Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ First Terra ❯ Healing ( Chapter 4 )

First Terra

Ch. 4-Healing

Prologue- Note: Get the Java perking, it's going to be another long chapter, maybe even longer than Chapter 2-Martyrdom & Honor. If you have been scrathing your heads trying to figure out how Lewis can digivolve, well in this chapter your questions will be answered. Plus, the kids from 02 will make a brief appearance in this chapter. Miyako, though, will make a much longer visit. To go ahead and let you know, I'll be using their original names for the new digidestined, not the English version names because they suck. I mean, who makes their kid Davis? Maybe hippies, but c'mon here. I've heard of Jefferson Davis, the one and only President of the Confederate States of America, and hundreds of other people with Davis as a LAST NAME, but Davis as a first name? Hey, Bob & Jeff!! Were you guys wasted or smoking some "herbs" or something when you came up with that name?! Yolei, same thing. How did you writers come up with "Yolei?" Were you doing pig calls while you were writing? Oy.... Now, Cody, I'm okay with. That makes some sense. I'm glad I got that out of my system. I will use the English version names for their digimon though (Such as Veemon, Halsemon, etc.), since there only names I know at the time. Okay, I'm done. Now to recap.

Gatomon recounts, "Last time, Lewis, Viscountmyotismon, Kari, and me returned to Lewis & Oswald's apartment in the real world. After chloroforming Lewis's landlord and vamoosing, we tried heading west on a roap trip down America's crowded but speedy Interstate system, scraping up money as we went along, so we all could buy plane tickets at a hopefully lower price on the west coast, but time stopped and started to repeat before we could do that. When realizing the problem in time, we tried multiple solutions to getting to Odaiba, but each one was worse than the previous one, until finally Lewis came up with a deportation scam that worked, until Colonel Spencer changed our records and made the Feds think Lewis and us had Yakuza connections, that all of us were really traitors to the US, and members of Usama bin Laden's terrorist group in Afghanistan. Though we were able to flee the United States, a myriad of Tokyo SWAT teams and police waited for them While on the plane, we found out that the Digital World has been revealed and that a low profile was now useless. The group slipped out of the plane and lost them for a while. We did find the Tenth Digidestined, but she had been captured by an atrocious Mega Digimon called FrankensteinRaremon. Lewis pursued him by jumping from rooftop to rooftop and Digivolved all the way to his Ultimate level of Hypersapien. He saved the girl and held off FrankensteinRaremon, nearly defeating him, when he was sent away and Rookpiedmon came. He nearly destroyed Lewis, but help came from Viscountmyotismon and me. Rookpiedmon grew weak and retreated, but Colonel Spencer came by just before leaving and tried to strafe us in his Harrier jet. Igot shot a few times and reverted to Gatomon. We would be in the slammer now if it hadn't of been for a last minute save by Megakabuterimon from the other side of the vortex. We learned that Botemon had finally Terravolved, Sora was abducted, and a general in the Overlord's army calling herself 'The Masked Empress' has reeked havoc on the others, and that Matt went off on his own to find the 10th Digimon, not believing what an ancient digimon said about 'an old metal friend.' Lewis ran off yelling that he found a solution and that he had to find Matt. A solution to this time problem, I hope, because I don't this all over again."

The girl got up and followed after Lewis. Andromon, Izzy, Oswald, Tentomon, and Yokomon followed too. The girl yells, "Hey, you!! You owe me an explination!!" Tai lowers his head in disbelief, "Great, there goes Lewis, trying to be the hero again, and he's taken Izzy and the 10th Digidestined with him." Mimi walks up beside him. "Reminds me of someone I know." she says, looking over at Tai. "Very funny." Tai remarks. Mimi goes over to the Marines. "Well, throughout all this, you guys have had to sit back. Well, there's something we need you to do. We need you to infiltrate the Overlords' headquarters find out their plans for time travel. This will be a black op. If you are captured, we will deny all knowledge of this, but I'm not that cold-hearted. We'll bail you out if necessary. Please, though. Don't get captured. We haven't really contiplated a contigency plan just yet." Gomamon looks at Joe. "Where did she learn to use such big words?" Joe shrugs his shoulders, "I don't know. I always thought she one of those California Valley Girl airhead types..." Mimi smacks over the head. "I am not an airhead!! I'll prove it to you when this is over with. I'll take an intelligence test when we get back. Besides, I'd like to hear you describe how a causality loop and a temporal paradox work, and why time travel is virtually impossible right now!!" Joe, eyes wide open and rubbing his head, answers "Okay...... Causality WHAT?!" "Nevermind." Mimi sighs and sends the troops off. Jake walks up and says, "I think someone needs to warn the United Nations. Genai & I should go and do that." Joe says to Jake, "I don't you can just go New York, waltz up into the building, and talk to anyone you please." Jake answers, "Good point. Hopefully I can talk to Presdent Bush (If I could vote, I'd vote Republican, but I'm still a minor. Besides, Clinton's almost already out of office [Yay!!], so I might as well use another name for President.), and I think he's at Camp David right now. I got some secret service friends who could pull a few chains and get and Genai in. They owe me big." They head on their way. "Okay, take care!!" TK yells. "Well, now we're nine strong." Tai says, "Let's keep an eye on Lewis and the others." Botemon digivolves to Koromon. "About time, Koromon. Let's go."

On the mountain, everyone following catches up to Lewis. The girl asks, "Now I know that saving you didn't really count because you covered me. I know that I still you that favor and that I always pay back everything, but could you tell why I'm here?" Lewis turns around, "First though, I need a name. Can't go around calling you 'girl' for the rest of my life." "Araiya, Araiya Jitzato." "Okay..., Araiya, you are here, to be short, to save this world and our own. We are a group known as the Digidestined...." (To not bore you with the obvious, we skip ahead to something more entertaining.) "Why I'll be, it's Matt." Lewis says. Matt turns around. His hair is all out of place. He has dark rings (Not the Digimon Emperor's type) under his eyes. His eyes are bloodshot, and Matt is quivering. "Get away from me, you sell-out!!" Matt yells, picking up a rock. "Me, a sell-out. Nope." Lewis calls back. "I know you sold out. Every time we got caught, you mysteriously weren't. Where did you go, and who is that? I don't even think you're human. You can digivolve. Humans don't digivolve. How do I know you're not just like Mjr. Spencer? Huh, HUH?! You, and Jake, and Oswald, and the Overlords, all out to get me. Well I'm going to take you down." he charges at him. "I think you really need a nap." Lewis quotes. He pulls his sword, turns the flat side facing Matt, and whacked him over the head. Gabumon comes around the corner. "Hey, Lewis!!" he yells "How did you convince him to sleep?" "I didn't. My sword did. He charged me, he ran into flat side of sword, he go night-night!!" Lewis jokes. "Gabumon, this is Araiya, the 10th Digidestined. Araiya, this is Gabumon. How long has Matt been awake?" "Since you left into the pillar, I'd say 5 and half days straight." "Whoa. No wonder he was so delirious. 132 hours with no REM sleep. That'd make anyone jumpy." Matt begins to get up. "Quick, tie him up." Lewis searches quickly through the stuff he brought. "Hey, just enough." Lewis and Gabumon tie his hands behind his back, and tied rope around his arms and torso so he couldn't get his arms back in front of him. Izzy and the others reach the area. "Why is Matt tied up?" Tentomon asks. "He's been awake for 132 hours straight. He's slepp deprived, and it's making him delirious." Matt gets up. "Gabumon!! You're in league with him. I thought could trust you. You won't get anything from me!!" He runs and tries to jump off the mountain, but Andromon grabs the rope before he can jump. "Hmmm, there's seems to be some sort of machine giving off a hallucinigenic stimulant into his system." Andromon says. "Talk about being high. I wonder if he hears Jerry Garcia is his head?" Oswald says. Then the ground starts shaking. Hundreds of little digimon who look like molecule models you'd see in a science room ran up." Izzy says, "Those are Subatomimon. They may be Rookie level, but their power is enormous. They can take any non-hand-to-hand attack and convert it to nuclear power and use it against you in an attack called Atom Smasher. When they're defeated, they explode in a massive nuclear blast called Mushroom Cloud. Mushroom Cloud is so powerful, that if a Mega was close enough to it, he would be annihilated. The minotaurs are are Tauromon. Their Zodiac Axe can cut through just about anything, and if it hits you, you temporarily can't tell friend from foe. The white digimon in stupid-looking clothes are Mimedramon. They are Ultimate level Mimic Digimon. They can see an attack once, then use it themselves with the same strenght as the attack owner. It was funny trying to watch them use Light of Judgement on Paladingreymon, though. They got destroyed instead." In the sky were Gigadramon and Terradramon galore. Tauromons and Mimedramons made up the front lines. On the back of a flying Seadramon is the Masked Empress. "By order of the 7 Overlords of Chaos and the Digimon Emperor, I hereby condemn you, and make you pay for your rebellious actions. ATTACK!!"

"Tentomon Warp Digivolve to Herculeskabuterimon!!"

"Herculeskabuterimon Warp Digivolve to Odinkabuterimon!!"

"Yokomon digivolve to Biyomon!!"

"Biyomon Warp digivolve to Aviamon!!"

"Sorry, Aviamon. That's all the energy I can give you and still be able to have some left for me to help you guys out. Without Sora, you can't reach your Giga level." The Masked Empress holds out a Dark Digivice. It saps Aviamon's power and turns her back into Biyomon."

"Seadramon Warp Digivolve to Metalseadramon!!"

"Lewis, Ninth Digidestined Armor Digivolve to Daimyosapien!!"

"Daimyosapien Demi Digivolve to Samurisapien!!"

