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As Bryan and Sabirdramon were flying, Bryan was watching as Meleanie was exploring the ground. Which explains why he didn't notice the sky suddenly turn dark with clouds. Sabirdramon swerved wildly in an attempt to avoid them, but soon they were in the middle of the thick, black clouds.

Bryan could feel the strong muscles in Sabirdramon's back suddenly give out. Bryan, suddenly falling in midair, looked around for his partner. After a few long seconds, Bryan found her... she had de-digivolved back into Penguinmon. He reached out and grabbed the small, suddenly-flightless, bird type Digimon, holding her tight to his chest as he fell faster and faster towards the ground.

As Bryan hit the tops of the trees, crashing through them painfully as his fall continued, Penguinmon continued to De-Digivolve. By the time Bryan had blasted through the lowest branches, Penguinmon was fully de-digivolved back to Chicchimon. The world was a nauseating swirling sea as Bryan tried desperately to stay awake.

But when Bryan and his partner hit the ground at last, the last wispy threads of consciousness were blasted away, and the world went black.

Metamormons body glowed crimson for moment and then yellow, his form changed to the one of a Renamon.
" Metamormon"
Her voice was ice, her eyes almost the same
" You are the boy tamers digimon yes?"
Her tail moved lazily back and forth a few times, the sun made her fur glitter slightly, almost glow.
The female fox digimon tilted her head to the left and stared at the now much smaller digimon, awaiting an answer with the air of a royal queen.

As Bryan lay unconscious on the ground of the tropical jungle, Chicchimon rubbed her eyes with her tiny wings and crawled out of Bryan's arms. If not for Bryan protecting her as they fell out of the sky, Chicchimon would certainly have reverted back to a DigiTama. The thought frightened her, and she quickly shook it away. She had to do something to help.

Meleanie had to be somewhere in the jungle... they were following her closely when they fell. But how can she find her? Or allow her to find them? Then, she had an idea. Chicchimon reached into Bryan's pocket with her tiny beak, and gingerly pulled out his iPhone with the strange DigiGate.

Chicchimon, as a Digital creature, was able to understand the technology instantly, and by touching the screen carefully with her beak, she was eventually able to place a call to Meleanie's Digivice. But she was still in a lot of pain, and just as the iPhone started to ring, Chicchimon passed out again.

((are you kidding me? I’ve been trying to have this campfire meeting for like 3 weeks and now I have to run from total forest destruction... will the interruptions never stop?

And should we be leaving tokomon behind?))

Patamon wasn’t sure what to do, He didn’t want to just leave Nagato behind. But there was nothing he could do against such a powerful mega digimon. The shape changing digimon was also making it nervous. He wasn’t sure how it was able to change forms like that with out digivolving, and the name didn’t mean anything. He would have to ask Gage if there was any info on it in the database. But he was still feeling as though he knew this digimon somehow. If the huge digimon was in fact about to destroy the forest, he would have to warn Gage and the others. The small hamster like digimon started to flap its batwing like ears and took off into the trees.

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((Meanwhile, somewhere else in the jungle...))

Gage stood up and began scanning the perimeter of the clearing, “No, you are correct. Patamon is usually quite prompt with his tasks.” The stew was finished and Veemon had already helped himself to three large portions, it was currently lying on its back patting it bulging stomach. There was still plenty of food left in the pot however Gage was too preoccupied wondering what had happened to his Patamon to eat.

Gage turned and stated gathering up his things, “I’m going to look for...” there was a sound of rustling foliage comging formthe west side of the clearing, Gage turned expecting to see another dangerous digimon like Marine Devimon coming after them. However instead a tiny football shaped digimon carrying a steel canteen burst out of the jungle and flew straight into Gage’s arms. Gage knew it was scared, “Patamon! What happened, what is going on?”

"hm hey kuwagamon wouldn't it be easier if we flew above the trees to see where we're going?"
"You do have the point that would be a lot easier so lets try it." Kuwagamon flaped its wings to get above the trees. When they got over the trees Spiek saw a giant digimon. Spike asked kuwagamon
"Kuwagamon what kind of digimon is that?"
"I don't know but by the size its got to be a mega at the least."
"So what do we do about it?"
"We avoid it at all costs thats what."

