Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ First Terra ❯ Kobyashi Maru ( Chapter 7 )

First Terra

Ch. 7: Kobyashi Maru

Prologue: Well, time to spill more secrets. For Siegegreymon and Paladingreymon, I locked in on his warrior side, and slowly fazed out the dinosaur side. I figured that, the best thing warriors did was siege an enemy, so pow, Siegegreymon. Now, Paladingreymon I had in mind well before Siegegreymon. I thought of it when I was thinking of the Shard of Honor. It gave me flashbacks of when I first played FF 2, and when Cecil becomes a Paladin. I thought, 'This is a great idea. I mean, it goes with the Honor concept perfectly, and he is becoming a greater warrior, a truely noble creature.' Now many of you will say that the Mega level of Gomamon is Marineangemon, but I think the idea just sucks. I stuck with the Zudomon form when creating the advanced levels. When I first saw Zudomon, he reminded me in a way of a Viking, with his beard and forearms, so I went with it. I developed those characteristics and made NorseZudomon, a mighty Viking tortoise. Then, just after that, I came to the conclusion that the Giga level had to be more impressive, a more rememberable name. That's when I thought of Poseidon, Greek God of the Seas, but PoseidonZudomon just didn't seem right, so I used Poseidon's Roman name, Neptune, and thus there came to be NeptuneZudomon. As for Lewis and Mimi, the humans that can digivolve, I got the first few levels from Japanese history. Hypersapien and Hypertomorrowsapien are original ideas. As for Mimi, I used my knowledge of old folklore to provide the names Dryad, Titania, and Gaia. Everyone knows that Gaia is either Greek or Latin for Earth, and the name of the physical embodiment of it, from whom came two children; Uranus, a Titan; and Anateus, a Demi-Titan that was invincible as long as he was in contact with the Earth. Titania came from Shakespeare's "A Mid-Summer Night's Dream," who was the Queen of the Faeries. She is also mentions ocasionally as a guardian of the forest in Medieval fiction. As for Dryadsapia, I came to that name from learning what one was from reading C.S. Lewis's Narnia Chronicles, and they sometimes showed up in medieval and earlier stories. More to come in Chapter 8. Oh, did anyone see the closing ceremonies of the Olympics on NBC? It was at one point just weird. All around the track and in the center of the stadium were polyhedrons that looked just like Apocalymon's, and then, half of the athletes were wearig pink hats that had an eerie resemble to Mimi's infamous pink hat. At first, I said, "Okay. I gotta cut back on the writing," but then INXS performed in Stadium Australia and I said screw it, and watched a rerun of That '70s Show.

Now to recap, here's TK.

"After finding out that Sora's digital clone was in fact still alive and she joined our group, we went on to the Koromon village. As we went to the village, back in Serenity a gala in our honor was held for our service to the Digital World and our hopeful victory over the Overlords. The Anti-Digidestined though decided to crash it and blow up the gala hall. They almost got away with it until the pea-brained Shapiro fell from the scaffolding and gave them away. A major battle raged in the streets. Things didn't look so good until Hawkmon Armor Warp Digivolved to Metalgriffimon and toasted Necrotrimon and Koromon Warp Digivolved to Wargreymon and saved the day. Then the ruthless Tamiko used his amulet to make Holocaustgreymon Dark Terravolve to Armageddongreymon, a psycho with really big weapons. He was ready to level Serenity and make it a crater for his own amusement when Wargreymon Terravolved and stopped him. All the Anti-Digidestined ganged up on him, and in his last bit of strenght activated his Omega power, rebuilding Serenity and destroying Tamiko and Armageddongreymon. It even revealed Cora's good and brough her and her Biyomon to our side. Meanwhile, we had to slip by an invasion force ready to strike Washington, DC. Mimi gave us the distraction we needed. We got by, just to be captured by the US Military on the other side. After an extensive 'interrigation' of Mimi, an interview with me, and reviewing Mimi's new advanced biology, the military finally found out about Colonel Spencer's treachery, the Digital World, and apoligized for the harm done. Lewis and Lilymon came to our aid after an intense telepathic signal entered Lilymon's head, telling us of their problems. While they came to help, the others went after the dragon who stole Izzy, Kari, and Gatomon. They were doing just fine in NeptuneZudomon's shell until Skulldracomon showed up and attacked him. He was alone trying to fight him and 10 Megaseadramon. Fortunately for them, NeptuneZudomon unlocked his Omega power and thrashed Skulldracomon. Izzy and Gatomon were locked away in a maze pursued by an monstrous fireball that fed on Izzy's anti-social behaviors. While he was there, he found a way to make Gatomon digivolve without Kari and protect him. When he learned that computers aren't the best way to solve problems, the fireball disappeared to reveal a faery called Esperwomon, who showed them the prophecy of the dragon and a prophecy for us. He used this prophecy to break the dragon and reveal his name, Raijinkabuterimon. He regained control of himself and stopped an attack by the Anti-Digidestined single handedly. They returned to Serenity after Esperwomon told us about a gate that can only be opened by the Love of Four. In the real world, we tried to save the President and Vice President, but we failed, and NeoApocalymon destroyed him. Viscountmyotismon sacrificed his life stopping NeoApocalymon's missiles from hurting the civilians of Washington, DC. Mimi saved an NBC news crew who was too close to the battle and they tagged along with us. We used them to warn the public of the threat, and while we waiting to have their van fixed, Lewis propsed to Lilymon. She answered yes to him, and they're going to get married soon. Lewis also used the airwaves to officially sieze control of the government and become an acting President during the crisis. We then learned that while we were at the White House, the Overlords have gone to New York, where they started causing more destruction. The Anti-Digidestined were with them too, and they had cybernetic implants added to them. All their Digimon then mysteriously Terravolved on their own, and we're outnumbered. Boy, I hope we can hold them off."