"Demi Digivolve?!" Izzy speaks. "Yeah, see the egg I absorbed, along with the knowledge of Digivolving I got from Lilymon allows me to access hidden genes, unused parts of my mind, and control over my bodily functions to accelerate my natural evolution, allowing to access neat psychokinetic abilities, advanced intelligence, increased muscle mass, supersonic neurokinetics and hand-eye coordination, and heightened senses. The egg provides the armor and weapons. The Crest of Tranquility allows to keep my control over these by allowing me to be focused and clear of doubts. The reason it takes me three digivolves instead of two to reach what could referred to as a human's 'Ultimate Level' is because the human can't handle the stress of a direct Champion to Ultimate digivolve, so I 'Demi Digivolve' and become a 'Demi-Ultimate,' stronger than a Champion, but weaker than an Ultimate in terms of defense. Offense wise, on the other hand, I have a +150% attack bonus at all levels because Lilymon's attack strenght is part of my genetic code now. It may be possible one day to do something like a Warp Digivolve, but the Mega would be the max. My DNA may take irreversable damage if I try anything higher. I'll explain my I can other digimon digivolve after this fight." Lewis says to Izzy while fending off some Tauromon. Odinkabuterimon flies at Metalseadramon.

"River of Power!!"

"Staff of Asgard!!"

Odinkabuterimon is hurt, but Metalseadramon is shut down by the Staff's EMP Generator. Lewis yells up to Odinkabuterimon, "Hey, that's it. Use your Staff of Asgard on Matt. It'll destroy the machine in his head without hurting him." He flies down and starts using it, but as uses it, the Mimedramon use it on him!! Odinkabuterimon gets back up. "Oh, that was interesting. I'm okay, I just can't use my attacks." Odinkabuterimon charges into the army, punching, kicking, and swinging his staff, fighting the evil digimon.

"Imperial Arrow!!"

The arrows take out a good chunk of the Mimedramon force and ground the Gigadramons and Terradramons, but nearby Subatomimon absorbed some of the blast.

"Atom Smasher!!"

They hit Lewis and throw him into the mountainside. A rock rolls down and crushes his foot. Lodged in it was a Shard. "Gabumon, take Matt into that cave. Take these with you." He pulls the Shard and Araiya's digivice, tag, and crest out. "Take Andromon, Biyomon, and Araiya with you." He goes and does as Lewis says. Matt, with some of the drug still in him, tries t resist, but Araiya says to him, "Calm down, Matt. We're your friends. We're taking you to safety." She holds his hand and he stops resisting. Gabumon hands her her digivice and Crest & Tag. Araiya says to Gabumon, "I gotta go save that fool before he kills himself protecting me." Gabumon says, "Wanting to help is good, but being overzealous won't help you." "I don't care. I'm going to help." her crest starts glowing. Matt says calmly, "Let her go. I trust her to do what it takes. Andromon, you go with her. Keep her safe." They go out. After they leave, a door opens in the cave. Outside, the fight isn't going well. Tentomon is on the ground, bleeding, and Lewis is pinned to the cliffside by his own sword in his right arm. "If I could digivolve again, but that stupid Dark Digivice she has annulled my strenght."

"Atom Smasher!!"

Ignoring the imminent attack, Araiya runs over to free Lewis. She pulls the sword free, but they both go sailing in a storm of rocks. Andromon looks up at the Masked Empress.

"Lightning Blade!!"

The Lightning Blade hit the digivice and knocked it from the Empress's hand. Andromon says, "I don't know why, but I feel a surge of energy coming on." Araiya's crest starts glowing.

"Samurisapien Focus Digivolve to Hypersapien!!"

"Andromon digivolve to NeoAndromon!!"

This 8' tall Ultimate level Android with an aerodynamic body appeared. "Cool!! This is the 'digivolving you told me about?!" Araiya uttered in shock.

"Sidewinder Storm!!" NeoAndromon yells

Parts of his chest open and 22 Sidewinder Missiles with electrified warheads thrashed the remaining Mimedramons.

"Fist Missiles!!" NeoAndromon calls

His wrists and hands fly off and start pummeling the Tauromon. The Masked Empress yells, "Throw the Subatomimon at them!!" Lewis jumps up to the Empress's level and punches her.

Back in the cave, Matt walked towards the door. In his heads were voices screaming 'It's a trick.' 'Your friends are dead. These are evil clones sent to destroy you.' 'Run away!!' and one dull voice saying, 'They are your friends. If they were evil, they would done you in a long time ago. You must trust your friends. Yo must trust yourself!!' Matt says to Gabumon, "Untie me." Gabumon states, "Matt, you're still not cured. How can know that you won't run away?" Matt finally answers, "If you are my friend, then you must trust me." Gabumon cuts him loose. The bad voices grow louder in Matt's head. In extreme pain, Matt heads toward the door, into a white room with a ledge leading to the center of the room. On each side and below the ledge and around and below the center of the room was nothing but a bottomless pit. 'Run away!!' 'They're gonna sell you to the Overlords!!' Blares through his head. The pain becomes nearly unbearable. Back outside, the others have arrived to help.

"Double Edge!!"

"Rose Thorn!!"

"Harpoon Cannon!!"

"Radiant Slash!!"

"Viscount Bolt!!"

Izzy yells, "NOOOOO!!!!" Matt fights to stand up in the chamber. A pedestal rises up from the floor and another decends from the ceiling. A beam forms between the two pedestals. The voices ever louder, sceam, 'This is the cage they built for you.' and 'This is a bomb. Destroy it before it destroys you!!' Matt is about to strike when he hears Izzy yell. "My friends aren't backstabbers. They will defend me to the end!! YAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!" He grabs his tag into his hand and puts it into the beam. The device in his head distegrates. When he pulls his hand out, he his surprised to see an amulet like the ones Mimi and Tai have, but Matt's looked like the Crest of Friendship, with the Crest of Friendship on the right side of it, and the Crest of Reliability on the other side. He puts the Shard in and it starts pulsating.

"THE SHARD OF TRUST!!"

Time comes to a halt. Everything goes blue except Matt and Gabumon. Outside, one could see that the converging blast is inches from hitting a Subatomimon. Matt throws the amulet into the sky and then catches it, holding it triumphantly into the sky.

"Gabumon Terravolve to........"

The cave beomes covered in ice and snow. Famous voices of the past, such as Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., etc, fill the air. Gabumon is hit a flash of light that turns him into Weregarurumon. Temporal equations and Roman numerals swarm all over the place. Weregarurumon's fur became gold-colored. Silver bangs and hair grew on his head, the bangs covering most of his left eye and the hair draping down to his shoulders. His blue jeans became fine quality black leather pants. A formal pinstripe shirt like the one Viscountmyotismon is wearing covers his arms and body, and a black tie wraps around his neck. A black leather vest materializes over the shirt and tie. Two ammo belts with 6 holsters wrapped over his shoulders. Two .357 Magnums, two Uzis, and two .223 Pistols with laser sights filled the holsters. A tattoo of the Crest of Trust burned onto his forehead. His snout shortened to one-third its regular size and his eyes moved from the sides of his head to the front. A full-length black leather trenchcoat slid onto his arms and he wore it. A gold Rolex watch materializes on his left wrist. From out of the blue, black mettalic sunglasses fly out at him. He catches them and slips them on. Light blasts everywhere as he howls into the sky.

"DaoGarurumon, Entrusted Gatekeeper of Time!!"

With time still frozen, DaoGarurumon darts out and throws the Subatomimon off the mountain, leaving a clear shot at the Tauromon. Time unfreezes. The Subatomimon explodes harmlessly at the base of the mountain, for Paladingreymon's shield was enough to block anything that happened on the mountain. The Empress looks at DaoGarurumon, "What are you?" Lewis puts his sword to her and says, "My theory was right. Gabumon's Terra would have given him Time powers." Everyone reverts to their Rookie level except DaoGarurumon, Mimi, Gatomon, and Andromon. Agumon says, "DaoGarurumon, they're all yours." DaoGarurumon prepares. Izzy reads the analyzer. "DaoGarurumon is classified as a Terra, Vacceine, Time, & Ice digimon. Since in ways Time and Graity are linked, he can fly. His guns' bullets freeze you on impact, his Blitzkrieg Claw can dice you in nanoseconds, Lock Down allows him to operate outside of time for the equivilent of 30 non-existant seconds, and when he uses Warp Speed or Time Dilation, expect some weird things to happen."

"Blitzkrieg Claw!!"

DaoGarurumon blurred as he laid the smackdown on the Subatomimon. As they lay there, about to blow, he takes them and flies into the air, and hurls them.

"Time Dilation!!"

He sends them flying, but with each second, they moved slower and slower. DaoGarurumon flies back to the ground. "Don't worry. It'll be 6 months before they even start exploding." Lewis grabs the Empress and holds her. "Now, because we're all civilized people and stuff like that, we're going to put you on trial, but if you hire Johhny Cocharan or Robert Shapiro for an attorney, I'll personally slap you silly." Metalseadramon wakes up. The Masked Empress elbows Lewis in the gut and flips him over her back. He lands on the ground, holding her mask. Everyone looked in disbelief. Biyomon flew up to her level. "Sora?!" she yells. She looks at Biyomon. Her face was shocking and disturbing. Over the left part of her forehead, metal plates were riveted to her skull, which led down to her eyebrow. The plates wrapped around all the way down to the bottom corner of her left eye. Over the eye was a plexiglass screen with a targeting cursor on it. In the pupil of the eye glowed an omnious red light. Over the outer edge of her left ear is a plate with an antenna and a wire going into the ear. Her hair has been dyed raven black and it has grown down to the middle of her back. Built into the palm of her left hand is a laser, and a wire running from the laser to the shoulder, where a second wire goes from her shoulder to her face plates. Above the wire is a red-violet gem, believed to e a power source for the laser. Her entire left arm seems to have Chromadigizoid metal fused to her skin. Added to her black leather suit is a belt with grenades and a cutlass. Around her neck was what looked like a crest, but was double-conic (Top cone pointing up and the bottom one pointing down) in shape and had a black marble dragon wrapped around it. Sora says, "I know nothing of this 'Sora' you talk of. Get out of my way!!"

"River of Power!!"