Duftmon appeared in front of jonny, and gave him a death glare.
"I think lucemon impersonated the alpha strike a little too well. He even added in the part with them being complete scum to the core, even to those in need."
Duftmon paused, and shook his head.
"Do you not realize why we were sent here? We were sent here by nagato, to protect you all in case of him failing to suppress malo myotismon. He's giving up his life to ensure that both of you escape safetly, and still, all you think about is yourselves. Nagato would jump in front of a bullet for any of you."
Duftmon stared over at gage.
"Especially for gage. Even now, with his death inbound, nagato still tells you to get away, even though he is about to die, all he cares about is you staying alive, gage. He cares about you staying alive so much, that he ordered us to put our lives on the line, just to get you out of here in the case that he fails. And he will fail without your help. He believes that you're the only one that can get him through this pain that he's feeling, the pain that is rotting him from the inside out."
Duftmon paused to glare at jonny again.
"Yet, he feels pain that is so much greater than both of yours, even combined, so much that he feels that death is the only escape."
Duftmon looked back at gage.
"I know that you'll be able to live through losing kaya, but nagato feels that this is his punishment, and he is okay with dying today, to save us all."
Duftmon, in a single stroke, flipped out his rapier, and held it against jonny's neck.
"And yet, all this little swine can do, is sit there and twidle his thumbs, thinking of a way to stay alive."
Duftmon made a small cut down his chest, and was about to do more, before darkdramon stopped him.
"That's enough, duftmon, you're getting out of hand."

"He's the one who will not protect human life..."
Duftmon walked over to the near tree, and sat down on it.
"I can't believe you humans sometimes.."

His hand was covering the small incision that Duftmon had made, while everyone's words swam in his head. Coward? Was that what they thought of him? He wasn't a coward, he was a survivalist. He did what he had to, he always had.

As far as he could tell, there was nothing that they could do about this monstrosity. If it could overpower Nagato's six megas, what would adding two more do? A whole lot of nothing. So there only option was to leave, which Johnny was just fine with doing. No love lost between Nagato and himself. As soon as he saw Nagato, he had been shot at by him, attacked by Darkdramon, and then led into a war where he had witnessed the other tamer kill a young girl for revenge against another.

But what he said about human life was true, it was worth protecting. No matter what the person had done in his past life, if you could keep someone from being killed, you should. Even if it's in order for them to answer for the crimes they have committed.

Jonny watched Gage's performance with his mouth slightly agasp. How? Jon was a skilled soldier, tempered through battle, tested in war. And yet Gage, a data analyzer with Omega Squad, had this kind of power? It was impossible.

The two had a slight rivalry going, and this just made Jon feel like he was being lapped, outdistanced by miles. "...No....No, I need more power! Justimon doesn't stand a chance against something that huge!" Jonny fell to his knees, and punched the ground with his fist. "No! I won't let that THING beat us! You hear me?! We won't lose to the likes of you!!"

With that, a sudden heat began to throb on his right hip. This seemed to phase him momentarily. He looked down, as if stunned, and saw that something was glowing with enough intensity to glow THROUGH the leather material of his bag. Slowly, he opened his bag, and took out the digi-egg that Nagato had given them just a short while ago. That felt like years now.

He held the egg up, and the glow that had been within in the shell was now completely encasing the egg in an orange light. It was warm, almost hot, to the touch, and Jonny could feel the power residing within. Suddenly, through the light, the casing of the digitama began to crack.

This snapped Jon out of his trance. He thought he had done something wrong, hurt it somehow. He grimaced back away from it, but the hand holding the egg never wavered. More cracks appeared, and more. Soon, it was covered in the spider-web random designs that wrapped around a dropped egg. All the lines deepened for just a moment, and then it exploded outward.

Jonny held his hand up to protect his face, but it seemed that he didn't have to. Inches away from the egg, the shell had turned into ash and fell gntly to the forest floor. Held within his grasp was what could only be a digi-core, about the color of a raging fire. It had to have belonged to Zhuqiaomon, left before Nagato had destroyed him.

The young tamer's face became deathly serious, and he glared up at the large monster before him. "You want a fight!? You just picked the worst guy to get in one with!!" Jonny held the ball of flame in both of his hands, concentrating on it. He could see the digimon to whom it belonged, could hear its voice. Jon listened to what the sovereign had to say.

At this time, Justimon's arm changed from his Blitz Arm to his Critical Arm. Other than Justimon not doing this willingly, nothing was odd about this. However, what happened next was odd. The laser blade that was shimmering from the end of his Critical Arm suddenly extended another foot, and the tip was lifting slightly, dancing like fire. Justimon held his arm out, examining the odd apparition.

Jonny nodded at the core, and then looked back up toward the MaloMyotismon. His eyes had become solid gold, and when he spoke, the voice was not his own. "It ends now. Core Power!"

Justimon nodded, and looked up at MaloMyotismon as well. For a moment, the digimon had no idea how they were going to end this monstrosity, and then something began to give him directions in the back of his head. Leaping into the air, the digimon held his blade arm out to his far right.

