when she does, the five blades flip around and shift positions as they fly towards the five pieces of Attorneymon, each aimed at a piece. Each one makes their mark, impaling them from behind on the altar, with red is his hips, gold in his left shoulder, brown in his right shoulder, green in his neck, and blue in a chunk of his left side. All of a sudden, the red section bursts into flames, the brown turns to stone and crumbles, the green part becomes tree bark and collapses, with blue impaled area becoming water, and the gold blade section turning its section into steel, then corroding away into rust, but then after this, they all explode. Feral Rosemon falls and lands on Lilydramon's head, planting it in the ground. Lilydramon gets up, chucking Feral Rosemon off her back. She goes to attack her when Feral Rosemon points at the altar, which makes her look at it. The beam fades away, and reveals the five blades sitting in the ruined altar, with data streaming up from the ruins. About that time, everyone witnesses the phantom image of Obliviomon rush out of the gate. He flies forward, when all of a sudden he exclaims, "No, she isn't here!! Where is my body!! The Eight Million Kami said it'd be here!!" He sees the floating data rising up from the altar. "That data… If I collide with it I'll cease to be!!" It was too late however, for as he finished speaking, he runs right into the data particles. He screams out as he is drawn into the amassing code, trying to fight free. He looks out to see Malachimon at the side. He shouts, "Malachimon, my child!! Save me!!"

Malachimon stares at him and says, "You were going to destroy me just so you could live again. Why should I help you?"

He shouts, "I am your father, and children are supposed to listen to their fathers!! I will let you keep your body!!"

Malachimon smirks and says, "Um… nah. I guess I just got too much of my father in me."

He angrily calls out as he is finally sucked into the data mass, "Why you little…!!" He grows silent as he vanishes, with other spirits passing by the mass. The rocks that made up the altar rise up in the air around the data, but the blades of Feral Rosemon rise up, and suddenly merge into the mass. Lewis, Bonnie, and Jun arrive in time to see the spectacle. Lewis blurts, "What the hell is going on here?!"

Ni-Kokuwamon immediately says after that, "Ooohhhh… Pretty… Can I blow it up?" In the sky above, both Lily and the Four Holy Beasts arrive, staring down at the commotion.

Back over with the others, the Dark Tower Planets begin to shrink down as they near the ground. Daisuke ducks and covers, protecting his ears, but then nothing happens. "I guess they didn't crash after all." Suddenly, there is a bright flash, and on the ground was Rakshasamon, with a pale mysterious figure on the left in a dark purple robe, a robe that looks similar to the robes worn by the Rare Hunters in Yu-Gi-Oh!, and toting a staff that has demonic ram skull on the top. Under the hood of the robe, all that has visible was his almost pure white face, some brown hair, and what almost looked like a third eye in his forehead. There was another to her right, standing on the very tip of a redwood tree, wearing a black ski mask and open trench coat that has a studded collar, with a deep violet shoulder pad with three spikes on his left shoulder, wearing under the coat a set of dark grey robes that make him look like a Jedi Knight, and under them is a white gi. Over his robes he has a wide black sash with small white sash on top of it. White braided hair hangs out from the edge of the mask down to his waist. Slung over his right shoulder is a belt with a silver polished bolt-action rifle with scope attached. He has fingerless black leather gloves on his hands, and he has a pair of straw sandals on his feet. Lotusmon says, "I know that huge half-mile tall thing is Rakshasamon, but what are the other two with her?"

Yuuji profiles, "The one on her left… our right is Mahôtsukai nashi de Tamashiimon (The Without Soul Wizard), an Omega level Dark Wizard digimon, and the one on our left is Grandmaster Spiegelmon, a Shadow Warrior type digimon, also Omega level. Mahôtsukai nashi de Tamashiimon is a malevolence class, a soulless being whose element of choice is darkness. His attacks are Forbidden Spirits, Dark Magic Eradicate, Devoid Wisdom, and his Dark Soulless Drain Wave. Grandmaster Spiegelmon is a master of all hand-to-hand and weapon arts. For some reason this says he beyond all digimon classification, but at this level, I guess it doesn't really matter anymore. He carries with him a .308 caliber bolt-action rifle and many sets of throwing knives, but his weapon of choice is… a white ribbon? Anyway, his attacks include Depleted Bolt, Soul of the Fist, Golden Feet, Balance Edge, and the Shadow Cyclone."