Biyomon goes flying into the arms of Tai. A hologram pops up next to Lewis. "Move, you imbesol!! Your sword is screwing up my reception!!" Lewis slowly moves. He sets his digivice to Tracking Mode and slips it into his pocket. The picture clears. It's the Digimon Emperor. "I see you like my handywork. Buying those medical books really paid off. Eliminating the part of he mind that defines the individual, what genius. Shame my talents go to waste having to serve such destructive beings such as the Overlords against my will. Don't worry, I'll remedy that in time. As for you...... How funny. You're trying to track me." Lewis suddenly gets shocked by his digivice. "It's hilarious to watch the results of blocking trasmissions by sending an inverted signal back to the source. In this case, when I push this button...." Lewis gets fried again. "You get electricuted!!" Lewis shuts off tracking mode. "Ahhh... And I wanted extra crispy Digidestined for dinner. Looks like I'll have to settle for original recipe. Well, back to what I was saying. A fitting demise would be for you to all die by your own digimon. Dark rings fly from the sky and start snapping on the digimon. Oddly, when the rings even got near Viscountmyotismon, Agumon, Patamon, and Gatomon, they disintegrated. "That's odd. Oh, well. At least I caught one Terra. Also, another consolation. My experiment here has a dark digivice, if you didn't already know. It's back online, so digivolving is out of the question." Andromon, Biyomon, DaoGarurumon, Tentomon, Gomamon, and Metalseadramon all lined up to attack. The unnaffected digimon did the same thing.

"Gatling Attack!!"

"Spiral Twister!!"

"Time Dilation!!"

"Super Shocker!!"

"Munching Fish!!"

"River of Power!!"

"Pepper Breath!!"

"Boom Bubble Puff!!"

"Lightning Paw!!"

"Flower Staff!!"

"Viscount Bolt!!"

All the attacks collided in mid-air except for the Time Dilation. It caused time to come to a standstill for Patamon, Gatomon, Mimi, and Viscountmyotismon. Agumon was able to evade the ripple of time. "Try to digivolve anyway, Agumon!!" Tai yells. "I can't. My power is blocked." All the controlled digimon attack again. Agumon almost knocked off the mountain. They load up and attack again. Tai sees this and runs to Agumon. "No, stop!!!" He takes the hit instead of Agumon. Tai hits a slope 20' down and rolls down it. Agumon climbs back up. You can see the anger in his eyes. "Cowards!!!!" he roars. Tai, barely breathing, pulls his amulet out.

"THE SHARD OF HONOR!!"

The dark digivice begins to crack open with pure, unyielding light. "What!! This can't be!! No one has ever digivolved normally and beat the dark digivice!!" The digivice explodes, damaging Sora.

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

"Plasma Torpedoes!!"

Metalseadramon bit the dust after 6 volleys.

"Paladin's Cure!!"

DaoGarurumon and the others were freed from the dark rings. "Face me, Digimon Emperor!!" he yells at the hologram. "Uh, no." the hologram shuts down. Paladingreymon flies down to Tai.

"Paladin's Cure!!"

A bright light engulfs Tai, and his wounds start healing. He flies him back up the hill. "Where's Sora?" Tai wonders. "She left when Paladingreymon went to get you. Uh, you're going to need new clothes there, and I don't think Paladingreymon is a very good seamstress." Mimi answers. Izzy responds, "Well, I though we may need later on, so I kept the armor you wore at the arena. Here." Tai goes behind Paladingreymon's capes and changes. "Say, why don't you do that neat Paladin's Cure thing you did on them on Sora?" Oswald questions. "I don't have to. The explosion released some of her memories. I could see the good trying to surface. When she is ready, she will come back into the fold." Everybody sets up camp for the night. They use Tai's unserviceable clothes to start the fire. Araiya asks, "Who was that? Who is Sora?!" Tai answers, "Well, she's head strong, and at times is a free-spirited person, but she usually tried to hold the world's problems on her shoulders." Izzy adds in, "She was the mature one. The one that kept order. She was the binding force of the group." TK gets up. "Why are we all talking about her in the past tense?" "Because she's dead. All that's left is a hollow shell that has been melded into a war machine that serves the sick purposes of the Overlords. Sora doesn't exist anymore. All there is is the Masked Empress." Tai vents, with tears running down his face. "Tai, snap out of it!! Didn't you hear what Paladingreymon said?" Matt called to Tai. Lewis says, "Get some sleep." As everyone wound down, Izzy contined to inquire Lewis about his abilities. "The reason why you've seen things like Gomamon or Biyomon digivolving is because I found out that my digivice has a component unique to that of the other digivices. It has a DigiCode Scanner & Transmitter. See, instead of locking on to one digimon's digital sequence, mine scans the digimon's encoding and if it has a receptive format, I can make it digivolve, but I can only seem to use this ability on one digimon at a time, and it drains some of my energy as well. The reason I can use it on myself is because Lilymon and the Digiegg have embedded a digital sequence into my genetic coding, one that is receptive to the digivice. Apparently, this is why I was meant to not have a digimon of my own." Izzy says, "Fascinating!! A Universal Digivice!! But how do you some of those heroics that you've done before, like leap 90' into the sky?" "When I realized the purpose of my crest, and figured out, like any program, that the basic rules and instructions could altered or in rare cases, completely ignored, I knew that I was no longer to thinking within the box. After learning this, it must have become an attribute of mine." Izzy concludes, "Well, that way may work for you, but I'll stick to my theory. Good night."

Lewis went to sleep, but soon after he began convulcing. If anyone was awake, they would start hearing him say 'No!! I will protect you until the end!!' Araiya is awoken by his commotion and decides not to bother anyone. In Lewis's dream, he sees the last seconds before they were all separated. A bright light engulfs them and he tries to grab Lilymon. A flare flies from the light and severely burns and damage Mimi's body. "I will protect you no matter what." he calls to her. A bolt of lightning strikes him and he is sent flying from Lilymon. "No!!!" Lewis screams as she disintegrates, the remnents absorbing into Mimi, reversing her wounds, and then merging with her. Lewis wakes up sweaty and yelling, "I could of saved her!! I could of saved Lilymon!!" Araiya, deciding this isn't the time to bother him, went back to sleep.

As Sora returned to Overlord Headquarters, a tear could be seen running down her right cheek. NeoApocalymon summons the Digimon Emperor and Sora before him. He smacks the Emperor. "You forget who's in charge around here!!" He gets up, with a broken nose. "I'd kill where you stood for your insubordination, but it'd cause multiple time errors if I did it here. You will have one last chance. Seize more recruits. To supplement her army, you will receive clones of me I myself made. As we speak, one one my clones is being sent back to set the course of events into effect. What those kids don't know is that when they contained my clone's Total Annihilation attack, they played right into my hands. The compressed force and magnitude of the blast weakened the dimensional barrier which Amaterasumon used to seal us away over 180,000 years ago. Once the proper temporal adjustments are made, we can re-create the world as we please, and the Sword of Life will be mine." Lucimon continues, "Tomorrow, you and the Empress will await an attack by the Digidestined. After holding them off until I say otherwise, you will hold your ground. When I signal, the Empress will accompany Milleniummon and Nosferatumon to the past. You will accompany us to the future, where you will be returned to your timeline. This is all you need to know." They are dismissed.

Day 7, the end of the loop. The Digidestined march towards the source of the trasmission from the night before. Tai stops everyone at the last hill. "Whoa, what an army!!" Izzy looks at it through Tai monocule. "It's a batallion of Apocalymon?!" Tai says, "There's others." Just then, the Marines return. "We have the information you requested. They seek to go to the past and destroy, but protect you from destruction while fghting a being they caled 'Apocalymon.' Their goal in the future is to gather technology to further oppress the worlds. That was all we could get." Mimi says, "Good. Return to the real world and prepare for any possible invasions. That will be all." They go off into the distace. Lewis says to Kari, "We need to hurry up. There's only an hour before we have to do this over again." Tai stands up. "Time to attack!!"

"Tentomon Warp Digivolve to Herculeskabuterimon!!"

"Herculeskabuterimon Warp Digivolve to Odinkabuterimon!!"

"Gomamon Warp Digivolve to NorseZudomon!!"

"NorseZudomon Warp Digivolve to NeptuneZudomon!!"

"Gatomon Warp Digivolve to Magnaangewomon!!"

"Magnaangewomon Warp Digivolve to Saintangewomon!!"

"Patamon Warp Digivolve to Seraphimon!!"

"Seraphimon Warp Digivolve to Archangemon!!"

"Andromon digivolve to NeoAndromon!!"

"DigiArmor Energize!!"

"Lewis, Ninth Digidestined Armor Digivolve to Daimyosapien!!"

"Daimyosapien Demi Digivolve to Samurisapien!!"

"Samurisapien Focus Digivolve to Hypersapien!!"

"THE SHARD OF MARTYRDOM!!"
"THE SHARD OF HONOR!!"
"THE SHARD OF TRUST!!"

"Dryadsapia Terravolve to Gaiasapia, Avenger of Martyrs!!"

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

"Gabumon Terravolve to DaoGarurumon, Entrusted Gatekeeper of Time!!"

The two forces began to charge one another. Hundreds of Apocalymon call out, "Death Claw!!". Hundreds of Mimedramon follow suit. Tai yells, "Quick, use the Light of Judgment!!" Paladingreymon says back, "I can't. I risk hurting Sora!!" Mimi charges ahead.

"Tropical Rain!!"

Storm clouds form and rain glowing rain. The army began to get bogged down by the plants growing under them, and the Apocalymons are rearing in pain. NeoAndromon charges in.

"Fist Missiles!!"

The Subatomimon are bowled over. Araiya sees Sora leaving the battlefield. Before she tell anyone, one of the Apocalymons uses Reverse Digivolve on NeoAndromon. He returns to Andromon. "Ow. I can't help anymore. Get me out of the way so the others can fight." Araiya, seeing how the battle is going, says, "No!! Fight on. If we give up, who will continue the fight? We must win, for time's sake, for Sora's sake." She cries a little. A tear falls onto her Crest, and it pulsates a teal light.

"Andromon Warp Digivolve to Xaviomon!!"

This 18' behemoth machine stood before her. From the tip of the right shoulder plate to the left is 20 feet. His body is an AVERAGE of 5' thick. Xaviomon's arms alone have a diameter of 2 feet. Xaviomon ran back to the battle. His massive feet left craters in the ground.

"Ballistic Missile Assault!!" Xaviomon yells

Parts from his wrists, chest, shoulders and shoulder plates, shin plates, and abdomen plating opened, firing well over 120 small nuclear missiles at the enemy. Before the missiles hit, DaoGarurumon charged through and cleared out the Subatomimon and hurled them at the fortress. A pretty mushroom cloud makes a path for Mimi and Odinkabuterimon to strafe the army.

"Flower Cannon!!"

