Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon.

Summery: AU, very AU and dark, with mentioning of torture, violence and blood drinking.

Revealing his identity to Gennai and Catherine at last, the master turned out to be Osamu Ichijori, Older brother of Ken Ichijoji, the Digimon Emperor. And with only one temple remaining to be looted and its core capture, the forces of evil are close to winning. And what is the secret of Witchmon, and just how is she connected with Taichi

Special note: 'Thoughts'

The forest were deadly silent as the few digimons still alive in it watched fearfully from their hiding places as the new top mon in the area walked past the trees, the faint morning light glinting off the wicked looking claws on his gauntlets as they were held in an attack ready position at all times.

Slowing down to a halt, Blackwargreymon gazed up at a tree as the sound of a digimon shaking in fear reached him. And it repulsed him deeply to hear it, for it spoke of nothing but pure weakness for any digimon to be hiding in a tree like some low bred baby level digimon.

Letting go of the angry emotions, Blackwargreymon took another step forward, the darkness cast by the trees quickly swallowing him up, and allowing the digimon hiding to relax as deletion had been avoided for yet another day.

Walking out of her bedroom, Mrs. Yagami yawned as she wrapped her arms around her, the chilliness in the air making her shiver after having been forced to leave her bed by the needs of nature. But such things were rapidly forgotten as she passed the living room couch, and her two children sleeping peacefully on it.

Staring at them,, she sighed at the protective way that Tai had his arm wrapped around Kari. The whole thing making her cringe with remembered days of the past, and emotions she thought she had put behind her, along with pain of losing her first born child to some other worldly monster.

And then as she had finally gotten her life back under control and felt she could face the world as a normal parent again, it all came back once more, the monsters, her son, and the fear of losing him again, and her daughter to another monster from that world.

Wishing that she could stare at it for a longer time, she was forced to forget about it as nature took that time to remind of why she had gotten up in the first place. And as she left, she could pick up the sound of her son and daughter responding the movement and sounds she made walking across the floor.

The simple knowledge of it making her smile, and hope that when things quieted down again, it wouldn't just be another one of those dreams she had had so many times.

But that once more, her family was once more complete and well, instead of finding herself facing a world where she was missing an important part of her life.

Across town, waking up was less dramatic, but still enough of a hassle to make Jun grumble as the sound of Mummymon working in the kitchen reached her, along with the loud screeching demands for him to quiet down by Arukenimon, finally completed by Oikawa telling them to shut up or else.

Blinking her eyes as she rolled over in her bed, she stared at the clock placed on the table, it's green glowing numbers telling her that she was getting up even earlier then she had ever wanted too in hr life. "This is the glamorous life of a villain and world conquer?"

Muttering out the question, she nimbly danced across the ice cold floor and grabbed her clothes, pulling them on as fast as she could as the air was about as cold as the floor. "Would it kill them to use just a bit more heat in this part of the house?"

Pushing open the door, the messy haired girl grabbed a towel and her hair brush from a small cabinet next to her door, her eyes half closing as she walked towards the bathroom, her whole mind hoping that a bath would help her wake up some more and prepare her to face another day either plotting or attacking her brother and his friends, or maybe she would get a chance to attack that bastard Yagami for costing her so much in reputation and standings with the master.

Well, one could hope, but deep down she knew that she had been pulled off the job forever, the mission of crushing Tai and the pink haired brat belonging to their newest member, Witchmon.

The very same perky yet also moody digimon whom had just entered the bathroom before her, snapping her eyes fully open as that fact ran thought her mind again, Jun roared out in rage as her fist smashed into the doors framework at full force. "Witchmon, get you lazy bum out of there right now, the bathroom is mine, I got here first!"

"No you didn't." Came the tell tale voice of the witch like digimon through the door as well as the sound of rushing water. "All you were doing was walking towards it, so it's not my fault you're too slow to reach the bathroom first." Whatever else that Witchmon could have said was drowned out by the sound of her starting to take a bath.

Shimmering in rage Jun settled in to wait for her turn under the shower, until she noticed a looming presence right behind her. "Master Babel, what are you doing here?"

Sparing her a glance, Babel grunted a bit as he slung a towel over his shoulder as well as lift up a hairbrush of his own in a lazy fashion. "Why Jun my dear, I am going to take a bath as well, right after Witchmon is finished of course." The last part added with an icy tone as he looked at her.

Smiling in fear, Jun quickly nodded at the hidden demand, order and treat he had just thrown at her in one sentence, and resigned herself to be number two in line for the bathroom, a place she now cursed more then ever. For there sure as heck wasn't anyway this life could be what she had agreed to when she gave up her human life for power and glory.

Getting relegated to number two again, despite having proven that Yagami was a traitor, and being the longest running supporter of the masters plans, she was once more number two in line for the rewards promised.

And with that revelation, came another one. She hated Witchmon about as much as she hated Yagami.

On the other side of the world, or a good deal close to it, Mimi yawned as she finished checking her E-mail, part of her smiling at the though of having a long weekend approaching, a whole four days that she could spend with Tai and the others either in Odaiba, or the digital world.

Most likely it would have to be the latter, as the thought of getting dragged into a battle every time she tried to the enter the digital world had crossed her mind since the battle with Witchmon.

But no longer could even that hold her off, she wanted to return to the digital world, if only to meet all her friends again. And this time she would bring along some food for a picnic, and maybe get to spend some more time with Tai and try and get to know him even more.

Smiling as she watched the computer shut down, Mimi turned her head and stared out the window as another thought crossed her mind. "I wonder how Michael's doing, I haven't heard form him lately." Tapping a finger on the armrest of her chair, she finally stood up and reached for her cell phone, already punching in the familiar number. "Come on Michael, please be at home."