On the roof they stood in shock. Ten Terra Digimon were before them, ready to fight. They stood there in a stand-off, waiting for someone to move. Then, from nowhere, Peyotemon arrives. "Whoa, trippy man..." He looks around and sees the situation. "I guess walking through that vortex was not a good idea." Lewis walks over to him and whispers, "I want you to use one of your attacks on them. If we can fog their minds, it will give an advantage." "Uh, like, sure man." He walks over to the center of the roof.

"Psychodelic Spores!!" he says.

He spores float over to them and they inhale, but then a small problem pops up. The wind blows and blows it back over to Lewis and the others. "Not what I planned, but it'll buy us time." "You feel all tingly?" TK says to everyone. "I'm floating." NeoApocalymon says. Lucimon starts screaming, "My hands are frozen. Here, feel them!!" he starts laughing for no reason. Lewis walks up and says, "You know when this all wears off, we're all gonna die." Everyone busts out laughing. "Whoa, psychodelic colors." Metzger comments. "Any of you hear that? It sounds like Jerry Garcia is in my head!!" Lewis mentions. "I feel so light." Skulldracomon calls out. "Man, I got the munchies!!" Archangemon exclaims. "Man, I have never been so thirsty in my life!!" Mimi says, drinking from the rooftop water tower. "Who's getting munchies!!" Peyotemon yells out. Drew says, "Looks like it's my turn." AsteroArmageddongarurumon says, "Get some Sour Cream & Onion chips, and.. some dip!! Oh, get some Funyuns and some Captain Crunch." Lilymon butts in, "You know, the kind with the little crunchberries, and some dingdongs, and a big freakin salad, with all the extras...." NegaPositromon adds, "Oh, you got to get two.... big pizzas with the works, some popcorn, some big drinks. You know, like those 7-11 Big Gulps." All of this is recorded on camera by news crews sent out from all the major networks. "Peter Jennings reporting here in Central Park West, where the evil known as the Overlors and the Digidestined seemed to have postponed Armageddon because they're.... well, as you can see...., stoned. It'll be three hours or so before anything interesting happens, so in the name of ratings, ABC has decided to return you to our regularly scheduled program, Who Wants to be A Millionaire." Just before they end broadcast, Lewis falls off the roof and hits the ground, laughing. "I'm OK!! Cool, man..." he holds his thumbs up and goes back into the building and runs up the stairs. Meanwhile, over at the CBS van, "This is Dan Rather reporting. We are watching watch could be the end of the world, well it was until they mysteriously sat down and started acting like they were on some form of cannabis. Since it will be three hours before the effects wear off, we will go back to, no wait, I was told that in the interest of ratings, we will not be going back to Big Brother, but instead you will watch me sit here and drink coffee for three hours, or until we can find good reruns of Everbody Loves Raymond, whichever comes first." Meanwhile, in LA, Dave Chapelle is watching the report and is saying, "Man, they're copying my movie!! I mean, Half-Baked was a good movie, and maybe there using lines from it will cause another sales boom, which means more green for me, but they're stealing parts from the movie. That's just not right, man!! What next, they going to ask for freakin royalties for promoting it?! I don't think so." His agent speaks to him, "Uh, didn't you hear? Most of them either don't come from this world, are from a different country, or are too young to watch it." Dave answers back, "Okay, that's cool. But, wow. I never though that those lines would ever be used in real life. Now, where were we?" The narrator jumps in. "Well, needless to say, Jennings and Rather are right, and to go on for three hours with them stoned would be a waste of your time, and ours. So, for ratings purposes, we move on." "Is that your final answer?" Regis Philbin says. "Yes, but I meant with this story, not with ABC's regular programs. Actually, we go to Izzy and Matt, who were fighting Ladyshadowfiendmon in Chapter 6. Do I win the million?" "Uh, no." Regis finishes.