"Ragnarok Bomb!!"

The Mimedramon remaining after the strafing return the favor. Paladingreymon is there in time to stop most of it from reaching them, but in return, Paladingreymon's shield broke.

"Gauntlet of Destiny!!"

"Binding Essence!!"

"5mm Mayhem!!"

The Mimedramon were bound by the light, unable to attack, while Lewis shot them so they couldn't break free. Archangemon caused some of the Tauromon in the army to accidently hit the Apocalymons, which made them destroy those Tauromon. NeptuneZudomon jumped on the back of one of the Apocalymon and rode him, causing him to lose his equalibrium, therefore causing him to hit fellow troops. The Subatomimon return to the field. Before DaoGarurumon can stop them, they go on a wanton nuking spree.

"Atom Smasher!!"

Lewis is knocked back to normal. NeptuneZudomon reverts to Bukamon. Xaviomon shoots out giant claws from his wrists and charges.

"Triple Claw Grenade!!"

He slashes thrice, then jabs the claws into the Apocalymon. They detach and explode shortly after Xaviomon has cleared the area. Tai sees Sora is now inside the palace. "Paladingreymon, now!!"

"Light of Judgement!!"

Upon impact with the earth, the Apocalymon were the first to vaporize, then the Tauromon, then the Mimedramon, and finally all but one Subatomimon was hit. DaoGarurumon asks, "What do we do with him?" Xaviomon solves that question quickly. He picks him up and holds him in his gauntlet. A voice similar to the T-800 says, "You will go nowhere, little atom." Lewis runs to the group in panic. "Quick, DaoGarurumon, can you open gates to different times and move through time?" He answers, "Yes..." "Now, draw straws. Long goes to the future, medium stays here, and short goes to the past. We have five minutes left. Each Digidestined grabs a straw. Tai, TK, Izzy, and Mimi draw the future straws. Joe, Araiya, and Lewis got the past lots. DaoGarurumon opens the gates. "Take these. Wear them on your arms. This will protect you from the effects of time. They allow you return to this general location in time and allows you to find previously used time gates and reopen them. Finally, they let you comminicate to the others in the other time frames." Izzy looks at it and says, "Prodigious, you thought of everything, DaoGarurumon!!" Biyomon says to Lewis, "I'm coming with you. I can't be of any help here or in the future. I can help you though because you have that Universal Digivice." Lewis nods his head and DaoGarurumon gives her an armband. The past lot drawers go first. Tai looks at Kari as the others head on ahead. "You and Matt help keep the peace while we're away. We'll be back, whenever." Just as Tai and Paladingreymon enter the gate, the Subatomimon, which had to be put down before Xaviomon could go to the past, decides that this is unacceptable. "Guess what, fools. Ka-boom!!"

"Mushroom Cloud!!"

DaoGarurumon carries Matt, Oswald, and Kari to safety. The nuclear blast though has an effect on the future gate. It slides and shifts and flickers and changes colors. "He's knocked Tai off course. Who knows where he'll end up?" Kari asks him, "Isn't there anything we can do?" "Nope. Time is a fickled thing. Best left alone when something like ths happens. Trying to fix would only make it worse."

Joe, Araiya, Biyomon, and Lewis come flying out of the gate. Joe rolls with Bukamon on the ground, Araiya and Andromon almost trip, but catch themselves, Biyomon lands on Joe's head, and Lewis goes rolling over a hill with a lot of hard rocks and is finally stopped when he slams into a tree. Joe, Biyomon, and Araiya get up to look for him, and they find him sitting at the tree, whining "Why me?! Why can't I be the one who sits back and doesn't get pummeled? Why am I the one the one who's always at the wrong place at the wrong time?!" Why!!!" Joe looks down at him. "He must be letting out pent-up frustration Mimi style." They slide down the hill to Lewis, and take a look at his injuries. Bukamon looks at him and says, "You look more swollen than Patamon about to attack." Lewis says, "Shut up, Bukamon. This isn't going to do a thing for my complexion, but I do have two things to console me. One, I don't have any broken bones. Two, I swiped Mimi's blush. Comes in handy in situations like this. Don't need people staring at us or asking questions about my cuts and bruises right now. Need to stay terra incognito right about now. Besides, th average span of a bruise is 6 days, so I won't have to do this for long." Lewis says, applying the hoodwinked blush. He gets up and stretches. "Well I'm glad I got that out my system. Let's go." The rest follow. Joe utters, "If this is normal for him, I'd hate to see his weird side." Andromon then follows up, "What a strange, sad man." Which Bukamon adds, "Maybe having Mimi in his head for so long screwed up his brain." Which is finished off by Araiya saying, "Uhh, whatever." Biyomon loks at him blankly. "Well....," she thinks on how she will add her two cents to the situation. "I got nothing." They walk along the area. Joe accesses his 3D map. "Well, according to this, we're back on File Island. Hey, a text message is moving around the base of the map. It says, 'Approximate Real World Time, Tues. August 1, 2000, @ 10:05 AM Tokyo Daylight Time.' We got here at 4:00 PM on the dot, and there was a time diffriential that dimishined slowly as the grew nearer and nearer to Apocalymon's release, so this is when we found Monzaemon and Toy Town, but why strike here?" Lewis says, "I know exactly why. On this day, Monzaemon, who at the time had a Black Gear imbedded in his spine, attacked and brainwashed all of you except Mimi, leaving her alone. If they were to eliminate her, then the Digidestined team of the present, us, would have been annihilated in the first battle. It was she who weakened them and eliminated one of the originals, allowing us to get more powerful, find me and Araiya, and the explosion started another important chain of events, the rebirth of Terravolution. If all goes like I think it will, next will then be Tai, then Matt, then TK, then Izzy, and then you, Joe. They wouldn't have to worry about Kari since no one would exist to find her in the first place." Joe responds, "Why am I last, and where does Sora fit into the equation?" "They would naturally go in order from most to least threatning. Mimi was the first Terra, Tai has Paladingreymon and TK has Archangemon, and most of the Overlords have a high intolerance to life and light, and Matt could go back and undo what was done, as we are doing now. You, Joe, have a digimon that has no natural advantage over evil and therefore would be least dangerous. Sora wouldn't equate at all since she is now their supreme general and ultimate follower, which they consider a plus." And as Lewis had said, Milleniummon and Nosferatumon were outside Toy Town. "Why can't we do it ourselves?" Nosferatumon asks. "Simple. If Devimon was to discover us here, it could affect the natural order of time. If we 'temporarily enhance' his minions, we can get the job done without causing major damage to our plans. Who knows? What if this little twerp never fought Apocalymon? Could we have escaped? No. If we get involved, he'll either try to enslave us, which if he had enough gears he may possibly be able to do, or try to deny us the right to spare her. See, what you don't get is that we have to do this at proper points and places, and use the minions of the evil digimon of that point in time. If done like planned and all goes right, this one will face off with Apocalymon using all 8 digimon as her own and beat him, then we arrive and enslave her, kill the digimon, and then we won't have to deal with that imputent Digimon Emperor and we will have two worlds bowing to our feet. That's why we can't do it ourselves." Milleniummon explains. The black gear that is to enter Monzaemon flies overhead. "Watch and see." He starts chanting a spell in Old English from his gremorum. "An ultimate should do the job." The black gear lodges into Monzaemon, and he digivolves to Warumonzaemon.

Lewis and the others arrive in Toy Town about the time Mimi does. In one of the alleys they gather. "Now I remember what happens here. Palimon digivolves to Togemon for the first time fighting Monzaemon, who has a black gear." "I think the deck has been stacked." Lewis mentions as Warumonzaemon walks down the street. Araiya joins the convesation, "We could stop him ourselves." "No. Too profound a change." "How about we assist from the alleys, staying hidden, and only after Palimon has digivolved." "I can see where you're going with that, Araiya, but it will be hard to make him keep his attention on Togemon." Lewis explains. "Why don't we fight fire with fire? They have an ultimate, why can't she?" Joe exclaims. "Hmmm, Togemon prematurely digivolving......." A swelling of a tear in his eye and a small grin he be seen on his face, but then he composes himself. "It'll be a last resort. Temporal Preservation, you know." Lewis concludes. They gather into position. They watch Mimi and Palimon run from Warumonzaemon. "I thought Monzaemon guarded this town. Where did Warumonzaemon come from?" Palimon yells, running.

"Heartbreak Attack!!"

Just then the Numemon arrive to protect Mimi and Palimon. The lot of them were no match for the attack, and most of them went packing. The Numemon ringleader yells to Mimi in midair, "Hey, I just saved your life. Now will you consider the date?" Mimi looks up at him and sarcastically says, "Let me think about it. No." The ringleader hears this and thinks, 'She's playing hard to get.' Palimon charges ahead.

"Poison Ivy!!"

It wraps around around Warumonzaemon's paw. He lifts it and starts spinning her up and down like a yo-yo. "I can go Around the World, I can do the Cat's Cradle, I can do some great Sleepers," Palimon is thrown around in the mentioned moves, then is slammed to the ground. "But I just can't seem to Walk the Dog. Oh, well. Practice makes perfect!!" He continues to slam her into the ground by her own vines. Finally, the fifth time Warumonzaemon pulls her back up, Lewis throws his sword and severs the vines, and hits Warumonzaemon at the same time.

"Palimon digivolve to Togemon!!"

"Time for some Needle Spray!!"

The needles seem to have little effect. Warumonzaemon even takes some of the needles and sews up the wound Lewis gave him.

"Bear Claw!!"

Togemon plows through a house. "Hey, Andromon!! You can go out as is without causing much impact." Lewis yells. Andromon runs out and covers Togemon. "Cease your attack at once, or I will be forced to coombat you." Andromon speaks. Warumonzaemon ignores him and takes his whip, wraps it around Togemon's leg and hurls her at Andromon.

"Lightning Blade!!"

The blades push Warumonzaemon into one of the buildings, making him release the whip. Togemon though, was still on a collision course for Andromon. Mimi, crying, says,"My friends have been captured, the Numemon have thrown themselves before this mean teddy to save me, and even Andromon has tried to help me, but even him and Togemon aren't enough. now I have to got to do something to help them." Then the Crest of Sinceity glowed from her heart.