Holding the phone up to her ear, Mimi grunted as she got four call tones and then nothing except the message company asking her to leave a small message for him. "Hey Michael, it's Mimi, yeah I know, you might not want to talk with me after what happened, but please, I just want to know how you're doing, and well, you know, Taichi will be there at the picnic, he really wants to see you, to apologize for, you know. So if you would please show up, both he and I would be very happy for it"

Turning off the phone after leaving the message, the pink loving girl settled down on her bed and sighed loudly, wondering if it was destiny for one part of her life to always be messed up in some way or another? "Hmm, wonder if I should bring along extra food, all of them are likely to show up, and with both Tai and Davis." Giggling a bit, Mimi rolled onto her back and smiled up at her ceiling. "Hmm, I can hardly wait until tomorrow."

But unlike the happy Mimi, the blond haired boy know as Michael glared at his cell phone with pure hate as it finished replaying the message she had left on it, one leg drawn in close to him as he kept dragging his fingers across his bed sheet. "She sided with him, despite seeing and hearing what he did to bot hme and her, she sided with him."

The voice was just as cold as his heart had grown since his return, the other tracing a small scar on the left side of his face slowly. "That bastard, he did this to me, and she just ups and forgive him." Clenching up both hands at the thought of what he had been through, a dark smile cracked across his face. "But I'll get them, both of them, I'll show him that I am stronger then he thought."

Pushing off form the bed, he grinned even more darkly as he looked out at the city below him. "I had to wait until I had healed completely, but now, I am ready." Placing both hands on the window still and leaning forward to stare out at the dark city below him, Michael giggled a bit as he glanced down at the digivice before him. "Yes, I am ready, for revenge."

In the background, a small laugh could be heard as the outline of a small digimon became clear, his face twisting with delight at his words. "And master Babel sends you his best wishes, he hopes that together, you and he will succeed in bringing an end to the monster that is Taichi Yagami."

Smirking as well at his words, Michael simply nodded at first in response to the words, one hand curling up in the window still. "We will, I will make Taichi pay for both me, Betamon and everyone else that had to suffer at his hands, that I swear."

Not giving off a single sound, Penmon just watched the human before him, a large amount disgust welling up at the simple way he had all but thrown himself at the ground on worship when he had been told that he could get the help he needed to get his revenge.

But this wasn't the time to le this emotions run off with him, that was for later when he was alone and could lash out at having gotten the gig of babysitting the number two human that his master and creator had recruited for the coming age of darkness. "The gateway to the digital world will be hard to control, but if all goes the way it is meant to, the one who betrayed you should end up getting sent to the location chosen for your showdown."

"And I'll be waiting for her." Michael spat out as he settled down to wait, eyes staring out the window, a small smile creeping up over his face as the thought of revenge filled him with a nice warm feeling.

The room was silent, fat to silent for his liking Tai decided as he settled down in one end of the room, Kari sitting down a bit away form along with Yolei and Davis besides her, a bit smile one her face as she looked at the other sin the room as they turned to her for an answer as to why she had brought Tai along with her to one of their meetings all of sudden.

"Everyone." Kari Started gently as she nodded at them, hoping more then she had ever hoped for anything that they would accept her brother into the group, that they would be able to accept him as they had begun to accept Ken, and maybe even allow him to become a part of the group, despite the past. "Most of you barely know him, but this is my brother Tai, and well, I decided that it was time he met you guys, again in some cases."

At her words, Sora simply gave an almost shy smile at her before facing Tai again, comparing this new older version of him with the younger one she had know years ago now that she had a chance, remembering every other time they had needed to get information form him, it had either been through Kari or Mimi.

Sitting a bit uncomfortable due to all the eyes looking at him, Tai cast a look over at his sister, silently pleading for her help in this matter, hoping that she would be able to lend him some much needed strength for this matter. Getting a confident smile back from her, Tai sighed and turned back to the group. "Uh, hi."

The only time they had really seen him had been after he had returned to earth, and when one of them had been over at Kari's apartment to talk with her. "It's nice to see you again Tai, and you still got that puffy bird's nest like hair style I remember so well."

Laughing lightly, but still uncomfortably at Sora's attempt at a joke, most of the group quickly refocused on Tai, the sound of a clock ticking making the feeling of tenseness grow. "So, you were controlled by evil, like Ken?" The long break finally getting broken by Davis, as he simply couldn't stand it any longer. "Sorry to hear that buddy, hope you aren't beating yourself up over it."

Focusing his gaze on Davis, Tai doubled blinked as he found himself almost seeing a younger version of himself in the boy as he got a good hard look at him. "You're Davis right?" The question coming as he had been told a few times, okay more then a few times by Kari of this boy who were almost like him when he was younger. "Sorry about that, I was just, never mind it. It's nice to meet all of you, I am Taichi Yagami, Tai among friends."

Giving a lightly confused look at first, a hostile one form a small part of the group, Davis once more broke the silence as he grinned hard and grabbed Tai's hand as he was still waving it in a small friendly gesture. "Same here Tai, name Davis, but you already know that right." Turning to the rest of the group, he ignored the lightly annoyed gazes from Yolei, Cody and Matt as they looked at him. "The purple haired girl with the attitude problem is Yolei, the small and serious one is Cody, and that's TK over there with the bucker for a hat."

The last comment earning him a mock glare from TK, the blond haired boy gave a sarcastic laugh as well before nodding friendly at Tai. "Right, Davis, why don't you let me finish the introduction before you annoy anymore." The last added in with a wave at Yolei who were fuming at Davis from her place. "Besides, I think he knows most of us right?"

Moving his attention over at TK, Tai gave his best smile at the young blond haired boy. "It's alright, TK, it has been four years since I last saw some of you, so I don't mind getting an introduction to them, makes it less likely that I will make an mistake."