Noble Teutonmon says, "Let me guess, you expect us to do all the work because you're all a bunch of wussies who can't even bring down a single Omega."

Sirenamon reaches over and grabs his ear, bending him over to the left, and shouts, "Just to let you know, we aren't a bunch of creampuffs!! In fact, when I was the queen, I was known as the second most powerful mortal being to have ever existed, with only my teacher Tsukiyumimon-san my only mortal superior, and back then their power was the rule, not the exception, so that should tell you something!!"

Everyone stares blankly at Sirenamon, when Chibi Seishinmon says, "It's true!!"

Noble Teutonmon remarks, "You can let go of my ear now!! I'm in a lot of pain here… Oh my god, I think my ear is bleeding!!"

Yolei says, "Well, I just hope you aren't rusty, and that all of us will be enough." Just then, there is a rumbling sound. Everyone turns their attention to the two crystals, both of which have luminous fractures all over them. In a close-up view, Tailmon sits in the gem, and then the top half explodes open, revealing amongst all the light a human head with shoulder length white hair (Which the style looks like the hairstyle Mimi had in 02), hair that fades into violet three quarters of the way down and remains violet to the tips. Amidst her hair, near the top of her head were the same ears of Tailmon, but with thick white hair protruding out from inside the ears. Her eyes were as blue as ever, and everything about the head looked human, except that on her right cheek, curving down and ending at her jawbone, were two purple stripes. On her shoulder it was evident she was wearing some sort of garment, but at the moment, not enough is visible to tell what it was. The left side cracks, and her left arm bursts out of the crystal, blasting off part of the crystal covering her chest and back, showing that the outfit was purple, and looked like a vest of sorts, possessing a V shape and extending a few inches past her shoulders, with a white sleeveless robe-like gi underneath, and another sleeveless robe, this one grey, under it, and all three are wrapped on her in the proper `left over right' fashion. In the lower area of her visible chest, before the robes, gi, and outer garment cover her up, there a few bushy white hairs visible blowing around. Around her neck sits a wooden talisman the `hikari' kanji engraved in it. The arm itself looked just like a human arm, except for two more of these tattoo-like purple stripes on the upper part of her arm, just below the shoulder. On her hand she has on a silver gigadigizoid gauntlet, the fingertips ending in sharp points. After that, her right arm busts free, and is quite a contrast to her left arm. She has the same stripes on this arm as well, but starting around the bottom stripe, the whole rest of her arm is covered in bushy white fur. On top of all this, there are three silver rings on her arm; one over where her bicep would be, one just past her elbow, and the last over her wrist, and all three are connected with something similar in appearance to fishnet stockings. Her hand itself was nothing more than a cat paw with a thumb, less pads, all covered in the same bushy white fur. Suddenly, the lower half cracks open, and shatters apart, throwing crystal shards all over. One hits Tetsuo in the back and knocks him down, freeing Black Tailmon from her predicament. As they fly, her tail continues what seems to be a process of uncoiling itself. The limb, which seems to be the means that the rest of the gem was destroyed, seems to be the most interesting part of this new being, for not only is sans fur, possesses two purple stripes halfway up the appendage that move up to the end of it in a double helix pattern, and has three strange paddle-like digits on the end of it, but that it is ten feet long, exactly two and a half times her height of four feet. Sitting on that tail is a tail ring similar to the original ring of Tailmon, but this one's edges are silver instead of gold, and all the runes are replaced by Japanese, which says literally "Protector of light, the tail saint." This text is silver as well. The rest of her outfit, now revealed, shows her wearing a large pink sash around her waist, the knot in front, with the remainder of the silk fabric after the knot hanging down in front, almost what you could call a veritable loincloth of sorts. Behind that, there is a violet skirt going from her sash to her ankles, and under that is the grey robe, going down to her lower shins. Her feet themselves looked like a strange bastardization of human feet and cat paws, with a humanoid foot complete with heels and arches, but four chubby toes with cat claws in the ends, and bottoms of her feet protected with pads. Hikari and the others open their eyes and see her. At the same time, Black Tailmon and Tetsuo try to snag a peek. Hikari exclaims, "What happened to you Tailmon?"

She looks at Hikari slyly and says, "Lewis and Stefan were right!! I've ascended to a whole new world of possibilities!! I can feel the awesome physiokinetic energy flowing through my body, and my synapses blaze with invention!! I truly feel alive!! I am awake, but you can call me… Saint Tailmon."