"Togemon digivolve to Lilymon!!"

Mimi stares in disbelief as she watches the digivolution. "But how?" she asks as she sees Lilymon rebound off Andromon's shoulder and back into the air. "Your willingness to help your friends no matter the cost gave me the strenght to digivolve again." Lilymon says to Mimi. Araiya looks at Lewis, "Last resort, hah!! I can see why you like that flower nymph so much!! What happened to 'Temporal Preservation?'" Lewis pins her to the wall. "I don't want to hear you bad mouth her again!! I did not cause the digivolution. It was done under Mimi's own power!!" Biyomon says to Joe, "I've never Lewis explode with such fury, and over Lilymon."

"Flower Cannon!!"

The shot sends Warumonzaemon ripping through the city, leveling structures left and right. He gets up and says, "Ohhhh, I need a bed that's not too hard and not too soft." Lilymon flies over and encircles him.

"Flower Wreath!!"

The wreath dispels the black gear and Warumonzaemon return to Monzaemon. Lilymon reverts to Tanemon. Mimi runs over and picks up Tanemon. "Tanemon, you're the greatest!!" Mimi yells. As they leave, Lewis turns and says, "Yes, you are, Lilymon." Joe says, "Milleniummon and Nosferatumon have to a point just after the breakup of the island." They open the time gate and it envelops them. All of them slam down in a frozen forest. "TK!! TK!!" they hear Matt yelling, and then watch fall over from the cold. Joe is about to go help, when Lewis grabs him and says, "As cold-hearted as it may seem, we can't do anything to help him because of the possible implications. Besides, over there is Gabumon. He'll find him." Gabumon finds Matt in the snow. "What are you doing out. I told you to stay in the cave." He proceeds to drag him back to the cave. "I'll keep an eye on them. Araiya, Andromon, you patrol. Joe, go to the area where Frigimon, Agumon, and Tai land on the island and make sure the Overlords don't try anything funny. Biyomon, you stay with me." They all split off. Lewis goes behind a fallen tree and watches in the cave. "Matt is so cold. I have to warm him up or he won't make it. All I got is my fur..... Well, here goes." Gabumon takes his fur off. "Hyuk, hyuk. Naked digimon!!" Lewis throws his hands back and covers his eyes. "Ew, I didn't want to see that. Now I'm going to have nightmares about this. Hey, my sword's stuck." He notices his sword is stuck in something. He feels a hot breath on his back. "Biyomon, please tell me the sword is stuck in a tree and that breath was yours." Biyomon looks behind Lewis. "The sword is stuck in a tree and the breath is yours. Now if you want the truth, the source of the breathing and the thing your sword is stuck in is Mojyamon." "That can't be good." Lewis laments. "This is all Gabumon's fault. Now I'm traumatized for life." He says sarcastically, trying to remove the sword. Lewis pulls the sword out, but then Mojyamon disintegrates, leaving a black gear intact. "Is he going to be okay?" Lewis panics. "Why do I think this is going to come back to haunt us one day?" Biyomon utters. "Wait!! We're not sank yet!! The black gear is still intact. All we gots to do is find another digimon to put this in. Sounds cruel, but unless you want the future eradicated just because of one little mistake, then we must find a victim." Lewis takes the gear. "Joe, Araiya, gather back where we first got here. We have a slight faux pas." Joe yells at him, "YOU DID WHAT!!" "Well, if you had an 11 foot long sword and you held it in your hands, then covered up your eyes, sending the blade behind you and impaling the nearest thing, you wouldn't see me yelling about it. I'd fix it." Lewis shouts back, flailing his arms. "And how are we going to do that?" Araiya butts in. "Give me a minute to think here!!" Lewis yells back, and when he finishes yelling, he accidently flings the gear and it hits Frigimon. "Or, we could just do that." Lewis finishes. Tai and Matt stop fighting long enough to notice the gear entering Frigimon. "Oh, great, another black gear in Frigimon." Tai complains. "Well, this is not the time for us to fight." Matt says. "Our work here is done." Araiya says. "They've left again, for the point just before everyone found Sora again." Joe reports. "And, this would be their final attempt, the coup de gras. Get the six you want, and the seventh will be handed to you." Lewis says. Joe looks at him cock-eyed. "Explain." "See, they know now that we are interfering. They are going for the last time the group is without Sora. They can't go back and try again because they know we won't be far behind, and the possible consequences outweight the benefits if they try a third or even fourth time. Plus, repeating an event over and over can cause some people to start going insane. The way to define it be how they described it on Star Trek: Voyager. They described it as 'Temporal Psychosis,' a type of time dimentia; the willingness to do anything it took to eliminate a past object or stop a loop, even if it means total annihilation for them." "So, you're saying that thy won't try to undo all that we have done?" Andromon says. "Yes. It's too risky. When we finish there, we should be finished altogether with the past." Lewis adds. "Well then, let's go!!" Araiya yells. And off they go.

Meanwhile, on the future side of things, Tai and Agumon are separated from the others by Subatomimon's shockwave. They are knocked out of the current of time they were in and ended up in another. Tai and Agumon crash land into a city of machines. "Where, and when, are we?" Tai asks. Before he could get an answer, an army of Guardromon marched down the streets, firing at 5 kids and their digimon, who are running for their lives. He hears one of them attack.

"Fire Rocket!!"

No result. The kids stop and the littlest one says, "I think we should retreat and come back later." The one in the flaming jacket replies, "I'm not gonna run away. I'm going to stay and fight!!" One of the digimon says, "I agree with him. Let's come back later." and he dedigivolves. They start running again when one of them trips over Tai. The others don't see this and flee towards a TV screen. As the others left, one of the Guardromon destroys the TV. The one who tripped over him gets up. Behind her is Gatomon. "Okay, I reconize Gatomon, but who are you?" Agumon asks. The girl says, "Agumon, what are you doing here?" Then she sees Tai. "Okay, am I seeing things, because you look just like my older brother Tai did 5 years ago, except for that armor." Tai looks at her and says, "Kari?! Is that you? It's me, Tai, from the past." Kari and Gatomon are scratching their heads. Gatomon reminds her of the lurking danger. "I hate to break this up, but let you know, I can Armor Digivolve at any time, Kari." Tai gets up. "Okay, the only one I know of that Armor Digivolves is Lewis, and then he does it to himself. I don't get it. Why doesn't Gatomon Warp Digivolve to her Giga level of Saintangewomon and level these Guardromon?!" Kari is bewildered. "Lewis? Giga level? Saintangewomon? Did you hit your head? The most powerful level is the Mega level, and I haven't seen a Mega digimon since we fought the Dark Masters." Tai then realizes what's wrong. "The blast. It must have knocked us into another timeline, Agumon. Man, I got to talk to DaoGarurumon about monitoring those gateways better." Gatomon asks, "DaoGarurumon?" "Yeah, he's the Terra level of Gabumon. He can manipulate time. Something must of happened after I went through the time gate, though. That's how I ended up here." Kari says, "Giga? Terra? Explain it all while we find some place to go, and I'll explain all of this. Gatomon, will you do the honors?"

"DigiArmor Energize!!"

"Gatomon Armor Digivolve to Nefertimon, Angel of Light!!"

"Nice Armor Digivolving." Agumon quotes as he climbs on. An hour passes while they fly around. "So you got the Digimon Emperor in your timeline, too?" Kari exclaims. "Yeah, he works for the 7 Overlords, maknig mind control technology. He's even captured Sora and has put something in her head to turn her against us." Kari gasps at Tai's words. "Has his Black Digivice got in your way?" "Not really. Sora tried to use it on us, but Agumon beat it and sent their army packing." "How did he do that?" "If the need arises, you'll see." Tai finishes. The Digimon Emperor hears this on his viewscreen and says, "I gotta see twerp from the past beat my Dark Digivice in person, and when I do, I'll just enslave the end result." Guardromon start a massive bombardment of Nefertimon. She crashes into the ground and reverts to Gatomon. TK, Tai, Pegasusmon, Flamedramon, and Daisuke arrive as they crash.

"Fire Rocket!!"

"Star Shower!!"

They are able to stun the Guardromon. "Who's this clown in the tin can?" Daisuke asks. "It's Tai, five years in the past, and from another timeline." Kari answers. "Greetings, all. I've decides today to have a live audience to your destruction, so nevermind me." the Digimon Emperor exclaims. "Try to digivolve!" The younger Tai says. The older Tai says, "It won't work. The Control Spire here and everywhere there is one keeps digimon from digivolving....." Younger Tai remembers the previous fight with Sora, when she had the Black Digivice, and how it overloaded when Agumon Terravolved. "It may stop digivolving, but it can't handle Terravolving." he says. The Digimon Emperor, Daisuke, TK, the older Tai, and the digimon said simultaneously, "Terravolving?!" The younger Tai holds the amulet to the sky.

"THE SHARD OF HONOR!!!"

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

"What?! Paladingreymon!!" the older Tai and Daisuke drop their jaws in disbelief. "Now you're mine, Paladingreymon!! WHAT!!" The Dark Rings vaporize before they even get within 5 feet of him. "Silly boy. Don't you know that Angel, Archangel, Paladin, and Redeemed digimon can never be the pawns of evil?" The Control Spire shatters in a blaze of light. In fact, all the Spires within the adjacent sectors shattered as well. "I just lost seven spires!! Oh, well. I'm here, so the Guardromon still obey me. Andromon, attack!!" Paladingreymon takes one slash and finishes off 60 Guardromon and levels a building. Andromon backs off. "Isn't that a little excessive, Paladingreymon?" Kari asks. "You're right." He sheaths his sword. A wave of Guardromon bombard them. Paladingreymon converts his right forearm plate from Claw to Shield and hides everyone behind it. He turns to another group of Guardromon and thumps them, sending them through the building behind them and the one behind it. The Digimon Emperor sees the devastation caused just him by thumping them and starts running. "I am so out of here!! You can have the stinking sector!! Just don't hurt me." Paladingreymon heads to the center of the city. Miyako, Iori, and their digimon arrive to watch Paladingreymon kneel and touch the earth.

"Paladin's Cure!!"