"You will now be crushed by the new world order: Our world order!!" Ladyshadowfiendmon calls out to Izzy, Sora #2, and Matt. Many Xenozombimon and another Mega level Undead digimon called Lichemon rise from the ground. "Lichemon uses his flaming sickle to rip you to shreds. His Reaper Lash will put you six feet under a little sooner than you hoped." Gabumon says. "I'll get Sora to safety. Kabuterimon is still too weak to battle such strong enemies." "I got ya. Gabumon, you ready?" Matt asks aloud. "Ready as I'll ever be."

"Gabumon Warp Digivolve to Metalgarurumon!!"

"Giga Missile!!"

Some of the Xenozombimon are stuck to the ground. More digimon pop up. "Whoa, that's a Goliathmon, a Mega level Golem digimon. They can crush you with their Avalanche Wave or their Cliff Cascade attacks." Kabuterimon says. "Over there are some Ragnarokmon, Giga level Mutant digimon with six arms, each one carrying a weapon worse than the last. Their attacks are Fog of Genocide, Death Blades, and One Man Army." he cotinues. A Goliathmon grab Metalgarurumon and squeezes him, slowly crumpling and denting his skin. "Hmmm, Shiny Wolf...." The Goliathmon drools in hunger. He throws Metalgarurumon into his mouth. Metalgarurumon sits up.

"Metal Wolf Claw!!"

The Goliathmon's mouth freezes solid, buying Metalgarurumon enough time to flee the golem's mouth. He breaks the ice and whines, "Ahh... And I was so hungry. Now I gotta get up." "Metalgarurumon, time to Warp Digivol...." Matt was yelling until he was untimely punted by Ladyshadowfiendmon. Kabuterimon runs back and catches the airborne Matt. "I think he's unconscious." Izzy says, checking him. "It's up to you, Kabuterimon." "But, Izzy, I'm too exhausted for combat." Kabuterimon says. "You're right. To send you in would be signing your Death Certificate. How are we going to stop her onslaught though. He puts his left arm up and goes to scratch his head, when he sees that he's still wearing Angewomon's glove, but now it had shrunk from where he got soaked riding Raijinkabuterimon. Then Metalgarurumon slams down to the ground in front of them. "That's it. Universal Knowledge!!" Kabuterimon looks at him like he's crazy. "Universal what?" "Simple, when we were data, Matt said that it was the Friendship they all had for one another collected in him, and then in the labyrinth, Gatomon and myself found that the attributes of our crests were in the very end similar to one another and could be used to digivolve another digimon in the place of another, but I still believe that only we have the power to make digimon digivolve, and it we can only channel the power to one and only one digimon at a time." "Well, what are you waiting for. Make Metalgarurumon Warp Digivolve!!" "Okay, here goes....." He focuses his thoughts to Metalgarurumon. The Crest of Knowledge glows blue.

"Metalgarurumon Warp Digivolve to Glaciergarurumon!!"

Glaciergarurumon gets up and pulls out his rocket launcher. "Hope you like freeze-dried zombies, Ladyshadowfiendmon!! Sub-Zero Stinger!!" The missile flies out smacks down in the midst of the Xenozombimon troops. Many of them freeze into ice-covered statues, and they disintegrate. The others try to charge him, but the low light, and the fact that he's translucent ice made it near impossible for them to see him. He slipped through, leveling them with his pike unnoticed. Rain starts pouring, an event that rarely ever happens. A Lichemon finds Glaciergarurumon in the chaos.

"Reaper Lash!!"

The scythe drives into his back and Glaciergarurumon howls in pain as chunks of ice flies off his back. A cold mist comes off him and his eyes pulse blue. "Now he's mad." one of the last Xenozombimon says in terror. Glaciergarurumon grabs the scythe and flings the Lichemon into a charging group of Ragnarokmon, and leaps into the sky. The Goliathmon turns to grab Glaciergarurumon when Kabuterimon dashes out and gets in the way.

"Electro Shocker!!"

It doesn't faze him at all. Instead of grabbing Glaciergarurumon, he gets Kabuterimon. "Hey, where's the slushee? Oh, well. You look juicy enough." He goes to throw him in when Glaciergarurumon cold mist intensifies. Matt wakes up. "What's going on. My Crest!!" His Crest of Friendship pulsates wildly. The temperature plummets. The Goliathmon, confused and numbing from the bitter cold, drops Kabuterimon. "You know, you didn't need to jump in Goliathmon's way, but you did it anyway. Why?" Glaciergarurumon asks. "Because you needed help, and how would it look if I just let you get snatched?" Kabuterimon responds. Then it happens. Glaciergarurumon's claws glow.

"Omega Blue: Arctic Claw!!"

The rain goes to freezing rain, then sleet, and finally snow. Columns of ice fly up and become energy in his claws. Swirling pillars of ice and snow swarm to his hands. Still airborne, he raises and crosses his arms. Goliathmon attaempts to knock out of the sky.

"Avalanche Wave!!"