"Save the introductions for later." Matt's voice cut through the room with as much warmth to it as a glazier had. "I think it's high time we got down to the real reason we're here, Arukenimon, Mummymon and Blackwargreymon."

Coughing a bit gently, Kari called their attention over to her again, a slight apologetic smile on her face as she avoided looking directly as Matt. "Actually Matt, I already made an arrangement with someone today about something that I kind of hope we could all do today."

Eyes narrowed in suspicion, Matt found himself moving his glare over at Taichi for a second, wondering if it was this messy haired boy's fault that his old rule as digi destined leader was getting challenged all the time. "And what exactly is this arrangement?"

"Well." Kari began saying, already knowing that older, blond haired boy wasn't going to like what she was about to say.

"You lost him?" Oikawa hissed out the words as his glare intensified to a point where it could have melt glass if it was possible, but while it couldn't do that, it was more then able to make Arukenimon whimper in fear as she backed away from the angry human, her mind somehow telling her that even if she was a digimon with lots and lots of power, this human would delete her without problems if he wanted to.

Stammering while trying to come up with a good enough reason for her failure, Arukenimon cast a desperate look over at Mummymon, the bandage digimon shrugging right back at her. "Well, it wasn't really my fault, somehow he gained a will of his own and decided that he didn't..."

Trailing off, she stopped talking as Oikawa's face come within a centimeter of her own face, those dark circled eyes drilling straight through her small sunglasses and right into her eyes. You will listen to me Arukenimon, and you will listen good, I want him back, Blackwargreymon's power is something I do not want to be lost, got it."

Turning his back on her, he still managed to give off the impressive aura and feel of having complete control and power over the discussion, that what he wanted, what was he would get. "He single handedly defeated these so called second generation digi destined in battle, the least he could have done was finish the battle completely and kill them."

Snapping back around to face her before she could talk, Oikawa loomed over Arukenimon once more, both hands clenched up and shaking with anger. "Do you think you can do that Arukenimon, cause if you can't, It won't be too hard for me to replace you, I can assure you of that."

Turning his glare over at Mummymon, he snorted a bit and turned to leave, halting as he had his hand around the door handle. "One other thing, I want you to keep an eye on someone for me Mummymon, I have a feeling that our current alliance with Babel is going sour, and that he no longer intends to over hold his side of the agreement we made, your job is to follow him, and make sure he doe snot double cross me in anyway."

Ripping the door open, he stopped as he felt Mummymon move towards him. "And one other thing, I won't be back until later this evening, I have an old friend to visit and I do not wish to be disturbed in anyway." Slamming the door behind him, he walked past Jun staring out the window with a hateful expression, the feeling o fit making him stop to stare at her. "Feeling down about something girl?"

Looking over her shoulder at the creepy old man she had found herself forced to hang around with lately, Jun snorted and turned back to face the window again. "You wouldn't understand it, so stay out of it." Snapping out each word, she didn't really care how they came off as long as they got him to back off.

Eyes dimming to a darker color, Oikawa breathed out harshly as he gave his best superior smirk at Jun's back, one hand flexing as if he wanted to reach out and snap her neck as payback for insulting him. "Trust me child, I know more about dark emotions then others, and I sense a deep hatred from you, hate at your master's new pet."

Leaning in close, he allowed a small laugh to escape from his mouth as he saw her reflex flinch from his closeness, the new feeling of fear coming from her along with the hatred making him grin. "Don't try to overshadow her, it's a waste of time and effort."

Watching as her eyes began to tear up at his harsh words and downgrading of her skills, Oikawa drew back and snapped around to leave the room. "Only a fool tries to overshadow those who are in the way, the smart ones remove them, completely, if I had been you, my rival would have long ago suffered from a knife in the back."

Leaving without watching her reaction, Oikawa briskly walked around a corner, and faltered as his eyes returned to their normal appearance, a slight confusion visible for a few seconds before he shook his head and marched off, not giving a care over why he had missed noticing that he had already walked this far.

But inside of him, a dark being laughed at the small suggestion he had given, a small one eyes, but one sure to cause great trouble in Babel's little company, leaving him free to reap all rewards when the time came. For neither Oikawa nor Babel would ever enter the digital world, it was to be his along with the real one, only his, and no one would stop him this time around, no one.

"A picnic!" Matt's voice rang out through the air as he glared over at Kari smiling at him. "But what about the digital world, Arukenimon, Mummymon, Blackwargreymon, heck even that Babel guy Yagami keep mentioning, we should be out stopping them, not sitting around relaxing"

Getting a frown on her face at Matt's tone, Kari crossed her arms as she returned the glare she had received from him with the same level of content. "We need this Matt, we've been fighting or cleaning up the digital world non stop since Ken became good, and even you need a break."

Not letting go of his annoyance over it, Matt snorted a bit as he backed off as Sora stared at him as well with a halfway pleading look. "Fine, but don't blame me if something happens."

Smiling as soon as Matt back off, Kari grinned lightly as she turned to face the computer. "Come on Matt, at least try to relax, I'm sure nothing grand is going to happen today."

Glaring around at the group sitting around the table, Babel noted that Jun, Witchmon and Penmon were staring at him with their full attention. "Good, this is the plan for today." Turning his laptop around to make it face them, Babel punched in the command for the digital map to show up. "After a long and hard search, I have found the final temple's true location."

Turning it back to face him, he sighed as he sat down in his own chair, making sure that they were completely alone in the park corner he had chosen for the meeting.  "This mission is of the most vital matter, I must have that digi core to break down the final part of the barrier."

Leveling a dark glare at the three as he stopped speaking, Babel drew one finger across the table. "And that means the matter won't be left up to any of you, instead, I will leave it in the hands of my newly created forces." Tapping a finger on the laptop, four images showed on it. "One of them will be sent to assist you in an ambush, while the rest will go after the temple."