All the Dark Rings shattered, and the Guardromon came back online. "They will never again be slaves to the Emperor. Your digimon also bear this protection now, and if you digivolve outside of his control, then enter his domain, you can not only retain your level, but you will have the strenght to undermind the Spires and Black Digivice and reach your Ultimate, Mega, and hopefully one day, your Giga and Terra levels too." Paladingreymon reverts to Koromon. Miyako looks over and sees a fluctuating rift. "Hey, Kari, Daisuke, Iori, TK, look at that!!" Hawkmon says, "After Paladingreymon healed the city, this gateway must have opened up. Let's close it so no one gets trapped in it."

"DigiArmor Energize!!"

"Hawkmon Armor Digivolve to Halsemon, The Wings of Love!!"

"Armadillomon Armor Digivolve to Digmon, The Drill of Power!!"

"Tempes...."

"Gold R...."

"Wait!! Don't close it yet. It's the gateway I used to get here." The younger Tai says. Miyako evaluates the gateway and gets sucked in. Halsemon pursues. Koromon says to the others, "Seal this gateway after me and Tai go through. Don't worry. When we get back to our time, we'll send Miyako home, but we have to do something in the future first." Tai finishes Koromon's message, "Yeah!! Like stopping NeoApocalymon from taking weapons of the future and eradicating life on Earth." They run through the gateway, and Digmon and Flamedramon do as Koromon instructed. Tai, Miyako, Hawkmon, and Koromon roll out of the gateway and land in front of TK. Miyako gets up first, and sees Izzy. "Okay, I must be having a bad dream, because I see Izzy, but he looks as old as I do. And TK looks younger than me. Am I in the past?" Izzy corrects her, "No, whoever you are, you are in the future. 12 years, 9 months, and 21 days after August 9, 2000: May 30, 2013." Miyako sees everything in the Digital World ablaze, Control Spires every 200 feet, skeletal remains and ash all over the ground. Tai gets up and accesses Temporal Communication. "Tai to Matt and Kari. Do you read me?" Moments later, Matt and Kari showed up in the screen, they appeared to be in some swamp. "Tai, waht do you need?" Matt says, rowing a boat. "I need to ask if this girl and her digimon will need a time band. She followed me from another timeline, and we have to bring her along. The good thing is is that she is also a digidestined." Matt answers back, "Tsunomon says that all you need is to boost the output of your armband by 18% and stay close to her. The field will encompass her and her digimon. If you need anything else, talk to Tsunomon, because we're trying to row away from this Swamp Dwelling digimon, and I need both hands for this." "Nope, that's all. Tai out." Then, Izzy's digivice gets a message. "This is Lewis. We have already stopped them from destroying Mimi, Tai, and Matt. Now they're trying to strike all of you except Sora on the day you first encountered Myotismon. We want you to find out why Sora is so important that they are actually trying to keep her from harm. Report when you have info. Lewis out." Miyako walks over to Tai, "Let me guess. I won't be going home any time soon." Tai just nods. "Well, if I'm going to be marooned with all of you, then I at least got to get to know you. I know Patamon, Agumon, Tentomon, and Tai here, so I'm guessing you two are Izzy & TK. Now, as for you. I've never seen you before." She says, looking at Mimi. "Well, I'm Mimi....." "You can't be Mimi!! Mimi's a human!!" Miyako speaks in confusion. "Well, yeah, 50% of me is anyway, but you should know that you should always expect the unexpected when messing with this temporal stuff." Mimi returns. "Well, now that's over with, we got to find the Overlords and stop them from pirating future technology." Tentomon says to change the subject. "You're right. Let's level these spires first."

"Koromon digivolve to Agumon!!"

"Pepper Breath!!"

The Pepper Breath did not seem to faze the spire. Mimi takes a whack at it.

"Amazon Thrust!!"

The tower crumbled into powder. "That's it. Warp Digivolve everyone!!"

"Agumon Warp Digivolve to...... Hey, isn't supposed to be a bright light hitting me about now?"

"Tentomon Warp Digivolve to...... Hercu... I really need to talk to the writers about giving me a shorter name."

"Patamon Warp Digivolve to..... Hello!! I said 'Warp Digivolve to!!' What's the deal?"

"Dryadsapia Warp Digivolve to..... Ya know, I really miss the days when I fled in terror with you guys instead of fighting."

"Okay, I could digivolve but not Warp Digivolve. Anyone care to explain?" Agumon asks. "Well, where I'm from, the spires were designed to block digivolving, but they couldn't block Armor Digivolving. Maybe they changed the specs so that it can block Warp Digivolving, but it leaves regular digivolving alone." Mimi gets an idea. "Last time we had a situation like this, we just Terravolved."

"THE SHARD OF MARTYRDOM!!"

Nothing happens. Mimi holds it in front of her and looks at it. She smacks it. "Great!! No Warp Digivolving, no Terravolving. Yay. We're going to be made into ground beef by the Overlords if they found us now." Mimi whines sarcastically. Izzy jumps in, "But Agumon pointed out something. He could digivolve. Miyako, you said that the Control Spires inhibited digivolving, right? Well I believe that to handle the immense energy of Warp Digivolving and Terravolving, they would have to be built closer together." Tai interrupts, "Get to the point, Izzy." "Okay, okay. The towers, being so close, keeps Warp Digivolving and Terravolving in check, but their own energy fields keeps them from blocking normal digivolving, and if you were a Terra digimon who built these, would you feel threatened by a few Ultimates?" Suddenly the conversation is broken up by a Digitamamon. "Interlopers. Rebels!! You will be terminated immediately!!"

"Nightmare Syndrome!!"

"Agumon digivolve to Greymon!!"

"Greymon digivolve to Metalgreymon!!"

"Patamon digivolve to Angemon!!"

"Angemon digivolve to Magnaangemon!!"

"Tentomon digivolve to Kabuterimon!!"

"Kabuterimon digivolve to Megakabuterimon!!"

"DigiArmor Energize!!"

"Hawkmon Armor Digivolve to Halsemon, The Wings of Love!!"

Digitamamon saw that he was outnumbered, but he just stood there, laughing. "Fools!! Think a little digivolving will help you?! Now you're in for a world of hurt!! Arise, Xenozombimon!!" Two Xenozombimon rose from the earth, and both were extremely rank. "Okay, it's seems 50/50. I mean, one Mega, three Ultimates, and one Armor Champion versus two Megas and an Ultimate." Tai mutters. Miyako responds, "Wow. Thanks for the vote of confidence." They rush in and combat begins.

"Dark Void!!"

"Nightmare Syndrome!!"

Megakabuterimon took the brunt of the damage, but because of his gargantuan size, it balanced out, and Metalgreymon retaliates by Mega Clawing Digitamamon, and then throwing him into the Xenozombimon. Magnaangemon lopped one of the Xenozombimon's arms with Excalibur. Xenozombimon retaliate.

"Atomic Punch!!"

The jabs hit Metalgreymon and the high dosage of radiation cause to fall unconscious since radiation is also known to cause EMP. Megakabutierimon charges forth.

"Horn Buster!!"

He misses completely, but he does level a few spires in the process. "Not what I was aiming for, but at least I hit something strategic." Megakabuterimon responds to his poor shot. Mimi flys up.

"Flower Staff!!"

The Xenozombimon are thrown into another spire, which crashes on one of them. Digitamamon runs over to him.

"Nature's Blessing!!"

A patch of lushious grass grows around Metalgreymon, and the dew collects on him. The dew illuminates and heals Metalgreymon. "Let's trash them!!" Metalgreymon yells.

"Giga Blaster!!"

"Horn Buster!!"

"Flower Staff!!"

"Tempest Wing!!"

The combined force from Metalgreymon, Megakabuterimon, Mimi, and Halsemon's attacks were enough to cripple one of the Xenozombimon. Magnaangmon flys up. "Rest in peace." He opens a Gate of Destiny just behind him. The Xenozombimon just beaten up was sucked in, as well as 11 spires before it closed. Digitamamon looks at them and smirks. "That would of worked in the past, and we'd run, but in a few minutes, reinforcements are coming, and in the meantime..... Digital Override Code: Digitamamon 0578!!" Digitamamon's egg shattered, the black goo oozed from the remains and entered the wounded Xenozombimon. He convulsed and screamed in pain. His form hideously mutated. Parts of him became quintessence, the substance of non-corporial beings, and dark matter robes draped down his body. Fire bursted from his eye sockets, and in his hand was a chain and sickle. The exposed bone turned dark grey, and his flesh boiled. He looked at them and said, and it sounded as though hundreds of evil voices were talking at once, "You like digivolving, well try me on for size!! You've never fought a Jogress digimon before,and you never will again!!"

"Chaos Sickle!!" he screams

The sickle shattered the jewel on Megakabuterimon's back, and he reverted to Tentomon, who laid there bleeding and one of his wing cases cracked. "Whiplash, whiplash!!" Tentomon calls out.

"Giga Blaster!!"

No result. Izzy proceeds to scan him. "He's Darklichemon. He's a Giga formed from the voluntary, or in this case, forced possesion of a Xenozombimon by a Digitamamon. This is a permenant Jogress Digivolution, and his Demon Boneyard attack has a 10% chance of automatic death upon contact to its victim." Halsemon swoops in.

"Tempest Wing!!"

Halsemon is swatted like a fly and knocked to the ground. He is reduced to Hawkmon. Miyako points out something. "Guys, the reinforcements are here!!" Izzy says in response, "One piece of good news. From all the fighting, one of you may be able to Terravolve, because there is a small fracture in the field where there is no power blocking our signal. But, as soon as one of you Terravolves, the gap will collapse, and unless we destroy more spires, we'll be back in the same boat. In my opinion, Metalgreymon should Terravolve, since his Light of Judgement is unavoidable and unblockable." Tai pulls out his amulet. "Let's do it!!"

"THE SHARD OF HONOR!!"

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

"Light of Judgement!!"