The rocks flying up from the ground collect ice and freeze, shattering them well they ever reached Glaciergarurumon. Temperatures drop to -40 degrees Fahrenheit around him. The snow becomes a blizzard. Kabuterimon scoops up Matt, Sora, and Izzy and moves them away.

"5... 4... 3... 2... 1... Initiate Omega Blue Attack!!"

"Omega Blue Activate!!"

He slams down, slashes the ground, and a wave of ice flies from all directions. The Xenozombimon and the Goliathmon start to run, but are no match for the frozen onslaught. Many Ragnarokmon cannot flee in time as well. They are encased in ice. Everything in it's path is covered in thick ice. The frozen digimon fall apart and shatter. All that remains are 3 Lichemon, 4 Ragnarokmon, and Ladyshadowfiendmon. Glaciergarurumon howls wildly as surges with energy. "Impressive little mutt, but now I end it. Brimstone Blaze!!" Ladyshadowfiend yells out. The wave of flaming sulfur misses Glaciergarurumon, for he jumps back, but it hits the digimon remains, yet to format. "Now to destroy you with these remains!!" She throws an odd-shaped black gem into the remains. "Rise once more from the cold void of Death!!" The parts start fusing together and making a demonic monstrosity. "Quick, scan that thing!!" Matt yells out. Izzy pulls out his laptop. "It's called Thanatomon, and according to this, he is a Terra that uses Nuclear, Fire, Death, Time, and Earth elementals to fuel his attacks: Hand of Tartarus, Meltdown, Omega Strike, Paraxial Bane, Chasm Reaper, Crimson Chain Flail, Vampiric Embrace, Wrath of Thanatos, and his ultimate attack, End of Days. Talk about atrocities!!" The freak, having one arm made up of Xenozombimon corpses; with a various combination of swords, drills, cannons, harpoons, and miniguns in place of a right hand; a torso of various skin and muscle tissue from all of them; the other arm from Goliathmon, wrapped loosely in flesh on parts of it; the armored legs of many Ragnarokmon, melded together into two sickening limbs reinforced with Gigadigizoid metal; sinister wings formed from rock and necrotized flesh and muscle; his whole body oozing with toxic waste pouring from his pores; and a grey skull, like Lichemon's, except this one bursts out flames when he opens his mouth and they shoot from the eye sockets; runs up and points his right arm at them.

"Omega Strike!!"

He annihilates the remaining army and sends Glaciergarurumon flying into the sky. "Kabuterimon, looks like we'll need you now." Izzy says. "Hey, Sora, why don't you help me. Try to focus your thoughts and strenght to Kabuterimon." She says, "I'll see what I can do." "Well, here goes."

"THE SHARD OF TRUTH!!"

"Kabuterimon Terravolve to.... "

Time slows to a near standstill. Izzy walks up to Kabuterimon. A mirror appears. It distorts his reflection. Izzy suddenly sees he has a sledgehammer. He takes it and shatters the mirror, and a reflection of his true self appears. Light beams from all points on Kabuterimon. He shatters into many small fragments. The small fragments melt and as they fly through the air, the dragon's head forms, and the materialization progresses down his body. Two mighty horns emmerge from the back of his skull. A violet gem appears and attachs to his chest, then is struck by hundreds of lightning bolts, as his chest plate is being created. His feathers flash in sequential bursts of light. His body is in black and white, until a supreme bolt of lightning strikes from the heavens onto his wings, creating the circular plates that are supposed to be there, and he starts showing his true colors. On his forehead, the Crest of Truth is burned in by lighning strikes. Five metallic bone fragments grow out behind his ear, covered by a Gigadigizoid/Dragon Scale/Dragon Bone hybrid disk where they all meet. Spikes protude from his elbows. He flies forward and lands on the ground at supersonic speed. A lightning bolt strikes down a second after they land, creating a blinding light. When the light dissipates, a smouldering crater is left in the earth. He bows over lets out a booming dragon roar.

"Raijinkabuterimon, Sentinel of the Heavens!!"

Raijinkabuterimon flies up and gets over Thanatomon.

"Raijin Firestorm!!"

The fire shows no effect, but the ball lightning that came with it did!! He turns for another pass.

"Odin Piercer!!"

He infuses himself in lightning and takes a death dive at Thanatomon going at Moch 3. Raijinkabuterimon hits one of his legs and causes him to flip in the air 4 times before he lands on his head. Thanatomon gets up.

"Crimson Chain Flail!!"

A radioactive chain, with small nuclear explosions occuring around it, flies out of his right arm and pounds Raijinkabuterimon. Then a nuclear blast goes off and he pancakes into a nearby hill. Raijinkabuterimon is stunned for a moment. "Oy, that's going to scar." he exclaims. He flies back and coils around Thanatomon, crushing him. He is about to use his Draco Jaw when Thanatomon uses Vampiric Embrace and saps 10% of Raijinkabuterimon's strenght, and healing himself in the process. Glaciergarurumon gets up from under all the rock that was on top of him. He charges Tanatomon and uses his Glacier Pike. The pike breaks in Thanatomon's skin. Ladyshadowfiendmon flies down and bicycle kicks Glaciergarurumon. She forces him closer and closer to the nearby rift. The snow starts to fall harder, buying Glaciergarurumon the time he needs. "Matt, use the Shard now!!"