Closing the laptop and making sure it was turned off, Babel lifted up his head to stare at each of them. "Now, do any of you have any questions?" His voice leaving no doubt that he wouldn't be very happy if they didn't at least understand that he had lost most of his patience with them.

When no one was asked, he nodded and looked down at his hands while going over a few last minute details of the plan in his mind. "I have learned, by spying on the Yagami brat's e-mail account, that they will be having a picnic today, and that will your chance."

Leveling a finger on the witch like digimon, Babel reached into his pocket and pulled out a small device looking rather much like a small digivice with his free hand. "You will go after the traitor Yagami Witchmon, and with this you will be able to digivolve to your next level, so use it wisely. And keep your distance from Yagami, as he seems to be making you nervous."

"Jun." Turning his head to face the messy haired girl, Babel smirked as he tossed over a similar device to her. "Use that one on Penmon and have him take down Takashi and Hida." Watching her stare at the device for a second or two, he coughed lightly to get her attention again. "Finally, you should take Megadramon and go see your brother Davis again, and that Ichijoji kid as well."

Staring at the group around, he smirked lightly. "The youngest Yagami and the Inoue girl will be dealt with by the newest member of my creations." Tapping a finger on the table, he finally nodded and leaned back in his seat. "For the rest of their little group, I have a special surprise in mind for them, one they won't be expecting so soon."

Chuckling lightly to himself, Babel cast a sour look at the group around him as they still hadn't dared to as much as make a simple comment about his plans so far. "Well, get out of here! You are the ones who can enter the digital world, so don't fail me!!"

Watching as they back off, he snapped open his laptop and pointed at it as it turned back on. "Now go, and don't fail me Jun, this is your last chance, the same goes for you Witchmon, and before you complain about it, just remember that I have already finished making your replacements."

Settling back to enjoy the coffee he had bought on the way, he smiled darkly to himself as the digital gate went off and sucked in the group, already he could taste the victory he had been denied for so long. The feeling growing bigger as a beeping sound reached his ears, a small light flashing on his own newly made D-terminal. "Ahh, it's time to begin the show at last."

Staring down at the screen before him, Matt once more felt a bad feeling run through, like someone had already plotted his death and merely waiting for him to die. "Am I really the only one who thinks this is a bad idea?" Voicing out his concern, Matt received mostly blank stares and a single hostile and a concerned one. "Okay, I can see that I am."

Turning her attention back to the scream, Kari smiled as she could feel the others lift up their digivices and point them at the screen before her. "Okay, is everyone ready?" As no protests was heard this time around, Kari gave a simple nod as the Gate program locked onto its open stare. "Digi Port Open!"

Feeling her body get dragged forward, Kari turned to stare at her brother as each of them were dragged into the screen, his face still showing a bit of nervousness over suddenly get pushed into the group by her. "Relax Tai, it will be fine."

Monitoring the group of people going through the digi port, Babel nearly laughed out loud as he quickly hammered in the commands he had programmed the gates with yesterday, a high pitched whine filling the air as the gate flashed from green, to purple then orange and finally red before the words executing program flashed across the small screen.

"And so I begin the final play my former servant." Laughing out this time, Babel still kept it down as the program showed the group getting split out and sent to the locations selected for the final battles between his forces and the digi destined. "And after him, it will be your turn Gennai."

Feeling like his body was getting ripped to shreds, Tai didn't have the chance to give off a scream from it, before he watched his sister and Yolei get pulled off in one direction with their digimons, Matt, Sora Joe and Izzy continuing in the direction they had started in, and off to the side Davis and Ken vanished in a third direction with TK and Cody going in a fourth one while he was pulled off into a fifth one.

Then it all stopped as a hard, stone ground reached him after get flung out of a TV screen, his body rolling across the ground until it hit another form. "Aw man, that wasn't something I'd."  Snapping up his head, Tai stared over at the TV screen before him and cursed loudly. "Kari; how could it, where did she go?"

"Where did who go, and what happened?" Pushing himself up, Agumon glanced over at Tai moving towards the TV screen rather fast and clearly ignoring him. "Tai, so you did come after all."

Stopping at the sudden statement, Tai stared over at Agumon with a puzzled expression, as if trying to figure out how Agumon could have ended up where he was all of a sudden, the chance of it too big of coincidence even for Tai's liking at the moment. "Agumon, what are you doing here"

Scratching his head, Agumon gave his best frown as something clicked inside of his head. "You mean you didn't send that message to me, that you wanted to meet me here to talk?" Turning to stare at the surroundings, Agumon grew even tenser as he snarled a bit as the tiny bit of suspicion he had had about it grew much bigger. "Look out, this suddenly feels too much like a trap if you ask me."

His statement getting proved far to fast for any of their liking as Witchmon's shadow fell over them and the area at that very moment. "Aw, you really figured that out much faster then I had thought you would little mon." Lifting up her hands as she slipped off her broom to land on the ground, Witchmon giggled loudly. "But no matter, it means we can get this over with even faster then I had thought as well."

Both of them moving closer to one another, Agumon looked up at Tai briefly and nodded at him. "Go find a place to hide, this will be a messy fight, and I don't want you to get hurt because of me or her actions!" Running forward as he yelled out the last part, his body began to glow white as Tai's digivice gave a small whining sound. "Agumon digivolve too Greymon!"

Not even looking one bit impressed, Witchmon held up both hands as she sneered at Greymon still moving towards her at full throttle. "Stupid dino, you're still using the same attack pattern, which means that this time, you will die!!"

Rolling over onto her back, Kari groaned as her stomach finally settled down again, the whole event with the digi port having left her with a desire to avoid roller costar rides for a long time. "What happened?"

Next to her, Yolei did her best to shrug as she stood up, one hand grabbing her helmet on the way and returning it to its position around her head. "Felt like the gate crashed or something." As she spoke, she reached down a hand and pulled Kari up from the ground.