"Crimson Blaze!" Crossing the arm over to his left hip, the new arm fired out four rings of flame in its arc, launching them at the limbs of the evil giant. As they struck their mark, they caught fire, the flames turning white as they ate into the data of the evil digimon. The creature let out an inarticulate scream as Justimon continued up to him.

Justimon had finally reached the MaloMyotismon, and sprung his attack. It was a combination of the move used by the Digimon Soverieng of Fire, Zhuqiamon, and Justimon's Critical Arm attack. "Phoenix Blade!" He pulled the blade arm back, and then brought it forward, stabbing the sword into the monster's chest with all the force the small ninja digimon could muster.

Once more, upon contact, the body of the digimon was engulfed in white flames. Another scream passed the giant's lips, the fire spreading to cover his entire body. He stayed like this for a moment, and the cannons in his arms exploded, firing all the energy he had focused into the sky.

The fire didn't stop there. As it moved, it left nothing but ash. The flames met at the creatures shoulders, the flames that had covered his legs snuffing out on the ash left by the final attack. They gathered in a single point, and then moved over the neck of the creature. Screaming even louder now than ever, the flames moved up over his jaws and then the rest of his head, leaving nothing but ash. The ash monster stood there for a moment, and then puffed out of existence, the wind carrying the carcass away to the four corners of the Digital World.

Justimon fell downward, jumping from tree branch to tree branch to eventually land next to his tamer. He stood tall for a moment, his arm changing back into his usual Blitz Arm. But his energy left him, and he de-digivolved all the way back down to his In-Training form, Hopmon. Jonny placed the core into his brown leather bag, and kneeled down to pick up his partner. Althought this wasn't entirely true. The use of the core had so weakened him that Jonny couldn't keep himself standing. The only reason he wasn't laying completely on the ground was probably from the two servings of that stew just before the fight.

"You did great, buddy! We showed him that we ain't no push-overs!" Jonny hugged the small digimon, and then turned back to Gage. "So, any stew left? I'm absolutely starving." "Me too!" the little digimon said in Jonny's arms.

One more piece of business. Jon turned toward Nagato's partner, Duftmon. "You were right. I was being a coward. I let my emotions blind me, and almost let someone die while I could have done something about it. Thank you for reminding me where I should stand."

((sorry in advance, i had to write this in a hurry))

The air was heavy and dry, the ash and dust from Malomyotismon fallen corpse were still soaring above the jungle trees like looming storm clouds, the sight was horrific. All sounds in the jungle has ceased, bird and insect digimons were still hiding from the slayed beast, some peeking into the jungle were the tamers and the digimon stood.
Renamon looked at them, the tamers, with cold eyes. She had not wanted to play a role in the battle that had been fought mere seconds ago, and even after Angemons petty little speech she was glad she had done nothing to help, she was almost disappointed when the high leveled digimon was killed.
Had it been her choice she would have let Nagato die, it took all the will power in her not to kill him now that the beast had failed, she would destroy him slowly.. painfully, watch him wither and burn and listen to his screams and..
Her eyes opened wide without warning..
Oh god what am i thinking? Kaya would never..
Kaya would never have allowed it, and in the heat of anger and loss Metamormon had not even thought of Tokomon or the dark digiegg.
That, that is impossible.. i can not ..
She looked down at her hands as if seeing them for the first time.
She was evil, offcourse she were, she was a virus after all, she had fought digidestinied herself and killed hundreds of digimons, but killing a human tamer, even if it was the murderer of her own, was more than evil, it was..
She didn't know whatit was but the thought scared her. Metamormon was starting to act like she used to before she met Kaya, before she gave up the dream of destroying the real world.
It was stupid! Tokomon needed a friend, family, she was both and she would not let him or Kayas memory down by reverting to her old ways. She turned around and was about to burst into the jungle to find her companion when the small digimon nudged her leg and made her jump a few feet into the air, startled.
The child had crawled all the way to her, dragging the digiegg along, he looked up at her with concerned eyes.
"Renamon what happened? Are you okay? i heard stuff blow up!"
She stared at the child for several long seconds before simply picking up the egg and the baby digimon, Renamon held them close to her chest like Kaya used to do. The child giggled and pressed his face into her soft yellow fur before jumping down onto the ground. He started running towards Gage and his digimons.
"Gage! Gage!"
Before Renamon could stop the much smaller creature, Tokomon had launched himself from the ground and landed heavily on the boy tamers chest.
Piedmons digiegg was silent as always.
Tokomon snuggled into the crook of Gage´s neck.
Renamon blinked and seriously considered telling the brat about manners but not before she had walked over to Johnny and supported him, he looked like he was ready to fall over any second
"I suggest we retreat to wherever you two humans were hidden before all of this happened"