"THE SHARD OF TRUST!!"

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

DaoGarurumon slides up through the snow and knocks Ladyshowfiendmon down. He flies up and then amplifies the gravity around Ladyshadowfiendmon.

"Continuum Kick!!"

The increased gravity slows down Ladyshadowfiendmon and increases the speed which DaoGarurumon feet fly at her. To increase the impact, he pulls out his .223 Pistols and starts firing down at her shoulders and chest. She raises her arm up.

"Ven... om.... Dag... gers... !!!"

The daggers, affected by the force of gravity, immidiately fall to the ground. She bows slighty and slowly opens her wings, trying to fly away, but her weight holds her down. DaoGarurumon kick sends him down through her skull, down the spinal cord, and out the side of her left leg. He kneels down, and after a couple of seconds, she splits in half and the halves disintegrate after hitting the ground. The remnants fly through the vortex. Back over at the Raijinkabuterimon-Thanatomon fight, things aren't looking good.

"Omega Strike!!"

The sword blades, drills, cannons, miniguns, and various other nasties work over Raijinkabuterimon good. "Ugh... One more hit like that and I'm a goner. I gotta stop him before he does something catastrophic." Raijinkabuterimon says, switching to his Warrior form. He charges forth, leaps, and swings down his masamunes.

"Masamunes of Jupiter!!"

The impact throws Thanatomon into the center of the Koromon village. He gets up and laughs, "Hah, that was fun, but I got places to destroy, people to kill. I'm going to help my masters. Later." He jumps through the rift. "We got to stop him!!" Sora #2 yells. "But we also have to get you to that seal." Matt says. Raijinkabuterimon reverts to Motimon. "Well, there goes our ride." Matt says. "Who wants to swim back?!" Izzy bumps in, "Wait!! DaoGarurumon can fly us back, and in record time!!" "Besides, I need the rest." Motimon adds. They get on DaoGarurumon shoulder and hold on to his trenchcoat.

"Warp Speed!!"

Matt, Izzy, and Sora #2 witness something no other has ever experienced: Traveling at the speed of light. In the 1740 nanoseconds it took to get to Network (It seemed to be 21 seconds to the kids, due to gravity and the Theory of Relativity), DaoGarurumon was able to pick up the others and bring them there to where Esperwomon said. DaoGarurumon put them all down and de-digivolved to Weregarurumon. "Apparently, these new Digivices are beginning to do what Genai said they'd do." Izzy mentions. They see a sign in Digi Code. Gomamon reads it, "After this point, Digivolving is impossible." "Well, if this is true, we should have our digimon digivolve now." Joe utters out. Everyone holds out there digivices.

"THE SHARD OF LIBERTY!!"

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

"Dovemon Warp Digivolve to Angeaviamon!!"

"Angeaviamon Warp Digivolve to Archangeaviamon!!"

"Hawkmon Warp Digivolve to Sentinelmon!!"

"Sentinelmon Warp Digivolve to Sharukmon!!"

"Botemon digivolve to Koromon!!"

"What the!! Only Biyomon, Dovemon, Hawkmon, and Botemon digivolved!!" Tai exclaims. He walks towards the temple to get a closer look, and accidently goes past the sign, and is thrown back by a monstrous force field. His digivice falls on the other side of the field. Cora runs by and gets the digivice as though the force field wasn't there at all, then runs back to Tai and checks him. "He looks like he'll be okay." She calls out. "Hmmm, apparently the only ones who can go in must have the Crest of Love or a derived Crest." Izzy comments. "Now somebody tells me." Tai says. "Well, I guess we have to break the seal before you guys can come in." Sora says. "Well, here goes...." Miyako laments. "Time to do this." Sora #2 says. "Into the eye of the maelstrom...." Cora finishes. They go into the temple. The temple doors open as they approach.