Brushing off some dirt, Kari adjusted her t-shirt when she narrowed her eyes a bit and looked at the area around them with a more then just a puzzled expression. "Since when did it become night in the digital world, we were supposed to end up in a day time region."

Giving the area a look over as well, Yolei narrowed her eyes as a feeling of deja vu swept over her, the forest region looking very familiar to her. "You know, I get the feeling that I have been here before." Turning her head to the other side, she stopped as another sight reached her. "A broken control spire."

Having moved over to check on their partners, Kari gave the control spire a glance then frowned a bit as she cast a firm look at Yolei as she too felt the feeling of deja vu. "Now that you mention it, isn't this where you and Mimi fought the Roachmon brothers?"

Nodding in agreement, Yolei smiled as she grinned over at Kari. "It would explain the night sky and control spire, but not why we ended up here."

At Yolei last sentence, Kari froze as a more urgent question popped into her mind, urging her to cast a frantic gaze at the area once more. "Where are the others? We should have all ended up in the same place, but they're not here."

Noting it as well, Yolei felt her body grow cold as a small voice in the back of her mind began to whisper out that maybe they had been sent into a trap. "Kari, better have your digivice ready, I think this is a."

"Trap?" Came a distant and cold voice as the sound of footsteps came from within the dark shadows cast by the trees, the footsteps soon followed by what made both Kari and Yolei gag from it ugliness. Tall and very white in color, it was a humanoid digimon but with several large badly sown wounds crisscrossing its body, one arm ending in a wicked claw and with nothing bit leather pants and a metal mask for clothing, it looked far too much like a B movie monster. "Greetings, I am the newly made terror within the darkness, Neodevimon!"

On the ground, Gatomon hissed as this digimon managed to do something she hadn't expect him to do. "Kari, be careful, this digimon isn't a normal one." Her words full of sincerity as her fur stood up on its end from the evil vibes she was getting from him.

Smirking lightly behind his mask, Neodevimon spread out his arms and hovered up into the air above them, his body glowing as dark powers drew in around it. "How true, I am not, what you would call a true digimon." Lifting up his normal hand and the claw one, he gave the impression of looking at them. "Imitamon's were the beginning, and then came the more advance version, a true synthetic digimon, and I am that perfect synthetic digimon."

Getting a put of expression, Yolei shook her head a bit as she glanced over at Kari. "So you're just a wanna-be digimon?"

Next to her, Kari groaned at Yolei's bluntness, and the effect it would most likely have on the digimon before them, but even with that, she couldn't help but smile at how brave she was, not letting anything prevent her form saying what she meant no matter what the situation was.

"Fufufufu!" Hovering up into the air before them, Yolei and Kari turned to stared up as Neodevimon gently flew towards them, his horrible appearance made worse by the darkness of their new place, the whole thing seemingly looking like a part out of an old horror movie. "You will all die here, so he has decided."

Jumping up, Gatomon growled in her throat as she took off running, claws ready to tear through this Devimon wanna be freaky digimon that had dared to attack her partner and friends like that. "Lighting Paw!" Hammering her gloved front paw down on the leg of the Neodevimon, all she got from him was a slight chuckle before getting kicked off.

Lifting one arm up over his head, Neodevimon didn't even utter out one word as dark energy flowed in around his spread out fingers lazily. "Everything must die in time, and your time is here." Lashing out his hand and arm, he pointed the dark energy right at the two girls and Hawkmon, the bird digimon staring wide-eyed at the attacking digimon. "Deep Sorrow!"

Screaming in fear as the dark energy ripped out towards them, Yolei felt her digivice activate at her side as a loud humming sound filled the air.

"Hawkmon digivolve too... Aquilamon!" Spreading out his wings to offer more protection to his partner and Kari, the large bird digimon fired off the first attack he could think off hoping that it could at least lower the pain he knew he would feel when it hit him. "Blast Rings!"

Instead, it fully deflected the attack and caused it to spread out to the side before streaming right into the chest of Neodevimon, the synthetic digimon letting out a howl of anger as he was shoved backwards through the air.

From behind Aquilamon, Kari narrowed one eye as she watched the attacking digimon move to make another attack, his body still showing a bit of damage where he had been hit by the blast rings. "He's not that powerful if even a lone champion can scratch him that much."

Turning her head to the side, Kari looked over at Gatomon as the cat digimon pulled herself up from the ground and smirked up at Neodevimon. "Go for it Gatomon, he's not so tough after all, you can take him." watching her digimon rush forward again, she cheered her on even more.

Turning his gaze down to see the white feline digimon rush towards him again, Neodevimon growled deep in his throat as he lashed out to knock it away, his mind urging him to destroy the bird digimon for causing him pain. "Stun Claw!"

The attack knocking Gatomon back through the air with a scream of raw pain as her body gave of a faint burnt small and twitched as she landed on her feet, the white feline digimon hissing as a weak feeling spread through her body, the small gashes she had gotten from the back hand were burning a bit more then they should have. The simple thought of poison running through her mind even as her body began to shut down. "Kari!"

Gasping as she heard the need in Gatomon's voice, Kari took off running, moving around Yolei as the older girl tried to pull her back to safety behind Aquilamon. "Gatomon."

"Fufufu!" Stopping as the annoying laughter reached her, Kari screamed as Neodevimon swooped down towards her, dark energy flowing in around him and moving to reach her. "Deep Sorrow!!"

Then the world moved harshly around her as she was pulled foreword, one shoulder hitting a rock as she landed, the blow causing her to cry out in pain. "What are you thinking?" Turning her head at the angry question, she found Yolei glaring right down at her. "You could have been killed."