Hikari goes, "Tailmon?"

Saint Tailmon says, "That's a half-truth. I'm still me, but now, I am Saint Tailmon!! What were you worried about, Hikari? What, you thought all of this would go to my head and make me some sort of monster? Please!! It's still me, but just in a different wrapper. As the old adage says, `The more things change, the more they stay the same.'"

Hikari goes, " Oh Tail…"

Saint Tailmon interjects, "Saint Tailmon… Oh, who cares!!" They hug one another, but then Saint Tailmon walks over to the gem Patamon is in. She knocks on it, the energy surrounding it not even fazing her, and says, "Time to wake up and greet the world Patamon… Wait… If I'm now called Saint Tailmon, then what would he be called? Guess the only way we'll know is if I get him up!!" She draws her tail back and swings it at the gem. Stefan gasps as she does it, smashing it with so much force that it blows it up. Falling down from where the gem was is a being almost four times larger than Patamon. His Labrador retriever sized body is covered mainly in the glowing glow of hair made of sliver Lunarian tungsten. His head looks like a goat's head, complete with pink Lunarian crystal ram horns. Also on his head is a huge, bushy, spiky golden mane that extends out to the middle of his back. Down his belly and chest is a series of wide white belly scales (The type snakes have on their bellies for locomotion). His front and back legs are about the same, except that his front legs end in lion paws, and his back pair end in goat's hooves. Out back, a stubby goat tail rests on his behind. He yawns, and reveals a set of omnivorous teeth, but it also reveal that he has a forked tongue like a snake, along with a set of folding fangs resting at the moment on the roof of his mouth. He looks over at Saint Tailmon and says, "What'd you do that for? I was about to awaken…"

Saint Tailmon remarks sternly with her arms crossed, "I seriously doubt that. Now, how about telling us your name?"

He looks forward and says, "I don't know what happened to me, but I know that I am now something called Juyô Dôbutsu Nimeamon."

Takeru states, "That's a mouthful. Is it just me, or as they get more powerful, their name get more and more complex?"

Hikari says, "I think I got it easy."

Takeru says, "Maybe we should analyze you now…"

Saint Tailmon grabs his hand and stops him. She looks at him and says, "No time for that now. It seems that while we were in our evolutionary slumber a lot has happened. Right now, we're surrounded by Dominion soldiers, and it appears that we failed to stop the Dark Tower Planets, so I suggest some form of shelter for all of you tempus fugit!!" She looks over to see the others not far away. "Okay, go with them. Between the Excels, Sirenamon, and Chibi Seishinmon, you should be safe. Go!!" They run off towards the others. Saint Tailmon then turns to Black Tailmon and Tetsuo. Black Tailmon is unable to form complete sentences at the sight of Saint Tailmon. Finally, she says something coherently just as Saint Tailmon stops inches from her. Black Tailmon looks up at Saint Tailmon's face and rambles, "But this means Evamon was absolutely right about everything, and I was a fool to overlook his ideas!! You are an evolution digimon… Maybe I can still stop you." Before she can even raise her right arm, Saint Tailmon is holding it. Black Tailmon smiles and says, "I had just finished the thought and you were already there. Impressive… but it won't be enough. Troops, fire on Tetsuo!!"

Over by Sirenamon and crowd, the Dark Tower Planets (DTP from here on out) start to move. Rakshasamon screams, "We shall feast on your very souls!!"

Back with Taichi and the others, a form begins to take shape from the data mass. Phantoms continue to pour out of the gateway, some even manifesting physically. Overhead, the Four Holy Beasts begin to bicker. Nemesis hovers in the air and says with tears in her eyes, "Please move!!" as he aims her hand at the Four Holy Beasts.

With the arrival of the DTP's, the disturbed and confused inner child of Lily, Nemesis, and thousands of long dead digimon coming back from the dead, does this look like the end? Can the powers the Omega, Excel, Super Mode, and Evolution digimon be enough to hold off Armageddon? Will the Eight Million Kami actually succeed in their genocidal plan? What does Lily have up her sleeve? Also, what is emerging from this data mass? Find out in Bloodline: Chapter 15 - "Of Moon and Earth, The Shining Wars Erupt!!"

* I just tired of the whole font thing, and I also thought "Tenjin Gaiasapia" was just a better name.