Inside the temple, it looks like a medieval sewer. They approach another gate, which leads to a cavern. Sharukmon ignites his scimitar to provide light. They come to an abyss, and there are a series of ropes that dangle from a dome that is letting in sunlight. "Well, hop on everyone." Patriotaviamon says, holding her hands out. They get in her hands, but as she goes toward the edge, Patriotaviamon is teleported to the other side, and the girls land on the edge of the cliff. "Okay, what just happened?" Miyako says out loud. "I don't know, but could you get off me?" Sora #2 says to her. Patriotaviamon is scratching her head. "I think you have to use the ropes." Patriotaviamon yells back. "Oh, yay. I didn't like the ropes in gym class, and now this." Miyako laments. "Well, we have to continue. Sora, you go first, then myself, then Miyako, and finally Cora." Sora says to the others. Sora #2 jumps out and grabs the first rope. More ropes descend from the roof, each one having a certain color, either orange, blue, white, yellow, silver, purple, black, or grey. "Okay, this doesn't make any sense." She grabs a blue rope and it starts to slip from the roof. She jumps to a grey rope to find it stable. She swings to another grey rope. A small platform appears in the center of the abyss. The blue rope falls into the abyss. She swings to an orange rope, and the platform vanishes and the rope comes loose. She jumps in the nick of time to another grey rope and the platform reappears. "I think it's a theme here. We gotta use the grey ropes." She yells. She continues swinging on the grey ropes to the other side. The platform grows by 4 feet on each side. Sora jumps out and starts by grabbing a grey rope, but it detaches and she starts falling. She barely grabs an orange rope, and it sticks. She swings to another, and another, and they stay stable and the platform grows. About a third of the way there, she grabs an orange rope that falls out. She quickly grabs a blue rope, and it fails, then a white rope, then a black rope, all with the same results. She starts to fall out of reach of the ropes when she remembers the upgrades they did to her arm. She fires out her index, middle, ring, and pinky fingers at the smaller platform. The ends become jagged spikes with claws protuding. They stab in and she swings upward and grabs a yellow rope with her right hand. It holds. "Apparently, there's more to this than meets the eye!!" She yells out. She looks up, thinking this rope will break too, when she sees the Crest of Hope right over her head, and above the orange rope next to her is the Crest of Courage. "I think I have a theory, but let's wait till i clear this." She calls out to everyone. She swung on the yellow rope until she got to the two-third point. Instead of swinging, she climbed up to the dome, and then jumped to the next yellow rope. It broke, and she grabbed a silver rope, and it broke, and then she grabbed a purple rope, and it held. She looks up to see the Crest of Knowledge above her. Sora continued to the end on the purple ropes. She gets on solid ground and shouts back, "I think it has to do with past, present, and future. For what I'm not sure. All I know is that I used to concern myself with Tai, then I spent a lot of time with TK, but the purple ropes I don't get." Cora yells out, "Maybe it's a record of whom we have at one time or still love, and every time we're truthful, the platform grows." Miyako goes out and starts on the purple ropes, which hold. She gets to the halfway point when the following purple rope breaks, and she lands on the platform. "Okay, how am I going to get off this?" A white rope lowers down. Above it is the Crest of Reliability. "Well, what works." she coments. She gets to the other side just fine. Cora jumps out and misses the orange rope she tried to grab and instead got a black rope, which holds. She swings across on the black ropes all the way. When she lands, the ropes vanish and in place of a chasm is a gray floor. "Well, that was weird." Miyako says. They move on. "It still doesn't make sense. What was that all about?" Sora says. They reach a room where the walls light up the room and change color. In the center are four pillars. Each one has the Crest of Love on the top of it. "I guess this is some sort of lock." Cora says. They each go to a pillar and look at it. They sit there and look and examine them, trying to figure out what and how they work. Miyako sighs after giving up and rests her hand on her column, when it lights up brightly. "That's it. Push in the tops." Sora says. Everyone does so, but nothing happens. The light goes out on each pillar. "Let's try simultaneously!!" Miyako suggests. "On the count of 3." Sora #2 says. "1... 2... 3... Go!!" They all hit their buttons and the door opens, and the force field goes down around the temple. Out from the door come four monsters and four humans. "Tai?" Sora says. "Joe?" Miyako says. "Izzy?" Sora #2 utters. "TK?" Cora gasps. That they were, except they were black and white, as were the digimon. They didn't seem to cast a shadow despite all the light behind them. They all gesture to their digimon, and they all go to their highest level. The digimon charge at them. The doors close, locking all of them in there. Archangeaviamon is thrown into the wall by the Shadow Archangemon. "Apparently, we got to fight these shadows." Miyako says, running from Shadow NeptuneZudomon. Sora #2 is wrestling with the Shadow Tai. "Man, they're tough!!" Patriotaviamon is engaged in a swordfight with Shadow Raijinkabuterimon. Archangeaviamon spreads her wings.

"Love's Shower!!"