Moving to see Yolei a bit better, She did glance over to see Neodevimon and Aquilamon fly off into thea ir for a second round of fighting. "I had to help Gatomon, she needs me." Trying to turn over to see Gatomon, she felt Yolei pull her back again. "Let me go, I have to!"

"And what of me, what am I supposed to do then!?" Yelling the words right into Kari's face, Yolei stood up and glared down at the girl before her. "I am just trying to help you, you don't have to push me away all the time." Moving to leave, she stopped as she felt Kari grab her pants leg. "What?"

Lowering her eyes a bit, Kari gave a weak smile as she thought about it, remembering how she had pushed not just Yolei, but also Davis, TK and Cody away in her attempt to show her brother that while she still wanted to be the sister he remembered, she had also learned to stand on her own. "I'm sorry, I'm just not used to such things, I tried to put on a tough front for so long, to show that I wasn't affected so much, to show the world that I was just as good a leader and friend as my brother."

Looking up at Yolei, Kari smiled a bit at her. "That's why I admire you Yolei, you can at least be open about your feelings to everyone, I can barely talk with Tai, even after what happen yesterday, I don't even know how to act like the Kari I once was before my brother..."

Feeling someone pull her close, Kari opened her eyes to see Yolei smile at her. "I should be the one to admire you, I don't know if I could have handle it." Turning her head to look at Neodevimon and Aquilamon fighting, she sighed a bit. "But you must understand that there are times when we have to work together, remember, you told me the same thing when we were looking for Ken's base?"

"I know, but Gatomon." Kari started off saying, but then stopped as she saw the white feline digimon struggling to reach over and help Yolei's digimon. "Gatomon!" Pushing Yolei away, Kari stared at her partner digimon. "What are you doing?"

Turning to face Kari, Gatomon smiled over at Kari as she pushed herself up in an attempt to look as fine and unhurt as she could. "Aquilamon needs help, and I'm the only around who can help." Smiling at Kari, Gatomon held up her gloved pars in front of her. "Trust me Kari, between me and him, no one will ever get the best of us, just like it is with you and Yolei."

Turning her head around, Kari stared at Yolei as the purple haired girl smiled at her. "What do you say Kari, want to let me help you just this once."

Giving off a real smile, Kari nodded and held out her hand to let Yolei pulled her up from the ground. "Now, let's give it our best!"

"You got it." Yolei replied as she didn't let go of Kari's hand even after having pulled her up, her eyes growing a bit wider as a faint, slow rhythmic sound reached her, one she had only heard after all those times when she had been running so fast and. (What's that, I can hear my own heart beating, no, I can hear her heart!)

Looking at Yolei much the same way, Kari felt her smile grow wider. (And I can hear your thoughts as well Yolei, but does this mean that?) Turning her head to the side at the same time as Yolei did, she watched as both Gatomon and Aquilamon were surround by a pinkish purple light.

"Gatomon!"

"Aquilamon!"

"DNA digivolve too..." Flying around each other in a DNA stand like spiral, Gatomon and Aquilamon glowed brightly before crashing together in a glaring light at the height of the spiral, a new figure emerging from with in it, standing about the same height as a medium sized human, he had powerful looking arms with feathers on them, a birds legs and tails feathers, but Gatomon's cat ears sticking out through the side of a visor. "Silphymon!"

Still glowing, Silphymon regarded Neodevimon who had retreated to escape the light show, a dark hiss coming form him as the faint tendrils of dark energy began to draw in around him. "Kari, Yolei, please move back to where it's safe." Speaking in strange duel voice that was a mix of Gatomon and Aquilamon, the birdman like digimon held out his hands in front of him as pink energy flowed into each palm. "We don't want you to get hurt in this fight."

Nodding at the same time, Both Kari and Yolei began to move backwards, both of them still smiling determined as they watched their fused digimon partner prepared to kick the synthetic digimon's behind.

Making sure his goggles hadn't been damaged form the rough transport through the digital portal first, Davis cast a dark look out over the plain desert region when he had made sure that the goggles were in perfect shape.

Silently deciding that rather badland region and the very impressive sights of natural stone pillars reaching more then 28 meters up into the air while rather breathtaking, was also not the best of places to end up at. "Well, the good thing is that we're alive, the bad thing is this, just how do we get down from here?"

Behind him, Ken didn't answer as he was busy making sure Wormmon was okay, and that they could still use the TV set, a thing he wasn't so sure off when it gave a low hissing sound and let out a puff of smoke. "Well, we better think of a way down from here, the TV just gave out so that way home is out of the question."

Grinning lightly, Davis spun around to face Veemon while one hand held out his digivice like he always did. "At least it's a problem that's quickly solved."

Feeling power rush through him, Veemon gave a small giggled as his body literally exploded with light and more power then his rookie from was meant to hold. "Veemon digivolve too EX-Veemon!" Spreading out his wings, EX-Veemon grabbed Davis and Ken in a gentle hold while Wormmon began crawling up on his wrist to sit there rather then on Ken's arm. "Hand on everyone, the Veemon express is off to the ground level."

"Dark Side Attack!"

Turning around, the large blue and white dragon man like cursed as he saw several missiles heading towards him. The only thing saving him and his passengers from instant deletion were a quick, but barely controlled, fall out over the edge of the cliff.

Watching from the back of Megadramon as the large digimon swept through the air, Jun pouted as her brother and his stupid little friend vanished from her sight, their death scene denied her at the moment. "Nice shot, but get ready anyway Megadramon, I don't think this battle will be over so quickly."

"And you're right about that Sis!"

Snarling at the cheerful and slightly joking tone of voice from her little brother, Jun watched as that fused digimon that her brother were running around with lately rose up over the cliff edge, Davis and Ken sitting on his shoulders. "Long time no see Davis, ready to finally give up and die like the loser you are?"