The reinforcements became nothing more than piles of ash in milliseconds. Darklichemon took a good hit and held his ground. 40 more spires went down in the light. Under them was a human slave labor mine, where Demidevimon could be seen whipping humans, forcing them to mine various metals. Underground working with them were some Numemon, Frigimon, Meramon, Woodmon, and Mammothmon. Guarding the slaves were some Xenozombimon, Uraniumon (The Ultimate level of Subatomimon), Tauromon, Devidramon, and as was mentioned, Demidevimon was in charge. Demidevimon looks up and sees the hole and them. "You Digidestined brats?! I thought you were goners 7 and a half years ago!! Get them!!" The guards charge, but the humans block their way. "If you want them, you gotta come through us!!" one badly beaten man yells. Tai looks at him in surprise. "Mr. Fujiyama?!" Demidevimon whips Mr. Fujiyama and says, "This is the last time we will put up with you interfering." He throws him to the guards. Paladingreymon intercepts though. "Attack!!" Mr. Fujiyama chants. The humans, weak, and with only their mining gear, start fighting what at first seemed a hopeless battle. Magnaangemon reverted to Patamon to conserve his strenght. Mimi and Paladingreymon went down and joined in the mass riot. Patamon started pulling people from the fight and laying them on the ground, so that they wouldn't get hurt, or get hurt worse.

"Zodiac Axe!!" the Tauromon called forth.

"Cursed Abyss!!" screamed the Xenozombimon.

"Fat Man's Wrath!!" Uraniumon from all over shouted.

"Demi Dart!!" peeped Demidevimon.

"Demon Boneyard!!" chanted Darklichemon.

"Flower Staff!!"

"Celestial Fury!!"

"Sub-Zero Ice Punch!!"

"Tusk Crusher!!"

The two forces clashed, and people and digimon went flying everywhere. Mimi got up and touched a Uraniumon when getting up. A Devidramon started to pounce her.

"Little Boy Torpedo!!" she yelled.

She throws an old WW2 type atomic bomb at the Devidramon and the explosion knocks them both back. "What happened just now?" Mimi wonders. Izzy answers, "Don't you remember? When you touch a digimon, you can temporarily use their attacks as though they were his own. Wait, I have a message on my digivice." He checks the digivice. It's Gabumon. "Anyone there, you have been had. Lewis has just informed us that NeoApocalymon and Lucimon were spotted in the past, just before you found Sora again and fought Myotismon for the first time, carrying some sort of chest with them. I'm guessing you guys were played for saps, because I found out that they really went 121 years into the future, during a period where humans and good digimon then have the power to fight back against the Overlords, but they have developed new diabolical technology to eliminate the Rebellion. One of these new technological wonders are called Digi-Zybots, Mechanical Digimon with no independent thought, no free will, and an aresnal that makes it near impossible to beat in one-on-one combat. All the Zybots are modeled after digimon that already exist, and have their attacks and perks in addition to conventional weapons and Gigadigzoid plating. Most of them can also fly. Ge there and stop them!!" Izzy yells to everyone, "We got to go to where Lewis & the others are. We just helped the Overlords get what they were seeking by being here. Let's move!!" Tai looks up and says, "What, how?" "This battle helped to form a Rebellion faction in the Digital World and in the scarred remains of Earth. The technology produced in the proceeding 109 years is amazing. They WANTED us to incite this fight so they could pocket the end result. Let's go stop them in the past!!!" They open the time gate during the battle. Mr. Fujiyama watches them leave. He recites, "Holy Warriors on an Impossible Mission, a path of Destruction, but their Hope will Carry Them. I always knew there was something special about those kids."

Time: One hour before Tai, Joe, and Mimi land on the shore and reunite with TK, Matt, and Izzy. "About time you got here." Joe said to them. Araiya looks at Miyako. "Very funny. Who's this?" "She's Miyako. She's a digidestined from another timeline's future, a timeline where the Overlords didn't escape after we beat Apocalymon." Tai answered. Lewis walks over and says, "I say that she is from the future, but not from another timeline. Even with the rupture made by that Subatomimon, I still think that you were in this timeline, and we had found a way to imprison them, but then we decided to give back our neat stuff, like our new digivices, and, over time, just forgot about them. In the end though, they must have escaped again, and us, undertrained and had forgotten how we did it before, were defeaten and mankind enslaved. That's my opinion. Just to be sure, I'll want to talk to Gabumon when we get to the present." Miyako asks Lewis, "Well, why do you say this?" "Simple. The only sure way of moving back and forth through timelines is to go back and alter an event. Any slight change can make or break a timeline." Mimi interrupts, "Lewis, you and me will explain it all later. Right now, we got to keep our timeline intact." Miyako looks at them, "I am beginning to feel sorry I ever asked." Biyomon returns from a recon mission ordered by Lewis. "They're here, alright. They got his giant cannon, small missile launchers, and this claw-like device." Tai asks Biyomon, "Who's with them?" "Let's see here, there's NeoApocalymon, Milleniummon, Lucimon, Nosferatumon, a couple of Mimedramon, Sora, and the Digimon Emperor." "We got to stay on our toes, everyone. The instant everyone but Sora is together, they'll most likely strike. So let's get in the bushes over there." Tai finishes up. Lewis mentions, "We can't have them tracking our digivices, but I have a way to conceal us from theres." He pulls out the digivice. "Arm DigiCloak!!" The screen becomes concealed by a silver 'iris,' the triangular sections close over the screen and console. The etreme top and the bottom open up and bars of silver wrap around. Lattice-like metal forms between the two bars. Additional metal encases the digivice in the other areas, and in the center of the lattice is the Crest of Tranquility. The other kids repeat Lewis's action with the same results, except the metal was in the color of their Crest (Tai's is orange, Matt's is blue, Izzy's is violet, Araiya's is teal, TK's is yellow, so on, so forth.) "Now there digivices can't detect us." They go to the bushes and hide. Hours pass, and finally the swan boat with Mimi, Joe, and Tai arrives. They land and are greeted by Matt, TK, and Izzy. Palimon looks at Koromon, Tsunomon, and Motimon and says, "Well, you guys have gotten a lot.... smaller since the last time I saw you." Tai looks at his digivice. "Sora is this way...... Wait a minute. It also has a signal coming from the east, a new signal." That's when the Overlords attacked. They flew out at them in a storm of missiles. The younger digimon digivolve.

"Koromon digivolve to Agumon!!"

"Tsunomon digivolve to Gabumon!!"
"Motimon digivolve to Tentomon!!"

"Gomamon digivolve to Ikkakumon!!"

"Palimon digivolve to Togemon!!"

"Patamon digivolve to Angemon!!"

"Pepper Breath!!"

"Guru Blaster!!"

"Super Shocker!!"

"Harpoon Torpedo!!"

"Get ready for my Needle Spray!!"

"Hand of Fate!!"

The attacks neutralize the missiles, but prove useless against the Overlords. The Tai of this point in time says, "What?! Nothing happened. We got to digivolve!!"

"Agumon digivolve to Greymon!!"

"Greymon digivolve to Metalgreymon!!"

"Gabumon digivolve to Garurumon!!"

"Garurumon digivolve to Weregarurumon!!"

"Tentomon digivolve to Kabuterimon!!"

"Kabuterimon digivolve to Megakabuterimon!!"

"Giga Blaster!!"

"Wolf Claw!!"

"Horn Buster!!"

And, once again, nothing. Birdramon swoops in.

"Meteor Wing!!"

Lucimon smacks her like an insect. NeoApocalymon looks at them with a grin and says, "Let's see. Who to kill first? I'll start with.... Mimi, seeing how has caused us the most misery. Sora, do the honors." She aims the cannon on her shoulders. "Weapons Lock Engaged." The gun said. She hesitates. "You, Emperor, why is she hesitating?" The Digimon Emperor says, "Just a glitch. I'll correct it." He pulls a remote and boosts the implants' power. Sora pulls the trigger. Togemon jumps in the way. Lewis sees this as it happens, and runs out and jumps in the way as well. "No!!!"

"Togemon digivolve to Lilymon!!"

The Crest of Tranquility burned brightly as Lewis took the full blast. Lilymon grabs him and pulls him from the blast. "What were you doing?" she asked. "I was protecting you." was Lewis said. Lewis, badly burnt all over his body, cut in many places, and weak, stands himself up with his sword and says to them, "I failed her once, but I won't fail Lilymon again!!" He charges NeoApocalymon with his sword. NeoApocalymon has one of polyhedron arms become a sword and block Lewis's sword. Lewis swings and is blocked again. A second arm on the same polyhedron becomes a spike and drives into Lewis's side. Two more drove through his wrists. "Now I shall show you it is futile to resist me!!"

"Nuclear Armageddon!!"

Before he could fire his nukes, a harpoon jammed each of the silos. Joe stood there on NeptuneZudomon's shoulders. "Let him go!!" "Sure, after I do this!!" NeoApocalymon drills through Lewis's back, but it was as though nothing was being done to him. The pain didn't seem to faze him, for all the while, he stared at Lilymon. Then it happened. He started seeing everything in digi code and binary code. NeoApocalymon stops and drops Lewis, because the light from the Crest of Tranquility grew and encompassed Lewis.

"DigiArmor Optimize!!"

"Lewis, Ninth Digidestined Armor Warp Digivolve to Hypertomorrowsapien!!"

"Quick, let's help Lewis and Joe!!" Izzy calls out.

"Dryadsapia Terravolve to Gaiasapia, Avenger of Martyrs!!"

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

"Hawkmon Armor Digivolve to Halsemon, The Wings of Love!!"

"Patamon Warp Digivolve to Seraphimon!!"

"Seraphimon Warp Digivolve to Archangemon!!"

"Andromon Warp Digivolve to Xaviomon!!"

"Rain of Blossoms!!"

"Plasma Torpedoes!!"

"Tempest Wing!!"

"Tsunami Cutter!!"

"Gauntlet of Destiny!!"

"Ballistic Missile Assault!!"

A cloud of smoke rises up after all the attacks hit NeoApocalymon. They can hear NeoApocalymon groaning. "Sora, you peon, crush them!!" Biyomon flies in front of her. "Remember who you are, Sora. You are a digidestined. You aren't suppos...." The Digimon Emperor whips her to the ground. "Don't bother my masterpiece." Lucimon flies up and prepares to attack.

"Ninth Circle!!" he yells

Apparitions and spirits arise from a fiery ring. The area in the ring becomes complete darkness, complete cold, despite the blazing fires. It encompasses NeptuneZudomon. Invisible forces pummel and beat him and burn him. He falls over racked in pain. Lewis sees this and responds.

"Hypertomorrowspien Teleport!!"

NeptuneZudomon is teleported out of the circle.