Feathers rain down and hit Archangemon and Paladingreymon, but they serve to only heal them. They strike her relentlessly and she reverts to Dovemon. They continue the bombardment of her until she is bloody and numb. Then they mysteriously vanish. TK and Tai gang up on Cora and Sora #2. Sora #2 tries to fight back, but it seems to prove futile. Cora though, just tries to defend herself. "I won't hurt you!!" she yells out. Just then, one of Raijinkabuterimon's stray bolts strikes her, and she falls over. TK vanishes suddenly. After beating Sora #2 senselessly, Tai vanishes too. Patriotaviamon calls out, "Notice how as we fight them, they grow stronger. I think we must yield. Did you see how weak they got as they beat up Dovemon and your digital clone? And when Cora refused to fight, TK grew weak and vanished." Patriotaviamon puts her sword away and just stands there. Raijinkabuterimon fries her, yet she doesn't move. He cuts her on her left arm, and she flinches none. He drops his swords, and vanishes, smiling. Sora stopped wrestling with Izzy, as Miyako stopped wrestling with Joe. Sharukmon de-digivolved to Poromon and yielded. After they relentlessly tried to provoke them, they gave up and vanished. Sora ran over to Cora, and Miyako ran to the digital clone. The others bust open the door to see the dying Sora and Cora. "I always though I was alone, that I never had a past, and you guys showed me that I did. For that, I wouldn't change a thing." Sora #2 says to Miyako. "I know I once caused all of you great trouble and pain, but if it weren't for all of you, I wouldn't have seen the light, and you couldn't have gotten this far." "Don't do this to us!!" Sora yells. "Don't worry. We have always been a part of you." Sora's digital clone vaporizes and the remnents go into Miyako's D3, and Cora and Dovemon follow suit, Cora's remnents going back into Sora, and Dovemon to Patriotaviamon. "I feel sad for losing them, yet I have this sense of absolution, and warmth." Sora says. "Me too, Sora." Miyako says. Their digivices glow so bright everyone must shield their eyes from the light. When the light is gone, they are all in an all-white room like the Matrix construct program. On one wall is the Greek letter Omega. In front of that wall is the Sword of Life, standing out of the floor; and two pillars sit beside it, each with a digiegg. Before they can move, a holographic image pops up. It bears a resemblance to Mimi in a way, but as soon as she spoke, that is where the similarities ended. She had a more like Scottish-British mixed accent. "I am Amaterasumon, and if you got past the shadow guards, which were representations of your hopes and dreams, then you have earned the right to take the sword and the other items. You learned the meaning of what was said to break the seal. A note, though: The best person to wield this blade is one who has the mark of the First Terra, the first Vaccine digimon to achieve the Terra level." She shows the Crest of Martyrdom. "Whatever happens, don't let evil get the sword, or all life is doomed. If all is lost, return here. There will be three last items here. I pray you will never have to use them." The message cuts off. They go over to the sword and eggs. Sora grabs the sword and pulls it free. Miyako goes over to one of the digieggs. "I already have a Digiegg of Love." This egg, having the Crest of Love, sat there. Though it had the Crest, that was all it had nothing in common with her egg. "Oh well..." "Who's going to take this egg?" Tai said. Tai grabs it and it comes free. "Hey!! It has the Crest of Tranquility on it." Suddenly a message pops up in the pillar. "To use Terraeggs, say 'Terra Armor Engage!!'" Then the walls, floor, and ceiling change to show the rooftops of New York, where the others are. Three hours have passed by. Lewis wakes up Mimi. "Uh, Mimi. Get up. I don't how much longer their weed nap is going to last. Man, if it wasn't for that wind...." Mimi is coaxed up. "Hurry, and be quiet!!" he whispers. They start sneaking when they here a yawn and NeoApocalymon say, "Oy, my head. You two. Stop. Now we crush you." Lewis says, "We are SO dead." Mimi just looks and peeps, "Eep...." "Now we bend over and kiss our @$$es good-bye, man." Peyotemon exclaims. The Overlords attack and knock all of them off the roof. Tai says, "Quick, we got to get there fast!!" The Sword of Life regenerates the strenght of all the digimon. "Hop on!!" Patriotaviamon yells. Everyone climbs on her shoulders. They go through a rift which leads back to the outside.

Back in New York, New York, Lewis is falling while everyone else is either flying or being held. Lewis becomes street pizza. "Ya know, I really gotta stop falling off things. Let's try something here...." He closes his eyes and jumps. When he opens his eyes, he has just gone over his comrades and back onto the roof. "And here we are again. Time to beat some Overlord. Hypertomorrowsapien Boomerangs!!" They strike them all, and stun them. He runs up and slams his lightsaber into the chest of Skulldracomon. Lewis then flips up and removes his other two heads. "Now I only got one head. You'll pay for this. Antipode..... Uh, oh. Power Overloading...." Lewis jumps back to the roof. "Help me....." Skulldracomon explodes from his own powers converging and overloading in his last head. The remnents enter NeoApocalymon's vial. "So, you destroyed Skulldracomon. He was an imbesol anyway. Now, meet his replacement, Thanatomon!!"

"Wrath of Thanatos!!"

A black cloud wrapped over all of them and their strenght drained away.

"Omega Strike!!"