Smirking at her as he adjusted his goggles, Davis looked over at Ken briefly to see him give a thumps up gesture right back at him. "Well, I don't plan on losing to you Jun, but we will be ending this today no matter what it takes." Face growing determined as he focused on Paildramon, Davis nodded once at him. "Go for it, and remember, don't hurt Jun, but take out Megadramon once and for all!"

Rearing in defiance Megadramon reared back as both of his arm launchers slammed open, missiles pouring out in a steady stream as Jun gave a dark laugh form his back.

Rearing back as well, Paildramon grabbed both machine guns at his hips and let lose with a stream of bullets, ripping as many missiles apart as he could, while dodging the ones he missed.

As the attack finally stopped, both Paildramon and Megadramon stared at one another, before moving forward, both of them intent of turning the battle into a close quarter all out slug feast. The thought of taking the other one down with a long range weapon long gone for the moment.

And on each of their backs, their partners watched grimly as the battle truly began, knowing that just one of them would make it out of this encounter.

Pushing himself up from where he had landed after the rough transfer, Cody opened his mouth to inquire the presence of his friends at the moment, when a hand clamped down over his mouth.

Moving around in a panic at first, he stopped as he spotted both Armadillomon and Patamon making the motion for him to be silent at him, before they turned back to gaze out of what he could make out to be a tube like structure.

Getting released after a few long seconds of a thick silence, Cody cast a frown at the one who had held a hand over his mouth, nodding more to himself as he confirmed it to be TK, then moved closer to the older blond haired boy. "What's going on?"

Leaning down to better hear and reply in a whisper as well, TK's eyes darken a bit as he remembered what had gone on in the last few minutes. "We're in trouble that's what, so be as quiet as you can." Looking up at the top of the tube like structure, the blond haired boy sighed loudly as he settled down to sit on the floor. "Okay, here's the deal, I don't know where we are or the others for that matter."

"Must have been a gate malfunction, but how?" Cody whispered out as he scratched his head absently and turned to study their hiding place better. One touch of hand telling him that it was organic rather then the metal structure he had expected. "What is this place anyway?"

Smirking a bit, TK grinned as he turned to regard the structure as well. "It's called a hiding tree, there's a whole bunch of them out there." Making a motion towards Patamon and Armadillomon's look out post, TK coughed a bit and shook his head as he remembered that he should also be quiet. "Anyway, we're in a forest region, and, well, you can take a look outside for yourself."

Moving over to look out the hole, Cody narrowed his eyes as he could clearly see a large number of trees, and hovering just above them was the largest bird he had ever seen, brightly green and red, it's head moving from side to side as it scanned the ground. "TK, what is that thing?"

From right behind him, TK looked up at the bird like digimon as well, one hand clenched up tightly as he gaze harshly at it with a rather large deal of fury. "That's Parrotmon, and before you ask, yes, he's a bad mon." Eyes closing, TK settled back away from the hole and shook his head. "It's that Penmon digimon that Jun had, he's somehow gotten the means to reach the ultimate level."

"Ultimate level." Cody breathed out as he stepped back into the center of the tree. "Then we have a problem, Armadillomon only managed to reach the champion level recently."

Watching Patamon, TK held up his digivice and slowly turned it around with one hand. "Agemon is powerful as a champion, but I wonder if he can stand up to Parrotmon."

Turning his head around as he picked up on his partners comment, Patamon bristled a bit as he hovered up into the air. "Of course I can, I stood up to Myotismon and Piedmon as Angemon remember."

As the blond haired boy his head to face his partner, TK's eyes had something in them that made Patamon freeze and forget all about his bias at getting called weak. "You're thinking of that time, aren't you?" Hovering closer to his human friend, Patamon landed on his head and did his best to smile despite the bad memories. "Cheer up, it won't be like that, I won't end up deleting myself with a suicide attack."

At his place, Cody bleached as part of the conversation made him frown, the few things he had just heard made some of the things TK had said and done in the past more understandable. It would help explain some of TK's anger at the actions of dark digimons, if what he had just begun to suspect were true. "You two, shouldn't we thinking of getting out of here, rather then fighting?"

Giving his a quick glance, TK and Patamon nodded once before moving to the hole in the tree. "You right about that Cody, but we have to make it out of here fast if we don't want to be spotted."

Slipping out of the hiding tree, the two human boys and digimon began to move away from Parrotmon while hiding in whatever shadows they could find. TK leading them as he kept a firm eye on the TV set they had come out off, and Parrotmon at the same time.

None of them noticing the dark shadow watching all of them from the shadows up ahead, a shadow that quickly dismissed them as anything worth his time, but the one seemingly chasing them seemed to be more powerful then the children and their digimons.

Someone that could be worthy of a battle with, which was therefore he simply stepped out into whatever light could be found in the forest, planting himself right in the path of the two kids and their partner digimons.

Stopping in his tracks, TK took a deep breath of shock and fear as he spotted just who it was standing right before him with the air of total control and power emanating from every part of his body. "Blackwargreymon?"

Behind TK, Cody gasped louder then he should have as he too recognized the digimon before them, the hulking figure still sending a small chill down his spine as the digimon just gazed at them. "TK, we can't beat him, we need the others to even stand up to him."

Armadillomon opening his mouth to agree with his partner suddenly gave a snarl as he spun around to be greeted with the sounds of wings flapping and a loud high-pitched cry of victory. "Cody, TK, Patamon, get ready, we got another problem to worry about right now."

Ripping the trees in his path out of the way, Parrotmon landed roughly on the ground, his eyes drilling right into the digi destined as he grinned darkly. "Hello, my little worms, ready to be caught and devoured?" Then the large bird like digimon noticed the dark digimon standing behind the humans. "And who the heck are you?"