"Hypertomorrowsapien Boomerang!!"

The instant it leaves his hand, it's back. "Aren't going to throw it already?" Lucimon laughs. Lewis, stares with his all-white eyes and sneers. The answers in an echoing voice similar to Paladingreymon's, "I already have, 127 times over." Then Lucimon's left arm fell off, followed by his legs, diced to pieces and falling off. "Medic?!" Lucimon peeps. "I'm going to my HMO!!" Lucimon goes back to the present. "If he's out of here, so am I." Nosferatumon says. The kids of the past ask if there is anything they can do. Mimi answers, "Get that remote and case from them while we keep these guys busy."

"Doomsday Beam!!" NeoApocalymon summons.

NeptuneZudomon covers for the others and is hit, returning him to Bukamon. The evil Sora starts trying to aim the cannon again when Biyomon gets in her way. "Out of my way, you stupid pink chicken!!" She takes the laser in her hand and shoots Biyomon. She looms over her with her cutlass, about to finish her off, when Lilymon kicks the Digimon Emperor, forcing him to release the controls. Metalgreymon smashed them under his foot. Lilymon, standing on Digimon Emperor, is punched by him. She is rolled off. "Pneumatic Power Gauntlets, one of the many toys we've acquired. Now my strenght is equal to yours, you little flower child." He uppercuts her. The force throws her into the air. Lewis runs and catches in less time than it takes to blink an eye. "Are you okay, Lilymon?" Lewis asks her. She answers, "I think he, (pteuiiie), knocked a couple of my teeth out. Lewis runs over at him, but is stopped when he pulls out a staff with a tesla coil on it. "No, no, no. Can't come near me." He zaps Lewis with over 1 billion volts of electricity, and Lewis falls to his knees, then flat on the ground. He crawls at him, and is continuing to be zapped. Lewis grabs the Emperor's leg and pulls him, making him drop his staff. Laying on the ground, Lewis punched the Digimon Emperor, before passing out himself and returning to normal. Lilymon carries his near lifeless corpse away from the battle and tends to him. Back at the battle, the past kids have been told to hide, since they have done all they could. Xaviomon guards the others, Paladingreymon has locked swords with NeoApocalymon, while Mimi and Archangemon face off with Milleniummon.

"Vortex of Time!!" Milleniummon shouts.

Everything slows up except NeoApocalymon and himself. NeoApocalymon knocks Paladingreymon's helmet off and proceeds to give him a series of powerful head blows. Milleniummon casts a Drain spell and drains some of Archangemon's strenght. Mimi is able to touch Milleniummon and time returns to normal. Araiya looks at Izzy, "Why doesn't Tentomon help?" Izzy says, "I've been looking for him for a while now. I still can't believe how easy NeoApocalymon is beating Paladingreymon." Sora puts the sword to Biyomon's throat, when Biyomon yells, "Why can't you understand me, Sora. You are your own person. You are in charge of you. Not some remote, not some kid, and not some stupid implants!!" Sora drops the sword and falls to her knees, grasping her head. "Memories, so vivid...... So real....." The Digimon Emperor comes to. "What are you waiting for. Finish it!!" More memories deluge Sora's mind, memories of how she held everyone's responsibility on her shoulders, of how she helped to keep the digidestined from collapsing into anarchy, and then memories of her and Biyomon rushed through her head. Finally, the reason they were fighting evil returned to her. "For the freedom of man and digimon alike....." The Digimon Emperor gets the staff and aims it at her. "Do it now!!" He yells. "NO!!" Sora returns, her eyes returning to normal. "What?! How can you resist my implants. It's impossible!!" Sora grabs the plate on her forehead and begins to remove it. "Anything is possible to the free." She quotes back. The crystal embedded into her left hand begins to illuminate. "If you remove that, the failsafe will arm and you'll die from brain failure. Hah, hah, hah!!!" The Digimon Emperor laughs back. "Then I die free." The Digimon Emperor can't believe how much free will she has. She pulls out the wiring and the face plates, but instead of being messy and tearing open her skin, they came out and her skin rippled like water when they were removed. Not a scar one could be seen on her face, and the failsafe never armed. The Dark Digivice was replaced with her original Enhanced Digivice. Her hair went back to the original brown that it was, and the targeting plate fell off her eyebrow. The crystal on her hand pulsated faster and faster. "Do you forgive me, Biyomon?" Sora says. "Of course I do, Sora!!" "Then let's do it!!"

"THE SHARD OF LIBERTY!!"

Time slowed down as before, with everything in a red-violet light. Sora held her iron fist into the air, with the shard facing out away from her face. In her hand, an olive branch appeared. In the other, the American flag. She throws the American flag over Biyomon.

"Biyomon Terravolve to..... "

She started growing to about the same size as Garudamon. The American Flag draped over shoulders like a cape, drooping low enough to go below her wings. All her fethers everywhere except her face, neck, tailfeathers, and wings, fell off. Those left became a light red. A blue minuteman's jacket flew on to her. A white formal shirt, same as the ones Viscountmyotismon and DaoGarurumon wear wrapped over her torso. Her body shape takes on the shape of a 25-year old supermodel. Her muscles and physique continue to take on a more feminine shape. A frill wrapped around her collar (Like the type that 16th century captains and Austin Powers wore). A white silk vest appears under the jacket and covers up most of the hilt. The Garudamon-like hands she has began to take on human shape. In fact, they look just like a human pair. Her beak separated from her jaw. The top piece went up and became a blue tri-corner hat. The bottom half lowered to her neck. The feathers from her face fell off and landed on the lower beak section. It formed into a gold necklace, with a gem similar to Sora's set in the center. The Crest of Liberty appears inside of it. The face remaining looks just like Sora's. Beautiful red hair drapes down beside and behind her head, all the way down to her tailfeathers. Blue knee high knickers form on her legs. A belt materializes, holding a Revolutionary War style rifle with bayonnet, a cutlass, some grenades, and a rocket launcher. She opens the most beautiful brown eyes and draws her sword. Fireworks start going off.

"Patriotaviamon, Patriot & Revolutionary!!"

"Minuteman Cutlass!!"

NeoApocalymon is thrown to the water, an one of his polyhedrons ands on him and disintegrates.

"Patriot Missile!!"

Patriotaviamon loads one of the infamous Patriot missiles that neutralized Iraq's SCUD missiles in Desert Storm. NeoApocalymon has one of his polyhedron's arms intecept the missile. The explosion disables the polyhedron. "What, another Terra?" NeoApocalymon exclaims. NeoApocalymon pulls out another weapon and fires it. Discs shoot out and cut the arms of all the kids and the digimon. The discs then go back to the weapon. "I know when to retreat." He goes back to the present. "I don't like that." Izzy says. Tentomon comes back. "Sorry if you couldn't find me, but I had to take cover. I'm still too weak to digivolve." "That's okay." Sora looks through the chest of stuff the Overlords forgot. "Here it is." Patriotaviamon reverts to Yokomon. "What's it?" she asks. "It's a memory disorter. Since we've exposed ourselves to our past selves, we will have to block out their memories to preserve our future." Sora answers. Tai runs up to her. "Drop whatever you got now." Yokomon jumps in the way. "STOP!! She's good again. Who do you think that was saving you? The tooth fairy?" Tai looks at Yokomon in fright. "If Yokomon says you're okay again, then it's good enough for me." Tai answers. He opens up his backpack and pulls out her clothes. "We found these at the colloseum. I though you would want these back." "Oh, good. This plate mail, the black leather suit, and this cloak are geting VERY HOT." She goes back into the forest. Minutes later, she emerges, towing the leather suit and armor, and wearing her old clothes. "You look just like your old self!!" Mimi spurts out. Sora thmps her left arm. A metallic humming comes from her left. "Well, almost." Lilymon comes out from the bushes, carrying Lewis, unconscious, to them. "He needs medical attention." she says. Just then, Paladingreymon reverts to Botemon, Mimi reverts to Dryadsapia, Bukamon reverts to Pichimon, Archangemon reverts to Tokomon, Halsemon reverts to Hawkmon, and Xaviomon reverts to his rookie form of Technomon. "Whoa, the fighting must have taken a lot out of them. I mean, this is the second time Paladingreymon has de-digivolved all the way back to Botemon, and NeptuneZudomon went back to his infant level of Pichimon." Tai is broken off by a message from Matt and Kari. "Tai, guys, we've found a place where we'll be safe from the Overlords for a while, and the leader of the area is someone Lewis and Mimi will know very well. Gabumon is using the digivice to reprogram the return coordinates a we speak." The screen turns off. "Well, let's get out of here!!" Tai says. Sora takes the memory disorter and erases all memories of the fight from their past selves. Moments later, Flymon attacks and all goes on as it should.

Everyone arrives in front of a massive New York-like skyscraper similar in appearance to the NBC building in front of Rockafellar Center, which was also there, Christmas tree, the giant fountain, and ice arena too. Roman, Oriental, Modern, and Futuristic buildings could be seen all around. Mountains surrounded this city and a brilliant dome covered the valley. Out from the skyscraper's front doors comes a robed figure with Matt, Kari, Gabumon, and Gatomon. Lewis comes around and gets up. "Who..." The figure removes the robes. "Lilymon?! But how?" He says, tearing up. "I'll explain inside." Before he can move, he passes out again in her arms. "Foolish man. Why did you do such a noble thing, and for me?" A tear swells up in Lilymon's eyes as she carries Lewis in the building. Everyone follows her in.

At the TRUE HQ of the Overlords, NeoApocalymon smirks as he watches Ken work. "I though I was done with you, but you serve me one more use. Monitor these for me." He looks over at glass tubes with clones of Tai, Agumon, Matt, Gabumon, Sora, Biyomon, Izzy, Mimi, Palimon, TK, Joe, Gomamon, Miyako, Hawkmon, Lewis, Araiya, and Andromon. "Why fight using puny minions when you can use your enemy's clones to do it for you." NeoApocalymon laughs with delight. The Tai clone's eyes open.

What is the purpose of cloning the Digidestined? How does Miyako fit into all this? Is she from this timeline or another? Why are the digimon so weak now? How and when did Lilymon return? Where is this megacity? Find out in First Terra: Chapter 5-The Anti-Digidestined!!