The onslaught sends Archangemon back to Tokomon, AlcyaidXaviomon to Andromon, and Lewis back to normal. Lewis jumps off the building and grabs on to the third story window. Lilymon gets the others and slips them in through the window. Before Mimi can hide, NeoApocalymon spots her. "Now to rid myself of the First Terra!!" "Why do you keep calling me that?" Mimi yells at him. "You really don't know? Oh, well. Millenium Mace!! Plasma Jets!! Death & Decay!! Death Claw!! Psychosapien Boomerangs!! Chernobyl Cannon!!" Lewis listens and says, "He can use six attacks at once!!" Before he can grab her and get her in, the attacks hit and she smacks into the pavement. The Anti-Digidestined bust down the door and grab them. Before they even have the chance to defend themselves, Metzger spews out a sleeping gas. 20 minutes they wake up bound and chained to metal tables on the roof of the building across the street, except Mimi. NeoApocalymon flies up. "Glad to see you awake. We all decided that we should do this all proper. You know, give you all fitting executions. It's much more fun to watch you scream in agony than to simply destroy you. Each of your executions will be one at a time, and each one unique. As an extra bonus, you will watch each and every one of them until it is your time." He hovers by. "Tokomon, you shall be impaled on an iron spike, exactly how Vladmir Kapiesch, the original Dracula, did to his villagers. Andromon, you will be roasted in the Electric Chair, after we remove all your metal. TK, we decided to be lenient, and just feed you to AsteroArmageddongarurumon." "Wow, how humane." he says. "Araiya, you will go through do random torturing until your body can't take anymore, and then throw you off the roof. Peyotemon, you shall be detoxed, then ripped apart piece by piece to make salad. Now, as for Lewis and the First Terra, you will have the worst of all. She is first, and we decided, that she has the Crest of Martyrdom, and she technically is a martyr, then should die like one. We got to hand it to the Romans for inventing cruxifiction. But to insure she can't do anything..." He snaps his fingers. Drew cuts off her wings and strips her of her gear, leaving her with just her dress and the glove on her left arm. "As for you, Lewis, we have something fun for you. First, your going to watch your little flower nymph fiancee covered in gasoline and set ablaze, then we're going to break your mind and destroy your sanity, and then, we'll disembowel you." "You pigs!!" Lewis yells. "That's the spirit." Drew and Mai say, "We're ready, sir." "Oh, just for the heck of it, break her legs too." NeoApocalymon answers. They take her and bind her down arms, head, and legs to the pole first with thorned rope at her shoulders, elbows, hips, knees, and forehead, then they run spikes through her hands and her ankles. She screams in agony. She sees Mai take the sledgehammer and lift it over her head. "Freaky seeing yourself doing this to your body?! Isn't it?" She slams it down and breaks her legs. "Now, hang the crucifix over the side to show the world what we do to our enemies!!" NeoApocalymon yells in glee. Ken looks by and thinks, "Now we're going too far."

She sits there for about 20 minutes in pain, crying. Then her amulet glows and she goes into a semi-conscious trance. "Not as fun as I hoped. NEXT!!" They take Tokomon and prep the spike. Tanaki goes to ram him into the spike, but the spike shatters. "What the..." Tanaki says. They take out a titanium spike. Same thing. "When did a puny Tokomon get unpierceable skin? Lock him back up. NEXT!!" They go to Andromon. "What, you're saying you can't remove anything!!" With TK, he mysteriously has the strenght to hold AsteroArmageddongarurumon's jaw open and be unchewable. Araiya ENJOYS the torture and when thrown off the building, she just bounces like rubber. Peyotemon's chitin seemed unbreakable and untearable. Lilymon then suddenly is the most flame-retartant object in the world. "What's going on here!!" NeoApocalymon screams. Ken picks up Mimi's irradiating amulet off the roof. "I think she's giving up her strength so that they can't be hurt. By sitting over there dying, you are in fact making her power stronger than ever. Nothing can stop a martyr." He throws the amulet to him and says, "I thought we were just going to take over the Digital World anyway. I'm not going to be part of this anymore." He starts for the stairwell when Metzger fires rockets from his metal-covered wrists and levels the stairwell.The force throws Ken off the roof. He plunges down, but instead of meeting his demise, he breaks his fall on Stone Phillips. Ken sits up and yells, "They're maniacs!! All they care about is misery and suffering. Get away from these sociopaths!!" then he passes out. An ambulance takes Ken and Stone to the closest hospital. "Treacherous brat." NeoApocalymon turns his attention to Mimi. "Now, you think that you can still stop me!! Huh!! Well, YOU CAN'T!!" She looks up at him and says, "I'm not letting you touch my friends with your filthy hands and tools." she mutters, compensating for the pain. The other digidestined arive to hear NeoApocalymon's next line. "Well, guess what..... I'm going to end your miserable life now, and then have my way with both worlds!!" He takes her own halberd and jabs it into her stomach. She flinches in agony and shock, then goes limp. Tai looks up with tears in his eyes. "We're too late....."

In an all white room, Mimi awakens in the same condition she's in on the crucifix. "Where am I?" Mimi calls out. A voice says, "You are in a place for those who are not dead, and yet, not alive, but in between."

Will they stop NeoApocalymon? Where is Mimi now? Now who will wield Gaiamune in battle with the Overlords? Find out in First Terra Chapter 8: Legend of the First Terra!!