Not replying, Blackwargreymon tensed, his arms lifting up as light glinted off his claws as he leaped off from the ground, ripping through the air as fast as he could. Then it was over as he stopped on the other side of parrotmon, gauntlet-covered arms lowering themselves down to his side. "Worthless."

Giving a shrill scream of pain and anger, Parrotmon spun around and gasped as he felt his left wing detach from his body and deleted instantly. "You, how?!" Then the rest of his body exploded into digital dust that rapidly faded away.

Facing the two digi-destined kids and their digimon partners, Blackwargreymon gaze turned darker then it should have, his whole body nearly glowing with the power he had. "You two want to challenge me?" His gaze never breaking as he voiced out the question at them.

Staring back, TK felt his anger fade away to be replaced with pure fear. Parrotmon had been an ultimate level digimon, that much he remembered from the time they had remembered the events in Highton View Terrence.

And Blackwargreymon had torn through him like he wasn't even a rookie level digimon.

They couldn't win, not like this. He was too powerful.

Spinning around as soon as she landed on the ground, Witchmon lashed out with both hands in front of her, blue energy forming instantly around them. "Baruruuna Gale!!" The sheer force of the attack ripping out across the ground with enough force to form a trench in it as it streaked rapidly towards her enemies.

Moving around as well, Greymon's mouth opened up to allow a sea of fire to form inside of it, his sharp teeth getting colored dark crimson and orange as it moved past them. "Nova Fire!!" The fireball launched off flying across the distance as well, melting the earth below it and setting grass ablaze as well.

About halfway between the two digimons, the attacks ripped into one another with enough force to blow a small crater into the ground itself, red hot glowing shards of rock falling down all over the place as the explosion died down.

Glaring at the small witch like digimon, Greymon pulled in more power as he slowly opened his mouth again, hoping that he could at least get a quick attack at her before she could move anywhere.

Turning her attention from the fiery crater towards Greymon, Witchmon gilled darkly as she shot forward, water pulled in around her fist as she got closer to him. "No chance Greymon, I won't let you burn me up that easily, Aquari Pressure!!"

Watching the attack speeding towards him, Greymon gave up his fire attack and settled for roaring in anger as water spread out over him, quickly pressing in on him with far too much force as it swept up over his chest region. "You little." Spitting out the words, Greymon suddenly rushed forward, head lowered down in front of him. "Grand Horn!!"

Letting go of her water attack, Witchmon screamed as she got hit in the side by a rushing Greymon, the attack hard enough to send her flying up into the air. "You stupid!" Screaming her words back at him as her broom shot up to her, preventing her from falling back down onto the ground again. "Why won't you just give up, you can't win against me."

"Cause if I give up, you'll kill Tai, and I won't let you kill off my best friend and partner!" Shooting off two quick fireballs with that small rant, Greymon roared in frustration as each one missed by a long shot, Witchmon simply proving to be too fast in the air. "Get down here and fight me like a decent Mon would!"

Clenching up her hands at his outburst, Witchmon screamed out in anger and dive bombed right down at Greymon, her hat falling off on the halfway. "You dare call me, an un-decent Mon?" Her broom shooting around to hit the side of the giant dinosaur like digimon's head harshly as she passed him. "Well, I won't stand for that."

Moving back to a safe place, Witchmon giggled as she slowly pulled out a small glowing sphere from her sleeve, the surface of the sphere rippling a bit at the contact. "My mission is to kill you for betraying the master Yagami, but he also foresaw that Greymon would be too much of a problem to me." Crushing the sphere in her hand, she let out a yelp as a dark purple mist seeped up her arm. "And gave me this, the power to crush you once and for all."

Throwing her head back as the mist covered her completely, her laughter grew even more insane as her hand and body gave off a dark blue glow that covered her from sight completely. "Witchmon digivolve too..."

Looking out from his safe spot, Tai cursed loudly as he saw what was happening, already fully knowing that Greymon wouldn't be able to stand up to an ultimate, not matter how powerful he seemed, right after having fought against a champion that had rivaled him in power. "Greymon, strop her form completing her digivolution, but be careful."

Nodding back at Tai, Greymon grinned as he prepared another fireball, already having thought along the same line of what Tai had suggested. "Here goes, Nova fire!!!

Racing towards the dark blue light, the fireball nearly made contacted with it, before a hand shot out of the light and knocked the fire away with a soft laugh. "Now now Greymon, that isn't the way a true gentlemon behave it is?" Stepping fully out of the light, the newly digivolved digimon laughed as she showed off her body. "Like it? I'm a Bastemon now, just so you know it."

Shaped much like a human on the top, Bastemon's lower body looked like a cat's, but with a leopards spots, two tails moved in the behind her, and her upper body had a small tank top covering her breasts and a transparent veil in front of her lower face. "Well, do you like it?"

Giggling insanely, Bastemon held out her hands in a mocking come hinter gesture aimed at Tai. "No answer huh? No matter, now come play with me pet of the traitor, and watch as you lose." Laughter truly filling the air as she finished speaking, Bastemon began to drawn in darkness around her, eyes narrowing as it flowed around her body. "I hope you're ready, Yagami cause you will be the one to die right after I delete your partner."

Gulping at the words, Tai looked own at his crest and wondered if he could make it work, if it was somehow possible for it to digivolve Greymon despite the feeling of minor fear running through him. "Wherever you are Kari, I hope you are at least doing better then me."

TBC: The Final Temple Part 2

AN: Things are heating up, wouldn't you all agree. But I am sad to see that only two seems to be reviewing each time, so I am asking you all, do you think another summery would help? If so, do you have a suggestion for one, cause if you do, leave it in a review and I'll pick the best one to be used for this story.

I am rather happy about the first parts of the story, but I don't know how well the fighting parts came out, some of them seems rushed to me, but on the other hand I have taken longer with this chapter then I wanted too. But enough of that, give me your opinion everyone. That is all that matters.

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